cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
indenter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɛntə(ɹ)
Forms: form: indenters
Etymology: From indent + -er.
Senses: examples: text: an XML indenter
text: a diamond indenter
glosses: A device or software program or routine that indents.
glosses: A tool or device used to make a physical impression or indentation.
Derived terms: nanoindenter
Related terms: indentor
indolyls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of indolyl
kamacite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kamacites
Etymology: From Ancient Greek κάμαξ (kámax, “vine-pole”) + -ite.
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A meteoritic mineral which consists chiefly of iron and nickel
Derived terms: kamacitic
kamacites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kamacite
rayah
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rayahs
form: raya
Etymology: From Turkish reaya, from Arabic رَعَايَا (raʕāyā), plural of رَعِيَّة (raʕiyya).
Senses: glosses: A member of the tax-paying lower class of Ottoman society.
intrasubunit
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From intra- + subunit.
Senses: examples: an intrasubunit bond
topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Within a protein subunit
west by north
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The compass point halfway between west and west-northwest, specifically 281.25°, abbreviated as WbN.
WbN
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of west by north.
interfactorial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From inter- + factorial.
Senses: examples: an interfactorial correlation
topics: sciences
glosses: Between two or more factors
Derived terms: interfactorially
Related terms: intrafactorial
indenters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of indenter
west by south
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The compass point halfway between west and west-southwest, specifically 258.75°
Synonyms: WbS
Related terms: compass rose
compass point
WbS
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Initialism of west by south.
intraflagellar
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From intra- + flagellar.
Senses: examples: an intraflagellar structure
topics: biology
microbiology
natural-sciences
glosses: Internal to a flagellum or cilium
Derived terms: intraflagellar transport
Related terms: interflagellar
intraciliary
intersubunit
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From inter- + subunit.
Senses: examples: an intersubunit disulfide bridge
topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Occurring between protein subunits
Related terms: interunit
karyotypically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From karyotypic + -ally.
Senses: examples: a karyotypically normal cell line
topics: biology
cytology
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: With regard to the karyotype
Related terms: karyotypic
labyrinthlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From labyrinth + -like.
Senses: glosses: Resembling a labyrinth
Synonyms: labyrinthine
mazelike
littermate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: littermates
Etymology: From litter + -mate.
Senses: examples: text: Newborn puppies should not be separated from their mother and littermates.
glosses: An animal born in the same litter.
Hypernyms: sibling
littermates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of littermate
maternoembryonic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From materno- + embryonic.
Senses: examples: the maternoembryonic interface
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Existing between a pregnant mother and the embryo
magnetorotational
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From magneto- + rotational.
Senses: examples: the magnetorotational model of supernova collapse
topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Of or pertaining to the rotation of a magnetic field or fluid
Derived terms: magnetorotationally
magnetorotational instability
Related terms: magnetorotation
matings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mating, gerund of mate.
megaprojects
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of megaproject
megakaryoblastic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From megakaryoblast + -ic.
Senses: examples: a megakaryoblastic leukemia
topics: biology
cytology
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: Of or pertaining to a megakaryoblast
Related terms: promegakaryocytic
megakaryocytic
megaproject
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: megaprojects
Etymology: From mega- + project.
Senses: examples: text: Now the incomplete border wall, already one of the costliest megaprojects in United States history, with an estimated eventual price tag of more than $15 billion, […]
ref: 2021 March 16, Simon Romero, Zolan Kanno-Youngs, “Trump’s Incomplete Border Wall Is in Pieces That Could Linger for Decades”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
text: The Government's intention to rephase construction of the megaproject is likely to increase costs in the longer term.
ref: 2023 March 22, Philip Haigh, “AI driving HS2 innovations to improve efficiency”, in RAIL, number 979, page 57, photo caption:
glosses: A very large public investment project, especially one costing more than one billion US dollars.
megakaryoblast
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: megakaryoblasts
Etymology: From mega- + karyo- + -blast.
Senses: topics: biology
cytology
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: A precursor cell in hematopoiesis which gives rise to the promegakaryocyte, which in turn gives rise to the megakaryocyte.
Coordinate terms: sense: stages of megakaryocyte development
word: promegakaryocyte
sense: stages of megakaryocyte development
word: megakaryocyte
sense: stages of megakaryocyte development
word: thrombocyte
Derived terms: megakaryoblastic
megadroughts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of megadrought
physical science
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: physical sciences
Senses: glosses: Any of the branches of natural science and science that study non-living systems, in contrast to the biological sciences.
megakaryoblasts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of megakaryoblast
ziamet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ziamets
Etymology: From Ottoman Turkish زعامت (zeamet), from Arabic زَعَامَة (zaʕāma, “leadership”)
Senses: glosses: A form of land tenure in the Ottoman Empire.
mechanoreceptive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more mechanoreceptive
form: most mechanoreceptive
Etymology: From mechano- + receptive.
Senses: examples: text: Cephalopods, like fishes and aquatic amphibians, have a mechanoreceptive system that is highly sensitive to local water movements.
ref: 1996, B.U. Budelmann, “Active Marine Predators”, in Lenz et al., editors, Zooplankton, →ISBN, page 136:
glosses: Responsive to mechanical stimuli such as sound and touch
Derived terms: mechanoreceptivity
Related terms: mechanoreception
mechanoreceptor
megadrought
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: megadroughts
Etymology: From mega- + drought.
Senses: examples: text: The most severe droughts also tend to be the most widespread and prolonged, but fortunately these megadroughts are far less frequent than the lesser droughts which are vastly in the majority […]
ref: 2000, Joan Whitmore, Drought Management on Farmland, →ISBN, page 8:
text: But those newcomers need water — water that is vanishing as a megadrought dries up reservoirs and rivers across the West. […] It is one of the first towns in the United States to purposely stall growth for want of water in a new era of megadroughts. But it could be a harbinger of things to come in a hotter, drier West.
ref: 2021 July 20, Jack Healy, Sophie Kasakove, “A Drought So Dire That a Utah Town Pulled the Plug on Growth”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, archived from the original on 31 Jul 2021:
text: Severe water cuts were announced on Tuesday to western states in the grip of a severe “megadrought” that has dropped levels in the country’s largest two reservoirs to record lows.
ref: 2022 August 16, Richard Luscombe, “Drastic water cuts imposed as ‘megadrought’ grips western US states”, in The Guardian, archived from the original on 16 Aug 2022:
topics: climatology
natural-sciences
glosses: A drought lasting for decades or centuries.
Related terms: minidrought
megafire
megaflood
microteslas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of microtesla
microtesla
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: microteslas
Etymology: From micro- + tesla.
Senses: topics: metrology
glosses: An SI unit of magnetic flux density equal to 10⁻⁶ teslas. Symbol: μT
Synonyms: μT
microbeam
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: microbeams
Etymology: From micro- + beam.
Senses: examples: microbeam analysis
a single-particle microbeam
topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A beam having a small cross section
Related terms: nanobeam
microbeams
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of microbeam
bathypelagic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From bathy- + pelagic.
Senses: topics: geography
natural-sciences
oceanography
glosses: Of or pertaining to the parts of the oceans at depths between 1000 and 4000 meters deep.
Related terms: bathyal zone
epipelagic
mesopelagic
abyssopelagic
hadalpelagic
mesosiderite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mesosiderites
Etymology: From meso- + siderite.
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: A stony meteorite containing roughly equal proportions of silicate and nickel-iron metal
Derived terms: mesosideritic
calpack
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: calpacks
form: calpac
form: colback
form: colpack
form: kalpak
Etymology: From Ottoman Turkish قلپاق (Turkish kalpak), from Proto-Turkic or from Middle Persian kwlʾp̄k' (kulāfak, “little cap; calyx”), diminutive of kwlʾp̄ (kulāf, “cap, bonnet”), (Persian کلاهک (kolâhak), diminutive of کلاه (kolâh, “hat”)), or from Proto-Common Turkic *kalpak. Doublet of kolpik.
Senses: glosses: A kind of cap from Turkic countries, with a high crown.
Derived terms: calpacked
calpac
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: calpacs
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of calpack.
melastatin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From mela- + statin, for melanocyte.
Senses: topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
oncology
sciences
glosses: A gene expressed in melanocytes and involved in nevomelanocytic development; down-regulated in cases of melanoma
biomedicals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of biomedical
biotinylated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Modified by reaction with a biotin group
Derived terms: monobiotinylated
nonbiotinylated
prebiotinylated
unbiotinylated
chorioallantoic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From chorioallantois + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to the chorioallantois
melanophore
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: melanophores
Etymology: From melano- + -phore.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: A cell containing melanin or other black pigment, such as are found in fish, amphibians, and reptiles
Coordinate terms: sense: types of chromatophore
word: erythrophore
sense: types of chromatophore
word: iridophore
sense: types of chromatophore
word: leucophore
sense: types of chromatophore
word: xanthophore
Derived terms: macromelanophore
micromelanophore
Related terms: melanophoric
melanophores
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of melanophore
chorioallantois
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chorioallantoises
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: The vascular extraembryonic membrane, formed by the fusion of the allantois and the chorion, that makes up the placenta in most mammals; the chorioallantoic membrane
Derived terms: chorioallantoic
midkine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: midkines
Etymology: From mid- + -kine, from the fact that production is strongly induced during the middle of gestation.
Senses: glosses: A basic heparin-binding growth factor of low molecular weight
Synonyms: MK
MDK
monodispersed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of monodisperse
cofounded
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of cofound
cofounded
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: The Sovoa, translated to "lights out", is the first weapon developed by Taravay Industries, a new manufacturer co-founded by angara and the turians.
ref: 2017, BioWare, Mass Effect: Andromeda (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →OCLC, PC, scene: Sovoa:
glosses: Founded at the same time as another, or by two or more people.
cofound
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: cofounds
form: cofounding
form: cofounded
form: cofounded
form: co-found
Etymology: From co- + found.
Senses: glosses: To found at the same time as another.
glosses: To found with one or more other people.
Derived terms: cofounder
Related terms: cofinding
convergently
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more convergently
form: most convergently
Etymology: From convergent + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a convergent manner
glosses: With regard to convergence
monodisperses
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of monodisperse
monodispersing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of monodisperse
dectin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɛktɪn/
Forms: form: dectins
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Any of several transmembrane signalling receptors (a form of lectin) that mediate various cellular functions
midkines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of midkine
multicenter
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: multicentre
form: multi-center
form: multi-centre
Etymology: From multi- + center.
Senses: antonyms: monocenter
glosses: Of or pertaining to multiple centers.
examples: text: A multicenter study was carried out.
topics: medicine
sciences
antonyms: monocenter
glosses: Of or pertaining to multiple centers.
Describing a trial (of a drug or procedure) that is held at more than one clinic or research center.
Related terms: multicentric
ferroportin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A transmembrane protein that transports iron.
ferroxidase
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ferroxidases
Etymology: From ferro- + oxidase.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any enzyme that catalyses the oxidation of iron ions
Related terms: ceruloplasmin
haptoglobin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: haptoglobins
Etymology: Analysable as hapto- + globin. .
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
synonyms: haptoglobulin
glosses: A protein in blood plasma that binds free hemoglobin released from erythrocytes and thereby inhibits its oxidative activity.
Derived terms: anhaptoglobinemia
haptoglobinaemia
haptoglobinemia
chiaus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: chous
enpr: choush
ipa: /t͡ʃaʊs/
ipa: /t͡ʃaʊʃ/
rhymes: -aʊs
rhymes: -aʊʃ
Forms: form: chiauses
form: Chaoosh
form: chaoosh
form: Chaoush
form: chaoush
form: chaoux
form: Chaus
form: chaus
form: chaush
form: chawush
form: chiaous
form: chiause
form: chiaush
form: Chiauss
form: chiauss
form: Chiaux
form: chiaux
form: chiaoux
form: choush
form: tchaouch
form: tchaous
form: Chiaus
Etymology: First attested c. 1600, from Ottoman Turkish چاوش (çavuş, “messenger, herald, licitor, sergeant”). Cognate with Turkish çavuş, Old Turkic 𐰲𐰉𐰾 (čabïš, “army commander”). Doublet of chouse.
Senses: glosses: An Ottoman Empire court official; an attendant, messenger, herald, interpreter.
glosses: An Ottoman Empire çavuş (“sergeant”).
examples: text: Dap. And will I tell then! By this hand of flesh,
Would it might never write good courthand more,
If discover. What do you think of me,
That I am a chiaus?
 Face. What’s that?
 Dap. The Turk was, here―
As one would say, do you think I am a Turk?
 Face. I’ll tell the doctor so.
 Dap. Do, good sweet captain.
ref: 1610, Ben Jonson, “The alchemist”, in Charles W. Eliot, editor, Elizabethan Drama, The Harvard classics, volume 47, part 2, New York: P. F. Collier & Son, published 1910, →OCLC, page 552:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of chouse (“a swindler”).
chiaus
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: chous
enpr: choush
ipa: /t͡ʃaʊs/
ipa: /t͡ʃaʊʃ/
rhymes: -aʊs
rhymes: -aʊʃ
Forms: form: chiauses
form: chiausing
form: chiaused
form: chiaused
form: Chaoosh
form: chaoosh
form: Chaoush
form: chaoush
form: chaoux
form: Chaus
form: chaus
form: chaush
form: chawush
form: chiaous
form: chiause
form: chiaush
form: Chiauss
form: chiauss
form: Chiaux
form: chiaux
form: chiaoux
form: choush
form: tchaouch
form: tchaous
form: Chiaus
Etymology: First attested c. 1600, from Ottoman Turkish چاوش (çavuş, “messenger, herald, licitor, sergeant”). Cognate with Turkish çavuş, Old Turkic 𐰲𐰉𐰾 (čabïš, “army commander”). Doublet of chouse.
Senses: examples: text: The word chouse appears to have been introduced into the language at the beginning of the seventeenth century. In 1609, a Chiaus sent by Sir Robert Shirley, from Constantinople to London, had chiaused (or choused) the Turkish and Persian merchants out of ₤4,000, before the arrival of his employer, and had decamped. The affair was quite recent in 1610, when Jonson's "Alchemist" appeared, in which it is thus alluded to:[…]
ref: 1893, Mynors Bright, Henry Benjamin Wheatley, editors, The diary of Samuel Pepys, for the first time fully transcribed from the shorthand manuscript in the Pepysian library, Magdalene College, Cambridge, volume 5, New York: G. E. Groscup, →OCLC, pages 117–118, note 2:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of chouse (“cheat, trick, swindle”).
tongue-twisters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tongue-twister
hemopexin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: haemopexin
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A serum globulin that binds heme and porphyrins
heterotrophically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more heterotrophically
form: most heterotrophically
Etymology: From heterotrophic + -ally.
Senses: glosses: In a heterotrophic manner.
glosses: With regard to heterotrophy.
Derived terms: chemoheterotrophically
chemolithoheterotrophically
organoheterotrophically
heterotrophy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: heterotrophies
Etymology: From hetero- + -trophy.
Senses: glosses: The state of being a heterotroph.
Derived terms: chemoheterotrophy
lithoheterotrophy
myco-heterotrophy
organoheterotrophy
osmoheterotrophy
photoheterotrophy
macroalgae
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of macroalga
mesopelagic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From meso- + pelagic.
Senses: examples: text: For those animals living in the mesopelagic zone, where some light downwells from the surface, a visual predator looking up at them could see a silhouette.
ref: 2001, James Willard Nybakken, Marine Biology: An Ecological Approach, page 153:
topics: geography
natural-sciences
oceanography
synonyms: twilight
glosses: Describing the pelagic zone of the ocean between the photic epipelagic and the aphotic bathypelagic zones, characterized by very minimal light.
Derived terms: mesopelagic zone
mesopelagic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mesopelagics
Etymology: From meso- + pelagic.
Senses: glosses: A mesopelagic fish
nanomedical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From nano- + medical.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to nanomedicine
neomycin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌniː.ə(ʊ)ˈmʌɪ.sɪn/
ipa: /ˌni.əˈmaɪ.sn̩/
Forms: form: neomycins
Etymology: From neo- + -mycin (“antibiotic derived from Streptomyces”).
Senses: examples: text: The bowel is prepared preoperatively with neomycin and sulfathalidine. A wide transverse lower abdominal incision is used.
ref: 1954 February 15, Oswald S. Lowsley, Thomas H. Johnson, Antonio E. Rueda, “Operation for Urinary Diversion”, in Modern Medicine, volume 22, number 4, Minneapolis, Minn.: Modern Medicine Publications, Inc., page 89:
topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
medicine
microbiology
natural-sciences
pharmacology
physical-sciences
sciences
synonyms: framycetin
glosses: A broad-spectrum aminoglycoside antibiotic related to streptomycin that is produced by a streptomyces (Streptomyces fradiae) and used medically especially to treat local infections.
Derived terms: paromomycin
calpacks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of calpack
calpacs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of calpac
teardrop tubeshoulders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of teardrop tubeshoulder
tubeshoulders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tubeshoulder
pitted tubeshoulders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pitted tubeshoulder
palegold searsids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of palegold searsid
paradiddle-diddles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of paradiddle-diddle
shining tubeshoulders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shining tubeshoulder
streaklight tubeshoulders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of streaklight tubeshoulder
gameboard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡeɪm.bɔːd/
ipa: /ˈɡeɪm.bɔɹd/
Forms: form: gameboards
form: game board
Etymology: From game + board.
Senses: qualifier: board games
glosses: A portable surface marked for playing a game, and on which the counters or other pieces are placed and moved.
examples: text: The Mario games extended the gameboard with side scrolling […]
ref: 2011, Janet H. Murray, Inventing the Medium: Principles of Interaction Design as a Cultural Practice:
topics: video-games
glosses: The playfield.
Synonyms: board
Hyponyms: checkerboard
chessboard
Related terms: board game
game
gaming board
gameboards
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gameboard
game board
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: game boards
form: gameboard
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of gameboard.
game boards
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gameboards
Senses: glosses: plural of game board
nitrifying
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Describing certain bacteria that oxidize ammonia to nitrite and nitrate in the soil
tertiary colour
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tertiary colours
form: tertiary color
Senses: glosses: Any colour that results from the mixing of two secondary colours, or of a primary colour and an adjacent secondary colour.
Coordinate terms: primary colour
secondary colour
nonhematopoietic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + hematopoietic.
Senses: glosses: Not hematopoietic
pararosaniline
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pararosanilines
Etymology: From para- + rosaniline.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A basic magenta dye having a triphenylmethane structure.
phagocytose
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: phagocytoses
form: phagocytosing
form: phagocytosed
form: phagocytosed
Etymology: Back-formation from phagocytosis.
Senses: topics: biology
cytology
immunology
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: To phagocytize; to ingest by phagocytosis.
rampion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹæmpɪən/
Forms: form: rampions
Etymology: Ultimately from Medieval Latin rapuntium from Latin rapunculus, diminutive of rapum (“turnip”)
Senses: examples: text: Rampion grown in the cottage garden made the children of the house quarrelsome; breathing deeply into a handful of mint refreshed your senses, but aconite could cause your death.
ref: 1940, Rosetta E. Clarkson, Green Enchantments: The Magic Spell of Gardens, The Macmillan Company, page 254:
glosses: A species of bellflower with roots and leaves formerly used in salads, Campanula rapunculus.
glosses: Any of several flowering plants of the genus Phyteuma, within the family Campanulaceae.
chibouk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chibouks
form: chibouque
form: chibook
form: shebook
Etymology: Borrowed from French chibouque, from Ottoman Turkish چبوق (çibuk, çıbuk, çubuk) (modern Turkish çubuk).
Senses: examples: text: Half a dozen chibouks, with amber mouthpieces and cherry or jasmine-wood stems, leant in a corner.
ref: 1892, George Alfred Henty, In Greek Waters:
glosses: A Turkish tobacco pipe.
dolma
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dolmas
form: dolmades
form: dolmathes
Etymology: From Greek ντολμάς (ntolmás) or its etymon, Turkish dolma, from Ottoman Turkish طولمه (dolma), from طولمق (dolmak, “to get full, be filled”). Thus, the word literally means “stuffed thing”.
Senses: glosses: Any of a family of stuffed vegetable dishes. The filling generally consists of rice, minced meat or grains, together with onion, herbs and spices.
Related terms: sarma
imam bayildi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Turkish imambayıldı.
Senses: glosses: A Turkish dish of aubergine stuffed with onion, garlic, and tomatoes then simmered in olive oil.
kilij
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kilijes
Etymology: Borrowed from Turkish kılıç.
Senses: examples: text: "The kilij has a slight taper down the straight part of the blade. In the bottom portion, it angles sharply and becomes deeper." "So," Thomas said, "you're suggesting there are different types of scimitars?" "Yeah, a bunch. There's the Afghani pulwar, the Ethiopian shotel, the Turkic aldaspan, and at least a dozen more." "You're the resident swordsman, considerate it yours."
ref: 2015 March 17, John Wayne Falbey, “Chapter 39 Dubai”, in Endangered Species: A Sleeping Dogs Thriller, volume 2, The Falbey Group, LLC, →ISBN, page 266:
glosses: A kind of Turkish saber.
Hypernyms: scimitar
Sumner
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsʌmnɚ/
ipa: /ˈsʌmnə/
Etymology: From Middle English sumner (“summoner”).
Senses: glosses: A surname originating as an occupation for a summoner in court.
glosses: An outer suburb of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.
glosses: A seaside suburb of Christchurch, Canterbury, New Zealand.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A small town in Worth County, Georgia.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A small city in Lawrence County, Illinois.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A city in Bremer County, Iowa.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A town in Oxford County, Maine.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A township and unincorporated community therein, in Gratiot County, Michigan.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A township in Fillmore County, Minnesota, named after Charles Sumner.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A small town in Mississippi, and one of the two county seats of Tallahatchie County.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A small city in Chariton County, Missouri.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A village in Dawson County, Nebraska.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A rural community of Noble County, Oklahoma.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A neighbourhood of Portland, Oregon.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Lamar County, Texas.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A city in Pierce County, Washington.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A town and unincorporated community in Barron County, Wisconsin.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A town in Jefferson County, Wisconsin.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A town in Trempealeau County, Wisconsin.
Derived terms: Fort Sumner
Sumner County
komitadji
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: komitadjis
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of comitadji.
coconut crab
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: coconut crabs
Senses: glosses: A terrestrial hermit crab of species Birgus latro, that lives on the shores of the Indian Ocean and the central Pacific Ocean and feeds on fruits, nuts, seeds and coconut flesh.
Synonyms: sense: Birgus latro
word: palm thief
sense: Birgus latro
word: robber crab
komitaji
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: komitajis
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of comitadji.
advertence
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: advertences
Senses: examples: text: Those who are born to the ownership of property have, in addition to these common benefits, a separate inheritance, and to this difference it is right that advertence should be had in regulating taxation.
ref: 1871, John Stuart Mill, Principles of Political Economy (vol. 2), Book V, Chapter VII, p. 482:
text: Early in this case, the Tribe pressed a different sovereign immunity argument before the district court, which the district rejected by advertence to a decision from the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court.
ref: 2020, Ojetta Rogeriee Thompson writing for the First Circuit Court of Appeals, Aquinnah/Gay Head Cmty. Ass'n v. Wampanoag Tribe of Gay Head:
synonyms: word: heedfulness
word: regard
word: consideration
word: advertency
word: advertence
word: advertency
word: attention
word: consideration
word: heed
word: heedfulness
word: mark
word: note
word: notice
word: observance
word: observation
word: reflection
word: regard
glosses: The quality of being advertent
Derived terms: misadvertence
nonadvertence
advertency
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: advertencies
Senses: synonyms: word: advertence
word: heedfulness
word: regard
word: consideration
word: advertence
word: advertency
word: attention
word: consideration
word: heed
word: heedfulness
word: mark
word: note
word: notice
word: observance
word: observation
word: reflection
word: regard
glosses: The quality of being advertent.
streptavadin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: A peptide used, along with biotin, in the sequencing of RNA.
subpolar
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -əʊlə(ɹ)
Etymology: From sub- + polar.
Senses: glosses: Situated below the poles
Related terms: subarctic
thermotolerance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: thermotolerances
Etymology: From thermo- + tolerance.
Senses: glosses: The ability to withstand relatively hot (or cold) conditions
Related terms: thermotolerant
Federalist Party
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: American political party founded by Alexander Hamilton. It formally existed from 1792 to 1816, with remnants lasting into the 1820s.
kurbash
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kurbashes
form: courbache
form: courbash
form: curbash
form: koorbash
form: kourbash
Etymology: From Arabic كُرْبَاج (kurbāj), from Turkish kırbaç. Compare French cravache and German Karbatsche.
Senses: glosses: A whip or strap about a yard in length.
kurbash
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: kurbashes
form: kurbashing
form: kurbashed
form: kurbashed
form: courbache
form: courbash
form: curbash
form: koorbash
form: kourbash
Etymology: From Arabic كُرْبَاج (kurbāj), from Turkish kırbaç. Compare French cravache and German Karbatsche.
Senses: glosses: To beat with a kurbash.
showdowns
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of showdown
snits
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of snit
proprium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: propria
Etymology: From Latin proprium (“of one's own”).
Senses: examples: text: (So you can use a proprium to pick out a species—for example, you could say: “a human is a risible mortal animal”—but, in that case, you aren’t picking out the species by its true definition.)
ref: Abraham Stone, Humanities 116: Philosophical Perspectives on the Humanities, people.ucsc.eduhttps://people.ucsc.edu/~abestone/courses/uchicago/readings2.pdf
topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
glosses: A property that applies to all members of a species and only to them, serving to distinguish the species from other species within the same genus, yet is not part of the true definition or the essence of the species.
Related terms: nomen proprium
palm thief
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: palm thieves
Senses: glosses: A coconut crab.
kourbash
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kourbashes
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of kurbash.
kourbash
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: kourbashes
form: kourbashing
form: kourbashed
form: kourbashed
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of kurbash.
cavoatrial junction
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cavoatrial junctions
form: cavo-atrial junction
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: The point at which the superior vena cava meets and melds into the cardiac right atrium.
nanoimprint
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nanoimprints
Etymology: From nano- + imprint.
Senses: topics: engineering
nanotechnology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: An imprint formed by three-dimensional nanoscale patterning
nanoimprint
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: nanoimprints
form: nanoimprinting
form: nanoimprinted
form: nanoimprinted
Etymology: From nano- + imprint.
Senses: topics: engineering
nanotechnology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: To carry out nanoscale patterning through imprinting
Derived terms: nanoimprinter
Related terms: microimprint
nanoindentation
nanopattern
NIL
totalizer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: totalizers
form: totaliser
Etymology: From totalize + -er.
Senses: glosses: A person or object that totals.
glosses: A totalizator (betting machine).
glosses: An adding machine.
Related terms: totalisator
totalizator
total
totalise
totalize
cavoatrial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: cavo-atrial
Etymology: From cavo- + atrial.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to both the vena cava and the atrium of the heart
Derived terms: cavoatrial junction
nanoimprinted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of nanoimprint
nanoimprinting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of nanoimprint
nanoimprints
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nanoimprint
nanoimprints
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of nanoimprint
nanoindentation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nanoindentations
Etymology: From nano- + indentation.
Senses: topics: engineering
nanotechnology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: An indentation test carried out at nanoscale, such as by use of a nanoindenter
Related terms: nanoindent
nanoindenter
nanoindentations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nanoindentation
nanoindenter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nanoindenters
Etymology: From nano- + indenter.
Senses: topics: engineering
nanotechnology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: An instrument for indentation testing at the nanoscale
Related terms: nanoindentation
nonadjusted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + adjusted.
Senses: examples: text: This is the nonadjusted data.
glosses: Not having been adjusted
examples: a nonadjusted child
glosses: Not having adjusted
Related terms: adjust
deadjust
readjust
nonanone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈnɑneɪnoʊn/
Forms: form: nonanones
Etymology: From nonane + -one.
Senses: glosses: A ketone derived from nonane, having the formula C₉H₁₈O.
Related terms: nonanol
nonyl
nonanones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nonanone
cavoatrial junctions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cavoatrial junction
cavo-atrial junction
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cavo-atrial junctions
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of cavoatrial junction.
jump someone's bones
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: jumps someone's bones
form: jumping someone's bones
form: jumped someone's bones
form: jumped someone's bones
form: jump on someone's bones
Senses: examples: text: “He’ll jump my bones in bed,” one fat woman explained to us about her current lover, “but he won’t take me out in public. At least the sex is great!”
ref: 1989, Clifton D. Bryant, Deviant Behavior, →ISBN, page 337:
text: His bruises from the fight did funny things to her womanly instincts. She couldn't decide whether to say “poor baby” or jump his bones.
ref: 2004, Emma Holly, Strange Attractions, →ISBN, page 265:
text: “This night is going to be hard enough—no pun intended there—so I better back up before you jump my bones and I can’t fight you off.”
“You arrogant ... Ooooh ... me jump your bones?” Asha fussed.
ref: 2007, Deborah MacGillivray, Riding the Thunder, →ISBN, page 153:
text: ‘So … I tell you I used to torture kitty cats, and that stops you from wanting to jump my bones?’
ref: 2010, Jennifer Egan, “Out of Body”, in A Visit from the Goon Squad:
synonyms: word: Formal terms
word: bed
word: coit
word: coitize
word: dight
word: enjoy
word: feague
word: go in unto
word: go to bed with
word: have
word: know
word: lie by
word: lie with
word: love
word: mount
word: occupy
word: penetrate
word: season
word: seduce
word: sleep with
word: take
word: Any of Thesaurus:copulate + "with"
word: Informal and slang terms
word: ball
word: bang
word: bauf
word: beep
word: be with
word: bone
word: boff
word: boink
word: bonk
word: boom-boom
word: dick
word: diddle
word: dig out
word: do
word: doink
word: drill
word: eff
word: expletive deleted
word: feck
word: fill
word: frack
word: frak
word: frick
word: frig
word: fuck
word: get into someone's pants
word: get over on
word: get up in
word: give someone one
word: give someone the time
word: go with
word: have one's way with
word: have one's wicked way with
word: hit
word: hump
word: jape
word: jump
word: jump someone's bones
word: knob
word: knock
word: knock off
word: know someone in the biblical sense
word: lay
word: love up
word: make
word: nail
word: plough
word: plug
word: poke
word: pork
word: pound
word: prig
word: pump
word: ream
word: rock
word: roger
word: root
word: run through
word: rut
word: sard
word: schlong
word: screw
word: see to
word: service
word: shaft
word: shag
word: shelve
word: slay
word: slip it to
word: smash
word: smush
word: stallionize
word: swive
word: tap
word: tup
word: wap
glosses: To have sex with someone; to initiate the physical move.
glosses: To attack someone suddenly.
jumps one's bones
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of jump one's bones
jumping one's bones
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of jump one's bones
jumped one's bones
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of jump one's bones
doorbuster
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: doorbusters
Etymology: From door + buster, suggesting that customers would stampede through the doors of the retailer.
Senses: glosses: An unusually low sale price, typically offered by a retailer on a limited number of items for a limited time, often on prominent shopping days, such as the day after Thanksgiving in the US.
nonlinearly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From nonlinear + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: The probability of a mistake rises nonlinearly with the number of steps.
ref: 1996, Craig Loehle, Thinking Strategically, →ISBN, page 56:
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: In a nonlinear fashion; often specifically exponentially
Related terms: linearly
nonlinear
nonlinearity
nonfeeding
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + feeding.
Senses: examples: text: The organism passes through a nonfeeding pupal stage.
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Never consuming food
raw_tags: of an animal
skites
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of skite
ho-dad
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ho-dads
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of hodad.
hodads
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hodad
ho-dads
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ho-dad
skiting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of skite
skited
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of skite
sparser
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of sparse: more sparse
sparsest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of sparse: most sparse
nonempirical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: non-empirical
Etymology: From non- + empirical.
Senses: examples: a nonempirical belief system
glosses: Not based on any empirical evidence; faith-driven
examples: a nonempirical calculation
topics: sciences
glosses: Not relying directly on data; theory-driven
Derived terms: nonempirically
sporing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of spore
spored
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of spore
spored
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: a spored organism
glosses: Having spores.
sprats
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sprat
sprats
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of sprat
snowboarded
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of snowboard
sleepwalkers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sleepwalker
slenderer
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of slender: more slender
slenderest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of slender: most slender
montres
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of montre
identity thefts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of identity theft
staler
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of stale: more stale
stalest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of stale: most stale
skeleton keys
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of skeleton key
Christmas cookie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Christmas cookies
Senses: glosses: A sugar cookie, usually cut in festive shapes, that is made and eaten at Christmas.
Related terms: Christmas cake
Christmas pudding
Christmas cookies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Christmas cookie
sugar cookie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sugar cookies
Senses: glosses: A cookie with granules of sugar sprinkled on the top before baking.
examples: text: Of course I love you sugar cookie. More dan anybody in da whole world!
ref: 2004, Intelligent Systems, translated by Nintendo of America, Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door, Nintendo, GameCube, level/area: Rogueport:
text: Valentine’s Day from my sugar cookie 🤍
ref: 2025 February 14, @Robynofcourse, Twitter:
glosses: A term of endearment
sugar cookies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sugar cookie
nondisjunction
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nondisjunctions
Etymology: From non- + disjunction.
Senses: examples: text: Different exogenous agents may interfere with the normal disjunction of sister chromosomes during meiosis and increase the frequency of aneuploid sperm, as demonstrated in mice treated with aneugens and men treated with anticancer agents. Although not all germ cells achieve maturity, the close correlation of chromosome nondisjunction in spermatogenesis with genotoxic outcomes indicates that the investigation for aneuploidy in a large sample of aneugen-exposed workers is significant.
ref: 2004 December 22, Yankai Xia, Senping Cheng, Qian Bian, Lichun Xu, Michael D. Collins, Hebron C. Chang, Lin Song, Jiayin Liu, Shoulin Wang, Xinru Wang, “Genotoxic Effects on Spermatozoa of Carbaryl-Exposed Workers”, in Toxicological Sciences, volume 85, number 1, archived from the original on 24 Dec 2022:
topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: The failure of chromosome dyads or tetrads to separate properly during meiosis or mitosis.
Derived terms: nondisjunctional
nondisjunctionally
Related terms: disjunction
nondisjunct
nondisjunctive
nondisjunctions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nondisjunction
adviso
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: advisos
form: advisoes
Senses: examples: text: Whereof at present we have endeavoured a long and serious adviso.
ref: 1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC:
glosses: An advisory; information; advice; intelligence.
glosses: An advice boat or dispatch boat.
Synonyms: aviso
advice boat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: advice boats
Senses: glosses: A swift boat used to carry messages; a dispatch boat.
Synonyms: adviso
aviso
nonphosphorylated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + phosphorylated.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Not having been phosphorylated
Related terms: nonphosphorylating
nonphosphorylation
phosphorylate
dephosphorylate
nonredundant
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: non-redundant
Etymology: From non- + redundant.
Senses: examples: text: A nonredundant database was used.
glosses: Not redundant; lacking redundancy
Derived terms: nonredundantly
Related terms: nonredundancy
nonautonomously
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From nonautonomous + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Because of this, a person's activities will always lack value when his government has induced him to pursue them nonautonomously; but they will not always lack value when his government has not induced him to pursue them nonautonomously.
ref: 2002, George Sher, “Liberal neutrality and the value of autonomy”, in G.W. Smith, editor, Liberalism, →ISBN, page 166:
glosses: In a manner that is not autonomous, or that lacks autonomy
Related terms: autonomously
nonautonomous
nonautonomy
nonscience
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nonsciences
form: non-science
Etymology: From non- + science.
Senses: examples: text: Relativists maintain that there are no fundamental differences between sciences and nonsciences.
ref: 2002, Shelby D. Hunt, Dennis B. Arnett, “Philosophical-Methodological Foundations”, in Earl & Kemp, editors, The Elgar Companion to Consumer Research and Economic Psychology, →ISBN, page 441:
glosses: That which is not science, or a specific non-scientific field
glosses: A body, set, or system of information, methods, beliefs, and hypotheses (such as history, astrology or metaphysics) that does not use the scientific method or follow accepted scientific standards as a basis for observation, or development of a theory.
Related terms: nonscientific
nonscientist
parascience
pseudoscience