cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
coalitionology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From coalition + -ology.
Senses: examples: text: During the working lunch "between Old Danish [well known aquavit] and matured cheese," as Carl Bildt put it, "comparative coalitionology" was discussed.
ref: 1991 October 25, Daily Report. West Europe (United States. Foreign Broadcast Information Service) FBIS-WEU-91-207 p.17
text: But, surely, we and all other media organisations allowed the poll numbers to infect our thinking: there was too much ‘coalitionology’ as a result. The BBC did better than others on this, but, with the benefit of hindsight, we would all have been better off with less discussion of deals and allowed the dissection of policy - that we did from defence to social care, housing to education - to speak for itself.
ref: 2015 June 2, James Harding, Speech at VLV Conference:
text: It led to an explosion of coalitionology, debating hung parliaments, possible coalitions, constitutional process and the 'legitimacy' of various outcomes, as everyone prepared for post-election deals.
ref: 2015 December 16, Philip Cowley, Dennis Kavanagh, The British General Election of 2015, Palgrave Macmillan, →ISBN, page 297:
text: But his advice was for the party to major on policy issues and avoid what he called "coalitionology".
ref: 2016 January 18, Tim Bale, quoted in "'Grand coalition' option cannot be ruled out" Irish Independent
text: Speaking on the same programme, Harry McGee, Political Correspondent of the Irish Times, said it was all about "coalitionology", with much speculation about combinations.
ref: 2016 January 18, Latest polls suggest current Coalition will fall short of majority, RTÉ
text: It’s been called “coalitionology”: the new parlour and parliamentary game being played all over the country. Leaving aside internal divisions within parties as to whom they would prefer as part[n]ers, here are the combinations that would work mathematically.
ref: 2020 February 12, Senan Molony, "Election 2020: ‘Coalitionology’ — your guide to possible partners for a majority" The Times [Ireland edition]
ref: 2020 February 15, Pat Leahy, “Coalitionology: Sinn Féin’s most realistic route to power is closed. What now?”, in The Irish Times:
topics: government
politics
glosses: (excessive) speculation around the time of a general election about possible coalition governments that might ensue
extrajudiciality
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From extrajudicial + -ity.
Senses: glosses: The state or condition of being extrajudicial.
hemogregarine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hemogregarines
Senses: examples: text: All snakes except AP-03 had hemogregarine coccidial schizonts (likely Hepatozoon sp.) within the lung.
ref: 2015 October 16, “Development of Snake Fungal Disease after Experimental Challenge with Ophidiomyces ophiodiicola in Cottonmouths ( Agkistrodon piscivorous )”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Alternative form of haemogregarine.
haemogregarine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: haemogregarines
form: haemogregarian
form: hemogregarine
Senses: glosses: Any parasitic organism of the genus Haemogregarina.
hemolymphagy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: haemolymphagy
Senses: examples: text: There are a few reports that suggest that insect-insect parasite transmission can occur through hemolymphagy, when one insect takes hemolymph from a conspecific [21 ] or during a simultaneous blood feeding [22 ], although the relevance of these alternative transmission routes in parasite circulation has not been established.
ref: 2015 October 16, “Revisiting Trypanosoma rangeli Transmission Involving Susceptible and Non-Susceptible Hosts”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: feeding on hemolymph
hepatocarcinomatous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From hepato- + carcinomatous.
Senses: examples: text: STC1 was found to be involved in inflammatory events [28, 29, 32 ] and was expressed in hepatocarcinomatous tissues [33, 34 ]; however, the role of STC1 in HCC progression is not known.
ref: 2015 October 16, “Stanniocalcin-1 Reduces Tumor Size in Human Hepatocellular Carcinoma”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
topics: medicine
oncology
sciences
glosses: Relating to carcinomas of the liver
hiatoplasty
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hiatoplasties
Etymology: From hiato- + -plasty.
Senses: examples: text: LMAH, laparoscopic mesh augmented hiatoplasty; LH, laparoscopic hiatoplasty; OR, Odds Ratio; 95% CI, 95% confidence interval.
ref: 2015 October 16, “Use of Mesh in Laparoscopic Paraesophageal Hernia Repair: A Meta-Analysis and Risk-Benefit Analysis”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
topics: medicine
sciences
surgery
glosses: repair of a hiatus hernia
hiatus hernia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hiatus hernias
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
synonyms: hiatal hernia
glosses: A protrusion of part of the upper stomach into the thorax
Related terms: hiatoplasty
homopurine
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From homo- + purine.
Senses: examples: text: In DNA homopyrimidine 2 homopurine triplexes [64 ], the homopyrimidine strands are antiparallel.
ref: 2015 October 16, “Polyanionic Carboxyethyl Peptide Nucleic Acids ( ce -PNAs): Synthesis and DNA Binding”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: Describing a pairing of a purine with the same one on a neighboring strand of nucleic acid
Related terms: homopyrimidine
homopyrimidine
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From homo- + pyrimidine.
Senses: examples: text: In a recent paper on homopyrimidine decamers containing aeg-monomers and thymine monomers with a sulfomethyl substituent at the γ-position, similar triplexes has also been described [43 ].
ref: 2015 October 16, “Polyanionic Carboxyethyl Peptide Nucleic Acids ( ce -PNAs): Synthesis and DNA Binding”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: Describing a pairing of a pyrimidine with the same one on a neighboring strand of nucleic acid
Related terms: homopurine
homothymine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From homo- + thymine.
Senses: examples: text: Additionally, this work presents the first synthesis of a homothymine polyanionic PNA α-oligomer ( 3 ).
ref: 2015 October 16, “Polyanionic Carboxyethyl Peptide Nucleic Acids ( ce -PNAs): Synthesis and DNA Binding”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: A homopyrimidine pairing in which the base is thymine
humming stone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: humming stones
Senses: glosses: large stone with at least one hole that resonates when somebody puts their head in and hums
cos.
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: Abbreviation of consul.
Senses: glosses: Consul in the year —. (Used, similarly to fl., in dating Roman texts composed by authors whose year of consulship is known, but little else for dating purposes.)
cos.
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of co.
YMCAs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of YMCA
YWCAs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of YWCA
paper case
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: paper cases
Senses: glosses: A bag for storing or carrying papers or writing materials.
examples: text: If you have silicon moulds, you can bake them in those, but otherwise just use a cupcake tin and paper cases.
ref: 2016 February 17, Tamal Ray, The Guardian:
topics: cooking
food
lifestyle
glosses: A small paper mould, typically circular and corrugated for making cupcakes.
paper cases
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of paper case
special rights
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: An undeserved right that grants a demographic an unfair advantage over the majority.
Related terms: special drawing right
imidazothiadiazole
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: imidazothiadiazoles
Senses: examples: text: The benzyl imidazothiadiazole moiety adopts a chair conformation with puckering parameters Q = 0.622(4) Å and φ = 201(19)° [31 ] and the maximum deviation found on the puckered atom at C14 is 0.255(3) Å.
ref: 2015 October 16, “A Nano-MgO and Ionic Liquid-Catalyzed ‘Green’ Synthesis Protocol for the Development of Adamantyl-Imidazolo-Thiadiazoles as Anti-Tuberculosis Agents Targeting Sterol 14α-Demethylase (CYP51)”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of a class of bicyclic heterocycles consisting of a diazole ring fused to one of thiadiazole
imidazothiadiazoles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Given the established activity of imidazothiadiazoles against M.
ref: 2015 October 16, “A Nano-MgO and Ionic Liquid-Catalyzed ‘Green’ Synthesis Protocol for the Development of Adamantyl-Imidazolo-Thiadiazoles as Anti-Tuberculosis Agents Targeting Sterol 14α-Demethylase (CYP51)”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: plural of imidazothiadiazole
intercistronic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From inter- + cistronic.
Senses: examples: text: For example, the proteins OTP70 and PpPPR_43 are involved in intron splicing and CRR2 is involved in intercistronic RNA cleavage in plant organelles [23 –25 ].
ref: 2015 October 16, “The DYW Subgroup PPR Protein MEF35 Targets RNA Editing Sites in the Mitochondrial rpl16, nad4 and cob mRNAs in Arabidopsis thaliana”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Between cistrons
interoceptively
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From interoceptive + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Previous study also argued that interoceptively or exteroceptivly oriented attention might exist in both EO and EC [49 ].
ref: 2015 October 16, “Investigating the Temporal Patterns within and between Intrinsic Connectivity Networks under Eyes-Open and Eyes-Closed Resting States: A Dynamical Functional Connectivity Study Based on Phase Synchronization”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: In an interoceptive manner
intracelomic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From intra- + celomic.
Senses: examples: text: A group of nymphs was infected as described, and 45 days after intracelomic inoculation, the salivary glands from half of the nymphs (n = 11) were dissected.
ref: 2015 October 16, “Revisiting Trypanosoma rangeli Transmission Involving Susceptible and Non-Susceptible Hosts”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Within the coelom
Derived terms: intracelomically
intracelomically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From intracelomic + -ally.
Senses: examples: text: To ensure the presence of parasites in the hemolymph and salivary glands, insects were also infected intracelomically as described previously [25 ].
ref: 2015 October 16, “Revisiting Trypanosoma rangeli Transmission Involving Susceptible and Non-Susceptible Hosts”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Within the coelom
intraploidy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From intra- + ploidy.
Senses: examples: text: The average number of cypselae per capitulum of self- and intraploidy pollinations was significantly different […]
ref: 2015 October 16, “Allogamy-Autogamy Switch Enhance Assortative Mating in the Allotetraploid Centaurea seridis L. Coexisting with the Diploid Centaurea aspera L. and Triggers the Asymmetrical Formation of Triploid Hybrids”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Between organisms that have the same ploidy
intratissue
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From intra- + tissue.
Senses: examples: text: One possible explanation for these findings is that in tissues with low 5-α reductase activity, such as muscle and bone, intratissue DHT concentrations are very low relative to testosterone and can be discontinued and the androgen effect is maintained by testosterone [59 ].
ref: 2015 October 16, “Risk of Fractures and Falls during and after 5-α Reductase Inhibitor Use: A Nationwide Cohort Study”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Within tissue.
karyofission
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From karyo- + fission.
Senses: examples: text: Black lines indicate the proportion of the nuclear volume contained by the daughter and mother immediately preceding karyofission.
ref: 2015 October 16, “Asymmetrical Inheritance of Plasmids Depends on Dynamic Cellular Geometry and Volume Exclusion Effects”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: The fission of the nuclei of cells
macrotidal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From macro- + tidal.
Senses: examples: text: In the macrotidal environments of NW Australia this is likely to be less for open water areas but may be comparable for semi enclosed embayments.
ref: 2015 October 16, “Zooplankton Growth, Respiration and Grazing on the Australian Margins of the Tropical Indian and Pacific Oceans”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Having a relatively large tidal range (greater than 4 metres)
Related terms: mesotidal
macrotide
microtidal
microtidal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From micro- + tidal.
Senses: glosses: Having a small tidal range (less than 2 metres)
Related terms: macrotidal
mesotidal
mesotidal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From meso- + tidal.
Senses: glosses: Having an intermediate tidal range (between 2 and 4 metres)
Related terms: macrotidal
microtidal
meliacinolin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Recently, the tetranortriterpenoid meliacinolin and azadirachtolide isolated from A.
ref: 2015 October 16, “Gedunin and Azadiradione: Human Pancreatic Alpha-Amylase Inhibiting Limonoids from Neem (Azadirachta indica) as Anti-Diabetic Agents”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A triterpenoid derivative that inhibits glucosidase and amylase activity and is used in the treatment of diabetes mellitus.
microdetritus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From micro- + detritus.
Senses: examples: text: Considering Olsson’s (1940) statement about the frequent occurrence of carbonate lenses with the Pleurophopsis fauna in the Sinú River basin mentioned above, this could possibly refer to Mata de Caña, about 20 km S of Lorica in the Department Córdoba, along the Sinú River, at 9°04’30” N, 75°49’30”W. The carbonate consists mostly of a peloidal micrite with microdetritus and abundant signs of bioturbation.
ref: 2015 October 16, “Cenozoic Methane-Seep Faunas of the Caribbean Region”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: microscopic detritus
microspatial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From micro- + spatial.
Senses: examples: text: Whether these mechanisms can influence pollinator preferences or microspatial cytotype segregation through long or short dispersals of cypselae, especially triploid seeds that are produced only by diploid mothers, remains to be resolved.
ref: 2015 October 16, “Allogamy-Autogamy Switch Enhance Assortative Mating in the Allotetraploid Centaurea seridis L. Coexisting with the Diploid Centaurea aspera L. and Triggers the Asymmetrical Formation of Triploid Hybrids”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Relating to very small spaces
multinet
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From multi- + net.
Senses: examples: text: We did not include the multinet samples in these calculations because of the difference in mesh size (100 μm).
ref: 2015 October 16, “Zooplankton Growth, Respiration and Grazing on the Australian Margins of the Tropical Indian and Pacific Oceans”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Relating to multiple (different) nets
neuromembrane
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɛmbɹeɪn
Forms: form: neuromembranes
Etymology: From neuro- + membrane.
Senses: examples: text: Due to the lack of entire de novo synthesis in mammalian metabolism pathways, adequate dietary intakes are required to maintain the neuromembrane UFA-status and to prevent serious developmental dysfunctions [8 ].
ref: 2015 October 16, “Sex-Specific Effects of Diets High in Unsaturated Fatty Acids on Spatial Learning and Memory in Guinea Pigs”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: The membrane of a neuron
nonglaucous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + glaucous.
Senses: examples: text: Variation in epicuticular wax composition causes changes in plant appearance: glaucous or nonglaucous.
ref: 2015 October 16, “W3 Is a New Wax Locus That Is Essential for Biosynthesis of β-Diketone, Development of Glaucousness, and Reduction of Cuticle Permeability in Common Wheat”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Not glaucous
paraesophageal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From para- + esophageal.
Senses: examples: text: Therefore, they object to routine use of mesh for laparoscopic paraesophageal hernia repair (LPHR) [6 ,8 ,9 ].
ref: 2015 October 16, “Use of Mesh in Laparoscopic Paraesophageal Hernia Repair: A Meta-Analysis and Risk-Benefit Analysis”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Across the esophagus
paravermal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From para- + vermal.
Senses: examples: text: Clusters of significantly increased connectivity after stimulation were located at the level of the paravermal lobules, functionally known as part of the spino-cerebellum.
ref: 2015 October 16, “Acute Modulation of Brain Connectivity in Parkinson Disease after Automatic Mechanical Peripheral Stimulation: A Pilot Study”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Beyond the vermis
vermal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Faux Latin, from a supposed *vermalis, whereas Latin vermiculātus. From vermis + -al.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Relating to the vermis
immunorepertoire
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: immunorepertoires
Etymology: From immuno- + repertoire.
Senses: examples: text: In present study, we investigated the diversity of the gamma 9/delta 2 T cell immunorepertoire and analysed the specificity of the expressed CDR3 in pulmonary tuberculosis patients.
ref: 2012, Tuberculosis—Advances in Research and Treatment: 2012 Edition:
topics: immunology
medicine
sciences
glosses: The sum of functionally diverse B and T cells in one's circulation at any given moment; the set of conditions that an immune system recongnizes.
Related terms: alt: med.stanford.edu
urls: https://web.archive.org/web/20090304165026/http://med.stanford.edu/sgtc/journal_club/talk_han.html
word: Immunorepertoire analysis by multiplex PCR and 454 sequencing
non-binaries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of non-binary
infoxication
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Blend of information + intoxication
Senses: glosses: information overload
crotch rockets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of crotch rocket
hom-set
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hom-sets
Etymology: Short for "homomorphism set", because in some categories the morphisms are homomorphisms.
Senses: topics: category-theory
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: The set or collection of all morphisms from A to B for some given ordered pair (A, B) of objects from some given category.
Synonyms: morphism set
peloidal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From peloid + -al.
Senses: examples: text: The carbonate consists mostly of a peloidal micrite with microdetritus and abundant signs of bioturbation.
ref: 2015 October 16, “Cenozoic Methane-Seep Faunas of the Caribbean Region”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: Relating to peloids.
picoautotrophs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: The dominance of picoautotrophs, which because of their small size are not directly available to mesozooplankton, does not always result in lower grazing rates.
ref: 2015 October 16, “Zooplankton Growth, Respiration and Grazing on the Australian Margins of the Tropical Indian and Pacific Oceans”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: plural of picoautotroph
hom-sets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hom-set
procardiogenic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pro- + cardiogenic.
Senses: examples: text: The significant expression of the components of the WNT canonical pathway and the NOTCH pathway in early SHF CPs (EB Nkx2-5 + ) supports a procardiogenic role of canonical WNT in the early phase and the requirement of the NOTCH1 pathway for cardiac differentiation [50, 55 ].
ref: 2015 October 16, “Single-Cell Expression Profiling Reveals a Dynamic State of Cardiac Precursor Cells in the Early Mouse Embryo”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: That promotes cardiogenesis
love heart
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: love hearts
form: loveheart
form: love-heart
Etymology: From love + heart.
Senses: examples: text: There were no exclamation points in Miranda's messages. No emojis. No love hearts. Win wasn't surprised; there hadn't been much love between them since the argument over her daughter's sudden pregnancy.
ref: 2021, Christina Dalcher, Femlandia, page 168:
glosses: The symbol ♥, used informally to convey the idea of (usually romantic) love.
examples: text: 'Here's your lollies,' she says holding out the grubby packet of lovehearts, Maura's share of the two shillings' worth they had bought with the money from the Barnardos box.
ref: 2001, Fiona Farrell, The Skinny Louie Book:
glosses: A sweet or candy in the shape of a heart.
love hearts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of love heart
winter daffodil
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: winter daffodils
Senses: glosses: Sternbergia lutea, a bulbous flowering plant in the family Amaryllidaceae.
winter daffodils
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of winter daffodil
pseudodistance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pseudodistances
Etymology: From pseudo- + distance.
Senses: examples: text: In this paper we present robust estimators of mean and covariance matrix obtained by minimizing an empirical version of a pseudodistance between the assumed model and the true model underlying the data.
ref: 2015 October 16, “Robust Portfolio Optimization Using Pseudodistances”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: A pseudometric having some characteristics of distance
pseudodistances
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: It was also introduced in [16 ] in the context of decomposable pseudodistances.
ref: 2015 October 16, “Robust Portfolio Optimization Using Pseudodistances”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: plural of pseudodistance
sternbergia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sternbergias
Etymology: Borrowed from translingual Sternbergia.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Any of the genus Sternbergia of Eurasian and North African plants in the Amaryllis family.
sternbergias
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sternbergia
pseudopeptide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pseudopeptides
Etymology: From pseudo- + peptide.
Senses: examples: text: An alternative route for the preparation of monomer 5, in which the pseudopeptide intermediate is obtained by reductive N-alkylation, was outlined previously [13 ].
ref: 2015 October 16, “Polyanionic Carboxyethyl Peptide Nucleic Acids ( ce -PNAs): Synthesis and DNA Binding”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: An amide of an amino acid that does not occur in natural peptides or proteins, especially one introduced into a polypeptide chain
Related terms: pseudopeptidic
infostress
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From info- + stress.
Senses: examples: text: If we associate information load with entertaining challenges and the development of our capacity, might our infostress decrease?
ref: 2008, Torkel Klingberg, The Overflowing Brain : Information Overload and the Limits of Working ...:
glosses: Stress caused by information overload.
Ceiba
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A place name:
A town and municipality in north-east Puerto Rico, named after the Ceiba tree genus.
glosses: A place name:
A barrio in Cidra municipality, Puerto Rico.
glosses: A place name:
A barrio in Las Piedras municipality, Puerto Rico.
glosses: A place name:
A barrio in Vega Baja municipality, Puerto Rico.
Related terms: Mercedes La Ceiba
peppercorn rents
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of peppercorn rent
Kirkwood gap
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Kirkwood gaps
Etymology: After American astronomer Daniel Kirkwood.
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: A gap in the distribution of semi-major axes of asteroids in the main belt.
wikipedia: Daniel Kirkwood
Kirkwood Gap
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Kirkwood Gaps
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of Kirkwood gap.
bee hoon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: beehoon
Etymology: From Hokkien 米粉 (bí-hún). Doublet of mei fun. Compare Malay bihun, Indonesian bihun, Tagalog bihon.
Senses: examples: text: And it is possible that you will shortly read in the papers that he has executed his stated intention of burning down his father's bee hoon factory in Upper Thompson Road.
ref: 2016, Gregory Nalpon, The Wayang at Eight Milestone: Stories & Essays:
topics: cooking
food
lifestyle
glosses: Rice vermicelli, rice noodles.
Related terms: mee hoon
calciphobe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: calciphobes
Etymology: From calci- + -phobe.
Senses: glosses: Any calciphobous plant.
calciphobes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of calciphobe
infotrash
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From info- + trash.
Senses: examples: text: Our solutions to the infotrash management problem are based on a renewable natural resource — ideas.
ref: 2000, Tomorrow: Global Environment Business, volume 10:
glosses: Information of low quality or value.
ijzerkoekje
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ijzerkoekjes
Etymology: From Dutch ijzerkoekje.
Senses: glosses: A soft cookie baked on a checkered iron plate that gives it a characteristic pattern.
poethood
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From poet + -hood.
Senses: glosses: The property of being a poet.
poetette
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: poetettes
Etymology: From poet + -ette.
Senses: glosses: A young or insignificant poet, usually female.
poetettes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of poetette
riffraffish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more riffraffish
form: most riffraffish
Etymology: From riffraff + -ish.
Senses: examples: text: What kind of general allowed the riffraff off the streets to wait in his office? And he hated to say it, but Ellie looked extremely riffraffish.
ref: 2009, Tess Mallory, Highland Rebel, Penguin, →ISBN:
text: Over the next few years the quiet, bespectacled composer and the riffraffish writer collaborated on Mahagonny and Threepenny Opera before falling out with each other.
ref: 2018, John Strausbaugh, Victory City […] , Hachette UK, →ISBN:
synonyms: riff-raffy
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of riffraff.
poetesque
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more poetesque
form: most poetesque
Etymology: From poet + -esque.
Senses: glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a poet or poetry.
poetese
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From poet + -ese.
Senses: glosses: The language used by poets.
pocketwards
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From pocket + -wards.
Senses: glosses: Towards one's pocket.
pluviosity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: climatology
meteorology
natural-sciences
glosses: Level of rainfall.
Related terms: pluvious
pleasantish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more pleasantish
form: most pleasantish
Etymology: From pleasant + -ish.
Senses: glosses: Fairly pleasant.
antiunitarian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more antiunitarian
form: most antiunitarian
Etymology: From anti- + unitarian.
Senses: glosses: Opposing unitarianism.
shrink-wrap license
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shrink-wrap licenses
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of shrinkwrap license.
god-kings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of god-king
antiunity
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more antiunity
form: most antiunity
Etymology: From anti- + unity.
Senses: glosses: Opposing unity.
unparallelly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more unparallelly
form: most unparallelly
Senses: examples: text: And in fact this revision has come to be practiced at last conforming to the reality of junior colleges unparallelly developing all over Japan.
ref: 1967, Education in Japan: Journal for Overseas, Volume 2:
glosses: In an unparalleled way.
itchies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From itchy + -s.
Senses: examples: text: You've gotta get rid of the stinging itchies if you want to keep a man.
ref: 2011, Shirin Dubbin, Chaos Tryst:
glosses: An itchy or fidgety condition.
matter-of-factish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more matter-of-factish
form: most matter-of-factish
Etymology: From matter-of-fact + -ish.
Senses: examples: text: If some matter-of-factish common-sensish Grimshaw could have witnessed the Christmas Eve scene in Dr. Murdrum's parlor, think you “Sweet Home” would have touched him also to the core?
ref: 1965, Frank Heath Alfriend, George William Bagby, James Ewell Heath, Southern Literary Messenger; Devoted To Every Department of Literature and the Fine Arts, volume 30:
glosses: Somewhat matter-of-fact.
fuck-ese
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From fuck + -ese.
Senses: examples: text: Emily had had an overly protective mother who shielded her from such obscenities, and despite her time on Broadway, Emily had never gotten inured to the dialect of obscenity, or "fuck-ese" as some inmates dubbed it.
ref: 1988, Vincent Bugliosi, William Stadiem, Lullaby and Good Night:
glosses: Obscene language.
deinstallation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: deinstallations
Etymology: From de- + installation.
Senses: glosses: The process of deinstalling.
deinstalls
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of deinstall
deinstalling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of deinstall
deinstalled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of deinstall
deinstallations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of deinstallation
televote
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: televotes
Etymology: From tele- + vote.
Senses: examples: text: Some Greek Cypriots accused the state-run Cyprus Broadcasting Corporation of rigging the televote.
ref: 2007, Ivan Raykoff, Robert Deam Tobin, A Song for Europe, page 140:
glosses: A vote operated by means of televoting.
televote
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: televotes
form: televoting
form: televoted
form: televoted
Etymology: From tele- + vote.
Senses: glosses: To take part in such a vote.
televotes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of televote
televotes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of televote
fuckheadery
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From fuckhead + -ery.
Senses: glosses: Behavior characteristic of fuckheads; fatuousness.
Joe Nobody
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Joe Nobodies
Senses: glosses: Somebody of no importance or significance.
immunorepertoires
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of immunorepertoire
Joe Nobodies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Joe Nobody
fuckheadism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From fuckhead + -ism.
Senses: glosses: The misbehavior typical of a fuckhead.
virginial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From virgin + -ial. Existent since the 18th century.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of virginal.
synonyms: word: virginal
diagonal mark
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: diagonal marks
Etymology: To distinguish the intended sense of diagonal.
Senses: examples: text: Initial inquiries among professional typists uncover names like slant, slant line, slash, and slash mark. Examination of typing instruction manuals discloses additional names such as diagonal and diagonal mark, and other sources provide the designation oblique.
ref: 1965, Dmitri A. Borgmann, Language on Vacation, page 240:
topics: media
publishing
typography
glosses: Synonym of slash as the forward slash ⟨/⟩ and sometimes also its proscribed sense inclusive of the backslash ⟨\⟩.
synonyms: word: slash as the forward slash
extra: /⟩ and sometimes also its proscribed sense inclusive of the backslash ⟨\
diagonal marks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of diagonal mark
neologistically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more neologistically
form: most neologistically
Etymology: From neologistic + -ally.
Senses: examples: text: Patients who speak neologistically write neologistically. (However, the letters in neologistic words usually are grouped in clusters that are consistent with letter groupings for real words.)
ref: 2014, Robert H. Brookshire, Malcolm R. McNeil, Introduction to Neurogenic Communication Disorders, page 196:
glosses: In a neologistic manner.
slant line
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: slant lines
Etymology: Used to distinguish the intended sense of slant.
Senses: examples: text: Initial inquiries among professional typists uncover names like slant, slant line, slash, and slash mark. Examination of typing instruction manuals discloses additional names such as diagonal and diagonal mark, and other sources provide the designation oblique.
ref: 1965, Dmitri A. Borgmann, Language on Vacation, page 240:
topics: media
publishing
typography
glosses: Synonym of slash ⟨/⟩.
synonyms: word: slash
extra: /
slant lines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of slant line
slow on the uptake
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: synonyms: word: slow-witted
word: addlebrained
word: addlepated
word: airheaded
word: bee-brained
word: beef-witted
word: beefheaded
word: beetle-headed
word: birdbrained
word: blockheaded
word: Boeotian
word: boneheaded
word: boofheaded
word: brainless
word: bubbleheaded
word: buffle-headed
word: bullet-headed
word: cerebrally challenged
word: childish
word: chowderheaded
word: chuckleheaded
word: crackbrained
word: cretinous
word: dense
word: dented
word: dim-bulb
word: dim-headed
word: dim-witted
word: dim
word: doltish
word: dopey
word: dozy
word: drowsy
word: dull-headed
word: dull-minded
word: dull-witted
word: dull
word: dumber than a box of rocks
word: dumb
word: dunderheaded
word: empty-headed
word: fatheaded
word: feeble-minded
word: flea-brained
word: foolish
word: fuzzy-headed
word: fuzzy-minded
word: half-brained
word: half-witted
word: hammer-headed
word: idiotic
word: imbecilic
word: inane
word: insipid
word: intellectually challenged
word: knuckleheaded
word: lamebrained
word: lowbrow
word: lumpish
word: lunkheaded
word: mentally challenged
word: mentally retarded
word: mindless
word: monosynaptic
word: moronic
word: muttonheaded
word: nitwitted
word: numbskulled
word: oafish
word: obtuse
word: peabrained
word: pratty
word: pudding-headed
word: puerile
word: purblind
word: quarter-witted
word: retarded
word: rockheaded
word: sharp as a bowling ball
word: sheep-headed
word: simple
word: slow-witted
word: slow
word: smooth-brained
word: stolid
word: stupid
word: thick-skulled
word: thickheaded
word: thickwitted
word: thick
word: unapprehensive
word: unclever
word: unintelligent
word: unsmart
word: vacant
word: vacuous
word: witless
word: wooden-headed
word: wool-headed
word: woolly-headed
word: woolly-minded
word: dumb as a bag of hammers
word: dumb as a box of rocks
word: dumb as a doorknob
word: dumb as an ox
word: dumb as a post
word: dumb as a sack of hammers
word: dumb as dirt
word: dumber than a rock
word: not the sharpest crayon in the box
word: not the sharpest knife in the drawer
word: not the sharpest tool in the shed
word: thick as a brick
word: thick as a plank
word: thick as champ
word: thick as mince
word: thick as two short planks
word: thick as a whale omelette
word: ass-brained
word: fuckwitted
word: shit-for-brains
word: thick as pig shit
antonyms: word: quick on the uptake
word: quick-witted
word: brainless
word: dumb
word: foolish
word: idiotic
word: imbecile
word: insensible
word: lowbrow
word: mindless
word: stupid
word: unintelligent
word: witless
glosses: Of a person, slow to comprehend or process intellectually.
messenger bags
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of messenger bag
courier bag
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: courier bags
Senses: glosses: Synonym of messenger bag.
synonyms: word: messenger bag
courier bags
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of courier bag
Roman shade
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Roman shades
Senses: glosses: A kind of window shade that shows a smooth surface while covering the window (unlike most blinds) but closes up into a stack.
Roman shades
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Roman shade
pan-disability
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pan- + disability.
Senses: glosses: Relating to all forms of human disability.
pinxits
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pinxit
sculpsits
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sculpsit
deafo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: deafos
Etymology: From deaf + -o.
Senses: examples: text: I have heard a headteacher in school refer to the 'deafos' in the unit and that, arguably, was more unforgivable than the remark made by a man watching the Bromley Chain float pass by in the carnival procession.
ref: 2003, Jenny Froude, Making Sense in Sign: A Lifeline for a Deaf Child, page 156:
text: When I was in college, there was a group of kids living in my dorm that we called the “Deafos.” The Deafos were all deaf like I am now, which ought to be a huge lesson in karma for us all.
ref: 2008, Valerie Fausone, Fountain of Marvelous, page 115:
text: 'Paul wants to come with you.'
'No way! He's a deafo! He'll be a liability.'
ref: 2012, Mary Duffin, The Tribe: Birth Of The Mall Rats, page 286:
glosses: A deaf person.
deafos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of deafo
rapidograph
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rapidographs
Etymology: From the brand name of a technical pen introduced by Rotring in the 1950s, presumably rapid + -o- + -graph.
Senses: glosses: A technical pen.
wikipedia: Rotring
technical pen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: technical pens
Senses: synonyms: rapidograph
glosses: A specialized ink pen with a cylindrical point used by an engineer, architect, or drafter to make lines of constant width for architectural, engineering, or technical drawings.
wikipedia: technical pen
raphigraphy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A tactile form of the Latin script invented for use by both blind and sighted people, resembling braille but with more dots, allowing the letters to resemble their written equivalents.
technical pens
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of technical pen
rapidographs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rapidograph
platescape
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: platescapes
Etymology: From plate + -scape, introduced in a 2007 paper by Jeffery Sobal and Brian Wansink.
Senses: examples: text: The possible non-places in platescapes could possibly have to do with objects that certainly are designed to carry or contain food but lack meaning and attachment.
ref: 2018, Ricardo Bonacho, Experiencing Food, Designing Dialogues:
glosses: The visual arrangement of food on a plate and the accompanying utensils, etc., regarded as a factor in the choices people make about their food intake.
platescapes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of platescape
officescapes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of officescape
kitchenscape
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kitchenscapes
Etymology: From kitchen + -scape.
Senses: examples: text: I could put the cappuccino machine in that corner of the counter, the one with the single malt whiskies, it would dominate the kitchenscape, draw the eye.
ref: 1996, Sonja Lyndon, Sylvia Paskin, The Slow Mirror and Other Stories, page 111:
text: It was the sign of the most profound change to the kitchenscape: the kitchen was no longer the reign or gleaming prison of the woman, but the definitive 'heart of the family'.
ref: 2013, Georgina Downey, Domestic Interiors:
glosses: The notional landscape or physical layout of a kitchen.
kitchenscapes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kitchenscape
moon soup
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: So called because it was sent on NASA's Apollo 15 mission to the Moon in 1973, as part of the astronauts' food supply.
Senses: glosses: A kind of soup made with romaine lettuce.
wikipedia: Apollo 15
quog
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: quogs
Senses: glosses: Synonym of quahog.
synonyms: word: quahog
quogs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of quog
wing-nut
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wing-nuts
Senses: examples: text: I removed the front maiden, tossed out the evil wood screw, and equipped the maiden with a special bit of hardware which has a wood screw on one end and is threaded for a wing-nut on the other end.
ref: 1995, Spin Off, Volumes 19-21:
glosses: Alternative form of wing nut.
wing-nuts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wing-nut
wing nuts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wing nut
superb owl
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Superb Owl
Etymology: Respelling of Super Bowl.
Senses: glosses: The Super Bowl.
Synonyms: sense: euphemistic names for the Super Bowl
word: The Big Game
big five
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The five most difficult and dangerous game animals to hunt in Africa: the African lion, African elephant, Cape buffalo, African leopard, and rhinoceros.
topics: biology
ecology
natural-sciences
glosses: The five major extinction events since the beginning of life on Earth.
Coordinate terms: Big One
big one
big two
Big Three
Big Four
big six
big eight
pseudo-randomness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From pseudo- + randomness.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of pseudorandomness.
subphrase
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: subphrases
Etymology: From sub- + phrase.
Senses: examples: text: Unsupervised methods for identifying "phrases", mining subphrase structure and finding words in a fully automated way are described.
ref: 2016, Stefan Gerdjikov, Klaus U. Schulz, “Corpus analysis without prior linguistic knowledge - unsupervised mining of phrases and subphrase structure”, in arXiv:
glosses: A phrase making up part of a larger phrase.
subphrases
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of subphrase
biangbiang noodles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈbi.æŋ ˈbi.æŋ/
/ˈbi.ɑŋ ˈbi.ɑŋ/
Etymology: Partial calque from Mandarin 𰻞𰻞麵／𰻝𰻝面 (biángbiángmiàn).
Senses: glosses: A type of thick noodle from China's Shaanxi province, said to be named for the sound a noodle makes when slapped against the work surface while being made, and famed for the unusually complex Chinese character used in its name (𰻞／𰻝 (biáng)).
Hismaic
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /hɪsˈmeɪ.ɪk/
rhymes: -eɪɪk
Etymology: From Hisma + -ic.
Senses: hypernyms: Thamudic
Ancient North Arabian
glosses: A form of the Ancient North Arabian language, from the Hisma sand-desert of southern Jordan and northwest Saudi Arabia.
pyelocaliceal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: pyelocalyceal
Etymology: From pyelo- + caliceal.
Senses: examples: text: A recent Chinese study has also demonstrated that males and patients with pyelocaliceal tumors are at higher risk of advanced tumor stage than females and those with ureteral tumors, respectively [12 ].
ref: 2015 October 16, “Concurrent Preoperative Presence of Hydronephrosis and Flank Pain Independently Predicts Worse Outcome of Upper Tract Urothelial Carcinoma”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Relating to the renal pelvis and the calices
ribooligonucleotide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ribooligonucleotides
Etymology: From ribo- + oligonucleotide.
Senses: glosses: Any oligonucleotide derived from RNA
ribooligonucleotides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Upon interaction with ss- nucleic acid (NA) targets (deoxyribooligonucleotides (ODNs) or ribooligonucleotides), they form very stable anti-parallel and parallel duplexes [3 ], and the melting temperatures of the antiparallel duplexes are 10 to 15°C higher than those of the parallel duplexes.
ref: 2015 October 16, “Polyanionic Carboxyethyl Peptide Nucleic Acids ( ce -PNAs): Synthesis and DNA Binding”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: plural of ribooligonucleotide
Safaitic
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Ṣafaitic
Etymology: From Safaite + -ic.
Senses: glosses: A continuum of Old Arabic dialects written in a distinct North Arabian variety of the South Semitic script.
splenopancreas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From spleno- + pancreas.
Senses: examples: text: Aseptic procedures were used to collect fresh tissue samples from the nasolabial pits and skin lesions for fungal culture and qPCR. Another set of tissues (head, skin lesions, lung, liver, splenopancreas, kidney, and intestine) were collected and placed in 10% neutral buffered formalin for histopathologic examination.
ref: 2015 October 16, “Development of Snake Fungal Disease after Experimental Challenge with Ophidiomyces ophiodiicola in Cottonmouths ( Agkistrodon piscivorous )”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: The conjoined spleen and pancreas in most snakes
subpharyngeal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɪndʒiəl
-iːəl
-ɪndʒəl
Etymology: From sub- + pharyngeal.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Below the pharynx
supergravitation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: supergravitations
Etymology: From super- + gravitation.
Senses: examples: text: Via the also very highly cited paper (not a SB) on vacuum configurations for superstrings by Candelas et al (1985) [42 ], co-authored by the string theory pioneer Witten, and via the SB of De Wit et al (1987) on supergravity [43 ] we observe a further connection with the Romans cluster, particularly the most famous SB of Romans (1986) on supergravitation in a ten-dimensional space-time[28 ].
ref: 2015 October 16, “Dormitory of Physical and Engineering Sciences: Sleeping Beauties May Be Sleeping Innovations”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Synonym of supergravity.
synonyms: word: supergravity
Hulks
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Hulk
tetranortriterpenoid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tetranortriterpenoids
Etymology: From tetra- + nortriterpenoid.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any derivative of a triterpenoid formed by removal of four methylene groups.