cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
unmothered
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + mothered.
Senses: examples: text: Twin lambs were divided into 2 groups: an unmothered group consisting of 1 of each pair of twins separated from its mother at birth, and a mothered group...
ref: 1965, American Psychological Association, Psychological abstracts, Volume 39:
text: In contrast, Artemis and Athena are more likely to cause others who care about them to feel rejected or unimportant, especially if, like Atalanta, they were unmothered and had to raise themselves much of the time.
ref: 2014, Jean Shinoda Bolen, Artemis: The Indomitable Spirit in Everywoman, page 136:
glosses: Lacking maternal care; not raised by a mother.
unmothered
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From un- + mothered.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of unmother
Related terms: unfathered
unparks
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of unpark
unparking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of unpark
unparked
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -ɑː(ɹ)kt
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of unpark
unparked
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɑː(ɹ)kt
Senses: examples: an unparked car
glosses: Not having been parked.
tailorings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tailoring
stick that in your pipe and smoke it
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of put that in your pipe and smoke it.
nonsystolic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + systolic.
Senses: glosses: Not systolic.
Coordinate terms: diastolic
reproing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of repro
reproed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of repro
synonymless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From synonym + -less.
Senses: glosses: Having no synonyms.
synonymists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of synonymist
thrombo-endarteriectomy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: thrombo-endarteriectomies
Etymology: From thrombo- + endarteriectomy.
Senses: examples: text: The authors report on early and delayed complications of 67 vascular plactic operations (thrombo-endarteriectomies, autological vein transplantations and alloplasties) which were carried out in the period from 1953 to 1959.
ref: 1961, Brun’s Beitraege zur Klinischen Chirurgie, volume 203, page 220:
glosses: Alternative spelling of thrombendarteriectomy.
blebby
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more blebby
form: most blebby
Etymology: From bleb + -y.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to blebs or bubbles
thromboendarteriectomy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: thromboendarteriectomies
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of thrombendarteriectomy.
thromboendoarteriectomy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of thrombendarteriectomy.
thrombendarteriectomies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of thrombendarteriectomy
diam.
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: diams.
form: diam
Senses: examples: text: The latter has the sporophyte seta 4 cells in diam. and has thecal Lejeunea-type androecial branches[…]
ref: 1992, Rudolf M[athias] Schuster, The Hepaticae and Anthocerotae of North America: East of the Hundredth Meridian, volume V, Chicago, Ill.: Field Museum of Natural History, →ISBN, page 6:
glosses: Abbreviation of diameter.
thecal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From theca + -al.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to a theca.
examples: text: The latter has the sporophyte seta 4 cells in diam. and has thecal Lejeunea-type androecial branches[…]
ref: 1992, Rudolf M[athias] Schuster, The Hepaticae and Anthocerotae of North America: East of the Hundredth Meridian, volume V, Chicago, Ill.: Field Museum of Natural History, →ISBN, page 6:
glosses: Possessing a theca.
Related terms: extrathecal
intrathecal
theca
colorific
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌkʌl.əˈɹɪf.ɪk/
rhymes: -ɪfɪk
Forms: form: more colorific
form: most colorific
form: colourific
Etymology: From French colorifique or New Latin colorificus, from color + -i- + -ficus.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: That produces colored precipitates
examples: text: It's a magical place filled with luscious tropical greens, colorific rare flowers, and talkative birds with personalities—all underneath a futuristic dome sky.
ref: 2015 December 23, Debra Zhou, “Enchanted Nights at Bloedel Conservatory”, in Georgia Straight:
text: The man, meanwhile, measures his full blackness against the night sky in a colorific conundrum that involves the painterly exploration of the darkest shades of the spectrum.
ref: 2018 October 6, Waldemar Januszczak, “Art review: Kerry James Marshall, David Zwirner; Mantegna and Bellini, National Gallery”, in The Times:
glosses: colorful
glosses: flowery; ornate
Synonyms: sense: colorful
word: motley
word: multicolored
word: polychromatic
sense: ornate
word: embellished
sense: ornate
word: flashy
sense: ornate
word: florid
sense: ornate
word: showy
colorific
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌkʌl.əˈɹɪf.ɪk/
rhymes: -ɪfɪk
Forms: form: colorifics
form: colourific
Etymology: From French colorifique or New Latin colorificus, from color + -i- + -ficus.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any substance that produces coloured precipitates.
colorizer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: colorizers
form: coloriser
form: colouriser
form: colourizer
Etymology: From colorize + -er.
Senses: glosses: A device or system that colorizes black and white film or images.
Savo Finnish
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Savo-Finnish
Etymology: Savo + Finnish.
Senses: examples: A system with tone bound to the second vowel of a prosodic word is found in Savo Finnish, where the second syllable nucleus has tone if the first syllable nucleus contains a single segment, … (Studies in Slavic and General Linguistics, Vol. 3, p. 91, 1983)
glosses: A dialect of Finnish, also called Savonian.
Savo Finnish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Savo Finnish
form: most Savo Finnish
form: Savo-Finnish
Etymology: Savo + Finnish.
Senses: glosses: Of, relating to, or spoken or written in Savo Finnish.
colorology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From color + -ology.
Senses: glosses: The scientific study of color.
glosses: Chromotherapy.
leaf insertion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: leaf insertions
Senses: examples: text: The Chilean Amphijubula Schust. (Schuster, 1970a) which has the facies of a small Frullania and agrees with Frullania in leaf insertion and branching, has a nontiered seta with 16 epidermal cell rows surrounding 4 inner rows.
ref: 1992, Rudolf M[athias] Schuster, The Hepaticae and Anthocerotae of North America: East of the Hundredth Meridian, volume V, Chicago, Ill.: Field Museum of Natural History, →ISBN, page 6:
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: In liverworts, the angle and orientation of the plane of the leaves with respect to the axis of the stem.
Related terms: incubous
succubous
transverse
nontiered
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + tiered.
Senses: examples: text: The Chilean Amphijubula Schust. (Schuster, 1970a) which has the facies of a small Frullania and agrees with Frullania in leaf insertion and branching, has a nontiered seta with 16 epidermal cell rows surrounding 4 inner rows.
ref: 1992, Rudolf M[athias] Schuster, The Hepaticae and Anthocerotae of North America: East of the Hundredth Meridian, volume V, Chicago, Ill.: Field Museum of Natural History, →ISBN, page 6:
glosses: Lacking tiers or organized ranks.
colostration
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Any disorder of infants attributed to the effects of the colostrum
colport
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /kɒlˈpɔː(ɹ)t/
Forms: form: colports
form: colporting
form: colported
form: colported
Etymology: Back-formation from colporteur
Senses: glosses: To work as a colporteur
magnetophoresis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: magnetophoreses
Etymology: Formed as magneto- + -phoresis, by analogy with electrophoresis.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Motion induced by a magnetic field on a particle of magnetic or magnetizable material (such as a hemoglobin-bearing red blood cell) in a fluid.
Related terms: magnetophoretic
electrophoresis
striplike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From strip + -like.
Senses: examples: text: The attachment to the stem is formed by a very narrow striplike fold, a few cell rows wide.
ref: 1992, Rudolf M[athias] Schuster, The Hepaticae and Anthocerotae of North America: East of the Hundredth Meridian, volume V, Chicago, Ill.: Field Museum of Natural History, →ISBN, page 7:
glosses: Resembling a strip.
colports
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of colport
colporting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of colport
colported
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of colport
ventriloquial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /vɛntɹɪˈləʊkwɪəl/
Forms: form: more ventriloquial
form: most ventriloquial
Etymology: From ventriloquy + -al.
Senses: examples: text: Her voice came, muffled, as if from the back of the top of his head. The ventriloquial effect was startling.
ref: 1924, Ford Madox Ford, Some Do Not… (Parade's End), Penguin, published 2012, page 125:
text: Learn the ventriloquial alphabet: A C D E G H I J K L N O Q R S T U X Z
ref: 2001 June 1, Jay Kirk, “Preachin' Puppets”, in Chicago Reader:
glosses: Of or relating to ventriloquy.
examples: text: He threw half-crowns up into the air until they disappeared into the central blue, and then held a ventriloquial conversation, not in the best of taste, with the celestial spirits, who having caught the coins announced their intention of sticking to them.
ref: 1915, William J. Locke, Jaffery:
glosses: Spoken to oneself.
examples: text: We tried this a couple of times with no luck whatsoever, partly because whipbirds are notoriously ventriloquial and we could never agree on where the call was coming from.
ref: 2005, Sean Dooley, The Big Twitch, Sydney: Allen and Unwin, page 246:
glosses: Of bird vocalisations, sounding as though emanating from a location other than where the vocalising bird is.
valetudinary
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more valetudinary
form: most valetudinary
Etymology: From Latin valētūdinārius. By surface analysis, valetude + -in- + -ary. Doublet of valetudinarious.
Senses: examples: text: "His Majesty began to become valetudinary; and the hypochondria which tormented him rendered his humor very melancholy.
ref: 1727, Thomas Carlyle, History Of Friedrich II. of Prussia, Vol. VI. (of XXI.):
text: It produces a weak valetudinary state of body, attended by all those horrid disorders, and yet more horrid methods of cure, which are the result of luxury on the one hand, and the weak and ridiculous efforts of human art on the other.
ref: 1887, Edmund Burke, The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. I. (of 12):
glosses: Sickly, infirm, valetudinarian.
Synonyms: valetudinarian
Derived terms: valetudinariness
valetudinary
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: valetudinaries
Etymology: From Latin valētūdinārius. By surface analysis, valetude + -in- + -ary. Doublet of valetudinarious.
Senses: glosses: A sickly, infirm person.
Synonyms: valetudinarian
Related terms: valetudinarianism
vaseline
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈvæsəliːn/
Forms: form: vaselines
Etymology: Coined by American chemist Robert Augustus Chesebrough in 1872, from German Wasser (“water”) + Ancient Greek ἔλαιον (élaion, “oil”) + -ine.
Senses: examples: text: Hearts of putty, hearts of vaseline...
ref: 1930, Aldous Huxley, Brief Candles:
glosses: Petroleum jelly.
examples: text: A Russian vaseline has been lately added to the many kinds of vaseline found in […]
ref: 1882, Journal of the Society of Chemical Industry:
glosses: Any particular kind of petroleum jelly or of any similar lubricant.
glosses: Ellipsis of Vaseline glass, or the coloring used in making it.
Synonyms: E905b when used as a food additive
Derived terms: Vaseline glass
vaseline
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈvæsəliːn/
Forms: form: vaselines
form: vaselining
form: vaselined
form: vaselined
Etymology: Coined by American chemist Robert Augustus Chesebrough in 1872, from German Wasser (“water”) + Ancient Greek ἔλαιον (élaion, “oil”) + -ine.
Senses: examples: text: Even at this late date, vaselining will preserve the best of these leathers.
glosses: To lubricate with vaseline.
twiddly
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtwɪd(ə)li/
Forms: form: twiddlier
form: twiddliest
Etymology: From twiddle + -y.
Senses: examples: text: Radio – with its buttons and twiddly knobs and white noise in between – is on the tip of a huge wave of change, courtesy of the Internet.
ref: 2011, Fi Glover, Travels With My Radio: I Am An Oil Tanker:
text: Through the open doorway Nedda could see […] the back of Mr. Cuthcott in a twiddly chair, surrounded by sheets of paper reposing on the floor, shining like autumn leaves on a pool of water.
ref: 1915, John Galsworthy, The Freelands:
glosses: Capable of being finely or idly adjusted with the fingers.
examples: text: The design of an indicator is often — indeed usually — thought to be the business of the engineer, perhaps aided by someone — an artist or a "stylist" — who adds an aesthetic touch, a twiddly bit, a strip of chromium, a dash of paint, or better still several dashes in clashing colours, of which a bilious yellow will be one.
ref: 1958, New Scientist:
text: Everyone has a computer, everyone has the same software, and everyone thinks they can stick a couple of butterflies onto a twiddly background and they have an illustration. They don't have an illustration; they have decoration.
ref: 2010, Lawrence Zeegen, Complete Digital Illustration: A Master Class in Image-Making:
text: It was her nose was the worst. It seemed to have been twisted into a hook with a twiddly bit at the top.
ref: 2011, Pamela Haines, Men on White Horses:
glosses: Having an elaborately twisted form.
examples: text: There are moments when the band sounds oddly like its acoustic predecessor, and there are some feints at free jazz, but the most curious episode, unlike any other live Miles I know, is a long spacey improvisation using wood flute, related less to the twiddly studio jams than to the ritual atmospherics of Chicago's creative-music vanguard.
ref: 2001 September 7, Kevin Whitehead, “The Gap Band”, in Chicago Reader:
text: The bugle called, a twiddly bit and then one long note.
ref: 2011, Gavin Lyall, All Honourable Men:
glosses: In music, having a rapid series of musical notes.
trigonometrically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From trigonometric + -ally.
Senses: glosses: By means of, or in terms of, trigonometry.
wunnerful
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more wunnerful
form: most wunnerful
Senses: examples: text: An' she's got spirrit, a wunnerful spirrit, to go up there alone!"
ref: 1915, James Oliver Curwood, The Hunted Woman:
text: "You know a wunnerful deal about 'orses for a hartist, Mr. Joses," he remarked, not troubling to deny the soft impeachment.
ref: 1918, Alfred Ollivant, Boy Woodburn:
text: "A nice li'l thing, wi' a wunnerful curly head--eh, Phoebe?
ref: 1898, Eden Phillpotts, Children of the Mist:
glosses: Pronunciation spelling of wonderful.
wunner
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wunners
Senses: examples: text: In fact I wos napped on the nod, But the way I got woke wos a wunner.
ref: 1890, Various, Punch Among the Planets:
glosses: Pronunciation spelling of wonder.
wunner
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: wunners
form: wunnering
form: wunnered
form: wunnered
Senses: examples: text: Our folks are slow to fratch, but they're not quick at letting go," said Tom, who paused and added: "I wunner where Bell got his money; he had none when he took a job at mill in oad Osborn's time."
ref: 1918, Harold Bindloss, The Buccaneer Farmer:
glosses: Pronunciation spelling of wonder.
temporomandibular
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɪbjʊlə(ɹ)
Etymology: From temporo- + mandibular.
Senses: examples: text: It shows that several key mammalian evolutionary innovations in the ear region, the temporomandibular joint, and the brain vault evolved incrementally through mammaliaform evolution and long before the differentiation of the living mammal groups.
ref: 2001 May 25, Zhe-Xi Luo et al., “A New Mammaliaform from the Early Jurassic and Evolution of Mammalian Characteristics”, in Science, volume 292, number 5521, →DOI, pages 1535–1540:
glosses: of or relating to both the temporal bone and mandible
Derived terms: temporomandibular joint
temporomandibular joint dysfunction
tarsometatarsus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tarsometatarsi
Etymology: From tarso- + metatarsus.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: The large bone in the leg of a bird, or some bird-like dinosaurs, connected to the foot, homologous to the mammalian tarsus and metatarsus.
Derived terms: tarsometatarsal
teratocarcinoma
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: teratocarcinomas
form: teratocarcinomata
Etymology: From terato- + carcinoma.
Senses: glosses: A malignant tumor, most often found in the testes.
thoracolumbar
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From thoraco- + lumbar.
Senses: examples: text: Following laminectomy at the thoracolumbar transition, 100,000 cells in a volume of 1 µl CMF-HBSS were injected into the dorsal column of 7-day-old md rats at one or several levels.
ref: 1999 July 30, Oliver Brüstle et al., “Embryonic Stem Cell-Derived Glial Precursors: A Source of Myelinating Transplants”, in Science, volume 285, number 5428, →DOI, pages 754–756:
glosses: of or relating to the thoracic and lumbar areas
transplantee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: transplantees
Etymology: From transplant + -ee.
Senses: glosses: Someone who is receiving, or has received, an organ transplant.
hedge sparrows
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hedge sparrow
oftenly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɒfn.li/
ipa: /ˈɒftənli/
ipa: /ˈɔːfnli/
ipa: /ˈɔːftənli/
Forms: form: more oftenly
form: most oftenly
Etymology: From often + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: To endure as a software engineer you have to have addiction on this, sometimes it pays, oftenly it doesn’t.
ref: 2007 April 17, J. Anaya, The New York Times:
text: In my case I have had these conversations very oftenly with my mother.
ref: 2011 August 31, Esteban, The New York Times:
glosses: often
Synonyms: under often
catloaves
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of catloaf
man in the middle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: men in the middle
Senses: qualifier: security
glosses: An adversary that intercepts, and often modifies, communications.
Derived terms: man-in-the-browser
man-in-the-middle attack
men in the middle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of man in the middle
trigonometries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of trigonometry
XAML
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈzæməl/
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Initialism of Extensible Application Markup Language.
Related terms: HTML
XML
boykind
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From boy + -kind, by analogy with mankind.
Senses: coordinate_terms: girlkind
glosses: All boys, considered as a group.
nonannealing
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + annealing.
Senses: glosses: Not annealing.
nonannealed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + annealed.
Senses: glosses: Not annealed.
nonannealable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + annealable.
Senses: glosses: Not annealable.
nonpresence
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From non- + presence.
Senses: glosses: Not being present; absence.
Rosses
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Rosses
Etymology: From Irish na Rosa (literally “the headlands”).
Senses: glosses: A district in western County Donegal, Ireland.
Rosses
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Ross
Rosses
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Rosse
Rosse
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Rosses
Etymology: Borrowed from German Rosse, or a variant of the Scottish surname Ross.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
paillasson
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: paillassons
Etymology: From French paillasson.
Senses: glosses: A kind of straw bonnet.
paillassons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of paillasson
mas'r
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Pronunciation spelling of master, representing southern US black English.
zouks
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of zouk
zouking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of zouk
zouked
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of zouk
voguer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: voguers
Etymology: From vogue + -er.
Senses: examples: text: The tall, elegant Mr. Burnett unfurled his limbs in the precise yet fluid phrasing employed by voguers.
ref: 2008 March 19, Claudia La Rocco, “Voguers Take Back the Night and the Dance Stage”, in New York Times:
glosses: One who dances in the vogue style.
treillage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: treillages
Etymology: From French treillage. See trellis.
Senses: examples: text: admire the treillage
ref: 1863 February 21, “The Spectator”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name):
text: October 23, 1778, Horace Walpole, letter to the Hon. H. S. Conway
I shall plant the roses against my treillage to-morrow.
topics: agriculture
business
horticulture
lifestyle
glosses: latticework for supporting vines, etc.; an espalier; a trellis.
bi-directional
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of bidirectional.
e-mail addresses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of e-mail address
hat tricks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hat trick
bio queens
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bio queen
faux queens
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of faux queen
synthetical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more synthetical
form: most synthetical
Etymology: From synthetic + -al.
Senses: examples: text: While algebraical reasoning is most frequently analytical, arithmetical reasoning is generally synthetical, and, consequently, more difficult to understand.
ref: 1904, Carlo Bourlet, translated by Harold Bolingbroke Mudie, The Esperantist, volume 1, number 8, page 116:
glosses: synthetic
strigoi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Romanian strigoi, from strigă, from Latin striga (“hag, evil spirit”), from strix (“screech owl”).
Senses: glosses: In Balkan folklore, the troubled souls of the dead rising from the grave.
amenance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: amenaunce
Etymology: From Old French amenance.
Senses: examples: text: How may straunge knight hope euer to aspire, / By faithfull seruice, and meet amenance, / Vnto such blisse?
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto IX”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
glosses: Conduct, demeanor.
go moggy
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: goes moggy
form: going moggy
form: went moggy
form: gone moggy
Etymology: Derived from the Unimog, a brand of rugged four-wheel drive trucks popular in rural areas of South Africa and Zimbabwe.
Senses: glosses: To go without restraint; to go wild; to be adventurous.
examples: text: B: "That's a bad place, I tell you, I nearly went moggy in that jungle, hey."
A: "That's only because you got that bump on the head, when that bus ran over ..."
ref: 2002, Dan Wylie, Dead leaves: Two years in the Rhodesian War, →ISBN, page 79:
glosses: To go crazy; to be somewhat delirious.
glosses: (usually in the past tense, as in "gone moggy") To become broken, disorganized or dysfunctional.
allegro ma non troppo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈlɛɡɹo/
Etymology: From the Italian allegro (“fast”) ma (“but”) non (“not”) troppo (“too much”).
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A tempo mark lively but not too much
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A passage having this mark.
allegro ma non troppo
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈlɛɡɹo/
Etymology: From the Italian allegro (“fast”) ma (“but”) non (“not”) troppo (“too much”).
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: played in this manner .
allegro ma non troppo
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈlɛɡɹo/
Etymology: From the Italian allegro (“fast”) ma (“but”) non (“not”) troppo (“too much”).
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: Describing a passage having this mark.
bisligand
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bisligands
Etymology: From bis- + ligand.
Senses: examples: Aldrichimica Acta Volume 30 No 4 (pdf) from Sigma-Aldrich
The presence of the dihydro-Smith subunit is exploited in the preparation of bisligand systems 61 and 63 by reaction of DAPC 54 with bis-alkene 6 or "U"-shaped 62, respectively.
topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any bidentate ligand
bisligands
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: Aldrichimica Acta Volume 30 No 4 (pdf) from Sigma-Aldrich
This reaction sequence of cycloaddition/DDQ dehydrogenation has been used to prepare a whole range of fused mono- and bisligands containing a fused 3,6-dipyridylpyridazine component.
glosses: plural of bisligand
conjointed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From conjoint + -ed.
Senses: glosses: conjoint
copropagating
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From co- + propagating.
Senses: glosses: That propagate together.
coreless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From core + -less.
Senses: glosses: Lacking a core
Derived terms: corelessness
deintercalation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: deintercalations
Etymology: From de- + intercalation.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The removal of a molecule that had been inserted between two others.
Related terms: deintercalated
diodic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From diode + -ic.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Of, pertaining to, or functioning as a diode
eigendirections
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of eigendirection
galvanostatic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Maintaining a constant current
Derived terms: galvanostatically
Related terms: galvanostat
geosynchrotron
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From geo- + synchrotron.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Used attributively to describe the acceleration of charged particles in the Earth's magnetic field
gravothermal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From gravo- + thermal.
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: describing the heating effect of the gravitational collapse of a star
nitratocuprate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nitratocuprates
Etymology: From nitrate + -o- + cuprate.
Senses: topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of several anions of general formula Cu(NO₃)ₘⁿ⁻; any salt containing such an anion.
nitrosonium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The cation NO⁺ derived from nitric oxide
photoreceiver
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: photoreceivers
Etymology: From photo- + receiver.
Senses: glosses: photodetector
refractively
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more refractively
form: most refractively
Etymology: From refractive + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a refractive manner
glosses: By means of refraction
subclassifications
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of subclassification
subclassification
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: subclassifications
Etymology: From sub- + classification.
Senses: glosses: A subdivision of a classification.
glosses: The process of dividing into subcategories.
convergent evolution
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: qualifier: evolutionary theory
glosses: A trait of evolution in which species independently develop similar properties.
Related terms: convergence
homomorphism
orthogenesis
steam cracking
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The cracking of petroleum hydrocarbons, at high temperature in the presence of steam, in order to produce ethylene, propylene and other light alkenes
steam cracker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: steam crackers
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A petroleum refining plant that carries out steam cracking
bring to book
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -ʊk
Forms: form: brings to book
form: bringing to book
form: brought to book
form: brought to book
Senses: examples: text: The perpetrators of this atrocity must be brought to book.
text: For the most part this happens in Britain, but there can be chilling lapses in the most serious cases, as was seen in the pall thrown over Blair Peach's killing for 30 years, and in the failure to bring the Met to book over the de Menezes case, other than through health and safety laws.
ref: 2011 May 4, Ian Tomlinson, “Unlawfully killed by the law”, in The Guardian:
text: [Indira] Jaising is openly irritated that she was brought to book after being credited with landmark human rights cases and helping to draft India's domestic violence law.
ref: 2024 February 17, John Reed, “Modi is supposed to represent all of us”, in FT Weekend, Life & Arts, page 3:
glosses: To penalise someone for a punishable offence.
Related terms: bring to justice
throw the book at
steam-crack
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: steam-cracks
form: steam-cracking
form: steam-cracked
form: steam-cracked
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: To crack using steam cracking.
steam-cracked
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of steam-crack
steam-cracked
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: cracked using steam cracking
with God
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: examples: text: My mother, rest her soul, is with God now.
topics: Christianity
glosses: Dead; deceased.
Synonyms: with the Lord
vampirise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: vampirises
form: vampirising
form: vampirised
form: vampirised
Etymology: From vampire + -ise.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of vampirize.
minnower
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: minnowers
Etymology: From minnow + -er.
Senses: topics: fishing
hobbies
lifestyle
glosses: A fisherman who minnows.
minnowers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of minnower
with the Lord
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: topics: Christianity
glosses: Dead; deceased.
Synonyms: with God
offski
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From off + -ski.
Senses: glosses: away, not here, off
examples: April 24 2009, FirParkCorner - Should I Stay or Should I Go?
However, the signing of Michael Fraser on a pre-contract from Inverness may suggest Smith is offski.
glosses: leaving, on one's way
offski
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From off + -ski.
Senses: glosses: to leave, depart, set off
draps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of drap
draps
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of drap
transiter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: transiters
Etymology: From transit + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who or that which transits.
transcender
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: transcenders
Etymology: From transcend + -er.
Senses: examples: text: British and North American practitioners tend to ignore the heirs, gainsayers and transcenders of the framework set out by Ferdinand de Saussure.
ref: 1995, Antoine Culioli, Michel Liddle, Cognition and Representation in Linguistic Theory, page v:
glosses: One who transcends.
every trick in the book
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: He was always one step ahead of me, as he seems to know every trick in the book.
glosses: All possible knowledge of a subject matter.
examples: text: The solicitor tried every trick in the book to get me to sign the contract, but I wasn't having any of it!
text: "Eurostar was running one train a day, so we had a massive revenue shock, and what was very real for us was the whole of our cashflow model changed. We didn't have the revenue, so we to pull every liquidity method and trick in the book to survive. You didn't have to do that on the rest of the network [because of government financial support].
ref: 2024 January 24, Dyan Perry talks to Nick Brodrick, “The industry has given me so much”, in RAIL, number 1001, page 44:
glosses: All possible means, both honest and dishonest.
gynocides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gynocide
bollocks more like
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: examples: ref: 2000, Danny McNeil, “DC @ £100 - bollocks more like”, in uk.games.video.dreamcast (Usenet):
text: "Bollocks more like," returned Smith. He was loving the moment, revelling in getting the upper hand.
ref: 2002, Richard Kirk, Homo Superior:
glosses: Rubbish; nonsense.
groomzilla
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: rhymes: -ɪlə
Forms: form: groomzillas
Etymology: From groom + -zilla.
Senses: examples: text: It is unlikely that the groom will turn into Groomzilla, so obsessed by wedding details that he drives even the bride crazy. But it does happen.
ref: 2005, Leslie Milk, It's Her Wedding But I'll Cry If I Want To:
text: He was the one turning into Groomzilla. He was losing it.
ref: 2008, Sharon Hanby-Robie, A Simple Wedding: A Faith-Filled Guide to Enjoying a Stress-Free Wedding:
glosses: A demanding and perfectionistic groom (man who is to be married).
Hypernyms: weddingzilla
Coordinate terms: bridezilla
Related terms: -zilla
sensationless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From sensation + -less.
Senses: examples: text: Muscle tissue seems to be almost sensationless. When we look into it, we find far fewer pain endings and pressure sensitive capsules than in the skin...
ref: 2003, Deane Juhan, Job's body: a handbook for bodywork:
glosses: Devoid of sensation.
mappability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From map + -ability.
Senses: glosses: The state or condition of being mappable.
unmappability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: c. 1952 unmappable + -ity
Senses: glosses: The state or condition of being unmappable.
variadic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /vɛɹiˈædɪk/
ipa: /vɛəɹiˈædɪk/
rhymes: -ædɪk
Etymology: From variable + -adic.
Senses: examples: text: C's printf is one of the most widely used variadic functions.
text: There are some functions and predicates which we tend to think of as being able to take any number of parameters – of being of variable arity or variadic.
ref: 1983, Alan Bundy, The Computer Modelling of Mathematical Reasoning, Academic Press, page 48:
text: The variadic functions that increase the valence of the input relation through the addition of a circumstance to the set of its argument-roles can be represented by means of an operator (or rather, a family of operators) ‘Circ’.
ref: 2004, François Récanati, Literal Meaning, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 109:
text: However, the real max procedure of Scheme is a variadic procedure, which means that it accepts any positive number of arguments: ¶ (max 5 1 3 8 9 7 2 6 4) => 9
ref: 2006, Nils M. Holm, Sketchy LISP: An Introduction to Functional Programming in Scheme, 2nd edition, Lulu.com, →ISBN, page 53:
topics: computing
engineering
human-sciences
linguistics
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
glosses: Taking a variable number of arguments; especially, taking arbitrarily many arguments.
examples: text: each variadic argument
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
glosses: Belonging to a variadic function.
Related terms: monadic
diadic
triadic
polyadic
variadic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /vɛɹiˈædɪk/
ipa: /vɛəɹiˈædɪk/
rhymes: -ædɪk
Forms: form: variadics
Etymology: From variable + -adic.
Senses: examples: text: PHP 5.6 introduced variadics that explicitly accept a variable number of parameters.
ref: 2017, Andrew Beak, PHP 7 Zend Certification Study Guide, page 44:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
glosses: A function that takes a variable number of arguments.
magnetophoreses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of magnetophoresis
PCs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of PC
PCs
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of PC
shotta
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shottas
Etymology: From shooter.
Senses: examples: text: For example, a shotta from one street in the community had "cut up" another youth from their own avenue.
ref: 2001, Donna P Hope, Inna di dancehall: popular culture and the politics of identity in Jamaica:
text: They go on an ID parade [a police lineup], and nobody identified them as being a shotta, so everything's clear. But we still baffi be careful.
ref: 2005 June, Vibe, volume 13, number 7:
text: Shottas may act as independent gunmen or may be under the rule of particular dons.
ref: 2007, Brian Meeks, Culture, politics, race and diaspora: the thought of Stuart Hall:
glosses: An armed gangster.
eigensolver
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: eigensolvers
Etymology: From eigen- + solver.
Senses: glosses: A program or algorithm that calculates eigenvalues or eigenvectors.
shottas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shotta
co-tidal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of cotidal.
more like
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: examples: text: "Load of old rubbish, more like. Just a daft story from a time when folk didn't know any better."
ref: 2002, Mark Morris, The Lonely Places:
text: Syllabics? Silly bollocks, more like.
ref: 2005, Stephen Fry, The ode less travelled: unlocking the poet within:
text: "Gloriously unpredictable?" Fucking rubbish, more like.
ref: 2005, Mark Worrall, Over Land and Sea:
text: Nothing to do with his physical prowess. Bullshit and crap more like — very funny though.
ref: 2007, Dave Cox, Gone for a Burton:
glosses: Used to challenge another's use of a term, replacing it with something the speaker or writer considers more pertinent.
examples: text: 'Notion Club! More like the Commotion Club! Is there any news of the Commoters?'
ref: 1992, J.R.R. Tolkien, edited by Christopher Tolkien, Sauron Defeated, →ISBN, page 254:
text: More like the Academy Awk-wards, am I right?
ref: 2023 March 10, Lester Fabian Brathwaite, “The Oscars' biggest controversies, scandals, and WTF moments”, in Entertainment Weekly, retrieved 23 Mar 2023:
glosses: Used to introduce a pun or joke about some name.
-lock
Language: English
Part of speech: suffix
Etymology: From Middle English -lok, -lak, -lac, from Old English -lāc (suffix denoting activity or action), from Proto-Germanic *laiką (“play, sport, fight, activity”), *laikaz (“game, dance, hymn, sport”), from Proto-Indo-European *leyg- (“to bounce, shake, tremble”).
The etymology of the suffix is the same as that of the noun lāc "play, sport", also "sacrifice, offering", corresponding to obsolete Modern English lake (dialectal laik) "sport, fun, glee, game", cognate to Gothic laiks "dance", Old Norse leikr "game, sport" and Old High German leih "play, song, melody" (> Old French lai "song, lyric, poem, lay"), obsolete or dialectal German Leich. Old English līcian ("to please", Modern English like) is from the same root. In modern English, the noun has been reintroduced through the cognate Swedish lek as a specialist term referring to mating behaviour.
Senses: glosses: Action or proceeding, practice, ritual
wikipedia: -lock
Related terms: bedlock
biogenetics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From bio- + genetics.
Senses: topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: genetic engineering
Related terms: biogenetic
biomagnify
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: biomagnifies
form: biomagnifying
form: biomagnified
form: biomagnified
Etymology: From bio- + magnify.
Senses: glosses: To concentrate (or become concentrated) by biomagnification.
biomagnifies
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of biomagnify
biofluid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: biofluids
Etymology: From bio- + fluid.
Senses: examples: text: It depends on the operation of a microdiaphragm that moves up and down to push biofluids through a channel.
ref: 2013, Kelvin K. L. Wong, Methods in Research and Development of Biomedical Devices, page VII:
glosses: Any biological fluid.
Related terms: biofluidic
biofluidics
biomagnifying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of biomagnify
biomagnified
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of biomagnify
cryptomorphism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cryptomorphisms
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: the condition of being cryptomorphic
diplosegment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: diplosegments
Etymology: From diplo- + segment.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: A fused pair of segments in some arthropods
Related terms: haplosegment
diplosegments
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of diplosegment
slonk
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: Unknown. Middle English [1481].
Senses: glosses: to swallow greedily
slonk
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: Unknown. Middle English [c. 1374].
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of slink; to scurry or move in a stealthy manner
spint
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: qualifier: African-American Vernacular
glosses: simple past and past participle of spin
stinkt
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of stink
eau de toilette
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˌəʊ də twɑːˈlɛt/
Forms: form: eau de toilettes
form: eaus de toilette
form: eaux de toilette
Etymology: Borrowed from French eau de toilette.
Senses: examples: text: The perfume market has always been a two-tiered one, with a relatively small number of buyers of small bottles of real perfume and eau de parfum that cost large amounts of money, and a larger number of buyers of somewhat larger bottles of cologne and eau de toilette that are considerably more affordable but not always cheap.
ref: 1987 October 24, Timothy Kalich, “Marketing: What's in a Smell?”, in The Atlantic, →ISSN, archived from the original on 01 Feb 2023:
synonyms: toilet water
coordinate_terms: eau de Cologne
eau de parfum
qualifier: perfumery
glosses: A lightly scented perfume to freshen the skin, usually applied directly to the skin after bathing or shaving.
Related terms: cologne
perfume
toilette
eau de vie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌəʊ.dəˈviː/
ipa: /ˌoʊ.dəˈviː/
Forms: form: eau de vies
form: eaus de vie
form: eaux de vie
form: eau-de-vie
Etymology: From French eau-de-vie (“water of life”), calque of Medieval Latin aqua vītae. Compare akvavit, aquavit, aqua vitae, whisky, whiskey, and water of life from the same source.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of brandy.
synonyms: word: brandy
glosses: Synonym of aqua vitae, similar distilled spirits.
synonyms: word: aqua vitae
word: similar distilled spirits
extraphysical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more extraphysical
form: most extraphysical
Etymology: From extra- + physical.
Senses: glosses: Not governed by physical laws
Related terms: metaphysical
placebic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more placebic
form: most placebic
Etymology: From placebo + -ic.
Senses: examples: text: In the request-only condition, the experimenter said simply 'Excuse me, I have 5 (20) copies. May I use the xerox machine?' In the placebic information condition, this was followed by the phrase 'because I need to make copies'. In the real information condition, the reason offered in support was 'because I am in a rush'.
ref: 1986, J. Richard Eiser, Social psychology: attitude, cognition, and social behavior, page 227:
text: Many millions of dollars are expended on drugs, diagnostic tests, and psychotherapies of a placebic nature.
ref: 2005, Michael Palmer, Moral Problems in Medicine, page 135:
text: He could invent a fictional restaurant for you to bite your burger at but any fictional restaurant would be, like Nomenex, a worthless simulant or inconcinne imitation, a placebic generic.
ref: 2012, Joshua Cohen, Four New Messages:
glosses: Functioning as a placebo.
firster
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: firsters
Etymology: From first + -er (“supporter”).
Senses: examples: text: In recent years, “knowledge-first” epistemologists have worried that any analysis of knowledge fails to recognize that knowledge is more fundamental than epistemic analysis. Knowledge, the knowledge-firster contends, should be taken as an epistemic primitive.
ref: 2019, Branden Fitelson, Rodrigo Borges, Cherie Braden, Themes from Klein: Knowledge, Scepticism, and Justification, Springer, →ISBN, page 5:
glosses: A person who advocates the primacy of the named entity (who puts it first).
Related terms: America Firster
Israel-firster
twenty-firster
firster
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From first + -er (comparative suffix).
Senses: glosses: Earlier, former.
iontotherapy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: The therapeutic use of iontophoresis
battles of the sexes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of battle of the sexes
menthaceous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more menthaceous
form: most menthaceous
Etymology: Menthaceae + -ous
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: mint-like (of genus Mentha, tribe Mentheae, or the obsolete family Menthaceae).