cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
butterfly stitch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: butterfly stitches
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
surgery
glosses: A narrow adhesive strip that is used to close the edges of small wounds
glosses: A knitting pattern in which slip stitches are used to represent a butterfly's wings
butterfly stitches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of butterfly stitch
bebarks
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of bebark
bebarked
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of bebark
bebarred
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of bebar
Crackpot
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A small village in Grinton parish, Swaledale, North Yorkshire, England, previously in Richmondshire district (OS grid ref SD9796)
betwound
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of betwynde
Swaledale
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Swale + dale.
Senses: glosses: A valley (dale) in North Yorkshire, England, through which flows the river Swale.
examples: text: There were more than three hundred Swaledales out on the hills and as many lambs and more.
ref: 2023, Kate Atkinson, “The Void”, in Normal Rules Don’t Apply, Penguin (2024), pages 4-5:
glosses: A breed of sheep from Swaledale.
glosses: A minor city in Cerro Gordo County, Iowa, United States.
atwound
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of atwind
Swale
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Old English *swalwe (“rushing water”), which could be related to swealwe. Also compare the proper noun Swallow.
Senses: glosses: A river, a tributary of the Ure in North Yorkshire, England.
glosses: A strait between the Isle of Sheppey and the Kentish mainland; in full, The Swale.
glosses: A local government district with borough status in Kent, England, created in 1974 with its headquarters in Sittingbourne and named after the channel.
Derived terms: Brompton-on-Swale
Ellerton-on-Swale
Morton-on-Swale
Myton-on-Swale
Swaledale
bebeasts
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of bebeast
bebeasted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of bebeast
mismother
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: mismothers
form: mismothering
form: mismothered
form: mismothered
Etymology: From mis- + mother.
Senses: qualifier: especially a ewe
glosses: To fail to care for her own offspring, and/or to steal others' offspring and mother it.
raw_tags: of an animal
blove
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past of blive
mismothered
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of mismother
mismothered
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: qualifier: especially a lamb
glosses: Neglected by its mother, cared for by another that is not its mother, or both.
raw_tags: of an animal
bepuzzles
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of bepuzzle
bepuzzled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of bepuzzle
berisped
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of berisp
betines
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of betine
cryptococcoma
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cryptococcomas
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: An infectious granuloma caused by fungi of the genus Cryptococcus.
Related terms: cryptococcomal
bewaters
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of bewater
cryptozoite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cryptozoites
Etymology: From crypto- + -zoite.
Senses: glosses: The exoerythrocytic stage of a malarial parasite
beblasts
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of beblast
beblasted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of beblast
bebleeds
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of bebleed
bebled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of bebleed
beblest
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: beblessed
Senses: glosses: past participle of bebless
antiresorptives
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of antiresorptive
CKI
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: CKIs
Senses: glosses: Initialism of cyclin-dependent kinase inhibitor protein.
CKIs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of CKI
cryptozygous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From crypto- + -zygous.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Having a face that is narrower than the cranium (such that the zygomatic arches are not always visible)
crystallogram
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: crystallograms
Etymology: From crystallo- + -gram.
Senses: glosses: A photograph of an X-ray diffraction pattern
cuboideonavicular
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Relating to the cuboid and navicular bones.
Derived terms: cuboideonavicular articulation
cuboideonavicular joint
cuboideonavicular ligament
Megabazus
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Ancient Greek Μεγάβαζος (Megábazos).
Senses: glosses: Name of several notable Achaemenid Persians
glosses: Name of several notable Achaemenid Persians
A commander under king Darius
crystallograms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of crystallogram
culdoplasty
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: culdoplasties
Etymology: From culdo- + -plasty.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
surgery
hypernyms: colpoplasty
vaginoplasty
glosses: plastic surgery to correct a defect in the posterior fornix of the vagina.
culicidal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Culex (Latin culex) + -cidal.
Senses: synonyms: mosquitocidal
glosses: That kills mosquitos
cumate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cumates
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any salt or ester of cumic acid
cuneometatarsal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From cuneo- + metatarsal.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: cuneiform and metatarsal
Derived terms: cuneometatarsal joint
cupriuresis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From cupr- + -i- + -uresis.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: The excretion of copper salts in the urine
cupulogram
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cupulograms
Senses: glosses: A graphical representation of the results of cupulometry
cupulometry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The measurement of vertigo and nystagmus experienced by a person after rotation
Related terms: cupulogram
curby
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From curb + -y.
Senses: glosses: Affected by curbs (swellings around the hock).
raw_tags: of a horse
curetment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: curetments
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
surgery
glosses: Synonym of curettage.
synonyms: word: curettage
curarimimetic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Having effects similar to those of curare
Drevlian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Drevlians
Senses: glosses: A member of a tribe of Early East Slavs between the 6th and 10th centuries, inhabiting the territories of Polesia and Right-bank Ukraine, west of the eastern Polans and along the lower reaches of the rivers Teteriv, Uzh, Ubort, and Stviga.
Drevlian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Drevlian
form: most Drevlian
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to these people.
Drevlians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Drevlian
abfracted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: As if from a verb *abfract, apparently back-formed from abfraction.
Senses: topics: dentistry
medicine
sciences
glosses: Caused by, exhibiting, or related to abfraction.
dead on the vine
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Having failed at an early stage, never reaching fruition.
Related terms: die on the vine
miliary abscess
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɪ.liˌɛɹ.i ˈæbˌsɛs/
ipa: /ˈmɪ.liˌɛɹ.i ˈæbˌsɪs/
Forms: form: miliary abscesses
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: An embolic abscess occurring as part of a group.
Lord Chancellor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Lord Chancellors
form: Lords Chancellor
Senses: examples: text: The Lord Chancellors of Scotland is a work that could not be produced without the aid of scientific research. The origin of the office is involved in great obscurity, and it has never been finally determined who the first and second Chancellors were. We are indebted to that eminent antiquarian, Mr Cosmo Innes, for much of the information we possess of that early period of Scottish history, the twelfth century. There are few records of that period in existence save charters, issued by the King and signed by the Chancellor, the Chamberlain, the Constable, and various clerical witnesses, and it is remarkable that even these are preserved, considering their great age.
ref: 1911, Samuel Cowan, The Lord Chancellors of Scotland: From the Institution of the Office to the Treaty of Union, volume 1, W. & A. K. Johnston Ltd, page v:
topics: government
politics
glosses: The holder of an office in the government of the United Kingdom, held by a Cabinet minister with responsibility for the efficient functioning and independence of the judicial courts.
Related terms: Chancellor of the Exchequer
Lord Chamberlain
Lord Chancellors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Lord Chancellor
Bambi eyes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Named from the protagonist of the 1942 animated film Bambi, a young white-tailed deer.
Senses: glosses: doe eyes
wikipedia: Bambi
medium-brow
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: This channel shows mostly medium-brow programmes.
text: Well, if that is medium-brow music, startled minds will no doubt be wondering what is left to be called low-brow.
ref: 1928, Wireless World - Volume 22, page 351:
text: Our correspondents are urged to cultivate a good medium-brow vocabulary, to conform to the taste of a medium-brow editor.
ref: 1929, The Phi Gamma Delta - Volume 51, Issue 6, page 556:
text: Yah. It's the first good medium-brow show they've had, and it's going to be a knockout.
ref: 1952, Pelham Grenville Wodehouse, Angel cake, page 85:
text: The Gazette ceased to appear before the tourney closing date, but the competing entries, of which there were four, appeared in the medium-brow literary journal Society.
ref: 1972, A. J. Roycroft, The Chess Endgame Study:
glosses: Of medium sophistication or intellectual level; lying between highbrow and lowbrow; middlebrow.
Synonyms: middlebrow
back atcha
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: examples: text: "You drive me crazy," she said flatly. "Back atcha, my sistah," I said with a laugh, then changed the subject.
ref: 2007, Victoria Laurie, Crime Seen: A Psychic Eye Mystery, page 109:
text: “Or how about . . .Are you a parking ticket? Because you've got FINE written all over you.” Back atcha, gorgeous.
ref: 2014, Candis Terry, Something Sweeter, →ISBN:
text: “Back atcha, mister,” I say, holding my hand over my eyes to block out the sun.
ref: 2016, Alecia Whitaker, The Way Back Home, →ISBN:
glosses: Pronunciation spelling of back at you.
Boxing Week
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Boxing Weeks
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of boxing week.
anti-zombie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: anti-zombies
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of antizombie.
mountain nyala
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mountain nyalas
Senses: glosses: An antelope native to mountain woodlands of central Ethiopia (Tragelaphus buxtoni).
Synonyms: balbok
mountain nyalas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mountain nyala
break and enter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: break and enters
Senses: examples: text: For example, an offender convicted of two crimes, such as break and enter and possession of burglary instruments, is sentenced to a one-year term of imprisonment. It is not clear, however, what portion of the sentence was imposed for the break and enter and what portion for the possession of burglary instruments. This makes it impossible to determine the average sentence for a specific offence such as break and enter.
ref: 1999, Julian V. Roberts, David P. Cole, Making Sense of Sentencing, →ISBN, page 139:
text: In the anti-social peer group, if one member suggests a break and enter, or car theft, as a way to pass an evening, the others are likely to agree without thinking of alternatives or possible consequences.
ref: 2006, Katherine Covell, R. Brian Howe, The Challenge of Children’s Rights for Canada, →ISBN, page 98:
text: The resulting data-set includes 11,991 violent crimes, 23,262 break and enters, and 36,720 automotive thefts.
ref: 2017, Jeffery T. Walker, Social, Ecological and Environmental Theories of Crime, →ISBN:
glosses: An instance of breaking and entering.
break and enter
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: breaks and enters
form: breaking and entering
form: broke and entered
form: broken and entered
Senses: examples: text: The thief may steal from the person — or he may break and enter any office, shop, or warehouse not occupied with a dwelling house — or any shop or vessel — or in the night time he may enter, or in the day time he may break and enter, any dwelling house, or the out houses occupied with it, or any office, shop, warehouse, ship or vessel — or, in the day time, he may steal in any dwelling house, office, shop, warehouse, ship or vessel, without breaking.
ref: 1836, The American Jurist and Law Magazine - Volume 14, page 29:
text: They may pursue him into another State; may arrest him on the Sabbath; and, if necessary, may break and enter his house for that purpose.
ref: 2007, John Dempsey, Introduction to Private Security, →ISBN, page 323:
text: Is that honored tradition of “the public's right to know” really that sacred, as Mr. Rather maintained to that esteemed group, that a journalist should break and enter if need be and trespass upon law and private property because the public had “a right to know”?
ref: 2011, Rick Sirmon, In Search of George Washington: The Story of the 28Th Amendment, →ISBN:
glosses: To gain unauthorized entry into another's property by force or illicit means; to break in and enter without permission.
breaks and enters
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of break and enter
break and enters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of break and enter
broke and entered
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past of break and enter
broken and entered
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: past participle of break and enter
wowless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more wowless
form: most wowless
Etymology: From wow + -less.
Senses: examples: text: This damping device results in absolutely uniform and “wowless” rotation of the synchronous turntable.
ref: 1930 March, “RCA ‘Type G’ Reproducing Equipment”, in The Motion Picture Projectionist, volume 3, number 5, page 17:
text: If for no other reason, the difficulty of obtaining a wowless speed at 16⅔ rpm should be enough to unsell any music lover for his high-quality listening system, especially with changers or low-priced turntables.
ref: 1956 January, “Editor’s Report”, in Audio Magazine, volume 40, number 1, page 10:
text: 1990, Stanley R. Alten, Audio in Media, Belmont, California: Wadsworth Publishing, 4th edition, 1994, Chapter 16, “Insert Editing,” p. 517,
To get a wowless insert edit, you will have to preroll not only the master tape but the insert tape as well
topics: audio
electrical-engineering
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Free of wows.
examples: text: An audience of young instructors and their wives, symbolically entertaining Dr and Mrs Dreyer, will be symbolically thrilled to catch the Dean in an anecdotal mood, mooning and mumbling with a fuddled smile through a maze of wowless sagas, into which George and many many others will enter, uttering misquotes.
ref: 1964, Christopher Isherwood, A Single Man, London: Vintage, published 2010:
glosses: Not eliciting surprise or amazement; unremarkable, dull.
brain-storm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: brain-storms
Senses: examples: text: Mr. Hammond, while engaged in some literary work connected with problems of dietetics, health and so on, in the British Museum Reading Room, was one day seized as he describes it with a sudden brain-storm, and though not having written a line of verse since boyhood suddenly found stanzas forming in his head quicker than he could record them.
ref: 1925, Robert Graves, Poetic Unreason: And Other Studies, →ISBN, page 233:
text: "Next time you set out to have a 'brain-storm,' Miss Malgregor," he suggested satirically, "try to have it about something more sensible than imagining that anybody is trying to hold you personally responsible for the existence of death in the world."
ref: 2006, Eleanor Hallowell Abbott, The White Linen Nurse, →ISBN, page 36:
text: The painting was “a private brain-storm which gives no evidence that Picasso has realised the political significance of Guernica.”
ref: 2009, George Steiner, George Steiner at The New Yorker, →ISBN, page 12:
glosses: Alternative form of brainstorm.
examples: text: Here had been tried all sorts of murder cases, with all sorts of defenses, from self-preservation with an ax to the irresponsibility of a brain-storm.
ref: 1911, Isaac Newton Stevens, An American Suffragette, →ISBN:
text: Let us take the case of a man making this statement after being told of some violent act he has committed (and of which he has perhaps no recollection) during an epileptic seizure, or some other species of brain-storm.
ref: 2004, C. A. Campbell, On Selfhood and Godhood - Volume 2, →ISBN, page 85:
text: You're thinking he may have had a brain-storm?
ref: 2006, Margery Allingham, The Fashion in Shrouds, →ISBN, page 45:
glosses: Alternative form of brain storm.
brain-storm
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: brain-storms
form: brain-storming
form: brain-stormed
form: brain-stormed
Senses: examples: text: A dozen people sit around a table to brain-storm a specific problem.
ref: 1969, The Progress of Education - Volume 44, page 263:
text: These groups were called “real groups” since they actually brain-stormed together.
ref: 2006, Frans Johansson, Medici Effect: What You Can Learn from Elephants and Epidemics, →ISBN:
text: He also had them share what they were thinking throughout this experience and put their brain-stormed responses on the board.
ref: 2011, Lee Oberparleiter, The Role of Emotion and Reflection in Student Achievement, →ISBN:
glosses: Alternative form of brainstorm.
brain-storms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of brain-storm
brain-storms
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of brain-storm
brain-storming
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of brain-storm
brain-stormed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of brain-storm
brain storm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɹ̠eɪn stoɹm/
ipa: /ˈbɹeɪn stɔːm/
Forms: form: brain storms
Etymology: From brain + storm. In the sense of "seizure, convulsion, brain activity", from the idea that it is like a storm in the brain. In the sense of "problem-solving idea or session", from the unrelated idea of using the "brain to storm a problem" (see brainstorm).
Senses: examples: text: He was so puffing and fuming that he had to pull up for breath, and take his hat off to ease the smoking hot pressure of a brainstorm.
ref: 1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC, page 76:
text: The most honored one has had a brain storm — minor, but there was a second one past midnight.
ref: 2008, Shiloh Walker, Through the Veil, →ISBN:
text: Such communication is normally regulated by an appropriate amount of electricity but when the amount is very high (rate of 500 times per second), this results in a brain storm known as epilepsy.
ref: 2012, Bonaventure Balla, Symbolism, Synesthesia, and Semiotics, Multidisciplinary Approach, →ISBN:
text: To expand his mind would exhaust what little strength he still had and ignite the brain storm that had finally passed.
ref: 2015, Tony Bertauski, Ashes of Foreverland: A Science Fiction Thriller:
topics: medicine
neurology
neuroscience
sciences
glosses: A seizure, convulsion, or similar incident of abnormal brain activity.
examples: text: And where were you when Josh came up with this brain storm?
ref: 2010, Earl E. Gobel, The Fall of Perdition, →ISBN, page 258:
text: That was when I had it--a virtual brain storm. This whole episode, I could see, was a perfect answer.
ref: 2011, Richard Maples, The Scapegoat, →ISBN:
text: In such a brain storm creativity may be stimulated by for instance looking at nature, products of competitors, alternative materials or delivery systems [36], or by focusing on improvement strategies outlined from section 3.2 onwards.
ref: 2012, Lucas Reijnders, nvironmentally Improved Production Processes and Products, →ISBN:
text: In choosing to begin my presentation with a sequence of diary musings, a brain storm on reasons for studying knowledge as social scientists, and a teasing out of usages of 'knowledge' from two chance newspaper extracts I deliberately intend to start building a field that is not exclusive as to academic disciplines and language.
ref: 2014, Richenda Power, A Question of Knowledge, →ISBN:
glosses: Alternative form of brainstorm (“a sudden thought which solves a problem; a brainstorming session”).
brain storm
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɹ̠eɪn stoɹm/
ipa: /ˈbɹeɪn stɔːm/
Forms: form: brain storms
form: brain storming
form: brain stormed
form: brain stormed
Etymology: From brain + storm. In the sense of "seizure, convulsion, brain activity", from the idea that it is like a storm in the brain. In the sense of "problem-solving idea or session", from the unrelated idea of using the "brain to storm a problem" (see brainstorm).
Senses: examples: text: The chancellor had recently announced a challenge to everyone at the university to brain storm and come up with cutting-edge ideas that could make the university competitive for grant dollars by submitting. . .
ref: 2009, James "Butch" Rosser, Playin' to Win:
text: Being open minded while receiving knowledge to help you brain storm later, is a healthy way to exercise your brain and strengthen your skills.
ref: 2010, Tianamonet Tobie, Inner Impression/Outer Expression, →ISBN:
text: I used my spare time trying to brain storm on how I can make millions like them.
ref: 2012, Jerome Otto Waters Jr, Capitol of Maryland, →ISBN, page 146:
glosses: Alternative form of brainstorm (“solve a problem with brainstorming”).
brain storms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of brain storm
brain storms
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of brain storm
brain storming
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of brain storm
brain stormed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of brain storm
not see for looking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: At the moment she can't see for looking and her eyes are looking only at yesterday.
ref: 2011, Irini Savvides, Sky Legs, →ISBN:
text: The answer to what I do next is probably the same: staring me right in the face and I can't see for looking.
ref: 2013, Dorothy Koomson, The Flavours of Love: The Richard & Judy Bestselling Author, →ISBN:
glosses: Be unable to identify because one is trying too hard.
Related terms: not win for losing
the forest for the trees
derounding
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: deroundings
Etymology: From de- + rounding.
Senses: glosses: Reversal or removal of the act of rounding, as in mathematics or linguistics.
imbabalas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of imbabala
Tabascoed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Tabasco + -ed.
Senses: glosses: Seasoned with Tabasco sauce.
harnessed bushbuck
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: harnessed bushbucks
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: The more northern and westernmost of the two bushbuck species of sub-Saharan Africa (considered a single species by some sources), Tragelaphus scriptus
Synonyms: kéwel
harnessed bushbucks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of harnessed bushbuck
windlesses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of windless
Cape bushbuck
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Cape bushbucks
Senses: glosses: One of the two bushbuck species of sub-Saharan Africa, the imbabala (Tragelaphus sylvaticus).
Cape bushbucks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Cape bushbuck
nonnettable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + nettable.
Senses: topics: business
finance
glosses: Not capable of producing a net profit on the books.
semantic tableau
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: semantic tableaus
form: semantic tableaux
Senses: topics: human-sciences
logic
mathematics
philosophy
sciences
glosses: A truth tree.
semantic tableaux
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of semantic tableau
semantic tableaus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of semantic tableau
narrow escapes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of narrow escape
e-membership
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: e-memberships
Etymology: From e- + membership or e-member + -ship.
Senses: glosses: electronic membership
Related terms: e-member
e-memberships
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of e-membership
e-member
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: e-members
Etymology: From e- + member.
Senses: glosses: A person who is a member of some organization by electronic means, typically via the Internet.
Related terms: e-membership
e-members
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of e-member
tragelaphine
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more tragelaphine
form: most tragelaphine
Senses: glosses: Of pertaining to or resembling the bovid tribe Tragelaphini (sometimes considered a subfamily, Tragelaphinae), which includes African antelopes such as bushbucks, elands, kudus and nyalas.
tragelaphine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tragelaphines
Senses: glosses: Any such antelopes in the bovid tribe Tragelaphini
MOABs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of MOAB
quarterlifers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of quarterlifer
diluvion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: diluvions
form: diluvia
Senses: glosses: Synonym of diluvium.
synonyms: word: diluvium
cream genes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cream gene
multifetation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of multifoetation.
hippotragine
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more hippotragine
form: most hippotragine
Senses: glosses: of, pertaining to or resembling antelopes in the bovid subfamily Hippotraginae, the oryxes, roan and sable antelopes, etc.
hippotragine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hippotragines
Senses: glosses: Any such antelope in the bovid subfamily Hippotraginae.
hippotragines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hippotragine
tragelaphines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tragelaphine
end in
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: ends in
form: ending in
form: ended in
form: ended in
Etymology: Phrasal verb from end (intransitive verb) + in (preposition).
Senses: examples: text: The movie ends in disaster.
text: The word "snake" ends in "e".
glosses: To have at the ending; to have as its termination.
rerotate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: rerotates
form: rerotating
form: rerotated
form: rerotated
Etymology: From re- + rotate.
Senses: glosses: To rotate again.
napsacks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of napsack
nap sacks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nap sack
stay at homes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stay at home
shipping forecasts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shipping forecast
European corn borers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of European corn borer
reduncine
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more reduncine
form: most reduncine
Senses: glosses: Of, pertaining to or resembling antelopes in the bovid subfamily Reduncinae, which includes kobs, lechwes, reedbucks, waterbucks, etc.
reduncine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: reduncines
Senses: glosses: Any such antelope in the bovid subfamily Reduncinae.
reduncines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of reduncine
third-hand smoke
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: By extension from second-hand smoke.
Senses: glosses: The residue from cigarette smoke that lands on surfaces such as clothing and furniture.
antilopines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of antilopine
cuticularization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -eɪʃən
Forms: form: cuticularizations
Senses: glosses: The growth of new skin over a wound.
glosses: Synonym of cutinization.
synonyms: word: cutinization
cyanmethaemoglobin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of cyanmethemoglobin.
cyanophil
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cyanophils
Etymology: From cyano- + -phil.
Senses: topics: biology
cytology
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: A cell that is differentially coloured blue by a cytological dye
Related terms: cyanophilic
cyclamic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Synonym of cyclohexylsulfamic.
synonyms: word: cyclohexylsulfamic
Derived terms: cyclamate
cyclamic acid
cyclectomy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɛktəmi
Forms: form: cyclectomies
Etymology: From cycl- + -ectomy.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
surgery
synonyms: ciliectomy
glosses: Surgical removal or excision of the ciliary body.
Hyponyms: iridocyclectomy
cycloartanol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The triterpenoid 9beta,19-cyclo-lanostan-3beta-ol that occurs in rice bran oil
cyclocryotherapy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cyclocryotherapies
Etymology: From cyclo- + cryotherapy.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
surgery
glosses: transscleral freezing of the ciliary body in the treatment of glaucoma
cyclocumarol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The anticoagulant 4-hydroxycoumarin
cyclodeaminase
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cyclodeaminases
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any enzyme that catalyses a cyclodeamination reaction
cyclodeamination
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -eɪʃən
Forms: form: cyclodeaminations
Etymology: From cyclo- + deamination.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any reaction that combines cyclization and deamination
cyclodiathermy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cyclodiathermies
Etymology: From cyclo- + diathermy.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
surgery
glosses: The use of diathermy to remove part of the ciliary body in the treatment of glaucoma
cycloduction
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cycloductions
Senses: glosses: Synonym of circumduction of the eye
synonyms: word: circumduction of the eye
cycloelectrolysis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From cyclo- + electrolysis.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
surgery
glosses: electrolysis of the ciliary body
encyclopedians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of encyclopedian
Cayley's formula
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Cayley's theorem
Etymology: Named in honour of Arthur Cayley.
Senses: topics: graph-theory
mathematics
sciences
glosses: A formula for the number of spanning trees of a complete graph of n vertices: nⁿ⁻².
wikipedia: Arthur Cayley
spore case
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spore cases
Senses: examples: text: Some specimens appear to have spore-cases at the top of their branches, similar to those seen in younger, better-known early land plants such as Cooksonia.
ref: 2018 March 23, Susannah Lydon, The Guardian:
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Synonym of sporangium.
synonyms: word: sporangium
spore cases
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of spore case
sat fat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sat fats
Senses: examples: text: Avoid coconut, palm, and palm kernel oils—all are high in the sat fats that raise LDL cholesterol.
ref: 2006 January, Gloria McVeigh, “Check for trans and sat fats”, in Prevention, page 64:
text: Liquid dats, otherwise known as oils, are mixtures of sat fats and unsaturated fats.
ref: 2011, Carol Ann Rinzler, Nutrition for Dummies, Wiley, page 206:
text: Olive oil has some sat fats too, but unlike the others, it has a very high ratio of unsaturated fats to saturated fats—and those are the kind that you want in your diet.
ref: 2015, Michael F. Roizen, This Is Your Do-Over, Simon & Schuster, page 329:
glosses: Alternative spelling of sat. fat.
sat fats
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sat fat
cyclohexanecarbonitrile
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The cyano derivative of cyclohexane
cyclohexenyl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cyclohexenyls
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A univalent radical derived from cyclohexene
cyclolysin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A haemolysin found in the bacterium Bordetella pertussis
cyclophotocoagulation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From cyclo- + photocoagulation.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
surgery
glosses: photocoagulation of the ciliary processes
Derived terms: endocyclophotocoagulation
cyclotransferase
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cyclotransferases
Etymology: From cyclo- + transferase.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any transferase whose action results in cyclization
ibota
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: An insect-derived lubricating powder used in polishing.
ballarags
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of ballarag
wifeswappers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wifeswapper
call a spade a spade and a shovel a shovel
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: calls a spade a spade and a shovel a shovel
form: calling a spade a spade and a shovel a shovel
form: called a spade a spade and a shovel a shovel
form: called a spade a spade and a shovel a shovel
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of call a spade a spade.
cylindruria
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: The presence of renal cylinders in the urine
renal cylinder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: renal cylinders
Senses: glosses: Synonym of urinary cast.
synonyms: word: urinary cast
renal cast
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: renal casts
Senses: glosses: Synonym of urinary cast.
synonyms: word: urinary cast
urinary cast
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: urinary casts
Senses: glosses: A microscopic cylindrical structure produced by the kidney and present in the urine in the case of some diseases
Synonyms: renal cast
renal cylinder
cypridophobia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Latin Cypris (“Venus”) + -phobia.
Senses: glosses: A fear of venereal disease or of sexual intercourse
cystacanth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cystacanths
Etymology: From cysto- + Ancient Greek ἄκανθα (ákantha, “thorn”).
Senses: glosses: The larva of an acanthocephalan.
cysteinylglycine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A dipeptide of cysteine and glycine that is formed by the breakdown of glutathione
werealligator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: werealligators
Etymology: From were- + alligator.
Senses: examples: text: A Mokolé does not change from human to animal along a fixed track of forms. Instead, during adolescence, the young werealligator dreams of the past of the reptile races, and shapes a form for herself from what she [dreams].
ref: 1994, Bill Bridges, Werewolf Players Guide, White Wolf Pub:
topics: fantasy
fiction
literature
media
publishing
glosses: A shapeshifter who can assume the form of an alligator.
cystiform
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From cyst + -iform.
Senses: glosses: Resembling a cyst
Synonyms: cystoid
radif
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: radifs
Etymology: From Classical Persian رَدِیف (radīf), from Arabic رَدِيف (radīf).
Senses: glosses: The word which must end both lines of the first couplet and the second line of all the following couplets in a Persian, Turkic or Urdu ghazal.
radifs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of radif
cystinyl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cystinyls
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A univalent radical derived from cystine
Related terms: cysteinyl
cystiphorous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of cystophorous.
cystoadenoma
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cystoadenomas
Etymology: From cysto- + adenoma.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of cystadenoma.
cystocarcinoma
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cystocarcinomas
Etymology: From cysto- + carcinoma.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: A carcinoma associated with cysts
cystocyte
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cystocytes
Etymology: From cysto- + -cyte.
Senses: glosses: The equivalent of a blood platelet in insects
cystoduodenostomy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cystoduodenostomies
Etymology: From cysto- + duodenostomy.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
surgery
glosses: The drainage of a cyst into the duodenum
cystoenterostomy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cystoenterostomies
Etymology: From cysto- + enterostomy.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
surgery
glosses: The drainage of pancreatic pseudocysts into the intestines
insular tameness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of island tameness.
synonyms: word: island tameness
Related terms: english: island dwarfism
translation: island dwarfism
word: insular dwarfism
english: island gigantism
translation: island gigantism
word: insular gigantism
cystofibroma
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cystofibromas
Etymology: From cysto- + fibroma.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: A fibroma containing cysts
cystojejunostomy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cystojejunostomies
Etymology: From cysto- + jejunostomy.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
surgery
glosses: The drainage of a pancreatic pseudocyst into the jejunum
cystometrography
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cystometrographies
Etymology: From cysto- + metrography.
Senses: glosses: The recording of the internal pressure of the bladder as it fills with urine
Related terms: cystometrographic
cystopexy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cystopexies
Etymology: From cysto- + -pexy.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
surgery
glosses: fixation of the bladder to the abdominal wall
cystoplegia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From cysto- + -plegia.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: paralysis of the bladder
cystopyelitis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From cysto- + pyelitis.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: Synonym of pyelocystitis.
synonyms: word: pyelocystitis
cystopyelonephritis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From cysto- + pyelonephritis.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: inflammation of the bladder, the pelvis of the kidney, and the kidney parenchyma
cystorrhaphy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cystorrhaphies
Etymology: From cysto- + -rrhaphy.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
surgery
glosses: suture of the bladder
cystosarcoma
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cystosarcomas
form: cystosarcomata
Etymology: From cysto- + sarcoma.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: Any sarcoma containing cysts
cystospasm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cystospasms
Etymology: From cysto- + spasm.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: A spasm (sudden contraction) of the bladder
cystoureterogram
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cystoureterograms
Etymology: From cysto- + ureterogram.
Senses: glosses: A radiograph of the bladder and ureter obtained after instillation of a contrast medium
Related terms: cystoureterography
cystoureterography
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From cysto- + ureterography.
Senses: glosses: radiography of the bladder and ureter obtained after instillation of a contrast medium
Related terms: cystoureterogram
cystosarcomata
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cystosarcoma
cystosarcomas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cystosarcoma
cystoureterograms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cystoureterogram
cystospasms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cystospasm
cystourethritis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From cysto- + urethritis.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: inflammation of the bladder and the urethra
cystourethroscope
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cystourethroscopes
Etymology: From cysto- + urethroscope.
Senses: glosses: An endoscope used to examine the bladder and the urethra
cystous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From cyst + -ous.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of cystic.
synonyms: word: cystic
cystyl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cystyls
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The diacyl radical derived from cystine
biosex
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: biosexes
Etymology: From bio- + sex.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of bio-sex.
Cebu maguey
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A fiber from the leaves of Agave cantala.
Nebbiolo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌnɛbɪˈəʊləʊ/
ipa: /ˌnɛbiˈoʊloʊ/
rhymes: -əʊləʊ
Forms: form: Nebbiolos
form: nebbiolo
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian nebbiolo, from nebbia (“fog”), after the grapes' appearance.
Senses: examples: text: When my wife and I visited last November, we were a bit baffled when she gave us a nebbiolo — an Italian grape — when we were in the beating heart of South African wine. It turned out, though, that this nebbiolo was grown in South Africa, and it was delightful.
ref: 2023 February 15, John Eligon, “Exploring South Africa’s Black Wine Scene”, in The New York Times:
glosses: A grape variety cultivated in the Langhe, Piedmont.
glosses: A fine red wine made near Alba from these grapes.
coffee milk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: coffee milks
Senses: glosses: A drink made by mixing coffee syrup or coffee extract with milk, popular in the US state of Rhode Island.
Related terms: banana milk
chocolate milk
strawberry milk
coffee milks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of coffee milk
nagoonberry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nagoonberries
Etymology: From Tlingit neigóon.
Senses: examples: text: Nagoonberry's pink flowers develop into sweet, red fruit in late July and August.
ref: 1994, Priscilla N. Russell, Ninilchik Plantlore:
text: The loss of the nagoonberry population is distinctive since it means the loss of the only known occrnrence within the Bighorn Mountains.
ref: 1995, Bighorn National Forest (N.F.), Tie Hack Dam and Reservoir: Draft Environmental Impact Statement:
text: When the smokejumpers had at last battled it to a standstill, 125,000 square acres of interior Alaskan scrub spruce, white spruce, paper birch, quaking aspen and balsam poplar had been laid waste, not to mention -- and what Kate grudged more -- countless lowbush and highbush cranberry, raspberry, salmonberry, lingonberry and nagoonberry stands.
ref: 1995, Dana Stabenow, Play with Fire, →ISBN, page 6:
glosses: Synonym of arctic raspberry.
synonyms: word: arctic raspberry
nagoonberries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nagoonberry
interchromosomally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From interchromosomal + -ly or inter- + chromosome + -ally.
Senses: examples: text: Homologous recombination occurs intrachromosomally as well as interchromosomally, both in mitotic (somatic) cells as well as meiotically in the germline. These different processes can serve very different purposes in maintaining the integrity of the organism and in enhancing diversity in the species.
ref: 1995, Shulman MJ, Collins C, Connor A, Read LR, Baker MD, “Interchromosomal recombination is suppressed in mammalian somatic cells”, in The EMBO Journal, volume 14, number 16, →PMID, →PMCID, pages 4102–4107:
glosses: Between or among chromosomes; in an interchromosomal manner.
superpeer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: superpeers
Etymology: From super- + peer.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
networking
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A node in a peer-to-peer system that acts as a local server for other peers.
superpeers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of superpeer
AYT
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
networking
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Initialism of are you there?: a telnet command sequence sent from client to server to verify that the connection is still active.