cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
GWT
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
software
glosses: Initialism of Google Web Toolkit.
Related terms: SWT
XWT
XWT
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
software
qualifier: object-oriented programming
glosses: Initialism of XML Windowing Toolkit, old name for the Vexi project.
Related terms: GWT
SWT
supersedence
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: supersedences
Senses: glosses: Synonym of supersession.
synonyms: word: supersession
supersedences
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of supersedence
superflack
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: superflacks
Etymology: From super- + flack.
Senses: examples: text: The more sophisticated War Department officials knew exactly where Jimmy would be most effective — as a superflack for the entire war effort.
ref: 1997, Frank Sanello, Jimmy Stewart: A Wonderful Life, page 126:
text: Bobby Zarem was considered and up-and-coming public relations genius, a superflack.
ref: 2010, Ian Halperin, The Governator, page 140:
glosses: A highly successful publicity agent.
superflacks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of superflack
superexpress
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: superexpresses
Etymology: From super- + express.
Senses: examples: text: This is just south of where the central control station would probably be located and might require a slight slowing under the 120 miles per hour normal speed of the nonstop airport superexpresses.
ref: 1963, United States. Congress. House. Committee on the District of Columbia, Transit program for the National Capital region, page 442:
text: Then the Tokyo-Osaka running time will be cut to three hours for superexpresses and four hours for the limited trains.
ref: 1965, US news and world report, volume 58, page 69:
glosses: A very fast express train.
superexpresses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of superexpress
ERCP
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Initialism of endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography.
Hypernyms: cholangiopancreatography
panpot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: panpots
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of pan pot.
panpots
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of panpot
eRCP
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: eRCPs
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
software
qualifier: object-oriented programming
glosses: Initialism of embedded Rich Client Platform.
pan pot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pan pots
form: panpot
Etymology: Short for panoramic potentiometer.
Senses: glosses: A control in audio mixing that determines how much of each source signal is sent to the left and right speakers.
pan pots
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pan pot
thermoclasty
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: weathering caused by thermal processes
Related terms: cryoclasty
thermoclastic
paragrammatical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more paragrammatical
form: most paragrammatical
Etymology: From para- + grammatical.
Senses: examples: text: The third left-hemisphere-damaged signer had many grammatical errors; in fact, he was paragrammatical.
ref: 1991, Norman A. Krasnegor, Biological and behavioral determinants of language development, page 380:
text: There is no denying that books incorporating exercises of 'false syntax' may in the hands of the right person have fostered an awareness of style. However, the paragrammatical approach was probably more effective as a method of explaining the concepts of English grammar.
ref: 1991, Bertil Sundby, Anne Kari Bjørge, Kari E. Haugland, A Dictionary of English Normative Grammar, 1700-1800, page 3:
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: Relating to, or employing, anomalous grammar.
Synonyms: paragrammatic
Derived terms: paragrammatically
paragrammatic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more paragrammatic
form: most paragrammatic
Senses: glosses: paragrammatical
blindstitch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: blindstitches
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of blind stitch.
blindstitch
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: blindstitches
form: blindstitching
form: blindstitched
form: blindstitched
Senses: glosses: To work in blind stitches.
blindstitched
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of blindstitch
blindstitching
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of blindstitch
wing warping
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: an early system for lateral (roll) control on a fixed-wing aircraft, involving the flexing of the wing to achieve movement; superseded by ailerons in all aircraft except a few experimental ones.
blindstitches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of blindstitch
blindstitches
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of blindstitch
tetrapharmacum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: See tetra- (“four”) and Latin pharmacum (“drug”).
Senses: examples: text: When the inflammation shall have ceased , the wound should be cleansed , and linen dipped in honey will answer this purpose best ; and over that must be applied the same plaster (tetrapharmacum) or the enneapharmacum.
ref: 1831, Alexander Lee, Aur. Cor. Celsus on Medicine:
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A combination of wax, resin, lard, and pitch, composing an ointment.
paradisian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more paradisian
form: most paradisian
Etymology: From paradise + -ian.
Senses: glosses: paradisiacal
superprofit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: superprofits
Etymology: From super- + profit.
Senses: examples: text: Our next step will be to understand how the basic economic law of capitalism works under imperialism, and how monopoly superprofits are extracted from imperialism's "third world" periphery.
ref: 1978, Clarence J. Munford, Production Relations, Class and Black Liberation, page 142:
text: Obviously, out of such enormous superprofits (since they are obtained over and above the profits which capitalists squeeze out of the workers of their 'own' country) it is possible to bribe the labour leaders[…]
ref: 1984, Norman Etherington, Theories of imperialism: war, conquest and capital, page 138:
glosses: excess profit
superprofits
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of superprofit
superorganicist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: superorganicists
Etymology: From superorganic + -ist.
Senses: glosses: One who subscribes to the philosophy of superorganicism.
superorganicists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of superorganicist
recapitulationist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: recapitulationists
Etymology: From recapitulation + -ist.
Senses: glosses: One who subscribes to the theory of recapitulationism.
recapitulationists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of recapitulationist
thermoclastic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From thermoclasty + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to thermoclasty.
cryoclastic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to cryoclasty.
superroad
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: superroads
Etymology: From super- + road.
Senses: examples: text: Railroad workers all over the nation want to know why the general public and the railroad industry must be taxed to pay for the superroads required by heavy trucks.
ref: 1952, Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen, Trainman News, volume 6, page 11:
text: A total of 628 people have been killed in 12,325 accidents on the Pennsylvania Turnpike, oldest of the superroads.
ref: 1956 June, Kiplinger's Personal Finance, volume 10, number 6, page 13:
glosses: superhighway
superroads
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of superroad
superorganicism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From superorganic + -ism.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
glosses: The belief that a culture or society transcends the purely organic nature of its individuals.
Related terms: superorganic
superorganicist
micropowered
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From micro- + powered.
Senses: examples: a micropowered radio
glosses: Running on very small amounts of power.
Related terms: micropower
marginocephalian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Marginocephalia + -an.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Of or relating to the Marginocephalia, a clade of ornithischian dinosaurs.
marginocephalian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: marginocephalians
Etymology: From Marginocephalia + -an.
Senses: examples: text: Thus, they were able to corroborate previous hypotheses of overrepresentation of nodosaurid ankylosaurs and hadrosaurid ornithopods in marine sediments, whilst they also found that marginocephalians, ankylosaurid ankylosaurs, sauropods, and supposedly herbivorous theropods were positively associated with terrestrial paleoenvironments.
ref: 2016 February 2, “The “χ” of the Matter: Testing the Relationship between Paleoenvironments and Three Theropod Clades”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Any member of the Marginocephalia.
boulderstones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of boulderstone
aerophilic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From aero- + -philic.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: That thrive in the presence of molecular oxygen
raw_tags: of microorganisms
Derived terms: anaerophilic
microaerophilic
nanoaerophilic
Related terms: aerobic
alkalophile
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: alkalophiles
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of alkaliphile.
Derived terms: alkalophilic
alkalophilicity
antivirulence
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From anti- + virulence.
Senses: topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: That reduces the virulence of a bacterium without necessarily killing it
autoanalyzer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: autoanalyzers
Etymology: From auto- + analyzer.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of autoanalyser.
avoidances
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of avoidance
basidiomycetous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From basidiomycete + -ous.
Senses: glosses: Relating to the basidiomycetes.
Derived terms: heterobasidiomycetous
nonbasidiomycetous
bioefficacy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bioefficacies
Etymology: From bio- + efficacy.
Senses: glosses: The efficacy of a material in a biological environment
glosses: The efficacy of a biomedicine
carbamidomethylated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Modified by means of carbamidomethylation
chemoprotection
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From chemo- + protection.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: The protection of healthy tissue from the toxic effects of chemotherapy
Related terms: chemoprotect
chemoprotective
chemoprotector
chetomin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Chaetomium + -in
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A complex epidithiodioxopiperazine metabolite, produced by several fungi of the genus Chaetomium, that disrupts the ability of tumours to adapt to hypoxia
cyanidin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /saɪˈænədɪn/
Forms: form: cyanidins
form: cyanidine
Etymology: From cyan- + -id + -in.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: An anthocyanidin pigment, 2-(3,4-dihydroxyphenyl) chromenylium-3,5,7-triol, found in many red berries.
dicarbamoyl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From di- + carbamoyl.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Two carbamoyl groups in a molecule
dihydroxybenzoic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From dihydroxy + benzoic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to dihydroxybenzoic acid and its derivatives
Related terms: dihydroxybenzoate
dimentional
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of dimensional.
dogwhelk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dogwhelks
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of dog whelk.
dogwhelks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dogwhelk
epacrid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: epacrids
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ἔπακρος (épakros, “pointed at the tip”), from ἄκρα (ákra).
Senses: glosses: Any of the family Ericaceae (syn. Epacridaceae) of heathers.
epacrids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of epacrid
esophagogastric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From esophago- + gastric.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: gastroesophageal
fermentates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of fermentate
fermentates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fermentate
flavocytochrome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: flavocytochromes
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A flavoprotein that is also a cytochrome
fusaricidin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fusaricidins
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Any of a group of depsipeptide antibiotics and antifungal agents extracted from the bacterium Paenibacillus polymyxa (formerly Bacillus polymyxa).
fusaricidins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fusaricidin
helotialean
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Helotiales + -an
Senses: glosses: Relating to fungi of the order Helotiales.
hexachlorofluorescein
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From hexa- + chloro- + fluorescein.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A chlorinated derivative of fluorescein that is used to label oligonucleotides.
hexadepsipeptide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hexadepsipeptides
Etymology: From hexa- + depsipeptide.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: An oligomeric form of depsipeptide composed of six monomers
Related terms: cyclohexadepsipeptide
hydroxycinnamates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hydroxycinnamate
hyperphosphorylate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: hyperphosphorylates
form: hyperphosphorylating
form: hyperphosphorylated
form: hyperphosphorylated
Etymology: From hyper- + phosphorylate.
Senses: glosses: To phosphorylate fully
interspecifically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From interspecific + -ally.
Senses: glosses: Between different species
Related terms: interspecific
lithotrophic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From litho- + -trophic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to lithotrophs or to lithotrophy
Derived terms: lithotrophically
organolithotrophic
mesofrontal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ʌntəl
Etymology: From meso- + frontal.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: In the middle and at the front
metalloregulator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: metalloregulators
Etymology: From metallo- + regulator.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any protein that regulates biochemical interactions with metals, often by binding to them
Related terms: metalloregulation
metalloregulatory
metalloregulatory
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From metallo- + regulatory.
Senses: glosses: Relating to metalloregulators or to metalloregulation
diheme
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: di-heme
Etymology: From di- + heme.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Two heme groups in a hemoprotein
monoheme
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mono-heme
Etymology: From mono- + heme.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A single heme group in a hemoprotein.
tetraheme
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tetra-heme
Etymology: From tetra- + heme.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Four heme groups in a hemoprotein
triheme
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tri-heme
Etymology: From tri- + heme.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Three heme groups in a hemoprotein
monosomies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of monosomy
multimerize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: multimerizes
form: multimerizing
form: multimerized
form: multimerized
Etymology: From multimer + -ize.
Senses: glosses: To convert into a multimer (by multimerization)
Derived terms: heteromultimerize
homomultimerize
neogastropod
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: neogastropods
Etymology: From neo- + gastropod.
Senses: glosses: Any sea snail of the clade Neogastropoda
known universe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: known universes
Senses: glosses: The part of the physical universe that is known by observation or inference.
Synonyms: observable universe
parasitemic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: parasitaemic
Etymology: From parasitemia + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to parasitemia
glosses: Having a parasite in the blood
observable universe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: observable universes
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
synonyms: known universe
glosses: The extent of a universe within the cosmological horizon of an observer.
Hypernyms: Universe
schizaeaceous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Schizaeaceae + -ous.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Of or relating to the family Schizaeaceae of mostly tropical ferns.
unidiomaticity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From un- + idiomaticity or unidiomatic + -ity.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being unidiomatic, that is, of not being idiomatic.
Synonyms: unidiomaticness
Related terms: unidiomatic
infelicity
schizophyceous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Schizophyceae + -ous.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Of or relating to the Schizophyceae, a class of blue-green algae.
rosbifs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rosbif
vozhd
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vozhds
Etymology: From Russian вождь (voždʹ, “chieftain, leader”).
Senses: glosses: A Soviet leader.
vozhds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of vozhd
Glamorgan sausages
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Glamorgan sausage
mobsman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mobsmen
Etymology: From mob + -s- + man.
Senses: examples: text: It is doubtful if the Victorian Londoner needed any warning, for the artful mobsmen, toolers, whizzers and dippers, together with their stickman accomplices, were everywhere in the crowds, in the underground, on railway trains […]
ref: 1976, Michael Harrison, Beyond Baker Street: A Sherlockian Anthology, page 117:
glosses: A pickpocket working in groups.
Related terms: swell-mobsman
mobsmen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mobsman
snidey
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -aɪdi
Forms: form: more snidey
form: most snidey
Etymology: From snide + -y.
Senses: examples: text: I had worked long and hard for this salon and was more professional than she'd ever be, the snidey bitch.
ref: 2010, Lucy Diamond, Sweet Temptation, page 303:
glosses: snide
aufwuch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: aufwuchs
Etymology: Back-formation from aufwuchs.
Senses: glosses: singular of aufwuchs
aufwuchs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: aufwuchs
Etymology: Borrowed from German Aufwuchs (“surface growth, overgrowth”).
Senses: glosses: The small animals and plants that encrust hard substrates, such as rocks, in aquatic environments.
keg stands
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of keg stand
long Tom
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: long Toms
Senses: examples: text: What he would do afterwards — whether he would try to crawl right across the island from North Inlet to the camp among the swamps or whether he would fire Long Tom, trusting that his own comrades might come first to help him — was, of course, more than I could say.
ref: 1883, Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island:
glosses: Any of various early cannon and field guns.
examples: text: Digging around second-hand shops you may come across an old newspaper or picture agency 'Long Tom' lens.
ref: 1976, David Hodgson, All about action photography, page 43:
text: One of the last 'Long Toms' produced for Fleet Street, it was used by a Daily Mirror photographer on Coronation Day, 2 June 1953.
ref: 1983, The Photographic Collector, volumes 4-5, page 87:
topics: arts
hobbies
lifestyle
photography
glosses: A high-powered lens for long-distance filming or photography.
topics: business
mining
glosses: A device formerly used in California for washing gold from the earth or mineral spoil with which it is excavated. It is a sloping wooden trough which widens at the lower end.
long Toms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of long Tom
fieldgun
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fieldguns
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of field gun.
fieldguns
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fieldgun
field gun
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: field guns
form: fieldgun
Senses: glosses: An artillery piece, originally a smaller gun that could accompany a field army on the march and when in combat could be moved about the battlefield in response to changing circumstances.
field guns
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of field gun
ophiolitologist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɒlədʒɪst
Forms: form: ophiolitologists
Etymology: From ophiolite + -ologist.
Senses: glosses: One who studies ophiolites.
ophiolitologists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ophiolitologist
recopiers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of recopier
kludgey
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: kludgier
form: kludgiest
Senses: examples: text: It wouldn't make sense if your net extended beyond the bounds of what proportions can be, even though using some recipes to compute the confidence interval for two proportions, you do end up overshooting those endpoints. (Typically, you just chop off whatever part of your net didn't fall between 0% and 100%, but that always feels rather kludgey.) […] However, I don’t want to be embedding images if all I have to do is make reference to a variable within a paragraph of text… and I’ve never had a good solution. UNTIL THIS MORNING when I really, really, really wanted to be able to use y-bar and p-hat in my paragraph, without having to do the even kludgier thing where you just call them “y-bar” and “p-hat” in the text. That doesn’t feel good.
ref: 2017 August 21, N[icole] M. Radziwill, Statistics (the Easier Way) with R, 2nd edition, San Francisco, Calif.: Lapis Lucera, →ISBN, pages 270 (section 4 (Confidence Intervals and Standard Error), subsection 5 (Two Proportions)) and 483 (Appendix G: Typing Characters with Hats and Bars in Word):
glosses: Alternative spelling of kludgy.
kludgiest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of kludgey /kludgy: most kludgey /kludgy
kludgier
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of kludgey /kludgy: more kludgey /kludgy
Midewiwin
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Medewiwin
form: Midewin
Senses: glosses: A secretive religion of the aboriginal groups of the Maritimes, New England and Great Lakes regions in North America.
Related terms: Midew
siredon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: siredons
form: siredones
Etymology: From Latin Sīrēdones, alternative form of Sīrēnes (“the Sirens”) from Ancient Greek Σειρηδώνες (Seirēdṓnes) plural of Σειρηδών (Seirēdṓn) alternative form of Σειρήν (Seirḗn, “Siren”).
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: A larval or neotenic salamander (e.g. the axolotl, Ambystoma mexicanum).
siredons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of siredon
cannonier
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cannoniers
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from French cannonier: see further at cannoneer.
Senses: examples: text: Then ſe the bringing of our ordinance / Along the trench into the battery, / VVhere we wil haue gabions of ſix foot broad / To ſaue our Cannoniers from muſket ſhot, […]
ref: c. 1587–1588 (date written), [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The Second Part […], 2nd edition, part 2, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, →OCLC; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire; London: Scolar Press, 1973, →ISBN, Act III, scene i, signature [G6], recto:
glosses: Alternative form of cannoneer.
cannoniers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cannonier
scarabees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of scarabee
lemnisci
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lemniscus
punctated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From punctate + -d.
Senses: glosses: punctate
punctations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of punctation
peripherical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more peripherical
form: most peripherical
Senses: glosses: peripheral
peripheric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more peripheric
form: most peripheric
Etymology: Compare French périphérique.
Senses: glosses: peripheral
sovenaunce
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sovenaunces
form: souvenance
Etymology: Old French souvenance.
Senses: examples: text: Of his way he had no sovenaunce.
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto VI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 8:
glosses: remembrance
sovenaunces
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sovenaunce
pelargonidin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pelargonidins
Etymology: From Pelargonium + -in.
Senses: glosses: An anthocyanidin, 2-(4-hydroxyphenyl)chromenylium-3,5,7-triol, found in geraniums and several soft berries
Derived terms: propelargonidin
Pentelic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɛnˈtɛlɪk/
rhymes: -ɛlɪk
Forms: form: more Pentelic
form: most Pentelic
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin Pentelicus, from Ancient Greek Πεντελικός (Pentelikós).
Senses: examples: the Pentelic marble of which the Parthenon is built
glosses: Of or relating to Mount Pentelicus (Penteliko Mountain), near Athens, famous for its fine white marble quarries.
Synonyms: Pentelican
Derived terms: Pentelic marble
Pentelican
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Pentelican
form: most Pentelican
Senses: glosses: Pentelic
phosphoribosylglycinamide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The glycine-amide of 5-phosphoribosylamine that is an intermediate in the biosynthesis of purine
xenogenetically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From xenogenetic + -ally.
Senses: glosses: By xenogenetic means.
lesser scaup
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lesser scaups
Senses: glosses: A scaup of the species Aythya affinis.
Coordinate terms: greater scaup
humanicide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: humanicides
Etymology: From human + -icide.
Senses: examples: text: Short of omnicide, the killing of everything, and of humanicide, the destruction of the whole human race, which a collapse of the ecosystem would bring about (a nuclear World War III could be a shortcut), surely genocide must be considered the supreme crime against mankind.
ref: 1979 January-March, Christian Bay, “A human rights approach to transnational politics”, in Universal Humand Rights, volume 19:
text: What type of democracy enacts humanicide to attempt to save humanity?
ref: 2008, Christopher Ejsmond -, Reflections on Life, page 64:
text: As we contront the crisis of civilization culminating in the specter of humanicide, is there an alternative to the present plunge of humanity toward the abyss of utmost violence?
ref: 2012, Thomas Keating, The Thomas Keating Reader:
text: … through a world war in which “a handful of people tried to commit humanicide,” thereby reducing the earth to a new state of nature.
ref: 2015, Cyrus R.K. Patell, “Speculative Fiction”, in Cosmopolitanism and the Literary Imagination:
glosses: The destruction of the human race.
examples: text: You will pardon me for telling you just what I at the time thought, viz. that you needed a "humanicide" as badly as you needed insecticides.
ref: 1895, Ohio State Horticultural Society, Proceedings of the Annual Meeting, page 104:
text: Almost all these poisons are extremely effective humanicides as well.
ref: 1991, Robert David Rodale, Mike McGrath, Save Three Lives: A Plan for Famine Prevention, page 59:
text: To facilitate the process of the suction of the fetus, the "humanicides" invented a new technique.
ref: 1992, The Womb Becomes a Tomb: Are We Sacrificing to Moloch?, page 17:
text: The German Gas Company. We specialize in Humanicides serving Iraq and Libya.
ref: 2010, Louis J. Salome, Violence, Veils and Bloodlines: Reporting from War Zones, page 57:
text: Man has been a “humanicide”. That is what Adorno meant when he said “It is barbaric to write poetry after Auschwitz”.
ref: 2016, JC Trainini, “SOFÍA SABSAY (Argentine contemporary Artist, 1924-2008)”, in Revista Argentina de Cardiología:
glosses: A substance, person, or group that exterminates people.
humanicides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of humanicide
photoanaerobe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: photoanaerobes
Etymology: From photo- + anaerobe.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Any photoautotrophic anaerobe
semifloret
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: semiflorets
Etymology: From semi- + floret.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: A floret, or floscule, with its corolla lengthened into a strap-shaped petal.
Synonyms: semifloscule
semiflorets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of semifloret
photoanaerobes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of photoanaerobe
yarnover
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: yarnovers
form: yarn-over
form: yarn over
Etymology: From yarn + over.
Senses: topics: business
knitting
manufacturing
textiles
glosses: A technique in which the yarn is passed over the right-hand needle. In general, the new loop is knitted on the next row, either by itself (producing a hole) or together with an adjacent stitch.
yarnover
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: yarnovers
form: yarnovering
form: yarnovered
form: yarnovered
form: yarn-over
form: yarn over
Etymology: From yarn + over.
Senses: topics: business
knitting
manufacturing
textiles
glosses: To make a yarnover.
Synonyms: y/o
YO
yarnovers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of yarnover
yarnovers
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of yarnover
preselective
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pre- + selective.
Senses: glosses: Relating to preselection
examples: text: The drive from the engine is taken through a fluid flywheel and universally jointed shaft to the counter-shaft and thence to a five-speed preselective type epicyclic gearbox by another shaft.
ref: 1950 July, “Diesel Train Services for G.N.R.(I.)”, in Railway Magazine, page 490:
glosses: That can select in advance.
unhated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unhated
form: most unhated
Etymology: From un- + hated.
Senses: glosses: Not hated.
unloathed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unloathed
form: most unloathed
Etymology: From un- + loathed.
Senses: glosses: Not loathed.
unloathsome
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unloathsome
form: most unloathsome
Etymology: From un- + loathsome.
Senses: glosses: Not loathsome.
undetested
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more undetested
form: most undetested
Etymology: From un- + detested.
Senses: glosses: Not detested.
unhateful
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unhateful
form: most unhateful
Etymology: From un- + hateful.
Senses: glosses: Not hateful.
pupariation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From puparium + -ation.
Senses: glosses: The formation of a puparium.
rephosphorylated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of rephosphorylate
rephosphorylated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Modified by rephosphorylation
rephosphorylate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: rephosphorylates
form: rephosphorylating
form: rephosphorylated
form: rephosphorylated
Etymology: From re- + phosphorylate.
Senses: glosses: To phosphorylate a compound, such as a protein, which has previously been dephosphorylated
Related terms: rephosphorylation
femifascism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From femifascist, or blend of feminism + fascism.
Senses: glosses: Radical or militant feminism, intolerant of opposing views.
Related terms: femifascist
Himyaric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Himyaric
form: most Himyaric
Etymology: From Himyar + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Himyaritic.
synonyms: word: Himyaritic
Himyarite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhɪm.jəˌɹaɪt/
ipa: /ˈhɪm.jəˌɹaɪt/
ipa: /ˈhɪm.jɚˌaɪt/
Forms: form: Himyarites
form: Himjarite
form: Ḥimyarite
Etymology: From Himyar + -ite.
Senses: glosses: An inhabitant of the ancient kingdom of Himyar.
Himyarite
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhɪm.jəˌɹaɪt/
ipa: /ˈhɪm.jəˌɹaɪt/
ipa: /ˈhɪm.jɚˌaɪt/
Forms: form: Himjarite
form: Ḥimyarite
Etymology: From Himyar + -ite.
Senses: examples: text: The combination of brk and rb is quite spectacular from the perspective of the pagan Arabian inscriptions. In the tens of thousands of these documented so far—across North Arabian, South Arabian and Nabataean scripts—rb is never used as an epithet of the old gods and the verb brk "to bless" is virtually absent from invocations in the pre‐monotheistic period. Both appear to be part of the stock of monotheistic vocabulary borrowed into Sabaic from Hebrew and Aramaic in the fourth century CE, following the Ḥimyarite adoption of Jewish‐inspired monotheism.
ref: 2021, Ahmad Al-Jallad, Hythem Sidky, “A Paleo‐Arabic inscription on a route north of Ṭāʾif”, in Arabian Archaeology & Epigraphy, volume 33, number 1, →DOI, pages 202–215:
glosses: Of, from, or pertaining to Himyar.
Himjarite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Himjarites
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Himyarite.
Himyarites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Himyarite
Himjarites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Himjarite
Himjaritic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Himjaritic
form: most Himjaritic
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Himyaritic.
Himyaritic
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌhɪm.jəˈrɪ.tɪk/
rhymes: -ɪtɪk
Forms: form: Himjaritic
form: Himyaric
form: Himjaric
form: Ḥimyaritic
form: ḥimyaritic
Etymology: From Himyarite + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Old South Arabian.
examples: text: If the traditional Arab and Islamic scholars are to be believed, the Ḥimyaritic language was incomprehensible to a speaker of Arabic.
ref: 2007, Christian Robin, edited by Versteegh, Kees, Encyclopedia of Arabic Language and Linguistics, volume 2, Leiden: Brill, page 257b
topics: historiography
history
human-sciences
sciences
glosses: Any language or dialect belonging to Himyarites and reported from an ancient Arabic perspective as peculiar.
glosses: An imagined Semitic language belonging to the Himyarites who however generally wrote Sabaean.
Himyaritic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌhɪm.jəˈrɪ.tɪk/
rhymes: -ɪtɪk
Forms: form: more Himyaritic
form: most Himyaritic
form: Himjaritic
form: Himyaric
form: Himjaric
form: Ḥimyaritic
form: ḥimyaritic
Etymology: From Himyarite + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Related or belonging to the aforementioned language or language group.
caruncula
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kəˈɹʌŋ.kjəl.ə/
Forms: form: carunculae
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin caruncula (“a little piece of flesh”). Doublet of caruncle.
Senses: examples: text: Even without mobilization of the bone, the median eyelid angle can be deplaced in the nasal direction. For this purpose, we inserted a heart-shaped cartilage implant, curved toward the caruncula.
ref: 1982, Sherrell J. Aston, Albert Hornblass, Murray A. Meltzer, et al., editors, Third International Symposium of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery of the Eye and Adnexa, Baltimore, MD: Williams & Wilkins Co., →ISBN, page 116:
topics: anatomy
biology
botany
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
zoology
zootomy
glosses: Synonym of caruncle.
synonyms: word: caruncle
carunculae
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of caruncula
clavellate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more clavellate
form: most clavellate
Etymology: Borrowed from New Latin clāvellātus, from clāvella (diminutive of clāva (“club”)) + -ātus, see -ate (adjective-forming suffix).
Senses: glosses: Minutely clavate; shaped like a little club.
could not care less
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: could not have cared less
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of couldn't care less.
chay root
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chay roots
form: chaya root
form: chayaroot
form: chayroot
form: choy root
form: choyroot
form: shaya root
Etymology: From Tamil [Term?].
Senses: glosses: The plant Oldenlandia umbellata, native to India, which yields a durable red dyestuff.
glosses: The root of this plant
chay roots
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chay root
choy root
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: choy roots
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of chay root.
choy roots
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of choy root
rephosphorylates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of rephosphorylate
rephosphorylating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of rephosphorylate
carac
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: caracs
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of carrack.
caracs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of carac
hydroxyecdysones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hydroxyecdysone
carbazoquinocins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of carbazoquinocin
benzannulations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of benzannulation
karwinaphthols
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of karwinaphthol
nanaomycins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nanaomycin
carazostatin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A particular tricyclic carbazole alkaloid.
supralittorals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of supralittoral
hyellazole
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A particular carbazole alkaloid.
carbazolequinones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of carbazolequinone
vinylstannanes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of vinylstannane
skybike
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: skybikes
Etymology: From sky + bike.
Senses: examples: text: The creature was actually doing a neat job of demolition, using scissorlike claws to chop the sky-bike into small pieces.
ref: 1972, Arthur C. Clarke, Rendezvous With Rama:
topics: literature
media
publishing
science-fiction
glosses: A bicycle capable of levitation.
Related terms: hoverbike
skycycle
skybikes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of skybike
methenyls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of methenyl
calif
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: califs
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of caliph.
califs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of calif
califate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: califates
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of caliphate.
califates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of califate
shashes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shash
milk jug
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: milk jugs
form: milkjug
Etymology: From milk + jug
Senses: coordinate_terms: milk bottle
milk can
glosses: A jug for holding milk.
synonyms: milkbag
glosses: A woman's breast.
serrating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of serrate
serrates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of serrate
corbel table
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: corbel tables
Senses: topics: architecture
glosses: A horizontal row of corbels, with the panels or filling between them.
corbel tables
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of corbel table
scoliotics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of scoliotic
Chiari malformation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Chiari malformations
Etymology: Named after Austrian pathologist Hans Chiari.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
teratology
glosses: A malformation of the brain, consisting of a downward displacement of the cerebellar tonsils through the foramen magnum, sometimes causing hydrocephalus.
Synonyms: Arnold-Chiari malformation
Chiari malformations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Chiari malformation
Arnold-Chiari malformation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Arnold-Chiari malformations
Etymology: Named after Austrian pathologist Hans Chiari and German pathologist Julius Arnold.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
teratology
glosses: Chiari malformation
Arnold-Chiari malformations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Arnold-Chiari malformation
chickification
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From chick + -ification.
Senses: glosses: girlification
Synonyms: girlification
Related terms: sissification
girlification
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: girlifications
Etymology: From girl + -ification.
Senses: glosses: The act or result of girlifying; feminization.
Synonyms: chickification
Related terms: sissification
schmendricks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of schmendrick
sphericalness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From spherical + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: Before we get into the Jabulani, let’s look at an older football. Here is a picture of a 1950 football from application engineers at Phase Vision. They used an advanced 800 DBE scanner to graphically display sphericalness in a color-coded image of a ball.
ref: 2022 June 24, Sophia Eiley, “The Jabulani: Why Footballs Can be Too Round”, in STEM Fellowship:
glosses: The quality or state of being spherical.
calleted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of callet
calleting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of callet
callets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of callet
callets
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of callet
sievable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more sievable
form: most sievable
Etymology: From sieve + -able.
Senses: glosses: Suitable for sieving.
sievings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sieving
callunas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of calluna
hemlined
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From hemline + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: But the magnificent striped, mottled, and hemlined skirts, and the martial names the tulip hybrids used to have, are long gone.
ref: 2000, Anita Albus, The art of arts: rediscovering painting, page 246:
glosses: Having a (specified kind of) hemline.
chin strip
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chin strips
Senses: glosses: Synonym of chinstrap (“type of beard”).
synonyms: word: chinstrap
extra: type of beard
unfrogged
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + frogged.
Senses: glosses: Not frogged.
peytrel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈpeɪ.tɹəl/
Forms: form: peytrels
Senses: examples: text: Gold Ornament Room, Case K. At the back of the Case is a piece of gold armour (plate x) formerly known as the Mold corslet, but now seen to be a peytrel (French, poitrail) or brunt for a pony. It is mounted on a copper […]
ref: 1904, British Museum. Department of British and Mediaeval Antiquities and Ethnography, A Guide to the Antiquities of the Bronze Age: In the Department of British and Mediæval Antiquities, page 149:
text: The following is the description of the peytrel given in the British Museum Guide to Antiquities of the Bronze Age, page 150——“It is mounted [in its case] on a copper plate as originally worn, fragments of the lining being shown […]
ref: 1911, An Inventory of the Ancient Monuments in Wales and Monmouthshire: II - County of Flint, Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Wales, page 65:
text: The pieces of plate armor that clad a demigriffin were first the peytrel, which covered the chest to shoulders to its midsection. The peytrel flared outward, steeply, with three Norlock and Nor'ock skulls gilded in gold fastened to the ...
ref: 2021, Marc C Watson, The Baltic Pilgrimage, Page Publishing Inc, →ISBN:
glosses: Alternative form of poitrel.
allantoids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of allantoid