cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
adeption
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Latin adeptio. See adept (adjective).
Senses: examples: text: In the wit and policy of the capitain consisteth the chief adeption of the victory.
ref: 1485, Richard III of England, letter to the chieftains of his army before the Battle of Bosworth Field:
text: it beginneth with the mix'd adeption of a crown by arms and title
ref: 1605, Francis Bacon, “(please specify |book=1 or 2)”, in The Twoo Bookes of Francis Bacon. Of the Proficience and Aduancement of Learning, Diuine and Humane, London: […] [Thomas Purfoot and Thomas Creede] for Henrie Tomes, […], →OCLC:
glosses: An obtaining; attainment.
Derived terms: readeption
Archilochian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Archilochian
form: most Archilochian
Etymology: Latin Archilochius.
Senses: examples: Archilochian meter
topics: communications
journalism
literature
media
poetry
publishing
writing
glosses: Of or pertaining to the Ancient Greek satirical poet Archilochus and his style.
Derived terms: english: a verse consisting of four dactyls and three trochees
translation: a verse consisting of four dactyls and three trochees
word: greater Archilochian
english: a verse comprising two dactyls and a length
translation: a verse comprising two dactyls and a length
word: lesser Archilochian
polyoxygenated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From poly- + oxygenated.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: oxygenated in many parts of the molecule
inbeaming
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: inbeamings
Etymology: From in- + beaming.
Senses: examples: text: And for all these boastings of new lights, inbeamings, and inspirations, that man that follows his reason, both in the choice and defence of his religion, will find himself better led and directed by this one guide, than by an hundred directories.
ref: 1827, Robert South, Discourses on Various Subjects and Occasions:
glosses: A shining in.
inbeamings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of inbeaming
serpentinous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more serpentinous
form: most serpentinous
Etymology: From serpentine + -ous.
Senses: examples: text: a serpentinous dunite
text: a serpentinous rock
topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: Resembling or relating to serpentine (the mineral).
prechilled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: pre-chilled
Etymology: From pre- + chilled.
Senses: glosses: chilled in advance
hornworms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hornworm
buffin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: buffins
Etymology: Named for its resemblance to buff leather.
Senses: examples: text: buffin gowns
text: I will tell thee, albeit that I know thou wilt not understand me. One takes the finest true silver and quicksilver passed through buffin cloth, and when blended together they are ground for a day in the same direction with a little fine sugar.
ref: 1968 [1540], John Nevinson, transl., Raffella of Master Alexander Piccolomini: Or Rather, A Dialogue of the Fair Perfectioning of Ladies, translation of La Raffaella, ovvero, Dialogo della bella creanza delle donne by Alessandro Piccolomini, page 35:
text: The fabrics he bought–buffin, sackcloth, rash, jean fustian and milan fustian, durance–were modestly priced, affordable by the merchants and well-to-do yeomen of the town.
ref: 2013 September 27, Drea Leed, “William Wray, Haberdasher”, in Lizapalooza: Historic Costume Research, Recreation, and Ruminations, archived from the original on 21 Jul 2014:
glosses: A sort of coarse material, of unknown manufacture.
buffins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of buffin
proansamycin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: proansamycins
Etymology: From pro- + ansamycin.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of a group of macrocyclic compounds that are intermediates in the biosynthesis of ansamycins
piccage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: piccages
form: pickage
Etymology: Latin piccadium, from French piquer (“to prick”).
Senses: topics: law
glosses: Money paid at fairs for permission to set up booths.
piccages
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of piccage
proansamycins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of proansamycin
proangiogenetic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more proangiogenetic
form: most proangiogenetic
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of proangiogenic.
Creeks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Creek
radiocomplex
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: radiocomplexes
Etymology: From radio- + complex.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A complex containing a radiotracer
Related terms: radiocomplexation
radiocomplexation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From radio- + complexation.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The formation of a radiocomplex
saliniketal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: saliniketals
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of a family of bicyclic polyketides isolated from marine actinomycetes
septapeptide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: septapeptides
Etymology: From septa- + peptide.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any oligopeptide containing seven amino acid residues
Cyrenian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -iːniən
Forms: form: more Cyrenian
form: most Cyrenian
form: Cyrenean
form: Cyrenaean
form: Cyrenæan
Etymology: From Cyrene + -ian.
Senses: synonyms: Cyrenaic
glosses: Of or related to Cyrene.
synonyms: word: Aristippan
word: Aristippian
word: Cyrenaic
word: Cyrenean
word: Cyrenaic
word: of or related to Cyrenaicism
glosses: Synonym of Cyrenaic, of or related to Cyrenaicism.
synonyms: word: Cyrenaic
word: Cyrenaican
word: Cyrenean
word: Barcan
word: Barqan
word: Cyrenaican
word: of or related to Cyrenaica
glosses: Synonym of Cyrenaican, of or related to Cyrenaica.
Cyrenian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -iːniən
Forms: form: Cyrenians
form: Cyrenean
form: Cyrenaean
form: Cyrenæan
Etymology: From Cyrene + -ian.
Senses: glosses: A native or inhabitant of Cyrene.
glosses: Synonym of Cyrenaic, an adherent of Cyrenaicism.
synonyms: word: Cyrenaic
extra: an adherent of Cyrenaicism
glosses: Synonym of Cyrenaican, a native or inhabitant of Cyrenaica.
synonyms: word: Cyrenaican
extra: a native or inhabitant of Cyrenaica
Synonyms: sense: Of or related to Cyrene
word: Cyrenaic
Cyrenians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Cyrenian
semicircled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more semicircled
form: most semicircled
Etymology: From semi- + circled.
Senses: examples: text: a semicircled farthingale
ref: c. 1597 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merry Wiues of Windsor”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene iii]:
glosses: Semicircular.
semicircled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From semi- + circled.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of semicircle
Valhallan
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Valhallan
form: most Valhallan
Etymology: From Valhalla + -an.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to Valhalla.
Valhallan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Valhallans
Etymology: From Valhalla + -an.
Senses: glosses: An inhabitant of Valhalla.
savorers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of savorer
savourers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of savourer
superfold
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: superfolds
Etymology: From super- + fold.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A large grouping of protein fold conformations
droitural
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: droitural actions
topics: law
glosses: Relating to the mere right of property, as distinguished from the right of possession.
coccobacteria
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of coccobacterium
coccobacterium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: coccobacteria
Etymology: From Ancient Greek κόκκος (kókkos, “grain”) + bacterium, from its round shape.
Senses: topics: bacteriology
biology
microbiology
natural-sciences
glosses: One of various round variety of bacteria.
unfeaty
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unfeaty
form: most unfeaty
Etymology: From un- (“not”) + feat (“dexterous”, adjective).
Senses: examples: text: He never saw more unfeaty [clumsy] fellows than great clerks were.
ref: a. 1587, Philippe Sidnei [i.e., Philip Sidney], “(please specify the folio)”, in [Fulke Greville; Matthew Gwinne; John Florio], editors, The Countesse of Pembrokes Arcadia [The New Arcadia], London: […] [John Windet] for William Ponsonbie, published 1590, →OCLC:
english: The New Arcadia
translation: The New Arcadia
glosses: Not feat or dexterous; clumsy.
superfolds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of superfold
tanshinone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tanshinones
Senses: examples: text: Possibly, a low concentration in the water-extract of pharmacologically active lipophilic compounds, including tanshinones, led to a lack of efficacy of Danshen.
ref: 2015 July 21, “Salvia Miltiorrhiza Root Water-Extract (Danshen) Has No Beneficial Effect on Cardiovascular Risk Factors. A Randomized Double-Blind Cross-Over Trial”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of a family of diterpene quinones, isolated from tan shen, that are transcription factor inhibitors
Related terms: tanshinol
isotanshinone
tan shen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Borrowed from Mandarin 丹參 /丹参 (dānshēn).
Senses: glosses: Red sage or Chinese sage (Salvia miltiorrhiza)
Related terms: tanshinone
tetraubiquitin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tetraubiquitins
Etymology: From tetra- + ubiquitin.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A complex of four ubiquitin proteins.
trichloroacetaldehyde
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From trichloro + acetaldehyde.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: chloral
tumorgenesis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tumorgeneses
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of tumorigenesis.
tumoricidal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more tumoricidal
form: most tumoricidal
Senses: glosses: That destroys tumor cells
Related terms: tumoricide
climatographies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of climatography
climatography
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɒɡɹəfi
Forms: form: climatographies
Etymology: From climate + -graphy.
Senses: glosses: A scientific description of climates
Derived terms: climatographic
Related terms: climatographer
solecize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /ˈsɒlɪsaɪz/
Forms: form: solecizes
form: solecizing
form: solecized
form: solecized
Etymology: From Ancient Greek σολοικίζω (soloikízō).
Senses: examples: text: To phansie the Holy Writers to solœcize in their language, when we do not like the sense.
ref: 1660, H[enry] More, An Explanation of the Grand Mystery of Godliness; […], London: […] J[ames] Flesher, for W[illiam] Morden […], →OCLC:
glosses: To commit a solecism.
solecized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of solecize
solecizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of solecize
solecizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of solecize
clerkless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Middle English clerkles; equivalent to clerk + -less.
Senses: examples: text: Whatever the cause of the failure, the clerkless store did not materialize.
ref: 1940, John Thomas Flynn, Country Squire in the White House, page 32:
glosses: Without clerks.
examples: text: […] at which Postern may come in Tyranny, and rigorous cruelty; like that of the Turk, whose military Janizaries and Bashaws, rule all in their Clerklesse and cruel way; to abate the fear of which, as Armes have been practised but sparingly by true and Virtuous Princes, so hath Learning still been kept on and encouraged, as that which modificates, and attempers the rigidity of Martial inclinations.
ref: 1653, Edward Waterhous[e], An humble Apologie for Learning and Learned Men, page 40:
text: And so, having held forth in this wise full half an hour, using very fine-sounding words, but showing himself most clerkless, inasmuch as that he demonstrated not any point he advanced, and by his lack of logic caused divers of us ofttimes to smile, he consented at last, when our patience was well-nigh exhausted, to hold his peace, and to suffer, as he had promised, that an answer should be made him.
ref: 1878, Alice O’Hanlon, Erleston Glen […], page 198:
text: Their solitary and clerkless preacher, a somewhat stunted figure in a plain black coat, with a cracked voice […] put his utmost zeal into a consolatory discourse on the wickedness of the wide world, more especially of the plain of Piedmont and city of Turin, and on the exclusive favor with God, enjoyed by between nineteen and twenty-four elect members of his congregation, in the streets of Admah and Zeboim.
ref: 1888, John Ruskin, Præterita: Outlines of Scenes and Thoughts Perhaps Worthy of Memory in My Past Life, volume 3, page 45:
glosses: Uneducated.
tumorsphere
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tumorspheres
form: tumoursphere
Etymology: From tumor + sphere.
Senses: topics: biology
cytology
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: A spheroid composed of tumor stem cells
Related terms: mammosphere
neurosphere
ubiquitinations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ubiquitination
undegassed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + degassed.
Senses: glosses: From which the gas has not been removed
unprenylated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + prenylated.
Senses: glosses: nonprenylated
viabilities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of viability
pac
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pacs
Etymology: Clipping of shoepac.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of pack.
qualifier: originally
glosses: A moccasin with a sole made of leather or deerskin.
glosses: A pac boot.
Derived terms: pac boot
Related terms: pac-a-mac
heptylic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From heptyl + -ic.
Senses: examples: text: heptylic alcohol
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
synonyms: heptanoic
glosses: Pertaining to, or derived from, heptyl or heptane.
uniformism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From uniform + -ism.
Senses: examples: text: The real issue at stake concerned differences in values and norms within cultures and countries, whereby pluralism clashed with uniformism.
ref: 2013, Robert L. Cliquet, Kristiaan Thienpont, Population and Development, page 142:
glosses: A policy of, or belief in, uniformity or sameness.
topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: The doctrine of uniformity in the geological history of the Earth; in part equivalent to uniformitarianism, but also used, more broadly, as opposed to catastrophism.
carbunculation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: carbunculations
Etymology: Latin carbunculatio.
Senses: examples: text: The disease known as sideration entirely depends upon the heavens; and hence we may class under this head, the ill effects produced by hail-storms, carbunculation, and the damage caused by hoar-frosts.
ref: 1855, Pliny (the Elder.), translated by John Bostock and Henry Thomas Riley, The Natural History of Pliny - Volume 3, page 520:
text: Howsumdiver, I now mane to enjoy myself in the manetime, and do like the poor fellah when locked up head and shoulders in the carbunculation of dispair, drown my sorrows in a glass.
ref: 1863, Roger Quinn, The Heather Lintie, page 172:
text: Its hopes may be nipped in the bud by distortion, or halation, or abrasion, or reticulation, or electrification, or carbunculation, until it must be as unlikely that any negative should emerge perfect from the dark-room chrysalis as that a bomb should rop from a Zeppelin on to this page and dot its "i's" and cross its "t's."
ref: 1915 September 27, The Magpie, “The Apcavserie”, in The Amateur Photographer, volume 62, page 264:
text: […] papulation, pustulation, carbunculation, vesiculation and bullous formation.
ref: 1928, Missouri State Medical Association, Journal of the Missouri State Medical Association - Volume 25, page 18:
text: Unseasonable frosts in the spring scorch the tender fruits, which bad effect of frost is usually expressed by carbunculation or blasting. -Joseph Caryl.
ref: 2016, Charles Haddon Spurgeon, Treasury of David:
text: The opening lines' dull roots have, as it were, been protected from carbunculation by the insulating snow, while the second stanza's questions land on carbunculine soil: 'What are the roots that clutch, what branches grow / Out of this stony rubbish?'
ref: 2020, Peter Fifield, Modernism and Physical Illness: Sick Books, page 140:
glosses: The blasting of something, by excessive heat or cold.
carbunculations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of carbunculation
subduplicate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From sub- + duplicate.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: Expressed by the square root; said of ratios.
Related terms: subdouble
subduple
excrementitial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: medicine
physiology
sciences
glosses: Pertaining to, consisting of, or of the nature of excrement
niceries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nicery
nicery
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: niceries
Etymology: From nice + -ery.
Senses: examples: text: your minſing niceries, caffata pipkins , durance petticotes , & ſiluer bodkings
ref: 1605 August (first performance), Geo[rge] Chapman, Ben Ionson, Ioh[n] Marston, Eastward Hoe. […], London: […] [George Eld] for William Aspley, published September 1605, →OCLC, (please specify the page):
glosses: nicety
delineament
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: delineaments
Etymology: See delineate and -ment.
Senses: examples: text: The sunne's a type of that eternall light Which we call God, a fair delineament
Of that which Good in Plato's school is hight
ref: 1642, Henry More, Psychathanasia:
glosses: A delineation; a sketch.
delineaments
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of delineament
contraremonstrant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: contraremonstrants
Etymology: From contra- + remonstrant.
Senses: examples: text: They did the synod wrong to make this distinction of contraremonstrants and remonstrants.
ref: 1656, John Hales, Doctor Davenant touching the Second Article discussed at the conference at the Hague of the Extent of Redemption:
glosses: Someone who remonstrates against a remonstrant.
contraremonstrants
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of contraremonstrant
parturifacient
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: parturifacients
Etymology: From Latin parturire (“to desire to bring forth”) + facere (“to make”).
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A medicine tending to cause parturition, or to give relief in childbirth.
parturifacients
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of parturifacient
strokesman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: strokesmen
Etymology: From strokes + -man or stroke + -s- + -man.
Senses: examples: text: He arrived at last before our bench, and stopping with a ferocious air he ordered the strokesmen to cease rowing
ref: 1757, Jean Marteilhe, Autobiography of a French Protestant:
glosses: The member of a rowing team who rows the aftermost oar, and whose stroke is to be followed by the rest.
strokesmen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of strokesman
maleformation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: maleformations
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of malformation.
maleformations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of maleformation
enmarble
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: enmarbles
form: enmarbling
form: enmarbled
form: enmarbled
form: emmarble
Etymology: From en- + marble.
Senses: glosses: To turn to marble; to make as hard as marble; to harden.
enmarbled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of enmarble
enmarbles
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of enmarble
enmarbling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of enmarble
thiefly
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈθiːfli/
ipa: /ˈθifli/
Forms: form: more thiefly
form: most thiefly
form: thievely
Etymology: From Middle English theefly; equivalent to thief + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Most patiently, with noiseless tread, I then did Make thro' those sumptuous halls my thiefly way, Until at last I reached the chamber splendid Where Hobart Chatfield Chatfield slumb'ring lay.
ref: 1893, “The Lay of a Lake Forest Burglar”, in Town Topics, the Journal of Society, volume 30, page 24:
text: In bantering gusto he went right on with his thiefly enterprise.
ref: 1949, Young Men's Mutual Improvement Association, The Improvement Era - Volume 52, page 378:
text: Rogues are characters with some expertise in thiefly abilities and more specialized knowledge of arms than that possessed by Fighters.
ref: 1995, Coleman Charlton, Pete Fenlon, S. Marvin, Rolemaster Standard Rules, →ISBN:
text: It would be a sad thing to enter this dark time and then to have an eternal reality stolen and lessened in a thiefly sort of way at the door of death through a life that was lived in a less than honorable fashion.
ref: 2002, Milton Finch, Virginia Ward, Hello Again, Already!: A Book for the Spiritually-Minded Christian:
text: ...here he was, bent on one last thiefly act.
ref: 2011, Ed Greenwood, Elminster: Making of a Mage, →ISBN:
glosses: Like a thief; thievish.
thiefly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈθiːfli/
ipa: /ˈθifli/
Forms: form: more thiefly
form: most thiefly
form: thievely
Etymology: From Middle English thefly, þeefliche, þeofliche, equivalent thief + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: What great is living so thiefly!!! (Like a thief).
ref: 1983, David G. Smith, The Music Stops and the Waltz Continues, page 120:
text: Downyng described Sybbesoun as "a strong thief to Wood Mill, for truly he and his wife have procured my servant and my goods, that is to say wheat and rye by the bushel and the half, as thiefly and as un-truly as he might do."
ref: 2008, Derek G. Neal, The Masculine Self in Late Medieval England, page 43:
glosses: Like a thief; thievishly.
semisavage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: semisavages
Etymology: From semi- + savage.
Senses: glosses: Someone who is half or partially savage.
semisavage
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From semi- + savage.
Senses: glosses: Half or partially savage.
semisavages
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of semisavage
overtrip
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: overtrips
Etymology: From over- + trip.
Senses: examples: text: As noted previously, the west coast blackout of July 2, 1996, was initiated by an overtrip that resulted in the simultaneous loss of two 345 kV lines.
ref: 2014, J. Lewis Blackburn, Thomas J. Domin, Protective Relaying: Principles and Applications, page 599:
text: However, these schemes may overtrip for out-of-section faults that occur while the channel is not available.
ref: 2017, Surya Santoso, H. Wayne Beaty, Standard Handbook for Electrical Engineers, page 1188:
text: When selecting setpoints for overcurrent relays, margins need to be included in order to account for errors that could result in an overtrip or a failure to trip.
ref: 2018, Anthony M. Sleva, Protective Relay Principles, page 186:
topics: business
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
electronics
energy
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: An instance of overtripping.
overtripped
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of overtrip
overtripping
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of overtrip
overtrips
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of overtrip
hedgeborn
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From hedge + born.
Senses: examples: text: Be quite degraded, like a hedge-born swine
ref: 1591 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The First Part of Henry the Sixt”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene i]:
glosses: Born under a hedge or of low birth.
examples: text: The trader's child, whose soaring spirit rose
As hedge-born aloe-flowers that rarest years disclose
ref: 1869, George Eliot, How Lisa Loved the King:
glosses: growing in a hedge
physiognotrace
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: physiognotraces
Etymology: From physiognomy and trace.
Senses: examples: text: The history of the physiognotrace is addressed in several French articles and books.
ref: 1994, Ellen Gross Miles with Dru Dowdy, Saint-Mémin and the neoclassical profile portrait in America:
text: Public enthusiasm for the physiognotrace turned in part upon the machine's ease, speed, and low expense.
ref: 2004, Lisa Gitelman with Geoffrey B. Pingree, New Media, 1740-1915, page 36:
text: At the end of the “Long Room” of the old State House, operating the physiognotrace soon after it had been installed and cutting out the profiles that the machine etched with its steel point, was Moses Williams, an African American
ref: 2010, Samuel Otter, Philadelphia stories: America's literature of race and freedom, page 91:
glosses: A device to facilitate the production of faithful profiles of human faces.
Related terms: camera obscura
pantograph
zombie out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: zombies out
form: zombieing out
form: zombied out
form: zombied out
Etymology: First attested in 1981. From zombie + out. Compare the earlier adjective zombied-out (1976).
Senses: examples: text: 1981, Contemporary Keyboard VII:i–vi, page unknown
Ada Richter has compiled [Piano Classics] with the noble idea of helping younger students work on various aspects of technique without having to zombie out on drills and exercises.
text: After Dennis got killed, my mom just kind of zombied out for a couple of years.
ref: 1984, Kirkus Reviews, LII:xix-xxiv, page 986:
text: After I’ve been zombied out, will they hurt my dad?
ref: 1986, Jerome Charyn, War Cries Over Avenue C, page 271:
text: After the ‛copter had crashed on Cobre Road, [Cody] figured he’d zombied out.
ref: 1988, Robert R. McCammon, Stinger, page 321:
text: Black women just seem to do their time different. They sing more, goof around more. They don’t zombie out like the rest of us.
ref: 1989, Patricia McConnel, Sing Soft, Sing Loud, page 60:
text: My man here keeps zombying out.
ref: 1991, PRISM international, XXX, page 73:
text: The autoworker who zombies out as your car-to-be passes by on the assembly line…contribute[s] to a loss in your personal productivity and sometimes your safety.
ref: 1993, Martin C. Moore-Ede, The Twenty-Four-Hour Society, page 128:
glosses: To become listless, vacant, or unresponsive.
evenminded
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more evenminded
form: most evenminded
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of even-minded.
Derived terms: evenmindedly
evenmindedness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of even-mindedness.
albonoursin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: An antibacterial diketopiperazine peptide produced by Streptomyces noursei.
diketopiperazine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: diketopiperazines
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of a family of heterocycles that are simple cyclic peptides; many have significant biochemical activity.
Synonyms: dioxopiperazine
piperazinedione
antiinflammatories
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of antiinflammatory
diketopiperazines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of diketopiperazine
zombied-out
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: zombied out
Etymology: First attested in 1976; zombie + -ed + out; compare the later verb zombie out (1981).
Senses: examples: text: If you do a whole lot of it, you get sort of zombied out and you tend to stare at things.
ref: 1976, Lester Grinspoon, James B. Bakalar, Cocaine, page 130:
text: Sometimes I would see them real mellow and the next minute they’d be all zombied out.
ref: 1979, Harvey W. Feldman, Michael Agar, George M. Beschner, editors, Angel Dust, page 87:
text: As though he’d been passed out on the floor all these years or zombied out on weed like that idiot Ferd.
ref: 1980, Tom Lorenz, Guys Like Us, page 34:
text: Adrenaline junkies, zombied out on fear, working the assembly line on the nod, they shuffled about the business of the war factory.
ref: 1983, Mark Baker, Nam, page 79:
text: I saw my friends go into a room, an hour later they’d be in the lounge acting crazy: sedate as wandering death, completely inarticulate and just zombied-out.
ref: 1984, Common Lives/Lesbian Lives, XI, page 33:
text: I’ve been kind’ve^([sic]) zombied out recently. You know, numb. I just drift around the house listening to piano music.
ref: 1985, Zyzzyva, I, page 106:
glosses: Like a zombie in being sluggish, numb, listless, and vacant.
zombies out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of zombie out
zombying out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of zombie out
zombied out
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of zombied-out.
zombied out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of zombie out
antileukemia
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: antileukaemia
form: anti-leukemia
Etymology: From anti- + leukemia.
Senses: topics: medicine
oncology
sciences
synonyms: antileukemic
glosses: That is used to treat leukemia
antimicrobe
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From anti- + microbe.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: antimicrobial
Saddamists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Saddamist
antileukaemia
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From anti- + leukaemia.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of antileukemia.
apopain
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: An enzyme that catalyzes the proteolytic degradation of PARP
apoptosomes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of apoptosome
bombace
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Old French
Senses: glosses: cotton; padding
dogsleep
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dog-sleep
form: dog sleep
form: dog's sleep
Etymology: From dog + sleep.
Senses: examples: text: This was Gabriel Varden's state as, nodding in his dog sleep, and leaving his horse to pursue a road with which he was well acquainted, he got over the ground unconsciously, and drew nearer and nearer home.
ref: 1841, Charles Dickens, chapter 3, in Barnaby Rudge:
text: [M]any of the convicts made up for their lack of rest by snatching a dog-sleep in the bared bunks.
ref: 1874, Marcus Clarke, For the Term of His Natural Life, Penguin, published 2009, page 65:
glosses: Light or fitful sleep; a nap that is easily interrupted.
examples: text: Juvenal, indeed, mentions a drowsy husband, who raised an estate by snoring, but then he is represented to have slept what the common people call dog's sleep
ref: 1711 October 12 (Gregorian calendar), [Joseph Addison], “MONDAY, October 1, 1711”, in The Spectator, number 184; republished in Alexander Chalmers, editor, The Spectator; a New Edition, […], volume II, New York, N.Y.: D[aniel] Appleton & Company, 1853, →OCLC:
glosses: Feigned sleep.
Related terms: catnap
asperagine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of asparagine.
lifen
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlaɪfən/
rhymes: -aɪfən
Forms: form: lifens
form: lifening
form: lifened
form: lifened
Etymology: From life + -en.
Senses: examples: text: Ruſh me in / VVhil'ſt Mellida prepares her ſelfe to die: / Halter about thy necke, and vvith ſuch ſighs, / Laments, and acclamations lyfen it, / As if impulſiue povver of remorſe.
ref: 1600 or 1601 (date written), I. M. [i.e., John Marston], Antonios Reuenge. The Second Part. […], London: […] [Richard Bradock] for Thomas Fisher, and are to be soulde [by Matthew Lownes] […], published 1602, →OCLC, Act II, scene v, signature E2, recto:
glosses: To liven, to enliven.
lifened
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of lifen
lifening
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of lifen
lifens
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of lifen
sapientially
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more sapientially
form: most sapientially
Etymology: From sapiential + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a sapiential manner.
metallochrome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: metallochromes
Etymology: From metallo- + -chrome. See metallochromy.
Senses: glosses: A colouring produced by the deposition of some metallic compound; specifically, the prismatic tints produced by depositing a film of peroxide of lead on polished steel by electricity.
metallochromes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of metallochrome
atherosclerogenic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more atherosclerogenic
form: most atherosclerogenic
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to atherosclerogenesis
Derived terms: atherosclerogenic index
presential
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /pɹɪˈzɛnʃiəl/
/pɹɪˈzɛnʃəl/
Forms: form: more presential
form: most presential
Etymology: From Late Latin praesentiālis.
Senses: examples: text: presential learning    presential work
glosses: In-person, on-premises, face-to-face (that is, not involving online, virtual or remote interaction).
examples: text: Going a foote, I shall durty my selfe up to my waste; and little men, going alongst our streets, are subject (for want of presentiall apparence) to be justled or elbowed.
ref: 1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter XIII, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book III, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC:
text: The ſunne and all the ſtarres that do appear / She [Psyche] feels them in herſelf, can diſtance all, / For ſhe is at each one purely preſentiall.
ref: 1642, H[enry] M[ore], “ΨΥΧΑΘΑΝΑΣΙΑ [Psychathanasia] Platonica: Or A Platonicall Poem of the Immortality of Souls, Especially Mans Soul”, in ΨΥΧΩΔΙΑ [Psychōdia] Platonica: Or A Platonicall Song of the Soul, […], Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: […] Roger Daniel, printer to the Universitie, →OCLC, book 3, canto 1, stanza 21, page 61:
text: God's mercies are made presential to us.
ref: 1678, Antiquitates Christianæ: Or, the History of the Life and Death of the Holy Jesus: […], London: […] E. Flesher, and R. Norton, for R[ichard] Royston, […], →OCLC:
glosses: Implying actual presence; present.
topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: Pertaining to the present tense.
Related terms: presentiality
presentially
atherosclerogenesis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: atherosclerogeneses
Senses: glosses: The generation of atherosclerosis.
Related terms: atherosclerogenic
catagmatic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Ancient Greek καταγμα (katagma, “fracture”).
Senses: examples: text: "The principal catagmatics were Armenian bole, tragacanth, osteocolla, Cyprus nuts, frankincense, aloes, and acacia."
ref: 1728, E[phraim] Chambers, “CATAGMATIC”, in Cyclopædia: Or, An Universal Dictionary of Arts and Sciences; […] In Two Volumes, volumes I (A–H), London: […] James and John Knapton [et al.], →OCLC:
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Having the quality of consolidating broken bones.
tantalism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈtæntəlɪzəm/
Forms: form: tantalisms
Etymology: tantalize + -ism.
Senses: examples: text: I dare say will think it a lively representation of a person lying under the torments of such a kind of Tantalism , or Platonic Hell , as that which we have now under consideration .
ref: 1711 June 24 (Gregorian calendar), [Joseph Addison], “WEDNESDAY, June 13, 1711”, in The Spectator, number 90; republished in Alexander Chalmers, editor, The Spectator; a New Edition, […], volume I, New York, N.Y.: D[aniel] Appleton & Company, 1853, →OCLC:
text: January 1811, Josiah Quincy, Amendment to the Constitution
Is not such a provision like tantalism to this people?
glosses: A punishment like that of the mythological Tantalus; a teasing or tormenting by the hope or near approach of good which is not attainable.
tantalisms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tantalism
renerve
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: renerves
form: renerving
form: renerved
form: renerved
Etymology: From re- + nerve.
Senses: examples: text: renerve someone's spirits
text: renerve a limb
glosses: To nerve again; to reinvigorate or unnumb.
renerved
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of renerve
renerves
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of renerve
renerving
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of renerve
ailantus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /eɪˈlæntəs/
ipa: /ə-/
Forms: form: ailantuses
form: ailanthus
Etymology: From the genus name.
Senses: glosses: Any member of the tree genus Ailanthus.
ailantuses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ailantus
Titivillus
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A demon said to introduce errors into the work of scribes.
Related terms: printer's devilry
agrarianize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: agrarianizes
form: agrarianizing
form: agrarianized
form: agrarianized
form: agrarianise
Etymology: From agrarian + -ize.
Senses: glosses: To imbue with the principles of agrarianism.
glosses: To distribute according to the principles of agrarianism.
examples: text: Their living conditions had begun to deteriorate, initially with the administrative attempts to agrarianize their land .The attmpts to transform the Ainu into farmers were, however, not successful.
ref: 2013, Katarina Sjoberg, The Return of Ainu, page 122:
text: Traditionally, Hitler's has been seen as a determinedly atavistic ideology, with his admiration of healthy peasant life and his dislike of urban culture reflecting a desire to 're-agrarianize' Germany, to turn back the clock and put the industrial revolution into reverse, recreating Germany as a pre-industrial idyll.
ref: 2014, Neil Gregor, How To Read Hitler:
text: Man "has been industrialized to the limit. Now agrarianize him. Somewhat."
ref: 2017, Anselm L. Strauss, Images of the American City:
glosses: To convert to a more agricultural model.
agrarianized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of agrarianize
agrarianizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of agrarianize
agrarianizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of agrarianize
counterirritate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: counterirritates
form: counterirritating
form: counterirritated
form: counterirritated
Etymology: From counter- + irritate.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: to treat a counterirritant
Related terms: counterirritation
counterirritated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of counterirritate
counterirritates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of counterirritate
counterirritating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of counterirritate
sea butterfly
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sea butterflies
Senses: examples: text: Sea butterflies are pteropods: sea snails that swim by flapping pad-like ‘feet’ which have grown into wings.
ref: 2012, Caspar Henderson, The Book of Barely Imagined Beings, Granta Books, published 2013, page 284:
synonyms: pteropod
glosses: Any of the suborder Thecosomata of small pelagic sea snails.
dishaunt
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: dishaunts
form: dishaunting
form: dishaunted
form: dishaunted
Etymology: From dis- + haunt.
Senses: examples: text: About the tyme of this Assembly lyckwayes, sett formes of prayers in prayer are dispublicke beganne to be dishaunted by all
ref: 1640, James Gordon, History of Scots Affairs:
glosses: To leave or depart from; to cease to haunt.
dishaunted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of dishaunt
dishaunting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of dishaunt
dishaunts
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of dishaunt
basbleu
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: basbleus
Etymology: Borrowed from French bas-bleu, from bas (“stocking”) + bleu (“blue”), itself a calque of English bluestocking.
Senses: glosses: A bluestocking (a literary woman).
basbleus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of basbleu
invect
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: invects
form: invecting
form: invected
form: invected
Etymology: From Latin invehō (“bring in, carry in”), from in- + vehō (“carry”).
Senses: glosses: To import or introduce.
examples: text: But, alas! why invect ſo againſt thy tongue? lingua a lingendo, and you know wee uſe alwayes to li[c]ke in, and ſo thou ſhouldeſt keepe in thy poyſon: or a ligando, which is to binde, and ſo thou ſhouldeſt binde up, and not disperſe abroad that ranker in thee.
ref: 1597, Don Richardo de Medico Campo [pseudonym; Richard Lichfield], The Trimming of Thomas Nashe Gentleman, London: […] [Edward Allde] for Philip Scarlet, →OCLC; republished as J[ohn] P[ayne] C[ollier], editor, The Trimming of Thomas Nashe Gentleman (Miscellaneous Tracts, Temp. Eliz. & Jac. I), [London: s.n.], 1870, →OCLC, page 15:
text: Your pictures far excel you, for they have / All that is good in you, your outward feature, / But your infernal minds they, happy, want. / Beauty, at best, is like a blooming tree, / Fairest in bud, when it bears foulest fruit. / Fool that I am thus to invect against her!
ref: c. 1604–1626, doubtfully attributed to Francis Beaumont, John Fletcher, “The Faithful Friends”, in Henry [William] Weber, editor, The Works of Beaumont and Fletcher, in Fourteen Volumes: […], volume I, Edinburgh: […] F[rancis] C[harles] and J[ohn] Rivington; […], published 1812, →OCLC, Act III, scene iii, pages 83–84:
synonyms: inveigh
glosses: To subject to invective; to censure or rail against.
Related terms: convect
invective
invecting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of invect
invects
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of invect
supranaturalistic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more supranaturalistic
form: most supranaturalistic
Etymology: From supra- + naturalistic.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to supernaturalism; supernaturalistic.
cullionly
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more cullionly
form: most cullionly
Etymology: From cullion + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Ile make a sop oth' Moonshine of you, you whoreson, Culyenly barbermonger, draw
ref: c. 1603–1606, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of King Lear”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene ii], page 292, column 1:
glosses: mean, worthless, vulgar or otherwise inferior.
throbby
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: throbbier
form: throbbiest
Etymology: From throb + -y.
Senses: examples: text: My heart did a throbby flip-flop when the buzzer sounded at last. It was all very well to ask a girl to my hotel suite, but I was new to such stuff[…]
ref: 1953, James M. Cain, Two O'Clock Blonde:
text: Some of its bass chords that sound good in meantone temperament sound throbby and wrong in equal temperament.
ref: 2001, Perry R. Cook, Music, cognition, and computerized sound, page 180:
glosses: throbbing
meantone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: meantones
Etymology: From mean + tone.
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A musical temperament that generates all non-octave intervals from a stack of identical perfect fifths all tuned flat from their just ratio of 3/2. When the amount of flattening makes the major and minor thirds appropriate sizes, the syntonic comma is tempered out to a unison.
throbbiest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of throbby: most throbby
throbbier
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of throbby: more throbby
atrophin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: atrophins
Etymology: From atrophy + -in.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of a class of proteins found in nervous tissue.
Synonyms: ATN
autorhythmic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From auto- + rhythmic.
Senses: glosses: That generates its own rhythm
Derived terms: english: pacemaker
translation: pacemaker
word: autorhythmic cell
biotoxic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more biotoxic
form: most biotoxic
Etymology: From bio- + toxic.
Senses: glosses: toxic, and of biological origin
Related terms: biotoxin
bisacrylamide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bisacrylamides
Etymology: From bis- + acrylamide.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any compound derived from two acrylamide residues
carbamidomethylation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: carbamidomethylations
Etymology: From carbamidomethyl + -ation.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: the introduction of a carbamidomethyl group
happy puppet syndrome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Angelman syndrome
sculptability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From sculpt + -ability.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being sculptable.