cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
anvilicious
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more anvilicious
form: most anvilicious
Etymology: From anvil + -licious, the implication being that the message's delivery is as unsubtle as the dropping of an anvil on a person's head (a stock occurrence in cartoons).
Senses: examples: text: When you take something as subtle, ballsy, and downright mythic as Dark Will and turn it into the anvilicious, ambitionless, and dreadfully banal travesty that was the Crack Magick arc, that's not a big hubristic dream that went wrong; that's the utter lack of a dream, the complete failure of imagination.
ref: 2003 June 24, "Lord Usher", “Re: What would Whedon Make of Season 6/7 disappointment/hostility”, in alt.tv.buffy-v-slayer (Usenet):
text: 'Anvilicious'? […] 'Of, or pertaining to, anvils,' is how I'd describe it. Remember in cartoons, when they get dropped on people from a height? It means when an idea is presented on the show with about that much subtlety […]
ref: 2003 November 21, Jane Davitt, “Re: 5.8: Gunn's toy robots”, in alt.tv.angel (Usenet):
text: That was weak. As soon as the parents voiced their objection to seeing Cartman nude on stage I knew where they were heading... anvilicious.
ref: 2004 March 18, Ben Raines, “Re: Tonights south park one of the best”, in alt.tv.southpark (Usenet):
text: They keep dropping they ^([sic]) anvilicious hints about it being JFK and Robert but the time period in which it is set is wrong.
ref: 2004 June 29, "Ubiquitous", “Re: "Jack & Bobby" pilot online”, in rec.arts.tv (Usenet):
topics: lifestyle
glosses: Conveyed in a heavy-handed, unsubtle way; preachy.
copypastas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of copypasta
copypastas
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of copypasta
copypastaed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of copypasta
copypastaing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of copypasta
floppy diskette
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: floppy diskettes
Senses: glosses: Synonym of floppy disk.
synonyms: word: floppy disk
Derived terms: floppy diskette drive
exergies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of exergy
floppy diskettes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of floppy diskette
etaoin shrdlus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of etaoin shrdlu
momos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of momo
storm petrels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of storm petrel
multidimensionalities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of multidimensionality
kazooing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of kazoo
kazooed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of kazoo
swingeingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more swingeingly
form: most swingeingly
Etymology: From swingeing + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a swingeing manner.
nonneutral
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: non-neutral
Etymology: From non- + neutral.
Senses: glosses: Not neutral.
Derived terms: nonneutrality
nonneutrally
nonneutral
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nonneutrals
form: non-neutral
Etymology: From non- + neutral.
Senses: glosses: A person or party that is not neutral; a partisan.
nonrental
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + rental.
Senses: glosses: Not of or pertaining to rental.
blitz chess
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Partial calque of German Blitzschach.
Senses: examples: text: What I had played was chess. Specially, I knocked out some 2,000 games of speed (or "blitz") chess in the two months leading up to the tournament. In fact, I played so much that I'm currently in the top half-percent of more than 1.3 million of blitz players at an online chess competition site.
ref: 2013 June 24, Mark Samuelian, “Speed Chess Changed My Brain”, in The Atlantic:
text: If there’s still no winner, the players move on two games of blitz chess. There, each player is limited to only five minutes, with three seconds added after each move. If there is no winner, they play a further two games of blitz chess.
ref: 2018 November 27, Kabir Chibber, “What will happen on the final day of the World Chess Championship”, in Quartz:
text: Muzychuk, 27, is the reigning women’s world champion in both rapid and blitz chess.
ref: 2017 December 28, Des Bieler, “Chess champion refuses to defend titles in Saudi Arabia to protest treatment of women”, in The Washington Post:
topics: board-games
chess
games
synonyms: lightning chess
speed chess
glosses: Chess played at a quick time control, with each side getting about five minutes to make their moves. Blitz chess is played at a variety of time controls, primarily 3+0 (three minutes per side), 3+2 (three minutes per side plus two extra seconds per move), 5+0, and 5+3.
Related terms: classical chess
rapid chess
bullet chess
less than threes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of less than three
less than threeing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of less than three
less than threed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of less than three
Ellan Vannin
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Manx Ellan Vannin.
Senses: glosses: Poetic, literary or affectionate name for the Isle of Man; an island and Crown dependency of the United Kingdom in the Irish Sea.
Mannin
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Manx Mannin.
Senses: glosses: The Isle of Man; an island and Crown dependency of the United Kingdom in the Irish Sea.
Related terms: Ellan Vannin
multilateralist
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From multilateral + -ist.
Senses: glosses: Supporting or advocating multilateralism.
multilateralist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: multilateralists
Etymology: From multilateral + -ist.
Senses: glosses: An advocate of multilateralism.
riblets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of riblet
riblet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: riblets
Etymology: From rib + -let.
Senses: glosses: Boneless processed pork or beef rib meat, served at restaurants and fast food places.
glosses: A cut of veal or lamb taken from near the rib
rollaway
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From roll + away.
Senses: examples: text: This rollaway bed goes under my main bed.
glosses: Having wheels to allow for storage.
Related terms: foldaway
mycelial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From mycelium + -al.
Senses: examples: text: Mycelial lives are so other, their possibilities so strange.
ref: 2020, Merlin Sheldrake, Entangled Life, page 76:
glosses: Of or pertaining to the mycelium
Derived terms: intermycelial
intramycelial
mycelially
nonmycelial
neurocristopathy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: neurocristopathies
Etymology: From neuro- + crest + -pathy.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Any disorder related to the abnormal development of the neural crest.
Related terms: neurocristopathic
neural crest syndrome
neuroectodermal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From neuro- + ectodermal.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to the neuroectoderm.
Derived terms: Johnson neuroectodermal syndrome
neuroectodermally
neurofibromin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: neurofibromins
Etymology: From neurofibroma + -in.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of a group of proteins associated with neurofibromatosis
ooplasm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ooplasms
Etymology: From oo- + -plasm.
Senses: glosses: The cytoplasm of an egg or ovum
Related terms: ooplasmic
organoperoxy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: organoperoxys
Etymology: From organo- + peroxy.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any organic peroxy radical (R-O-O-)
neurofibromins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of neurofibromin
fratboy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fratboys
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of frat boy.
palometa
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: palometas
Senses: glosses: Any of numerous types of fish. (See Wikipedia for a list.)
paper aeroplanes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of paper aeroplane
paper planes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of paper plane
parenthesizations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of parenthesization
poker run
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: poker runs
Senses: topics: hobbies
lifestyle
motorcycling
glosses: A motorcycling event where each participant pays a fee, and then follows a course with checkpoints, at each of which a playing card is drawn. At the last checkpoint, the rider with the best poker hand is the winner. Typically poker runs end with a party, and the proceeds benefit a charity.
dice run
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dice runs
Senses: topics: hobbies
lifestyle
motorcycling
glosses: Similar to a poker run, an organized event where motorcyclists pay an entry fee and then follow a prescribed course with checkpoints, at each of which dice are rolled and the result recorded. At the last checkpoint a winner is determined and prizes awarded, typically at a party. Proceeds usually go to benefit a charity.
scapulalgia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: scapulalgias
Etymology: From scapula + -algia.
Senses: glosses: Pain in the shoulder.
mind games
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mind game
VEOS
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Initialism of virtual environment operating shell.
scapulalgias
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of scapulalgia
organoperoxys
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of organoperoxy
neurocristopathies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of neurocristopathy
multilateralists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of multilateralist
sensory receptors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sensory receptor
methionyls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of methionyl
leukemogeneses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of leukemogenesis
hemagglutinations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hemagglutination
encephalomyopathies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of encephalomyopathy
dysautonomias
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dysautonomia
oversat
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of oversit
asphericities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of asphericity
adipimidates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of adipimidate
subqualities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of subquality
submodalities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of submodality
picoeukaryotes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of picoeukaryote
neuromedins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of neuromedin
memcapacitors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of memcapacitor
memcapacitances
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of memcapacitance
benchtops
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of benchtop
excavation units
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of excavation unit
lava domes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lava dome
cinder blocks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cinder block
cinder cones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cinder cone
eruca
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: erucae
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin eruca, in its senses of "caterpillar" and "colewort" respectively. Cognate with arugula, rucola, rocket, roquette.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Caterpillar; larva.
examples: text: The eruca, or rocket, so called from the Greek, […] was had in so great esteem heretofore, as to its efficacy in conjugal performances, that many of the antient authors, both in poetry and prose, make mention of it purely for that purpose:[…]
ref: 1727, Stephen SWITZER, The Practical Kitchen Gardiner: Or, a New and Entire System of Directions for His Employment in the Melonry, Kitchen-garden, and Potagery, in the Several Seasons of the Year, Etc, page 276:
text: Eruca, or Garden Rocket, was formerly much used as a salad herb, but has been long rejected on account of its ungrateful smell.
ref: 1822, Stephen Reynolds Clarke, Hortus Anglicanus; or, The modern English garden, by the author of the British botanist, page 171:
topics: cooking
food
lifestyle
glosses: Arugula: rocket.
Derived terms: erucism
BCDs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of BCD
sifu
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sifu
form: sifus
form: shifu
Etymology: From Cantonese 師傅／师傅 (si1 fu6-2, “master”) and 師父／师父 (si1 fu6-2, “my master”), both also conveying the sense of teacher.
Senses: examples: text: Who is -- don't get cute with me, you dumb bastard, I'm your sifu.
ref: 1998, Dana Stabenow, Fire and Ice, page 134:
glosses: A master or teacher in the context of martial arts, especially kung fu and tai chi.
glosses: A spiritual father in esoteric contexts.
Synonyms: topics: martial-arts
sports
military
war
government
politics
hobbies
lifestyle
word: sensei
sense: esoteric
word: guru
know beans about
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: knows beans about
form: knowing beans about
form: knew beans about
form: known beans about
Senses: examples: text: But the great artist doesn't know "beans" about driving oxen. He has put his driver on the "off" side of the yoke.
ref: 1881 February 7, “Notes of the Fine Arts”, in New York Times, retrieved 22 Sep 2009, page 3:
text: If this self-styled expert in the field of human relations knew beans about handling people he'd get more work out of the women and fewer tears.
ref: 1963 March 12, “Dear Ann Landers”, in Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, retrieved 22 Sep 2009, page 17:
text: If wealth managers actually knew beans about anything, they would be in asset management.
ref: 2008 July 14, Charles Paikert, “Ken Fisher”, in InvestmentNews, retrieved 22 Sep 2009:
glosses: To know something, even if only a little, about.
raw_tags: in negative constructions
examples: text: His primary opponent, Raphael Herman, is a real estate salesman who frankly admits he knows beans about insurance.
ref: 1986 August 22, “Editorial: The Cabinet Races”, in Gainesville Sun, retrieved 22 Sep 2009, page 18A:
glosses: To know nothing, or almost nothing, about.
Related terms: jack shit
isostatically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more isostatically
form: most isostatically
Etymology: From isostatic + -ally.
Senses: glosses: In an isostatic manner.
talweg
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: talwege
form: talwegs
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of thalweg.
oviparity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /əʊvɪˈpæɹɪti/
ipa: /oʊvɪˈpæɹɪti/
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin oviparus + -ity.
Senses: glosses: The condition of being oviparous.
ovoviviparity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From ovo- “egg” + vīvus (alive, living, vivid; more at vivid) + pariō (“give birth, produce, bring forth”) + -ity.
Senses: examples: text: I have not had opportunities of examining any of the animals of this group preserved in spirits, but have found no difficulty in making out the fact of ovoviviparity by macerating the dried animal in cabinet specimens of the shells, when the oviduct in the females, in several species, was found to be filled with young animals with four- to six-whorled shells about one-eighth of an inch in length.
ref: 1864 November 24, Dr. W. M. Stimpson, “On the structural characters of the so-called Melanians of North America”, in The American Journal of Science and Arts, volume 38:
text: […] the wide dispersal of certain household species, the development of ovoviviparity in several tropical forms and of myrmecophilous and sphegophilous habits in others […]
ref: 1911 December 24, Journal of the New York Entomological Society, volume 19, page 262:
text: The species with maternal care all fall in the monophyletic subgenus Gonioctena, but while ovoviviparity is also found in these species it also occurs in subgenera lacking maternal care.
ref: 2006, James T. Costa, The Other Insect Societies:
glosses: The condition of being ovoviviparous.
Synonyms: ovivipary
ovovivipary
peginterferon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: peginterferons
Etymology: From peg- + interferon.
Senses: glosses: A pegylated interferon.
perivitelline
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From peri- + vitelline.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Situated around (or near) the vitellus.
polyornithine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From poly- + ornithine.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The polypeptide whose constituent amino acid is ornithine
precoated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pre- + coated.
Senses: glosses: Coated in advance of another process.
biggers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Forest and Stream (1882), Outing, Volumes 1-2, page 62: “Do not his biggers and betters brag of scores which would not have been made if their guides and oarsmen had not fished?”
text: For whether he clung to the walls, or made stepping-stones of his brothers and sisters (as do many of his betters, or at least his biggers), who can tell?
ref: 1893, Olive Thorne Miller, Little Brothers of the Air:
text: Francis William Rolt-Wheeler (1919), The boy with the U.S. trappers, page 259 of 388: “No cattle-killing grizzly this, but a rumbling big black bear, who perhaps, but not surely, might once or twice, in his life have dined on lamb or veal, yet who had stumbled into the fate made for his biggers if not his betters.”
glosses: Those bigger than oneself.
biggers
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of bigger
biggering
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of bigger
biggered
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of bigger
prehydrated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more prehydrated
form: most prehydrated
Etymology: From pre- + hydrated.
Senses: glosses: hydrated in advance of another process
reptilia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of reptilium
reptilium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɪliəm
Forms: form: reptilia
Senses: glosses: An enclosure in which reptiles are kept
retrotransposes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of retrotranspose
sauropterygians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sauropterygian
sauropterygian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sauropterygians
Etymology: From translingual Sauropterygia + -ian.
Senses: examples: text: The sauropterygians had streamlined bodies and their limbs were more or less modified to function as paddles or flippers.
ref: 2012, Winand Brinkmann, Kenneth De Baets, editors, Paleontological Museum of the University of Zürich: Exhibition Guide, Paleontological Institute and Museum of the University of Zürich, →ISBN, page 66:
glosses: A reptile of the extinct superorder Sauropterygia.
Hypernyms: saurian
Hyponyms: eosauropterygian
helveticosaurid
saurosphargid
placodontiform
secretome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: secretomes
Etymology: From secrete + -ome.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: That part of a proteome consisting of proteins secreted from a cell
Derived terms: endosecretome
neurosecretome
Related terms: secretomal
secretomic
secretomics
selenomethionyl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: selenomethionyls
Etymology: From selenomethionine + -yl.
Senses: glosses: The univalent radical derived from selenomethionine.
selenomethionyl
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From selenomethionine + -yl.
Senses: glosses: Containing selenomethionine.
sesquiterpenes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sesquiterpene
shastasaurid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shastasaurids
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Any extinct ichthyosaur in the family Shastasauridae.
spectrographic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to spectrography or spectrographs.
strokelike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more strokelike
form: most strokelike
Etymology: From stroke + -like.
Senses: glosses: Characteristic of a stroke (medical incident)
plasma wakefield acceleration
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A method of high-gradient particle acceleration which uses the longitudinal electric field of plasma wakefield excited by a laser pulse or bunch of relativistic charged particles.
Synonyms: word: PWFA
Related terms: plasma wakefield accelerator
superjacent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /s(j)uːpəˈdʒeɪsənt/
Etymology: From (the stem of) Latin superjacēns, present participle of superjacēre, from super- + jacēre (“to lie”).
Senses: examples: text: Pemulis, Troeltsch, and Schacht's triple-room is subdorm B in the back north part of the second floor of West House and so superjacent to the Dining Hall […].
ref: 1996, David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest […], Boston, Mass.; New York, N.Y.: Little, Brown and Company, →ISBN, page 171:
glosses: Positioned immediately above or on top of something else; overlying.
supraspinal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -aɪnəl
Etymology: From supra- + spinal.
Senses: glosses: Positioned above the spine
varanid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: varanids
Etymology: From scientific Latin Varanidae (family name).
Senses: examples: text: Although fossils of giant varanids had been known since the mid-1800s, the discovery that giant lizards were still among us, albeit on a few isolated islands in far-away Southeast Asia, was met with fascination and excitement.
ref: 2017 May 17, Hanneke Meijer, The Guardian:
glosses: Any lizard of the genus Varanus; a monitor lizard.
versican
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: An extracellular matrix proteoglycan that is present in human tissue
Derived terms: versicanase
asbos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of asbo
bierkellers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bierkeller
bierkeller
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bierkellers
Etymology: Borrowed from German Bierkeller, from Bier (“beer”) + Keller (“cellar”).
Senses: synonyms: beer cellar
glosses: An underground pub where German beer is served.
Related terms: wine cave
foundationwear
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From foundation + -wear.
Senses: glosses: corsetry (foundation garments)
genitrix
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: genitrixes
form: genitrices
form: genetrix
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin genitrīx. By surface analysis, genitor + -trix.
Senses: glosses: The biological mother of a child.
Synonyms: birthmother
Coordinate terms: genitor
Related terms: progenitrix
amperometry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: amperometries
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: An analytical technique that involves the continuous measurement of electric current during a reaction or titration.
Derived terms: biamperometry
bioamperometry
chronoamperometry
Related terms: amperometric
ethylmaleimide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From ethyl + maleimide.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: An N-ethyl derivative of maleimide that is used to modify cystine residues in proteins and peptides
exocytosing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of exocytose
exocytose
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: exocytoses
form: exocytosing
form: exocytosed
form: exocytosed
Senses: glosses: To undergo exocytosis
foldome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: foldomes
Etymology: From fold + -ome.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The totality of folded structures of proteins
immunome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: immunomes
Etymology: From immune + -ome.
Senses: topics: immunology
medicine
sciences
glosses: All the genes and proteins associated with an immune system
nosepiece
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nosepieces
Etymology: From nose + piece.
Senses: examples: text: The big craze from this source [television] in 1966 was for a Batman outfit. This consisted of a large black cape, shaped cowl and pants with belt, with 'shimmering P.V.C. contrasting bat decorations'. So for 29s. 6d. a child was disguised and pictured himself flying over the treetops and in fact, with slit eyes and a nose-piece, a child did not look himself at all, and knew that his appearance was frightening.
ref: 1971, Gwen White, Antique Toys And Their Background, page 186:
text: At impact, the nosepiece of Phelps’s goggles snapped.
ref: 2009 August 2, Karen Crouse, “Phelps Grabs Record in 100 Butterfly”, in New York Times:
glosses: Anything (originally a piece of armour) that protects the nose.
glosses: An animal's noseband.
glosses: The bridge between spectacle lenses that rests on the nose.
glosses: The part of a microscope that holds the objectives.
glosses: The outer end or point of a pipe, bellows, etc.
ORFeome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ORFeomes
Etymology: From ORF + -ome.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: The totality of open reading frames in a genome
phogrin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A protein present on insulin-secretory granules of pancreatic beta cells
piecharts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of piechart
piechart
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: piecharts
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of pie chart.
plasmalemma
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: plasmalemmas
form: plasmalemmata
Etymology: From plasma + lemma.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: The cell membrane.
Derived terms: plasmalemmal
porocytosis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From poro- + -cyte + -osis.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: The secretion of neurotransmitters through an array of docked vesicle/secretory pore complexes
bean counters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bean counter
balancings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of balancing
baklavalike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more baklavalike
form: most baklavalike
Senses: examples: text: It makes a nice pairing with the nutty, honey-laden brewate, a baklavalike dessert made with almonds, sesame seeds, and orange blossom water.
ref: 2003 May 9, Laura Levy Shatkin, “Wine and Dine”, in Chicago Reader:
glosses: Alternative form of baklava-like.
baldachin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: baldachins
Senses: examples: text: She rode beneath a purple baldachin, which the doctors of Ferrara--that is, the members of the faculties of law, medicine, and mathematics--supported in turn.
ref: 1903, John Leslie Garner, Lucretia Borgia, translation of original by Ferdinand Gregorovius:
text: The bronze that formerly ornamented this temple was made use of to fabricate the baldachin of St Peter's.
ref: 1908, Major W. E Frye, After Waterloo: Reminiscences of European Travel 1815-1819:
text: People will spend thirty thousand francs on an altar baldachin, and ruin themselves for music, and they have to have gas in their churches, and Lord knows what all besides, but when you mention bells they shrug their shoulders.
ref: 1928, J. K. Huysmans, La-bas:
glosses: Alternative spelling of baldacchin.
Derived terms: baldachined
balseros
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of balsero
balsero
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: balseros
Etymology: From Spanish balsero.
Senses: examples: text: If Manglano-Ovalle sympathizes with the balseros, Kara Walker's installation at the Renaissance Society is so over-the-top it can hardly be reduced to a simple argument.
ref: 1997 February 7, Fred Camper, “Anti-Masterpieces”, in Chicago Reader:
glosses: A refugee who travels from Cuba to America by sea.
syncollin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A small protein found in the exocrine pancreas
timecourse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: timecourses
form: time-course
form: time course
Etymology: From time + course.
Senses: topics: sciences
glosses: The variation of a quantity over time.
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: The varying activity of a medicine over time following administration.
translatome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: translatomes
Etymology: From translate + -ome.
Senses: topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: The totality of proteins formed by translation of mRNA
Related terms: transcriptome
unknome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: unknomes
Etymology: From unknown + -ome.
Senses: topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: The totality of genes of unknown function in a genome.
physiome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: physiomes
Etymology: From physio- + -ome.
Senses: topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: The totality of physiological functions associated with the genes of a genome
deca
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɛkə/
rhymes: -ɛkə
homophone: decker (non-rhotic)
Forms: form: decas
Etymology: From deca-, from Latin decas (“ten”), from Ancient Greek δεκάς (dekás, “10”)
* (nandrolone decanoate): Clipping of decanoate.
* (decathlon): Clipping of decathlon.
Senses: topics: bodybuilding
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: The anabolic steroid nandrolone decanoate.
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: Abbreviation of decathlon.
Coordinate terms: sense: nandrolone decanoate
word: decanoate
sense: nandrolone decanoate
word: nandrolone
sense: nandrolone decanoate
word: nandrolone decanoate
Derived terms: sense: nandrolone decanoate
word: deca dick
NMEA
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of National Marine Electronics Association; shortened form of NMEA 0183.
balloony
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: balloonier
form: ballooniest
Etymology: From balloon + -y.
Senses: examples: text: His low-cut shirt-collar and narrow silken neck-tie were in the style called "English," as quite decidedly, also, were his cross-barred trousers of balloony build; nor, although thus flinging himself for diversion into the vortex of the lower crowd, had he foregone the luxury of tan-colored kid gloves and patent-leather shoes.
ref: 1861, Various, Atlantic Monthly Volume 7, No. 40, February, 1861:
text: Above the word is part of "Central," rendered in a dated balloony script, underlining the archaic nature of Gross's subject.
ref: 2004 July 2, Fred Camper, “The City, Brick by Brick”, in Chicago Reader:
glosses: Tending to balloon
ballhawk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ballhawks
Etymology: From ball + hawk.
Senses: topics: American-football
ball-games
basketball
football
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A player who is particularly good at catching interceptions.
examples: text: They documented Waveland Avenue's ballhawk culture, where Moe Mullins, who's recovered more than 3,500, is king, and followed him home to gape at his bounty: 1,000 major-league balls hoarded like dinosaur eggs.
ref: 2001 October 5, Deanna Isaacs, “Oddballs and True Believers/Film Center's New Marquee Player”, in Chicago Reader:
text: Last season, when the Giants came to town, a noted ballhawk named Wes Wagner scored tickets in the first row of the bleacher boxes in right field.
ref: 2007 July 18, Lee Jenkins, “At Wrigley, Fans Debate What to Do With a Ball”, in New York Times:
topics: ball-games
baseball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A fielder who is particularly good at catching fly balls.
Derived terms: ball-hawking
loblolly
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: loblollies
form: lob-lolly
form: lob lolly
form: loblollie
form: lob-lollie
form: loplolly
Etymology: From Yorkshire dialect lob (“boil”, literally “bubbling up”) + dialect lolly (“broth”).
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: Gruel.
glosses: A thick stew; lobscouse or similar.
examples: text: he and Narcissa paddled and splashed with tucked-up garments and muddy bottoms, after the crudest of whittled boats, or made loblollies by treading and treading in one spot with the intense oblivion of alchemists.
ref: 1931, William Faulkner, Sanctuary, Vintage, published 1993, page 122:
glosses: A mudhole.
examples: text: Whil'st he, not dreaming of thy folly,
Lies gaping like a great Lob-lolly
ref: 1675, Lucian (trans. Charles Cotton), Burlesque upon Burlesque: or, The scoffer scoft, 86
text: 1694, François Rabelais, (trans. Thomas Urquhart and Peter Antony Motteux), The Fourth Book.
This also is to be as silly as that jolt-headed loblolly of a carter, who, having laid his waggon fast in a slough, down on his marrow-bones was calling on the strong-backed deity, Hercules, might and main, to help him at a dead lift, but all the while forgot to goad on his oxen and lay his shoulder to the wheels, as it behoved him; as if a Lord have mercy upon us alone would have got his cart out of the mire.
text: 1777, Charles Shadwell, "The fair quaker of deal", in Bell's British Theatre, pages 21 to 22, OCLC 2986037.
If he would force the surgeon to cure us at the government's charge, it would be a mighty encouragement to us; but our rogue of a loblolly doctor, being not satisfied with his two-pences, must have a note for two months pay for every cure …
text: A yellow-eyed collie
Was guarding his coat-
Loose-limbed and lob-lolly,
But wise and remote.
ref: 1914, Macmillan's Annual, page 46, OCLC 609887069
text: [...] there's this great, lob-lolly, hectoring Tom Button fast i' the pillory [...]
ref: 1920, Jeffery Farnol, Black Bartlemy's Treasure, published 2004, →ISBN, page 62:
text: There was a wave of slackness, and young men preferred to remain lob-lolly lesser Hindus than to follow their fathers' stern creed.
ref: 1932, Journal of the Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce, volume 80, page 185:
text: 1946, George Bagshawe Harrison, A Jocobean Journal, page 176, OCLC 14246203.
This lob-lolly would for ever be making love to ladies, to the no small gain of the pages, whou would feign to bring him commendations and tokens from the ladies in return for angels.
text: When he heard a rumour circulating amongst the Irish lob-lolly gangs of track layers, he caught a ride on the Pennsylvania and Eastern [...]
ref: 2007, H. J. Popowski, All A Young Man Could Ask For, →ISBN, page 7:
glosses: A bumpkin or lout.
glosses: Loblolly pine, Pinus taeda.
glosses: Loblolly bay (plant).
Derived terms: loblolly bay
loblolly boy
loblolly pine
loblolly tree
loblolly
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: loblollies
form: loblollying
form: loblollied
form: loblollied
form: lob-lolly
form: lob lolly
form: loblollie
form: lob-lollie
form: loplolly
Etymology: From Yorkshire dialect lob (“boil”, literally “bubbling up”) + dialect lolly (“broth”).
Senses: examples: 1898, William Black, Wild Eelin, page 174, OCLC 2066856.
You'd rather lob-lolly about these refreshment-rooms, and stuff yourselves until you can't stir.
glosses: To behave in a loutish manner.
loblolly pine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: loblolly pines
Senses: examples: text: He drove [his tee shot] behind a tree and tried to slip his second [shot] through a narrow opening, but hit another tall loblolly pine.
ref: 2009 April 13, Dave Perkins, “Cabrera benefits from miraculous bounce”, in Toronto Star:
text: For $600, they dropped an obese white oak that was lurching after my roof deck, two poplars and a diseased maple, plus three more loblolly pines.
ref: 2009 April 19, Wells Tower, “Felled Wood”, in New York Times:
synonyms: word: longschat pine
word: longshucks
word: North Carolina pine
glosses: A pine tree, Pinus taeda, native to the southeastern US and extensively planted.
examples: text: The living area, 32 feet by 20 feet, consists of a great room; a pocket-size kitchen set off by a granite counter and an indoor pergola of loblolly pine; a dining space just big enough for a table and four chairs; and a sleeping nook with a double bed.
ref: 2009 July 31, Louise Tutelian, “A Cottage of Straw, Handmade in Texas”, in New York Times:
glosses: The wood of Pinus taeda.
Hypernyms: sense: wood
word: SYP
sense: wood
word: southern yellow pine
baldachins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of baldachin
beatnikism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From beatnik + -ism.
Senses: examples: text: At the time, existentialism was the philosophical equivalent of beatnikism, conjuring up images of berets, iconoclasm, and the rejection of status quo values.
ref: 1995 October 6, Gerald E. Brennan, “Naked Censorship”, in Chicago Reader:
glosses: The social and artistic ideas associated with beatniks
Related terms: hipsterism
beatless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From beat + -less.
Senses: examples: text: Labradford's debut album, Prazision, was ambient music for indie rockers, blissfully devoid of both high-gloss digitalia and New Age goo--a series of drifting, beatless soundscapes created with analog synthesizers and heavily treated guitar.
ref: 1998 April 3, Peter Margasak, “Kranky and Proud of It/”, in Chicago Reader:
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: Having no beat.
Derived terms: beatlessness
beavering
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From beaver + -ing.
Senses: examples: text: Thank'ee, Hurry; thank'ee, with all my heart--but I do a little beavering for myself as occasions offer.
ref: 1841, James Fenimore Cooper, The Deerslayer:
glosses: Hunting or trapping beaver.
beavering
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From beaver + -ing.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of beaver
Derived terms: beavering away
beavering away
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of beaver away
becardiganed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From be- + cardigan + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: While Carrabba doesn't fit the stereotype of the bespectacled, becardiganed emo boy--he looks rather like a rockabilly refugee--his personal history reflects that of his fans.
ref: 2004 January 30, Bob Mehr, “Navel-Gazing Nation”, in Chicago Reader:
glosses: Wearing a cardigan
Hypernyms: besweatered
clad
clothed
bedroomy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more bedroomy
form: most bedroomy
Etymology: From bedroom + -y. First use appears c. 1842. See cite below.
Senses: examples: text: Dr. Rigby states, that before this plan was adopted, the air of the wards was always close, oppressive, and bedroomy, owing to a want of proper ventilation.
ref: 1842, Stephen W. Williams, “A Medical History Of The County of Franklin”, in Medical Communications, volume 7, page 339:
text: When we brought our furniture from the house in the town, the large front rooms and the open halls used it up so, that it seemed as if there were hardly anything left but bedsteads and washstands and bureaus, - the very things that make up-stairs look so very bedroomy.
ref: 1870, A.D.T. Whitney, We Girls, A Home Story, page 26:
text: It was occupied by a primary school for children of both sexes, kept or rather let go, by a demonstrative lady of whom Isabel's chief recollection was that her hair was fastened with strange bedroomy combs at the temples and that she was the widow of some one of consequence.
ref: 1908, Henry James, chapter III, in The Portrait of a Lady (The Novels and Tales of Henry James; III), New York edition, volume I, Boston, Mass.; New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, →OCLC; republished as The Portrait of a Lady (EBook #2833), United States: Project Gutenberg, 1 September 2001:
text: When we brought our furniture from the house in the town, the large front rooms and the open halls used it up so, that it seemed as if there were hardly anything left but bedsteads and washstands and bureaus,--the very things that make up-stairs look so very bedroomy.
ref: 1890, Mrs. A. D. T. Whitney, We Girls: A Home Story:
text: Made entirely in a proper studio, without the home recordings that supplement the other Portastatic discs, it sounds bright and sparkly--the occasional string part adds a classy shine to the familiar Marshall-stack power punch of McCaughan's guitar, and even the quiet tunes are big and open instead of bedroomy.
ref: 2005 September 9, Jessica Hopper, “Portastatic, Tenement Halls”, in Chicago Reader:
synonyms: word: drowsy
word: somnolent
word: adrowse
word: bedroomy
word: dozy
word: dopey
word: dragging one's tail
word: drowsy
word: eyelids at half-mast
word: nodding off
word: oscitant
word: out of steam
word: sleepbound
word: sleepish
word: sleepy
word: slombry
word: snoozy
word: slumberful
word: slumberous
word: slumbersome
word: slumbery
word: somniculous
word: somnolent
word: somnolescent
word: tired
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a bedroom; thus, intimate or sleepy.
crustation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kɹʌsˈteɪʃən/
homophone: crustacean
Forms: form: crustations
Etymology: From crust + -ation.
Senses: glosses: An adherent crust; an incrustation
bus.
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɪz/
rhymes: -ɪz
homophone: biz
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of business.
glosses: Abbreviation of bushel
beachgoing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From beach + going.
Senses: examples: text: Even in the posthippie era, no Chicago territory could be claimed for bare-ass beachgoing.
ref: 1990 September 7, Ron Dorfman, “Heliotherapy”, in Chicago Reader:
text: […] he and Frances Sternhagen played a long-married couple whose beachgoing idyll is interrupted by the arrival of two inquisitive amphibians.
ref: 2007 October 3, Robert Berkvist, “George Grizzard, Actor Noted for Albee Roles, Dies at 79”, in New York Times:
glosses: The activity of going to the beach for recreation.
beachgoing
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From beach + going.
Senses: glosses: Visiting a beach recreationally.
beeg
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -iːɡ
Forms: form: beeger
form: beegest
Senses: examples: text: He is beeg like his beeg country.
ref: 1907, Booth Tarkington, His Own People:
text: "Because," said Gideon, smiling down at her, "I ain' got no beeg club like she has."
ref: 1914, Wells Hastings, The Best American Humorous Short Stories:
text: More recently, former MTV VJ Simon Rex was discovered to have made a handful of pornos prior to becoming a beeg music television star.
ref: 1998 August 28, Dan Savage, “Savage Love”, in Chicago Reader:
glosses: Pronunciation spelling of big, imitating certain foreign accents.
beeing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: I know it took not beeing at thy birth: thou hast been merrie, thou hast sounded hoopes, swallowed whiffes, walkt late, worn favours, seene whoresons; thou canst feele and understand, come thou hast bene a sinner, unloade, discharge, untune, confesse, is Venus dominatrix? art not in love?
ref: 1609, “Everie Woman in Her Humor”, in A Collection Of Old English Plays, Vol. IV.:
glosses: present participle and gerund of bee
beerhead
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: beerheads
Etymology: From beer + -head.
Senses: examples: text: I can lick a whole regiment of them beerheads with one hand tied behind me an' my feet in a sack.
ref: 1918, Edna Ferber, Cheerful--By Request:
text: You know, fools and beerheads.
ref: 1995 February 10, anonymous author, “Me And My Monkey”, in Chicago Reader:
glosses: A drunk.
beerheads
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of beerhead
bayadere
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˌbaɪ.əˈdɛə(ɹ)/
Forms: form: bayaderes
Etymology: From French bayadère.
Senses: examples: text: Her performance being finished, the bayadere was succeeded by others, each of whom appeared to have her specialty--one imitating by her postures a serpent-charmer; another quite unequivocally representing a man-charmer; another rapidly executing what seemed an interminable pirouette.
ref: 1876, Various, Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. XVII, No. 99, March, 1876:
text: For the time, at any rate, the neat dexterity of counting and numbering machines, building machines, spinning engines, patent doorways, explosive motors, grain and water elevators, slaughter-house machines and harvesting appliances, was more fascinating to Graham than any bayadere.
ref: 1899, H.G. Wells, The Sleeper Awakes:
text: The reflection of a greater thing claimed her and taught her, held her like a bayadere in a temple court.
ref: 1918, Mary Johnston, Foes:
synonyms: balladine
glosses: A female dancer.
examples: text: Bertha had chosen a blue and white silk of a bayadere stripe, with lace ruffles at the neck and wrists and a skirt of voluminous fulness.
ref: 1906, Carolyn Wells, Patty's Summer Days:
glosses: A type of fabric having strongly contrasting stripes.
bayaderes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bayadere
bassless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From bass + -less.
Senses: examples: text: (The band is bassless, consisting of guitarist Brace Paine, drummer Hannah Blilie, and Ditto.)
ref: 2006 March 3, Jessica Hopper, “Is This It?”, in Chicago Reader:
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: Lacking a bass
Derived terms: basslessness
basslike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more basslike
form: most basslike
Etymology: From bass + -like.
Senses: examples: text: On tracks like "Mama's Gonna Make Us a Cake" one guitarist plays basslike parts while the other goes nuts in a scrappy way; for "Evil Operations Classified" Billotte and Wilcox drop into lockstep to exhilarating effect.
ref: 2004 April 16, Peter Margasak, “Causal Dots”, in Chicago Reader:
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: Resembling a bass.
examples: text: Royal dorado was the only disappointment — intensely basslike in flavor, but dry.
ref: 2009 June 28, David Corcoran, “A Greek Menu Peppered With Imagination”, in New York Times:
glosses: Resembling a bass (the fish).