cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
ABCPs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ABCP
abrasive discs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of abrasive disc
acaryotes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of acaryote
abstract data types
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of abstract data type
acceptance houses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of acceptance house
abids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of abid
ABRs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ABR
acausalities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of acausality
accessories after the fact
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of accessory after the fact
accelerated graphics ports
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of accelerated graphics port
acaroid resins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of acaroid resin
acacia velds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of acacia veld
accidental points
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of accidental point
A rolls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of A roll
a-schwas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of a-schwa
ABS brakes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ABS brake
abjurors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of abjuror
about sledges
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of about sledge
acarinoses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of acarinosis
accepting houses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of accepting house
absorption bands
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of absorption band
a-words
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of a-word
A20 gates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of A20 gate
accepted pairings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of accepted pairing
acapulcoites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of acapulcoite
Acadian owls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Acadian owl
acclimatisation societies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of acclimatisation society
A-minors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of A-minor
accretion shocks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of accretion shock
a/cs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of a/c
Abidjanians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Abidjanian
accreditions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of accredition
accession countries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of accession country
accessories before the fact
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of accessory before the fact
ABIs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ABI
accessory pigments
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of accessory pigment
accouris
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of accouri
accelerated motions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of accelerated motion
About boxes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of About box
abyssal fishes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of abyssal fish
abilities to pay
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ability to pay
a-fibs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of a-fib
A-type conflicts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of A-type conflict
A3Cs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of A3C
able ratings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of able rating
aboundaunces
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of aboundaunce
acerbations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of acerbation
acenaphthylenes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of acenaphthylene
accuseresses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of accuseress
accusatours
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of accusatour
accustomizations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of accustomization
Acephalites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Acephalite
accultations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of accultation
I'm busy
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: I'm busy.
aceticoceptors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of aceticoceptor
acetylgalactosaminides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of acetylgalactosaminide
acetohydroxy acids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of acetohydroxy acid
acesulfames
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of acesulfame
acetylgalactosaminyls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of acetylgalactosaminyl
acetic anhydrides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of acetic anhydride
acetokinases
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of acetokinase
acetamidocinnamates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of acetamidocinnamate
aces of aces
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ace of aces
acesulphames
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of acesulphame
acetenyls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of acetenyl
acetylgalactosamines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of acetylgalactosamine
acetonaphthones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of acetonaphthone
acetoacetyls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of acetoacetyl
acetogens
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of acetogen
acetamidoacrylates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of acetamidoacrylate
acetamidobenzoates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of acetamidobenzoate
acetylhexosaminidases
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of acetylhexosaminidase
acetyllactosamines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of acetyllactosamine
acetylhydrolases
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of acetylhydrolase
acetylisoquinolines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of acetylisoquinoline
Rainbow Books
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
meronyms: Red Book
Yellow Book
glosses: The various standards for CD formats, each named after a particular color.
acetylpolyamines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of acetylpolyamine
acetylproteomes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of acetylproteome
acetylmethadols
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of acetylmethadol
acetylneuraminic acids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of acetylneuraminic acid
acetylmuramidases
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of acetylmuramidase
acetylpyridines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of acetylpyridine
CD-DA
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Compact Disc Digital Audio, the official name for the audio CD format.
achaars
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of achaar
acey-deuceys
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of acey-deucey
ach-lauts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ach-laut
achillotenotomies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of achillotenotomy
nonpology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nonpologies
Etymology: Blend of non- + apology.
Senses: examples: text: “That's almost like a ‘sorry you were offended’ apology. A nonpology.” “Apologies aren't my strong suit,” Luke says, agreeably.
ref: 2021, Gwenda Bond, Not Your Average Hot Guy, St. Martin's Griffin, →ISBN:
glosses: Synonym of non-apology.
synonyms: word: non-apology
achillotomies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of achillotomy
achieved statuses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of achieved status
achievement whores
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of achievement whore
video CD
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: video CDs
Senses: glosses: A CD containing digital video data according to the White Book standard.
achondrogeneses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of achondrogenesis
achromatocytes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of achromatocyte
achromacytes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of achromacyte
achromatic lenses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of achromatic lens
achroacytes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of achroacyte
achromatophils
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of achromatophil
achromocytes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of achromocyte
achromophils
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of achromophil
acid-base equilibriums
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of acid-base equilibrium
acid refluxes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of acid reflux
acid dissociation constants
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of acid dissociation constant
ACHs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ACH
acierations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of acieration
acidolyses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of acidolysis
super video CD
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: super video CDs
Senses: glosses: An extension of the video CD, sacrificing playback length for a higher video quality.
acidyls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of acidyl
acorn worms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of acorn worm
ACMI leases
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ACMI lease
ACKs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ACK
acorn nuts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of acorn nut
acoustic basses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of acoustic bass
acoustic energies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of acoustic energy
ACODs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ACOD
Abella
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A barangay of Ligao, Albay, Philippines.
glosses: A barangay of Naga, Camarines Sur, Philippines.
carreer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of career.
Aramunt
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A hillside town in Pallars Jussà, Catalonia
Bages
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Catalan Bages.
Senses: glosses: A comarca in central Catalonia, Spain.
Balaguer
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Balaguers
Etymology: Borrowed from Catalan Balaguer; in its turn derived from Andalusian Arabic بلغي (“Balàghey”).
Senses: glosses: The capital city of the county of Noguera, Catalonia.
glosses: A habitational surname from Catalan.
Barruera
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A town in Vall de Boí, Catalonia
Berga
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A city in central Catalonia, capital of Berguedà
Berguedà
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From berguedà (“pertaining to Berga”), from Latin *Bergītānus, variant of Bergistani.
Senses: glosses: A comarca in central Catalonia. Capital: Berga.
Related terms: bergistà
berguedà
Cabdella
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A town in Vall Fosca, Catalonia
Carreu
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A valley in Catalonia.
loserly
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more loserly
form: most loserly
Etymology: From loser + -ly. Attested since the 19th century.
Senses: glosses: In a manner behoving a loser.
Castellnou
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌkæstəlˈnəʊ/
enpr: kăs'təl-nōʹ
rhymes: -əʊ
Etymology: From Catalan Castellnou (literally “new castle”). Compare Newcastle.
Senses: glosses: A number of towns or other places in Catalonia, Spain.
Cerdà
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A town in the county of la Costera, Valencia
Cerdanya
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Catalan Cerdanya.
Senses: glosses: A historic region of Catalonia.
Cervera
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: The capital city of the county of Segarra, Catalonia
Claverol
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Any of a number of place names in Catalonia
Conflent
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Catalan Conflent.
Senses: glosses: A comarca in Northern Catalonia.
nonpologies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nonpology
solrise
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From sunrise, replacing sun with Sol.
Senses: topics: literature
media
publishing
science-fiction
glosses: The time of day when Sol, the sun in the Solar System, appears to rise over a planet's horizon.
Synonyms: sunlight
sunrise
sunup
dawn
clittered
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of clitter
clittering
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of clitter
Joachimsthaler
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Joachimsthalers
Etymology: Borrowed from German Joachimsthaler, after the silver mine in Joachimsthal (now known as Jáchymov).
Senses: examples: text: These provisions served especially the interests of the treasury, which derived considerable income from the recoinage of the German Joachimsthalers.
ref: 1964, John M. Letiche, A History of Russian Economic Thought, page 223:
glosses: A large silver coin of the 16th century in the Lands of the Bohemian Crown, today Czech Republic.
wikipedia: Joachimsthal
filmi geet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: filmi geets
form: filmi git
form: filmi-git
form: filmi-geet
Etymology: Borrowed from Hindi फ़िल्मी गीत (filmī gīt).
Senses: examples: text: Unlike most filmi geets this song is a continuous, seamless melody which dispenses with non-traditional musical devices.
ref: 2003, Ashraf Aziz, Light of the Universe: Essays on Hindustani Film Music, page 91:
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A type of music typically used in the soundtracks of films from Mumbai, or a particular song of this type.
Synonyms: filmi
arachedonic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: Asterisks show significant values from Phlogestic agent (Arachedonic acid). * P < 0.01, ** P < 0.001 In conclusion, this research study revealed that the ethyl acetate fraction of T. stocksianum possesses significant anti-inflammatory activity via dual inhibition of both cyclooxygenase and lipoxygenase pathways of arachedonic acid metabolites.
ref: 2015 August 29, Syed Muhammad Mukarram Shah, “A possible anti-inflammatory mechanism of ethyl acetate extracts of Teucrium stocksianum Bioss”, in BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine, volume 15, →DOI:
glosses: Misspelling of arachidonic.
contiguation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: contiguations
Senses: examples: text: In brief, scaffolds were ordered using algorithm based automatic contiguation of assembled sequences (ABACAS) [ 30 ] against the C. parvum Iowa II reference genome; this genome comprises 18 contigs and mapping the assemblies to it generated 18 pseudomolecules that contained most of the assembled sequences, with typically 100 to 200 further much smaller scaffolds that could not be associated with the reference genome.
ref: 2015 August 29, Stephen J. Hadfield et al., “Generation of whole genome sequences of new Cryptosporidium hominis and Cryptosporidium parvum isolates directly from stool samples”, in BMC Genomics, volume 16, →DOI:
glosses: The act of making contiguous
deregressed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From de- + regressed.
Senses: examples: text: In this previous study, we implemented population-specific GS models with progeny-tested parents as training sets, using their deregressed EBV and genotypes.
ref: 2015 August 29, David Cros et al., “Long-term genomic selection for heterosis without dominance in multiplicative traits: case study of bunch production in oil palm”, in BMC Genomics, volume 16, →DOI:
glosses: Whose regression has been reversed
dexamethosome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: To initiate differentiation, we treated definitive endodermal cells with 20 ng/ml FGF4, 20 ng/ml bone morphogenic protein 2 (BMP2) and 20 ng/ml hepatocyte growth factor (HGF) (Peprotech) in Iscove’s modified Dulbecco’s medium (Gibco) with 20 % FBS, 2 mM L-glutamine, 0.3 mM monothioglycerol (Sigma Aldrich), 1 % antibiotic-antimycotic, 1 μM insulin (Gibco), 0.5 % DMSO and 100 nM dexamethosome (Sigma-Aldrich) for 10 days.
ref: 2015 August 29, Xiao-Ming Wang et al., “Induced pluripotent stem cell models of Zellweger spectrum disorder show impaired peroxisome assembly and cell type-specific lipid abnormalities”, in Stem Cell Research & Therapy, volume 6, →DOI:
glosses: Misspelling of dexamethasone.
fluorhydroxyapatite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From fluor- + hydroxyapatite.
Senses: examples: text: The fluorhydroxyapatite formed over time during the remineralisation process in an initial caries lesion is more resistant to future demineralisation.
ref: 2015 August 29, Ratilal Lalloo et al., “Effectiveness, cost-effectiveness and cost-benefit of a single annual professional intervention for the prevention of childhood dental caries in a remote rural Indigenous community”, in BMC Oral Health, volume 15, →DOI:
glosses: The tooth mineral formed by the action of fluoride on hydroxyapatite
ionoregulatory
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From iono- + regulatory.
Senses: examples: text: However, fish were not fed during the experiment and the low salinity during exposure should not cause drinking of seawater for ionoregulatory purposes.
ref: 2015 August 29, Pål A. Olsvik et al., “Effects of mining chemicals on fish: exposure to tailings containing Lilaflot D817M induces CYP1A transcription in Atlantic salmon smolt”, in BMC Research Notes, volume 8, →DOI:
glosses: Related to ionoregulation
ionoregulation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The regulation of the balance of ions in the body
Related terms: ionoregulatory
mucification
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mucifications
Etymology: From muci- + -ification.
Senses: examples: text: The outer stratum mucification layer is composed of epithelial cells containing mucin vacuoles and overlies an eosinophilic-staining stratum corneum showing artifactual intra-layer separation of the cornified cells.
ref: 2015 August 30, Ashley R. Styczynski et al., “In vitro antiretroviral activity and in vivo toxicity of the potential topical microbicide copper phthalocyanine sulfate”, in Virology Journal, volume 12, →DOI:
glosses: The modification of epithelial cells to secrete mucus.
noncryoglobulinaemic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + cryoglobulinaemic.
Senses: examples: text: Although HCV is a hepatotropic virus, there are evidences to support the idea that HCV infection is a multifaceted disease, which causes many extrahepatic manifestations, such as mixed cryoglobulinemia, B-cell-derived non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma (NHL), diabetes mellitus, idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis, autoimmune thyroiditis, sicca syndrome, noncryoglobulinaemic nephropathies, glomerulonephritis and aortic atherosclerosis ( 38 ).
ref: 2015 August 30, Yizhong Wang et al., “HCV dsRNA-Activated Macrophages Inhibit HCV Replication in Hepatocytes”, in Hepatitis Monthly, volume 15, →DOI:
glosses: Alternative form of noncryoglobulinemic.
peptidylarginine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From peptidyl + arginine.
Senses: examples: text: Citrullination is catalysed by a family of calcium-dependent peptidylarginine deiminases (PAD).
ref: 2015 August 29, Stefan Reichert et al., “Association of levels of antibodies against citrullinated cyclic peptides and citrullinated α-enolase in chronic and aggressive periodontitis as a risk factor of Rheumatoid arthritis: a case control study”, in Journal of Translational Medicine, volume 13, →DOI:
glosses: An arginine residue within a peptide
peptidylcitrulline
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Citrullination is the post-translational conversion of peptidylarginine to peptidylcitrulline wherein the terminal positively charged amino group of the arginine is cleaved.
ref: 2015 August 29, Stefan Reichert et al., “Association of levels of antibodies against citrullinated cyclic peptides and citrullinated α-enolase in chronic and aggressive periodontitis as a risk factor of Rheumatoid arthritis: a case control study”, in Journal of Translational Medicine, volume 13, →DOI:
glosses: A citrulline residue within a peptide
periodontogenic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: A molecular biological test (Micro-Ident test, Hain Lifescience, Nehren, Germany) was used for identification of the five periodontogenic bacterial species.
ref: 2015 August 29, Stefan Reichert et al., “Association of levels of antibodies against citrullinated cyclic peptides and citrullinated α-enolase in chronic and aggressive periodontitis as a risk factor of Rheumatoid arthritis: a case control study”, in Journal of Translational Medicine, volume 13, →DOI:
glosses: That generates periodontitis
photodocument
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: photodocuments
form: photodocumenting
form: photodocumented
form: photodocumented
Etymology: From photo- + document.
Senses: glosses: To document with photographs
Related terms: photodocumentation
photodocumented
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: A minimum of 10 images were photodocumented and analyzed from each animal at both light and scanning electron microscopic levels, and histological assessments were always made being unaware of the corresponding experimental group.
ref: 2015 August 29, Ana M. Sahagún et al., “Study of the protective effect on intestinal mucosa of the hydrosoluble fiber Plantago ovata husk”, in BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine, volume 15, →DOI:
glosses: simple past and past participle of photodocument
offly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more offly
form: most offly
Senses: examples: text: “It's Leroy, Bertha. Where's Sam? We shoulda done been on our way to work by now. The boss man gone be offly mad if'n we late.”
ref: 2006, Wanda S. Miller-Berry, BUCK:
glosses: awfully
foretale
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: foretales
Etymology: From fore- + tale; compare foretell.
Senses: examples: text: The first three paragraphs of the translation are a condensed paraphrase of the first foretale, which tells of the birth of Aengus and how he obtains Etain for Midir by clearing twelve plains and creating twelve rivers (only nine are named in the story) [...]
ref: 1995, Alice Kane, Sean Kane, The Dreamer Awakes:
text: Mentioned in the ancient lists as Prime Stories, these short narratives were evidently foretales (remscéla) to the saga of Conaire Mor, the Great King of Tara, regarded by several clans as their ancestor.
ref: 1998, Sean Kane, Wisdom of the Mythtellers:
text: The final foretale is a story of magical transformation with comic undertones, explaining how the two great bulls, the Brown and the Whitehorned, came to be.
ref: 2006, Maureen O'Rourke Murphy, James MacKillop, An Irish Literature Reader:
text: “Dam Joy told me that after Gormaak recited the Centauri tale of the Black and White, Fro Clear recalled an obscure foretale told to him by his grandam.
ref: 2011, Patricia Crommett, The Song of the Faery:
text: Filled with these foretales of gloom, I climbed back up the cliff with Yates to the Nissen hut to join him and Stagg for examination of the incoming Friday charts.
ref: 2011, Giles Foden, Turbulence:
glosses: An account or telling given as an introduction to a larger body of work; prologue; a prior or previous recollection or account of events
examples: text: One can gain further insight by looking at what “foretales/ prophecies” are, and how they are made. It is interesting to consider the very terms themselves, and their evolution through time.
ref: 1987, Mervin Daub, Canadian Economic Forecasting: In a World Where All's Unsure:
glosses: An account given in advance; prediction
Synonyms: alt: prologue
word: forespeech
word: foretalk
word: foreword
sense: prediction
word: foretelling
word: prediction
Related terms: foretell
foretales
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of foretale
forestream
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: forestreams
Etymology: From fore- + stream.
Senses: examples: text: With strip cup eliminate the forestreams of each teat to detect abnormal milk, to be assured of let-down of milk, and to reduce bacterial count of milk.
ref: 1956, Farm and Home News - Volumes 8-9
text: Their training in English political theory and economics put them among "the forestream" of Japanese who dealt with national problems.
ref: 1961, Harvard University. East Asian Research Center, Papers on Japan - Volumes 1-3:
text: The second derivative of the forestream signal marks exactly the beginning of the upstroke of the pulse wave.
ref: 1976, Med Biol Eng, (Please provide the book title or journal name):
text: The white cell count of the forestream urine is higher than in the remainder. Urethritis can be due to meatal stenosis, foreign bodies, a tumour, a periurethral abscess or a diverticulum.
ref: 1993, Claus Simon, Wolfgang Stille, Peter J. Wilkinson, Antibiotic therapy in clinical practice:
text: The transition models of both Mayle and Dunham are highly dependent on the forestream turbulence intensity.
ref: 1994, Journal of Turbomachinery - Volume 116
text: Furthermore sometimes E. coli O157:H7 can enter milk directly from the [infected] udder, or from the teat duct in the forestream of milk (Wright et al., 1994).
ref: 2002, Rosa K. Pawsey, Case Studies in Food Microbiology for Food Safety and Quality:
text: When the forestream is clean, the water gushing out from it must certainly be clean.
ref: 2010, Deaconess Floria Alexander-Reindorf, I Exist in All Planes at the Same Time:
text: The preheated thermistor bead distal to the jet wascooled, i. e.,changed its electrical resistance, especially on the upstroke phase (the “forestream”) and changed the proximal bead with the collapsing phase of the pulse course immediately before incisura (the “backstream”).
ref: 2012, W.F. List, J.S. Gravenstein, D.H. Spodick, Systolic Time Intervals:
glosses: The initial, early, or forward-positioned part of a stream (all senses); a stream occurring at the ahead or front (of a thing)
forestreams
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of forestream
Jewie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Jewies
Senses: examples: text: So they started talking about capital punishment and of course Bloom comes out with the why and the wherefore and all the codology of the business and the old dog smelling him all the time all the time I'm told those Jewies does have a sort of a queer odour coming off them for dogs about I don't know what all deterrent effect and so forth and so on.
ref: 1918, James Joyce, Ulysses:
qualifier: perhaps derogatory
glosses: Diminutive of Jew.
forepromise
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: forepromises
Etymology: From fore- + promise (noun).
Senses: examples: text: The present passage is important as bringing the regenerating work of the Holy Ghost into direct relation to the resurrection of the body as a forepromise of that final deliverance [...]
ref: 1887, Nathanael Burwash, William Briggs, A Handbook of the Epistle of St. Paul to the Romans:
text: When it takes lot with multiplicity, Being becomes Number by the fact of awakening to manifoldness;—before, it was a preparation, so to speak, of the Beings, their fore-promise, a total of henads offering a stay for what was to be based upon them.
ref: 1952 [250 CE], Plotinus, translated by Stephen Mackenna and Bertram Samuel Page, The Six Enneads, Aeterna Press, published 2015, section 10:
glosses: A promise made in advance
forepromise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: forepromises
form: forepromising
form: forepromised
form: forepromised
Etymology: From fore- + promise (verb).
Senses: examples: text: For so God did forepromise in the prophet Isaiah [chap. lxvi.], “ Behold, I will let p'eace into Jerusalem like a waterflood,” die. And in Psalm lxxi. “ In his time righteousness shall flourish, yea and abundance of peace," &c.
ref: 1837, John Foxe, Stephen Reed Cattley, George Townsend, The Acts and Monuments of John Foxe:
text: We will come to them, but first I must provide those explanations I forepromised in the preface: [...]
ref: 2006, Joseph Harry Silber, The Ecstasies of Willaert:
glosses: To promise beforehand or in advance
semiproletariat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: semiproletariats
form: semi-proletariat
Etymology: From semi- + proletariat.
Senses: examples: text: To obtain such a cost differential they must either be able to hold back the proletariat's demands for real wage increases, using segments of the semiproletariat as 'strike breakers', or if they transfer a portion of the advantage to the proletariat they must obtain the asisistance of this group to hold the semiproletariat firmly in check - indeed to expropriate some or all of its land resources.
ref: 1979, Immanuel Wallerstein, The Capitalist World-Economy, →ISBN, page 107:
text: This is because the rural semiproletariat are not so stubborn in clinging to the system of private ownership of the means of production [vested] is small[-scale] peasant holdings, and they are people who will accept socialist transformation more easily.
ref: 1992, Mao Zedong, Michael Y. M. Kau, John K. Leung, The Writings of Mao Zedong, 1949–1976, →ISBN, page 730:
text: The semiproletariat consisted of those who did manual labor for one or more masters and who surrendered their surplus product either as rent or as surplus value to their employers.
ref: 2008, Kathleen Gough, Rural Society in Southeast India, →ISBN, page 260:
text: In this contradictory process, the class balances within the nationalist alliance would also begin to shift against the semiproletariat.
ref: 2015, Arif Dirlik, Alexander Woodside, Global Capitalism and the Future of Agrarian Society, →ISBN, page 241:
glosses: The class of marginalized workers who lack regular employment, such as working peasants, pedlars, small handicrafts makers, and the underemployed.
semiproletariats
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of semiproletariat
regressive left
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: The earliest use may be from a joke post on the Internet in 1998. Attested in print as early as 2002 in Chuck Morse’s The Gramsci Factor, and later popularized by Maajid Nawaz in 2012.
Senses: topics: government
politics
glosses: A characterization of the left which suggests that it paradoxically holds reactionary views by its tolerance of illiberal principles and ideologies (such as extremist Islamism) for the sake of multiculturalism and cultural relativism.
Derived terms: regressive leftism
regressive leftist
Related terms: alt-left
preneoplasm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: preneoplasms
Etymology: From pre- + neoplasm.
Senses: examples: text: In summary, this study demonstrates that metformin can block preneoplasm or non-invasive cancer of bladder progressing to invasive cancer through inhibiting STAT3-mediated signaling pathways which can promote viability, proliferation, migration and invasiveness of cancer cells.
ref: 2015 August 7, Qi Pan et al., “Metformin can block precancerous progression to invasive tumors of bladder through inhibiting STAT3-mediated signaling pathways”, in Journal of Experimental & Clinical Cancer Research : CR, volume 34, →DOI:
glosses: tissue that develops into a neoplasm
Related terms: preneoplasia
preneoplastic
preneoplasms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Essentially, metformin has little ability to inhibit uroepithelial transformation, but could almost completely block progression of preneoplasms or non-invasive tumors, because no invasive cancer and sarcoma was observed in metformin-treated rats and the tumors in metformin-treated group were limited at the stages of dysplasia, papillary tumor or CIS.
ref: 2015 August 7, Qi Pan et al., “Metformin can block precancerous progression to invasive tumors of bladder through inhibiting STAT3-mediated signaling pathways”, in Journal of Experimental & Clinical Cancer Research : CR, volume 34, →DOI:
glosses: plural of preneoplasm
virtue signaller
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈvɜːt͡ʃuː ˌsɪɡnələ/
ipa: /ˈvɜɹt͡ʃu ˌsɪɡnələɹ/
ipa: [ˈvɝtʃ- -lɚ]
Forms: form: virtue signallers
form: virtue signaler
Senses: glosses: Somebody who engages in virtue signalling.
propanediamine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: propanediamines
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Either of two isomeric diamino derivatives of propane; any substituted derivative of these compounds
propanediamines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: According to the US Environmental Protection Agency [ 6 ], long-chain substituted propanediamines, the chemical group these compounds belongs to, are considered to be toxic to aquatic organisms, with observed lethality for plankton and fish at concentrations ranging from 0.75 to 170 µg L −1 .
ref: 2015 August 29, Pål A. Olsvik et al., “Effects of mining chemicals on fish: exposure to tailings containing Lilaflot D817M induces CYP1A transcription in Atlantic salmon smolt”, in BMC Research Notes, volume 8, →DOI:
glosses: plural of propanediamine
transmicrovascular
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From trans- + microvascular.
Senses: examples: text: Coronary cell transfer relies on cell adhesion during transmicrovascular migration leading to homogenous myocardial distribution.
ref: 2015 August 29, Marko Banovic et al., “Endpoints in stem cell trials in ischemic heart failure”, in Stem Cell Research & Therapy, volume 6, →DOI:
glosses: Across or through extremely small blood vessels
cultural Marxist
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more cultural Marxist
form: most cultural Marxist
Senses: topics: government
politics
glosses: Typical of cultural Marxism.
cultural Marxist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cultural Marxists
Senses: topics: government
politics
glosses: Somebody who perpetuates cultural Marxism.
identity politician
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: identity politicians
Senses: examples: text: There are those who contest the very idea of identity politics or try to reduce it to a minimum. They would prefer that rights be derived wholly from function and reason. Then, there are those who like some identities but not others. Ranged against them, as it were, are the identity politicians, who insist that all problems are derived from identity and should be solved by the criteria of identity.
ref: 2000, George Schöpflin, Nations, Identity, Power: The New Politics of Europe, page 9:
text: You can think of Bailey as an identity politician's worst nightmare. Bailey is attacking the by-now accepted scientific view that whom you love and who you identify yourself to be are not the same issue.
ref: 2007, Kevin G. Barnhurst, Media Q: Media/queered: Visibility and Its Discontents, page 85:
topics: government
politics
glosses: An advocate of or participant in identity politics.
Related terms: identitarian politics
identity politics
content warning
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: content warnings
Senses: glosses: Synonym of trigger warning.
synonyms: word: trigger warning
content warning
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of content warn
alt-righter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: alt-righters
Etymology: From alt-right + -er.
Senses: examples: text: Not all alt-righters will agree with our taxonomy of the movement. Hacker and white nationalist Andrew Auernheimer, better known as weev, responded in typically jaw-dropping fashion to our enquiries: “The tireless attempts of you Jews to smear us decent Nazis is shameful.”
ref: 2016 March 29, Allum Bokhari and Milo Yiannopoulos, “An Establishment Conservative’s Guide To The Alt-Right”, in Breitbart:
text: “Thanks for the free PR Hillary,” tweeted a self-described alt-righter. “The #alt-right will long remember the day you helped make us into the real right.”
ref: 2016 August 27, Maureen Dowd, “The Alt-Right Is All Wrong”, in The New York Times:
text: Mr. Trump disavowed the alt-righters once the excesses of Mr. Spencer’s conference went viral. But as a candidate, Mr. Trump called the government corrupt, assailed the Republican establishment, flouted almost every rule of political etiquette, racial and otherwise, and did so in a way that made the alt-righters trust his instincts.
ref: 2016 December 2, Christopher Caldwell, “What the Alt-Right Really Means”, in The New York Times:
glosses: A member of the alt-right.
Synonyms: alt-rightist
regressive leftist
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more regressive leftist
form: most regressive leftist
Senses: topics: government
politics
glosses: Characteristic of the regressive left.
regressive leftist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: regressive leftists
Senses: topics: government
politics
glosses: A member of the regressive left.
regressive leftists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of regressive leftist
neo-reactionary
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌniːəʊɹɪˈakʃn̩(ə)ɹi/
Forms: form: more neo-reactionary
form: most neo-reactionary
form: neoreactionary
form: NRx
Etymology: From neo- + reactionary, in the contemporary meaning popularized in a 2010 blog post.
Senses: examples: text: Following the outbreak of a revolution in Bolivia in December, 1943, the CTAL labeled the new Bolivian regime a "neo-reactionary victory" and pointed out that "their aim is undemocratic […]".
ref: 1945, Labor Fact Book, volume 7, page 197:
text: Austria narrowly avoided installing a neo-reactionary president in last year’s two elections.
ref: 2017 April, Andrew Sullivan, “The Reactionary Temptation”, in New York Magazine:
text: Neoreactionary thought contends that the world would operate much better in the hands of a few tech-savvy elites in a quasi-feudal system.
ref: 2023 October 28, Elizabeth Spiers, “A Tech Overlord’s Horrifying, Silly Vision for Who Should Rule the World”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
topics: government
politics
glosses: Reacting against the (especially liberal) values of the modern world; now typically seen as characterised by opposition to egalitarianism, support for strong centralised government, and espousal of conservative economic policies.
neo-reactionary
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌniːəʊɹɪˈakʃn̩(ə)ɹi/
Forms: form: neo-reactionaries
form: neoreactionary
form: NRx
Etymology: From neo- + reactionary, in the contemporary meaning popularized in a 2010 blog post.
Senses: examples: text: With the accession to power of the neo-reactionaries, Nixon and then Reagan, the timber companies and the "immediate gratification" right took complete charge.
ref: 1991, Z Magazine, volume 4, page 16:
text: Neoreactionaries believe that while technology and capitalism have advanced humanity over the past couple centuries, democracy has actually done more harm than good. They propose a return to old-fashioned gender roles, social order and monarchy.
ref: 2013 November 23, Klint Finley, “Geeks for Monarchy: The Rise of the Neoreactionaries”, in TechCrunch, archived from the original on 02 Dec 2013:
text: Since 2013, he has become a guru for the US-based far-right movement neoreaction, or NRx as it often calls itself. Neoreactionaries believe in the replacement of modern nation-states, democracy and government bureaucracies by authoritarian city states, which on neoreaction blogs sound as much like idealised medieval kingdoms as they do modern enclaves such as Singapore.
ref: 2017 May 11, Andy Beckett, “Accelerationism: how a fringe philosophy predicted the future we live in”, in The Guardian:
topics: government
politics
glosses: Someone who holds such views.
Related terms: neoreaction
postliberalism
anti-GG
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more anti-GG
form: most anti-GG
Etymology: From anti- + GG.
Senses: glosses: Opposed to Gamergate.
neo-reactionaries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of neo-reactionary
white genocide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: white genocides
Senses: qualifier: white supremacy
glosses: A conspiracy theory claiming the existence of a plot to eliminate white people using a variety of means including, but not limited to, miscegenation, immigration, assimilation, multiculturalism and violence.
Related terms: Fourteen Words
Great Replacement
white genocide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Partial calque of Armenian սպիտակ եղեռն (spitak eġeṙn), literally "white Yeghern", and/or various similar terms like ճերմակ ջարդ (čermak ǰard, “white massacre”).
Senses: examples: text: If identity is placed in the body it is also open to manipulation and impurification, especially in Diaspora communities where younger Armenians come into contact with non-Armenians. This enhances fears that Armenian identity will slowly disappear through a process of 'white genocide', and in turn results in the belief that Armenian Diaspora communities are in danger.
ref: 2016 April 4, Alexis Demirdjian, The Armenian Genocide Legacy, Springer, →ISBN, page 266:
text: Besides the activities directly related to the recognition process, the genocide has also, as an omnipresent factor, indirectly loaded many diaspora Armenians with considerable overhead activity in their daily life: the [...] Armenian Sunday schools we had to attend while our Swedish classmates were enjoying the weekends, and the constant concern about the new generation's loss of its Armenian identity through assimilation, the “white genocide.” Yet[…]
ref: 2018 October 8, Vahagn Avedian, Knowledge and Acknowledgement in the Politics of Memory of the Armenian Genocide, Routledge, →ISBN:
glosses: The supposed elimination of Armenian identity (culturicide), particularly among diasporic Armenians, through assimilation to other cultures and languages.
gawkling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gawklings
Etymology: From gawk + -ling.
Senses: examples: text: Under it are two snapshots of my sister, and one of a skinny gawkling dressed to the teeth, with a downward smile; and to this photo of him as suitor my mother added a news clipping no larger than my thumb …
ref: 1968, A mass for the dead
text: He lacked the time to study the newspapers and read about himself, but Dora and Al clipped them for him. There remained enough of the adolescent gawkling in Roy to forbid the parents to come watch him in the courtroom.
ref: 1988, Nicholas Von Hoffman, Citizen Cohn:
text: Bright trees wave in wind and then drop one night all their leaves and thereafter are silent, revealing themselves as mere twigs strung together for a nest where a gawkling crept from a shell and was pushed, stumbled off its edge into space, and when spring pressed [...]
ref: 2009, Dale Zieroth, David Zieroth, The Fly in Autumn:
glosses: One who is awkward or gawky
political correction
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: political corrections
Senses: glosses: A modification that makes something more respectful to marginalized people.
glosses: Synonym of political correctness.
synonyms: word: political correctness
cultural Marxists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cultural Marxist
conflictarian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more conflictarian
form: most conflictarian
Etymology: From conflict + -arian.
Senses: examples: text: The result is an essentially conflictarian model of the society.
ref: 1986, Nigerian Economic Society, The Nigerian economy: a political economy approach:
text: The most ‘conflictarian’ type of imagery in the corpus is provided by metaphors of war and military action.
ref: 2000, Andreas Musolf, Mirror Images of Europe: Metaphors in the Public Debate about Europe in Britain and Germany:
glosses: Characterized by conflicts; tending to have conflicts.
cultural appropriator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cultural appropriators
Senses: examples: text: Though Ms. Mnouchkine is more of a blithe cultural appropriator than a purveyor of stereotypes, the sex-crazed sheikhs seem to go too far. “A Room in India” also tries, with mixed success, to see if terrorists can be made funny, in the manner of the Keystone Kops. And yet, for all of the company’s catholic tastes, there are lines of relativism it will not cross.
ref: 2017 December 6, Jesse Green, “Review: ‘A Room in India’ Overflows With Astonishing Visions”, in The New York Times:
topics: human-sciences
sciences
social-science
sociology
glosses: One who engages in cultural appropriation.
culturally appropriative
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more culturally appropriative
form: most culturally appropriative
Senses: topics: human-sciences
sciences
social-science
sociology
glosses: Characteristic of cultural appropriation.
culturally appropriate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: culturally appropriates
form: culturally appropriating
form: culturally appropriated
form: culturally appropriated
Senses: topics: human-sciences
sciences
social-science
sociology
glosses: To engage in cultural appropriation.
third-wave feminist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: third-wave feminists
form: third wave feminist
Senses: glosses: A follower of third-wave feminism.
telæsthesia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From tele- + -æsthesia.
Senses: glosses: Obsolete typography of telaesthesia.
culturally appropriates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of culturally appropriate
culturally appropriating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of culturally appropriate
culturally appropriated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of culturally appropriate
gawklings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gawkling
third-wave feminists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of third-wave feminist
cultural appropriators
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cultural appropriator
political corrections
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of political correction