cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
radiopasteurize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: radiopasteurizes
form: radiopasteurizing
form: radiopasteurized
form: radiopasteurized
Etymology: From radio- + pasteurize.
Senses: glosses: To pasteurize by means of ionizing radiation
Derived terms: radiopasteurization
radiophiles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of radiophile
private docent
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: private docents
form: priv. doc.
form: priv.-doc.
form: priv.doc.
Etymology: Calque of German Privatdozent. Doublet of privatdozent.
Senses: glosses: An associate professor (in a university) who has obtained a doctorate, written a habilitation thesis and given a lecture in the hope of becoming a full professor.
raw_tags: in German-speaking countries
radiosterilize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: radiosterilizes
form: radiosterilizing
form: radiosterilized
form: radiosterilized
Etymology: From radio- + sterilize.
Senses: glosses: To sterilize by means of radiosterilization
priv. doc.
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of private docent.
priv.-doc.
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of private docent.
priv.doc.
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of private docent.
radioelectricity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From radio- + electricity.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: All the phenomena related to electromagnetic waves
glosses: The technology of creating, distributing and receiving electromagnetic waves (especially radio waves)
radioactivations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of radioactivation
radiopharmacies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of radiopharmacy
parabalistic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more parabalistic
form: most parabalistic
Senses: examples: a parabalistic tale
glosses: like a parable
akinete
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: akinetes
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: A thick-walled, dormant cell found in cyanobacteria and green algae
akinetes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Like the spores of other bacteria, when compared to vegetative cells, akinetes are more resistant to environmental stresses.
ref: 2015 July 17, “Persistence of Only a Minute Viable Population in Chlorotic Microcystis aeruginosa PCC 7806 Cultures Obtained by Nutrient Limitation”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: plural of akinete
alkalibasaltic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From alkali basalt + -ic.
Senses: examples: text: Vesteris Seamount is composed of highly alkaline lavas of alkalibasaltic to basanitic/tephritic compositions, consistent with small extents of mantle melting due to great lithospheric thickness [17 ].
ref: 2015 July 17, “Zygomycetes in Vesicular Basanites from Vesteris Seamount, Greenland Basin – A New Type of Cryptoendolithic Fungi”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: Relating to, containing or characteristic of alkali basalt
alkali basalt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: alkali basalts
Senses: examples: text: The largest central volcanoes (Peak Range and Springsure) occupy the 'swell' in that arc, which peters out southwards into tholeiitic and finally subsurface alkali basalt intrusives (Roma drilling results).
ref: 2003, R. R. Hillis, Evolution and Dynamics of the Australian Plate, page 213:
topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: An alkaline variety of basalt.
Derived terms: alkalibasaltic
allodiploid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From allo- + diploid.
Senses: topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: Having two complete sets of chromosomes derived from two different species
allodiploid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: allodiploids
Etymology: From allo- + diploid.
Senses: glosses: Such an organism
Related terms: allopolyploid
allodiploids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: In turn, crosses between these allodiploids and backcrosses with the parental species originated a successful hybrid complex that includes fertile males and females with distinct ploidies (2n = 50, 3n = 75 and 4n = 100) and different combinations of the parental genomes (genomotypes) (reviewed in [16 ]).
ref: 2015 July 17, “Mate Choice Drives Evolutionary Stability in a Hybrid Complex”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: plural of allodiploid
areolaes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: The left diatom is overgrown by fungi and irregular organic matter, but structures resembling areolaes are visible through the organic cover.
ref: 2015 July 17, “Zygomycetes in Vesicular Basanites from Vesteris Seamount, Greenland Basin – A New Type of Cryptoendolithic Fungi”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Misspelling of areolae and areolas.
arthrialgia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Some studies also revealed that low levels of serum PCT were presented in low grade of inflammation in seropositive arthrialgia, non infectious RA patients [9 ,34 ].
ref: 2015 July 17, “High Level Serum Procalcitonin Associated Gouty Arthritis Susceptibility: From a Southern Chinese Han Population”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Misspelling of arthralgia.
athrodesis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Patients with infected joints may undergo surgical debridement and retention of prosthesis, single-stage revision arthroplasty, two-stage revision arthroplasty, amputation, or athrodesis, followed by a prolonged course of antimicrobial therapy.
ref: 2015 July 17, “The Suspected Infected Prosthetic Joint: Clinical Acumen and Added Value of Laboratory Investigations”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Misspelling of arthrodesis.
attacin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: attacins
Senses: examples: text: Whereas sexual dimorphism was observed in relation to attacin only between males and females of the Pr group (LSD Post hoc, P ; Table 2 ), significant gender differences were found for defensin in both the UnPr and Pr groups (LSD Post-Hoc, P = 0.03 and P ).
ref: 2015 July 17, “Bacterial Exposure at the Larval Stage Induced Sexual Immune Dimorphism and Priming in Adult Aedes aegypti Mosquitoes”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: An antibacterial protein originally found in the immune haemolymph of Hyalophora cecropia
audiovocal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From audio- + vocal.
Senses: examples: text: Studies of bats’ own escape behavior and how they employ their echolocation and audiovocal communication abilities under life threatening situations, however, are rare.
ref: 2015 July 17, “Situational and Age-Dependent Decision Making during Life Threatening Distress in Myotis macrodactylus”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Relating to orally produced sound.
basanitic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From basanite + -ic.
Senses: examples: text: The glass has basanitic composition, with silica contents ranging between 44.4 and 46.1 wt.
ref: 2015 July 17, “Zygomycetes in Vesicular Basanites from Vesteris Seamount, Greenland Basin – A New Type of Cryptoendolithic Fungi”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: Relating to, containing, or characteristic of basanite
black-and-tan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: black-and-tans
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of black and tan.
candiduria
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Candida + -uria
Senses: examples: text: Statistically significant risk factors for inappropriate treatment in the univariate analyses included female gender, bacteriuria versus candiduria, and the presence of pyuria or positive nitrites Table 1 .
ref: 2015 July 17, “A Controlled Quasi-Experimental Study of an Educational Intervention to Reduce the Unnecessary Use of Antimicrobials For Asymptomatic Bacteriuria”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: The presence of Candida yeasts in the urine
Derived terms: candiduric
cyanobiont
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cyanobionts
Etymology: From cyano- + -biont.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: A symbiont of a cyanobacterium and a eukaryote
Related terms: cyanosponge
cyanobionts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: By means of 16S rRNA and phycocyanin operon markers we studied a) the phylogenetic relationships of cyanobionts associated with these species, b) the match of divergence times between both symbionts, and c) whether Lichina species differ in photobiont association and in how geography and ecology affect selectivity.
ref: 2015 July 17, “Ecological Specialization of Two Photobiont-Specific Maritime Cyanolichen Species of the Genus Lichina”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: plural of cyanobiont
dansylglycine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dansyl glycine
Senses: examples: text: Results show significant decrease in dansylglycine fluorescence (in HSA-Dansylglycine complex)with increasing concentrations of 4-PBA and Palmitic acid (Fig 4 ).
ref: 2015 July 17, “Evidence that Chemical Chaperone 4-Phenylbutyric Acid Binds to Human Serum Albumin at Fatty Acid Binding Sites”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A fluorescent amino acid conjugate N-{[5-(dimethylamino)-1-naphthyl]sulfonyl}glycine
diptheria
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: A hexavalent vaccine is given including the pertussis ACV combined with vaccines against diptheria, tetanus, polio, hepatitis B and Haemophilus influenzae type B. For booster vaccination, a tetravalent vaccine without the two last components is given.
ref: 2015 July 17, “Genetic Variation of Bordetella pertussis in Austria”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Misspelling of diphtheria.
disassortatively
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more disassortatively
form: most disassortatively
Etymology: From disassortative + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: In fact, classic assortative mating is not possible to occur among the PAA genomotype because crosses between PAA males and females do not father PAA offspring, meaning PAA females have to mate disassortatively in order to produce offspring of their own type.
ref: 2015 July 17, “Mate Choice Drives Evolutionary Stability in a Hybrid Complex”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: In a disassortative manner
dysglobulinemia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dysglobulinemias
Etymology: From dys- + globulin + -emia.
Senses: examples: text: The recorded causes of kidney disease were as follows: diabetic nephropathy (in 21% of the patients), nephroangiosclerosis and glomerulonephritis (18%), interstitial nephropathy (7%), hypertensive nephropathy (5%), polykystosis (5%) and other recorded diagnoses (hereditary disease, solitary kidney, dysglobulinemia, and systemic disease) (22%).
ref: 2015 July 17, “The Addition of Vascular Calcification Scores to Traditional Risk Factors Improves Cardiovascular Risk Assessment in Patients with Chronic Kidney Disease”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: Any of several disorders of blood globulins.
Related terms: hyperglobulinemia
electromorph
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: electromorphs
Etymology: From electro- + -morph.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A mutant form of a protein identified by electrophoresis
Derived terms: electromorphic
electromorphs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Although they were not definitely identified and electromorphs may occur, those bands migrating at the same distance as bovine albumin and human IgG were considered to be albumin (albumin band, Ab) and immunoglobulin G (IgG band, IgGb) and recorded as such.
ref: 2015 July 17, “Characterization of Proteinuria in Dogue de Bordeaux Dogs, a Breed Predisposed to a Familial Glomerulonephropathy: A Retrospective Study”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: plural of electromorph
endoreplication
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: endoreplications
Etymology: From endo- + replication.
Senses: examples: text: A recent study suggested that enhanced induction of endoreplication after the second exposure could be responsible for the priming effect in mosquitoes [70 ].
ref: 2015 July 17, “Bacterial Exposure at the Larval Stage Induced Sexual Immune Dimorphism and Priming in Adult Aedes aegypti Mosquitoes”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: replication of the nuclear genome without cell division
basic rate interface
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: basic rate interfaces
Senses: glosses: An ISDN subscriber line that provides two B channels and 1 D channel.
wikipedia: basic rate interface
drawing-room
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: drawing-rooms
Etymology: From drawing + room.
Senses: examples: text: When this information was given, and they had all taken their seats, Mr. Collins was at leisure to look around him and admire, and he was so much struck with the size and furniture of the apartment, that he declared he might almost have supposed himself in the small summer breakfast parlour at Rosings; a comparison that did not at first convey much gratification; but when Mrs. Philips understood from him what Rosings was, and who was its proprietor, when she had listened to the description of only one of Lady Catherine’s drawing-rooms, and found that the chimney-piece alone had cost eight hundred pounds, she felt all the force of the compliment, and would hardly have resented a comparison with the housekeeper’s room.
ref: 1813 January 27, [Jane Austen], chapter XVI, in Pride and Prejudice: […], volume I, London: […] [George Sidney] for T[homas] Egerton, […], →OCLC, pages 170–171:
text: A neat, clear fire, such as none but well-instructed housemaids make in summer—for they generally on a warm day seem to prepare for one of Fox’s martyrs,⁠—was kindled in a small, lofty, third room, in which Mrs. Heneage sat and muddled whilst her drawing-rooms were papered and bagged up for the benefit of her successors; […]
ref: 1842, [Katherine] Thomson, chapter XIII, in Widows and Widowers. A Romance of Real Life., volume III, London: Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, page 240:
glosses: Alternative form of drawing room.
acaro-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Forms: form: acar-
Etymology: From international scientific vocabulary, reflecting a New Latin combining form, from New Latin acarus, from Ancient Greek ἄκαρι (ákari, “cheese mite, tick”), which is conventionally associated with the adjective ἀκαρής (akarḗs, “tiny, minute”) but may also be related to κάρνος (kárnos, “louse”) or κόρις (kóris, “bedbug”).
Senses: glosses: mite
wikipedia: classical compound
international scientific vocabulary
Coordinate terms: arachno-
ascar-
Related terms: acarid
hot Neptune
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hot Neptunes
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
planetology
hypernyms: roaster
<
exoplanet
<
planet
coordinate_terms: hot Jupiter
epistellar Jovian
;
pegasid
;
jupiter#Noun
glosses: An exosolar planet whose characteristics are similar to the ice giants Uranus and Neptune, but which orbits its parent star much more closely and thus has higher temperatures.
genomotype
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: genomotypes
Etymology: From genome + -o- + type.
Senses: examples: text: See Introduction for more details about the reproductive modes of each genomotype.
ref: 2015 July 17, “Mate Choice Drives Evolutionary Stability in a Hybrid Complex”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: A subgrouping of a biotype depending on genomic composition
genomotypes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: This complex is composed by several genomotypes connected by an intricate reproductive dynamics.
ref: 2015 July 17, “Mate Choice Drives Evolutionary Stability in a Hybrid Complex”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: plural of genomotype
chef's knife
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chef's knives
form: chefs' knives
Senses: glosses: A type of general purpose kitchen knife used for food preparation, typically measuring eight inches by one and a half inches.
Synonyms: cook's knife
cook's knife
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cooks' knives
Senses: glosses: A chef's knife.
melting-pot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: melting-pots
Senses: examples: text: And so, unfortunately, this great and spreading network of railways, that recently showed such promise as a major instrument in the modern development of China, must be left for the time being in the melting-pot of Armageddon.
ref: 1941 October, F. S. Bond, “The Railways of China”, in Railway Magazine, page 440:
glosses: Alternative form of melting pot.
First Sea Lord
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: The senior Royal Navy officer and a member of the Ministry of Defence.
Related terms: Sea Lord
adhesiolysis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From adhesion + -lysis.
Senses: examples: text: Where adhesiolysis is needed before progressing, we distinguish between vascular and avascular adhesiolysis.
ref: 1989, Stig Bengmark, The peritoneum and peritoneal access, page 340:
text: The main reasons are technical difficulties in adhesiolysis and prolonged operative time.
ref: 2015 July 24, Ik Yong Kim, “Impact of Prior Abdominal Surgery on Rates of Conversion to Open Surgery and Short-Term Outcomes after Laparoscopic Surgery for Colorectal Cancer”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
topics: medicine
sciences
surgery
glosses: The cutting or removal of adhesions or scar tissue.
Related terms: adhesiolytic
antichlamydial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From anti- + chlamydial.
Senses: examples: text: Although we cannot exclude that inter-clone recombination may have also contributed to this notable frequency increase, values of this magnitude were only previously observed under strong selective pressures with antichlamydial compounds [137 ].
ref: 2015 July 25, “Chlamydia trachomatis In Vivo to In Vitro Transition Reveals Mechanisms of Phase Variation and Down-Regulation of Virulence Factors”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: Acting against chlamydia.
antichlamydial
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: antichlamydials
Etymology: From anti- + chlamydial.
Senses: glosses: Such a drug
gonadotoxicity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From gonado- + toxicity.
Senses: examples: text: However, the gonadotoxicity of ionizing radiation and chemotherapeutic drugs can frequently lead to premature ovarian failure (POF) and loss of endocrine and reproductive function, conditions with serious long-term hormone-related consequences and infertility.
ref: 2015 July 25, “Effect of Local Basic Fibroblast Growth Factor and Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor on Subcutaneously Allotransplanted Ovarian Tissue in Ovariectomized Mice”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Toxicity to the gonads.
mall walker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mall walkers
Senses: glosses: A person who walks in a mall as a form of exercise
Related terms: mall walking
schwebeablauts
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of schwebeablaut
schwebeablauting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of schwebeablaut
schwebeablauted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of schwebeablaut
right-of-center
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more right-of-center
form: most right-of-center
Senses: glosses: American standard spelling of right-of-centre.
left-of-center
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more left-of-center
form: most left-of-center
Senses: glosses: American standard spelling of left-of-centre.
polyachene
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: polyachenes
Etymology: From poly- + achene.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: A fruit containing multiple achenes
polyazole
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: polyazoles
Etymology: From poly- + azole.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A polymer composed of azole units
polyazoles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of polyazole
Jakarta Raya
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A conurbation in Indonesia, consisting of Jakarta, Bogor, Depok, Tangerang, and Bekasi.
polling day
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: polling days
Senses: topics: government
politics
synonyms: Election Day
glosses: The day voting takes place in a local, general, or national election, apart from postal votes made beforehand.
tsampouna
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tsampounas
Etymology: Borrowed from Greek τσαμπούνα (tsampoúna). Doublet of sinfonia, symphonia, symphony, and zampogna.
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A bagpipe of the Greek islands; a folk instrument without a drone but with two chanters.
polycalic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From poly- + Ancient Greek καλιά (kaliá, “hut, wooden dwelling”) + -ic.
Senses: examples: text: Since mound population and volume are closely correlated, an increase in population must be accompanied by mound-building, either by additions to existing mounds or the development or extension of polycalic systems.
ref: 2014, Y. Abe, Termites: Evolution, Sociality, Symbioses, Ecology, page 344:
glosses: Of a termite or ant colony, spread over multiple mounds or nests.
polycameratic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From French polycamératique.
Senses: glosses: Having multiple dials
raw_tags: of a clock
polycarboxylate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: polycarboxylates
Etymology: From poly- + carboxylate.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any ester of a polycarboxylic acid
polycarboxylates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of polycarboxylate
Jasin
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Jasin District, a district of Malacca, Malaysia.
glosses: Jasin Town, a town and district capital of Jasin District of Malacca, Malaysia.
Alor Gajah
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A district of Malacca, Malaysia.
glosses: A town, the seat of Alor Gajah district, Malacca, Malaysia.
polycholia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: An excessive secretion of bile
polychromes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of polychrome
polychromes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of polychrome
hungarumlaut
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hungarumlauts
Etymology: Blend of Hungarian + umlaut.
Senses: examples: text: The "regular umlaut" with the dieresis dots originated from a form with two vertical or slanted strokes (not unlike the "hungarumlaut" speaking in typographical terms).
ref: 2003 July 12, Andreas Höfeld, “Re: middle age font”, in comp.fonts (Usenet):
text: For example, the small o with tilde, õ, has been displayed instead of o with the double acute accent (also known as the Hungarumlaut), ő, which is a different character.
ref: 2014, Leslie Sikos, Web Standards: Mastering HTML5, CSS3, and XML, page 48:
text: Many accents are specific to certain languages; the double acute, for instance, is used solely in Hungarian and is sometimes referred to as the Hungarumlaut.
ref: 2017, Gavin Ambrose, The Visual Dictionary of Pre-press and Production, page 19:
topics: media
publishing
typography
glosses: The double acute accent (˝), a rare diacritical mark made up of two acute accents, chiefly used in the Hungarian language.
hungarumlauts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hungarumlaut
polychrone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: polychrones
Etymology: From French.
Senses: glosses: A person who can multitask
polychrones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of polychrone
sound as a dollar
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: This bank is as sound as a dollar.
qualifier: simile
glosses: Very secure and dependable.
examples: text: That old wheelbarrow is sound as a dollar.
qualifier: simile
glosses: Sturdy, well made.
blackophilia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From black + -o- + -philia.
Senses: examples: text: The media's perception of "white needs" with regard to the consumption of images of black bodies plays on - in a manner that effortlessly conflates - both the blackophilia (a seductive fascination with racial otherness) and blackophobia (fear and dread of racial otherness) that has always framed the structure and experience of the American racial formation (Yousman 2003; Mercer 1994; Clarke 1991; Rose 1991).
ref: 2010 December 28, David J. Leonard, C. Richard King, Commodified and Criminalized: New Racism and African Americans in Contemporary Sports (Perspectives on a Multiracial America), Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 89:
text: This group includes whites who do not support the white pride movement and who may identify with popular black culture (a phenomenon that Yousman, 2003, has termed blackophilia).
ref: 2011 July 4, Roderick M. Kramer, Geoffrey J. Leonardelli, Robert W. Livingston, Social Cognition, Social Identity, and Intergroup Relations: A Festschrift in Honor of Marilynn B. Brewer (Psychology Press Festschrift Series), Psychology Press, →ISBN, page 168:
text: Bill Yousman (2003) has provided an insightful analysis of what he terms “Blackophilia,” or the love and consumption of Black popular culture, and it connection to “Blackophobia,” or the “fear and dread of African Americans” (p. 366).
ref: 2012 August 6, Fern L. Johnson, Imaging in Advertising: Verbal and Visual Codes of Commerce, Routledge, →ISBN, page 104:
glosses: Negrophilia.
cloudseed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: cloudseeds
form: cloudseeding
form: cloudseeded
form: cloudseeded
Etymology: From cloud + seed.
Senses: glosses: To plant salt into a raincloud in order to trigger rainfall.
sapphite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sapphites
form: Sapphite
Senses: glosses: A homosexual woman.
Synonyms: gay woman
lesbic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈlɛzbɪk/
Forms: form: more lesbic
form: most lesbic
Senses: glosses: Pertaining to love between women; lesbian; sapphic.
tree sparrow
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tree sparrows
Senses: glosses: A bird of the species Passer montanus
Synonyms: sense: Passer montanus
word: Eurasian tree sparrow
sense: Passer montanus
word: German sparrow
polyesterify
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: polyesterifies
form: polyesterifying
form: polyesterified
form: polyesterified
Etymology: From poly- + esterify.
Senses: glosses: To cause, or to undergo polyesterification
dykeling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dykelings
Etymology: From dyke + -ling.
Senses: examples: text: We encourage each GCN reader to sit in a comfortable place, close his/her eyes and dream of a NOLAG as nationally recognized recognized as the ACLU, NAACP, or NOW. Dream of little faglets and dykelings coming to you and asking what it was like to live in a time when people could hate you or kill you because of who loved.
ref: 1981 December 12, Kathy MacDonald, Jay Darnell, Anne Simon, Maryanne Kirkbride, “NOLAG Eats Wheaties”, in Gay Community News, volume 9, number 21, page 4:
text: They will gather their own gaylings and dykelings and Miss Things at the hem of their own caftans. They'll wheel the old queen out.
ref: 2002, Alisa Solomon, Framji Minwalla, The Queerest Art: Essays on Lesbian and Gay Theater, page 253:
qualifier: LGBTQ slang
glosses: A young or immature lesbian.
polyphobic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more polyphobic
form: most polyphobic
Etymology: From polyphobia + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to or characteristic of polyphobia.
costume jewelry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: costume jewelries
Senses: glosses: US standard form of costume jewellery.
compassionlessly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more compassionlessly
form: most compassionlessly
Etymology: From compassionless + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a manner devoid of compassion.
saw gourds
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: saws gourds
form: sawing gourds
form: sawed gourds
form: sawed gourds
form: sawn gourds
Etymology: In reference to the sound made by sawing.
Senses: examples: text: I thought of these things with a tendency to philosophize, but Zeno himself would have gone to sleep after such a day as I had spent. In five minutes, thoughtless and philosophers, we were all “sawing gourds” together in the land of Nod.
ref: 1870, Fitz Hugh Ludlow, chapter II, in The Heart of the Continent, page 91:
text: He set by the fire a chawin his tobacco and swapped lies with us untill bed time, and we put him in the surplus room and he sawed gourds so, it was after midnight before we got to sleep.
ref: 1873, Bill Arp’s Peace Papers, paper xxxiii, page 216
text: The fuse burnt down to the skin and went out, but Cudjo still continued to saw gourds, apparently in no wise incommoded by the burning of the fuse.
ref: 1892, John Crittenden Duval, chapter XI, Early Times in Texas II: The Young Explorers, page 154, § 8
text: When a farmer gits a good run of stock and various and sundry crops growin around him, with the natural increase in full swing, he is in the middle of the big road that leads right on to the land of peace and plenty and love and liberty. When the day’s work is done, and the gold of evenin meets the dusk of night, he can draw his bobtail night shirt about him and tumble down to pleasant dreams, knowin that while he sleeps and dreams and saws gourds his worldly possessions are growin and stackin up all the time.
ref: ante''' 1897, Francis Bartow Lloyd; Lily C. Lloyd, editor, chapter XXX, Sketches of Country Life, page 188
qualifier: chiefly late-19th-century US slang
glosses: To snore very loudly.
Fuerteventura
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish Fuerteventura, from fuerte (“strong”) + ventura (“fortune”).
Senses: glosses: An island of the Canary Islands, capital city Puerto del Rosario
nation of laws
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nations of laws
Etymology: Shortened from earlier phrase "nation of laws and not of men," a common expression of the rule of law.
Senses: examples: text: We talk a lot about being "a nation of laws," but some of the laws found on the books of states, counties and municipalities are a bit much.
ref: 1976, Carpenter - Volume 96–97, page 18:
text: If we are to be a nation of laws, we must follow the rule of law consistently and not abandon it when times get tough.
ref: 2012, Peter Jan Honigsberg, Our Nation Unhinged, page 16:
glosses: A nation-state that is subject to the rule of law.
connectogram
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: connectograms
Etymology: From connect + -o- + -gram.
Senses: examples: text: This connectogram representation is also a comprehensive example of the toolbox capabilities, displaying multimodal imaging and graph-theory metrics, structural connections between brain regions and group statistics.
ref: 2015, Andre Santos Ribeiro et al., “Multimodal Imaging Brain Connectivity Analysis (MIBCA) toolbox”, in PeerJ, volume 3, →DOI:
glosses: A visual representation of the connections within the human brain, and often specifically of the connectome as a whole.
connectograms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of connectogram
Samsungs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Samsung
dromaeosaurine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dromaeosaurines
Etymology: Back-formation from Dromaeosaurinae.
Senses: examples: text: Liaoning dromaeosaurids may simply be a grade on the line to velociraptorines and dromaeosaurines, and short arms may have evolved multiple times in this grade.
ref: 2015 July 16, Junchang Lü, Stephen L. Brusatte, “A large, short-armed, winged dromaeosaurid (Dinosauria: Theropoda) from the Early Cretaceous of China and its implications for feather evolution”, in Scientific Reports, volume 5, →DOI:
topics: biology
history
human-sciences
natural-sciences
paleontology
sciences
glosses: A bird-like theropod dinosaur of the subfamily Dromaeosaurinae.
dromaeosaurines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dromaeosaurine
paranoic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more paranoic
form: most paranoic
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of paranoiac.
Derived terms: paranoically
paranoic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: paranoics
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of paranoiac.
paranoics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of paranoic
saws gourds
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: For quotations using this term, see Citations:saws gourds.
glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of saw gourds
sawing gourds
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: For quotations using this term, see Citations:sawing gourds.
glosses: present participle and gerund of saw gourds
paranoiacally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more paranoiacally
form: most paranoiacally
form: paranoically
Etymology: From paranoiac + -ally.
Senses: glosses: In a paranoiac way.
paranoically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more paranoically
form: most paranoically
Etymology: From paranoic + -ally.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of paranoiacally.
lowage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lowages
Etymology: Possibly from the French adjective louage (“hiring”) (Oxford English Dictionary), or a corruption of levage (Calvert, 1978).
Senses: examples: text: […] granted and assigned all their loadenage or lowage, and stowage, now called primage, dues, inward or outward of the said port […]
ref: 1840, The parliamentary gazetteer of England and Wales. 4 vols. : "Kingston-Upon-Hull" - 'Trinity House Guild', p.575:
glosses: A charge on shipping.
Imperators
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Imperator
polyhandicap
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: polyhandicaps
Etymology: From poly- + handicap.
Senses: glosses: A handicap involving multiple disabilities
pray'r
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pray'rs
Senses: examples: text: […] Then I
Bad flay the Victims, and their bodies burn,
And ſay their Pray'rs to Pluto and his Queen.
ref: 1675, Tho. Hobbes of Malmsbury, transl., Homer's Odysses, London: W. Crook, Lib. XI, page 128:
glosses: Contraction of prayer.
pray'rs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pray'r
polyhydrite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: An amorphous aluminosilicate of iron (with some manganese)
polyhydroxyalkanoate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: polyhydroxyalkanoates
Etymology: From poly- + hydroxyalkanoate.
Senses: examples: text: CJ Biomaterials, Inc. of Woburn, MA, a division of South Korea-based CJ CheilJedang and a producer of polyhydroxyalkanoates (PHAs), has partnered with South Korea-based Dongil Platech to develop a new eco-friendly straw using polylactic acid (PLA) and CJ Biomaterials’ PHACT amorphous polyhydroxyalkanoate (aPHA) biopolymer technology.
ref: 2023 June 29, Mike Edwards, “Collaboration leads to eco-friendly straw made with polyhydroxyalkanoate”, in CPECN:
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of a group of linear polyesters produced in nature by bacterial fermentation.
Synonyms: PHA
Derived terms: PHA
intersexualist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: intersexualists
Etymology: From intersexual + -ist; compare homosexualist.
Senses: examples: text: The term intersexualists has been applied to this group of individuals — and should be limited to those in whom abnormalities of sex development have led to a confusion of the exact sex […]
ref: 1959, The Jurist, volume 19, page 482:
text: For quotations using this term, see Citations:intersexualist.
glosses: An intersex person.
dug-outs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dug-out
quhair
Language: English
Part of speech: conj
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of where.
quhair
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of where.
quhar
Language: English
Part of speech: conj
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of where.
quhar
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of where.
quher
Language: English
Part of speech: conj
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of where.
quher
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of where.
sawed gourds
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: For quotations using this term, see Citations:sawed gourds.
glosses: simple past and past participle of saw gourds
sawn gourds
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: past participle of saw gourds
vaire
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: party per pale, gules and or, a border vert. B. 1'. 160b (iv. 232). lozengy, vaire and gules.
ref: 2012 November 15, Matthew Paris, Matthaei Parisiensis Chronica Majora, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 471:
glosses: Alternative form of vair.
QMC
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: Initialism of Quartermaster Corps.
pogo-stick
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: pogo-sticks
form: pogo-sticking
form: pogo-sticked
form: pogo-sticked
Etymology: From pogo stick.
Senses: glosses: to travel by pogo stick
bouncinesses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bounciness
Bks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: Abbreviation of barracks.
vytin
Language: English
Part of speech: prep
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of within.
menarchic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more menarchic
form: most menarchic
Etymology: From menarche + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Menarcheal.
allotransplanted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of allotransplant
allotransplanting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of allotransplant
amphipathicity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: amphipathicities
Etymology: From amphipathic + -ity.
Senses: examples: text: The enhanced cholesterol and phospholipid efflux by CS-6252 is likely related to the increased amphipathicity of CS-6253 helix, thereby increasing its lipid affinity.
ref: 2015 July 25, “Novel Apo E-Derived ABCA1 Agonist Peptide (CS-6253) Promotes Reverse Cholesterol Transport and Induces Formation of preβ-1 HDL In Vitro”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: The condition of being amphipathic
coptered
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of copter
coptering
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of copter
sophmore
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of sophomore.
bruisably
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more bruisably
form: most bruisably
Etymology: From bruisable + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: As the lovers in question, Michelle Williams and Matthias Schoenaerts are too bruisably, peachily lovely together to keep our emotional barriers in place; it’s all in the most ersatz good taste, but it works nonetheless.
ref: 2015 July 26, Guy Lodge, “Suite Française; Clouds of Sils Maria; While We’re Young; A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night; Conspirators of Pleasure – review”, in The Observer:
glosses: In a bruisable way, or to a bruisable extent.
throneworld
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: throneworlds
Etymology: From throne + world; compare throneroom.
Senses: examples: text: Observe, Avengers, here on our throneworld, the Kree-man Mar-Vell […]
ref: 1971 November 9, Roy Thomas, Avengers #96:
text: The descent to Coruscant's surface was uneventful, but Dr. Gast, seeing the former Imperial throneworld for the first time in years, was thrilled by every moment, […]
ref: 1999, Aaron Allston, Solo Command, →ISBN, page 336:
text: This is the homeworld, the Mistress Planet, the land that the traitor-god chose; this is Braxi, the planet that the Braxaná claimed, the throneworld of Zatar.
ref: 2001, C. S. Friedman, In Conquest Born, →ISBN:
text: Following orders from Starfleet, the Enterprise is en route to Pai, throneworld of the insular and enigmatic Dragon Empire.
ref: 2012, Kij Johnson, Dragon's Honor, →ISBN:
text: Han and Leia Solo, along with Han's friends Shug and Salla, made a daring rescue attempt, infiltrating the Emperor's throneworld and spiriting away Luke and Artoo.
ref: 2014, Tom Veitch, Star Wars: Dark Empire Trilogy, →ISBN:
text: Lo and behold, the Skrull throneworld was summarily destroyed by the planet-eating Galactus, and Veranke assumed the throne by right of succession.
ref: 2015, Dan Casey, 100 Things Avengers Fans Should Know & Do Before They Die, →ISBN:
topics: literature
media
publishing
science-fiction
glosses: The planet which serves as the seat of an interplanetary empire's government.
drop anchor
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: drops anchor
form: dropping anchor
form: dropped anchor
form: dropped anchor
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
synonyms: cast anchor
antonyms: weigh anchor
glosses: To release the anchor of a ship or boat, allowing it to fall to the bed of a body of water and thereby securing the vessel in place.
examples: text: […] had emigrated first to one country, then to another, till he finally dropped anchor in London.
ref: 1895, Allen Upward, The Prince of Balkistan, page 237:
glosses: To stop travelling and settle down.
examples: text: Junkyard Dog always stopped for lengthy bathroom breaks by announcing his intentions in advance, using a different euphemism every time, saying, to name a few, "I have to: drop anchor... do some paperwork... lay some foundation... pinch a loaf... lighten my load...."
ref: 2005, John Illig, Pacific Dream, →ISBN, page 204:
text: And if you think things are bad after opening the piss box, imagine the smell after I drop anchor.
ref: 2011, Andy Weir, chapter 9, in The Martian, →ISBN, page 95:
text: POSH is the perfect alternative to . . . stopping in a filthy, germ-infested public restroom to drop anchor. . . . Instead, the POSH Stow and Go offers people a private, clean bathroom experience.
ref: 2014 February 24, Ashley Burns, “A Company Will Soon Offer A VIP Public Restroom In New York City For $8 A Plop”, in UPROXX Web Culture, retrieved 26 Jul 2015:
synonyms: word: drop a bomb
word: drop a chalupa
word: drop a deuce
word: drop the kids off at the pool
word: boo-boo
word: cack
word: choke a darkie
word: crap
word: defecate
word: do one's ease
word: ease oneself
word: do a number two
word: do one's easement
word: drite
word: drop a bomb
word: drop a chalupa
word: drop a deuce
word: drop anchor
word: drop the kids off at the pool
word: dung
raw_tags: of animals
word: exrementize
word: feceate
word: have a shit
word: move one's bowels
word: pinch a loaf
word: pinch one off
word: poo
word: pooh
word: poop
word: sharn
word: shart
word: shiss
word: shit
word: shite
word: stool
word: take a dump
word: take a shit
word: take a crap
word: take the Browns to the Super Bowl
word: uncoil
word: void one's bowels
glosses: To defecate.
move one's bowels
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: moves one's bowels
form: moving one's bowels
form: moved one's bowels
form: moved one's bowels
Senses: examples: text: Too great emphasis on privacy in connection with the eliminative functions may, in some instances, result in a child's inability to urinate or move his bowels in an unfamiliar setting.
ref: 1958, Marion E. Faegre et al., Child Care and Training, 8th ed., Minnesota Press Archival Editions, →ISBN, page 99:
text: Three days before the fight he was eating fruit. . . . "Keeps my system regular," he said. ". . . Keeps you from getting old, moving your bowels regular."
ref: 1980 October 5, Tony Kornheiser, “Ali Not Oblivious To the Obvious”, in Washington Post, retrieved 26 Jul 2015:
text: In the middle of the night the woman moved her bowels. The sharp stink of it pervaded the room.
ref: 2013 November 27, Joyce Wadler, “Bad Thanksgiving”, in New York Times, retrieved 26 Jul 2015:
glosses: To excrete feces from one's bowels: to defecate.
Synonyms: defecate
Related terms: bowel movement
learnd
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of learned, simple past and past participle of learn.
TUE
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: TUEs
Senses: topics: hobbies
lifestyle
medicine
pharmacology
sciences
sports
glosses: Initialism of therapeutic use exemption.
TUEs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of TUE
therapeutic use exemption
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: therapeutic use exemptions
Senses: topics: hobbies
lifestyle
medicine
pharmacology
sciences
sports
synonyms: word: TUE
glosses: An exemption which allows the use of a banned substance for therapeutic purposes so that a ban from competition will not result when testing yields a positive results.
therapeutic use exemptions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of therapeutic use exemption
corgy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: corgies
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of corgi.
corgies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of corgi or corgy
bircher
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: birchers
Etymology: From birch + -er.
Senses: glosses: A person who flogs using a birch rod.
bircher
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From birch + -er.
Senses: examples: text: The Green Zebra specialises in handmade pasta dishes, but is also open for breakfast and is the place to go if you have a hankering for classics like bacon and free-range eggs ($14) or bircher muesli ($10.50).
ref: 2015 July 27, Melissa Davey, “48 hours in Albury: what to do, where to go”, in The Guardian:
glosses: Misspelling of Bircher, especially when in combination with muesli.
Bircher
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Birchers
Etymology: Habitational surname, from Old English birċe (“birch”) + ōfer (“ridge”).
Senses: glosses: A surname from Old English.
Derived terms: Bircher muesli
Bircher
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Birchers
Etymology: From Birch + -er.
Senses: glosses: A supporter of the John Birch Society.
Bircher muesli
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Bircher mueslis
Etymology: Named after Maximilian Bircher-Benner, who developed the original form of muesli around 1900.
Senses: glosses: A breakfast dish originally consisting of rolled oats mixed with apples, nuts, lemon juice, cream and honey.
wikipedia: Maximilian Bircher-Benner