cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
Cristina
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian, Portuguese, and Spanish Cristina.
Senses: glosses: A barangay of Tapaz, Capiz, Philippines.
examples: text: Documentary filmmaker Cristina Ibarra is among the 25 fellows. Ibarra is known for creating narratives about Latino families living in borderland communities, the MacArthur website said.
ref: 2021 September 28, Amir Vera, “An anti-racist author, a documentary filmmaker and a computational virologist are among the 2021 MacArthur Foundation ‘genius grant’ winners”, in CNN:
glosses: A female given name from Italian, Portuguese, or Spanish, equivalent to English Christina.
glosses: A surname.
path dependence
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: path dependences
form: path dependency
Senses: glosses: A situation in which the outcome varies with the route taken.
topics: economics
sciences
glosses: The theory that a technological option selected by the market need not be the technologically best one, because of the traction obtained by an early-introduced, technologically inferior alternative option.
Related terms: lock-in
path dependency
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: path dependencies
Senses: examples: text: Path dependencies occur when the response to a turning point event or treatment is contingent upon the individual's developmental history.
ref: 2009, Marvin D. Krohn, Alan J. Lizotte, Gina Penly Hall, Handbook on Crime and Deviance, page 70:
glosses: Alternative form of path dependence.
sweet nothing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sweet nothings
Senses: examples: text: And it's hard to learn, and it's hard to love / When you're giving me such sweet nothing
ref: 2012, “Sweet Nothing”, in 18 Months, performed by Calvin Harris ft. Florence Welch:
glosses: singular of sweet nothings
smoocher
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: smoochers
Etymology: From smooch + -er.
Senses: examples: text: When the pub downstairs closed, a contingent of straight couples ranging in age from 16 to 60 arrived to dance, though they were still safely outnumbered by same-sex huggers and smoochers.
ref: 1988 August 20, Chris Reed, “The English 'Strip-tique'”, in Gay Community News, volume 16, number 6, page 16:
glosses: Someone who smooches; a kisser.
glosses: Someone who borrows trivial items without returning them; a petty thief.
glosses: An annoyingly nosy person; a tag-along.
legacy system
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: legacy systems
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: An old computer system or application program that continues to be used because the user (typically an organization) does not want to replace or redesign it.
flaunter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: flaunters
Etymology: From flaunt + -er.
Senses: glosses: Someone who flaunts.
jaunter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: jaunters
Etymology: From jaunt + -er.
Senses: glosses: Someone who jaunts.
glosses: A person who operates a jaunting car.
vaunter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɔːntə(ɹ)
Forms: form: vaunters
Etymology: From vaunt + -er, perhaps a calque of Old French vanteor.
Senses: glosses: Someone who vaunts, who brags; a braggart.
network effect
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: network effects
Senses: examples: text: Aided by preferential attachment and network effects (the phenomenon of a good or service becoming more valuable the more people who use it), a handful of winners emerge, overshadowing other available options.
ref: 2014, Astra Taylor, chapter 4, in The People's Platform: Taking Back Power and Culture in the Digital Age, Henry Holt and Company, →ISBN:
topics: economics
sciences
glosses: The higher growth rate of businesses with higher market share in those segments of economy in which the value of a product or service depends on the compounding effects of the number of existing users of the product or a service, as is the case with telephone networks.
scrawnier
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of scrawny: more scrawny
scrawniest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of scrawny: most scrawny
tawnier
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of tawny: more tawny
tawniest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of tawny: most tawny
throatier
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of throaty: more throaty
throatiest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of throaty: most throaty
tummies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tummy
glosses: plural of tummie
scummier
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of scummy: more scummy
scummiest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of scummy: most scummy
scrummier
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of scrummy: more scrummy
scrummiest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of scrummy: most scrummy
plummier
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of plummy: more plummy
plummiest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of plummy: most plummy
trillionths
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of trillionth
network externality
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: network externalities
Senses: topics: economics
sciences
glosses: An externality arising from network effects.
SADC
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Southern African Development Community.
legacy code
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Source code that relates to an obsolete operating system or other obsolete technology.
Related terms: legacy system
dust off
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: dusts off
form: dusting off
form: dusted off
form: dusted off
form: dust down
Senses: glosses: To remove dust from.
examples: text: I think it's time to dust off my old golf clubs, now that I'm retired.
text: "If you're accused of profiling or pretextual stops, you can bring your daily logbook to court and document that pulling over motorists for 'stickler' reasons is part of your customary pattern," Remsberg writes, "not a glaring exception conveniently dusted off in the defendant's case."
ref: 2019, Malcolm Gladwell, Talking to Strangers:
text: For the Pleurotus mycelium to digest the used cigarette butts it might have to dust off an unused metabolic move.
ref: 2020, Merlin Sheldrake, Entangled Life, page 203:
glosses: To use something after a long time without it.
examples: Red Sox by the Numbers
A “dice girl in a roadside tavern,” she said she shot McNaughton because “he tried to dust me off.”
glosses: To jilt or desert (a person).
Derived terms: topics: baseball
ball-games
games
sports
hobbies
lifestyle
word: dust off a batter
word: dust off the cobwebs
leafier
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of leafy: more leafy
leafiest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of leafy: most leafy
second serve
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: second serves
Senses: examples: text: Rosol spurned the chance to finish off a shallow second serve by spooning into the net, and a wild forehand took the set to 5-4, with the native of Prerov required to hold his serve for victory.
ref: 2012 June 28, Jamie Jackson, “Wimbledon 2012: Lukas Rosol shocked by miracle win over Rafael Nadal”, in the Guardian:
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
tennis
glosses: Another attempt at a service, after a faulty first service.
Synonyms: second service
self-talk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: self talk
Etymology: From self- + talk.
Senses: examples: text: One way to develop self-confidence is to try to step back and look at yourself objectively. Use positive self-talk instead of criticisms. Refrain from such self-talk as “I don't matter,” […]
ref: 2017, Lena Koya, Mary-Lane Kamberg, Female Body Image and Self-Perception, page 80:
glosses: A speech or conversation to oneself, whether silent or aloud.
Related terms: internal monologue
talk to oneself
keep score
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: keeps score
form: keeping score
form: kept score
form: kept score
Senses: topics: games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: To keep track of the score in a game.
examples: text: Too many of us are attempting to "prove" our manhood by the tired heterosexual method of "keeping score".
ref: 1977 April 30, Steven Blevins, “Sexism in the Bars, Baths, and Bushes”, in Gay Community News, page 5:
text: i never, EVER entered into a friendship with the idea that i was *owed* anything by that person. i never "kept score". not ever.
ref: 1998 August 19, rena, “what's the deal??”, in alt.support.depression.flame (Usenet):
text: I've been praying on my own since very, very young [...] but it "degenerated" in me talking to God direct [...] and asking various things for others, sometimes for myself. It worked very often but I never kept score.
ref: 2000 August 12, meg...@abacom.com, “Inner Voice”, in sci.philosophy.meta (Usenet):
glosses: To keep track of figures, numbers or other details in various other contexts.
Related terms: even the score
settle the score
pay off old scores
scoreboard
scorekeeper
scorekeeping
self talk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of self-talk.
grass court
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: grass courts
Senses: glosses: A tennis court with a grass surface.
wishbone flower
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wishbone flowers
Senses: glosses: Any flowering plant of genus Torenia, especially Torenia fournieri, having a pair of yellow stamens in the form of a wishbone.
Synonyms: bluewing
yo mamma
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: glosses: Pronunciation spelling of your mom.
aquilegia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: aquilegias
Etymology: From the genus name.
Senses: examples: text: As for what to plant, stick to the tough, reliable types that will overwinter easily: perennials such as anemones, sedums, echinops (Echinops ritro is a beast – just a warning), aquilegias, Rudbeckia fulgida and its like, heucheras, Brunnera macrophylla, geraniums, geums and Knautia macedonica are made for autumn planting.
ref: 2015 November 14, Alys Fowler, “Alys Fowler: get a head start on spring”, in The Guardian:
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: A columbine; any member of the genus Aquilegia.
say it, don't spray it
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: examples: text: The three-year-old I babysit always spits on me when talking. I know he doesn't mean it, but telling him "say it, don't spray it" just doesn't work.
glosses: Don't release saliva when you're talking.
Related terms: sialoquent
methylphenidate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌmɛθ əlˈfɛn ɪˌdeɪt/
ipa: /ˌmɛθ əlˈfi nɪˌdeɪt/
ipa: /ˌmɛθ əlˈfɪ nəˌdɪt/
rhymes: -eɪt
Forms: form: methylphenidates
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A stimulant used to treat attention deficit hyperactivity disorder and narcolepsy, better known by the trade name Ritalin
Derived terms: dexmethylphenidate
bluette
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bluettes
Etymology: From French bluette (literally “little spark”).
Senses: examples: text: The Fürst Theater, the only theatre now open in Vienna, announced last week for production a bluette entitled, Der Schah von Persien in Wien (The Shah in Vienna).
ref: 1878, The Theater: A Monthly Review and Magazine, volume 1, page 60:
glosses: A short but scintillating play or other work.
bluette
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bluettes
Etymology: From blue + -ette.
Senses: glosses: A kind of satinette pigeon.
marginalise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: marginalises
form: marginalising
form: marginalised
form: marginalised
Etymology: From marginal + -ise.
Senses: examples: text: There, Peggy speaks for every angry marginalised person who’s ever been sealioned or tone-policed in a disagreement.
ref: 2015 January 28, Andrew Wheeler, “Agent Carter’ Recap, Episode 4: The Blitzkrieg Button”, in Comics Alliance, archived from the original on 03 Feb 2015:
glosses: Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of marginalize.
Derived terms: marginalisable
marginalisation
enduro
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: enduros
Senses: glosses: A motorcycle sport run on predominantly off-road courses, with many obstacles and challenges.
glosses: A type of mountain bike racing.
glosses: A particular race or event in the sport of enduro.
shift gears
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: shifts gears
form: shifting gears
form: shifted gears
form: shifted gears
Senses: glosses: To change the gear by which motion is transmitted from a powered shaft to another shaft, especially in a motor vehicle.
glosses: To change pace or mode of operation.
Related terms: gear change
shifter
stickshift
automatic transmission
drive stick
gearbox
manual transmission
neuro cybernetics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of neurocybernetics.
neuro-cybernetics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of neurocybernetics.
note pad
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: note pads
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of notepad.
allenic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more allenic
form: most allenic
Etymology: From allene + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Characteristic of an allene
Derived terms: bisallenic
coumaric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From coumarin + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to coumaric acid or its derivatives
Derived terms: coumarate
coumaroyl
coumaric acid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: coumaric acids
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of three isomeric aromatic carboxylic acids, 3-(4-hydroxyphenyl)-2-propenoic acid, found in many plants
Derived terms: coumarate
coutaric acid
coumaroyl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: coumaroyls
Etymology: From coumaric + -yl.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The univalent radical derived from coumaric acid
epicontinental
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɛntəl
Forms: form: more epicontinental
form: most epicontinental
Etymology: From epi- + continental.
Senses: glosses: Located on a continental shelf
Derived terms: epicontinental sea
hexacoordinate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From hexa- + coordinate.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Having six ligands
town square
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: town squares
Senses: synonyms: city square
public square
piazza
urban square
glosses: An open area commonly found in the heart of a traditional town, used for community gatherings.
examples: text: In Saudi Arabia, where a relatively closed culture leaves citizens few public forums to discuss news and politics, Twitter has become a kind of town square, the place where citizens meet to swap information and debate the latest issues.
ref: 2019 November 7, Ben Hubbard, “Why Spy on Twitter? For Saudi Arabia, It’s the Town Square”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
text: Mr. Musk has frequently expressed concern that Twitter’s content moderators go too far and intervene too much on the platform, which he sees as the internet’s “de facto town square.”
ref: 2022 April 25, Melina Delkic, quoting Elon Musk, “4 ways Twitter could change under Elon Musk.”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
text: Mr. Musk went on to say that the reason he was buying Twitter was “because it is important to the future of the civilization to have a common digital town square,” where a “wide range of beliefs can be debated in a healthy manner without resorting to violence.”
ref: 2022 October 27, Lauren Hirsch, quoting Elon Musk, “Elon Musk Reaches Out to Advertisers Ahead of Deadline for Twitter Deal”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
synonyms: public square
glosses: An online space or platform which serves a similar function.
Related terms: civic centre
town squares
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of town square
homomer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: homomers
Etymology: From homo- + -mer.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
coordinate_terms: heteromer
glosses: A complex formed from a single type of subunit.
Derived terms: homomeric
homomerization
homomerize
heteromer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: heteromers
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
coordinate_terms: homomer
glosses: A complex formed from several types of subunits.
Derived terms: diheteromer
heteromerization
heteromerize
triheteromer
homopolyriboadenine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From homo- + poly- + riboadenine.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A homopolymer composed of riboadenine subunits
homopolyuridine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From homo- + polyuridine.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A homopolymer composed of uridine subunits
riboadenine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From ribo(se)- + adenine.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: adenosine
homoserine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: homoserines
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The amino acid 2-amino-4-hydroxybutanoic acid that is an intermediate in the biosynthesis of methionine, threonine and isoleucine
metarhodopsin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: metarhodopsins
Etymology: From meta- + rhodopsin.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of several forms of rhodopsin activated by light
orbitofrontal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ʌntəl
Etymology: From orbito- + frontal.
Senses: glosses: Located in the frontal lobes above the orbits of the eyes.
Derived terms: orbitofrontal cortex
presomitic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more presomitic
form: most presomitic
form: presomite
Etymology: From pre- + somitic.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Able to form somites and express segmentation
Derived terms: presomitic mesoderm
metarhodopsins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of metarhodopsin
objuration
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: objurations
Etymology: From Latin objurare, to bind by oath.
Senses: glosses: The act of objuring; a firm binding by oath.
Related terms: objuratory
objurations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of objuration
cock-of-the-rock
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cocks-of-the-rock
Senses: glosses: Any tropical bird of the genus Rupicola.
Derived terms: taxonomic: Rupicola peruviana
word: Andean cock-of-the-rock
taxonomic: Rupicola rupicola
word: Guianan cock-of-the-rock
cosmocrats
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cosmocrat
pluto
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: plutos
form: plutoing
form: plutoed
form: plutoed
Etymology: Originally coined in 2006 by the American Dialect Society, in reference to Pluto's demotion from planet status, defeating climate canary for Word of the Year.
Senses: examples: 2007 April 21, The Meerkat , OT:Catholic Church ditches Limbo, aus.tv, Usenet.
Limbo has been plutoed. No half way house any more. It's heaven or hell.
2007, Andrew Swift, The Daily Iowan - Opinion Column
Winter is dead. The break the university community has just returned from is ostensibly known as winter break. But those who stayed in the Iowa City area know the sad truth: The four seasons Midwesterners grew up with have been Plutoed.
2007, Richard Davis, Courier Press - Entertainment Column
I'm sure I looked really cool (or has that word been plutoed?) in my sneakers and old-fashioned Levis, next to jocks, Greek Life poster children, guys with Bluetooth headsets, and a young woman in ski boots and leotards that left little to the imagination.
2008 April 13, GET WISDOM! , GET WISDOM! Understanding, GET WISDOM!, Usenet.
As a result of...plutoing that class, I made room for another in-depth marketing class that will better serve me and you, my clients and readers.
glosses: To demote or devalue something.
cap off
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: caps off
form: capping off
form: capped off
form: capped off
Senses: glosses: To finish by making one last addition.
examples: text: a. 1997, Rob[ion] Kirby, "Problems in Low-Dimensional Topology", problem 3.21, in, 1997, William H[ilal] Kazez, editor, Geometric Topology, proceedings of the 1993 Georgia International Topology Conference, AMS/IP Studies in Advanced Mathematics 2, American Mathematical Society, →ISBN, part 2, page 163,
Let X be an acyclic 2-complex and M an abstract regular neighborhood of X; ∂M_0=S², so cap off to get a homology 3-sphere M³.
text: a. 1997, Michael T. Anderson, "Scalar Curvature and Geometrization Conjectures for 3-Manifolds", in, 1997, Karsten Grove and Peter Petersen, editors, Comparison Geometry, Mathematical Sciences Research Institute Publications 30, →ISBN, page 53,
Note, however, that when one cuts a 3-manifold along an incompressible torus, there is no canonical way to cap off the boundary components thus created, as is the case for spheres. For any toral boundary component, there are many ways to glue in a solid torus... .
text: Cap off, with discs just above the annulus, any circuits that bound in the annulus; then use annuli to cap off adjacent pairs of curves that encircle the annulus in opposite directions.
ref: 1997, W[illiam] B[ernard] Raymond Lickorish, An Introduction to Knot Theory, Graduate Texts in Mathematics 175, Springer, →ISBN, page 61:
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: To glue a relatively uncomplicated compact manifold to a manifold of the same dimension along (a component of the latter's boundary).
slimmer
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of slim: more slim
slimmer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: slimmers
Senses: glosses: A person who is trying to become slim by dieting.
examples: text: Absence of greasy food will prove an automatic slimmer.
ref: 1973, Diwana, numbers 16-23, page 4:
glosses: That which slims.
somitogenesis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /soʊmaɪdəˈd͡ʒɛnəsɪs/
Etymology: From somite + -o- + -genesis.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: The production of somites
thermoparticulate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more thermoparticulate
form: most thermoparticulate
Etymology: From thermo- + particulate.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Describing the release of particulate matter on heating
thiazyne
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: thiazynes
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of a class of compound containing a sulfur to nitrogen triple bond
ruffe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ruffes
Etymology: From Middle English ruff(e), roffe (“a saltwater fish, esp. of the family Sparidae; the freshwater fish Gymnocephalus cernua”), of uncertain origin. Theories include:
* Perhaps an alteration of rough, referring to its scales.
* Perhaps from Latin rufus (“red”), referring to the colour of some Sparidae fish.
Senses: glosses: Gymnocephalus cernua, a small Eurasian freshwater fish.
glosses: Other species in the same genus.
Synonyms: word: ruff
word: pope
alt: G. cernua
word: Eurasian ruffe
Derived terms: striped ruffe
sea ruffe
autoregulatory
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From auto- + regulatory.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to autoregulation
Derived terms: autoregulatory loop
comparison-shopping
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of comparison-shop
comparison-shopping
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: comparison-shopping job
glosses: Alternative form of comparison shopping.
dichloromethane
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dichloromethanes
Etymology: From di- + chloro- + methane.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The partially halogenated hydrocarbon CH₂Cl₂ widely used as a solvent
Synonyms: DCM
methylene chloride
methylene dichloride
R-30
Hypernyms: chloromethane
chlorohydrocarbon
chlorocarbon
halomethane
halocarbon
haloorganic compound
organochloride
organic compound
carbon compound
chemical compound
chemical
molecule
Derived terms: DCM
dichloromethyl
epitestosterone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From epi- + testosterone.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: An inactive epimer of the steroid hormone testosterone
extraretinal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɛtɪnəl
Etymology: From extra- + retinal.
Senses: glosses: Outside of the retina.
feminizer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: feminizers
Etymology: From feminize + -er.
Senses: examples: text: Yet the feminizers of American life, and more particularly those feminizers of the polls who seek to confer the franchise upon women, harp upon the idea that the female was in some remote past a dominant factor in organic life.
ref: 1910, The Sewanee Review, volume 18, page 307:
glosses: One who or that which feminizes.
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Any substance that causes feminization.
hemizygote
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hemizygotes
Etymology: From hemi- + zygote.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: A hemizygous individual
Related terms: hemizygotic
hemizygous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From hemi- + -zygous.
Senses: topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: Having some single copies of genes in an otherwise diploid cell or organism
Derived terms: hemizygously
transhemizygous
lymphangiogenesis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From lymph + angio- + -genesis.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: The formation of lymphatic vessels from pre-existing lymphatic vessels
Derived terms: lymphangiogenic
lymphangiogenetic
neolymphangiogenesis
Related terms: lymphangiostatic
angiogenesis
lysophosphatidic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Describing a phosphatidic acid in which one or both acyl derivatives have been removed by hydrolysis
Derived terms: lysophosphatidate
lysophosphatidic acid
Related terms: lysobisphosphatidic
lysophospholipid
microvasculature
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: microvasculatures
Etymology: From micro- + vasculature.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: The smallest vessels of the circulatory system: the capillaries, arterioles, and venules
Related terms: microvasculatory
subfunctionalization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: subfunctionalizations
Etymology: From sub- + functionalization.
Senses: topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: The independent specialization of the two gene copies formed by duplication.
vibrationless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more vibrationless
form: most vibrationless
Etymology: From vibration + -less.
Senses: glosses: Lacking vibration
hello there
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: ipa: /həˈləʊ̯ ðɛə(ɹ)/
ipa: /hɛˈləʊ̯ ðɛː(ɹ)/
ipa: /hɛˈloʊ̯ ðɛɚ/
ipa: /həˈloʊ̯ ðɛɚ/
Senses: examples: text: Obi-Wan Kenobi: Hello there.
General Grievous: General Kenobi! You are a bold one.
ref: 2005, Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith:
glosses: Synonym of hello (“a greeting”).
synonyms: word: hello
extra: a greeting
Related terms: hi there
logophiles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of logophile
logomaniacs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of logomaniac
Carmadie
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Of Irish origin.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Irish, a rare spelling variant of Carmody.
maniaphobia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From mania + -phobia.
Senses: glosses: An abnormal fear of being insane.
glosses: An abnormal fear of being distraught or mentally ill.
Derived terms: maniaphobe
maniaphobic
maniaphobe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: maniaphobes
Etymology: From mania + -phobe.
Senses: glosses: A person with maniaphobia.
Related terms: maniaphobic
adjectival nouns
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of adjectival noun
maniaphobes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of maniaphobe
maniaphobic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more maniaphobic
form: most maniaphobic
Senses: glosses: Having, or acting with, maniaphobia.
glosses: Displaying traits or likeness of a maniaphobe.
sugar beets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sugar beet
gum lifts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gum lift
blood supply
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: blood supplies
Senses: examples: text: The local blood drive will replenish the area's blood supply.
glosses: Donated blood which is stored in a blood bank.
examples: text: Treatment for angina includes measures to increase the blood supply to the affected area.
ref: 2010, Lois White, Gena Duncan, Wendy Baumle, Foundations of Adult Health Nursing, page 137:
synonyms: circulation
glosses: The volume of blood flowing to part of the body over a particular time period.
neckache
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: neckaches
Etymology: From neck + ache.
Senses: glosses: A pain in the area of the neck.
fire dancer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fire dancers
Senses: glosses: A person who incorporates fire into a dance.
fire walker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fire walkers
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of firewalker.
Burbank
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: "The bur-covered riverbank", from bur + bank.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
glosses: A city in the San Fernando Valley, Los Angeles County, California.
glosses: A city in Illinois.
glosses: A town in Oklahoma.
glosses: A suburb of Brisbane, Australia.
glosses: A village in Ohio.
glosses: A census-designated place in Santa Clara County, California, United States.
Derived terms: Burbankian
Burbankism
Burbank
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: "The bur-covered riverbank", from bur + bank.
Senses: glosses: A heavy cotton canvas, used for convertible tops for cars in the early 20th century
first things first
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Forms: form: first thing's first
Senses: examples: text: There is a sound common-sense maxim, frequently heard among the wise and prudent of this world—First things first, […]
ref: 1830, Christian Observer, On Prophetic Speculation:
text: “First things first,” said Sir Richmond. “If we set about getting fuel sanely, if we do it as the deliberate, co-operative act of the whole species, then it follows that we shall look very closely into the use that is being made of it.”
ref: 1922, H. G. Wells, chapter 4, in The Secret Places of the Heart:
text: Judging by the polls—which still favor Clinton and his mantra of “first things first” (Medicare and education)—the public senses it too.
ref: 1999 July 23, Frank Pellegrini, “House Republicans Quell Mutiny Over Tax Bounty”, in Time, archived from the original on 30 Apr 2009:
text: First things first, you need the right tools.
ref: 2007 October 21, Jenni Muir, “Essentials for a wannabe chef—sugar, cream, mouse”, in Sunday Times, UK:
glosses: Let's deal with matters of highest priority first; let's deal with matters in logical sequence.
nonphotosynthetic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + photosynthetic.
Senses: glosses: That does not involve photosynthesis
raw_tags: of a process
glosses: That does not photosynthesize
raw_tags: of a plant etc
unrestrictedly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more unrestrictedly
form: most unrestrictedly
Etymology: From unrestricted + -ly.
Senses: glosses: Without restriction; freely, completely.
Related terms: restrictedly
unrestricted
glassmaker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: glassmakers
Etymology: From glass + maker.
Senses: glosses: A person or company that makes glass or glass items.
Related terms: glassmaking
glassmakers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of glassmaker
baking trays
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of baking tray
Westbrook
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈwɛstbɹʊk/
Etymology: From the Old English words for "west brook".
Senses: glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A town in Middlesex County, Connecticut.
examples: text: “When a snot-nosed little guy from Westbrook calls me a racist, now I’d like him to come up here because, tell you right now, I wish it were 1825,” LePage said, according to the Press Herald.
ref: 2016 August 26, Tal Kopan and Theodore Schleifer, “Target of explicit LePage voicemail denies calling him a racist”, in CNN:
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A city in Cumberland County, Maine.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A minor city in Cottonwood County, Minnesota.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A ghost town in Pemiscot County, Missouri.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A minor city in Mitchell County, Texas.
glosses: A number of places in England:
A hamlet in Boxford parish, West Berkshire district, Berkshire (OS grid ref SU4271).
glosses: A number of places in England:
A suburb in Burtonwood and Westbrook parish and Great Sankey parish, Warrington borough, Cheshire (OS grid ref SJ5790).
glosses: A number of places in England:
A hamlet in Clifford parish, western Herefordshire (OS grid ref SO2843).
glosses: A number of places in England:
A western suburb of Margate, Thanet borough, Kent (OS grid ref TR3370).
glosses: A number of places in England:
A hamlet in Bromham parish, Wiltshire (OS grid ref ST9565).
glosses: A coastal village in KwaZulu-Natal province, South Africa.
glosses: A rural town in Toowoomba Region, Queensland, Australia.
glosses: A suburb of Palmerston North, Manawatū-Whanganui, New Zealand.
glosses: A habitational surname from Old English.
Petersen
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Petersens
Etymology: From Danish Petersen or, less often, from Norwegian Petersen.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Danish.
Derived terms: Petersen graph
Petersen-Morley theorem
Crigan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Anglicized from Irish Ó Croidheagáin.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Irish.
jump up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: jumps up
form: jumping up
form: jumped up
form: jumped up
Senses: examples: text: I jumped up onto the top of the wall.
glosses: To move from one position to a higher position by one jump.
glosses: To criticize or rebuke.
Related terms: jump up behind
vomitous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: vomitus
Forms: form: more vomitous
form: most vomitous
Etymology: From vomit + -ous.
Senses: examples: text: Their communications from the peace talks are vomitous torrents of insult and threat.
ref: 2020, Hilary Mantel, The Mirror and the Light, Fourth Estate, page 386:
glosses: Characteristic of, or causing one to vomit.
Hyponyms: sense: characteristic of, or causing one to vomit
word: disgusting
sense: characteristic of, or causing one to vomit
word: loathsome
sense: characteristic of, or causing one to vomit
word: nauseating
sense: characteristic of, or causing one to vomit
word: nauseous
sense: characteristic of, or causing one to vomit
word: odious
sense: characteristic of, or causing one to vomit
word: repugnant
beare
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of bear.
beare
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: beares
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of bear.
Zanu-PF
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of Zimbabwe African National Union – Patriotic Front (political party in Zimbabwe).
Colonel Blimp
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Colonel Blimps
Etymology: From the name of a cartoon character created by Sir David Low.
Senses: glosses: A stereotype of a pompous, ex-military middle-aged man, conservative and opposed to new ideas.
Derived terms: Blimpery
benna
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bennah
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A calypso-like genre of traditional music from Antigua and Barbuda.
Synonyms: ditti
hop off
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: hops off
form: hopping off
form: hopped off
form: hopped off
Senses: glosses: To alight.
glosses: To back off; to leave alone.
antonyms: hop on
glosses: To leave a group call, chat, video conference, etc., while it is still in session.
Related terms: hop-on hop-off
benne
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Malay bene, or possibly from Wolof or Eastern Maninkakan.
Senses: examples: text: benne oil; benne seed
text: Benne (sesame) seeds were secretly brought to America on the slave ships by black women who had used them in their native cooking. Benne seed cookies and candy were made by black cooks in Charleston and other lowcountry South Carolina locations.
ref: 2003, Carole Marsh, The Kitchen House: How Yesterday's Black Women Created Today's Most Popular & Famous American Foods!, page 15:
text: For example, Rosanna Williams recounted that her African-born father would "plant mostly benne and rice." Emma Hunter also remembered that her grandmother planted benne.
ref: 2010, Frederick C. Knight, Working the Diaspora: The Impact of African Labor on the Anglo-American World, 1650—1850, page 62:
text: A window on the small-scale world of sesame oil production and benne cake livestock feeding is found in the pages of Thomas Walter Peyre's plantation journal (1834–59) at the South Carolina Historical Society.[…]African Anerican farming of benne can be imputed only by anecdotal reports, yet numerous records attest to benne’s importance in the slave diet. Indeed, a complex benne cookery adapted from African practices was recorded.
ref: 2013, David S. Shields, “Chapter 3: Prospecting for Oil”, in John T. Edge, Elizabeth S. D. Engelhardt, Ted Ownby, editors, The Larder: Food Studies Methods from the American South, page 65:
glosses: Sesame.
amin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: amins
form: ameen
Etymology: From Arabic أَمِين (ʔamīn).
Senses: synonyms: munsif
glosses: An arbitrator who assessed and collected revenue in the pargana.
heterotaxic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more heterotaxic
form: most heterotaxic
Etymology: From heterotaxis + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Of, pertaining to, or exhibiting heterotaxis.
preemphasis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From pre- + emphasis.
Senses: glosses: Amplification applied to certain frequencies of a signal to improve its signal-to-noise ratio.
heterotaxy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Heterotaxis.
sick leave
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Paid absence from work specifically to recover from illness.
Synonyms: medical leave
Related terms: sick pay
strata title
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: strata titles
Senses: synonyms: condominium
commonhold
sectional title
glosses: (law) A form of title over parts of real property, originally designed to facilitate ownership and mortgage of separate parts of a building, often on multiple levels. Usually some common property is the responsibility of all strata title holders via an owner's corporation.
pigeonhawk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pigeonhawks
Etymology: From pigeon + hawk.
Senses: glosses: A person who has served in the military only during peacetime, or only in a noncombat capacity, but offers strategic advice and promotes military actions.
vegetative nervous system
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vegetative nervous systems
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
neuroanatomy
neurology
neuroscience
sciences
glosses: The autonomic nervous system.
snot rag
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: snot rags
Senses: glosses: A handkerchief.
neuroendocrinology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From neuro- + endocrinology.
Senses: glosses: The study of the interactions between the nervous system and the endocrine system.
ganglion cyst
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ganglion cysts
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: A swelling on or around joints and tendons in the hand or foot.
lithologic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From lithology + -ic.
Senses: examples: text: This paper is intended to be strictly stratigraphic, to show lithologic and lithogenetic units as mapped in the field, to present detailed measured and described sections of these units, and to give their relationship one to the other.
ref: 1951, Max B Payne, Type Moreno formation and overlying Eocene strata on the West Side of the San Joaquin Valley, Fresno and Merced Counties, California, page 5:
glosses: Pertaining to lithology.
leopard seal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlɛpəd siːl/
ipa: /ˈlɛpɚd siːl/
Forms: form: leopard seals
Etymology: From leopard and seal.
Senses: glosses: A large pinniped mammal (Hydrurga leptonyx) found in the Antarctic.
glosses: A sea leopard.
ganglion cysts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ganglion cyst
leopard seals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of leopard seal
backlifts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of backlift
prosencephalon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: prosencephalons
form: prosencephala
Etymology: From proso- + encephalon. proso- is from Ancient Greek πρόσω (prósō).
Senses: examples: Holonym: encephalon
topics: anatomy
medicine
neuroanatomy
neurology
neuroscience
sciences
glosses: The forebrain.
Derived terms: word: prosencephalic
Related terms: holoprosencephaly
prosencephalons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of prosencephalon
cerebral hemisphere
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cerebral hemispheres
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
neuroanatomy
neurology
neuroscience
sciences
glosses: One of the two regions of the brain that are delineated by the body's median plane.
median plane
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: median planes
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: The only plane along which the human body is roughly symmetrical, running from the top to the bottom through the navel, separating the left and the right hand.
Hypernyms: sagittal plane
Related terms: mesial plane
earthmover
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: earthmovers
Etymology: From earth + mover.
Senses: hypernyms: heavy equipment
glosses: A vehicle designed to excavate or transport earth in large quantities.
Related terms: earthmoving
pectoralis minor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pectoralis minors
form: pectorales minores
Senses: examples: text: Halsted had seen Volkmann remove not just the breast, but a thin, fan-like muscle spread out under the breast called the pectoralis minor.
ref: 2010, Siddhartha Mukherjee, The Emperor of All Maladies, Fourth Estate (2011), page 64:
glosses: The muscle that covers the heart organ.
Related terms: pectoralis major
pectoralis
pectoralis major
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pectoralis majors
form: pectorales majores
Senses: examples: text: With the pectoralis major cut off, the shoulders caved inward as if in a perpetual shrug, making it impossible to move the arm forward or sideways.
ref: 2010, Siddhartha Mukherjee, The Emperor of All Maladies, Fourth Estate (2011), page 65:
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
synonyms: word: pec
glosses: The large muscle that covers the chest and ribs.
sagittal plane
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sagittal planes
Etymology: Calque of New Latin plānum sagittāle.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Any imaginary plane parallel to median plane.
lay low
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: lays low
form: laying low
form: laid low
form: laid low
Senses: examples: text: He was laid low by a vicious blow to the head.
text: The dragon's ire, more fierce than fire, laid low their towers and houses frail.
ref: 1937, J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit:
glosses: To topple or overcome; to cause to fall; (of a person) to knock out.
examples: text: My lover had remained in New York with her family because she had picked up the plague, or something just as bad, that had laid her quite low.
ref: 1979 April 28, Nancy Walker, “A Case of Mistaken Identity”, in Gay Community News, page 19:
glosses: To put in an abject condition.
lay low
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past of lie low
Synonyms: sense: to remain hidden
word: lie low
Spanish chestnuts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Spanish chestnut
lie low
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: lies low
form: lying low
form: lay low
form: lain low
form: lay low
Senses: examples: text: I’ll lie low here until you get back.
synonyms: keep a low profile
lie doggo
play doggo
glosses: To conceal oneself; to remain hidden.
Derived terms: low-lying
Related terms: duck off
New Mexicans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of New Mexican
New
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: * As an English surname, from the adjective new.
* Also as an English surname, from a misdivision of Middle English atten ew (“at the yew”).
* As a German and Jewish surname, Americanized from Neu.
* As a Chinese surname, from a Romanization of 牛 (niú) (see Niu) and 梁 (liáng) (see Liang).
Senses: examples: text: The surname, "New," appears on both Hampshire Co., Virginia and Pendleton Co., Kentucky records.
ref: 1980, John Douglas Sinks, Karen Mirinda Cain, Sinks: A Family History, page 9:
glosses: A surname transferred from the nickname.
qualifier: Oxford University
glosses: Ellipsis of New College, Oxford.
parton
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: partons
Etymology: Coined by American physicist Richard Feynman in 1969, from part + -on.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Any of the constituent particles making up a compound particle, e.g. the quarks and gluons which make up hadrons.
Derived terms: antiparton
multiparton
partonic
quasiparton
Labradorian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Labradorian
form: most Labradorian
Etymology: From Labrador + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Of, from or relating to Labrador, the mainland portion of the province of Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.
Labradorian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Labradorians
Etymology: From Labrador + -ian.
Senses: glosses: A native or inhabitant of Labrador, the mainland portion of the province of Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.
Derived terms: Newfoundland and Labradorian
Reginan
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ɹɪˈd͡ʒaɪ.nən/
Forms: form: more Reginan
form: most Reginan
Etymology: From Regina + -an.
Senses: glosses: Of, from or relating to the city of Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada.