cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
dimictic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Ancient Greek δίς (dís, “twice”) + μίξις (míxis, “mixing, mingling”). By surface analysis, di- + -mictic.
Senses: topics: biology
ecology
geography
geology
limnology
natural-sciences
glosses: Having two thermal overturns per year.
raw_tags: of a lake
topics: biology
mycology
natural-sciences
glosses: Exhibiting dimixis, in which mating is governed by two idiomorphs.
Coordinate terms: topics: limnology
ecology
geology
geography
natural-sciences
biology
word: monomictic
topics: mycology
biology
natural-sciences
word: homomictic
topics: mycology
biology
natural-sciences
word: diaphoromictic
Related terms: dimixis
heteromictic
if all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail
Language: English
Part of speech: proverb
Forms: form: when all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail
Etymology: Likely traditional. In this form, perhaps from Abraham Maslow, The Psychology of Science, 1966, page 15 and his earlier book
Abraham H. Maslow (1962), Toward a Psychology of Being:
: I suppose it is tempting, if the only tool you have is a hammer, to treat everything as if it were a nail.
Similar concept by Abraham Kaplan, The Conduct of Inquiry: Methodology for Behavioral Science, 1964, page 28:
: I call it the law of the instrument, and it may be formulated as follows: Give a small boy a hammer, and he will find that everything he encounters needs pounding.
Labeled "Baruch's Observation" (after Bernard Baruch) in The Complete Murphy's Law: A Definitive Collection (1991) by Arthur Bloch.
Also often attributed, without citation, to Mark Twain (for example in Jonathan Haidt, The Righteous Mind, page 9).
Senses: glosses: With limited tools, single-minded people apply them inappropriately or indiscriminately.
glosses: If a person is familiar with a certain, single subject, or has with them a certain, single instrument, they may have a confirmation bias to believe that it is the answer to/involved in everything.
Related terms: word: Maslow's hammer
english: has a somewhat opposite meaning
translation: has a somewhat opposite meaning
word: there's more than one way to skin a cat
at most
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Forms: form: at the most
form: at the very most
Senses: examples: text: There weren't so many people at the concert — 40 at most.
text: To declare this a little, vve muſt aſſume, that the Surfaces of all ſuch Bodies, […] are exactly ſmooth only in a popular, or at moſt in a Phyſical ſenſe, but not in a ſtrict and rigid ſenſe.
ref: 1664, Robert Boyle, chapter III, in Experiments and Considerations Touching Colours. […], London: […] Henry Herringman […], →OCLC, part I, page 26:
text: He is at moſt a confuſed and wild Chriſtian, not ſpecialized by any form, but capable of all.
ref: 1628, John Earle, Micro-Cosmography: Or, A Piece of the World Characterized, Salisbury: E. Easton, published 1786, page 121:
text: The segment advises the reader matter-of-factly that “the penis [of a whale] should be tucked inside the body and when needed enlarged into an erection”. At the very least, the statement sounds odd. At most, it could make human penis owners consider that their equipment might not represent the highest evolutionary ideal.
ref: 2018, Nicole Seymour, Bad Environmentalism, page 93:
glosses: At the most; at a maximum or upper limit.
Synonyms: at the outside
Related terms: at the latest
dimethylimidazole
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dimethylimidazoles
form: dimethylimidazol
Etymology: From dimethyl + imidazole.
Senses: examples: text: Dimethylimidazole was used as an axial ligand.
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A solvent used in a variety of applications including detergents and electronic materials, having the chemical formula C₅H₁₀N₂O
examples: the 1,4- and 1,5-dimethylimidazoles
glosses: Any derivative or isomer of dimethylimidazole
diisopropyl
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: [daɪaɪsəʊˈpɹəʊpaɪɫ]
Etymology: From di- + isopropyl.
Senses: examples: a solution of diisopropyl ketone
glosses: Having two isopropyl groups
Derived terms: bisoprolol
diisopropylfluorophosphatase
diisopropylphenyl
diisopropyltryptamine
diproteverine
disopyramide
dicationic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From di- + cationic.
Senses: examples: a dicationic species
glosses: Having two missing electrons
Related terms: dication
monocationic
tricationic
dimethylimidazoles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dimethylimidazole
dicarbene
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dicarbenes
Etymology: From di- + carbene.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A compound containing two carbenes, having the general formula RC:RC:R
Derived terms: phenylenedicarbene
Related terms: diradical
dinitrene
dicarbenes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dicarbene
dimethylimidazol-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Senses: examples: 2,4-dimethylimidazol-1-yl
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Dimethylimidazole, within a larger chemical formula
meristems
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of meristem
a11y
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: A11Y
form: A11y
Etymology: Numeronym presenting accessibility as "a" followed by 11 more letters, followed by "y".
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
software
coordinate_terms: g11n
i18n
L10n
m17n
p13n
glosses: Abbreviation of accessibility.
limnological
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From limnology + -ical.
Senses: examples: a limnological study
glosses: Of or pertaining to limnology.
Derived terms: geolimnological
limnologically
monocations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of monocation
petrological
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From petrology + -ical.
Senses: examples: a petrological and chemical analysis
glosses: Of or pertaining to petrology, the study of rock formation and composition
Derived terms: petrologically
Related terms: petrologist
monocation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: monocations
Etymology: From mono- + cation.
Senses: glosses: A cation formed by removal of a single electron from a neutral species
Derived terms: monocationic
Related terms: dication
trication
tetracation
polymerizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of polymerize
polymerizing
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more polymerizing
form: most polymerizing
Senses: glosses: That polymerizes
Derived terms: electropolymerizing
nonpolymerizing
photopolymerizing
polymerizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of polymerize
glucometer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: glucometers
Etymology: From gluco- + -meter.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A glucose meter, a device for measuring the concentration of glucose in the blood
Related terms: gleucometer
glucometric
glucometry
glucometers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of glucometer
exoplanetary
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From exoplanet + -ary.
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: Of or pertaining to an exoplanet, a planet outside the solar system
germylium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From germyl + -ium.
Senses: glosses: Any cation formed by a germanium atom with three bonds, having the general formula R₃Ge⁺.
Related terms: carbenium
silylium
stannylium
silylium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From silyl + -ium.
Senses: glosses: Any cation formed by a silicon atom with three bonds, having the general formula R₃Si⁺
Related terms: carbenium
germylium
stannylium
stannylium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From stannyl + -ium.
Senses: glosses: Any cation formed by a tin atom with three bonds, having the general formula R₃Sn⁺
Related terms: carbenium
silylium
germylium
forskolin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: forskolins
Etymology: From an obsolete name, Plectranthus forskolaei, for the plant Coleus barbatus. That name is from the name of the Swedish explorer Peter Forsskål.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A labdane diterpene produced by the plant Plectranthus barbatus or Coleus barbatus var. barbatus (syn. Coleus forskohlii), commonly used in the study and research of cell physiology.
affamish
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /əˈfæmɪʃ/
Forms: form: affamishes
form: affamishing
form: affamished
form: affamished
Etymology: From French affamer, from Latin ad + fames (“hunger”). Compare famish.
Senses: examples: text: With light thereof I do myself sustain, / And thereon feed my love affamisht heart.
ref: 1595, Edmunde Spenser [i.e., Edmund Spenser], “[Amoretti.] Sonnet LXXXVII”, in Amoretti and Epithalamion. […], London: […] [Peter Short] for William Ponsonby, →OCLC:
glosses: To cause (somebody) to die of hunger; to starve.
Derived terms: affamishment
Related terms: famish
famine
floxed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of flox
Related terms: unfloxed
Pekinese
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Pekineses
form: Pekinese
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Pekingese.
Derived terms: Pekie
Pekinese
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Pekingese.
floxes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of flox
floxing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of flox
cragfast
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more cragfast
form: most cragfast
form: crag-fast
Etymology: From crag (“rocky outcrop”) + fast.
Senses: examples: text: a cragfast sheep
text: Eventually, having seen the dangers of the ledge still more clearly, and the body of a sheep which had become cragfast at the same spot, he spotted a solution to his difficulty. As he looked down he could see stones on the ledge far beneath him which must have been piled there by a shepherd trying vainly to reach the cragfast sheep whose body he had just passed.
ref: 2010, John Beer, Coleridge's Play of Mind, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 100:
text: Mountain rescue crews say the men, who were “soloing” or not using any ropes, called for help after becoming cragfast on Jacob’s Ladder around 4pm on Saturday.
ref: 2017 December 17, Graeme Murrary, “‘Cragfast’ climbers rescued 600ft up Cairngorms peak”, in The Scotsman:
topics: climbing
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: Stranded on a crag (inaccessible rock).
dreidels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dreidel
best bib and tucker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: best bibs and tuckers
Senses: glosses: Attractive clothing.
pit-a-pats
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pit-a-pat
pit-a-pats
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of pit-a-pat
skyte
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: skytes
form: skyting
form: skyted
form: skyted
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of skite.
skyte
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: skytes
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of skite.
radicalising
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of radicalise
gesturally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From gestural + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: We've barely begun to scratch the surface of the notion that highly complex and subtle ideas can be communicated gesturally.
ref: 1979 August 25, Vicki Gabriner, Susan Freundlich, “Bridging the Gaps between Deaf and Hearing Lesbians”, in Gay Community News, volume 7, number 6, page 9:
glosses: In a gestural fashion.
lyege
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lyeges
Senses: examples: […] and to accepte me unto his mercy and to his grace, as he that hathe ever bene ful of mercy and of grace to all his lyeges […]
glosses: Archaic spelling of liege.
lyeges
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lyege
affectional
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more affectional
form: most affectional
Etymology: From affection + -al.
Senses: synonyms: emotive
glosses: Pertaining to the affections; affective; characterized by emotion
Derived terms: affectionally
affectional preference
affectionally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more affectionally
form: most affectionally
Etymology: From affectional + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an affectional manner.
affeer
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -ɪə(ɹ)
Forms: form: affeers
form: affeering
form: affeered
form: affeered
Etymology: From Middle English afferen, aferen, from Old French aferer, afuerer, afeurer, aforer, from Medieval Latin afforāre.
Senses: topics: law
glosses: To assess or reduce an arbitrary penalty or amercement to a precise sum; to fix the market value of.
examples: text: For goodness dare not check thee! wear thou thy wrongs; / The title is affeer'd!
ref: 1623, William Shakespeare, Macbeth, act 4. scene 3:
glosses: To confirm; to assure.
Derived terms: affeerer
affeerment
affeerment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: affeerments
Etymology: From affeer + -ment.
Senses: topics: law
glosses: The act of affeering or assessing an amercement, according to the circumstances of the case.
Ntenguru
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A county of Kayunga district, Uganda.
Hyponyms: Kayunga
Busaana
Nazigo
Kagulumira
shareholders' derivative action
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shareholders' derivative actions
Senses: topics: law
glosses: A lawsuit brought on behalf of a corporation by a shareholder in that corporation, against a third party usually an insider of the corporation, such as an executive officer or director.
Synonyms: shareholders' derivative suit
shareholders' derivative actions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shareholders' derivative action
Kayunga
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A district in central Uganda.
Hyponyms: Bbaale
Ntenguru
Kayunga
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A subcounty in Ntenguru, Uganda.
trials by ordeal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of trial by ordeal
Lewiston
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈlu.ɪstən/
Etymology: From Lewis + -ton.
Senses: glosses: Place names:
A semi-rural locality in South Australia.
glosses: Place names:
A small linear village in Highland council area, Scotland.
glosses: Place names:
A census-designated place in Trinity County, California.
glosses: Place names:
A city, the county seat of Nez Perce County, Idaho.
glosses: Place names:
An unincorporated community in Jasper County, Indiana.
glosses: Place names:
A city in Androscoggin County, Maine.
glosses: Place names:
A ghost town in Dakota County, Minnesota.
glosses: Place names:
A small village in Pawnee County, Nebraska.
glosses: Place names:
A town and village in Niagara County, New York.
glosses: Place names:
A town in Bertie County, North Carolina.
glosses: Place names:
A small city in Cache County, Utah.
glosses: Place names:
A former village in Windsor County, Vermont.
glosses: Place names:
An unincorporated community in Spotsylvania County, Virginia.
glosses: Place names:
A town and unincorporated community in Columbia County, Wisconsin.
Related terms: Lewistown
Thunder Bay
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A large bay of Thunder Bay district, Northwestern Ontario, Northern Ontario, Ontario, Canada, on Lake Superior, Great Lakes, North America.
glosses: A city in Thunder Bay district, Northwestern Ontario, Northern Ontario, Ontario, Canada.
glosses: A district of Northwestern Ontario, Northern Ontario, Ontario, Canada; in full, Thunder Bay District.
glosses: A bay of Alpena, Michigan, United States, on Lake Huron, Great Lakes, North America.
Derived terms: City of Thunder Bay
District of Thunder Bay
Thunder Bay District
Thunder Bay Island
Thunder Bay River
Blue Hill
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A small town in Hancock County, Maine.
balcons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of balcon
baldaquins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of baldaquin
balises
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of balise
prolificacy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: prolificacies
Etymology: From its morphology, prolific + -acy.
Senses: glosses: Great fecundity.
glosses: Producing of a large number of literary or artistic works.
kapas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kapa
katun
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: katuns
Senses: glosses: A medieval self-governing community in the Balkans, associated with cattle farming.
tió de Nadal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /tɪˌəʊ dɛ nəˈdɒl/
ipa: /tiˌoʊ dɛ nəˈdɑl/
rhymes: -ɒl
Forms: form: tions de Nadal
Etymology: Borrowed from Catalan tió de Nadal, from tió (“log”) and Nadal (“Christmas”).
Senses: examples: text: Another ritual to do with trees is the tió de Nadal, the Yule log that becomes fertile and “craps” sweets and presents;
ref: 1991, Catalònia Culture, Centre Unesco de Catalunya, page 13:
glosses: A traditional Catalan Christmas character made by decorating a short log. It is “fed” with gifts each day from December 8th until Christmas, at which time it is sung to and beaten with sticks until it “poops”.
Yule logs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Yule log
all too
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: all to
Senses: examples: text: Teenage pregnancies are all too common in the UK.
text: Sexism is all too familiar in this department.
text: They were all too ready to sell their stories to the press.
text: It was over all too soon.
text: a robot will not be subject to all-too-human fits of anger, sadism or cruelty.
ref: 2020 October 15, Frank Pasquale, “‘Machines set loose to slaughter’: the dangerous rise of military AI”, in The Guardian:
text: And you call me up again just to break me like a promise
So casually cruel in the name of being honest
I'm a crumpled up piece of paper lying here
'Cause I remember it all, all, all too well
ref: 2011, Taylor Swift, “All Too Well”:
coordinate_terms: nice and
;
good and
glosses: Very, extremely; thoroughly but lamentably; excessively.
esthesis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /iːsˈθiː.sɪs/
/ɪsˈθiː.sɪs/
/ɛsˈθiː.sɪs/
Forms: form: estheses
form: aesthesis
form: æsthesis
Etymology: From the Ancient Greek αἴσθησις (aísthēsis, “perception”).
Senses: topics: human-sciences
philosophy
psychology
sciences
glosses: Elemental awareness of sensory stimulation.
Synonyms: aesthesia
esthesia
Derived terms: aestho-physiology
chemesthesis
Related terms: esthesic
esthesics
poiesis
aesthesis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: aestheses
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of esthesis.
Derived terms: aesthetic
esthesia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: esthesias
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of aesthesia.
Derived terms: bathyesthesia
cenesthesia
cryesthesia
dysesthesia
hyperesthesia
hypesthesia
hypoesthesia
macroesthesia
radiesthesia
somatesthesia
anteriority
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ænˌtɪəɹiˈɒɹɪti/
ipa: /ænˌtɪɹiˈɔɹɪti/
rhymes: -ɒɹɪti
Forms: form: anteriorities
Etymology: From Middle French antériorité, from Late Latin anteriōritās, corresponding to anterior + -ity.
Senses: examples: text: It is important to realize that pregivenness or prefixing is a kind of anteriority that does its work in the present; subjects and meanings in part emerge in enuciative co-constitutive moments.
ref: 2002, Thomas R. West, Signs of Struggle, page 23:
glosses: The state of being previous or preceding in time or in situation.
Synonyms: word: antecedence
word: antecedency
word: anteriority
word: precedence
word: priority
bancs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of banc
ambisexualities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ambisexuality
Missouri Fox Trotters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Missouri Fox Trotter
Mexican hairlesses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Mexican hairless
bandstrations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bandstration
acoustic emissions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of acoustic emission
basicities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of basicity
back-formations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of back-formation
dowerless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈdaʊ.ə(ɹ).ləs/
Etymology: From dower + -less.
Senses: examples: text: A carol (Greene no. 315) which relates how St. Nicholas helped three dowerless girls employs, in stanzas 4-6, a type of incremental repetition in which each daughter speaks in turn […]
ref: 1980, Mary Diane McCabe, “Chapter Three: The Miracle of the Cock”, in A critical study of some traditional religious ballads, Durham University, page 37:
synonyms: dowryless
glosses: Lacking a dowry; dowryless.
Derived terms: dowerlessness
malt shop
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: malt shops
Senses: synonyms: soda shop
glosses: An informal cafe that serves milkshakes and similar products.
hip pack
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hip packs
Senses: glosses: fanny pack (US), bum bag (British)
parge coat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: parge coats
Senses: glosses: A thin coat of mortar applied to a wall to fill cracks and small holes
damp proofing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A protective measure applied to the exterior of building foundation walls to prevent rising damp
topics: business
construction
manufacturing
glosses: treatment of a surface or structure to resist the passage of water in the absence of hydrostatic pressure.
rising damp
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A condition caused by ground moisture rising up a masonry wall by capillary action
corporate tax
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: corporate taxes
Senses: examples: text: Corporate taxes were levied on capital or net income, subject to an annual minimum.
topics: economics
sciences
synonyms: corporation tax
company tax
glosses: A tax levied on a corporation, especially on its profits; corporation tax.
digital converter box
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: digital converter boxes
Senses: glosses: A set-top box that processes digital signals for an analogue television set.
Walkerism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Walkerisms
Etymology: From Walker + -ism.
Senses: topics: hobbies
journalism
lifestyle
media
sports
synonyms: Murrayism
coordinate_terms: Gallivanism
Sidhuism
Yogiism
glosses: A form of words spoken by motorsports commentator Murray Walker that, due to grammatical errors, malapropisms, etc. is characteristic of his broadcasting style.
Hypernyms: malapropism
thiotriphosphate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: thiotriphosphates
Etymology: From thio- + triphosphate.
Senses: glosses: A triphosphate, such as ATP, in which an oxygen has been replaced by a sulfur
Related terms: thiophosphate
thiophosphorylation
transiting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of transit
transiting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: transitings
Senses: glosses: The process by which something undergoes transit; an act of conveyance.
transited
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of transit
thiotriphosphates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of thiotriphosphate
transgenesis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: transgeneses
Etymology: From trans- + -genesis.
Senses: topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: The process of introducing an exogenous gene into a living organism
Related terms: transgene
transgenic
transvection
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: transvections
Etymology: From transvect + -ion. Coined in the genetic sense by Edward B. Lewis in 1954.
Senses: examples: text: Transvection effects include both activation and silencing.
topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: An epigenetic interaction between an allele on one chromosome and the corresponding allele on the homologous chromosome
examples: a projective transvection
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: A kind of linear mapping which leaves all points on one axis fixed, while other points are shifted parallel to the axis by a distance proportional to their perpendicular distance from the axis
examples: text: In transvection witches rode broomsticks, a classical phallic symbol.
ref: 1996, Avner Falk, A Psychoanalytic History of the Jews, →ISBN, page 532:
glosses: The act of supernatural flight, such as by a witch.
Synonyms: sense: epigenetic interaction
word: trans-sensing
sense: linear mapping
word: shear
Related terms: transvect
transvective
transvector
transfection
chartist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɑː(ɹ)tɪst
Forms: form: chartists
Etymology: From chart + -ist.
Senses: topics: business
finance
glosses: A financial analyst who attempts to predict future movements in the prices of shares or other financial instruments by looking for patterns in charts of historical data.
chartism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From chart + -ism.
Senses: topics: business
finance
glosses: The practices and methodologies of chartists.
potomania
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Latin pōtō (“I drink (liquor)”) + -mania.
Senses: glosses: An excessive and persistent desire to drink alcoholic beverages.
glosses: A hypoosmolality disease caused by excessive beer drinking.
Synonyms: dipsomania
Related terms: alcoholism
tautosyllabic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From tauto- + syllabic.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
antonyms: heterosyllabic
glosses: Occurring in the same syllable.
Related terms: tautomorphemic
heterosyllabic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From hetero- + syllabic.
Senses: examples: text: In fact, it is a question of two –heterosyllabic– consonants, whereby the neutral Italian structure could not tolerate more complicated sequences, as they would make these syllables too heavy to pronounce.
ref: 2005, Luciano Canepari, A Handbook of Pronunciation, Lincom Europa, →ISBN, page 137:
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
antonyms: tautosyllabic
coordinate_terms: ambisyllabic
glosses: Not occurring in the same syllable.
Derived terms: heterosyllabically
Related terms: heteromorphemic
heteromorphemic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -iːmɪk
Etymology: From hetero- + morphemic.
Senses: examples: text: To be sure all these examples of sequences are all heteromorphemic.
ref: 1964, Ural-Altaic yearbook, volume 36, page 33:
text: The geminate ss is heteromorphemic, i.e. it is a single bundle of distinctive features linked to two heteromorphemic skeletal slots.
ref: 2012, F. Dell, Syllables In Tashlhiyt Berber And In Moroccan Arabic, page 234:
text: For example, the OCP blocks geminate sequences in English, except across certain prosodic boundaries, such as in compounds like penknife [pεn:aif] and heteromorphemic formations such as solely [sowl:i].
ref: 2015, Andrew Byrd, The Indo-European Syllable, page 45:
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
antonyms: tautomorphemic
coordinate_terms: heterosyllabic
glosses: Not occurring in the same morpheme; separated by a morpheme boundary.
transvections
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of transvection
guanylyl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From guanylic + -yl.
Senses: glosses: A functional group derived from guanosine monophosphate, also known as guanylic acid
Synonyms: guanylate
Coordinate terms: adenylyl
cytidylyl
thymidylyl
uridylyl
Derived terms: guanylylate
guanylylation
guanylyl cyclase
guanylyltransferase
Related terms: guanyl
pound-foolish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more pound-foolish
form: most pound-foolish
Etymology: From penny-wise and pound-foolish (“thrifty in the small and wasteful in the large”).
Senses: examples: text: Accordingly, by Dr. Chen's method of calculation, the copayment experience would have to be deemed even more pound-foolish than we found it to be.
ref: 1976, MI Roemer with CE Hopkins, “Response to MK Chen”, in Medical Care:
glosses: Being unwise in dealing with large amounts of money.
-yl
Language: English
Part of speech: suffix
Etymology: Via French méthylène from Ancient Greek ὕλη (húlē, “wood, material”).
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A univalent radical or functional group formed from a given molecule. Thus propyl from propane, benzyl from benzene, and so forth.
Derived terms: -enyl
-ylidene
-ynyl
hematoxylin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌhiːməˈtɒksɪlɪn/
ipa: /ˌhiməˈtɑksɪlɪn/
Forms: form: hematoxylins
form: haematoxylin
form: hemotoxylin
form: hematoxylene
Etymology: From Haematoxylum (“genus of the logwood tree”) + -in.
Senses: examples: text: Histology sections were cut at 5–6 µm on a rotary microtome, mounted on glass slides, and stained with Harris’s haematoxylin and eosin in a Stainomatic specimen stainer.
ref: 1995 December 23, N. Jaax et al., “Transmission of Ebola virus (Zaire strain) to uninfected control monkeys in a biocontainment laboratory”, in The Lancet, volume 346, number 8991, →PMID, page 1669:
text: The stains used were hematoxylin and eosin (H&E), Masson's trichrome, and Verhoeff's stain. Sections stained with hematoxylin and eosin have nuclei that were stained blue, cartilage and calcium deposits stained dark blue, cytoplasm and other constituents stained shades of red, and blood stained bright red.
ref: 2001, Laura E. Edsberg, Joseph R. Natiella, JoAnn Earle, “Microstructural characteristics of human skin subjected to static versus cyclic pressures”, in Journal of Rehabilitation Research and Development, volume 38, number 5:
text: For overall morphology, sections were stained with hematoxylin and eosin (H&E) to measure mean fiber area.
ref: 2011, Colleen A. McMullen et al., “Chronic Stimulation-Induced Changes in the Rodent Thyroarytenoid Muscle”, in Journal of Speech, Language and Hearing Research, volume 54, number 3:
topics: chemistry
medicine
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A phenolic compound having the chemical formula C₁₆H₁₄O₆, used (most often in conjunction with eosin) to make dye for staining tissue samples; extracted from the heart of bloodwood trees (Haematoxylum campechianum).
Derived terms: haematoxylinophilic
hemalum
hematoxylins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hematoxylin
synuclein
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: synucleins
Senses: examples: text: One of the hallmarks of the condition is deposits of insoluble fibres of a substance called synuclein. Normally found as small soluble molecules in healthy nerve cells, in people with Parkinson’s, something causes the synuclein molecules to warp into a different shape, making them clump together as fibres.
ref: 2016 December 3, Clare Wilson, “Parkinson’s: we’re looking in the wrong place”, in New Scientist, number 3102, archived from the original on 19 May 2017, page 8:
glosses: A small, soluble protein primarily expressed in neural tissue and in certain tumors.
Hyponyms: alpha-synuclein
beta-synuclein
gamma-synuclein
Related terms: synucleopathy
powan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: powans
Etymology: Borrowed from Scottish Gaelic pollan. Doublet of pollan.
Senses: glosses: Coregonus clupeoides, a species of freshwater whitefish endemic to Loch Lomond in Scotland.
powans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of powan
glycogenolytic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From glycogen + -o- + -lytic.
Senses: glosses: Of, pertaining to, or capable of glycogenolysis, the catabolism of glycogen
Derived terms: glycogenolytically
Related terms: glycogenolysis
glycolytic
kymograph
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kymographs
Etymology: From kymo- + -graph.
Senses: synonyms: kymographion
glosses: A device that gives a graphical representation of a variation in a phenomenon such as blood pressure over time, using a pen on a rotating drum.
Derived terms: electrokymograph
kymographic
kymography
Related terms: kymogram
axograph
kymographs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kymograph
glycogenolysis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɒlɪsɪs
Forms: form: glycogenolyses
Etymology: From glycogen + -o- + -lysis.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The production of glucose-1-phosphate by splitting a glucose monomer from glycogen using inorganic phosphate
Related terms: glycogenolytic
bairam
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bairams
Etymology: From Turkish bayram.
Senses: glosses: Eid, either of two Muslim festivals held after Ramadan.
glycogenolyses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of glycogenolysis
logwood
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: logwoods
Etymology: From log + wood.
Senses: synonyms: bloodwood, blackwood, bloodwood tree, blockwood, bluewood, campeachy tree, campeachy wood, campeche logwood, campeche wood, Jamaica wood
logwood tree
glosses: A tree of species Haematoxylum campechianum, in the legume family, of great economic importance and growing throughout Central America.
glosses: Any of various trees of the genus Xylosma in the willow family.
examples: text: In the latter part of the eighteenth century in Maryland, [Easter] eggs were boiled in logwood which dyed the shells crimson, and the patterns would be scratched away with a pin.
ref: 1971, Gwen White, Antique Toys And Their Background, page 164:
glosses: Wood of any of these trees.
Related terms: hematoxylin
glycogenesis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: glycogeneses
Etymology: Blend of glycogen + genesis, or glyco- + -genesis
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The biosynthesis of a sugar
topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The synthesis of glycogen from glucose
Related terms: glucogenesis
glycogenic
glycogenolysis
glycogeneses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of glycogenesis
nitrogens
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nitrogen
passband
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: passbands
Etymology: From pass + band.
Senses: glosses: The range of frequencies or wavelengths that can pass through a filter without being reduced in amplitude.
Related terms: bandpass
stopband
bairams
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bairam
presstime
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: presstimes
Etymology: From press + time.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of press time.
presstimes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of presstime
press time
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: press times
Senses: glosses: The time when a publication, typically a newspaper, is sent to be published.
press times
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of press time
isoniazid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌʌɪ.sə(ʊ)ˈnʌɪ.əz.ɪd/
ipa: /ˌaɪ.səˈnaɪ.əz.ɪd/
Forms: form: isoniazids
form: isonicotinylhydrazide
form: INH
form: retozide
Etymology: Contraction of isonicotinoylhydrazide.
Senses: topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: A synthetic, crystalline compound, C₆H₇N₃O, (trademarks Hydra, Hyzyd, Isovit, Laniazid, Nydrazid, Rimifon, Stanozide) used as a bacteriostatic medication in the prevention and treatment of tuberculosis.
seraskier
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɪə(ɹ)
Forms: form: seraskiers
Etymology: From Ottoman Turkish سرعسكر (serasker), from Persian سرعسکر (sar'askar), a compound word from Persian سر (sar, “head”) and Arabic عَسْكَر (ʕaskar, “army”), itself from Persian لشکر (laškar, “army”).
Senses: examples: text: A seraskier or officer took a liking to me here, and wanted me to stay, and offered me two wives; however I resisted the temptation.
ref: 1789, Olaudah Equiano, chapter 9, in The Interesting Narrative, volume I:
glosses: A commander in the Ottoman Empire.
seraskiers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of seraskier
puromycin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: puromycins
Etymology: From [Term?] + -mycin (“antibiotic”).
Senses: topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: An antibiotic that is a strong inhibitor of protein translation.
Related terms: antipuromycin
puromycylated
puromycylation
ribopuromycin
postmitotic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From post- + mitotic.
Senses: topics: biology
cytology
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: Occurring after mitosis.
Related terms: postmitosis
axotomy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: axotomies
Etymology: From axo- + -tomy.
Senses: glosses: The process of cutting or severing an axon
Derived terms: axotomise
axotomize
nanoaxotomy
postaxotomy
prawning
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of prawn
planktivorous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɪvəɹəs
Etymology: From plankton + -vorous.
Senses: glosses: Consuming or eating plankton
Coordinate terms: carnivorous
insectivorous
omnivorous
Derived terms: phytoplanktivorous
prawned
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of prawn
prodrug
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɹəʊ.dɹʌɡ/
ipa: /ˈpɹoʊ.dɹʌɡ/
Forms: form: prodrugs
Etymology: From pro- (“substitute for”) + drug.
Senses: topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: A drug that is administered in an inactive form that is metabolised in the body into a biologically active compound.
prodrug
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɹəʊ.dɹʌɡ/
ipa: /ˈpɹoʊ.dɹʌɡ/
ipa: /pɹəʊˈdɹʌɡ/
ipa: /pɹoʊˈdɹʌɡ/
ipa: /ˈpɹəʊ.dɹʌɡ/
ipa: /ˈpɹoʊ.dɹʌɡ/
Forms: form: more prodrug
form: most prodrug
Etymology: From pro- (“favouring”) + drug.
Senses: examples: text: In France, the antidrug law forbids all forms of prodrug propaganda.
ref: 1972, United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee to Investigate the Administration of the Internal Security Act and Other Internal Security Laws, World Drug Traffic and Its Impact on U.S. Security: The hashish trail:
glosses: In favour of recreational drugs.
prodrugs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of prodrug
jack plugs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of jack plug
pfaugh
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: examples: text: Pfaugh! — the history of the day was done; but up-stairs, in my naked, noisy room, began a history of the night, which was much more frightful to me.
ref: 1892, Thomas Carlyle, “Excursion (Futile Enough) to Paris”, in The Last Words of Thomas Carlyle, Appleton & Co., page 228:
text: "They live in New York, and he had the effrontery to give me a dinner and ask all his collaborators to it, fat, paunchy men who smelled of money. Pfaugh!"
ref: 1976, Robert Herrick, Waste, Ayer Publishing, page 55:
text: "But not so many as of us, eh? Why do you suppose that is? Because they bob up and down while they pray? Because every Friday they air their bedding out? Pfaugh."
ref: 2007, Michael Flynn, Eifelheim, Macmillan, page 167:
glosses: An expression of disgust, contempt, disdain, or dismissal.
Synonyms: feh
pish
pshaw
pooh
bah
Aoi
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A female given name from Japanese.
personal name
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: personal names
Senses: examples: text: An example of this is the word Os—'a god', which was often used as an initial element in OE personal names, but is hardly ever found in independent use[…]
ref: 1945, E[lizabeth] G[idley] Withycombe, “Introduction”, in The Oxford Dictionary of English Christian Names, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page xii:
glosses: A proper name identifying an individual person, especially the full name.
Synonyms: full name
Related terms: family name
first name
forename
given name
last name
middle name
surname
anthroponym
personal names
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of personal name
Sadako
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese さだこ (Sadako).
Senses: glosses: A female given name from Japanese.
FST
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: FSTs
Senses: glosses: Initialism of field sobriety test.
glosses: Initialism of French subtitles.
Related terms: EST
ST
anticircumvention
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: anti-circumvention
Etymology: From anti- + circumvention.
Senses: examples: text: The anticircumvention and rights-management provisions have been the focus of nearly all opposition to Title I and of much of the opposition to the DMCA as a whole.
ref: 2006, Aaron Schwabach, Internet and the Law: Technology, Society, and Compromises, page 91:
topics: law
glosses: In opposition to circumvention of a prohibition, or of a means to carry out a prohibition.
dissave
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: dissaves
form: dissaving
form: dissaved
form: dissaved
Etymology: From dis- + save.
Senses: examples: text: The ith consumer's choice set is depicted in Figure 3.3 as a single point. It is not possible for the consumer to exploit gains from trade between dates (by saving/dissaving) within the constraints imposed by the spot market economy.
ref: 1997, Jürgen Eichberger, Ian R. Harper, Financial Economics, Oxford University Press, page 94:
text: In chapter 21, we shall follow Cole and Kocherlakota (2001) by allowing the household to save (but not to dissave) a risk-free asset that bears fixed gross interest rate R#61;#92;beta#123;-1#125;. [emphasis in original]
ref: 2018, Lars Ljungqvist and Thomas J. Sargent, Recursive macroeconomic theory, 4th edition, MIT Press, page 25:
text: In [the Diamond overlapping-generations model], each individual saves early in life and dissaves later in life. As a result, at any time some individuals have saved and not yet dissaved.
ref: 2019, David Romer, Advanced Macroeconomics, 5th edition, McGraw-Hill, page 665:
glosses: To spend more than one earns.
Derived terms: dissaver
twincharger
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: twinchargers
Etymology: From twin + charger. From there being two "-chargers", a turbocharger and a supercharger. "Twin" is taken to mean "two", and does not mean identical, just two similar items.
Senses: topics: automotive
transport
vehicles
synonyms: turbosupercharger
superturbocharger
glosses: A combination of a supercharger and a turbocharger.
Related terms: twincharge
twincharged
twincharging
carburetor
forced induction
fuel injection
intercooler
nitro
clutch pedal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: clutch pedals
Senses: topics: automotive
transport
vehicles
glosses: A pedal in a manual transmission car that modulates the clutch mechanism, via clutch plate pressure.
icewine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: icewines
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of ice wine.
ice cider
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ice ciders
Etymology: From ice + cider. Coined in analogy to icewine.
Senses: glosses: an apple cider made from frozen apples harvested after freezing winter weather has descended on the orchard.
Coordinate terms: sparkling cider
Derived terms: sparkling ice cider
Related terms: ice wine
ice perry
shadow banking system
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shadow banking systems
Etymology: Coined by Paul McCulley in 2007. Parallel with earlier constructions such as shadow cabinet and shadow government as names for quasi-institutions running unofficially in parallel with the official institutions.
Senses: examples: text: Given the Chinese banking sector's predominance in the economy, it seems surprising that China appears to need another, parallel, shadow banking system.
ref: 2016, Ning Zhu, China's Guaranteed Bubble […] , McGraw Hill, →ISBN, page 35:
topics: banking
business
economics
finance
sciences
glosses: Non-bank financial institutions, that, like banks, borrow short and in liquid forms and lend or invest long in more illiquid assets.
Related terms: shadow bank
turbosupercharger
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: turbosuperchargers
Etymology: From turbo- + supercharger.
Senses: topics: aeronautics
aerospace
automotive
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
transport
vehicles
synonyms: turbo
glosses: A turbocharger, an exhaust-powered turbine used to power increased air intake to an internal combustion engine; an exhaust-turbine powered (in place of engine-powered) supercharger.
topics: automotive
transport
vehicles
synonyms: superturbocharger
glosses: A twincharger, a combination of a supercharger and a turbocharger.
Related terms: superturbocharge
blower
intercooler
ram air
ram boost
supercharge
supercharger
turbo boost
heterodimerize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: heterodimerizes
form: heterodimerizing
form: heterodimerized
form: heterodimerized
form: heterodimerise
Etymology: From heterodimer + -ize.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: To form a dimer from two different monomers.
Derived terms: heterodimerization
Related terms: dimerize
homodimerize
homodimerize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: homodimerizes
form: homodimerizing
form: homodimerized
form: homodimerized
form: homodimerise
Etymology: From homodimer + -ize.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: To form a dimer from two identical monomers
Derived terms: homodimerization
homodimerizer
Related terms: dimerize
heterodimerize
heterodimerizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of heterodimerize
heterodimerizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of heterodimerize
heterodimerized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of heterodimerize
homodimerizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of homodimerize
homodimerizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of homodimerize
homodimerized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of homodimerize
interallelic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From inter- + allele + -ic.
Senses: examples: interallelic complementation
glosses: Occurring between two alleles of the same gene
Related terms: allelic
intergenic
intra-allelic
infectives
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of infective
hypoinsulinemia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hypoinsulinaemia
Etymology: From hypo- + insulinemia.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: An abnormally low level of insulin in the blood
Derived terms: hypoinsulinemic
Related terms: hyperinsulinemia
hypoglycemia
susceptibles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of susceptible
immunes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of immune