cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
tormentum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tormenta
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin tormentum.
Senses: glosses: An ancient engine for hurling missiles.
crenarchaea
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of crenarchaeon
crenarchaeon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: crenarchaea
Senses: glosses: Any archaebacterium of the phylum Crenarchaeota.
Derived terms: crenarchaeal
crenarchaeal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more crenarchaeal
form: most crenarchaeal
Etymology: From crenarchaea + -al.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to the crenarchaea.
crossnational
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more crossnational
form: most crossnational
form: cross-national
Etymology: From cross- + national.
Senses: examples: text: The Taipei Veterans General Hospital (TVGH) announced in a press release on Monday that its medical team participated in the 2024 Lesser Antilles Medical Assistance Team (LAMAT) in Saint Kitts and Nevis this March, embarking on a 10-day mission to provide community medical services at the local hospital. The hospital stated that this cross-national medical cooperation has proven successful and received high praise.
ref: 2024 April 8, Ching-en Chiou, “Taiwan’s hospital completes medical assistance to Saint Kitts and Nevis”, in Radio Taiwan International, archived from the original on 04 May 2024:
glosses: Involving multiple nations.
glosses: Extending across national boundaries.
crossreactive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more crossreactive
form: most crossreactive
form: cross-reactive
Etymology: From cross- + reactive.
Senses: glosses: Describing a reaction between an antigen and an antibody that was formed to counteract a different (often similar) antigen
Derived terms: immunocrossreactive
Related terms: crossreact
crossreaction
cross-reaction
gutta
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈɡʌtə/
Forms: form: guttae
form: guttas
Etymology: From Middle English gutta, from Latin gutta. Doublet of gout and goutte.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
synonyms: gt#Noun
gtt#Noun
glosses: A drop (of liquid, especially a medication).
topics: architecture
glosses: A small water-repelling, cone-shaped projection used in the architrave of the Doric order in classical architecture.
glosses: A small round spot of colour.
Related terms: gutta hangkang
gutta-percha
gutta serena
109
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: 109s
Senses: examples: text: Four 109s were spotted and attacked. After a dogfight, all four had been shot down. Three crashed on the same field.
ref: 1998, Middle Tennessee WWII Fighter Pilots Association, Missions Remembered: Recollections of the World War II Air War, page 68:
topics: government
military
politics
war
qualifier: World War II
glosses: The German Messerschmitt 109 fighter aircraft.
cryocooler
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cryocoolers
Etymology: From cryo- + cooler.
Senses: glosses: A cryogenic cooler.
Related terms: cryostat
cryoelectron
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cryo-electron
Etymology: From cryo- + electron.
Senses: glosses: Used attributively in such terms such as cryoelectronics and cryo-electron microscopy.
cryo-electron microscopy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A form of electron microscopy in which the sample is held at a very low temperature
Related terms: cryo-electron microscope
cryosectioning
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cryosectionings
Etymology: From cryo- + sectioning.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: The sectioning of a sample at low temperatures; normally following treatment with polyethylene glycol (to remove most water) and freezing
cryotomography
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɒɡɹəfi
Etymology: From cryo- + tomography.
Senses: glosses: tomography at very low temperatures
Related terms: cryotomographic
cryotomographic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From cryo- + tomographic.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to cryotomography
crystallogenesis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From crystallo- + -genesis.
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: The formation of crystalline minerals.
Related terms: crystallogenetic
culturable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more culturable
form: most culturable
Etymology: From culture + -able.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Able to be cultured (grown in a suitable environment)
Derived terms: nonculturable
subculturable
unculturable
cumulates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of cumulate
cyberinfrastructure
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cyberinfrastructures
Etymology: From cyber- + infrastructure.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: The research environments that support advanced data acquisition, storage, management, integration, visualization etc. over the Internet.
headerless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From header + -less.
Senses: examples: text: Even headerless LOADs will work with the Sprint, though be warned, it can't cope with the now common turboload.
ref: 1985, Speed Trials (in Your Spectrum issue 14, May 1985)
text: The surrounded program code therefore becomes a headerless procedure and could be transformed into a real subprogram […]
ref: 1996, Gerd Szwillus, Lisa Ruben Neal, Structure-based Editors and Environments:
text: The most basic uncompressed format is the headerless audio file […]
ref: 2004, Colby Leider, Digital Audio Workstation:
glosses: Without a header.
cybermoney
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From cyber- + money.
Senses: synonyms: word: cybercash
word: e-money
hyponyms: cryptocurrency
glosses: Synonym of e-money.
self-hatred
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: self-hatreds
Etymology: From self- + hatred.
Senses: glosses: The hatred of oneself.
topics: human-sciences
sciences
social-science
sociology
glosses: Disrespect or disdain for one’s own demographic (but not necessarily oneself).
Related terms: self-hating
off-colour
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more off-colour
form: most off-colour
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of off-color.
tocolytic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more tocolytic
form: most tocolytic
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: That suppresses premature labour
tocolytic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tocolytics
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Any drug that suppresses premature labour—premature giving birth.
Synonyms: word: tocolytic
Hypernyms: word: pharmaceutical
Hyponyms: atosiban
indometacin
nifedipine
quinagolide
ritodrine
terbutaline
Related terms: tocolysis
kermesse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kermesses
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of kirmess.
normalizer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: normalizers
Etymology: From normalize + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who or that which normalizes, fits to a norm or standard etc.
examples: example
topics: algebra
mathematics
sciences
glosses: The subset of elements of some group which leave some given subset invariant when conjugating it.
Related terms: normalization
haglet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: haglets
Senses: glosses: A shearwater.
Related terms: hacklet
hagden
shellings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: The shellings came as the Sri Lankan military pushed further into a small corner of the island controlled by separatist guerrillas, the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, their last redoubt in one of the world’s longest-running civil wars.
ref: 2009 February 2, Somini Sengupta, “Over 7 Killed by Shelling at a Sri Lanka Hospital”, in New York Times:
glosses: plural of shelling
paillard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: paillards
Etymology: Borrowed from French paillard in the 1970s, from the name of a restaurant in Paris, from its proprietor's surname, Paillard.
Senses: topics: cooking
food
lifestyle
coordinate_terms: escalope
glosses: A slice of meat pounded thin and grilled.
paillard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: paillards
Etymology: From Middle English, from Middle French palliard, see palliard.
Senses: examples: text: Not only a debauched paillard but a cruel murtherer.
ref: 1690, Kirkton, Hist. Ch. Scotland II, page 84
text: The male part of the upper class are […] a parcel of poor, shaking, nervous paillards.
ref: 1851, Borrow, Lavengro III, page 315
glosses: Alternative form of palliard.
paillards
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of paillard
talkbacks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: At lively talkbacks some accused the show of overly sympathetic attitudes toward evangelicals, while others said it mocked the faithful.
ref: 2009 February 1, Alexis Soloski, “One Troupe’s Heartland Pilgrimage”, in New York Times:
glosses: plural of talkback
sportswriting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From sports + writing.
Senses: examples: text: When I started my sportswriting career 30 years ago, I set out to become a big fish in a small pond.
ref: 2009 February 1, Larry Fitzgerald Sr, “A Proud Father, Just Doing His Job”, in New York Times:
glosses: Writing about sports.
cacatory
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: For the diners, the effects of the chicken cacciatore, alas, were cacatory.
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Accompanied by diarrhea
probleme
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: problemes
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of problem.
parapluies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of parapluie
cyberworld
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cyberworlds
Etymology: From cyber- + world.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: The world of intercomputer communication
examples: text: Neo (Keanu Reeves) has been required to fly, to master martial arts, and to learn that his faith and belief can make things happen. His fights all take place within virtual reality spaces, while he reclines in a chair and is linked to the cyberworld, but he can really be killed, because if the mind thinks it is dead, "the body is controlled by the mind."
ref: 2003, Roger Ebert, The Matrix Reloaded review:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A real or virtual world of information in cyberspace.
cynomolgus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cynomolguses
Etymology: From Ancient Greek κύων (kúōn, “dog”) + ἀμέλγω (amélgō, “to milk”). Apparently from a word coined by Aristophanes of Byzantium for a race of humans with long hair and beards who hunted with dogs and, according to Aristophanes, milked them. (See Crab-eating macaque on Wikipedia.Wikipedia).
Senses: examples: text: […]but no «mouse-virulent» virus could be recovered on passage in other mice although titration in cynomolgus renal epithelial cells showed that virus replication had occurred.
ref: 1953, “Atti del VI Congresso Internazionale di Microbiologia”, in Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Microbiology, volume 3, page 157:
text: Similarities also exist between the antigenic properties of the β₁-glycoproteins obtained from chimpanzees, rhesus monkeys, cynomolguses, and baboons.
ref: 1978, B. J. Catley, “5: Glycoproteins, Glycopeptides, and Animal Polysaccharides”, in J. S. Brimacombe, editor, Carbohydrate Chemistry, volume 10, The Chemical Society, page 305:
text: 2019, Kira Jane Buxton, Hollow Kingdom, Hachette UK (Headline Publishing Group), unnumbered page,
MoFos never gave up on the belief that they could land on the moon, and, by thunder, they did it! (After sensibly sending up a few test subjects including cats, tortoises, mice, mealworms, a rabbit, chimpanzees, rhesus macaques, squirrel monkeys, cynomolguses and pig-tailed monkeys, a boatload of dogs, and some fruit flies.
glosses: A long-tailed macaque (Macaca fascicularis), native to Asia, that feeds on shellfish.
wikipedia: Aristophanes of Byzantium
Synonyms: sense: Macaca fascicularis
word: cynomolgus monkey
sense: Macaca fascicularis
word: crab-eating macaque
cytodomains
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cytodomain
first folio
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: first folios
Senses: glosses: The 1623 published collection of William Shakespeare's plays. The first such collection printed in folio format.
cytodomain
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cytodomains
Etymology: From cyto- + domain.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Any domain in a cell protein
cytometrically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From cytometric + -ally.
Senses: glosses: In a cytometric sense; with reference to cytometry
glosses: By using a cytometer
cytopathic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From cyto- + -pathic.
Senses: glosses: That damages or destroys cells
Derived terms: cytopathically
cytopathicity
myocytopathic
noncytopathic
podocytopathic
cytotype
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cytotypes
Etymology: From cyto- + -type.
Senses: topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: An individual of a species that has a different chromosomal factor to another (e.g. haploid versus diploid).
maricones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of maricon
dealloying
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From de- + alloy + -ing.
Senses: glosses: The selective leaching of a component of an alloy
decarboxylase
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /diːkɑːˈbɒksɪleɪz/
Forms: form: decarboxylases
Etymology: From de- + carboxyl + -ase.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any enzyme that catalyzes the hydrolysis of a carboxyl group, effectively removing carbon dioxide from a compound.
Derived terms: carbidopa
codecarboxylase
lunularic acid decarboxylase
dechorionated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /dəˈkɔ.ɹi.oʊˌneɪ.təd/
Etymology: From de- + chorion + -ated.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: From which the chorion has been removed
Derived terms: undechorionated
Related terms: chorionated
decoloured
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /diːˈkʌləd/
Forms: form: more decoloured
form: most decoloured
form: decolored
Etymology: From de- + coloured.
Senses: glosses: From which the colour has been removed; bleached.
Synonyms: word: blanched
word: bleached
word: decoloured
word: faded
Hypernyms: word: achromatic
Hyponyms: word: etiolated
word: sunbleached
word: whitened
Related terms: word: discolored
decondensation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /diːˌkɒndɛnˈseɪʃən/
Forms: form: decondensations
Etymology: From de- + condensation.
Senses: topics: biology
cytology
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: A loosening of the texture of chromatin.
decondensed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /diːkənˈdɛnst/
Forms: form: more decondensed
form: most decondensed
Etymology: From de- + condensed.
Senses: topics: biology
cytology
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: Describing chromatin that has a loosened texture
Related terms: decondensation
deconvolute
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /diːˌkɒnvəˈljuːt/
Forms: form: deconvolutes
form: deconvoluting
form: deconvoluted
form: deconvoluted
Etymology: From de- + convolute.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: To analyze the sequence of sugars in a polysaccharide by removing them one at a time
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: To invert a convolution equation
defluorinated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /diːˈflɔːɹɪneɪtəd/
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of defluorinate
defluorinated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /diːˈflɔːɹɪneɪtəd/
Forms: form: more defluorinated
form: most defluorinated
Senses: glosses: From which fluorine (or fluoride) has been removed
Derived terms: deflazacort
defolliculated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /diːˈfɒlɪkjəleɪtəd/
ipa: /diːfɒˈlɪkjəleɪtəd/
Etymology: From de- + folliculated.
Senses: glosses: From which the follicles have been removed.
deglacial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more deglacial
form: most deglacial
Etymology: From de- + glacial.
Senses: glosses: Of, pertaining to, or resulting from deglaciation
degrowth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: degrowths
Etymology: From de- + growth, a calque of French décroissance.
Senses: glosses: A negative growth (i.e. a reduction) of an economy or a population.
glosses: A political, economic, and social movement based on ecological economics and anticonsumerist and anticapitalist ideas.
Derived terms: degrowther
dehalogenase
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /diːˈheɪlədʒəneɪz/
Forms: form: dehalogenases
Etymology: From de- + halogen + -ase.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any enzyme that catalyzes the removal of a halogen atom from an organic halide
delocalize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /diːˈləʊkəlaɪz/
ipa: /diˈloʊkəlaɪz/
Forms: form: delocalizes
form: delocalizing
form: delocalized
form: delocalized
Etymology: From de- + localize.
Senses: examples: text: This combined view of the greatness of events and the feebleness of the human mind, never appears to startlingly distinct as upon the occurrence of those extraordinary crises, which, so to speak, entirely delocalize man, and transport him to a different sphere.
ref: 1852, M. Guizot, History of the Origin of Representative Government in Europe:
text: This constant desire for what we do not have, delocalizes — drives from Maine its natives and sends them to alien soil — to California, and vice versa.
ref: 1912, Second Annual Conference of the Committees on Agricultural Development and Education:
text: The decision to delocalize implies moving abroad those phases which were once carried out within the company itself, or were delocalized domestically.
ref: 2009, Mario Morroni, Corporate Governance, Organization and the Firm: Co-operation and Outsourcing in the Global Economy:
glosses: To broaden the scope of something (to make it more global).
examples: text: In molecular orbital theory it is thus the fact that the 2p electrons become completely delocalized that causes the lowering of the energy and of the bond distance compared to the average of the values for single and double bonds.
ref: 1939, Gerhard Herzberg, Molecular Spectra and Molecular Structure: Electronic spectra and electronic structure of polyatomic molecules:
text: This is shown in Input 10.6 for a calculation of D-BOVB type, in which the π spectator orbitals are allowed to delocalize.
ref: 2007, Sason S. Shaik, A Chemist's Guide to Valence Bond Theory, page 279:
text: The high field strength in the space charge region delocalizes the states adjacent to the mobility edges and moves these edges toward the gap center.
ref: 2012, J. Tauc, Amorphous and Liquid Semiconductors, page 278:
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
qualifier: quantum mechanics
glosses: To contain an electron in an orbital that extends over several adjacent atoms.
examples: text: Often, the wardens who happen to be nearby tranquillize the aggressive animal and delocalize it.
ref: 2012, Paul Bouissac, Circus as Multimodal Discourse: Performance, Meaning, and Ritual:
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: To remove from a locality.
Related terms: delocalization
demethylase
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /diːˈmɛθəleɪz/
Forms: form: demethylases
Etymology: From de- + methyl + -ase.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any enzyme that catalyzes the removal of a methyl group from a compound
dendrogram
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɛndɹəɡɹæm/
Forms: form: dendrograms
Etymology: From dendro- + -gram.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: A treelike diagram used to show the ancestors and descendants of species.
Derived terms: cytodendrogram
phylodendrogram
Related terms: dendrogramic
dendrogrammatic
deoxycholate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: deoxycholates
Etymology: From deoxycholic + -ate (“salt or ester”).
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any salt or ester of deoxycholic acid.
deoxycholic acid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A secondary bile acid that is a metabolic product of intestinal bacteria
Coordinate terms: english: coordinate as a base versus an acid, but synonymous in the practical sense that the conjugate base and conjugate acid coexist in solution
translation: coordinate as a base versus an acid, but synonymous in the practical sense that the conjugate base and conjugate acid coexist in solution
word: deoxycholate
deoxyhaemoglobin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: deoxyhaemoglobins
form: deoxyhemoglobin
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The form of haemoglobin that has released its oxygen
Related terms: oxyhaemoglobin
deoxynucleoside
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: deoxynucleosides
Etymology: From deoxy- + nucleoside.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any nucleoside containing a deoxy sugar
Derived terms: cyclodeoxynucleoside
monodeoxynucleoside
deoxyribonucleoside
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: deoxyribonucleosides
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any nucleoside containing deoxyribose
deoxynucleotidyl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From deoxynucleotide + -yl.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The univalent radical derived from a deoxynucleotide
Derived terms: terminal deoxynucleotidyl transferase
Related terms: deoxynucleotidal
waifishly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more waifishly
form: most waifishly
Etymology: From waifish + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a waifish manner.
waifish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more waifish
form: most waifish
Etymology: From waif + -ish.
Senses: glosses: Waiflike.
dendrograms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dendrogram
halsen
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: halsens
form: halsening
form: halsened
form: halsened
form: halseny
form: halson
form: halzen
form: hazon
Etymology: From Middle English halsnen; equivalent to halse (“to salute, beseech”) + -en. Related to Middle High German heilsen (“to predict”); more at halse.
Senses: glosses: To predict; promise.
glosses: To promise; bode; bid (fair or ill).
Derived terms: forehalsen
dermomyotome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dermomyotomes
form: dermamyotome
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: All of a mesodermal somite except the sclerotome
Related terms: dermomyotomal
FRCS
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: FRCSs
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons.
glosses: Initialism of Fellowship of the Royal College of Surgeons.
Coordinate terms: FEBS
desilylation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: desilylations
Etymology: From de- + silyl + -ation.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The removal of a silyl group
Derived terms: iododesilylation
protodesilylation
Related terms: silylation
packagings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: A prime object of that attention was a recording of Mendelssohn’s Violin Concerto in E minor with Herbert von Karajan and the Berlin Philharmonic from 1980 (Deutsche Grammophon, now in various CD packagings).
ref: 2009 February 1, Vivien Schweitzer, “Finding Her Mendelssohn Sweet Spot”, in New York Times:
glosses: plural of packaging
uncollectable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + collectable.
Senses: examples: text: After having subtracted the bad and uncollectable debt above, the net property was around 32000 kan of silver […]
ref: 2000, Hideo Yamashita, Healthy Culture and Unhealthy Culture:
text: […] read-only attribute that lists the unreachable but uncollectable objects.
ref: 2006, Alex Martelli, Python in a Nutshell:
glosses: Alternative form of uncollectible.
uncollectable
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: uncollectables
Etymology: From un- + collectable.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of uncollectible.
dessication
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Hockett and Ascher go back to the period of dessication in the Pliocene when the forests were disappearing and the savannah was opening up.
ref: 1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 69:
glosses: Misspelling of desiccation.
offramp
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: offramps
Senses: examples: text: Tucked under offramps of the Henry Hudson Parkway, it sat undisturbed, protected by the anonymity of its location.
ref: 2009 February 1, J. David Goodman, “Under an Exit Ramp, a Cluster of Mysteries”, in New York Times:
glosses: Alternative spelling of off-ramp.
offramps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of offramp; alternative spelling of off-ramps.
heedfulness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From heedful + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: His lack of heedfulness frequently resulted in injury.
glosses: The state or quality of being heedful.
Synonyms: sense: mental focus
word: heed
word: notice
word: attention
outmuscle
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: outmuscles
form: outmuscling
form: outmuscled
form: outmuscled
Etymology: From out- + muscle.
Senses: examples: text: UConn barreled through the West Regional, pummeling Purdue in the semifinals and outmuscling Missouri in the final.
ref: 2009 March 30, William C. Rhoden, “For Coaches, Recruiting Top Players Can Lead to a Dark Side”, in The New York Times:
text: For most of the game they were outmuscled and outplayed, which left them bruised, physically and emotionally. […] “They just outmuscled us,” Knicks Coach Jeff Hornacek said. “Outmuscled and then, for a stretch, out-hustled.”
ref: 2016 November 28, Mike Vorkunov, “Despite Flash of Rose’s Prime, Knicks Are Dazed by Westbrook and Thunder”, in The New York Times:
glosses: To surpass in a contest involving strength.
outmuscled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of outmuscle
outmuscled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more outmuscled
form: most outmuscled
Senses: examples: text: And on “Beautiful World,” with the invigorating alt-country singer Patty Griffin, he is outmuscled.
ref: 2009 February 2, The New York Times, “New CDs”, in New York Times:
glosses: Overcome by superior strength.
overreliance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -aɪəns
Forms: form: overreliances
form: over-reliance
Etymology: From over- + reliance.
Senses: examples: text: A particularly worn device for Super Bowl ads — an overreliance on familiar faces — got a real workout.
ref: 2009 February 2, Stuart Elliott, “Ads That Pushed Our Usual (Well-Worn) Buttons”, in New York Times:
glosses: Excessive reliance.
Related terms: overreliant
overrely
steering wheels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of steering wheel
desocialization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: desocializations
Etymology: From de- + socialization.
Senses: glosses: The act of desocializing.
affamishes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of affamish
affamishing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of affamish
affamished
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of affamish
apriorism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: apriorisms
form: a priorism
Etymology: From a priori + -ism, after French apriorisme.
Senses: examples: text: The linguistic apriorism of Chomsky has stimulated some psychologists to search for nonlinguistic roots of language development.
ref: 1982, Dan I Slobin, in Eric Wanner & Lila Gleitman, Language Acquisition, p. 128
text: What was needed for modern science to take shape was a renunciation of their bookish a priorism, with its Aristotelian notion that all things can be deduced by logical, abstract argument from (ultimately arbitrary) first principles.
ref: 2006, Philip Ball, The Devil's Doctor, Arrow, published 2007, page 51:
topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
glosses: The idea that some knowledge of the physical world can be derived logically from general principles.
adenitises
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of adenitis
TV dinners
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of TV dinner
commercial traveller
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: commercial travellers
Senses: glosses: Travelling salesman.
stark bollock naked
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From stark naked.
Senses: glosses: Not wearing clothes.
Synonyms: naked
tube sock
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tube socks
Senses: glosses: A one-size-fits-all sock, having a plain tubular shape rather than one designed to match the contours of the foot.
tube socks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tube sock
graham crackers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of graham cracker
recycle bins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of recycle bin
fountain pens
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fountain pen
cartridge pen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cartridge pens
Senses: glosses: A fountain pen in which the ink is drawn from replaceable cartridges.
cartridge pens
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cartridge pen
ink eraser
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ink erasers
Senses: glosses: An instrument used to remove ink from a writing surface, either (traditionally) a metal scraper or (more recently) a special pen dispensing a chemical that eradicates ink.
Hyponyms: ink eradicator
ink erasers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ink eraser
ink eradicator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ink eradicators
Senses: glosses: An ink eraser of the chemical kind.
ink eradicators
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ink eradicator
by owner
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: examples: text: CAR FOR SALE BY OWNER
ref: 1997 February 17, Dora M. Iakova <dmi0039@is.nyu.edu>, "CAR for SALE", ny.forsale, Usenet
text: 2003 January 26, <Pudpuller@pudz.com>, "Re: HOME FOR SALE - $339k - Smyrna/King Valley", alt.atlanta and atl.general, Usenet,
Price your home under market (by a reasonable amount) and you might be able to sell it by owner after some time.
text: I realize that some of you reading this may wonder why problem property owners do not correct the problems themselves and then sell the property by owner or list the property for sale through a real estate broker.
ref: 2005, Thomas Lucier, How to Make Money With Real Estate Options, Wiley, →ISBN, page 53:
glosses: Without a real-estate agent or broker representing the seller.
raw_tags: of a sale or attempted sale
of real property
fuck juice
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fuck juices
Senses: examples: text: Ollie held the boot with one hand and smeared the sticky fuck juices with his other over the boot.
ref: 1974, Jay Alpert, Stick It In!:
text: Without waiting for me to speak she continued, "All this talk about orgasms and giving head has me so hot that my fuck juice is running down the inside of...
ref: 2004, Penthouse International, Penthouse Uncensored IV:
text: I felt his cock press against me, still hard, dripping the last of its fuck juice. The pleasure from my cock ran through my body like a bolt of electricity.
ref: 2006, Johnny Hansen, Truckers: True Gay Erotica:
glosses: Any fluid produced as part of sexual intercourse, such as semen.
fuck juices
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fuck juice
eBayer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: eBayers
Etymology: From eBay + -er.
Senses: glosses: A member of the auction web site eBay.
eBayers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of eBayer
capper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cappers
Etymology: From Middle English capper; equivalent to cap + -er.
Senses: glosses: A device or person that applies caps, as to bullets or bottles.
glosses: A person that makes or sells caps.
examples: text: And the capper of it all was, Stacy flew back to Memphis to see me for a day and try to settle our divorce with a one-on-one meeting.
ref: 2008, Jerry 'The King' Lawler, It's Good To Be The King...: Sometimes:
text: The real capper is when St. John starts fawning over Hugh Hefner, host of the finest Super Bowl party known to man, musing: “The question isn’t whether Hef is the hippest octogenarian on the planet.
ref: 2009 February 1, Joe Queenan, “Super Bowl Suits”, in New York Times:
synonyms: cherry on the cake
icing on the cake
glosses: A finale; something that is conclusively better, or "caps it all off".
glosses: A by-bidder; a decoy for gamblers.
Related terms: milliner
capper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cappers
Etymology: Abbreviated form of capture + -er.
Senses: glosses: A person who records a television broadcast to their computer.
Related terms: screencap
capper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cappers
Etymology: From cap + -er.
Senses: glosses: A person who caps i.e. is inclined to untruth, a fibber.
cliffhang
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: cliffhangs
form: cliffhanging
form: cliffhung
form: cliffhung
form: cliff-hang
Etymology: Back-formation from cliffhanger.
Senses: examples: text: With furtive references to Gnostic gospels and a cast of characters that includes a beautiful blond novice (with whom Luciano fancies himself in love), a corrupt council of cardinals, a syphilitic doge and the brutal Cappe Nere, or secret police, all abroad in Venice’s sinister maze of watery alleyways, the scene looks set for a cliffhanging thriller in the style of “The Da Vinci Code.”
ref: 2009 February 1, Clare Clark, “An Appetite for Venice”, in New York Times:
glosses: To be in suspense.
cliffhanging
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of cliffhang
cliffhanging
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more cliffhanging
form: most cliffhanging
Senses: glosses: Suspenseful.
Supreme
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Supreme
Senses: glosses: Ellipsis of Supreme Being.
winds up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of wind up
winding up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of wind up
wound up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of wind up
fashion houses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fashion house
timelined
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: “Joseph P. Kennedy Presents” is well sourced, often to a level of detail about stock swaps and share prices that suggests an M.B.A. case book; Kennedy’s sex-laced financial dealings with Swanson get timelined with an urgency and precision that may seem more suited to a study of the Cuban missile crisis.
ref: 2009 February 1, Thomas Mallon, “Ready for His Close-Up”, in New York Times:
glosses: simple past and past participle of timeline
unbroadcast
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + broadcast.
Senses: examples: text: Later this month it will release what it calls a DVD “time capsule” with “60 Minutes” reports about Mr. Obama, unbroadcast interviews and two hours’ worth of his speeches.
ref: 2009 February 2, Brian Stelter, “To Relive the Inauguration, a Wave of Network DVDs”, in The New York Times:
text: We must ensure when we promise anonymity that we are in a position to honour it, taking account of the implications of any possible court order demanding the disclosure of our unbroadcast material.
ref: BBC Editorial Guidelines, quoted in 2014, Adele Emm, Researching for the Media: Television, Radio and Journalism (page 77)
glosses: Not broadcasted.
rolling paper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rolling papers
Senses: glosses: A small sheet of paper used for rolling (tobacco) cigarettes, joints (marijuana cigarettes), and the like.
glosses: singular of rolling papers (official documents permitting one to drive, particularly to drive freight trucks).
Synonyms: sense: small sheet of paper
word: cigarette paper
sense: small sheet of paper
word: skin
Related terms: sense: cigar
word: wrapper
sense: cigar
word: leaf
sense: cigar
word: wrapper leaf
presas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of presa
touchup
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: touchups
Etymology: Deverbal from touch up.
Senses: examples: text: But she dabbed at an eye, cried out for a touchup and had someone turn up Grace Jones on the MP3 player.
ref: 2009 February 1, Dakota Lane, “Elaine Griffin and Michael McGarry”, in New York Times:
glosses: Alternative spelling of touch-up.
AEST
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Australian Eastern Standard Time.
touchups
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of touchup; alternative spelling of touch-ups.
uranisci
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of uraniscus
laboral
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: laboural
Etymology: From labor + -al.
Senses: examples: text: Women's sections have been established at the laboral centres of Algemesi (Valencia), Jumilla (agriculture) and Vélez-Rubio (agriculture). The laboral school will have in the near future a branch section for horticulture and flower cultivation specially for girls.
ref: 1960, International Yearbook of Education:
text: The incorporation of the pupils to the laboral activities traces very complex problems, specially didactical ones, because it implies the rational and harmonic al integration of the pupils activities, as students as well as teachers.
ref: 1976, International Geography '76: Geographical education, geographical literature and dissemination of geographical knowledge, Pergamon Press:
text: But we think it is socially necessary to include the “laboral values” of ecology and conservation as a social praxis of maximum priority and as an answer to the basic causes of free appropriation of natural resources and the consequent […]
ref: 1980, Transactions of the North American Wildlife and Natural Resources Conference:
text: According to the concept of Folklore that considers it as (BLACHE and MAGARINOS DE MORENTIN 1980, 1986), a transformation of the institutional, a re-elaboration added to the institutional behaviour referred in this case, to the laboral aspect since we have two work groups, in accordance with this concept we can express, the hypothesis that the laboral characteristics of the actors group and of the journalistics photographers' influence the construction of the mufa figure.
ref: 1993, Acta Ethnographica Hungarica, volumes 38–39, Akadémiai Kiadó:
text: Beneficiaries of the employment and laboral training programs, according to political and territorial division. Total for the country. Years 1993/1996
ref: 1997, National Institute of Statistics and Census of Argentina, Statistical Yearbook, Republic of Argentina:
text: There co-existed, within the laboral world, the craftsman who worked for his own and sold his produce in his own workshops and botigas, with the business sector that hired their own workers.
ref: 1997, The Jews of Spain and the Expulsion of 1492, →ISBN, page 76:
text: The goal of this paper is to expose that besides the support given by the Brazilian Federal Constitution, the laboral conditions of the place analysed presented another reality, where this group is not considered.
ref: 2005 April, Healthcare Systems Ergonomics and Patient Safety, Taylor & Francis, →ISBN:
text: The LABORAL call center, which will be operated by the Catholic Migration Office, will field inquiries about minimum wages, overtime, youth employment, migrant and seasonal work, and the rights and responsibilities of workers and […]
ref: 2009 December, Daily Labor Report:
glosses: Of or pertaining to labor.
blob out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: blobs out
form: blobbing out
form: blobbed out
form: blobbed out
Senses: examples: text: The Nanny is one of Pippa's favourite shows, but tonight the pleasure of mindlessly blobbing out in her usual Sunday-laid-back-luxury style...
ref: 2004, Brigid Lowry, Guitar Highway Rose:
text: ...we then get home and explode at the kids or fall into a kind of lethargy, blobbing out in front of the television.
ref: 2006, Paramananda, Change Your Mind: A Practical Guide to Buddhist Meditation:
glosses: To relax idly and mindlessly; to veg out.
blobs out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of blob out
blobbing out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of blob out
blobbed out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of blob out
sayso
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: saysos
Senses: examples: text: We're just waiting on your sayso.
text: For quotations using this term, see Citations:sayso.
glosses: Alternative spelling of say-so.
poufy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: poufier
form: poufiest
Etymology: From French.
Senses: examples: text: I like it when my hair is poufy
I like it when you slip me a roofy
ref: 2001, “Who's Got the Crack?”, performed by The Moldy Peaches:
qualifier: hair styles
glosses: Bouffant.
examples: text: (No ’80s gowns with poufy sleeves or out-of-style silhouettes.) “
ref: 2009 February 1, Bethany Kandel, “With This Dress I Thee Wed and Wed and Wed”, in New York Times:
topics: fashion
lifestyle
glosses: Decorated with fabric, feathers or other material to create an impression of transparent volume and movement.
glosses: Effeminate.
Derived terms: poufiness
poufier
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of poufy: more poufy
poufiest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of poufy: most poufy
cliff hanger
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cliff hangers
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of cliffhanger.
cliff-hanger
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cliff-hangers
Senses: examples: text: Once upon a time the movie mecca teamed with redskins, and all of them made good livings in the many "horse operas" and "cliff hanger" serials of the industry's beginning.
ref: 1939, "Theater gossip," The Independent (St. Petersbury, Florida), 28 Oct. (retrieved 2 Feb. 2009)
glosses: Alternative spelling of cliffhanger.
booze can
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: booze cans
Senses: examples: text: Mom Wassilyn claims she and Pal Hal had a one-night stand after a night at a "booze can" (after-hours joint) and son Mike was the result.
ref: 1990 November 4, “Ballard's death hasn't brought stability to Leafs”, in St. Paul Pioneer Press, USA, page 3C:
text: "The establishment was operating as a booze can serving drinks well after hours," Mammoliti said.
ref: 2008 September 9, Robyn Doolittle, “Alcohol commission shuts down booze can”, in Toronto Star, Canada, retrieved 02 Feb 2009:
glosses: A nightclub or bar, especially one which operates illegally or is otherwise disreputable.
step-father
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: step-fathers
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of stepfather.
step-fathers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of step-father; alternative spelling of stepfathers.
badelynges
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of badelynge
commercialities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of commerciality
crutters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of crutter
prodelisions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of prodelision
Lunda
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: The language of the BaLunda people of central Africa.
glosses: An empire or confederation of states in what is now the Democratic Republic of Congo, north-eastern Angola, and north-western Zambia.
Related terms: Wiktionary’s coverage of Lunda terms
robber baron
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: robber barons
Senses: examples: text: Men who made it a custom to travel the trail to Dawson, likened him to a robber baron, perched in his fortress and exacting toll from the caravans that used his ill-kept roads.
ref: 1901, Jack London, “The Man with the Gash”, in The God of His Fathers, New York: McClure, Phillips & Co., page 114:
synonyms: feudal lord
glosses: In Europe, an aristocrat who charged exorbitant fees or otherwise exacted money from people who journeyed across land or waterways which he controlled.
examples: text: Still sails the Robber Baron’s yacht in sunny Southern seas. Daily she jams her nose ashore, and daily takes on and puts off a fresh cargo of telegraph dispatches; and he who is idling for his liver's sake knows every night the tale of Wall-street's ticker and baiteth still without cessation his everlasting mouse trap.
ref: 1886 March 14, “A Robber Baron Muses”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, page 3:
text: An early operator in the field, Ivy Lee, is reported to have changed the image of John D. Rockefeller from robber baron to philanthropic old gentleman who loved to play golf and hand out shiny coins to children.
ref: 1975, Michael Argyle, Bodily Communication, →ISBN, page 206:
text: When the robber barons emerged in the late nineteenth century as the first ultrarich Americans, they had no clear guide on how to build palatial homes, so they just copied the architecture of wealthy European families.
ref: 2022, W. David Marx, chapter 2, in Status and Culture, Viking, →ISBN:
text: “Why don't we move this party to the bar? After a long day of hauling treasure trash and getting abducted by robber barons, I could use a drink.” “Treasure trash?” “Eh, you know, post-scarce society throwing out all their jewels and crap.” “How many jewels?”
ref: 2024 October 24, Keith Foglesong, “Shades of Green” (23:06 from the start), in Star Trek: Lower Decks, season 5, episode 2, spoken by Brad Boimler (Jack Quaid):
synonyms: captain of industry
magnate
hypernyms: industrialist
glosses: Especially in the 19th and early 20th centuries, a business tycoon who had great wealth and influence but whose methods were morally questionable and often unethical.
Related terms: Gilded Age
robber-baron
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: robber-barons
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of robber baron.