cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
mapfuls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mapful
warrior wasp
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: warrior wasps
Senses: glosses: Any of various wasps of ferocious appearance and aggressive behavior, especially in taxa:
Synoeca, found in South and Central America.
glosses: Any of various wasps of ferocious appearance and aggressive behavior, especially in taxa:
Megalara garuda, found in Indonesia.
warrior wasps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of warrior wasp
umbraviral
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to the umbraviruses
unaffiliative
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + affiliative.
Senses: glosses: Not affiliative
uncinectomy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɛktəmi
Forms: form: uncinectomies
Etymology: From uncinate + -ectomy.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
surgery
glosses: excision of the uncinate process of the nose
uncinectomies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of uncinectomy
uncomodulated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + comodulated.
Senses: glosses: Not comodulated
coagulational
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more coagulational
form: most coagulational
Etymology: From coagulation + -al.
Senses: glosses: Causing or relating to coagulation.
mestom
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of mestome
underexploit
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: underexploits
form: underexploiting
form: underexploited
form: underexploited
Etymology: From under- + exploit.
Senses: glosses: To exploit insufficiently
underexploiting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of underexploit
unelectrolyzed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + electrolyzed.
Senses: glosses: Not electrolyzed
unmetallated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + metallated.
Senses: glosses: Not metallated
unpseudoknotted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + pseudoknotted.
Senses: glosses: Not pseudoknotted
uroleptid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: uroleptids
Senses: glosses: Any ciliate of the genus Uroleptus
uroleptids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of uroleptid
usurpability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The condition of being usurpable
varanodontine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: varanodontines
Senses: glosses: Any extinct lizard of the former family †Varanodontinae (now called Varanopidae)
varanodontines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of varanodontine
varroacide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: varroacides
Senses: glosses: Any acaricide that targets Varroa mites
varroacides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of varroacide
ventrointermediate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From ventro- + intermediate.
Senses: glosses: ventral and intermediate
vibrionacean
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vibrionaceans
Senses: glosses: Any proteobacterium of the family Vibrionaceae.
vibrionaceans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of vibrionacean
videoduodenoscope
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: videoduodenoscopes
Etymology: From video- + duodenoscope.
Senses: glosses: A duodenoscope equipped with a video camera
videoduodenoscopes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of videoduodenoscope
wingpad
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wingpads
Etymology: From wing + pad.
Senses: topics: biology
entomology
natural-sciences
glosses: The part of a pupa that develops into a wing in the adult insect.
wingpads
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wingpad
zygocondyle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: zygocondyles
Etymology: From zygo- + condyle.
Senses: glosses: A paired condyle in the calcite skeleton of some brittle stars
zygocondyles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of zygocondyle
chanced upon
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of chance upon
chancing upon
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of chance upon
chances upon
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of chance upon
many moons ago
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Etymology: In reference to lunar calendars, which were more commonly used in premodern times.
Senses: glosses: A (very) long time ago.
Maribago
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A barangay of Lapu-Lapu City, Cebu, Philippines.
audiocast
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: audiocasts
Etymology: From audio- + -cast, from broadcast. Sometimes used to replace podcast to avoid confusion with an Apple product.
Senses: examples: text: These audiocasts broadcast live audio and video of the IETF meetings using IP multicasting from the meeting site to destinations around the globe.
ref: 1994, UNIX Review, volume 12, page 25:
glosses: An audio recording or broadcast available on the Internet, especially a podcast.
Rubik
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname from Hungarian
glosses: A town in Albania.
Derived terms: Rubik's cube
on the skew
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: slantwise
gets a word in edgewise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of get a word in edgewise
getting a word in edgewise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of get a word in edgewise
got a word in edgewise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past of get a word in edgewise
glosses: past participle of get a word in edgewise
gotten a word in edgewise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: past participle of get a word in edgewise
conjunctive error
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: conjunctive errors
Senses: examples: text: […] a conjunctive error is one in which two (or more) witnesses agree, and it constitutes evidence of the parallel descent of those witnesses from a single common ancestor in which the error was originally committed.
ref: 1996, James Grier, chapter 3, in The Critical Editing of Music, Cambridge University Press, page 77:
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
textual-criticism
glosses: An error found in two or more manuscripts indicating that one has been copied from the other, or that both have been copied from a common original.
Coordinate terms: separative error
Cuntzillas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Cuntzilla
axiomize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: axiomizes
form: axiomizing
form: axiomized
form: axiomized
Senses: examples: text: 1974, Metcalf, "General Discussion: Significance of the Sleep Parameters in Early Behavioral Development", in Basic Sleep Mechanisms, edited by Olga Petre-Quadens and John D. Schlag, Academic Press, page 405.
We have elected to axiomize these from the viewpoint of EEG development.
text: Scholarly populism leads logically enough to inverting the traditional focus on production over use: even outside of textual studies, a historian of technology can axiomize that "the majority have always been mainly concerned with the operation and maintenance of things and processes; with the uses of things, not their invention or development" (Edgerton xv).
ref: 2012, Leah Price, How to Do Things with Books in Victorian Britain, Princeton University Press, page 20:
text: Again, as argued in chapter 2 and throughout this book, Badiou is forced to axiomize, freeze, and distort Deleuze's thought in order to contrast it with his own, truer philosophy.
ref: 2013, Clayton Crockett, Deleuze Beyond Badiou: Ontology, Multiplicity, and Event, Columbia University Press, page 139:
glosses: Alternative form of axiomatize.
axiomizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of axiomize
axiomizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of axiomize
axiomized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of axiomize
neo-colonize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: neo-colonizes
form: neo-colonizing
form: neo-colonized
form: neo-colonized
form: neo-colonise
form: neocolonise
form: neocolonize
Etymology: From neo- + colonize.
Senses: examples: text: Africans need not continue to fear what they see and interpret as hidden American intentions to neo-colonize and further exploit their continent, directly or through proxies, lackeys, and ploys.
ref: 2009 July 13, Dr. Kofi J. Roberts, The Sargasso Bridge: America Speaks, Africa Answers, iUniverse, →ISBN, page 85:
glosses: To convert into a neo-colony.
drabi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: drabis
Etymology: From driver.
Senses: examples: text: One can hardly write of Suvla without a word of admiration for that patient and uncomplaining hero the Indian drabi, not forgetting his mules.
ref: 1929, Sir William Marshall, Memories of Four Fronts, page 133:
text: British transport officers contended that their drabis should be placed on the same footing as sepoys, because their war work was as important, and their heroism no less so.
ref: 2020, Radhika Singha, The Coolie's Great War: Indian Labour in a Global Conflict, 1914-1921, page 68:
glosses: A driver.
make garden
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: makes garden
form: making garden
form: made garden
form: made garden
Senses: examples: text: As the spring advanced, and after Jacob left us, he seemed ashamed of sitting in the house doing nothing, and therefore undertook to make us a garden, or “to make garden” as the Canadians term preparing a few vegetables for the season.
ref: 1852, Susanna Moodie, chapter 8, in Roughing it in the Bush; or, Life in Canada, volume 2, London: Richard Bentley, page 142:
text: “Can you take care of horses?”
“Yes.”
“Make garden?”
“Yes—I always took care of mother’s.”
ref: 1877, John Habberton, chapter 3, in The Jericho Road; A Story of Western Life, Chicago: Jansen, McClurg, page 32:
text: […] Ántonia and her mother were making garden, off across the pond in the draw-head.
ref: 1918, Willa Cather, chapter 18, in My Ántonia, Boston: Houghton Mifflin, page 146:
text: Crossing a ridge, he was happy to see that Miz’ Doanie and her three children were all out making garden.
ref: 1955, Julia Montgomery Street, chapter 8, in Fiddler’s Fancy, New York: Follett, page 67:
text: In the other century, and for a considerable number of years in this one, the solid citizenry of the town prided itself on home ownership [...]. One got a little place, planted a couple of fruit trees and a currant bush out back, made garden, seeded a lawn, and put a standing lamp on a center table in the living room.
ref: 1972, Henry W. Clune, chapter 12, in The Rochester I Know, Garden City, NY: Doubleday, page 163:
synonyms: garden#Verb
glosses: To plant or maintain a garden, especially a vegetable garden.
roweling-needle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: roweling-needles
Senses: glosses: A needle used for inserting a rowel or seton.
roweling-needles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of roweling-needle
Horner-Wadsworth-Emmons reaction
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Horner-Wadsworth-Emmons reactions
form: HWE reaction
Etymology: In 1958, Leopold Horner published a modified Wittig reaction using phosphonate-stabilized carbanions. William S. Wadsworth and William D. Emmons further defined the reaction.
Senses: glosses: A chemical reaction used in organic chemistry of stabilized phosphonate carbanions with aldehydes (or ketones) to produce predominantly E-alkenes.
wikipedia: Leopold Horner
William D. Emmons
Synonyms: Horner-Wittig reaction
Horner-Wadsworth-Emmons reactions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Horner-Wadsworth-Emmons reaction
HWE reaction
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: HWE reactions
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Horner-Wadsworth-Emmons reaction.
HWE reactions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of HWE reaction
Wittig reaction
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Wittig reactions
Etymology: The Wittig reaction was discovered in 1954 by Georg Wittig.
Senses: glosses: A chemical reaction of an aldehyde or ketone with a triphenyl phosphonium ylide to give an alkene and triphenylphosphine oxide.
wikipedia: Georg Wittig
Related terms: Horner-Wadsworth-Emmons reaction
Wittig reactions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Wittig reaction
Horner-Wittig reaction
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Horner-Wittig reactions
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Horner-Wadsworth-Emmons reaction.
synonyms: word: Horner-Wadsworth-Emmons reaction
Horner-Wittig reactions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Horner-Wittig reaction
Emmonses
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Emmons
megacult
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: megacults
Etymology: From mega- + cult.
Senses: glosses: A very large cult.
megacults
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of megacult
apistevist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: apistevists
Etymology: From a- + Ancient Greek πιστεύω (pisteúō, “to trust, put faith in”) + -ist.
Senses: examples: text: 2011, BionicDance, A Pissed-Off Apistevist, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FCVyi8p79w4
text: I myself identify as an apistevist (one who rejects faith), because faith is an assertion of unreasonable conviction that is assumed without reason and defended against all reason.
ref: 2016, Aron Ra, Foundational Falsehoods of Creationism, Pitchstone Publishing (US&CA)
text: So, just shuffle your non-apistevist self out of this group and go bother...well, nobody. I wouldn't wish your drivel on anyone else.
ref: 2017 August 21, Kevrob, “faith means exactly "I ain't got no evidence"”, in alt.atheism (Usenet):
text: Remember I'm a religious apistevist, a political atheist, and a DTAP (don't trust anyone person). Free and easy, rough and ready.
ref: 2017 September 19, max.it, “"English" county cricket”, in uk.sport.cricket (Usenet):
text: Even more so than religion, even rational skeptical apistevists can suddenly become blindsided by the passionate fury of politics.
ref: 2018 October 30, Oxyaena, “OT-ish: A Thought Experiment”, in talk.origins (Usenet):
qualifier: particularly religion
glosses: Someone who rejects using faith as a legitimate method to reach conclusions.
Hyponyms: atheist
Related terms: epistemology
apistevists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of apistevist
Bostons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Boston
macaroni salad
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: macaroni salads
form: mac salad
Senses: glosses: A type of pasta salad, served cold-made with cooked elbow macaroni and usually prepared with mayonnaise.
macaroni salads
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of macaroni salad
mac salad
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mac salads
Senses: glosses: Clipping of macaroni salad.
mac salads
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mac salad
pasta salad
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pasta salads
Senses: glosses: A salad prepared with one or more types of pasta, almost always chilled, and most often tossed in a vinegar, oil, or mayonnaise-based dressing.
Coordinate terms: chicken salad
jello salad
tuna salad
pasta salads
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pasta salad
semilike
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: semilikes
form: semiliking
form: semiliked
form: semiliked
Etymology: From semi- + like.
Senses: examples: text: Anne only semiliked Jake; her true interest was in Robert.
glosses: To partially like.
semilikes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of semilike
semiliking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of semilike
semiliked
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of semilike
significant figure
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: significant figures
Senses: examples: text: The speed was calculated by dividing 2314 metres by 71 seconds and reported as 32.5915 m/s, but since both the distance and time were measured only to the nearest whole number, there were actually only two significant figures in this result, i.e. 32.
topics: mathematics
sciences
synonyms: significant digit
glosses: A digit that is meaningful with respect to the precision of a measurement; that is, excluding any leading zeroes, trailing rounding or placeholder zeroes, and non-zero digits not warranted by the accuracy of a derivation or measurement.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see significant, figure.
Related terms: round number
significant figures
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of significant figure
Marmageddon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Marm(ite) + -mageddon.
Senses: examples: text: Prime Minister John Key is among thousands of Kiwis having to ration their Marmite, as 'Marmageddon' enters its second day.
ref: 2012 March 20, Alan Gibson, “Marmageddon': There's always Vegemite, says PM”, in New Zealand Herald:
text: First it was "Marmageddon" as Marmite vanished from shop shelves - now Vegemite has been hit by supply problems.
ref: 2012 July 11, Christopher Adams, “Fears spread of Vegemite shortage”, in Otago Daily Times:
text: Following the 2011 Christchurch earthquakes, Marmite fans faced 'Marmageddon' with the Sanitarium factory forced to cease production of the well known condiment due to extensive renovations of its earthquake damaged factory.
ref: 2013 September 30, “Marmite returns to shelves post Christchurch earthquake”, in Marketing magazine Australia:
text: The Marmageddon reaction seemed entirely out of proportion to the problem.
ref: 2018 July 19, Jennifer Bowden, “Remember Marmageddon? It could be the key to your food cravings”, in Stuff:
glosses: A national shortage of Marmite in New Zealand from early 2012 until late 2013, following damage in the 2011 earthquake to the Christchurch factory that produced the product.
examples: text: (see title)
ref: 2016 October 13, “'Marmageddon' called off as Marmite returns to UK shelves”, in The Journal:
text: The Sun called it Marmageddon while the Daily Mail condemned "marmite whingers" and urged patriotic consumers to boycott Unilever and switch to Bovril (oblivious to the fact that Bovril is also owned by you-know-who).
ref: 2016 October 14, Phil Teer, “Marmitegate will mark the moment that Brexit got real”, in Campaign:
text: It was dubbed Marmageddon: a very public spat between two of the giants of the grocery business – Tesco and Unilever – that saw the supermarket giant refuse to accept price rises on hundreds of Unilever products and that resulted in Marmite disappearing from Tesco’s shelves and website.
ref: 2016 October 28, Sarah Butler, Julia Kollewe, “Morrisons puts Marmite price up 12.5%”, in The Guardian:
text: From Westminster, we hear the cry that ‘Brexit means Brexit’, a phrase which is devoid of any real semantic meaning; while from the tabloids, we are given a taster of the early effects of Brexit on our favourite products – a potential marmageddon or toblerone doom.
ref: 2016 December 27, Carol Silveira, “On the brink of Brexit: Scotland's future in Europe”, in The New Federalist:
glosses: Synonym of Marmitegate.
synonyms: word: Marmitegate
Keays
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /kiːz/
homophone: cays
homophone: keys
homophone: quays
rhymes: -iːz
Forms: form: Keayses
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Related terms: Keay
Keayses
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Keays
submarine sandwiches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of submarine sandwich
sub sandwich
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sub sandwiches
Senses: glosses: Clipping of submarine sandwich.
sub sandwiches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sub sandwich
pizza sub
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pizza subs
Senses: glosses: A heated submarine sandwich topped like a pizza, with cheese, sliced meat, and tomato sauce.
Synonyms: word: pizza sub sandwich
word: pizza submarine sandwich
pizza subs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pizza sub
pizza sub sandwich
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pizza sub sandwiches
Senses: glosses: Synonym of pizza sub.
synonyms: word: pizza sub
pizza sub sandwiches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pizza sub sandwich
pizza submarine sandwich
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pizza submarine sandwiches
Senses: glosses: Synonym of pizza sub.
synonyms: word: pizza sub
pizza submarine sandwiches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pizza submarine sandwich
folderful
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: folderfuls
form: foldersful
Etymology: From folder + -ful.
Senses: examples: text: Ben Gordon slid the folderful of pamphlets on the Philosopher's Stone across his desk to Josef.
ref: 1980, Robert Taylor, Burchenal Green, Tales of the marvelous machine: 35 stories of computing, page 208:
text: Each of Shearson's business units generates a folderful of documentation a day: hundreds of journal entries, order tickets, wire transfers, cash sheets and other items.
ref: 1990, Datamation - Volume 36, Issues 1-8, page 61:
text: On the primary course, you create whole folderfuls of these paper-fillers, each individual task being incredibly straightforward but also annoyingly time-consuming.
ref: 2007, Jon Barbuti, Learning to Teach with a Hangover, →ISBN, page 153:
text: The whole point of local radio was to involve the community, to be its village hall, its notice board, its next-door neighbour — we had foldersful of corporation cliches about all this.
ref: 2010, Michael Buerk -, The Road Taken, →ISBN, page 98:
glosses: All of the documents, papers, notes, etc. that are contained in a folder.
examples: text: Control Panel provides a folderful of essential property sheets and helpful wizards.
ref: 1995, Craig Stinson, Running Microsoft Windows 95:
text: This Mac OS X capability to open a folderful of documents when a folder is selected in an Open dialog can be pretty scary when, from years of habit, you select a folder and hit the Open button to open the folder to look inside, and—whoops!
ref: 2006, Sharon Zardetto Aker, Real World Mac OS X Fonts, →ISBN:
text: I deleted all the other versions from my computer, dozens of foldersful, the result of nearly two years' work.
ref: 2008, Andy Kirkpatrick, Psychovertical, →ISBN, page 117:
glosses: All of the electronic files contained in a folder or directory.
folderfuls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of folderful
foldersful
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of folderful
heatful
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more heatful
form: most heatful
Etymology: From heat + -ful.
Senses: examples: text: We had survived the long and heatful summer, enjoyed the splendid fall,
ref: 1913, Alice Henry, Stella M. Franklin, Amy Walker Field, Life and Labor - Volumes 3-4, page 71:
text: Winter's cold being the readiest punisher available, I took to applying snow or ice to myself in my furtive efforts to quench the heatful ardor.
ref: 1993, Susan Davis, The Long Reach, →ISBN, page 70:
text: Heatful-blooded animals, properly clothed, are not subject to this handicap.
ref: 2005, David Drake, Eric Flint, Jim Baen, The World Turned Upside Down, →ISBN:
glosses: Hot.
Tkac
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Slavic languages (Slovak, Czech, Carpathian Rusyn) meaning "weaver," ultimately from Proto-Slavic *tъkačь. Compare Tkach.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Diachun
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Dyachun
Etymology: From Ukrainian Дячу́н (Djačún).
Senses: glosses: A transliteration of the Ukrainian surname Дячун (Djačun).
Kopac
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Czech Kopáč or Slovene Kopač.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Czech.
Koltun
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Koltuns
form: Kovtun
form: Kowtun
Etymology: From Polish Kołtun or Russian колтун (koltun, “knotty or matted hair”).
Senses: glosses: A surname.
gets a word in edgeways
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of get a word in edgeways
getting a word in edgeways
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of get a word in edgeways
got a word in edgeways
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past of get a word in edgeways
glosses: past participle of get a word in edgeways
gotten a word in edgeways
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: past participle of get a word in edgeways
Kovtun
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Kovtuns
form: Koltun
form: Kowtun
Etymology: From Ukrainian Ковтун (Kovtun), from Ukrainian ковтун (kovtun).
Senses: glosses: A transliteration of the Ukrainian surname Ковтун (Kovtun).
mbunas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mbuna
accretionarily
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: In an accretionary manner
Neanderthaler
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Neanderthalers
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Neanderthal (“member of the extinct species”).
synonyms: word: Neanderthal
extra: member of the extinct species
Neanderthalers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Neanderthaler
adrostral
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From ad- + rostral.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Near the rostrum (snout)
agarobiose
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A disaccharide composed of galactose and anhydrogalactose units
Derived terms: neoagarobiose
alkoxyethyl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: alkoxyethyls
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any alkoxy derivative of an ethyl group
alphoscerate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: alphoscerates
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: 3-glycerophosphate
anexic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of axenic.
anomerics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of anomeric
anticompulsive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From anti- + compulsive.
Senses: glosses: That counters compulsive behaviour
arborinine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The acridine alkaloid 1-hydroxy-2,3-dimethoxy-10-methylacridin-9-one present in Erthela bahiensis
autocompaction
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: autocompactions
Etymology: From auto- + compaction.
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: compaction of a stratum due to its own weight
bangiophycean
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bangiophyceans
Senses: glosses: Any red alga of the class Bangiophyceae.
bangiophyceans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bangiophycean
benzonidazole
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of benznidazole.
betanodaviral
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to the betanodaviruses
yatis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of yati
whip-around
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: whip-arounds
Senses: examples: text: After revealing a bizarre money trail of whip-arounds from friends, unsolicited payment for a Manchester dinner, wins on the horses, cash savings for property investments, bags of cash and a lack of bank accounts, Mr Ahern’s evidence was turned on its head by his former secretary, Grainne Carruth.
ref: 2012 March 23, Sinead O'Carroll, “Gambling, lies, whip-arounds and the Teflon Taoiseach: how the world read Mahon”, in TheJournal.ie:
text: BERTIE Ahern's explanation that he received an envelope stuffed with £8,000 in cash following a whip-around by a group of Manchester-based businessmen was branded untrue by the Mahon Tribunal.
ref: 2012 March 23, Colm Kelpie, “Claim of 'whip-around' by friends rubbished”, in Irish Independent:
glosses: Alternative form of whip-round.
betulate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: betulates
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any salt or ester of betulinic acid
betulates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of betulate
biexponentials
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of biexponential
bifurcose
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A branched tetraose alpha-D-gluco-hexopyranosyl beta-D-arabino-hex-2-ulofuranosyl-(2->1)-[beta-D-arabino-hex-2-ulofuranosyl-(2->6)]-beta-D-arabino-hex-2-ulofuranoside
whip-arounds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of whip-around
biocatalysed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From bio- + catalysed.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of biocatalyzed.
biogeneration
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From bio- + generation.
Senses: glosses: biochemical generation
bioincorporation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From bio- + incorporation.
Senses: glosses: biochemical incorporation
Related terms: bioincorporate
bionucleophile
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bionucleophiles
Etymology: From bio- + nucleophile.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A biochemical nucleophile.
glosses: Misspelling of binucleophile.
bionucleophiles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bionucleophile
whipround
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: whiprounds
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of whip-round.
whiprounds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of whipround
bronchovasculature
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From broncho- + vasculature.
Senses: glosses: bronchial vasculature
burinate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: burinates
form: burinating
form: burinated
form: burinated
Senses: glosses: To make a burin from a flint
Related terms: burination
burinated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of burinate
kick into the long grass
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: kicks into the long grass
form: kicking into the long grass
form: kicked into the long grass
form: kicked into the long grass
form: push into the long grass
form: punt into the long grass
form: go into the long grass
Etymology: An analogy of kicking a football off the playing field so that it is out of play.
Senses: examples: text: Generally, land claims had been treated on an ad hoc and haphazard basis, without any systemic absorption much less systematic response. The prevalent attitude was at best one of indifference or of inclination to kick into the long grass.
ref: 2011, P. G. McHugh, Aboriginal Title: The Modern Jurisprudence of Tribal Land Rights:
text: These problems have all needed resolving for years. But all involved too much risk (either for franchisees or the Government), and so they kept getting kicked into the long grass for being 'too difficult'.
ref: 2020 May 6, Stefanie Foster, “Comment: One chance for a new order”, in Rail, page 3:
text: However, in practice it is far easier to use procrastination to 'kick something into the long grass' than it is to write something off all together (unless of course it is a problem that solves itself, as we have already explored).
ref: 2021, Glenn Templeman, The HR Business Partner Handbook, page 127:
text: Otherwise they can be kicked into the long grass for action later, preferably by the next government.
ref: 2021, Ian Budge, Kick-Starting Government Action against Climate Change:
synonyms: kick the can down the road
glosses: To postpone action on something.
examples: text: Given the growth in participation opportunities for women and girls of all ages and the demise of what could truly be said to be 'male-only' sports, s.44 had been kicked into the long grass long before it, like the rest of the 1975 Act, was also repealed by the 2010 legislation.
ref: 2016, Stefan Horlacher, Transgender and Intersex, page 77:
text: There have been signs, post-Brexit, of a concerted effort by government ministers to downplay — not to say kick into the long grass — earlier Tory promises to reduce net migration numbers to 'tens of thousands'.
ref: 2017, Sarah Winterton, The Wintertons Unmuzzled:
text: These kick-ass and largely unknown figures in a history too often kicked into the long grass.
ref: 2020, Sara Ryan ·, Love, Learning Disabilities and Pockets of Brilliance, page 39:
synonyms: sweep under the rug
glosses: To hide or conceal a problem in the hope that it will be overlooked.
kick into the long grass
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kicks into the long grass
form: push into the long grass
form: punt into the long grass
form: go into the long grass
Etymology: An analogy of kicking a football off the playing field so that it is out of play.
Senses: examples: text: Never can a kick into the long grass have been more clearly signalled.
ref: 2010, Guy Lodge, Katie Schmuecker, Devolution in Practice, page 262:
text: But I could find nothing in the parliamentary record of the committee reporting back to the House and assume that, as now, referral to committee meant a kick into the long grass.
ref: 2011, Andrew Murrison, Tommy This an' Tommy That: The military covenant, page 142:
text: After gaining power, veteran political observers expected to see Labour give most of these proposals a "kick into the long grass”: endless rounds of study, committee hearings, expert counsel, etc.
ref: 2013, Dennis Pilon, Wrestling with Democracy, page 218:
text: It was an overoptimistic timetable — and rather a disingenous one, given that Macmillan would give the subjet a couple more kicks into the long grass when it came up again in 1960 ('opinion in the Cabinet was so equally balanced that it would be preferable to defer a decision') and 1963 ('arrange for further consideration to be given to the implications of the proposal').
ref: 2013, Adam Macqueen, The Prime Minister's Ironing Board and Other State Secrets:
glosses: An instance of kicking into the long grass.
Related terms: kick the can down the road
ostrich politics
push into the long grass
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: pushes into the long grass
form: pushing into the long grass
form: pushed into the long grass
form: pushed into the long grass
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of kick into the long grass.
anti-semitisms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of anti-semitism
tradwife
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈtɹæd.waɪf/
Forms: form: tradwives
form: trad wife
Etymology: From trad (“traditional”) + wife.
Senses: examples: text: Ms. Jorgenson is being interviewed on Radio 3Fourteen, a white supremacist talk radio program; it is interviewing her because she considers herself a tradwife.
ref: 2018 June 1, Annie Kelly, “The Housewives of White Supremacy”, in New York Times:
text: Blond and blue-eyed, just like the #tradwife ideal, but her eyes held a fierceness that overshadowed her fame.
ref: 2019, Dana Killion, Lies of Men:
text: He notes that many “white supremacists call for 'tradwives'—traditional wives—to produce more white children” (ibid.), an association between misogyny and racism.
ref: 2019, William F. Pinar, What Is Curriculum Theory?:
text: I hate her, hate groups, incel, tradwives, the fact that I don't usually hate anybody, ...
ref: 2019, Lucy Ellmann, Ducks, Newburyport, page 214:
text: The tradwife movement is one of the most concerning trends to have emerged in the past few years, with more and more women looking to switch their careers and independence for tending to hearth and home - and every will of their husbands.
ref: 2019 October 22, “'I want to submit to my husband like a 50s housewife': inside the controversial UK tradwife movement”, in Stylist Magazine:
text: Reactionary motifs are chic: Trump hats and “tradwife” frocks, monarchist and anti-feminist sentiments. Perhaps the ultimate expression of this contrarian aesthetic is its embrace of Catholicism.
ref: 2022 August 9, Julia Yost, “New York’s Hottest Club Is the Catholic Church”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
glosses: A wife who fulfills a traditional gender role based on Western middle-class femininity of the mid twentieth century.
Derived terms: tradwifery
Related terms: tradcath
homemaker
housewife
SAHM
Skoda
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Skodas
Etymology: Borrowed from Czech Škoda.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Škoda.
Skoda
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Czech Škoda.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Czech.
Skodas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Skoda
audio vérité
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Folk-blues singer Richie Havens, who opened the event while almost every other act was stuck in traffic, would later claim he “played for nearly three hours … I sang every song I knew!” We now know he only played for 45 minutes. This is an audio vérité documentary, right down to the on-stage announcements: “Eric Klinnenberg, please call home … Dennis Dache, please call your wife … Karen from Poughkeepsie, please meet Harold at the stand with the blood pills …”
ref: 2019 August 15, Bob Stanley, “'Groovy, groovy, groovy': listening to Woodstock 50 years on – all 38 discs”, in The Guardian:
coordinate_terms: cinéma vérité
vidéo vérité
glosses: An unedited audio recording.
cancerogenous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of cancerogenic.
that's your lot
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: examples: text: Hendrix is hilarious, as ever, explaining new song Izabella is “about a cat, blah blah, woof woof …” It’s a real shame they wouldn’t keep this lineup together. Hendrix repeatedly comments on the “patience” of the crowd. He plays the national anthem, his guitar dive-bombs at the end of Hey Joe and, that’s your lot. The applause dies away surprisingly quickly.
ref: 2019 August 15, Bob Stanley, “'Groovy, groovy, groovy': listening to Woodstock 50 years on – all 38 discs”, in The Guardian:
glosses: That is the end; there is no more; that's it; that's all
celiohysterectomy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: celiohysterectomies
Etymology: From Ancient Greek κοιλῐ́ᾱ (koilĭ́ā, “belly, abdomen”) + hysterectomy.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
surgery
glosses: laparotomic hysterectomy
celiohysterectomies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of celiohysterectomy
fat as a fool
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: qualifier: simile
glosses: extremely fat; porky
cervicograph
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cervicographs
Etymology: From cervico- + -graph.
Senses: glosses: A graphical record made by cervicography
Synonyms: cervicogram
cervicographs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cervicograph
cfDNA
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cfDNAs
Senses: glosses: Initialism of circulating, free DNA; DNA fragments circulating in the blood plasma.
Hypernyms: english: deoxyribonucleic acid
translation: deoxyribonucleic acid
word: DNA
Hyponyms: english: circulating tumour DNA
translation: circulating tumour DNA
word: ctDNA
english: cell-free fetal DNA
translation: cell-free fetal DNA
word: cffDNA
Related terms: english: cell-free RNA
translation: cell-free RNA
word: cfRNA
chemostratigraphical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From chemo- + stratigraphical.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of chemostratigraphic.
chinolones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chinolone
chlamydicidal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of chlamydiacidal.
chronocultural
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From chrono- + cultural.
Senses: topics: archaeology
history
human-sciences
sciences
glosses: Relating to the chronology of ancient cultures
Derived terms: chronoculturally
chronopathogenesis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From chrono- + pathogenesis.
Senses: glosses: The chronology of a pathogenesis
cladobranch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cladobranchs
Senses: glosses: Any nudibranch of the clade Cladobranchia.
cladobranchs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cladobranch
clinicoepidemiological
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From clinico- + epidemiological.
Senses: glosses: clinical and epidemiological
cocatalysis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From co- + catalysis.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: catalysis by means of a cocatalyst
coestimation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: coestimations
Etymology: From co- + estimation.
Senses: glosses: The simultaneous estimation of two or more values
coexistable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From co- + existable.
Senses: glosses: able to coexist
coimmunofluorescence
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From co- + immunofluorescence.
Senses: topics: immunology
medicine
sciences
glosses: immunofluorescence using two fluorochromes
coleranterazine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of coelenterazine.
coleurosaur
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of coelurosaur.
collocationally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: -eɪʃənəli
Senses: glosses: In a collocational manner
consubgeneric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From con- + subgeneric.
Senses: glosses: That belong to the same subgenus
copolymerizable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From co- + polymerizable.
Senses: glosses: Able to be copolymerized
coprocholic acid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The bile acid 3,7,12-trihydroxycholestan-26-oic acid
crossdates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of crossdate
cytobiocompatibility
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From cyto- + biocompatibility.
Senses: glosses: The condition of being cytobiocompatible.
cytobiocompatible
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From cyto- + biocompatible.
Senses: glosses: Cytologically biocompatible.
cytophylogeny
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From cyto- + phylogeny.
Senses: glosses: The phylogeny of cytoforms
starting block
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: starting blocks
Senses: glosses: A peg or angled block of wood or metal pedal used by track and field athletes, mainly sprinters, for getting a quick start in a race.
termons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of termon
Italian sub
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Italian subs
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Italian sandwich.
synonyms: word: Italian sandwich
Italian subs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Italian sub
Italian sub sandwich
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Italian sub sandwiches
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Italian sandwich.
synonyms: word: Italian sandwich
Italian sub sandwiches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Italian sub sandwich
Italian submarine sandwich
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Italian submarine sandwiches
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Italian sandwich.
synonyms: word: Italian sandwich
Italian submarine sandwiches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Italian submarine sandwich
rendezvous'd
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of rendezvous
lukuchuko
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Hadza rukutchuko.
Senses: glosses: A gambling game played by the Hadza people, in which pieces of bark are thrown to see how they will land.
lucripetous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more lucripetous
form: most lucripetous
Senses: synonyms: word: acquisitive
word: avaricious
word: cormorant
word: covetous
word: edacious
word: esurient
word: grasping
word: greedy
word: miserable
word: piggish
word: miserly
word: rapacious
word: selfish
word: sordid
word: sharp-set
word: voracious
glosses: Money-hungry.
deaminize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: deaminizes
form: deaminizing
form: deaminized
form: deaminized
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: To remove an amino group from a compound
Related terms: deamination
deaminized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of deaminize
Acayucan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish Acayucan, from a Nahuan language (cf. Classical Nahuatl Ācayohcān (“place covered in reeds”, name of Acayuca, Hidalgo)), calqued from Popoluca; cf. Highland Popoluca Ca̱pñɨɨm (ca̱pi (“arrow”)), Oluta Popoluca Capeꞌnʉ̱p (cape (“reed”)), Sayula Popoluca Capnʉꞌm (cap (“reed”)). Doublet of Acayuca.
Senses: glosses: A city in Veracruz, Mexico.
glosses: A municipality of Veracruz, Mexico, whose municipal seat is the city of the same name.
crofted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of croft
decollectivization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: decollectivizations
Etymology: From de- + collectivization.
Senses: glosses: The reversal of a previous collectivization
defucosylate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: defucosylates
form: defucosylating
form: defucosylated
form: defucosylated
Etymology: From de- + fucosylate.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: To remove a fucosyl group
defucosylates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of defucosylate
deiminates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of deiminate
dendroplasm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From dendro- + -plasm.
Senses: glosses: dendritic cytoplasm
deparaffinise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: deparaffinises
form: deparaffinising
form: deparaffinised
form: deparaffinised
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of deparaffinize.
dermatoprotective
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From dermato- + protective.
Senses: glosses: That protects the skin from damage
deselenation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: deselenations
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
synonyms: deselenization
glosses: The removal of selenium from a compound
diaminobutane
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: diaminobutanes
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any diamino derivative of butane
Related terms: putrescine