cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
fructosyltransferase
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fructosyltransferases
Etymology: From fructosyl + transferase.
Senses: examples: text: The fructosyltransferase activity was 1.9 U mg −1, where 1 unit is the amount of enzyme required to perform the transfer of 1 μmol of fructose per minute at a working temperature of 37°C and a sucrose concentration of 100 g L −1 at pH 6.0 (50 mM potassium phosphate buffer).
ref: 2015 September 26, “Valorization of Cheese and Tofu Whey through Enzymatic Synthesis of Lactosucrose”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any transferase that catalyses the transfer of a fructosyl group
fructosyl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fructosyls
Etymology: From fructose + -yl.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The univalent radical derived from the hemiacetal form of fructose
Derived terms: fructosyltransferase
homooligomers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Multiple RDS/ROM-1 complex types are found in the OS: RDS/ROM-1 homo- and heterotetramers, RDS/ROM-1 homo- and heteromeric intermediate sized disulfide linked oligomers, and large RDS homooligomers, however, the different functions of these different complex types have not yet been elucidated.
ref: 2015 September 26, “SNAREs Interact with Retinal Degeneration Slow and Rod Outer Segment Membrane Protein-1 during Conventional and Unconventional Outer Segment Targeting”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: plural of homooligomer
hydroethidine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: However, the discrepancy between CellRox and hydrotheidine^([sic]) can be explained by the fact the CellRox was used to detect superoxide only in live cells, whereas hydroethidine was used in the whole population.
ref: 2015 September 26, “Inhibition of Mitochondrial Complex I Leads to Decreased Motility and Membrane Integrity Related to Increased Hydrogen Peroxide and Reduced ATP Production, while the Inhibition of Glycolysis Has Less Impact on Sperm Motility”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Synonym of dihydroethidium.
synonyms: word: dihydroethidium
hypermigration
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From hyper- + migration.
Senses: examples: text: The data support the hypothesis that induction of amoeboid hypermigration and chemotaxis/chemokinesis in infected DCs potentiates the dissemination of T.
ref: 2015 September 26, “Infection by Toxoplasma gondii Induces Amoeboid-Like Migration of Dendritic Cells in a Three-Dimensional Collagen Matrix”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: A higher than normal amount of migration
hypervesiculation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From hyper- + vesiculation.
Senses: examples: text: Gene functional and biochemical pathway analyses suggest that mutations that truncate outer membrane structures such as lipopolysaccharide and enterobacterial common antigen lead to hypervesiculation, whereas mutants in oxidative stress response pathways result in lower levels.
ref: 2015 September 26, “Genome-Wide Assessment of Outer Membrane Vesicle Production in Escherichia coli”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Excessive vesiculation.
hypopygial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: However, diagnostic characters might be unreliable due to intraspecific morphological variation even for this life stage and phenotypic plasticity [38 ] in morphometric ratios and hypopygial structures caused by different temperature regimes and food quality has been observed in several chironomid species [39 ].
ref: 2015 September 26, “Exploring Genetic Divergence in a Species-Rich Insect Genus Using 2790 DNA Barcodes”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Relating to a hypopygium
hypopygium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hypopygia
Senses: glosses: A modified abdominal segment, in some insects, which supports the copulatory apparatus
Related terms: hypopygial
immunoliposome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: immunoliposomes
Etymology: From immuno- + liposome.
Senses: glosses: A liposome that has an attached antibody
Related terms: immunoliposomal
immunoliposomes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Using targeted drug delivery systems such as immunoliposomes that accumulate selectively in designated target cell types, the dosage of rapamycin may potentially be optimized.
ref: 2015 September 26, “Targeting Rapamycin to Podocytes Using a Vascular Cell Adhesion Molecule-1 (VCAM-1)-Harnessed SAINT-Based Lipid Carrier System”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: plural of immunoliposome
immunoquiescent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From immuno- + quiescent.
Senses: examples: text: The level of Sp185/333 proteins in whole coelomic fluid (wCF; fluid plus cells) increases following immune challenge, as is evident from immunoquiescent sea urchins expressing little to no Sp185/333 proteins [10 ], while sea urchins challenged with LPS or PGN express many variants of Sp185/333 proteins in wCF [9 ].
ref: 2015 September 26, “Extraordinary Diversity of Immune Response Proteins among Sea Urchins: Nickel-Isolated Sp185/333 Proteins Show Broad Variations in Size and Charge”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: immunologically quiescent
lissosphincter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lissosphincters
Etymology: From Ancient Greek λισσός (lissós, “smooth”) + sphincter.
Senses: examples: text: The inner part, the so-called lissosphincter, surrounds the urethra and is formed by circular and longitudinally oriented smooth muscle cell layers.
ref: 2015 September 26, “Mesenchymal Stromal Cells for Sphincter Regeneration: Role of Laminin Isoforms upon Myogenic Differentiation”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: The part of a sphincter composed of smooth muscle
Related terms: lissotrichous
lyophilisome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lyophilisomes
Senses: glosses: A biodegradable proteinaceous nanoscale capsule obtained by lyophilization
lyophilisomes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: The uptake of albumin-based lyophilisomes by HeLa cells was increased modified by a TAT modification [12 ].
ref: 2015 September 26, “TAT Modification of Alpha-Helical Anticancer Peptides to Improve Specificity and Efficacy”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: plural of lyophilisome
melanoregulin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From melano- + regulate + -in.
Senses: examples: text: Two known binding partners of RDS fall into this category, calmodulin and melanoregulin, both of which are thought to regulate the fusogenic capability of RDS.
ref: 2015 September 26, “SNAREs Interact with Retinal Degeneration Slow and Rod Outer Segment Membrane Protein-1 during Conventional and Unconventional Outer Segment Targeting”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A protein (and associated gene) that regulates the activity of melanosomes
metalloaminopeptidase
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: metalloaminopeptidases
Etymology: From metallo- + aminopeptidase.
Senses: examples: text: Interestingly, some of them contain chemical scaffolds already associated with other metalloaminopeptidase inhibitors, providing a further validation of the computational results.
ref: 2015 September 26, “Identification and Validation of a Potent Dual Inhibitor of the P . falciparum M1 and M17 Aminopeptidases Using Virtual Screening”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any metalloenzymatic aminopeptidase
riddle me that, Batman
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Etymology: From the formulaic phrase riddle me this, additionally referring to the Batman comic book universe, in which the fictional supervillain the Riddler would pose puzzles for Batman to solve (riddle).
Senses: examples: text: "That too. But it's this: how can a benevolent being let such bad things happen? Terrorism, world hunger, AIDS, people dying too young of cancer. Riddle me that, Batman.”
ref: 2009, John C. Stipa, No Greater Sacrifice, page 55:
text: "You have no idea what's going on, Melanie," she snarled. "No. Freaking. Clue. I'm going to have to join witness protection, and then where will you be, huh? Riddle me that, Batman!"
ref: 2014, Marni Bates, Awkwardly Ever After, page 77:
text: Why can't Jerry and I be together forever like a real couple? Riddle me that, Batman? Society? No. Idiots.
ref: 2014, Jason Medina, The Diary of Audrey Malone Frayer, page 135:
glosses: Said to demand that the listener take notice of a question or situation just mentioned, especially one that is particularly difficult to solve or explain.
wikipedia: Batman
Batman (comic book)
Riddler
Synonyms: sense: a demand that the listener solve a conundrum
word: riddle me this
sense: a demand that the listener solve a conundrum
word: Batman
microincubator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: microincubators
Etymology: From micro- + incubator.
Senses: examples: text: After transfection, the dishes containing the attached cells were placed on a Harvard microincubator located on top of the stage of a fully motorized Nikon TE-2000 E inverted microscope equipped for differential interference contrast, epifluorescence, and TIRFM. For conventional time-lapse fluorescence microscopy, cells were imaged using a 60X or a 100X oil-immersion objective, an ORCA II ER camera (Hamamatsu) and MetaMorph software (Molecular Devices) [32 ].
ref: 2015 September 26, “Involvement of SARA in Axon and Dendrite Growth”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: A very small incubator
nanocomplex
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nanocomplexes
Etymology: From nano- + complex.
Senses: examples: text: Several cell-specific aptamers have been used for gene delivery, but an aptamer-conjugated nanocomplex used in the treatment of NSCLC is limited.
ref: 2015 September 26, “Aptamer-Dendrimer Bioconjugates for Targeted Delivery of miR-34a Expressing Plasmid and Antitumor Effects in Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer Cells”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: A nanoscale complex
nanocomplexes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Herein, we report the development of multifunctional chitosan-lipid nanocomplexes that can effectively deliver plasmids encoding siRNA(s) as microbicides without adverse effects and provide significant protection against HIV in both in vitro and in vivo models.
ref: 2015 September 26, “A Multiple siRNA-Based Anti-HIV/SHIV Microbicide Shows Protection in Both In Vitro and In Vivo Models”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: plural of nanocomplex
nanocurcumin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From nano- + curcumin.
Senses: examples: text: Here, we investigate the cardio-protective efficacy of nanocurcumin in protecting primary human ventricular cardiomyocytes (HVCM) from hypoxia induced damages.
ref: 2015 September 26, “Nanocurcumin Prevents Hypoxia Induced Stress in Primary Human Ventricular Cardiomyocytes by Maintaining Mitochondrial Homeostasis”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: curcumin encapsulated in nanoparticles
nanomicrobicide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nanomicrobicides
Etymology: From nano- + microbicide.
Senses: examples: text: The efficacy of our nanomicrobicides may have been restricted by the SHIV/macaque model, because siGag and siLTR are both target HIV sequences instead of SIV sequences.
ref: 2015 September 26, “A Multiple siRNA-Based Anti-HIV/SHIV Microbicide Shows Protection in Both In Vitro and In Vivo Models”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: A microbicide encapsulated in nanoparticles
nanomicrobicides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: The efficacy of our nanomicrobicides may have been restricted by the SHIV/macaque model, because siGag and siLTR are both target HIV sequences instead of SIV sequences.
ref: 2015 September 26, “A Multiple siRNA-Based Anti-HIV/SHIV Microbicide Shows Protection in Both In Vitro and In Vivo Models”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: plural of nanomicrobicide
neurorepair
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From neuro- + repair.
Senses: examples: text: Neuroprotection and neurorepair cannot exist in isolation.
ref: 2015 September 26, “Differential Effects of Isoxazole-9 on Neural Stem/Progenitor Cells, Oligodendrocyte Precursor Cells, and Endothelial Progenitor Cells”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: The repair of neurons.
oligodontia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From oligo- + -odontia.
Senses: examples: text: Numerous gene mutations have been association with oligodontia.
ref: 2015 September 26, “A Novel AXIN2 Missense Mutation Is Associated with Non-Syndromic Oligodontia”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
hypernyms: hypodontia
glosses: The absence of six or more teeth
oncogenomic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From onco- + genomic.
Senses: examples: text: Recently, a role for chromothripsis has been identified in HL cells manifested as non-directed focal genomic rearrangements whose oncogenomic role remains unclear.
ref: 2015 September 26, “Aberrantly Expressed OTX Homeobox Genes Deregulate B-Cell Differentiation in Hodgkin Lymphoma”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Relating to oncogenomics or to an oncogenome.
Related terms: oncogene
oncogenesis
oncogenetic
oncogenetics
oncogenic
oncogenics
oncogenome
oncogenomics
oncologic
oncological
oncology
oncoprotein
oncoproteogenome
oncoproteogenomic
oncoproteogenomics
oncoproteome
oncoproteomic
oncoproteomics
proto-oncogene
proto-oncogenic
act of darkness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: acts of darkness
Senses: examples: text: A Seruingman, proud in heart and mind, that curld my haire, wore gloues in my cap, ſerued the luſt of my miſtris heart, and did the act of darkenes with her, […]
ref: c. 1603–1606 (date written), [William Shakespeare], […] His True Chronicle Historie of the Life and Death of King Lear and His Three Daughters. […] (First Quarto), London: […] Nathaniel Butter, […], published 1608, →OCLC, [Act III, scene iv]:
glosses: sexual intercourse
preductal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pre- + 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:
text: Criteria for endotracheal intubation were dissatisfying response to non-invasive ventilation defined as absent or insufficient increase in HR and/or preductal oxygen saturation (SpO₂) despite supplemental oxygen.
ref: 2015 September 26, “Do sustained lung inflations during neonatal resuscitation affect cerebral blood volume in preterm infants? A randomized controlled pilot study”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Proximal to a ductus (for example, the ductus arteriosus).
Related terms: periductal
postductal
preleptocephalus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: preleptocephali
Etymology: From pre- + leptocephalus.
Senses: glosses: An immature larva of an eel
preleptocephali
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: In this study, wild glass eel, leptocephali, preleptocephali, and embryos were collected to conduct RNA-seq.
ref: 2015 September 26, “De Novo Assembly of the Whole Transcriptome of the Wild Embryo, Preleptocephalus, Leptocephalus, and Glass Eel of Anguilla japonica and Deciphering the Digestive and Absorptive Capacities during Early Development”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: plural of preleptocephalus
prostasome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: prostasomes
Etymology: From prostate + -some.
Senses: glosses: A membranous vesicle secreted by the prostate gland into the semen
prostasomes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Intact CD38 transferred from prostasomes to sperm plays a critical role in progesterone-induced long-lasting Ca 2+ signaling, which is required for sperm hypermotility [9 ].
ref: 2015 September 26, “Seminal CD38 Enhances Human Sperm Capacitation through Its Interaction with CD31”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: plural of prostasome
pseudoplastics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Dilatant or shear thickening fluids are liquids in which viscosity increases as the applied stress increases, whereas pseudoplastics or shear thinning fluids are characterized by the opposite relationship between viscosity and applied stress.
ref: 2015 September 26, “Heat Transfer Analysis for Stationary Boundary Layer Slip Flow of a Power-Law Fluid in a Darcy Porous Medium with Plate Suction/Injection”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: plural of pseudoplastic
regenerants
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Ploidy levels of the regenerants were determined by flow cytometry or by detection of sterile and fertile plants as inferred by inflorescence, mature pollen grain production, and seed set.
ref: 2015 September 26, “QTL Analysis of Head Splitting Resistance in Cabbage ( Brassica oleracea L. var. capitata ) Using SSR and InDel Makers Based on Whole-Genome Re-Sequencing”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: plural of regenerant
specificly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: examples: text: These unique genes in our study may be expressed specificly in schistosomula stage and since in Piao’s study, it failed to detect these unique genes.
ref: 2015 September 26, “Transcriptome Bioinformatical Analysis of Vertebrate Stages of Schistosoma japonicum Reveals Alternative Splicing Events”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Misspelling of specifically.
tamanolide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tamanolides
Etymology: From tamanol + -ide.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of a group of polycyclic pyranocoumarins found in tamanol
tamanolides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Finding of tamanolides which is a new class of pyranocoumarins from French Polynesian CIO [50 ], and not yet reported from the other CIO geographical origins supports this suggestion.
ref: 2015 September 26, “The Wound Healing and Antibacterial Activity of Five Ethnomedical Calophyllum inophyllum Oils: An Alternative Therapeutic Strategy to Treat Infected Wounds”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: plural of tamanolide
tamanol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From tamanu + -ol.
Senses: glosses: The oil obtained from the fruit of the tamanu.
thermomould
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: thermomoulds
form: thermomoulding
form: thermomoulded
form: thermomoulded
Etymology: From thermo- + mould.
Senses: glosses: To mould by means of thermomoulding
thermomoulded
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: Once the master was created, a large number of substrates could be thermomoulded using standard lab equipment.
ref: 2015 September 26, “Seeing a Mycobacterium-Infected Cell in Nanoscale 3D: Correlative Imaging by Light Microscopy and FIB/SEM Tomography”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: simple past and past participle of thermomould
indiwiddle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ɪndiˈwɪdəl/
Forms: form: indiwiddles
Senses: examples: text: If I hadn't been and got made a Grinder on, Miss and mother, which was a most unfortunate circumstance for a young co—indiwiddle.
ref: 1848, Charles Dickens, Hablot Knight Browne, Dombey and Son, page 601:
text: My story would have made a rather interesting idyll / And I might have lived and died a very decent indiwiddle.
ref: 1887, Gilbert and Sullivan, “My Eyes Are Fully Open”, in Ruddigore:
text: Below-stairs opinion of Sir John is not divided. He is a shifty indiwiddle.
ref: 2012, Bernard Bastable, Too Many Notes, Mr Mozart, Pan Macmillan, →ISBN:
text: And more, for this indiwiddle didn't have no blunt at all. We had to feed ourselves and, worst of all, to buy all the building-stuff.
ref: 2014, Charles Palliser, Quincunx, Ballantine Books, →ISBN, page 91:
glosses: Pronunciation spelling of individual, representing Victorian London English.
thermomoulding
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of thermomould
thermomoulding
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: The method is based on an Aclar poly(chloro-tri-fluoro)ethylene substrate, micropatterned into an advantageous geometry by a simple thermomoulding process.
ref: 2015 September 26, “Seeing a Mycobacterium-Infected Cell in Nanoscale 3D: Correlative Imaging by Light Microscopy and FIB/SEM Tomography”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: moulding at an elevated temperature
studently
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more studently
form: most studently
form: student-ly
Etymology: From student + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: In an attack of studently compulsivity, an attack that greatly influenced my scholarly future, I did a statistical analysis that was extraneous to the main purpose of the dissertation.
ref: 1993, Peter David Blanck, Interpersonal Expectations:
text: He gathered his studently belongings and at 5:00 pm sharp he disembarked.
ref: 2002, Alex Farkas, The Purple Supernova - Page 152:
text: Fair enough, except that “The Transcendentalist” struggles to see clearly when, by dwelling on the personal hardships and seeming failures of studently patience, Emerson's speech becomes as much a confession as a manifesto.
ref: 2005, Maurice S. Lee, Slavery, Philosophy, and American Literature, 1830–1860:
text: When he began speaking, it became quite clear that he was Sid Vicious in attire only and otherwise meant serious student-ly business.
ref: 2013, Nick Offerman, Paddle Your Own Canoe:
glosses: Of, relating to, or characteristic of a student
thiopyridone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: thiopyridones
Etymology: From thio- + pyridone.
Senses: examples: text: Thiopropyl Sepharose™ 6B (GE Healthcare) has been used widely over several decades to reversibly bind biological molecules containing the sulfhydryl groups—the 2-thiopyridyl disulphide group of the sepharose matrix reacts with a molecule containing a free thiol to form a mixed disulfide; during the reaction thiopyridone is formed while the bound target molecule is released by addition of a reducing agent.
ref: 2015 September 26, “C-STrap Sample Preparation Method— In-Situ Cysteinyl Peptide Capture for Bottom-Up Proteomics Analysis in the STrap Format”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A derivative of a pyridone in which the carbonyl oxygen atom is substituted by one of sulfur
transfructosylate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: transfructosylates
form: transfructosylating
form: transfructosylated
form: transfructosylated
Senses: examples: text: The bioconversion is driven by the ability of the enzyme levansucrase SacB from Bacillus subtilis CECT 39 to transfructosylate lactose contained in the cheese whey permeate by using not only sucrose but also raffinose and stachyose, which are present in considerable amounts in the tofu whey, as suitable donors of fructosyl moieties.
ref: 2015 September 26, “Valorization of Cheese and Tofu Whey through Enzymatic Synthesis of Lactosucrose”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: To subject to, or to undergo, transfructosylation.
transfructosylation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: transfructosylations
Etymology: From trans- + fructosyl + -ation.
Senses: examples: text: Nonetheless, to the best of our knowledge, the capacity of raffinose and stachyose to act as fructosyl donors in transfructosylation reactions catalyzed by the levansucrase of B.
ref: 2015 September 26, “Valorization of Cheese and Tofu Whey through Enzymatic Synthesis of Lactosucrose”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The transfer of fructosyl groups within or between molecules
xanthanolide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: xanthanolides
Senses: examples: text: The data allowed us to hypothesize that miR6435 might play a role in the regulation of xanthanolide biosynthesis in X.
ref: 2015 September 26, “Differential microRNA Analysis of Glandular Trichomes and Young Leaves in Xanthium strumarium L. Reveals Their Putative Roles in Regulating Terpenoid Biosynthesis”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of several glycosides containing xanthan.
orfen
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɔːfən/
homophone: orphan
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)fən
Forms: form: more orfen
form: most orfen
Senses: examples: text: 1876, LADY BARKER, EDITOR, evening hours
Sometimes they sets theirselves alight, but not orfen, for it aint much o' a fire aunt leaves in.
text: Jack's uncommon fond o' theayters, and singing and acting and such like, and as he can't very orfen get the money to pay for 'arf-price in the gallery he follers about all the people as performs in the streets, sometimes for hours an' hours together.
ref: 1887, The English illustrated magazine [ed. by J. W. C. Carr].:
text: He's rarther an ass, but not a bad chap reely, he gives us tips sumtimes but not orfen enuff.
ref: 1903, The Royal Magazine:
glosses: Pronunciation spelling of often, representing British English.
wikipedia: The Pirates of Penzance
birthyears
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of birthyear
delivrance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: delivrances
Senses: examples: text: From hence it may, I think, be concluded, that this Bread was eaten in Remembrance of their being fed with Manna, and, consequently, of their Delivrance from the Egyptian Bondage.
ref: 1746, Samuel Hardy, The Indispensible^([sic]) Necessity of Constantly Celebrating the Christian Sacrifice:
glosses: Obsolete form of deliverance.
trigintennial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Latin triginta (“thirty”) + -ennial, combining adjectival form of annus (“year”). Compare the actual Latin term tricennium.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of tricennial, once every thirty years.
synonyms: word: tricennial
word: once every thirty years
trigesimal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Latin trigesimus (“thirtieth”) + -al (“forming adjectives”).
Senses: examples: text: In the trigesimal year of his reign...
glosses: Thirtieth.
examples: text: Each month is a roughly trigesimal period.
glosses: Containing thirty of something.
trigesimal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Latin trigesimus (“thirtieth”) + -al (“forming adjectives”).
Senses: glosses: The trigesimal number system; base 30.
bks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bk
get someone's back
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: gets someone's back
form: getting someone's back
form: got someone's back
form: got someone's back
form: gotten someone's back
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of have someone's back.
cover someone's back
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: covers someone's back
form: covering someone's back
form: covered someone's back
form: covered someone's back
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of have someone's back.
signifigance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of significance.
semihourly
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: semi-hourly
Etymology: From semi- + hourly.
Senses: examples: text: The warship rang its semihourly bell, announcing it was now half past 10 o'clock.
qualifier: properly
glosses: Half-hourly: occurring every thirty minutes.
qualifier: inexact
glosses: Roughly (but not exactly) hourly: occurring around every sixty minutes.
semihourly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: semi-hourly
Etymology: From semi- + hourly.
Senses: examples: text: Samples were collected semihourly (on the hour and half hour) throughout the study.
qualifier: properly
glosses: Half-hourly: at intervals of 30 minutes.
qualifier: inexact
glosses: Roughly (but not exactly) hourly: at intervals of around 60 minutes.
semi-hourly
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of semihourly.
tran
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: trans
Etymology: Shortening of transgender, or (jocularly or seriously) a back-formation from trans mistaking it for a plural noun.
Senses: examples: For quotations using this term, see Citations:tran.
glosses: A trans person.
tran
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: trans
Etymology: Shortening.
Senses: glosses: Clipping of transmission.
test-drives
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of test-drive
test-driving
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of test-drive
test-drove
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past of test-drive
test-driven
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: past participle of test-drive
wihara
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wiharas
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of vihara (“Buddhist monastery”).
KKKonfederate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Blend of KKK + Confederate
Senses: glosses: Confederate (with implications of white supremacist leanings)
wetawd
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wetawds
Etymology: Imitating the kind of speech impediment associated with some developmental disorders.
Senses: glosses: Pronunciation spelling of retard.
unvictorian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unvictorian
form: most unvictorian
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of unVictorian.
nanoWatts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nanoWatt
make news
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: makes news
form: making news
form: made news
form: made news
Senses: examples: text: He had no idea why the story made news; it did not seem at all newsworthy to him.
glosses: To be published in the news media.
Synonyms: make the news
makes news
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of make news
making news
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of make news
made news
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of make news
make the news
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: makes the news
form: making the news
form: made the news
form: made the news
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of make news.
makes the news
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of make the news
making the news
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of make the news
made the news
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of make the news
fire lance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fire lances
Senses: glosses: A weapon, first used by the Chinese, consisting of a spear with one or more primitive flamethrowers attached.
Synonyms: fire spear
fire lances
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fire lance
fire spear
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fire spears
Senses: glosses: A fire lance.
fire spears
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fire spear
jianbing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: jianbing
form: jianbings
Etymology: From Mandarin 煎餅／煎饼 (jiānbǐng). Doublet of senbei.
Senses: examples: text: She spends her free time dancing, hiking the wilds of the Great Wall, biking through the lake district, and munching on jianbings in her hutong.
ref: 2006 summer, Julia Herwood, Athenia Fischer, “Class Notes”, in Matt Jennings, editor, Middlebury Magazine, volume 80, number 3, Middlebury, Vt.: Middlebury College, →ISSN, →OCLC, 04 section, page 79, column 3:
text: At last month’s Boao Forum for Asia, a business conference, organisers were keen to dish out jianbing, a savoury pancake that is a typical Chinese street food, made by a robotic arm in a booth, similar to the claws that collect stuffed toys in an arcade (the resulting snack was not as crispy as a human-made offering).
ref: 2025 April 21, Amy Hawkins, “Humanoid workers and surveillance buggies: ‘embodied AI’ is reshaping daily life in China”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
glosses: A thin Chinese fried-egg pancake similar to a crepe, typically sold as street food.
mental breakdowns
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mental breakdown
skittles party
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: skittles parties
form: Skittles party
Etymology: After Skittles, a brand of multicolored fruit-flavored lentil-shaped candies.
Senses: examples: text: "I hosted an impromptu Skittles party with white tents all around, white linen tables filled with flowing fountains of liquor, and an assortment of colorful pills at your fingertips: Oxycodone, Ritalin, Tylenol with codeine, Adderall, and a list of others."
ref: 2012, Ni-Ni Simone, Amir Abrams, Hollywood High - Volume 1 - Page 288:
text: I didn’t need her killin’ my vibe. I needed to relieve my stress and have my skittles party in peace. So…I slipped her a nice mix of somebody’s granny’s heart medicine, Xanax, and Sudafed in her nightly shot of scotch and rocked her to sleep. […] “It’s not that I make a habit out of playing Captain Save A Crackhead. But I figured I’d make an exception this time.” / I’m not a crackhead and you haven’t saved me, you cheap whore! This is an insult! You’ve torn up my life. Ruined my career. Called the police on my skittles party!
ref: 2014, Ni-Ni Simone, Amir Abrams, “Heather”, in Put Your Diamonds Up (Hollywood High), New York, N.Y.: Dafina KTeen Books, Kensington Publishing Corp., →ISBN, pages 18 and 22–23:
glosses: A party where teenagers or young adults bring with them a lot of random pills, take them, and see what happens
skittles parties
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of skittles party
pseudoplasticity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From pseudo- + plasticity.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being pseudoplastic.
Flickrers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Flickrer
denaturization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: denaturizations
Etymology: From denature + -ization.
Senses: glosses: The process of denaturing.
denaturizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of denaturize
denaturizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of denaturize
denaturizations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of denaturization
unpermeabilized
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + permeabilized.
Senses: glosses: Not permeabilized.
antilooting
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more antilooting
form: most antilooting
Etymology: From anti- + looting.
Senses: glosses: Opposing or preventing looting.
blink first
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -ɜː(ɹ)st
Forms: form: blinks first
form: blinking first
form: blinked first
form: blinked first
Senses: examples: text: The future of these valuable vehicles depends on who blinks first in the stand-off between a ROSCO wanting to maximise the return on its investment and the determination of DfT to reduce operating costs.
ref: 2023 June 28, Ben Jones, “Are we getting rid of our (still useful) rolling stock too early?”, in RAIL, number 986, page 29:
glosses: To be the first party in some situation to give in or back down.
Gbps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Gbps
form: Gb/s
Senses: examples: text: We measure bandwidth by Gbps.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: gigabits per second, a measure of data transfer rate equal to 1,000 megabits per second.
Coordinate terms: bps
kbps
Mbps
Tbps
Pbps
Ebps
Related terms: GBps
rubatosis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɹuːbɑˈtəʊ.sɪs/
ipa: /ˌɹubɑˈtoʊ.sɪs/
rhymes: -əʊsɪs
Etymology: Presumably rubato + -osis. Coined by American author and neologist John Koenig in 2012 as part of his Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows project.
Senses: examples: text: Amador rocked me slowly in that amniotic tranquility and I started to get sleepy. I could hear the unsettling rubatosis of my beating heart.
ref: 2015 September, Gustaf Vonsheilds, Palm Spring Whispers, Lulu.com, →ISBN, page 105:
text: Avis stopped in his tracks and wheeled around, thinking something had gone wrong—a moment of rubatosis.
ref: 2016, Asif Anwar, Fainting Pulse: ICU Chronicles, →ISBN, page 113:
text: My skin brushed up against his soft hand, sending lightning throughout my body and a strong feeling of rubatosis.
ref: 2019, Jonna Wahl, Bloody Bloom, →ISBN:
glosses: The unsettling awareness of one's own heartbeat
wikipedia: The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows
capistratone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: It, however, differs in its secondary chemistry, containing aotearone but lacking capistratone or lacking xanthones altogether (specimen 5).
ref: 2015 September 29, “A Molecular Phylogeny of the Lichen Genus Lecidella Focusing on Species from Mainland China”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The xanthone 2,5,7-trichloro-3-O-methylnorlichexanthone
exozoochory
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From exo- + zoochory.
Senses: examples: text: As myrmecochory is a case of active exozoochory, the fate of dispersed seeds depends on the traits of both the seed and the elaiosome, but is also closely related to the ants’ foraging behaviour.
ref: 2015 September 29, “Steep Decline and Cessation in Seed Dispersal by Myrmica rubra Ants”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: The dispersal of seeds etc., by attachment to the outer surface an animal's body.
Related terms: exozoochorous
genoframe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: genoframes
Etymology: From geno- + frame.
Senses: examples: text: As part of genoframe we have identified the genetic underpinnings of the driver neurons.
ref: 2015 September 29, “Control of Neuronal Network in Caenorhabditis elegans”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: A genetic framework
hypothecium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hypothecia
Etymology: From hypo- + thecium.
Senses: examples: text: Color of hypothecium: 0 = colorless; 1 = yellow-brown to red-brown. 4.
ref: 2015 September 29, “A Molecular Phylogeny of the Lichen Genus Lecidella Focusing on Species from Mainland China”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: The layer of hyphal tissue directly beneath the thecium
intercriteria
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From inter- + criteria.
Senses: examples: text: To calculate the objective indicator weight, criteria importance through intercriteria correlation (CRITIC) is selected from three usual methods.
ref: 2015 September 29, “Production Task Queue Optimization Based on Multi-Attribute Evaluation for Complex Product Assembly Workshop”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Between criteria
intergradational
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From inter- + gradational.
Senses: examples: text: Fuxin is in the intergradational zone between the Inner Mongolian Plateau and the Liaohe River Plain, and it has a northern temperate continental monsoon climate.
ref: 2015 September 29, “Spatial Patterns and Risk Assessment of Heavy Metals in Soils in a Resource-Exhausted City, Northeast China”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Between gradations
kayexalate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: The mechanism of colon damage by SPS is not known, but according to a study, in 9 of 11 patients who received SPS in sorbitol solution, the endoscopic examination of the upper GI tract showed kayexalate crystals adhered to the damaged mucosa of the esophagus, stomach and the duodenum, suggestive of the damaging effect of SPS.
ref: 2015 September 29, “Colon Necrosis Due to Sodium Polystyrene Sulfonate with and without Sorbitol: An Experimental Study in Rats”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: sodium polystyrene sulfonate
lecideoid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Lecidella + -oid.
Senses: examples: text: As lecideoid lichens, Lecidella was considered to be part of the huge genus Lecidea Ach. for a long time [24 ].
ref: 2015 September 29, “A Molecular Phylogeny of the Lichen Genus Lecidella Focusing on Species from Mainland China”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Relating to lichens of the genus Lecidella
multichaperone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: multichaperones
Etymology: From multi- + chaperone.
Senses: examples: text: The complex containing Cdc37 and p23 is thought to be the primary stable form, and the HSP70- and HOP-associated complex is another proteasome-targeting form that induces ubiquitin-proteasome degradation [45, 46 ]. 17-AAG is an ansamycin antibiotic that binds to HSP90 and inhibits the formation of the stabilized HSP90-client protein complex, resulting in the accumulation of the proteasome-targeting HSP90-based multichaperone.
ref: 2015 September 29, “The Inhibition of Heat Shock Protein 90 Facilitates the Degradation of Poly-Alanine Expanded Poly (A) Binding Protein Nuclear 1 via the Carboxyl Terminus of Heat Shock Protein 70-Interacting Protein”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A chaperone consisting of multiple proteins
mutagenizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: We constructed recombinase libraries by randomly mutagenizing five residues predicted to contact DNA at positions 3–2: Leu 122, Ser 125, Arg 129, Tyr 138 and Gly 139 (Fig 6A ).
ref: 2015 September 29, “Redesigning Recombinase Specificity for Safe Harbor Sites in the Human Genome”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: present participle and gerund of mutagenize
overreduction
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: overreductions
Etymology: From over- + reduction.
Senses: examples: text: During stress caused by hypoxia, cold and heat, the cellular NADPH/NADP + -ratio increases [62 ] and an activation of NDB1 may ameliorate overreduction of the cellular NADPH pool, avoiding reductive stress [63 ].
ref: 2015 September 29, “The Ca 2+ -Regulation of the Mitochondrial External NADPH Dehydrogenase in Plants Is Controlled by Cytosolic pH”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Excessive reduction
ghost-townish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more ghost-townish
form: most ghost-townish
form: ghost townish
Etymology: From ghost town + -ish.
Senses: glosses: Resembling a ghost town.
subconjunctiva
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -aɪvə
-ʌŋktɪvə
Forms: form: subconjunctivas
form: subconjunctivae
Etymology: From sub- + conjunctiva.
Senses: examples: text: In some individuals, the migration of adult worms (30–70 mm in length) through the subconjunctiva of the eye; transient, localized angioedema (Calabar swelling); and pruritus are observed, with more serious clinical manifestations occasionally evident with chronic infection [1 ].
ref: 2015 September 29, “Genome Filtering for New DNA Biomarkers of Loa loa Infection Suitable for Loop-Mediated Isothermal Amplification”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: The area below the conjunctiva
Related terms: subconjunctival
Roosian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈɹuːʃ(ə)n/
Forms: form: Roosians
Senses: examples: text: For he might have been a Roosian / A French, or Turk, or Proosian
ref: 1879, W[illiam] S[chwenck] Gilbert, Arthur Sullivan, composer, “For He Is an Englishman”, in H.M.S. Pinafore; […], San Francisco: Bacon & Company, […], →OCLC:
glosses: Pronunciation spelling of Russian.
Proosian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /pɹuːʃ(ə)n/
Forms: form: Proosians
Senses: examples: text: For he might have been a Roosian / A French, or Turk, or Proosian
ref: 1879, W[illiam] S[chwenck] Gilbert, Arthur Sullivan, composer, “For He Is an Englishman”, in H.M.S. Pinafore; […], San Francisco: Bacon & Company, […], →OCLC:
text: In the breast of the treasonable Proosian ambition flamed to a white heat.
ref: 1917, Scribner's Magazine:
text: Listen to him chatterin' about outrages to noncombatants. What are ye yourself but an outrage, you fat Proosian!
ref: 2010, H. de Vere Stacpoole, Sea Plunder, Wildside Press LLC, →ISBN, page 108:
glosses: Pronunciation spelling of Prussian.
ablutioner
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ablutioners
Etymology: From ablution + -er.
Senses: examples: text: I'm sorry for you, / You very imperfect ablutioner!
ref: 1885, W[illiam] S[chwenck] Gilbert; Arthur Sullivan, composer, […] The Mikado; or, The Town of Titipu, London: Chappel & Co., […], →OCLC:
text: For instance, the heavenly court of Amaterasu included such figures as Ame-no-koyane, the prototype of the priest; Futo-dama, the prototype of the ablutioner; and Ame-no-uzume, the prototype of the shamanic diviner.
ref: 2013, Joseph Mitsuo Kitagawa, Religion in Japanese History, Columbia University Press, →ISBN, page 19:
text: He advises the disciple who is fortunate enough to find a true shaykh to drop everything else and “be thou with him as a corpse in the ablutioner's hands. He turneth it at will, while it passive remaineth.”
ref: 2014, James E. Royster, Have This Mind: Supreme Happiness, Ultimate Realization, and the Four Great Religions—An Integral Adventure, Balboa Press, →ISBN, page 271:
glosses: One who performs ablution