cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
atheocracy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɒkɹəsi
Etymology: From a- + theo- + -cracy.
Senses: examples: text: An atheocracy is not a practicable form of government.
ref: 1907, Thomas Whittaker, The Liberal State: A Speculation, Watts & Co., page 14:
text: An atheocracy of the Marxian type is as intolerant of liberty of thought as any Holy Roman Empire or Bible-ridden company of Puritans.
ref: 1950, William Pepperell Montague, Great Visions of Philosophy: Varieties of Speculative Thought in the West from the Greeks to Bergson, The Open Court Publishing Company, page 32:
text: More than a few thinkers have noted the irony of secularism as itself constituting a de facto “religious” system of thought, which defines how and why we can believe things, and where we can talk about them. As some might put it: a secular atheocracy.
ref: 2012 February 22, Robert Joustra, “Beware the secular atheocracy”, in The Globe and Mail:
glosses: An atheist or irreligious state.
Derived terms: atheocratic
dance of the seven veils
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dances of the seven veils
form: Dance of the Seven Veils
form: veil dance
form: seven-veil dance
Etymology: Based on the Biblical description (Mark 6:22) of a salacious dance performed (by Salome, according to tradition) in the court of King Herod. The precise term "dance of the seven veils" was reportedly first used in the stage directions of Oscar Wilde's play Salome (1891).
Senses: examples: text: And as for the next room, which was for the dances of the ‘Seven Veils’, I could not wait to see the mind-blowing performance! I joined the men in the queue and jostled my way into the room, seating myself on one of the rickety chairs.
ref: 2010, Ron S. King, The Dreams of Neptune, →ISBN, page 143:
text: If King had any wit he would have included a scene where a burka-clad Samantha performs the dance of the seven veils for one of her many smitten studs.
ref: 2010 May 30, Peter Rainer, “Sex and the City 2: movie review”, in Christian Science Monitor, US, retrieved 27 Sep 2015:
glosses: A striptease performance.
examples: text: "Testing the waters" is a veil for what candidates do in the years when it's too unseemly to be seen actually running for president. . . . But this veil is dropped when candidate and handlers believe the coyness has begun to cloy. And then the candidate's dance of the seven veils has begun.
ref: 2006 December 5, Ron Elving, “Declaring for President is a Dance of Seven Veils”, in National Public Radio, US, retrieved 27 Sep 2015:
text: Mr. Putin’s succession and (likely) restoration is a leisurely dance of the seven veils in which one veil is dropped only for another to be donned.
ref: 2009 January 11, Simon Sebag Montefiore, “In Russia, Power Has No Heirs”, in New York Times, retrieved 27 Sep 2015:
text: Every year around this time, staff and politicians take the first steps in the annual budget process — called the Dance of the Seven Veils in some quarters.
ref: 2015 September 18, “Don’t panic about early city budget dance”, in Hamilton Spectator, Canada, retrieved 27 Sep 2015:
glosses: The incremental disclosure of tantalizing bits of information.
Synonyms: sense: striptease
word: fan dance
sense: incremental disclosure of information
word: fan dance
Dance of the Seven Veils
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Dances of the Seven Veils
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of dance of the seven veils.
HIA
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: HIAs
Senses: glosses: Initialism of health impact assessment.
topics: ball-games
games
hobbies
lifestyle
rugby
sports
glosses: Initialism of head injury assessment.
HIA
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Historical Institutional Abuse.
stringin'
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: Pronunciation spelling of stringing.
mentionin'
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: Pronunciation spelling of mentioning.
mumblin'
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: Pronunciation spelling of mumbling.
trappin'
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: Pronunciation spelling of trapping.
grazin'
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: Pronunciation spelling of grazing.
squealin'
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: Pronunciation spelling of squealing.
danglin'
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: Pronunciation spelling of dangling.
entertainin'
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: Pronunciation spelling of entertaining.
HIAs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of HIA
slammin'
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: Pronunciation spelling of slamming.
dippin'
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: Pronunciation spelling of dipping.
truckin'
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: Pronunciation spelling of trucking.
temptin'
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: Pronunciation spelling of tempting.
awaitin'
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: Pronunciation spelling of awaiting.
biddin'
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: Pronunciation spelling of bidding.
leakin'
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: Pronunciation spelling of leaking.
peepin'
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: Pronunciation spelling of peeping.
swarmin'
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: Pronunciation spelling of swarming.
repeatin'
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: Pronunciation spelling of repeating.
blastin'
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: Pronunciation spelling of blasting.
doggin'
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: Pronunciation spelling of dogging.
sparkin'
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: Pronunciation spelling of spark.
coolin'
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: Pronunciation spelling of cooling.
grindin'
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: Pronunciation spelling of grinding.
longin'
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: Pronunciation spelling of longing.
amusin'
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: Pronunciation spelling of amusing.
rottin'
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: Pronunciation spelling of rotting.
hammerin'
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: Pronunciation spelling of hammering.
referrin'
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: Pronunciation spelling of referring.
embarrassin'
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: Pronunciation spelling of embarrassing.
intendin'
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: Pronunciation spelling of indenting.
comfortin'
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: Pronunciation spelling of comforting.
trespassin'
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: Pronunciation spelling of trespassing.
footin'
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: Pronunciation spelling of footing.
gallivantin'
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: Pronunciation spelling of gallivanting.
yappin'
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: Pronunciation spelling of yapping.
castin'
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: Pronunciation spelling of casting.
upsettin'
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: Pronunciation spelling of upsetting.
suggestin'
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: Pronunciation spelling of suggesting.
humanest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of humane: most humane
second impact syndrome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: second impact syndromes
form: second-impact syndrome
Senses: synonyms: word: SIS
coordinate_terms: chronic traumatic encephalopathy
post-concussion syndrome
glosses: A rapid and severe brain swelling caused by a second concussion before the first one has sufficiently healed, resulting in possible death or permanent disability.
second impact syndromes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of second impact syndrome
bandy around
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: bandies around
form: bandying around
form: bandied around
form: bandied around
Senses: examples: text: There are a lot of different figures being bandied around, but the exact cost will not be known for some time yet.
glosses: To talk about something with others, but without knowing the exact facts or truth of the matter.
Synonyms: bandy about
agribiont
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: agribionts
Etymology: From agri- + -biont.
Senses: examples: text: Female spiders of one agribiont genus, Pardosa (Lycosidae), which are hunting spiders, were found to be in better condition in landscapes dominated by arable crops [62 ].
ref: 2015 August 27, “Organic Farming: Biodiversity Impacts Can Depend on Dispersal Characteristics and Landscape Context”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Any organism that lives mainly in an agricultural environment
agribionts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of agribiont
biocarbon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From bio- + carbon.
Senses: examples: text: Banagrass has been examined in air blown gasification studies [30 ] and for metallurgical biocarbon production [4 ].
ref: 2015 August 27, “Fast Pyrolysis Behavior of Banagrass as a Function of Temperature and Volatiles Residence Time in a Fluidized Bed Reactor”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: carbon produced from biomass
Mekon
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Mekon
Senses: examples: text: The rocks rise: massy, fissured, dusty-red; / The desert unimagined Mekon-green; / The Scottsdale panorama soothes my head, / When tortured with the brutal, shattered scene.
ref: 2007, Jerry Dowlen, Lio lios: poems 1968 to 2005, page 60:
text: Allometry is a Mekon theory of human cognition, after the melon-headed Mekon from Mekonta, Dan Dare's super-intelligent adversary in the sci-fi comics of the 1950s. But Preuss, and other evolution-minded neuroscientists, argue that it is time to ditch this 'bigger, better but similar' notion of brain evolution […]
ref: 2010, Jeremy Taylor, Not a Chimp: The hunt to find the genes that make us human:
glosses: A hyperintelligent alien being with a huge brain and otherwise atrophied body, the fictional archenemy of Dan Dare.
biodiscovery
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: biodiscoveries
Etymology: From bio- + discovery.
Senses: examples: text: In addition, these viable cultures represent an important future resource for phylogeny-directed biodiscovery.
ref: 2015 August 27, “Diversity of Marine-Derived Fungal Cultures Exposed by DNA Barcodes: The Algorithm Matters”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: biological or biochemical discovery
stereometrics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From stereo- + metrics.
Senses: glosses: The science of stereometry
biostereometrics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From bio- + stereometrics.
Senses: examples: text: This was the original goal of biostereometrics as it coalesced around the new surface-scanning technologies in the 1970’s (see [40 ]).
ref: 2015 August 27, “The Principal Components of Adult Female Insole Shape Align Closely with Two of Its Classic Indicators”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: biological stereometrics
cochleostomy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cochleostomies
Etymology: From cochleo- + -stomy.
Senses: examples: text: Hair cells were more severely damaged in blood injected ears than in cochleostomy only ears.
ref: 2015 August 27, “Intracochlear Bleeding Enhances Cochlear Fibrosis and Ossification: An Animal Study”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
topics: medicine
sciences
surgery
glosses: The formation of an opening into the cochlea
cupressoid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Cupressus + -oid.
Senses: examples: text: Cross-field pits are cupressoid.
ref: 2015 August 27, “Wood Usage and Fire Veneration in the Pamir, Xinjiang, 2500 yr BP”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Relating to, or containing cypress trees
electrogenicity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From electrogenic + -ity.
Senses: examples: text: When organic carbon is used as the electron donor, cross-cell wall electron transfer (i.e., electrogenicity) is not needed because organic molecules dissolve into the fluid and they are oxidized intracellularly after they diffuse into the cytoplasm.
ref: 2015 August 27, “Extracellular Electron Transfer Is a Bottleneck in the Microbiologically Influenced Corrosion of C1018 Carbon Steel by the Biofilm of Sulfate-Reducing Bacterium Desulfovibrio vulgaris”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: The condition of being electrogenic
glacierized
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more glacierized
form: most glacierized
Etymology: From glacier + -ize + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: In this study, we propose to use metacommunity theory as a conceptual framework to better understand how river network structure influences the spatial organization of aquatic communities in glacierized catchments.
ref: 2015 August 27, “Invertebrate Metacommunity Structure and Dynamics in an Andean Glacial Stream Network Facing Climate Change”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Modified by the action of glaciers
isorhiza
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: isorhizas
Senses: examples: text: A) atrichous isorhiza, B) heterotrichous microbasic eurytele, C) heterotrichous microbasic eurytele D) atrichous isorhiza, E) isorhiza o-haploneme, F) microbasic mastigophore, G) large oval p-rhopaloid, H) heterotrichous microbasic eurytele and I) atrichous isorhiza.
ref: 2015 August 27, “Length Is Associated with Pain: Jellyfish with Painful Sting Have Longer Nematocyst Tubules than Harmless Jellyfish”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: An open, tubular nematocyst, in Cnidaria, that anchors the animal as it moves on its tentacles
Derived terms: isorhizal
mesocardiac
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From meso- + cardiac.
Senses: examples: text: Centrally-positioned transverse cross sections were taken from pterocardiac and zygocardiac ossicles (Fig 2A and 2B ), while mesocardiac ossicles and eyestalks were cut longitudinally (Fig 2C and 2D ) (following Leland et al.
ref: 2015 August 27, “Direct Age Determination of a Subtropical Freshwater Crayfish (Redclaw, Cherax quadricarinatus ) Using Ossicular Growth Marks”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Near the middle of the heart (or, especially, the cardiac stomach of an invertebrate)
mesothermal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From meso- + thermal.
Senses: examples: text: The regional climate is humid mesothermal, with a hot summer and well distributed rainfall throughout the year (Cfa in Köppen-Geiser’s classification [32 ]).
ref: 2015 August 27, “Markedly Divergent Tree Assemblage Responses to Tropical Forest Loss and Fragmentation across a Strong Seasonality Gradient”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
topics: biology
ecology
natural-sciences
glosses: warm, temperate
metazonite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: metazonites
Senses: glosses: The posterior portion of an invertebrate diplosomite.
metazonites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Prozonites with scattered oblique striae; metazonites with regular striation, suture complete, rectilinear on foremost rings, curving at ozopore level from midbody rings onward, ozopores as small rounded spots, opening in metazonites at a distance behind the suture about equal to their diameter (Fig 1 ).
ref: 2015 August 27, “A New Dimension in Documenting New Species: High-Detail Imaging for Myriapod Taxonomy and First 3D Cybertype of a New Millipede Species (Diplopoda, Julida, Julidae)”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: plural of metazonite
diplosomite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: diplosomites
Senses: glosses: diplosegment
diplosomites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of diplosomite
microcannula
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: microcannulas
form: microcannulae
Etymology: From micro- + cannula.
Senses: examples: text: Using a microcannula connected to the tip of a 30 gauge needle and Hamilton syringe (Hamilton Company, Reno, NV), 5μl of blood was injected into the scala tympani through the left cochleostomy site using an infusion pump for 2 minutes.
ref: 2015 August 27, “Intracochlear Bleeding Enhances Cochlear Fibrosis and Ossification: An Animal Study”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: A very thin cannula
Related terms: microcannulation
microcannulas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of microcannula
microindel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: microindels
Etymology: From micro- + indel.
Senses: examples: text: Indel and microindel start and stop coordinates were used as the genomic coordinates of the mutation and all bases that fell within these coordinates were ignored for downstream analysis.
ref: 2015 August 27, “Increasing Nucleosome Occupancy Is Correlated with an Increasing Mutation Rate so Long as DNA Repair Machinery Is Intact”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: A very short indel (less than 50 bases)
microindels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Additionally, cancer single nucleotide variants and microindels are enriched within nucleosomes and both the coding and non-coding cancer mutation rate increases with increasing nucleosome occupancy.
ref: 2015 August 27, “Increasing Nucleosome Occupancy Is Correlated with an Increasing Mutation Rate so Long as DNA Repair Machinery Is Intact”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: plural of microindel
microorganic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From micro- + organic.
Senses: examples: text: Under conditions of incomplete burning, and/or in dry or waterlogged environments in which microorganic activity is weak, wood can keep its anatomical structure [11 ,12 ].
ref: 2015 August 27, “Wood Usage and Fire Veneration in the Pamir, Xinjiang, 2500 yr BP”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Relating to microorganisms
monocarbide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: monocarbides
Etymology: From mono- + carbide.
Senses: examples: text: Monolayer Ni supported on Pt, Ru or tungsten monocarbide surfaces that was obtained via Ni vapor deposition has also been investigated [5, 12 ] and Pd/Ni nanoalloys with well-defined bimetallic compositions have been tested as CO oxidation catalysts [13 ].
ref: 2015 August 27, “Ni-Supported Pd Nanoparticles with Ca Promoter: A New Catalyst for Low-Temperature Ammonia Cracking”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any compound that has a single carbide ion
monocarbides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of monocarbide
monosensitization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From mono- + sensitization.
Senses: examples: text: Similarly to participants without asthma, monosensitization was higher for clusters A’ and B’.
ref: 2015 August 27, “Characterization of Rhinitis According to the Asthma Status in Adults Using an Unsupervised Approach in the EGEA Study”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: sensitization to a single allergen
overconnectivity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From over- + connectivity.
Senses: examples: text: Such heterogeneity of results has been attempted to be reconciled by suggesting that ASC is characterised by overconnectivity in brain systems associated with the phenotype, whilst underconnectivity is presented in those systems that are neurotypical, both probably as a result of aberrant developmental processes [44 ].
ref: 2015 August 27, “Semi-Metric Topology of the Human Connectome: Sensitivity and Specificity to Autism and Major Depressive Disorder”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Excessive connectivity
phytobiomass
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: phytobiomasses
Etymology: From phyto- + biomass.
Senses: examples: text: It is necessary to bear in mind that 30 to 90 per cent of the phytobiomass is represented by roots and is consequently concentrated inside the soil, where the soil animals and microorganisms mostly live.
ref: 1972, Nicholas Polunin, editor, The Environmental Future: Proceedings of the first International Conference on Environmental Future, held in Finland from 27 June to 3 July 1971:
text: The magnitude of biomass production is greatest in the tropical rainforest area, where the annual precipitation is over 2200 mm, and the phytobiomass production decreases with the decrease of the rainfall.
ref: 1988, David E. Bell, editor, Health, Nutrition, and Economic Crises: Approaches to Policy in the Third World:
text: Lignocellulosic materials represent the most significant fraction of the terrestrial phytobiomass, the largest source of organic compounds in the biosphere.
ref: 2011, Marcos Silveira Buckeridge, Routes to Cellulosic Ethanol, page 54:
glosses: plant biomass
Coordinate terms: zoobiomass
phytometabolite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: phytometabolites
Etymology: From phyto- + metabolite.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A plant metabolite
phytometabolites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Plant-derived active phytometabolites, as well as their semi-synthetic and synthetic analogs, have served as a major route to the development of new pharmaceuticals compounds [1 ].
ref: 2015 August 27, “Phytometabolite Dehydroleucodine Induces Cell Cycle Arrest, Apoptosis, and DNA Damage in Human Astrocytoma Cells through p73/p53 Regulation”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: plural of phytometabolite
polysensitization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From poly- + sensitization.
Senses: examples: text: The polysensitization rate was particularly high in cluster C’ (80%).
ref: 2015 August 27, “Characterization of Rhinitis According to the Asthma Status in Adults Using an Unsupervised Approach in the EGEA Study”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: sensitization to multiple allergens
postauricular
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɪkjʊlə(ɹ)
Etymology: From post- + auricular.
Senses: examples: text: In addition, 0.5 ml of 1% lidocaine HCl was injected subcutaneously in the postauricular area for local anesthesia.
ref: 2015 August 27, “Intracochlear Bleeding Enhances Cochlear Fibrosis and Ossification: An Animal Study”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Behind the (external) ear.
prooncogenic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pro- + oncogenic.
Senses: examples: text: Further, the protein SRSF1 is up-regulated in cancer and its transcription is activated by the prooncogenic transcription factor Myc. However there is a significant difference in SRSF1 gene copy number that may account for its up-regulation [82 ].
ref: 2015 August 27, “Network Topologies Decoding Cervical Cancer”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: That precedes or leads to oncogenesis
proteohormone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: proteohormones
Etymology: From proteo- + hormone.
Senses: examples: text: RbST is a proteohormone that can be used to increase milk production, but its administration is illegal in the EU [16 ] and of consumer’s concern in the USA. To detect rbST abuse, it has been shown that rbST-dependent protein biomarkers in serum and milk of dairy cows can be monitored, but levels are typically low (10 ng mL -1 range) [17 –19 ].
ref: 2015 August 27, “Calling Biomarkers in Milk Using a Protein Microarray on Your Smartphone”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any protein that acts as a hormone
proteohormones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of proteohormone
pterocardiac
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From ptero- + cardiac.
Senses: examples: text: The calcein stain was retained over an annual cycle comprising multiple moults, demonstrating that pterocardiac ossicles retain chronological information.
ref: 2015 August 27, “Direct Age Determination of a Subtropical Freshwater Crayfish (Redclaw, Cherax quadricarinatus ) Using Ossicular Growth Marks”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: winglike and present in the cardiac stomach
remarkedly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From remarked + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Application of UV light leads to the formation of the cis form, with remarkedly reduced affinity towards GluK2.
ref: 2015 August 27, “Molecular Dynamics Investigation of gluazo, a Photo-Switchable Ligand for the Glutamate Receptor GluK2”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: markedly
solenomerite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: solenomerites
Etymology: From soleno- + -merite. See opisthomerite.
Senses: examples: text: The two species differ, however, in the shape of the solenomerite, much broader and with a distal lamella in the new species, vs. with obviously narrower processes in Ommatoiulus bavayi.
ref: 2015 August 27, “A New Dimension in Documenting New Species: High-Detail Imaging for Myriapod Taxonomy and First 3D Cybertype of a New Millipede Species (Diplopoda, Julida, Julidae)”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: The tubular part of the opisthomerite
opisthomerite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: opisthomerites
Etymology: From opistho- + merite.
Senses: glosses: The posterior gonopods of a millipede of the infraclass Helminthomorpha
Meronyms: solenomerite
Related terms: promerite
mesomerite
opisthomerites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of opisthomerite
subdistally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From subdistal + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Operculum ( Op ) broad, longer than the bursa, distally narrowing into a rounded apical process bearing ca. 10 setae, anterior surface subdistally with shallow concavity ( C ).
ref: 2015 August 27, “A New Dimension in Documenting New Species: High-Detail Imaging for Myriapod Taxonomy and First 3D Cybertype of a New Millipede Species (Diplopoda, Julida, Julidae)”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: In a subdistal direction
subdistal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From sub- + distal.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: ventral and distal
subpapillary
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From sub- + papillary.
Senses: examples: text: Boxed a) Innervation range of the subepidermal nerve plexus and subpapillary plexus and boxed b) Innervation ranges of dermal nerve plexus and subcutaneous plexus.
ref: 2015 August 27, “Length Is Associated with Pain: Jellyfish with Painful Sting Have Longer Nematocyst Tubules than Harmless Jellyfish”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Beneath a papilla
supergeneralist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: supergeneralists
Etymology: From super- + generalist.
Senses: glosses: An exceptional generalist; a person with very broad knowledge.
supergeneralists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: We conclude that although honey bees are considered to be supergeneralists in their foraging choices, there are certain key species or plant groups that are particularly important in the honey bees environment.
ref: 2015 August 27, “Using DNA Metabarcoding to Identify the Floral Composition of Honey: A New Tool for Investigating Honey Bee Foraging Preferences”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: plural of supergeneralist
thoracopod
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: thoracopods
Etymology: From thoraco- + -pod.
Senses: examples: text: We find that thoracopod 1 in taxa of both families is similar, of 7 articles and forms a maxilliped.
ref: 2015 August 27, “The Evolution of Epigean and Stygobitic Species of Koonunga Sayce, 1907 (Syncarida: Anaspidacea) in Southern Australia, with the Description of Three New Species”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Any appendage attached to the thorax of an animal
Related terms: thoracopodal
thoracopods
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of thoracopod
trifactor
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From tri- + factor.
Senses: examples: text: In addition to a satisfactory fit of the data to a one-factor model (CFI = .94, TLI = .93, RMSEA = .08), a common factor was separated from the four perspective factors (i.e., migrants’ self-perspective and their perspectives of rural residents, urban residents and foreigners) through a trifactor modeling analysis (CFI = .95, TLI = .94, RMSEA = .08).
ref: 2015 August 27, “Development and Evaluation of the Brief Sexual Openness Scale—A Construal Level Theory Based Approach”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Involving three factors
unadhered
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + adhered.
Senses: examples: text: After 1 hr, unadhered cells were removed and adhered cells were incubated for 3 hrs in a CO 2 incubator with Phil82 virus with or without pre-incubation (30 min, 37°C) with LL-37.
ref: 2015 August 27, “Identifying the Critical Domain of LL-37 Involved in Mediating Neutrophil Activation in the Presence of Influenza Virus: Functional and Structural Analysis”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: That are not adhered
underconnectivity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From under- + connectivity.
Senses: examples: text: Such heterogeneity of results has been attempted to be reconciled by suggesting that ASC is characterised by overconnectivity in brain systems associated with the phenotype, whilst underconnectivity is presented in those systems that are neurotypical, both probably as a result of aberrant developmental processes [44 ].
ref: 2015 August 27, “Semi-Metric Topology of the Human Connectome: Sensitivity and Specificity to Autism and Major Depressive Disorder”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Insufficient connectivity
urocardiac
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From uro- + cardiac.
Senses: examples: text: Before embedding, the number of zygocardiac teeth and urocardiac ridges (as described by [25 ]) (Fig 1C ) was counted and both structures were submerged in 100% ethanol (~5 s) and air dried (~1 h).
ref: 2015 August 27, “Direct Age Determination of a Subtropical Freshwater Crayfish (Redclaw, Cherax quadricarinatus ) Using Ossicular Growth Marks”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Relating to the urinary system and the cardiac stomach of an arthropod
vasicentric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: Parenchyma is vasicentric in the early wood, but aliform and confluent in the end of growth ring.
ref: 2015 August 27, “Wood Usage and Fire Veneration in the Pamir, Xinjiang, 2500 yr BP”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Having a vessel at the centre
higherup
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: higherups
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of higher-up.
higherups
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of higherup
chokily
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more chokily
form: most chokily
Etymology: From chokey + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: “It is almost mocking me to talk about my help, you who are so much more influential,” she answered, rather chokily.
ref: 1879, Lillian Spender, chapter 3, in Godwyn’s Ordeal,, volume 2, London: Hurst and Blackett, page 78:
text: Then Alice said, speaking chokily because she had not quite done crying: “Let’s wave a flag.”
ref: 1901, E. Nesbit, “The Tower of Mystery”, in The Wouldbegoods, New York: Harper, page 83:
text: “I haven’t one thing that belonged to my mother,” said Anne, chokily. “I—I can never thank you enough for these letters.”
ref: 1915, Lucy Maud Montgomery, chapter 21, in Anne of the Island:
text: She swallowed chokily with a dry throat, but she turned her head away and gazed indifferently into the fire.
ref: 1916, Cornelia Meigs, Master Simon’s Garden, New York: Macmillan, Part 2, Chapter 17:
glosses: In a chokey manner, as if choking.
Related terms: chokingly
starded
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: Pronunciation spelling of started.
seaworm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: seaworms
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of sea worm.
seaworms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of seaworm
Narom
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A Malayo-Polynesian language spoken in Sarawak, Malaysia
Emperor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Emperors
Senses: examples: text: As military attaché to the British Embassy in Berlin he enjoyed the esteem of Emperors William and Frederick.
ref: 1902, The Outlook, page 701:
glosses: The title of an emperor.
examples: text: Certainly LH levels rise in female Emperors during the brooding (guard) phase of chick rearing and decrease significantly in females that have lost their chicks, suggesting that there is a link between brooding behaviour and elevated LH levels.
ref: 2010, Lloyd Spencer Davis, Martin Renner, Penguins, page 128:
text: Most Emperor breeding failures are actually caused by their fellow penguins: either a mate's careless transfer of the egg, or when a disgruntled neighbor's aggressive action slides or breaks the egg.
ref: 2011, David Salomon, Penguin-Pedia, page 29:
text: There are Seventeen kinds of penguin, but the Emperor is the only one that breeds in Antarctica in midwinter.
ref: 2014, Martin Jenkins, The Emperor's Egg, page 3:
text: Nevertheless the Emperors were unsettled owing, there can be no doubt, to the knowledge that bad weather was impending.
ref: 2016, Apsley Cherry-Garrard, The Worst Journey in the World: Antarctic 1910-1913:
glosses: Alternative form of emperor (emperor penguin).
lay-out
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lay-outs
Senses: glosses: Dated form of layout.
bechamels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bechamel
bestestest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From bestest + -est.
Senses: examples: text: You are supernaturally kind . . kindestest, bestestest . . . and, so, dearestest by the merest justice; only, to think of your hastening home, as if you were under an obligation to write to me in the face of the seven worlds, . . that is too much, and shall not be again — now see that it shall not.
ref: 1898, Elizabeth Barrett, “The” Letters of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett:
text: Best love to dear Stockton,— and bestestest for you, from Your devoted little wife.
ref: a. 1924, Woodrow Wilson, Arthur Stanley Link, The Papers of Woodrow Wilson - Volume 11, page 130:
text: Do you like Juju? He's my bestestest friend forever!
ref: 2012, Tony Bodulovic, Voices, page 146:
glosses: Synonym of best.
synonyms: word: best
chalice drum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chalice drums
Senses: glosses: Synonym of goblet drum.
synonyms: word: goblet drum
chalice drums
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chalice drum
bettererer
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From betterer + -er.
Senses: examples: text: Whoohoooo! It's getting betterer and bettererer.
ref: 2002 October 23, Mike Burke, “Barry Award Winner - Stephen Booth”, in rec.arts.mystery (Usenet):
text: I fully understand though that Kari's business situation may well be such that he cannot do this, but in all honesty, 2.6 is the best yet, and VO is just getting betterer and bettererer and betterererer.
ref: 2002 December 9, Gary Stark, “Repository and projects”, in comp.lang.clipper.visual-objects (Usenet):
text: By this morning you felt better, and by this afternoon betterer, and this evening even bettererer!
ref: 2016, Paul Cleave, Trust No One: A Thriller, →ISBN, page 81:
glosses: Synonym of better.
synonyms: word: better
biggerer
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From bigger + -er.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of bigger.
synonyms: word: bigger
biggererer
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Synonym of bigger.
synonyms: word: bigger
worserer
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: 'Now, do you not see what a wicked little girl you are? Why do you not pray to God every morning to make you a better child? ' 'And so I do,' sobbed the poor little thing, 'but he only makes me worserer and worserer.'
ref: 1831, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XXII, in Romance and Reality. […], volume I, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, page 286:
glosses: Synonym of worse.
synonyms: word: worse
frame harp
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: frame harps
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A type of harp with a front pillar, forming a triangular frame.
Synonyms: triangular harp
pillar harp
frame harps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of frame harp
triangular harp
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: triangular harps
Senses: glosses: Synonym of frame harp.
synonyms: word: frame harp
pillar harp
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pillar harps
Senses: glosses: Synonym of frame harp.
synonyms: word: frame harp
pillar harps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pillar harp
triangular harps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of triangular harp
worstestest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Synonym of worst.
synonyms: word: worst
hand percussion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: Any percussion instrument that can be held in the hand.
Related terms: hand drum
hourglass drum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hourglass drums
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A drum (membranophone) with an hourglass-like shape.
Synonyms: waisted drum
waisted drum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: waisted drums
Senses: glosses: Synonym of hourglass drum.
synonyms: word: hourglass drum
hourglass drums
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hourglass drum
waisted drums
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of waisted drum
long drum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: long drums
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A musical instrument characterized by extreme length, typically made out of an entire hollow tree trunk.
long drums
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of long drum
charismatic megafauna
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: We might examine first the special nature of restoration or preservation issues as they relate to charismatic megafauna, the high-profile species of which wolves are a classic example.
ref: 2001, Daniel Kemmis, Wolves and Human Communities, page 9:
text: Of course, it's easier to raise money for something fluffy. Charismatic megafauna like the panda do appeal to people's emotional side, and attract a lot of public attention.
ref: 2009 September 23, The Guardian:
text: Conservationists often talk about the power of charismatic megafauna to get the public to care about the environment.
ref: 2011, Emma Marris, Rambunctious Garden, page 156:
glosses: Large animals with broad popular appeal, especially as used by activists to focus public opinion on environmentalist goals.
bandy about
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: bandies about
form: bandying about
form: bandied about
form: bandied about
form: bally about
Senses: examples: text: There are a lot of different figures being bandied about, but the exact cost will not be known for some time yet.
glosses: To talk about something frequently, but without knowing the exact facts or truth of the matter.
Synonyms: bandy around
storm off
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: storms off
form: storming off
form: stormed off
form: stormed off
Senses: glosses: to leave somewhere angrily
technostrategic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From techno- + strategic.
Senses: glosses: Being a form of euphemistic language that divorces the weapons and tactics of warfare from their real-world effects.
Related terms: nukespeak
Proto-Human
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: The speculative most recent common ancestor of all the world's languages, according to a monogenetic theory.
Synonyms: Proto-Sapiens
Proto-World
Related terms: global etymology
off-air
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: examples: text: He agreed to an off-air interview.
glosses: Alternative form of off air, especially when used attributively.
Hyundais
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Hyundai
technolects
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of technolect
technohorror
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From techno- + horror.
Senses: examples: text: Springing from these roots, the Alien franchise was to become a vehicle for the permanent entrenchment of 1950s-style technohorror in American popular culture.
ref: 2016, Steffen Hantke, Monsters in the Machine: Science Fiction Film and the Militarization of America after World War II:
glosses: A horror genre dealing with the harmful effects of technology.
hyponyms: technoparanoia
glosses: The fear or loathing of modern technology.
mailbombs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mailbomb
mailbombs
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of mailbomb
Proto-Sapiens
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Proto-Human.
synonyms: word: Proto-Human
Proto-World
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From proto- + world.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Proto-Human.
synonyms: word: Proto-Human
technodeterminism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: techno-determinism
Etymology: From techno- + determinism.
Senses: examples: text: Technodeterminism is alluring and convenient for newly powerful entrepreneurs because it absolves them of responsibility for what they do. Like priests at the altar, they're mere vessels of a much larger force that it would be futile to resist.
ref: 2012, Eli Pariser, The Filter Bubble: What the Internet is Hiding from You:
text: Technodeterminism is an essential stage in such a learning curve, whilst a broader understanding of neoliberal society (and its history) remains another vital pillar.
ref: 2016, Geert Lovink, Social Media Abyss: Critical Internet Cultures and the Force of Negation, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN:
text: Ideologies of technodeterminism and libertarianism emerging from the Silicon Valley influenced advanced capitalism at large with their visions of the free technological entrepreneur as the engine of progress and wealth creation (Barbrook and Cameron 1996).
ref: 2017, David Tyfield, Rebecca Lave, Samuel Randalls, Charles Thorpe, editors, The Routledge Handbook of the Political Economy of Science, Routledge, →ISBN:
coordinate_terms: techno-futurism#Noun
techno-optimism#Noun
technophoria#Noun
techno-utopianism#Noun
glosses: The theory that technology drives improvements in society and culture.
Related terms: techno-utopianism
dereverberation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From de- + reverberation.
Senses: examples: text: We propose a novel single-channel method of dereverberation based on a linear filter in the Short Time Fourier Transform domain.
ref: 2015, Richard Stanton, Mike Brookes, “Speech Dereverberation in the STFT Domain”, in arXiv:
glosses: The processing of an audio signal to reduce or eliminate reverberation.
cruisegoer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cruisegoers
Etymology: From cruise + goer.
Senses: glosses: One who goes travelling on a cruise.
cruisegoers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cruisegoer
extraguild
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From extra- + guild.
Senses: examples: text: Actually, competition may cause a shift in niche partitioning of plant resources (i.e., flower vs. leaf), which consequently affects the extraguild prey consumption.
ref: 2015 September 26, “Plant Resources as a Factor Altering Emergent Multi-Predator Effects”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
topics: biology
ecology
natural-sciences
glosses: Outside of a guild.
intrasellar
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From intra- + sellar.
Senses: examples: text: The rapid increase in the intrasellar contents and intrasellar pressure usually presents as sudden onset of headache.
ref: 2015 September 26, “Incidence of Pituitary Apoplexy and Its Risk Factors in Chinese People: A Database Study of Patients with Pituitary Adenoma”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Within the sella turcica.
Albertian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Albertian
form: most Albertian
Etymology: From Alberti + -an.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to Leon Battista Alberti (1404–1472), prominent Italian polymath and architect, active in many fields.
offlines
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of offline
offlining
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of offline
offlined
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of offline
injelititis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Coined in 1957 by C. Northcote Parkinson, using -itis to denote a fictional complaint, as in e.g. imaginitis.
Parkinson combined the terms incompetence and jealousy into injelitence. The disease that results from this is injelititis.
Senses: glosses: A notional disease that damages an organization, causing its employees to become frustrated, unmotivated, and/or jealously competitive.
wikipedia: C. Northcote Parkinson
ATRAC
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Adaptive Transform Acoustic Coding: a family of proprietary audio compression algorithms developed by Sony and originally used for MiniDiscs.
jack towel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: jack towels
Senses: examples: text: Bronze declared to me that she had never seen such a thing as a jack-towel in the house, nor even the nail-holes where one had been.
ref: 1828, JT Smith, Nollekens and His Times, Century Hutchinson, published 1986, page 271:
glosses: A roller towel.
veil dance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: veil dances
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of dance of the seven veils.
Mysłowice
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A city in southern Poland.
Six
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: synonyms: 6
MI6
coordinate_terms: Five
MI5
glosses: Abbreviation of MI6 (intelligence service).
glosses: A surname.
Derived terms: Six's thermometer
Five
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of MI5.
Synonyms: 5
MI5
Security Service
Coordinate terms: english: MI6
translation: MI6
word: Six
Świętochłowice
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ʃviˌɛntəʊxwəˈvɪtseɪ/
Etymology: Polish Świętochłowice.
Senses: glosses: A city in southern Poland.
Grecicizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of Grecicize
indiscernibleness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From indiscernible + -ness.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of indiscernibility.
synonyms: word: indiscernibility