cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
iwis
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: /ɪˈwɪs/
Forms: form: iwys
form: ywis
form: y-wis
Etymology: From Middle English iwis, iwys, ywis (“certain, sure”), from Old English ġewiss (“certain, sure”), from Proto-West Germanic *gawiss, from Proto-Germanic *gawissaz (“known, certain, sure”), from Proto-Indo-European *weyd- (“to know”).
Cognate with Dutch gewis (“sure”), German gewiss (“certain”), Danish vis (“sure”). More at wit, wis.
Senses: examples: text: Iwis, in all the Senate
 There was no heart so bold[…].
ref: 1842, Thomas Macaulay, Horatius:
text: God vanished long ago, iwis, A mere subjective synthesis
ref: 1890, James Russell Lowell, Poetical Works:
glosses: Certainly, surely, indeed.
iwis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ɪˈwɪs/
/ˈiːwiz/
/ɪˈwɪs/
Forms: form: iwys
form: ywis
form: y-wis
Etymology: Plural formed with the suffix -s.
Senses: glosses: plural of iwi
buttoned-down
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more buttoned-down
form: most buttoned-down
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of button-down.
butt-woman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈbʌtwʊmən/
Forms: form: butt-women
form: butt woman
Etymology: Compound of butt (“hassock”) + woman.
Senses: examples: text: My thoughts always revert to the angry butt-woman when the second chapter of St. James' Epistle is read in its ordinary course.
ref: 1862, Margaret Goodman, Experiences of an English Sister of Mercy, London: Smith and Elder, page 26:
text: "It was more like a funeral than a wedding," said the butt-woman, who was the sole spectator of the ceremony, with the exception of the bride's uncle and aunt, told her friends afterwards.
ref: 1892 September, Annie Thomas, “The Honourable Jane.”, in Belgravia: a London magazine, volume 79, page 10:
text: The butt-woman was just setting forth the need of money for church repairs but she interrupted herself when she found me studying monuments.
ref: 1909 March, Edna Bourne Holman, “At Herrick's home in Devon”, in Scribner's Magazine, volume XLV, number 3, page 259:
glosses: A female lay church worker who tends the pews in a church; a sextoness.
butt woman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: butt women
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of butt-woman.
butt women
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of butt woman
butt-women
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of butt-woman
bumper stickers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bumper sticker
biot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: biots
Etymology: From French Biot; Named after Jean-Baptiste Biot.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Synonym of abampere.
synonyms: word: abampere
Derived terms: Bi
biot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: biots
Etymology: Blend of biological + robot
Senses: topics: literature
media
publishing
science-fiction
glosses: A robot composed of living components.
Coordinate terms: android
biobot
bionics
biorobot
biorobotics
bioroid
bot
cybernetics
cyborg
droid
gynoid
pet
robot
slave
retirers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of retirer
daisylike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more daisylike
form: most daisylike
Etymology: From daisy + -like.
Senses: examples: text: Vintage Wine looked even redder next to the orange and yellow daisylike flowers of Helenium Moerheim Beauty.
ref: 2009 August 13, Anne Raver, “A Tapestry of Color, Unfolding All Year”, in New York Times:
glosses: Resembling a daisy, especially in shape or color
strike partners
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of strike partner
triple-jumpers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of triple-jumper
organ donors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of organ donor
wipe-out
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wipe-outs
Etymology: Deverbal from wipe out.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of wipeout.
langauge
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: langauges
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of language.
nominality
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From nominal + -ity.
Senses: synonyms: nominalness
glosses: The quality or state of being nominal.
Related terms: nominalism
actuality
reality
ring-in
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ring-ins
Senses: glosses: A replacement made at the last minute, often in a sporting context.
glosses: A racehorse or greyhound fraudulently substituted for another in a race.
examples: text: "But I couldn't get into an underground contract party because I'm a ring-tail, or ring-in." That means an outsider, one not born in Broken Hill.
ref: 1967, Elspeth Huxley, Their Shining Eldorado: A Journey through Australia, page 97:
glosses: An outsider.
glosses: A person pretending to be someone else; an imposter.
rent-a-crowd
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rent-a-crowds
Etymology: The term is derived from a fictional company, Rentacrowd Ltd., mentioned in the Peter Simple (Michael Wharton) columns in the UK Daily Telegraph newspaper.
Senses: glosses: A group of people who are paid to attend an event to increase attendance figures, rather than attending of their own volition.
Related terms: rent-a-mob
immarcescible
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ɪmɑː(ɹ)ˈsɛsɪbəl/
Forms: form: more immarcescible
form: most immarcescible
Etymology: From Middle French inmarcessible (1482), later immarcescible (“that does not shrivel" or "that does not perish”), from Latin immarcescibilis (“unfading”).
Senses: examples: text: I did not think to see them once again, / For what could bring into an old woman's dream / Canova's immarcescible marble lovers?
ref: 1989, Kathleen Raine, “Hieros Gamos”, in Selected Poems, page 103:
glosses: Permanent, enduring; that does not perish.
Derived terms: immarcescibility
immarcescibly
Related terms: marcesce
marcescent
aestiferous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: ĕstĭʹfĕrŭs
ipa: /ɛsˈtɪfɛɹʌs/
rhymes: -ɪfəɹəs
Forms: form: more aestiferous
form: most aestiferous
form: æstiferous
form: estiferous
Etymology: From Latin aestus (“heat, tide”) + -ferous (“bearing, bringing”).
Senses: examples: text: Thus they, estiferous, the hollow sphere
Within, rack’d, and raged against the Highest.
ref: 1859: John D. Bryant, M. D., Redemption, a Poem, page 241 (John Penington & Son)
glosses: As the tide, turbulent; ebbing and flowing.
examples: text: Moreover, if the analogy to political revolution teaches anything at all, its instruction would seem to be that revolution is a wasteful and excessively estiferous process.
ref: 1979, J. Ron Stanfield, Economic Thought and Social Change, Southern Illinois University Press, →ISBN, page 148, →ISBN:
glosses: Producing much (aestival) heat.
Related terms: word: aestive
word: aestuant
word: aestuarium
word: aestuous
word: estuous
word: estival
alt: chiefly zoölogy
word: estivate
topics: botany
biology
natural-sciences
alt: zoölogy
word: estivation
word: estuary
word: estuate
word: estuating
word: estuation
estiferous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more estiferous
form: most estiferous
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of aestiferous.
æstiferous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more æstiferous
form: most æstiferous
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of aestiferous.
Invention of the Cross
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: Christianity
glosses: The alleged discovery of the cross on which Jesus Christ was crucified, by St Helena, mother of the Emperor Constantine, in 326 C.E.
topics: Christianity
glosses: The church festival observed on 3 May in commemoration of St Helena's alleged discovery of the so-called True Cross.
morphe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: morphes
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of morphew.
invoker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: invokers
Etymology: From invoke + -er.
Senses: examples: An invoker of God's mercy
glosses: One who calls upon (a person, especially a god) for help, assistance or guidance.
glosses: One who appeals for validation to a (notably cited) authority.
glosses: One who conjures up spirits with incantations.
glosses: Someone who induces as an inevitable consequence.
glosses: One who solicits, petitions for, appeals to a favorable attitude.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: That which causes a program or subroutine to execute.
invokers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of invoker
rebirthings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rebirthing
syndesmosis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌsɪn.dɛzˈməʊ.sɪs/
ipa: /ˌsɪn.dɛzˈmoʊ.sɪs/
ipa: /ˌsɪn.dɛsˈmoʊ.sɪs/
rhymes: -əʊsɪs
Forms: form: syndesmoses
Etymology: Borrowed from New Latin syndesmōsis.
Senses: examples: text: He was diagnosed with syndesmosis in his left ankle, the same injury that cost Ryan Hoffman a place in last year's grand final.
ref: 2009 August 19, Russell Gould, “Storm dismisses any talk of Greg Inglis returning”, in Herald Sun, archived from the original on 20 Aug 2009:
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: A slightly movable articulation or joint where the contiguous bony surfaces are rough and are united by an interosseous ligament (e.g. between the fibula and tibia at the ankle).
meningioma
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: meningiomas
form: meningiomata
Etymology: From meninges + -oma.
Senses: examples: text: Ellen Wright, 48, was operated on for five hours Tuesday to remove a benign meningioma tumour from the left side of her brain, after Clarke practised on her case.
ref: 2009 August 20, Joseph Hall, Toronto Star:
topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: A common tumour of the central nervous system, occurring in the meninges, usually benign.
Derived terms: meningiomal
meningiomatosis
sentimentalisms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sentimentalism
tendinopathy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tendinopathies
Etymology: Comparable to surface analyses of tendon + -o- + -pathy and tendo- + -pathy but not thus formed; see more at tendinitis § Etymology.
Senses: examples: text: When I read that tendinopathy is thought to be slow to heal, in part because blood flow to tendons is limited, I decided that I was already doing something that might help.
ref: 2009 August 20, Gina Kolata, “One Injured Hamstring, a String of Treatments”, in New York Times:
topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: A disorder of the tendons.
Hypernyms: arthropathy
Hyponyms: tendinitis
tendinosis
enthesopathy
Coordinate terms: synoviopathy
bursopathy
Derived terms: tendinopathic
tendinopathogenesis
enthesopathy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: enthesopathies
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: A disorder of entheses (bone attachments).
Hypernyms: tendinopathy
Related terms: enthesitis
enthesis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪnˈθiː.sɪs/
Forms: form: entheses
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ἔνθεσις (énthesis, “putting in, insertion”).
Senses: examples: text: Like arthritis, peripheral enthesitis occurs predominantly in the lower extremities, particularly in the foot, at single sites at onset, and then at several entheses throughout the course of the disease.
ref: 2004, Erbil Ünsal, “Chapter II: Andersson Lesion in Early Juvenile Spondyloarthropathies”, in Frank Columbus, editor, Focus On Arthritis Research, page 26:
text: Functional entheses occur where tendinous and ligamentous structures, while not actually attaching to bone, are adjacent and in a close relationship to the underlying bone.
ref: 2007, Philip Helliwell, James Woodburn, The Foot And Ankle in Rheumatoid Arthritis: A Comprehensive Guide, page 64:
text: Inflammation of the enthesis, when associated with arthritis in children, is called the syndrome of seronegative enthesopathy associated with arthritis (SEA). The entheses most commonly involved in children are the plantar aponeurosis, calcaneal enthesis, and distal and proximal patellar ligament insertions.
ref: 2010, Richard J. Wakefield, Maria Antonietta D′Agostino, Essential Applications of Musculoskeletal Ultrasound in Rheumatology, page 211:
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: The insertion point at which a tendon, ligament, or muscle inserts into a bone.
Derived terms: entheseal
enthesial
enthesitis
enthesopathy
enthesophyte
enthesitis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From enthesis + -itis.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: An inflammatory disorder of entheses (bone attachments).
Related terms: enthesopathy
polyenthesitis
tendinosis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: Chronic damage to a tendon at a cellular level.
Synonyms: tendinosus
Related terms: tendinitis
synoviopathy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: synoviopathies
Etymology: From synovio- + -pathy.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: A disorder of the synovial membrane.
Hypernyms: arthropathy
Hyponyms: synovitis
Coordinate terms: tendinopathy
bursopathy
few cards shy of a full deck
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: a few cards shy of a full deck
form: few cards short of a full deck
Senses: examples: text: That guy might be a few cards shy of a full deck — he thinks that substitute sugar is really a government tracking system.
glosses: Mentally deranged; demented; insane.
Related terms: full-deckism
bursopathy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bursopathies
Etymology: From burso- + -pathy.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: A disorder of the bursa.
Hypernyms: arthropathy
Hyponyms: bursitis
Coordinate terms: tendinopathy
synoviopathy
dendrolatry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: dĕndrŏʹlətrĭ
ipa: /dɛnˈdɹɒlətɹɪ/
Etymology: From dendro- + -latry, from Ancient Greek δένδρον (déndron, “tree”) + λατρεία (latreía, “worship”))
Senses: glosses: The worship of trees.
have a seat
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: has a seat
form: having a seat
form: had a seat
form: had a seat
Senses: glosses: To sit down; to take a seat.
examples: text: Thanks for coming in. Please, have a seat.
glosses: A polite directive to sit down
Related terms: have several seats
heaven helps those who help themselves
Language: English
Part of speech: proverb
Forms: form: God helps those who help themselves
form: heaven helps those that help themselves
Etymology: Phrase originates from Aesop, an Ancient Greek author. It was first translated into Latin, then into French by Pierre Millot in 1646. The phrase originates as the opening sentence of Samuel Smiles' book Self-Help from 1859. It is a variation of the pre-existing maxim God helps them that help themselves which also appeared in Benjamin Franklin's Poor Richard's Almanack which was published in the first half of the 18th century.
Senses: glosses: A maxim encouraging people to attempt to solve their own problems.
Related terms: God works in mysterious ways
you have to be good to be lucky
fortune favours the bold
Brother
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Brothers
Senses: examples: text: At the monastery, Brother Stephen supervises the kitchen.
text: Please welcome Brother Smith as he moves from his former congregation to his new congregation.
glosses: Title of respect for an adult male member of a religious or fraternal order.
glosses: Title of respect for an adult male member of a fraternal/sororal organization, or comrade in a movement, or even a stranger using fictive kin.
examples: text: The Native American had a kinship with nature, even referring to Mother Earth and Brother Bear.
glosses: A title used to personify or respectfully refer to concepts or animals.
Synonyms: Br.
Bro
Coordinate terms: brother
brethren
Brethren
brotherhood
Brotherhood
Sister
sistren
Sistren
sisterhood
Sisterhood
Related terms: Mister
dendr-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Pronunciation: enpr: dĕn.dr
ipa: /dɛn.dɹ/
Etymology: From Ancient Greek δένδρον (déndron, “tree”).
Senses: glosses: Used to form words concerning trees or branching
Derived terms: sense: terms coined with the prefix dendr-
word: dendrachate
sense: terms coined with the prefix dendr-
word: dendranatomy
sense: terms coined with the prefix dendr-
word: dendranthropology
sense: terms coined with the prefix dendr-
word: dendrochronological
sense: terms coined with the prefix dendr-
word: dendrochronologically
sense: terms coined with the prefix dendr-
word: dendrochronologist
sense: terms coined with the prefix dendr-
word: dendrochronology
sense: terms coined with the prefix dendr-
word: dendroclastic
sense: terms coined with the prefix dendr-
word: dendroclimatic
sense: terms coined with the prefix dendr-
word: dendroclimatology
sense: terms coined with the prefix dendr-
word: dendrocœl
sense: terms coined with the prefix dendr-
word: dendrocœle
sense: terms coined with the prefix dendr-
word: dendrocœlan
topics: zoology
biology
natural-sciences
sense: terms coined with the prefix dendr-
word: dendrocœlous
topics: ornithology
biology
natural-sciences
sense: terms coined with the prefix dendr-
word: dendrocolaptine
sense: terms coined with the prefix dendr-
word: dendrodentine
topics: paleontology
history
biology
natural-sciences
human-sciences
sciences
zoology
biology
natural-sciences
sense: terms coined with the prefix dendr-
word: dendrodont
sense: terms coined with the prefix dendr-
word: dendrogram
sense: terms coined with the prefix dendr-
word: dendrograph
sense: terms coined with the prefix dendr-
word: dendrographic
sense: terms coined with the prefix dendr-
word: dendrography
sense: terms coined with the prefix dendr-
word: dendroheliophallic
sense: terms coined with the prefix dendr-
word: dendrolatry
sense: terms coined with the prefix dendr-
word: dendrolite
sense: terms coined with the prefix dendr-
word: dendrologic
sense: terms coined with the prefix dendr-
word: dendrological
sense: terms coined with the prefix dendr-
word: dendrologist
sense: terms coined with the prefix dendr-
word: dendrologous
sense: terms coined with the prefix dendr-
word: dendrology
sense: terms coined with the prefix dendr-
word: dendrometer
sense: terms coined with the prefix dendr-
word: dendrophil
sense: terms coined with the prefix dendr-
word: dendrophilia
topics: botany
biology
natural-sciences
sense: terms coined with the prefix dendr-
word: dendrophilous
sense: terms coined with the prefix dendr-
word: dendrophobia
topics: zoology
biology
natural-sciences
sense: terms coined with the prefix dendr-
word: dendrostyle
agribiotech
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From agri- + biotech.
Senses: examples: text: "The speed of commercialization of agribiotech applications has taken many by surprise," says Anatole Krattiger, executive director of the International Service for the Acquisition of Agribiotech Applications in Ithaca, New York.
ref: 1998 December 18, Anne Simon Moffat, “BIOTECHNOLOGY:Toting Up the Early Harvest Of Transgenic Plants”, in Science, volume 282, number 5397, →DOI, pages 2176–2178:
glosses: Agricultural biotechnology, particularly the use of biotechnology for agricultural applications
-cratic
Language: English
Part of speech: suffix
Pronunciation: enpr: krăʹtĭk
ipa: /ˈkɹætɪk/
Etymology: From Middle French -cratique, and its source, Latin -craticus, from Ancient Greek -κρατικός (-kratikós), from -κρατία (-kratía, “-cracy”), from κράτος (krátos, “strength, might, rule, authority”). Equivalent to -crat + -ic or -cracy + -ic.
Senses: examples: democratic
glosses: used to form adjectives, of or befitting -cracy
examples: aristocrat
glosses: used to form adjectives, of or befitting -crat
Related terms: -cracy
-crat
weedicide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: weedicides
Etymology: From weed + -icide.
Senses: glosses: Weedkiller.
weedicides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of weedicide
xenozoonoses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of xenozoonosis
babesiosis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: babesioses
form: babesiasis
Etymology: After the discoverer of the protozoa, Victor Babeș: Babesia + -osis.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: Any of several malaria-like parasitic diseases in humans and other animals caused by Babesia, a genus of protozoa.
wikipedia: Victor Babeș
Related terms: babesiotic
dzomo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dzomos
form: jomo
form: zomo
Etymology: Borrowed from Tibetan མཛོ་མོ (mdzo mo).
Senses: glosses: A female dzo (yak–cow hybrid).
dzomos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dzomo
berzelium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Named after Swedish chemist Jöns Jacob Berzelius (1779–1848), + -ium.
Senses: glosses: A rejected name for praseodymium.
screentone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: screentones
Etymology: From screen + tone.
Senses: glosses: A technique for applying textures and shades to drawings from preprinted sheets, used as an alternative to hatching.
examples: text: There are various kinds of screentones, but the ones with printed small dots are the most basic.
ref: 2018, Danica Davidson, Rena Saiya, Manga Art for Intermediates, page 7:
glosses: A texture or shading of this kind.
rediscover fire
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: rediscovers fire
form: rediscovering fire
form: rediscovered fire
form: rediscovered fire
Senses: examples: text: It was necessary for them to rediscover fire, to relearn the basic laws of economics and rebuild civilization out of the ashes of ruin.
glosses: To relearn fundamental concepts, principles or practices that had been previously well known and widely practiced at a prior time in human society.
bokchoi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of bok choy.
recessiveness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From recessive + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The property of being recessive.
Adamos
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Ancient Greek Ἄδαμος (Ádamos).
Senses: glosses: A transliteration of the Ancient Greek male given name Ἄδαμος (Ádamos), alternative form of Ἀδάμ (Adám), equivalent of Adam.
Thêseus
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: So in regard to the legends of Greece, — Troy, Thêbes, the Argonauts, the Boar of Kalydôn, Hêraklês, Thêseus, Œdipus, — the conviction still holds in men’s minds, that there must be something true at the bottom ; and many readers of this work may be displeased, I fear, not to see conjured up before them the Eidôlon of an authentic history, even though the vital spark of evidence be altogether wanting.¹
ref: 1853, George Grote, History of Greece, page 485:
text: If, as some say, the older dedication was really not to Thêseus but to Hêraklês, the parallel is in no way weakened, but rather strengthened.
ref: 1893, Edward Augustus Freeman, Studies of Travel: Greece, G. P. Putnam’s sons, page 36:
glosses: Dated form of Theseus.
Hêraklês
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: So in regard to the legends of Greece, — Troy, Thêbes, the Argonauts, the Boar of Kalydôn, Hêraklês, Thêseus, Œdipus, — the conviction still holds in men’s minds, that there must be something true at the bottom ; and many readers of this work may be displeased, I fear, not to see conjured up before them the Eidôlon of an authentic history, even though the vital spark of evidence be altogether wanting.¹
ref: 1853, George Grote, History of Greece, page 485:
text: If, as some say, the older dedication was really not to Thêseus but to Hêraklês, the parallel is in no way weakened, but rather strengthened.
ref: 1893, Edward Augustus Freeman, Studies of Travel: Greece, G. P. Putnam’s sons, page 36:
glosses: Archaic spelling of Heracles.
proceri
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɹoʊˈsɪɹˌaɪ/
Senses: glosses: plural of procerus
periostea
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of periosteum
Thêbes
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: So in regard to the legends of Greece, — Troy, Thêbes, the Argonauts, the Boar of Kalydôn, Hêraklês, Thêseus, Œdipus, — the conviction still holds in men’s minds, that there must be something true at the bottom ; and many readers of this work may be displeased, I fear, not to see conjured up before them the Eidôlon of an authentic history, even though the vital spark of evidence be altogether wanting.¹
ref: 1853, George Grote, History of Greece, page 485:
glosses: Alternative spelling of Thebes.
non-essential amino acid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: non-essential amino acids
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of nonessential amino acid.
potato bug
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: potato bugs
Senses: glosses: A Jerusalem cricket, any of various insects of the genus Stenopelmatus.
glosses: A woodlouse, any of various terrestrial crustaceans of suborder Oniscidea.
examples: text: […]it appears that by a recent discovery, it has been found that that well-known insect the Potato Bug, yields an oil, which is a sovereign and certain remedy, for all manner of diseases which poor “human flesh is heir to.”
ref: 1838, “Legislating; or, the rival whiskers”, in The Hesperian, page 42:
glosses: Any of various insects that feed on or harm potato plants.
examples: text: We have another potato bug, the “blister beetle,” also called the “old-fashioned potato bug,” which happened to be especially bad this year in the northwest corner of the state.
ref: 1919, Missouri State Board of Agriculture, The New Seed Law, page 58:
glosses: Any of various insects that feed on or harm potato plants.
A striped blister beetle or old-fashioned potato bug (Epicauta vittata).
examples: text: They predicted that the “new” potato bug would soon endanger potato growers in the Eastern United States and Canada
ref: 1995, Willis Conner Sorensen, Brethren of the Net, page 122:
text: Universally known among growers as the potato bug, the Colorado potato beetle (Leptinotarsa decemlineata) was long considered the most dangerous enemy of Irish potatoes.
ref: 2018 December 13, Randall Griffin, Joey Williamson, “Sweet potato and Irish potato insects”, in Clemson Cooperative Extension Home & Garden Information Center:
glosses: Any of various insects that feed on or harm potato plants.
A Colorado beetle or Colorado potato bug (Leptinotarsa decemlineata).
Derived terms: potato bug mandolin
non-essential
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: However, the TSSA union has called for a full ban on construction and for all non-essential workers to stay at home, [...]
ref: 2020 April 8, “Network News: Crossrail heads the construction projects placed on hold”, in Rail, page 13:
glosses: Alternative spelling of nonessential.
poudreuse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: poudreuses
Etymology: From French poudreuse.
Senses: glosses: A kind of dressing table with several compartments and a mirror.
Cutterman
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: The names "Cutterman", "Cudderman" or "Cunnerman" originated from the surname Counterman.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Homerian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɪɹiən
Forms: form: more Homerian
form: most Homerian
Etymology: From Homer + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to Homer, the Ancient Greek poet.
Homerian
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: -ɪɹiən
Etymology: From Homer + -ian.
Senses: topics: biology
geography
geology
history
human-sciences
natural-sciences
paleontology
sciences
glosses: A subdivision of the Silurian period.
Calydon
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkælɪˌdɒn/
enpr: kălʹĭdŏn'
ipa: /ˈkælɪˌdɑn/
Etymology: From Ancient Greek Καλυδών (Kaludṓn).
Senses: glosses: An Ancient Greek city in the country of Aetolia, north of the Gulf of Patras in western Greece, on the west bank of the river Evenus.
topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
glosses: The legendary founding king and eponym of the city of Calydon, whose failure to honor the goddess Artemis in a rite resulted in her sending the Calydonian Boar to lay waste to the city.
Derived terms: Calydonian
Calydonian Boar
Calydonian Hunt
safranin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: safranins
Senses: glosses: A biological stain used in histology and cytology.
Kalydôn
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: So in regard to the legends of Greece, — Troy, Thêbes, the Argonauts, the Boar of Kalydôn, Hêraklês, Thêseus, Œdipus, — the conviction still holds in men’s minds, that there must be something true at the bottom ; and many readers of this work may be displeased, I fear, not to see conjured up before them the Eidôlon of an authentic history, even though the vital spark of evidence be altogether wanting.¹
ref: 1853, George Grote, History of Greece, page 485:
glosses: Dated form of Calydon.
eidôlon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: eidôla
form: eidôlons
Senses: examples: text: So in regard to the legends of Greece, — Troy, Thêbes, the Argonauts, the Boar of Kalydôn, Hêraklês, Thêseus, Œdipus, — the conviction still holds in men’s minds, that there must be something true at the bottom ; and many readers of this work may be displeased, I fear, not to see conjured up before them the Eidôlon of an authentic history, even though the vital spark of evidence be altogether wanting.
ref: 1853, George Grote, History of Greece, page 485:
glosses: Alternative spelling of eidolon.
angiome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: angiomes
Etymology: From angio- + -ome.
Senses: examples: text: The brain’s angiome or distribution of vascular elements can also be considered a connectome of sorts.
ref: 2014, Silasi G, Murphy TH, “Stroke and the connectome: how connectivity guides therapeutic intervention.”, in Neuron, volume 83, number 6, →DOI, →PMID, pages 1354–68:
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: the complete mapping of the blood vessels in an organism, especially those of the brain.
eidôlons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of eidôlon
eidôla
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of eidôlon
eidola
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -əʊlə
Senses: glosses: plural of eidolon
rebleeds
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of rebleed
rebled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of rebleed
basisphenoids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of basisphenoid
ethmoidal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɛθˈmɔɪ.dəl/
rhymes: -ɔɪdəl
Etymology: From ethmoid (noun) + -al.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
synonyms: ethmoid
glosses: Of or pertaining to the ethmoid bone.
Derived terms: aliethmoidal
anterior ethmoidal artery
ethmoidal bone
ethmoidal labyrinth
frontoethmoidal
posterior ethmoidal artery
sphenoethmoidal
subethmoidal
transethmoidal
trilobate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From tri- + lobate.
Senses: examples: text: Trilobate arrowheads
glosses: Having three lobes.
Synonyms: trilobed
ectopterygoid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɛɹɪɡɔɪd
Forms: form: ectopterygoids
Etymology: From ecto- + pterygoid.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: A certain ventral bone of reptiles or fish
Related terms: entopterygoid
ectopterygoids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ectopterygoid
suturally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From sutural + -ly.
Senses: glosses: By means of a suture.
wittle
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: wittler
form: wittlest
form: widdle
Etymology: Childish mispronunciation of little.
Senses: examples: text: Working with windows (that's "windows" with a wittle w)
ref: 2004, Woody Leonhard, Windows XP all-in-one desk reference for dummies:
text: Give wittle Bear a wittle hug.
ref: 2005, Linda Darling-Hammond, John Bransford, Preparing teachers for a changing world:
text: ...in a moment of regrettable cuteness, forgetting that I would not always be a wittle-bitty baby...
ref: 2006, Sigrid Nunez, The last of her kind:
text: With every step she repeated the same phrase, "I just need a wittle bit of help. I just need a wittle bit of help."
ref: 2007, Kristen Sauder, Trading Panic for Peace:
glosses: Little.
Synonyms: ickle
wittle
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: Childish mispronunciation of little.
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of whittle.
methylenedioxymethamphetamine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈmɛ.θɪ.liːn.daɪ̯ˈɔk.siˈmɛ.θɪmˈfɛ.tɪ.min/
Etymology: From methylenedioxy + methamphetamine.
Senses: examples: text: One for the money, two for the better green
 3, 4-methylenedioxy-methamphetamine
 Told the knock kneed, ghetto queen, get the head fiend
 Tell him it's from Medellín and use oxyacetylene
ref: 2002, “All Outta Ale”, performed by MF Doom, The Prof.:
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The psychoactive drug MDMA or Ecstasy, an amphetamine that produces entactogenic, psychedelic, and stimulant effects.
Hyponyms: english: the form of methylenedioxymethamphetamine found in E
translation: the form of methylenedioxymethamphetamine found in E
word: 3,4-methylenedioxymethamphetamine
alt: RS
word: -1-(benzo(d)(1,3)dioxol-5-yl)-N-methylpropan-2-amine
Related terms: methylene
di-
oxy-
methamphetamine
methyl
-ene
meth-
amphetamine
amine
washing powder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: washing powders
Senses: glosses: A powder used in washing clothes, etc.; a detergent.
expletively
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more expletively
form: most expletively
Etymology: From expletive + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an expletive way.
subastral
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From sub- + astral.
Senses: glosses: Below the stars; earthly, terrestrial, mundane.
subacutely
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From subacute + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a subacute way.
entactogenic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more entactogenic
form: most entactogenic
Etymology: From entactogen + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to an entactogen or its qualities
empathogenic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more empathogenic
form: most empathogenic
Etymology: From empathogen + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to an empathogen or its qualities.
nonastrological
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + astrological.
Senses: glosses: Not astrological.
carrotlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more carrotlike
form: most carrotlike
Etymology: From carrot + -like.
Senses: glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a carrot.
turniplike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more turniplike
form: most turniplike
Etymology: From turnip + -like.
Senses: glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a turnip.
pastelike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more pastelike
form: most pastelike
Etymology: From paste + -like.
Senses: glosses: Resembling paste.
corporales
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of corporale
toforehand
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From tofore + hand.
Senses: glosses: Beforehand, previously.
tofore
Language: English
Part of speech: prep
Pronunciation: /təˈfɔː(ɹ)/
Forms: form: toforne
Etymology: From Middle English tofore, toforn, from Old English tōforan (“in front of”), from tō (“to”) + foran (“front, fore-part”, n.), dative case of fora (“front”). Compare Dutch tevoren (“previously”), German zuvor (“before, previously”). More at to, fore.
Senses: glosses: Before.
Derived terms: heretofore
theretofore
wheretofore
tofore
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: /təˈfɔː(ɹ)/
Forms: form: toforne
Etymology: From Middle English tofore, toforn, from Old English tōforan (“in front of”), from tō (“to”) + foran (“front, fore-part”, n.), dative case of fora (“front”). Compare Dutch tevoren (“previously”), German zuvor (“before, previously”). More at to, fore.
Senses: examples: text: Farewell, Lavinia, my noble sister ; O would thou wert as thou tofore hast been!
ref: 1592, William Shakespeare, Titus Andronicus:
glosses: Before, previously.
tofore
Language: English
Part of speech: conj
Pronunciation: /təˈfɔː(ɹ)/
Forms: form: toforne
Etymology: From Middle English tofore, toforn, from Old English tōforan (“in front of”), from tō (“to”) + foran (“front, fore-part”, n.), dative case of fora (“front”). Compare Dutch tevoren (“previously”), German zuvor (“before, previously”). More at to, fore.
Senses: glosses: Before.
recrayed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more recrayed
form: most recrayed
Senses: examples: text: Sir Launcelot, now I well understonde that thou arte a false recrayed knyght and a comon lechourere, and lovyste and holdiste othir ladyes, and of me thou haste dysdayne and scorne.
ref: 1485, Sir Thomas Malory, Le Morte Darthur, Book VII:
glosses: Cowardly, recreant.
glosses: Weak; lazy.
hyposecretion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hyposecretions
Etymology: From hypo- + secretion.
Senses: glosses: A secretion below the normal value.
Coordinate terms: hypersecretion
normosecretion
Abrahan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From American Spanish Abrahán. Doublet of Abraham.
Senses: glosses: A male given name from Spanish.
starfruit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: starfruits
Etymology: From star + fruit.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of star fruit.
Gonzales
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A city in Monterey County, California, United States.
glosses: A city in Ascension Parish, Louisiana, United States.
glosses: A city, the county seat of Gonzales County, Texas, United States.
glosses: A surname from Spanish, variant of Gonzalez.
Derived terms: Gonzales County
Speedy Gonzales
bullae
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bulla
kafana
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kafanas
Senses: examples: text: Kafanas are Serbia’s tavernas: a restaurant, pub and music venue operating from morning to late night. Regulars come for a lively breakfast before work, families throw weddings and celebrations here, business deals are cut and sorrow drowned in dark corners. They were so central to people’s daily lives that friends and the postman would come to find you at your local kafana, not your home.
ref: 2023 November 22, Camilla Bell-Davies, “‘People dance on tables’: welcome to Belgrade’s kafana pub culture”, in The Guardian, retrieved 22 Nov 2023, Travel:
glosses: A tavern-restaurant-shop in various Balkan states
breviates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of breviate
noëls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of noël
abacavir
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈbak.əˌvɪə/
ipa: /əˈbæk.əˌvɪɹ/
Forms: form: ABC
Etymology: From [Term?] + -cavir (“carbocyclic nucleoside”).
Senses: topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: An antiretroviral drug (trademark Ziagen) taken orally in the form of its sulfate (C₁₄H₁₈N₆O)₂·H₂SO₄ in combination with other antiretroviral drugs to treat HIV infections. It is a synthetic nucleoside analog that acts by inhibiting reverse transcriptase. It causes potentially serious hypersensitivity reactions in a small percentage of patients.
Hypernyms: antiretroviral
actinobacterial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From translingual Actinobacteria + -al.
Senses: glosses: Of, pertaining to, or derived from a member of the Actinobacteria.
actinobacterium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: actinobacteria
Senses: glosses: Any member of the phylum or class Actinobacteria of bacteria.
acylamide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: acylamides
Etymology: From acyl + amide.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any acyl amide
Derived terms: polyacylamide
adsorbant
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more adsorbant
form: most adsorbant
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of adsorbent.
aminobutyrate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: aminobutyrates
Etymology: From aminobutyric + -ate.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any salt or ester of an aminobutyric acid
Synonyms: aminobutanoate
atlastins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of atlastin
biolistic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to biolistics
Derived terms: biolistically
diolistic
viâ
Language: English
Part of speech: prep
Etymology: From Latin viā, ablative singular form of via (“way, road”).
Senses: examples: text: Stahel's calvary division moved from Warrington, viâ Gainesville, to Fairfax Court-house.
ref: 1886: Comte De Paris, The Battle of Gettysburg, page 248http://books.google.com/books?id=woP8IV7zHGwC&pg=PA248
text: In the spring of 1857, I, with several friends, left Hongkong for Shanghai, viâ Foochow, in the small coasting steamer Antelope.
ref: 1890 February 28, W. S. Wetmore, “RECOLLECTIONS OF LIFE IN CHINA IN THE FIFTIES.”, in North-China Herald and Supreme Court & Consular Gazette, volume XLIV, number 1178, Shanghai, →OCLC, page 256, column 1:
text: As to the roads into Manchuria, recent researches prove absolutely that the mediæval Chinese envoys to the Nüchêns followed the present high-road round from Peking, through Shan-hai Kwan, Mukden, Kirin or Changchun, to Alchuk and Sansing. So with the modern Corean road from Söul, or P’ing-yang, by way of I-chou, whence either viâ Mukden and the Manchu road, or viâ the Fêng-hwang road and Kin-chou, where the latter joins the former : these were the roads of ancient times. The Kitan roads I have been over, for the most part, myself ; they are simply the high-roads from Peking through the various passes of the Great Wall, and to this day the caravans of laden camels or mules, the droves of horses, the herds and flocks driven in for sale may be seen coming through in the winter season exactly as they came 2,000 years ago.
ref: 1901, Edward Harper Parker, “Trade Routes”, in China: Her History, Diplomacy and Commerce from the Earliest Times to the Present Day, →OCLC, →OL, pages 79–80:
text: To the right are the Lignes de Normandie (England viâ Dieppe or Le Havre).
ref: 1907, Karl Baedeker, Paris and environs: with routes from London to Paris; handbook for travellers, page 32:
text: The foundries produced, in 1909, 74,000 tons of pig-iron which were exported viâ Shang-hai to Japan and even to America.
ref: 1912, Claudius Madrolle, Northern China, the Valley of the Blue River, Korea, 2nd edition, Hachette & company, page 386:
glosses: Dated form of via.
resplends
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of resplend
resplended
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of resplend
resplending
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of resplend
sublunary sphere
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sublunary spheres
Senses: topics: astronomy
cosmology
natural-sciences
glosses: In geocentric cosmologies, that region of the cosmos from the centre of the Earth to the moon, believed to comprise the four classical elements (earth, air, fire and water) and to be subject to generation and corruption.
Related terms: sublunary
sublunar
aether
undubitable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more undubitable
form: most undubitable
Senses: examples: text: If therefore we were assured that the Earth is illuminated by the Sun, like one of those Clouds, it would be undubitable, but that it would be no less shining than the Moon.
ref: 1661, Thomas Salusbury, transl., Galileo's Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems:
glosses: Alternative form of indubitable.
in regard
Language: English
Part of speech: conj
Etymology: Probably an elision of "in regard that".
Senses: examples: text: I cannot say that I ever saw an adder, in regard there are none in these parts.
text: Yet, in regard they substance passeth his,
⁠And that iust guerdon may befall desert,<br?⁠To him we yeeld the armour of the prince.
⁠How likes don Balthazar of this deuice?
ref: 1587, Thomas Kyd, The Spanish Tragedie:
text: That which comes fermented and dyed unto us affords no distinct account, in regard it is infected with a decoction or lixivium
ref: a. 1682, Thomas Browne, On Tobacco:
glosses: since; because; inasmuch as; considering that; considering.
Synonyms: as
given that
seeing that
because
Related terms: in regard of
in regard to
bioregulatory
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From bio- + regulatory.
Senses: glosses: That regulates a biological system.
Related terms: bioregulator
bistratified
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From bi- + stratified.
Senses: glosses: Composed of two layers of cells
Related terms: bilayer
cellularizing
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Undergoing cellularization
cellularizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of cellularize
centroperipheral
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: centro-peripheral
Etymology: From centro- + peripheral.
Senses: glosses: Pertaining to, or joining the centre and the periphery
dexmedetomidine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From dex- + medetomidine.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: An aromatic imidazole derivative that is used as a sedative and analgesic
diatomics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of diatomic
diffusively
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more diffusively
form: most diffusively
Etymology: From diffusive + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a diffusive manner
glosses: With regard to diffusion
dinocarids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dinocarid
dinocarid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /daɪnəˈkɛəɹɪd/
/daɪnəˈkæɹɪd/
Forms: form: dinocarids
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of dinocaridid.
dodecylmaltoside
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A dodecyl derivative of maltose that is used as a specialised nonionic surfactant
duplicons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of duplicon
duplicon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: duplicons
Senses: topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: A chromosome-specific low-copy repeat.
Related terms: duplicate
firmicutes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of firmicute