cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
horn in
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: horns in
form: horning in
form: horned in
form: horned in
Senses: examples: 1977-1980, Lou Sullivan, personal diary, quoted in 2019, Ellis Martin, Zach Ozma (editors), We Both Laughed In Pleasure
J isn't thrilled by the idea—says he's afraid she'll be taking up my time and horning in on our time together.
glosses: To intrude or butt in (on something).
aplysulphurin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: For comparison with other nudibranchs from the family Chromodorididae, but not found in this genus, we also purified the compound aplysulphurin ( 8 ), a major compound found in Goniobranchus splendidus [43 ].
ref: 2016 January 21, “Choose Your Weaponry: Selective Storage of a Single Toxic Compound, Latrunculin A, by Closely Related Nudibranch Molluscs”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The benzopyran derivative (2S,6R,8aS)-6-methyl-7-oxo-5-[(1S)-1,3,3-trimethylcyclohexyl]-2,6,7,8a-tetrahydrofuro[4,3,2-ij]isochromen-2-yl acetate found in a sea slug of the genus Goniobranchus
Bop
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Bophuthatswana
Bophuthatswana
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A former bantustan in the northwestern region of South Africa.
Synonyms: word: Bop
astragalocalcaneum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: astragalocalcaneums
form: astragalocalcanea
Etymology: From astragalo- + calcaneum.
Senses: examples: text: In Camposaurus arizonensis from the Norian of Arizona, USA, widely regarded as the oldest neotheropod[58 ,25 ], the distal fibula is fused to the distal tibia and to the fused astragalocalcaneum.
ref: 2016 January 21, “The Oldest Jurassic Dinosaur: A Basal Neotheropod from the Hettangian of Great Britain”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: A fused astragalus and calcaneum
Acoliland
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Acholiland.
Acholiland
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Acoliland
Etymology: From Acholi + -land.
Senses: glosses: The region of Uganda traditionally inhabited by the Acholi people.
configurally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From configural + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Recently, some studies on adaption effects in relation to face perception seem to suggest that although inverted faces may not be processed configurally, they should share some processing mechanisms with upright faces […]
ref: 2016 January 21, “Implicit Processing of the Eyes and Mouth: Evidence from Human Electrophysiology”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Synonym of configurationally.
synonyms: word: configurationally
exotrophic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From exo- + trophic.
Senses: examples: text: Colors of taxa labels represent the reproductive modes: blue, terrestrial foam-nesting, exotrophic tadpoles; orange, terrestrial gel-nesting, exotrophic tadpoles; green, terrestrial direct-developing, endotrophic tadpoles; cyan, aquatic gel-nesting, exotrophic tadpoles.
ref: 2016 January 21, “Frankixalus, a New Rhacophorid Genus of Tree Hole Breeding Frogs with Oophagous Tadpoles”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: That feeds on other organisms
Related terms: exotrophy
extraperinuclear
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From extra- + perinuclear.
Senses: examples: text: Additionally, we quantified the percentage of cells in which ligand-arrestin complexes were present in extraperinuclear (i.e. not colocalizing with Rab11-GFP) regions of the cytoplasm (Fig 2B ).
ref: 2016 January 21, “Regulation of N -Formyl Peptide Receptor Signaling and Trafficking by Arrestin-Src Kinase Interaction”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Beyond the immediate surroundings of a nucleus
isolaulimalide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From iso- + laulimalide.
Senses: examples: text: A previous study demonstrated that, in addition to latrunculin A, laulimides (laulimalide and isolaulimalide) were also found in Chromodoris lochi [10 ], while puupehenone was been isolated from C.
ref: 2016 January 21, “Choose Your Weaponry: Selective Storage of a Single Toxic Compound, Latrunculin A, by Closely Related Nudibranch Molluscs”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: An isomer of laulimalide
kahalalide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kahalalides
Senses: examples: text: For example, the antitumour depsipeptide kahalalide F was isolated from the opisthobranch mollusc Elysia rufescens, and is used by both the mollusc and its dietary alga Bryopsis spp.
ref: 2016 January 21, “Choose Your Weaponry: Selective Storage of a Single Toxic Compound, Latrunculin A, by Closely Related Nudibranch Molluscs”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Any of a family of depsipeptides that show antitumour activity
Sartrian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Sartrian
form: most Sartrian
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Sartrean.
Sartrian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Sartrians
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Sartrean.
Sartrians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Sartrian
pigeon loft
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pigeon lofts
Senses: glosses: An outbuilding used for housing and breeding pigeons; a dovecote.
lateroproximal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From latero- + proximal.
Senses: examples: text: The medioproximal and lateroproximal faces are flattened for adpression with adjacent metatarsals.
ref: 2016 January 21, “The Oldest Jurassic Dinosaur: A Basal Neotheropod from the Hettangian of Great Britain”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Both lateral and proximal
corsetieres
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of corsetiere
droff
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: drŏf
Forms: form: droffer
form: droffest
Etymology: From Middle English drof (“turbid, troubled”), from Old English drōf (“dreggy; dirty; troubled”), from Proto-Germanic *drōbuz. Cognate with Dutch droef (“sad; miserable”), German trüb (“turbid; dim; sad”) (English trub).
Senses: examples: text: wading through deep, droff waters
glosses: Turbid.
examples: text: a droff soul, a heavy heart and a troubled mind
text: And my soul swith mickle droff isǃ
glosses: Sorrowful, disturbed.
Related terms: drubly
trub
minicore
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: minicores
Etymology: From mini- + core.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: Any of a series of core structures found in muscle tissue myopathy
Derived terms: multiminicore
minicores
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Retrospectively, some findings like rigid spine in patient II-2, early ventilatory failure despite preserved ambulance in subjects II-2 and III-1, core-like lesions in patients II-2 and II-7, and fibers showing minicores or expressing αβ-Crystallin in subject II-7 are consistent with a myopathy caused by SEPN1 defects [26, 28 –30 ].
ref: 2016 January 21, “Increased Probability of Co-Occurrence of Two Rare Diseases in Consanguineous Families and Resolution of a Complex Phenotype by Next Generation Sequencing”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: plural of minicore
multiminicore
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From multi- + minicore.
Senses: examples: text: As in our family, defects in SEPN1 have been associated with a variable clinico-histopathological picture that includes rigid spine muscular dystrophy (RSMD-1), multiminicore disease, desmin-related myopathy with Mallory body-like inclusions (MR-DRM), and also non-specific myopathological features.
ref: 2016 January 21, “Increased Probability of Co-Occurrence of Two Rare Diseases in Consanguineous Families and Resolution of a Complex Phenotype by Next Generation Sequencing”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: multiple minicores
nonornithodiran
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nonornithodirans
Etymology: From non- + ornithodiran.
Senses: examples: text: The nonplantigrade lineage comprised dinosauromorphs and Scleromochlus, whereas the two plantigrade groups examined here are nonornithodiran archosauromorphs and therapsids.
ref: 2016 January 21, “Nonplantigrade Foot Posture: A Constraint on Dinosaur Body Size”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Any birdlike dinosaur that is not in the clade Ornithodira
nonplantigrades
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: With their immediate ancestors, dinosaurs were the only terrestrial nonplantigrades during the Mesozoic.
ref: 2016 January 21, “Nonplantigrade Foot Posture: A Constraint on Dinosaur Body Size”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: plural of nonplantigrade
oligotrophication
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: oligotrophications
Etymology: From oligotrophic + -ation.
Senses: examples: text: In LH-6-13, an up-core decrease in rates of accumulation for several sediment variables indicates time-course oligotrophication of the lake through the Holocene.
ref: 2016 January 21, “A Holocene Sediment Record of Phosphorus Accumulation in Shallow Lake Harris, Florida (USA) Offers New Perspectives on Recent Cultural Eutrophication”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Modification of an environment to make it oligotrophic
Derived terms: reoligotrophication
prehallical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pre- + hallical.
Senses: examples: text: However, the prehallux shows considerable differentiation in developing into a distal prehallical element in Gracixalus, Frankixalus and Philautus, but not in Kurixalus (Fig 4E ).
ref: 2016 January 21, “Frankixalus, a New Rhacophorid Genus of Tree Hole Breeding Frogs with Oophagous Tadpoles”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Relating to the prehallux
psiloceratacean
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: psilocerataceans
Etymology: Psilocerataceae + -an
Senses: examples: text: Many British stratigraphers have historically used the first occurrence of the ammonite Psiloceras planorbis to indicate the base of the Jurassic, but elsewhere in Europe two other psiloceratacean ammonites appear before P.
ref: 2016 January 21, “The Oldest Jurassic Dinosaur: A Basal Neotheropod from the Hettangian of Great Britain”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Any ammonoid cephalopod of the superfamily Psilocerataceae.
psilocerataceans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: These earliest Jurassic subzones and other psilocerataceans have not been detected in the Lavernock Point sequence of strata.
ref: 2016 January 21, “The Oldest Jurassic Dinosaur: A Basal Neotheropod from the Hettangian of Great Britain”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: plural of psiloceratacean
utility poles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of utility pole
behavioural science
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: behavioural sciences
form: behavioral science
Senses: examples: text: It is, therefore, important to study the applications of behavioural science in housing decision making.
ref: 2020, Helen Bao, Behavioural Science and Housing Decision Making: A Case Study Approach, Routledge, →ISBN:
glosses: The systematic analysis and investigation of human and animal behaviour through controlled and naturalistic observation and disciplined scientific experimentation.
rhamnogalacturonase
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rhamnogalacturonases
Etymology: From rhamnogalacturonan + -ase.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any enzyme that catalyses the hydrolysis of a rhamnogalacturonan.
rhamnogalacturonases
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: The GH28 family of glycosyl hydrolases includes proteins with different enzymatic specificities including polygalacturonases, rhamnogalacturonases, and xylogalacturonases, but based on phylogenetic analyses and conservation of amino acid residues it appears that this entire gene family had a single origin in the tree of life [83, 84 ].
ref: 2016 January 21, “Insight into the Salivary Gland Transcriptome of Lygus lineolaris (Palisot de Beauvois)”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: plural of rhamnogalacturonase
behavioural sciences
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of behavioural science
technical school
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: technical schools
Senses: glosses: A school that provides training in practical skills such as welding, hairdressing, plumbing and so on.
technical schools
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of technical school
semiallograft
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: semiallografts
Etymology: From semi- + allograft.
Senses: examples: text: Thus, our data demonstrate Tim-3/Galectin-9 pathway maintains local tolerance by suppressing NK cytotoxicity toward trophoblasts which may represent a new immunologic tolerance mechanism at MFI. Introduction Maternal immune tolerance to semiallograft fetus is prerequisite for normal pregnancy outcome and represents a great unsolved issue of immunology [1, 2 ].
ref: 2016 January 21, “Tim-3 Is Upregulated in NK Cells during Early Pregnancy and Inhibits NK Cytotoxicity toward Trophoblast in Galectin-9 Dependent Pathway”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: A transplant, half of whose genes come from another individual (e.g. from a father)
sialotranscriptome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sialotranscriptomes
Etymology: From sialo- + transcriptome.
Senses: examples: text: Gene ontology (GO) terms were assigned to 7,512 proteins, and 791 proteins in the sialotranscriptome of TPB were found to collectively map to 107 Kyoto Encyclopedia of Genes and Genomes (KEGG) database pathways.
ref: 2016 January 21, “Insight into the Salivary Gland Transcriptome of Lygus lineolaris (Palisot de Beauvois)”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: A salivary transcriptome
Related terms: sialotranscriptomic
sialotranscriptomes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: These most common assigned categories are consistent with other sialotranscriptomes among a wide range of phytophagous insects including; Bemisia tabaci, Empoasca fabae, Frankliniella occidentalis, Helicoverpa armigera, and Nilaparvata lugens [5, 48, 67, 68 ].
ref: 2016 January 21, “Insight into the Salivary Gland Transcriptome of Lygus lineolaris (Palisot de Beauvois)”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: plural of sialotranscriptome
sublacrimal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ækɹɪməl
Etymology: From sub- + lacrimal.
Senses: examples: text: The sublacrimal process of the jugal of Dracoraptor is certainly not pointed as it is in some non-coelophysoid theropods, but this process is slender, slightly damaged and it is ambiguous as to whether it is bluntly rounded (Character 23, state 1 Rauhut 2003)[63 ] which is typical for coelophysoids.
ref: 2016 January 21, “The Oldest Jurassic Dinosaur: A Basal Neotheropod from the Hettangian of Great Britain”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Beneath the lacrimal gland
suborbit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɔː(ɹ)bɪt
Forms: form: suborbits
Etymology: From sub- + orbit.
Senses: examples: text: Electrode pairs (bipolar) were placed at the supra- and suborbit of the right eye and at the external canthi of the eyes.
ref: 2016 January 21, “Implicit Processing of the Eyes and Mouth: Evidence from Human Electrophysiology”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: The lower part of the orbit of the eye.
suborbit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɔː(ɹ)bɪt
Forms: form: suborbits
Etymology: Back-formation from suborbital (formed from sub- + orbital), from expressions such as suborbital trajectory.
Senses: topics: aerospace
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A trajectory that is insufficient to achieve a stable orbit.
suilloid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: suilloids
Etymology: Suillus + -oid
Senses: examples: text: We calibrated two nodes in the Basidiomycota dataset using fossil data: (i) the Suillinae (Suillus pictus, Chroogomphus rutilus and Gomphidius roseus) were calibrated based on a fossil of a Pinaceae-associated suilloid ectomycorrhiza (~50 mya) [37 ]; (ii) the Tricholomatoid clade (represented by Panellus stipticus and Pleurotopsis longinqua) was calibrated using a fossil Archaeomarasmius leggetti (~90 mya) from mid-Cretaceous amber [38 ].
ref: 2016 January 21, “On the Evolutionary History of Uleiella chilensis, a Smut Fungus Parasite of Araucaria araucana in South America: Uleiellales ord. nov. in Ustilaginomycetes”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Any fungus of the genus Suillus.
suilloids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of suilloid
toxinotype
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: toxinotypes
Etymology: From toxin + -o- + -type.
Senses: glosses: Any strain of an organism that has a specific set of toxin genes
toxinotypes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: These results indicate that the typical fecal bile acid composition before FMT can induce germination in multiple strains and toxinotypes of C.
ref: 2016 January 21, “Changes in Colonic Bile Acid Composition following Fecal Microbiota Transplantation Are Sufficient to Control Clostridium difficile Germination and Growth”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: plural of toxinotype
trisulfate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: trisulfates
form: trisulphate
Etymology: From tri- + sulfate.
Senses: examples: text: Pregnant C57BL/6J mice received a solution of non-absorbable AB, comprising 5 mg/ml neomycin trisulfate salt hydrate (Sigma–Aldrich, St. Louis, MO, USA; N6386-25G), 5 mg/ml bacitracin (Sigma–Aldrich; B0125-1250KU), 1.25 μg/ml pimaricin (Sigma–Aldrich; P9703-25MG; 5 mg/ml solution in acetic acid used as a stock), and 0.075% (v/v) acetic acid (Nacalai Tesque, Kyoto, Japan; 08885–45) dissolved in drinking water, which was administered by voluntary drinking on E9–E16 [5 ].
ref: 2016 January 21, “Administration of Non-Absorbable Antibiotics to Pregnant Mice to Perturb the Maternal Gut Microbiota Is Associated with Alterations in Offspring Behavior”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any compound containing three sulfate groups or ions
paragnosis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: paragnoses
Senses: examples: text: Therefore paragnosis may be accepted as a scientific fact, and telepathy, operating as I have suggested, through the common subconsciousness of humanity, is the most reasonable hypothesis to explain paragnosis.
ref: 1951, Charles Wicksteed Armstrong, Road to Happiness: A New Ideology, page 185:
text: Paragnosis, for example, seems like a practical place to start. We already know for sure that there is such a faculty.
ref: 1962, Tomorrow, volume 10, page 45:
text: Extrasensory Perception, PSI, paragnosis, or ESP as it is more generally known, is accepted by many as fact.
ref: 2004, Raymond Buckland, The Fortune-telling Book: The Encyclopedia of Divination and Soothsaying:
text: They cannot inhibit this tendency, so that when presented with the next word they respond with characteristic “paragnoses,” i.e., they continue to give it the same meaning as the preceding word.
ref: 2012, Alexandr Romanovich Luria, Higher Cortical Functions in Man, page 496:
glosses: Knowledge which can only be gained through extraordinary or supernatural means.
Related terms: paragnost
paragnostic
tursiop
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tursiops
Senses: examples: text: After the detection of a whistle, the localization of the tursiop is performed comparing the sound direction and the arrival time for each detection unit.
ref: 2016 January 21, “A Permanent Automated Real-Time Passive Acoustic Monitoring System for Bottlenose Dolphin Conservation in the Mediterranean Sea”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: A bottlenose dolphin (of the genus Tursiops).
tursiops
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: For the scope of the ARION project, however, the two detection units operate individually because it is necessary only to locate the tursiops within one of the five sectors of the project area.
ref: 2016 January 21, “A Permanent Automated Real-Time Passive Acoustic Monitoring System for Bottlenose Dolphin Conservation in the Mediterranean Sea”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: plural of tursiop
ustilaginomycetous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Ustilaginomycetes + -ous.
Senses: examples: text: Here, we describe a new ustilaginomycetous order, the Uleiellales to accommodate Uleiella.
ref: 2016 January 21, “On the Evolutionary History of Uleiella chilensis, a Smut Fungus Parasite of Araucaria araucana in South America: Uleiellales ord. nov. in Ustilaginomycetes”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Relating to smut (fungus) of the class Ustilaginomycetes
ustilaginomycotinous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Ustilaginomycotina + -ous
Senses: examples: text: For instance, Uleiella is a unique ustilaginomycotinous genus occurring on gymnosperms restricted to the genus Araucaria in South America.
ref: 2016 January 21, “On the Evolutionary History of Uleiella chilensis, a Smut Fungus Parasite of Araucaria araucana in South America: Uleiellales ord. nov. in Ustilaginomycetes”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Relating to fungi of the subphylum Ustilaginomycotina
xylogalacturonase
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: xylogalacturonases
Etymology: From xylogalacturonan + -ase.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any enzyme that catalyses the hydrolysis of a xylogalacturonan.
xylogalacturonases
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: The GH28 family of glycosyl hydrolases includes proteins with different enzymatic specificities including polygalacturonases, rhamnogalacturonases, and xylogalacturonases, but based on phylogenetic analyses and conservation of amino acid residues it appears that this entire gene family had a single origin in the tree of life [83, 84 ].
ref: 2016 January 21, “Insight into the Salivary Gland Transcriptome of Lygus lineolaris (Palisot de Beauvois)”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: plural of xylogalacturonase
plug nickels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of plug nickel
rôle model
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rôle models
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of role model.
rideaus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rideau
Principality of Wales
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Principality of Wales
Senses: glosses: The official name of Wales prior to England's union with Wales in 1542.
glosses: In general use, the full name of Wales.
Sputnik
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Sputniks
Etymology: See sputnik. The vaccine sense is an ellipsis of Sputnik V, from Russian Спутник V (Sputnik V), a trade name given after Sputnik 1, the world's first artificial satellite.
Senses: examples: text: For the record, Stone has been quadruple-vaxxed against covid-19: “Two Sputniks and two Pfizers,” he says proudly.
ref: 2021 December 22, Ann Hornaday, “‘JFK’ at 30: Oliver Stone and the lasting impact of America’s most dangerous movie”, in The Washington Post:
synonyms: word: Sputnik V
english: trade name
translation: trade name
glosses: An adenovirus viral vector vaccine for COVID-19, developed in Russia.
glosses: Alternative letter-case form of sputnik.
Derived terms: Sputniked
Sputnik star
Sputnik weed
Sputnik
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: See sputnik. The vaccine sense is an ellipsis of Sputnik V, from Russian Спутник V (Sputnik V), a trade name given after Sputnik 1, the world's first artificial satellite.
Senses: glosses: A village in Pechengsky District, Murmansk Oblast, Russia.
Sputniks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Sputnik. (Alternative letter-case form of sputniks.)
AIRMET
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: AIRMETs
Senses: topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
climatology
engineering
meteorology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Abbreviation of airman's meteorological advisory.
Related terms: SIGMET
AIRMETs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of AIRMET
SIGMETs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of SIGMET
chuckoor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chuckoors
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of chukar.
chikor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chikors
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of chukar.
chikkor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of chukar.
chichore
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of chukar.
chikhor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chikhors
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of chukar.
thought pattern
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: thought patterns
Senses: topics: human-sciences
psychology
sciences
glosses: the way a person is used to thinking.
black partridge
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: black partridges
Senses: examples: text: The black partridge is very noisy during the spring, which corresponds with its breeding season, and calls loud and incessantly in the morning, at midday, and sometimes even at night; the painted partridge has a pleasant chirping note; the chukar is another noisy bird; its call-note is fully described by Hume.
ref: 1892, Ram Bramha Sanyal, A Hand-book of the Management of Animals in Captivity in Lower Bengal:
glosses: A small partridge of Southeast Asia (Melanoperdix niger).
Synonyms: black wood partridge
ridge-bone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ridge-bones
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of ridgebone.
uniform case
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: uniform cases
Senses: examples: text: He dragged his tin uniform case from under the bed and took out five ten-rupee notes.
ref: 1934 October, George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], “Chapter 13”, in Burmese Days, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, →OCLC:
text: In the hall lay an officer's uniform-case, brand new, the price ticket still attached.
ref: 1940, Roger Martin du Gard, translated by Stuart Gilbert, Summer, 1914, London: John Lane the Bodley Head, Part II, Chapter 45, p. 624:
glosses: A metal case used to store and transport a military uniform.
COMSUBPAC
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: COMSUBPACs
Senses: topics: government
military
nautical
politics
transport
war
glosses: Abbreviation of commander, submarine force, U.S. Navy Pacific fleet.
Related terms: COMPACFLT
PACFLT
COMPACFLT
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: COMPACFLTs
Senses: topics: government
military
nautical
politics
transport
war
glosses: Abbreviation of commander, U.S. Navy Pacific fleet.
Related terms: COMSUBPAC
PACFLT
CANSOFCOM
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: Abbreviation of Canadian Special Operations Forces Command.
Coordinate terms: USSOCOM
Related terms: SOC
SOCOM
SOFCOM
SFCOM
unbreakability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From un- + breakability.
Senses: examples: 2004, American Mathematical Society, Bulletin (new series) of the American Mathematical Society
So when one speaks of the "unbreakability" of one-time pads, one is speaking only to the mathematical unbreakability of the cryptography and not to the underlying security system in which it is embedded.
synonyms: unbreakableness
glosses: The quality of being impossible to break.
Related terms: unbreakable
PACFLT
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: government
military
nautical
politics
transport
war
glosses: Abbreviation of U.S. Navy Pacific fleet.
Synonyms: USPACFLT
Related terms: COMSUBPAC
COMPACFLT
USPACFLT
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: government
military
nautical
politics
transport
war
glosses: Abbreviation of U.S. Navy Pacific fleet.
Synonyms: PACFLT
Related terms: COMSUBPAC
COMPACFLT
USSOCOM
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: Abbreviation of United States Special Operations Command.
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: Misspelling of USSOUTHCOM.
Synonyms: SOCOM
Coordinate terms: sense: special operations
word: CANSOFCOM
Related terms: sense: special operations
word: SFCOM
sense: special operations
word: SOC
sense: special operations
word: SOCOM
sense: special operations
word: SOFCOM
hemocatharsis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: haemocatharsis
form: hæmocatharsis
Etymology: From hemo- + catharsis.
Senses: examples: text: The name "hemocatharsis" has been applied to this method of blood washing or dilution.
ref: 1907 February 24, B. C. Harmon, “The intravenous versus the subcutaneous use of normal salt solution”, in Massachusetts Medical Journal, number 2, page 45:
text: In the opinion of experts, the method of hemocatharsis used in the device is also highly promising for the preservation of organs before transplantation.
ref: 1976, Trade and Industry, volume 20, page 51:
text: Even though CAPD is a continuous hemocatharsis method, it achieves considerably low levels of clearance, which are barely adequate for preventing uremia.
ref: 2012, H. Suzuki, Home Dialysis in Japan: Contemporary Status, page 31:
glosses: Cleansing of the blood.
Related terms: hemocathartic
educational institution
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: educational institutions
Senses: synonyms: seat of learning
glosses: A place where people of different ages gain an education, including preschools, childcare, elementary schools, and universities.
educational institutions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of educational institution
country rap
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: So as the genre feels increasingly unmoored from the rural experience, it leaves a gap for country-rap, which is often, word for word, far more specifically rural than what’s on the radio.
ref: 2014 May 23, The New York Times, “Country Music Opens Its Ears”, in The New York Times:
glosses: A genre of popular music combining country music and hip-hop-style rapping, typically accompanied by guitar, fiddle, and drum machine.
Related terms: hick-hop
rural rap
Clarkie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Clarkies
Etymology: From Clark + -ie.
Senses: glosses: A student at, or alum of, Clark University.
cruiseship
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cruiseships
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of cruise ship.
cruiseships
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cruiseship
SLIs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of SLI
riems
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of riem
gridironer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gridironers
Etymology: From gridiron + -er.
Senses: glosses: An American football player.
gridironers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gridironer
Weickian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Weickian
form: most Weickian
Etymology: From Weick + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to Karl E. Weick (born 1936), American organizational theorist who introduced the concepts of loose coupling, mindfulness, and sensemaking into organizational studies.
right-hearted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more right-hearted
form: most right-hearted
Etymology: From right + heart + -ed. Compare Old English rihtheort (“upright in heart; right-hearted”), Old High German rehtherze (“upright in heart”).
Senses: examples: text: Worship proper, or reverence, is the natural reflection or re-action of a right-hearted soul, in view of the mystery and majesty, the moral perfection and the tender love, of God.
ref: 2009, Noah Porter, The Elements of Moral Science:
text: They started the communities and established laws to make sure the right-hearted people were given an equal opportunity of life. They also were able to stop the happenings of experimentation of the right-hearted people.
ref: 2013, Louis Alexandrè, The Right-Hearted People:
glosses: Having a right heart or disposition; good-hearted.
Related terms: right-minded
right-sided heart failure, right heart failure
loose couplings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of loose coupling
banana clip
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: banana clips
Etymology: From its shape, resembling the fruit.
Senses: glosses: A girl's long, curved hairclip resembling two combs that mesh together.
examples: text: It included 44 AK-47 rifles, and 260 large-capacity banana clips.
ref: 2006, Gideon Burrows, Kalashnikov AK47, page 45:
topics: engineering
firearms
government
military
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
politics
tools
war
weaponry
glosses: A curved ammunition clip for the AK-47 assault rifle.
banana clips
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of banana clip
trumpeter crane
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: trumpeter cranes
Senses: glosses: Any of several large waders, including the whooping crane, the sandhill crane, and various egrets and trumpeters.
amblyoponine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: amblyoponines
Senses: examples: text: The workers of the genus Mystrium can be distinguished easily from other amblyoponine genera by their characteristic head shape and mandibles; however, in some species, morphological variation within castes in body size and shape, setae or body sculpture is remarkably high, while differences among species can be so slight as to be confounding for taxonomists [40 ].
ref: 2016 January 23, “Phylogeography in Response to Reproductive Strategies and Ecogeographic Isolation in Ant Species on Madagascar: Genus Mystrium (Formicidae: Amblyoponinae)”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Any ant of the subfamily Amblyoponinae.
amblyoponines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of amblyoponine
calicioid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: calicioids
Senses: examples: text: Some lichen species were common in all stand types, e.g. Hypogymnia physodes, Parmeliopsis ambigua, and Bryoria fuscescens, but the calicioid lichens (Calicium glaucellum, Chaenotheca chrysocephala, C.
ref: 2016 January 23, “A Pine Is a Pine and a Spruce Is a Spruce – The Effect of Tree Species and Stand Age on Epiphytic Lichen Communities”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Any lichen-forming fungus of the family Caliciaceae.
panstick
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pansticks
Etymology: Blend of pancake + stick, originally as the trade name Pan-Stik (introduced in 1947).
Senses: glosses: A form of pancake makeup supplied in a tube, like lipstick.
decyanation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -eɪʃən
Forms: form: decyanations
Etymology: From de- + cyanation.
Senses: examples: text: MMACHC carries out dealkylation of alkylCbls and decyanation of cyanocobalamin (CNCbl) in glutathione (GSH)-dependent and NADPH-dependent reactions, respectively [2 ].
ref: 2016 January 23, “Decreased Brain Levels of Vitamin B12 in Aging, Autism and Schizophrenia”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The removal of a cyanide (or nitrile) group from a molecule
pansticks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of panstick
emoticonized
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From emoticon + -ize + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: We collect totally 68 million tweets posted by these users in 2012, among which 22.7% are emoticonized tweets.
ref: 2016 January 23, “Emoticon-Based Ambivalent Expression: A Hidden Indicator for Unusual Behaviors in Weibo”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Supplemented with emoticons
trumpeter cranes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of trumpeter crane
genoserotyping
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From geno- + serotyping.
Senses: examples: text: In addition to performing serovar prediction by genoserotyping, this resource integrates sequence-based typing analyses for: Multi-Locus Sequence Typing (MLST), ribosomal MLST (rMLST), and core genome MLST (cgMLST).
ref: 2016 January 23, “The Salmonella In Silico Typing Resource (SISTR): An Open Web-Accessible Tool for Rapidly Typing and Subtyping Draft Salmonella Genome Assemblies”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: genomic serotyping
Clarkies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Clarkie
pancaky
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more pancaky
form: most pancaky
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of pancakey.
pancakey
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more pancakey
form: most pancakey
form: pancaky
Etymology: From pancake + -y.
Senses: glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a pancake.
MVCs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of MVC
lactodifucotetraose
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Three of the more abundant fucosylated HMOs, 2’-fucosyllactose (2’-FL), 3-fucosyllactose (3-FL) and lactodifucotetraose have been shown to exhibit a prebiotic effect [4 ].
ref: 2016 January 23, “Novel α-L-Fucosidases from a Soil Metagenome for Production of Fucosylated Human Milk Oligosaccharides”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: An oligosaccharide composed of lactose with two added fucose moieties
metalloreductase
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: metalloreductases
Etymology: From metallo- + reductase.
Senses: examples: text: For plants, no corresponding metalloreductase has so far been found [58 ] indicating that the main storage form of iron in the vacuole appears to be complexed Fe(II).
ref: 2016 January 23, “The Organization of Controller Motifs Leading to Robust Plant Iron Homeostasis”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any reductase that is a metalloenzyme
metalloreductases
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of metalloreductase
microautosampler
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: microautosamplers
Etymology: From micro- + autosampler.
Senses: examples: text: Brain samples were thawed on ice, and a 10% homogenate was prepared. 50 mL of a 0.4 N perchloric acid solution was added to 200 μL of the sample, and samples were gently blown with nitrogen gas before being centrifuged at 13,000 RPM for 60 min. 100 μL of sample was added to a microautosampler vial, blown with nitrogen gas, capped and loaded at 4°C in the autosampler cooling tray. 10 μL of sample was injected into the HPLC system and measured by electrochemical detection.
ref: 2016 January 23, “Decreased Brain Levels of Vitamin B12 in Aging, Autism and Schizophrenia”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: An autosampler that can take very small samples
microautosamplers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of microautosampler
microendemism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: microendemisms
Etymology: From micro- + endemism.
Senses: examples: text: Instead, geographic barriers to gene flow leading to microendemism in the region may be generating a unique pattern among haplotypes, as discussed below.
ref: 2016 January 23, “Phylogeography in Response to Reproductive Strategies and Ecogeographic Isolation in Ant Species on Madagascar: Genus Mystrium (Formicidae: Amblyoponinae)”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: The condition of being microendemic
micronome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: micronomes
Senses: examples: text: This study contributes to the expanding knowledge base of the micronome of this important crop.
ref: 2016 January 23, “Unveiling the Micronome of Cassava ( Manihot esculenta Crantz)”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: The interactome of microRNA transcripts
micronomes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of micronome
polyuridylated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From poly- + uridylated.
Senses: examples: text: The processed miRNA duplex is 2’-O methylated and polyuridylated at the 3’-terminal nucleotide by a dsRNA methylase HEN1.
ref: 2016 January 23, “Unveiling the Micronome of Cassava ( Manihot esculenta Crantz)”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: uridylated in many locations
preanneal
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: preanneals
form: preannealing
form: preannealed
form: preannealed
Etymology: From pre- + anneal.
Senses: examples: text: Chromosomal DNA was denatured in 70% formamide/2xSSC at 70°C for 60 seconds, followed by preannealing the probes for 30 minutes at 37°C. The slides immersed immediately in cold 70% ethanol for 4 minutes followed by the ethanol series described above.
ref: 2016 January 23, “Extensive Chromosomal Reorganization in the Evolution of New World Muroid Rodents (Cricetidae, Sigmodontinae): Searching for Ancestral Phylogenetic Traits”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: to anneal prior to some other process
Regrexit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹɪˈɡɹɛɡ.zɪt/
ipa: /ɹɪˈɡɹɛk.sɪt/
rhymes: -ɛksɪt
Etymology: Blend of regret + Brexit, said to have been coined on 24 June 2016 by one Carl Gardner in a Twitter post (see quotations) following the United Kingdom European Union membership referendum on 23 June 2016.
Senses: examples: text: Labour has one chance now. To emerge within weeks as Britain's centrist "Regrexit Unionist" party. If it did that, even I might forgive it.
ref: 2016 June 24, Carl Gardner (@carlgardner), Twitter, archived from the original on 02 Nov 2016:
text: There are leave voters who confessed to reporters that they never thought their side would actually win, that their vote had only ever been intended as a protest, presumed to be safe because surely everyone else would vote the other way. […] A Twitter user came up with a new coinage for this rapid form of buyer's remorse: Regrexit. […] When some of those leave voters see that Brexit has not brought back the good jobs of old, that housing is still in desperately short supply and that a migrant family still lives round the corner, the Regrexit sentiment will grow.
ref: 2016 June 24, Jonathan Freedland, “For the 48%, this was a day of despair: Soon we will become little Britain. The signs of Regrexit are cold comfort for those of us who voted to remain.”, in The Guardian, London, archived from the original on 13 Sep 2016, subtitle:
text: From reports, the UK is moving rapidly from Brexit to Regrexit.
ref: 2016 June 26, Abhidevananda <abhide...@sarkarverse.org>, “Re: Brexit”, in uk.philosophy.humanism (Usenet), message-ID <t9ybz.34812$LR2.4319@fx26.fr7>:
text: In the spirit of Brexit, these attitudes even have their own media-friendly nickname: Bregret or Regrexit.
ref: 2016 June 27, Adam Taylor, “Bregret? Regrexit? Don't bet on it.”, in The Washington Post, archived from the original on 06 Oct 2016:
text: There were many reasons for the Leave vote, and Regrexit is now gaining momentum.
ref: 2016 June 29, Anna Wallis, “Brexit lessons here”, in Wanganui Chronicle:
text: Within a few days, petitions to re-do the vote emerged with more than four million signatures, known as 'Regrexit.'
ref: 2017, Markus M.L. Crepaz, European Democracies, Routledge, →ISBN:
text: There's a chance, especially with the 'Regrexit' sentiment surfacing, that the U.K. will still be part of the EU in two years.
ref: 2018, Victor O. Okocha, Leadership and Development Crises in Africa: A New Approach to an Old Challenge, Dorrance Publishing, →ISBN, page 234:
topics: government
politics
glosses: A feeling of regret about Brexit taking place, or about having voted for it.
Derived terms: regrexiteer
prevertebra
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɜː(ɹ)tɪbɹə
Forms: form: prevertebrae
Etymology: From pre- + vertebra.
Senses: examples: text: Hoxb6 mRNA is detected in neural tube and somites, with an anterior boundary in somites that contribute to the sixth prevertebra.
ref: 2016 January 23, “Developmental Patterning as a Quantitative Trait: Genetic Modulation of the Hoxb6 Mutant Skeletal Phenotype”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Any of the structures that develop into the vertebrae
prevertebrae
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of prevertebra
transfucosylation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From trans- + fucosylation.
Senses: examples: text: Additionally, for Mfuc5, a reaction using a suspension of 33.7 g/L citrus peel xyloglucan (5.55 mM bound fucose), 140 mM lactose and 56 mM phosphate-citrate buffer (pH 7) was done at 30°C. The final enzyme concentrations were as for the transfucosylation experiment described above.
ref: 2016 January 23, “Novel α-L-Fucosidases from a Soil Metagenome for Production of Fucosylated Human Milk Oligosaccharides”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Any reaction that transfers a fucosyl from one molecule to another
undersimplification
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: undersimplifications
Etymology: From under- + simplification.
Senses: examples: text: Both oversimplification (e.g., explanatory variables are incomplete) and undersimplification (e.g., explanatory variables are redundant) of reality can lead to trustless explanation and unfaithful prediction.
ref: 2016 January 23, “Spatial Autocorrelation Approaches to Testing Residuals from Least Squares Regression”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: Incomplete simplification
COMMARPAC
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Unlike NORAD where a formally constituted bi-national command staff existed to handle emergencies, the bilateral naval organization, which was every bit as complex as that of NORAD but did not have the same history of political sensitivity, relied on liaison between the key headquarters: COMASWFORLANT in the United States and COMARLANT in Canada to deal with the Atlantic with a parallel structure on the Pacific through COMTHIRDFLT and COMMARPAC respectively.
ref: 2007, Peter T. Haydon, “Canadian Involvement in the Cuban Missile Crisis Re-Reconsidered”, in The Northern Mariner, volume 17, number 2, CNRS & NASOH, →ISSN, page 62:
text: When I was assigned to COMMARPAC headquarters in 1973, it was for two reasons. The first was to get headquarters staff officer experience which helps your career down the road, and the second was I had some health issues and the flight surgeons wanted me out of the cockpit for a while.
ref: 2021, Lewis Allen Lambert, chapter 28, in On the 8th Day, God Created a Marine, Bloomington: AuthorHouse, →ISBN:
topics: government
military
nautical
politics
transport
war
glosses: Abbreviation of commander, maritime forces, Pacific.
Related terms: MARPAC
MARCOM
COMMARCOM
CANMARCOM
CANMARPAC
CANMARPAC
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: government
military
nautical
politics
transport
war
glosses: Abbreviation of Canadian maritime forces, Pacific.
Synonyms: MARPAC
Related terms: MARCOM
COMMARCOM
CANMARCOM
COMMARPAC
MARPAC
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: government
military
nautical
politics
transport
war
glosses: Abbreviation of Canadian maritime forces, Pacific.
Synonyms: CANMARPAC
Related terms: MARCOM
COMMARCOM
CANMARCOM
COMMARPAC
CANMARCOM
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: government
military
nautical
politics
transport
war
glosses: Abbreviation of Canadian maritime forces command.
Synonyms: MARCOM
Related terms: MARPAC
COMMARCOM
CANMARPAC
COMMARPAC
MARCOM
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: government
military
nautical
politics
transport
war
glosses: Abbreviation of maritime forces command.
Related terms: MARPAC
CANMARCOM
COMMARCOM
CANMARPAC
COMMARPAC
COMMARCOM
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: government
military
nautical
politics
transport
war
glosses: Abbreviation of commander, maritime forces command.
Related terms: MARPAC
MARCOM
CANMARCOM
CANMARPAC
COMMARPAC