cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
microlepidopterans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of microlepidopteran
mirtazapines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Because of the similar pharmacokinetic profiles, we presume that the effects of generic mirtazapines are similar to those of branded mirtazapine.
ref: 2015 August 31, Hoo Rim Song et al., “Efficacy and Tolerability of Generic Mirtazapine (Mirtax) for Major Depressive Disorder: Multicenter, Open-label, Uncontrolled, Prospective Study”, in Clinical Psychopharmacology and Neuroscience, volume 13, →DOI:
glosses: plural of mirtazapine
monooleoglycerol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Further, for three metabolites changes occurred in the opposite direction between the two studies (oleic acid, linoleic acid and monooleoglycerol).
ref: 2015 August 18, Anna C. Pfalzer et al., “Diet- and Genetically-Induced Obesity Differentially Affect the Fecal Microbiome and Metabolome in Apc1638N Mice”, in PLoS ONE, volume 10, →DOI:
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The monoglyceride of oleic acid
multidaily
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From multi- + daily.
Senses: examples: text: One hundred and thirty-four patients (34.5 %) had sporadic seizures (few episodes per year), 132 (34.0 %) had been seizure-free for at least two years at the interview while 119 (30.7 %) had monthly/daily or multidaily seizures (in three cases frequency could not be assessed).
ref: 2015 August 6, G Mainieri et al., “Headache in epilepsy: prevalence and clinical features”, in The Journal of Headache and Pain, volume 16, →DOI:
glosses: That happens multiple times each day
nonserologic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + serologic.
Senses: examples: text: Diagnosis can be considered if there is a temporal relationship between symptoms and anti-tumor necrosis factor-α (TNF- α) therapy and at least one serologic and one non-serologic American College of Rheumatology criteria.
ref: 2012, Almoallim H, Al-Ghamdi Y, Almaghrabi H, Alyasi O., “Anti-Tumor Necrosis Factor-α Induced Systemic Lupus Erythematosus.”, in The Open Rheumatology Journal, volume 6, →DOI, pages 315–19:
glosses: Not serologic
pentapeptidase
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pentapeptidases
Etymology: From pentapeptide + -ase.
Senses: examples: text: VanY, a d -Ala- d -Ala-specific pentapeptidase, evolved into VanXY through acquisition of the “bisubstrate loop,” which added hydrolysis of d -Ala- d -Ala to that of a d -Ala- d -Ala-containing pentapeptide.
ref: 2015 August 11, Djalal Meziane-Cherif et al., “Structural and Functional Adaptation of Vancomycin Resistance VanT Serine Racemases”, in mBio, volume 6, →DOI:
topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any enzyme that catalyses the hydrolysis of a pentapeptide
pentapeptidases
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pentapeptidase
postbreeding
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From post- + breeding.
Senses: examples: text: (Note that not all females bred, so this also affects the size differences between treatment groups for postbreeding females).
ref: 2015 July 3, Rose E O’Dea et al., “Maternal effects on offspring size and number in mosquitofish, Gambusia holbrooki”, in Ecology and Evolution, volume 5, →DOI:
glosses: After (finishing) breeding
quasilikelihood
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From quasi- + likelihood.
Senses: examples: text: Ninety-five percent confidence set of the candidate models of factors influencing probability of space use by black-footed ferrets relative to space use by badgers on colonies of black-tailed prairie dogs within the Lower Brule Indian Reservation and Buffalo Gap National Grasslands, South Dakota, during 2008–2010 QIC is the quasilikelihood under the independence model criterion. ΔQIC is the difference from the model with the lowest QIC value.
ref: 2015 June 19, Shaun M Grassel, Janet L Rachlow, Christopher J Williams, “Spatial interactions between sympatric carnivores: asymmetric avoidance of an intraguild predator”, in Ecology and Evolution, volume 5, →DOI:
glosses: An apparent likelihood
rastered
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: Briefly, the laser beam was rastered along the sample surface in a straight line.
ref: 2015 August 18, Somin Lee et al., “High Inorganic Phosphate Intake Promotes Tumorigenesis at Early Stages in a Mouse Model of Lung Cancer”, in PLoS ONE, volume 10, →DOI:
glosses: simple past and past participle of raster
Ladoga ringed seal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Ladoga ringed seals
Senses: glosses: A freshwater subspecies of the ringed seal, which are found entirely in Lake Ladoga in northwestern Russia, Pusa hispida ladogensis.
retester
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: retesters
Etymology: From re- + tester.
Senses: glosses: A repeat tester
retesters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: One in 3 retesters also had a peer tested.
ref: 2015 July 31, Nicole H. T. M. Dukers-Muijrers et al., “Acceptance of Home-Based Chlamydia Genital and Anorectal Testing Using Short Message Service (SMS) in Previously Tested Young People and Their Social and Sexual Networks”, in PLoS ONE, volume 10, →DOI:
glosses: plural of retester
Ladoga ringed seals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Ladoga ringed seal
retinex
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Blend of retina + cortex
Senses: examples: text: The multi-scale retinex method (Jobson et al. 1997) is also known as the first work or retinex theory-based contrast enhancement method.
ref: 2015 August 19, Seungwon Lee, Nahyun Kim, Joonki Paik, “Adaptively partitioned block-based contrast enhancement and its application to low light-level video surveillance”, in SpringerPlus, volume 4, →DOI:
glosses: The retina and the cortex.
Derived terms: retinex theory
retroauricular
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɪkjʊlə(ɹ)
Etymology: From retro- + auricular.
Senses: examples: text: For measurements of antigen-specific cytokine production in the mouse, the retroauricular lymph node was removed, mechanically dissociated, and single cell suspensions were prepared.
ref: 2015 August 18, Ciara Gimblet et al., “IL-22 Protects against Tissue Damage during Cutaneous Leishmaniasis”, in PLoS ONE, volume 10, →DOI:
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Behind the auricle (of the ear)
schistosomasis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Our report is the first characterization of peripheral memory Tfh cells in schistosomasis patients, which not only provides potential targets to improve immune response to vaccination, but also is important for the development of vaccination strategies to control schistosomiasis.
ref: 2015 August 18, Xiaojun Chen et al., “Distribution of Peripheral Memory T Follicular Helper Cells in Patients with Schistosomiasis Japonica”, in PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, volume 9, →DOI:
glosses: Misspelling of schistosomiasis.
immune evasions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of immune evasion
immunevasions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of immunevasion
glycerophosphodiesterases
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of glycerophosphodiesterase
sequaelae
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Accordingly, this study and the diagnostic tool under investigation might fill a gap, because many studies suggest that diagnostic support is needed for children with chronic cough or for patients with rare pulmonary diseases where diagnostic latency may result in undesired long-term sequaelae [ 9, 10, 25 ].
ref: 2015 August 12, Ann-Katrin Rother et al., “Diagnostic Support for Selected Paediatric Pulmonary Diseases Using Answer-Pattern Recognition in Questionnaires Based on Combined Data Mining Applications—A Monocentric Observational Pilot Study”, in PLoS ONE, volume 10, →DOI:
glosses: Misspelling of sequelae.
sumorylation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: These nsSNPs can directly or indirectly affect the corresponding protein functions and interactions due to protein misfolding, improper protein modification, such as phosphorylation and sumorylation, and other functional consequences of protein modifications [ 18 ].
ref: 2015 August 10, Hyun-Seok Jin et al., “Association of the I264T Variant in the Sulfide Quinone Reductase-Like (SQRDL) Gene with Osteoporosis in Korean Postmenopausal Women”, in PLoS ONE, volume 10, →DOI:
glosses: Misspelling of sumoylation.
taeniosis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: [ 16 ] reported a high taeniosis prevalence of 11.9% in an area in Katete district, indicating a substantial number of adult tapeworm carriers with the potential to result in marked environmental contamination with the taeniid eggs.
ref: 2015 August 18, Kabemba E. Mwape et al., “Prevalence of Neurocysticercosis in People with Epilepsy in the Eastern Province of Zambia”, in PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, volume 9, →DOI:
glosses: Misspelling of taeniasis.
Burrows-Wheeler transform
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Burrows-Wheeler transforms
Etymology: Invented by Michael Burrows and David Wheeler in 1994.
Senses: topics: computing
computing-theory
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: An algorithm used in data compression that rearranges a character string into runs of similar characters.
vertebraectomy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vertebraectomies
Senses: examples: text: Operative interventions were managed with subtotal vertebraectomy for direct decompression reduction, reconstruction of the anterior and middle columns with a titanium cage or autologous bone grafting, and internal fixation through the anterior or posterior approach.
ref: 2015 August 18, Jieliang Shen et al., “Risk Factors for the Failure of Spinal Burst Fractures Treated Conservatively According to the Thoracolumbar Injury Classification and Severity Score (TLICS): A Retrospective Cohort Trial”, in PLoS ONE, volume 10, →DOI:
glosses: Alternative form of vertebrectomy.
vertebraectomies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of vertebraectomy
Lyndon word
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Lyndon words
Etymology: Named after mathematician Roger Lyndon, who investigated them in 1954, calling them "standard lexicographic sequences".
Senses: glosses: A non-empty string that is strictly smaller in lexicographic order than all of its rotations.
Lyndon words
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Lyndon word
vortexor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vortexors
Senses: examples: text: On collection of the 4 th fraction, tissues were pulsed for 5s in a vortexor.
ref: 2015 August 18, Kirk S. B. Bergstrom et al., “Goblet Cell Derived RELM-β Recruits CD4+ T Cells during Infectious Colitis to Promote Protective Intestinal Epithelial Cell Proliferation”, in PLoS Pathogens, volume 11, →DOI:
glosses: Alternative form of vortexer.
vortexors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of vortexor
vasectomist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vasectomists
Senses: glosses: One who performs a vasectomy.
vasectomists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of vasectomist
conoscopy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: conoscopies
Etymology: From Ancient Greek κῶνος (konos) "cone, spinning top, pine cone" and σκοπέω (skopeo) "examine, inspect, look to or into, consider".
Senses: glosses: Optical technique to make observations of a transparent specimen in a cone of converging rays of light.
warehouse store
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: warehouse stores
Senses: glosses: A food and grocery retailer that sells goods piled on pallets or shelves, thus being able to offer deeper discounted prices than a traditional supermarket.
Synonyms: warehouse supermarket
Islamocommunism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Islamo- + communism.
Senses: glosses: An Islamic version of communism.
Islamocommunist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Islamocommunists
Etymology: From Islamo- + communist.
Senses: glosses: A supporter or adherent of Islamocommunism.
rain like cats and dogs
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: rains like cats and dogs
form: raining like cats and dogs
form: rained like cats and dogs
form: rained like cats and dogs
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of rain cats and dogs.
dial gauge
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dial gauges
Senses: glosses: Any device for comparing a physical property of two objects, or an object with a standard.
Synonyms: comparator
dial indicator
indicator
barghast
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: barghasts
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of barghest.
bargheist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bargheists
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of barghest.
barghasts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of barghast
bargheists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bargheist
dimber-damber
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dimber-dambers
Senses: examples: text: No, Jim, I only piked into Deuceaville with a dimber-damber, who couldn't pad the hoof for a single darkman's without his bloss to keep him from getting pogy.
ref: 1859, George Washington Matsell, “Scene in a London Flash-Panny”, in The Vocabulum: or Rogues Lexicon, New York: George W. Matsell & Co:
text: "He'll make hisself the dimber-damber in hell," declared another.
ref: 1947, Thomas Bertram Costain, For my great folly: and, The moneyman. Two famous novels by Thomas B. Costrain, page 240:
text: Renter lifted up a tin mug of lime juice and vinegar, and poured it over William's head, and shouted for all to hear: "I, dimber-damber and upright-man, with this gage of bowse, do Stall thee, Crank Cuffin, to the Rogue!..."
ref: 1996, Alan Garner, Strandloper, page 84:
text: Not me, Jerry — there 's one a-coming as will tip you the lay — an old pal, Jerry, a flaming buck o' the high pad, a reg'lar dimber-damber, a — hist ! 'T is him at last, I think, but ha' your popps ready in case, Jerry.
ref: 2010, Jeffery Farnol, F. Vaux Wilson, Our Admirable Betty, →ISBN, page 274:
glosses: Alternative form of dimber damber.
dimber-dambers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dimber-damber
Dimber Damber
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Dimber Dambers
Senses: examples: text: "No, no refusal," exclaimed a chorus of voices. "Dick Turpin must be one of us. He shall be our Dimber Damber."
ref: 1834, William Harrison Ainsworth, Rookwood, volume 2, page 333:
text: By the Rom-pad maundred none In quarrons both for stamp and bone, Like my Clapperdogeon! Dimber Damber fare thee well, Pallyards all thou didst excel;
ref: 1849, The New Monthly Magazine - Volume 85, page 414:
text: Sung on the electing of a new Dimber Damber, or King of the Gypsies,
ref: 1914, Gypsy Lore Society, Monographs - Volume 1, page 111:
text: Everything that passed through the Bear and Dog, the Dimber Damber took a tax from– from jewel theft, from the income of the whores of the so-called pushing academies, from the haul of pickpockets and tricksters.
ref: 2013, Thomas Keneally, The Playmaker, →ISBN:
glosses: Alternative form of dimber damber.
Dimber-Damber
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Dimber-Dambers
Senses: examples: text: Then standing up in the middle of the fraternity, and directing his face to the Dimber-Damber, or prince of the gang, he swears, in this manner, as is dictated to him by one of the most experienced:
ref: 1860, John Fellows, The mysteries of freemasonry, page 224:
text: When each gipsy Dimber-Damber Wraps him in a sheet of amber, When the smiling glow-worm skims O'er the ice-berg, singing hymns, When electric organs roar Round sad Staffa's dismal door, and the mermaid seeks her den, Eating oysters — watch me then.
ref: 1868, Mark Lemon, Henry Mayhew, Tom Taylor, Punch - Volumes 54-55, page 61:
text: The Upright Man who performed the ceremony was the elected King of the Beggars, the Rector Chory or Dimber-Damber.
ref: 1936, Ronald Fuller, The Beggars' Brotherhood, page 92:
glosses: Alternative form of dimber damber.
Upright Man
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Upright Men
Senses: examples: text: The Upright Man, the chief of the crew, arose from his chair, donned his gown of state, a very ancient brocade dressing gown, filched, most probably, from the wardrobe of some strolling player, grasped his baton of office, a stout oaken truncheon, and sallied forth.
ref: 1834, William Harrison Ainsworth, Rookwood, volume 2, page 303:
text: The Upright Man who performed the ceremony was the elected King of the Beggars, the Rector Chory or Dimber-Damber.
ref: 1936, Ronald Fuller, The Beggars' Brotherhood, page 92:
glosses: Alternative form of upright man.
Ticats
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Ti-Cats
Senses: glosses: The Hamilton Tiger-Cats, a team in the Canadian Football League.
dial gauges
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dial gauge
black scabbardfishes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of black scabbardfish
birdmom
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: birdmoms
Etymology: From bird + mom.
Senses: glosses: The female owner of a pet bird.
Dimber-Dambers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Dimber-Damber
aquafact
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: aquafacts
Senses: examples: text: […] its bisector is similar in orientation to the ridge of the seaward-dipping aquafact.
ref: 2003, Andreas Aigner, Annals of geomorphology, page 445:
topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: A boulder worn by running water that is too large to be rolled as a pebble, worn smooth on the upstream or seaward side and exposed top and with a sharp ridge on the downstream or landward side.
topsyturvydom
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: topsyturvydoms
form: topsy-turvydom
Etymology: From topsyturvy + -dom.
Senses: examples: text: But the young wife has not altogether an enviable position, for by one of those queer topsyturvydoms which occur in Japan, the mother-in-law—who, in the West, is so often the object of cheap satire—is a veritable terror in the Far East to the wife.
ref: 1899, Literary News, volumes 20-21:
text: At last she saw a big river, and the man who had tried to keep her from being carried off was drifting down it — such are the topsyturvydoms of faery glamour — in a cockleshell.
ref: 1902, William Butler Yeats, The Celtic Twilight:
text: In traditions of both East and West, however, wanderlust for topsyturvydom seems to represent an alternative view of the nature of things, and it seems to embody a liberating escape from the status quo.
ref: 1995, The Force of Vision: Dramas of desire; Visions of beauty
text: [...] that it would make an oblique reference to the topsyturvydom of his own life as a child in exile in Cologne, and to the appalling topsyturvydom especially of his father's life, that of the former Alderman of Antwerp, who had died there as an exile.
ref: 2002, Paul Oppenheimer, Rubens: A Portrait:
text: There was a topsy-turvydom of values, of trends and ideas—a continually changing stream which Dostoevsky began to explore, not only in its temporary aspects,but also sub specie aeternitatis.
ref: 2014, Janko Lavrin, Tolstoy: An Approach bound with Dostoevsky: A Study:
text: That has to be the best review George ever had. Not all critics grasped the nature of this new opera genre, somewhere between burlesque and satire, with a 'topsy-turvydom' so prominent in Gilbert's view of the world.
ref: 2015, Stephen Wade, A Victorian Somebody: The Life of George Grossmith:
glosses: A state of affairs, or a region in which everything is topsyturvy.
topsyturvydoms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of topsyturvydom
topsy-turvydom
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: topsy-turvydoms
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of topsyturvydom.
magnetarium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌmæɡ.nəˈtɛəɹi.əm/
ipa: /ˌmæɡ.nəˈtɛɹi.əm/
rhymes: -ɛəɹiəm
Forms: form: magnetariums
Etymology: From magnet + -arium.
Senses: glosses: An instrument for illustrating the magnetism of the earth.
magnetariums
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of magnetarium
marketting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: markettings
Senses: examples: text: This Alured began his Reign, Anno 871. and after him succeeded Edward, surnamed the Elder, in the year 900. who in a league between himself and Guthrun King of the Danes in England, did publickly on both sides prohibit, as well all markettings on the Sunday, as other kind of work whatsoever on the other Holy days.
ref: 1681, Peter Heylyn, The Historical and Miscellaneous Tracts of Peter Heylyn, page 475:
text: Let them not talk lightly or pleasantly, nor fall into Discourses of News, or Markettings, or of other Worldly Business.
ref: 1702, John Kettlewell, Death made me comfortable, page 65:
text: ... and further told this respondent, that all his said children did combine together and counsel his maid servant to cheat him the deceased in her markettings, and that his said children had made away some of his bookes and would have sold the rest of his bookes to the dunghill women; ...
ref: 1826, H. J. Todd, Some Account of the Life and Writings of John Milton, page 285:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of marketing.
marketting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of marketing.
begining
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of beginning.
begining
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of beginning.
Raeder's syndrome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Named after Johan Georg Raeder (1889–1959), Norwegian ophthalmologist.
Senses: examples: text: Raeder's syndrome occurs overwhelmingly in men, usually in those in their forties.
ref: 1997, Neuro-ophthalmology: Clinical Signs and Symptoms, →ISBN, page 76:
text: Benign Raeder's syndrome is probably a manifestation of carotid artery disease.
ref: 2005, Roger A. Barker, The A-Z of Neurological Practice: A Guide to Clinical Neurology, →ISBN:
text: Recognition that periarterial inflammation can cause Raeder's syndrome should alert the clinician to the need for relevant imaging studies.
ref: 2013, Don Gilden, Neuroinfections, →ISBN, page 115:
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A syndrome of headaches, characterized by one to three short daily attacks of pain around the eyes, occurring for a month or two, followed by a pain-free period of about a year before resuming; cluster headache.
surface etymology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: surface etymologies
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: The apparent etymology of a term based on its components occurring in the modern form of the language.
Synonyms: surface analysis
Related terms: folk etymology
reanalysis
rebracketing
surface etymologies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of surface etymology
risk-off
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: risk off
Senses: examples: text: In a risk-on environment, they then sell those currencies and use the proceeds to buy risk assets with greater price appreciation potential. In a risk-off environment, they're compelled to sell their risk assets and buy back those funding currencies that they previously sold.
ref: 2011, Brian Dolan, Currency Trading For Dummies, →ISBN, page 98:
text: The yen tends to appreciate in the aftermath – first two quarters – of risk-off episodes, whether the appreciation is measured as nominal, real effective, or bilateral against the U.S. dollar (Figure 6).
ref: 2013, Dennis P. J. Botman, Irineu E. Carvalho Filho, Mr. Raphael W. Lam, The Curious Case of the Yen as a Safe Haven Currency, →ISBN:
text: It is also noteworthy that risk-off events have happened more often since 2007.
ref: 2013, Reinout De Bock, Irineu E. Carvalho Filho, The Behavior of Currencies during Risk-off Episodes, →ISBN, page ii:
text: My answer is a straightforward no, but that the recent episode of global financial market turmoil is likely to be more serious than any period of volatility and risk-off behaviour since 2009.
ref: 2016 March 2, Nouriel Roubini, “Is the world economy having a 2008 moment?”, in The Guardian:
topics: business
finance
glosses: A mode of investment behavior in which investors shift high-risk investments to low-risk investments.
risk off
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: In bearish markets the best investment idea is to invest all your cash into what are regarded as safe harbour assets or risk off assets by which we mean short duration US government bonds, cash or gold.
ref: 2012, David Stevenson, FT Guide to Exchange Traded Funds and Index Funds, →ISBN:
text: If any vol strategy is risk off, meaning the rules tell you not to invest, you underinvest; that is, you do not reallocate the risk to the remaining strategies.
ref: 2013, Chiente Hsu, Rule Based Investing, →ISBN:
text: For example, the markets transitioned from a risk on period during the equity rally of the late 1990s to a risk off regime when the tech bubble burst and a mild recession occurred from 2000 to 2002.
ref: 2016, Edward E. Qian, Risk Parity Fundamentals, →ISBN, page 80:
glosses: Alternative form of risk-off.
risk-on
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: risk on
Senses: examples: text: In a risk-on environment, they then sell those currencies and use the proceeds to buy risk assets with greater price appreciation potential. In a risk-off environment, they're compelled to sell their risk assets and buy back those funding currencies that they previously sold.
ref: 2011, Brian Dolan, Currency Trading For Dummies, →ISBN, page 98:
text: The higher the value of c1 (i.e., the higher the value of α), the faster the transition from a risk-off to a risk-on mode.
ref: 2014, Eric Barthalon, Uncertainty, Expectations, and Financial Instability, →ISBN, page 195:
text: Capital flows have, however, continued to exhibit their well-known volatility, given the risk-on and risk-off scenario driven by investors' perception of the macroeconomic and financial developments in the source countries rather than the recipient countries.
ref: 2014, Rakesh Mohan, Muneesh Kapur, Monetary Policy Coordination and the Role of Central Banks, →ISBN:
topics: business
finance
glosses: A mode of investment behavior in which investors shift low-risk investments to more profitable high-risk investments.
risk on
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: To the extent that Chinese growth remains strong with firm demand for resources from such economies as Australia (and the CARBS nations generally) [2] then this will translate into more risk on behavior where it has been shown that AUD/JPY is the best proxy for risk on in the realm of foreign exchange.
ref: 2012, Clive M. Corcoran, Systemic Liquidity Risk and Bipolar Markets, →ISBN:
text: For example, the markets transitioned from a risk on period during the equity rally of the late 1990s to a risk off regime when the tech bubble burst and a mild recession occurred from 2000 to 2002.
ref: 2016, Edward E. Qian, Risk Parity Fundamentals, →ISBN, page 80:
glosses: Alternative form of risk-on.
masterbation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of masturbation.
protron
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of proton.
square grouper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: square groupers
Etymology: From a reference to the grouper fish.
Senses: topics: law-enforcement
police
glosses: A set of bales of marijuana or blocks of cocaine, packed in plastic, and sometimes thrown overboard a boat.
cartell
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cartells
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of cartel.
draggletailed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more draggletailed
form: most draggletailed
Senses: examples: text: Never lose a chance: it doesnt come everyday. I shall make a duchess of this draggletailed guttersnipe.
ref: 1912 (date written), [George] Bernard Shaw, “Pygmalion”, in Androcles and the Lion, Overruled, Pygmalion, London: Constable and Company, published 1916, →OCLC, Act II, page 123:
glosses: Alternative spelling of draggle-tailed.
dynamicks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dynamick
overcomplicatedly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more overcomplicatedly
form: most overcomplicatedly
Etymology: From overcomplicated + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an overcomplicated way.
analytic philosophers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of analytic philosopher
dark fiber
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of dark fibre.
lymphadenomegalies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lymphadenomegaly
dark fibre
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dark fiber
Senses: glosses: Unused optical fibre that is available for use
Bodø
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: See Norwegian Bokmål.
Senses: glosses: A town and port, the administrative centre of Bodø Municipality, Nordland County in the Northern Norway region, Norway.
glosses: A municipality of Nordland County in the Northern Norway region, Norway.
whereever
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: examples: text: Lieut. Col. [Charles] Bœrstler, exerting a Stentorian voice, roared in various directions as though he commanded thousands, and created such a panic in the enemy, that they fled before him whereever he moved.
ref: 1817, S[amuel] S[tanhope] Smith, et al., “Battle of Queenstown; Cannonading from Erie to Ontario; […]”, in David Ramsay, S. S. Smith, et al., History of the United States, from Their First Settlement as English Colonies, in 1607, to the Year 1808, […] Continued to the Treaty of Ghent, […], volume III, Philadelphia, Pa.: […] M[athew] Carey, […], →OCLC, page 204:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of wherever.
markettings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of marketting
disruptive selection
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɛkʃən
Senses: glosses: A form of natural selection in which extreme values for a trait are favored over intermediate values, causing subpopulations of a single species within the same habitat to develop different adaptations.
ur-continent
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ur-continents
form: Ur continent
Etymology: Borrowed from German Urkontinent, coined by Alfred Wegener, equivalent to ur- + continent.
Senses: examples: text: The second group of convection currents operated in the upper half of the mantle only, split the ur-continent and carried North and South America away from Eurasia, explaining the similarity in the two coastlines—[…]
ref: 2012, M. Sears, D. Merriman, Oceanography: The Past:
synonyms: paleocontinent
coordinate_terms: ur-ocean
glosses: An original or primordial continent or landmass.
glosses: Pangaea
ur-ocean
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ur-oceans
Etymology: Borrowed from German Urozean, equivalent to ur- + ocean.
Senses: examples: text: This ur-ocean, however, to him is not one more god among others, as is Hesiod's and Homer's “deeply vortexed Okeanos”; for Thales this ocean is the one and only source from which the world springs, by condensation and evaporation.
ref: 2009, Henning Genz, Nothingness: The Science Of Empty Space:
glosses: A primordial ocean.
glosses: Panthalassa.
Related terms: ur-continent
ancymidol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Wild-type plants treated with ancymidol, an inhibitor of GA biosynthesis, will tuberize in LD, which is very similar to the formation of tubers on the antisense PHYB plants.
ref: 2015 August 17, Mei Yang et al., “Transcriptomic Analysis of the Regulation of Rhizome Formation in Temperate and Tropical Lotus (Nelumbo nucifera)”, in Scientific Reports, volume 5, →DOI:
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The plant growth regulator α-cyclopropyl-α-(4-methoxyphenyl)-5-pyrimidinemethanol
extravertebral
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɜː(ɹ)tɪbɹəl
-iːbɹəl
Etymology: From extra- + vertebral.
Senses: examples: text: The extravertebral root avulsion was carried out by pulling out both dorsal and ventral roots of each spinal nerve with microhemostatic forceps.
ref: 2015 May 30, Min Tan et al., “Identification of the Avulsion-Injured Spinal Motoneurons”, in Journal of Molecular Neuroscience, volume 57, →DOI:
glosses: Outside of a vertebra
homeoloci
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: In rye, homeoloci of TaBx1 and TaBx2 were identified on chromosome 7R ( ScBx1 and ScBx2 ), and those of TaBx3 ÷ TaBx5 on chromosome 5R ( ScBx3 ÷ ScBx5 ), (Nomura et al. 2003, 2008 ; Frey et al. 2009 ; Niemeyer 2009 ).
ref: 2015 February 10, Beata Bakera et al., “Structural characteristics of ScBx genes controlling the biosynthesis of hydroxamic acids in rye (Secale cereale L.)”, in Journal of Applied Genetics, volume 56, →DOI:
glosses: plural of homeolocus
macropathology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: macropathologies
Etymology: From macro- + pathology.
Senses: examples: text: There were no associativity (P>0.05) between the K-ras genetic mutation and sex, age, smoking history, drinking history, tumor location, macropathology type, differentiation level, staging, invasive depth, lymph nodes transferring and metastasis in colorectal cancer patients (P>0.05).
ref: 2015 June 15, Mayinur Eli et al., “K-ras genetic mutation and influencing factor analysis for Han and Uygur nationality colorectal cancer patients”, in International Journal of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, volume 8:
topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: The gross anatomical changes caused by a disease
microhemostatic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From micro- + hemostatic.
Senses: examples: text: The extravertebral root avulsion was carried out by pulling out both dorsal and ventral roots of each spinal nerve with microhemostatic forceps.
ref: 2015 May 30, Min Tan et al., “Identification of the Avulsion-Injured Spinal Motoneurons”, in Journal of Molecular Neuroscience, volume 57, →DOI:
topics: medicine
sciences
surgery
glosses: Relating to microhemostats
phrophosphorylase
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: The committed enzymes, sucrose synthase (SUS), DUP-glucose phrophosphorylase (UGPase), AGPase, GBSS, soluble starch synthase (SSS), starch branching enzyme (SBE), and starch debranching enzyme (SDBE), involved in starch biosynthesis were found in all six libraries ( Fig.
ref: 2015 August 17, Mei Yang et al., “Transcriptomic Analysis of the Regulation of Rhizome Formation in Temperate and Tropical Lotus (Nelumbo nucifera)”, in Scientific Reports, volume 5, →DOI:
glosses: Misspelling of pyrophosphorylase.
Seine-Maritime
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A department of Normandy, France. Capital: Rouen.
predentin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From pre- + dentin.
Senses: examples: text: At the growing end next to the apex of human developing teeth where dentinogenesis is most active, predentin exhibits its greatest thickness, whereas at the coronal region where primary dentin has been completely formed, predentin width is dramatically reduced to a mean value of 14.8 micron (Couve 1987 ).
ref: 2013 August 22, Tao Xu et al., “Estrogen deficiency reduces the dentinogenic capacity of rat lower incisors”, in Journal of Molecular Histology, volume 45, →DOI:
glosses: The matrix of organic fibres that calcifies to form dentin
propionylpromasine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Before any surgical procedure were performed, all the pigs were pretreated with atropine (Polfa, Poland, 0.04 mg/kg b.w., s.c.) and propionylpromasine (Stresnil, Janssen Pharmaceutica, Belgium, 0.5 mg/kg b.w., i.m.), and after 30 min, the main anaesthetic drug, sodium pentobarbital (Tiopental, 0.5 g per animal), was given intravenously in a slow fractionated infusion.
ref: 2015 January 27, E. Lepiarczyk, A. Bossowska, M. Majewski, “Changes in chemical coding of sympathetic chain ganglia (SChG) neurons supplying porcine urinary bladder after botulinum toxin (BTX) treatment”, in Cell and Tissue Research, volume 360, →DOI:
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The propionyl derivative of promasine that is a dopamine receptor antagonist
promasine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of promazine.
pyruvinium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: The compound with the highest DEI was pyruvinium pamoate (PP), an FDA-approved classical anthelminthic 14 ( Fig.
ref: 2015 August 17, Keiki Sugimoto et al., “Discovery of a drug targeting microenvironmental support for lymphoma cells by screening using patient-derived xenograft cells”, in Scientific Reports, volume 5, →DOI:
glosses: Misspelling of pyrvinium.
relaxatory
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more relaxatory
form: most relaxatory
Senses: examples: text: NO, a substance well recognized as also exerting smooth muscle relaxation in urogenital organs (Persson et al. 1993 ; Burnett 1995 ) can be assumed to potentiate the relaxatory effect of NA on the detrusor muscle mediated via β adrenergic receptors.
ref: 2015 January 27, E. Lepiarczyk, A. Bossowska, M. Majewski, “Changes in chemical coding of sympathetic chain ganglia (SChG) neurons supplying porcine urinary bladder after botulinum toxin (BTX) treatment”, in Cell and Tissue Research, volume 360, →DOI:
glosses: That induces relaxation
tachypace
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: tachypaces
form: tachypacing
form: tachypaced
form: tachypaced
Etymology: From tachy- + pace.
Senses: glosses: To induce tachypacing
tachypaced
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: The sham operation group had a pacemaker implanted, with no pacing; the HF group was tachypaced at 50 times/min for 37 d to establish the (chronic or congestive) HF model; Vagal stimulation group were implanted with a pacemaker at 250 times/min rapid pacing for 30 d, then the right vagus nerve was stimulated for 7 d (frequency: 20 Hz).
ref: 2015 June 15, Juan Sun et al., “Unilateral vagus nerve stimulation improves ventricular autonomic nerve distribution and functional imbalance in a canine heart failure model”, in International Journal of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, volume 8:
glosses: simple past and past participle of tachypace
transsynaptically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From transsynaptic + -ally.
Senses: examples: text: Recently, activating transcriptional factor (ATF-3) was considered as the specific regenerative marker of the affected motoneurons since it was found to be persistent in affected and regenerating lumbar motoneurons in axonal injury (Linda et al. 2011 ), and most importantly, ATF-3 was not induced transsynaptically in spinal dorsal horn neurons (Tsujino et al. 2000 ).
ref: 2015 May 30, Min Tan et al., “Identification of the Avulsion-Injured Spinal Motoneurons”, in Journal of Molecular Neuroscience, volume 57, →DOI:
glosses: Across a synapse
vytorin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Several recent publications have raised concerns for AKI in high potency station, particularly if there is a predisposition. 94 This coincides with the SHARP study that highlighted the safety and efficacy of simvastatin plus ezetimibe in ESRD. 67 Exploring a wider role for vytorin is a consideration to reduce high-dose statins in selected cases.
ref: 2015 August 5, P Iyngkaran, M Thomas, “Bedside–to-Bench Translational Research for Chronic Heart Failure: Creating an Agenda for Clients Who Do Not Meet Trial Enrollment Criteria”, in Clinical Medicine Insights. Cardiology, volume 9, →DOI:
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A mixture of ezetimibe and simvastatin used to reduce blood cholesterol
doris
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: It is a doris, or sea-slug, and is about of the consistence of one of those slugs so destructive to our garden flowers, but is so much more beautiful than that creature, that, were he able to understand us, we should ask pardon for the comparison.
ref: 1858, The Leisure Hour: An Illustrated Magazine for Home Reading, page 536:
glosses: A sea slug.
Derived terms: salt-and-pepper doris
xuixo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈʃu.ʃoʊ/
Forms: form: xuixos
form: xuxo
Etymology: Borrowed from Catalan xuixo.
Senses: glosses: A viennoiserie pastry filled with crema catalana, from Girona in Catalonia, Spain.
bug-word
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bug-words
Etymology: Attested since the 1560s.
Senses: glosses: A term intended to irritate or vex somebody.
Related terms: snarl word
purr word
xuxo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: xuxos
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of xuixo.
yurla
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: yurlas
Senses: glosses: A Tibetan pastry, consisting of butter added to wheat flour and cooked into a paste
odorates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of odorate
CHAP
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Initialism of Challenge-Handshake Authentication Protocol.
codevelopment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: codevelopments
Etymology: From co- + development.
Senses: glosses: Development done jointly by more than one party.
Related terms: codevelopmental
codevelopments
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of codevelopment
perilless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From peril + -less.
Senses: glosses: Free from peril.
unperformably
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From unperformable + -ly.
Senses: glosses: Such that it cannot be performed.
robopocalypse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: robopocalypses
Etymology: From robo- + -pocalypse.
Senses: examples: text: It's not about that, Dante. It's about surviving. Pre-emptive measures to make sure we don't even get close to a robopocalypse.
ref: 2014, Anissa Belkadi, Miniature Mausoleums, page 279:
topics: engineering
literature
media
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
publishing
science-fiction
technology
glosses: An apocalypse (ending of the world) caused chiefly by robots.
Related terms: technological singularity
Pascal case
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: PascalCase
Etymology: Referring to the Pascal programming language.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
glosses: Synonym of upper camel case.
synonyms: word: upper camel case
wikipedia: Pascal_(programming_language)
Pasadenans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Pasadenan
gyabrag
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: In Tibetan cuisine, a pancake made with barley flour, yak butter, dry cheese curds and sugar.
zhoixo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: In Tibetan cuisine, wild ginseng cooked and mixed with yogurt
gyaho
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: In Tibetan cuisine, a chafing dish in the Han Chinese style: a hot pot of vermicelli, kombu, mushrooms, meatballs, bamboo sprouts and salt.
bandstructures
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bandstructure
rainshades
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rainshade
bakeouts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bakeout
sockdolagizing
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of sockdologizing.
vacationgoers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of vacationgoer
octogon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: octogons
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of octagon.
Related terms: octogonal
octogons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of octogon
consciencism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From conscience + -ism.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Nkrumaism.
synonyms: word: Nkrumaism
Nkrumaist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Nkrumaists
Etymology: From Nkruma + -ist.
Senses: glosses: A proponent of Nkrumaism.
Nkrumaists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Nkrumaist
consciencist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: consciencists
Etymology: From conscience + -ist.
Senses: glosses: A proponent of consciencism.
consciencists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of consciencist
Nkrumaism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Nkruma + -ism.
Senses: glosses: A Pan-African socialist political ideology based on the thinking and writing of Kwame Nkrumah, former president of Ghana.
Synonyms: consciencism
Related terms: Nkrumaist
Pan-African
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: pan-African
Etymology: From pan- + African.
Senses: examples: text: The young men studying at your uncle’s mission used to speak French to each other both in delight and in order to show off their erudition, before the government declared that such erudition, and the Pan-African interaction it engendered, was unnecessary for natives and banished the language from their classrooms.
ref: 2018, Tsitsi Dangarembga, This Mournable Body, Faber & Faber (2020), page 284:
glosses: Of or relating to Pan-Africanism.
Pan-African
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Pan-Africans
form: pan-African
Etymology: From pan- + African.
Senses: glosses: A supporter of Pan-Africanism.
Pan-Africans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Pan-African
Pan-Africanist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Pan-Africanists
Senses: examples: text: By June 1998, the Congolese people started openly complaining that the Ugando-Rwandan forces that helped Kabila remove Mobutu were not conducting themselves as pan-Africanists, but were rather behaving like occupation forces […]
ref: 2000, Yaa-Lengi M. Ngemi, Genocide in the Congo (Zaire), page 70:
glosses: A supporter of Pan-Africanism.
Pan-Africanists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Pan-Africanist
unsigns
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of unsign
unsigning
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of unsign
wayfinder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wayfinders
Etymology: From way + finder.
Senses: glosses: One who finds a way: either a physical route or a means to achieve something.
Related terms: wayfinding
wayfinders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wayfinder
jelerangs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of jelerang
diligencies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of diligency
taskmasterly
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more taskmasterly
form: most taskmasterly
Etymology: From taskmaster + -ly.
Senses: glosses: Befitting a taskmaster.
taskmastership
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From taskmaster + -ship.
Senses: glosses: The role or status of taskmaster.