cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
ecoinformatics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From eco- + informatics.
Senses: examples: text: Although there are difficult challenges associated with building these integrated datasets, these same challenges provide substantial opportunities, especially for early-career ecologists, for interdisciplinary training in ecoinformatics and database management, and classical ecology; thus pushing the ecological boundary to answer important macrosystems ecology questions.
ref: 2015 July 1, Patricia A. Soranno et al., “Building a multi-scaled geospatial temporal ecology database from disparate data sources: fostering open science and data reuse”, in GigaScience, volume 4, →DOI:
topics: biology
computing
ecology
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: The use of computing and information science in ecology
Related terms: bioinformatics
geoinformatics
ant'em
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ant'ems
form: antem
Etymology: A variant of anthem. The spelling and pronunciation may simply reflect th-stopping, but could possibly be a retention of the historical pronunciation of anthem (the modern pronunciation of anthem with /θ/ is a late spelling pronunciation).
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A type of traditional Bahamian folk song derived from old slave music and Christian hymns.
ant'ems
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ant'em
antem
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: antems
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of ant'em.
antems
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of antem
endophilic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From endo- + -philic.
Senses: examples: text: Therefore, they are more vulnerable to mosquito bites than others because mosquitoes are both exophilic and endophilic in Dielmo.
ref: 2015 May 13, Amélé N Wotodjo et al., “The implication of long-lasting insecticide-treated net use in the resurgence of malaria morbidity in a Senegal malaria endemic village in 2010–2011”, in Parasites & Vectors, volume 8, →DOI:
antonyms: exophilic
glosses: Living inside an enclosed space such as a burrow, crack, cave, or building, as opposed to outdoors.
exophilic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From exo- + -philic.
Senses: examples: text: Therefore, they are more vulnerable to mosquito bites than others because mosquitoes are both exophilic and endophilic in Dielmo.
ref: 2015 May 13, Amélé N Wotodjo et al., “The implication of long-lasting insecticide-treated net use in the resurgence of malaria morbidity in a Senegal malaria endemic village in 2010–2011”, in Parasites & Vectors, volume 8, →DOI:
glosses: Living outside of human habitations
Related terms: endophilic
exophily
fasciolosis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Although no eggs were discovered on faecal examination, fasciolosis could not be ruled out as a cause of GGT elevation given the poor sensitivity of this diagnostic method.
ref: 2015 July 2, Conor G. McAloon et al., “Bovine congenital erythropoietic protoporphyria in a crossbred limousin heifer in Ireland”, in Irish Veterinary Journal, volume 68, →DOI:
glosses: Alternative form of fascioliasis.
dung funnel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dung funnels
Senses: examples: text: We grew the neatest May bush in the world: neater than lay-bys during the struggle; neater than patriotic slogans furled; than rat-packs yet to be rummaged in; drill parades after threats by the RSM to "Stick this yardstick up your dung-funnel"; […]
ref: 1991, New Contrast, volume 19, page 105:
text: I am up to my nuts in her dung funnel. 'I . . .' 'Please keep fucking me up the arse.' I resume. 'No! No!' she starts screaming again, really enjoying it now.
ref: 2012, John Niven, Kill Your Friends, page 237:
glosses: The anus.
dung funnels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dung funnel
fluorosphere
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fluorospheres
Etymology: From fluoro- + sphere.
Senses: glosses: A fluorescent microsphere
Related terms: fluorospherical
fluorospheres
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: The lasers were aligned using Flow-CheckTM (10 μm) and Flow-SetTM (3 μm) fluorospheres (Beckman Coulter, Inc.).
ref: 2015 July 2, Áurea Simón-Soro et al., “Revealing microbial recognition by specific antibodies”, in BMC Microbiology, volume 15, →DOI:
glosses: plural of fluorosphere
toombah
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: toombahs
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A small drum used in the traditional music of Antigua and Barbuda.
Synonyms: tumtum
toombahs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of toombah
fluralaner
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: The tick weights and coxal indices determined in these studies confirm that a minimal uptake results in sufficient exposure to fluralaner to induce a potent acaricidal effect in treated dogs.
ref: 2015 June 30, Heike Williams et al., “A quantitative evaluation of the extent of fluralaner uptake by ticks (Ixodes ricinus, Ixodes scapularis) in fluralaner (BravectoTM) treated vs. untreated dogs using the parameters tick weight and coxal index”, in Parasites & Vectors, volume 8, →DOI:
glosses: The isoxazoline ectoparasiticide 4-[(5R/S)-5-(3,5-dichlorophenyl)-4,5-dihydro-5-trifluoromethyl-1,2-oxazol-3-yl]-N-[2-oxo-2-(2,2,2-trifluoroethylamino)ethyl]-o-toluamide
histoarchitecture
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: histoarchitectures
Etymology: From histo- + architecture.
Senses: examples: text: After collecting the BALF, the lungs were removed in blocks, fixed using 4 % buffered formalin infused through the trachea at a constant pressure of 20 cm H 2 O for 24 h (to maintain a similar alveolar histoarchitecture among the groups), and embedded in paraffin.
ref: 2015 June 30, Laura Taguchi et al., “A flavanone from Baccharis retusa (Asteraceae) prevents elastase-induced emphysema in mice by regulating NF-κB, oxidative stress and metalloproteinases”, in Respiratory Research, volume 16, →DOI:
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: The (architectural) structure of biological tissue.
Related terms: histoarchitectural
hyperproliferating
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From hyper- + proliferating.
Senses: examples: text: To test this inference further, we performed immunofluorescence with antibody to SOX9, a well-established regulatory factor and marker of maturing (but not resting and hyperproliferating) chondrocytes at all stages (Fig. 4c, d and i, j ) [ 20, 21 ].
ref: 2015 July 2, Mara Marongiu et al., “FOXL2 modulates cartilage, skeletal development and IGF1-dependent growth in mice”, in BMC Developmental Biology, volume 15, →DOI:
glosses: Subject to hyperproliferation
hypofunctional
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From hypo- + functional.
Senses: examples: text: Support for the hypofunctional (as opposed to activated) microglia model is largely based on morphological examination of IBA1-stained microglia in autopsy samples from aged humans [ 29 – 32 ], as currently there are no specific markers that recognize only degenerating/dystrophic microglia.
ref: 2015 May 23, Adam D. Bachstetter et al., “Disease-related microglia heterogeneity in the hippocampus of Alzheimer’s disease, dementia with Lewy bodies, and hippocampal sclerosis of aging”, in Acta Neuropathologica Communications, volume 3, →DOI:
glosses: Having a decreased function (especially of an endocrine gland)
Related terms: hypofunctionality
hypoploidy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hypoploidies
Etymology: From hypo- + ploidy.
Senses: examples: text: Apoptosis was measured according to Nicoletti et al. (DNA hypoploidy assay) and has been described previously [ 42, 43 ].
ref: 2015 July 3, Andrea Mohr, Rui Yu, Ralf M. Zwacka, “TRAIL-receptor preferences in pancreatic cancer cells revisited: Both TRAIL-R1 and TRAIL-R2 have a licence to kill”, in BMC Cancer, volume 15, →DOI:
glosses: The condition of being hypoploid
Related terms: word: hypodiploidy
english: including humans
translation: including humans
word: hypoploidy in diploid organisms
rake and scrape
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rake-and-scrape
form: rake-n-scrape
form: rake-'n'-scrape
form: rake 'n' scrape
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A type of traditional Bahamian folk music, characterized by a reliance on improvised musical instruments, such as a ripsaw.
Synonyms: english: rake and scrape; more often used for a separate genre of Turks and Caicos music, but occasionally a synonym of
translation: rake and scrape; more often used for a separate genre of Turks and Caicos music, but occasionally a synonym of
word: ripsaw
rake-n-scrape
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of rake and scrape.
rake-'n'-scrape
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of rake and scrape.
rake 'n' scrape
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of rake and scrape.
immunogenomics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From immuno- + genomics.
Senses: examples: text: Diversity profiles may, therefore, become a valuable bioinformatical tool for technological benchmarking and normalization of immune repertoire sequencing in the future, enabling cross-laboratory comparisons and meta-analyses, which would be highly valuable in advancing the development of next-generation immunogenomics diagnostics.
ref: 2015 May 28, Victor Greiff et al., “A bioinformatic framework for immune repertoire diversity profiling enables detection of immunological status”, in Genome Medicine, volume 7, →DOI:
topics: biology
genetics
immunology
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: The application of genomics to immunology
immunohistopathology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From immuno- + histopathology.
Senses: examples: text: The three AD cases showed distinct differences in regional THK5117 binding that were also observed in tau immunohistopathology as well as in clinical presentation.
ref: 2015 July 2, Laetitia Lemoine et al., “Visualization of regional tau deposits using 3H-THK5117 in Alzheimer brain tissue”, in Acta Neuropathologica Communications, volume 3, →DOI:
topics: immunology
medicine
sciences
glosses: histopathology in the presence of antibodies that bind to tissue components and thus reveal their presence
immunoneutral
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From immuno- + neutral.
Senses: examples: text: On the other hand, the main commercial emulsions that we used to provide lipids were the combination of Clinoleic® with Omegaven® and no studies yet show whether the immunoneutral effect of high amounts of olive oil could contribute to the improvement of some liver parameters.
ref: 2015 July 2, Maria B. Badia-Tahull et al., “The relationship between the parenteral dose of fish oil supplementation and the variation of liver function tests in hospitalized adult patients”, in Nutrition Journal, volume 14, →DOI:
topics: immunology
medicine
sciences
glosses: Having a neutral effect on the immune system
microsection
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: microsections
Etymology: From micro- + section.
Senses: examples: text: Representative images show a the fetal face of a placenta from which an umbilical cord grows as a flexible, spongy-looking, tube-like structure usually around 55 cm or 2 feet, b a transversal section of umbilical cord showing two arteries (A) and one vein (V), and c a Masson’s trichrome staining of a complete umbilical cord microsection.
ref: 2015 July 2, Santiago Roura et al., “The role and potential of umbilical cord blood in an era of new therapies: a review”, in Stem Cell Research & Therapy, volume 6, →DOI:
glosses: A very small section
microsection
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: microsections
form: microsectioning
form: microsectioned
form: microsectioned
Etymology: From micro- + section.
Senses: glosses: To divide into small sections
mucoregulator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mucoregulators
Etymology: From muco- + regulator.
Senses: examples: text: The data presented in the current study disclosed a previously unknown role of 6-MP in airway epithelial cells as an efficacious mucoregulator.
ref: 2015 June 19, Kondababu Kurakula et al., “6-Mercaptopurine reduces cytokine and Muc5ac expression involving inhibition of NFκB activation in airway epithelial cells”, in Respiratory Research, volume 16, →DOI:
glosses: A regulator of the production of mucus
Hypernyms: expectorant
Coordinate terms: mucolytic
secretolytic
mucokinetic
Related terms: mucoregulatory
rock n roll
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of rock and roll.
rock 'n roll
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of rock and roll.
myelitic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From myelitis + -ic.
Senses: examples: text: In our study, neurosyphilis patients with encephalitic and/or myelitic syndromes (e.g., spastic gait, seizures, or aphasia) showed the highest CXCL13 levels in their CSF.
ref: 2015 May 15, R Dersch et al., “The chemokine CXCL13 is elevated in the cerebrospinal fluid of patients with neurosyphilis”, in Fluids and Barriers of the CNS, volume 12, →DOI:
glosses: Relating to myelitis
Derived terms: neuromyelitic
naphthochalcone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: naphthochalcones
Etymology: From naphtho- + chalcone.
Senses: examples: text: Represented pictures are shown from 2 wounds in each group at each day Our results reveal that the novel naphthochalcone derivative TDPN show faster wound closure and matrix remodeling (Figs. 5 and 6 ) via promoting the migration but not the proliferation of keratinocytes (Fig. 2 ).
ref: 2015 July 1, Ga Young Seo et al., “Novel naphthochalcone derivative accelerate dermal wound healing through induction of epithelial-mesenchymal transition of keratinocyte”, in Journal of Biomedical Science, volume 22, →DOI:
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any naphthyl derivative of a chalcone
osteoimmune
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From osteo- + immune.
Senses: examples: text: Actually, progression of periodontitis interdepends on various diseases with mediation mainly by osteoimmune responses.
ref: 2015 July 1, Asami Suzuki et al., “Development of an Ontology for Periodontitis”, in Journal of Biomedical Semantics, volume 6, →DOI:
glosses: Relating to the skeletal and the immune systems
Related terms: osteoimmunology
bennah
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of benna.
ditti
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A genre of traditional music from Antigua and Barbuda; benna, a style of calypso-like music.
osteoimmunology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From osteo- + immunology.
Senses: examples: text: Several studies relating periodontitis to osteoimmunology have recently been reported [ 33, 34 ].
ref: 2015 July 1, Asami Suzuki et al., “Development of an Ontology for Periodontitis”, in Journal of Biomedical Semantics, volume 6, →DOI:
glosses: The study of the relationships between the skeletal and the immune systems
Related terms: osteoimmune
phenserine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: The patient was diagnosed with AD, treated with phenserine and rivastigmine (cholinesterase inhibitors) and underwent 18 F-FDG PET.
ref: 2015 July 2, Laetitia Lemoine et al., “Visualization of regional tau deposits using 3H-THK5117 in Alzheimer brain tissue”, in Acta Neuropathologica Communications, volume 3, →DOI:
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A physostigmine analog (N-phenylcarbamoyleseroline, 1,2,3,3a,8,8a-hexahydro-1,3a,8-trimethyl-pyrrolo[2,3-b]indol-5-ol phenylcarbamate) that inhibits acetylcholinesterase
phenylboronic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From phenyl + boronic.
Senses: examples: text: Scheme 4 Catalytic cycle of Cu(II)-catalysed arylation of imidazole and phenylboronic acid Lei et al. studied a less well-known but synthetically useful Cu-catalysed C-C coupling reaction between acetylacetone and an aryl halide, using a combination of in situ FTIR and Cu K-edge XAS [ 7 ].
ref: 2015 June 18, Grant J Sherborne, Bao N Nguyen, “Recent XAS studies into Homogeneous metal catalyst in fine chemical and pharmaceutical syntheses”, in Chemistry Central Journal, volume 9, →DOI:
glosses: Relating to phenylboronic acid or its derivatives
phenylboronic acid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: phenylboronic acids
Etymology: From phenyl + boronic acid.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The simplest aryl boronic acid, C₆H₅B(OH)₂.
pontomedullary
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From ponto- + medullary.
Senses: examples: text: The extensive infiltrative T2-hyperintense and contrast-enhanced lesion involved bilateral frontal lobes, both anterior horns of lateral ventricles, the corpus callosum and bilateral basal ganglias combined with leptomeningeal seeding at the pontomedullary junction (Additional file 3 : Figure S1).
ref: 2015 July 2, Chan Woo Wee et al., “Evaluation of variability in target volume delineation for newly diagnosed glioblastoma: a multi-institutional study from the Korean Radiation Oncology Group”, in Radiation Oncology (London, England), volume 10, →DOI:
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Relating to, or connecting the pons and the medulla oblongata
poricidal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: The ancestral states for these are a corolla tube that is equal to slightly longer than the lobes, is inflated on the lower surface, two fertile stamens with poricidal dehiscence, and an exserted style that is bent downward (Fig. 8).
ref: 2015 July 3, Zhi-Jing Qiu et al., “Origin and evolution of Petrocosmea (Gesneriaceae) inferred from both DNA sequence and novel findings in morphology with a test of morphology-based hypotheses”, in BMC Plant Biology, volume 15, →DOI:
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Relating to poricide
Derived terms: poricidally
Related terms: longicidal
shak-shak
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shak-shaks
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: Any of several kinds of traditional shakers or rattles found throughout the Caribbean.
Synonyms: english: a general synonym for rattles or shakers in general
translation: a general synonym for rattles or shakers in general
word: maraca
english: Saint Lucia
translation: Saint Lucia
word: chak-chak
word: shack-shack
raw_tags: as synonym
alt: Grenada
word: chac-chac
word: xaque-xaque
word: chacha
pseudochromosome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pseudochromosomes
Etymology: From pseudo- + chromosome.
Senses: examples: text: The reconstructed chromosomal sequences are often referred to as ‘pseudo-molecules’ or ‘pseudo-chromosomes’. The prefix ‘pseudo’ implies that the assemblies may still contain uncertainties […]
ref: 2015 January 13, Haibao Tang, Xingtan Zhang, Chenyong Miao, et al., “ALLMAPS: robust scaffold ordering based on multiple maps”, in Genome Biology, volume 16:
glosses: A pseudomolecule representing a chromosome.
Derived terms: pseudochromosomal
shak-shaks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shak-shak
pseudochromosomes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Primers were designed using CLCbio Genomics Workbench version 7.0 to amplify gene fragments with a length more than 2 kb based on known Fragaria gene sequences and their location on the pseudochromosomes (Table 1 ).
ref: 2015 July 2, Ilya V. Kirov, Katrijn Van Laere, Ludmila I. Khrustaleva, “High resolution physical mapping of single gene fragments on pachytene chromosome 4 and 7 of Rosa”, in BMC Genetics, volume 16, →DOI:
glosses: plural of pseudochromosome
pseudogenized
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pseudogene + -ize + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: This pattern strongly suggests that a deletion of the promoter region occurred in the common ancestor of muroids and abrogated the transcription of exon 1A (as observed in mouse, where the pseudogenized exon 1A is not transcribed […]
ref: 2015 July 2, Alexa Sadier et al., “Tinkering signaling pathways by gain and loss of protein isoforms: the case of the EDA pathway regulator EDARADD”, in BMC Evolutionary Biology, volume 15, →DOI:
topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: Converted or mutated to a pseudogene.
thyrotropic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɒpɪk
Etymology: From thyro- + -tropic.
Senses: examples: text: Foxl2 is also expressed in the gonadotropic cells of the pituitary gland at 11.5 dpc and in the thyrotropic and gonadotropic cells of the adult pituitary [ 10 ]; in the dorsal maxillary first branchial arch (BA1); and in a delimited domain at the maxillary-mandibular junction at 10.5 dpc [ 11 ].
ref: 2015 July 2, Mara Marongiu et al., “FOXL2 modulates cartilage, skeletal development and IGF1-dependent growth in mice”, in BMC Developmental Biology, volume 15, →DOI:
glosses: Able to stimulate the action of the thyroid gland
Derived terms: thyrotropic hormone
cha cha cha
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɑː
Forms: form: cha cha chas
Senses: glosses: Synonym of cha-cha.
synonyms: word: cha-cha
cha cha
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cha chas
Senses: glosses: Synonym of cha-cha.
synonyms: word: cha-cha
chachacha
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chachachas
Senses: glosses: Synonym of cha-cha.
synonyms: word: cha-cha
chachachá
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chachachás
Senses: glosses: Synonym of cha-cha.
synonyms: word: cha-cha
cha cha chas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cha cha cha
cha chas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cha cha
chachachas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chachacha
chachachás
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chachachá
chac-chac
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chac-chacs
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A type of rattle used in the traditional music of Grenada and Trinidad and Tobago; it is made from a gourd and used to provide a rhythm.
Synonyms: shak-shak
chak-chak
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chak-chaks
Etymology: Imitative.
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
related: word: shak-shak
qualifier: Saint Lucia
glosses: A musical instrument filled with seeds or grain and used as a rattle in traditional Saint Lucian music.
chak-chak
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Borrowed from Russian чак-ча́к (čak-čák), from Tatar чәкчәк (çäkçäk).
Senses: glosses: A traditional Tatar fried sweet made with honey.
shack-shack
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shack-shacks
Etymology: Imitative of its sound.
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A child's rattle, used in various Caribbean folk music traditions.
glosses: A seed pod of various trees, especially wild tamarind, woman's tongue tree (Albizia lebbeck) and royal poinciana (Delonix regia).
Synonyms: shak-shak
xaque-xaque
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: xaque-xaques
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A type of Brazilian rattle, usually played in pairs and mounted on a stick.
Related terms: shak-shak
agrandize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of aggrandize.
Cambrian symbol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Cambrian symbols
Senses: glosses: The leek as an emblem of Wales.
topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: A specific symbol printed on geologic maps, Ꞓ, which denotes any Cambrian-age formation.
ensansi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A type of rattle worn on the wrist and used in the traditional Kongo-Angola dance and music of Cuba.
maruga
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: marugas
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A kind of traditional Cuban shaker or rattle made of metal.
marugas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of maruga
abwe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: abwes
Senses: glosses: Synonym of sekere (“musical instrument”).
synonyms: word: sekere
extra: musical instrument
shekeré
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shekerés
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of sekere.
antithrombosis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From anti- + thrombosis.
Senses: examples: text: These results may indicate that CMC-Na has negative influence on antithrombosis at 24 hours but no influence at 48 hours.
ref: 2015 July 21, “Preventive Effect of Aspirin Eugenol Ester on Thrombosis in κ-Carrageenan-Induced Rat Tail Thrombosis Model”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: The effect of an antithrombotic agent
autorefractive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From auto- + refractive.
Senses: examples: text: Automated refraction was performed in participants using the autorefractive keratometer (KR8800; Topcon,Tokyo, Japan), followed by retesting of VA after applying pinhole in patients whose VA was below 0.8 based on Snellen chart.
ref: 2015 July 21, “The Relationship between Visual Impairment and Health-Related Quality of Life in Korean Adults: The Korea National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (2008–2012)”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Relating to autorefraction
Romanizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of Romanize
Romanized
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Romanized
form: most Romanized
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of romanized.
Romanized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of Romanize
Romanizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of Romanize
clastokine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: clastokines
Etymology: From Ancient Greek κλαστός (klastós, “broken”) + -kine.
Senses: examples: text: In contrast, Semaphorin4D (Sema4D), another clastokine produced by OCs, inhibits OB differentiation.
ref: 2015 July 21, “The Crosstalk between Osteoclasts and Osteoblasts Is Dependent upon the Composition and Structure of Biphasic Calcium Phosphates”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of a class of cytokines derived from osteoclasts.
endograft
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: endografts
Etymology: From endo- + graft.
Senses: examples: text: When the distant landing zone in the common iliac artery (CIA) is too short to anchor, the endograft limb should be extended into the external iliac artery (EIA), thus covering the original internal iliac artery (IIA).
ref: 2015 July 21, “8-Year Long-Term Outcome Comparison: Two Ways to Exclude the Internal Iliac Artery during Endovascular Aorta Repair (EVAR) Surgery”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
topics: medicine
sciences
surgery
glosses: An endoluminal graft
Synonyms: stent graft
Related terms: endografting
endoluminal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From endo- + luminal or endo- + lumen + -al.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Within a lumen.
Synonyms: intraluminal
Romanise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: Romanises
form: Romanising
form: Romanised
form: Romanised
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of romanize.
Romanises
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of Romanise
Romanising
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of Romanise
Romanised
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of Romanise
frontofrontal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ʌntəl
Etymology: From fronto- + frontal.
Senses: examples: text: We therefore targeted two pathways in the prefrontal network: the frontostriatal pathway from the lateral prefrontal cortex (LPFC) to the caudate nucleus (Cd) and the frontofrontal pathway from the LPFC to the frontal eye field (FEF).
ref: 2015 July 21, “Double Virus Vector Infection to the Prefrontal Network of the Macaque Brain”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Between two fronts
homozygosis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: homozygoses
Etymology: From homo- + zygosis.
Senses: examples: text: The acrocentric chromosome restored fertility even in monosomic condition, in contrast to chromosome 6H ch S which only fully restored fertility when present in homozygosis.
ref: 2015 July 21, “Contribution of Chromosomes 1H ch S and 6H ch S to Fertility Restoration in the Wheat msH1 CMS System under Different Environmental Conditions”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: zygosis involving gametes that share at lease one common allele
intermicrovillar
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From inter- + microvillar.
Senses: examples: text: Furthermore, monolayers express microvilli upon differentiation, and LNPs need to navigate into the intermicrovillar space in order for endocytosis to occur.
ref: 2015 July 21, “Lipidoid Nanoparticles for siRNA Delivery to the Intestinal Epithelium: In Vitro Investigations in a Caco-2 Model”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Between microvilli.
inverzincin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: inverzincins
Etymology: From inverted zinc + -in.
Senses: examples: text: In this study, we found that pitrilysin, a zinc metallopeptidase of the inverzincin family, degrades monomeric, but not oligomeric, islet amyloid polypeptide in vitro.
ref: 2015 July 21, “The Mitochondrial Peptidase Pitrilysin Degrades Islet Amyloid Polypeptide in Beta-Cells”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Any of a group of metalloproteases that contain an inverted zinc-binding site
kaurenoic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From kaurene + -oic.
Senses: examples: text: The first steps in producing kaurenoic acid from GGDP occur through the action of copalyl diphosphate synthase (CPS), kaurene synthase (KS), and kaurene oxidase (KO) [15 ] (Fig 1 ).
ref: 2015 July 21, “Nitrogen Limitation Alters Biomass Production but Enhances Steviol Glycoside Concentration in Stevia rebaudiana Bertoni”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Relating to kaurenoic acid or its derivatives
kaurenoic acid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A polycyclic diterpene carboxylic acid which shows selective antibacterial activity against Gram-positive bacteria
Related terms: kauranoid
klassevirus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: klasseviruses
Etymology: From the genus name.
Senses: examples: text: Subsequently, both salivirus and klassevirus were classified as belonging to the novel genus Salivirus in Picornaviridae.
ref: 2015 July 21, “Salivirus in Children and Its Association with Childhood Acute Gastroenteritis: A Paired Case-Control Study”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: A picornavirus, of the genus Klassevirus, associated with pediatric diarrhea.
microaspirations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: In fact gastroesopheagal reflux (GER) has been considered as a risk factor for IPF progression due to chronic microaspirations of gastric content.
ref: 2015 July 21, “Roflumilast Prevents the Metabolic Effects of Bleomycin-Induced Fibrosis in a Murine Model”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: plural of microaspiration
microimaging
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From micro- + imaging.
Senses: examples: text: These probes may be usefully coupled with recent in vivo and in situ microimaging techniques such as probe-based confocal laser endomicroscopy (pCLE). pCLE is an endoscopic technique that has recently been applied to the exploration of distal lung diseases [48 –50 ], and is currently evaluated to image distal lung nodules (ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:NCT01931579).
ref: 2015 July 21, “MMP-13 In-Vivo Molecular Imaging Reveals Early Expression in Lung Adenocarcinoma”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Very small-scale imaging
shaving gel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shaving gels
Senses: glosses: A shaving product usually supplied in an aerosol can which has the appearance of cosmetic gel, but which turns into a lather when applied to wet skin.
Related terms: shaving cream
shaving foam
Vegetius
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /vɪˈɡɛtɪəs/
ipa: /vɪˈdʒɛtɪəs/
Etymology: From the Latin Vegetius.
Senses: glosses: A male given name from Latin — famously held by
glosses: A male given name from Latin — famously held by:
Publius Flavius Vegetius Renatus (fl. late 4th C.), Late Latin writer on military matters and veterinary medicine
body-building
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of bodybuilding.
body-building
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of body-build
moneyholic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: moneyholics
Etymology: From money + -holic.
Senses: examples: text: Bullish Ben was as close to being a "moneyholic" as I have ever known. His only goal in life seemed to be making money.
ref: 1982, James E. Kilgore, Dollars & Sense: Family Strength Through Financial Education, Abingdon, →ISBN, page 74:
text: The long bull market of the nineties gave rise to an enormous increase in individuals owning stock and making their own investment decisions and has bred a whole new generation of moneyholics.
ref: 2002, Ron Gallen, The Money Trap: A Practical Program to Stop Self-defeating Financial Habits So You Can Reclaim Your Grip on Life, HarperCollins, →ISBN, page 57:
text: Okay, time for the financial confessions of a repentant financial sinner: I am a recovering moneyholic.
ref: 2010, Nikki Atkinson, The Shrewd Christian: You Can't Have It All, But You Can Have More Than Enough, Crown Publishing Group, →ISBN, page 35:
glosses: A person obsessed with making and/or spending money.
moneyholics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of moneyholic
China asters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of China aster
man's room
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: man's rooms
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of men's room: a public lavatory intended for men.
Coordinate terms: woman's room
Related terms: little boy's room
space ice cream
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of astronaut ice cream.
synonyms: word: astronaut ice cream
astronaut ice cream
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: It was developed for NASA's Apollo space missions (but never actually taken into space).
Senses: synonyms: space ice cream
glosses: Ice cream that has had most of the water removed from it by a freeze-drying process and been sealed in a pouch, and requires no refrigeration.
go to the restroom
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: goes to the restroom
form: going to the restroom
form: went to the restroom
form: gone to the restroom
Senses: glosses: Synonym of use the toilet: to urinate or defecate, especially (but not exclusively) while visiting a restroom.
synonyms: word: use the toilet
extra: to urinate or defecate, especially (but not exclusively) while visiting a restroom
Related terms: use the restroom
go to the bathroom
go to the toilet
go to the washroom
go to the washroom
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: goes to the washroom
form: going to the washroom
form: went to the washroom
form: gone to the washroom
Senses: glosses: Synonym of use the toilet: to urinate or defecate, especially (but not exclusively) while visiting a washroom.
synonyms: word: use the toilet
extra: to urinate or defecate, especially (but not exclusively) while visiting a washroom
Related terms: use the washroom
go to the bathroom
go to the restroom
go to the toilet
use the bathroom
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: uses the bathroom
form: using the bathroom
form: used the bathroom
form: used the bathroom
Senses: examples: text: We went camping and had to use the bathroom in the woods.
text: He wanted to go in and use the bathroom but he was ashamed of the way he looked. He had been in hiding, really, for nearly a month.
ref: 1962, James Baldwin, Another Country, New York, N. Y.: The Dial Press, published January 1963, page 5:
glosses: Synonym of use the toilet: to urinate or defecate, especially (but not exclusively) while visiting a bathroom.
synonyms: word: use the toilet
extra: to urinate or defecate, especially (but not exclusively) while visiting a bathroom
Related terms: go to the washroom
go to the restroom
go to the toilet
use the restroom
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: uses the restroom
form: using the restroom
form: used the restroom
form: used the restroom
Senses: glosses: Synonym of use the toilet: to urinate or defecate, especially (but not exclusively) while visiting a restroom.
synonyms: word: use the toilet
extra: to urinate or defecate, especially (but not exclusively) while visiting a restroom
Related terms: go to the restroom
use the toilet
use the bathroom
use the washroom
use the washroom
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: uses the washroom
form: using the washroom
form: used the washroom
form: used the washroom
Senses: glosses: Synonym of use the toilet: to urinate or defecate, especially (but not exclusively) while visiting a washroom.
synonyms: word: use the toilet
extra: to urinate or defecate, especially (but not exclusively) while visiting a washroom
Related terms: go to the washroom
use the bathroom
use the restroom
use the toilet
use the toilet
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: uses the toilet
form: using the toilet
form: used the toilet
form: used the toilet
Senses: examples: text: She'll be right back. She had to use the toilet.
glosses: To urinate, defecate, or both in a toilet.
examples: text: We had to use the toilet in the woods when we went camping, so we carried bog rolls and small shovels everywhere we went.
glosses: To urinate, defecate, or both in other places.
Synonyms: word: excrete
word: do one's duty
word: go potty
word: go to the bathroom
word: go to the toilet
word: go to the restroom
word: go to the washroom
word: inspect the plumbing
word: a man
word: a man about a dog
word: a man about a horse
word: use the bathroom
word: use the facilities
word: use the restroom
word: use the washroom
word: urinate and Thesaurus:defecate
punkadelic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more punkadelic
form: most punkadelic
Etymology: From punk + -adelic.
Senses: examples: text: The punkadelic Skunks have been at it in Austin for four years.
ref: 1983 February, Pepi Plowman, “Thunder Claps”, in Texas Monthly, page 146:
text: Instead the material is perfectly executed punkadelic glam-bop burnished with a healthy dose of metallic insolence.
ref: 1987 April, Judge I-Rankin', “Underground”, in Spin, page 41:
text: "Move On" borrows the zooming riddims of Anita Ward's 1979 classic "Ring My Bell," while "Take Me Home" features sly, punkadelic guitar riffs.
ref: 1996 September, Sacha Jenkins, “Joi 'Amoeba Cleansing Syndrome'”, in Vibe, page 208:
glosses: Having the coolness or style of punk rock or punk rockers.
on the outside, looking in
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Forms: form: on the outside looking in
Senses: examples: text: Won't you take me back again? I'll be waiting here till then / On the outside looking in
ref: 1964, “I’m On the Outside (Looking In)”, performed by Little Anthony and the Imperials:
text: "In a sense, I've always felt on the outside, looking in," Mr. Douglas says. "It's my background, damn it. My father was an illiterate Russian immigrant, a ragman, the lowest rung on the economic scale. There were six sisters and my mother; I was the only boy. To be a young Jewish boy in a town—Amsterdam, in upstate New York—that was quite anti-Semitic."
ref: 1988 August 24, Mervyn Rothstein, “Kirk Douglas And Anger”, in New York Times, retrieved 02 Aug 2015:
text: A recurrent theme of Theroux's books is this sense of being an alien, on the outside looking in.
ref: 1997 May 18, Marianne Macdonald, “Who is Paul Theroux?”, in Independent (UK), retrieved 02 Aug 2015:
text: While China's economy soars, hundreds of millions of migrant workers and rural peasants have been left on the outside looking in.
ref: 2007 August 2, Ishaan Tharoor, “India's Democratic Advantage”, in Time, retrieved 02 Aug 2015:
glosses: Excluded from a group, process, or opportunity, and feeling downhearted as a result.
Synonyms: alienated
Related terms: on the outs
want in
on the outside looking in
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of on the outside, looking in.
thrifter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈθɹɪftəɹ/
rhymes: -ɪftə(ɹ)
Forms: form: thrifters
Etymology: From thrift + -er.
Senses: examples: text: Because the clothing in it has been “presorted,” the designer room offers a perfect initiation for the novice thrifter lacking the confidence, and perhaps the stomach, to comb through the crammed standard-issue.
ref: 2007 April 19, Zarah Crawford, “After Lunching, the Ladies Go Shopping”, in New York Times:
glosses: A person who engages in thrifting.
thrifters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of thrifter
achronycal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of acronycal.
acronical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈkɹɑn.ɪ.kəl/
ipa: /ˌæk.ɹəˈnɪk.əl/
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ἄκρονυξ (ákronux, “nightfall”), one of the three poetic times for the rising and setting of stars, along with cosmical and heliacal.
Senses: examples: text: Bring the star again to the eastern and western parts of the horizon—observe the two points of the ecliptic then on the western edge of the horizon—and the two corresponding days, will be the days of the star's acronical rising and setting.
ref: 1829, William Field, An introduction to the use of the globes Fifth edition, page 134:
text: The moon in arctic regions is not acronical, as astronomers say; it does not rise at sunset or set at sunrise.
ref: 1947, Constance Helmericks, Harmon Helmericks, We Live in the Arctic, page 259:
text: Due to the revolution of the earth, heliacal and acronical phenomena are separated by six months of time for a given star.
ref: 1970, New World Antiquity, page 53:
text: The heliacal rising of this star group, that is its rising with the sun, heralded the summer season, while its acronical rising, when it rose as the sun set, marked the beginning of winter, and led to the association of the group with the rainy season, and with floods, so often mentioned by the poets.
ref: 2012, William Tyler Olcott, Star Lore: Myths, Legends, and Facts, →ISBN, page 415:
topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: Alternative form of acronycal.
examples: text: Some sounds, such as the cries of the sellers of water in summer and charcoal in winter, persist, hour in and hour out, for the whole twenty-four, and form a background for the different acronical clamour that now rises.
ref: 1940, Osbert Sitwell, Escape with me!: An oriental sketch-book, page 307:
text: In examining the esthetic importance of the wilderness I will not engage in the unprofitable task of evaluating the preciousness of different sorts of beauty, as, for instance, whether an acronical view over the Grand Canyon is worth more than the Apollo of Praxiteles.
ref: 1974, Robert Sterling Yard, The Living Wilderness:
text: There was a faint rose acronical glow high in the room, the beginning of twilight.
ref: 1987, Shelby Foote, Tournament, →ISBN, page 231:
glosses: Occurring at sunset.
examples: text: "Una vieja y sus re- cuerdos" is the acronical story of a woman reputedly 139 years of age when she related her life's work as partera (midwife), cocinera principal (head cook), and llavera (keeper of the keys) as well as duena (supervisor) of various shops at San Gabriel mission in the first half of the nineteenth century.
ref: 1993, Genaro M. Padilla, My History, Not Yours: The Formation of Mexican American Autobiography, →ISBN:
glosses: Occurring at the end of life.
Related terms: sense: of, related to, or occurring in the evening
word: vespertine
sense: of, related to, or occurring during twilight
word: crepuscular
sense: of, related to, or occurring around the Sun
word: heliacal
sense: of, related to, or occurring in the early morning
word: matutine
musical bows
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of musical bow
stick a sock in it
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: sticks a sock in it
form: sticking a sock in it
form: stuck a sock in it
form: stuck a sock in it
Senses: glosses: Synonym of put a sock in it.
synonyms: word: put a sock in it
stuff a sock in it
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: stuffs a sock in it
form: stuffing a sock in it
form: stuffed a sock in it
form: stuffed a sock in it
Senses: glosses: Synonym of put a sock in it.
synonyms: word: put a sock in it
octaviate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: octaviates
form: octaviating
form: octaviated
form: octaviated
Etymology: Modelled on French octavier; see octavate for more.
Senses: examples: text: He octaviates some fragments of the tune (including the first note) without even the excuse of avoiding difficult stopping.
[…]
The transcriber adapts chords to his instrument, sometimes octaviates or simplifies the bass on technical grounds, but a peculiarity of this setting is the inclusion of some thorough-bass realization at places where the solo part plays in unison […]
ref: 1992, Chelys, volumes 21-22, page 33 & 37:
text: As the fundamentals of each fof begin to octaviate, they are desynchronized by individual envelopes, […]
ref: 2000, Richard Charles Boulanger, editor, the csound book, page 317:
text: In Marseille, I also generated some synthetic sounds with the MUSICV program. I chose a defective major-minor pitch scale, which does not exactly octaviate […]
ref: 2002, J C Risset, “Examples of the musical use of digital audio effects”, in Journal of New Music Research:
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: To octavate.
Strome
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
glosses: A village in Alberta, Canada.
microoxic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From micro- + -oxic.
Senses: examples: text: Enhanced expression of high-affinity oxidases in the microoxic transition zone overlying the O 2 -depleted OMZ core clearly demonstrates the capacity of microorganisms to exploit sub-micromolar O 2 concentrations.
ref: 2015 July 21, “Aerobic Microbial Respiration In Oceanic Oxygen Minimum Zones”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Having a very small amount of oxygen
Related terms: anoxic
hipsterific
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌhɪp.stəˈɹɪf.ɪk/
rhymes: -ɪfɪk
Forms: form: more hipsterific
form: most hipsterific
Etymology: From hipster + -ific.
Senses: examples: text: […] but if you're looking for a dark, well-designed club in which to get down, this is a less "hipsterific" alternative to a place like Crobar.
ref: 2000, Bill Franz, Alternative Chicago: Unique Destinations Beyond the Magnificent Mile, Cumberland House Publishing, →ISBN, page 55:
text: Get your freak on at LA's most hipsterific beach paralleled by the Venice Boardwalk.
ref: 2008, Andrea Schulte-Peevers, Los Angeles and Southern California, Lonely Planet, →ISBN, page 154:
text: If you're feeling hipsterific, try Top Chef Mike Isabella's goth-like Mexican restaurant, Bandolero.
ref: 2015, Not For Tourists Guide to Washington DC 2015, Skyhorse Publishing, →ISBN:
glosses: Extremely hipsterish.
microulceration
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: microulcerations
Etymology: From micro- + ulceration.
Senses: glosses: microscopic ulceration