cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
transglycosidase
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: transglycosidases
Etymology: From trans- + glycoside + -ase.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any enzyme that catalyzes the transfer of a sugar moiety between different glycosides
Derived terms: endotransglycosidase
urolithic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From urolith + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to a urolith
xylanolytic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more xylanolytic
form: most xylanolytic
Etymology: From xylan + -o- + -lytic.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Describing any substance (such as a xylanase) that can break down a xylan.
nonmoral
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɒɹəl
Etymology: From non- + moral.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of non-moral.
xylosidase
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: xylosidases
Etymology: From xyloside + -ase.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any enzyme that catalyses the hydrolysis of a xyloside.
xyloside
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: xylosides
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any glycoside of xylose.
Related terms: xylosidic
singeress
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: singeresses
form: singress
Etymology: From Middle English syngeresse; equivalent to singer + -ess.
Senses: glosses: A female singer.
Synonyms: word: chanteuse
word: chantress
word: cantrix
word: songstress
pour one's heart out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: pours one's heart out
form: pouring one's heart out
form: poured one's heart out
form: poured one's heart out
Senses: examples: text: He poured his heart out to them, so as he never could in any other company, where he hath generally passed for being moody, or supercilious and silent.
ref: 1852, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 29, in The History of Henry Esmond, Esq.:
text: [S]he would be all the better for pouring her heart out freely, and would be glad to do it, if she were sure of sympathy
ref: 1860, Nathaniel Hawthorne, chapter 7, in The Marble Faun:
text: And I just can't pour my heart out, to another living thing, I'm a whisper, I'm a shadow, but I'm standing up to sing.
ref: 1994, Rolling Stones, Out of Tears:
text: The spirited lyrics, the dancing and the joy of watching these five handsome, clean-cut youngsters pouring their hearts out moved me then and moves me now.
ref: 2009 July 2, “Our Favorite Songs: General Colin Powell”, in Time:
glosses: To express one's innermost thoughts or feelings effusively.
Related terms: bare one's soul
full infinitive
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: full infinitives
Senses: topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: The English infinitive verb form when introduced by the particle to, or the equivalent in other Germanic languages, e.g. a Swedish infinitive introduced by 'att', or a Norwegian Bokmål infinitive introduced by 'å'.
Synonyms: to-infinitive
put one's heart on one's sleeve
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: puts one's heart on one's sleeve
form: putting one's heart on one's sleeve
form: put one's heart on one's sleeve
form: put one's heart on one's sleeve
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of wear one's heart on one's sleeve.
cubatic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Describing a liquid crystal in which the molecules have no long-range translational order, but whose orientations have cubic symmetry (pointing along the x-, y- and z-axes with equal probability)
dielectrons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dielectron
locomote
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ləʊkəˈməʊt/
Forms: form: locomotes
form: locomoting
form: locomoted
form: locomoted
Etymology: Back formation from locomotion.
Senses: examples: text: ‘Lucy and her kind did not locomote in anything like the modern human fashion,’ insists Tattersall.
ref: 2003, Bill Bryson, A Short History of Nearly Everything, BCA, published 2003, page 394:
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: To move or travel (from one location to another).
metmyoglobin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: An oxidized form of myoglobin in which the iron atom has an oxidation state of +3
Related terms: ferrylmyoglobin
microrefrigerator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: microrefrigerators
Etymology: From micro- + refrigerator.
Senses: glosses: A microscopic (solid-state) refrigerator.
Related terms: microfridge
multitarget
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From multi- + target.
Senses: glosses: Having multiple targets.
orthoexcitons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of orthoexciton
orthoexciton
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: orthoexcitons
Etymology: From ortho- + exciton.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: An exciton whose spin is parallel to that of its hole
Related terms: paraexciton
paraexciton
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: paraexcitons
Etymology: From para- + exciton.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: An exciton whose spin is antiparallel to that of its hole
Derived terms: paraexcitonic
Related terms: orthoexciton
poration
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: porations
Etymology: From pore + -ation?
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: The formation of pores in a surface, or the pattern of such pores.
Derived terms: electroporation
hydroporation
mechanoporation
nanoporation
nucleoporation
optoporation
photoporation
sonoporation
reconstructor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: reconstructors
Etymology: From reconstruct + -or.
Senses: glosses: That which reconstructs
subjet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: subjets
Etymology: From sub- + jet.
Senses: glosses: One of a number of smaller jets formed by the breakup of a larger one
subjets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of subjet
subterms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of subterm
subterm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: subterms
Etymology: From sub- + term.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
law
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A subordinate term.
re-uses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of re-use
re-using
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of re-use
superballs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of superball
re-used
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of re-use
to-days
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of to-day
bare infinitives
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bare infinitive
full infinitives
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of full infinitive
to-infinitive
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: to-infinitives
Senses: examples: text: As it turned out, much previous work on the subject is based on two assumptions about the situation of the to'''-infinitive in OE that have never been tested, but have, through constant reiteration, achieved the status of axioms: first, that the categorial status of the to'''-infinitive in OE is PP; and secondly, that the to'''-infinitive spread at the expense of the infinitive without to, the bare infinitive (see below, §§1.2 and 1.3).
ref: 2005, Bettelou Los, “Introduction”, in The Rise of the To-Infinitive (Oxford Linguistics), Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 4:
topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: The English infinitive verb form when introduced by the particle to.
Synonyms: full infinitive
marked infinitive
Coordinate terms: bare infinitive
to-infinitives
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of to-infinitive
mermayde
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mermaydes
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of mermaid.
axisymmetrical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: axisymmetric
Derived terms: nonaxisymmetrical
impermeabilization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: impermeabilizations
Senses: glosses: The act of impermeabilizing
supernodes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of supernode
impermeabilize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: impermeabilizes
form: impermeabilizing
form: impermeabilized
form: impermeabilized
Senses: glosses: To make impermeable
Related terms: impermeabilization
impermeabilizations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of impermeabilization
nonaxisymmetrical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + axisymmetrical.
Senses: glosses: Not axisymmetrical.
microbiostatic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more microbiostatic
form: most microbiostatic
Etymology: By surface analysis, micro- + biostatic.
Senses: coordinate_terms: microbicidal
microbiocidal
glosses: That inhibits the growth or multiplication of microbes.
microbiostatic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: microbiostatics
Etymology: By surface analysis, micro- + biostatic.
Senses: coordinate_terms: microbicide
microbiocide
glosses: An agent (drug or other substance) that is microbiostatic.
micromanometer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: micromanometers
Etymology: From micro- + manometer.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A sensitive manometer that can measure very small differences in pressure
myasthenic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more myasthenic
form: most myasthenic
Etymology: From myasthenia + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Of, pertaining to, or suffering from myasthenia.
Derived terms: Lambert-Eaton myasthenic syndrome
antimyasthenic
nonmyasthenic
myasthenic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: myasthenics
Etymology: From myasthenia + -ic.
Senses: glosses: A person who has myasthenia.
unautoclaved
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + autoclaved.
Senses: glosses: Not autoclaved.
jasmins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of jasmin
jasmin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: jasmins
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of jasmine.
nymph of the pavé
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nymphs of the pavé
form: nymph of the pave
form: nymph of the pavement
Senses: examples: text: Having made the discovery with about the same attention to secresy, that a nymph of the pavé uses with her lovers, or the boatswain when he pipes to grog, […] Mike O'Grady and his associate returned with merry faces to head-quarters, and reported a surprise of the enemy's camp very practicable.
ref: 1842 Nov, “The Hunchback”, in The Southern Literary Messenger:
text: Though, on the whole, a moral, quiet place – there being only two houses of ill-fame on both sides of the river, and not a "nymph of the pave" to be seen anywhere – yet during the long dark nights of winter, considerable mischief used to be committed by the more reckless of the young […]
ref: 1864, James Paterson, Reminiscences of "Auld Ayr.", Edinburgh, page 23:
glosses: A female prostitute.
Synonyms: sense: prostitute
word: nymph of darkness
jerkess
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: jerkesses
Etymology: From jerk + -ess.
Senses: glosses: A female jerk (unlikeable person, or soda jerk).
antiatherosclerotic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more antiatherosclerotic
form: most antiatherosclerotic
form: anti-atherosclerotic
Etymology: From anti- + atherosclerotic.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: That counters the effects of atherosclerosis
antiatherosclerotic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: antiatherosclerotics
form: anti-atherosclerotic
Etymology: From anti- + atherosclerotic.
Senses: glosses: an agent that prevents or counteracts atherosclerosis
antioxidation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From anti- + oxidation.
Senses: glosses: The action of an antioxidant
antiproliferation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From anti- + proliferation.
Senses: glosses: Used attributively to describe the countering of proliferation (of nuclear weapons, cancer etc.)
soda jerks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of soda jerk
jerkesses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of jerkess
antischistosomal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From anti- + schistosomal.
Senses: topics: immunology
medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: that counters the effects of schistosomiasis
antischistosomal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: antischistosomals
Etymology: From anti- + schistosomal.
Senses: glosses: such a drug
schistosomal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more schistosomal
form: most schistosomal
Etymology: From schistosome + -al.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to the schistosome or to schistosomiasis
apigenin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: apigenins
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A flavone, found as a glycoside in many plants, that reverses the adverse effects of cyclosporine
aspartylglutamate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From aspartyl + glutamate.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The mono-aspartyl ester of glutamic acid; its N-acetyl derivative is a neurotransmitter
atherogenicity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From atherogenic + -ity.
Senses: glosses: The condition of being atherogenic
bidistilled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From bi- + distilled.
Senses: glosses: distilled twice
carminatives
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of carminative
chemosensitizers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chemosensitizer
chemosensitizer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chemosensitizers
Etymology: From chemo- + sensitizer.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Any material that makes cells sensitive to chemotherapeutic agents, often by inhibiting the action of a glycoprotein
organic salt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: organic salts
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any salt of an organic acid
topics: business
marketing
glosses: table salt that has no additives
concanamycin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: concanamycins
Senses: glosses: Any of a group of antibiotics extracted from the gut of the tobacco hornworm
cotreatment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cotreatments
form: co-treatment
Etymology: From co- + treatment.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: treatment with two or more agents simultaneously
marry-in
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: marry-ins
Etymology: * (genetics): Deverbal from marry in.
* (protest): From marry + -in.
Senses: topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: A person who is on a family tree because he has married someone on the tree, and is not related by blood to anyone on the tree except his own descendants.
glosses: A protest where many people marry, as in protest of a law that forbids such marriages.
marry-ins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of marry-in
internalizer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: internalizers
Etymology: From internalize + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who, or that which, internalizes.
internalizers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of internalizer
externalizer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: externalizers
Etymology: From externalize + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who, or that which, externalizes.
externalizers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of externalizer
externalizations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of externalization
smorten
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: past participle of smart
hoggasters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hoggaster
goldmohur
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: goldmohurs
Etymology: From gold + mohur.
Senses: glosses: mohur (coin of British India)
goldmohurs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of goldmohur
jhampani
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: jhampanis
form: jhampanie
Senses: examples: text: Tell your jhampanis not to hurry so, dear. They forget I'm fresh from the Plains.
ref: 1889, Rudyard Kipling, “The Hill of Ilusion”, in Under the Deodars, Boston: The Greenock Press, published 1899, page 81:
text: A hillman from some distant village in Kumaon comes into Almora to make his fortune as a jhampani or coolie.
ref: 1925, Sir Gerald Burrard, Big game hunting in the Himalayas and Tibet:
glosses: An Indian rickshaw-bearer.
jhampanis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of jhampani
pagri
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pagris
Etymology: Borrowed from Hindustani पगड़ी (pagṛī) / پگڑی.
Senses: examples: text: The poor labourer was at first somewhat astonished, and frightened by this sudden metamorphosis, but soon overcoming the new feeling, he carefully tied the ruby in his pagri or turban, and returned home […]
ref: 1913, Shaikh Chilli, "The Story of Hira and Lal" in Folk-tales of Hindustan, Bahadurganj, Calcutta: Abinash Chandra Sarkar, p. 98, https://archive.org/details/cu31924023979721
text: 'People look at my pagri and you can kind of tell from the way they look and behave and from their body language. My pagri gives me away and I feel that people react strangely to it. Some people laugh at you because of your pagri. Others say, "You are wearing a nice hat," or something like that. Fellow students don't know a thing about the Sikh religion […].'
ref: 2005, Edith Samuel, Integrative Racism: South Asians in Canadian Academe, University of Toronto Press, page 89:
text: 2016, "Sidhartha," "Takeover battle begins at 2 of Abhey Oswal's cos," The Times of India, Business, 8 April, 2016, http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/business/india-business/Takeover-battle-begins-at-2-of-Abhey-Oswals-cos/articleshow/51736234.cms
Pankaj claims to be the legal heir citing that he was made to wear the "pagri", which he saw as a sign that the Oswal family recognized him as the main heir to head the business.
glosses: A headdress worn by men in India, comprising a several-metre-long band of fabric wound around the head.
examples: text: I recognized the eldest Miss Copleigh, because she had a pagri round her helmet, and the younger had not.
ref: 1888, Rudyard Kipling, “False Dawn”, in Plain Tales from the Hills:
glosses: A puggry.
examples: text: A pagri was a form of "illegal payment" that had developed to circumvent colonial rent restrictions. Landlords demanded a large lump-sum payment in lieu of the low monthly rent, and this also made it very difficult for refugees without means to rent houses in the city.
ref: 2010, Vazira Fazila-Yacoobali Zamindar, chapter 2, in The Long Partition and the Making of Modern South Asia: Refugees, Boundaries, Histories, New York: Columbia University Press, page 64:
text: Simply defined, it means a landlord letting a ‘tenant’ use his property – forever in most cases – after receiving a “pagri,” an amount that is a little less than the prevailing market price. In return, the tenant pays a nominal monthly rent and stays on the premises for years on end without any fear of eviction. The property remains in landlord’s name and he continues to pay taxes on it.
ref: 2012 January 7, Kazim Alam, “Paperless pagri system still exists in old city areas”, in The Express Tribune:
glosses: A payment made to secure the long-term rental of a property.
Synonyms: turban
Derived terms: pagri cloth
pagris
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pagri
yewen
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈjuːən/
ipa: /ˈjuːn/
rhymes: -uːən
rhymes: -uːn
homophone: Euan
homophone: Ewan
homophone: Ewen
homophone: Iwan
Forms: form: eughen
Etymology: From Middle English *ewen, from Old English īwen (“made of yew, yewen”). By surface analysis, yew + -en.
Senses: examples: text: Thus, in an old code it is written, “and no one shall hunt in the deer forest without the Bishop of Maury’s sanction. But if a knight shall come with many-coloured clothes, with an ermine bonnet and a yewen bow with a silken string, with arrows whose shafts are feathered with peacocks’ feathers, and with a snow-white hound with long pendent ears, led in a silken leash, such an one shall be aided to do his will, and without let or hindrance.”
ref: 1861, Charles Boner, “The Stag. Cervus elaphus. Linn. Part First.”, in Forest Creatures, London: Longman, Green, Longman, and Roberts, →OCLC, page 88:
glosses: Made from the wood of the yew tree.
decoity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: decoities
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of dacoity.
decoities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of decoity
decoit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: decoits
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of dacoit.
decoits
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of decoit
budmashes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of budmash
ulta-pulta
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: upside-down; in disarray
budnamed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: This Devil thing will end in getting me budnamed, and you know I've lived on lemon-squashes and gone to bed at ten for weeks past.
ref: 1888, Rudyard Kipling, Plain Tales from the Hills:
text: My signaller retired hurt after being budnamed by yours, so we have no coherent news.
ref: 1939, Victor Bayley, Indian artifex:
glosses: Given a bad reputation.
khitmutgar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: khitmutgars
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of khitmatgar.
khitmutgars
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of khitmutgar
purdahnashin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: purdahnashins
Senses: glosses: A woman who observes purdah (segregation of the sexes).
purdahnashins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of purdahnashin
chumar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chumars
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of chamar.
chumars
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chumar
chumbling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of chumble
chumbled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of chumble
chumbles
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of chumble
interdistributional
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From inter- + distributional.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
statistics
glosses: Between distributions.
Related terms: intradistributional
nondistributional
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + distributional.
Senses: glosses: Not distributional.
ropeless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹoʊplɪs/
rhymes: -oʊplɪs
Etymology: From rope + -less.
Senses: glosses: Without rope.
fahlband
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fahlbands
Etymology: Borrowed from German Fahlband.
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: A stratum in crystalline rock that contains metallic sulfides.
fahlbands
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fahlband
antirailway
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From anti- + railway.
Senses: examples: text: When the antirailway men arrived to take their seats, Amboy partisans refused to let them enter on their duties.
ref: 1940, Harry Emerson Wildes, The Delaware:
glosses: Opposed to a railway.
menticide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: menticides
form: mentacide
Etymology: From Latin mēns (“mind”) or mentālis (“mental”) + -cide (“killing”), from Latin -cīdium, by analogy to homicide, genocide, etc. Coined during the 1950s.
Senses: examples: text: In the last phases of brainwashing and menticide, the self-humiliating submission of the victims serves as an inner defensive device annihilating the prosecuting inquisitor in a magic way.
ref: 1957, Joost Abraham Maurits Meerloo, Mental Seduction and Menticide: The Psychology of Thought Control and Brainwashing, London: Jonathan Cape, →OCLC, page 87:
glosses: Brain-washing, conditioning people to abandon their beliefs.
examples: text: In response, black groups accuse school personnel of practicing genocide and "menticide" (miseducation) for allowing black children to get away with conduct they would not condone in white children.
ref: 1974, Herbert Foster, Ribbin', Jivin', and Playin' the Dozens: The Unrecognized Dilemma of Inner-city Schools, Cambridge, Massachusetts: Ballinger, →ISBN, page 6:
text: I wanted then — and I want today — no laws against "mental kidnapping" or "mentacide" or any other socially unacceptable state of mind.
ref: 1989, Fielding McGehee, Rebecca Moore, The Need for a Second Look at Jonestown: Remembering its People, Lewiston, NY: E. Mellen Press, →ISBN, page 151:
glosses: Efforts to destroy the mind or the will of an individual or group of people.
Derived terms: menticidal
menticidally
menticides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of menticide
menthyls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of menthyl
distributivities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of distributivity
postless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From post + -less.
Senses: glosses: Without posts (upright supports).
pasteless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From paste + -less.
Senses: glosses: Without paste.
chainless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From chain + -less.
Senses: examples: text: A chainless bicycle transmits power to the driven wheel through a mechanism other than a metal chain.
text: First dentistry was painless;
Then bicycles were chainless
And carriages were horseless
And many laws, enforceless.
ref: 1936, Arthur Guiterman, First Dentistry was Painless:
glosses: Without a chain.
Derived terms: chainlessness
Related terms: unchained
chainings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈt͡ʃeɪnɪŋz/
Senses: glosses: plural of chaining
reincarcerates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of reincarcerate
reincarcerating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of reincarcerate
reincarcerated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of reincarcerate
industrializations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of industrialization
industrialisations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of industrialisation
purchase price
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: purchase prices
Senses: topics: accounting
business
finance
management
glosses: The price at which something is actually purchased, especially from the point of view of the purchaser.
Coordinate terms: asking price
base price
bid price
invoice price
list price
reserve price
retail price
selling price
sticker price
unit price
sticker price
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sticker prices
Senses: topics: business
marketing
glosses: A price displayed on or near merchandise indicating a price at which the merchandise is offered for sale.
Related terms: list price
MSRP
SRP
sticker shock
RRP
unit price
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: unit prices
Senses: examples: text: After 10 years, a unit price of between 40p-50p could reduce the number of alcohol-related deaths in Wales by 200-250, she said.
ref: 2010 April 28, Tom Bodden, “Health minister Edwina Hart wants law to force up the price of alcohol in Wales”, in Daily Post:
topics: business
marketing
coordinate_terms: unit cost
;
retail price
glosses: The price of a standard amount of a good, as of weight or volume. (For example, if the price of a package of biscuits is 100 pesos and the package's net weight is 250 grams, then the biscuits' unit price per kilo is 400 pesos.)
nonsymptomatological
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + symptomatological.
Senses: glosses: Not symptomatological.
symptomatological
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From symptomatology + -ical.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to symptomatology.
desferrioxamine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: desferrioxamines
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: deferoxamine
symptomological
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From symptomology + -ical.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to symptomology.
diaphorase
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: diaphorases
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of a group of flavoprotein enzymes that catalyze the reduction of cytochrome and other similar compounds
diosgenin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: diosgenins
Etymology: From translingual Dios(corea) + genin, after German Diosgenin.
Senses: examples: text: Obtaining adequate quantities of hormonal substances for research was impossible, however, until the early 1940s, when Russell E. Marker (1902–95) found that he could extract diosgenin from a wild yam growing in Mexico […]
ref: 1997, Roy Porter, The Greatest Benefit to Mankind, Folio Society, published 2016, page 547:
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A steroid sapogenin, obtained from certain yams, that has estrogenic activity.
gamebook
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gamebooks
Etymology: From game + book.
Senses: examples: text: In this gamebook, you'll answer questions! By keeping score, you'll have fun with your friends! Or with your family in the car on a trip, like I used to have with my kids!
ref: 2001, Carole Marsh, Texas Millionaire Gamebook:
glosses: A book of games.
examples: text: Some gamebooks have outcomes that are determined by chance, as with the rolling of dice.
synonyms: choose your own adventure
glosses: A book containing an interactive story which unfolds as the reader makes decisions and follows links between numbered pages.
glosses: A written record of the game that has been shot in a certain area (date, hunter, species, etc.).
gamebooks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gamebook
ergocriptine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A particular indole alkaloid found in ergot
Related terms: ergoalkaloid
ergoalkaloid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ergoalkaloids
Etymology: From ergot and alkaloid.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of many alkaloids found in ergot.
eriodyctiol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A particular flavonoid found in basil, oregano and thyme
ass catch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ass catches
Senses: topics: arts
hobbies
juggling
lifestyle
performing-arts
sports
glosses: A catch made by bending over forward with one hand between one's legs and catching the prop behind one's buttocks.
ass catches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ass catch
oliveness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From olive + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: What they want is the long straight hair, olive skin, just enough oliveness to the skin to make them not ambiguous. To make them Hispanic.
ref: 2001, Arlene M. Dávila, Latinos, Inc: the marketing and making of a people:
glosses: The state or condition of being olive in colour.
erythromyelogenous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more erythromyelogenous
form: most erythromyelogenous
Senses: glosses: Relating to the production or erythrocytes in bone marrow.
Hubbardian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Hubbardian
form: most Hubbardian
Etymology: From Hubbard + -ian.
Senses: examples: text: From there the Hubbard Association of Scientologists ("scientology" is a new Hubbardian term, meaning the "science of knowledge") is mailing out literature […]
ref: 1957, Martin Gardner, Fads and fallacies in the name of science:
glosses: Of or pertaining to L. Ron Hubbard (1911-1986), American science fiction author and founder of Scientology.
gnarring
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of gnar
glosses: present participle and gerund of gnarr
gnarred
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of gnar
glosses: simple past and past participle of gnarr
Gardnerian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Gardnerian
form: most Gardnerian
Etymology: From Gardner + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to Gerald Gardner (1884-1964), English anthropologist and occultist who brought Wicca to public attention.
Gardnerian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Gardnerians
Etymology: From Gardner + -ian.
Senses: glosses: A practitioner of Gardnerian Wicca.
Mendy
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: -ɛndi
Senses: glosses: A diminutive of the female given name Melinda.
out of the chute
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: glosses: At the start, immediately.
oliveless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From olive + -less.
Senses: examples: text: She sipped at an oliveless martini.
glosses: Without olives.
noncerebral
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɛɹɪbɹəl
-iːbɹəl
Etymology: From non- + cerebral.
Senses: glosses: Not cerebral.
unfrighteningly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more unfrighteningly
form: most unfrighteningly
Etymology: From unfrightening + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a manner that does not frighten.
unfrivolously
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more unfrivolously
form: most unfrivolously
Etymology: From unfrivolous + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a manner that is not frivolous.
dilemmalike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more dilemmalike
form: most dilemmalike
Etymology: From dilemma + -like.
Senses: glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a dilemma.
carve out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: carves out
form: carving out
form: carved out
form: carved out
Senses: glosses: To hollow by carving.
examples: text: [Macbeth][…] with his brandished steel […] carved out his passage.
ref: c. 1606 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Macbeth”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene ii]:
text: Fortunes were carved out of the property of the crown.
ref: 1849–1861, Thomas Babington Macaulay, chapter XXIII, in The History of England from the Accession of James the Second, volume (please specify |volume=I to V), London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, →OCLC:
text: Our movement's roots are intertwined with the movements for Black civil rights and Black power, movements which carved out the contexts, the language, the emotional, legal and strategic footprints for lesbians and gay men to follow in.
ref: 1985 February 9, “Black History Month”, in Gay Community News, volume 12, number 29, page 4:
text: The hosts went close on several occasions with Victor Obinna and Robbie Keane impressive in the first half, yet they had trouble carving out many clear openings and the defeat leaves them at the bottom of the Premier League on goal difference, two points from safety.
ref: 2011 February 6, Alistair Magowan, “West Ham 0 - 1 Birmingham”, in BBC:
glosses: To create (a reputation, chance, role, rank, career, victory) by hard work, or as if by cutting.
Derived terms: word: carve-out
word: carveout
rickshawlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more rickshawlike
form: most rickshawlike
Etymology: From rickshaw + -like.
Senses: glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a rickshaw.
Ricki
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Richard. As a female name also from Erica.
Senses: glosses: A diminutive of the male given name Richard, more often spelled Rickie or Ricky.
glosses: A female given name from the Germanic languages and a nickname of modern usage, also spelled Rikki.
rickettsioses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rickettsiosis
rickettsias
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rickettsia
ricketier
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of rickety: more rickety
ricketiest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of rickety: most rickety
ricketiness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From rickety + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or condition of being rickety.
for chrissake
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Forms: form: for Chrissakes
Etymology: Corruption of for Christ's sake.
Senses: glosses: used to express annoyance or frustration
come down the pike
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: comes down the pike
form: coming down the pike
form: came down the pike
form: come down the pike
Etymology: From pike, short for turnpike (“toll expressway”).
Senses: examples: text: "[T]hey're the finest football leaders that ever came down the pike."
ref: 1902, Ralph Henry Barbour, chapter 11, in Behind the Line:
text: Alfred Stieglitz was the best photographer ever to come down the pike.
ref: 1949 November 14, “Art: Many Ways”, in Time, archived from the original on 07 Mar 2016:
text: “For me, it's a harbinger of larger cultural changes coming down the pike.”
ref: 2014 May 26, Amy Verner, “From Humble Sneaker to Luxury Icon”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
text: “I knew it was coming on down the pike, just not at the rate it hit us,” said Sheree Renée Thomas, the editor of The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, which was founded in 1949.
ref: 2023 February 23, Michael Levenson, quoting Sheree Thomas, “Science Fiction Magazines Battle a Flood of Chatbot-Generated Stories”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
qualifier: thing
glosses: To emerge, come up; be about to happen; to approach or arrive on the scene; to present (itself or oneself).
raw_tags: of an event
Synonyms: come down the line
come down the road
muriaticum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: chlorine
Related terms: muriatic
natrum muriaticum
crack a smile
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: cracks a smile
form: cracking a smile
form: cracked a smile
form: cracked a smile
Senses: examples: text: Life is a gamble, we scramble for money
I might crack a smile, but ain't a damn thing funny
ref: 1995, Mobb Deep featuring Nas and Raekwon, “Eye for a Eye (Your Beef Is Mines)”, in The Infamous:
text: I, I tried / To be complacent for a while / It got hard to crack a smile
ref: 2020, Dana Foote, “Wrath”, in Party Favors, performed by Sir Chloe:
glosses: To smile, especially while attempting not to.
glosses: To begin to smile.
Related terms: crack a book
crack a fat
crack a joke
crack a window
twist someone's balls
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: twists someone's balls
form: twisting someone's balls
form: twisted someone's balls
form: twisted someone's balls
Etymology: See balls (“testicles”).
Senses: glosses: To annoy someone.
Synonyms: get up someone's nose
piss off
crossdresser
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: crossdressers
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of cross-dresser.
Synonyms: word: cross-dresser
word: drag king
word: drag queen
word: gender-bender
word: gender illusionist
word: tranny
word: trannie
word: transvestist
word: transvestite
word: TV
Hypernyms: word: person
Related terms: word: transgender
ride someone's ass
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: rides someone's ass
form: riding someone's ass
form: rode someone's ass
form: ridden someone's ass
Senses: examples: text: If he doesn't quit riding my ass, I'm gonna punch him right in his face.
glosses: To find fault with someone, to constantly criticise.
drive someone crazy
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: drives someone crazy
form: driving someone crazy
form: drove someone crazy
form: driven someone crazy
Senses: qualifier: literal
glosses: To cause someone to become insane.
examples: text: Jesse Helms, the Republican from North Carolina, drove me crazy at first.
ref: 2007, Joe Biden, Promises to Keep, New York: Random House, published 2008, →ISBN, page 110:
glosses: To annoy or irritate.
examples: text: Dance for you / Don't it drive you crazy baby?
ref: 1977, Ted Ashford, “Don't It Drive You Crazy”, in Having A Party, performed by Pointer Sisters:
glosses: To cause to be infatuated.
Synonyms: drive someone insane
drive someone mad
drive someone nuts
drive someone up the wall
drive to distraction
antiracists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of antiracist
antifascisms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of antifascism
Adem
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Adems
Etymology: Borrowed from Amharic አደም (ʾädäm).
Senses: glosses: A surname from Amharic.
quadrigal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Latin quadrīgālis.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to a quadriga (four horse team)
Related terms: quadriga
mamparas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mampara
autapomorph
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: autapomorphs
Senses: glosses: An organism that possesses a derived trait that is unique to a particular taxon.
Related terms: autapomorphic
autapomorphy
autapomorphs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of autapomorph
earst
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: examples: text: So th' one for wrong, the other strives for right,
And each to deadly shame would drive his foe:
The cruell steele so greedily doth bight
In tender flesh that streames of bloud down flow,
With which the armes, that earst so bright did show,
Into a pure vermillion now are dyde: […]
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, published 1921, Book I:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of erst.
quadripartition
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: quadripartitions
Etymology: From Latin quadripartītiō.
Senses: glosses: A division into four parts.
Related terms: quadripartite
quadripartitely
quadripartition
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: quadripartitions
form: quadripartitioning
form: quadripartitioned
form: quadripartitioned
Etymology: From Latin quadripartītiō.
Senses: glosses: To partition into four.
quadripartitions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of quadripartition
superparticular
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Late Latin superparticulāris.
Senses: examples: text: 'Tis superparticular, sesquialtera, sesquitertia […] all those geometric proportions are too little to express it.
ref: , I.iii.1.4
text: When a number contains the whole of another in itself, and some part of it besides, it is called superparticular. And if the part of the less it contains is the half, it is called sesquialter; if the third part, sesquitertian; if the fourth, sesquiquartan; if the fifth, sesquiquintan. And the like names being employed to infinity, the form of superparticular numbers will also proceed infinitely.
ref: 1816, Thomas Taylor, Theoretic Arithmetic, pages 37–38:
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: Of a natural number, being larger than another natural number by a unit fraction of that smaller number.
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
mathematics
music
sciences
glosses: Pertaining to a ratio of any whole number to the next below it (e.g. tfrac 3 2, tfrac 8 7, etc.).
Synonyms: epimoric
Related terms: multiple superparticular
superparticular number
impulsive speech
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: impulsive speeches
Senses: glosses: Speech that concentrates on the speaker's thoughts and intentions, disregarding an interruption by the listener.
chaunk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chhaunk
form: chounk
form: chonk
form: chhounk
form: chhonk
Etymology: From Hindi छौंक (cha͠uk).
Senses: topics: cooking
food
lifestyle
glosses: A garnish made by frying mustard seed, asafoetida, and other whole spices in oil or ghee to release the flavours. Can be added to soups, curries, etc., at the end of cooking.
flavopiridol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: alvocidib
gelatinization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gelatinizations
Etymology: From gelatin + -ization.
Senses: glosses: The act of making or becoming gelatinous.
Related terms: gelatinize
genistin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: An isoflavone glycoside extracted from soybean
gingerols
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gingerol
gingerol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈd͡ʒɪnd͡ʒəɹɒl/
Forms: form: gingerols
Etymology: From ginger + -ol.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of several isomeric compounds responsible for the heat of ginger
didelphic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /dʌɪˈdɛl.fɪk/
ipa: /daɪˈdɛl.fɪk/
rhymes: -ɛlfɪk
Etymology: From Ancient Greek δύο (dúo, “two, di-”) + Ancient Greek δελφύς (delphús, “womb”) + -ic.
Senses: examples: text: In didelphic uterus the uterus above the cervix is divided into two separate cavities.
ref: 2006, Dr Thomas Stuttaford, “Condition that increases the risks in pregnancy”, in The Times:
topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Possessing two wombs.
Derived terms: didelphia
Related terms: didelphous
amphidelphic
opisthodelphic
belote
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /bəˈlɒt/
Forms: form: belotte
Etymology: Borrowed from French belote.
Senses: examples: text: At the Sphinx where he went rather sedately to play belotte and drink (with a timid air) an absinthe, which he hated, he had met a charming friend of his new wife [...].
ref: 1978, Lawrence Durrell, Livia (Avignon Quintet), Faber & Faber, published 1992, page 471:
glosses: A trick-taking card game using a 32 card deck.
Related terms: bridge
manille
klaverjas
reeving
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of reeve
glycolide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: glycolides
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A lactone formed from two molecules of glycolic acid; any derivative of this compound
Derived terms: coglycolide
polyglycolide
polyglycolide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: polyglycolides
Etymology: From poly- + glycolide.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: An aliphatic polyester prepared by polymerization of glycolide
hepatosteatosis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From hepato- + steatosis.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Synonym of fatty liver.
synonyms: word: fatty liver
Derived terms: hepatosteatotic