cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
preadipose
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pre- + adipose.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Describing a cell or tissue that may be stimulated to become adipose
Related terms: preadipocyte
unassuageable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌʌnəˈsweɪdʒəbəl/
Etymology: From un- + assuageable.
Senses: examples: text: Haven't Americans lived long enough with the heartache of unassuageable grief?
ref: 1997 March 14, Michael Miner, “What's Wrong With Being an Anti-Semite”, in Chicago Reader:
text: The most powerful character in the story, Diana, never truly appears, other than in radiant glimpses. The unassuageable anguish of the 12-year-old Harry’s loss gives Moehringer a potent, overarching literary device.
ref: 2023 January 17, Tina Brown, “Spare by Prince Harry review – magical thinking in Montecito”, in The Guardian:
glosses: Impossible to assuage
raw_tags: of an emotion
Synonyms: english: of grief
translation: of grief
word: inconsolable
english: of rage
translation: of rage
word: implacable
cousinly
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more cousinly
form: most cousinly
Etymology: From cousin + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: "Katie," he broke out, "if you have any cousinly love in your heart, and know anything about Walt Whitman, tell me something, so I can go back and spring it on Helen."
ref: 1911, Susan Glaspell, The Visioning:
antonyms: uncousinly
glosses: Characteristic of, or suitable to, a cousin
Derived terms: cousinliness
prolonge
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: prolonges
Etymology: French [Term?]. See prolong.
Senses: topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: A rope with a hook and a toggle, sometimes used to drag a gun carriage or to tie it to the limber, and for various other purposes.
prolonges
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of prolonge
thinghood
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: thinghoods
Etymology: From thing + -hood.
Senses: glosses: The quality, condition, or character of being a thing.
Related terms: thingness
thinginess
tablehood
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From table + -hood.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being a table.
applehood
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From apple + -hood.
Senses: examples: text: We see an apple. We see it as an apple. Do we see of it its applehood?
ref: 1978, Wilfrid Sellars, The Role of Imagination in Kant's Theory of Experience:
glosses: The quality of being an apple.
douroucouli
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: douroucoulis
Etymology: From an unidentified South American Indian language, 19th c.
Senses: glosses: A New World monkey of the genus Aotus, which is active at night and has no pinna of the outer ear.
Synonyms: sense: Aotus
word: night monkey
sense: Aotus
word: owl monkey
pseudoplanktonic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pseudo- + planktonic or pseudoplankton + -ic.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Describing any marine organism (a pseudoplankton) that lacks buoyancy and so attaches itself to a floating object.
pseudospin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pseudospins
Etymology: From pseudo- + spin.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A quantum degree of freedom analogous to spin
Derived terms: pseudospinor
dialect continuum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dialect continuums
form: dialect continua
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
synonyms: dialect chain
glosses: A range of dialects that vary slightly across a geographical area, but whose differences accumulate over a certain distance.
Related terms: language continuum
macrolanguage
pseudotabular
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more pseudotabular
form: most pseudotabular
Etymology: From pseudo- + tabular.
Senses: glosses: Having some tabular characteristics
protofascist
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: proto-fascist
Etymology: From proto- + fascist.
Senses: examples: text: Even Lemon, for all her protofascist beliefs, wins our sympathy.
ref: 1991 August 9, Jack Helbig, “Marie and Bruce”, in Chicago Reader:
text: When Newt Gingrich and his protofascist comrades took over Congress in 1994, they sneeringly boasted that they intended to take the federal government back to the 1920s.
ref: 2008 April 7, Adolph Reed Jr., The Nation, archived from the original on 18 Mar 2009:
topics: government
politics
hypernyms: prefascist
glosses: Showing the beginnings of fascism.
protofascist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: protofascists
form: proto-fascist
Etymology: From proto- + fascist.
Senses: examples: text: The Social Darwinists are sometimes considered protofascists.
synonyms: prefascist
glosses: One whose beliefs resembled fascism before the founding of fascism in 1919.
examples: text: That congressman is a protofascist.
text: Along with stereotype-mongering phrases like “redneck America's life in the electronic theme park,” he occasionally reduces his countrymen to mindless proto-fascists.
ref: 1989 April 30, Martha Bayles, “Taking Sitcoms Seriously”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
glosses: One whose opinions or policies show the beginnings of fascism.
puglike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more puglike
form: most puglike
Etymology: From pug + -like.
Senses: glosses: Similar to a pug.
pyridopyrimidines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pyridopyrimidine
pyridopyrimidine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pyridopyrimidines
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of a class of bicyclic heterocycles consisting of a pyridine fused to one of pyrimidine
rapalogs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rapalog
rapalog
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rapalogs
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of rapalogue.
retransduction
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From re- + transduction.
Senses: glosses: A second or subsequent transduction
retrotransposed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of retrotranspose
retrotransposed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more retrotransposed
form: most retrotransposed
Senses: glosses: Subject to, or formed by retrotransposition
anadromes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈæ.nə.dɹoʊmz/
Senses: glosses: plural of anadrome
anadiploses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of anadiplosis
ployé
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: French. Doublet of plicate.
Senses: examples: text: Thus, Argent, a chevron ployé gules (d'Argent, au chevron ployé de gueules) is the coat of the Danish AUGUSTINS or OWSTINS; the reverse is that of the RODENEGGS, Counts WOLKENSTEIN.
ref: 1892, John Woodward, George Burnett, A Treatise on Heraldry, British and Foreign: With English and French Glossaries, page 137:
topics: government
heraldry
hobbies
lifestyle
monarchy
nobility
politics
glosses: Bowed, curved.
cyte
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /saɪt/
ipa: /sʌɪt/
rhymes: -aɪt
rhymes: -ʌɪt
Forms: form: cytes
Etymology: Borrowed from Ancient Greek κῠ́τος (kŭ́tos, “hollow”, “vessel”); compare -cyte.
Senses: examples: text: The low form elements devoid of a nucleus were in 1866 by Hæckel (Generelle Morphologie der Organismen 1866, vol. 1, p. 270) called cytodes (cell like) to distinguish them from cytes or cells.
ref: 1874 August, Louis Elsberg, «Regeneration, or the Preservation of Organic Molecules: A Contribution to the Doctrine of Evolution» in Proceedings of the American Association for the Advancement of Science: Twenty-third meeting, held at Hartford, Conn., August, 1874, ed. Frederic Ward Putnam (1875), part II, § B: “Natural History”, field iv: ‘Zoology’, page 90, footnote 1
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Synonym of cell (“quantity of protoplasm, containing a nucleus, enclosed within a cell membrane”).
synonyms: word: cell
extra: quantity of protoplasm, containing a nucleus, enclosed within a cell membrane
cyte
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /saɪt/
ipa: /sʌɪt/
rhymes: -aɪt
rhymes: -ʌɪt
Forms: form: cytes
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of city.
compromit
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /ˈkɒmpɹəmɪt/
Forms: form: compromits
form: compromitting
form: compromitted
form: compromitted
Etymology: From Latin compromittere.
Senses: examples: text: The embassador, Alexeief, was authorized to make all proper protestations of friendship, but to be very cautious not to compromit the dignity of his sovereign.
ref: 1859, John S. C. Abbott, The Empire of Russia:
text: The President […] was of opinion, that the arming and equipping vessels in the ports of the United States to cruise against nations with whom they are at peace, was incompatible with the territorial sovereignty of the United States; that it made them instrumental to the annoyance of those nations, and thereby tended to compromit their peace […]
ref: 1789, Thomas Jefferson, Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson:
glosses: To compromise.
examples: text: XXIV. Also, the same Lord Cardinal, at many Times when any Houses of Religion have been void, he hath sent his Officers thither, and with crafty Persuasions hath induced them to compromit their Election in him.
ref: 1751 [1529], articles presented against Cardinal Wolsey, quotee, The Parliamentary Or Constitutional History of England, volume 3, →OCLC, page 49:
glosses: To pledge by some act or declaration; to promise.
compromissions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of compromission
fa shizzle
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of fo shizzle.
cuirasse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cuirasses
Etymology: Borrowed from French cuirasse.
Senses: topics: geography
human-sciences
natural-sciences
pedology
psychology
sciences
glosses: The armour-like crust that forms upon the exposure of a lateritic soil profile.
examples: text: As to the equipment of the Russian warrior of the period, his armor consisted of a helmet, a cuirasse, and a shield; and his standard weapons were the sword and the spear; bows and arrows were also used, […]
ref: 1973, George Vernadsky, Kievan Russia, Yale University Press, →ISBN, page 193:
text: […] now had a lighter armour called three-quarter armour, comprising a cuirasse, jointed elements protecting the shoulders, arms and the front of the thighs, a doublet protecting the ...
ref: 2013, St'phane Thion, French Armies of the Thirty Years' War, LRT Editions, →ISBN, page 52:
text: In Boilly's illustration, the Maid appears clad in a dress with a long skirt and puffed and slashed sleeves, a whiteplumed hat, a hauberk (or mail tunic) and a cuirasse (armor for the breast and back). She stands with her sword upheld ...
ref: 2017, Nora M. Heimann, Joan of Arc in French Art and Culture (1700?855): From Satire to Sanctity, Routledge, →ISBN:
glosses: Alternative form of cuirass (“breastplate”).
Related terms: cuirassement
dog in the hunt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dogs in the hunt
Senses: examples: text: A national political party is unlikely to feel it has a particular dog in the hunt for a typical small town mayoral race.
text: The ideal solution is to find individuals or agencies without what is often called "a dog in the hunt." Governmental monitoring organizations […] and the World Health Organization (WHO), are probably the most reliable sources of raw data [for this issue]
ref: 2005, Alan R. Andreasen, Social marketing in the 21st century, Sage, →ISBN, retrieved 01 Sep 2009, page 50:
synonyms: dog in the fight
dog in the race
horse in the race
glosses: Something that may lead to gain, depending on the outcome; a position for which to campaign or cheer.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see dog, hunt.
Related terms: skin in the game
cerebral oximetry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A noninvasive method of measuring oxygen metabolism in the brain.
Related terms: cerebral oximeter
retrotransposing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From retro- + transposing.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of retrotranspose
retrotransposing
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more retrotransposing
form: most retrotransposing
Etymology: From retro- + transposing.
Senses: glosses: That leads to retrotransposition
rodlet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹɒdlət/
Forms: form: rodlets
Etymology: From rod + -let.
Senses: examples: text: It issues in one continuous appetizing rodlet [...], which looks as if it retained the shape of an earthworm's tract (but watch, watch, do not be deflected!).
ref: 1972, Vladimir Nabokov, Transparent Things, McGraw-Hill, published 1972, page 7:
glosses: Any small rod, or rod-shaped structure (especially on the surface of some fungal spores)
rodlets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rodlet
scientiometrics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: sciences
glosses: Alternative form of scientometrics.
sextupole
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sextupoles
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: a distribution of either electric charge or magnetization equivalent to three dipoles that point in different directions
topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: a magnet with three north poles and three south poles, used to focus or contain a beam of particles
sharkfin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sharkfins
Etymology: From shark + fin.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of shark fin.
shelly
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈʃɛli/
rhymes: -ɛli
homophone: Shelley
Forms: form: shellier
form: shelliest
Etymology: From shell + -y.
Senses: examples: text: After all, we live today in an unusual world: sea level is low, the continents are dispersed, ice occupies the poles, and the shelly fauna of the oceans is composed largely of aragonite rather than calcite.
ref: 2000 June 16, Karl W. Flessa, “Learning from the Dead”, in Science, volume 288, number 5473, →DOI, pages 1971–1972:
text: the shelly shore
ref: 1718, Mat[thew] Prior, “Solomon on the Vanity of the World. A Poem in Three Books.”, in Poems on Several Occasions, London: […] Jacob Tonson […], and John Barber […], →OCLC, (please specify the page):
glosses: Composed of the shells of dead marine creatures
examples: text: Shrined are your offspring in a chrystal cradle, / Brighter than Helen's ere she yet had burst / Her shelly prison.
ref: 1818, Charles Lamb, “On the Sight of Swans in Kensington Garden”, in The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb:
text: It is seen commonly in connection with flat-foot, and where the horn of the wall is thin and shelly.
ref: 1906, Harry Caulton Reeks, Diseases of the Horse's Foot:
glosses: Resembling, or comprising, the shell of a mollusc
examples: text: the snail, whose tender horns being hit
Shrinks backward in his shelly cave.
ref: 1593, [William Shakespeare], Venus and Adonis, London: […] Richard Field, […], →OCLC:
glosses: Abounding with shells.
subdiffusive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more subdiffusive
form: most subdiffusive
Etymology: From sub- + diffusive.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to subdiffusion.
subdiffusion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From sub- + diffusion.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: The tendency of particles in a fluid not to diffuse due to random trapping
Related terms: subdiffusional
superdiffusion
superlinear
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more superlinear
form: most superlinear
Etymology: From super- + linear.
Senses: glosses: Above a line.
examples: text: […] in their study of Mono (a F/OSS implementation of Microsoft's .NET services, libraries and interfaces), their measurements indicate superlinear growth rate in the code size and the number of code updates that are committed […]
ref: 2006, Nazim H. Madhavji, Juan Fernandez-Ramil, Dewayne Perry, Software Evolution and Feedback: Theory and Practice, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 187:
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: Describing a function (or rate of growth, etc) that eventually grows faster than any linear one.
sweeplike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more sweeplike
form: most sweeplike
Etymology: From sweep + -like.
Senses: glosses: Characteristic of a sweep (in all senses)
tastants
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tastant
tastant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tastants
Senses: examples: text: Early structure-taste theories attempted to identify certain common structural features of tastants and to attribute a specific taste to these.
ref: 2012, Trevor H. Grenby, Advances in Sweeteners, page 4:
glosses: Any substance that stimulates the sense of taste.
topoisomerization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: topoisomerizations
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A variation (isomerization) in the topology of a biological macromolecule (especially a nucleic acid)
Related terms: topoisomer
topoisomerase
toxinogenic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more toxinogenic
form: most toxinogenic
Etymology: From toxin + -o- + -genic.
Senses: glosses: toxicogenic
tranduce
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: tranduces
form: tranducing
form: tranduced
form: tranduced
Senses: qualifier: non-native speakers' English
glosses: Misconstruction of transduce.
tranduced
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of tranduce
woodsmoke
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: woodsmokes
Etymology: From wood + smoke.
Senses: examples: text: I came to the southern end of a line of cliffs loftier than any I had seen before, and as I approached them, there was wafted to my nostrils the pungent aroma of woodsmoke. What could it mean? There could, to my mind, be but a single solution: man abided close by, a higher order of man than we had as yet seen, other than Ahm, the Neanderthal man.
ref: 1918 September–November, Edgar Rice Burroughs, “The Land That Time Forgot”, in The Blue Book Magazine, Chicago, Ill.: Story-press Corp., →OCLC; republished as chapter VIII, in Hugo Gernsback, editor, Amazing Stories, (please specify |part=I to III), New York, N.Y.: Experimenter Publishing, 1927, →OCLC:
hypernyms: smoke
<
emission
coordinate_terms: coal-smoke
peat-smoke
oilsmoke
;
cigar smoke
glosses: Smoke from burning wood.
Related terms: english: usually hypernymous
translation: usually hypernymous
word: firesmoke
word: smokewood
word: woodfired
word: woodsmoked
word: woodstove
trifluoracetic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of trifluoroacetic.
unassociated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + associated.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
statistics
glosses: Not associated, as:
Having no statistical association.
synonyms: uncorrelated
glosses: Not associated, as:
Having no social ties, affiliations, unification, confederation, federation, or unionization.
coordinate_terms: disassociated
unorganized
qualifier: people or organizations
Related terms: disassociated
dissociated
ungapped
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + gapped.
Senses: glosses: Not gapped
undermethylated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more undermethylated
form: most undermethylated
Etymology: From under- + methylated.
Senses: glosses: Insufficiently methylated
undersampling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: undersamplings
Etymology: From under- + sampling.
Senses: glosses: sampling at a lower rate than normal
language continuum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: language continua
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: A situation where two or more languages in the same geographic region merge together without a definable boundary.
Related terms: dialect continuum
macrolanguage
jurant
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: Not that such universally prevalent, universally jurant, feeling of Hope, could be a unanimous one.
ref: 1837, Thomas Carlyle, The French Revolution: A History […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: Chapman and Hall, →OCLC, (please specify the book or page number):
text: Because “the least body” was jurant, and had not the bishops politically “at its head;” therefore, it had them not spiritually!
ref: 1847, James Christie, A Vindication of the Church in Scotland:
text: In the argumentation that follows, there is not much divergence from the standard non-jurant reasoning; if the persuasiveness of Erskine's presentation merited specific publication, the general lines of his argument most certainly did not. However, within this broad conformity to a standard non-jurant position, one detects the early formation of what later would become a robust modified Covenantalism.
ref: 2015, Stephen G. Myers, Scottish Federalism and Covenantalism in Transition, →ISBN:
glosses: Under oath; swearing.
jurant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: jurants
Senses: examples: text: They are divided into jurants, and nonjurants. The jurants qualify to the government, and are on the same footing with episcopals in England. The nonjurants, who will not qualify, are avowed friends to the wicked old cause of the pretender.
ref: 1823, John Bristed, Thought, on the Anglican and Anglo-American Churches, page 225:
text: Thus the solemn work of swearing is awfully profaned by both the imposer and the jurant.
ref: 1841, Robert Smith, Self-inconsistency exemplified, page 10:
text: A very considerable number of the best ministers refused to take that oath; and a schism was like to take place between those who felt at liberty to swear and those who did not, or the jurants and the non-jurants.
ref: 1842, William Maxwell Hetherington, History of the Church of Scotland, page 613:
glosses: One who has taken an oath, especially a religious one.
sea bass
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: sēʹbăs
ipa: /ˈsiːbæs/
Forms: form: sea bass
form: sea basses
Etymology: sea (attributive use) + bass (fish)
Senses: glosses: Any of various species of saltwater fish in various families, or a specimen thereof, in several families in order Perciformes
Derived terms: english: family: Latidae
translation: family: Latidae
taxonomic: Lates calcarifer
word: Asian sea bass
english: family: Serranidae
translation: family: Serranidae
taxonomic: Paralabrax nebulifer
word: barred sand bass
english: family: Serranidae
translation: family: Serranidae
taxonomic: Centropristis striata
word: black sea bass
english: family: Lateolabracidae
translation: family: Lateolabracidae
taxonomic: Lateolabrax latus
word: blackfin sea bass
english: family: Nototheniidae
translation: family: Nototheniidae
taxonomic: Dissostichus mawsoni
word: Chilean sea bass
english: family: Moronidae
translation: family: Moronidae
taxonomic: Dicentrarchus labrax
word: European sea bass
english: family: Polyprionidae
translation: family: Polyprionidae
taxonomic: Stereolepis doederleini
word: giant sea bass
english: family: Latidae
translation: family: Latidae
taxonomic: Lates japonicus
word: Japanese lates sea bass
english: family: Lateolabracidae
translation: family: Lateolabracidae
taxonomic: Lateolabrax japonicus
word: Japanese sea bass
english: family: Latidae
translation: family: Latidae
taxonomic: Lates calcarifer
word: lates sea bass
english: family: Latidae
translation: family: Latidae
taxonomic: Hypopterus macropterus
word: spikey sea bass
english: family: Moronidae
translation: family: Moronidae
taxonomic: Dicentrarchus punctatus
word: spotted sea bass
english: family: Latidae
translation: family: Latidae
taxonomic: Psammoperca waigiensis
word: Waigeo sea bass
english: family: Sciaenidae
translation: family: Sciaenidae
taxonomic: Atractoscion nobilis
word: white sea bass
sea basses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sea bass
orchestrant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: orchestrants
Senses: examples: text: At this conjuncture a gentleman in a blouse, affected perchance by the heat of the weather or by inordinate libations of cocoa, and stung to desperation by the prolonged absence of the Wild Woman and the monotonous iteration of the flageolet and kettle-drum, cried out, "Attrape, Mayeux!" and flung a roasted apple at the orchestrant.
ref: 1864 July 30, George Augustus Sala, “Quite Alone”, in All the Year Round, volume 11, page 583:
text: Later on he complemented his studies at the Grand Opera in Paris, worked as an orchestrant at the Vanemuine from 1906-1910 and thereafter as a conductor at the Vanemuine from 1916-1940.
ref: 2005, Vardo Rumessen, Eduard Tubin and his time, page 75:
text: The situation started to change in the mid-1970s when blind auditions were introduced and the proportion of female orchestrants went up (Goldin and Rouse 2000).
ref: 2020, Anton Bespalov, Martin C. Michel, Thomas Steckler, Good Research Practice in Non-Clinical Pharmacology and Biomedicine, page 93:
glosses: A musician who plays an instrument in an orchestra.
orchestrions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of orchestrion
point mutations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of point mutation
Constant Spring
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Named after a district of Jamaica.
Senses: glosses: A variant of hemoglobin in which a mutation in the alpha globin gene produces an alpha globin chain that is abnormally long.
wikipedia: Constant Spring, Jamaica
McKees Rock
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A particular type of hemoglobin.
annule
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: annules
Etymology: From Latin annulus.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: A circular band formed by two transverse grooves in the cuticle of some nematodes with consequent apparent segmentation; annulus.
annules
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of annule
Turner syndrome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Named after Henry Turner who first described the condition in 1938.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
synonyms: 45,X
45,X0
qualifier: medical genetics
glosses: A particular genetic condition, caused by partially or completely missing an X chromosome (monosomy), that leads to sterility and other issues.
wikipedia: Henry Turner (endocrinologist)
Related terms: Turner-Kieser syndrome
dupions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dupion
Prader-Willi syndrome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Prader–Willi syndrome
Etymology: Named after Andrea Prader and Heinrich Willi.
Senses: synonyms: PWS
glosses: A human disease caused by deletion of part of chromosome 15, and manifested by intellectual disability, a constant feeling of hunger, and other problems.
wikipedia: Andrea Prader
Heinrich Willi
mixe
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: mixes
form: mixing
form: mixed
form: mixed
form: mixt
form: mixt
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of mix.
aniridia-Wilms' tumor syndrome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A particular human disease, caused by deletion of part of chromosome 11, and causing aniridia and other problems.
recense
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: recenses
form: recensing
form: recensed
form: recensed
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin recensere.
Senses: examples: text: Pope Sixtus and Clemens at a vast expense had an assembly of learned divines, to recense and adjust the Latin Vulgate
ref: 1716, Richard Bentley, chapter 189, in The Correspondence of Richard Bentley, D.D., page 506:
glosses: To review; to revise.
recenses
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of recense
testons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of teston
Philadelphia chromosome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Philadelphia chromosomes
Etymology: The abnormality was first discovered and described in 1959 by David Hungerford from the Institute for Cancer Research and Peter Nowell from the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine. Both facilities are located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Senses: synonyms: Ph chromosome
glosses: Human chromosome 22, after it has, pathologically, traded some of its genetic material with chromosome 9; this often causes chronic myelogenous leukemia.
wikipedia: David Hungerford
Fox Chase Cancer Center
Peter Nowell
University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine
Philadelphia chromosomes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Philadelphia chromosome
wideband
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: widebands
Etymology: From wide + band.
Senses: glosses: A communications transmission rate between that of narrowband and broadband.
Derived terms: ultrawideband
Related terms: hyperband
narrowband
baseband
broadband
band
expanded form
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: expanded forms
Senses: glosses: A representation of a number in terms of powers of a base, such as the representation of 1234 as 4×16²+13×16+2×16⁰ or the representation of 2345 as 2000+300+40+5.
latrating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: With everything boiling over; with everyone rapping, yakking, or latrating, it would restore dignity to a number of America’s newspapers if the objectivity of their reporting would harden in direct proportion to the subjectivity of the story being reported.
ref: 1972, Max Wylie, 400 Miles from Harlem: Courts, Crime, and Correction, page 201:
glosses: present participle and gerund of latrate
latrating
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: I once saw a big dog plunging out furiously as a passing car, and, as I watched him, his gait looked peculiar. The reason for this eccentricity became clear when he returned from his latrating orgy: he had only three legs.
ref: circa''' 1928: Charles Hall Grandgent, Prunes and Prism: With Other Odds and Ends, page 145
glosses: Of barking.
literally
examples: text: That seems to be, nowadays, the barker’s pet name for his latrating art.
ref: 1929, Charles Hall Grandgent, The New Word, page 90:
glosses: Of barking.
figuratively
latrated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: A large wooden frame, composed of a series of mouldings, which are one foot seven inches and seven tenths wide, encloses six (not five as represented by Messrs. Taylor and Cresy), bronze “latrated” panels, thus admitting air into the interior of the building and keeping up a ventilation, even when the doors are closed. […] These impressions lead to the conclusion, that the restorers of the Pantheon, guided by some example now no longer in existence, adopted the doors and latrated panels over them from some ancient monument, and filled up the vacant space by an arrangement, such as we now see it.
ref: 1833, Thomas Leverton Donaldson, A Collection of the Most Approved Examples of Doorways, from Ancient Buildings in Greece and Italy, Expressly Measured and Delineated for This Work, page 43:
text: The intercolumnar lateral space next the antæ or pilasters, is latrated or filled in with open lattice-work, of which examples are to be found in several bassi-relievi.
ref: 1859, Thomas Leverton Donaldson, Architectura Numismatica: Or, Architectural Medals of Classic Antiquity, page 54:
topics: architecture
glosses: Filled in with open lattice-work (?).
reünion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: reünions
Senses: examples: text: We are concerned with the fact — not with its genesis. Whether the war between France and Austria was unjust or unavoidable ; which party prepared, and which began, the conflict ; whether Louis Napoleon originally designed, and whether he now relishes, that creation of a Kingdom of United Italy, of which he was the undoubted instrument ; whether the citizens of the new state ought to be grateful to him for their emancipation and reünion, or to Providence for having overruled his purposes ; whether the cession of Savoy and Nice was a moderate and necessary, or a questionable and a needless, price ; how far the duplicity and misstatements which undeniably discredited the transaction, exceeded the recognized limits of diplomatic mystification […]
ref: 1861, John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell, editors, The Eclectic Magazine: Foreign Literature, volume 53, page 146:
text: Overture on Reünion: The Reports of the Joint Committee of the Two Assemblies of 1866–7, and of the Special Committee of the (N.S.) General Assembly of 1868
ref: 1868, Overture on Reünion: The Reports of the Joint Committee of the Two Assemblies of 1866–7, and of the Special Committee of the (N.S.) General Assembly of 1868, main title (Presbyterian Publication Committee: Edwin F. Hatfield)
text: He speaks respectfully of the Peelites: “There was now no substantial obstacle to the reünion of the great Conservative party.”
ref: 1975, Institut marksizma-leninizma (Moscow, Russia) and Institut für Marxismus-Leninismus beim ZK der SED, Karl Marx Friedrich Engels Gesamtausgabe (MEGA), volume 1, part 11, № 1, page 354 (Dietz)
glosses: Alternative spelling of reunion.
reünions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: This was the moment of Scarron and burlesque. The reünions of the Hotel Rambouillet were at an end.
ref: 1847, E. Littell [cond.], The Living Age, volume XIII (April–June, 1847), page 223 (E. Littell & Company)
glosses: plural of reünion
re-union
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: re-unions
Senses: examples: text: And I do take leave, longing for a happy re-union, and trusting, that when we meet again, it will be under circumstances which may open our hearts to each other without any remnant or shadow of reserve.
ref: 1814 May 9, [Jane Austen], chapter V, in Mansfield Park: […], volume III, London: […] [George Sidney] for T[homas] Egerton, […], →OCLC, page 116:
glosses: Alternative spelling of reunion.
re-unions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of re-union
tohu-bohu
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌtəʊ.huːˈbəʊ.huː/
ipa: /ˌtoʊ.huˈboʊ.hu/
Forms: form: tohubohu
Etymology: From Biblical Hebrew תֹהוּ וָבֹהוּ, from תֹּהוּ (tóhu, “nothingness, void”) + בֹּהוּ (bóhu, “emptiness, desolation”).
Senses: examples: text: Yet a judge may […] be required to dive, at a moment's notice, into the tohu-bohu of inquiries, which have never yet emerged from the stage of chaos...
ref: 1875, W. E. [William Ewart] Gladstone, The Church of England and Ritualism:
text: […] / The decorative manias we obey / Die in grimaces round us every day, / Yet through their tohu-bohu comes a voice / Which utters an absurd command — Rejoice.
ref: 1940, W. H. Auden, In Sickness and in Health:
glosses: Chaos, disorder, confusion.
tonsillolith
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tonsilloliths
Etymology: From tonsillo- + -lith.
Senses: examples: text: In a 2008 case report from India, doctors described removing a giant tonsillolith that was making it painful for a young patient to swallow.
ref: 2009 September 1, Elizabeth Svoboda, “In Tonsils, a Problem the Size of a Pea”, in New York Times:
topics: dentistry
medicine
sciences
glosses: A calculus that forms in the rear of the mouth, in the crevasses of the palatine tonsils.
tonsilloliths
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tonsillolith
natural price
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: natural prices
Senses: examples: 1776, Adam Smith, An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations: Book I: Chapter 7: Of the natural and market Price of Commodities
When the price of any commodity is neither more nor less than what is sufficient to pay the rent of the land, the wages of the labour, and the profits of the stock employed in raising, preparing, and bringing it to market, according to their natural rates, the commodity is then sold for what may be called its natural price.
topics: economics
sciences
glosses: A price for a good or service that is equal to the cost of production, augmented by the average profit rate.
Synonyms: price of production
Related terms: market price
natural prices
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of natural price
positive edges
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of positive edge
cheesology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From cheese + -ology.
Senses: synonyms: fromology
glosses: The study of cheese.
fromology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From fromage (French term for cheese) + -ology.
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Senses: synonyms: cheesology
glosses: The study of cheese.
glosses: The collecting of labels from cheese.
besatcheled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: bĭsăʹchəld
ipa: /bɪˈsæt͡ʃəld/
Forms: form: besatchelled
Etymology: From be- + satchel + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: This is not the incoherent rant, the waking dream of a schoolboy. No, it is the true and genuine sublime. Imagination cannot add a circumstance to heighten the grandeur, surprise, and horrour of the picture. The fracas, or hurry and tumult of the action in the foreground, the solemnity at a distance; Jupiter attacking the Greek fleets with fire and sword; the able captains mounted on artillery, scattering defeat and dismay : and, lastly, the poor discomfited pigmies, with Thrale’s besatcheled widow at their head, flying, lying, dying !
ref: 1807: Oliver Oldschool, Esq., The Port Folio, volume IV, page 38 (Smith & Maxwell)
glosses: Carrying or equipped with a satchel.
bone fires
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bone fire
bone-fires
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bone-fire
destroyer escort
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: destroyer escorts
Senses: topics: government
military
nautical
politics
transport
war
glosses: A type of warship, lighter in armor and armament, and slower than a destroyer, originally used for convoy escort during World War II; now considered a frigate.
Related terms: DE
DDE
destroyer leader
destroyer
corvette
frigate
sloop
destroyer leader
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: destroyer leaders
Senses: topics: government
military
nautical
politics
transport
war
glosses: a warship, a type of destroyer used to lead a division, flotilla or squadron at sea and in combat, a heavy destroyer variant with larger displacement for command and control.
Synonyms: flag destroyer
command destroyer
flotilla leader
Related terms: DL
DDL
destroyer
destroyer escort
corvette
cruiser
frigate
sloop
destroyer escorts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of destroyer escort
destroyer leaders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of destroyer leader
molasses cane
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: molasses canes
Senses: glosses: A plant, commonly sugar cane, maize or corn, sorghum (maize or milo), or other another fructose-producing grass plant (of the family Gramineae) used for the production of cane syrup or molasses.
tryptone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tryptones
Senses: examples: text: Cells were grown from an overnight culture in tryptone broth at 30°C and then harvested.
ref: 2000 March 3, Philippe Cluzel et al., “An Ultrasensitive Bacterial Motor Revealed by Monitoring Signaling Proteins in Single Cells”, in Science, volume 287, number 5458, →DOI, pages 1652–1655:
topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The assortment of peptides formed by the digestion of casein by trypsin, a protease. Often used in the preparation of lysogeny broth.
Derived terms: bactotryptone
disturbability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From disturb + -ability.
Senses: glosses: The capacity to be disturbed.
substitutability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: substitutabilities
Etymology: From substitute + -ability.
Senses: examples: text: One problem with the principle of infinite substitutability is that it does not apply, in any simple fashion, to investments in organizational complexity.
ref: 1988, Joseph Tainter, “Summary and Implications”, in The Collapse of Complex Societies, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 212:
glosses: The quality of being substitutable; the capacity to be substituted.
reorderability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From reorder + -ability.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being reorderable; the capacity to be reordered.
forthink
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: forthinks
form: forthinking
form: forthought
form: forthought
Etymology: From Middle English forthinken, forthynken (“to displease, cause to regret”), corresponding to for- (“mis-”) + think (“to seem, appear”), from Old English þyncan (“to seem, appear”); see methinks. Cognate with Middle High German verdunken (“to displease”), Icelandic forþykkja (“to displease”). Compare also Old English forþencan (“to mistrust, despise, despair”), Dutch verdenken (“to suspect”), German verdenken (“to blame”).
Senses: examples: text: with hys swerd lyghtly he smote of hir hede before kynge Arthur / allas for shame sayd Arthur why haue ye done so / ye haue shamed me and al my Courte / for this was a lady that I was be holden to / and hyther she came vnder my sauf conduyte / I shalle neuer foryeue you that trespas / Sir said Balen me forthynketh of your displeasyr / for this same lady was the vntruest lady lyuynge
ref: 1485, Sir Thomas Malory, “iij”, in Le Morte Darthur, book II:
glosses: To cause distress or regret to; cause to regret or repent; to vex.
glosses: To regret; repent.
examples: text: So cam he to the chamber dore / and wold haue entryd / And anone a voyce said to hym / Flee launcelot / and entre not / for thou oughtest not to doo hit / And yf thou entre / thou shalt forthynke hit / Thenne he withdrewe hym abak ryght heuy
ref: 1485, Sir Thomas Malory, chapter XV, in Le Morte Darthur, book XVII:
glosses: To regret.
glosses: To repent, be sorry for.
examples: text: Then gan he thinke, perforce with sword and targe / Her forth to fetch, and Proteus to constraine; / But soone he gan such folly to forthinke againe.
ref: 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book IV, Canto XII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
glosses: To change one's mind about; to renounce.
anoikic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From anoikis + -ic.
Senses: examples: text: Moreover, another process, autophagy — in which the cell digests some of its own components — is observed in anoikic cells.
ref: 2009 September 2, Eyal Gottlieb, “Cancer: The fat and the furious”, in Nature, volume 461, number 7260, →DOI, pages 44–45:
topics: biology
cytology
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: Exhibiting anoikis, the form of apoptosis that occurs when a cell comes loose from its anchorage
anoikis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /əˈnɔɪkɪs/
Etymology: Pseudo-Greek coinage intended to have the sense of "homelessness". Compare Ancient Greek ἄνοικος (ánoikos, “homeless wanderer”).
Senses: examples: text: Loss of matrix attachment of cultured epithelial cells activates a caspase-mediated apoptotic program known as anoikis.
ref: 2009 August 19, Zachary T. Schafer et al., “Antioxidant and oncogene rescue of metabolic defects caused by loss of matrix attachment”, in Nature, volume 461, number 7260, →DOI, pages 109–113:
topics: biology
cytology
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: The form of apoptosis, or programmed cell death, that occurs when a cell becomes dislodged from its matrix
Derived terms: anoikic
unrepublican
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unrepublican
form: most unrepublican
Etymology: From un- + republican.
Senses: examples: text: It is easy to see that empire obtained by force is unrepublican and offensive to that first principle of our Union according to which all just government stands only on the consent of the governed.
ref: 1867, Charles Sumner, “Prophetic Voices About America”, in Choice Specimens of American Literature, And Literary Reader:
text: Besides, it was something that had been unpopular in ancient Greece and Rome, and it was thought to be essentially unrepublican in principle.
ref: 1890, John Fiske, Civil Government in the United States Considered with Some Reference to Its Origins:
glosses: Not republican; contrary to the spirit of a republic
Synonyms: undemocratic
reciprocal pronouns
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of reciprocal pronoun
actinians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of actinian
actinian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: actinians
Senses: glosses: A sea anemone (of the order Actiniaria).
third rate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of third-rate.
third rate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: third rates
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of third-rate.
unsmoothed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unsmoothed
form: most unsmoothed
Etymology: From un- + smoothed.
Senses: glosses: Not smoothed
unirradiated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + irradiated.
Senses: antonyms: irradiated
glosses: Not irradiated.
Related terms: word: nonirradiating
undulator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: undulators
Etymology: From undulate + -or.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A periodic structure of dipole magnets that generates a low-energy collimated beam of radiation.
thermokarsts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of thermokarst
thermographic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From thermography + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Of, pertaining to, or generated using thermography.
Derived terms: thermographic camera
tetraloop
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tetraloops
Etymology: From tetra- + loop.
Senses: topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: A four-base hairpin loop motif in RNA secondary structure that caps many double helices
tensegrity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /tɛnˈsɛɡɹɪti/
Forms: form: tensegrities
Etymology: Coined by Buckminster Fuller, blend of tensional + integrity.
Senses: topics: architecture
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: tensional integrity (of a structure)
Derived terms: biotensegrity
Related terms: tensegral
tensegritive
tafoni
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tafone
tafone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tafoni
Etymology: Perhaps from Ancient Greek τάφος (táphos, “tomb”), or perhaps from the Corsican or Sicilian taffoni (“holes”), or tafonare (“to perforate”).
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: A small cave-like feature found in granular rock such as sandstone.
superovulated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of superovulate
superovulated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more superovulated
form: most superovulated
Senses: glosses: Subject to, or produced by superovulation
superovulate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: superovulates
form: superovulating
form: superovulated
form: superovulated
Etymology: From super- + ovulate.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: To produce large quantities of mature ova.
Related terms: superovulation
subsequentially
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From subsequential + -ly.
Senses: glosses: subsequently
softshell
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: soft-shell
Etymology: From soft + shell.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Having a relatively soft shell.
Derived terms: soft-shell turtle