cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
adipogenic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From adipo- + -genic.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: That forms fat, or fatty tissue; lipogenic
Derived terms: adipogenicity
antiadipogenic
fibroadipogenic
nonadipogenic
proadipogenic
Related terms: adipogenesis
semisynthesis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: semisyntheses
Etymology: From semi- + synthesis.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A type of chemical synthesis that uses compounds isolated from natural sources (such as plant material or bacterial cultures) as starting materials.
Derived terms: semisynthetic
semisynthetically
Related terms: biosynthesis
biosynthesize
semisynthesize
phytomining
semisyntheses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of semisynthesis
semisynthetically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From semisynthetic + -ally.
Senses: glosses: In a semisynthetic way; by means of semisynthesis.
lensless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From lens + -less.
Senses: glosses: Without a lens or lenses.
Derived terms: lenslessness
nonpathogenic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + pathogenic.
Senses: glosses: Not pathogenic.
centrosomally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more centrosomally
form: most centrosomally
Etymology: From centrosomal + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a centrosomal way.
Derived terms: acentrosomally
nonapoptotic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + apoptotic.
Senses: glosses: Not apoptotic.
pseudopotentials
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pseudopotential
noninfinite
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: non-infinite
Etymology: From non- + infinite.
Senses: glosses: Not infinite; finite.
nonfinite
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: non-finite
Etymology: From non- + finite.
Senses: glosses: Infinite.
examples: text: Although a finite I ( = INFL = INFLECTION) constituent is (overtly or covertly) inflected for TENSE or AGREEMENT properties, it should be obvious that a nonfinite I in English lacks these properties. Hence, the infinitival particle to which occurs in a nonfinite I is by its very nature tenseless and agreementless (i.e. it carries no Tense or Agreement properties, and is thus an entirely uninflected form). The difference between a finite and a nonfinite Clause can thus be seen to lie in the nature of I: a finite Clause is one which contains a finite I (carrying Tense and Agreement properties); a nonfinite Clause is one which contains a nonfinite I which is tenseless and agreementless.
ref: 1988, Andrew Radford, chapter 6, in Transformational grammar: a first course, Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, page 306:
topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: Not finite.
Derived terms: nonfinitely
dispersively
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more dispersively
form: most dispersively
Etymology: From dispersive + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a dispersive way.
glosses: With regard to dispersion.
omomyid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: omomyids
Senses: examples: text: In Europe, beavers, hamsters, hedgehogs and rhinoceroses are migrating in from Asia, wiping out native European groups like omomyids, the nocturnal relatives of tarsiers and monkeys, and several families of hoofed mammal.
ref: 2022, Thomas Halliday, Otherworlds, Penguin, published 2023, page 64:
topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Any member of the family †Omomyidae, a diverse group of extinct primates.
Related terms: omomyine
omomyids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of omomyid
hydrophobin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hydrophobins
Etymology: From hydrophobe + -in.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of a class of small, cysteine-rich proteins that are expressed only by filamentous fungi, known for their capability of forming a hydrophobic coating on the surface of an object
hydrophobins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hydrophobin
gyrase
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gyrases
Etymology: From gyro- + -ase.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: An enzyme that supercoils DNA.
gyrases
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gyrase
hyaloplasms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hyaloplasm
lantibiotic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˌlæntibaɪˈɒtɪk/
Forms: form: lantibiotics
Etymology: Coined in 1988 from "lanthionine-containing peptide antibiotics".
Senses: glosses: Any of a class of peptide antibiotics that contain polycyclic thioether amino acids as well as the unsaturated amino acids dehydroalanine and 2-aminoisobutyric acid.
Derived terms: nonlantibiotic
lantibiotics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lantibiotic
dehydroalanine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /diːˌhaɪdɹəʊˈæləniːn/
Forms: form: dehydroalanines
Etymology: From dehydro- + alanine.
Senses: glosses: An uncommon amino acid found in peptides of microbial origin.
dehydroalanines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dehydroalanine
score string
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: score strings
Senses: topics: ball-games
billiards
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A wire strung with beads and hung horizontally above or near the table which is used to keep score.
Synonyms: wire
score strings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of score string
ceratitid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ceratitids
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Any extinct ammonite of the order Ceratitida.
ceratitids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ceratitid
cefdinir
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From cef- (“cefalosporanic acid derivative”).
Senses: topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: A semisynthetic broad-spectrum cephalosporin antibiotic, proven effective for common bacterial infections of the ear, sinus, throat, and skin.
thrombocytopaenia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: thrombocytopaenias
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of thrombocytopenia.
thrombocytopaenias
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of thrombocytopaenia
thrombocytopenias
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of thrombocytopenia
thrombopenias
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of thrombopenia
staphyloxanthin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From staphylo- + xanthin.
Senses: glosses: A carotenoid pigment produced by some strains of Staphylococcus aureus, which acts as a virulence factor.
staphyloplasties
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of staphyloplasty
flavokinase
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: flavokinases
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Riboflavin kinase.
flavokinases
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of flavokinase
throughflow
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: throughflows
Etymology: From through + flow.
Senses: topics: geography
hydrology
natural-sciences
glosses: The movement of water horizontally beneath the land surface, usually when the soil is completely saturated.
examples: 2001, Harry L. Bryden, Shiro Imawaki, 6.1: Ocean Heat Transport, Gerold Siedler, John Church, John Gould (editors), Ocean Circulation and Climate: Observing and Modelling the Global Ocean, Harcourt Science and Technology (Academic Press), page 464,
As for the Pacific, the unknown size of the Indonesian Throughflow complicates quantitative estimates of heat transport divergence in the Indian Ocean. Because the Throughflow entering the Indian Ocean is warm (about 20°C) relative to its temperature as it exits the Indian Ocean across the southern boundary at 32°S, the overall effect of the Throughflow is to lead to an ocean heat transport convergence over the Indian Ocean.
topics: geography
hydrology
natural-sciences
glosses: The movement of an identifiably separate body of water through a larger body (such as a current of fresh water through salt water).
Related terms: throughfall
throughflows
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of throughflow
throughfall
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: throughfalls
Etymology: From through + fall.
Senses: topics: geography
hydrology
natural-sciences
glosses: The shedding of excess water from leaves to the ground.
Related terms: throughflow
throughfalls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of throughfall
ceftazidime
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /sɛfˈtæz.ɪ.diːm/
Etymology: From cef- (“cefalosporanic acid derivative”) + th(i)az(olyl) + (pyr)id(inium) + (ox)ime.
Senses: topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: A third-generation cephalosporin antibiotic, usually reserved for the treatment of infections caused by Pseudomonas aeruginosa.
Related terms: ceftazidimase
pericentrin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From peri- + centrin.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A protein that binds to calmodulin and is expressed in the centrosome, an integral component of the pericentriolar material.
Synonyms: kendrin
PCNT
pharmacogeneticist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˌfɑː(ɹ)məkəʊd͡ʒəˈnɛtɪsɪst/
Forms: form: pharmacogeneticists
Senses: glosses: One who works in pharmacogenetics.
pharmacogeneticists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pharmacogeneticist
salats
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of salat
spaser
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spasers
Etymology: Acronym for "surface plasmon amplification by stimulated emission of radiation"; compare laser. The phenomenon was first described by Bergman and Stockman in 2003, and the first such device was announced in 2009.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: The nanoplasmonic counterpart of a laser; a nanoscale source of optical fields with potential uses in nanoscale lithography, probing and microscopy.
spasers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of spaser
nonthermally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From nonthermal + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a nonthermal way.
thermotolerances
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of thermotolerance
thermotolerant
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more thermotolerant
form: most thermotolerant
Etymology: From thermo- + tolerant.
Senses: glosses: Possessing thermotolerance; able to withstand heat.
retapamulin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A topical antibiotic, the first pleuromutilin to be approved for human use.
valnemulin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /vælˈnɛmjʊlɪn/
Senses: glosses: A pleuromutilin antibiotic used to treat swine dysentery, ileitis, and colitis.
valleywards
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From valley + -wards.
Senses: glosses: towards a valley
Synonyms: valleyward
retrotranspositions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of retrotransposition
assortatively
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From assortative + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an assortative way.
morulae
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of morula
sarcomeric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From sarcomere + -ic.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Of or pertaining to sarcomeres
Derived terms: intrasarcomeric
tabtoxin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tabtoxins
Senses: glosses: A simple monobactam biotoxin produced by Pseudomonas syringae.
aztreonam
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: aztreonams
Senses: glosses: A synthetic monobactam originally isolated from Chromobacterium violaceum, similar in action to penicillin
tigemonam
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The monobactam antibiotic 2-[[1-(2-Amino-1,3-thiazol-4-yl)- 2-[[(3S)-2,2-dimethyl-4-oxo-1- sulfooxyazetidin-3-yl]amino]-2- oxoethylidene]amino]oxyacetic acid.
electroception
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Electroreception.
electropositivities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of electropositivity
electroreceptive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From electro- + receptive.
Senses: glosses: capable of electroreception
bioelectrically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From bioelectrical + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a bioelectrical way.
electroreception
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From electro- + reception.
Senses: glosses: The biological ability to perceive electrical impulses, used for electrolocation and electrocommunication and particularly common among aquatic creatures (since salt water is a more efficient conductor than air).
Synonyms: electroception
Derived terms: electroreceptive
mormyrid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mormyrids
Senses: topics: biology
ichthyology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Any member of the family Mormyridae of freshwater elephantfish.
mormyrids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mormyrid
homoplasies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of homoplasy
disastrousness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From disastrous + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or condition of being disastrous.
pre-ops
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pre-op
epænetic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: ĕpēnĕʹtĭk
ipa: /ɛpiːˈnɛtɪk/
Forms: form: more epænetic
form: most epænetic
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ἐπαινετικός (epainetikós), from ἐπαινέω (epainéō, “I praise”).
Senses: examples: text: The Epænetic comprehends the hymn, the epithalamium, the genethliacon, or what elſe tends to the praiſe or congratulation of divine, or on earth eminent perſons.
ref: 1800, Edward Phillips, Theatrum Poetarum Anglicanorum, page xxviii:
text: How and why Sir Thomas turned author is minutely told by himself. After the battle of Worchester, Sept. 3, 1651, his lodgings were sacked by some ‘ exquisite snaps and clean shavers, who handed over six score and eight quires and a half of his MS. to inferior and posterior uses;’ but happily ‘ one quaternion ’ was picked up in the street, and thence called Ekskubalauron — being ‘ the discovery in the kennel of a most exquisite Jewel, more precious than diamonds inchased in gold, the like whereof was never seen of any;’ a chosen specimen, in short, of his literary ‘ wares, brain‐babes, of far greater value than ever from the East Indies were brought in ships to Europe ’ — its ‘ scope ’ being — as he further explains — partly epænetick, partly doxologetickal.
ref: 1850, The Quarterly Review, volume 86, pages 416–417:
text: It called for a very stalker’s skill to catch them off their guard; but there was a charm in the hard pursuit, and the practice of this epænetic became sport.
ref: 1919, W. Compton Leith, Domus Doloris, John Lane company, page 199:
text: The critics enquired whether the poets excelled in “ the Epænitick ” or “ the Bucolick ” style, not whether they achieved beauty of expression or spirituality of thought.
ref: 1969, Edmund Gosse, More Books on the Table, page 307:
glosses: Encomiastic; laudatory; panegyrical; praiseful.
falbala
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: falbalas
Etymology: From French falbala.
Senses: glosses: A furbelow.
Derived terms: furbelow
Related terms: falbelo
monopoliser
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: monopolisers
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of monopolizer.
folding screen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: folding screens
Senses: glosses: A piece of furniture consisting of two or more frames connected by hinges.
Chavacano
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Chabacano
form: Chabakano
Etymology: From Spanish chabacano (“vulgar, common, coarse”).
Senses: examples: text: Moreover, Chavacano, especially the Temate dialect, is suffering from a dearth of publications. To reverse this trend, Chavacano-speakers in Cavite City have been publishing articles and poems in their language through their newsletter, NOTICIA, Amigos del Biblioteca y Museo de Cavite.
ref: 2004, Chan Sin-wai, editor, Translation and Bilingual Dictionaries, Walter de Gruyter, →ISBN, page 129:
synonyms: Zamboangueño
Chabakano
glosses: The six dialects of the Philippine Creole Spanish spoken in the Philippines.
tapaslike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more tapaslike
form: most tapaslike
Etymology: From tapas + -like.
Senses: examples: text: Soviet cuisines, despite their variety, do share the tradition of daily tea drinking, and home entertaining always includes zakuska, tapaslike hors d'ouevres served with vodka.
ref: 1993 December 3, Jody Stern, “Restaurant Tours: Soviet emigres bring new life to the Loop”, in Chicago Reader:
text: The menu, which changes daily, typically includes cold Moroccan tapaslike salads, savory-sweet tagines and couscous with stewed meats and vegetables.
ref: 2007 November 11, Seth Sherwood, “36 Hours in Marrakesh, Morocco”, in New York Times:
glosses: Resembling tapas, any of a variety of appetizers used in Spanish cuisine
diss tracks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of diss track
diss songs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of diss song
folding screens
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of folding screen
weather fronts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of weather front
cold fronts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cold front
stationary fronts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stationary front
menora
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: menoras
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of menorah.
warm fronts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of warm front
occluded fronts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of occluded front
muster rolls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of muster roll
crémeux
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cremeux
Senses: topics: cooking
food
lifestyle
glosses: A smooth creamy sauce, custard, or pastry cream.
wonderly
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more wonderly
form: most wonderly
Etymology: From Middle English wonderly, wonderli, wonderlich, from Old English wundorlīċ (“wonderful, miraculous”), from Proto-West Germanic *wundralīk, from Proto-Germanic *wundralīkaz, equivalent to wonder + -ly. Cognate with Saterland Frisian wunderelk, wunnerelk, West Frisian wûnderlik, Dutch wonderlijk, German Low German wunnerlik, German wunderlich, Swedish underlig, Icelandic undarlegur.
Senses: examples: text: The king sent his hunters over, they should see, what kind of animal was set in the tree, they came back and said: there lay such a wonderly animal therein, as they hade ^([sic]) never seen in their life days, raw work of all kinds were on its skin, but it lay and slept.
ref: 1812, 2014, Oliver Loo, The Original Grimm KHM 1812, page 330:
glosses: wondrous; wondersome
wonderly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more wonderly
form: most wonderly
Etymology: From Middle English wonderly, wonderli, wonderliche, from Old English wundorlīċe, equivalent to wonder + -ly.
Senses: glosses: Wonderfully, in a wonderful manner.
glosses: To a wonderful degree, exceedingly.
pight
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: pīt
ipa: /paɪt/
rhymes: -aɪt
Senses: examples: text: And er that Arcite may taken keep / He pighte hym on the pomel of his heed […]
ref: c. 1387, Geoffrey Chaucer, The Knight's Tale:
text: The duke of Normandy / William conquerour / Pight a stronge batell / displayed his baner, […]
ref: 1513, Henry Bradshaw, Life of Saint Werburge, page 174:
text: My soul, with Christ join thou in fight;
Stick to the tents that He hath pight;
ref: 1634, Robert Southwell, New Heaven, New War:
text: I will / When I have finish’d it — now! now! I’m pight, / Tight-footed for the deed!
ref: 1819, John Keats, Otho the Great, act V, scene V, verses 163-165:
glosses: simple past and past participle of pitch
Derived terms: empight
fool-saint
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fool-saints
Senses: glosses: A person who lives an admirably holy but eccentric life, at odds with conventional lifestyles.
nerdgasm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nerdgasms
Etymology: From nerd + -gasm.
Senses: glosses: A feeling of great excitement or pleasure over something nerdy.
Synonyms: geekgasm
banker's dozen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: A play on the phrase baker's dozen; it is one less than a dozen as compared to one more. See also bankers' hours.
Senses: examples: text: Not a low baker's dozen, you will perceive, but two high banker's dozen !
ref: 1899, The Arena - Volume 21, page 195:
text: There were 11 in number (a reference has been made to them as constituting a banker's dozen), representing the following organizations :
ref: 1960, United States. Congress. House. Select Committee on Small Business, Small Business Problems in Food Distribution:
text: It concludes with a banker's dozen of 11 items labeled "What to Read" — a well chosen list on the urban, technological disruption of man's life and the earth's biosphere.
ref: 1968, JOH, Journal of Housing - Volume 25, page 432:
text: Caroline arranged to have appear at her concert a banker's dozen (eleven) of New York's most admired amateur and professional musicians, including the alluring divorcee Fanny Ronalds, who — it was rumored — was accomplished in arts more erotic than the one she would demonstrate that night.
ref: 1981, David Black, The King of Fifth Avenue: the fortunes of August Belmont, page 240:
text: George counted eleven of them. A banker's dozen, he said to himself.
ref: 2009, Ben Bova, The Precipice, →ISBN:
glosses: Eleven.
hyperhygienist
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more hyperhygienist
form: most hyperhygienist
Etymology: From hyper- + hygienist.
Senses: glosses: Being too hygienic.
topics: agriculture
business
lifestyle
qualifier: environment
glosses: Having an overemphasis on "safety" or "cleanliness" as defined only for the consumer, that effectively forces the use of pesticides, other chemicals, or even requires or encourages genetically modified organisms to prevent insects; and applied to certain agricultural policies, laws, food regulations, wholesale food buying rules, and tax, tariff and trade measures by advocates of organic farming.
lip duo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lip duos
Senses: glosses: In cosmetics, a matching lipstick and lip liner pair.
amphenicols
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of amphenicol
amphenicol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: amphenicols
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Any of a class of antibiotics related to chloramphenicol
wyueles
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Early Modern spelling of wifeless.
antimycobacterial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more antimycobacterial
form: most antimycobacterial
Etymology: From anti- + mycobacterial.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: That counteracts the effects of mycobacteria
antimycobacterial
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: antimycobacterials
Etymology: From anti- + mycobacterial.
Senses: glosses: Any drug that has this effect
anting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈæntɪŋ/
rhymes: -æntɪŋ
Etymology: From ant + -ing.
Senses: examples: text: When we say a bird is anting, we mean that it is on the ground or on a twig with one or both wings half-spread and with its tail drawn under the body. In this unusual attitude it can be seen picking up ants with its bill and rubbing its head among the undersides of the wings and – or – into the base of the tail.
ref: 1955, Holger Poulsen, “Experiments on Anting by Birds”, in Adolf Portmann, Ernst Sutter, editors, Acta Congressus internationalis ornithologici [Experientia: Supplementum; 3], Basel: Birkhäuser, →OCLC, page 608:
text: When anting the Jay does not pick up ants in the bill although it makes the same movements of the head as species which do. The wings are (at high intensity) spread quite widely and thrust forward like a canopy in front of the anting bird. Usually both wings are thrust forward together. I have seen a great number of both wild and captive Jays anting […]
ref: 1986, Derek Goodwin, Crows of the World, 2nd edition, London: British Museum (Natural History), →ISBN, page 199:
text: Blue jays are not just smart, they're also quirky. They are frequently given as exemplars of a bird behavior known as "anting," in which the bird lies down on an anthill with wings and tail spread and entices ants to swarm over it. Anting birds often grasp an ant in their beak, crush it, and wipe it under their wings, and over and through their feathers, and then sometimes eat them. […] The purpose of anting is still debated. It has been hypothesized that the formic acid in ants, when applied to the feathers, helps to control feather lice and other parasites, but the experimental evidence about this is mixed. It has also been suggested that birds are simply wiping the acid off so that the ants will taste better when they subsequently eat them. Others have suggested that anting is pleasurable, like a kind of bird catnip.
ref: 2011, Julie Feinstein, Field Guide to Urban Wildlife, Mechanicsburg, Pa.: Stackpole Books, →ISBN, page 199:
text: Anting. A behavior in which the fluids from ants, notably formic acid, are applied to the plumage and possibly the skin. There are two basic types of the behavior: active anting, in which the bird anoints its plumage with the bill, and passive anting, in which the bird allows ants to invade and anoint the plumage. […] Some individuals of these species, in unnatural situations such as in captivity, perform active anting with burning matches and cigarette smoke, moth balls, hair tonic, mustard, citrus fruits, numerous insects other than ants, and other substitutes. What causes anting and what purpose or purposes it serves, if any, need investigation.
ref: 2013, Olin Sewall Pettingill, Jr., Ornithology in Laboratory and Field, 4th edition, Orlando, Fla.: Academic Press, →ISBN, page 251:
topics: biology
natural-sciences
ornithology
glosses: The practice of some birds of rubbing live ants or occasionally other items into the feathers, possibly as a means of controlling parasites.
Related terms: anting-anting
arrowed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of arrow
arrowed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more arrowed
form: most arrowed
Senses: glosses: Equipped with arrows
glosses: Pointed to by an arrow (in a diagram)
glosses: To have been hit by one or more arrows.
Derived terms: unarrowed
avirulence
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From a- + virulence.
Senses: glosses: The state of being avirulent.
Synonyms: avirulency
lyuelode
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of livelihood.
biscistronic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: bicistronic
Senses: topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: Of or pertaining to a bicistron
topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: Having two cistrons
bicistron
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bicistrons
Etymology: From bi- + cistron.
Senses: topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: A second, coexpressed plasmid
carbamidomethyl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From carbamide + -o- + methyl.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A univalent radical composed of a carbamide replacing a hydrogen atom of a methyl group e.g. NH₂-CO-NH-CH₂- (the simplest such group)
Related terms: carbamidomethylation
cefaclor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From cepha(losporanic acid) + chlor-.
Senses: topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: A semisynthetic analogue of the antibiotic cephalosporin.
skelp
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /skɛlp/
Forms: form: skelps
Etymology: From Middle English skelpen, probably of imitative origin. The noun is from Middle English skelp, from the verb.
Senses: examples: text: They came crack down on their bottoms with a loud skelp on the seats.
ref: 1833, Michael Scott, Tom Cringle's Log:
text: A skelp on the lug is not a very deadly assault. It is neither a stroke nor a blow.
ref: 1899, J. B. Montgomerie Fleming, Desultory Notes on Jamieson's Scottish Dictionary, page 144:
glosses: A blow; a smart stroke, especially with the hand; a smack.
glosses: A squall; a heavy fall of rain.
examples: text: Great skelps of riotous colors followed each other across the window-framed screen, pounding upon bleak northern hearts as the surf pounds upon a rocky headland.
ref: 1921, The Smart Set: A Magazine of Cleverness, page 4:
text: ... great skelps of centuries together until they're almost in the same skin, growing into each other, shrinking to each other's sizes and shapes, speaking with one voice, clinging fast together, dying days or hours apart.
ref: 2017 July 4, Donal Ryan, All We Shall Know: A Novel, Penguin, →ISBN, page 64:
glosses: A large portion.
skelp
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /skɛlp/
Forms: form: skelps
Senses: examples: text: […] he then heats one half of the skelp at a time in an air furnace, or other fire, and having so heated it, he passes the skelp between a pair of grooved rollers placed at the mouth of the furnace, for the purpose of uniting (or marrying, as he terms it) the edges of the metal ; that is, causing the edges of the open part of the skelp to be pressed together, and made to adhere and form a complete cylinder.
ref: 1836, William Newton, editor, The London Journal of Arts and Sciences; and Repertory of Patent Inventions, pages 407–8:
glosses: A narrow strip of rolled or forged metal, ready to be bent and welded to form a pipe.
skelp
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /skɛlp/
Forms: form: skelps
form: skelping
form: skelped
form: skelped
Senses: glosses: To form (a plate or bar of metal, etc.) into a skelp.
glosses: To bend round (a skelp) in tube-making.
paratext
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: paratexts
Etymology: From para- + text.
Senses: coordinate_terms: subtext
context
peritext
epitext
glosses: In literary theory, meanings that are alluded to, above or beyond the printed text; interpretations of text.
glosses: All of the notes and explanations that make a text more understandable.
Derived terms: word: paratextual
awreak
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: awreaks
form: awreaking
form: awroke
form: awroke
form: awroken
Etymology: From Old English awrecan, corresponding to a- + wreak.
Senses: examples: text: SO after the feste and iourneye kynge Arthur drewe hym vnto london / and soo by the counceil of Merlyn the kyng lete calle his barons to coūceil / for Merlyn had told the kynge that the sixe kynges that made warre vpon hym wold in al haste be awroke on hym & on his landys wherfor the kyng asked counceil at hem al / they coude no counceil gyue but said they were bygge ynough
ref: 1485, Sir Thomas Malory, chapter X, in Le Morte Darthur, book I:
english: SO after the feast and journey, King Arthur drew him unto London, and so by the counsel of Merlin, the king let call his barons to council, for Merlin had told the king that the six kings that made war upon him would in all haste be awroke on him and on his lands. Wherefore the king asked counsel at them all. They could no counsel give, but said they were big enough.
translation: SO after the feast and journey, King Arthur drew him unto London, and so by the counsel of Merlin, the king let call his barons to council, for Merlin had told the king that the six kings that made war upon him would in all haste be awroke on him and on his lands. Wherefore the king asked counsel at them all. They could no counsel give, but said they were big enough.
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glosses: To avenge, take vengeance on.
churada
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: churadas
Senses: topics: climatology
meteorology
natural-sciences
glosses: A heavy downpour, typical of the Mariana Islands during the winter months.
churadas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of churada
raundon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of random.
tetherless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From tether + -less.
Senses: glosses: Without a tether; not tied down
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: wireless; pertaining to a wireless network
jacksie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: jacksies
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of jacksy.
bouffanty
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more bouffanty
form: most bouffanty
Etymology: From bouffant + -y.
Senses: glosses: Like a bouffant, as in a hairdo.
paratexts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of paratext
coolheaded
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more coolheaded
form: most coolheaded
Etymology: From cool + headed, thus "having a cool head."
Senses: examples: text: There had been none among them coolheaded enough to reason out which trail he had likely taken, and thus look for him by the ford.
ref: 1921, Edison Marshall, “The Heart of Little Shikara”, in O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1921:
text: The heated rhetoric masked a more coolheaded strategy.
ref: 1996 August 30, Jeffrey Felshman, “How to Win Enemies and Influence People”, in Chicago Reader:
text: Some essays are coolheaded, some shake with hysteria, some are memoirish, others didactic.
ref: 2007 March 25, Liesl Schillinger, “The Evolution of a City, in Words and Pictures”, in New York Times:
glosses: Having an even temper; calm and collected
Derived terms: coolheadedly
coolheadedness
Ridgewood
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From ridge + wood.
Senses: glosses: A place name, used for many different cities.
contrefort
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: contreforts
Senses: glosses: Synonym of counterfort (“buttress built against a wall”).
synonyms: word: counterfort
extra: buttress built against a wall
glosses: Synonym of counterfort (“spur of a mountain range”).
synonyms: word: counterfort
extra: spur of a mountain range
isobase
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: isobases
Etymology: From iso- + base?
Senses: examples: text: Assuming their zero isobase and assuming also that they have correctly identified the beaches, the Jamieson hypothesis is decidedly not favored by their field observations.
ref: 1920, Bulletin of the Geological Society of America, volume 31:
text: The southern limit of Wright's zero isobase should intersect the north-west coast of England 125 km further north in the vicinity of the southern shore of Morecambe Bay.
ref: 1978, Sea-level Changes: North-West England During the Flandrian Stage, M. J. Tooley:
text: The isobase map shows the marked spatial variability in elevation of archaeological sites from the Groswater Bay west along Lake Melville to the Goose Bay area, as identified by Fitzhugh (1972).
ref: 1992, Lucille Lewis Johnson, Melanie Stright, Paleoshorelines and Prehistory: An Investigation of Method:
topics: archaeology
geography
geology
history
human-sciences
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: A line drawn on a map or chart connecting places of equal or constant land upheaval or subsidence.
Hyponyms: isoanabase
isocatabase
stick insects
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stick insect
amature
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of amateur and armature.
rynge
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rynges
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of ring.
rynge
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of range.
glosses: Obsolete spelling of reign.
spaghetti squash
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spaghetti squashes
form: spaghetti squash
Senses: glosses: An oblong seed-bearing variety of winter squash, in the species Cucurbita pepo.
defoul
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: [dɪˈfaʊɫ]
rhymes: -aʊl
Forms: form: defouls
form: defouling
form: defouled
form: defouled
form: defoyle
form: defoil
Etymology: From Old French defouler.
Senses: examples: text: And so whanne they had horsed the kynges ageyne they drewe hem al xj kynges to gyder and said they wold be reuenged of the dommage that they had taken that day / The meane whyle cam in syr Ector with an egyr countenaunce / and found Vlfyus and Brastias on foote in grete perylle of deth that were fowle defoyled vnder horsfeet
ref: 1485, Sir Thomas Malory, “xiiij”, in Le Morte Darthur, book I:
glosses: To trample underfoot.
examples: text: Then Sir Galahad began to break spears marvelously, that all men had wonder of him; for he there surmounted all other knights, for within a while he had defouled many good knights of the Table Round save twain, that was Sir Launcelot and Sir Percivale.
ref: 1922, Charles Sylvester, Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 5:
glosses: To physically crush or break.
glosses: To oppress, keep down.
glosses: To defile the chastity of; to debauch, to rape.
woodness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Middle English woodnesse, wodnesse, from Old English wōdnes, corresponding to wood (“mad, insane”) + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: […] This sodaine chaunge from feasting vnto fray
Might well be likened to the Sea: whych standing at a stay
The woodnesse of the windes makes rough by raising of the waue.
ref: 1567, Ovid, “The Fyft Booke”, in Arthur Golding, transl., The XV. Bookes of P. Ouidius Naso, Entytuled Metamorphosis, […], London: […] Willyam Seres […], →OCLC:
text: […] with fell woodnes he effierced was,
And wilfully him throwing on the gras
Did beat and bounse his head and brest ful sore […].
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto XI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, page 567:
glosses: Madness, fury.
udarnik
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: udarniks
form: udarniki
Etymology: From Russian уда́рник (udárnik), from уда́р (udár, “strike, blow, shock”) + -ник (-nik).
Senses: examples: text: Two short stories … give a true, warm and unvarnished picture of the formation of the character and consciousness of a young Komsomol worker in the heat of socialist competition and udarnik work.
ref: 1934, VOKS Bulletin, Issues 7-8, Digitized edition, published 2006, page 80:
text: The account that follows appears in the alphabet book and first reader: Udarnik / Stefka Filipova is a weaver … She weaves faster and better than anyone else. For this reason she is a udarnik.
ref: 1968, Peter John Georgeoff, The Social Education of Bulgarian Youth, Univ. of Minnesota Press, →ISBN, page 89:
text: The brigadiers, or udarniki, worked harder, wasted less time and set an example for their more indolent or less ... Udarniki became a class apart on any job, compensated for their brigadiering by extra rations, priority in the distribution of deficit goods [...]
ref: 1991, Eugene Lyons, Assignment in Utopia, page 208:
synonyms: Stakhanovite
glosses: A shock worker; a super-productive worker in the Soviet Union and the other countries from the Soviet Bloc.
ostensoir
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ostensoirs
Etymology: From French.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of monstrance.
synonyms: word: monstrance
nag champa
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Sanskrit नाग (nāga, “cobra”), in this context "breath, spirit," + चंपा (caṃpā, “plumeria flowers”).
Senses: examples: text: They were very young and very quiet and I was not in the mood, so I went down to the incense seller, near Kmart, and bought a couple of boxes of nag champa.
ref: 2001 September 21, Cara Jepsen, “New York Diary”, in Chicago Reader:
glosses: A sandalwood-heavy perfume oil originating in India, or incense thus perfumed
sociogenetic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From socio- + genetic.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to sociogenesis or to sociogenetics
psychogenetic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From psycho- + genetic.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to psychogenesis.
anthroposemiotic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From anthropo- + semiotic.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to anthroposemiotics.
anthroposemiotics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From anthropo- + semiotics.
Senses: glosses: The study of human communication.
Related terms: anthroposemiotic
nonfermentable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + fermentable.
Senses: glosses: Not fermentable.
hypophosphatemia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hypophosphatemias
form: hypophosphataemia
Etymology: From hypo- + phosphatemia.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: An electrolyte disturbance in which there is an abnormally low level of phosphate in the blood, most commonly seen when malnourished patients are given large amounts of carbohydrates, creating a high phosphorus demand in the cells of the body.
Derived terms: hypophosphatemic
Related terms: phosphaturia
hypophosphatemias
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hypophosphatemia
hypophosphataemia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hypophosphataemias
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of hypophosphatemia.
hypophosphataemias
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hypophosphataemia
pyow
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pyows
Etymology: Imitative.
Senses: examples: text: Sometimes, however, the adult male rejoined the group after emitting "Pyows" and moved with the others in quite a different direction.
ref: 1977, Smithsonian contributions to zoology:
text: Interestingly, the blue monkey's boom and pyow calls are both long-distance signals (Brown, 1989), yet the two calls differ […]
ref: 1990, Mark A Berkley, William C Stebbins, Comparative Perception: Basic mechanisms:
text: For instance, the bark of a spot-nose and pyow of a blue monkey sound very similar (4).
ref: 1991, Richard Estes, The behavior guide to African mammals:
text: Analysis of pyows made by a recognizable male over 10 yrs […]
ref: 1993, American Psychological Association, Psychological abstracts:
text: Male putty-nosed monkeys in Nigeria have been observed stringing together calls of pyow and hack.
ref: 2007, National Geographic Society, The National Geographic magazine:
glosses: An alarm call made by the putty-nosed monkey and others, usually a warning that other animals are lurking nearby.
Related terms: boom
hack
pyows
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pyow
displeasures
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of displeasure
ossuarium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˌɒs.juˈɛəɹ.i.əm/
Forms: form: ossuariums
form: ossuaria
Etymology: From Latin ossuarium.
Senses: examples: text: A semicircular ossuarium
ref: 1774, Horace Walpole, Description of the Villa of Mr. Horace Walpole:
glosses: A charnel house; an ossuary.
Key Stage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Key Stages
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of key stage.
Key Stages
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Key Stage
feelie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfiːli/
rhymes: -iːli
Forms: form: feelies
Etymology: From feel + -ie. In the video game sense, introduced by the game publisher Infocom in the 1980s.
Senses: examples: text: Seven and a half hours of mild, unexhausting labour, and then the soma ration and games and unrestricted copulation and the feelies. What more can they ask for?
ref: 1932, Aldous Huxley, Brave New World, London: Chatto & Windus:
text: One of our brighter young Utopians, Aldous Huxley, predicts that the movies of the future will include “feelies” and “smellies.”
ref: 1941, Arthur Kissam Train, The Story of Everyday Things, Harper & Brothers, page 390:
text: TikTok’s endless talent show is so captivating that members of the intelligence community fear China could use the platform to spy on Americans or to disseminate propaganda—feelies as a weapon of war.
ref: 2023 January 30, Megan Garber, “We’ve Lost the Plot”, in The Atlantic:
topics: literature
media
publishing
science-fiction
glosses: A proposed future entertainment, akin to a film/movie, where the audience can physically feel what happens to the characters.
examples: text: The company also gained fame for its inclusion of “feelies,” small tangible items directly related to the game. The feelies for Infocom's The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (1984), for example, included papers representing “Destruction Orders for Your Home and Planet,” an empty bag representing “Microscopic Space Fleet,” and a “Don't Panic” button, among other items.
ref: 2017, Andrew Williams, History of Digital Games: Developments in Art, Design and Interaction, CRC Press, →ISBN:
topics: video-games
glosses: An additional physical item packaged with a game (usually interactive fiction) to immerse the player in the game world and provide hints to solving the game.
feelies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of feelie
glosses: plural of feely
collab
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kəˈlæb/
ipa: /koʊˈlæb/
ipa: /kəˈɫæb/
ipa: /kɐʉˈɫæb/
rhymes: -æb
Forms: form: collabs
Etymology: Clipping of collaboration. Clipping of collaborate.
Senses: examples: text: In one small way, Madonna's current single, Give Me All Your Luvin', marks the end of an era. It's the last time for the foreseeable future that Nicki Minaj, who guest-raps on it, intends to collaborate with another artist. "I'm done with the collabs," she said last year. "No more collabs for the next two years."
ref: 2012 February 22, Caroline Sullivan, “Musicians, stop collaborating please!”, in The Guardian:
text: UMISEA is a subunit in Hololive featuring idols with nautical themes. The group debuted in 2021 as the first JP+EN collab subunit. Chloe was added to the roster after holox debuted.
ref: 2023 August 14, Brandon Lyttle, “Hololive group UMISEA releases new single Ocean Wave Party☆Live”, in Niche Gamer, archived from the original on 26 Sep 2023:
glosses: A collaboration, especially a work produced by several musicians who do not usually work together.
collab
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /kəˈlæb/
ipa: /koʊˈlæb/
ipa: /kəˈɫæb/
ipa: /kɐʉˈɫæb/
rhymes: -æb
Forms: form: collabs
form: collabing
form: collabbing
form: collabed
form: collabed
form: collabbed
form: collabbed
Etymology: Clipping of collaboration. Clipping of collaborate.
Senses: glosses: To collaborate.
collabs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of collab
collabs
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of collab
apple of Grenada
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: apples of Grenada
Senses: examples: text: For this service, he received from that monarch a picturesque addition to the arms of the family, in the form of a canton charged with the pomegranate (the apple of Grenada), which, as it was borne by his collateral descendants[…]
ref: 1882, Archaeologia Cantiana, page 6:
topics: government
heraldry
hobbies
lifestyle
monarchy
nobility
politics
glosses: The pomegranate.