cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
bhangramuffin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Blend of bhangra + raggamuffin
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A genre of raggamuffin dancehall influenced by bhangra or other music from the Indian subcontinent.
electronic dance music
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Some music, such as electronic dance music, is completely produced electronically and new practices have developed such as live coding, circuit bending, and chipmusic.
ref: 2014, William Forde Thompson, Music in the Social and Behavioral Sciences: An Encyclopedia:
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
synonyms: EDM
dance music
dance
glosses: A field of modern popular music, encompassing house, techno and other genres of percussive dance music.
Related terms: intelligent dance music
ambient house
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A genre of house music influenced by ambient.
luk thung
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Borrowed from Thai ลูกทุ่ง (lûuk-tûng, literally “rural”).
Senses: examples: text: After Pumpuang's death, the top luk thung slot was occupied by ‘Got’ Chakrapand Arbkornburi, whose switch from pop to full-time luk thung brought many younger listeners to the style, while the reigning female singer was Sunaree Ratchasima, but she has been superseded by the perkier Arpaporn Nakornsawan and, more recently, by Ying Lee and Tai Orathai.
ref: 2023, Rough Guides, The Rough Guide to Thailand, Apa Publications Limited, →ISBN:
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A genre of Thai popular music in a rural style.
cadence-lypso
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Blend of cadence + calypso
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A genre of popular dance music that combines cadence rampa with calypso.
cadence rampa
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A genre of modern Haitian music, derived from méringue.
Synonyms: kadans
méringue
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A genre of Haitian folk music.
chutney soca
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of chutney-soca.
chutney-soca
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A genre of chutney music influenced by soca.
bluegrass-jazz
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bluegrass jazz
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
qualifier: jazz
glosses: A genre of bluegrass influenced by jazz.
bluegrass jazz
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of bluegrass-jazz.
synonyms: word: bluegrass-jazz
freeze baby
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: freeze babies
Senses: examples: text: It'll take a while before you're no longer a freeze-baby.
ref: 2011, Mary Ellis, A Marriage for Meghan, →ISBN, page 222:
text: I'll get the bottles. I'm the one who stuck them out there. And you're a freeze baby, while I'm clearly not.
ref: 2012, Erin McCarthy, Donna Kauffman, Kate Angell, Unwrapped, →ISBN, page 68:
text: On a side note, my daughter (who gets it honestly from her mother) is a freeze baby. You rarely find either of them without socks on their feet.
ref: 2012, Steve Barry, The Barry Patch, →ISBN, page 91:
text: I rush inside as quickly as I can, not waiting for Eric as he trails behind me. I am a freeze baby, cold and I do not blend well at all.
ref: 2013, Alisha Groothousen, The Intriguing Side of Art, →ISBN, page 257:
glosses: A person easily susceptible to cold.
lover's rock
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Lover's Rock
form: lovers rock
form: Lover's rock
form: lovers' rock
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A genre of reggae influenced by soul music and modern pop.
lovers' rock
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of lover's rock.
Lover's Rock
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of lover's rock.
lovers rock
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of lover's rock.
Lover's rock
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of lover's rock.
reggae fusion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A genre of reggae that mixes reggae and/or dancehall with other genres, such as pop, rock, hip-hop, R&B, jazz, funk, soul, disco, electronic and latin.
puffcorn
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From puff + corn.
Senses: examples: text: She tossed the pork rinds into the trash can and settled on some cheese puffcorn curls—not the healthiest things in the world but an improvement upon the former.
ref: 2006, Peyton Mathie, chapter 27, in Hayden's Corner, iUniverse, →ISBN, page 69:
text: Additional products include pretzels, regular and cheese puffcorn, cheese curls, corn chips, tortilla chips, pork rinds and salsa dip.
ref: 2010, Food & Beverage Market Place, Grey House Publishing, volume 1, 1127:
text: Suddenly, something Henry said caught my attention. “Where'd you get these boxes of puffcorn?” he asked. “This stuff has no taste at all!”
ref: 2012, Kris Vallotton, chapter 9, in Spirit Wars: Winning the Invisible Battle Against Sin and the Enemy, Chosen Books, →ISBN, page 137:
glosses: A corn snack, visually similar to popcorn, but made with corn meal and baked.
reggaetón
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of reggaeton.
huayno
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish huayno.
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A genre of Andean popular music most closely associated with Peru.
dark wave
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of darkwave.
ethereal wave
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A genre of darkwave music influenced by Gothic rock.
McKie
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: McKies
Etymology: Variant of McCoy.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Scottish Gaelic.
jazz mugham
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: jazz-mugham
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
qualifier: jazz
glosses: A genre that combines mugham with jazz.
jazz-mugham
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of jazz mugham.
Useneter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Useneters
Etymology: From Usenet + -er.
Senses: examples: text: Well, thanks to a USEneter's comment, I verified that these 2 DAs do NOT work with Finder 4.1, but DO operate once you are in an application run from that Finder.
ref: 1985 June 21, Jeff Harrow, “Scientific/Financial Calculator Desk Accessories...”, in net.micro.mac (Usenet):
glosses: Alternative spelling of Usenetter.
Useneters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Useneter
counterselection
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: counterselections
Etymology: From counter- + selection.
Senses: examples: text: In all recipients, distant drug resistance markers streptomycin (SmR; rpsL104), chloramphenicol (CmR; recA::cat(FRT)), and/or nalidixic acid (NlR; gyrA96) were used for counterselection.
ref: 2015 July 11, “Novel recA -Independent Horizontal Gene Transfer in Escherichia coli K-12”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Selection that removes unwanted characteristics.
qualifier: evolutionary theory
glosses: Dysgenic selection (that has the opposite effects of natural selection).
Related terms: counterselectable
counterselective
contraselection
countershock
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: countershocks
Etymology: From counter- + shock.
Senses: examples: text: This kind of break by countershock in the haft occurs on Paleoindian bifacial point and has been reproduced experimentally on replicas of Paleoindian and Solutrean shouldered points [63 ].
ref: 2015 July 11, “The Still Bay and Howiesons Poort at Sibudu and Blombos: Understanding Middle Stone Age Technologies”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: A shock that travels in the opposite direction to an applied impulse
cryoinjury
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cryoinjuries
Etymology: From cryo- + injury.
Senses: examples: text: This difference in ability for grafts to couple to the host in the rat at 4 weeks may be due to the injury model used, which was a cryoinjury model in the guinea pigs and an ischemia/reperfusion injury model in the rat [6 ], or the distribution of graft within the injured heart.
ref: 2015 July 11, “Enhanced Electrical Integration of Engineered Human Myocardium via Intramyocardial versus Epicardial Delivery in Infarcted Rat Hearts”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: An injury caused by low temperature
cyclitis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From cycl- + -itis.
Senses: examples: text: IOP may reach 40 mmHg or more, and spontaneous remission usually occurs; (3) mild cyclitis: a few white KPs accumulating in the lower half of the cornea, and minimal flare and/or a few inflammatory cells in the anterior chamber; (4) open iridocorneal angle without peripheral anterior synechia; (5) a slight decrease in vision, no visual field defect and normal optic disc at the early stage.
ref: 2015 July 11, “Human Leukocyte Antigens-B and -C Loci Associated with Posner-Schlossman Syndrome in a Southern Chinese Population”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: inflammation of the ciliary body
decatenate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: decatenates
form: decatenating
form: decatenated
form: decatenated
Etymology: From de- + catenate.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: To cause or undergo decatenation.
Related terms: concatenate
decatenates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: Xer-dif recombination decatenates chromosome copies during cell division [61 ][62 ].
ref: 2015 July 11, “Novel recA -Independent Horizontal Gene Transfer in Escherichia coli K-12”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of decatenate
denticulates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: The backed tools are very distinctive and we can confidently assign the PGS backed pieces, the blade cores and the blades to the HP. However we excluded from analysis all retouched pieces other than backed in PGS because we cannot assign tools such as scaled pieces and denticulates to one of the two assemblages.
ref: 2015 July 11, “The Still Bay and Howiesons Poort at Sibudu and Blombos: Understanding Middle Stone Age Technologies”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: plural of denticulate
diguanylate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: diguanylates
Etymology: From di- + guanylate.
Senses: examples: text: The wspR gene encodes a diguanylate cyclase probably involved in the regulation of flagella rotation and is not implicated in the regulation of flagella synthesis [24 ].
ref: 2015 July 11, “Chemotactic Motility of Pseudomonas fluorescens F113 under Aerobic and Denitrification Conditions”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any ester of (cyclic) diguanylic acid
diterpenic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From di- + terpenic.
Senses: examples: text: The main components of the diterpenic fraction are acids indicating a resin from a plant belonging to the conifer family.
ref: 2015 July 11, “The Still Bay and Howiesons Poort at Sibudu and Blombos: Understanding Middle Stone Age Technologies”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Related to, or derived from a diterpene
Related terms: diterpenoid
Silveira
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Silveiras
Etymology: Borrowed from Portuguese Silveira.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Portuguese.
dolaphenine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: We subsequently identified the degradation by mass spectrometry as a loss of 186 Da, which is consistent with the hydrolytic cleavage of the C-terminal dolaphenine residue of MMAD (Fig 2a and 2b, Figs a and b in S1 Fig ).
ref: 2015 July 11, “Site-Dependent Degradation of a Non-Cleavable Auristatin-Based Linker-Payload in Rodent Plasma and Its Effect on ADC Efficacy”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The compound 2-phenyl-1-(2-thiazolyl)ethylamine normally found associated with a dolastatin
rock-n-roll
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of rock and roll.
rocks and rolls
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of rock and roll
rock and rolls
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of rock and roll
rocking and rolling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of rock and roll
rock and rolling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of rock and roll
rocked and rolled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of rock and roll
rock and rolled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of rock and roll
KA
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: KAs
Senses: topics: government
law-enforcement
glosses: Initialism of known associate.
KA
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of Karnataka: a state of India.
KA
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the KA
Senses: qualifier: Oxford University slang
glosses: Initialism of King's Arms, a pub in Oxford.
Billboard
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: 2012, "Yogi Chill From Soulfood Music And DJ Free On Sale Digitally". Alt.emusic.
He has charted on Billboard and several international DJ and Dance charts.
2009, "Looking For Benny Goodman Quartet - St. Louis Blues 1936". alt.music.big-band.
This song was originally on Victor 25411 and charted on Billboard at #20 on 10/24/36.
2000, "Steve Monahan........trivia buffs". rec.music.rock-pop-r+b.1960s.
No other Monahan ever charted on Billboard and nothing by anyone named Monahan ever charted at CHUM, the leading Top 40 station in Toronto
glosses: The music charts published by Billboard magazine.
mere mortal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mere mortals
Senses: examples: text: Show all the gods how even a mere mortal can best Ares's plans and defeat his will
ref: 2011, Matthew Stover, Robert E. Vardman, God of War, →ISBN:
glosses: One who is not a god; a human being.
examples: text: If you use computer applications that let you access information from a database system, you're probably a mere mortal.
ref: 2014, John Viescas, Michael J. Hernandez, SQL Queries for Mere Mortals: A Hands-On Guide to Data Manipulation in SQL, →ISBN, page xx:
glosses: An ordinary person, without special expertise or status.
Related terms: lesser mortal
mere mortals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mere mortal
bajo sexto
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bajo sextos
Senses: examples: text: He sings about being spurned, drunk, rebounding and flaunting his blingy Patek Phillipe watch as Bizarrap quantizes regional Mexican acoustic sounds — the syncopated chords and trombone of a brass band, the slapping bass lines of a bajo sexto, solos on high-strung Mexican guitars — into a computerized track.
ref: 2023 June 2, Jon Pareles, Giovanni Russonello, Lindsay Zoladz, “A Lost (and Found) John Coltrane Recording, and 9 More New Songs”, in The New York Times:
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A stringed instrument of Mexican origin, with twelve thick strings in six double-courses, with a short neck and a deep soundboard; a type of acoustic bass guitar.
Related terms: bajo quinto
bajo quinto
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bajo quintos
Senses: glosses: A stringed instrument of Mexican origin, with ten thick strings in five double-courses, a short neck and a deep soundboard; a type of acoustic bass guitar bajo sexto without the bass strings of a typical bajo sexto.
huppie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: rhymes: -ʌpi
Forms: form: huppies
Etymology: Blend of Hispanic + yuppie
Senses: examples: text: Among the work he has been doing have been films such as “D.C. Cab” and this year’s “Quicksilver”, a Kevin Bacon Wall-Street-on-wheels vehicle, in which he played an aspiring huppie (Hispanic Urban Professional).
ref: 1986 August 20, Michael Spies, “Bilingual comic uses the language of laughter”, in Houston Chronicle:
text: Wiscovitch calls himself a “huppie”. Which, he translates, is a Hispanic Yuppie.
ref: 1989 March 3, Maurice Carroll, “Pols and Politics; Political Writers Ready for Show”, in Newsday (New Your):
text: The vato is a Huppie. HErbErt: What's a Huppie? ric: You know, a Hispanic Yuppie.
ref: 1997, Culture Clash, Life, Death and Revolutionary Comedy, →ISBN, page 52:
text: Mr. Munoz stresses that the crime rate has been dropping in Little Village and that he backs a tax-increment financing district in his ward — a controversial stance in other Hispanic areas. Because the neighborhood is improving, “folks like me — yuppies, luppies, huppies, whatever you want to call them — will be able to find homes here,” he says, referring to the Latino and Hispanic variations of young urban professionals.
ref: 1999 February 15, Greg Hinz, “Vying for Hot Hispanic Votes”, in Crain’s Chicago Business:
glosses: A Hispanic yuppie; an affluent professional of Latin American descent.
huppie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: rhymes: -ʌpi
Forms: form: huppies
Etymology: Blend of hippie + yuppie
Senses: examples: text: "Look who's talking." "Hippie, huppie, baldy," screamed a voice. "Oh my gosh, it's Annabel again."
ref: 1993, Delia Ephron, The Girl who Changed the World, page 92:
text: He accused the well-intentioned folks who sell Fair Trade coffee of "cultural imperialism," blasting those who blend "suffering, pain, and humiliation" into the beans they sell to "the affluent but guilt-ridden, Birkenstock-shod, politically correct, myopically naive creature known as the huppie”—whom he defined as a combination hippie-yuppie.
ref: 2010, Mark Pendergrast, Uncommon Grounds: The History of Coffee and How It Transformed Our World, →ISBN, page 347:
text: To be a huppie, you have to know how to make a little money. You want to live well, but keep in touch with the real world.
ref: 2010 June 8, Jason Sheftell, “East Side story: Off Avenue D, The Flowerbox is the best building you've never seen”, in New York Daily News:
glosses: An affluent professional with stereotypical left-wing social and political views or lifestyle.
huppies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of huppie
Barney style
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Barney-style.
toxified
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of toxify
toxifies
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of toxify
toxifying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of toxify
hyperdifferentiated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more hyperdifferentiated
form: most hyperdifferentiated
Etymology: From hyper- + differentiated.
Senses: examples: text: The restaurant was overcrowded, loud and full of the kind of hyperdifferentiated nonsense that ordinary Americans swim through every day, never assuming it can or should be fully understood.
ref: 2015 July 16, Jon Mooallem, “You Just Got Out of Prison. Now What?”, in New York Times:
glosses: differentiated to an extreme degree
overimagine
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: overimagines
form: overimagining
form: overimagined
form: overimagined
Etymology: From over- + imagine.
Senses: examples: text: There is no era he can’t over-research, no scene he can’t overimagine, no digression he can resist and no sentence he can’t sag with too many words — “furbelowed,” “putti,” “ viaticum,” “myrmidons” — you don’t know.
ref: 2015 July 17, Boris Fishman, “‘The Pinch,’ by Steve Stern”, in New York Times:
glosses: To imagine with excessively elaborate detail, or in an exaggerated fashion.
overimagined
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of overimagine
overimagines
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of overimagine
overimagining
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of overimagine
subvariant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: subvariants
Etymology: From sub- + variant.
Senses: examples: text: DreamHack began in 1994, in the basement of a nearby elementary school, as a small, local subvariant of what was then called a ‘‘copyparty’’ — pre-broadband occasions to share software or demonstrate flashy off-label uses of early home computers.
ref: 2015 July 16, Gideon Lewis-Kraus, Photographs By Franck Bohbot, “Power in Numbers”, in The New York Times:
text: As with the previous Omicron subvariants, it seems likely that the US will follow those regions once again, with or without the new souped-up vaccines.
ref: 2022 July 20, “Opinion: Covid-19 continues to surprise us”, in CNN:
glosses: A subsidiary variant; a subtype of something.
subvariants
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of subvariant
rhamnolipid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rhamnolipids
Etymology: From translingual Rhamnus (“genus of buckthorn”) + lipid.
Senses: examples: text: Briefly, the rhamnolipid extract of each sample was dissolved in 4 mL of chloroform and put in contact with a freshly prepared methylene blue solution (200 μL of a 1 g l -1 methylene blue and 4.9 mL of distilled water).
ref: 2015 July 18, “Pseudomonas aeruginosa Biofilm Formation and Persistence, along with the Production of Quorum Sensing-Dependent Virulence Factors, Are Disrupted by a Triterpenoid Coumarate Ester Isolated from Dalbergia trichocarpa, a Tropical Legume”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of a class of glycolipid surfactants, produced by Pseudomonas aeruginosa and other species, that has one or more rhamnose groups
Derived terms: dirhamnolipid
monorhamnolipid
rhamnolipids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rhamnolipid
hillbillying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of hillbilly
hillbillied
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of hillbilly
microembolization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: microembolizations
Etymology: From micro- + embolization.
Senses: examples: text: Although we observed that collagen strongly induced the aggregation of platelets to potentially cause coronary microembolization, GH did not enhance thrombogenicity.
ref: 2015 July 18, “Gelatin Hydrogel Enhances the Engraftment of Transplanted Cardiomyocytes and Angiogenesis to Ameliorate Cardiac Function after Myocardial Infarction”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Embolization on a small scale.
mampy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈmæmˌpi/
Etymology: Borrowed from Jamaican Creole mampy.
Senses: glosses: grossly overweight; obese
mamalyga
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Polish mamałyga or Ukrainian мамали́ґа (mamalýga), ultimately from Romanian mămăligă.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of mamaliga.
embolize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: embolizes
form: embolizing
form: embolized
form: embolized
form: embolise
Senses: glosses: To perform an embolization.
Derived terms: angioembolize
unembolized
embolized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of embolize
embolizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of embolize
embolizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of embolize
antimulticultural
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more antimulticultural
form: most antimulticultural
Etymology: From anti- + multicultural.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
sciences
social-science
sociology
glosses: Opposing multiculturalism.
are you blind
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: A rhetorical question to someone who has failed to see or notice something.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see are, you, blind.
freeze babies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of freeze baby
fat pad sign
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fat pad signs
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A distinctive sign on an X-ray image of the elbow, caused by displacement of the fat pad around the elbow joint, and suggesting an occult fracture.
Synonyms: sail sign
fat pad signs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fat pad sign
kinesimeters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kinesimeter
tinkliest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of tinkly: most tinkly
unimprovably
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From unimprovable + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: The result, a noirish tale of sex and betrayal set in a midwestern garage-diner, hurtles towards its denouement with unimprovably entertaining velocity.
ref: 2015 July 19, Luke Jennings, “The Car Man review – Matthew Bourne’s smouldering storytelling”, in The Observer:
glosses: In a way that does not allow improvement.
unfudgeable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unfudgeable
form: most unfudgeable
Etymology: From un- + fudgeable.
Senses: examples: text: Where there are more unfudgeable differences on the BBC’s future is on its aspiration to be a universal service, whereas John Whittingdale, the culture and media secretary, thinks it should be “narrower and more targeted”.
ref: 2015 July 19, Anne McElvoy, “The BBC is being asked to defend its funding and it doesn’t like it”, in The Observer:
glosses: Not fudgeable.
rubbishness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From rubbish + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: A Texan study earlier this year linked phone use and emotional instability, claiming that “incessant” checking acts as a pacifier, a distraction from the rubbishness of modern life.
ref: 2015 July 19, Eva Wiseman, “My mobile: so much more than a phone”, in The Observer:
glosses: The quality of being rubbish or worthless.
rehumanise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: rehumanises
form: rehumanising
form: rehumanised
form: rehumanised
Senses: examples: text: It was about rehumanising my character.
ref: 2015 July 19, Kathryn Bromwich, “Losing it: dementia on film, stage and page”, in The Observer:
glosses: Alternative form of rehumanize.
rehumanised
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of rehumanise
rehumanises
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of rehumanise
rehumanising
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of rehumanise
chargingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more chargingly
form: most chargingly
Etymology: From charging + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: It’s bravura stuff, even as it strikes only a single loud note of brilliance: an hour in, Dolan’s chargingly naked approach leaves him with little to reveal.
ref: 2015 July 19, Guy Lodge, “Mommy; Accidental Love; The Gunman; The Face of an Angel; Home; Pinocchio – review”, in The Observer:
glosses: So as to charge, or move forward swiftly and aggressively.
businessfolk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From business + folk.
Senses: examples: text: His co-committee member, Alex Mahon, is a former chief executive of Elisabeth Murdoch’s Shine Group, connecting her to the exciting world of government-friendly media businessfolk, Cotswold kitchen-supper snafflers, and police horse-sharers, and to those most likely to monetise the vacant space left in broadcasting should she and her colleagues have, regrettably, to reform the BBC out of existence.
ref: 2015 July 19, Stewart Lee, “The government’s witch-hunters are ready to reform the BBC to death”, in The Observer:
glosses: businesspeople
businessfolks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of businessfolk
bananners
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bananner
wangst
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /wæŋkst/
rhymes: -æŋkst
Etymology: Blend of wank + angst
Senses: examples: text: And yes, on one level I accept that I was being a total dick – an ugly combo of Art Student ennui and “I'm so Goth I shit bats' pseudo-teenage wangst.
ref: 2009, Tim Clare, We Can't All be Astronauts, →ISBN, page 89:
text: Like some kind of Tim Burtonesque fever dream with a touch more wangst and a smidge less whimsy, Smoke & Mirrors is rollicking, intimate circus-cabaret that will charm your long stripy stockings right off and leave you gagging for more.
ref: 2011 January 11, Jack Teiwes, “Smoke & Mirrors | Sydney Festival 2011”, in Australian Stage Online:
text: I drew back from the brink of the impending wangst storm, though, because I know very well that neither Kaoren nor Tsur Selkie are stupid, and Kaoren faking a romance with me would be idiocy.
ref: 2011, Andrea K Höst, Lab Rat One:
text: And I just read lolbabe's update and OMG! My ULife is all parental wangst and yours is all WHEEE DRUNKEN FUMBLING.
ref: 2013, Susie Day, Big Woo! My Not-So-Secret Teenage Blog, →ISBN:
glosses: Self-indulgent anxiety.
Derived terms: wangsty
Burtonesque
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Burtonesque
form: most Burtonesque
Etymology: From Burton + -esque.
Senses: glosses: Reminiscent of the works of Tim Burton (born 1958), American filmmaker known for his darkly whimsical art and films.
buttheaded
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more buttheaded
form: most buttheaded
Etymology: From butt + headed.
Senses: glosses: stubborn; obstinate
Derived terms: buttheadedly
buttheadedness
fold away
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: folds away
form: folding away
form: folded away
form: folded away
Senses: glosses: To put away by folding; to collapse something into a space where it can be stored while not in use.
sickness unto death
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sicknesses unto death
Etymology: From the book The Sickness Unto Death (1849) by Søren Kierkegaard (1813-1855).
Senses: examples: text: Kafka's illnesses are more existential than physical; they are like Kierkegaard's "sickness unto death."
ref: 1990 April 1, Anatole Broyard, “Good Books about Being Sick”, in New York Times, retrieved 19 Jul 2015:
topics: existentialism
human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
glosses: Personal despair over the disquieting circumstances of human existence.
examples: text: Still, many observers of the orchestra, including some players themselves, continue to detect a malaise in the institution. Many critics, especially those deeply involved as composers and performers of new music, diagnose the trouble as a sickness unto death.
ref: 1987 September 13, Donal Henahan, “Music View: Our Orchestras are Splintering”, in New York Times, retrieved 19 Jul 2015:
text: These films . . . are evidence of a deep cultural malaise. The need to make them and the desire to consume them are symptoms of a contemporary sickness unto death.
ref: 1993 December 1, Brian Appleyard, “Censorship is a dirty word, but unrelentingly violent films have made it a necessary evil”, in The Independent, UK, retrieved 19 Jul 2015:
text: [O]ur "high" or "academic" or "avant-garde" culture is in a state of crisis. This crisis is not a healthy one, but a sickness unto death, a decadence that threatens to destroy our society.
ref: 2007, Frederick Turner, Culture of Hope: A New Birth of the Classical Spirit, →ISBN, page 1:
glosses: Despair, profound discontent, or a similar persistent debilitating malaise of the mind, spirit, or soul that produces a decline in mental, physical, or societal health and that may culminate in death or dissolution.
freeze distillation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: synonyms: cryodistillation
hypernyms: fractional distillation
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distillation
glosses: The process of enriching a solution (not truly distilling it) by partially freezing it and then removing frozen material that is poorer in the dissolved material than is the liquid portion left behind.
Related terms: freeze-drying
Kierkegaardianism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌkɪəkəˈɡɑːdɪ.ənɪzəm/
ipa: /ˌkɪɹkəˈɡɑɹdi.ənɪzəm/
Etymology: From Kierkegaardian + -ism.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
lifestyle
philosophy
religion
sciences
glosses: The philosophical or religious views of the Danish thinker Søren Kierkegaard (1813–1855).
Related terms: existentialism
leap of faith
sickness unto death
the absurd
Gwenhwyfar
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Welsh Gwenhwyfar.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Guinevere.
handholdable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From hand + holdable.
Senses: examples: a handholdable camera
glosses: Small and light enough to be held in the hand.
toe shoes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of toe shoe
ballet slipper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ballet slippers
Senses: glosses: A flexible shoe without a heel and fastened by a strap or ribbon, designed for dancing.
ballet slippers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ballet slipper
ballet shoe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ballet shoes
Senses: glosses: A flexible shoe without a heel and fastened by a strap or ribbon, designed for dancing.
Mephistophelian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Mephistophelian
form: most Mephistophelian
Senses: examples: text: But, sitting by the opening of Ismail's Muslim Eating Shop, Inder Singh was spooning in soup, tall, thin, saturnine, his beard cut, contrary to the laws of religion, trimmed in a Mephistophelian manner, his turban neat and starched[.]
ref: 1958, Anthony Burgess, The Enemy in the Blanket (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 288:
text: And you can see from the Spockian ears and the raised eyebrows, he had a positive Mephistophelian look.
ref: 1989, Howard Aiken, “Early Inventors”, in Robert Slater, editor, Portraits in Silicon, The MIT Press, →ISBN:
glosses: Alternative form of Mephistophelean.
ballet shoes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ballet shoe
what does that have to do with the price of corn
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: A comment used to indicate that a previous comment is irrelevant or unimportant.
Synonyms: what does that have to do with the price of tea in China?
tomhan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tomhans
Senses: topics: arts
folklore
history
human-sciences
literature
media
publishing
sciences
glosses: A magical fairy mound.
tomhans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tomhan
togethering
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From together + -ing.
Senses: topics: lifestyle
tourism
transport
travel
glosses: The practice of arranging joint travel or vacations, as a group.
the plural of anecdote is not data
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: Anecdotal evidence is not sufficient to prove something.
Related terms: anecdata
vowel point
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vowel points
Senses: glosses: One of the marks, in certain languages, inserted in consonantal words to indicate vowels.
Hyponyms: nikud
vowel points
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of vowel point
vowel pointing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: They are also the only texts to feature substantial Hebrew material in the Portuguese portions, and the only texts to make a systematic use of vowel pointing (niqqud).
ref: 2017, Devon Strolovitch, “Judeo-Portuguese”, in Lily Kahn, Aaron D. Rubin, editors, Handbook of Jewish Languages, revised and updated edition, Brill, page 559:
glosses: The system of nikud, or vowel points, in Hebrew text.
accounting period
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: accounting periods
Senses: hyponyms: accounting year
glosses: A regular period of time, as a month, quarter, or year, for which an operative statement is drawn up.
Related terms: financial year
fiscal year
accounting periods
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of accounting period
dreamhouses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dreamhouse
multicover
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: multicovers
Etymology: From multi- + cover.
Senses: examples: text: We consider the set multicover problem in geometric settings.
ref: 2012 December, Chandra Chekuri, Kenneth L. Clarkson, Sariel Har-Peled, “On the set multicover problem in geometric settings”, in ACM Transactions on Algorithms, volume 9, number 1:
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: A combinatorial problem concerning the covering or inclusion of elements by a collection of shapes or sets.
examples: text: The polylogarithm in (2.33) indicates that the degree k multicover of a curve of genus g contributes with a factor k2g−3 to Fg.
ref: 2004, Tilman Wurzbacher, Infinite Dimensional Groups and Manifolds, →ISBN, page 39:
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: A solution to a multicover problem.
examples: text: After completing the largest of the simplification projects—the multicover policy—the task force advised the company on overall policy for about another year.
ref: 1984, Office of Consumer Affairs, U.S. Department of Commerce, How Plain English Works for Business, page 76:
topics: business
insurance
glosses: An insurance plan brokered by a single agent that includes multiple underlying sub-policies.
examples: text: Maybe we should live a little like a Christian, a little like a Muslim, a little like a Jew; then we could claim multicover.
ref: 2012, Reg Dyett, A Family Conversation about GOD, →ISBN, page 77:
glosses: Coverage from multiple sources.
multicover
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From multi- + cover.
Senses: examples: text: Such films are vulnerable to outdoor weather conditions and, if used as films, must be protected by a surface cover sheet such as glass or a thicker, tough, transparent plastic in a multicover collector.
ref: 2012, A. A. M. Sayigh, Solar Energy Application in Buildings, →ISBN, page 29:
glosses: Having multiple covers.
multicovers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of multicover
lao khao
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Borrowed from Thai เหล้าขาว, literally "white liquor".
Senses: glosses: Thai whisky made from fermented rice
whaikorero
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Borrowed from Maori.
Senses: glosses: formal speechmaking in the Māori culture
haangi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: haangis
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of hangi.
haangis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of haangi
mad dog
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mad dogs
form: maddog
form: mad-dog
Senses: glosses: A rabid dog.
examples: text: Although the enemy saw that they were being hurt, they were such mad dogs that we could by no means prevent their pursuing us
ref: 1843, Hernán Cortés, translated by George Folsom, Letters and Dispatches of Cortés:
text: But in 1992, Bissell still maintained, "Lumumba and Sukarno were two of the worst people in public life I've ever heard of. They were mad dogs. Castro I saw not as a mad dog but as a purposeful antagonist. I believed that they were dangerous to the United States. There was a widespread belief that societies in the noncommunist world were exceedingly fragile, susceptible to being destroyed by these demagogues."
ref: 1996, Evan Thomas, The Very Best Men: Four Who Dared: The Early Years of the CIA, pages 232–233:
text: We went gladly, without fear or holding back. We were resolute that those mad dogs should not get through. 'They shall not pass'! And they did not pass!" "Glorious!" cried the priest, drinking the story in.
ref: 2007, Henry Van Dyke, The Valley of Vision, →ISBN, page 96:
text: Even their "soft tones" infuriated Bogan: "Stop the mad dogs of Fascism," these young communists mildly offered, "help our boys dodging Franco's bombs."
ref: 2009, Alan Filreis, Counter-revolution of the Word, →ISBN:
glosses: Someone who is aggressive and fanatical; an aggressor who cannot be reasoned with.
topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A McDonnell Douglas MD-80 series aircraft.
Derived terms: mad dogs and Englishmen
mad dogs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mad dog
prebent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pre- + bent.
Senses: examples: text: The copper roof panels were prebent to aid in creating a tight waterproof seal.
glosses: bent in advance
repeel
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: repeels
form: repeeling
form: repeeled
form: repeeled
Etymology: From re- + peel.
Senses: examples: text: […] dermabrasion may be combined with chemical peeling or the area of concern may simply be repeeled at a later date.
ref: 2007, Melvin A. Shiffman, Sid Mirrafati, Samuel M. Lam, Simplified Facial Rejuvenation, page 134:
glosses: To peel again.
butt-huggers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: She left a note on Ray's butt-huggers saying, 'Buy new underwear.'
ref: 2002, Bryan Richards, Triopia and the Burden of Excess, →ISBN, page 112:
text: If you're wondering who to thank for the sight of Will Ferrell struggling through a psychotic episode on a speedway wearing only his butt huggers, wonder no more.
ref: 2010, Todd Aaron Jensen, On Gratitude, →ISBN, page 139:
glosses: Men's briefs; underwear.
examples: text: Eva, for example, reveals how the uniform is a status symbol, but also how the uniform presupposes a certain body: I love the butt-huggers. I convinced my high school team to get them because I saw the college kids wearing them, people in my state were wearing them, the good teams, like high-status teams that were traditionally good had them...I mean, we had a real skinny cross country team, so nobody complained.
ref: 1999, Jeffery Sobal, Donna Maurer, Interpreting Weight: The Social Management of Fatness and Thinness, →ISBN:
text: She must be a knockout in the patent leather butt-huggers and spiked heels.
ref: 2006, Ray Bates, Blue Butterfly: A Detective John Bowers Mystery, →ISBN, page 115:
text: By the time our waitress (clad in those humiliating orange polyester butt-huggers for which Hooters is renowned) comes by to take our order, I am nodding my head in earnest to Badlands' personal recipe for gurgitory success.
ref: 2006, Ryan Nerz, Eat This Book: A Year of Gorging and Glory on the Competitive Eating Circuit, →ISBN:
glosses: Skin-tight shorts.
Synonyms: nut huggers
man panties
punk panties
tighty whities
autotransporter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: autotransporters
Etymology: From auto- + transporter.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A structural domain found in some bacterial outer membrane proteins.
autotransporter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: autotransporters
Etymology: From auto + transporter.
Senses: glosses: A car transporter.
prebonding
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: pre-bonding
Etymology: From pre- + bonding.
Senses: glosses: That occurs prior to bonding
prebonding
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pre-bonding
Etymology: From pre- + bonding.
Senses: glosses: bonding prior to some other process
eigenscale
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: eigenscales
Etymology: From eigen- + scale.
Senses: glosses: The scale of an eigenvalue
glosses: A series of eigenvalues
eigenscales
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: IMFs are a series of data sequences with different eigenscales.
ref: 2015 July 11, “Improved Prediction of Preterm Delivery Using Empirical Mode Decomposition Analysis of Uterine Electromyography Signals”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: plural of eigenscale
epidydimal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: A role for Tregs in glucose metabolism is supported by studies showing that diphtheria toxin-induced depletion of Tregs cells was accompanied by decreases in insulin-stimulated insulin-receptor (IR) tyrosine phosphorylation in epidydimal fat and liver [5 ].
ref: 2015 July 11, “Bifidobacterium pseudocatenulatum CECT 7765 Reduces Obesity-Associated Inflammation by Restoring the Lymphocyte-Macrophage Balance and Gut Microbiota Structure in High-Fat Diet-Fed Mice”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Related to, or situated in the epididymis
epipod
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: epipods
Etymology: From epi- + -pod.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: A small projection arising from the thoracic legs of a crustacean.
epipods
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: This clade is supported by the following synapomorphies common for both morpho analyses (starting from the character number): (48–49) presence of strap-like epipods terminating in a hook, on the fourth pereopod, (58–60) much reduced appendix interna in second to fourth pleopods The clade is well supported by molecular data (Fig 6A ).
ref: 2015 July 11, “Phylogeny and New Classification of Hydrothermal Vent and Seep Shrimps of the Family Alvinocarididae (Decapoda)”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: plural of epipod
erythromyeloid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From erythro- + myeloid.
Senses: examples: text: Definitive, transient erythromyeloid progenitors arise from the caudal hematopoietic tissue (CHT) while hematopoietic stem cells are derived from the hemogenic endothelium in the ventral wall of the dorsal aorta (VDA) within the aorta-gonad-mesonephros (AGM) region [2 ,4 ].
ref: 2015 July 11, “Mutagenesis Screen Identifies agtpbp1 and eps15L1 as Essential for T lymphocyte Development in Zebrafish”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Relating to red blood cells in bone marrow
ethnohistoric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From ethno- + historic.
Senses: examples: text: The scale and intensity of iron production reflected by these features are unprecedented in this part of Central Africa and show the emergence and existence of a pre-colonial regional-scale trade system that persisted until the ethnohistoric period.
ref: 2015 July 11, “On Intensive Late Holocene Iron Mining and Production in the Northern Congo Basin and the Environmental Consequences Associated with Metallurgy in Central Africa”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Relating to ethnohistory
ethnohistory
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ethnohistories
Etymology: From ethno- + history.
Senses: glosses: The history of an indigenous people
Related terms: ethnohistoric
excitoneurotoxicity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: However, diabetes mellitus has also been reported to enhance AMPA- and NMDA receptors activity leading to excitoneurotoxicity in various brain regions and it has been associated with alterations in cognitive ability of animals and patients [22 ].
ref: 2015 July 11, “Alterations in Hippocampal Oxidative Stress, Expression of AMPA Receptor GluR2 Subunit and Associated Spatial Memory Loss by Bacopa monnieri Extract (CDRI-08) in Streptozotocin-Induced Diabetes Mellitus Type 2 Mice”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Synonym of excitotoxicity.
synonyms: word: excitotoxicity