cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
miniempire
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: miniempires
Etymology: From mini- + empire.
Senses: examples: text: In a place where crew members had grown so accustomed to regularly working with Troublemaker that some had picked up and moved here from Los Angeles — Ms. Avellan lovingly refers to them as her children — the dissolution of the marriage raised the obvious question: What would become of the moviemaking miniempire they had built together?
ref: 2007 September 30, Whitney Joiner, “The Marriage Is Over, but the Show Goes On”, in New York Times:
glosses: A small empire.
miniempires
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of miniempire
nonrevolution
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From non- + revolution.
Senses: examples: text: Winik’s second story line, which advances a more unconventional claim, is that the revolutions in America and France, and the nonrevolution or reaction in Russia, were all of a piece, that they represented different enactments of the same overarching plot.
ref: 2007 September 30, Joseph Ellis, “Revolutionary Road”, in New York Times:
glosses: Absence or failure of political revolution.
photolike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more photolike
form: most photolike
Etymology: From photo + -like.
Senses: examples: text: Ken Danby, a Canadian artist known for his crystalline landscapes and portraits of athletes, but mostly for a photolike depiction of a hunched-over hockey goalie glaring through his mask, died last Sunday in northern Ontario.
ref: 2007 September 30, Dennis Hevesi, “Ken Danby, Prolific Canadian Painter, Dies at 67”, in New York Times:
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a photograph.
photolabelling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of photolabeling.
phrasemaking
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: phrasemakings
Etymology: From phrase + making.
Senses: examples: text: As the campaign's poll-tested phrasemaking constantly reminds us, voters crave change above all else.
ref: 2007 September 30, Frank Rich, “Is Hillary Clinton the New Old Al Gore?”, in New York Times:
glosses: The crafting of phrases; the art of rhetoric.
professoriat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: professoriats
Etymology: Alteration of professoriate, after proletariat, etc.
Senses: examples: text: What you get is a happy professoriat and good grades.
ref: 2007 September 30, James Traub, “No Gr_du_te Left Behind”, in New York Times:
glosses: Alternative form of professoriate (“professors in general”).
professoriats
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of professoriat
semisyllable
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: semisyllables
Etymology: From semi- + syllable.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
phonology
sciences
glosses: A minor syllable.
topics: communications
journalism
literature
media
orthography
publishing
writing
glosses: A glyph from a semisyllabary.
semisyllables
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of semisyllable
spoilered
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From spoiler + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: It was flared, spoilered and winged in every way — so much that it could be mistaken for a car modified with aftermarket touches.
ref: 2007 September 30, Rob Sass, “M: How BMW Spells Performance in Just One Letter”, in New York Times:
glosses: Fitted with a spoiler (of a specified kind).
spoilered
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From spoiler + -ed.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of spoiler
transportingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more transportingly
form: most transportingly
Etymology: From transporting + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: The wonder is that they so often manage to be transportingly beautiful too.
ref: 2007 September 30, Leah Hager Cohen, “Absent Mothers”, in New York Times:
glosses: So as to transport, to carry away emotionally.
transportins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of transportin
exportins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of exportin
ultravulnerable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more ultravulnerable
form: most ultravulnerable
Etymology: From ultra- + vulnerable.
Senses: examples: text: The investment made in the starter or in a high draft pick makes a quarterback ultravulnerable.
ref: 2007 September 30, Judy Battista, “Pass-and-Fail Quandary for Starting Quarterbacks”, in New York Times:
glosses: Highly vulnerable.
unclever
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unclever
form: most unclever
Etymology: From un- + clever.
Senses: examples: text: On Gawker, the media gossip Web site, editors select the best comments of the week and conduct commenter executions, in which users judged to be unclever are stripped of their commenting privileges.
ref: 2007 September 30, Allen Salkin, “All-Stars of the Clever Riposte”, in New York Times:
glosses: Not clever.
underhood
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From under- + hood.
Senses: examples: text: The idea that an automaker would maintain its own performance-tuning subsidiary is now accepted as a marketing necessity, a declaration of intent to stand tall among the names known for underhood firepower.
ref: 2007 September 30, Rob Sass, “M: How BMW Spells Performance in Just One Letter”, in New York Times:
glosses: Beneath the hood of a vehicle.
?s
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: s
Senses: glosses: plural of ?
repartees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of repartee
repartees
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of repartee
elastography
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɒɡɹəfi
Etymology: From elasto- + -graphy.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A method of detection or classification of tumors based on stiffness or elasticity of tissue.
Derived terms: fibroelastography
microelastography
poroelastography
sonoelastography
thromboelastography
Related terms: elastogram
elastograph
elastographic
reparteeing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of repartee
transjugular
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ʌɡjʊlə(ɹ)
-uːɡjʊlə(ɹ)
-ʌɡələ(ɹ)
Etymology: From trans- + jugular.
Senses: glosses: Through the jugular.
reparteed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of repartee
paravertebral
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɜː(ɹ)tɪbɹəl
-iːbɹəl
Etymology: From para- + vertebral.
Senses: glosses: Located near the vertebral column.
Derived terms: paravertebrally
portogram
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: portograms
Etymology: From porto- + -gram.
Senses: glosses: An image obtained through portography.
portography
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɒɡɹəfi
Etymology: From porto- + -graphy.
Senses: glosses: Imaging of the portal system (and its circulation) after injection of radiopaque material.
Derived terms: arterioportography
Related terms: portogram
portographic
portovenography
hyperammonemia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hyperammonemias
form: hyperammonaemia
Etymology: From hyper- + ammonemia.
Senses: glosses: A metabolic disturbance characterized by excessive ammonia in the blood
Related terms: hyperammonemic
hepatoportal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From hepato- + portal.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Of or pertaining to the portal system of the liver.
relaparotomy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: relaparotomies
Etymology: From re- + laparatomy.
Senses: glosses: A second laparatomy.
untoppable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more untoppable
form: most untoppable
Etymology: From un- + top + -able.
Senses: examples: text: Earland possesses the expansiveness that seems to come with his instrument--a quality that helps make him dangerous, even untoppable in jam sessions--and combines the expected keyboard fireworks with a busy and insistent pulse from the organ's foot-pedal bass register.
ref: 1989 November 17, Neil Tesser, “Charles Earland”, in Chicago Reader:
glosses: Unable to be topped or surpassed; unbeatable.
periductal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From peri- + ductal.
Senses: examples: text: Aortic coarctation is congenital focal narrowing of the aorta in the region of the ductus arteriosus. It may be preductal (proximal to the ductus, illustrated on the right [in the original]), periductal, or postductal.
ref: 2013, Jacob Mandell, Core Radiology: A Visual Approach to Diagnostic Imaging (Cambridge Medicine), 1st edition, →ISBN, page 769:
glosses: Around a duct (for example, the ductus arteriosus).
Related terms: preductal
postductal
peribiliary
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From peri- + biliary.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Around a bile duct.
father-bother merger
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌfɑːðə ˈbɒðə ˈmɜːdʒə/
ipa: /ˌfɑðɚ ˈbɑðɚ ˈmɝdʒɚ/
Senses: examples: text: The first is the father-bother merger, a loss of rounding contrast in the low back vowels by which the originally contrastive /ɒ/ has been subsumed by /ɑː/ into the fused phoneme /ɑ/.
ref: 2018, Gregory H. Bontrager, “Ambisyllabicity in an Optimal-Theoretic Model of English Stress Assignment”, in Florida Linguistics Papers, volume 5, number 2:
glosses: A phonemic merger in English of the vowels /ɑː/ (as in father) and /ɒ/ (as in bother).
Related terms: cot-caught merger
periportal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From peri- + portal.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Around the portal vein.
Derived terms: periportally
phonemic mergers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of phonemic merger
adrenomedullin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From adreno- + medulla + -in.
Senses: glosses: A peptide associated with a pheochromocytoma (tumor of the adrenal medulla)
Derived terms: proadrenomedullin
sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Forms: form: sticks and stones
form: sticks and stones may break my bones
form: sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never harm me
form: sticks and stones will break my bones, but words will never hurt me
form: sticks and stones will break my bones, but words will never harm me
Etymology: The earliest recording dates from March 1862 in the US, but is implied to have been used earlier.
Senses: synonyms: the pen is mightier than the sword
antonyms: the tongue wounds more than a lance
glosses: A response to taunting proclaiming the speaker's indifference.
Related terms: don't feed the troll
midscene
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From mid- + scene.
Senses: glosses: Relating to the middle of a scene
midscene
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From mid- + scene.
Senses: examples: text: Characters appear out of nowhere and change identities midscene.
ref: 1999 August 13, Jack Helbig, “Master of Unreality”, in Chicago Reader:
text: The film begins abruptly, as if in midscene, with a documentarylike record of a workers' meeting; the credits are followed by an actual documentary segment on housing development in the early 60s, complete with didactic voice-over.
ref: 2000 March 10, Fred Camper, “One Way or Another”, in Chicago Reader:
glosses: In the middle of a scene
transcatheter
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From trans- + catheter.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Taking place through a catheter.
anæsthetize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: anæsthetizes
form: anæsthetizing
form: anæsthetized
form: anæsthetized
Senses: examples: text: In order to anæsthetize these various branches we have to block them as they enter or leave their bony foramina. Thus to reach the anterior superior dental branch we have to make an injection at the infraorbital foramen; this will anæsthetize the central, lateral and canine teeth, and by osmosis via the ganglion of Bochdalek affect sensation in the middle superior dental branch, and therefore anæsthetize the biscupids more or less.
ref: 1915, William Julius Lederer, chapter VI, in The Principles and Practice of Tooth Extraction, The Rebman Company, page 173:
glosses: Obsolete typography of anaesthetize.
grovy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡɹəʊvi/
Forms: form: more grovy
form: most grovy
Etymology: From grove + -y.
Senses: examples: text: He turned into a side gallery that led into a grovy part of the garden, grading insensibly into the park proper.
ref: 1969, Vladimir Nabokov, Ada or Ardor, Penguin, published 2011, page 156:
glosses: Pertaining to or characterised by groves; situated in a grove.
ivorine
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈʌɪvəɹiːn/
Forms: form: more ivorine
form: most ivorine
Etymology: From Old French ivorin, ivoirin, from ivoire (“ivory”); later also from ivory + -ine.
Senses: glosses: Made of ivory.
examples: text: All Van saw there of his new Ada were her ivorine thighs and haunches, and the very first time he clasped them she bade him, in the midst of his vigorous joy, to glance across her shoulder over the window ledge [...].
ref: 1969, Vladimir Nabokov, Ada or Ardor, Penguin, published 2011, page 162:
glosses: Resembling ivory; white, smooth.
ivorine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈʌɪvəɹiːn/
Forms: form: ivorines
Etymology: From Old French ivorin, ivoirin, from ivoire (“ivory”); later also from ivory + -ine.
Senses: glosses: A type of man-made imitation ivory.
regressivity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: regressivities
Etymology: From regressive + -ity.
Senses: glosses: The condition of being regressive.
gullion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡʌli.ən/
rhymes: -ʌliən
Forms: form: gullions
Senses: glosses: A worthless wretch
Derived terms: bastardly gullion
paranœics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of paranœic
VLOC
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: VLOCs
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: Abbreviation of very large ore carrier (a type of ore carrier, a kind of bulk carrier, used to carry ore in bulk form).
topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Abbreviation of VOR/Localizer.
topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
lifestyle
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
tourism
transport
travel
glosses: Abbreviation of vendor locator.
Related terms: topics: aviation
aeronautics
aerospace
engineering
business
physical-sciences
natural-sciences
word: VOR
topics: aviation
aeronautics
aerospace
engineering
business
physical-sciences
natural-sciences
word: LOC
topics: aviation
aeronautics
aerospace
engineering
business
physical-sciences
natural-sciences
word: localizer
topics: nautical
transport
word: ULOC
topics: nautical
transport
word: LOC
topics: nautical
transport
word: OC
topics: nautical
transport
word: VLCC
topics: nautical
transport
word: ULCC
topics: nautical
transport
word: LCC
topics: nautical
transport
word: CC
topics: nautical
transport
word: ULBC
topics: nautical
transport
word: VLBC
topics: nautical
transport
word: LBC
topics: nautical
transport
word: BC
ULCC
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ULCCs
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: Abbreviation of ultra large crude carrier (the largest category of crude carrier or oil tanker).
topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Abbreviation of ultra low cost carrier.
Related terms: topics: nautical
transport
word: VLCC
topics: nautical
transport
word: LCC
topics: nautical
transport
word: CC
topics: aviation
aeronautics
aerospace
engineering
business
physical-sciences
natural-sciences
word: LCC
sense: ore carriers
word: ULOC
word: VLOC
word: LOC
word: OC
sense: bulk carriers
word: ULBC
word: VLBC
word: LBC
word: BC
ultra large crude carrier
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ultra large crude carriers
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: a type of supertanker, the largest class of crude carrier or oil tanker, having a capacity of 320,000–550,000 DWT
Synonyms: word: ULCC
Related terms: carrier
crude
crude carrier
large crude carrier
ultra large bulk carrier
ultra large ore carrier
very large crude carrier
oil tanker
tanker
oiler
supertanker
DWT
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of dwt.
topics: mathematical-analysis
mathematics
sciences
glosses: discrete wavelet transform
Coordinate terms: sense: analysis
word: CWT
environmental protection
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The practice of protecting the natural environment by individuals, organizations and governments.
Related terms: conservation
stewardship
natural resources
environmentally friendly
climate change
global warming
green
very large crude carrier
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: very large crude carriers
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: a type of supertanker, the second largest class of crude carrier or oil tanker, having a capacity of 160,000–320,000 DWT
Synonyms: word: VLCC
Related terms: carrier
crude
crude carrier
large crude carrier
ultra large crude carrier
very large bulk carrier
very large ore carrier
oil tanker
tanker
oiler
supertanker
VLCC
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: VLCCs
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: Abbreviation of very large crude carrier (the second largest category of crude carrier or oil tanker).
Related terms: topics: nautical
transport
word: ULCC
topics: nautical
transport
word: LCC
topics: nautical
transport
word: CC
topics: nautical
transport
word: ULOC
topics: nautical
transport
word: VLOC
topics: nautical
transport
word: LOC
topics: nautical
transport
word: OC
topics: nautical
transport
word: ULBC
topics: nautical
transport
word: VLBC
topics: nautical
transport
word: LBC
topics: nautical
transport
word: BC
peaceful coexistence
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: peaceful coexistences
Etymology: Calque of Russian мирное сосуществование (mirnoje sosuščestvovanije).
Senses: examples: text: In spite of the failure of the first trial run of "peaceful coexistence," Kuomintang, and later the Chinese Government under my leadership, went through two more periods of "peaceful coexistence," resulting in the total loss of the Chinese mainland.
ref: 1957, Chiang Chung-cheng (Kai-shek), “Introduction”, in Soviet Russia in China: A Summing-up at Seventy, New York: Farrar, Straus and Cudahy, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 6:
topics: government
politics
glosses: A situation where nation-states do not interfere with the domestic affairs of other countries, in order to avoid conflict; mutual non-interference.
O/O
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: ore/oil ; designating that a ship can carry both ore and oil
Derived terms: O
O carrier
Related terms: OBO
BIBO
ore
oil carrier
BIBO
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: Initialism of bulk in/bags out: a type of bulk carrier that takes in bulk cargo and is equipped to bag it, to provide bagged cargo for disembarkment.
qualifier: control theory
glosses: Initialism of bounded input, bounded output.
Derived terms: BIBO carrier
BIBO stability
Related terms: OBO
O/O
ULOC
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ULOCs
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: Abbreviation of ultralarge ore carrier.
Related terms: topics: nautical
transport
word: VLOC
topics: nautical
transport
word: LOC
topics: nautical
transport
word: OC
topics: nautical
transport
word: ULCC
topics: nautical
transport
word: VLCC
topics: nautical
transport
word: LCC
topics: nautical
transport
word: CC
topics: nautical
transport
word: ULBC
topics: nautical
transport
word: VLBC
topics: nautical
transport
word: LBC
topics: nautical
transport
word: BC
kick up one's heels
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: kicks up one's heels
form: kicking up one's heels
form: kicked up one's heels
form: kicked up one's heels
Senses: examples: text: Above the peals of laughter with which the words were received, rose Jake's voice, "Come on, ole fiddler, play somefin a nigger kin kick up his heels to; what's de use of singing after dat fashion; dis aint no meetin."
ref: 1852, Mary Henderson Eastman, chapter XI, in Aunt Phillis's Cabin:
text: He does not get on so well in the evening and night time, when his youthful audience has dispersed, and has been replaced by adults of the tag-rag and draggle-tail breed who have no taste for any tunes but those they can vigorously kick up their heels to, […] .
ref: 1881, James Greenwood, Low-Life Deeps, Chapter 16: A Cockney Holiday
glosses: To dance.
examples: text: "Therefore he has a right, for a change, to 'kick up his heels?"
ref: 1904, Henry James, chapter XVI, in The Golden Bowl:
text: Everybody laughed, for he was a clumsy and comical beast to be decorated with roses and daisies. But the lady is proud of him, and now that pampered donkey has nothing to do but pull her Bath chair about, when she is at Holly Lodge, and kick up his heels on a clover pasture.
ref: 1912, Eleanor Stackhouse Atkinson, chapter XII, in Greyfriar's Bobby:
text: With a sum like that the fellow might easily kick up his heels, as the saying is, and run away, not only out of the village, but even out of the District.
ref: 1916, Vladimir Korolenko, translated by Marian Fell, The Day of Atonement:
glosses: To relax; to enjoy oneself; to do as one pleases.
examples: text: If a swimmer kicks up his heels and splashes the water, the judge will take points off accordingly.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see kick, up, one's, heels.
Related terms: kick back
kick one's heels
hishi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of heishe.
inculture
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: incultures
form: inculturing
form: incultured
form: incultured
Senses: glosses: To adapt Christian teachings to suit a non-Christian culture.
Related terms: inculturation
inculture
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From in- (“not”) + culture: compare French inculture.
Senses: examples: text: Certainly, the Inculture of the world would perish it into a wilderness
ref: 1623, Owen Feltham, Resolves: Divine, Moral, Political:
glosses: Lack or neglect of cultivation or culture.
incurvature
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: incurvatures
Senses: glosses: curvature; curving
hypograph
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hypographs
Etymology: From hypo- + graph.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: the set of all points lying on or below its graph.
raw_tags: of a function
mottramite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: mǒʹ trə mītˈ
ipa: /ˈmɑ tɹə ˌmaɪt/
Etymology: 1875-80 Named after Mottram, England, where it was first identified
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A mineral composed of a lead and copper vanadate.
nouthe
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more nouthe
form: most nouthe
form: nowthe
form: nowth
Etymology: From Middle English nouthe, from Old English nū þā (“now then”).
Senses: glosses: Just; just now; at present; presently.
kick one's heels
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: kicks one's heels
form: kicking one's heels
form: kicked one's heels
form: kicked one's heels
Senses: examples: text: […] whether, in one single instance, any individual has been obliged to kick his heels in the lobby even for one minute, and whether the order was not instantly granted ?
ref: 1830, The Edinburgh Literary Journal, volume 1, page 231:
text: It is the fate of sequels to disappoint those who have waited for them; and my David, having been left to kick his heels for more than a lustre in the British Linen Company’s office, must expect his late re-appearance to be greeted with hoots, if not with missiles.
ref: 1893, Robert Louis Stevenson, Catriona, Dedication: To Charles Baxter
text: […] the older fathers were left to kick their heels in their empty booths, which made them very cross...
ref: 1999, Denis Diderot, translated by David Coward, Jacques the Fatalist, page 37:
glosses: To wait; to wait impatiently or restlessly.
examples: text: The restless boy kicked his heels against the chair legs.
text: The dancer kicked her heels as high as her shoulders.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see kick, heels.
Synonyms: sense: to wait impatiently or restlessly
word: be left kicking
word: bide one's time
word: cool one's heels
Related terms: kick up one's heels
reduction to the absurd
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of reductio ad absurdum.
synonyms: word: reductio ad absurdum
Mottram
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Mottrams
Etymology: Habitational surname from the villages of Mottram in Longdendale and Mottram St Andrew, from the unattested Old English element *mōt (“meeting”) + either ærn (“house, hall”), rūm (“room, space”) or trēowum, dative plural form of trēow (“tree”).
Senses: glosses: A surname from Old English.
Derived terms: mottramite
Related terms: Mottram in Longdendale
Mottram St Andrew
permanentizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of permanentize
permanentizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of permanentize
permanentized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of permanentize
Jux
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
indanthrene
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: indanthrenes
Etymology: From indigo + anthraquinone.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of a specific class of anthraquinone vat dyes
vat dye
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vat dyes
Senses: glosses: Any of a class of dyes, many based on indigo, in which a soluble form is used to impregnate a fibre or fabric and is then converted to an insoluble form.
Related terms: leuco compound
hyperfiltration
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From hyper- + filtration.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: An elevation of the rate of glomerular filtration of the kidneys.
extraglomerular
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From extra- + glomerular.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Outside the glomerulus.
hydronephrotic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more hydronephrotic
form: most hydronephrotic
Etymology: From hydro- + nephrotic.
Senses: glosses: Exhibiting hydronephrosis.
preglomerular
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pre- + glomerular.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Occurring or located before the glomerulus.
periglomerular
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From peri- + glomerular.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Around the glomerulus.
postglomerular
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From post- + glomerular.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Occurring or located after the glomerulus.
heparinise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: heparinises
form: heparinising
form: heparinised
form: heparinised
Etymology: From heparin + -ise.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of heparinize.
Derived terms: preheparinised
heparinised
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of heparinise
heparinises
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of heparinise
heparinising
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of heparinise
catheterise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: catheterises
form: catheterising
form: catheterised
form: catheterised
Etymology: From catheter + -ise.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of catheterize.
Derived terms: recatheterise
catheterises
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of catheterise
catheterising
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of catheterise
catheterised
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of catheterise
heterocellular
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From hetero- + cellular.
Senses: examples: text: Since MEGJs could be demonstrated in both the CPA and RFA using serial section electron microscopy, we suggest that the conductance of these heterocellular gap junction channels can be modulated by environmental and/or experimental conditions.
ref: 2003, Shaun L. Sandow, “Expression of homocellular and heterocellular gap junctions in hamster arterioles and feed arteries”, in Cardiovascular Research, volume 60, number 3, pages 643–653:
glosses: Composed of different types of cells.
Related terms: homocellular
homocellular
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From homo- + cellular.
Senses: examples: text: In contrast to the present results, neither MEGJs nor homocellular gap junctions in the media were found in mesenteric arterioles, in spite of physiological evidence supporting their existence.
ref: 2003, Shaun L. Sandow, “Expression of homocellular and heterocellular gap junctions in hamster arterioles and feed arteries”, in Cardiovascular Research, volume 60, number 3, pages 643–653:
glosses: Composed of similar types of cells.
Related terms: heterocellular
fallopian tubes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fallopian tube
snooking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of snook
snooked
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of snook
thromboelastography
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɒɡɹəfi
Etymology: From thrombo- + elastography.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A method of testing the efficiency of coagulation in the blood.
Related terms: thromboelastogram
thromboelastograph
hypercoagulable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From hyper- + coagulable.
Senses: glosses: Having an increased tendency to clot.
raw_tags: of blood
Related terms: hypercoagulability
thrombophilic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more thrombophilic
form: most thrombophilic
form: thrombophylic
Etymology: From thrombophilia + -ic = thrombo- + -philic.
Senses: glosses: Of, pertaining to, or exhibiting thrombophilia.
postprocedure
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˌpoʊst.prəˈsiː.d͡ʒər/
Etymology: From post- + procedure.
Senses: glosses: Occurring after a procedure.
Synonyms: postprocedural
Coordinate terms: periprocedural
preprocedural
preprocedure
hemocompatibility
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: haemocompatibility
Etymology: From hemo- + compatibility.
Senses: glosses: Compatibility of blood.
Related terms: hemocompatible
ECS
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
qualifier: Commodore Amiga
glosses: Initialism of enhanced chipset.
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: Initialism of electronic chart system.
topics: rail-transport
railways
transport
glosses: Initialism of empty coaching stock.
haemocompatibility
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From haemo- + compatibility.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of hemocompatibility.
endothelialisation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From endothelial + -isation.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of endothelialization.
Derived terms: reendothelialisation
subendothelium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -iːliəm
Forms: form: subendothelia
Etymology: From sub- + endothelium.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: The connective tissue below an endothelial layer.
Related terms: subendothelial
empty coaching stock
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: rail-transport
railways
transport
glosses: A passenger train movement carried out without passengers on board; usually between a station and a siding or depot. Abbreviated as ECS.
empty coaching stock
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: rail-transport
railways
transport
glosses: A train consisting of empty passenger carriages or one or more empty multiple units. Abbreviated as ECS.
coaching stock
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: rail-transport
railways
transport
glosses: passenger-carrying railway coaches or (less commonly) multiple units. Contrasted with locomotives, freight wagons and engineering vehicles.
Derived terms: empty coaching stock
advanced green
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: advanced greens
Senses: examples: text: About 30-to-35 parking meters will be installed on Queen and Main Sts. and some left turn prohibitions will be imposed and advanced greens added at the intersection to improve traffic flow.
ref: 1993 May 5, Mike Funston, “Brampton Aims to Lure Shoppers”, in Toronto Star, Canada, retrieved 26 May 2011, page BR3:
text: Bruce Zvaniga, the city's manager of urban traffic control, said Toronto's advanced greens always last for at least six seconds, and 10 seconds or more at busy intersections at peak times.
ref: 2003 Sept. 15, Jeff Gray, "Advanced greens: Too few, too short," Globe and Mail (Toronto, Canada), p. A9 (retrieved 26 May 2011)
glosses: In some jurisdictions, a type of traffic light signal, in which the green light initially flashes while the matching light for oncoming traffic remains red, signalling drivers that they may make an unobstructed turn across the oncoming lane while the flashing continues.
glope
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: glopes
form: gloping
form: gloped
form: gloped
form: glop
form: glape
Etymology: From Middle English glopen, probably from Old Norse glápa (“to stare vacantly”), from Proto-Germanic *glupaną (“to shine, gape”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʰlub(ʰ)- (“to yawn, gape”). Cognate with Icelandic glápa (“to watch, stare at”), Dutch gluipen (“to sneak”), Low German glupen (“to look askance, leer”), Scots gloup (“chasm, cleft”). See also gloppen.
Senses: glosses: To gaze in alarm; be terrified; stare.
Related terms: gloppen
glope
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: glop
form: glape
Etymology: From Middle English glopen, probably from Old Norse glápa (“to stare vacantly”), from Proto-Germanic *glupaną (“to shine, gape”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʰlub(ʰ)- (“to yawn, gape”). Cognate with Icelandic glápa (“to watch, stare at”), Dutch gluipen (“to sneak”), Low German glupen (“to look askance, leer”), Scots gloup (“chasm, cleft”). See also gloppen.
Senses: glosses: Astonishment; awe; fear.
pigs might fly
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Pronunciation: rhymes: -aɪ
Forms: form: pigs can fly
form: pigs may fly
Senses: examples: text: "I'm sure he'll pay you back tomorrow." "Yeah right, and pigs might fly."
glosses: A response (often with a hint of sarcasm) to a situation which one thinks that there is no chance of ever occurring.
Synonyms: monkeys might fly out of my butt
pigs can fly
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of pigs might fly.
Hiroshi
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A male given name from Japanese.
stridulating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of stridulate
stridulates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of stridulate
stridulated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of stridulate
preinstallation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: preinstallations
Etymology: From pre- + installation.
Senses: examples: text: On May 19, the ministry issued a directive to computer makers that required the preinstallation of Green Dam on hard drives or a CD-ROM with installation software that usually is packaged with computers.
ref: 2009 June 19, Edward Wong, “China Intent on Requiring Internet Censor Software”, in New York Times:
glosses: The process or result of preinstalling.
preinstallations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of preinstallation
somonis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of somoni
gloppen
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: gloppens
form: gloppening
form: gloppened
form: gloppened
Etymology: From Middle English glopnen, from Old Norse glúpna (“to frighten, grieve, look downcast”), from Proto-Germanic *glupnōną (“to frighten, cause to stare”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʰlub(ʰ)- (“to yawn, gape”). Cognate with Icelandic glúpna (“to put to shame”). More at glope.
Senses: examples: text: "O Job! if you will help me," exclaimed Mary, brightening up (though it was but a wintry gleam after all), "tell me what to say, when they question me; I shall be so gloppened,* I shan't know what to answer." / *Gloppened; terrified.
ref: 1848, Elizabeth Gaskell, Mary Barton, HTML edition, The Gutenberg Project, published 2000:
glosses: To be in fear; gaze in alarm or astonishment; look downcast
examples: text: A pause before the intense guy cut in: "The Word of the Day is gloppen. Verb, transitive and intransitive. … One. To surprise or astonish. Two. To be startled or astonished. Gloppen."
ref: 2006, Jeremy Iverson, High School Confidential: Secrets of an Undercover Student, →ISBN, page 59:
glosses: To terrify; astonish; surprise.
Derived terms: glopnedly
Related terms: glop
glope
aur-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Pronunciation: enpr: ôr
ipa: /ɔːɹ/
Forms: form: auri-
form: auro-
Etymology: First productive in the 1575 coinage auripotent: representing aur-, the stem of the Latin aurum (“gold”).
Senses: glosses: gold
Derived terms: aurific
aurify
auripotent
aur-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Pronunciation: enpr: ôr
ipa: /ɔːɹ/
Forms: form: auri-
form: auro-
Etymology: First productive in the 1678 coinage aurist: representing aur-, the stem of the Latin auris (“ear”).
Senses: glosses: ear
Synonyms: sense: ear
english: Greek equivalent
translation: Greek equivalent
word: ot-
Derived terms: auriform
aurilave
auriscope
auriscopy
aurist
Related terms: auriculo-
kemono
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kemono
form: kemonos
Senses: glosses: Clipping of kemonomimi.
RTB
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: advertising
business
marketing
synonyms: real-time bidding
realtime bidding
glosses: Initialism of real-time bidding.
RTB
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: topics: government
military
politics
war
synonyms: return to base
glosses: Initialism of return to base.
indwelling catheter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: indwelling catheters
Senses: glosses: A catheter left inside the body, either temporarily or permanently.
besteads
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of bestead
besteaded
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past of bestead
noncumulatively
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From noncumulative + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a manner that is not cumulative.
hydrostat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hydrostats
Etymology: From hydro- + -stat.
Senses: glosses: A mechanism that regulates the amount of water in a boiler.
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: A muscle tissue, composed mostly of water, that maintains a constant volume during contraction.
Related terms: hygrostat
unstatesmanly
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unstatesmanly
form: most unstatesmanly
Etymology: From un- + statesmanly.
Senses: glosses: Not statesmanly.
hazelly
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more hazelly
form: most hazelly
Etymology: From hazel + -y or hazel + -ly.
Senses: glosses: Of the light brown colour of the hazelnut.
glosses: Composed of a mix of sand, clay and earth.
cryptoxanthins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cryptoxanthin
pseudoliterary
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pseudo- + literary.
Senses: glosses: Apparently, but not actually, literary; having pretensions to literature.
pseudopornographic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pseudo- + pornographic.
Senses: examples: text: Between 1980 and 1990 prison films that addressed women were pseudopornographic films, sensationalizing sexual acts between women behind bars, that do little to educate audiences about the realities of the lives of women behind bars […]
ref: 2007, Erica R. Meiners, Right to be hostile:
glosses: Apparently, but not actually or entirely, pornographic.
Negrohood
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Negro + -hood.
Senses: examples: text: Joe's assumption of Negrohood is motivated by his experience in seeking and failing clearly to find his identity. But, in assuming it, he must also partake of and force himself into the violence of its effects.
ref: 1966, Frederick John Hoffman, William Faulkner:
glosses: The state or period of being a Negro.
cantiga
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cantigas
Etymology: From Portuguese cantiga, from Old Galician-Portuguese cantiga.
Senses: examples: text: The most immediately engaging work here was Roberto Sierra’s “Güell Concert” (2006). Mr. Sierra uses a medieval Spanish cantiga as the work’s motto, but leaps quickly into modern rhythmic and harmonic complexities.
ref: 2007 October 1, Allan Kozinn, “Juilliard’s New Semester Starts With New Music”, in New York Times:
glosses: A medieval monophonic song, sometimes religious, characteristic of the Galician-Portuguese lyric.
cantigas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cantiga
managerese
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From manager + -ese.
Senses: glosses: The business jargon used by managers.
pentothal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From a trademark.
Senses: examples: text: The anaesthetic technique that was used at PMH at that time was safe and simple – but limited. It consisted of an initial injection of thiopentone (pentothal) to put the person to sleep. (Many older people will remember having been asked to count to ten as they were given such an injection.) Thiopentone is a short-acting drug – not a good agent to keep the patient anaesthetized for very long – so a switch must be made to another anaesthetic.
ref: 2006, Ted Freeman, Doctor in Vanuatu, Suva, Fiji: Institute of Pacific Studies, University of the South Pacific, →ISBN, page 29:
topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: Thiopental.
Derived terms: sodium pentothal
presurgery
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: pre-surgery
Etymology: From pre- + surgery.
Senses: examples: text: But the nagging curiosity about what she might have, could have, perhaps should not have said inspired this playful hourlong exploration of the mind-body connection, in which Ms. Margolin performs five versions of the lost 12-minute presurgery performance.
ref: 2007 October 1, Charles Isherwood, “While Superego Sleeps, a Mind at Play”, in New York Times:
glosses: Before surgery.
easygoingness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From easygoing + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: Democratic or not, there is a certain easygoingness in Asmara, at least on the surface.
ref: 2007 October 2, Jeffrey Gettleman, “A Calm Voice From Embattled Eritrea”, in New York Times:
glosses: The quality of being easygoing.
intraoffice
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From intra- + office.
Senses: examples: text: At first, teleconferencing often merely replaced internal phone calls or e-mail messages with televised intraoffice “meetings.”
ref: 2007 October 2, Joe Sharkey, “Teleconferencing as Plan A, With Flying as a Backup”, in New York Times:
glosses: Within a single office.
intraoesophageally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From intraoesophageal + -ly.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of intraesophageally.
minisub
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: minisubs
Etymology: From mini- + sub.
Senses: examples: text: The minisub, said Erik Hasselman, U-Boat Worx’s head of sales and marketing, is ideal for stowing on a yacht, but for safety reasons can dive only to about 160 feet, where there is still surface light.
ref: 2007 October 2, John Tagliabue, “For the Yachting Class, the Latest Amenity Can Take Flight”, in New York Times:
glosses: A minisubmarine.
minisubmarines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of minisubmarine
minisubs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of minisub
minisubmarine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: minisubmarines
Etymology: From mini- + submarine.
Senses: examples: text: Many among the rich or famous want a yacht, and what buyers want most now, naturally, are accessories: minisubmarines and helicopters.
ref: 2007 October 2, John Tagliabue, “For the Yachting Class, the Latest Amenity Can Take Flight”, in New York Times:
glosses: A small submarine.
Synonyms: minisub
minisupercomputing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From mini- + supercomputing.
Senses: glosses: The use of minisupercomputers.
nonexpression
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nonexpressions
Etymology: From non- + expression.
Senses: examples: text: Everyone who visits now has the same inscrutable nonexpression.
ref: 2007 October 2, Kent Sepkowitz, M.D., “Behind the Doctors’ Mask, a Little Room to Maneuver”, in New York Times:
glosses: Absence of emotional expression.
glosses: That which is not a logical or mathematical expression.
nonexpressions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nonexpression
sunglassed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: sun-glassed
Senses: examples: text: The streets are spotless, and when Mr. Isaias drives through town, it is not in a motorcade with whirling sirens and sunglassed police officers.
ref: 2007 October 2, Jeffrey Gettleman, “A Calm Voice From Embattled Eritrea”, in New York Times:
glosses: Wearing sunglasses.
telepresencing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From telepresence + -ing.
Senses: examples: text: Teleconferencing — oops, telepresencing — aside, those of us who actually need to get on an airplane regularly are still left with a system in disrepair, with airlines under growing political pressure to shape up.
ref: 2007 October 2, Joe Sharkey, “Teleconferencing as Plan A, With Flying as a Backup”, in New York Times:
glosses: The use of telepresence technologies.
teletypewritten
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From tele- + typewritten.
Senses: glosses: Printed by a teletypewriter.
televangelistic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to televangelism.
unreckoned
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Middle English unrekind, unrekend; equivalent to un- + reckoned.
Senses: examples: text: In subsequent Zuckerman novels we learned that Nathan went on to achieve a very un-Lonoff-like fame with a scandalous best seller (not unlike Mr. Roth’s own “Portnoy’s Complaint”) that cut him off from his family and his past, and forced him to grapple with the unreckoned consequences of his art.
ref: 2007 October 2, Michiko Kakutani, “Seeking a Moral at the End of the Tale”, in New York Times:
glosses: Not reckoned; not counted or measured.