cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
hall pass
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hall passes
form: hallpass
form: hall-pass
Etymology: From hall + pass.
Senses: examples: text: To freely move around the school when you should be in class requires an official hall pass. Those are guarded like government-issued official travel documents. Most teachers don't just hand them out to anybody who asks.
ref: 2018, Erica Catherman, Jonathan Catherman, The Girls' Guide to Conquering Middle School, Revell, →ISBN:
glosses: A permit to be out of class during school hours.
examples: text: The story kicks in when a relationship guru (Joy Behar) suggests that the wives give their husbands a week off from marriage — a hall pass — which, after not much anguish, they do.
ref: 2011 February 24, Manohla Dargis, “Man-Child in the Promised Land, for a Whole (Pant! Pant!) Week”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
text: So these wives give them a "hall pass": for one week only, they get a bachelor holiday from married life, no questions asked.
ref: 2011 March 10, Peter Bradshaw, “Hall Pass – review”, in The Guardian:
text: Shane explains: “I’ve got a hall pass to sleep with other women but that wasn’t the original intention.
ref: 2018 June 1, Holly O'Mahony, “‘Stag’ men love watching other guys have sex with their wives… but it’s not cuckolding”, in The Sun:
glosses: An agreement to temporarily or conditionally relax monogamy in a relationship.
magisters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of magister
word has it
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: examples: text: Word has it you're looking for a new job.
text: […] the “New Amazon,” who word had it, could “outdrink, outswear, [and] outswagger the men.”
ref: 2009, Catherine S. Ramírez, The Woman in the Zoot Suit, page 66:
synonyms: rumour has it
glosses: People who gossip are saying that..., there is a rumor going around that...
prominents
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of prominent
as far as I'm concerned
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more as far as I'm concerned
form: most as far as I'm concerned
Senses: examples: text: You walk on terrazzo. Do you notice that? As far as I'm concerned, frankly, looking at the building and getting stuck on the escalator, they still haven't finished the job.
ref: 2025 September 23, Donald Trump, speech at United Nations:
glosses: According to me; in my opinion (sometimes dismissing those of others); in my view.
qualifier: regarding delineation of responsibilities
glosses: To the extent that the matter concerns my role; to the extent that I am obligated by my position/role/office to be involved (in a certain process).
raw_tags: in workflows and administration
Synonyms: AFAIAC
AFAIC
Related terms: in one's opinion
separation of concerns
curry ketchup
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: curry ketchups
Senses: glosses: A variant of ketchup to which curry and other spices have been added, the basis of the dish currywurst.
carriage trade
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: business
finance
trading
glosses: Retail business with wealthy or upper-class customers, i.e., those who arrive in carriages.
glosses: Wealthy or upper-class people in general.
evapourate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: evapourates
form: evapourating
form: evapourated
form: evapourated
Senses: examples: text: Experts say human intervention and water mis-management is causing them to evapourate.
ref: 2018 January 25, Jennifer Newton, “Shocking satellite images show how the world's lakes are shrinking at an alarming rate and turning to dust bowls”, in Daily Mail:
glosses: Alternative spelling of evaporate.
medireview
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Modification of medieval by automated string substitution of review for eval, a JavaScript function short for evaluate (to avoid the risk of unintended code execution). Coined accidentally by Yahoo! Mail in 2001.
Senses: examples: text: [...] with allusions to mythological characters and events, rituals and festivals, folk belief's^([sic]) and customs, and to philosophical concepts and schools, which collectively comprise a magisterial and encyclopeaedic^([sic]) vision of medireview Hindu culture.
ref: 2001, Sahitya Akademi, Indian literature, volume 45, page 145:
text: Lives of medireview Sikh martyrs like the Sahibzadas, Bhai Taru Singh, Bhai Mani Singh and others are projected as freedom fighters against medireview tyranny and oppressive rule of the Mughals in Punjab.
ref: 2001, Guru Nanak Dev University, Journal of Sikh Studies, page 26:
text: He deplored the medireview practice of covering oneself with a filigree of guru-talk and expressing excessive superiority through the blind belief that was prevalent.
ref: 2006, Yoga Niketan, A Collection of Biographies of 4 Kriya Yoga Gurus by Swami Satyananda Girl, page 120:
glosses: Erroneous, computer-generated form of medieval.
wikipedia: JavaScript
Yahoo! Mail
Related terms: retrireview
reviewuate
clbuttic
buttbuttin
scath
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /skæθ/
ipa: /skɑːθ/
rhymes: -æθ
rhymes: -ɑːθ
Forms: form: scaths
form: scathe
form: scaith
form: schath
form: schathe
form: schaith
Etymology: Variant of scathe.
Senses: examples: text: Wherein Rome hath done you any scath,
 Let him make treble satisfaction.
ref: c. 1588–1593 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Lamentable Tragedy of Titus Andronicus”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene i]:
text: Great mercy, sure, for to enlarge a thrall, / Whose freedome shall thee turne to greatest scath.
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto V”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 18:
text: Scath and loss / That man can ne'er repair.
ref: c. 1847, Lydia H. Sigourney, Advertisement of a Lost Day:
text: He buried in his heart all sense of scath.
ref: 1827, Mary Howitt, The Desolation of Eyam:
glosses: Alternative form of scathe (“harm; damage”).
scath
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /skæθ/
ipa: /skɑːθ/
rhymes: -æθ
rhymes: -ɑːθ
Forms: form: scaths
form: scathing
form: scathed
form: scathed
form: scathe
form: scaith
form: schath
form: schathe
form: schaith
Etymology: Variant of scathe.
Senses: examples: text: This trick may chance to scath you.
ref: c. 1591–1595 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Romeo and Ivliet”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene v]:
glosses: Archaic form of scathe.
cylindrify
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: cylindrifies
form: cylindrifying
form: cylindrified
form: cylindrified
Etymology: From cylinder + -ify.
Senses: glosses: To make cylindrical.
Related terms: cylindrification
cylindrifies
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of cylindrify
cylindrifying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of cylindrify
cylindrified
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of cylindrify
cylindrification
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cylindrifications
Etymology: From cylinder + -ification.
Senses: glosses: The act or process of making cylindrical.
Synonyms: cylindricalization
Related terms: cylindrify
cylindricalization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From cylindrical + -ization.
Senses: glosses: cylindrification
huskless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From husk + -less.
Senses: examples: huskless varieties of barley
glosses: Having no husk.
Derived terms: husklessness
Adıyaman
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A province of Turkey.
glosses: A district of Adıyaman Province, Turkey.
glosses: A municipality, the capital city of Adıyaman district and Adıyaman Province, Turkey.
Beri
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A barangay of Arteche, Eastern Samar, Philippines.
glosses: A barangay of Barbaza, Antique, Philippines.
glosses: A barangay of Calbiga, Samar, Philippines.
glosses: A barangay of Motiong, Samar, Philippines.
gotsta
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: gotsta
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of gotta.
carboranyl
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From carborane + -yl.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Of or pertaining to a carborane.
-isms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of -ism
ibritumomab
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A monoclonal antibody which is linked with yttrium-90 as the drug ibritumomab tiuxetan
yttrium-90
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: An isotope of yttrium, ⁹⁰₃₉Y, that is used in radiotherapy
dipalladium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From di- + palladium.
Senses: topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Two palladium atoms in a molecule
eloignate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: eloignates
form: eloignating
form: eloignated
form: eloignated
Etymology: Compare French éloigner (“to remove”).
Senses: glosses: To remove.
persulfuric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: persulphuric
Etymology: From per- + sulfuric.
Senses: topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Of or pertaining to persulfuric acid
persulfuric acid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: persulfuric acids
Etymology: From per- + sulfuric acid.
Senses: topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Either of two acids formally derived from sulfuric acid by replacing a -OH group with a -OOH group.
Related terms: peroxymonosulfuric acid
peroxydisulfuric acid
technetate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: technetates
Etymology: From technetium + -ate (“derivative”).
Senses: topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any oxyanion of technetium; any salt containing such an anion.
Derived terms: pertechnetate
opera singers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of opera singer
colombium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of columbium (“niobium”).
bulliable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more bulliable
form: most bulliable
Senses: examples: text: In fact, the experimental introduction of a bulliable child into a school would certainly result in the development of a bully, and, of course, in the development of protectors of the weak and supporters and admirers of the bully.
ref: 1996, Donald Woods Winnicott, Jennifer Johns, Ray Shepherd, Thinking about children:
glosses: Alternative spelling of bullyable.
dispersoid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dispersoids
Etymology: From disperse + -oid?
Senses: glosses: Colloid.
glosses: One of the microscopic particles dispersed throughout a colloid, or an analogous particle from a substance similarly dispersed throughout a solid.
Derived terms: dispersoidology
amnaesia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Rare form of amnesia.
YEP
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Yorkshire Evening Post.
wanchances
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wanchance
grist mills
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of grist mill
crackage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: crackages
Etymology: From crack + -age.
Senses: glosses: The act of cracking.
heat hazes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of heat haze
crackages
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of crackage
mounseer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɪə(ɹ)
Forms: form: mounseers
Senses: examples: text: "A French mounseer do that!
ref: 1836, Robert Seymour, The Sketches of Seymour (Illustrated), Complete:
text: "Wee mounseer," said he, with utter desperation.
ref: 1872, James De Mille, The Dodge Club:
text: Rumor first brought to Berlin the tidings of the destruction of the great army on the icy plains of Russia; then its remnants, starving, worn, ragged, appeared in the capital; and the street-boys, who not long before had been forced by the French soldiers to clean their boots, now with little generosity--they were only "street-boys"--shouted sneeringly, "Say, mounseer, want your boots blacked?"
ref: 1892, Georg Ebers, The Story Of My Life From Childhood To Manhood:
text: Well, as I didn't like to rile the old woman by refusing to do what she wanted, I went to a French mounseer, to teach me my paces; I've been in training above a month, so I thought I'd come here just as a sort of trial to see how I could go the pace."
ref: 1904, Frank E. Smedley, Frank Fairlegh:
glosses: Pronunciation spelling of monsieur.
neurocomputing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From neuro- + computing.
Senses: examples: text: Sites in NeuroRing cover basic science research, clinical research, neurology, behavioral neurosciences, and neurocomputing.
ref: 1998 August 21, Michael D. Rugg, “NEUROSCIENCE:Enhanced: Memories Are Made of This”, in Science, volume 281, number 5380, →DOI, pages 1151–1152:
glosses: The application of computers to neurology
oncogenicity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: oncogenicities
Etymology: From oncogenic + -ity.
Senses: examples: text: The temperature factor distribution shows a local minimum for the L4 region (40 ), suggesting that binding of GAP to Ras results in stabilization of switch II. Structural basis for oncogenicity of Gly 12 mutants.
ref: 1997 July 18, Klaus Scheffzek et al., “The Ras-RasGAP Complex: Structural Basis for GTPase Activation and Its Loss in Oncogenic Ras Mutants”, in Science, volume 277, number 5324, →DOI, pages 333–338:
glosses: The state or degree of being oncogenic.
ochreish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more ochreish
form: most ochreish
Etymology: From ochre + -ish.
Senses: examples: text: The back and side of the hospital, the long barracks of the annex and the wall at the bottom enclosed a waste place of ochreish clay.
ref: 1920, May Sinclair, The Romantic:
text: Through the enormous dust cloud that the army raised the trees of the valley appeared as brown smudges against an ochreish sky.
ref: 1911, Mary Johnston, The Long Roll:
text: One field was bare, its surface of an ochreish colour deeper than that of clay, broken and smoothed as perfectly as the surface of the most carefully tended flower-bed.
ref: 1880, Percy Greg, Across the Zodiac:
glosses: Having an ochre-like color
Synonyms: ochrous
oary
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɔːɹi
Forms: form: more oary
form: most oary
Etymology: From oar + -y.
Senses: examples: text: It is as the future bird of elegance and grace that the young swan is mostly admired; when it has become old enough to grace the waters, then it is that all admire her, when she with "Arched neck, Between her white wings mantling, proudly rows Her state with oary feet."
ref: 1859-1861, Mrs. Isabella Beeton, The Book of Household Management:
glosses: Like an oar
neuralizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: Table of Contents Reports Specification of the Zebrafish Nervous System by Nonaxial Signals Katherine Woo, * Scott E. Fraser The organizer of the amphibian gastrula provides the neurectoderm with both neuralizing and posteriorizing (transforming) signals.
ref: 1997 July 11, Katherine Woo, Scott E. Fraser, “Specification of the Zebrafish Nervous System by Nonaxial Signals”, in Science, volume 277, number 5323, →DOI, pages 254–257:
glosses: present participle and gerund of neuralize
nondirective
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + directive.
Senses: examples: text: The "paternalistic tradition" of the postcommunist Baltic states makes it difficult to ensure that informed consent and nondirective counseling of individuals are carried out properly, Gefenas says.
ref: 1999 November 12, Lone Frank, “GENETIC DISEASE:Storm Brews Over Gene Bank of Estonian Population”, in Science, volume 286, number 5443, →DOI, pages 1262–1263:
glosses: Not directive
nondirective
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nondirectives
Etymology: From non- + directive.
Senses: glosses: A statement or utterance that is not a directive.
noncount noun
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: noncount nouns
Senses: glosses: uncountable noun
novelese
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From novel + -ese.
Senses: glosses: A style of writing characteristic of bad-quality novels.
noveldom
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From novel + -dom.
Senses: examples: text: These freedoms are not tolerated in American noveldom, and only a few futile "high-brows" sigh in vain for Thackeray's "happy harmless Fableland, where these things are."
ref: 1916, James Branch Cabell, The Certain Hour:
text: In noveldom woman still sets the moral standard, and to her the males, who are in full revolt against the acceptance of the infatuation of a pair of lovers as the highest manifestation of the social instinct, and against the restriction of the affections within the narrow circle of blood relationship, and of the political sympathies within frontiers, are to her what she calls heartless brutes.
ref: 1883, George Bernard Shaw, An Unsocial Socialist, Appendix:
glosses: The sphere of novels
nonpoint
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + point.
Senses: examples: text: Other nonpoint sources of pollution are important.
ref: 1999 September 3, C. D. Harvell et al., “Emerging Marine Diseases--Climate Links and Anthropogenic Factors”, in Science, volume 285, number 5433, →DOI, pages 1505–1510:
text: But they don't deny the movement's achievements, and they want to do more about what they consider real problems, such as federally subsidized timber sales and nonpoint pollution of air and water.
ref: 1994 September 16, Harold Henderson, “Environment: The Manufactured Crisis”, in Chicago Reader:
glosses: Not from one single determined point source
raw_tags: of pollution
nubbed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more nubbed
form: most nubbed
Senses: glosses: nubby; containing nubs
nubbed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: He nubbed one about halfway between the plate and the pitcher's mound.
ref: 1991 August 16, Alan Boomer, “The Sports Section”, in Chicago Reader:
glosses: simple past and past participle of nub
points the bone
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of point the bone
pointing the bone
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of point the bone
pointed the bone
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of point the bone
objectional
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more objectional
form: most objectional
Etymology: From objection + -al.
Senses: examples: text: There is much talk of their objectional features and dangers for the established order of things.
ref: 1919, Rafael Palma, The Woman and the Right to Vote:
text: The Puritan toleration lasted six years, and included all but Papists, Prelatists and those who held objectional doctrines.
ref: 1917, James Cardinal Gibbons, The Faith of Our Fathers:
text: But the question is, whether those Darwinians who drew these conclusions were by their scientific investigations obliged to draw them, or whether they did not rather reach their religious and ethical view of the world by quite other ways, and whether they did not in a wholly arbitrary and irresponsible manner make extensive use of Darwinism in this anti-religious and ethically objectional direction--a fact which we shall try to prove in the last part of our investigation.
ref: 1883, Rudolf Schmid, The Theories of Darwin and Their Relation to Philosophy, Religion, and Morality:
text: The difficulty in all these cares is to steer clear of some objectional theory.
ref: 1851, Henry Rowe Schoolcraft, Personal Memoirs Of A Residence Of Thirty Years With The Indian Tribes On The American Frontiers:
glosses: objectionable
Derived terms: unobjectional
obliviscence
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: It must not be numbered among the obliviscences and reticenses of the candid reader, that this man, who had been [...] declared by the head of the Church of Christ, in a public instrument for the instruction and direction of all the faithful, that he was a man of very unsound doctrine, and guilty of many outrages against the holy see, should have been selected and appointed the sole plenipotentiary, delegate, and commissioner, on the part of the Church of Rome, to effect the desirable object of her reunion with the Church of England.
ref: 1824, Francis Plowden, “Of Tithes and Other Church Property”, in Human Subordination: Being an Elementary Disquisition Concerning the Civil and Spiritual Power and Authority, […], Paris; London: […] W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, […], →OCLC, page 125:
text: Since each representation which passes out of consciousness continues to exist in the soul as an unconscious product (where we cannot tell; the soul is not in space), it is not retention, but obliviscence which needs explanation.
ref: 1893, Richard Falckenberg, History of Modern Philosophy:
glosses: Forgetfulness.
Related terms: oblivious
octadecyl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: octadecyls
Etymology: From octadecane + -yl.
Senses: examples: text: Although catalyst IV also has good catalytic performance, it was totally soluble in the reaction system during and after the epoxidation, because it contains a big octadecyl benzyl dimethyl ammonium ion.
ref: 2001 May 11, Xi Zuwei et al., “Reaction-Controlled Phase-Transfer Catalysis for Propylene Epoxidation to Propylene Oxide”, in Science, volume 292, number 5519, →DOI, pages 1139–1141:
text: A 0.5-ml sample of the supernatant was put on a 6-ml activated, octadecyl solid-phase extraction cartridge (Bakerbond, J. T. Baker, Phillipsburg, NJ) and eluted with 2-ml volumes of H 2 O, 50% CH 3 CN (Low-UV HPLC grade, Burdick and Jackson) in H 2 O, and CH 3 CN. All fractions were concentrated to near dryness under vacuum (Speed Vac rotary concentrator, Savant Instruments, Farmingdale, NY) and redissolved in 0.5 ml of 50 mM pH 8 buffer, for bioassay.
ref: 1997 May 9, H. T. Alborn et al., “An Elicitor of Plant Volatiles from Beet Armyworm Oral Secretion”, in Science, volume 276, number 5314, →DOI, pages 945–949:
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of very many isomeric univalent hydrocarbon radicals, C₁₈H₃₇, formally derived from an octadecane by the loss of a hydrogen atom
Derived terms: dioctadecyl
octadecylamine
Related terms: octadecylic
octadecylic acid
line feeds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of line feed
line feeds
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of line feed
oncet
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwʌn(t)st/
rhymes: -ʌnst
rhymes: -ʌntst
Forms: form: onct
form: onest
form: onced
form: wunst
Senses: examples: text: If we could see the last of that man, Didenhover, oncet, I'd take hold of the plough myself, and see if I couldn't make a living out of it.
ref: 1854, Elizabeth Wetherell, Queechy, Volume I:
text: "I seen 'im oncet, in the spring, I s'pose," said Jim, "what there was left of 'im.
ref: 1875, J. G. Holland, Sevenoaks:
text: Jest tuk the best rooms in that new hotel, got a hoss and buggy, dressed ourselves, you and me, fit to kill, and made them Fort people take a back seat in the Lord's Tabernacle, oncet for all.
ref: 1889, Bret Harte, The Heritage of Dedlow Marsh and Other Tales:
text: Why, Judith, Granny Peavey, our maw's mother, told us oncet about a dumb supper that her and two other gals made when she was but sixteen year old, and her sweetheart away from her in Virginny, and she didn't know whar he was at, an' they brought her tales agin him."
ref: 1908, Alice MacGowan, Judith of the Cumberlands:
text: He meets oncet in a while people, Mr. Redman; while, with us, what is it?
ref: 1912, Montague Glass, Elkan Lubliner, American:
qualifier: South Midland US
glosses: Once.
Synonyms: once
Related terms: twicet
oncotic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From New Latin onco- (“tumor”), from Ancient Greek ὄγκος (ónkos, “lump, mass, bulk”) + -tic.
Senses: examples: text: Albumin is a major product of hepatocytes and a critical serum protein required for the maintenance of vascular oncotic pressure and fluid homeostasis; thus, these findings are consistent with improved liver function after telomerase treatment.
ref: 2000 February 18, Karl Lenhard Rudolph et al., “Inhibition of Experimental Liver Cirrhosis in Mice by Telomerase Gene Delivery”, in Science, volume 287, number 5456, →DOI, pages 1253–1258:
glosses: Relating to osmotic pressure caused by the presence of colloids.
Derived terms: hyperoncotic
onlap
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: onlaps
Etymology: From on + lap.
Senses: examples: text: Displacement on F3 was followed by continued accumulation and onlap of the fine-grained sands of unit 3 on the footwall and development of soil Qb2.
ref: 2001 December 14, Senthil Kumar et al., “Earthquake Recurrence and Rupture Dynamics of Himalayan Frontal Thrust, India”, in Science, volume 294, number 5550, →DOI, pages 2328–2331:
topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: The phenomenon of successively younger rock strata extending progressively further across an erosion surface cut in older rocks.
Synonyms: overlap
onlap
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: onlaps
form: onlapping
form: onlapped
form: onlapped
Etymology: From on + lap.
Senses: examples: text: Elsewhere, many of the youngest volcanic plains units onlap tesserae at crustal plateau boundaries.
ref: 1998 March 6, Roger J. Phillips, Vicki L. Hansen, “Geological Evolution of Venus: Rises, Plains, Plumes, and Plateaus”, in Science, volume 279, number 5356, →DOI, pages 1492–1497:
topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: To form an onlap.
opisthocoelous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From opistho- + -coelous (“concave”).
Senses: examples: text: Specimen 1912VIII64 was opisthocoelous, pleurocoelous, and caudally wider than tall, as in Epachthosaurus and Pellegrinisaurus (15), and may pertain to Paralititan.
ref: 2001 June 1, Joshua B. Smith et al., “A Giant Sauropod Dinosaur from an Upper Cretaceous Mangrove Deposit in Egypt”, in Science, volume 292, number 5522, →DOI, pages 1704–1706:
text: On the basis of the presence of slightly opisthocoelous vertebrae in the Enantiornithes (presumably referring to the anterior dorsals), Kurochkin (3 ) has claimed that the Enantiornithes could not have evolved heterocoelous vertebrae.
ref: 1997 June 6, Jose L. Sanz et al., “A Nestling Bird from the Lower Cretaceous of Spain: Implications for Avian Skull and Neck Evolution”, in Science, volume 276, number 5318, →DOI, pages 1543–1546:
text: The Mesozoic Lepidosteidae, again, have, at most, biconcave vertebrae, while the existing Lepidosteus has Salamandroid, opisthocoelous, vertebrae.
ref: 1870, Thomas Henry Huxley, Lay Sermons, Addresses and Reviews:
glosses: concave behind; applied especially to vertebrae in which the anterior end of the centrum is convex and the posterior concave
Synonyms: opisthocoelian
ork pop
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: But he suits the group well: their giddy mix of ork pop, jam pop, and extremely white reggae plays shamelessly to fans of cutesy college rock.
ref: 2004 February 20, Monica Kendrick, “Spot Check”, in Chicago Reader:
text: FLAMING LIPS 2/26, CUBBY BEAR The band that's never even come close to releasing the same record twice struck a massive, booming pipe-organ chord last year with The Soft Bulletin (Warner Brothers), a crazy complex suite of out-of-time ork pop whose evocative lyrics cling relentlessly to their mysteries.
ref: 2000 February 25, Monica Kendrick, “Spot Check”, in Chicago Reader:
glosses: Alternative spelling of ork-pop.
orthoepical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From orthoepy + -ical.
Senses: examples: text: One Sunday afternoon a friendly orthoepical difference of this nature arose even as Mrs. Maper sat in her palatial drawing room waiting for callers, and they repaired to the library, Mrs. Maper arguing the point with loud good humour.
ref: 1923, Israel Zangwill, The Grey Wig: Stories and Novelettes:
glosses: Synonym of orthoepic.
synonyms: word: orthoepic
Derived terms: orthoepically
oth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: oths
Senses: examples: text: They bring them wines of Greece and Araby,[*] And daintie spices fetcht from furthest Ynd,[*] To kindle heat of corage privily: And in the wine a solemne oth they bynd 35 T' observe the sacred lawes of armes, that are assynd.
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, Spenser's The Faerie Queene, Book I, published 1921:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of oath.
ough
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: examples: text: "Ough! ough! ough!" groaned the old woman; "he wants to go, away from the nest where he was warmed, and nursed, and brought up.
ref: 1856, John Esten Cooke, The Last of the Foresters:
text: We strove to extort from him the cause of this ebullition of passion, but he only shook his head in reply to our questions, and uttered a guttural "ough."
ref: 1874, H. S. Caswell, The Path of Duty, and Other Stories:
text: Ough! A door opened, a white-haired secretarial head, but wearing a compassionate expression, appeared, and a skinny forefinger beckoned me into the sanctuary.
ref: 1899 February, Joseph Conrad, “The Heart of Darkness”, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume CLXV, number M, New York, N.Y.: The Leonard Scott Publishing Company, […], →OCLC, part I, page 200:
glosses: The sound of a grunt or groan or cough.
Related terms: ouch
oof
line feeding
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of line feed
line fed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of line feed
outfoot
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: outfoots
form: outfooting
form: outfooted
form: outfooted
Etymology: From out- + foot.
Senses: examples: text: As has been said, Jerry headed the train of revellers, partially because it was most unwise to cut in ahead of Jerry and partially because there was not a piece of horseflesh in the Three B's which could outfoot his chestnut.
ref: 1920, Max Brand, The Night Horseman:
text: Not a young man of his neighborhood nor any of his college-mates could outfoot him in a race.
ref: 1919, Zane Grey, The Desert of Wheat:
text: And Hall, usually so merry, could outfoot them all when he once got started on the cosmic pathos of religion and the gibbering anthropomorphisms of those who loved not to die.
ref: 1913, Jack London, The Valley of the Moon:
text: CHAPTER XIII. OF THE WILD CAT PATROL, MANILA. The smoke from the steamer was now on the south end of the island, moving along toward the east with a speed which showed Ned that it would be impossible to outfoot the larger craft.
ref: 1911, G. Harvey Ralphson, Boy Scouts in the Philippines:
text: If the moon stays in for fifteen minutes we shall be out of range of her guns and we can outfoot her in a stern chase."
ref: 1907, Charles Edward Rich, A Voyage with Captain Dynamite:
text: If the Varicks and the Butlers set the pace, I promise you to keep the quarry, Mistress Folly, in view--perhaps outfoot you all to Bedlam!...
ref: 1902, Robert W. Chambers, The Maid-At-Arms:
text: How I wish, though, that the Nun had got here in time to take part in that fight, for she can outfoot the old Corsair--Gloucester, I mean--almost two to one.
ref: 1899, Kirk Munroe, "Forward, March":
glosses: To run or travel faster than
Synonyms: outpace
outrun
outfoots
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of outfoot
outfooting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of outfoot
outfooted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of outfoot
outbreathed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of outbreathe
overbudget
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more overbudget
form: most overbudget
Etymology: From over- + budget.
Senses: examples: text: The mayor's control of the big stuff has been responsible, in recent years, for the hideous rehab of Soldier Field, the construction of the vastly overbudget Millennium Park, the destruction of a municipal airport under cover of darkness, the continued rise in property taxes, the overpriced and much delayed Brown Line reconstruction (which is causing long delays on the Red Line), and the Pink Line addition coming at the expense of other services on the west side, as well as sweeping education and public housing policy changes that allowed Daley appointees to hold thousands of kids back or kick thousands of families out of their homes.
ref: 2006 September 22, Ben Joravsky, “All the King's Aldermen”, in Chicago Reader:
text: There’s the overbudget, out-of-control drama about the Vietnam War, starring the washed-up action hero Tugg Speedman, the drug-addled comedian Jeff Portnoy and the Oscar-winner Kirk Lazarus, a white Australian actor who has undergone repigmentation surgery to play a black American soldier.
ref: 2008 August 10, Dave Itzkoff, “Spoof Within a Movie Within a Movie Within ...”, in New York Times:
text: TransCanada and Exxon are involved in another major Arctic pipeline, the long-stalled and overbudget Mackenzie Gas Project in northern Canada.
ref: 2009 June 12, Lauren Krugel, “ExxonMobil is backing TransCanada Alaska line”, in Toronto Star:
text: One of London's key business groups is calling on the new government not to use the much-delayed and overbudget Crossrail project as a reason to withhold support for Crossrail 2.
ref: 2019 December 18, Paul Stephen, “London businesses reiterate backing for Crossrail 2”, in Rail, page 18:
glosses: Costing more than budgeted
overbudget
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: overbudgets
form: overbudgeting
form: overbudgeted
form: overbudgeted
Etymology: From over- + budget.
Senses: glosses: To budget a greater amount that is needed.
reinvite
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: reinvites
form: reinviting
form: reinvited
form: reinvited
Etymology: From re- + invite.
Senses: examples: text: Getting reinvited was a relief for the students after the crushing news they'd been uninvited, said Hayes.
ref: 2009 June 12, David Grossman, “Kids get once in a lifetime run with Bolt”, in Toronto Star:
glosses: To invite again.
reinvited
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of reinvite
reinviting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of reinvite
righthander
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: righthanders
Etymology: From right hand + -er.
Senses: examples: text: The big righthander got out of that jam, coaxing Vernon Wells into a soft lineout to third and Adam Lind into a flyball out.
ref: 2009 June 12, Mark Zwolinski, “Solid Romero abandoned by Jays' offence”, in Toronto Star:
glosses: A right-handed person
ovoidal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɔɪdəl
Forms: form: more ovoidal
form: most ovoidal
Senses: examples: text: A transition from an ovoidal to a spherical shape by increasing the generation number has been predicted for dendrimers (8 ).
ref: 1997 October 17, S. D. Hudson et al., “Direct Visualization of Individual Cylindrical and Spherical Supramolecular Dendrimers”, in Science, volume 278, number 5337, →DOI, pages 449–452:
text: It consists of a roundish or ovoidal ball, apparently of rock-crystal, about an inch and a half in diameter, and protected by a silver mounting.
ref: 1872, James Y. Simpson, Archaeological Essays, Vol. 1:
glosses: somewhat ovoid
Derived terms: semiovoidal
subovoidal
lookee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lookees
Etymology: From look + -ee.
Senses: examples: text: The reversal of the direction of the traditional peephole gaze (we see the looker, not the lookee) is only part of this painting's correspondences to Eh Joe; consider, too, the distantiation created by the two focuses: […]
ref: 1995, Catharina Wulf, Oeil Fauve, page 54:
synonyms: gazee
observee
coordinate_terms: looker
glosses: One who is looked at.
Related terms: lookee-likee
lookee
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From look + 'ee (“pronoun”).
Senses: examples: text: "Now then, lookee here!" said the man. "Where's your mother?"
ref: 1860 December – 1861 August, Charles Dickens, chapter I, in Great Expectations […], volume I, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published October 1861, →OCLC, page 5:
text: Why, lookee, I asked Doctor Hedstone yesterday if I was like to take a fit any time, and he laughed, and swore I was the last man in town to go off that way."
ref: 1871, Joseph Sheridan LeFanu, Green Tea; Mr. Justice Harbottle:
text: Oh, lookee!" she squealed in rapture to the other girls. "
ref: 1919, Hildegard G. Frey, The Camp Fire Girls Do Their Bit:
text: "Now lookee here," he said, "you get me a file and you get me wittles; you bring both to me to-morrow morning early, that file and them wittles. […]"
ref: 1901, Kate Dickinson Sweetser, Ten Boys from Dickens:
text: And mmmm, lookee here!
ref: 1990 May 18, Judith Moore, “My Father's Voice”, in Chicago Reader:
glosses: animate imperative of look; usually used figuratively or as an interjection.
Synonyms: alt: as an interjection
word: behold
word: lo
Related terms: harkee
bruskly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more bruskly
form: most bruskly
Etymology: From brusk + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: "Ah, well now, of course," St. George conceded, "but if you have a mysterious boarder who talks Patagonian or something, and we think that perhaps we can talk with her, why then--" "It doesn't matter whether you can talk every language in South America," said the warden bruskly.
ref: 1906, Zona Gale, Romance Island:
text: He rose bruskly and crossed the room.
ref: 1912, Eleanor M. Ingram, From the Car Behind:
text: I didn't expect to be conveyed to my hotel atop a white elephant, through streets lined with salaaming natives, but neither did I expect to make a wild dash through thoroughfares as crowded with traffic as Fifth Avenue, in a vehicle which unmistakably owed its paternity to Mr. Henry Ford, or to be bruskly halted at busy street crossings by the upraised hand of a helmeted and white-gloved traffic policeman.
ref: 1921, E. Alexander Powell, Where the Strange Trails Go Down:
text: Dohrn writes that she called the home school on Shaw's behalf and "was told bruskly that these girls were no longer eligible to be students at the home school because they resided out of district."
ref: 1992 July 3, Ben Joravsky, “Legal Assistance v. Board of Ed: Where should homeless kids go to school?”, in Chicago Reader:
glosses: Alternative spelling of brusquely.
autoregister
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: autoregisters
form: autoregistering
form: autoregistered
form: autoregistered
Etymology: From auto- + register.
Senses: examples: text: The client is specified to communicate with mediators of type “the-mediator” and, upon instantiation, autoregister with the then specified instance of the mediator itself.
ref: 2003, Frank Pfenning, Yannis Smaragdakis, Generative programming and component engineering, volume 2, page 293:
text: If this parameter is blank, the SIP phone will not autoregister.
ref: 2011, Dennis Hartmann, Joshua Samuel Finke, Implementing Cisco Unified Communications Manager: Part 1, page 114:
glosses: To register automatically.
autoregistering
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of autoregister
autoregistered
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of autoregister
hapticity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hapticities
Etymology: From haptic + -ity.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A measure of the number of atoms of a ligand that are coordinated to a central atom.
synonyms: hapticality
glosses: The property of being haptic; relation to the sense of touch.
hexachloropalladate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hexachloropalladates
Senses: topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The anion PdCl₆²⁻; any salt containing this anion
Related terms: hexachloroplatinate
hexachloroplatinate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hexachloroplatinates
Senses: topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The anion PtCl₆²⁻; any salt containing this anion.
Related terms: hexachloropalladate
demurrages
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of demurrage
hexachloropalladates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hexachloropalladate
hexachloroplatinates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hexachloroplatinate
nanosilver
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nanosilvers
Etymology: From nano- + silver.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Any of various forms of silver nanoparticles that have medicinal use.
nipponium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Nippon + -ium. Doublet of nihonium.
Senses: examples: text: Element between molybdenum and ruthenium (perhaps Ogawa's nipponium)
ref: 1923, Ulick R. Evans, Metals and metallic compounds, page 362:
text: Tiede at Berlin University told Toshiyuki Majima that nipponium might be rhenium when the latter visited him in 1938.
ref: 2008, Proceedings of the Japan Academy: physical and biological sciences, volume 84, page 237:
glosses: A chemical element, supposed to be the then-undiscovered technetium, but later identified as rhenium.
Related terms: nihonium
sinnership
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From sinner + -ship.
Senses: examples: text: This proves your sinnership.
ref: 1848, Joseph Irons, Grove chapel pulpit: discourses:
text: Be assured that once a soul loses its sense of sinnership and need, it is outside the channel of blessing and grace.
ref: 1882, Thomas Moor, Counsels and thoughts for the spiritual life of believers:
glosses: The state, quality, or condition of being a sinner.
Synonyms: sinnerhood
scaths
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of scath
nubbing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of nub
nubbing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nubbings
Senses: glosses: Dated form of nubbin (“stub of undeveloped corn etc.”).
Related terms: nubbing cheat
patriciates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of patriciate
Faroish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈfɛəɹəʊɪʃ/
Etymology: From Faroe + -ish, after Icelandic færeyskur.
Senses: examples: text: [...] manned by the queerest old carles, who by way of salute as the boat touched our side, shuffled off their Faroish caps in a very undignified manner.
ref: 1920, John William Mackail, The life of William Morris:
glosses: Of or pertaining to the Faroe Islands, Faroish people or the Faroish language; Faroese.
Synonyms: Faroese
Faroish
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈfɛəɹəʊɪʃ/
Etymology: From Faroe + -ish, after Icelandic færeyskur.
Senses: glosses: A person from the Faroe Islands, Faroe Islander.
Faroish
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈfɛəɹəʊɪʃ/
Etymology: From Faroe + -ish, after Icelandic færeyskur.
Senses: examples: text: The same story is found in Icelandic, Norse, Faroish, and Estnish ballads, as well as in the Swedish and Danish, and a nearly related one in many other ballads or tales — German, Polish, Lithuanian, [...]
ref: 1893, The ballad minstrelsy of Scotland:
glosses: The language of the Faroe Islands, closely related to Icelandic, and more distantly to Danish, Norwegian, and Swedish.
Zarma
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Zaberma
form: Djerma
form: Dyabarma
form: Dyarma
form: Dyerma
form: Adzerma
form: Zabarma
form: Zarbarma
form: Zarmaci
form: Zerma
Senses: glosses: A Songhay language spoken primarily in Niger.
Zarma
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Zarmas
form: Zarma
form: Zaberma
form: Djerma
form: Dyabarma
form: Dyarma
form: Dyerma
form: Adzerma
form: Zabarma
form: Zarbarma
form: Zarmaci
form: Zerma
Senses: glosses: Any of a people of westernmost Niger and adjacent areas who speak the Zarma language.
Zarmas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Zarma
everlasting flower
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: everlasting flowers
Senses: synonyms: everlasting
everlasting daisy
paper daisy
glosses: Any of several plants, chiefly of the family Asteraceae (principally the tribe Gnaphalieae), having flowers that retain their colour and form when dried; also, a flower of such a plant.
Hyponyms: sense: genera in Asteraceae
english: North America etc
translation: North America etc
word: Antennaria
sense: genera in Asteraceae
word: Chrysocephalum
sense: genera in Asteraceae
word: Coronidium
sense: genera in Asteraceae
word: Edmondia
sense: genera in Asteraceae
english: New World
translation: New World
word: Gamochaeta
sense: genera in Asteraceae
word: Gnaphalium
sense: genera in Asteraceae
english: Old World
translation: Old World
word: Helichrysum
sense: genera in Asteraceae
word: Limonium
sense: genera in Asteraceae
word: Ozothamnus
sense: genera in Asteraceae
word: Phaenocoma
sense: genera in Asteraceae
word: Rhodanthe
sense: genera in Asteraceae
word: Syncarpha
sense: genera in Asteraceae
word: Xeranthemum
sense: genera in Asteraceae
word: Xerochrysum
everlasting flowers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of everlasting flower
mongoos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mongooses
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of mongoose.
mungoose
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mungooses
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of mongoose.
mungoos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mungooses
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of mongoose.
mungooses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mungoose
mongoloids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mongoloid
mungous
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mungouses
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of mongoose.
mungouses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mungous
cering
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of cere
cered
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of cere
javas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of java
mononomial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From mono- + -nomial, compare binomial and see mono-.
Senses: glosses: Having a single name.
spoddy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more spoddy
form: most spoddy
Etymology: From spod + -y.
Senses: examples: text: Remember those French boys we had to have at school? They were utterly spoddy.
ref: 1993, Joanna Trollope, A Spanish Lover:
glosses: Like a spod; swotty; dorky.
antimold
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From anti- + mold.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of antimould.
antimould
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: antimold
Etymology: From anti- + mould.
Senses: glosses: Countering mould; antifungal.