cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
autofitted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of autofit
autofitting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of autofit
autofits
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of autofit
Brauer
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Brauers
Etymology: Occupational surname, borrowed from German Brauer (“brewer”).
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
Büchner
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Buchner.
Derived terms: Büchner flask
Büchner funnel
body wash
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: body washes
Senses: examples: text: Sitting in a black cab as it speeds away into the traffic, I check my bag. There, hiding in the bottom corner, I find a hand and body wash with the Caledonian Sleeper logo on it. I hadn't used it.
ref: 2023 February 8, Greg Morse, “Crossing the border... by Sleeper”, in RAIL, number 976, page 45:
coordinate_terms: body soap
glosses: Synonym of shower gel.
synonyms: word: shower gel
electron hole
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: electron holes
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A vacant position in the atomic lattice of a conductor where an electron would normally be present
deiodase
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: deiodases
Etymology: From de- + iodo- + -ase.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: An enzyme that catalyses the removal of iodine from iodothyronine; its deficiency causes goitre
Synonyms: deiodinase
deiodination
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: deiodinations
Etymology: From de- + iodination.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The removal of iodine from a compound (especially from iodothyronine).
Derived terms: monodeiodination
midnight mass
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: midnight masses
Senses: glosses: A mass held at or close to midnight.
glosses: A mass held at or close to midnight.
A Roman Catholic religious service that marks the beginning of Christmas Day.
raw_tags: in particular
un-Christmassy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more un-Christmassy
form: most un-Christmassy
form: unchristmassy
Etymology: From un- + Christmassy.
Senses: glosses: Not Christmas-like.
coleopterologists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of coleopterologist
building material
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: building materials
Senses: glosses: Any material which is used for construction purposes.
Related terms: building block
perfumier
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: perfumiers
Etymology: Apparently from perfume + -ier.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of parfumier.
perfumiers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of perfumier
Peshwari
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Peshwari
form: most Peshwari
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to Peshawar in Pakistan.
Derived terms: Peshwari nan
Peshwari naan
Peshwari
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Peshwaris
form: Peshawaree
form: Peshawari
form: Peshawuri
form: Peshawuree
Senses: glosses: A person from Peshawar in Pakistan.
Petersburg paradox
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Petersburg paradoxes
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of St. Petersburg paradox.
Peter Funk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Peter Funks
Senses: examples: text: While some stories about mock auctions asked readers to examine their own greed, others identified mock auctioneers and Peter Funks as scapegoats who took the blame for bad behavior in the market.
ref: 2015, Brian P. Luskey, Wendy A. Woloson, Capitalism by Gaslight, page 119:
glosses: A shill bidder at an auction.
petty spurge
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The plant Euphorbia peplus.
pettingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more pettingly
form: most pettingly
Etymology: From petting + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: "It is to the death," said Akela. "Thou hast never met the dhole—the Red Killer. Even the Striped One—"¶ "Aowa! Aowa!" said Mowgli pettingly. "I have killed one striped ape, and sure am I in my stomach that Shere Khan would have left his own mate for meat to the dhole if he had winded a pack across three ranges[…]"
ref: 1906, Rudyard Kipling, “Red Dog”, in The Second Jungle Book, New York: The Century Co., page 247:
glosses: So as to pet or cajole.
petromax
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: petromaxes
Etymology: From a brand name.
Senses: glosses: A kind of pressurized paraffin lamp that uses a mantle.
petromaxes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of petromax
phenomic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From phenome + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to phenomes.
Afanasy
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Transliteration of Russian Афана́сий (Afanásij). Doublet of Athanasius.
Senses: glosses: A transliteration of the Russian male given name Афана́сий (Afanásij).
Related terms: Athanasius
phantomize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: phantomizes
form: phantomizing
form: phantomized
form: phantomized
Etymology: From phantom + -ize.
Senses: examples: text: Do not phantomize the Redeemer when you want him in very deed.
ref: 1883, Charles Haddon Spurgeon, Sermons of Rev. C. H. Spurgeon of London, page 488:
glosses: To make phantom-like or spiritual, or transport into a ghostly realm.
topics: sciences
glosses: To remove (a goal in a model) from consideration by ensuring it is achieved in advance.
Derived terms: phantomizer
Related terms: phantomization
phantomizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of phantomize
phantomizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of phantomize
phantomized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of phantomize
phenolphthalin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: phenolphthalins
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The colorless reduced form of phenolphthalein.
phenolphthalins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of phenolphthalin
Athanasius
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌæθəˈneɪʃəs/
ipa: /ˌæθəˈneɪzi.əs/
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin Athanasius, from Ancient Greek Ἀθανάσιος (Athanásios), from ἀθανάσιος (athanásios, “immortal”), from ἀθάνατος (athánatos, “immortal”). Doublet of Afanasy and tansy. Compare Ambrose.
Senses: examples: text: Athanasius of Alexandria’s thirty-ninth Festal Letter remains one of the most significant documents in the history of the Christian Bible. Athanasius wrote the letter, which contains the first extant list of precisely the twenty-seven books of the current New Testament canon, in 367 C.E., during the final decade of his life.
ref: 2010 January, David Brakke, “A New Fragment of Athanasius’s Thirty-Ninth Festal Letter: Heresy, Apocrypha, and the Canon”, in Harvard Theological Review, volume CIII, № 1, page 47:
glosses: A transliteration of the Ancient Greek male given name Ἀθανάσιος (Athanásios), Athanasius.
Related terms: Afanasy
Athanasios
persistive vegetative state
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: persistive vegetative states
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of persistent vegetative state.
personpower
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From person + power, modelled on manpower.
Senses: glosses: Manpower; workforce.
petaloidy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From petaloid + -y.
Senses: glosses: The condition of being petaloid.
soldiered on
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of soldier on
soldiers on
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of soldier on
soldiering on
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of soldier on
cebrionine
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: biology
entomology
natural-sciences
glosses: Of or relating to the Cebrioninae, a subfamily of click beetles in the family Elateridae.
phallobases
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of phallobase
peridermic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From periderm + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to the periderm.
phallologocentric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more phallologocentric
form: most phallologocentric
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of phallogocentric.
phallocrat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: phallocrats
Etymology: From phallo- + -crat.
Senses: glosses: One who advocates or imposes phallocracy.
phallocrats
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of phallocrat
phallologocentrism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of phallogocentrism.
phantomization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: phantomizations
Etymology: From phantom + -ization.
Senses: glosses: Act or process of phantomizing.
permanent loan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: permanent loans
Senses: glosses: A loan (e.g. between museums) for an unspecified period of time.
permanenting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of permanent
permanented
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of permanent
periphytic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From periphyton + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to periphytons
permaculturalist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: permaculturalists
form: permaculturist
Etymology: From permacultural + -ist.
Senses: glosses: One who works in the field of permaculture.
permaculturist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: permaculturists
form: permaculturalist
Etymology: From permaculture + -ist.
Senses: glosses: One who works in the field of permaculture.
permaculturists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of permaculturist
permaculturalists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of permaculturalist
sweares
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of sweare
thankes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of thanke
sworne
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: past participle of sweare
life coaches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of life coach
life coaches
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of life coach
Aetius
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Aëtius
Etymology: From Latin Aetius, from Ancient Greek Ἀέτιος (Aétios), perhaps from ἀετός (aetós, “eagle”).
Senses: glosses: A transliteration of the Ancient Greek male given name Ἀέτιος (Aétios), Aetius.
glosses: A male given name in Latin, Aetius.
Aëtius
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Aetius.
pup tents
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pup tent
Balthasar
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Middle English Balthasar.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Balthazar.
Balthasar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Balthasars
Etymology: From Middle English Balthasar.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Balthazar.
multiwindowed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From multi- + windowed.
Senses: glosses: Having more than one window.
munchy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: munchies
Etymology: From munch + -y (diminutive suffix).
Senses: examples: text: They left together, and as they were buckling into the Blazer, his father asked, “ Do you want to tell me now or go to The CoffeeHouse and get a munchy first?”
ref: 2007, Cindy McClure, Mystery Under the Magnolia Tree, page 53:
text: “I just stocked up the fridge with pop and there's candy bars in the cabinet, if you need a munchy.”
ref: 2010, Jinna Dodds, Light Song, page 64:
glosses: Alternative form of munchie (“(informal) a snack”).
murdersome
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more murdersome
form: most murdersome
Etymology: From murder + -some.
Senses: glosses: murderous
folivorous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: Finally, if muriquis are strongly folivorous, they should conserve energy expenditure by using a relatively small area with just enough leaf sources to meet their nutritional needs, and devote a large proportion of their day to resting.
ref: 1992, Karen B. Strier, Faces in the Forest: The Endangered Muriqui Monkeys of Brazil:
topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Eating leaves.
muriqui
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: muriquis
Etymology: Borrowed from Portuguese muriqui from Old Tupi mbyryki.
Senses: examples: text: Finally, if muriquis are strongly folivorous, they should conserve energy expenditure by using a relatively small area with just enough leaf sources to meet their nutritional needs, and devote a large proportion of their day to resting.
ref: 1992, Karen B. Strier, Faces in the Forest: The Endangered Muriqui Monkeys of Brazil:
glosses: A New World monkey of the genus Brachyteles, found in Brazilian forests.
Synonyms: woolly spider monkey
muriquis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of muriqui
muscadels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of muscadel
Musorgskian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Musorgskian
form: most Musorgskian
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Mussorgskian.
Mussorgskyan
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Mussorgskyan
form: most Mussorgskyan
Etymology: From Mussorgsky + -an.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Mussorgskian.
Mussorgskian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Mussorgskian
form: most Mussorgskian
form: Musorgskian
form: Mussorgskyan
Etymology: From Mussorgsky + -an.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to Modest Mussorgsky (Russian: Модест Мусоргский, 1839–1881), Russian composer.
museum beetle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: museum beetles
Senses: glosses: The beetle Anthrenus museorum.
museum beetles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of museum beetle
multistrandedness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From multistranded + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being multistranded.
multiflex
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: * From multi- and flexible or similar.
* (American football offense): Introduced by sports coach Joe Restic (1926–2011).
Senses: glosses: A complex style of offense in American football, encompassing numerous formations, blocking strategies and pass patterns, designed to confuse the opponents.
multiflex
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: * From multi- and flexible or similar.
* (American football offense): Introduced by sports coach Joe Restic (1926–2011).
Senses: synonyms: multiflexing
glosses: Of a chain conveyor: having a chain that is flexible along more than one axis.
UNSCOM
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈʌns.kɒm/
ipa: /ˈʌnz-/
ipa: /ˈʌnsˌkɑm/
ipa: /ˈʌnz-/
rhymes: -ʌnskɒm
Senses: glosses: Acronym of United Nations Special Commission: an inspection regime created by the United Nations to ensure Iraq's compliance with weapons regulations after the Gulf War.
dragon lady
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dragon ladies
Etymology: First used in "Terry and the Pirates" in December 1934, for a female pirate based on the historical woman pirate Lai Choi San. The "dragon" part refers to her Chinese background (as dragons are symbols in Chinese culture) and her fierce attitude.
Senses: glosses: An East Asian woman who is stereotypically strong, deceitful, domineering, or mysterious.
wacky weed
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Marijuana.
hide the salami
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: hides the salami
form: hiding the salami
form: hid the salami
form: hidden the salami
Senses: glosses: Synonym of hide the sausage.
synonyms: word: hide the sausage
clean room
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: clean rooms
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of cleanroom.
thearchies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of thearchy
mpingo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Borrowed from Swahili mpingo.
Senses: glosses: Dalbergia melanoxylon, a small African tree in the family Fabaceae.
mudball
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mudballs
Etymology: From mud + ball.
Senses: glosses: A ball of mud.
mudballs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mudball
mudscape
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mudscapes
Etymology: From mud + -scape.
Senses: glosses: A landscape dominated by mud.
mudscapes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mudscape
mukhiya
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /mʊˈkiːə/
Forms: form: mukhiyas
Etymology: From Hindi, from Sanskrit.
Senses: examples: text: I was having dinner with the village elders at the mukhiya's place when one of the servants announced that I had a visitor.
ref: 1997, Kiran Nagarkar, Cuckold, HarperCollins, published 2013, page 593:
glosses: A village chief or leader of a panchayat in parts of India and Nepal.
mukhiyas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mukhiya
multiconnection
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From multi- + connection.
Senses: glosses: Involving more than one connection.
disintermediator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: disintermediators
Senses: glosses: One who carries out disintermediation.
disintermediators
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of disintermediator
Ganser syndrome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Described by Sigbert Josef Maria Ganser in 1898.
Senses: glosses: A rare stress-induced dissociative disorder characterized by giving nonsensical answers to questions.
Synonyms: nonsense syndrome
prison psychosis
geekhood
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From geek + -hood.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being a geek; geekiness.
glosses: The world or sphere of geeks.
bretesche
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bretesches
Etymology: From Old French bretesche.
Senses: examples: text: ... still further west , upon which a bretesche would rest overhanging the entrance. The keep entrance was dealt with at the same time, the existing ribbed inner portion, replacing the Norman entrance which has entirely disappeared.
ref: 1894, Hampshire Field Club and Archaeological Society (Southampton, England), Papers and Proceedings, page 263
text: Some of the towers had attached to their walls — generally over the gateway — a bretesche, or penthouse , with loops and meurtrières. Clennell Tower, for instance, is described in 1541 as "newly reparelled and brattyshed."
ref: 1897, William Weaver Tomlinson, Life in Northumberland During the Sixteenth Century, page 27:
text: The gallery may have received protection by a bretesche or a machicolated battlement and may have been used for raising a drawbridge, if such existed in front of the entrance doorway; or the doorway may have contained a hoist ...
ref: 1907, Architectural and Archaeological Society of Durham and Northumberland, Transactions of the Architectural and Archaeological Society of Durham and Northumberland, page 126:
text: In preparing the site for a bretesche, if the Normans found an earthen mound already existing, they naturally made use of it.
ref: 1920, The Irish Monthly:
text: On the summit of the mound, known as a mote or motte, a bretesche or wooden archery tower was erected for the use of the knight and his officers, whilst at a lower level an enclosure, encircled by a palisade and known as a bailey ...
ref: 1964, Richard Hayward, Munster and the City of Cork:
text: Another chamber or building and a bretesche lay outside this gate . A cruck-built wooden grange and a byre lay in the lower courtyard of the castle (seemingly a reference to the bailey). A masonry-built hall was also standing ...
ref: 1998, Kieran Denis O'Conor, The Archaeology of Medieval Rural Settlement in Ireland:
glosses: Alternative form of brattice.
ballotting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of ballotte
affectingness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From affecting + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being affecting.
effectlessness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From effectless + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being effectless.
electronicist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: electronicists
Etymology: From electronic + -ist.
Senses: glosses: One who works with electronics.
electronicists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of electronicist
diselane
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: diselanes
Etymology: From di- + selane.
Senses: topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The binary compound of hydrogen and selenium H-Se-Se-H analogous to hydrogen peroxide
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any organic derivative R-Se-Se-R' of this compound
bollocky
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more bollocky
form: most bollocky
Etymology: From bollock + -y.
Senses: examples: text: “Is she bollocky?” “No,” Jonesy admits. “Davey says you can't even see her tits, but she's holding her skirt up and she isn't wearing pants and you can see it, just as clear as day.”
ref: 2001, Stephen King, Dreamcatcher:
text: I've seen them, running around bollocky, playing God.
ref: 2006, Paul Theroux, The Mosquito Coast:
glosses: bollock naked; completely naked
aerobrake
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: aerobrakes
Etymology: From aero- + brake.
Senses: glosses: A mechanism for aerobraking.
aerobrake
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: aerobrakes
form: aerobraking
form: aerobraked
form: aerobraked
Etymology: Back-formation from aerobraking.
Senses: glosses: To perform aerobraking.
aerobrakes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of aerobrake
aerobrakes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of aerobrake
aerocapture
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: aerocaptures
Etymology: From aero- + capture.
Senses: topics: aerospace
astronautics
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A form of aerobraking in which a spacecraft uses atmospheric drag to decelerate from a hyperbolic trajectory into a closed orbit, eliminating the need for a large orbital-insertion burn and requiring only small correction burns to raise the spacecraft's periapsis out of the atmosphere.
Related terms: lithocapture
aerocapture
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: aerocaptures
form: aerocapturing
form: aerocaptured
form: aerocaptured
Etymology: From aero- + capture.
Senses: glosses: To perform (an) aerocapture.
aerogravity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From aero- + gravity.
Senses: glosses: A form of gravimetry incorporating real-time aerial navigation.
Americanologist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Americanologists
Etymology: From Americanology + -ist.
Senses: glosses: One who studies Americanology.
Americanologists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Americanologist
aeroballistic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From aero- + ballistic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to aeroballistics.
Europhobia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Euro- + -phobia.
Senses: glosses: A dislike of Europe or its culture or inhabitants.
glosses: Euroscepticism
Eurostyle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Euro- + style.
Senses: examples: text: In 1984 Eurostyle happened in America as the bold style of international trendsetters became the sleek shape of luxury here.
ref: 1984 August 20, New York Magazine, volume 17, number 33, page 5:
text: This style of cabinet construction is called Eurostyle because it was developed in Europe as a response to the devastation of World War II.
ref: 2003, Fine Homebuilding, Renovating a Kitchen, page 6:
glosses: European style
immunopeptides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of immunopeptide
immunopharmacologist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: immunopharmacologists
Etymology: From immuno- + pharmacologist.
Senses: glosses: One who studies immunopharmacology.
immunopharmacological
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From immuno- + pharmacological.
Senses: glosses: Relating to immunopharmacology.
Derived terms: immunopharmacologically
neuroimmunopharmacological
immunopharmacologically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From immunopharmacological + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In terms of, or by means of, immunopharmacology.
immunopharmacologists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of immunopharmacologist
Turfanian
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Turfan + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Tocharian A.
synonyms: word: Tocharian A
Kuchean
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Kucha + -ean.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Tocharian B.
synonyms: word: Tocharian B
Kuchean
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Kucheans
Senses: glosses: Inhabitant of Kucha.
turfism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From turf + -ism.
Senses: glosses: territoriality
pavings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈpeɪvɪŋz/
Senses: glosses: plural of paving
subsuicidal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From sub- + suicidal.
Senses: examples: text: The most widely used terms may be arrayed along a continuum: committed suicide, attempted suicide, suicidal gestures, suicidal threats, suicidal ideation, and subsuicidal phenomena.
ref: 1971, Bulletin of Suicidology, number 8, page 12:
text: Menninger (1938) also describes forms of subsuicidal phenomena: (1) chronic suicide includes asceticism, martyrdom, addiction, invalidism, and psychosis; (2) focal suicide involves acts of self-mutilation, malingering, polysurgery, […]
ref: 1986, William W. Meissner, Psychotherapy and the paranoid process, page 302:
glosses: self-destructive in a way that approaches suicidal behaviour
urban contemporary
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Coined by the late New York DJ Frankie Crocker in the mid-1970s.
Senses: glosses: A category of music including hip-hop, R&B, and other primarily African-American genres.
Related terms: adult contemporary
snowbladed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of snowblade
snowblades
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of snowblade
snowblades
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of snowblade
sandboarded
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of sandboard
repostings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of reposting
Iceni
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /aɪˈsiːnaɪ/
Forms: form: Eceni
Senses: glosses: A Brythonic tribe in Britannia who inhabited an area corresponding roughly to the modern-day county of Norfolk, from the 1st century BC to the 1st century AD.
Eceni
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Iceni.
Aquariid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Aquariids
Etymology: From Aquarius + -id.
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: A meteor in any of several meteor showers whose radiant appears to lie in the constellation Aquarius.
Aquariids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Aquariid
kinara
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kɪˈnɑː.ɹə/
ipa: /kɪˈnɑ.ɹə/
Forms: form: kinaras
Etymology: From Swahili kinara (“candlestick”), ultimately from Arabic مَنَارَة (manāra).
Senses: glosses: A candle holder used in Kwanzaa celebrations.
kinaras
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kinara
multiformly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From multiform + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a multiform manner.
multimicrophone
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From multi- + microphone.
Senses: glosses: Involving more than one microphone.
multimegabit
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From multi- + megabit.
Senses: glosses: Of more than one megabit.
multipeaked
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From multi- + peaked.
Senses: examples: text: The huge, multipeaked, alpinesque restaurant occupied the corner of Lyndale and Franklin.
ref: 2014, Jessie Chandler, Chip Off the Ice Block Murder:
glosses: Having multiple peaks.
multiperiod
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From multi- + period.
Senses: glosses: Relating to multiple periods.
multifile
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From multi- + file.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Relating to multiple files.
multidestination
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From multi- + destination.
Senses: glosses: Relating to multiple destinations.
MEFO
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: MEFOs
Senses: glosses: Acronym of manager of environmental field operations.
multicrore
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From multi- + crore.
Senses: glosses: Of more than one crore in value.
multichip
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From multi- + chip.
Senses: glosses: Relating to multiple microchips.
multichord
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From multi- + chord.
Senses: glosses: Relating to multiple musical chords.
multialbum
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From multi- + album.
Senses: examples: a multialbum record deal
glosses: Relating to multiple music albums.
multiactivity
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From multi- + activity.
Senses: glosses: Relating to multiple activities.
multidaylight
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From multi- + daylight.
Senses: examples: a multidaylight press
qualifier: machinery
glosses: Having multiple daylights, or spaces between the platens.
multidiameter
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From multi- + diameter.
Senses: examples: a multidiameter pipeline
glosses: Having more than one diameter.
multiflowered
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From multi- + flowered.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Having more than one flower to a stem.
multilength
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From multi- + length.
Senses: examples: the use of multilength codes in data transmission
glosses: Relating to multiple lengths.
multimission
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From multi- + mission.
Senses: glosses: Relating to multiple missions.
multimachine
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From multi- + machine.
Senses: glosses: Relating to multiple machines.
multifigured
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From multi- + figured.
Senses: examples: a multifigured scene or composition
topics: art
arts
glosses: Involving more than one figure.
multiwire
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From multi- + wire.
Senses: glosses: Relating to multiple wires.
multitester
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: multitesters
Etymology: From multi- + tester.
Senses: glosses: multimeter
multitesters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of multitester
multitimbral
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From multi- + timbral.
Senses: examples: text: a multitimbral synthesizer
glosses: Capable of playing more than one timbre at the same time.
Derived terms: multitimbrality
multitimbrality
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From multitimbral + -ity.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being multitimbral.
monotimbral
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From mono- + timbral.
Senses: examples: a monotimbral synthesizer
glosses: Capable of playing only one timbre at a time.
patchcoats
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of patchcoat
multipin
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From multi- + pin.
Senses: examples: text: a multipin electrical plug
text: a multipin surgical clamp
text: Larger snake cables often have elaborate multipin connectors that lead to either a group of XLRs or a metal box with a group of chassis-mounted XLRs.
ref: 2013, Glen Ballou, Handbook for Sound Engineers, page 1318:
glosses: Having multiple pins.
multiporous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From multi- + porous.
Senses: glosses: Having multiple pores.
multiroomed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From multi- + roomed.
Senses: glosses: Having multiple rooms.
geekfest
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: geekfests
Etymology: From geek + -fest.
Senses: glosses: An event or situation that is very geeky.
geekfests
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of geekfest
musicked
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more musicked
form: most musicked
Etymology: From music + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: the honey of his musicked vows
ref: c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene i]:
glosses: Spoken sweetly and attractively.
Murder, Inc.
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Organized crime groups responsible for killings in the 1930s and 1940s.
topics: government
politics
glosses: The Central Intelligence Agency.
city technology college
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: city technology colleges
Senses: glosses: A state-funded all-ability secondary school that charges no fees but is independent of local authority control, being overseen directly by the Department for Education. They mainly specialise in science and technology.
Synonyms: CTC
War on Women
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: government
politics
glosses: Political efforts and initiatives to reduce women's rights, especially their reproductive rights.
Claddagh ring
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Claddagh rings
Senses: examples: text: Then looking about, he pulled a Claddagh ring from his finger and left it down on the table for a brief moment.
ref: 2023, Elaine Feeney, How to Build a Boat, Vintage (2024), page 44:
synonyms: Claddagh
glosses: A traditional Irish ring decorated with hands (representing friendship), a heart (love), and a crown (loyalty).
Polle syndrome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Coined by Burman and Stevens, from the then-common belief that Baron Münchhausen's second wife gave birth to a daughter named Polle which the baron declared was not his. The term fell out of favour after 1984, when it was discovered that Polle was not the baby's name, but that of her mother's hometown.
Senses: glosses: Münchausen syndrome by proxy
BDD
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: BDDs
Senses: topics: computing
computing-theory
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Initialism of binary decision diagram.
examples: text: Is BDD caused by our culture's emphasis on appearance and our concepts of beauty? We are certainly bombarded with messages telling us what looks good, what makes people attractive, and that whatever we look like now is not good enough.
ref: 2002, James Claiborne, Cherlene Pedrick, The BDD Workbook, New Harbinger Publications, →ISBN, page 14:
text: "There might be BDD [Body Dysmorphic Disorder] or untreated psychological issues," she said.
ref: 2010 May 4, Madison Park, “Teen's daintier new nose carries bigger regret”, in CNN:
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Initialism of body dysmorphic disorder.
qualifier: numerical analysis
glosses: Initialism of balancing domain decomposition.
examples: text: You've now seen what a typical BDD/TDD development process looks like. BDD unit testing is more an approach than a particular toolset, but there are tools and techniques that can make practicing BDD unit testing easier.
ref: 2014, John Smart, BDD in Action: Behavior-Driven Development for the whole software lifecycle, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
software
coordinate_terms: TDD
glosses: Initialism of behavior-driven development.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
software
glosses: Initialism of business-driven development.
floor-filler
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: floor-fillers
form: floor filler
Etymology: See dance floor.
Senses: examples: text: Kenner had passed the song on to Fats Domino; Rufus Thomas had picked it up for his Stax LP Walking the Dog; along the way, it had been lyrically updated and adopted as an easy-to-play floor-filler and crowd-pleaser by seemingly every white garage band that had popped up across the United States in the wake of the British Invasion.
ref: 2017, Tony Fletcher, In the Midnight Hour: The Life and Soul of Wilson Pickett, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 91:
glosses: A music track that is likely to encourage people to dance when played at a club, etc.
Synonyms: dance-floor filler
lollo biondo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Italian.
Senses: glosses: A kind of green lettuce with frilly leaves.
Related terms: lollo rosso
mudprawn
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mudprawns
Etymology: From mud + prawn.
Senses: glosses: Upogebia africana, a shrimp endemic to South Africa.
sandprawn
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sandprawns
Etymology: From sand + prawn.
Senses: glosses: Kraussillichirus kraussi, a kind of shrimp.
mudprawns
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mudprawn
sandprawns
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sandprawn
mouseholing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From mousehole + -ing.
Senses: glosses: The urban warfare tactic of creating access to adjoining rooms or buildings by blasting or tunnelling through a wall, so as to avoid the open streets.
multiutility
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: multiutilities
Etymology: From multi- + utility.
Senses: glosses: A utility company providing multiple types of service, such as both gas and electricity.
multiutilities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of multiutility
Mpongwe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Mpongwe
Senses: glosses: Any member of an ethnic group in Gabon, the earliest known dwellers around the Estuary, where Libreville is now located.
Mpongwe
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Their Bantu language.
mucogenesis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From muco- + genesis.
Senses: glosses: formation of mucus
mucogenic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more mucogenic
form: most mucogenic
Etymology: From muco- + -genic.
Senses: glosses: Promoting the formation of mucus.
Synonyms: blennogenous
muciparous
mucigenic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more mucigenic
form: most mucigenic
Etymology: From muci- + -genic.
Senses: glosses: Promoting the formation of mucus.
mucigel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mucigels
Etymology: From muci- + gel.
Senses: glosses: A slimy substance that covers the rootcap in plants. It is a highly hydrated polysaccharide.
mucigels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mucigel
muci-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Senses: glosses: mucus
muco-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Etymology: From international scientific vocabulary, reflecting a New Latin combining form, from mucus; more at mucus § Etymology.
Senses: topics: biology
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: mucus.
wikipedia: classical compound
international scientific vocabulary
Synonyms: blenno-
myx-
myxo-
Related terms: mucoso-
hemisyndrome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hemisyndromes
Etymology: From hemi- + syndrome.
Senses: glosses: Any of various medical conditions affecting only one side of the body.
hemisyndromes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hemisyndrome
K-hole
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From K (“ketamine”) + hole, from the notion that being in this state is comparable to being inside a hole, isolated or distanced from the real world.
Senses: examples: text: Recreational users call it "special K," and the euphoric, hallucinatory experience it induces the "K-hole."
ref: 2018 May 8, Moises Velasquez-Manoff, “Ketamine Stirs Up Hope—and Controversy—as a Depression Drug”, in WIRED:
text: “They're getting their drugs mixed up,” she said. “If someone did a line of coke, it would be a very different size than if someone did a bump of ketamine, right? So if they're thinking it's cocaine and they do a line, they could go into a k-hole and be completely unable to move for hours. Maybe not hours, but for a while.”
ref: 2019 August 9, Joshua Azizi, “Shambhala Music Festival makes harm reduction a priority”, in The Georgia Straight:
glosses: The state of dissociation from (and lack of control over) the body commonly experienced after taking relatively high doses of the drug ketamine.
Quakeristic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Quakeristic
form: most Quakeristic
Etymology: From Quaker + -istic.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to Quakerism.
quaquaversality
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From quaquaversal + -ity.
Senses: glosses: Quality of being quaquaversal.
quinquertium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Latin quinquertium.
Senses: glosses: An ancient sporting contest consisting of five separate events.
quininization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: quininisation
Etymology: From quinine + -ization.
Senses: glosses: A medical treatment with quinine.
human cannonball
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: human cannonballs
Senses: glosses: A circus performer who is launched from a specially designed cannon.
Quadrans Muralis
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Latin, meaning "mural quadrant".
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: A former constellation between Boötes and Draco, near the tail of Ursa Major.
Derived terms: Quadrantid
Quadrantid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kwɒˈdɹæn.tɪd/
ipa: /kwɑˈdɹæn.tɪd/
Forms: form: Quadrantids
Etymology: Named from the former constellation Quadrans Muralis.
Senses: glosses: Any of the meteors in a January meteor shower whose radiant is inside the constellation Boötes.
Quadrantids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Quadrantid
Cahitas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Cahita
cahincate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cahincates
Etymology: From cahincic acid + -ate.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A salt or ester of cahincic acid.
cahincates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cahincate
Xixime
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Xiximes
form: Jijime
Senses: glosses: A member of an indigenous people once living in Sinaloa, Mexico.
Xiximes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Xixime
queek
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: queeks
Etymology: Imitative.
Senses: examples: text: From reeds moorhens called to each other, the sounds light metallic “queeks.”
ref: 2007, Samuel F. Pickering, Edinburgh Days: Or, Doing what I Want to Do, page 169:
glosses: A vocal sound produced by certain birds.
queek
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: queeks
form: queeking
form: queeked
form: queeked
Etymology: Imitative.
Senses: glosses: To produce this sound.
queek
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Etymology: Imitative.
Senses: examples: text: A soft “Queek, queek!” made her look up and listen.
ref: 1865, Louisa May Alcott, Nelly's Hospital:
text: No nest was to be seen, no parent birds hovered overhead, and little Robin could only tell its troubles in that mournful “Queek, queek, queek!”
ref: 2002?, James Marten, The Boy of Chancellorville and Other Civil War Stories (page 67)
glosses: A vocal sound produced by certain birds.
droit de suite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: French, meaning "right to follow".
Senses: glosses: A right granted to artists or their heirs, in some jurisdictions, to receive a fee on the resale of their artworks.
coochie coo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of coochy coo.
cyberthug
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cyberthugs
Etymology: From cyber- + thug.
Senses: glosses: One who acts like a thug on the Internet or in cyberspace; a cybercriminal.
cyberthugs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cyberthug
Co-Freemasonry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From co- + Freemasonry.
Senses: glosses: A form of Freemasonry that allows women, as well as men, to be members.
cybercrews
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cybercrew
cyberteam
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cyberteams
Etymology: From cyber- + team.
Senses: examples: text: Kurtzman, the wheelchair-bound yet still burly computer genius and head of Stony Man Farm's remarkable cyberteam, had sat watching the video forwarded from the President's personal smartphone.
ref: 2011, Don Pendleton, Extermination, page 134:
glosses: A team of people working on the Internet or in cyberspace.
cyberteams
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cyberteam
clap skates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of clap skate
letterheaded
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From letterhead + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: We've run out of the company's letterheaded paper.
glosses: Printed with a letterhead.
afterburn
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: afterburns
Etymology: From after- + burn.
Senses: glosses: The burning of further calories after the end of a period of vigorous exercise.
topics: human-sciences
sciences
social-science
sociology
glosses: The practice of criticizing a person after they have left, or stopped contributing to the conversation.
bonsella
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bonsellas
form: bansela
Etymology: Borrowed from Afrikaans bonsela, from Xhosa bansela meaning "showing thanks with a gift", related to Zulu umbhanselo a "tip".
Senses: examples: text: A lekker dictionary containing all the bakgat South African words has hit the bookstores. The collection of about 1,500 local words is a bonsella published in the latest edition of the Concise Oxford Dictionary, "the ultimate authority on South African English".
ref: 2002 September 9, Peroshni Govender, “Hau, my china, it's bakgat”, in Independent Online, archived from the original on 29 Mar 2018:
glosses: In a transaction, something extra on the side.
glosses: A tip or gratuity.
glosses: A handout.
glosses: A bribe.
bonsellas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bonsella
framboids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of framboid