cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
unsly
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʌnˈslaɪ/
rhymes: -aɪ
Forms: form: more unsly
form: most unsly
Etymology: From Middle English unsly, unslei, unsley, unsleiȝ, unsleȝe, unsleeiȝ, equivalent to un- + sly.
Senses: examples: text: Glaucon will play devil's advocate (358c-d, thereby showing himself craftier than Thrasymachus, who is so unsly as to declare himself a wolf, openly, before the sheep; […])
ref: 2001, Michael Palmer, Masters and Slaves: Revisioned Essays in Political Philosophy:
text: His brown eyes were keen and lively, not absolutely unsly but not ruthless or egomaniac, either: nobody could run a museum without at least a sliver of slyness.
ref: 2014, Bill James, Snatched:
text: Jazz was the pop music of the times and musicians in the know began peppering their songs with sly and unsly drug references.
ref: 2017, Colin Hogg, The High Road: A Journey to the New Frontier of Cannabis:
glosses: Not sly; lacking slyness
TAD
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: TADs
Senses: glosses: Initialism of tobacco, alcohol and drugs.
topics: biology
medicine
natural-sciences
pathology
sciences
veterinary
zoology
glosses: Initialism of transboundary animal disease.
Geneva gown
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Geneva gowns
Senses: glosses: An ecclesiastical garment customarily worn by ordained ministers in the Christian churches that arose out of the Protestant Reformation.
Geneva gowns
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Geneva gown
taliput
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: taliputs
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of talipot.
taliputs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of taliput
return values
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of return value
return valve
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: return valves
Senses: glosses: A valve that opens to allow reflux of a fluid in case of overflow.
return valves
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of return valve
monocompound
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: monocompounds
Etymology: From mono- + compound.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A compound containing one atom of any particular element.
monocompounds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of monocompound
syphilography
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From syphilo- + -graphy.
Senses: glosses: The scientific description of syphilis.
syphilisation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: syphilisations
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of syphilization.
syphilisations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of syphilisation
pantagamous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to pantagamy.
pantagamy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From panta- + -gamy.
Senses: glosses: A system of communistic marriage, once practised in the Oneida community.
Related terms: pantagamous
pan-Deist
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: It was felt that ecumenism was being contaminated by "pan-Deist" and syncretistic tendencies.
ref: 1974, Bert Beverly Beach, Ecumenism: Boon Or Bane?, page 259:
text: But a sincere idealist, implicitly pan-Deist in faith, deeply concerned with the problems of the world and of time, can be a Ghibelline pope, and Dante's Ghibellines have at last triumphed.
ref: 1971, Rousas John Rushdoony, The One and the Many: Studies in the Philosophy of Order and Ultimacy, Ch. VIII-7, p. 143:
glosses: Alternative form of pandeist.
phellogenetic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to phellogen.
pedestrially
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From pedestrial + -ly.
Senses: glosses: on foot, as a pedestrian
regium donum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Latin [Term?].
Senses: glosses: An annual grant of public money to Presbyterian and other nonconformist ministers in England, Scotland, and especially Ireland, where it only ceased in 1871.
risk it for the biscuit
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: risks it for the biscuit
form: risking it for the biscuit
form: risked it for the biscuit
form: risked it for the biscuit
form: risk it to get the biscuit
Etymology: Chosen for the rhyme.
Senses: glosses: To take a risk for the chance of some benefit or reward.
Related terms: juice is worth the squeeze
parting-cup
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: parting-cups
Senses: glosses: A drinking-cup with two handles on opposite sides.
parting-cups
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of parting-cup
unassurance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From un- + assurance.
Senses: glosses: Lack of assurance; the feeling of being unassured.
tittersome
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more tittersome
form: most tittersome
Etymology: From titter + -some.
Senses: glosses: Characterised or marked by tittering.
risksome
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more risksome
form: most risksome
Etymology: From risk + -some.
Senses: examples: text: The police are efficient, and the garrote not an institution, else it would be a risksome venture to mount these silent, dark stairways, with no other guide than the balusters and the recollection of the landing stages passed.
ref: 1866, Harper's New Monthly Magazine, volume 33, page 174:
text: “[…] I feel I'm getting an old man now; and my business is very risksome, when the waves are high, and the wind blows hard, and only a cockleshell of a boat between me and eternity; so we're right to lay something by for you, in case ill should come to me.”
ref: 1872, Sibella Jones, The wet blanket:
text: We don't charge this class with a guilty intention of evading the law or the regulation of the mine, but with undue impatience in their hurry to get through with their work, jumping at risksome advantages that too often prove fatal in the end.
ref: 1876, Report of the Department of Mines of Pennsylvania, page 55:
text: Upon leaving headquarters Peter joined his friends. "It's a risksome business," he went on, after informing them of the instructions he had received. "But I don't know as it is much more risksome than stopping here. […]"
ref: 1885, George Alfred Henty, True to the Old Flag:
text: It was still the heroic age of commerce, and the marches of these merchants-in-arms, escorting their packages to the fairs of Europe, had a military and risksome look, which we no longer deem in keeping with matter of such peaceful kind.
ref: 1892, The Francisan Tertiary, volume 2, page 553:
text: […] inasmuch as the European-managed banks or the old class of moneylenders were generally averse to advance money to Swadeshi concerns except on the most approved securities or risksome conditions, he set himself, shortly after his return from England, to his promotion of his scheme to Indian banks.
ref: 1919, Papers by Command, volume 20, page 254:
text: Charles said, "You shall have ships. The Seigneur de Gruthuyse shall arrange it." But he was thoughtful. Was it possible for Edward to succeed? Was the venture too risksome? […]
ref: 1969, Jan Vlachos Westcott, The White Rose, page 268:
text: At the first jump he went over the hill, then he said to himself, “This is too risksome; that man is dangerous.”
ref: 2015, Jeremiah Curtin, Seneca Indian Myths:
glosses: Characterised or marked by risk; risky
searchlighted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of searchlight
searchlighted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Illuminated by one or more searchlights.
searchlighting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of searchlight
beat the air
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: beats the air
form: beating the air
form: beat the air
form: beaten the air
form: beat the air
Senses: glosses: To fight to no purpose, or against an imaginary enemy.
rejectful
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more rejectful
form: most rejectful
Etymology: From reject + -ful.
Senses: glosses: Typified by an attitude of rejection; nonaccepting
Derived terms: rejectfully
matrixectomies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of matrixectomy
rejectfully
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more rejectfully
form: most rejectfully
Etymology: From rejectful + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: For answer to complaint herein
Defendant most respectfully
Denies the same, disputes the claim,
And utterly, rejectfully.
ref: 1897, The Albany Law Journal: A Monthly Record of the Law and the Lawyers:
text: […] — knowing that Fondie would never question any coin that came from her fingers, or put any metal so consecrated to the test of his teeth, or shake his head over it rejectfully, as other people might do — he would gaze at the little treasury of small silver pieces as though they represented the precious particles of Blanche's self.
ref: 1916, Edward Charles Booth, Fondie, page 215:
text: We must recognize the sayings of the saints, observations of the scholars and the customs observed within one's community in case the said things confirm to the standards set forth by Qur'an and Sunnah and likewise we should rejectfully shun them in case they do not.
ref: 1995, Muḥammad Ismāʻīl, Taqwiyat-ul-Imān, page 38:
glosses: In a rejectful manner.
char-à-banc
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: char-à-bancs
form: chars-à-bancs
Senses: examples: text: To-day, when fish no longer inhabited its tanks, it was a by-word; it was a failure in every other direction; it was despised by its owners. So abject was its condition that recently efforts had actually been made by a hardened and determined ichthyophobe named Clayton to convert it into a garage for char-à-bancs.
ref: 1922 September 20, E. V. L., “The Fishes’ Revenge”, in Punch, or The London Charivari, volume 163, page 286:
text: At a quarter past eleven a succession of chars-à-bancs brought up specially-invited guests from the station and I went down into the compound to assist at the reception.
ref: 1929, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, When the World Screamed:
glosses: Obsolete form of charabanc.
char-à-bancs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of char-à-banc
disclosing tablet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: disclosing tablets
Senses: glosses: A chewable tablet used to make dental plaque visible on the teeth.
disclosing tablets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of disclosing tablet
excell
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of excel.
excells
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of excell
calacorene
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: calacorenes
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The bicyclic hydrocarbon (1S)-4,7-dimethyl-1-propan-2-yl-1,2-dihydronaphthalene or any of several isomers
stramonies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stramony
calamenene
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The bicyclic hydrocarbon (1S,4S)-1,6-dimethyl-4-propan-2-yl-1,2,3,4-tetrahydronaphthalene
caudomedian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From caudo- + median.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: caudal and median
extinction event
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: extinction events
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
qualifier: evolutionary theory
glosses: Synonym of mass extinction.
synonyms: word: mass extinction
Derived terms: Triassic-Jurassic extinction event
Related terms: doomsday event
extinction level event
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: extinction level events
Senses: topics: literature
media
publishing
science-fiction
synonyms: word: ELE
word: E.L.E.
word: mass extinction
glosses: Synonym of mass extinction.
centrocone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: centrocones
Senses: glosses: A structure associated with the centrosome of apicomplexans
chemoresponse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chemoresponses
Etymology: From chemo- + response.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: The response of a patient to chemotherapy, or to a chemical stimulus
Related terms: chemoresponsive
chromadorid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chromadorids
Senses: glosses: Any nematode of the order Chromadorida
glosses: Any gastropod mollusk of the family Chromodorididae
chromadorids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chromadorid
cofilament
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cofilaments
Etymology: From co- + filament.
Senses: glosses: Any of several filaments bound together
topics: category-theory
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A diagram in a category that is indexed by a directed set.
cofilaments
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cofilament
corneolenticular
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From corneo- + lenticular.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Relating to the cornea and lens (of the eye)
crossbridges
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of crossbridge
crosstide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A peptide related to glycogen synthase kinase
cryoembed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: cryoembeds
form: cryoembedding
form: cryoembedded
form: cryoembedded
Etymology: From cryo- + embed.
Senses: glosses: To embed at low temperatures
calorigenicity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: The quality of being calorigenic.
cryoembedded
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of cryoembed
pharmacoresponse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pharmacoresponses
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Response to pharmacotherapy.
cyclooxygenation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cyclooxygenations
form: cyclo-oxygenation
Etymology: From cyclo- + oxygenation.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A reaction that combines a cyclization and an oxygenation
deferoxamide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: deferoxamides
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A hydroxyamide derived from deferoxamine
demetallate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: demetallates
form: demetallating
form: demetallated
form: demetallated
Etymology: From de- + metallate.
Senses: glosses: To cause, or to undergo demetallation
desmodorid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: desmodorids
Senses: glosses: Any nematode of the order Desmodorida
desmodorids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of desmodorid
tranx
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /tɹæŋks/
rhymes: -æŋks
Forms: form: trank
form: tranq
Senses: examples: text: "If the girl wants to sleep, let her do it on her own time. She must have gulped a handful of tranx, for Christ's sake. I couldn't even get her to make conversation."
"Hey, man—now listen. Greta wouldn't take no tranx when she's working."
ref: 1975, Russell H. Greenan, Heart of Gold, page 114:
text: No tranx
Minor tranquillisers are among the world's most commonly prescribed drugs.
ref: 1988, New Society, page 134:
glosses: Medicinal tranquilizers for human consumption, whether legal or illegal.
Related terms: sense: see
word: tranquilizer
disattenuate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: disattenuates
form: disattenuating
form: disattenuated
form: disattenuated
Etymology: From dis- + attenuate.
Senses: glosses: To counter the affects of attenuation
disattenuated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of disattenuate
discoordinate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: discoordinates
form: discoordinating
form: discoordinated
form: discoordinated
form: dyscoordinate
Etymology: From dis- + coordinate.
Senses: glosses: To cause, or to undergo discoordination
discoordinated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: dyscoordinated
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of discoordinate
discoordinated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: dyscoordinated
Senses: glosses: Subject to discoordination
disectors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of disector
ecoaction
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ecoactions
form: eco-action
Etymology: From eco- + action.
Senses: glosses: Any ecologically-beneficial action
ecoactions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ecoaction
elastogenesis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From elasto- + -genesis.
Senses: glosses: The formation and development of elastic fibre, especially in heart valves
Related terms: elastogenic
neoelastogenesis
electrofocused
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From electro- + focused.
Senses: glosses: Modified by electrofocusing
electrophoretical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of electrophoretic.
embryopathology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From embryo- + pathology.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: The pathology of embryos
Related terms: embryopathological
embryopathological
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From embryo- + pathological.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: Relating to embryopathology
epiparietosquamosal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From epipariet(al) + -o- + squamosal.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: epiparietal and squamosal
folliculid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: folliculids
Senses: glosses: Any ciliate of the family Folliculinidae
folliculids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of folliculid
glycoproteases
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of glycoprotease
butlery
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: butleries
Etymology: From Middle English buttillary, buttlarye, botelerye, botelerie, from Old French boteillerie, butelerie and Medieval Latin butellaria.
Senses: synonyms: word: butlerie
glosses: butler's pantry; serving pantry
examples: text: The dark side of butlery was even more evident during the height of the Evil Empire, when the strongest and most enterprising local men were made into footmen and majordomos, completely robbed of their dignity but paid for a month's work what they might otherwise make in a year.
ref: 2007, Steven A. Grasse, The Evil Empire: 101 Ways That England Ruined the World, page 53:
glosses: The work or role of a butler.
Coordinate terms: servery
Related terms: butler
butler's pantry
butleries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of butlery
glosses: plural of butlerie
hemophagocytotic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From hemo- + phagocytotic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to hemophagocytosis.
Olivetan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Olivetans
Senses: glosses: One of an order of Benedictine monks founded in 1313, the original house at Monte Oliveto, near Siena.
Olivetans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Olivetan
spleenishness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From spleenish + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being spleenish.
spleenishly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more spleenishly
form: most spleenishly
Etymology: From spleenish + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a spleenish manner.
uninvention
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From un- + invention.
Senses: glosses: The process of uninventing.
LTRs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of LTR
constitutionalities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of constitutionality
suspirious
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more suspirious
form: most suspirious
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin suspīriōsus.
Senses: glosses: Suspiring; sighing.
contrariants
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of contrariant
Celtomania
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˌkɛltəʊˈmeɪniə/
/ˌkɛltoʊˈmeɪniə/
Etymology: From Celto- + -mania.
Senses: examples: text: The image of druids skipping around dolmens is a mainstay of Celtomania.
glosses: enthusiasm for or obsession with the Celts, typically based on pseudohistorical beliefs
Related terms: Celtomaniac
moon facies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Synonym of moon face.
synonyms: word: moon face
humulenol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: humulenols
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The sesquiterpenol (4Z,8Z)-6,6,9-trimethyl-2-methylidenecycloundeca-4,8-dien-1-ol derived from humulene
hyperosteosis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of hyperostosis.
hypogeometric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of hypergeometric.
ergonal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more ergonal
form: most ergonal
Etymology: From ergon (“work”) + -al (“pertaining to”), in analogy to thermal (“pertaining to heat”), coined by John Tyndall as "thermal and ergonal content" (1867, p. 357) in the translation of Rudolf Clausius' phrase Wärme- und Werkinhalt (1865).
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
thermodynamics
glosses: pertaining to mechanical work
wikipedia: Rudolf Clausius
Related terms: ergal
ergon
energy
entropy
immunoadsorbtion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of immunoadsorption.
immunohistocytochemical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: immunology
medicine
sciences
glosses: immunohistochemical and cytochemical
Related terms: immunohistocytochemistry
immunohistocytochemistry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: immunology
medicine
sciences
glosses: immunohistochemical cytochemistry
Related terms: immunohistocytochemical
immunoscore
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: immunoscores
Etymology: From immuno- + score.
Senses: examples: text: These are the cut-off values of the "immunoscores" of the immunocytochemical assays.
ref: 1990 February 24, P.G. Koendore, “Relation between ER and EGFR in primary human breast cancer reports at variance”, in European Journal of Cancer, volume 26, number 2, page 183:
topics: immunology
medicine
sciences
glosses: An immunological quantification of the severity of a cancer
immunoscore
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: immunoscores
form: immunoscoring
form: immunoscored
form: immunoscored
Etymology: From immuno- + score.
Senses: glosses: To make such a quantification
immunoscores
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of immunoscore
immunospecificity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From immuno- + specificity.
Senses: topics: immunology
medicine
sciences
glosses: The condition of being immunospecific
intrabulbar
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From intra- + bulbar.
Senses: glosses: Within the bulb of the penis
Derived terms: intrabulbar fossa
intrafloral
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From intra- + floral.
Senses: glosses: Within a flower
isoallelic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From iso- + allelic.
Senses: topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: Relating to isoalleles
isoquantal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to isoquants
kilobasepairs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kilobasepair
Dunhuang
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /dʊnˈhwæŋ/
ipa: /dʊnˈhwɑŋ/
enpr: do͝onʹhwängʹ
Forms: form: Tunhwang
form: Tun-huang
form: Tunhuang
Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 敦煌 (Dūnhuáng).
Senses: glosses: A county-level city of Jiuquan, Gansu, China.
glosses: A former commandery in Gansu, China, under various imperial dynasties.
glosses: A former kingdom in Gansu, China, during the early 10th century.
Synonyms: sense: former kingdom
word: Guiyi
Derived terms: Dunhuangology
Dunhuang studies
periergy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Coined by Nathan Bailey in 1731 from peri- + -ergy.
Senses: glosses: Excessive caution or diligence.
Anlu
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɑːnˈluː/
enpr: änʹlo͞oʹ
Forms: form: An-lu
Etymology: From the Postal Map romanization of the Mandarin 安陸 /安陆 (Ānlù).
Senses: examples: text: In Hupeh District it is at work in fifteen counties: […] Anlu, […] So far as the foreign staff is concerned there were no men added in 1915 and only three ladies: Miss Weaver for evangelistic work in Wuchang, Miss Stephenson for the Anlu Hospital, and Miss McCord for evangelistic work at Anlu.
ref: 1916, George A. Clayton, “Wesleyan Methodist Missionary Society (1852)”, in China Mission Year Book 1916, volume 7th, Shanghai: Christian Literature Society for China, →OCLC, page 119:
text: Chu conferred with Hsü Ta and Ch’ang Yü-ch’un at Nanking on 23 April. The only ex-Han territories still free from Ming control were the cities of the Han River valley, of which Hsiangyang and Anlu were the most important.
ref: 1982, Edward L. Dreyer, “The Rise of the Ming Empire, 1352–1368”, in Early Ming China: A Political History, 1355–1435, Stanford, Cali.: Stanford University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 55:
text: On 16 February Emperor Zhu Yuan Zhang ordered General Deng Yu to take the troops in Xiangyang (now Xiangyang, Hubei Province) and Anlu (now Anlu, Hubei Province) northward to conquer Henan Province.
ref: 2016, Hung Hing Ming, “Zhu Yuan Zhang Founds The Ming Dynasty”, in From the Mongols to the Ming Dynasty: How a Begging Monk Became Emperor of China, Zhu Yuan Zhang, New York: Algora Publishing, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 170:
text: Workers work at the construction site of a makeshift hospital in Anlu city, which is under the administration of Xiaogan city, in Central China's Hubei province, Feb 11, 2020.
ref: 2020 February 12, “Xiaogan makeshift hospital under construction”, in State Council of the People's Republic of China, archived from the original on 27 Jun 2022:
glosses: A county-level city of Xiaogan, Hubei, China.
lentectomize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: lentectomizes
form: lentectomizing
form: lentectomized
form: lentectomized
Etymology: From lentectomy + -ize.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
surgery
glosses: To carry out a lentectomy.
lentectomy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lentectomies
form: lensectomy
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
surgery
glosses: The removal of a lens (of the eye).
Related terms: lentectomize
lentectomized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of lentectomize
lympholytic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more lympholytic
form: most lympholytic
Etymology: From lympho- + -lytic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to, or causing lympholysis
lympholysis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From lympho- + -lysis.
Senses: glosses: The destruction of lymphocytes
Related terms: lympholytic
mamallothalamic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of mamillothalamic.
mamillothalamic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From mamillo- + thalamic.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Alternative form of mammillothalamic.
mamillary body
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mamillary bodies
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Either of a pair of structures on the undersurface of the brain that, as part of the diencephalon, form part of the limbic system
lavway
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lavways
Senses: synonyms: leggo
qualifier: Trinidadian/Caribbean
glosses: A call-and-response chant used when working or marching, or to cheer on stickfighters.
lavways
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lavway
pneumotonometric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to pneumotonometry.
Bernie bro
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Bernie bros
Senses: topics: government
politics
glosses: A male political supporter of the US presidential candidate Bernie Sanders.
Hypernyms: Berner
Bernista
Sanderista
Related terms: Berniecrat
feel the Bern
Bernie bros
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Bernie bro
seven-footer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: seven-footers
Etymology: From seven foot + -er.
Senses: glosses: A person who is seven feet tall.
glosses: An object that is seven feet in length or height.
gattas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gatta
mechanosignal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mechanosignals
Etymology: From mechano- + signal.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: A mechanical (rather than a chemical or electrical) signal
Related terms: mechanosignalling
Scotsperson
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Scotspersons
form: Scotspeople
Etymology: From Scots + person.
Senses: glosses: A Scottish person; a Scot.
Scotspeople
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Scotsperson
Scotspersons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Scotsperson
Brun's constant
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: mathematics
number-theory
sciences
glosses: The finite value, denoted by B₂, to which the sum of the reciprocals of the twin primes converge, according to Brun's theorem.
Brun's theorem
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Proved by Viggo Brun in 1919.
Senses: topics: mathematics
number-theory
sciences
glosses: A theorem stating that the sum of the reciprocals of the twin primes converges to a finite value (Brun's constant).
wikipedia: Viggo Brun
RPOs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of RPO
RTOs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of RTO
antiimmigration
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more antiimmigration
form: most antiimmigration
Senses: glosses: rare spelling of anti-immigration
monotechnic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: monotechnics
Etymology: From mono- + technic.
Senses: glosses: An educational institution where a single specific technical subject is taught.
Coordinate terms: polytechnic
monotechnics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of monotechnic
backabush
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The bush; forested land that has not been developed or built on.
sanskari
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more sanskari
form: most sanskari
Etymology: From Hindi संस्कारी (sanskārī).
Senses: glosses: cultured; well-mannered and knowledgeable
papau
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: papaus
Senses: glosses: Dated form of papaya.
papaus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of papau
unimpersonated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + impersonated.
Senses: glosses: Not impersonated.
compotus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of computus.
Oregon Rex
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Oregon Rexes
Senses: glosses: A domestic cat of a particular US breed with the rex coat variation; they originated in Oregon in the 1950s and have since merged with other breeds.
Oregon Rexes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Oregon Rex
phragmoteuthid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: phragmoteuthids
Etymology: From scientific Latin Phragmoteuthida (order name).
Senses: examples: text: Multiple jaws and arm hooklets of squid-like phragmoteuthids are known from the stomach area of several ichthyosaurs.
ref: 2012, Winand Brinkmann, Kenneth De Baets, editors, Paleontological Museum of the University of Zürich: Exhibition Guide, Paleontological Institute and Museum of the University of Zürich, →ISBN, page 70:
topics: biology
history
human-sciences
natural-sciences
paleontology
sciences
glosses: An extinct cephalopod of the order Phragmoteuthida.
phragmoteuthids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of phragmoteuthid
Shillary
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈʃɪ.lə.ɹi/
Etymology: Blend of shill + Hillary, likely to invoke the view that Hillary Clinton serves corporate interests, lobbyists, etc. over the voters she represents.
Senses: examples: text: If Shillary gets the Nomination theres^([sic]) still a chance to win via write in candidates. And even if Bernie "looses"^([sic]) the number of votes taken from Hillary will make it quite apparent that she does NOT have the support of the progressive base. I WILL NOT VOTE FOR HER.
ref: 2015, §nühw¤Łf, “Re: Shillary wants your emailz”, in alt.alien.vampire.flonk.flonk.flonk (Usenet):
text: Yes, please tell me how Shillary is the nicest corporate oligarchical servant, and how she will lovingly sell out the people who voted for her to her banker masters, with a twinkle in her fellating eye.
ref: 2016 February 13, Gene Lyons, anonymous quotee, “Understanding the 'Bernie Bros'”, in The Daily Journal, volume 83, number 37, page A11:
text: Idiot Trump is going to beat up Idiot Joe so viciously that it will be almost as satisfying as when Idiot Trump ended Shillary's career.
ref: 2020 April 18, Uchena Shorey, “Our demise”, in Daily News, volume 101, number 298, Voice of the People, page 19:
topics: government
politics
glosses: Hillary Clinton (born 1947), American politician and diplomat, former first lady (1993–2001) and secretary of state (2009–2013) of the United States.
Related terms: Billary
doutar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: doutars
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of dutar.
doutars
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of doutar
thorosteenstrupines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of thorosteenstrupine
ohnologous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to ohnologues.
tharving
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of tharf
tharved
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past of tharf
durving
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of darf
darving
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of darf
darved
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past of darf
meteotsunami
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: meteotsunamis
Etymology: Blend of meteorological + tsunami.
Senses: examples: text: These surface waves are associated with two ma- jor sources of forcing: seismic activity (tsunamis) and atmospheric disturbances (meteotsunami).
ref: 1998 June 15, S Monserrat, “On the reconstruction of the transfer function for atmospherically generated seiches”, in Geophysical Research Letters, volume 25, number 12, page 2197:
topics: climatology
geography
meteorology
natural-sciences
oceanography
synonyms: meteorological tsunami
glosses: A tsunami-like wave of meteorological origin.
Related terms: ice tsunami
megatsunami
tsunami
ice shove
seiche
storm surge
meteotsunamis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of meteotsunami
rauisuchian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rauisuchians
Senses: examples: text: In Triassic times, when rauisuchians lived, the continents were still united in a large, coherent landmass, the supercontinent Pangea.
ref: 2012, Winand Brinkmann, Kenneth De Baets, editors, Paleontological Museum of the University of Zürich: Exhibition Guide, Paleontological Institute and Museum of the University of Zürich, →ISBN, page 79:
topics: biology
history
human-sciences
natural-sciences
paleontology
sciences
glosses: An extinct reptile of the taxon Rauisuchia, which lived during the Triassic.
rauisuchians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rauisuchian
nothing but net
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: ball-games
basketball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: The situation where the ball passes through the net without striking either the rim or the backboard, reflecting an especially good shot.
synonyms: back of the net
glosses: An especially good showing or achievement.
drevers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of drever
megatracksite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: megatracksites
Etymology: From mega- + tracksite.
Senses: examples: text: Although large megatracksites (or “dinosaur freeways”) have been identified at many locations, in many cases it is still unclear as to what types of sedimentary dynamic cause their formation and preservation.
ref: 2006, Jerry D. Harris, Spencer G. Lucas, Justin A. Speilmann, Martin G. Lockley, Andrew R.C. Milner, James I. Kirkland, editors, Bulletin 37: The Triassic-Jurassic Terrestrial Transition, New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science, page 280:
text: Near to the Transjura Highway the footprints are so abundant that it may represent a megatracksite.
ref: 2012, Winand Brinkmann, Kenneth De Baets, editors, Paleontological Museum of the University of Zürich: Exhibition Guide, Paleontological Institute and Museum of the University of Zürich, →ISBN, page 87:
topics: biology
history
human-sciences
natural-sciences
paleontology
sciences
glosses: A site showing geological evidence of very large numbers of fossil tracks or trace fossils.
megatracksites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of megatracksite
underguard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: underguards
Etymology: From under- + guard.
Senses: glosses: A protective guard on the underside of machinery, for example on a vehicle's exhaust.
underguards
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of underguard
lightshade
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lightshades
Etymology: From light + shade.
Senses: glosses: lampshade
lightshades
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lightshade
chrusciki
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Polish chruściki.
Senses: topics: cooking
food
lifestyle
glosses: angel wings, a type of Polish pastry
voice crack
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: voice cracks
form: voice-crack
Senses: examples: text: During his speech he had a hilarious voice crack which made everyone laugh.
glosses: A sudden, unexpected and unintentional change in the pitch of one's voice when speaking or singing, which often affects boys during puberty.
voice cracks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of voice crack
mercaptohistidines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mercaptohistidine
woadster
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: woadsters
Etymology: From Middle English wodester, equivalent to woad (“to dye with woad”) + -ster.
Senses: examples: text: If you come across a man called Wadster you can be fairly sure that his ancestors were woadsters and dealt in blue dye.
ref: 1979, Corliss Lamont, John Mansfield, Letters to Florence Lamont, page 170:
text: As to the blue-dyeing, I think it would be certainly a very good think to get a woadster over; though you know the old books all say that the woad vat is not good for silk: I don't know why, unless perhaps that the lime is bad for it: still he might help us in setting a potash vat (Cuve-d-Inde).
ref: 2014, original letter: 1877, William Morris, Norman Kelvin, The Collected Letters of William Morris, volume 1, page 395:
glosses: One who dyes with woad
habitual aborter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: habitual aborters
Senses: examples: text: For habitual aborters, are very rarely attacked with the more common affections belonging to pregnancy.
ref: 1826, William Dewees, chapter 9, in A Treatise on the Diseases of Females, Philadelphia: H.C. Carey & I. Lea, page 118:
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A person who has had three or more consecutive miscarriages due to an underlying condition.
Synonyms: recurrent aborter
recurrent aborter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: recurrent aborters
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A person who has had three or more consecutive miscarriages due to an underlying condition.
Synonyms: habitual aborter
chemical defenses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chemical defense
New Math
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Hooray for New Math[!] / ... / It's so simple, / ... / That only a child can do it!
ref: 1965, Tom Lehrer, “New Math”, in That Was the Year That Was:
glosses: Alternative form of new math.
misstudied
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more misstudied
form: most misstudied
Etymology: From mis- + studied.
Senses: glosses: Studied wrongly, incorrectly, or in error.
tobacco heart
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɑː(ɹ)t
Senses: glosses: A functional disorder of the heart, caused by excessive use of tobacco.
eat the leek
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: eats the leek
form: eating the leek
form: ate the leek
form: eaten the leek
Etymology: From Act V, scene I between Fluellen and Pistol in Shakespeare's play Henry V.
Senses: examples: text: He had eaten his leek and he was anxious to be done with it.
ref: 1919, Stanley J. Weyman, “XXXV My Lord Speaks Out”, in The Great House:
glosses: To be compelled to take back one's words or put up with insulting treatment.
burglared
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of burglar
burglaring
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of burglar
burning mirror
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: burning mirrors
Senses: glosses: A concave mirror for producing heat by concentrating the sun's rays.
Related terms: parabolic mirror
burning mirrors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of burning mirror
Gilded Chamber
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Gilded Chamber
Senses: glosses: The House of Lords.
rubineous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more rubineous
form: most rubineous
Senses: glosses: Of a glassy semitransparent crimson, like a ruby.
spermatocytal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From spermatocyte + -al.
Senses: glosses: Relating to spermatocytes.
breakfast set
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: breakfast sets
Senses: glosses: The china or other ware used for serving and eating breakfast.
Related terms: tea set
breakfast sets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of breakfast set
ophthalmist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ophthalmists
Etymology: From ophthalmo- + -ist.
Senses: glosses: One skilled in ophthalmology.
ophthalmists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ophthalmist
panhidrosis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of panidrosis.
samare
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: samares
Etymology: See simar.
Senses: glosses: A long-skirted jacket once worn by women.
samares
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of samare
atmolytic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Relating to atmolysis.
your good selves
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of your good self
Pan-Slavic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Panslavic.
taberd
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: taberds
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of tabard.
taberds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of taberd
sensation novel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sensation novels
Senses: glosses: A novel full of violence, melodrama, and usually improbable situations.
Related terms: penny dreadful
sensation novels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sensation novel
uncompendious
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more uncompendious
form: most uncompendious
Etymology: From un- + compendious.
Senses: glosses: Not compendious.
emendals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Funds set apart for repairs in the accounts of the Inner Temple.
proctorize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: proctorizes
form: proctorizing
form: proctorized
form: proctorized
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of proctorise.
proctorise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: proctorises
form: proctorising
form: proctorised
form: proctorised
form: proctorize
Etymology: From proctor + -ise.
Senses: examples: text: From that moment one of two courses remained open to him,—marriage, the loss of his fellowship, with probably children, and nothing to eat; or patience, the common-room cheer, holy orders, and a living in his turn. He chose the latter, jilted the young girl who had fallen for him, for one of those thousand reasons, which induce girls to throw themselves away on men who possess everything in them that is least likely to attract them in particular, and applied himself to good eating, fiery port wine, proctorising young gentlemen, and other intellectual accomplishments, which are supposed by some to perfect the university fellow for the duties of a parish priest.
ref: 1857, Ernest Richard Seymour, The Curate of Holycross, page 4:
text: "I was sure to find some of you. Besides, I'll admit one don't like to go in while there's any chance of a real row as you call it, and so gets proctorized in one's old age for one's patriotism."
ref: 1861, Thomas Hughes, Tom Brown at Oxford, London: Macmillan and Co., published 1883, pages 129–130:
text: A man who never acted wrong— / No mischief ever did; / I met him walking by himself— / In vain his pipe he hid: / Said I, I'll proctorise this man, / And fine him half-a-quid.
ref: 1866 May 5, “The Dream of the Junior Proctor”, in The Harlequin, number 3, verse 12, page 4:
qualifier: university slang
glosses: To summon (a person) before the proctor of a university.
proctorizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of proctorize
proctorizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of proctorize
proctorized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of proctorize
proctorises
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of proctorise
proctorising
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of proctorise
proctorised
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of proctorise
ha ha Herman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A variant of the game of hide and seek in which one player hides and the others look for him/her. The player in hiding must call "Herman" in response to the seekers' call of "ha ha".