cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
prehydrating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of prehydrate
chawarmas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chawarma
lashwise
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From lash + -wise.
Senses: examples: text: “Come, Yankee,” here swore the incensed private; “cease this, or I’ll darn your old fawn-skins for ye with the flat of this sword;” for a specimen, laying it lashwise, but not heavily, across the captive’s back.
ref: 1855, Herman Melville, Israel Potter: His Fifty Years of Exile:
glosses: In the manner of a whiplash.
hot lips
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Max was all hot lips, talented tongue and sharp teeth, and he knew exactly how to use them.
ref: 2013, Susan Andersen, Some Like It Hot, →ISBN, page 117:
glosses: The lips of a person known for kissing.
hot lips
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hot lips
Senses: examples: text: For Hot Lips and Poison Kiss divas: Your lips are the most suggestive, sensual erogenous zone you've got—work it, girl, and get his attention focused right where it belongs.
ref: 2010, Violet Blue, Seal It with a Kiss: Tips, Tricks, and Techniques for Delivering the Knockout Kiss, →ISBN, page 36:
glosses: A person who kisses or is said to kiss passionately.
examples: text: Our art teacher, Lani, who was Italian, vivacious, charming, sensuous, and sexy was the perfect "Hot Lips"
ref: 2012, Jeanne E. Hon, Alternative to What?, →ISBN, page 122:
glosses: An attractive or sexy person.
examples: text: Oran, the trumpet player who was known as Hot Lips played with Bennie Moten band and also had several of his own.
ref: 1962 November 24, “My Play Brother Hot Lip Page”, in Record Research, number 47, page 58:
glosses: A very good or exciting trumpet player.
glosses: Either of two red mushrooms, Calostoma cinnabarina and Octospora humosa, whose red fruiting bodies are thought to resemble a pair of lips.
glosses: Either of two plants of the madder family, Palicourea elata and Palicourea tomentosa, whose red flowers are thought to resemble a pair of lips.
autoinfection
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: autoinfections
Etymology: From auto- + infection.
Senses: glosses: The infection of a primary host with a parasite, particularly a helminth, in such a way that the complete life cycle of the parasite happens in a single organism, without the involvement of another host.
Related terms: autoinfect
autoinfections
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of autoinfection
retroperistalsis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From retro- + peristalsis.
Senses: glosses: The reverse of the involuntary smooth muscle contractions of peristalsis, usually as a precursor to vomiting.
scolexes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of scolex
preachily
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more preachily
form: most preachily
Etymology: From preachy + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a preachy manner.
trumpetless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From trumpet + -less.
Senses: glosses: Without a trumpet.
messer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɛsə(ɹ)/
Forms: form: messers
Etymology: From mess + -er.
Senses: glosses: Someone or something who messes.
Derived terms: messer-abouter
messer-upper
messer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɛsə(ɹ)/
ipa: /məˈsɛə(ɹ)/
ipa: /ˈmɛsə(ɹ)/
Forms: form: messers
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian messer, which is itself a truncated form of messere. Doublet of monsieur.
Senses: glosses: Form of address equivalent to signore.
raw_tags: of an Italian person
messer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɛsə(ɹ)/
ipa: /məˈsɛə(ɹ)/
Forms: form: messers
Etymology: From German Messer.
Senses: glosses: A single-edged sword with a knife-like hilt.
wharflike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more wharflike
form: most wharflike
Etymology: From wharf + -like.
Senses: examples: text: Dock Square has an architecturally eclectic, wharflike feel, with low buildings of mixed vintages and styles...
ref: 2006, Paul Karr, Frommer's Vermont, New Hampshire & Maine:
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a wharf.
trumpetfishes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of trumpetfish
sewerless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From sewer + -less.
Senses: glosses: Without a sewer (drainage pipe).
aagh
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: ipa: /æː/
Etymology: Onomatopoeic
Senses: glosses: An exclamation of horror, disgust or frustration
aaagh
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: glosses: Elongated form of agh.
cuchifrito
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cuchifritos
Etymology: From Spanish cuchifrito, from cuchí (from cochino) + frito.
Senses: examples: text: I quickly fell in love with El Barrio, where I ate cuchifrito and listened to music on the rooftop with my neighbors.
ref: 2007 November 11, Janice Eidus, “The Wanderer”, in New York Times:
glosses: A dish of Puerto Rican origin, made of fried pork.
underbill
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: underbills
form: underbilling
form: underbilled
form: underbilled
Etymology: From under- + bill.
Senses: examples: text: They accidentally underbilled me by sixty pounds.
glosses: To bill an inadequate amount.
underbills
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of underbill
underbilling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of underbill
underbilled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of underbill
nondrained
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + drained.
Senses: examples: nondrained soil
glosses: Not drained.
nonperforated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + perforated.
Senses: glosses: Not perforated.
unperforated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + perforated.
Senses: glosses: Not perforated.
Kanjobal
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Q'anjob'al.
Q'anjob'al
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Kanhobal
form: Kanjobal
Etymology: Borrowed from Q'anjob'al Qʼanjobʼal.
Senses: glosses: A Mayan language spoken in Guatemala and part of Mexico.
Related terms: kjb ⁠
participatory democracies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of participatory democracy
jewfros
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of jewfro
ferriprotoporphyrin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ferriprotoporphyrins
Senses: glosses: A reddish-brown crystalline material, haematin hydrochloride, obtained by treatment of dried blood with salt and acetic acid, that was once used to detect traces of blood.
Derived terms: ferriprotoporphyrinic
galactosialidosis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: galactosialidoses
Etymology: From galacto- + sialidosis.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: A form of sialidosis
Roman alphabets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Roman alphabet
glutaredoxin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: glutaredoxins
Etymology: From glutathione, redox, + -in.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of a family of small redox enzymes that use glutathione as a cofactor.
glycohydrolytic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Of, pertaining to or causing glycohydrolysis
glycohydrolysis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: glycohydrolyses
Etymology: From glyco- + hydrolysis.
Senses: glosses: The hydrolysis of glycosides
Related terms: glycohydrolase
glycohydrolytic
HORSE
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: horse
Etymology: Initialism of Texas hold 'em, Omaha eight or better, razz, seven-card stud, and seven card stud eight or better.
Senses: glosses: A poker variant consisting of five different poker variants, with the rules changing from one variant to the next after every hand.
HORSE
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: horse
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of horse (“variant of basketball”).
harmane
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
synonyms: aribine
glosses: An alkaloid related to harmine.
hemoprotein
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hemoproteins
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of hemeprotein.
Derived terms: apohemoprotein
ferrihemoprotein
flavohemoprotein
acieration
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: acierations
Etymology: Borrowed from French acier (“steel”) + -ation.
Senses: examples: text: It should not be attempted to convert impure irons into steel […] for then there is no certainty regarding the stability of the acieration.
ref: 1861, William Crookes, editor, The Chemical News and Journal of Physical Science, volume 3:
glosses: The conversion of iron into steel.
Related terms: acierate
acierage
heterotaxia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From hetero- + taxia.
Senses: glosses: Heterotaxis.
homeoprotein
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: homeoproteins
Etymology: From homeo- + protein.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any protein that has a homeodomain.
ribopolymer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ribopolymers
Etymology: From ribo- + polymer.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: polyribonucleotide
homoribopolymer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: homoribopolymers
Etymology: From homo- (“same”) + ribopolymer.
Senses: glosses: Any ribopolymer that is a homopolymer
hydroxydeboronation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From hydroxy + deboronation.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any deboronation reaction in which one or two hydroxyl groups are added
hydroxysuccinimide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From hydroxy + succinimide.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The N-hydroxy derivative of succinimide; it is used in organic synthesis
immunobead
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: immunobeads
Etymology: From immuno- + bead.
Senses: topics: immunology
medicine
sciences
glosses: A very small bead coated with an antigen (or antibody) that forms aggregates in the presence of the appropriate antibody (or antigen)
indoyl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From indole + -yl.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A univalent radical derived from an indole
kenpaullone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kenpaullones
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A particular paullone, 9-bromo-7,12-dihydro-indolo [3,2-d] [1]benzazepin-6(5H)-one, that is an inhibitor of several cyclin-dependent kinases
paullone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: paullones
Etymology: paullones are named after Dr. Kenneth Paull, a researcher who worked in the field of AIDS and cancer research at the National Institutes of Health. These compounds were discovered using his COMPARE algorithm and were named in honor of him.
http://cancerres.aacrjournals.org/content/59/11/2566
Footnote 6: "We propose the name paullone for the unsubstituted compound and kenpaullone for the 9-bromo analogue to honor the memory of Dr. Kenneth Paull, inventor of the COMPARE algorithm, whose insight, wisdom, and generosity greatly influenced not only this particular work but the whole field of cancer drug discovery."
Senses: glosses: Any of a class of compounds that inhibit cyclin-dependent kinases that regulate cell division, apoptosis etc.
nonhermeneutic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + hermeneutic.
Senses: glosses: Not hermeneutic.
lactosylceramide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lactosylceramides
Etymology: From lactosyl + ceramide.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any glycosylceramide containing lactose
leptomycin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: leptomycins
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Any of a family of antibiotics produced by Streptomyces bacteria.
lysophospholipase
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lysophospholipases
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any enzyme that catalyzes the hydrolytic removal of a fatty acid from a lysophospholipid
macronuclear
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From macro- + nuclear.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to a macronucleus.
phonocentrism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: phonocentrisms
Etymology: From phono- + -centrism.
Senses: examples: text: In other words, social Darwinism was inextricably connected to phoneticism or, more precisely, what would a century later be criticized as "phonocentrism" - an understanding of language that gives primacy to spoken language as a spontaneous expression of the human mind, thus reducing written language to the status of mere representation of spoken sounds.
ref: 2015, Minae Mizumura, translated by Mari Yoshihara and Juliet Winters Carpenter, The Fall of Language in the Age of English, Columbia University Press., page 124:
glosses: The idea that sounds and speech are inherently superior to (or more natural than) written language.
Related terms: logocentrism
phonocentrisms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of phonocentrism
phonocardiographs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of phonocardiograph
phonocardiograms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of phonocardiogram
autodefenestration
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From auto- + defenestration.
Senses: examples: text: She climbs out on a window ledge and threatens autodefenestration if the marriage isn't contracted, and is soon joined on the ledge by Jill.
ref: 1986, “Rich Relations”, in New York Magazine, volume 19, number 18:
text: Ipana, a leading practitioner of feline-autodefenestration, also helped, I think.
ref: 2002, Ian Lauchlan, Russian hide-and-seek: the tsarist secret police in St. Petersburg, 1906-1914:
text: ...Lindesay had the misfortune to fall out of a window, which elicited from the Times a memorable cable, which said simply: 'Cease autodefenestration.'
ref: 1995, Denis Ashton Warner, Wake me if there's trouble:
glosses: The act of hurling oneself from a window, especially lethally.
Related terms: defenestrate
autodefenestrate
teleprint
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: teleprints
Etymology: From tele- + print.
Senses: glosses: A document reproduced by a teleprinter.
teleprint
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: teleprints
form: teleprinting
form: teleprinted
form: teleprinted
Etymology: From tele- + print.
Senses: glosses: To reproduce (a document) by means of a teleprinter.
teleprints
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of teleprint
teleprints
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of teleprint
teleprinted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of teleprint
teleprocessors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of teleprocessor
suffixations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of suffixation
elseness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From else + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being something else.
swanling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: swanlings
Etymology: From swan + -ling, formed by analogy with duckling, gosling, etc. Compare German Schwänlein.
Senses: examples: text: Suddenly I feel myself become small as a swanling, tucked into the swan's feathers.
ref: 2004, Pauline Somers, Dreams Within Dreams:
text: Slim ran over to the pond and unleashed the excited swanlings. They followed Moose and Slim to a quiet backwash of the river and glided gracefully into the water. Moose sat down on a little hillock and listened to Slim talking to the swanlings.
ref: 2007, Hubert Schuurman, People of the Swan:
text: The narrative concerns a female duck who hatches four dark ducklings, and when the fifth turns out to be a white “swanling,” the father duck more or less accuses his wife of adultery.
ref: 2011, Jack Zipes, The Enchanted Screen:
text: Bruno Bettelheim What this is really about is how you and your own dear swanling can rest securely in the feeling of belonging together when you experience daily life differently because others treat you differently.
ref: 2011, Gail Steinberg, Beth Hall, Inside Transracial Adoption:
text: So close, swanling, do not hesitate. Her eyes went to the sun hanging between night and day and then to Wulfsun. I cannot leave him to such a fate. Without me, he is a dead man.
ref: 2015, Betina Lindsey, Swan Bride: The Swan Maiden Trilogy - Book One:
glosses: A young or baby swan; a cygnet.
Synonyms: cygnet
Related terms: swan
gosling
gooseling
duckling
isness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From is + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: When I am in my isness, thoroughly purged of all intellectual sediments, I have my freedom in its primary sense.
ref: 1970, Daisetz Teitarō Suzuki, Zen and Japanese culture, Volumes 0-9842:
text: Isness always indicates identity of the other or another in an objective way.
ref: 1978, Charles B. Ketcham, A theology of encounter: the ontological ground for a new Christology:
text: To be aware of knowing God is to know about God and the self — to be thinking in terms of entities — not to have the direct experience of the isness.
ref: 2004, Richard H. Jones, Mysticism and morality: a new look at old questions:
topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
qualifier: spirituality
glosses: The quality of being; existence as something.
swanlings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of swanling
gelidity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From gelid + -ity.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being gelid.
Synonyms: gelidness
unhippocratic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unhippocratic
form: most unhippocratic
Etymology: From un- + Hippocratic.
Senses: examples: text: Similarly, those doctors who decry the operation as an "unhippocratic" act need not perform it.
ref: 1973, W. Gifford-Jones, On Being a Woman:
text: But the young Doctor has entered the throes of a most unhippocratic excitement at the boatman's cry, and shouts, 'I'm coming just now! Just let me bring my things!'
ref: 1981, Salman Rushdie, Midnight's children:
text: There are forceps deliveries, and there is the roguish and unhippocratic story of their development.
ref: 1986, Anthony Smith, The body:
glosses: Not befitting a doctor.
Synonyms: undoctorly
gelidness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From gelid + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being gelid.
Synonyms: gelidity
airwaybill
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: airwaybills
Etymology: From air + waybill.
Senses: glosses: An airbill.
airwaybills
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of airwaybill
quot homines tot sententiæ
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Pronunciation: ipa: [ˌkʷot ˈhomineːs ˌtot senˈtentiai]
enpr: kwŏt' hŏʹmĭnāz tŏt' sĕntĕnʹtĭī
ipa: /ˌkwɒt ˈhɒmɪneɪz ˌtɒt sɛnˈtɛntɪaɪ/
enpr: kwŏt' hŏʹmĭnāz tŏt' sĕntĕnʹtiī'
ipa: /ˌkwɑt ˈhɑmɪneɪz ˌtɑt sɛnˈtɛntiˌaɪ/
Etymology: From Latin, echoing line 454 of Terence’s Phormio: quot (“how many”) + hominēs (“men”, “people”; nominative plural form of homō: “man”, “person”) + tot (“so many”) + sententiae (“opinions”, “thoughts”; nominative plural form of sententia: “opinion”, “thought”).
Senses: examples: text: Different auditors, as he observes, have different habitudes; so that, were we to put this assertion to the proof by particular applications, we should possibly find quot homines tot sententiæ.
ref: 1995, Brian Vickers, William Shakespeare: The Critical Heritage, page 133:
glosses: There are as many opinions as there are people who hold them.
wintriness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wintrinesses
Etymology: From wintry + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being wintry.
pulverizable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pulverize + -able.
Senses: examples: text: The dinner table, for example, possessed an underside that Chipper explored by resting his chin on the surface and stretching his arms out below. […] Even more rewarding were the patches of booger he’d left behind during previous vigils. […] They were agreeably dislodgable and pulverizable.
ref: 2001, Jonathan Franzen, The Corrections:
glosses: Able to be pulverized.
unpulverizable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + pulverizable.
Senses: glosses: Not pulverizable; impossible to pulverize.
undeafened
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + deafened.
Senses: glosses: Not deafened.
undeafened
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: See undeafen.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of undeafen
vandalisms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of vandalism
xyloglyphy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From xylo- + Ancient Greek γλυφή (gluphḗ, “carving”) + -y.
Senses: examples: text: Xyloglyphy is a form of sculpture, whereas xylography is engraving in wood.
glosses: The art of carving in wood.
examples: text: The artist's most popular xyloglyphy was his "Laughing Buddha" series of carvings.
text: The company produced household xyloglyphy, including shrines and other kinds of carvings in Chinese traditional style.
glosses: Work produced by this means.
doïng
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From do + -ïng.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of doing.
gelidly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From gelid + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Those lights of human intelligence losing human expression, gelidly protruding like the alien eyes of certain uncatalogued creatures of the deep.
ref: 1924, Herman Melville, chapter 17, in Billy Budd, London: Constable & Co.:
text: The United States Supreme Court, however, was not the colonial judiciary. It gelidly declined to co-operate with Washington.
ref: 1960, Louis W. Koenig, The Invisible Presidency, Rinehart, page 15:
glosses: In a gelid manner; coldly, icily.
Related terms: gelidity
gelidness
hydroxymethylcytosine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hydroxymethylcytosines
Etymology: From hydroxymethyl + cytosine.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Either of two isomeric hydroxymethyl derivatives of cytosine, but especially 5-hydroxymethylcytosine which functions as a base in certain specialized DNAs
hydroxymethylcytosines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hydroxymethylcytosine
Zener card
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Zener cards
Etymology: Named after psychologist Karl Zener.
Senses: glosses: One of a set of twenty-five cards, each featuring one of five symbols (circle, plus sign, square, star, wavy lines), used by researchers to test claims of ESP or remote viewing.
wikipedia: Karl Zener
Zener cards
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Zener card
zendiq
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: zendiqs
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of zindiq.
zendiqs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of zendiq
templatelike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more templatelike
form: most templatelike
Etymology: From template + -like.
Senses: glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a template.
jawblock
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdʒɔːblɒk/
Forms: form: jawblocks
form: jawblocking
form: jawblocked
form: jawblocked
Etymology: From jaw + block.
Senses: examples: text: The first time we began to jawblock we found out that we were all from the jazz school, and that made us friends right away.
ref: 1946, Milton “Mezz” Mezzrow, Bernard Wolfe, “They Found the Body in a Ditch”, in Really the Blues, New York, N.Y.: Random House, book 2 (1923–1928: Chicago, Chicago), page 61:
glosses: To talk.
malodorously
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more malodorously
form: most malodorously
Etymology: From malodorous + -ly.
Senses: glosses: With a bad smell.
malodorousness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From malodorous + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or condition of being malodorous.
press roll
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: press rolls
Senses: glosses: A type of heavy roller, especially as used in papermaking.
examples: text: I really went for Ray's press roll on the drums; he was the first fay boy I ever heard who mastered this vital foundation of jazz music.
ref: 1946, Milton “Mezz” Mezzrow, Bernard Wolfe, “They Found the Body in a Ditch”, in Really the Blues, New York, N.Y.: Random House, book 2 (1923–1928: Chicago, Chicago), page 62:
qualifier: jazz
glosses: A type of drum roll whereby the drumsticks are pressed against the skin of the drum.
Marquesan
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Marquesan
form: most Marquesan
Etymology: From Marquesas + -an.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to the Marquesas Islands.
Marquesan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Marquesans
Etymology: From Marquesas + -an.
Senses: glosses: An inhabitant of the Marquesas Islands.
Marquesan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Marquesas + -an.
Senses: glosses: A collection of East-Central Polynesian dialects, of the Marquesic group, spoken in the Marquesas Islands.
Marquesans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Marquesan
jawblocking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of jawblock
trigger man
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: trigger men
Senses: examples: text: Al always showed up surrounded by a gang of trigger men – they sat in a corner, very gay and noisy but gunning the whole situation out of the corners of their eyes.
ref: 1946, Milton “Mezz” Mezzrow, Bernard Wolfe, “They Found the Body in a Ditch”, in Really the Blues, New York, N.Y.: Random House, book 2 (1923–1928: Chicago, Chicago), page 63:
glosses: Alternative form of triggerman.
yaklike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more yaklike
form: most yaklike
Etymology: From yak + -like.
Senses: glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a yak.
waiterlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more waiterlike
form: most waiterlike
Etymology: From waiter + -like.
Senses: glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a waiter.
taeniasis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /tiˈnaɪ.ə.sɪs/
Forms: form: taeniases
form: tæniasis
form: teniasis
Etymology: From Latin taen(ia) (from Ancient Greek ταινία (tainía, “band, ribbon, tapeworm”)) + -iasis (““pathological or morbid condition””)
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: An infection of tapeworms of the genus Taenia that does not usually cause any disease.
Related terms: taenicide
taenifuge
anthelmintic
cysticercosis
echinococcosis
vermifuge
taenicide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: taenicides
form: tænicide
form: taeniacide
form: tenicide
form: teniacide
Etymology: From Latin taenia (“band, ribbon”), from Ancient Greek ταινία (tainía), + -cide (“killer”), from Latin -cīda.
Senses: examples: text: The practice in Ethiopia of eating raw meat...has given rise...to a high incidence of taenia, or tapeworm. ... The commonest traditional taenicide was the blood-red flower of the kosso tree...
ref: The Traditional Taenicides of Ethiopia, by Richard Pankhust, in the Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences, XXIV(3):323-334, 1969
text: If we are not mistaken, this is one of the popular Russian remedies...It is not necessary to take cathartics, simply eating a whole cocoanut being sufficient.
ref: Cocoanut as a Taenicide, in the Saint Louis Medical and Surgical Journal, Volume 59, 1890
text: Results obtained with known taenicides and taenifuges are tabled, analysed and compared with their action against the tapeworms of larger animals including man.
ref: An in vivo screening method for anthelmintic activity using Hymenolepis nana var fraterna in mice, by J. Crowley, in Parasitology, 51:339-345 Cambridge University Press, 1961
glosses: A medicine that destroys tapeworms.
Related terms: taenifuge
taeniasis
vermifuge
anthelmintic
taenifuge
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈtiːnɪfjuːd͡ʒ/
Forms: form: taenifuges
form: tænifuge
Etymology: From the Ancient Greek ταινία (tainía, “band, ribbon”) + -fuge.
Senses: examples: text: Pumpkin seeds have been used as a taenifuge, and the component that drives the worms out may be bitter resin.
text: Unless the head is driven out of the bowel it will continue to produce new segments[…]The stools passed after administration of the taenifuge should be carefully examined with a view to discover the head of the worm.
ref: 1904, William H. Bain, A Text-book of Medical Practice for Practitioners and Students:
glosses: A medicine to expel tapeworms from a body.
Coordinate terms: vermifuge
anthelmintic
Related terms: taeniasis
taenicide
xylotomous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Ancient Greek ξύλον (xúlon, “wood”) + τομία (tomía, “cut”), from τέμνειν (témnein, “to cut”)
Senses: examples: text: Real estate agents in the southern U.S. routinely handle questions about the presence of xylotomous insects, primarily termites.
text: Wooden structures in the tropics must be chemically treated to repel xylotomous pests.
text: Isopterophobia is the fear of termites or other xylotomous insects.
glosses: That bores or cuts into wood, as with certain insects.
Related terms: xylophagous
xylophage
Feynman point
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Named after Richard Feynman, who is claimed to have talked about it in a lecture.
Senses: examples: text: What is the Feynman Point? The Feynman Point was named after Nobel Prize-winning physicist Richard Feynman (1918–1988), who once joked he wanted to memorize pi up to "999999 ... and so on and so on," as if to say pi continues from the Feynman Point with nines forever. This is not true, of course, and the sequence of nines is a mere coincidence—thus, the joke of the Feynman Point.
ref: 2012, Patricia Barnes-Svarney, Thomas E Svarney, The Handy Math Answer Book, 2nd edition, Visible Ink Press, page 41:
glosses: The position (at the 762nd digit after the decimal point) in the decimal expansion of pi at which a sequence of six consecutive nines first appears, unexpectedly early in view of the expected and otherwise apparent randomness of said expansion.
wikipedia: Richard Feynman
chestnutlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more chestnutlike
form: most chestnutlike
Etymology: From chestnut + -like.
Senses: examples: text: The beans that Sando started growing were beautiful; cooked, they could be creamy, meaty, chestnutlike or herbaceous-tasting, textures and flavors he’d never experienced.
ref: 2009 March 29, Christine Muhlke, “Bean Counterculture”, in New York Times:
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a chestnut.
custardlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more custardlike
form: most custardlike
Etymology: From custard + -like.
Senses: examples: text: You and your guests will get past the slight appearance problem when you taste the warm finished cake: the brown crust is like the ideal macaroon, and the center has the gooey, custardlike texture of a proper pecan pie.
ref: 2009 September 13, Amanda Hesser, “Huguenot Torte, 1965”, in New York Times:
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a custard.
goli
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: golis
Senses: glosses: A traditional dance and masquerade of the Baoulé people of the Ivory Coast.
noncook
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: noncooks
Etymology: From non- + cook.
Senses: glosses: someone who is not a cook
noncooks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of noncook
nongoalkeeper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nongoalkeepers
Etymology: From non- + goalkeeper.
Senses: glosses: someone who is not a goalkeeper
nongoalkeepers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nongoalkeeper
posthurricane
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From post- + hurricane.
Senses: glosses: After a hurricane.
taeniases
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of taeniasis
taenicides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of taenicide
taenifuges
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of taenifuge
superclear
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From super- + clear.
Senses: glosses: very clear
conglobulate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: conglobulates
form: conglobulating
form: conglobulated
form: conglobulated
Etymology: From con- + globule + -ate (verb-forming suffix).
Senses: examples: text: ‘Swallows certainly sleep all the winter. A number of them conglobulate together, by flying round and round, and then all in a heap throw themselves under water, and lye in the red of a river.’
ref: 1791, James Boswell, Life of Johnson, Oxford, published 2008, page 393:
glosses: To collect together into a compact round mass.
Related terms: conglobulation
conglobulation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: conglobulations
Senses: glosses: The act, or the result of conglobulating
conglomeratic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From conglomerate + -ic.
Senses: examples: text: The object of this communication was to show that the more or less conglomeratic strata immediately underlying the ordinary Lias limestone on the coast of Glamorganshire, between the River Ogmore and Dunraven Point, do not belong to the Rhætic series, as has been supposed, but to the Lias.
ref: 1867, The Geological Magazine Or Monthly Journal of Geology, page 216:
text: The basement-bed is generally the more conglomeratic, containing often large boulders of Carboniferous Limestone in a creamy limestone-matrix; but beds with no pebbles often lie in places directly on the older rock.
ref: 1893, The Jurassic Rocks of Britain:
text: Above these shales we find a light, soft sandstone, sometimes of conglomeratic or breccioid structure, in moderately thick layers.
ref: 1916, Johan August Udden, The Thrall Oil Field, volume 2, page 10:
topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: Of or pertaining to a conglomerate.
Derived terms: microconglomeratic
conglomerator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: conglomerators
Senses: glosses: A person who founds or builds a conglomerate (business)
conglutin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: conglutins
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A form of legumin found in almonds, lupins, rye etc.
legumin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: legumins
form: legumine
Etymology: From French légumine; equivalent to legume + -in.
Senses: examples: text: 1843, Dumas, Cahours, On the Neutral Nitrogenous Matters of Organisation, Charles Watt, John Watt (editors), The Chemist, Volume 4 (Volume 1 of New Series), page 51,
By evaporation, a substance of a gummy appearance, susceptible of redissolving in water, is obtained, and which possesses the composition of legumin, as is shown by the following numbers:
text: The legumin group includes edestin, glycinin, legumin from Vicia faba, arachin, and cocosin.
ref: 1976, Julius W. Dieckert, Marilyne C. Dieckert, Production of Vacuolar Protein Deosits in Developing Seeds and Seed Protein Homology: Genetic Improvement of Seed Proteins: Proceedings of a Workshop, page 39:
text: 1991, A. H. Shirsat, 6: Control of gene expression in the developing seed, Don Grierson (editor), Developmental Regulation of Plant Gene Expression, Plant Biotechnology: Volume 2, page 158,
The 11S proteins of pea and soybean, the legumins and glycinins, have been extensively studied.
text: 2001, I. G., Plashchina, T. A. Mrashkovskaya, A. N. Danilenko, G. O. Kozhevnikov, N. Yu. Starodubrovskaya, E. E. Braudo, K. D. Schwenke, Complex Formation of Faba Bean Legumin with Chitosan: Surface Chemistry and Emilsion Properties of Complexes, Eric Dickinson, Reinhard Miller (editors), Food Colloids: Fundamentals of Formulation, Royal Society of Chemistry, UK, page 298,
Contrary to the behaviour of legumin, complex formation with chitosan either decreases or does not affect both the enthalpy and entropy of legumin-T denaturation (Table 3).
topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of a group of globulins, resembling casein, found mostly in legumes and grains.
wikipedia: Justus von Liebig
Emiratis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Emirati
incubae
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: ĭnʹkyo͞obē
ipa: /ˈɪnkjuːbiː/
Senses: glosses: plural of incuba
apples to oranges
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: apples-to-oranges
Senses: examples: text: However, Google has responded by criticising “apples to oranges” comparisons to subscription-based music services like Apple Music and Spotify’s premium tier.
ref: 2016 March 23, “YouTube and music labels clash again over ‘meagre’ artist royalties”, in The Guardian:
text: Thus looking at modeled surface air temperatures versus measured global land-ocean surface temperatures is an apples-to-oranges comparison.
ref: 2016 July 5, Dana Nuccitelli, “New research: climate may be more sensitive and situation more dire”, in The Guardian:
glosses: Alternative form of apples and oranges.
-ae
Language: English
Part of speech: suffix
Pronunciation: enpr: ē
ipa: /iː/
enpr: ī
note: confusion with -i or imitation of Classical Latin
ipa: /aɪ/
enpr: ā
ipa: /eɪ/
Forms: form: -æ
Etymology: From Latin -ae (nominative plural).
Senses: glosses: plural of -a
-æ
Language: English
Part of speech: suffix
Senses: glosses: Archaic spelling of -ae.
spitroast
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spitroasts
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of spit roast.
spitroast
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: spitroasts
form: spitroasting
form: spitroasted
form: spitroasted
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of spit-roast.
fucoid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more fucoid
form: most fucoid
Etymology: From Ancient Greek φῦκος (phûkos, “seaweed”).
Senses: examples: text: The first cell division in zygotes of the fucoid brown alga Pelvetia compressa is asymmetric […]
ref: 2001, S. Bisgrove, D. Kropf, “Asymmetric cell division in fucoid algae”, in Journal of Cell Science, No. 114, 4319-4328:
glosses: Resembling or relating to seaweeds of the genus Fucus.
examples: Calcareous siltstone, Cambrian Fucoid Beds, earth.ox.ac.uk webpage
The Fucoid beds are quite variable in appearance in composition […] The rock unit got its name from the early belief that these markings were the compressed remains of seaweeds (fucoids). Now it is thought that they are the trails left by feeding creatures on the sea floor.
glosses: Of sandstone: bearing seaweed-like markings.
fucoid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fucoids
Etymology: From Ancient Greek φῦκος (phûkos, “seaweed”).
Senses: examples: text: Among a number of unidentified specimens […] was one of an unusually well-defined, almost perfect frond of a fucoid.
ref: 1910, Arthur Hollick, A New Fossil Fucoid:
glosses: A fucoid seaweed.
Related terms: fucoidal
fucoidan
fucoxanthin
fucus
beavage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Blend of beaver + cleavage.
Senses: examples: text: i mention this because that woman in cowboy bibimbop looks ooooooooohhhhhhhhhhh SO HOT. that cleavage--ga!-- and hmm that beavage if you know what i mean. and it aint even hentai, though i'll bet there are already a zillion dojinshi hentai variations on that number.
ref: 1999 September 4, EagleBear of Sioux Nation, “excluding hentai, who is the sexiest bababoo in anime?”, in rec.arts.anime.misc (Usenet):
text: Now she showed off her physique in a backless apron shirt and hoochie shorts that were so tight, I could see ample beavage.
ref: 2003, Megan McCafferty, Second Helpings, Three Rivers Press, →ISBN, page 69:
text: I heard this on the Bob and Tom show and immediately came to work and downloaded it from one of our ever friendly Napster look-alikes. [...] You're a beautiful girl, and your pants are on so tight that when you stand just right I can see it all. [...] I see your camel-toe. Your biscuit, your beavage. I see your cooter-cleavage.
ref: 2003 February 17, The Swiss Triad, “Probably my *only* SOTD”, in alt.underground (Usenet):
text: I've seen a lot of beavage in my time man and that thing looks sick
ref: 2003 November 7, Dave P, “Paris Hilton...”, in rec.music.hip-hop (Usenet):
text: He starts on the pitch: ‘Call it what you want, yeah, snapper, bearded clam, cooler cleavage, the pink taco, Beavage, there’s nothing that tastes or smells like a camel toe.’
ref: 2006, Tom Parker Bowles, The Year of Eating Dangerously: A Global Adventure in Search of Culinary Extremes, St. Martin's Press, published 2007, →ISBN, pages 62–63:
glosses: The triangle created by the hem of a miniskirt and a woman's legs when she is sitting; the physical feature between a woman's legs, especially as revealed by a short skirt.
indigitations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of indigitation
deturgescence
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: state of relative dehydration necessary to maintain the transparency of the cornea of the eye
Related terms: deturgescent
interlocutrices
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of interlocutrix
haranguers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of haranguer
dictionary form
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dictionary forms
Senses: examples: text: The dictionary form of the verb is the infinitive in English, the first-person singular present indicative in Ancient Greek, and the third-person masculine singular perfect in Semitic languages.
glosses: The basic form of a word used as a dictionary entry (of any part of speech, but especially of a verb).
Synonyms: canonical form
citation form
basic form
Related terms: headword
lemma
infinitive
auxosporulation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: auxosporulations
Etymology: From Ancient Greek αὐξάνειν (auxánein, “to grow”) + σπορά (sporá, “seed, a sowing”).
Senses: examples: text: Auxosporulation [is] the formation of an auxospore...usually a zygote, produced by diatoms, which expands to near the maximum size of a given species.
ref: 2001, Eugene Stoermer, John Smol, The Diatoms: Applications for the Environmental and Earth Sciences:
text: Small diatoms can become larger through one of two processes: auxosporulation or vegetative cell enlargement. The principal means of restoring size is auxosporulation, which is usually associated with sexual reproduction.
ref: 2002, Hans Du Buf, Micha Bayer, Automatic Diatom Identification:
glosses: The formation of an auxospore by gametic fusion or autogamy
Related terms: auxosporulate
Auxospore
auxospores
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of auxospore
epitheca
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: epithecae
Etymology: Ancient Greek ἐπί (epí, “upon”) + θήκη (thḗkē, “case, box, receptacle”)
Senses: examples: text: Cellariiform, the orifices nearly confined to the convex frontal and lateral surfaces; the basal surface with a strong median calcareous keel, almost concealed by a flat membranous epitheca, which covers the whole zoarium […]
ref: 1957, Sidney Frederic Harmer, The Polyzoa of the Siboga Expedition, page 1106:
topics: biology
botany
microbiology
natural-sciences
planktology
glosses: The upper half of the theca of a thecate protist such as a diatom or dinoflagellate.
Coordinate terms: hypotheca
Derived terms: epithecal
Related terms: Frustule
frustule
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: frustules
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin frustulum, from frustum (“morsel”).
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
synonyms: testule
glosses: The siliceous shell of a diatom.
Derived terms: megafrustule
Related terms: frustum
epithecal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From epitheca + -al.
Senses: examples: text: The epithecal covering of the outer is annulated by low ridges and shallow grooves...Fine, close-set, concentric lines, probably representing lines of growth, are obscurely shown on a few of the better preserved portions of the epithecal surface.
ref: 1919, G.M. Ehlers, “New Species of Tetracoralla”, in The American journal of science, volume XLVIII:
topics: biology
botany
microbiology
natural-sciences
planktology
glosses: Of or pertaining to the epitheca.
Related terms: epitheca
hypotheca
hypothecal
Frustule
10's
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: 65. How many 10's in 100? How many 100's in 1000?
ref: 1831, Henry Bartlett Maglathlin, Benjamin Greenleaf, The complete arithmetic: oral and written, page 43:
glosses: Alternative form of 10s.
Related terms: 1700s · 1710s · 1720s · 1730s · 1740s · 1750s · 1760s · 1770s · 1780s · 1790s
1800s · 1810s · 1820s · 1830s · 1840s · 1850s · 1860s · 1870s · 1880s · 1890s
1900s · 1910s · 1920s · 1930s · 1940s · 1950s · 1960s · 1970s · 1980s · 1990s
2000s · 2010s · 2020s · 2030s · 2040s · 2050s · 2060s · 2070s · 2080s · 2090s
2100s · 2110s · 2120s · 2130s · 2140s · 2150s · 2160s · 2170s · 2180s · 2190s
2200s · 2210s · 2220s · 2230s · 2240s · 2250s · 2260s · 2270s · 2280s · 2290s
00s · 10s · 20s · 30s · 40s · 50s · 60s · 70s · 80s · 90s
'00s · '10s · '20s · '30s · '40s · '50s · '60s · '70s · '80s · '90s
00's · 10's · 20's · 30's · 40's · 50's · 60's · 70's · 80's · 90's
zeros
zeroes
aughts
noughties
oughts · oneties
tens
teens · twenties · thirties · forties · fifties · sixties · seventies · eighties · nineties
Hungry Forties · Gay Nineties · Naughty Nineties · Roaring Twenties · Dirty Thirties · Swinging Sixties
100's
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: 65. How many 10's in 100? How many 100's in 1000?
ref: 1831, Henry Bartlett Maglathlin, Benjamin Greenleaf, The complete arithmetic: oral and written, page 43:
glosses: Alternative spelling of 100s.