cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
Pokemon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Pokemon
form: Pokemons
Senses: examples: text: One caveat here-⁠–some products, such as Furbys and Pokemons are driven by a social process (as discussed in Chapter 7). For these products, purchase intentions will be understated because the survey is conducted in isolation from the social effects.
ref: 2001, Anne Marie Knott, Venture Design, [New York, N.Y.]: Entity Press, →ISBN, page 223:
text: Having several times collected her goddaughter from Busy Lizzie’s after school and taken her to her once-a-week gym club, Mary recognised Poppy’s Nigerian gym teacher sitting in a side pew, and the delightful old newsagent from Holland Park Avenue where Poppy loved to stop on her way home and buy Pokemons and sweets.
ref: 2002, Nicholas Coleridge, Godchildren, New York, N.Y.: Thomas Dunne Books, →ISBN, page 436:
text: He picked up my Pokemon pillow (revered for its status as the first and only prize I ever won at the Ex) and started punching it in the face. / “Do you mind?” / “Right, sorry,” he nodded, putting it back amidst my plushy and pillow collection, which suddenly seemed very little girlie. “Pokemons are people, too.[…]”
ref: 2009, Jennifer Cowan, Earthgirl, Toronto, Ont.: Groundwood Books / House of Anansi Press, →ISBN, page 61:
glosses: Informal form of Pokémon.
semi-submersible
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: semisubmersible
Etymology: From semi- + submersible.
Senses: glosses: that can be partially submerged; usually relating to offshore drilling platforms and associated vessels.
semi-submersible
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: semi-submersibles
form: semisubmersible
Etymology: From semi- + submersible.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of semisubmersible.
osthya
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: oṣṭhya
Etymology: Borrowed from Sanskrit ओष्ठ्य (oṣṭhya, “labial”).
Senses: examples: text: In the RPr. ... it is true that v is included in a class characterized only as oṣṭhya, but this refers only to sthāna.
ref: 1976, Natural Language Studies, number 21, page 162:
text: The KV then points out that the rule not only applies in connection with osthya sounds, but also in connection with the dantoṣṭhya 'labio-dental' sound v.
ref: 1991, Pāṇini, Shivram Dattatray Joshi, J. A. F. Roodbergen, The Aṣṭādhyāyī of Pāṇini with Translation and Explanatory Notes, Volume 10, page 223:
text: and hence in spite of its labio-dentality, it came to be listed as an oṣṭhya sound.
ref: 1997, Madhav Deshpande, Śaunakīyā Caturādhyāyikā, page 137:
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: a labial consonant
intrascrotal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From intra- + scrotal.
Senses: examples: text: Spermatoceles are intrascrotal cysts containing sperm that derive from the small tubules of the epididymis.
text: Triorchidism has been the most commonly reported manifestation, with the supernumerary testis or testes most frequently intrascrotal and less than 10% residing intraabdominally [2],[7].
ref: 2013 January 24, Chloe B. Wilcox, Rachel D'Cruz, Andrew J.A. Holland, “Polyorchism in association with an undescended testis and testicular atrophy: Report of a unique case and review of the literature”, in Journal of Pediatric Surgery Case Reports, volume 1, number 1, →DOI, page e7:
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Located inside the scrotum
Derived terms: intrascrotally
intravertebrally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From intravertebral + -ly.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: within the vertebra
you rang
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Etymology: A servant's response to a bell being rung as a summons. Originated with Maynard G. Krebs in the television sitcom The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis; then popularized by the character Lurch in the American TV series The Addams Family.
Senses: glosses: Asks what the summoner desires.
wikipedia: Maynard G. Krebs
cock-knocker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cock-knockers
form: cock knocker
form: cockknocker
Senses: examples: text: He started it! Fucking cock-knocker! He's lucky I didn't put my pen through his thorax!
ref: 1997, Kevin Smith, Chasing Amy, spoken by Banky Edwards (Jason Lee):
glosses: An annoying or despicable person.
cock-knockers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cock-knocker
cock knocker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cock knockers
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of cock-knocker.
cock knockers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cock knocker
cockknocker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cockknockers
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of cock-knocker.
intraprostatic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From intra- + prostatic.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: within the prostate gland
Derived terms: intraprostatically
cockknockers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cockknocker
punlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more punlike
form: most punlike
Etymology: From pun + -like.
Senses: glosses: Similar to a pun.
intramental
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɛntəl
Etymology: From intra- + mental.
Senses: examples: text: Ideas produced by intellectual analysis have only intramental existence.
glosses: Within the mind.
pornobilly
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pornabilly
Etymology: Blend of porn + rockabilly.
Senses: examples: text: Inventor of pornobilly, Buck would come on stage dressed only in a “cowboy hat, pink cowboy boots and a toilet-plunger codpiece”.
ref: 2000, Brian Hinton, Country Roads: How Country Came to Nashville, Sanctuary, →ISBN, page 423:
text: If you like Buck Naked, check out Jon Wayne's 'Texas Funeral' if you haven't done so already. Not highly offensive pornobilly, but highly offensive in a drunken Texas way.
ref: 2004 September 26, REP [username], “Re: what's everyone listening to lately?”, in alt.support.childfree (Usenet):
text: Of course, there's a tendency to dismiss Buck and the Boys, pornobilly as a cheap novelty.
ref: 2005, Kim Cooper, David Smay, editors, Lost in the Grooves: Scram's Capricious Guide to the Music You Missed, Routledge, →ISBN:
glosses: A genre of rockabilly music with raunchy lyrics and stylings.
Related terms: rockabilly
Baltimorons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Baltimoron
untrustable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more untrustable
form: most untrustable
Etymology: From un- + trustable. Attested since the 19th century.
Senses: examples: text: "They untrustable people always do know where they can put their own trust."
ref: 1947, Eden Phillpotts, There was an Old Woman:
glosses: That cannot be trusted.
Derived terms: untrustability
subeth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /səˈbɛθ/
Etymology: From Medieval Latin subeth (adjective: subethicus), from Arabic سُبَات (subāt, “ailment of excessive sleep”)
Senses: glosses: Abnormal, especially excessively deep, sleep.
caliphatic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more caliphatic
form: most caliphatic
Etymology: From caliphate + -ic.
Senses: synonyms: caliphal
glosses: Pertaining to a caliphate.
side-striped jackals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of side-striped jackal
press rolls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of press roll
konhou
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: konhous
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of konghou.
konhous
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of konhou
Lysistrata
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /laɪˈsɪstrətə/
/ˌlɪsəˈstrɑːtə/
Etymology: From Ancient Greek Λυσιστράτη (Lusistrátē, “army disbander”).
Senses: examples: text: The authors have drawn to some extent on the Lysistrata to aid them, but have fallen as far short of the fun as of the indecency of that memorable play.
ref: 1920 [1887], George Saintsbury, A History of Elizabethan Literature:
text: The idea of a sex strike is as old as Aristophanes. Undoubtedly after a tiff with Mrs. Aristophanes, he wrote his “Lysistrata,” a comedy about wives who end the Peloponnesian War by resisting their husbands.
ref: 1998 April 26, Jenny Lyn Bader, “Is Sex Necessary?”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC:
text: So I created the same women and started with the same story, but then just played it out in a contemporary setting. Also, unlike in “Lysistrata,” the sex strike doesn’t work.
ref: 2024 April 17, Eric Grode, quoting Bekah Brunstetter, “Video Games Are a Playwright’s Muse, Not Her Hobby”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC:
text: Making sex a quid for some quo can be, as in “Lysistrata,” a dramatic strategy, but it probably isn’t the best one.
ref: 2025 February 5, Kwame Anthony Appiah, “Is It OK That I’m Withholding Sex Until My Husband Sorts Out His Invoices?”, in The New York Times Magazine, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC:
text: Seeing our sexual culture through this data, one might think we are at war, and Lysistrata a real person.
ref: 2025 September 30, Suzy Exposito, “I don’t like dating apps – I went to a ‘flirting party’ instead”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
glosses: A comedy by Ancient Greek playwright Aristophanes, a comic account of one woman's (Lysistrata) extraordinary mission to end the Peloponnesian War by denying men sex.
examples: text: I drop the note on the floor and take another sheet and write "YES. Lysistrata Lee."
ref: 1960 October 24, Pauline Ashwell, “The Lost Kafoozalum”, in Analog Science Fact & Fiction:
glosses: A female given name from Ancient Greek.
Derived terms: Lysistratan
Related terms: sex strike
Lysistrata
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /laɪˈsɪstrətə/
/ˌlɪsəˈstrɑːtə/
Forms: form: Lysistratas
Etymology: From Ancient Greek Λυσιστράτη (Lusistrátē, “army disbander”).
Senses: examples: text: Lysistratas among the Indian [Iroquois] women proclaimed a boycott on lovemaking and childbearing.
ref: 1993, Jane Caputi, quoting Stan Steiner, Gossips, Gorgons and Crones: The Fates of the Earth, page 225:
text: Despite all this, the Western media framed these women as modern-day Lysistratas.
ref: 2020, Helen Morales, Antigone Rising: The Subversive Power of the Ancient Myths:
glosses: A woman who withholds sex in order to get her way.
quadripartites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of quadripartite
fancified
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of fancify
fancified
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more fancified
form: most fancified
Senses: examples: text: His new book about Nopi is somewhat more fancified, with gilded edges auguring the more complicated recipes within and credit shared with the restaurant’s head chef, Ramael Scully — marking the small Ottolenghi empire as an incubator of talent as well as croissants.
ref: 2015 October 1, Alexandra Jacobs, “A Morning With the Star Chef Yotam Ottolenghi”, in New York Times:
glosses: Made fancy.
floorlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more floorlike
form: most floorlike
Etymology: From floor + -like.
Senses: examples: text: Their motifs build up from concentric bands of color (more pencil) that form a diamond, pairs of kissing U shapes or a tiled floorlike plane that refuses to recede.
ref: 2015 October 1, Roberta Smith, “Alicia McCarthy Expands Her Illusions in New Work”, in New York Times:
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a floor.
supernerd
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: supernerds
Etymology: From super- + nerd.
Senses: examples: text: At NASA, various brainiacs take hammers and tongs to physics at both the Johnson Space Center and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, where supernerds take on the logistics of a rescue mission.
ref: 2015 October 1, Manohla Dargis, “Review: In ‘The Martian,’ Marooned but Not Alone”, in New York Times:
glosses: A very nerdy person; a boffin.
supernerds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of supernerd
weekendy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more weekendy
form: most weekendy
Etymology: From weekend + -y.
Senses: examples: text: Not yet, he said to himself. In a few days we'll feed again. It's more of a weekendy thing to do anyway. He remembered the first time he had taken a human life to feed his power, all those decades ago.
ref: 2003, Jim Catapano, A Stirring of Shadows, page 25:
text: In the beginning, Anne had trouble believing that they were really living at Long Barn. “For the first week or two . . . I woke up each morning feeling detached and weekendy—like a guest,” she wrote […]
ref: 2007, Beverly Gherman, Anne Morrow Lindbergh: Between the Sea and the Stars, page 93:
glosses: Characteristic of a weekend, especially as a period when one does not go to work but can relax instead.
stammery
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more stammery
form: most stammery
Etymology: From stammer + -y.
Senses: examples: text: Suddenly I felt stammery. How did I tell Will that I hated Valentine's Day because nobody had ever wanted me to be his valentine?
ref: 2011, Michelle Dalton, Sixteenth Summer:
glosses: Characterised by stammering.
requantify
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: requantifies
form: requantifying
form: requantified
form: requantified
Etymology: From re- + quantify.
Senses: examples: text: After pooling, the sample was requantified using the Qubit High Sensitivity Kit (Life Technologies) and run on an agilent high sensitivity chip (Agilent).
ref: 2015 October 2, “N-3 Polyunsaturated Fatty Acids (PUFAs) Reverse the Impact of Early-Life Stress on the Gut Microbiota”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: To quantify again.
requantified
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of requantify
requantifies
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of requantify
requantifying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of requantify
microcommunity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: microcommunities
Etymology: From micro- + community.
Senses: glosses: A very small community.
microcommunities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of microcommunity
banisterine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Banisteriopsis + -ine.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: harmine
postmedication
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From post- + medication.
Senses: examples: text: The retrospective study revealed that, in the acetaminophen group, the mean value of postmedication body temperature (BT) was significantly higher than that of the premedication BT.
ref: 2015 October 3, “Non-Steroid Anti-Inflammatory Drugs Are Better than Acetaminophen on Fever Control at Acute Stage of Fracture”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: After medication.
perisutural
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From peri- + sutural.
Senses: examples: text: Based on previous data, here we sought to test the hypothesis that exposure to SSRIs would alter the proliferation and apoptosis of perisutural cells at the cellular and transcription levels.
ref: 2015 October 3, “Effects of Citalopram on Sutural and Calvarial Cell Processes”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Around a suture.
nontrauma
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + trauma.
Senses: examples: text: Acetaminophen can decrease the BT in nontrauma patients by reversing these reactions that cause fever.
ref: 2015 October 3, “Non-Steroid Anti-Inflammatory Drugs Are Better than Acetaminophen on Fever Control at Acute Stage of Fracture”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Not exhibiting or not relating to trauma.
integratedly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more integratedly
form: most integratedly
Etymology: From integrated + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: From the customer’s view, a data center is an integrated system offering services to users; however, data centers are a combination of a great number of physical machines serving integratedly.
ref: 2015 October 3, “Efficient Nash Equilibrium Resource Allocation Based on Game Theory Mechanism in Cloud Computing by Using Auction”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: In an integrated manner.
flatsharers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of flatsharer
flatsharing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From flat + sharing.
Senses: examples: text: The cost of flatsharing in some of the UK’s most expensive towns and cities has soared by nearly 30% in the past three years, with tenants in five cities now paying more than £500 a month to rent a room in a shared house.
ref: 2015 October 2, Hilary Osborne, “Cost of flatsharing in UK's priciest towns rises by 30% in three years”, in The Guardian:
glosses: The sharing of a flat (apartment building) between multiple tenants.
Related terms: flatshare
flatsharer
feedfest
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: feedfests
Etymology: From feed + -fest.
Senses: examples: text: As you get back in some of these shallow bays, remember that a falling tide could leave you stranded. It is best to go in on a rising tide and come out on a falling tide, lest you become a pincushion for mosquitoes during their nightly feedfest.
ref: 2005, Larry Kinder, Flyfisher's Guide to Florida Saltwater, page 196:
glosses: A session of voracious eating or feeding.
feedfests
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of feedfest
prepared piano
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: prepared pianos
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A piano that has had its sound altered by placing objects (called preparations) on or between the strings.
prepared pianos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of prepared piano
Cagean
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Cagean
form: most Cagean
Etymology: From Cage + -an.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to John Milton Cage Jr. (1912–1992), American composer, music theorist, writer, and artist, known as a pioneer of indeterminacy in music, and for the non-standard use of musical instruments.
expatriatism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: expatriatisms
Etymology: From expatriate + -ism.
Senses: examples: text: The traveler ventures into the world of exile and expatriatism, two terms that Edward Said defines in his essay "Reflections on Exile." Whereas exile connotes the negative, expatriatism carries more positive associations.
ref: 2006, Sara Steinert Borella, The Travel Narratives of Ella Maillart: (en)gendering the Quest, Peter Lang, →ISBN, page 20:
text: More important, her colonial expatriatism placed her in an extraordinary lineage of similarly positioned women writers – Olive Schreiner, Katherine Mansfield, and Jean Rhys – who had helped generate both “the modern” as a literary concept …
ref: 2009, Australian Research Professor Simon During, Simon During, Exit Capitalism: Literary Culture, Theory and Post-Secular Modernity, Routledge, →ISBN, page 78:
glosses: The condition of being an expatriate, especially a deliberate one
mesodiplosis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Somewhat less gentle is the anonymous The Modern Hiawatha, a sharp take on Longfellow’s insistent use of anaphora, mesodiplosis and other forms of repetition in his famous Song of Hiawatha, and also of the sense of bathos that these devices can often create, in part, at least, because of a tendency to over-explain everything by saying the same thing several times.
ref: 2015 October 2, Billy Mills, “Poster poems: parody”, in The Guardian:
glosses: The repetition of terms within successive sentences
cephalosomatic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From cephalo- + somatic.
Senses: examples: text: In medical terms, it would be a cephalosomatic anastomosis, the first of its kind.
ref: 2015 October 3, Tom Lamont, “'I'll do the first human head transplant'”, in The Guardian:
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Relating to the head and the rest of the body
macropopulist
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From macro- + populist.
Senses: examples: text: Making nice on a cooking program or game show is the macropopulist equivalent of knocking down pins in a bowling alley in Altoona, Pa., or belting down Crown Royal whiskey in a bar in Crown Point, Ind., only better: the setting, be it Rachael Ray’s kitchen or Howie Mandel ’s array of suitcases on “Deal or No Deal,” is as familiar as home to millions of viewers.
ref: 2008 April 22, Alessandra Stanley, “Politicians as Comics: A Sideshow on Pop TV”, in New York Times:
glosses: Relating to a large proportion of the population
enteroenteral
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From entero- + enteral.
Senses: examples: text: MRE detected a total of five enteroenteral fistulae (Fig 2 ) and sixteen cases of ileal stenosis with prestenotic dilation (Fig 3 ).
ref: 2015 September 1, “Contrast Enhanced Abdominal Ultrasound in the Assessment of Ileal Inflammation in Crohn’s Disease: A Comparison with MR Enterography”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Alternative form of enteroenteric.
enteroenteric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From entero- + enter- + -ic.
Senses: topics: biology
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: Concerning segments of intestine, often with reference to a fistula therebetween, as
examples: text: enteroenteric intussusception
text: enteroenteric fistulas
topics: biology
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: Concerning segments of intestine, often with reference to a fistula therebetween, as:
Concerning segments of small intestine, usually with reference to an intussusception thereof or a fistula therebetween.
examples: text: enteroenteric circulation
topics: biology
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: Relating to transport of matter from, then back to, the intestines.
Hyponyms: sense: segments of intestine
word: coloenteric
sense: segments of intestine
word: coloenteral
sense: segments of intestine
word: enterocolic
sense: segments of intestine
word: enterocolonic
sense: segments of small intestine
word: duodenojejunal
sense: segments of small intestine
word: duodenoileal
sense: segments of small intestine
word: ileoduodenal
sense: segments of small intestine
word: ileojejunal
sense: segments of small intestine
word: jejunoduodenal
sense: segments of small intestine
word: jejunoileal
Related terms: vesicoenteric
hemilesioned
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From hemilesion + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: This technique allowed us to quantify hemilesioned rat motor activity using a set of behaviours representative of normal movements, i.e. similar to those observed in intact rats and, enabled us to discriminate these from the typical contraversive turning response that is observed under L-Dopa treatment.
ref: 2015 September 1, “Behavioural Assessment of the A 2a /NR2B Combination in the Unilateral 6-OHDA-Lesioned Rat Model: A New Method to Examine the Therapeutic Potential of Non-Dopaminergic Drugs”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Having hemilesions.
hemilesion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hemilesions
Etymology: From hemi- + lesion.
Senses: glosses: One of a group of lesions that is on one side of the body only
Derived terms: hemilesioned
ileocolonoscopy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ileocolonoscopies
Etymology: From ileo- + colonoscopy.
Senses: examples: text: The inclusion criteria were: age over 18 years and a clinical indication for an ileocolonoscopy, to assess localization, extent and severity of the presumptive activity of CD (primary diagnosis, clinical relapse or recurrence).
ref: 2015 September 1, “Contrast Enhanced Abdominal Ultrasound in the Assessment of Ileal Inflammation in Crohn’s Disease: A Comparison with MR Enterography”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: endoscopic examination of the ileum and the colon
immunoluminometric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From immuno- + luminometric.
Senses: examples: text: The plasma concentration of CT-proET-1 (amino acids 168–212 of pre-proET-1) was measured using an automated immunoluminometric assay on a Kryptor system (B.R.A.H.M.S AG, Henningsdorf, Germany).
ref: 2015 September 1, “Elevated Plasma C-Terminal Endothelin-1 Precursor Fragment Concentrations Are Associated with Less Anxiety in Patients with Cardiovascular Risk Factors. Results from the Observational DIAST-CHF Study”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Relating to immunological luminometry
ipsiversive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɜː(ɹ)sɪv
Senses: examples: text: Whereas for the turning bias (contra- and ipsiversive turns) both drugs interacted according to an additive mode (non significant “Radiprodil x Tozadenant” statistical interaction).
ref: 2015 September 1, “Behavioural Assessment of the A 2a /NR2B Combination in the Unilateral 6-OHDA-Lesioned Rat Model: A New Method to Examine the Therapeutic Potential of Non-Dopaminergic Drugs”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Towards the ipsilateral side
lamellocyte
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lamellocytes
Etymology: From Latin lāmella (“thin plate”) + -cyte.
Senses: examples: text: When further elucidating the immune status of Hml-apo larvae, we observe a shift in immune effector pathways including massive lamellocyte differentiation and induction of Toll- as well as repression of imd signaling.
ref: 2015 September 1, “Apoptosis in Hemocytes Induces a Shift in Effector Mechanisms in the Drosophila Immune System and Leads to a Pro-Inflammatory State”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: A large, flat cell that functions as a plasmatocyte.
lamellocytes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Arrows indicate hemocytes, plasmatocytes, lamellocytes and crystal cells in E, H, K and Q respectively.
ref: 2015 September 1, “Apoptosis in Hemocytes Induces a Shift in Effector Mechanisms in the Drosophila Immune System and Leads to a Pro-Inflammatory State”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: plural of lamellocyte
microvascularization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From micro- + vascularization.
Senses: examples: text: These blood-pool contrast agents theoretically lead to enhancement restricted to structures with an increased microvascularization and are not retained in the fibrous tissue [19 ].
ref: 2015 September 1, “Contrast Enhanced Abdominal Ultrasound in the Assessment of Ileal Inflammation in Crohn’s Disease: A Comparison with MR Enterography”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: The formation of very fine blood vessels
Related terms: microneovascularization
migfilin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Structure of migfilin peptide (blue) bound to the CD face of IgFLNa21 (green) (PDB ID:2W0P) [18 ].
ref: 2015 September 1, “Flexible Structure of Peptide-Bound Filamin A Mechanosensor Domain Pair 20–21”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A protein implicated in control of integrin-mediated cell adhesion
prestenotic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pre- + stenotic.
Senses: examples: text: MRE detected a total of five enteroenteral fistulae (Fig 2 ) and sixteen cases of ileal stenosis with prestenotic dilation (Fig 3 ).
ref: 2015 September 1, “Contrast Enhanced Abdominal Ultrasound in the Assessment of Ileal Inflammation in Crohn’s Disease: A Comparison with MR Enterography”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Prior to the formation of a stenosis
serosubtype
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: serosubtypes
Etymology: From sero- + subtype.
Senses: examples: text: Serotype and serosubtype were determined by dot blot with monoclonal antibodies (RIVM, Bilthoven, the Netherlands, and Institute Adolfo Lutz, São Paulo, Brazil) [11 ].
ref: 2015 September 1, “Characterization of Carriage Isolates of Neisseria meningitides in the Adolescents and Young Adults Population of Bogota (Colombia)”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: A subtype of a serotype
sublaterodorsal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From sub- + laterodorsal.
Senses: examples: text: Other reports have shown that a missing excitatory pathway of hypocretin neurons to sublaterodorsal tegmental nucleus, one of regional areas inferred to be associated with RWA, might be associated with the formation of RWA in narcolepsy[43 ].
ref: 2015 September 1, “Polysomnographic Assessment of Sleep Comorbidities in Drug-Naïve Narcolepsy-Spectrum Disorders—A Japanese Cross-Sectional Study”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Beneath a laterodorsal area
tecidual
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Portuguese tecido (“tissue”).
Senses: examples: text: It is worthy to mention that these features are greatly responsible for tecidual destruction and further decline in patient´s life quality, as it greatly reduces airflow
ref: 2015 September 1, “Human Tubal-Derived Mesenchymal Stromal Cells Associated with Low Level Laser Therapy Significantly Reduces Cigarette Smoke–Induced COPD in C57BL/6 mice”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
qualifier: non-native speakers' English
glosses: Relating to tissue.
ultracentrifugated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: The culture supernatant was prespun at 4,000 rpm for 10 min and loaded on top of 20% sucrose in TEN buffer and ultracentrifugated at 39,000 rpm for 18 h to separate extracellular viral particles.
ref: 2015 September 1, “Substitution at rt269 in Hepatitis B Virus Polymerase Is a Compensatory Mutation Associated with Multi-Drug Resistance”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: simple past and past participle of ultracentrifugate
zoletil
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From zolazepam and tiletamine.
Senses: examples: text: Two weeks after the last injection, mice were anesthetized using a mixture of zoletil and rompun and 2 liver lobes were excised (equivalent to 50% hepatectomy).
ref: 2015 September 1, “Long Term Liver Engraftment of Functional Hepatocytes Obtained from Germline Cell-Derived Pluripotent Stem Cells”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: A mixture of zolazepam and tiletamine used as an anaesthetic
orbitoclast
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: orbitoclasts
Etymology: From orbito- + -clast.
Senses: glosses: A surgical instrument for performing transorbital lobotomies, resembling an icepick.
orbitoclasts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of orbitoclast
highwayed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From highway + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: Heath gazes out the window at the highwayed world, the gridded chaos of lights and logos, billboards and boulevards.
ref: 2012, Rob Benvie, Maintenance:
glosses: Provided with highways.
Jet Age
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: jet age
Etymology: Coined in the late 1940s.
Senses: examples: text: Science Evolving Jet-Age Materials [title]
ref: 1947 September 3, “Science Evolving Jet-Age Materials”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
text: American commercial aviation stands at the threshold of the jet age. That it will make the transition is now a settled issue, and the one remaining question is when.
ref: 1953 October 11, Bliss K. Thorne, “Faster Air Travel”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
text: The Nazis had launched the jet age in 1939 with a fighter plane, the avant-garde Heinkel He 178, but were hardly in shape after the war to exploit this technological advantage.
ref: 2010 November 10, Richard B. Woodward, “Book Review: Jet Age — The Comet, the 707, and the Race to Shrink the World”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
coordinate_terms: atomic age
space age
glosses: A period in history defined by the advent of aircraft powered by turbine engines, and by the social change this brought about.
Related terms: jet plane
pepperoni roll
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pepperoni rolls
Senses: glosses: A soft white bread roll with pepperoni baked in the middle, popular around West Virginia.
pepperoni rolls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pepperoni roll
detransition
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌdiː.tɹænˈzɪ.ʃən/
ipa: /ˌdiː.tɹɑːnˈzɪ.ʃən/
ipa: /-sɪ-/
ipa: /-ʒən/
ipa: /ˌdi.tɹænˈzɪ.ʃən/
ipa: /-sɪ-/
rhymes: -ɪʃən
Forms: form: detransitions
form: detransitioning
form: detransitioned
form: detransitioned
Etymology: From de- + transition.
Senses: examples: text: People detransition because they may find it difficult to get jobs, or because of social ostracism, not passing in their target gender, family responsibilities, and so on.
ref: 2007, Helen Boyd, She's Not the Man I Married, page 303:
text: I recently had an encounter in which I was asked if I was detransitioning simply because I was wearing a pair of jeans!
ref: 2014, Michelle Spicer, The Transgender Handbook:
text: “I wish there had been more open conversations,” Powell, now 23 and detransitioned, told me. “But I was told there is one cure and one thing to do if this is your problem, and this will help you.” […] As one detransitioned man, now in a gay relationship, put it, “I was a gay man pumped up to look like a woman and dated a lesbian who was pumped up to look like a man.
ref: 2024 February 2, Pamela Paul, “As Kids, They Thought They Were Trans. They No Longer Do.”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, archived from the original on 02 Feb 2024:
text: Thus, “[t]he number of people who detransition or discontinue gender treatments is not precisely known.”
ref: 2025 June 18, “UNITED STATES v. SKRMETTI, ATTORNEY GENERAL AND REPORTER FOR TENNESSEE, ET AL.”, in Supreme Court of the United States, page 47:
glosses: To revert to one's original gender presentation, role, or identity.
Derived terms: detrans
detransitioner
detransition
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌdiː.tɹænˈzɪ.ʃən/
ipa: /ˌdiː.tɹɑːnˈzɪ.ʃən/
ipa: /-sɪ-/
ipa: /-ʒən/
ipa: /ˌdi.tɹænˈzɪ.ʃən/
ipa: /-sɪ-/
rhymes: -ɪʃən
Forms: form: detransitions
Etymology: From de- + transition.
Senses: examples: text: But in 2020, after coming across detransition videos online, she began to doubt the gender-affirming model.
ref: 2024 February 2, Pamela Paul, “As Kids, They Thought They Were Trans. They No Longer Do.”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, archived from the original on 02 Feb 2024:
glosses: The act of one who detransitions.
detransitioned
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of detransition
detransitions
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of detransition
detransitioning
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of detransition
conformistic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more conformistic
form: most conformistic
Etymology: From conformist + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of conformist.
synonyms: word: conformist
Derived terms: conformistically
conformistically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more conformistically
form: most conformistically
Etymology: From conformistic + -ally.
Senses: glosses: In a conformist manner.
Bambaras
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Bambara
Kiev cake
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Kiev cakes
Etymology: Brand name, from its place of manufacture.
Senses: examples: text: A Soviet person brought face-to-face with a Kiev cake felt like a Hamelin rat, who instead of the Piper's flute suddenly heard the “Triumphal March” from Aida.
ref: 2018, Sergey Grechishkin, Everything is Normal: The Life and Times of a Soviet Kid, page 80:
glosses: A Ukrainian dessert cake having two layers of meringue with hazelnuts, chocolate glaze, and a buttercream-like filling.
Kiev cakes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Kiev cake
Hilbert curve
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Hilbert curves
Etymology: First described by the German mathematician David Hilbert in 1891.
Senses: topics: geometry
mathematics
sciences
glosses: A continuous fractal space-filling curve.
Hilbert curves
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Hilbert curve
duckish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more duckish
form: most duckish
Etymology: From duck + -ish.
Senses: examples: text: We are quite plainly conscious that the “ears” of the rabbity figure are identical with the “bill” of the duckish figure, that the slight notch on the back of the duckish figure's “head” is the “mouth” of the rabbity figure.
ref: 2011, Walter Hopp, Perception and Knowledge:
glosses: Characteristically resembling a duck; somewhat ducklike
duckish
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: […] robins, hitch sparrows, whitethroats, chickadees, all kinds of them singing their hearts out. They would keep at that until the sun came up and then slack off. And then again at duckish, if it was a civil evening, you'd hear them […]
ref: 1986, Gary L. Saunders, Rattles and steadies: memoirs of a Gander River man, page 80:
glosses: Dusk.
Synonyms: crepusculum
dimmity
mirkning
dusk
pogey bait
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Related to pogue (“soldier assigned administrative rather than combat duties”).
Senses: topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: Snacks, candy, and similar food items that are not generally available to soldiers in the field.
spoolie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spoolies
Etymology: From spool + -ie.
Senses: topics: cosmetics
lifestyle
synonyms: spoolie brush
glosses: A spool brush.
spoolies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of spoolie
gooseish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more gooseish
form: most gooseish
Etymology: From goose + -ish.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of goosish.
tunebook
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tunebooks
Etymology: From tune + book.
Senses: glosses: A book of tunes; a songbook.
tunebooks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tunebook
erning
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of ern
erned
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of ern
Ern
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Shortening.
Senses: examples: text: 'That's a good one, that is!' said Ern.
ref: 1948, Enid Blyton, The Mystery of the Hidden House:
glosses: A diminutive of the male given name Ernest.
tea boards
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tea board
sociosymbolic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From socio- + symbolic.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
sciences
social-science
social-sciences
glosses: Relating to society and symbols.
Jenkinses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Jenkins
sarapes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sarape
goose-ish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more goose-ish
form: most goose-ish
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of goosish.
blirty
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: blirtier
form: more blirty
form: blirtiest
form: most blirty
form: blirtie
Etymology: From blirt + -y.
Senses: examples: a blirty day
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: Characterised by blirts or gusts of wind and rain.
dickflesh
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From dick + flesh.
Senses: glosses: The flesh of a penis.
cockflesh
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From cock + flesh.
Senses: glosses: The flesh of a penis.
buzzle
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbʌzəl/
rhymes: -ʌzəl
Forms: form: buzzles
form: buzzling
form: buzzled
form: buzzled
Etymology: From buzz + -le.
Senses: examples: text: 'It's here, you see, but we just ran out into the garden to tell Daddy the telephone was ringing, and it all went sort of fizzy and buzzled all over the stove.'
ref: 2007, Miss Read, Christmas at Fairacre - Page 237:
text: It buzzled and zipped behind the wastebasket; I lunged and stomped, my pooch belly heaving and my underarms waggling as John and Hattie cheered me on.
ref: 2012, Phoebe Baker Hyde, The Beauty Experiment:
text: Butterflies plagued Plante before a game, and shivers buzzled between his shoulder blades.
ref: 2014, Stephen Smith, Puckstruck:
text: There was a time every spring when bees swarmed all over the brambles and the apple and pear trees. Every tree hummed, and furry bees buzzled and flew, in and out, from flower to flower. It was a beautiful time, full of promise and life.
ref: 2015, Jamie Alan Belanger, D.L. Harvey, Shelli-Jo Pelletier, Scribings, Vol 5: Inversions:
glosses: To buzz repeatedly or continuously; whirr
examples: text: Hold, hold, master, spare me for heaven's sake I remember my Lady Faddle, she once sent me of an errand; your compliments buzzled me and put it out of my head.
ref: 1874, John Crowne, The Dramatic Works - Volume 3 - Page 77:
glosses: To cause to buzz; flurry
blinkled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of blinkle
blissoms
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of blissom
pieces of work
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of piece of work
moais
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of moai
birria
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: birrias
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish birria.
Senses: examples: text: Birria was late in coming to many parts of the border; I first became aware of it when a former student of mine, a native of Guadalajara, opened a birrieria, or birria restaurant, in Tucson in 1980. Now there are several such restaurants in Tucson. […]
ref: 2017, Gregory McNamee, Tortillas, Tiswin, and T-Bones: A Food History of the Southwest, University of New Mexico Press, →ISBN, page 211:
text: They might also have goat birria, red and earthy from chiles, cinnamon, and cloves.
ref: 2020, José R. Ralat, American Tacos: A History and Guide, University of Texas Press, →ISBN:
glosses: A Mexican dish of stewed meat (usually goat, beef or lamb; sometimes pork or chicken) and spices, typically served like a soup with (or sometimes in) tortillas.
birrias
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of birria
irky
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: irkier
form: irkiest
Etymology: From irk + -y.
Senses: examples: text: "Thoughts tumbled through my mind as Tanaya slowly got her stuff, just trying to be irky to Mr. Jones."
ref: 2014, Elizabeth Karre, Calling the Shots:
glosses: aggravating; annoying; irritating
examples: text: "There was just something about her that made me fall back, feel irky."
ref: 2013, Alana Branch, Love 2 Kill: Where There's Love, There's Blood:
glosses: aggravated; annoyed; irritated
raw_tags: of a person
anyting
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: Pronunciation spelling of anything.
anyting
Language: English
Part of speech: pron
Senses: glosses: Pronunciation spelling of anything.
someting
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: Pronunciation spelling of something.
someting
Language: English
Part of speech: pron
Senses: glosses: Pronunciation spelling of something.
everyting
Language: English
Part of speech: pron
Senses: glosses: Pronunciation spelling of everything.
ev'ryting
Language: English
Part of speech: pron
Senses: glosses: Pronunciation spelling of everything.
chocolate nemesis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chocolate nemeses
Senses: glosses: A rich flourless chocolate cake, a kind of devil's food cake.
chocolate nemeses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chocolate nemesis
iridencleisis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From irido- + Ancient Greek ἐγκλίνω (enklínō).
Senses: examples: text: […] or leave it in the aperture of the cornea, so that it may be strangulated, and ultimately become adherent thereto, constituting what has been termed iridencleisis.
ref: 1843, John Walker, The Oculist's Vade-mecum: A Complete Practical System of Opthalmic Surgery, page 193:
topics: medicine
sciences
surgery
glosses: A surgical procedure for glaucoma in which a portion of the iris is incised and incarcerated in a limbal incision.
Derived terms: phacoiridencleisis
slaglessness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From slagless + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: But the former lack the essential quality — slaglessness — which makes the latter steel, and the latter lack the essential quality — the hardening power — which makes the former steel.
ref: 1906, Henry Marion Howe, Iron, Steel, and Other Alloys, page 174:
topics: engineering
metallurgy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The quality of being free from slag.
slagless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈslæɡləs/
Etymology: From slag + -less.
Senses: topics: engineering
metallurgy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Free from slag.
Derived terms: slaglessness
Hyrcanians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Hyrcanian
Rousseauvian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Rousseauvian
form: most Rousseauvian
Etymology: From Rousseau + -v- + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Rousseauian.
Rousseauvian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Rousseauvians
Etymology: From Rousseau + -v- + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Rousseauian.
Rousseauvians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Rousseauvian
mellow yellow
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mellow yellows
Senses: coordinate_terms: hippo
glosses: A yellow police car used in South Africa.
examples: text: The smoking of dried scrapings from the inner portion of banana peel (bananadine or mellow yellow) has received the most national publicity.
ref: 1970, Oliver Erasmus Byrd, Medical readings on drug abuse:
text: The most embarrassing and ludicrous event seldom recalled in the professional literature is the story of "bananadine" or "mellow yellow," […]
ref: 1983, Michael Myslobodsky, Hemisyndromes, psychobiology, neurology, psychiatry:
glosses: Synonym of bananadine.
synonyms: word: bananadine
bewdies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bewdy
mata-mata
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mata-matas
Etymology: From Malay mata-mata (“eyes”), plural of mata. Doublet of maka, from Hawaiian.
Senses: glosses: A police officer.
mata-matas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mata-mata
berylliotic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to berylliosis.
transfemininity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: transfemininities
Etymology: From trans- + feminity.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being transfeminine.
Coordinate terms: cisfemininity
transfemininities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of transfemininity
transfemales
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of transfemale
transmales
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of transmale
kontigi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kuntigi
Senses: glosses: A boat-shaped lute-like string instrument with one or two strings, originating among the Hausa people of West Africa.
self-debate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From self- + debate.
Senses: glosses: An internal debate between two parts of an individual's mind.
PUO
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: PUOs
Senses: examples: text: The particular “bug” that had assailed me was difficult to locate, but was obviously a form of “P.U.O.” or trench fever not dissimilar from the Malta disease in 1916.
ref: 1933, Vera Brittain, Testament of Youth, Penguin, published 2005, page 402:
glosses: Pyrexia of unknown origin.