cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
brown-eyed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: browneyed
Senses: glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see brown, eyed; having brown eyes.
examples: text: While Aretha Franklin was brown-eyed soul, her protégée Adele is blue-eyed soul.
text: Brown-eyed women and red grenadine the bottle was dusty but the liquor was clean
ref: 1971, Robert Hunter, Brown-eyed women (Grateful Dead song):
text: Taking a previously pejorative term that had existed along the U.S.-Mexican border for decades, these brown-eyed children of the sun rejected dominant versions of U.S. history, and began the arduous journey toward self-determination and self-definition.
ref: 2005, George Mariscal, Brown-eyed Children of the Sun: Lessons from the Chicano Movement, 1965-1975, page 3:
text: El Chicano's "Viva Tirado" not only helps excavate the roots of brown-eyed soul, the group and 1960s scene reveal the complexity of the period in which brown-eyed soul flourished.
ref: 2012, Brian D Behnken, The Struggle in Black and Brown, page 222:
text: The judge's wife called up the district attorney, Said, 'You free that brown-eyed man! Berry, who had himself had been in gaol, but whose stage manner was always rather debonair (like his lyrics), was making fun of the white suspicion of the stereotypical promiscous black man.Back ever since the world began There's been a whole lot of good women shed a tear For a brown-eyed handsome man
ref: 2015, Andrew Ford, Earth Dances: Music in Search of the Primitive:
text: The concept of brown-eyed children originates from Parker's perspective (1918) that the birth and influence of brown-eyed children has been instrumental in building civilizations. Identifying Ethiopia as the mother of African early civilization, he exemplifies how art, literature, and science flourished thanks to their contributions that culturally enriched the larger Mediterraneean and continued across the oceans.
ref: 2016, Frank Hernandez, Elizabeth T. Murakami, BrownEyed Leaders of the Sun:
glosses: Characteristic of or pertaining to people of color.
Coordinate terms: black-eyed
blue-eyed
green-eyed
hazel-eyed
red-eyed
Derived terms: brown-eyed soul
brown-eyed Susan
shoulder-knot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shoulder-knots
form: shoulder knot
Senses: examples: text: ‘May I?’ she whispered, smiling round into his face. His shoulder-knots just perceptibly rose.
ref: 1911, Max Beerbohm, Zuleika Dobson:
glosses: An ornamental knot of ribbon or lace worn on the shoulders of fashionable men's jackets, especially in the 17th and 18th centuries.
glosses: A similar ornament of other materials worn on a military dress uniform.
glosses: A moth bearing a resemblance to such ornaments.
Derived terms: taxonomic: Lithophane leautieri
word: Blair's shoulder-knot
taxonomic: Lithophane ornitopus
word: grey shoulder-knot
taxonomic: Brachylomia viminalis
word: minor shoulder-knot
taxonomic: Apamea sordens
word: rustic shoulder-knot
taxonomic: Aseptis binotata
word: rusty shoulder-knot
shoulder knots
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shoulder knot
commorients
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of commorient
yotes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of yote
antihepcidin
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From anti- + hepcidin.
Senses: examples: text: Pr ) ELISA was performed by using streptavidin-coated and blocked wells that had been incubated for 1 h with biotinylated antihepcidin capture antibody (2 mg/L).
ref: 2016 February 12, “Circulating Hepcidin-25 Is Reduced by Endogenous Estrogen in Humans”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: That counters the effect of hepcidin
bipinnarial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌbaɪ.pɪˈnɛəɹi.əl/
ipa: /ˌbaɪ.pɪˈnɛɹi.əl/
rhymes: -ɛəɹiəl
Etymology: From bipinnaria + -al.
Senses: examples: text: Expression was then evident in the tips of archenterons of the gastrulae and then in coelomic pouches until the late bipinnarial stage was attained (Fig 2L–2N ).
ref: 2016 February 12, “Experimental Approach Reveals the Role of alx1 in the Evolution of the Echinoderm Larval Skeleton”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Relating to bipinnaria
polyextremotolerant
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From poly- + extremotolerant.
Senses: examples: text: Conditions inside dishwashers not only enable selected fungal species to survive, but also promote the selective enrichment of particular polyextremotolerant fungi that can tolerate low and high pH, temperatures up to 60°C or 80°C, occasional dehydration and high organic loads, high concentrations of NaCl, and mechanical stress due to water ejectors.
ref: 2016 February 12, “The Black Yeast Exophiala dermatitidis and Other Selected Opportunistic Human Fungal Pathogens Spread from Dishwashers to Kitchens”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Capable of tolerating multiple extreme environmental conditions
polyisoprenyl
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From poly- + isoprenyl.
Senses: examples: text: It plays several important functions within cells and consists of a benzoquinone ring, synthesised from phenylalanine or tyrosine, and a polyisoprenyl side chain, the length of which (Q n ) varies from organism to organism [5 ].
ref: 2016 February 12, “AarF Domain Containing Kinase 3 (ADCK3) Mutant Cells Display Signs of Oxidative Stress, Defects in Mitochondrial Homeostasis and Lysosomal Accumulation”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Related to or composed of a polyisoprene
postamplification
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From post- + amplification.
Senses: examples: text: PCR specificity and product detection was checked postamplification by examining the temperature-dependent melting curves of the PCR products.
ref: 2016 February 12, “Expression of cagA, virB/D Complex and/or vacA Genes in Helicobacter pylori Strains Originating from Patients with Gastric Diseases”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Following amplification
rickettsiaes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Furthermore, all the identified evolutionary processes variably occurred across RPs suggesting that rickettsiaes may have been adapted to distinct biotic and/or abiotic factors for the invasion, survival and/or defense in eukaryotic host cells.
ref: 2016 February 12, “Origin and Evolution of Rickettsial Plasmids”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Misspelling of rickettsias.
sclerified
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more sclerified
form: most sclerified
Senses: examples: text: In a previous study [22 ] with woody species, LD was negatively related with the fraction of epidermis and mesophyll but positively related to the fraction of sclerified tissues.
ref: 2016 February 12, “Leaf Mass per Area (LMA) and Its Relationship with Leaf Structure and Anatomy in 34 Mediterranean Woody Species along a Water Availability Gradient”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: That has become sclerotic
solanesyl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: On the other hand, condensation of HGA with solanesyl diphosphate (SDP) forms 2-methyl-6-solanesyl-1, 4-benzoquinol (MSBQ), which is then methylated into plastoquinol (PQH2, the reduced form of plastoquinone) by MPBQ-MT (Fig 1 ) [5, 6 ].
ref: 2016 February 12, “Roles of MPBQ-MT in Promoting ?/?-Tocopherol Production and Photosynthesis under High Light in Lettuce”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: A univalent radical derived from solanesol
somatocoel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: somatocoels
Senses: examples: text: Alx1 was initially expressed in small spots located along the left side of the stomach between the somatocoel and the epidermis (S1 Fig ).
ref: 2016 February 12, “Experimental Approach Reveals the Role of alx1 in the Evolution of the Echinoderm Larval Skeleton”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: The posterior of the three regions of coelomic sacs of the embryonic coelom
Related terms: axocoel
hydrocoel
surnatants
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: We also measured IL10 in MSC culture surnatants but we found only slightly detectable levels (data not shown), perhaps due to the fast use of IL10 by the cells.
ref: 2016 February 12, “Mesenchymal Stromal Cells Prevent Renal Fibrosis in a Rat Model of Unilateral Ureteral Obstruction by Suppressing the Renin-Angiotensin System via HuR”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: plural of surnatant
taxocenose
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: taxocenoses
Senses: glosses: A group of species having a similar taxonomic identity
Related terms: taxocenosis
taxocenoses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: It would be important to evaluate the amplification rate of these four OTUs when oligochaete communities change and when other taxocenoses than oligochaetes are present.
ref: 2016 February 12, “Next-Generation Sequencing of Aquatic Oligochaetes: Comparison of Experimental Communities”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: plural of taxocenose
straw purchase
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: straw purchases
Senses: examples: text: A husband, wife, boyfriend or girlfriend who buys a handgun on behalf of their significant other is carrying out a straw purchase.
glosses: A purchase made secretly on behalf of someone else.
Synonyms: nominee purchase
Related terms: straw buyer
straw owner
straw purchaser
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: straw purchasers
Senses: synonyms: straw buyer
straw man
glosses: A person who makes a straw purchase.
Penukonda
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Telugu పెను (penu, “great, large”) + కొండ (koṇḍa, “hill”).
Senses: glosses: A town in Andhra Pradesh, India.
Shūnan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A city in Yamaguchi Prefecture, Japan.
sensitive plant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sensitive plants
Senses: glosses: An organism thought to be intermediate between plants and animals; a zoophyte.
examples: text: The picture that was found on a bramble-bush, the new sensitive-plant, or tree, which caught the swain by the upper-garment, and presented to his ravished eyes a portrait.
ref: 1788, Mary Wollstonecraft, Mary: A Fiction:
text: A Sensitive Plant in a garden grew, / And the young winds fed it with silver dew, / And it opened its fan-like leaves to the light, / And closed them beneath the kisses of the night.
ref: 1820, Percy Bysshe Shelley, “The Sensitive Plant”, in Prometheus Unbound […], London: C[harles] and J[ames] Ollier […], →OCLC, part first, stanza 1, page 157:
text: The heart is the true sensitive plant—revolting at a touch.
ref: 1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XXIII, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume I, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 284:
synonyms: noli me tangere
sensitive weed
shame plant
shy plant
sleepy plant
touch-me-not
glosses: A plant that moves in response to touch and other physical stimuli; especially Mimosa pudica, an annual plant native to Central and South America.
sensitive plants
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sensitive plant
refcount
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: refcounts
Etymology: Short for reference count.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
glosses: A counter variable that keeps track of the number of references to a specific block of memory.
SQLi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: qualifier: computer security
glosses: Initialism of SQL injection.
privilege escalation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: privilege escalations
Senses: qualifier: computer security
glosses: The use of an exploit to gain elevated access to resources that are normally protected from an application or user.
touch one's forelock
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: touches one's forelock
form: touching one's forelock
form: touched one's forelock
form: touched one's forelock
Senses: examples: text: Mr. Hempseed, touching his forelock, was quietly vacating the seat in the hearth. Everyone was staring curiously, yet deferentially, at the foreigners.
ref: 1905, Emma Orczy, chapter III, in The Scarlet Pimpernel:
text: The villagers in the congregation touched their forelocks as the Oxenfords made their way down the aisle to the family pew. The wealthier farmers, all of whom rented their land from Father, inclined their heads in polite bows; and the middle classes, Dr. Brown and Colonel Smythe and Sir Alfred, nodded respectfully.
ref: 1991, Ken Follett, chapter 2, in Night Over Water:
glosses: Alternative form of tug one's forelock.
pull one's forelock
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: pulls one's forelock
form: pulling one's forelock
form: pulled one's forelock
form: pulled one's forelock
Senses: examples: text: And the common people pull their forelock harder and squirm lower the higher the rent a man pays per quarter for his house.
ref: 1913, Henry Lawson, “Triangles of Life”, in Triangles of Life and Other Stories:
glosses: Alternative form of tug one's forelock.
knickies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: When the kettle boiled I put the warm knickies on.
ref: 1995, Alan Warner, Morvern Callar, Vintage, published 2015, page 2:
glosses: Knickers.
bowfing
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more bowfing
form: most bowfing
form: boufing
form: bouwfing
Senses: examples: text: She woke up in the morning with him gone and this bouwfing smell so she sat up and was covered in it, cause he must have got down on his hunkers and done one right there on her stomach then put the toilet paper he used in her purse.
ref: 1995, Alan Warner, Morvern Callar, Vintage, published 2015, page 14:
glosses: Stinking; disgusting.
take time by the forelock
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: takes time by the forelock
form: taking time by the forelock
form: took time by the forelock
form: taken time by the forelock
Senses: examples: text: Tell her the ioyous time wil not be staid, / Unlesse she doe him by the forelock take;
ref: 1595, Edmund Spenser, Amoretti, Sonnet 70:
text: […] I knew a Parson's Wife that seldom went to Church, but took Time by the Forelock, and while the Husband (good Man) was taking Care of his Flock, the good Woman at Home was at her Occupation with her Gallant, a rich young Farmer.
ref: 1726, William Rufus Chetwood, The Voyages and Adventures of Captain Robert Boyle, London: Andrew Millar, published 1728, pages 5–6:
text: Miss Walters, dreading the Christmas rush on the railway, had determined to take time by the forelock, and meant to pack off her pupils by the first available trains, trusting they would most of them reach their destinations before the overcrowding became a serious problem in the traffic.
ref: 1920, Angela Brazil, chapter I, in The Princess of the School, New York: A.L. Burt, published 1921, page 1:
glosses: To seize an opportunity quickly before it is no longer available.
Synonyms: make hay while the sun shines
strike while the iron is hot
high doh
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: high dohs
form: high doe
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: The eighth note in the sol-fa system, being an octave above doh.
examples: text: Youve been on the ran dan you couple of wee tinkers and your mother's up to high doe.
ref: 1995, Alan Warner, Morvern Callar, Vintage, published 2015, page 27:
glosses: A state of great agitation.
compulsive streak
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: compulsive streaks
Senses: glosses: An extended time frame in which a person feels the need to do lots of compulsive tasks, with each task often being neither fun nor rewarding, just to get rid of obsessive thoughts
magicful
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more magicful
form: most magicful
Etymology: From magic + -ful.
Senses: examples: text: And the radiant magicful light / Stirred in his heart a new-born desire, […]
ref: 1914, The Round Table, volume 61:
text: Frank told me that his grandfather worked on Coney Island in the forties. Said it was a "magicful place." Said the old man tended a show elephant named Tuffy, and that Tuffy killed three men in a year's time.
ref: 1995, Mid-American Review - Volumes 16-17
text: Unicorns are nice and magicful...Their horns are gold and pretty.
ref: 1996, Carol B. Olson, Practical Ideas for Teaching Writing as a Process:
text: She could hardly accept that Grooders could do the magicful stuff they did; […]
ref: 2013, Tony Beck, The Quest Of Millie Blackbeard:
glosses: Possessing magic or magical qualities; magical
privilege escalations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of privilege escalation
goand
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle of go
WL
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: Initialism of world-leading, describing the best athletic performance in the world in a given year.
WL
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: WLs
Senses: topics: lifestyle
tourism
transport
travel
glosses: Initialism of waitlist.
examples: text: Common date circulated Mercs, Franklins, WLs are going to bring silver melt, or a little over.
ref: 2005 March 12, Bill Krummel, “Selling: individual coins vs larger lots?”, in rec.collecting.coins (Usenet), retrieved 03 Jan 2023:
qualifier: numismatic slang
glosses: Initialism of Walking Liberty.
taxonomic: Wikimedia jargon
glosses: Initialism of wikilink.
penny-a-line
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Paid at the rate of a penny per line.
raw_tags: of a writer
glosses: Long-winded, verbose; superficial, of little literary value.
raw_tags: of writing
Derived terms: penny-a-liner
bicyclian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /baɪˈsɪk.li.ən/
Etymology: From bicycle + -ian.
Senses: examples: text: Bicyclian bards who sung / Wheely ideas below
ref: 1885, Joseph Grinnell Dalton, Lyra Bicyclica: Sixty Poets on the Wheel:
text: It is quite possible that the United States has a highly productive automobile industry and a highly productive bicycle industry, while the Bicyclian automobile industry and the bicycle industry are at a lower level of productivity […]
ref: 1967, Jan Pen, A primer on international trade, page 15:
text: The bicyclian politics, which springs from a profoundly liberal commitment to the sharing of other people's rights, is seen to apply without discrimination on road, sidewalk, and lawn.
ref: 1990, Robert Grudin, The Grace of Great Things: Creativity and Innovation:
glosses: Of or pertaining to a bicycle or bicycles.
powldoody
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /paʊlˈduːdi/
rhymes: -uːdi
Forms: form: powldoodies
form: pouldoody
form: pouldowdy
form: powldowdy
Etymology: From Pouldoody (name of the inner part of a creek near Corcomroe Abbey in County Clare), possibly from Irish poll Dubhda (literally “O’Dowd’s hole”).
Senses: glosses: A variety of Irish oyster, eaten as a delicacy.
wikipedia: Corcomroe Abbey
passing show
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: passing shows
Senses: glosses: The spectacle of contemporary life.
glosses: An entertainment having current events and interests as its subject matter.
forelocked
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of forelock
forelocked
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: I see the chariot, where, / Throughout the purple air, / The forelock'd monarch rides: / Arm'd like some antique vehicle for war, / Time, Hoary Time! I see thy scythed car, / In voiceless majesty,
ref: 1827, Alfred Tennyson, “Time: An Ode”, in Poems by Two Brothers, London: Macmillan, published 1893, page 114:
text: I have a $5 bill in my pocket — it's Lincoln's sour black head moled wrinkled, forelocked too, big eared, flags of announcements flying over the bill […]
ref: 1963, Allen Ginsberg, “American Change”, in Reality Sandwiches, San Francisco: City Lights, page 68:
text: 2016, thetravelerzone.com "Sardinia — A Paradise That Waits to be Explored," 2 May, 2016, https://web.archive.org/web/20160808041431/http://www.thetravelerszone.com/travel-destinations/sardinia-a-paradise-that-waits-to-be-explored/
The rare inhabitants of the island include the seemingly gravity-defying mouflon (a type of mountain sheep) and the shaggy-looking forelocked albino donkeys whose origins are mysterious.
glosses: Having a forelock (lock of hair covering the forehead).
give two shits
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: gives two shits
form: giving two shits
form: gave two shits
form: given two shits
Senses: synonyms: word: becare
word: bother
word: care
word: concern oneself
word: mind
word: reck
word: trouble oneself
word: worry
word: give a shit
glosses: Synonym of give a shit.
Related terms: give two hoots
forelocking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of forelock
frog-like
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more frog-like
form: most frog-like
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of froglike.
forepocket
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: forepockets
form: fore-pocket
Etymology: From fore- + pocket.
Senses: examples: text: Joseph Paul took a pipe from the forepocket of his overalls. The bowl was a .50 caliber cartridge shell, soldered to a metal stem. He shook a small amount of tobacco into it from a sack and tamped it with his little finger.
ref: 1939, Edwin Lanham, The Stricklands:
text: His hands were thrust down into the forepockets of his trousers. `Ye're an awfu' man Jock.'
ref: 2010, John Muir, Growing Up In The West:
text: When he lowered the skiff they lay gaping on the boards under a sun that withered them visibly, Suttree gripped his forepockets, searching.
ref: 2010, Cormac McCarthy, Suttree:
text: This young woman had a long bare neck that reminded Amory of an artist's model, and her hands were thrust into the fore-pockets of a brown knitted coat.
ref: 2015, Oliver Onions, Gray youth:
glosses: A pocket located in the front; front pocket
forepockets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of forepocket
look around
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: looks around
form: looking around
form: looked around
form: looked around
form: look round
Senses: examples: text: We're interested in buying this house. Can we look around tomorrow?
glosses: To inspect a building or area.
examples: text: I can't find my keys, so I'll look around.
glosses: To search a place.
examples: text: He heard a voice and looked around to see a man wearing dark clothes.
glosses: To turn one's head to see what is behind oneself.
examples: text: Sure enough, when Jon appeals to centuries-old tradition binding the families of the north together, it comes off as good-hearted but short-sighted. Look around, Jon. It’s a new day. Queens rule the continent. They might rule the North, too, if tradition hadn’t made room for a bastard king. At a certain point, adhering to tradition becomes a failure to adapt. It traps people in the same deepening grooves of history their parents died in.
ref: 2017 July 16, Brandon Nowalk, “Chickens and dragons come home to roost on Game Of Thrones (newbies)”, in The Onion AV Club:
glosses: To take note of what is going on; to make oneself aware.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see look, around.
Derived terms: word: lookaround
hindpocket
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hindpockets
form: hind-pocket
form: hind pocket
Etymology: From hind- + pocket.
Senses: examples: text: “Whisht! whisht!” said Fogarty. “Mr. Fin is a real gentleman every inch of him, and sometimes touchy with strangers—carries a brace of pops, as he calls them, in his big coat hindpockets, ready loaded—can snuff a candle across his own lawn, […]
ref: 1835, Fraser's Magazine, volume 11:
text: At the same time he searches for his proof: in his hindpockets were contained articles of reviews and romances of M. Paul de Kock: […]
ref: 1844, Ralph Griffiths, George Edward Griffiths, The Monthly Review - Volume 164:
text: The old professor put his hand to the hindpocket of his coat to search for the Homer, which was his vade-mecum, when the unfortunate empiric threw up the window and cried out, “Stop, stop, coachman, and There's a man here !” […]
ref: 1868, The Shamrock, volumes 3-4:
text: There is a German Graf von Herrenshausen, a large, yellow-bearded, blear-eyed monster, with a frogged coat and a huge pipe-stick projecting from the hindpocket, who kisses my hand whenever we meet, and leers at me from the whist-table – for, happily, he is past dancing — like a Ghoul in an Eastern tale.
ref: 1904, Charles James Lever, Novels: The Dodd family abroad:
text: Humbly shall I Spit at thee, Crawling my Hand at your HindPocket, as you Kisse Me.
ref: 2012, Amelia Rosselli, Jennifer Scappettone, Loco Motrix:
glosses: A pocket located in the rear; back pocket
unupgradable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + upgradable.
Senses: examples: text: This has led to the employment of a large number of unskilled, low skilled and unupgradable staff, who, over the years, have become more or less permanent and who have aspiration for security […]
ref: 1999, J. P. Singh, Leapfrogging Development?: The Political Economy of Restructuring:
glosses: That cannot be upgraded.
hindersome
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more hindersome
form: most hindersome
Etymology: From hinder + -some.
Senses: examples: text: In the days of old, and even yet, the white man's prejudice was very hindersome; but, as time has wore on, and the races have come to expect each other as they know they will be, [...]
ref: 1915, Oscar Micheaux, The Forged Note: A Romance of the Darker Races:
text: [...] Rappard remarked with regard to the starlings in the Baluran area that their activities were considered hindersome by the banteng.
ref: 1970, A. Hoogerwerf, Udjung Kulon: The Land of the Last Javan Rhinoceros:
text: When she donned that magical cloak, her hindersome African ancestors became invisible; they disappeared as though by the wave of a wand.
ref: 2005, Patricia J. Williams, Open House:
text: Another hindersome problem is the lack of awareness among the American public about poverty in the rural areas: [...]
ref: 2012, G. Thomas-Lycklama-Nijeholt, On the Road for Work:
text: Only by such radical action can university and college life be rid of an obsession, which, it is believed, has become as hindersome to the great mass of students as it has proved itself harmful to academic standing, and dangerous to human life.
ref: 2013, Carla Killough McClafferty, Fourth Down and Inches:
text: The sea was choppy but not hindersome. And there was no sign of enemy ships out on the water.
ref: 2014, Gavin Wood, The Fate of the Jacobite Grenadiers:
text: Metaphors can, as well as transfer from prior knowledge, be either helpful or hindersome. Metaphors that are relevant and valid for the task to be performed as well as familiar to the user are helpful.
ref: 2015, Pierre Falzon, Cognitive Ergonomics:
synonyms: thwartful
thwartsome
antonyms: furthersome
helpful
glosses: Causing hindrance or setback; impeding; contrary; adverse; problematic.
Related terms: hindering
thwartful
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more thwartful
form: most thwartful
Etymology: From thwart + -ful.
Senses: examples: text: “Poor little shard of a Brogie; and Stu,” searched I in the thwartful modulation, [...]
ref: 2009, Carlton Thurman, Caddie Esoterica:
text: And, doing third edits for Lindsay notwithstanding, The Paper was a thwartful place for a would-be writer like myself to work in.
ref: 2011, Jug Suraiya, J S and the Times of My Life:
text: In this joke the use of the container is secondary, functioning primarily to create a more thwartable (thwartful?) expectation.
ref: 2012, Dan O'Shannon, What Are You Laughing At?:
text: Josh viewed Jerome Benedict as a thwartful man always finding the flaws in other people's research.
ref: 2013, Dennis Ford, Things Don’t Add Up:
text: And Vereker feels thwartful. . . . It's due to his having a boil—and no cushion with him. . . .
ref: 2015, P. C. Wren, Collected Works of P. C. Wren:
glosses: Full of opposition or inclined to thwart; contrary; cross
Synonyms: hindersome
Related terms: athwartships
thwarten
thwartsome
thwartwise
thwarty
Caswell
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkæzwɛl/
Senses: glosses: A surname.
glosses: A small coastal village in Bishopston community, on the Gower Peninsula in the City and County of Swansea, Wales (OS grid ref SS5887).
Derived terms: Caswell County
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thwarty
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: thwartier
form: more thwarty
form: thwartiest
form: most thwarty
Etymology: From thwart + -y.
Senses: examples: text: And in this aim, there is such a thwarty strife, / That one for all, or all for one we gauge ; [...]
ref: 1950, Syed Ghulam Imam, Anis & Shakespeare:
text: He had not interfered in the conversation of the two men and he even did not mean to inquire later what they'd done at the ministry, about Tomoioaga ("I am sure he is that thwarty, very pushing fellow I met at Milan, he seemed surprised they [...] ")
ref: 1978, Romanian Review, volume 32, numbers 1-8:
text: Their thwarty eyes, their hands on mouths, the smell revealed as much.
ref: 2000, Jim Crace, Being Dead:
glosses: Causing or indicating opposition; adverse; pushy; cross
foreshift
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: foreshifts
Etymology: From fore- + shift.
Senses: glosses: An early shift, or one which precedes another.
foreshifts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of foreshift
Missoulian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Missoulian
form: most Missoulian
Etymology: From Missoula + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to Missoula, Montana, United States.
Missoulian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Missoulians
Etymology: From Missoula + -ian.
Senses: examples: text: Missoulian Brandon Bryant has for months been a regular at local city council meetings. But Bryant’s behavior during the public comment section of a council meeting last November raised red flags for council members.
ref: 2020 February 14, Edward F. O'Brien, “Missoula Case Tests Balance Between Free Speech, Public Safety”, in Montana Public Radio:
text: Missoula Community Organizing Action is a Facebook group created during the pandemic to connect Missoulians.
ref: 2024 February 28, Claire Peterson, “Missoulians find assistance, offer help through online Facebook group”, in KPAX:
glosses: A native or inhabitant of Missoula, Montana, United States.
Hypernyms: American
Montanan
Missoulians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Missoulian
flo'
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Pronunciation spelling of floor, representing African-American Vernacular English.
magicdom
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From magic + -dom.
Senses: examples: text: I will contact the other two AAA+ magicians — the next of the three pillars of magicdom in this world — and see if I can't enlist them to follow my example.
ref: 1992, Gordon R. Dickson, The dragon on the border:
text: We could probably make it the most exclusive publication in magicdom.
ref: 2011, Jim Magus, Terry Nosek, Neil Tobin, Unspeakable Acts:
text: An effective routine for small intimate groups is this easy-to-do mystery by magicdom's master of sublety, Stewart Judah.
ref: 2012, J. B. Bobo, Modern Coin Magic:
text: Close to a year ago, there made its appearance upon the horizon of magicdom a book.
ref: 2012, Jean Hugard, Encyclopedia of Card Tricks:
glosses: The sphere or world of magic
magic-like
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more magic-like
form: most magic-like
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of magiclike.
magicky
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more magicky
form: most magicky
Etymology: From magic + -y.
Senses: examples: text: “Akstyr's off somewhere being secretive and magicky, and Books left at dawn, excited about spending a day at the library— that is pathetic, by the way.” “Basilard's not around?” “Haven't seen him since last night.” “I hope he shows up today.
ref: 2011, Lindsay Buroker, Deadly Games: The Emperor's Edge, Book 3:
text: For she was still greatly bothered by the magicky sight in one of her eyes. It made her see Faeries and their bits and bobs of magic everywhere: […]
ref: 2013, Rosalind Kerven, Faeries, Elves and Goblins: The Old Stories:
text: “A mixed-up, magicky place most humans don't notice, unless they know what they are looking for. There are lots of them. You just need to know where to look.” “A mixed-up, magicky place,” Tanya repeated.
ref: 2016, Michelle Harrison, One Wish:
glosses: Representing, or characteristic of magic; magical; magiclike
gaung baung
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gaung baungs
form: gaungbaung
form: gaung-baung
Etymology: Borrowed from Burmese ခေါင်းပေါင်း (hkaung:paung:).
Senses: examples: text: By the far bank a knot of men, one of them wearing a green gaungbaung, were waiting beside a sampan.
ref: 1934, George Orwell, chapter 21, in Burmese Days:
text: Maneuvering amid the personalities and protocol of sticky Washington last week was an open-faced, roundly smiling, improbable-looking man in a gaung baung (gauze turbanlike cap with side bow) […]
ref: 1955 January 11, “Neutral but Nice”, in Time:
text: On formal occasions college students would wear the gaungbaung. "The B.A. beau sauntering down the streets, walking-stick in hand and gaungbaung on his head," was the theme of a popular song in those days.
ref: 1974, Maung Maung, To a Soldier Son, Sarpay Beikman, page 11:
glosses: A traditional Burmese turban.
gaung-baung
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gaung-baungs
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of gaung baung.
gaungbaung
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gaungbaungs
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of gaung baung.
alafenamide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Based on the results of this study, it is reasonable for HIV clinics to consider including more formal evaluation of tubular damage in routine monitoring urinalyses for patients on TDF. Given ongoing concerns regarding potential nephrotoxicity of TDF and the need for continued nucleotide reverse transcription inhibitors in the backbone of cART regimens, tenofovir alafenamide fumarate (TAF), a new TFV prodrug, was recently FDA approved.
ref: 2016 February 13, “Is Abnormal Urine Protein/Osmolality Ratio Associated with Abnormal Renal Function in Patients Receiving Tenofovir Disoproxil Fumarate?”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A particular derivative of 6-aminopurine
biocenometer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: biocenometers
Etymology: From bio- + ceno- + -meter.
Senses: examples: text: Our biocenometer was a bottomless cube of 1 m side, whose sides and top were covered with a fine netting mesh.
ref: 2016 February 13, “Omnivory of an Insular Lizard: Sources of Variation in the Diet of Podarcis lilfordi (Squamata, Lacertidae)”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: A bottomless cube or cylinder used to trap, and then count, small animals, insects etc.
booleanise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: booleanises
form: booleanising
form: booleanised
form: booleanised
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of booleanize.
booleanised
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of booleanise
chitoporin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chitoporins
Etymology: From chito- + porin.
Senses: examples: text: Lytic polysaccharide monooxygenase, a copper-dependent enzyme, attacks recalcitrant chitin polysaccharides [4 ,5 ], while endochitinases hydrolyse long chitin chains to chitin oligosaccharides, which are then transported through the bacterial cell wall by chitoporin or ChiP.
ref: 2016 February 13, “Probing the Catalytic Mechanism of Vibrio harveyi GH20 ?-N -Acetylglucosaminidase by Chemical Rescue”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A porin associated with bacterial cell walls
take pity
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: takes pity
form: taking pity
form: took pity
form: taken pity
Senses: examples: text: Someone please take pity on that homeless man in the rain and give him a place to stay overnight.
glosses: To show compassion (towards).
joyant
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdʒɔɪənt/
Forms: form: more joyant
form: most joyant
Etymology: From joy + -ant. Compare Old French joyant, joiant (“joyful; merry; rejoicing”).
Senses: examples: text: Yon rippling stream, whose dimpled waves Leap sparkling by the shadowy graves, Singing a song as they leap along — A joyant song as they leap along — Makes the only sound that stirs the breeze, Is the only thing which the vision sees, Moving about 'neath the church-yard trees.
ref: 1870, James Pummill, Russet Leaves, page 209:
text: 1904, Myra Kelly, Little Citizens https://books.google.ru/books?id=A5zPFCqrkC0C&pg=PA137&lpg=PA137&dq=Jealousy+may+have+played+some+part+in+the+misunderstanding,+for+it+was+undeniable+that+there+was+a+sprightliness,+a+joyant+brightness,+in+the+flowing&source=bl&ots=jMRHcIHvKh&sig=ldBCJnQ4erfOVU0-xDKzscJpNvs&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiHn6WVoY3OAhXkKJoKHUOxDUsQ6AEIHTAA#v=onepage&q=Jealousy%20may%20have%20played%20some%20part%20in%20the%20misunderstanding%2C%20for%20it%20was%20undeniable%20that%20there%20was%20a%20sprightliness%2C%20a%20joyant%20brightness%2C%20in%20the%20flowing&f=false
Jealousy may have played some part in the misunderstanding, for it was undeniable that there was a sprightliness, a joyant brightness, in the flowing red scarf on Ignatius Aloysius's nautical breast, which was nowhere paralleled in Patrick's more subdued array.
text: As roseal day agleam with glowing light, Bespeaks the impress of a joyant hand, So when I meet my love the day is bright: The undershadows topped with glory's strand, By great illuming of the somber night, To one who else would long in shadow stand.
ref: 1905, Margaretta Ayres Karr, The heavenly voice: a life of Christ in blank verse:
text: 1910, Myra Kelly, New Faces https://books.google.ru/books?id=IZiiUcgVqzQC&pg=PT149&dq=and+the+glow+of+joyant+Camelot+lit+all+th&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwji8YuboovOAhUrLZoKHX4UDgQQ6AEIGzAA#v=onepage&q=and%20the%20glow%20of%20joyant%20Camelot%20lit%20all%20th&f=false
The glow of joyant Camelot lit all the southern sky.
text: "They're but just beginnin'. What was th' da-ay that wumman was give th' vote but th' da-ay that a joyant Eve made be Providence woke up for th' makin' av ma-an walk darint in th' way he shud go.
ref: 1921, Good Housekeeping - Volume 73, page 101:
glosses: Joyous, joyful or jolly.
Related terms: joyance
joyant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdʒɔɪənt/
Forms: form: joyants
Etymology: Imitation of the Irish pronunciation of giant.
Senses: examples: text: Pon my conscience,' says the joyant, says he, 'I niver knew flour to get so tough in the bakin' before,' says he.
ref: 1834 April 24, “Great Men of Munster”, in The Irish Monthly Magazine of Politics and Literature, volume 3, page 48:
text: Well, the joyant came at him all so suddent, that in spite of himself, he had to keep to the wings in airnest (for if he would, you know, he'd never like to be so noticeable), at all ivints, not darin' to rest himself agin ;
ref: 1861, Ierne: or, Anecdotes and incidents during a life chiefly in Ireland:
text: “I'll tell you that, then, says one of his great ginerals; 'send for the great joyant Congcullion, siz he, “an av he don't make her hop, says he, “you may call me an honest man.”
ref: 1898, Gerald Griffin, Half sir, page 196:
text: ...and that clift in the mountain was made by Fin Ma Cool, where he cut it acrass with a big swoord, that he got made a purpose by a blacksmith out o' Ruthdrum, a cousin av his own, for to fight a joyant that darr'd him on the Curragh o' Kildare;
ref: 2001, Georges Denis Zimmermann, The Irish Storyteller, page 156:
glosses: Pronunciation spelling of giant.
chitosugar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chitosugars
Etymology: From chito- + sugar.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of a class of sugars associated with bacterial cell walls
dealanylation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From de- + alanylation.
Senses: examples: text: Accordingly, it is likely that endosomal dealanylation takes place in the endosome giving rise to TLR stimulation and induction of Ifn-β expression and in turn, IL-12 induction.
ref: 2016 February 13, “D-Alanylation of Teichoic Acids and Loss of Poly-N-Acetyl Glucosamine in Staphylococcus aureus during Exponential Growth Phase Enhance IL-12 Production in Murine Dendritic Cells”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The removal of an alanyl group from a molecule
endolytic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From endo- + -lytic.
Senses: examples: text: Chitinase A (so-called VhChiA) is an endolytic enzyme responsible for the breakdown of insoluble chitin chains into small, soluble chitooligosaccharides [8 ,42 ], while chitoporin (so-called VhChiP), a sugar-specific porin located in the outer membrane of the bacterium, is responsible for chitooligosaccharide uptake [6 ,7 ].
ref: 2016 February 13, “Probing the Catalytic Mechanism of Vibrio harveyi GH20 ?-N -Acetylglucosaminidase by Chemical Rescue”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Relating to endolysis
Derived terms: endolytically
endolysis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From endo- + -lysis.
Senses: glosses: dissolution of the cytoplasm of a cell by its own enzymes
epimeletic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more epimeletic
form: most epimeletic
Senses: examples: text: In the neonatal related COD, according to a fisher who had recovered the carcass, the cutaneous lesions were caused by the mother, or other group members, trying to maintain the animal in motion or to make it surface, following an epimeletic behavior.
ref: 2016 February 13, “Assessing Disease and Mortality among Small Cetaceans Stranded at a World Heritage Site in Southern Brazil”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Relating to altruistic behaviour towards an injured animal
Related terms: etepimeletic
exolytic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From exo- + -lytic.
Senses: examples: text: The enzyme, known as VhGlcNAcase (formerly VhNag2), exhibited exolytic activity, degrading chitin oligosaccharides from the non-reducing end in a sequential manner, with GlcNAc monomer as the final product.
ref: 2016 February 13, “Probing the Catalytic Mechanism of Vibrio harveyi GH20 ?-N -Acetylglucosaminidase by Chemical Rescue”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Relating to exolysis
exolysis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From exo- + -lysis.
Senses: glosses: dissolution of the cytoplasm of a cell by enzymes from another organism
fucolectin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fucolectins
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any lectin that binds fucose
fucolectins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: A comprehensive repertoire of carbohydrate-binding molecules has been analyzed in the common periwinkle, Littorina littorea, with unigene sequences corresponding to C-type lectins, fucolectins, galectins, chitinase-like lectins, and I-type lectins [72 ].
ref: 2016 February 13, “Sequencing, De Novo Assembly, and Annotation of the Transcriptome of the Endangered Freshwater Pearl Bivalve, Cristaria plicata, Provides Novel Insights into Functional Genes and Marker Discovery”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: plural of fucolectin
gliovascular
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From glio- + vascular.
Senses: examples: text: Contact mechanism may resulted in the post-MTBI cortical hypoperfusion due to direct damage and disrupted integrity of the neuron and gliovascular unit with initiation of the coagulation cascade resulting in CBF reduction [29, 30 ].
ref: 2016 February 13, “Arterial Spin Labeling Perfusion Study in the Patients with Subacute Mild Traumatic Brain Injury”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Relating to blood vessels of the brain
Sumida
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese 墨田 (すみだ, Sumida).
Senses: glosses: A special ward of Tokyo prefecture, Japan that is surrounded by (clockwise from north) Adachi, Katsushika, Edogawa, Kōtō, Chūō, Taitō, and Arakawa special wards.
haemaphysalin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From genus name Haemaphyalis + -in.
Senses: examples: text: In Haemaphysalis longicornis, a unique Kunitz-domain-containing inhibitor, haemaphysalin, is responsible for interrupting the kallikrein–kinin system.
ref: 2016 February 13, “Temporal Gene Expression Analysis and RNA Silencing of Single and Multiple Members of Gene Family in the Lone Star Tick Amblyomma americanum”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: A kallikrein-kinin inhibitor isolated from a tick of the genus Haemaphysalis
hemimethylation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From hemi- + methylation.
Senses: examples: text: The unaffected twins showed hemimethylation of 4 (boxes) out of 16 methylation sensitive C nucleotides ( C1+C2 ) and hypomethylation (loss of methylation) in affected twins ( C3+C4 ).
ref: 2016 February 13, “Genome-Wide Identification of Epigenetic Hotspots Potentially Related to Cardiovascular Risk in Adult Women after a Complicated Pregnancy”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: partial or incomplete methylation
hypogyrification
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From hypo- + gyrification.
Senses: examples: text: Nixon and colleagues [33 ] found that individuals with depression displayed hypogyrification in the precuneus, as well as increased task-based functional connectivity between the precuneus and anterior nodes of the DMN. Since the DMN is thought to subserve self-focused thought, excessive connectivity may reflect pathological self-focus such as worry [13 ,14 ].
ref: 2016 February 13, “Cortical Gyrification Patterns Associated with Trait Anxiety”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Less than normal gyrification.
intrabronchiolar
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From intra- + bronchiolar.
Senses: examples: text: Pulmonary nematode infestations were characterized by lesions that varied from interstitial pneumonia (in larval migration) to chronic bronchitis, caused by intrabronchial and/or intrabronchiolar adult lung worms.
ref: 2016 February 13, “Assessing Disease and Mortality among Small Cetaceans Stranded at a World Heritage Site in Southern Brazil”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Within the bronchioles of the lung
microzonation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: microzonations
Etymology: From micro- + zonation.
Senses: examples: text: Depths with the same rates determine the biofilm microzonation.
ref: 2016 February 13, “Kinetics of Indigenous Nitrate Reducing Sulfide Oxidizing Activity in Microaerophilic Wastewater Biofilms”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Formation into microzones.
midlittoral
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From mid- + littoral.
Senses: examples: text: In each sector, three sampling sites (100s m apart from each other) were randomly selected for the surveys of benthic assemblages on rocky reefs from the lower midlittoral and the shallow infralittoral.
ref: 2016 February 13, “The Challenge of Planning Conservation Strategies in Threatened Seascapes: Understanding the Role of Fine Scale Assessments of Community Response to Cumulative Human Pressures”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
topics: geography
natural-sciences
glosses: In the middle part of a seashore.