cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
allohistorical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /alə(ʊ)ˌhɪˈstɒɹɪkəl/
ipa: /æləˌhɪˈstɔːɹɪkəl/
ipa: /æloʊ-/
Etymology: From allo- (prefix meaning ‘different, other’) + historical.
Senses: examples: text: If [Alexander] Demandt's essay served as a strident example of the German desire for normalcy, a more subtle example was provided by a brief allohistorical depiction of a Nazi victory in World War II written by German historian Michael Salewski in 1999.
ref: 2005, Gavriel D[avid] Rosenfeld, “Germany’s Wartime Triumph: From Dystopia to Normalcy”, in The World Hitler Never Made: Alternate History and the Memory of Nazism, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, part I (The Nazis Win World War II), page 182:
text: Thus Django becomes the carrier of the “public use of one's reason”—the Kantian road to enlightenment given to him by the German “Forty-Eighter” dentist–turned-bounty hunter Dr. “King” Schultz, and represents the fictive, allohistorical beginning of the battle against slavery and racism in the United States.
ref: 2014, Robert von Dassanowsky, “Dr. ‘King’ Schultz as Ideologue and Emblem: The German Enlightenment and the Legacy of the 1848 Revolutions in Django Unchained”, in Oliver C. Speck, editor, Quentin Tarantino’s Django Unchained: The Continuation of Metacinema, New York, N.Y.; London: Bloomsbury Academic, Bloomsbury Publishing, →ISBN, part 1 (Cultural Roots and Intertexts: Germany, France, and the United States), page 25:
text: The question of the plausibility of the counter-factual is seen as key in all three discussions of allohistorical fiction (as it is in [Alexander] Demandt's and [Niall] Ferguson's examinations of allohistory)[…].
ref: 2014, David Malcolm, “The Great War Re-remembered: Allohistory and Allohistorical Fiction”, in Martin Löschnigg, Marzena Sokolowska-Paryz, editors, The Great War in Post-memory Literature and Film, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, →ISBN, page 173:
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
narratology
sciences
glosses: Relating to alternate history, either as a discipline or genre, or as a specific counterfactual sequence of events.
Related terms: allohistory
Galicianness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Galician + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being Galician.
ghost bump
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ghost bumps
form: ghost-bump
form: ghostbump
Etymology: From ghost + bump, modelled after goosebump.
Senses: examples: text: The weather turned so frigid Luke got ghost bumps.
ref: 1986, Michael J. Pellowski, Ghost Toasties:
text: These were ghost bumps — the prickly bumps on my skin that often showed up when a ghost was about to appear.
ref: 1996, Linda Joy Singleton, Babysitter Beware, page 8:
text: Her son even had goose bumps (or more accurately in this case, ghost bumps).
ref: 2002, Kimberly Molto, True Tales of the Paranormal:
text: You might say they give us ghostbumps.
ref: 2012, Leonard R. N. Ashley, Halloween, page 90:
glosses: A goosebump, especially when caused by anything ghostly or ghastly.
ghost bumps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ghost bump
complicitly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more complicitly
form: most complicitly
Etymology: From complicit + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Every time he bosses someone into a seat or hustles a passenger off, people roll their eyes or smile complicitly.
ref: 2010 November 26, Alex Klaushofer, Paradise Divided: A Portait of Lebanon, Andrews UK Limited, →ISBN:
text: “Okay, Nessa,” Susan said, and she smiled complicitly at Hilary.
ref: 2016 June 21, Roxana Robinson, Asking for Love: Stories, Open Road Media, →ISBN:
glosses: In a complicit manner.
complicitness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From complicit + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: The central theme of these meditations is our complicitness in the pain and death inflicted on Jesus by the fanatical religious and barbaric secular authorities and we can recognise that complicitness in the contemporary world of casual violence.
ref: 2018, Kevin Carey, Cross Purposes: Reflections for Good Friday, Sacristy Press, →ISBN, page 126:
synonyms: complicity
glosses: The quality of being complicit.
Bristol pound
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Bristol pounds
Senses: glosses: A local currency (not legal tender) in Bristol, England, tied to the pound sterling, introduced in 2012 to promote local business and retired in 2021. Symbol £B.
D.U.I.s
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of D.U.I.
vacupuncture
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Blend of vacuum + puncture
Senses: examples: text: Basically 300 μCi ⁵¹CrCl₃ contained in 10 ml sterile saline was injected into the jugular vein and the radioactivity and protein concentration of the plasma determined in samples of blood withdrawn by vacupuncture at 09.00 hours each morning for the following 5 d.
ref: 1986, D. P. Poppi, “Nitrogen transactions in the digestive tract of lambs exposed to the intestinal parasite, Trichostrongylus colubriformis”, in British Journal of Nutrition, volume 55, number 3, page 593:
glosses: A blood collection system involving aspiration through a capillary.
ventrofrontal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ʌntəl
Etymology: From ventro- + frontal.
Senses: glosses: ventral and frontal
vermistabilization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From vermi- + stabilization.
Senses: glosses: The treatment of sewage sludge with earthworms
Bristol pounds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Bristol pound
visuoguided
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From visuo- + guided.
Senses: glosses: visually guided
visuomanual
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From visuo- + manual.
Senses: glosses: visual and manual
GAFAM
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Acronym of Google, Apple, Facebook, Amazon, Microsoft, a group of major computing companies.
workface
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: workfaces
Senses: glosses: The exposed surface, that is currently being worked, of an underground mine.
Related terms: coalface
WCPGW
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: Initialism of what could possibly go wrong?: a sarcastic response to a bad idea that would lead to obvious problems.
zealexin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: zealexins
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of a group of sesquiterpenoid phytoalexins present in maize derived from beta-bisabolene and beta-macrocarpene
zealexins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of zealexin
Yasgur
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname. of Russian Jewish ancestry
Related terms: Woodstock
Mahajanapada
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /mɑːhəˈd͡ʒɑːnəˌpɑːdə/
ipa: /mʌhəˈd͡ʒʌnəˌpʌdə/
ipa: /mɑhəˈd͡ʒɑnəˌpɑdə/
ipa: /məhəˈd͡ʒənəˌpədə/
Forms: form: Mahajanapadas
form: mahajanapada
Etymology: Borrowed from Sanskrit महाजनपद (mahājanapada).
Senses: examples: text: We know that there were sixteen mahajanapadas in the 6th and 5th centuries BCE but there were more than one hundred janapadas, some of which were independent and some others were included in the bigger mahajanapadas.
ref: 2006, Irā Kiruṣṇamūrtti, Irāmaccantiran̲ Nākacāmi, Sangam: numismatics and cultural history : essays in honour of Dr. R. Krishnamurthy, New Era Publications, pages 66–67:
text: Among the 16 mahajanapadas the monarchical states of Kosala, Vatsa, Avanti, and Magadha, along with the non‐monarchical mahajanapada of the Vrijis or Vajjis, attained political prominence by eclipsing other contemporary powers. However, it was the mahajanapada of Magadha which ultimately rose to prominence.
ref: 2016 January 11, Susmita Basu Majumdar, “Magadha, Kingdom of”, in N. Dalziel, J. M. MacKenzie, editors, The Encyclopedia of Empire, Wiley, →DOI:
text: Pataliputra was founded by Udayin while Rajgriha was founded by Bimbisar. Vajji was the ancient name of north Bihar. The territory of the Vajji Mahajanapada was located on the north of the Ganges river and extended up to the Terai region of Nepal.
ref: 2019 April 1, 2200+ MCQs with Explanatory Notes For HISTORY 2nd Edition, 2nd edition, New Delhi: Disha, page A23:
glosses: One of 16 prominent ancient Indian realms extant from around 600 BCE to 345 BCE.
mahajanapada
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: mahajanapadas
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Mahajanapada.
mahajanapadas
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of mahajanapada
Mahajanapadas
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Mahajanapada
Pergamene
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin Pergamēnus, from Ancient Greek Περγαμηνός (Pergamēnós).
Senses: synonyms: Pergamean
glosses: Of, from or pertaining to Pergamum.
Yaras
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Yara
dinderhead
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dinderheads
Senses: examples: text: Lawks, doant be clummed by Babbin Enapp,
'Sa bibbling, boostering, brinded chap,
 A dinderhead hadge-boar!
ref: 1867, William Frederick Rock, Jim and Nell: A Dramatic Poem in the Dialect of North Devon. By a Devonshire Man:
text: Being only a dim gentile I could not see the slightest connection between fish and guns, until, by now getting quite angry at my stupidity she roared in my ear "game-kipper (keeper), game-kipper, y'er dinderhead."
ref: 1971, Journal of the Gypsy Lore Society, The Society:
glosses: Southwestern English variant of dunderhead, a blockhead.
Bailes
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Bayles
form: Baylis
form: Bayliss
Senses: glosses: A surname originating as an occupation.
dinderheads
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dinderhead
ring homomorphism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ring homomorphisms
Senses: topics: algebra
mathematics
sciences
glosses: A function from one ring to another one which preserves the structure of the additive operation, the structure of the multiplicative operation, the zero element (additive identity), and, if there is one, the unity element (multiplicative identity).
Hyponyms: ring isomorphism
Meronyms: image
kernel
space programme
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: space programmes
form: space program
Senses: topics: aerospace
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
space-science
glosses: A programme of space exploration and research.
space programmes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of space programme
space program
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: space programs
Senses: glosses: US standard spelling of space programme.
space programs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of space program
acridinone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: acridinones
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The heterocyclic ketone 2H-acridin-1-one
acridinones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of acridinone
acridocarpoid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: acridocarpoids
Senses: glosses: Any plant of the genus Acridocarpus
acridocarpoids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of acridocarpoid
acyanic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From a- + cyanic.
Senses: glosses: Not cyanic
adiposopathy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: adiposopathies
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: Any disease etc. caused by an excessive amount of body fat
adiposopathies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of adiposopathy
aggregometric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to aggregometry; measured by an aggregometer
alkanone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: alkanones
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any saturated aliphatic ketone
Related terms: alkenone
alkanones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of alkanone
cyclogenous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From cyclo- + -genous.
Senses: glosses: That traces out a cyclic curve
ambidensovirus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ambidensoviruses
Senses: glosses: Any DNA virus of the genus Ambidensovirus
ambidensoviruses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ambidensovirus
anerobically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of anaerobically.
angioanatomy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From angio- + anatomy.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: The anatomy of blood vessels
Related terms: angioanatomic
angioanatomic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From angio- + anatomic.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Relating to angioanatomy
angiodestructive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From angio- + destructive.
Senses: glosses: Relating to, or causing angiodestruction
angiodysplastic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From angio- + dysplastic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to, or causing angiodysplasia
anterocentral
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From antero- + central.
Senses: glosses: anterior and central
anticariogenicity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From anti- + cariogenicity.
Senses: glosses: The condition of being anticariogenic
antidystrophin
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From anti- + dystrophin.
Senses: topics: immunology
medicine
sciences
glosses: That generates an allergic reaction to dystrophin
antiedematogenic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From anti- + edematogenic.
Senses: glosses: That counters the formation of an edema
antiherbivorous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From anti- + herbivorous.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of antiherbivore.
synonyms: word: antiherbivore
antisurfactant
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From anti- + surfactant.
Senses: glosses: That counters the effect of a surfactant
antisurfactant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: antisurfactants
Etymology: From anti- + surfactant.
Senses: glosses: Such a material
antisurfactants
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of antisurfactant
antituberculostatic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From anti- + tuberculostatic.
Senses: glosses: That counters the action of a tuberculostatic
antituberculostatic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: antituberculostatics
Etymology: From anti- + tuberculostatic.
Senses: glosses: Such a material
antituberculostatics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of antituberculostatic
antityphoidal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From anti- + typhoidal.
Senses: glosses: That counters typhoid fever
appetetive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of appetitive.
approximatable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of approximable.
approximatedly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: In an approximated manner
archegoniate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Relating to or possessing archegonia.
archegoniate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: archegoniates
Senses: examples: text: Hofmeister (1851) discovered alternation of generations and demonstrated the connection between the pteridophytes and the bryophytes, giving rise to the concept of the archegoniates.
ref: 1966 October, Rudolf M[athias] Schuster, The Hepaticae and Anthocerotae of North America: East of the Hundredth Meridian, volume I, New York, N.Y.; London: Columbia University Press, →OCLC, page 130:
glosses: Any organism having archegonia.
archivore
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: archivores
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Any organism that ingests archaeans, whether as food or as a source of energy.
Related terms: archivorous
archivory
archivorous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: […] and predators, with the bacterivorous/archivorous trophic guild referring to deposit feeders […] Bacterivorous/archivorous taxa usually feature depleted δ 15 N signatures, close to those of […]
ref: 2016, M Portail, K Olu, SF Dubois, et al., “Food-web complexity in Guaymas Basin hydrothermal vents and cold seeps”, in PloS one:
glosses: Ingesting archaeans (as the archivores do).
Related terms: archivory
archivory
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The condition of being archivorous.
astrophorin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: astrophorins
Senses: glosses: Any sea sponge of the suborder Astrophorina
astrophorins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of astrophorin
autodissociate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: autodissociates
form: autodissociating
form: autodissociated
form: autodissociated
Etymology: From auto- + dissociate.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: To dissociate without the intervention of any other species
Related terms: autodissociation
autooxidize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: autooxidizes
form: autooxidizing
form: autooxidized
form: autooxidized
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of autoxidize.
autooxidized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of autooxidize
autotrophical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of autotrophic.
Langub
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A barangay of Asturias, Cebu, Philippines.
glosses: A barangay of Calamba, Misamis Occidental, Philippines.
glosses: A barangay of Escalante, Negros Occidental, Philippines.
autoverification
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: autoverifications
Etymology: From auto- + verification.
Senses: glosses: automatic verification
awnedness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From awned + -ness.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: The condition of being awned
axoporid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: axoporids
Senses: glosses: Any fossil hydrozoan of the genus †Axopora
axoporids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of axoporid
includence
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From German Inkludenz, a 1960s neologism coined by Hubertus Tellenbach, derived from Latin inclūdō (“confine, imprison”).
Senses: examples: text: Tellenbach himself explains the melancholic phenomena of includence in terms of the characteristics of the pre-melancholic personality that society explicitly sanctions and promotes.
ref: 2008, Thomas Rütten, “Rufus’ Legacy in the Psychopathological Literature of the (Early) Modern Period”, in Peter E. Pormann, editor, On Melancholy: Rufus of Ephesus, →ISBN, page 248, n. 16:
text: In this context two constellations emerge that characterize the pre-melancholic phase, namely includence and remanence, followed by the radical transformation of the self–world relation into despair.
ref: 2017, Giovanni Stanghellini, Milena Mancini, The Therapeutic Interview in Mental Health: A Values-Based and Person Approach, →ISBN, page 139:
text: Moving from Tellenbach[’s] description of the Typus Melancholicus, we can observe an ongoing evolution toward endogenous depression starting with a pre-melancholic phase. In this stage, three main elements can be described: includence, remanence, and despair.
ref: 2020, Giuseppe Sarli et al., “COVID-19 related lockdown: a trigger from the pre-melancholic phase to catatonia and depression, a case report of a 59 year-old man”, in BMC Psychiatry, volume 20, →DOI:
topics: human-sciences
medicine
psychiatry
psychology
sciences
glosses: The withdrawal of a person within a routine that they cannot escape, a forerunner of pathological melancholia.
Blighties
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Blighty
Blighty one
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Blighty ones
Etymology: From the fact that such a wound would have one be sent back to England (Blighty).
Senses: examples: text: Though my thoughts did not formulate themselves so clearly or so crudely at the time, I had a “Blighty” one, that sort of wound that all the soldiers sighed and sang for (“Take me back to dear old Blighty”), and my platoon, in which I had taken much pride, could now look after itself.
ref: 2012, J. R. Ackerley, My Father and Myself, →ISBN:
text: 'Well, Smudge,' says Danny, 'I heard you'd copped a Blighty One.'
ref: 2014, Tony Bradman, Stories of World War One, →ISBN:
text: 'Well, lad, you've got yourself a Blighty one, by the looks!' The orderly patted Mark's neatly bandaged torso.
ref: 2014, Judith Saxton, The Glory, →ISBN:
text: How often on the march one had looked back oneself into a passing ambulance and wished, rather shamefully, for a “Blighty” one.
ref: 2014, E.G.D. Living, Walking into Hell 1st July 1916: Memoirs of the First Day of the Somme, →ISBN:
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: A wound that is relatively minor, but sufficiently severe that one will be sent to the hospital in England.
Blighty ones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Blighty one
Blighty bag
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Blighty bags
Etymology: From Blighty one (“a wound that gets one sent away from the front to hospital”).
Senses: examples: text: Carrie May Hall: "Tell the women to make 'Blighty' bags!
ref: 1991, Dorothy Schneider, Carl J. Schneider, Into the breach: American women overseas in World War I, page 298:
text: Two lightly wounded men, detailed to help, took his belongings and put them in a 'Blighty bag,' carefully marking his name, rank, serial number, and unit.
ref: 2005, John Warner, Emperor of the East Slope, →ISBN, page 84:
text: Their treasures are put in little bags, ′Blighty bags′, the boys call them.
ref: 2018, Susanna de Vries, Australian Heroines of World War One, →ISBN:
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: A small bag that holds a wounded soldier's personal effects and accompanies him to hospital.
Blighty bags
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Blighty bag
cod psychology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From cod (“having the character of imitation”) + psychology.
Senses: examples: text: The cod psychology used to explain hackers' motivations is evident in Gilboa's statement quoted above, and in Cyberpunk poorly founded conjectures are continually made as to the state of mind of various hackers.
ref: 1999, Paul A. Taylor, Hackers: Crime in the Digital Sublime, Psychology Press, →ISBN, page 179:
text: Piss off with the cod psychology, says Nina, it's not my worst fears that built the cairn.
ref: 2010, Sarah Moss, Cold Earth, →ISBN:
text: While there was an awareness of the 'mental side' of sport, the psychological methods used in British sport were mainly non-scientific and could be described as cod psychology.
ref: 2012, Neil Carter, Medicine, Sport and the Body: A Historical Perspective, →ISBN, page 95:
text: One must beware of cod psychology.
ref: 2019, Tim Mackintosh-Smith, Arabs: A 3,000-Year History of Peoples, Tribes and Empires, →ISBN:
glosses: Beliefs about psychology that have no basis in fact; psychological prejudices, amateur psychology.
Related terms: cod psychologist
sweatshirting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From sweatshirt + -ing.
Senses: glosses: Fabric used to make sweatshirts.
Related terms: shirting
chairful
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chairfuls
form: chairsful
Etymology: From chair + -ful.
Senses: examples: text: Then came a mixed party, that increased the audience to twelve chairsful, and in the few moments that followed there was such a steady procession of boys and girls, that Tom literally had his hands full.
ref: 1886 October 21, John Habberton, “Tom Meredith’s Tableaux”, in The Youth’s Companion, volume LIX, number 42, Boston, Mass.: Perry Mason & Co., page 394:
text: There will be no chairful of girlishness reading Bertha M. Clay, nor a rockerful of grandma knitting, nor a stoolful of big sister strumming " Forgotten."
ref: 1929, Munsey's Magazine - Volume 96, page 436:
text: Whether you're talking to a chairful, a roomful or a nation full of people, the principles of human communication are the same.
ref: 1968, Briton Hadden, Time - Volume 91, page 149:
text: Bialik pointed at him and murmured in my ear: "A chairful of Jew."
ref: 1977, Maurice Samuel, The Worlds of Maurice Samuel: Selected Writings, page 222:
text: If you practice in an exclusive area and have chairfuls of well-healed clients, this axiom probably does not apply.
ref: 1981, Aldon J. Hilton, Winning the dental insurance game: operations manual, page 110:
text: A chairful of hot blonde had taken up residence, and over her giggles and squeals, Neil made sure to catch Sophia's eye.
ref: 2014, Alice Clayton, Rusty Nailed, →ISBN, page 90:
glosses: A person (of a particular quality) that sits in a chair.
examples: text: Garth, the collie, lay between them before the fire, his amber eyes only half-closed, except when in dreams he fought again his old battles ; and a chairful of cats and kittens slumbered peacefully.
ref: 1936, Florence Robertson Cameron, Told in Furthest Hebrides:
text: My mother carded her own rolls and laid them across a chair till they piled up almost to the top of the chair-back, then put cards aside and spun the whole chairful of rolls.
ref: 1942, William Edward Cox, Southern Sidelights, page 37:
text: Every home should have at least one corner that's all his . . . with a big, brawny chairful of solid comfort waiting just for him.
ref: 1969, House and Garden - Volume 136, page 180:
text: When we got back to Dover Street, pacing the chairful of presents, that letter was awaiting us.
ref: 2000, Leon Garfield, Jack Holborn, →ISBN, page 195:
glosses: A quantity that fills a chair.
chairful
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more chairful
form: most chairful
Etymology: From chair + -ful.
Senses: examples: text: "Good seating is essential to good health" said Doctor ERCOLion. "And for every seating eventuality Ercol have an effective prescription of the utmost chairful charm.
ref: 1965, The Hospital and Health Services Review - Volume 61, page xv:
text: The most chairful of chairs are to be found in the smoking-rooms of clubs.
ref: 1972, To-day - Volumes 5-7, page 15:
text: The "chairful” event took place in September.
ref: 1989, The World: Journal of the Unitarian Universalist Association:
text: So plan on doing your own twisting and shouting at the "chair"ful event.
ref: 1993, Arts - Volumes 16-17, page 11:
glosses: Chairlike or involving chairs.
examples: text: ...and they are in sich order that he has only to talk of the lock and the key to subdoo e'm in a minuet—poor creturs, them as I seed where chairful, and not one of them was wiping, they had plenty of vitals, and spoke of the Coloony as a nice place, and called the Guvenor a Darling—but it seems wretched work...
ref: 1873, Theodore Edward Hook, The Choice Humorous Works of Theodore Hook, page 107:
text: Ah, go on now Masta Bones, with your impendements and your parrotricks ! Blank memory of darky in blued suit. You were ever the gentle poet. Be nice about it ! Look chairful !
ref: 1929, Eugène Jolas, Transition: An International Workshop for Orphic Creation:
glosses: Pronunciation spelling of cheerful.
chairfuls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chairful
table-decker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: table-deckers
Senses: examples: text: At this time the table-decker came up. He took a napkin out of his budget, wiped the Cup, and was going to give the king some water to drink.
ref: 1787, The New Lady's Magazine:
text: In 1749, he complimented Mr. Garrick in an Ode on his marriage with Madam Violetti ; and about the same period he united himself in the same state with Miss Hamilton, daughter of Mr. Hamilton, table-decker to the princesses.
ref: 1804, The works of the poets of Great Britain and Ireland:
text: George III from 1761 included a table-decker in his personal household ; another was allocated to the ten maids-of-honour and bedchamber women, and a third to his numerous chaplains.
ref: 1965, Country Life - Volume 137, page 1413:
glosses: A servant in an aristocratic household who specifies where various dishes and decorations are to be placed at table.
table-deckers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of table-decker
Tedim
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Tiddim
Senses: glosses: A language spoken by the Sukte (Tiddim Chin people).
baceridin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A cyclic hexapeptide present in an epiphytic bacillus
bacilloscopist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bacilloscopists
Etymology: From bacilloscop(y) + -ist.
Senses: glosses: A practitioner of bacilloscopy.
baciloscopist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of bacilloscopist.
baeocyte
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: baeocytes
Senses: glosses: Synonym of endospore (“vegetative spore”).
synonyms: word: endospore
extra: vegetative spore
baeocytes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of baeocyte
balaglitazone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From [Term?] + -glitazone (“thiazolidinedione derivative”).
Senses: topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: A thiazolidinedione derivative that shows antihyperglycemic activity.
banisterioid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: banisterioids
Senses: glosses: Any flowering plant of the genus Banisteriopsis
banisterioids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of banisterioid
beampath
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: beampaths
Senses: glosses: The path of a beam (typically in a particle accelerator)
beampaths
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of beampath
Torresian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to the Torres Strait
Derived terms: Torresian crow
Torresian imperial pigeon
Torresian kingfisher
bebbistatin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of blebbistatin.
pair of pincers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pairs of pincers
Etymology: From Middle English paire of pynsours.
Senses: glosses: A gripping tool, pivoted like a pair of scissors, but with blunt jaws.
Synonyms: pincers
bicollateral
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From bi- + collateral.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Having phloem on each side of the xylem.
raw_tags: of a vascular bundle
Derived terms: bicollaterally
bidensovirus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bidensoviruses
Senses: topics: biology
microbiology
natural-sciences
virology
glosses: Any DNA virus of the genus Bidensovirus
bidensoviruses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bidensovirus
bifilm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bifilms
Etymology: From bi- + film.
Senses: glosses: A double film, typically with a layer of air between them, sometimes formed when liquid metal is poured into a mould
bifilms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bifilm
bigluconate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bigluconates
Etymology: From bi- + gluconate.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of digluconate.
synonyms: word: digluconate
bilioma
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: biliomas
Senses: glosses: A mass of bile fluid formed by damage to the bile duct
biliomas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bilioma
bioarchaeologically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From bio- + archaeologically.
Senses: glosses: In a bioarchaeological manner
bioelectrics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From bio- + electrics.
Senses: glosses: biological electrics
Related terms: bioelectric
bioplot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bioplots
Etymology: From bio- + plot.
Senses: glosses: A biological plot (graphical representation).
bioplots
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bioplot
bipyrimidine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bipyrimidines
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of several isomeric bicyclic heterocycles formed from two pyrimidine rings joined by a single bond, but especially 2,2′-bipyrimidine
Synonyms: dipyrimidyl
bitelomeric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From bi- + telomeric.
Senses: glosses: Relating to, or composed of two telomerea
blonanserine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of blonanserin.
brachyspiral
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to bacteria of the order Brachyspirales
bristleworm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bristleworms
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of bristle worm.
bristleworms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bristleworm
bristle worm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bristle worms
Senses: glosses: Synonym of polychete.
synonyms: word: polychete
bristle worms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bristle worm
bronchosecretion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bronchosecretions
Etymology: From broncho- + secretion.
Senses: glosses: bronchial secretion
bryoflora
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bryofloras
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: bryophytes considered as a group
yabbo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: yabbos
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of yobbo.
Related terms: yabbos
yabbos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Prudence is at her desk, across the aisle from me, working the keyboard on her phone, looking like the perfect goddess she is. Her perky yabbos are doing a pretty good impression of a couple of Hostess Sno Balls below her form-fitting fuzzy pink sweater.
ref: 2010, Don Calame, Beat the Band, Candlewick Press, →ISBN, page 98:
glosses: Alternative form of yabos (“a woman's breasts”).
yabbos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Senses: glosses: plural of yabbo
yabba
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: yabbas
Senses: glosses: A traditional Jamaican handmade ceramic cooking pot.
Related terms: yabba dabba doo
yabba dabba don't
yabbas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of yabba
cod psychologist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cod psychologists
Senses: examples: text: I had never linked my mental health with my relationships, even if a cod psychologist could make it out a mile off.
ref: 2018, The Pool, Life Honestly: Strong Opinions from Smart Women, →ISBN:
text: As any cod psychologist like me knows, these protective devices don't always wear well in the long term.
ref: 2019, David Gilbert, The Patient Revolution: How We Can Heal the Healthcare System, →ISBN:
text: The popularity of Maslow's hierarchy lies partly in its flexibility and partly in its simplicity: because it is a universal theory of human motivation, it can be applied to any audience; and because each of the five layers of the pyramid is fairly simple to understand, any cod psychologist or parasitic consultant can bend the theory to his or her ends.
ref: 2019, Nick Liddell, Richard Buchanan, Wild Thinking: 25 Unconventional Ideas to Grow Your Brand and Your Business, →ISBN, page 69:
glosses: One who indulges in cod psychology.
cod psychologists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cod psychologist
crookle
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: crookles
form: crookling
form: crookled
form: crookled
Etymology: Equivalent to crook (“to bend”) + -le (frequentative or diminutive suffix). Compare Dutch kreukelen, Low German krökeln.
Senses: qualifier: Lancashire
glosses: To bend; to make crooked.
canalotomy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: canalotomies
Etymology: From canal + -otomy.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
surgery
glosses: Incision into a bodily canal
candidapepsin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Compound of translingual Candida + pepsin.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A pepsin present in Candida albicans
carbonitrides
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of carbonitride
carbonitrides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of carbonitride
cardamomin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The chalcone 1-(2,4-dihydroxy-6-methoxyphenyl)-3-phenyl-2-propen-1-one
cardamonin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of cardamomin.
carpopodiums
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of carpopodium
centronuchal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From centro- + nuchal.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: central and nuchal
cerebrocapillary
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From cerebro- + capillary.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Relating to cerebral capillaries
cetriaxone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of ceftriaxone.
chaoyangopterid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chaoyangopterids
Senses: glosses: Any pterosaur of the family †Chaoyangopteridae
chaoyangopterids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chaoyangopterid
chaxapeptin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A lasso peptide present in an extremotolerant strain of Streptomyces
link in
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: links in
form: linking in
form: linked in
form: linked in
Senses: glosses: to connect in a useful or meaningful way
link out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: links out
form: linking out
form: linked out
form: linked out
Senses: examples: text: A brief aside about hoarding PageRank: many people have taken this to an extreme and built sites where they refused to link out to other quality websites, because they feared losing visitors and link juice.
ref: 2012, Eric Enge, Stephan Spencer, Jessie Stricchiola, Rand Fishkin, chapter 4, in The Art of SEO, O'Reilly Media, →ISBN, page 111:
glosses: To link to an external website.
amp up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -ʌp
Forms: form: amps up
form: amping up
form: amped up
form: amped up
Senses: glosses: To amplify; to increase the power, interest, intensity, volume, etc. of (something).
glosses: To excite; to arouse.
torque up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: torques up
form: torquing up
form: torqued up
form: torqued up
Senses: glosses: to increase the power; interest; intensity; volume; level etc. of
Related terms: torque off
loose off
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: looses off
form: loosing off
form: loosed off
form: loosed off
Senses: examples: text: They loosed off a couple of rounds at the enemy.
text: More likely, it was the prospect of meat. Curwen was by now craving a juicy roast – 'even seal chop' – and was always loosing off at tickleasses and harps.
ref: 2006, John Gimlette, Theatre of Fish: Travels Through Newfoundland and Labrador, page 225:
glosses: to fire (a weapon, or ammunition); to shoot (using a firearm)
glosses: to unfasten, to loosen (chains, bonds, etc.)
linked in
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of link in
amped up
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more amped up
form: most amped up
Senses: examples: text: Though miso wasn’t uncovered in any of the raids, the overall crackdowns—and amped up policing—have made vendors wary of selling the pill.
ref: 2014 June 27, Erica Hellerstein, “The Rise of the DIY Abortion in Texas”, in The Atlantic:
glosses: Synonym of amped (“excited, full of energy”).
synonyms: word: amped
extra: excited, full of energy
amped up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of amp up
linked out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of link out
torqued up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of torque up
loosed off
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of loose off
cheironym
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cheironyms
Etymology: From cheiro- + -nym.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
taxonomy
glosses: An unofficial, unpublished name of an organism
cheironyms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cheironym
sun up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: suns up
form: sunning up
form: sunned up
form: sunned up
Senses: glosses: to sunbathe; to soak up the sun
glosses: to become sunny or sunnier
chimaphilin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The naphthoquinone derivative 2,7-dimethyl-1,4-naphthoquinone present in Passiflora incarnata
putter about
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: putters about
form: puttering about
form: puttered about
form: puttered about
Senses: glosses: To be engaged in meaningless activity.
chimiocompetent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of chemocompetent.
fight down
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: fights down
form: fighting down
form: fought down
form: fought down
Senses: examples: text: He fought down the urge to laugh.
text: She fought down the rage building up inside her.
glosses: To suppress (a feeling or emotion).
chloroindazole
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chloroindazoles
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any chloro derivative of an indazole, but especially 3-chloroindazole
circadianity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The condition of being circadian
climosequence
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: climosequences
Etymology: From climo- + sequence.
Senses: qualifier: soil science
glosses: A sequence of soil profiles, typically on a hillside, that differ in climatic conditions
climosequences
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of climosequence
complexolysis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The solvolysis of a complex
confamiliar
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From con- + familiar.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
taxonomy
glosses: Belonging to the same family
confamiliar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: confamiliars
Etymology: From con- + familiar.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
taxonomy
glosses: A member of the same family as another organism
Timaeus
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /taɪˈmiːəs/
Etymology: From Latin Tīmaeus, from Ancient Greek Τῑ́μαιος (Tī́maios), from Ancient Greek τῑμάω (tīmáō, “honour”, verb). Appears as the name of one of Plato's dialogues. It is also the name of a person mentioned in the New Testament (Mark 10:46).
Senses: glosses: A male given name from Ancient Greek.
glosses: One of the dialogues written by Athenian philosopher Plato around 360 BC.
Related terms: Timaean
Timaic
confamiliars
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of confamiliar
controlesional
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of contralesional.
copaxone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: The drug glatiramer acetate used in the treatment of multiple sclerosis
corecursively
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From co- + recursively.
Senses: glosses: In a corecursive manner
Derived terms: corecursively enumerable
costoplasty
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: costoplasties
Etymology: From costo- + -plasty.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
surgery
glosses: Reshaping of the ribs, typically to alleviate a hunchback
cryopulverization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From cryo- + pulverization.
Senses: glosses: pulverization at low temperature
language technology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The interdisciplinary field dealing with making computer programs model, analyze, produce, modify and respond to human language.
curcuphenol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The sesquiterpenoid phenol 5-methyl-2-(6-methylhept-5-en-2-yl)phenol present in some marine sponges
telmatic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From telmat- + -ic, from Ancient Greek τέλμᾰ (télmă, “stagnant water; marsh”).
Senses: glosses: Relating to stagnant water, typically a marsh, swamp, fen or bog; freshwater
topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: deposited in a marsh or swamp
Related terms: acrotelm
catotelm
telmatology
cyanoprokaryote
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cyanoprokaryotes
Etymology: From cyano- + prokaryote.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of cyanobacterium.
synonyms: word: cyanobacterium
cyanoprokaryotes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cyanoprokaryote
cyanoquinoline
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cyanoquinolines
Etymology: From cyano- + quinoline.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any cyano derivative of quinoline
cyanoquinolines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cyanoquinoline
Timeus
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Timeuses
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Timaeus; A male given name.
cyclocurcumin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The curcumin derivative 2-(4-hydroxy-3-methoxyphenyl)-6-[(E)-2-(4-hydroxy-3-methoxyphenyl)ethenyl]-2,3-dihydropyran-4-one present in turmeric
cyclodeviation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cyclodeviations
Etymology: From cyclo- + deviation.
Senses: glosses: The extent of the movement of the eyeball along the anteroposterior axis
Related terms: cyclotropia
cyclovertical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From cyclo- + vertical.
Senses: glosses: Describing a form of cyclotropia due to misalignment of cyclodeviation between the two eyes
degazettal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The process or the result of being degazetted.
degradasome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: degradasomes
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of degradosome.
degradasomes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of degradasome
dendritosynaptic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From dendrito- + synaptic.
Senses: glosses: dendritic and synaptic
dephosphomimetic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dephosphomimetics
Etymology: From de- + phosphomimetic.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any agent that mimics biological dephosphorylation