cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
thrumming
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: thrummings
Senses: examples: text: Those unfortunate and well-educated women made themselves heard from the neighbouring drawing-room, where they were thrumming away, with hard fingers, an elaborate music-piece on the piano-forte, as their mother spoke; and indeed, they were at music, or at backboard, or at geography, or at history, the whole day long.
ref: 1847 January – 1848 July, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 20, in Vanity Fair […], London: Bradbury and Evans […], published 1848, →OCLC:
text: The harp itself was a huge gourd, and a most unmusical "shell" it proved to be. It had three strings, the thrummings of which disquieted me on two accounts[…]
ref: 1870, The African Repository and Colonial Journal, volume 46, page 231:
glosses: The sound or action of something that thrums.
thrummed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of thrum
thrummed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: thrummed mittens
topics: business
manufacturing
textiles
glosses: Made with thrums (leftover warp thread) woven into the fabric.
snivels
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of snivel
sniveled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of snivel
suborns
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of suborn
suborning
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of suborn
suborning
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: subornings
Senses: examples: 1824-1826, William Cobbett, History of the Protestant Reformation
They remember his subornings, menacings, bribings, cuttings, maimings, hangings, and burnings.
glosses: The act of one who suborns.
suborned
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of suborn
ethnolinguistics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From ethno- + linguistics.
Senses: glosses: The field of linguistic anthropology which studies the language of a specific ethnic group.
Related terms: ethnogrammar
ethnolinguist
ethnolinguistic
ethnosemantics
drag bit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: drag bits
Senses: glosses: A drill bit usually designed for use in soft formation, such as sand clay, or some soft rock. Uses include drilling water wells, that consists of a drill pipe connector attached to blades on the end. The cutting edge of the drag bit is often tungsten carbide.
Related terms: chevron bit
micropolygyria
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: A neuronal migration disorder, a developmental anomaly of the brain characterized by development of numerous small convolutions (microgyri), causing mental retardation.
Synonyms: polygyria
microgyria
paramylon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: paramylons
Etymology: From para- and Ancient Greek ἄμυλον (ámulon, “starch”).
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
synonyms: paramyl
paramylum
glosses: A carbohydrate similar to starch, synthesized along with starch by the chloroplasts found in Euglena.
Barrow Bay
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A hamlet on the Bruce Peninsula, Ontario, Canada, on the western shore of Georgian Bay.
Lucie
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A female given name from Latin, variant of Lucy.
Related terms: Port St. Lucie
St. Lucie County
outsources
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of outsource
postcranial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From post- + cranial.
Senses: examples: text: postcranial skeleton
text: postcranial anatomy
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Relating to the postcranium: the portion of a vertebrate skeleton located caudal to the cranium (that is, in bipeds, inferior to it).
Derived terms: postcranially
Related terms: pericranial
precranial
Hana
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Hawaiian Hāna.
Senses: glosses: A census-designated place in Maui County, Hawaii, United States.
Nikola
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A transliteration of the Bulgarian, Macedonian, or Serbo-Croatian male given name Никола (Nikola), equivalent to Nicholas
Related terms: Nikolina
Rostislav
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Russian and Ukrainian Ростислав (Rostyslav)
Senses: glosses: A transliteration of the Russian or Ukrainian male given name Ростисла́в (Rostisláv), equivalent to Rostislav.
Vladislav
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Vladyslav
Etymology: Transliteration from Bulgarian, Macedonian, Russian, and Serbo-Croatian Владисла́в. See Ladislaus.
Senses: glosses: A transliteration of the Macedonian, Pannonian Rusyn, Russian, or Ukrainian male given name Владисла́в (Vladisláv).
Ivana
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From various Slavic languages, such as Bulgarian, Macedonian, and Russian Ивана (Ivana).
Doublet of Jana, Jane, Janice, Janis, Jean, Jeanne, Jen, Joan, Joanna, Joanne, Johanna, Juana, Shavonne, Sian, Siobhan, Shane, Shaun, Shauna, and Sheena.
Senses: glosses: A female given name.
Related terms: Ivanka
Vanna
samaan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: samaans
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of saman.
European paradox
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the European paradox
form: European Paradox
Etymology: Coined in a European Commission Green Paper in 1995.
Senses: examples: text: "... the research policy paradigm was already well embedded in a competitiveness/innovation oriented understanding and an understanding of the so-called European paradox, that is, the conjecture that EU member states play a leading global role in terms of top-level scientific output, but lag behind in the ability of converting this strength into wealth-generating innovations."
ref: 2006, Maurice Kogan, Transforming Higher Education, →ISBN, page 174:
glosses: The perceived failure of European countries to translate scientific advances into marketable innovations.
wikipedia: European Commission
aeolianite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: aeolianites
form: eolianite
Etymology: From aeolian + -ite.
notes on coinage
Sayles (1931) first coined this term to refer to any sediment deposited by the wind and subsequently lithified. The definition of Fairbridge and Johnson (1978) reflects the widely accepted use of the term to define dune calcarenite.
* Sayles, R.W., 1931. Bermuda during the ice age. Proceeding of the America Academy of Arts and Science 66, 381–467.
* Fairbridge, R.W., Johnson, D.L., 1978. Eolianite. In: Fairbridge, R.W., Bourgeois, J.(Eds.)., The Encyclopedia of Sedimentology. Dowden, Hutchinson and Ross, Stroudsburg, PA, pp. 279–282.
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: A rock formed from dune sand, often calcareous.
Synonyms: dune-rock
Derived terms: aeolianitic
aeolianites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of aeolianite
eolianite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: eolianites
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of aeolianite.
collie eye anomaly
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: biology
medicine
natural-sciences
pathology
sciences
veterinary
zoology
glosses: A congenital, inherited, bilateral eye disease of dogs characterized by an underdeveloped choroid.
Synonyms: CEA
genomewide
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: genome-wide
Etymology: From genome + -wide. Coined in the 1990s with the rise of genomics.
Senses: examples: text: […] these figures are only valid as a genomewide average.
ref: 1995, Somlo & Germino, "Polycystic Kidney Disease" in Molecular Nephrology: Kidney Function in Health and Disease http://books.google.com/books?id=8UHKog3qMIAC, page 830
topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
synonyms: pangenomic
glosses: Throughout a genome.
Related terms: GWA
GWAS
genomewide
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: genome-wide
Etymology: From genome + -wide. Coined in the 1990s with the rise of genomics.
Senses: examples: text: Studying, genome-wide, the increasing number of interacting epigenetic mechanisms in a spectrum of cell types will involve data generation on a massive scale.
ref: 2008 August 7, The American Association for Cancer Research Human Epigenome Task Force; European Union, Network of Excellence, Scientific Advisory Board, “Moving AHEAD with an international human epigenome project”, in Nature, volume 454, →DOI, page 712:
topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: Throughout a genome.
hyperarid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From hyper- + arid.
Senses: topics: climatology
natural-sciences
glosses: Very arid, with an aridity index of less than 0.05.
Derived terms: hyperaridity
ultrahyperarid
Related terms: semi-arid
subhumid
interagency
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ɪntəˈɹeɪd͡ʒənsi/
Forms: form: inter-agency
Etymology: From inter- + agency.
Senses: examples: text: The office is currently conducting a joint interagency enforcement pilot with the city. Mayor Eric Adams said the initiative had led to seizures of more than 100,000 items and the issuance 300 civil and criminal violations.
ref: 2022 December 1, Ashley Southall, “What’s in New York’s Illicit Cannabis: Germs, Toxins and Metals”, in The New York Times:
glosses: Between or among agencies.
interagency
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ɪntəˈɹeɪd͡ʒənsi/
Forms: form: inter-agency
Etymology: From inter- + agency.
Senses: glosses: intermediate agency
subquery
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: subqueries
Etymology: From sub- + query.
Senses: topics: computing
databases
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A query embedded within a more extensive query, relating only to the data returned by the parent query.
subquery
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: subqueries
form: subquerying
form: subqueried
form: subqueried
Etymology: From sub- + query.
Senses: examples: text: We subqueried the customer data to retrieve only customers based in Europe.
topics: computing
databases
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: To run a subquery upon.
subqueries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of subquery
thrombocytopenia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: thrombocytopenias
form: thrombocytopaenia
Etymology: From thrombocyte + -o- + -penia.
Senses: topics: hematology
medicine
sciences
synonyms: thrombopenia
glosses: An abnormally low number of platelets in the blood.
Derived terms: word: eczema-thrombocytopenia-immunodeficiency syndrome
word: idiopathic thrombocytopenia
word: immune thrombocytopenia
word: immunothrombocytopenia
word: microthrombocytopenia
alt: SFTS
word: severe fever with thrombocytopenia syndrome
word: thrombocytopenic
alt: TTS
word: thrombosis with thrombocytopenia syndrome
word: thrombotic thrombocytopenia
alt: VITT
word: vaccine-induced immune thrombotic thrombocytopenia
alt: VIPIT
word: vaccine-induced prothrombotic immune thrombocytopenia
intravital
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ɪntɹəˈvaɪtl̩/
Etymology: From intra- + vital.
Senses: glosses: Within or among living cells; for example, subcutaneous.
glosses: Occurring during life.
Derived terms: intravitality
intravitally
intravital microscopic
intravital microscopy
dNTPs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dNTP
dNTP
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dNTPs
form: dntp
form: DNTP
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Initialism of deoxynucleotide triphosphate, a basic building block of DNA.
proplatelet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: proplatelets
Etymology: From pro- + platelet. Entered widespread use in early 1990s.
Senses: topics: hematology
medicine
sciences
glosses: A portion of a megakaryocyte which is broken off to form a platelet.
proplatelets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of proplatelet
electrotherapy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: electrotherapies
Etymology: From electro- + therapy.
Senses: glosses: The use of electrical energy as a medical treatment.
Coordinate terms: electroanesthesia
Derived terms: electrotherapist
electrotherapeutic
electrotherapies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of electrotherapy
mandement van spolie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mandementen van spolie
Senses: glosses: An order (restitutory interdict) handed down by a court on application, originating in Roman Dutch law where a person (spoliator) is compelled to return a thing that has been taken unlawfully. The case turns on possession, not ownership: a mandement van spolie can even be brought by a thief where the owner unlawfully retrieves the thing stolen.
polacre
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: polacres
form: polacca
Etymology: Uncertain; from either French polacre (“Pole, Polish”) or Italian polacca (“Polish woman, Polish (feminine adj)”).
Senses: examples: text: Before the Princess went to Palestine, do you know in what part of the polacre she slept?
ref: 1820, J. H. Adolphus, editor, A Correct, Full, and Impartial Report, of the Trial of Her Majesty, Caroline, Queen Consort of Great Britain, Before the House of Peers; on the Bill of Pains and Penalties, page 95:
text: If that be so with respect to the Aum case, what shall we say to the case now established in proof onboard the polacre; that case which they have been unable by any evidence to shake, or by any observation to destroy?
ref: 1822, The Annual Register, or a View of the History, Politics, and Literature, of the Year 1822, Part 2, page 1137:
text: As he approached the polacre he was surprised to see a Union Jack being hung over her gunwale.
ref: 2007, David Cordingly, Cochrane the Dauntless: The Life and Adventures of Thomas Cochrane, 1775-1860, page 138:
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: A 17th-century three-masted merchant ship.
Related terms: xebec
pharmacogenetic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pharmaco- + genetic.
Senses: examples: Examining new drugs for pharmacogenetic impacts will help identify people whose DNA reveals that they should not take a particular drug.
topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: Of or pertaining to pharmacogenetics.
jaz
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Dated spelling of jazz (“musical style”).
anogenital
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From ano- + genital.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Of, or relating to, the anus and genitals.
Derived terms: anogenitally
parkin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɑːkɪn/
Forms: form: parkins
form: perkin
Etymology: From Parkin, a diminutive of Peter.
Senses: synonyms: Yorkshire parkin
glosses: A traditional soft cake of Northern England, usually made with oatmeal and treacle.
parkin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɑːkɪn/
Forms: form: parkins
Etymology: An abbreviation of Parkinson.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A particular protein, mutations in which are associated with Parkinson's disease.
rumina
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rumen
rumina
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of rumino (“card game”).
morning kitchen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: morning kitchens
Senses: glosses: A small collection of appliances and utilities placed in a residence to facilitate the preparation of quick meals or beverages near the living quarters. Usually not found near the primary kitchen. Similar to a wet bar, but more oriented to private use as opposed to entertaining.
riving
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of rive
riving
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rivings
Senses: topics: agriculture
business
lifestyle
glosses: A strip of a townfield.
glosses: A piece of split wood.
rived
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹaɪvd/
rhymes: -aɪvd
Forms: form: rave
form: rove
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of rive
Related terms: word: riven
numericize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: numericizes
form: numericizing
form: numericized
form: numericized
form: numericise
Etymology: From numeric + -ize.
Senses: glosses: To represent using numbers; to digitize.
dithyrambic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more dithyrambic
form: most dithyrambic
Etymology: From dithyramb + -ic.
Senses: examples: text: Signor Papini, the leader of italian pragmatism, grows fairly dithyrambic over the view that it opens, of man's divinely-creative functions.
ref: 1907, William James, Pragmatism:
text: Bradly was out of bed, blundering across the floor to kneel by her and pat reassurance on her satin-smooth shoulders. She gripped him with both arms, holding him tight against the convulsive shudder that rejected terror in the security of his arms. Confounded by a dithyrambic conflict of fear and exultation, Bradly could only snatch at one coherent thought, "Damme, after the old bitch accusin' me..."
ref: 1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC, page 236:
text: ... thighs appear to be continuously alighting and pausing in mid-air, detached from their dithyrambic owners, like luminous birds on the wing.
ref: 1985, Paul Binding, Harmonica's Bridegroom, →ISBN, page 131:
text: The dithyrambic chorus is a chorus of transformed people, for whom their social past, their civic position, is entirely forgotten.
ref: 2000, Ian C. Johnston, The Birth of Tragedy http://books.google.com/books?id=ufCCJUFo-LMC by Friedrich Nietzsche, page 104
text: Nevertheless, if one has time and, still more, the patience to search whole acres of dithyrambic prose, he shall have his reward.
ref: 2005, William Forbes Gray, Some Old Scots Judges: Anecdotes and Impressions, →ISBN, page 25:
glosses: Of, pertaining to, or resembling a dithyramb; especially, passionate, intoxicated with enthusiasm.
Derived terms: dithyrambically
undithyrambic
dithyrambic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dithyrambics
Etymology: From dithyramb + -ic.
Senses: examples: 1775, Anonymous, review of the West translation of Pindar's Olympic Odes, in The Critical Review, volume 40, page 451,
As we have no remains of the dithyrambics of the ancients, we cannot exactly ascertain the measure.
glosses: A dithyramb.
polacres
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of polacre
throned
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of throne
raiding
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of raid
raiding
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: raidings
Senses: examples: text: These raidings and counter-raidings continued over a brief pre-war season, the wives being paraded and used in the same way as captured 'outsider' women.
ref: 1995, Inga Clendinnen, Aztecs: An Interpretation, page 172:
glosses: The act of carrying out a raid.
Derived terms: air raiding
commerce raiding
raiding party
skip-raiding
Zoom raiding
sulphanilamide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /sʌlfəˈnɪləmaɪd/
Forms: form: sulphanilamides
form: sulfanilamide
Etymology: From sulphanilic amide.
Senses: examples: text: Gerhard Domagk discovered that the red dye Prontosil is active against streptococcal infections in mice and humans. Soon afterward French workers showed that its active antibacterial agent is sulphanilamide.
ref: 2001, Leslie Iversen, Drugs: A Very Short Introduction, Oxford, page 9:
topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: The amide of sulphanilic acid, used to treat streptococcal infections; the parent compound of the sulphonamides.
adventuresses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of adventuress
adverbialize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: adverbializes
form: adverbializing
form: adverbialized
form: adverbialized
form: adverbialise
Etymology: From adverbial + -ize.
Senses: examples: text: The basic function of the copula in Japanese is to predicate, adnominalize or adverbialize nouns.
ref: 2010, Bjarke Frellesvig, A History of the Japanese Language, page 94:
glosses: To use as or change into an adverb.
Derived terms: adverbialization
adverbializer
adverbialise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: adverbialises
form: adverbialising
form: adverbialised
form: adverbialised
Senses: glosses: Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of adverbialize.
alleviated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more alleviated
form: most alleviated
Senses: examples: text: My alleviated sorrow no longer crushes me.
glosses: Made more bearable.
Derived terms: unalleviated
alleviated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of alleviate
animosities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of animosity
raided
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -eɪdɪd
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of raid
alleviates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of alleviate
melon ball scoopers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of melon ball scooper
incised meander
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: incised meanders
Senses: glosses: A meander (an erosion of a river bed) in a region that undergoes tectonic uplift subsequent to the action that caused the initial meander.
river bed
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: river beds
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of riverbed.
tectonic uplift
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tectonic uplifts
Senses: examples: text: The meander in the river had been become incised as a result of tectonic uplift.
glosses: The raising of a geographical area as a consequence of plate tectonics.
deworm
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: deworms
form: deworming
form: dewormed
form: dewormed
Etymology: From de- + worm.
Senses: examples: text: Hey, Ethel, you know it's your turn to deworm the cat?
glosses: To cause an animal to excrete any worms in the digestive tract by the administration of drugs.
Derived terms: dewormer
dewater
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: dewaters
form: dewatering
form: dewatered
form: dewatered
Etymology: From de- + water.
Senses: examples: text: In the 20ᵗʰ century, when the mechanical separation of impurities based upon specific gravity separations and the removal of fine coal particles which are difficult to handle and dewater became the technology of choice, the bituminous coal mining industry produced vast quantities of both gob and fines.
ref: 2004, David A. Tillman, N. S. Harding, chapter 3, in Fuels of opportunity: characteristics and uses in combustion systems, →ISBN, page 89:
text: The starting feedstock (i.e., pineapple peel) for producing biochar and activated carbon was collected from a local market (Chienchen district, Kaohsiung, Taiwan). It was first dewatered in the sun and further dried in the air-circulating oven at 105 °C.
ref: 2023 December 6, Chi-Hung Tsai, Wen-Tien Tsai, Li-An Kuo, “Effect of Post-Washing on Textural Characteristics of Carbon Materials Derived from Pineapple Peel Biomass”, in Andrei Victor Sandu, editor, Materials, →DOI, →ISSN, →OCLC, →PMID, →PMCID, archived from the original on 02 Feb 2025:
glosses: To remove water from.
Synonyms: unwater § Synonyms
Derived terms: dewaterability
dewaterable
dewaterer
curation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kjəˈɹeɪʃən/
ipa: /kjʊˈɹeɪʃən/
rhymes: -eɪʃən
Forms: form: curations
Etymology: From Middle English curacioun, curacion, from Old French curacion, from Latin cūrātiō.
Senses: glosses: The act of curating, of organizing and maintaining a collection of artworks or artifacts.
glosses: The act of curing or healing.
examples: text: Manual database curation involves the following steps: (1) finding articles of interest; (2) finding and extracting facts (relations, events, associations, etc.) relevant to the database focus; and (3) converting extracted information into predefined standardized form.
ref: 2009, David Edwards, Jason Stajich, David Hansen, Bioinformatics: Tools and Applications:
topics: computing
databases
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: The manual updating of information in a database.
examples: text: "Yeah." It was him, alright; if the world's weariest pair of workboots hadn't tipped her off, his world-weary voice certainly would have. "Where were you?"
"My quarters. We've got a full ticket set today, and techs work best without oversight." Neither of these things was untrue, though the curation was more than a little dishonest.
"Maybe yours do." Nascimbeni rolled out, back flat against a neon orange creeper, and sat up with an audible wince. "Mine fuck the dog."
ref: 2022 September 19, HarryBlank, “Beyond Repair”, in SCP Foundation, archived from the original on 15 Sep 2024:
glosses: The selective assembly and presentation of information.
Derived terms: biocuration
cocuration
curational
Related terms: curator
curations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of curation
downgrades
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of downgrade
downgrades
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of downgrade
downgrading
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of downgrade
downgrading
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: downgradings
Senses: examples: text: Financial markets fell sharply on the news of possible downgradings.
ref: 2007 July 11, Vikas Bajaj, “Rate Agencies Move Toward Downgrading Some Mortgage Bonds”, in New York Times:
glosses: A downgrade; a reduction of a rating, as a financial or credit rating.
worried well
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Coined in 1970 by Sidney Garfield, founder of Kaiser Permanente.
Senses: examples: text: "In cities with a high and more visible number of men becoming sick and dying from AIDS, the worried well report panic attacks, somatic preoccupations, and difficulty functioning on the job because of obsessional worrying about the syndrome."
ref: 1987, Kathy J. Harowski, “The Worried Well: Maximizing Coping in the Face of AIDS”, in Psychotherapy With Homosexual Men and Women, →ISBN, page 302:
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Users of medical or psychiatric services who are not suffering from any diagnosable disease.
Related terms: hypochondria
torques
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of torque
torques
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of torque
torques
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: torqueses
Etymology: From Latin torquēs.
Senses: examples: text: The torqueses worn by their chiefs, and which were displayed as valuable trophies at Rome, were exquisite works of art, as is proved by such as have been dug up from time to time.
ref: 1855, The Cambrian Journal, page 18:
glosses: Synonym of torque (“collar or necklace of twisted metal”).
synonyms: word: torque
extra: collar or necklace of twisted metal
torquing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of torque
torqued
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of torque
torqued
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more torqued
form: most torqued
Senses: examples: text: The high school varsity basketball team, under Bernie's able coaching, was fourteen and three for the season, and Bernie was greatly torqued about the three.
ref: 2002, Dana Stabenow, A Fine and Bitter Snow, →ISBN, page 52:
glosses: Upset; angry.
Derived terms: torqued off
torcs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of torc
torq
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /tɔː(ɹ)k/
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)k
homophone: torc
homophone: torque
homophone: talk (non-rhotic)
Forms: form: torqs
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of torque (“collar or necklace”).
torqs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of torq
puckers up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of pucker up
puckering up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of pucker up
belly buttons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of belly button
belly-buttons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of belly-button
citation cord
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: citation cords
Senses: glosses: A decorative cord worn on the shoulder, generally in conjunction with a uniform, also known as an Aiguillette. As pictured, this cord is being worn backwards (see Highty-Tighties). Instead, the thick braid goes under the arm, with the narrow strands outside.
handwriting on the wall
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: alternative form of writing on the wall
innies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of innie
glosses: plural of inny
outies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of outie
lap dancing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of lap dance
lap danced
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of lap dance
coherences
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of coherence
symbiogenesis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: symbiogeneses
Etymology: From sym- + bio- + -genesis. Coined in German by the Russian lichenologist Konstantin Mereschkowski, in a 1910 paper entitled "Theorie der zwei Plasmaarten als Grundlage der Symbiogenesis, einer neuen Lehre von der Entstehung der Organismen."
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: The merging of two separate organisms to form a single new organism.
Derived terms: endosymbiogenesis
symbiogenetic
symbiogenic
Related terms: biogenesis
endosymbiosis
symbiosis
cheatline
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈt͡ʃiːtlaɪn/
Forms: form: cheatlines
Etymology: From cheat + line, because the first cheatlines aimed to "cheat the eye", making aircraft appear more streamlined.
Senses: topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: In civil aviation, a decorative horizontal band of color applied to both sides of an aircraft's fuselage of as part of its livery.
Related terms: Eurowhite
go-faster stripe
logojet
retrojet
crack head
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: crack heads
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of crackhead.
sravya
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Borrowed from Sanskrit श्रव्य (śravya, “audible, to be heard, worth hearing”).
Senses: glosses: melodious (in the context of Sanskrit poetry)
Related terms: kavya
neurotransmission
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌnʊɹoʊtɹænzˈmɪʃən/
ipa: /ˌnɝoʊtɹænzˈmɪʃən/
ipa: /ˌnjʊəɹəʊtɹænzˈmɪʃən/
ipa: /ˌnjɔːɹəʊtɹænzˈmɪʃən/
rhymes: -ɪʃən
Forms: form: neurotransmissions
Etymology: From neuro- + transmission.
Senses: topics: medicine
neurology
neuroscience
sciences
glosses: The transfer of impulses between neurons.
Synonyms: synaptic transmission
Derived terms: neurotransmissional
Related terms: neurotransmissive
neurotransmitter
Moroccans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Moroccan
metal homeostasis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: First used as a set phrase in cytogenetic studies in the early 1980s.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The ability of individual cells to maintain a healthy level of metals within the cell.
mouths off
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of mouth off
mouthing off
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of mouth off
mouthed off
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of mouth off
methylases
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of methylase
model organisms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of model organism
laughableness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From laughable + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: We obtain a true perception of the laughableness of this sort of buffoonery.
ref: 1889, Alfred Emerson, “On the Conception of Low Comedy in Aristophanes”, in The American Journal of Philology, volume 10, number 3, page 276:
text: They encounter Empousa, the comic monster, who reminds us in spite of her laughableness of the dangerousness of the other.
ref: 1989, Richard F. Moorton Jr., “Rites of Passage in Aristophanes' Frogs”, in The American Journal of Philology, volume 84, number 4, page 317:
text: Two sayings from Seneca speak of the laughableness of man's ambitions on an earth scarred by the wars of so many nations.
ref: 2003, Perez Zagorin, “Looking for Pieter Bruegel”, in Journal of the History of Ideas, volume 64, number 1, page 89:
glosses: The state or quality of being laughable; ludicrousness.
hennas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of henna
hennas
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of henna
repressors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of repressor
quantum limit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: quantum limits
Etymology: The spectroscopic sense is first attested in the 1920s; the measurement sense was coined by Vladimir Braginsky in a 1967 paper, and was originally restricted to the study of gravitational waves.
Senses: examples: text: "This book is essential reading for all scientists and engineers the potential applications of technology near the quantum limit."
ref: 1995, Vladimir Borisovich Braginskiĭ, Farid Ya. Khalili, Quantum Measurement, →ISBN, page i:
qualifier: quantum mechanics
glosses: The limit on measurement accuracy at quantum scales due to back-action effects.
examples: text: "The voltage and wave-length at the quantum limit of the spectrum under investigation are denoted by ν₀ and λ₀."
ref: 1935, Donald Stover Piston, The Polarization of X-rays from Thin Targets, page 4:
qualifier: spectroscopy
glosses: The shortest wavelength in an X-ray spectrum.
Derived terms: alt: SQL
word: standard quantum limit
Circean
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Circean
form: most Circean
form: Circæan
Etymology: From Circe + -an.
Senses: examples: text: Is it then surprizing […] that an empty mind should be employed only to vary the pleasures, which emasculated her circean court?
ref: 1794, Mary Wollstonecraft, An Historical and Moral View of the Origin and Progress of the French Revolution, II.2:
text: Returned to the château just before it got dark, ate cold meats in Mrs Willems's kitchen. Learnt that J. and her Circean caresses were in Brussels on estate business […]
ref: 2004, David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas, London: Hodder and Stoughton, →ISBN:
text: Another set of blinders stems from what might be called the Duessa syndrome: Protestant England associated hypertheatrical women with exotic foreignness, rhetorical display, physical allure, and Circean sexuality.
ref: 2016, Robert Henke, Eric Nicholson, Transnational Mobilities in Early Modern Theater, page 130:
glosses: Pertaining to Circe, the Greek goddess, who first charmed her victims and then changed them into animals; hence, alluring but dangerous or degrading.
Derived terms: Circean poison
stone mulching
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: First entered wide use following the publication of Stone Mulching in the Garden by J.I. Rodale in 1949.
Senses: examples: text: "My old roommate Erin Lee and I were first taught stone mulching by Ruth Hanner up in her Köke'e garden on Kaua'i. She had been taught this technique as a young farmer's wife in Peru."
ref: 2005, Heidi Leianuenue Bornhorst, Growing Native Hawaiian Plants, →ISBN, page 14:
text: "In experiments, stone mulching decreases soil water evaporation, protects against wind and rain erosion, and reduces daily temperature fluctuation."
ref: 2007, Jared Diamond, “Easter Island Revisited”, in Science, 317(5845), page 1693:
topics: agriculture
business
horticulture
lifestyle
glosses: The practice of covering plant roots with stone, in the manner of a mulch.
sheet erosion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: synonyms: sheet wash
glosses: relatively even erosion of a layer of soil without channel formation; generally takes place on sloping land
Related terms: splash erosion
omi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: omis
form: homee
form: homie
form: omee
Etymology: Probably borrowed from Italian uomo (“man”). Doublet of gome, hombre, homo, and ombre.
Senses: examples: text: Divine. Sitting, sipping a tiny drinkette, vadaïng the great butch omis and dolly little palones trolling by, or disporting yourself on the sable plage getting your lallies all bronzed - your riah getting bleached by the soleil.
ref: 1967, Kenneth Horne, Bona Bijou Tourettes (Round the Horne), season 3, episode 12:
text: Well, she schlumphed her Vera down the screech at a rate of knots, zhooshed up the riah, checked the slap in the mirror behind the bar, straightened up one ogle fake riah that had come adrift, and bold as brass orderlied over as fast as she could manage in those bats and, in her best lips, asked, if she could parker the omi a bevvy.
ref: 1997, James Gardiner, Who's a Pretty Boy Then?, page 123:
glosses: A man.
Derived terms: bona omi
charpering omi
feely-omi
omi-palone
palone-omi
erosions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of erosion
Winchester measure
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Winchester measures
Senses: glosses: Units used for the measurement of dry and liquid volumes, the standards for which were originally deposited at Winchester, England. The Winchester bushel is still used in the US.
Derived terms: Winchester bushel
Winchester gallon
Winchester quart
pingos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pingo
Winchester bushel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Winchester bushels
Senses: glosses: A measure of dry and liquid volume equal to 35.24 litres used in US and Canada. Originating in England and one of the units of Winchester measure. Abbreviated bu
Derived terms: Winchester gallon
Winchester quart
bacteriogenic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From bacterio- + -genic.
Senses: glosses: Caused by bacteria
Derived terms: bacteriogenically
bacteriogenicity
therapeutic window
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: therapeutic windows
Senses: examples: 2001: The separation between the dose range in which the desirable medical benefits are seen, and the higher dose range at which adverse effects emerge, is known as the ‘therapeutic window’. — Leslie Iversen, Drugs: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford 2001, p. 31)
topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: The range of doses of a drug which are effective without being harmful.
angular mil
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: angular mils
Etymology: Shortening of milliradian
Senses: topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: A unit of angular measurement equal to 1/6400 of a complete circle. At 1000 metres one mil subtends about one metre (~0,98 m). Also 1/6000 and 1/6300 are used in other countries.
Synonyms: mil
cytochrome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsaɪtəkɹəʊm/
Forms: form: cytochromes
Etymology: From cyto- + -chrome.
Senses: examples: text: The drug-metabolizing enzymes in the liver, called cytochrome-p450s, comprise a large family of some fifty or more related enzymes, which have evolved in a remarkable way […].
ref: 2001, Leslie Iversen, Drugs: A Very Short Introduction, Oxford, page 33:
glosses: Any of various related hemoproteins found in the cells of most organisms, which are an important part of cell respiration.
Derived terms: anticytochrome
noncytochrome
postcytochrome
Related terms: apocytochrome
cytochromal
cytochromic
ferricytochrome
ferrocytochrome
holocytochrome
exscind
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: ĕk(s)-sĭndʹ
enpr: ĭk(s)-sĭndʹ
ipa: /ɛk(s)ˈsɪnd/
ipa: /ɪk(s)ˈsɪnd/
rhymes: -ɪnd
Forms: form: exscinds
form: exscinding
form: exscinded
form: exscinded
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin exscindō (“demolish, destroy”), originally in the sense “to destroy utterly”.
Senses: examples: text: It should be mentioned that matter which has became^([sic]) untrue by the progress of events since the first edition of this book has been carefully exscinded.
ref: 1902 September 1, H. T. Kealing, “A Statement”, in William C. Neill, Colored Americans in the Wars of 1776 and 1812:
topics: medicine
sciences
surgery
glosses: To cut out.
examples: text: Had this Monster no more Horns than Zechary saw in that prophetical Vision, had this Hydra no more heads than Alexander's World had Kingdoms […] my success hitherto might give me hopes, at last to excind the last of them.
ref: 1675, John Smith, Christian Religion’s Appeal from the Groundless Prejudices of the Sceptick to the Bar of Common Reason […], page 129:
text: O for their Prayers my Anglia’s Doom suspend! / […] / The sinful Land exscind not, but reprove, […]
ref: a. 1711, Thomas Ken, “Edmund: An Epic Poem”, in The Works of the Right Reverend, Learned and Pious Thomas Ken, D. D. […], volume 2, published 1721, page 351:
text: […] how can any government, who pretends to be free […] thus exscind the rights, the privileges, the talents, and public services of their brethren and fellow citizens, merely because they cannot advance the price of three days labour, or should happen, either from original poverty, or subsequent misfortunes, to be in the state of menial servitude?
ref: 1792, Memoirs of Hildebrand Freeman, Esq.: or, A Sketch of “The Rights of Man” […], page 41:
glosses: To destroy utterly, to extirpate.
Mexican wave
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Mexican waves
Etymology: Popularised during the 1986 FIFA World Cup held in Mexico.
Senses: examples: text: 1995, Shane Cloude, An Introduction to Electromagnetic Wave Propagation & Antennas, Springer, 0-387-91501-X, pages 3–4,
This is an important idea and can best be illustrated by analogy with a Mexican wave. Although the Mexican wave seems to involve the coherent motion of a large number of people, it is clear to those who have been involved, that the “trigger” for an individual to react is entirely spatially and temporally local, i.e. the individual reacts at the appropriate time and space point simply by waiting until his or her neighbours react.
text: 2001, John Morgan, Debrett’s New Guide to Etiquette and Modern Manners: The Indispensable Handbook, St. Martin's Press, →ISBN, page 127,
The usual signals for standing are: at the arrival of Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother; […]; and every time the Colour passes in front of you. The effect can sometimes be like a rather well-dressed Mexican wave.
text: 2007, Scott Hamilton, An Analog Electronics Companion: Basic Circuit Design for Engineers and Scientists, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 94,
A Mexican wave travels around a stadium very much more rapidly than a person could.
text: Now Australian cricket is reeling from its quadruple loss. Joining the hat trick of players exiting the game in 2007 – once-in-a-lifetime legend Shane Warne, Glenn McGrath and Damien Martyn – was the Mexican wave. Cricket Australia, which instituted the ban, acknowledged that it could be construed as ‘the fun police gone wrong’ but explained that it was the only way to stop people throwing things.
ref: 2009, Justine Vaisutis, Australia, Lonely Planet, page 47:
glosses: A phenomenon that primarily occurs at sports events, where the members of the crowd stand up and/or raise their hands in turn, creating the illusion of a wave passing through the crowd.
Synonyms: word: audience wave
word: crowd wave
word: Kallang Wave
word: wave
Mexican wave
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: Mexican waves
form: Mexican waving
form: Mexican waved
form: Mexican waved
Etymology: Popularised during the 1986 FIFA World Cup held in Mexico.
Senses: glosses: To perform a Mexican wave.
moresome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: note: rhotic
ipa: /ˈmɔɹsəm/
note: non-rhotic
ipa: /ˈmɔːsəm/
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)səm
Forms: form: moresomes
Etymology: From more + -some, to follow on from threesome, foursome, etc.
Senses: examples: text: Jana and Sam had a child, and the moresome remained together through Zachariah's birth.
ref: 2013, Elisabeth Sheff, The Polyamorists Next Door:
text: It featured a tent full of mattresses for one almighty love-in in the Nevada desert. Sadly, the revelries and ‘moresomes’ were not to be …
ref: 2025 August 27, “The Burning Man Orgy Dome: welcome to the latest festival disaster”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
glosses: A sexual act involving more than three people, or a group of individuals involved in such an act.
Synonyms: group sex
publicity stunt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: publicity stunts
Senses: synonyms: media stunt
glosses: A staged event used to garner publicity, usually for the purposes of marketing or activism.
Hypernyms: stunt
love-hate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌlʌvˈheɪt/
rhymes: -eɪt
Forms: form: love/hate
Etymology: The adjective is a calque of German Liebe-Hass (now more commonly Hassliebe (“love-hate relationship”)), from Liebe (“love; relationship of love”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *lewbʰ- (“to love”)) + Hass (“hate; hatred”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *keh₂d- (“anger; hatred”)).
The verb is derived from the adjective.
Senses: examples: text: The krogan have had a love-hate relationship with varren for millennia, alternately fighting them for territory and embracing them as treasured companions.
ref: 2008, BioWare, Mass Effect, Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →ISBN, →OCLC, PC, scene: Varren Codex entry:
text: I loathe reviews in which a critic claims to have love-hate feelings about a work of art. It’s a way of having no opinion at all. But I love and hate “Taipei.”
ref: 2013 June 4, Dwight Garner, “A Literary Mind, Under the Spell of Drugs and a MacBook”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
text: Still, the movie [Ralph Breaks the Internet] manages to locate some gentle satire in our culture's love-hate relationship with the internet. At one point, Ralph must attain a certain level of viral popularity, assisted by the BuzzFeed-esque content guru Yesss (Taraji P. Henson), and the movie is savvy about how accidental spikes in fame can turn into cynical algorithm manipulation.
ref: 2018 November 14, Jesse Hassenger, “Disney Goes Viral with an Ambitious, Overstuffed Wreck-It Ralph Sequel”, in The A.V. Club, archived from the original on 21 Nov 2019:
glosses: Of a relationship: involving feelings of both love and hate, often simultaneously.
Derived terms: love-hatred