cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
kindo
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: Written form of a reduction of kind of.
Senses: examples: text: I'm kindo sick of my own cooking.
ref: 1926, Hamlin Garland, Trail-Makers of the Middle Border:
synonyms: kinda
glosses: kind of; somewhat
wikipedia: reduction (linguistics)
urfa biber
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɜːfə ˌbibə/
ipa: /ˈʊəfə ˌbibɛə/
ipa: /ˈɚfə ˌbibɚ/
ipa: /ˈʊɹfə ˌbibɛɹ/
Forms: form: Urfa biber
Etymology: From Turkish Urfa biber, from Urfa + biber (“pepper”).
Senses: examples: text: Urfa biber is uniquely delicious—it has a fruity, roasted flavor—and worth seeking out at specialty spice merchants.
ref: 2014 April 15, Lucy Vaserfirer, Marinades: The Quick-Fix Way to Turn Everyday Food Into Exceptional Fare, with 400 Recipes, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, →ISBN, page 258:
text: Rich, raisiny, smoky, coffee goodness: that is the flavor of urfa biber.
ref: 2014 October 7, Amanda Bevill, Julie Kramis Hearne, World Spice at Home: New Flavors for 75 Favorite Dishes, Sasquatch Books, →ISBN, page 42:
text: Paprika, allspice, and urfa biber impart warmth and richness to meat dishes and soups, while cinnamon is added to sweet dishes, especially in eastern Turkey.
ref: 2018 April 10, Stuart Farrimond, The Science of Spice: Understand Flavour Connections and Revolutionize your Cooking, Dorling Kindersley Ltd, →ISBN, page 23:
glosses: A smoky, sweet-and-sour variety of pepper cultivated in and around Şanlıurfa.
Synonyms: isot
Urfa biber
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of urfa biber.
subtendent
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: subtendents
Etymology: From subtend + -ent.
Senses: examples: text: Lastly, if you put BC the lesser of the sides, including the right angle for Radius, the greater side, AC, including the right angle is the tangent of ABC, the greater acute angle opposite; and the subtendent A B, is the secant of the same acute angle.
ref: 1642, Bartholomäus Pitiscus, Trigonometry: Or, The Doctrine of Triangles., page 91:
text: The very Subtendent line is found of an odde part; but the very subtendent of an even part is not found at one operation, but onely the Square of the Subtendent; and the greater the number of parts be, so much harder it willbe to finde out the subtendent.
ref: 1657, Johannes Jonstonus, An History of the Constancy of Nature:
text: The first figure, Vale, hath but one mood, and therefore of as great extent as it selfe, which is Upalem; whose nature is to let us know, whan a plane right angled triangle is given us to resolve, whose subtendent and one of the obliques is proposed, and one of the ambients required, that we must have recourse unto its resolver, which being Rad_U_Sapy→Yr sheweth, that if we joyne the artificiall sine of the angle opposite to the die demanded with the Logarithm of the subtendent, the summe searched in the canon of absolute numbers will afford us the Logarithm of the side required.
ref: 1834, Thomas Urquhart, Lord Thomas Maitland Dundrennan, The Works of Sir Thomas Urquhart of Cromarty, Knight, page 81:
text: For example, even if there were no possible quantity, mathematicians could say that if it was possible to make a right angled triangle, it was something assured that the hypotenuse or the subtendent of the right angle would make a square equal to the squares of the other two sides
ref: 1994, Alistair Cameron Crombie, Styles of Scientific Thinking in the European Tradition, page 840:
topics: geometry
mathematics
sciences
trigonometry
glosses: The side that subtends (is opposite) a specified angle;
subtendent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more subtendent
form: most subtendent
Etymology: From subtend + -ent.
Senses: examples: text: Captain Herschel expresses doubts of this, but it is evident that as the cusps closed both must have been within the space subtendent by half the length of the slit.
ref: 1875, Lieutenant-Colonel J.F. Tennant, “Report on Observations of the Total Elipse of the Sun”, in Memoirs of the Royal Astronomical Society, volume 42, page 9:
text: Make subtendent lines to them, and cut away the arches; then erect plain Looking-glasses, that may be of the same latitude, and of the same parallel lines, and the same longitude; glew them fast together, and fit them lo, that they may not be pulled asunder, as they are joyned long-ways, and erected upon a plain superficies.
ref: 1957, Giambattista della Porta, Natural Magick, page 359:
text: An outermost, “ballooning” membrane was seen to form dilated vesicles above the subtendent “armour” layer.
ref: 1988, British Phycological Journal, page 53:
topics: geometry
mathematics
sciences
glosses: That subtends; that lies opposite to a specified angle or point.
subtendent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more subtendent
form: most subtendent
Etymology: From sub- + tend + -ent.
Senses: examples: text: Secularism, with its subtendent isms, may now be considered to have approached the critical or turning' point in its career.
ref: 1882, James McCann, The Champion of the faith against current infidelity, page 191:
text: Yet it must not be supposed that while this painter sturdily refuses to prettify or to humanize, to adopt or to invent a school, there is any hardness or lack of subtendent poetry in his art.
ref: 1893, Donahoe's Magazine - Volume 29, page 138:
text: Healing of these badly damaged kidneys brings about stricturization of collecting renal tubules within the parenchyma itself, which interferes with free urinary drainage and healing of the subtendent lesions.
ref: 1948, New York State Journal of Medicine, page 2398:
text: In spite, though, of the logic of the 'network,' the subtendent rationalization for the structure of the Internet, blogs hail the effective reverse of this model: blogs are, in the words of Stodge.org blogger Randi Mooney, chiefly 'a form of vanity publishing ... the truth is that blogs consist of senseless teenage waffle.
ref: 2010 Fall, Sheila Liming, “Of Anarchy and Amateurism: Zine Publication and Print Dissent”, in The Journal of the Midwest Modern Language Association, volume 43, number 2, page 140:
glosses: That arises from; consequent.
subtendents
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of subtendent
spot-clean
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: spot-cleans
form: spot-cleaning
form: spot-cleaned
form: spot-cleaned
form: spotclean
form: spot clean
Senses: examples: text: “You can ruin the cloth if you try to spot-clean it,” warns Susan Fritz, co-owner of Denver Doll Hospital, a doll-cleaning and restoration business.
ref: 1999, Jeff Bredenberg, Clean It Fast, Clean It Right, page 151:
text: If you need to spot-clean a dryclean-only fabric, try using Energine Cleaning Fluid, available at grocery and hardware stores.
ref: 2002, Linda Cobb, The Queen of Clean's Complete Cleaning Guide:
text: To spot-clean, you can either use a dry-cleaning solution or a very mild, nonperfumed soap or Woolite and water.
ref: 2011, Mark Montano, Carly Sommerstein, Window Treatments and Slipcovers For Dummies, page 68:
glosses: To clean only those parts that are soiled, rather than cleaning the entire thing, area, etc.
spot-cleans
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of spot-clean
spot-cleaning
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of spot-clean
spot-cleaned
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of spot-clean
spotclean
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: spotcleans
form: spotcleaning
form: spotcleaned
form: spotcleaned
Senses: examples: text: Do ruffles a few inches at a time, nose iron into gathers. Hang immediately. dust, spotclean and mend.
ref: 1944, House & Garden - Volumes 85-86, page 92:
text: They also can be used to spotclean walls, clean air ducts, baseboards, kick plates, waste baskets, aluminum doors, windows and hand rails, stainless steel drinking fountains and the like.
ref: 1969, Jule Wilkinson, The 3 C's of Atmosphere: Creation, Collection, Care:
text: Carpet and baseboards will be spotcleaned where necessary.
ref: 1992, Alan A. Alexander, Richard F. Muhlebach, Shopping Center Management, page 365:
glosses: Alternative form of spot-clean.
spotcleans
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of spotclean
spotcleaning
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of spotclean
spotcleaned
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of spotclean
spot clean
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: spot cleans
form: spot cleaning
form: spot cleaned
form: spot cleaned
Senses: examples: text: Spot clean the area with dry-solvent spot cleaner .)
ref: 2004, Vicki Christian, Girls Just Wanna Have Clean!, page 37:
text: Examine the stain and spot clean it with an appropriate cleaner.
ref: 2011, Laura Ehrlich, The Complete Idiot's Guide to Quilting Basics:
text: The cleaning kit will be used to spot clean along the way and to thoroughly clean storage surfaces before replacing your sorted items.
ref: 2012, MaryAnne Bennie, From Stuffed to Sorted, page 12:
glosses: Alternative form of spot-clean.
spot cleans
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of spot clean
spot cleaning
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of spot clean
spot cleaned
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of spot clean
semiflint
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: semiflints
Senses: examples: text: Although its influence is clearly visible in many Criollo semiflints collected in 1954, "Maiz Gibara" is not popular with the small farmer who grows corn for home consumption.
ref: 1957, William H. Hatheway, Races of Maize in Cuba, page 28:
text: They include red flints and semiflints, red dents, purple, mixed yellow and white, and variegated colors.
ref: 2005, James C McCann, Maize and Grace, page 84:
glosses: Maize or corn that is a hybrid where one parent species is flint and the other has a soft outer hull.
examples: text: The calory- temperature curve for the flints and semiflints resembled one another very closely. The semiflints required a little greater heat to 1000°C.
ref: 1927, Bulletin - Volumes 36-48, page 266:
glosses: Clay that is hard rather than plastic but that lacks the conchoidal fracture pattern of flint.
speculary
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more speculary
form: most speculary
Senses: examples: text: To declare that the Church must open itself up to the world is to acknowledge that if religion is to work well, its speculary relation must be put to work: the speculary relation faith/world, internal to religion.
ref: 2003, Louis Althusser, François Matheron, The Humanist Controversy and Other Writings (1966-67), page 128:
glosses: Alternative form of specular.
transfic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: transfics
form: trans fic
Etymology: From trans (“transgender”) + fic.
Senses: examples: text: Transfics do not ignore, negate, or push these transgender materialities to the margins; they explicitly foreground them as narratives and, in doing so, highlight the complexities of living as transgender in a cisgender-biased world.
ref: 2014, Malory Beazley, "Out of the Cupboards and Into the Streets!: Harry Potter Genderfuck Fan Fiction and Fan Activism", thesis submitted to Concordia University, page 56
text: In this chapter, I’ve proposed three broad sub-genres to the genderbending genre – trans fics, transformation fics, and cisgender fics – in addition to questioning some of the key assumptions built into the very lexicon that dominates the genre.
ref: 2017, Elliot Aaron Director, "Something Queer In His Make-Up: Genderbending, Omegaverses, And Fandom's Discontents", dissertation submitted to Bowling Green State University, page 126
text: In other words, trans characters in Sherlock transfics tend to portray non-normative but unchanged genders in that the characters continue to be read (and identify) as their canonical gender (or something close to it).
ref: 2018, Jonathan A. Rose, “'Sherlock Is Actually A Girl's Name': Challenging Gender Normativity Through Sherlock Fanfiction”, in Genre En Séries: Cinéma, Télévision, Médias, number 7, page 116:
topics: lifestyle
glosses: A fanfic which focuses on a transgender character, especially one in which a canonically cisgender character is portrayed as trans.
examples: text: Transfic is a relatively new genre: the first known story to use the transfic label was Changes, a Star Wars fan fiction published online by Jane Sehrn-Ta in 2004.
ref: 2014, Malory Beazley, "Out of the Cupboards and Into the Streets!: Harry Potter Genderfuck Fan Fiction and Fan Activism", thesis submitted to Concordia University, page 55
text: Examples of transfic include such popular cultural fixtures as Marvel's Avengers and Peter Parker/Spider-Man envisioned as transgender characters.
ref: 2018, Kristin Lené Hole, Dijana Jelača, Film Feminisms: A Global Introduction, unnumbered page:
text: Most Sherlock transfic is not genderswap in the sense that characters do not change their canonical gender. For instance, canonically male Sherlock Holmes is portrayed much more frequently as (trans)male, i.e. a female-to-male trans person, than as a male-to-female trans person.
ref: 2018, Jonathan A. Rose, “'Sherlock Is Actually A Girl's Name': Challenging Gender Normativity Through Sherlock Fanfiction”, in Genre En Séries: Cinéma, Télévision, Médias, number 7, page 116:
topics: lifestyle
glosses: Such fan fiction collectively.
chiliogramme
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chiliogrammes
Senses: examples: text: According to the new system, a litre of air weighs one gramme, 232 milligrammes; and the chiliolitre or cubic metre, weighs 1 chiliogramme, 231 grammes, 903 milligrammes. […] To form a cubic metre of water, weighing 1000 chiliogrammes, will require therefore 850 chiliogrammes of oxygen gas, and 150 chiliogrammes of hydrogen gas.
ref: 1801, Mathurin Jacques Brisson, The Physical Principles of Chemistry:
text: For a chiliogramme (2 lb. averd.) of wood, about 10 chiliogrammes of air are required; for a chiliogramme of coal, 20 chiliogrammes of air, &c. which, supposing that the oxygen and azote that enter into the composition of atmospheric air, are in the proportion of 22 to 78, shews that wood requires 2.20 of its weight of oxygen, Argand’s lamps offer an application of these principles, which is as curious as it is useful.
ref: 1810, The Repertory of Arts, Manufactures, and Agriculture:
text: It appears also from Coulomb’s experiments, that a man going up stairs for a day raises 205 chiliogrammes (a chiliogramme is equal to three ounces five drams avoirdupois) to the height of a chiliometre (a chiliometre is equal to 39571 English inches);
ref: 1829, Alexander Jamieson, A Dictionary of Mechanical Science, Arts, Manufactures, and Miscellaneous Knowledge, volume 2:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of kilogram.
chiliogrammes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chiliogramme
Posgam
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: pōsgämʹ
Senses: examples: text: There, late afternoon, got back to Yarkand city. When came there, did not stop; came by the long road. All the time go very fast. I run with them very fast, same a slave. That evening reached to Tegarchi Bazaar. I hope there must camp. Did not camp. From that place was to Posgam about twenty miles. That time was very tired and hungry. I did try to buy some bread. The Hindu not let me buy. The Hindu get very angry with me about the bread. I walking with them very fast again. Got too dark; not see way.
ref: 1923, Ghulam Rassul Galwan, Aksakal of Leh, Servant of Sahibs, Cambridge, England: W. Heffer & Sons Ltd., →OCLC, page 43:
text: Posgam is a new district which has been carved out of the unwieldy Karghalik charge and placed under a Magistrate of the third class. A Yamen and fine new bazaars are being built of timber by the Chinese to the east of the village. This is only one of several new districts, the formation of which has been necessitated by the increase of population and the spread of cultivation during the last thirty years.
ref: 1926 [1922 November 11], C. P. Skrine, “Yarkand, Khotan and Beyond”, in Chinese Central Asia, Methuen Publishing, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 109:
text: Posgam, Friday, 6 October
We left Yarkand for Posgam at about 10. Today's 17-mile drive from Yarkand to Posgam gave us no indication that we were on the edge of the desert. On both sides of our road were double rows of poplar, interlined by an irrigation channel. And everywhere there were fields of wheat, maize and cotton.
ref: 1947, K. P. S. Menon, Delhi-Chungking: A Travel Diary, Oxford University Press, →OCLC, page 86:
text: In the western part of the Tarim Basin, cotton is grown mainly between the K'a-Shin-ka-erh (Kashgar Darya) and Yeh-erh-ch'iang (Yark and Darya) rivers where the growing season is longer and population denser. The main centres are K'a-shih (Kashgar), Pa-ch'u, Yüeh-p'u-hu, Mai-kai-t'i (Merket), So-ch'e (Yarkand) and Tse-p'u (Posgam).
ref: 1976, Chuen-Yan David Lai, “Developments of Cotton Cultivation in Sinkiang”, in Pacific Viewpoint, page 162:
text: Posgām (in Arabic letters written Būskām) is a large town to the southeast of Yārkand, situated on the trade route coming from Karġalik (today: Yeh-ch‘eng) at a distance of 21 miles from Karġalik. Posgām is the modern Tse-p‘u.
ref: [1986, Monika Gronke, “The Arabic Yārkand Documents”, in Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, volume XLIX, number 3, School of Oriental and African Studies, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 491:
glosses: Alternative form of Poskam.
wikipedia: Army Map Service
Poskam
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Posgam
Etymology: From Uyghur پوسكام (poskam).
Senses: examples: text: There was once, long, long ago, a very old man who was a saint, and whom everyone revered. He lived in a little shop and made, better than anyone, chereks, which are fine Chinese boots of a special shape of which he has left the secret, and which are only made in Poskam.
ref: 1909, Henry de Bouillane de Lacoste, translated by J. G. Anderson, Around Afghanistan, London: Sir Isaac Pitman & Sons, Ltd., →OCLC, →OL, page 106:
text: Poskam (Zepu) County is 30 km to the east of Yarkand and is the petroleum and natural gas producing hub of southern Xinjiang. The Tajik Ethnic village in Poskam County consists of a few smaller settlements scattered around the Boyluq area.
ref: 2019, Dagikhudo Dagiev, Carole Faucher, editors, Identity, History and Trans-Nationality in Central Asia (Central Asian Studies Series), →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL:
text: Subtype ST3 was dominant in most of the counties surveyed, with ST1 appearing to be the predominant subtype in the Lop county and only ST1 being identified in the Poskam county (Table 1).
ref: 2020, Meng Qi et al., “Genetic diversity of Blastocystis in kindergarten children in southern Xinjiang, China”, in Parasites & Vectors, volume 13, →DOI, →ISSN, →OCLC:
text: In an article posted in 2018 on the Chinese social media platform WeChat, Behtiyar Ablimit, a committee member of the ruling Chinese Communist Party (CCP) in Poskam county in southern Xinjiang, attested to the government’s proscription of nikah, while contradicting Chinese official statements, which often emphasize that the religious rights of Uighurs are “fully respected” in Xinjiang.
ref: 2020 October 2, Asim Kashgarian, “Uighur Couple, Official’s Article Confirm China’s Ban on Islamic Marriage Vow”, in Voice of America, archived from the original on 05 Oct 2020:
glosses: A county of Kashgar prefecture, Xinjiang autonomous region, China.
Synonyms: sense: from Mandarin Chinese
word: Zepu
word: Tse-p'u
issuefic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: issue fic
Etymology: From issue + fic.
Senses: examples: text: Even a gay identification, though, did not lead to the endorsement of gay politics. As noted earlier in the chapter, the respondents expressed a dislike of "issue fic."
ref: 2005, Rhiannon Bury, Cyberspaces of Their Own: Female Fandoms Online, page 92:
text: This story also appeared to me to be an “issue fic” by virtue of its handling of a character who was still in the process of transitioning (or recently had) and who specifically acknowledged fearing transphobia within the text, in addition to tags about “misunderstandings” and “self confidence issues.”
ref: 2017, Elliot Aaron Director, "Something Queer In His Make-Up: Genderbending, Omegaverses, And Fandom's Discontents", dissertation submitted to Bowling Green State University, page 126
text: As one woman in my study explains, 'I don't read [issue fic] because a lot focuses on 'queer culture' and despite being a queer woman myself, I find it alienating because...it feels like I'm being spoken for, and plus I don't read erotica to learn lessons' (American, 25-34, single, bisexual).
ref: 2018, Lucy Neville, Girls Who Like Boys Who Like Boys: Women and Gay Male Pornography and Erotica, page 274:
topics: lifestyle
glosses: Fan fiction which explores or comments upon social and/or political issues.
crackship
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: crackships
form: crack ship
Etymology: From crack + ship, alluding to the erratic behaviour of crack cocaine users.
Senses: examples: text: Moreover, in the more silly venues of fandom, some fans generate "crack ships," or nonsensical couplings, such as sensing chemistry between Bonnie/A Rock.
ref: 2015, Kristen J. Warner, The Cultural Politics of Colorblind TV Casting, unnumbered page:
text: We carve out little fiefdoms with the common love of a middle-aged actress, and we march up the gangplank to board our favorite crackship.
ref: 2016, Kathleen Smith, The Fangirl Life: A Guide to All the Feels and Learning How to Deal, unnumbered page:
text: With rarepairs and crackships, it's the unlikeliness or even impossibility of their coming together that gets you going.
ref: 2019, "Thefudge", "The Marvelously Crafted", Lemon, 1 February 2019, page 49
topics: lifestyle
glosses: A ship that is canonically implausible, bizarre, or humorous.
Synonyms: crack pairing
flexivore
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: flexivores
Etymology: Blend of flexible + carnivore.
Senses: glosses: One who is usually or primarily carnivore, but not strictly so.
flexivore
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more flexivore
form: most flexivore
Etymology: Blend of flexible + carnivore.
Senses: glosses: Being a flexivore.
raw_tags: of a person
qualifier: a diet
glosses: Being what a flexivore might eat.
raw_tags: of food
octacontagon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: octacontagons
Senses: topics: geometry
mathematics
sciences
glosses: A polygon with 80 sides and 80 angles.
Synonyms: 80-gon
enneacontagon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: enneacontagons
Senses: topics: geometry
mathematics
sciences
glosses: A polygon with 90 sides and 90 angles.
Synonyms: 90-gon
personocentric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more personocentric
form: most personocentric
Senses: topics: government
politics
qualifier: usually leftism
glosses: Humane; Expressing care towards any individual and guaranteeing its rights.
topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
glosses: Personhood-biased; Deeming personhood the core attribute within any cosmos, physical or transcendental.
Synonyms: personhood-biased
personocratic
person-centric
tridecahedron
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tridecahedra
form: tridecahedrons
Etymology: From trideca- + -hedron.
Senses: topics: geometry
mathematics
sciences
glosses: A polyhedron with thirteen faces.
Synonyms: triskaidecahedron
low post area
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: low post areas
Senses: topics: ball-games
basketball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: The areas that are closest to the basket but outside of the free throw lane.
fork grinder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fork grinders
Senses: examples: text: There is, perhaps, no trade which is more destructive of human life than that of the fork-grinder was until the peculiar respirator was made obligatory.
ref: 1877, John George Wood, Nature's Teachings, page 356:
text: The fork-grinders of Sheffield worked in an atmosphere of stone and metal particles, where lung disease was endemic […].
ref: 2016, Peter Ackroyd, Revolution, Pan Macmillan, published 2017, page 266:
glosses: Someone whose job is to grind metal forks.
fork grinders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fork grinder
low post
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: low posts
Senses: topics: ball-games
basketball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: The low post area area on a basketball court.
tracheomycosis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A fungal disease that causes coffee trees to wilt
Related terms: tracheomycotic
tracheomycotic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to, or causing tracheomycosis
trachichthyiform
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: trachichthyiforms
Senses: glosses: Any fish of the order Trachichthyiformes
trachichthyiforms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of trachichthyiform
vinetree
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈvaɪnˌtɹiː/
Forms: form: vinetrees
form: vine-tree
form: winetree
Etymology: From Middle English vyne-tre (modified after vine (“grapevine”)), from Old English wīntrēow, from Proto-Germanic *wīnatrewą, equivalent to vine + tree.
Senses: examples: text: All the dayes of his ſeparation ſhall he eat nothing that is made of the vine tree, from the kernels euen to the huſke.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Numbers 6:4:
text: Here note, how Chriſt calleth planely his Cup the fruit of the vinetree; but the fruit of the vinetree is very natural wine[…]
ref: 1753, Gloceſter Ridley, “Book VII”, in The Life of Dr. Nicholas Ridley ſometime Biſhop of London […] , page 496:
text: The visible church of God is here compared to the vine-tree, as is evident by God's own explanation of the allegory, in ver, 6–8.
ref: 1839, Jonathan Edwards, The Works of Jonathan Edwards, A.M.: With an Essay on His Genius and Writings, volume 2, page 125:
glosses: A grapevine.
vinetrees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of vinetree
vine-tree
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of vinetree.
transaural
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From trans- + aural.
Senses: glosses: Describing a form of binaural sound reproduction
transcoelomically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From transcoelomic + -ally.
Senses: glosses: In a transcoelomic manner or direction
transgalactooligosaccharide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: transgalactooligosaccharides
Etymology: From trans- + galactooligosaccharide.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The normal form of galactooligosaccharide
transgalactooligosaccharides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of transgalactooligosaccharide
transspinal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -aɪnəl
Etymology: From trans- + spinal.
Senses: glosses: Across the spine
trichograms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of trichogram
tristratose
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From tri- + stratose.
Senses: topics: anatomy
biology
botany
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: Composed of three cell layers
trophotrophism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of trophotropism.
tropodithietic acid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The antibiotic 3-oxo-8,9-dithiabicyclo[5.2.0]nona-1,4,6-triene-2-carboxylic acid
tubulolamellar
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From tubulo- + lamellar.
Senses: glosses: tubular and lamellar
unipodal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of unipedal.
unphonated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + phonated.
Senses: glosses: Not phonated
ventrorostrally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From ventro- + rostrally.
Senses: glosses: In a ventrorostral manner or direction
videomicroscopes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of videomicroscope
weightedly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From weighted + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a weighted manner
xenoproduct
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: xenoproducts
Etymology: From xeno- + product.
Senses: glosses: Any xenobiotic product.
Pharsalia
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌfɑːˈseɪli.ə/
rhymes: -eɪliə
Etymology: From Latin Pharsālia (“the region of Pharsalus”), borrowed as a title for Lucan's poem from a line in the work itself: “Pharsālia nostra / vīvet” (“Our Pharsalia / will live”, book 9, lines 985–6). The original Latin title was Dē Bellō Cīvīlī (“On the Civil War”).
Senses: glosses: An epic poem by the Roman poet Lucan describing Caesar's Civil War.
examples: text: […] ev’ry Time he’s named
Pharſalia rises to my View—I ſee
Th’ Inſulting Tyrant prancing o’er the Field
Strow’d with Rome’s Citizens, and drench’d in Slaughter,
His Horſe’s Hoofs wet with Patrician Blood.
ref: 1712 (date written), [Joseph] Addison, Cato, a Tragedy. […], London: […] J[acob] Tonson, […], published 1713, →OCLC, Act I, scene i, page 1:
text: […] much as Caesar's tale of portents on the day of Pharsalia, showed Caesar in harmony with the Roman Pantheon.
ref: 1931, Ernst Kantorowicz, translated by Emily Lorimer, Frederick the Second, page 202:
glosses: The Battle of Pharsalus of 48 B.C.E.
glosses: The region around Pharsalus (modern Farsala), a Greek town.
Derived terms: Pharsalian
Trumpomania
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Trump + -o- + -mania.
Senses: glosses: Trumpmania.
ego-tripping
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more ego-tripping
form: most ego-tripping
Senses: glosses: Characterized by an ego trip; self-aggrandizing, self-serving.
ego-tripping
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of ego-trip
improvved
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of improv
improvving
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of improv
Instaverse
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Insta(gram) + -verse.
Senses: examples: text: In your continuous effort to be the king or queen of twitterverse and instaverse, you network with the people who are popular on the sites and request that they tweet “hey_____ is cool and he needs some followers! Go follow him!”
ref: 2013 February 28, Chantelle Simmons, “Somebody has to say it: Ten signs of a social media attention whore”, in The Yard, volume 1, number 3, Charleston, SC: College of Charleston, page 30:
glosses: The world of users of the Instagram online photo-sharing service.
Oliphant
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Derived terms: Oliphantian
Related terms: Olyphant
Olyphant
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Related terms: Oliphant
Faroe
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfɛəɹəʊ/
enpr: fârʹō
enpr: fărʹō
note: without the Mary–marry–merry merger
ipa: /ˈfɛəɹoʊ/
note: without the Mary–marry–merry merger
ipa: /ˈfæɹoʊ/
note: Mary–marry–merry merger
ipa: /ˈfɛɹoʊ/
Etymology: From Danish Færø and Faroese Føroyar.
Senses: glosses: Faroese
glosses: Faroe Islands
Derived terms: Faroe Islands
Faroe Islander
Pharsalian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌfɑːˈseɪli.ən/
rhymes: -eɪliən
Etymology: From Pharsalia + -ian.
Senses: examples: text: Polydamas' role becomes more plausible if we assume that he was not Makedonian at all but Pharsalian.
ref: 1992, Waldemar Heckel, The Marshals of Alexander's Empire, page 360:
glosses: From, or pertaining to, the region of Pharsalia or its people.
examples: text: Do not shun me, Cæsar. / From kingly Ptolomy I bring this present, / The crown and sweat of thy Pharsalian labour
ref: 1619, John Fletcher, Philip Massinger, The False One:
glosses: Pertaining to the Battle of Pharsalus.
PHEIC
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /feɪk/
homophone: fake
Forms: form: PHEICs
Senses: examples: text: In 2005, the WHO drew up a new version of the International Health Regulations (IHR), the central legal document that all member states are bound by. […] It also allows the WHO to declare a public health emergency of international concern (or PHEIC, pronounced, incredibly, “fake”), using its own information, over the objection of any single country.
ref: 2020 April 10, Stephen Buranyi, “The WHO v coronavirus: why it can't handle the pandemic”, in The Guardian:
topics: government
healthcare
medicine
sciences
glosses: Acronym of public health emergency of international concern.
PHEICs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of PHEIC
IHR
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: In 2005, the WHO drew up a new version of the International Health Regulations (IHR), the central legal document that all member states are bound by. According to Fidler, the updated IHR, which is in force to this day, is a radical document.
ref: 2020 April 10, Stephen Buranyi, “The WHO v coronavirus: why it can't handle the pandemic”, in The Guardian:
topics: government
healthcare
medicine
sciences
glosses: Acronym of International Health Regulations.
wynes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wyne
severe acute respiratory syndromes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of severe acute respiratory syndrome
Hungarophobia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Hungaro- + -phobia.
Senses: glosses: The hatred or fear of Hungary, Hungarian people or the Hungarian language.
phosphorus trichloride
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The inorganic compound PCl₃; a toxic and volatile liquid.
Related terms: phosphorus pentachloride
phosphorus pentachloride
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The inorganic compound PCl₅; used as a chlorinating agent.
Related terms: phosphorus trichloride
yimby
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: yimbys
Senses: examples: text: Calling themselves yimbys, they are standing up to say “Yes, in my back yard” to any kind of new housing development. […] “Often the only voices we would hear would be neighbours who were opposed,” said Chiu, who called on yimby support to get affordable housing measures through the legislature this year. […] It also riles opponents of gentrification that yimbys often lobby on projects far from their home turf.
ref: 2017 October 2, Erin McCormick, “Rise of the yimbys: the angry millennials with a radical housing solution”, in The Guardian, archived from the original on 23 Feb 2025:
glosses: Alternative letter-case form of YIMBY.
yimbys
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of yimby
YIMBYs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of YIMBY
YIMBYism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From YIMBY + -ism.
Senses: examples: text: In its purest form, YIMBYism would dispense with zoning and occupancy laws altogether, and let people build anything anywhere.
ref: 2019 May, Nicole Gelinas, “What YIMBYs Get Wrong About Housing”, in Governing:
text: Active in cities from LA and Portland to Boston and Minneapolis, YIMBYism lives in the center of a Venn diagram of urban ills: the intertwined issues of rising rent, scarce opportunity, and increasingly long commutes.
ref: 2019 June 28, Patrick Sisson, “YIMBY in action: How pro-housing policies became a political rallying cry”, in Curbed:
text: A faction of pro-housing activists is heavily disillusioned with YIMBYism, believing that encouraging rapid new housing development is leading to more displacement and gentrification.
ref: 2020 March 17, Will Imbrie-Moore, “A Call for Intersectional YIMBYism”, in Harvard Political Review, archived from the original on 13 Apr 2020:
glosses: The ideology of a YIMBY.
Pootung
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: In Pootung on the East bank of the Whangpoo large forces cf Chinese are entrenched.
ref: 1938, Shanghai Under Fire, Post-Mercury Co., page https://archive.org/details/cu31924023227824/page/n6/:
text: At Shanghai the ship lay at the Pootung wharf in the Whang Poo river.
ref: 2013, Malcolm Smith, Voices in Flight: The Fleet Air Arm, Pen & Sword Books, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 5:
glosses: Alternative form of Pudong.
Whangpoo
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Anglicization of Shanghainese 黃浦 (hhuaan phu).
Senses: examples: text: Firing by Japanese warships upon the Chinese Woosung forts, at the mouth of the Whangpoo River twenty miles below Shanghai, began at 11:30 A.M. today, according to the Japanese Consulate, which charges that guns of the forts opened fire first, bombarding passing Japanese warships.
ref: 1932 February 4 [1932 February 3], “Chinese Accused of Firing First.; JAPANESE ATTEMPT TO CAPTURE FORTS”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 07 Oct 2023, page 1:
text: Some large vessels that do not wish to berth in the Whangpoo anchor in the roadstead off the entrance to the river and discharge into lighters. The greater number of ocean-going vessels, however, proceed up the Whangpoo to Shanghai.
ref: 1940, Commerce Reports, →OCLC, page 230:
text: Shanghai does not escape the problems besetting delta cities. It lies about 14 mi. (23 km.) I above the mouth of the Whangpoo River (Huang-p'u Chiang), a small tributary of the Yangtze near its estuary. Daily, rising tide water from the Pacific shunts Yangtze River water up the Whangpoo.
ref: 1968, “SHANGHAI (SHANG-HAI)”, in Encyclopedia Britannica, volume 20, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 345, column 1:
glosses: Dated form of Huangpu.
Chapei
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: A gate and barbed-wire fence guarded the boundary between the International Settlement and the Chinese district of Chapei.
ref: 1991, Harriet Sergeant, Shanghai, London: John Murray, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 85:
text: Internees arriving at Chapei camp, in Shanghai, were welcomed by Commandant Tsurumi, who addressed them in similarly flowery language.
ref: 2011, Nicola Tyrer, Stolen Childhoods: The Untold Story of the Children Interned by the Japanese in the Second World War, Orion Books, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 79:
text: Chapei is a total wasteland. Body parts are scattered about the cemetery where bombs have landed, uprooting the corpses from their flimsy paper-mache coffins. Beyond the cemetery walls just about anyone who can has gone, fled. Riley tramps east, across the ruins to Hongkew and the Northern External Roads, to Jukong Alley, back to the Trenches and then . . . where?
ref: 2018, Paul French, City of Devils, Picador, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 234:
glosses: Dated form of Zhabei.
Hough Green
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A suburban area of Widnes, Halton borough, Cheshire, England (OS grid ref SJ4886).
tremble and obey
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: trembles and obeys
form: trembling and obeying
form: trembled and obeyed
form: trembled and obeyed
Etymology: Calque from Chinese 凜遵／凛遵 (lǐn zūn), a phrase historically used in Chinese imperial edicts.
Senses: examples: text: The ordinary voter ... feels himself their humble subject, whose duty is, as the Chinese used to say, to “tremble and obey”.
ref: 1949, Bertrand Russell, Authority and the Individual:
text: Never “tremble and obey” if doing so will damage or destroy your business in China.
ref: 2005, James McGregor, One Billion Customers: Lessons from the Front Lines of Doing Business in China, page 153:
text: ... the previous colonial government and the current tremble-and-obey government have helped foster the myth of a historically politically apathetic and selfish society ...
ref: 2017, Stephen Vines, “Those who think the Umbrella Movement failed need to learn a little history”, in Hong Kong Free Press:
glosses: To unthinkingly obey or pander to authorities, especially the Chinese government.
examples: text: Let the good tremble and obey; let them not act so as to have hereafter to repent. A special Proclamation.
ref: 1857, Thomas Wade, “Translation of a Paper forwarded by His Excellency the Governor of Macao”, in J. C. Parkinson, editor, Government Examinations, page 124:
glosses: Phrase promulgating a decree of the Chinese imperial government or the early British colonial administration in Hong Kong.
Holbeton
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish in South Hams district, Devon, England (OS grid ref SX6150).
textile art
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: textile arts
Senses: glosses: The use of fibers to create textiles for function and decoration.
glosses: The use of textiles to create arts and crafts and fine art.
Coordinate terms: fiber art
fiber art
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fiber arts
Senses: glosses: The use of fibers to create fine art.
Coordinate terms: textile art
hrsACE2
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hrsACE2s
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Abbreviation of human recombinant soluble angiotensin converting enzyme 2 (a genetically modified soluble form of ACE2).
Synonyms: sense: human recombinant soluble angiotensin-converting enzyme 2
word: human recombinant soluble ACE2
Related terms: english: angiotensin-converting enzyme 2
translation: angiotensin-converting enzyme 2
word: ACE2
ACE2
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ACE2s
Senses: examples: text: Like SARS-CoV-2, HKU5-CoV-2 can enter cells via the human ACE2 receptor protein on cell surfaces. The newly identified coronavirus is a part of the same family as the virus that causes deadly Middle East respiratory syndrome, or MERS.
ref: 2025 February 25, Jen Christiensen, “Scientists have identified a new coronavirus in bats, but it’s not a public health threat”, in CNN:
topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Abbreviation of angiotensin converting enzyme 2.
Hypernyms: english: angiotensin-converting enzyme
translation: angiotensin-converting enzyme
word: ACE
Derived terms: english: a genetically modified soluble form of ACE2
translation: a genetically modified soluble form of ACE2
word: human recombinant soluble ACE2
english: a genetically modified soluble form of ACE2
translation: a genetically modified soluble form of ACE2
word: hrsACE2
english: human angiotensin converting enzyme 2
translation: human angiotensin converting enzyme 2
word: human ACE2
english: human angiotensin converting enzyme 2
translation: human angiotensin converting enzyme 2
word: hACE2
Related terms: english: angiotensin-converting enzyme 1
translation: angiotensin-converting enzyme 1
word: ACE1
word: angiotensin
word: enzyme
angiotensin-converting enzyme
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: angiotensin-converting enzymes
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of angiotensin converting enzyme.
ACE1
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ACE1s
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Abbreviation of angiotensin converting enzyme 1.
Hypernyms: english: angiotensin converting enzyme
translation: angiotensin converting enzyme
word: ACE
Related terms: english: angiotensin converting enzyme 2
translation: angiotensin converting enzyme 2
word: ACE2
word: angiotensin
word: enzyme
microneedle array
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: microneedle arrays
Senses: topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: A drug delivery patch composed of an array of microscopic needles that inject the drug over a contact area.
Hypernyms: transdermal patch
S-protein
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: S-proteins
form: S
form: S protein
form: (S) protein
form: (S)-protein
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of spike protein.
spike protein
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spike proteins
Senses: examples: text: Many vaccines against the coronavirus, as well as several treatments, take aim at its spike protein, the virus’s most potent weapon — and its Achilles’ heel. Without its spikes, the pathogen can’t get into human cells.
ref: 2020 July 28, Katherine J. Wu, “The Coronavirus Could Dodge Some Treatments, Study Suggests”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
topics: biology
microbiology
natural-sciences
virology
glosses: A protein used to bind or connect membranes together, such as a transmembrane link between a virus and a cell.
Synonyms: peplomer protein
S-protein
S
Hyponyms: alt: a human spike protein encoded by the MSN gene, used to link intracellular membranes
word: moesin
Derived terms: word: S-protein
word: S
moAb
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: moAbs
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of monoclonal antibody.
Synonyms: sense: monoclonal antibody
word: mAb
Hypernyms: english: antibody
translation: antibody
word: Ab
Related terms: english: antibody
translation: antibody
word: Ab
mAb
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mAbs
Senses: examples: text: Clinicians in the United States relied strongly on the use of two monoclonal antibody (mAbs) treatments for COVID-19, even after they were deauthorized by the Food and Drug Administration, according to a new study.
ref: 2022 January 9, Alicia Lasek, “Use of deauthorized COVID antibody treatments widespread in early 2022: study”, in McKnight's Long-Term Care News:
glosses: Abbreviation of monoclonal antibody.
Synonyms: sense: monoclonal antibody
word: moAb
Hypernyms: english: antibody
translation: antibody
word: Ab
Related terms: english: antibody
translation: antibody
word: Ab
basset clarinet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: basset clarinets
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A clarinet similar to the usual soprano clarinet but longer and with additional keys to enable playing several additional lower notes.
basset clarinets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of basset clarinet