cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
stercorates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of stercorate
stercorating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of stercorate
understep
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: understeps
form: understepping
form: understepped
form: understepped
Etymology: From under- + step.
Senses: examples: text: The Questers were many, and fortunately the Answerer did not too often overstep or understep the mark.
ref: 1897, Boot and Shoe Recorder - Volume 30, page 28:
text: For the moment I experience the conflict as suffering and bear it, I no longer really move within problematic actuality but understep it.
ref: 1963, G. A. Rauche, The philosophy of actuality, page 89:
text: They will understep and overstep the bounds of propriety, and even of legality.
ref: 1967, The Phi Delta Kappan - Volume 49, Issues 1-10, page 282:
text: Either one of them overstep or understep their bounds at any one point in time.
ref: 1989, United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Governmental Affairs. Subcommittee on Government Information and Regulation, Reauthorization of the Paperwork Reduction Act:
text: If you're working on a structured question check the number of marks allocated for each part of the question and divide up your words accordingly. Finally, don't understep the word limit.
ref: 2007, Andrew Stevenson, Studying Psychology, →ISBN, page 57:
glosses: Not to go as far as a boundary or limit.
examples: text: As an instance of this inability to control the muscles well, may be cited the almost constant tendency to understep or overstep especially with the fore legs.
ref: 1907, University of Nebraska (Lincoln campus). Agricultural Experiment Station, Annual Report - Nebraska Agricultural Experiment Station:
text: If a sense of feeling gave him some knowledge of the width of the steps the fact that the third step was ⅝ of an inch wider could not cause him to overstep, but if it had any effect it would tend to cause him to understep.
ref: 1945, North eastern reporter. second series - Volume 60, page 499:
text: Cerebellar dysfunction is characterized by truncal ataxia, a broad-based stance, dysmetria in which the limbs either overstep (hypermetria) or understep (hypometria), and tremor that is most pronounced when the animal attempts a goal-orientated movement (intention tremor).
ref: 2004, Johnny D. Hoskins, Geriatrics and Gerontology of the Dog and Cat, →ISBN, page 358:
glosses: To take a step that is not far enough forward.
examples: text: As a general rule, a stag treads more cleanly than a hind, his stride is longer, the slot itself being rounder and less elongated ; while a hind or young stag understeps frequently, leaving in consequence a more or less double track.
ref: 1932, Douglas Gordon, Field Philosophy, page 187:
glosses: To have a gait in which the hind foot touches the ground behind the point where the front foot touches the ground.
understep
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: understeps
Etymology: From under- + step.
Senses: examples: text: The resulting trail is an understep walk—the hind tracks in each pair register behind the front tracks.
ref: 2010, Louis Liebenberg, Adriaan Louw, Mark Elbroch, Practical Tracking: A Guide to Following Footprints and Finding Animals, →ISBN:
text: A few animals, such as bison, commonly use an understep walk, while several species, including black bears, cougars and pronghorn regularly use an overstep walk.
ref: 2012, Jonathan Poppele, Animal Tracks: Midwest Edition, →ISBN, page 27:
text: Therefore, an understep (where the hind track lies behind the front track) is probably a slower gait than a direct-registering walk where the hind lies on top of the front, and both are probably slower than an overstep walk, where the hind track registers beyond the front track.
ref: 2012, Lawrence Mark Elbroch, Michael Kresky, Jonah Evans, Field Guide to Animal Tracks and Scat of California, →ISBN, page 49:
glosses: A gait in which the hind feet touch the ground behind the point where the front feet touch the ground.
examples: text: Written in minuscule script and placed on the shaded understep at the feet of the Virgin, the pious dedication was appropriate for the subject and its intended location.
ref: 2009, Gretchen A. Hirschauer, Catherine A. Metzger, Peter Cherry, Luis Meléndez: Master of the Spanish Still Life, page 10:
glosses: A step that acts as a base to hold something.
examples: text: In the back room and understeps, recessed lights are used.
ref: 1984, Edie Lee Cohen, Sherman R. Emery, Dining by design, page 118:
text: He hit his head on an understep and slammed back down again, gasping with pain.
ref: 1984, Marc Lovell, How green was my apple, →ISBN, page 74:
text: Jay had discovered the understeps before they had even gotten to middle school.
ref: 2016, Amy Ignatow, The Mighty Odds, →ISBN:
glosses: The underside of a step.
examples: text: Understeps were easy to detect, as the paw missed the rung entirely and the rat had to catch itself so it didn't stumble.
ref: 2012, Adam Wolfberg, Fragile Beginnings: Discoveries and Triumphs in the Newborn ICU, →ISBN:
glosses: A movement in which one understeps.
understep
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From under- + step.
Senses: examples: text: Escalator modernization including handrail speed monitors, Safe-T- Brakes, emergency stop relocation, understep lighting, reconditioning of steps and related improvements.
ref: 2000, FY 2000 Budget Request of the District of Columbia Courts:
glosses: Underneath a step.
approbate and reprobate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: approbates and reprobates
form: approbating and reprobating
form: approbated and reprobated
form: approbated and reprobated
Senses: qualifier: Scots law
glosses: To accept and reject the same deed or instrument (which is not permitted).
understeps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of understep
understeps
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of understep
understepping
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of understep
understepped
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of understep
hissing hot
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: And in the height of this bath, when I was more than half stewed in grease, like a Dutch dish, to be thrown into the Thames, and cooled, glowing hot, in that surge, like a horse-shoe; think of that,—hissing hot,—think of that, Master Brook.
ref: c. 1597 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merry Wiues of Windsor”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene v]:
text: 1792, Hannah Cowley, A Day in Turkey: or, The Russian Slaves, London: G.G.J. & J. Robinson, Act II, p. 30,
[…] a hissing hot fever laid hold of him; and the doctors, with all their rank and file of phials and bolusses, could hardly drive him out of his veins.
text: Mrs. Cratchit made the gravy (ready beforehand in a little saucepan) hissing hot […]
ref: 1843 December 19, Charles Dickens, “(please specify the page number)”, in A Christmas Carol. In Prose. Being a Ghost Story of Christmas, London: Chapman & Hall, […], →OCLC:
text: When a man has lived in such hissing hot places that he is fain to spend his life under cover, he is glad to keep abroad in this green English sweetness.
ref: 1904, Justin Huntly McCarthy, chapter 1, in The Lady of Loyalty House, New York: Harper, page 10:
text: Mrs Willy Nilly full of tea to her double-chinned brim broods and bubbles over her coven of kettles on the hissing hot range always ready to steam open the mail.
ref: 1954, Dylan Thomas, Under Milk Wood […] , New York: New Directions, page 35:
glosses: Very hot.
Synonyms: piping hot
searing hot
smoking hot
autonomous sensory meridian response
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: autonomous sensory meridian responses
form: ASMR
Senses: glosses: A frisson characterized by a tingling sensation on the skin that typically begins on the scalp and moves down the back of the neck and upper spine.
Synonyms: head orgasm
Derived terms: ASMR whisper
head orgasm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: head orgasms
Senses: glosses: Synonym of autonomous sensory meridian response.
synonyms: word: autonomous sensory meridian response
querkle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: querkles
Senses: glosses: A painting by numbers puzzle, consisting of a mass of numbered circles, that reveals a hidden image when the circles are coloured in
snow roller
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: snow rollers
Senses: glosses: A rare meteorological phenomenon in which large snowballs are formed naturally as chunks of snow are blown along the ground by wind
snow rollers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of snow roller
every man is the architect of his own fortune
Language: English
Part of speech: proverb
Senses: glosses: Each person is the chief cause of their success or failure in life.
Related terms: as you make your bed, so you must lie in it
bausond
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of bawsunt.
split-new
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more split-new
form: most split-new
Senses: glosses: brand new
as you make your bed, so you must lie in it
Language: English
Part of speech: proverb
Senses: glosses: One will carry negative consequences of not having prepared properly.
Related terms: make one's bed and lie in it
you make the bed you lie in
as you sow, so shall you reap
every man is the architect of his own fortune
chimp out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /t͡ʃɪmp aʊt/
Forms: form: chimps out
form: chimping out
form: chimped out
form: chimped out
Senses: examples: text: On one blog I was treated to a picture of a caged monkey with the below caption:
Imagine for a minute the fantastic awesome reaction among other chimps if Obama was pulled from his palace and sent to Nigger University (Prison) for 25 years. Not only would they chimp out, but it'd be a perfect excuse to add them to the good nigger (dead nigger) list. It's a win-win!
ref: 2012, D. S. Brown, Why I Voted for President Barack Hussein Obama II, Bloomington, Indiana, United States: AuthorHouse, →ISBN, page 44:
synonyms: chimp
glosses: Of a black person, to behave aggressively or violently.
chimp out
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /t͡ʃɪmp aʊt/
Forms: form: chimp outs
Senses: examples: ref: 2006 March 5, Niggercrusher, “Re: Ha ha, the forger is on a chimp out :)”, in alt.suicide (Usenet):
ref: 2011 October 10, Cheryl, “3 year old boy dies as a result of a chimp out”, in alt.sports.football.pro.sd-chargers (Usenet):
glosses: Alternative form of chimpout.
spirolactone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spirolactones
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any spiro compound in which one of the rings is a lactone
Related terms: spironolactone
defish
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: defishes
form: defishing
form: defished
form: defished
Etymology: From de- + fish.
Senses: topics: arts
hobbies
lifestyle
photography
glosses: To process an image taken with a fisheye lens so as to remove the distortion.
defishes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of defish
defishing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of defish
defished
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of defish
petticoat breeches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Loose short breeches worn by men in the 17th century.
blottable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more blottable
form: most blottable
Etymology: From blot + -able.
Senses: glosses: Able to be blotted.
INF
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Ellipsis of INF Treaty.
glosses: Ellipsis of INF-FNI
Coordinate terms: SALT
START
ABM
Nimuë
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Nimue
form: Nimuee
form: Nimueh
form: Nymue
form: Nymuë
form: Nymuee
form: Nymueh
Senses: glosses: A female given name; sometimes treated as the feminine of Merlin.
qualifier: Arthurian legend
glosses: either as the Lady of the Lake, or the wizardess lover of Merlin (and sometimes rival to Morgaine)
caffeoyltransferase
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: caffeoyltransferases
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any transferase that transfers a caffeoyl group
caffeoyltransferases
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of caffeoyltransferase
calicioids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of calicioid
calvasone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of colvasone.
colvasone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A synthetic corticosteroid used in veterinary medicine
empire line
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: fashion
lifestyle
glosses: A style of women's clothing characterised by a fitted bodice that ended just below the bust
Synonyms: empire silhouette
camphorquinone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A quinone, 2,3-bornanedione (4,7,7-trimethylbicyclo[2.2.1]heptane-2,3-dione), related to camphor
campothecin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of camptothecin.
carboxidotrophic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of carboxydotrophic.
cardioregulatory
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From cardio- + regulatory.
Senses: topics: medicine
physiology
sciences
glosses: That regulates the heartbeat
cathapsin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of cathepsin.
catharantine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of catharanthine.
cembranolide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cembranolides
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A diterpenoid epoxy lactone present in some soft corals
ceratophryine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ceratophryines
Senses: glosses: Any horned frog of the subfamily Ceratophryinae
ceratophryines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ceratophryine
cheirospore
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cheirospores
Etymology: From cheiro- + spore.
Senses: glosses: A multicellular conidium that somewhat resembles a hand
cheirospores
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cheirospore
chlamydiacidal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From chlamydia + -cidal.
Senses: glosses: That kills chlamydias
chlorotyping
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: The separation and identification of chlorotypes
chondrodifferentiation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From chondro- + differentiation.
Senses: topics: medicine
physiology
sciences
glosses: The differentiation of cartilage (from stem cells)
cichofactin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cichofactins
Senses: glosses: Any of a group of lipopeptides present in Pseudomonas cichorii
cichofactins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cichofactin
colonogenicity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The condition of being colonogenic.
glosses: Misspelling of clonogenicity.
crutcher
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: crutchers
Etymology: From crutch + -er (relational noun suffix) or + -er (occupational suffix).
Senses: examples: text: The conveyance of soap to the crutchers from the kettle may be by pump or by gravity. In the latter case, which is simpler and involves less trouble, the top level of the crutchers should be below that of the nigre.
ref: 1906, Leebert Lloyd Lamborn, Modern Soaps, Candles and Glycerin: A Practical Manual of Modern Methods of Utilization of Fats and Oils in the Manufacture of Soap and Candles, and of the Recovery of Glycerin:
glosses: A vessel in which the ingredients of soap are stirred with a crutch (form of prop).
examples: text: Summing up the advantages of the "Tally-Hi" crutching method, Senator Bull said: It makes crutching safer for the crutcher and the sheep. It reduces, as far as is practical, the effort and physical exertion required by the crutcher, bearing in mind the requirements of the owner.
ref: 1966, The Pastoral Review, volume 76, page 675:
text: It provides terms and conditions including rates of pay, hours of work and general conditions for shearers, crutchers, wiggers, ringers, shedhands, wool-pressers and cooks.
ref: 2010, D. J. Cottle, International Sheep and Wool Handbook, page 743:
glosses: One who shears the hindquarters of a sheep.
crutchers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of crutcher
complexome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: complexomes
Etymology: From complex + -ome.
Senses: examples: text: The systems biological concept of protein complexomes, which assumes the existence of interconnectivities between large protein assemblies, can be readily applied to the proteins within the extracellular space of muscles.
ref: 2016, Francesco Travascio, editor, Composition and Function of the Extracellular Matrix in the Human Body, page 69:
glosses: The set of protein complexes in a cell etc.
complexomes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of complexome
concentrational
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From concentration + -al.
Senses: glosses: Relating to concentration
congroids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of congroid
pierog
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pierogi
form: pieróg
Etymology: From Polish pierog/pieróg. Doublet of pirog.
Senses: examples: text: Would you have a recipe for the pierog made from mashed potatoes and kasza?
ref: 1991, Polish Digest, page 26, column 1:
text: Just about anything can be stuffed inside a pierog, from potatoes and cheese to sauerkraut and meat to sour cherries.[…]Just in case you were wondering, pierogi is a Polish plural. Pierogis is grammatically incorrect. One is simply called a pierog.
ref: 2002, Mitchell Davis, “Pierogi”, in The Mensch Chef or Why Delicious Jewish Food Isn’t an Oxymoron, New York, N.Y.: Clarkson Potter/Publishers, →ISBN, chapter 1 (Dinner Starts at Five: Appetizers and Salads), pages 17–18:
text: If a grilled-cheese sandwich that looks like the Virgin Mary can bring $28,000 on eBay – what about a pierog with the face of Jesus?[…]Donna Lee says the image appeared on a pierog – a Polish dumpling – as she was cooking it for Easter dinner at her home near Toledo.[…]Lee said she has kept the pierog in her freezer ever since.[…]So far, bidding on the pierog has climbed to $561.22.
ref: 2005 August 11, “Woman says pierog has Jesus’ face”, in The Times, Munster, Ind., page A12, column 2:
text: Mrs. T’s said Buffalo demonstrated its passion for pierogi with its Aug. 25 “Pierogi Pride Day,” which included a pierog cook-off and a pierog toss, culminating in a proclamation by Mayor Byron Brown. Leaving aside the question of whether a man prosaically named Byron Brown can preside over a legitimate pierogi festival, the only thing that should be tossed with a pierog is an ice-cold Miller High Life.
ref: 2006 November 3, Mark Kiesling, “Get your wings off my pierogi”, in The Times, Munster, Ind., page A3, column 1:
text: As Philly’s only Polish food truck, we offer scratch-made, natural, local-when-possible specialties that satisfy traditionalists, adventurous eaters and people who have never tasted a pierog (“pierogi” is plural) before.
ref: 2016 June, Emily Kovach, “Mom-Mom’s Polish Food Cart”, in Grid, number 86, page 49, column 1:
text: With 60 sweet and savory recipes that include everything from the classic Polish cheese and potato offerings to American-inspired Reuben pierogie and fried apple pie-rogies to worldly fillings like falafel and Nutella, there’s a pierog for every party and every palate! Each recipe comes with a charming story from Barber’s extensive explorations in pierogi flavors.
ref: 2016 December, “PAJ Bookstore Kitchen”, in Polish American Journal, volume 105, number 12, section “Cookbooks”, book “Pierogi Love”, page 14, column 1:
glosses: Rare form of pierogi.
dismailed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of dismail
dismails
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of dismail
dismailing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of dismail
concentratedness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From concentrated + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being concentrated.
roccelline
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of roccellin.
barriering
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of barrier
platform bridge
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: platform bridges
Senses: glosses: A movable gangway between the platforms of two railway carriages.
platform bridges
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of platform bridge
schoolphobic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more schoolphobic
form: most schoolphobic
Senses: glosses: Having or relating to schoolphobia.
schoolphobia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From school + -phobia.
Senses: glosses: An abnormal fear of or aversion to attending school as a pupil.
chieftainry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chieftainries
Etymology: From chieftain + -ry. Piecewise doublet of captainry.
Senses: glosses: The role or status of chieftain.
chieftainries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chieftainry
squattiness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From squatty + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being squatty.
reincentivise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: reincentivises
form: reincentivising
form: reincentivised
form: reincentivised
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of reincentivize.
reincentivises
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of reincentivise
reincentivising
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of reincentivise
reincentivised
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of reincentivise
resteep
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: resteeps
form: resteeping
form: resteeped
form: resteeped
Etymology: From re- + steep.
Senses: examples: text: Every now and then it seems needful to resteep humanity in the material, in order to broaden man's hold on the earth.
ref: 1876, George Henry Calvert, The Life of Rubens, page 69:
text: To the girl herself it seemed that, if she could only get away from him, she might more easily resteep her mind in thoughts of holiness.
ref: 1901, Mamie Bowles, The Supreme Sacrifice, Or, Gillette's Marriage, page 59:
text: If any greasy matter still remains, resteep the skin in the lime-pit for a few days.
ref: 1975, Alan L. Whipple, Research and the library: a student guide to basic techniques, page 96:
text: If too weak, add more flavoring and resteep or try one-fourth teaspoon extract.
ref: 1988, Mimi Freid, Making Liqueurs for Gifts, →ISBN:
glosses: To steep again.
resteep
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: resteeps
Etymology: From re- + steep.
Senses: examples: text: Trial maltings using between 0.05% and 0.4% formaldehyde in the resteep gave unsatisfactory results when applied before three days' germination.
ref: 1966, International Brewers' Journal - Volume 102, Issue 2, page 743:
text: Formaldehyde applied in a resteep gave the best extract yield, combined with the greatest reduction in anthocyanogens.
ref: 1969, Wallerstein Laboratories Communications - Volume 32, page 125:
text: The process is more certain if warm water is used in the resteep.
ref: 2012, D. E. Briggs, Barley, →ISBN, page 554:
glosses: The act or process of resteeping.
resteeps
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of resteep
resteeps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of resteep
resteeping
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of resteep
resteeped
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of resteep
coracosternal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɜː(ɹ)nəl
Etymology: From coraco- + sternal.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Relating to the coracoid process and the sternum
corticobulbospinal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From cortico- + bulbospinal.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: cortical and bulbospinal
corticogyral
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From cortico- + gyral.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: cortical and gyral
undermodify
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: undermodifies
form: undermodifying
form: undermodified
form: undermodified
Etymology: From under- + modify.
Senses: examples: text: In this light, it is possibly instructive that monkey cells as described in section III, when starved for methionine, undermodify the Y-base in phenylalanine tRNA so that it resembles the situation in tumor cells.
ref: 1985, Anticancer Research, page 22:
text: Such unevenness of protein modification is not detected using conventional analyses but could be "malted out", or treated with commercial enzymes during mashing, or eliminated by genetic transformation of hordein matrix proteins which do not compact during grain development and which do not undermodify or overmodify during the breakdown of cell wall beta glucan and small starch granules during malting.
ref: 1996, Institute of Brewing (Great Britain)., Journal of the Institute of Brewing - Volume 102, page 46:
text: Other areas in Europe historically couldn't produce barley with as high of an extract and chose to undermodify the grain to retain more of its brewing value.
ref: 2013, Ken Grossman, Beyond the Pale: The Story of Sierra Nevada Brewing Co., →ISBN, page 70:
glosses: To modify insufficiently.
undermodifies
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of undermodify
undermodifying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of undermodify
fly-rods
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fly-rod
corticotropinoma
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: corticotropinomas
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: An adenoma that secretes adrenocorticotropic hormone
corticotropinomas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of corticotropinoma
undermodification
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: undermodifications
Etymology: From under- + modification.
Senses: examples: text: The method is based on the fact that RNA with specific undermodifications accumulates under nonpermissive growth conditions and that such a defect can be detected by remodification either in vivo at permissive conditions or in vitro.
ref: 1978, Genetics Abstracts - Volume 10, Issues 4-6, page 18:
text: The possibility that undermodification of A-37 in tRNA may further affect metabolism through frameshifting events might also be considered.
ref: 1999, J. J. Bullen, E. Griffiths, Iron and Infection: Molecular, Physiological and Clinical Aspects:
text: If the grain is embedded with the ventral side up in the plastic, a shallow grinding will suggest undermodification, whereas a heavier shaving will register overmodification.
ref: 2006, Michael J. Lewis, Charles W. Bamforth, Essays in Brewing Science, →ISBN, page 95:
glosses: Insufficient modification.
undermodifications
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of undermodification
overmodification
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: overmodifications
Etymology: From over- + modification.
Senses: glosses: Excessive modification.
overmodifications
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of overmodification
monascidian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: monascidians
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: A simple organism, not compound or composite.
monascidians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of monascidian
Tisri
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Tishrei.
hypocorrect
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more hypocorrect
form: most hypocorrect
Etymology: From hypo- + correct.
Senses: examples: text: They produce hypocorrect forms in an effort to speak nonstandard black English.
ref: 1988, Linguistic Society of America, Meeting Handbook, page 5:
text: Despite being second dialect learners, hypocorrect speakers are reinforcing linguistic divergence.
ref: 1999, John Baugh, Out of the Mouths of Slaves, →ISBN:
text: This example also shows the combination of a hypocorrect construction with a “high” stylistic figure, that is, paronomasia (or figura etymologica—mafʿūl muțlaq).
ref: 2013, Jonathan Owens, The Oxford Handbook of Arabic Linguistics, →ISBN, page 180:
topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: Not completely correct; nonstandard.
hypocorrect
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: hypocorrects
form: hypocorrecting
form: hypocorrected
form: hypocorrected
Etymology: From hypo- + correct.
Senses: examples: text: The surgeon can hypocorrect on the operating table, knowing that in the postoperative period an additional correction will result because of:...
ref: 1989, Yves-Gerard Illouz, Yves T. De Villers, Emma Dankoski, Body sculpturing by lipoplasty, →ISBN, page 417:
text: Dillard (1977) and Baugh (19S7; 1992) have also shown that upper-middle class African American college students hypocorrect in their use of AAE phonology and grammar.
ref: 1997, Working Papers in Linguistics - Volume 4, page 337:
text: Similarly, the change bh>mh can be seen as a form of assimilation where listeners hypocorrect and misassign the nasality from a nasal segment to the labial fricative segment.
ref: 2003, Ériu: Founded as the Journal of the School of Irish Learning Devoted to Irish Philology and Literature, page 128:
glosses: To undercorrect.
hypocorrects
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of hypocorrect
hypocorrecting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of hypocorrect
hypocorrected
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of hypocorrect
come the old soldier
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkʌm ðiː‿əʊl(d)ˈsəʊld͡ʒə/
ipa: /-ˈsɒl-/
ipa: /ˈkʌm ði‿oʊl(d)ˈsoʊld͡ʒə/
Forms: form: comes the old soldier
form: coming the old soldier
form: came the old soldier
form: come the old soldier
Etymology: From come (“to behave in the manner of; to pretend to be”) + the + old soldier (“former soldier, or one who has served for a long time; one with a lot of experience in something”), in the sense of one taking advantage of their age or experience over someone else.
Senses: examples: text: Don’t come the old soldier with me, sunshine! Do you think I was born yesterday?
text: [W]ere it not that I think he has scarce the impudence to propose such a thing to succeed, curse me but I should think he was coming the old soldier over me, and keeping up his game.
ref: 1823 December 23 (indicated as 1824), [Walter Scott], “Fortune’s Frolics”, in St Ronan’s Well. […], volume II, Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne and Co.] for Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Hurst, Robinson, and Co., →OCLC, pages 111–112:
text: But you needn't try to come the old soldier over me. D—n it, I'm not such a fool as that.
ref: 1859–1861, [Thomas Hughes], “Brown Patronus”, in Tom Brown at Oxford: […], part 2nd, Boston, Mass.: Ticknor and Fields, published 1861, →OCLC, page 167:
synonyms: act the old soldier
play the old soldier
glosses: Often followed by with: to deceive, impose upon, or take advantage of someone, as if exploiting one's superior age or experience.
Refection Sunday
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From the relaxation of Lenten vows of abstinence customarily accepted on this Sunday midway through the season.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Mothering Sunday: the fourth Sunday in Lent.
synonyms: word: Mothering Sunday
extra: the fourth Sunday in Lent
melodizer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: melodizers
form: melodiser
Etymology: From melodize + -er.
Senses: examples: text: The melodizer revels in flute and cremona stops, occasionally varied by trumpet and vox humana, and thus while one hand performs the customary one-two-three of the waltz, the other gives solos and runs, until it sinks away, probably with a final trill on the piccolo, and the player stands up in time to show that the wicked man has at last turned away from the sin that he was committing.
ref: 1880, The Musical Standard:
text: O wonder-working Queen! Romance, Immortal mother of the world that seems, Thy work alone is safe from time and chance, O golden melodizer of sweet dreams!
ref: 1890, Temple Bar: A London Magazine for Town and Country Readers:
text: Our erstwhile arranger - melodizer and matchmaker succeeded in brainwashing the couple, from his cantata and motet marriage - the home schooling became an oft-repeated roulade passage which neither party pulls out he unendingly charged.
ref: 2014, Silas Olaoyin Abayomi, The Watchnight Songs, page 1491864559:
glosses: One who melodizes.
melodizers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of melodizer
planuloid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more planuloid
form: most planuloid
Etymology: From planula + -oid.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Resembling a planula.
planuliform
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more planuliform
form: most planuliform
Etymology: From planula + -iform.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Resembling a planula.
stand on one's own bottom
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: stands on one's own bottom
form: standing on one's own bottom
form: stood on one's own bottom
form: stood on one's own bottom
Senses: glosses: To be independent; not to rely on others.
melodiser
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: melodisers
Senses: examples: text: He goes on to explain the titles so figuratively as even to call the life of the melodiser a psalm.
ref: 1873, Heart and voice:
text: Come, Apollo, tell us of these melodisers.
ref: 1895, Norman Gale, All Expenses Paid, page 92:
text: But the most industrious melodiser of Shelley was Dolores (Elizabeth Dickson), who had published at least a dozen songs with Shelley titles not named above.
ref: 1922, Musical News and Herald - Volumes 62-63, page 1223:
glosses: Alternative form of melodizer.
melodisers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of melodiser
bead-tree
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bead-trees
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of bead tree.
bead-trees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bead-tree
fortunise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: fortunises
form: fortunising
form: fortunised
form: fortunised
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of fortunize.
fortunises
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of fortunise
chippy-chaser
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chippy-chasers
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of chippy chaser.
fortunising
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of fortunise
chippy-chasers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chippy-chaser
fortunised
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of fortunise
scelerous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more scelerous
form: most scelerous
Senses: glosses: wicked; scelerate
scelerates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of scelerate
vitiferous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more vitiferous
form: most vitiferous
Senses: examples: text: Now these spirits are somewhat evaporated, I can sit myself down with a degree of composure to give you a general idea of the vitiferous riches—if you will tolerate a word that savours of pedantry, for which these districts are so justly renowned.
ref: 1793, Thomas Cogan, The Rhine: Or, a Journey from Utretch [sic] to Francfort, page 334:
text: The branches of vitiferous trees are to be so formed, that the one may not be directed in a line under the other : but in a rich situation, the elm is to be left without a branch eight feet from the ground; in a poor one, seven feet.
ref: 1807, Thomas Owen, The Fourteen Books of Palladius Rutilius Taurus Æmilianus, on Agriculture, page 112:
text: Accordingly, we have to reckon with the more intensive occurrence of this vine pest only in the vitiferous regions of the Transdanubium.
ref: 1958, Acta agronomica Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae:
glosses: Full of or pertaining to vines, especially grape vines.
beaverish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more beaverish
form: most beaverish
Etymology: From beaver + -ish.
Senses: examples: text: Gary and Chipper, her fifth-grader and her first-grader, had the chlorination of the Y about them. With their damp hair they looked riparian. Muskratty, beaverish.
ref: 2001, Jonathan Franzen, The Corrections:
glosses: Characteristic of a beaver.
Related terms: beaverlike
beavery
euthyroids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of euthyroid
beaverly
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more beaverly
form: most beaverly
Etymology: From beaver + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: "[…] Great idea, isn't it? I wonder how long they would take to Darwinize into webbed feet and a beaverly breadth of tail."
ref: 1892, Rolf Boldrewood, The Squatter's Dream:
text: Indeed, they are already doing so with all the complacent industry of beavers and the beaverly repetition of aims and methods.
ref: 1963, The Canadian Forum: A Monthly Journal of Literature and Public Affairs:
text: Tao The Ching, the Upanishads, or Ojibway creation tales it's not owing to any sense of piety or to the beaverly enthusiasms of a pedant, but because of an ardent and abiding curiosity.
ref: 1997, Steven Heighton, The Admen Move on Lhasa:
glosses: Like, relating to, or befitting a beaver; beaverlike
American lotus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: American lotuses
Senses: glosses: An aquatic plant of species Nelumbo lutea, with a range extending from Minnesota and Oklahoma to the Caribbean.
Synonyms: sense: Nelumbo lutea
word: lotus
sense: Nelumbo lutea
word: chinquapin
sense: Nelumbo lutea
word: yoncopin
sense: Nelumbo lutea
word: wankapin
sense: Nelumbo lutea
word: yellow lotus
sense: Nelumbo lutea
word: water chinquapin
silver perch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: silver perches
Senses: glosses: Certain percoid fish:
Bairdiella chrysoura (family Sciaenidae), native to the east coast of the United States; silver croaker.
glosses: Certain percoid fish:
Bidyanus bidyanus (family Terapontidae), endemic to Australia.
glosses: Certain percoid fish:
Leiopotherapon plumbeus (family Terapontidae), endemic to the Philippines.
Synonyms: sense: Bidyanus bidyanus
word: bidyan
sense: Bidyanus bidyanus
word: bidyan grunter
sense: Bidyanus bidyanus
word: silver bream
sense: Bidyanus bidyanus
word: black bream
sense: Bidyanus bidyanus
word: grunter
sense: Bidyanus bidyanus
word: Murray bream
sense: Bidyanus bidyanus
word: Murray perch
sense: Bidyanus bidyanus
word: sooty grunter
sense: Bidyanus bidyanus
word: tcheri
Triodion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Triodions
form: Triodia
Etymology: From Ancient Greek Τριῴδιον (Triōídion).
Senses: topics: Christianity
glosses: The liturgical book used by the Eastern Orthodox Church, containing the propers for the fasting period preceding Easter and for the weeks leading up to the fast.
Triodions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Triodion
courtlet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: courtlets
Etymology: From court + -let.
Senses: glosses: A petty court.
courtlets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of courtlet
Brutuses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Brutus
court roll
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: court rolls
Senses: glosses: Synonym of manorial roll.
synonyms: word: manorial roll
court rolls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of court roll
hetairistic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to hetaerism.
hetaerocracy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ἑταῖρος (hetaîros, “companion”) + -cracy.
Senses: glosses: Rule by courtesans.
Related terms: hetaerism
sedes vacans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin sēdēs vacāns.
Senses: qualifier: canon law
glosses: A papal or episcopal see when vacant.
Related terms: sede vacante
sedevacantism
sedevacantist
royal burgh
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɹɔɪəl ˈbʌɹə/
ipa: /ˌɹɔɪ(ə)l ˈbɝoʊ/
ipa: /-ˈbɝɡ/
rhymes: -ʌɹə
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)ɡ
Forms: form: royal burghs
Etymology: From royal + burgh.
Senses: examples: text: Most royal burghs were either created by the Crown, or upgraded from another status, such as a burgh of barony.
synonyms: word: burgh royal
word: royal borough
glosses: A type of Scottish burgh founded by, or subsequently granted, a royal charter; these were legally abolished in 1975.
Coordinate terms: burgh of barony
parliamentary burgh
Related terms: english: in England
translation: in England
word: royal borough
royal burghs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of royal burgh
glampsite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: glampsites
Etymology: Blend of glamorous + campsite, based on earlier glamping.
Senses: glosses: A luxurious campsite.
glampsites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of glampsite
rangerine
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Synonym of rangiferine.
synonyms: word: rangiferine
phenomenise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: phenomenises
form: phenomenising
form: phenomenised
form: phenomenised
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of phenomenize.
phenomenize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: phenomenizes
form: phenomenizing
form: phenomenized
form: phenomenized
Etymology: From phenomen(on) + -ize.
Senses: glosses: To bring into the realm of experience.
phenomenized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of phenomenize
phenomenizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of phenomenize
phenomenizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of phenomenize
phenomenised
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of phenomenise
phenomenises
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of phenomenise
phenomenising
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of phenomenise
brown George
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: brown Georges
Senses: glosses: A kind of hard biscuit.
glosses: A brown earthen vessel.
brown Georges
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of brown George
vasculiferous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɪfəɹəs
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Having its seeds contained in a vessel.
welcome-home-husband-though-never-so-drunk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The houseleek.
tendrilous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more tendrilous
form: most tendrilous
Etymology: From tendril + -ous.
Senses: examples: text: The long, curling, tendrilous appendages speedily affix themselves to sea-weeds, or other appropriate substances, and from their form and consistence anchor the egg firmly.
ref: 1866, John George Wood, The Common Objects of the Sea Shore: Including Hints for an Aquarium:
text: It was huge, the first thing you saw when you walked in the room, made from a flimsy cut of wood, overcarved with gaudy, tendrilous designs and studded with glued-on florets.
ref: 2007, Catherine Landis, Harvest: A Novel, →ISBN:
glosses: Tendril-like.
examples: text: These frightful precipices were partially concealed from us by a treacherous growth of under-brush, sea-side grape, with tendrilous and parasitical plants pendant from the loftier trees, as at intervals there shot up a gru-gru, or a gree-gree, another variety of the palm tribe.
ref: 1852, Charles William Day, Five Years' Residence in the West Indies, pages 98–99:
text: This creeping tendrilous plant has a leaf like an obtuse rhomb, rather downy, and having a chilli-shaped aculeated pod, full of a long silky fibre adhering to the seeds.
ref: 1868, James Chapman, Travels in the Interior of South Africa, page 74:
glosses: Having many tendrils.
snarkishly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more snarkishly
form: most snarkishly
Etymology: From snarkish + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a snarkish manner.
psychostasia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Borrowed from Ancient Greek ψυχοστασία (psukhostasía, “weighing of lives”).
Senses: topics: lifestyle
religion
glosses: The weighing of souls, as a form of judgment of people's worth.
traveller's tale
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: traveller's tales
form: traveler's tale
Senses: glosses: An account that cannot be believed; a tall story; a whopper.
Related terms: long ways, long lies
underfoots
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of underfoot
underfoots
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of underfoot
porriginous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Having or relating to the disease porrigo.
underfooted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of underfoot
shoalness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From shoal + -ness.
Senses: glosses: shallowness
Tiburtine
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Of the town called Tibur in Latium.
cross-fertilisations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cross-fertilisation
cross-hatchings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cross-hatching
backing out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of back out
honour bright
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Forms: form: honor bright
Senses: glosses: A minor oath or appeal to honour.
mauvais quarts d'heure
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mauvais quart d'heure
beigeish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more beigeish
form: most beigeish
Etymology: From beige + -ish.
Senses: glosses: Somewhat beige in colour.
shireman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shiremen
Etymology: From shire + -man.
Senses: glosses: A sheriff.
shiremen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shireman