cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
scarf and barf
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The behavior in domestic pets (particularly cats) of eating so rapidly that they are unable to digest the food that they swallow, and consequently vomiting.
glosses: In humans, the binge-and-purge cycle of overeating and vomiting.
Yusho disease
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Japanese 油 (“oil”) + 症 (“symptoms”).
Senses: glosses: poisoning by polychlorinated biphenyls in contaminated rice bran oil
misoxeny
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From miso- + -xeny.
Senses: examples: text: […] also there were many instances of misoxeny (that is, hatred of strangers)
ref: 1968, Henri Estienne, Der Frankfurter Markt, page 85:
synonyms: xenophobia
xenophoby
glosses: Aversion to foreigners or strangers.
philoxeny
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From philo- + -xeny.
Senses: antonyms: misoxeny
xenophobia
xenophoby
glosses: A love of foreigners or strangers.
circle pit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsɜɹkəl ˌpɪt/
Forms: form: circle pits
Etymology: From circle + pit, modelled after mosh pit.
Senses: examples: text: Call Me in the Morning also fuses old and new, referencing the Rolling Stones' Paint It Black while swimming in Auto-Tune. The circle pit then swirls anew for Open the Till, which features a yellable chorus and more gnomic Skinnerisms. "You make ends meet," he [Mike Skinner] notes, "then they move the ends."
ref: 2019 January 26, Kitty Empire [pseudonym], “The Streets review – the agony and ecstasy of a great everyman”, in Katharine Viner, editor, The Guardian, London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 08 Apr 2019:
topics: dance
dancing
entertainment
hobbies
lifestyle
music
sports
glosses: A dance at a concert where participants mosh in a circular path, leaving the centre clear.
wikipedia: De Staat
Related terms: mosh pit
circle pits
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of circle pit
unpanicky
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unpanicky
form: most unpanicky
Etymology: From un- + panicky.
Senses: glosses: Not panicky.
past simples
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of past simple
lianaed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From liana + -ed.
Senses: glosses: Covered in lianas, a type of climbing vine.
stephanoberyciforms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stephanoberyciform
whip graft
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: whip grafts
Senses: glosses: A graft formed by whip grafting.
whip grafts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of whip graft
stylommatophoran
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stylommatophorans
Senses: examples: text: Dart shooting is perhaps the best studied sexually selected behavior in stylommatophorans.
ref: 2010, Janet Leonard, The Evolution of Primary Sexual Characters in Animals:
glosses: Any land snail or slug of the clade Stylommatophora.
stylommatophorans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stylommatophoran
Kyivan Rus
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Kievan Rus.
hypoventilator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hypoventilators
Etymology: From hypoventilate + -or.
Senses: glosses: One who hypoventilates.
hypoventilators
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hypoventilator
FLRW
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Named after four scientists: Alexander Friedmann, Georges Lemaître, Howard P. Robertson and Arthur Geoffrey Walker.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Initialism of Friedmann–Lemaître–Robertson–Walker: applied to an exact solution of Albert Einstein's field equations of general relativity.
relearnings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of relearning
unlearnings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of unlearning
unlearner
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: unlearners
Etymology: From unlearn + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who unlearns something.
unlearners
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of unlearner
extensimetry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Measurement with an extensometer.
extensimetric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to measurement with an extensometer.
TEMs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of TEM
pixel hunting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: pixel-hunting
Etymology: Graphic adventure puzzle video games in the 1980s and 1990s could require the player to find objects or switches that were only a few pixels in size, in some cases hidden in the scenery.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of pixel hunt
pixel hunting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pixel-hunting
Etymology: Graphic adventure puzzle video games in the 1980s and 1990s could require the player to find objects or switches that were only a few pixels in size, in some cases hidden in the scenery.
Senses: topics: video-games
glosses: Looking for a small, onscreen, hard-to-find object in a graphic adventure puzzle video game.
glosses: Pointing on a small screen control of a graphical interface with a mouse, or with a finger on a touch screen, especially when struggling to do so.
Related terms: pixel hunt
pixel hunt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pixel hunts
Senses: examples: text: Like most adventure games, Phantasmagoria is a bit of a pixel hunt, so move your cursor around the screen to see what can be manipulated or examined in each room.
ref: 1996, Multimedia World, Multimedia World, Volume 3, Issues 2-9, PC Communications, page 89:
text: (..) and adjust the block size on the screen, so the visually impaired can play with big blocks, and those who like to play pixel hunt can do so with single-pixel square blocks.
ref: 2003, Alexandre Santos Lobao, Ellen Hatton, .NET Game Programming with DirectX 9.0, Apress, →ISBN, page 67:
text: Finding the solution to a puzzle involved figuring out how to move an object, or trying to decide in what sequence objects should be configured, or the frustrating “pixel hunt” (searching for the one spot on the screen that was a hot spot).
ref: 2012, Christy Marx, Writing for Animation, Comics, and Games, Taylor & Francis, →ISBN, page 142:
text: Though far less frustrating than many text adventures, point-and-click adventure games often featured at least a few puzzles with highly illogical solutions and frequently forced players to engage in a “pixel hunt,” which refers to the process of moving and clicking the mouse all over a screen in hopes of finding a missed item or other important “hotspot.”
ref: 2012, Josiah Lebowitz, Chris Klug, Interactive Storytelling for Video Games: Proven Writing Techniques for Role Playing Games, Online Games, First Person Shooters, and more, Taylor & Francis, →ISBN, page 19:
text: This is similar to a blunder designers of adventure games can make. We called this a pixel''' hunt and strove mightily to avoid falling into that trap.
ref: 2014, Lee Sheldon, Character Development and Storytelling for Games, Second Edition, Cengage Learning, →ISBN, page 260:
topics: video-games
glosses: a search for a small, onscreen, hard-to-find object in a graphic adventure puzzle video game
pixel hunt
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: pixel hunts
form: pixel hunting
form: pixel hunted
form: pixel hunted
Senses: examples: text: Unfortunately, once you actually go about solving the cases, the game falls into the trap that have been the bane of click n' point adventure games for years; illogical puzzles and pixel hunting.
ref: 2006 December, GameAxis Unwired, GameAxis Unwired, SPH Magazines, →ISSN, page 53:
text: We totally relate to gamers who hesitate to devote a few hours to pixel hunting to solve puzzles.
ref: 2009, PC Gamer, PC Gamer, volume 16, GP Publications, page 22:
topics: video-games
glosses: to look for a small, onscreen, hard-to-find object in a graphic adventure puzzle video game
Related terms: pixel hunting
fuddy-duddyism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From fuddy-duddy + -ism.
Senses: examples: text: Don't be fooled by the old wives' tale that creeping fuddy-duddyism has something to do with hardening of the arteries.
ref: 1967, Robert Cillier Page, How to Lick Executive Stress, page 22:
text: As one who was born disliking most of whatever music was currently popular—preferring country-and-western and classical, and having a selective taste for traditional English, Scottish, Irish, and Russian ballads, some jazz and some blues—I did not instantly admit to fuddy-duddyism.
ref: 2001, Philip R. Craig, Vineyard Blues, →ISBN, page 71:
text: Yet it is also true that the position Tobin describes—the higher moral ground from which compositionists speak “against rigidity, legalism, authoritarianism, [and] fuddy-duddyism” and speak “up for students, freedom, innovation, creativity, and change" — would assert itself again and again in the arguments for experimental writing in composition classrooms, arguments put forth in a kind of second-wave expressivism by compositionists such as Winston Weathers, Wendy Bishop, Lillian Bridwell-Bowles, Derek Owens, and Geoffrey Sirc, among others.
ref: 2012, Patricia Suzanne Sullivan, Experimental Writing in Composition: Aesthetics and Pedagogies, →ISBN, page 19:
glosses: Attitudes and behaviors characteristic of a fuddy-duddy; a tendency toward overly conservative persnicketiness.
subqubit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: subqubits
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of sub-qubit.
biosulphur
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of biosulfur.
menteeship
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From mentee + -ship.
Senses: glosses: The state of being a mentee.
'ologist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: 'ologists
Senses: examples: text: A variety of 'ologists insist that the physiological and psychological changes of adolescence impose severe strains on the whole personality.
ref: 1979, Dervla Murphy, Wheels Within Wheels, page 134:
text: I suppose there are no end of 'ologists who will frown at my penchant for firearms and swear that it makes me a mother-fixated, bed-wetting psycho with a small penis.
ref: 2005, Noel 'Razor' Smith, A Few Kind Words and a Loaded Gun, →ISBN:
text: After thanking her for her interest in the series and the kind words, I responded, “I hate to disappoint you, but I am not an 'ologist.'”
ref: 2013, Tom Earnhardt, Crossroads of the Natural World, →ISBN:
glosses: Alternative form of ologist.
'ologists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of 'ologist
Ologist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Ologists
Senses: examples: text: \Ve critics, as you must have long ago observed, have our funny little ways; and one of them is that we always keep some Ologist or other on the premises.
ref: 1895, The Sketch: A Journal of Art and Actuality - Volume 12, page 80:
text: I think it's safe to say that it was a partially held expectation of the federal organization to grow in capacity and expertise to the level where the Ologists would be able to participate directly in forest pest management decisions, in a direct and decisive way.
ref: 1987, The Forestry chronicle - Volume 63, page 236:
text: One answer might be: because we are an Academic Ologist.
ref: 2002, Bill Martin, Avant Rock: Experimental Music from the Beatles to Björk, →ISBN:
glosses: Alternative form of ologist.
Ologists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Ologist
Ladas
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Lada
power move
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: power moves
form: powermove
Senses: glosses: A type of dance move in b-boying, involving speed, momentum, and acrobatic elements.
examples: text: The queen squeezes her eyes shut as she prepares to be incinerated, but the red dragon only roars—a display of both might and mercy. Fixing the queen with a stare that speaks volumes, Rhaenys wheels Meleys around and shoots off into the sky. Talk about a power move.
ref: 2022 October 16, Jenna Scherer, “An enticing House Of The Dragon crowns Westeros' new ruler”, in AV Club:
synonyms: show of force
show of strength
glosses: An aggressive action taken to demonstrate power and dominance.
Related terms: power play
desinew
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: desinews
form: desinewing
form: desinewed
form: desinewed
Etymology: From de- + sinew.
Senses: examples: text: The two unique features of Christmas Eve were the repeated appearances of unfamiliar postmen at unpredictable hours — up to 11.00 pm — and the plucking, gutting, and desinewing of the turkey.
ref: 1979, Dervla Murphy, Wheels Within Wheels, page 139:
text: You need to shell and desinew prawns before sauteeing them in garlic butter, olive oil and sweet chile.
ref: 1995, Hospitality - Volume 31, page 20:
text: Baader's separators perform a variety of food processing and recycling applications, including: depackages individually-wrapped cheese slices and butter pats, pet foods and pharmaceutical products from plastic tubs, wraps, or tubes; separates skins from apples, bananas, avocados or potatoes; and debones and desinews meat products.
ref: 1997, Food Production Management - Volumes 120-121, page 22:
glosses: To remove the sinews from.
desinews
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of desinew
desinewing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of desinew
desinewed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of desinew
power moves
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of power move
sosumi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Coined by Apple employee Jim Reekes in 1991, as a faux-Japanese word, that in fact was a phonetic rendering of so sue me, in reference to an ongoing lawsuit with Apple Corps over use of musical chimes.
Senses: glosses: An alert chime sampled from a xylophone, used by Apple Inc. computers.
depackage
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: depackages
form: depackaging
form: depackaged
form: depackaged
Etymology: From de- + package.
Senses: examples: text: Even the tackiest products "depackage" cleanly, completely.
ref: 1962, Package Engineering - Volume 7, page 31:
text: Baader's separators perform a variety of food processing and recycling applications, including: depackages individually-wrapped cheese slices and butter pats, pet foods and pharmaceutical products from plastic tubs, wraps, or tubes; separates skins from apples, bananas, avocados or potatoes; and debones and desinews meat products.
ref: 1997, Food Production Management - Volumes 120-121, page 22:
text: With very concentrated nitric acid and organic solvent it seems to be possible to depackage a smart card or a classical processor without damaging it.
ref: 2002, Proceedings of the CARDIS ... Smart Card Research and Advanced Application Conference:
glosses: To remove the packaging or casing from.
examples: text: Research is needed to identify and propose alternatives to structural disinventives, and to depackage currently turgid social programs.
ref: 1979, Rick Cohen, Localism, Research Themes on Urban Smallness, page 35:
text: The aim of these programmes is to generate enough expertise to 'depackage' imported technologies, such as solar and nuclear technologies, in a manner that would allow them to produce locally as many components as possible and import only those parts which are beyond their industrial and technological capabilities.
ref: 1982, Ziauddin Sardar, Science and Technology in the Middle East, page 73:
text: The crucial initial step in this strategy consists in the policy commitment and expertise to depackage or disaggregate the foreign contributions into clearly identifiable components.
ref: 1989, United Nations, Centre on Transnational Corporations (United Nations), Soviet Union. Gosudarstvennyĭ komitet po nauke i tekhnike, Joint ventures as a form of international economic cooperation, page 95:
glosses: To separate into components; to unbundle.
depackages
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of depackage
depackaging
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of depackage
depackaged
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of depackage
gynaecogenic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more gynaecogenic
form: most gynaecogenic
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of gynecogenic.
book token
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: book tokens
form: booktoken
form: book-token
Senses: examples: text: I got a Dunnes jumper and a twenty euro book token from Dad, and luckily he left the tag on the jumper, so I can bring it back after school tomorrow and swap it for something that doesn't look like it was bought by someone who has NO IDEA what thirteen-year-old girls are wearing these days.
ref: 2013, Roisin Meaney, Don't Even Think About It, →ISBN:
glosses: A voucher that can be redeemed in the purchase of a book.
book tokens
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of book token
booktoken
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: booktokens
Senses: examples: text: I suppose you think he wants to give me a booktoken for my granny?
ref: 1981, Michael De Larrabeiti, The Bunce, →ISBN, page 77:
text: Once a five-shilling booktoken and publication in the society newsletter was sufficient, now it has to be at least hundreds to ensure the competition's success.
ref: 1985, Peter Finch, How to Publish Your Poetry: A Practical Guide, page 96:
text: Thank you for your birthday card: you have an eye for these things. I had: socks, handkerchiefs, booktoken, record. And some chocolate cake.
ref: 2012, Philip Larkin, Anthony Thwaite, Philip Larkin: Letters to Monica, →ISBN:
glosses: Alternative form of book token.
booktokens
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of booktoken
motion blindness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: akinetopsia
book-token
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: book-tokens
Senses: examples: text: I don't remember book-tokens — perhaps they hadn't been invented — and occasionally there were duplicate volumes.
ref: 1979, Dervla Murphy, Wheels Within Wheels:
text: Perhaps they should be paid in something else: book-tokens, lecture coupons, night-class dockets, culture vouchers.
ref: 2010, Martin Amis, The War Against Cliche: Essays and Reviews 1971-2000, →ISBN:
text: Bath salts seemed ordinary, a record or book-token impersonal, a pot-plant unimaginative.
ref: 2015, Margaret Yorke, No Fury, →ISBN:
glosses: Alternative form of book token.
book-tokens
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of book-token
clowningly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more clowningly
form: most clowningly
Etymology: From clowning + -ly.
Senses: glosses: clownishly; like a clown
Zaidite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Zaidites
Etymology: From Zaidi + -ite.
Senses: topics: Islam
lifestyle
religion
glosses: Synonym of Zaidi.
synonyms: word: Zaidi
Zaidites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Zaidite
nymphophiles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nymphophile
aphotic zones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of aphotic zone
photic zones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of photic zone
foresentences
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of foresentence
foresentences
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of foresentence
foresentenced
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of foresentence
foresentencing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of foresentence
benifits
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of benefits.
benifits
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of benefits.
make tick
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: makes tick
form: making tick
form: made tick
form: made tick
Etymology: An allusion to the workings of a clock making it operate with a ticking noise.
Senses: examples: text: I honestly don't know the specifics that make him tick, and I wish I did.
ref: 2005, Cherie Priest, Four and Twenty Blackbirds, →ISBN, page 91:
text: Most of us find ourselves caught in the middle, ducking for cover and wondering just who these people are and what could possibly make them tick.
ref: 2012, Kevin Seamus Hasson, The Right to Be Wrong: Ending the Culture War Over Religion in America, →ISBN:
text: I wanted to roam the world, exploring what made it tick, helping to make it tick better, and never get married.
ref: 2013, Betty Lussier, Intrepid Woman: Betty Lussier's Secret War, 1942-1945, →ISBN:
text: So what is it that makes SBB (Swiss national railways) tick? In my humble opinion, two things. Firstly, a comprehensive and set-in-stone integrated timetable (incorporating trains, ferries, cable cars and buses, including the world-famous yellow 'post-autos'), compiled four years in advance and which gets tested twice before it becomes operational.
ref: 2025 October 15, Vitali Vitaliev, “The recipe for Swiss bliss”, in RAIL, number 1046, page 68:
glosses: To cause someone or something to operate the way it does.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see make, tick.
making tick
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of make tick
makes tick
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of make tick
made tick
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of make tick
grownupness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: grown-upness
form: grown-up-ness
Etymology: From grownup + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: Look, the point is, we'll tell them anything we want, and we'll lead our lives any way we want, because we're the ones who will be grownup, and grownupness will work around us, not vice versa.
ref: 1991, Melanie Thernstrom, The Dead Girl, →ISBN, page 167:
text: Perhaps one of the triggers to a midlife self-transition is the recognition that this “grownupness” may never happen, that it is a myth.
ref: 2011, Mary Anderson, PhD, Jane Goodman, PhD, Nancy K. Schlossberg, EdD, Counseling Adults in Transition, →ISBN, page 108:
text: Happiness at seeing her mother, Tegan's friendly company, the sociable grownupness of it all had relegated Moses's story almost to the distant domain of night terrors and childish imaginings.
ref: 2011, Alex Jones, Cedar Flat, →ISBN, page 172:
text: The challenge of this question is that it requires adults to consider our own perceptions of youth and to place youth in relation to our views of sexuality, maturity, and vague, largely unarticulated beliefs about “grownupness.”
ref: 2014, Jen Gilbert -, Sexuality in School: The Limits of Education, →ISBN:
glosses: Adulthood; maturity.
grown-upness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Just ordinary parents who think that what they are doing is "right" and continue to insist on their rightness, because they cannot modulate what is real to their "grown-upness" by accessing another part of themselves that knows what it is like.
ref: 2013, Philip M. Bromberg, Awakening the Dreamer: Clinical Journeys, →ISBN:
text: My grown-upness was not such a shock.
ref: 2013, Lesley Glaister, Honour Thy Father, →ISBN:
text: Either of our own choosing or sometimes it is forced upon us, we lose our childish innocence and take on false “grown-upness.”
ref: 2016, Robert B. Shaw Jr., Created for Understanding, →ISBN:
glosses: Alternative form of grownupness.
grown-up-ness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: “I must say your grown-up-ness is very impressive,” I said, finished my glass of wine, and stood up.
ref: 2013, Barbara Taylor Bradford, Secrets from the Past, →ISBN:
glosses: Alternative form of grownupness.
kori bustard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kori bustards
Etymology: The first element is from Tswana kgori.
Senses: glosses: A species of bustard, Ardeotis kori, which is the largest flying bird native to Africa.
marabou stork
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: marabou storks
Senses: glosses: Synonym of marabou.
synonyms: word: marabou
unconvene
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: unconvenes
form: unconvening
form: unconvened
form: unconvened
Etymology: From un- + convene.
Senses: examples: text: Thus, unless one argues that the circuit court has no power to unconvene an en banc court, that there is no accepted procedure for doing so is not a bar ...
ref: 1978, Kent S. Bernard, “Certified Questions in the Supreme Court: In Defense of an Option”, in Dick. L. Rev:
text: You heard me, Judge. We're not going to reconvene, because we're not going to unconvene.
ref: 2003, Rose Connors, Temporary Sanity, →ISBN, page 270:
text: The convention, convened in 1993, was unconvened in 1996 after the NLD delegates walked out of the process, labeling it a sham designed to legitimize the military's role in Myanmar politics.
ref: 2006 October 13, Tin Kyi, “Burma Related News - Oct 12, 2006.”, in soc.culture.burma (Usenet):
glosses: To disband a group that has been convened.
unconvenes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of unconvene
unconvening
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of unconvene
unconvened
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + convened.
Senses: examples: text: Westmeath met for the first time in ten years, Wicklow in fifteen, Tyrone in fourteen; in Leinster, King's County was the only one as yet unconvened.
ref: 1954, Yale Historical Publications: Miscellany - Issue 60, page 27:
text: Other options include retracing the convening steps, referring the motivated client to an individual therapist, granting a private session, or treating the unconvened family systemically through that subgroup motivated to participate.
ref: 1985, Deane L. Critchley, Judith T. Maurin, The Clinical Specialist in Psychiatric Mental Health Nursing, →ISBN:
text: Because the EDC Treaty faced an uncertain future in the French Assembly, the Mixed Board remained unconvened.
ref: 2010, Peter Maguire, Law and War: International Law and American History, →ISBN, page 192:
glosses: Not convened.
unconvened
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From un- + convened.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of unconvene
fleas in one's ear
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of flea in one's ear
knitten
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /ˈnɪtən/
Etymology: From knit + -en (past participle ending of some strong verbs), in mimicry of bitten, sitten (now dialectal), etc.
Senses: glosses: past participle of knit (“knitted, knit”)
knitten
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈnɪtən/
Etymology: From knit + -en (past participle ending of some strong verbs), in mimicry of bitten, sitten (now dialectal), etc.
Senses: examples: text: With his stick in his hand and his hat of broad brim, / And his comforter red to keep warm his chin, / And his strong knitten gloves and old coat of grey, […]
ref: 1858, James Whitaker, “The Old Prayer Book”, in The Village Lyre: A Collection of Fugitive Poems, Leeds: J. Heaton and Sons, page 189:
text: The best sculptor might haply be glad to find in a corner some fragment of a clay model on which his fingers were employed before the knuckles were well knitten.
ref: 1883, Walter Savage Landor, Imaginary Conversations, volume Fourth Series, Boston: Roberts Brothers, page 268:
text: Dey kept warm wide^([sic]) de bed clothes and de knitten clothes dey had.
ref: 1941, Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States from Interviews with Former Slaves, volume 13, Washington, DC: Library of Congress, →OCLC, page 333:
glosses: knitted, knit
subanorectic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɛktɪk
Etymology: From sub- + anorectic.
Senses: glosses: Too small to have an anorectic effect
subectodermal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From sub- + ectodermal.
Senses: glosses: Beneath the ectoderm
subendocarial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of subendocardial.
subharmonical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of subharmonic.
subperichondral
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of subperichondrial.
subtomograms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of subtomogram
subtoxicity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From sub- + toxicity.
Senses: glosses: The condition of being subtoxic
subvital
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From sub- + vital.
Senses: glosses: Having a reduced viability
subvitally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From sub- + vitally.
Senses: glosses: In a subvital manner
supercontracted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From super- + contracted.
Senses: glosses: That has undergone supercontraction
supramedullary
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From supra- + medullary.
Senses: glosses: Above the medulla oblongata
supraparamagnetic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From supra- + paramagnetic.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of superparamagnetic.
synonyms: word: superparamagnetic
symbiome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: symbiomes
Etymology: Blend of symbiont + biome or from sym- + bio- + -ome.
Senses: glosses: A biome of the symbiotic relationships between species
synaptopHluorin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From synapto- + pHluorin.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A synaptic pHluorin
synbranchiform
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: synbranchiforms
Senses: glosses: Any swamp eel of the order Synbranchiformes
synbranchiforms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of synbranchiform
synchiotrophoblast
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of syncytiotrophoblast.
synplesiomorphy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of symplesiomorphy.
tachyplesins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tachyplesin
tazettine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: An alkaloid present in narcissi and snowdrops
temporomedial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -iːdiəl
Etymology: From temporo- + medial.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Synonym of temporomesial.
synonyms: word: temporomesial
teratospermic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to teratospermia
terrestrialisation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of terrestrialization.
tetradecenyl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tetradecenyls
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A univalent radical derived from tetradecene
tetrasporophyte
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tetrasporophytes
Etymology: From tetra- + sporophyte.
Senses: glosses: A sporophyte, in red algae, that produce tetraspores (actually meiospores)
Related terms: tetrasporophytic
tetrasporophytes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tetrasporophyte
tetrasporophytic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From tetra- + sporophytic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to tetrasporophytes
thermoenzymes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of thermoenzyme
thiadiazolidinone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: thiadiazolidinones
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The bicyclic heterocycle, 5,6,7,8-tetrahydro-[1,3,4]thiadiazolo[3,4-a]pyridazin-3-one that has antimicrobial activity
thiadiazolidinones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of thiadiazolidinone
thioglitazone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: thioglitazones
Senses: glosses: Any of several commercial glitazones
thioglitazones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of thioglitazone
thiomodification
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: thiomodifications
Etymology: From thio- + modification.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: modification of an organic compound by the addition of a thiol group, or by replacing an oxygen atom by one of sulfur
thiomodifications
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of thiomodification
thrombocypenia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of thrombocytopenia.
toxascarosis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: toxascaroses
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: Any disease caused by the presence of parasites of the genus Toxascaris
trachiniform
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: trachiniforms
Senses: glosses: Any fish of the order Trachiniformes
trachiniforms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of trachiniform
tragion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tragions
Etymology: From tragus + -ion.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: An anthropometric point in the notch above the tragus of the ear
tragions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tragion
transcomplements
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of transcomplement
transcomplements
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of transcomplement
transcomplementing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of transcomplement
transcytoplasmic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From trans- + cytoplasmic.
Senses: glosses: Across or through cytoplasm
transglial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From trans- + glial.
Senses: glosses: Across or through the glia
translocant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: translocants
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
genetics
medicine
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A translocated molecule or fragment
translocants
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of translocant
transpericyte
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From trans- + pericyte.
Senses: glosses: Across or through a pericyte
tumoricide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tumoricides
Etymology: From tumor + -i- + -cide.
Senses: glosses: Any tumoricidal material
tumoricides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tumoricide
rock herring
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rock herrings
Senses: glosses: Synonym of allis shad.
synonyms: word: allis shad
death drive
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: death drives
Etymology: Calque of German Todestrieb.
Senses: examples: text: The connection between the death drive and the symbolic order is a constant with Lacan, but we can differentiate the various stages of his teaching precisely by reference to the different modes of articulation of the death drive and the signifier: […]
ref: 1989, Slavoj Žižek, Ernesto Laclau, The Sublime Object of Ideology, Verso, →ISBN, page 131:
topics: human-sciences
medicine
psychoanalysis
psychology
sciences
synonyms: death instinct
Thanatos
glosses: The drive toward death and self-destruction.
death drives
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of death drive
death instinct
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: death instincts
Senses: topics: human-sciences
medicine
psychoanalysis
psychology
sciences
glosses: Synonym of death drive.
synonyms: word: death drive
Synonyms: Thanatos
death instincts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of death instinct
ultrasculpture
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From ultra- + sculpture.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: very small sculpture
undermodified
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From under- + modified.
Senses: glosses: Insufficiently modified
undermodified
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From under- + modified.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of undermodify
undifferenciated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of undifferentiated.
unequivalence
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: unequivalences
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of inequivalence.
unequivalent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of inequivalent.
uninephric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From uni- + nephric.
Senses: glosses: Relating to, or having, a single kidney
unoprostane
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of unoprostone.
unpollarded
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + pollarded.
Senses: glosses: Not pollarded
urinastatin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of ulinastatin.
uroplacental
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of uteroplacental.
utilizability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The condition of being utilizable
vagovagal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From vago- + vagal.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
physiology
sciences
glosses: Relating to the vagus nerve and the vagal complex of the brain
Derived terms: vagovagal reflex
vasculocentric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From vasculo- + centric.
Senses: glosses: Centred on the vascular system
warfarinized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of warfarinize
weightometer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: weightometers
Etymology: From weight + -ometer.
Senses: glosses: A device that continuously weighs material passing on a conveyor belt
weightometers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of weightometer
whitenization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: whitenizations
Senses: examples: text: […] that one may speak, now, of a considerable de-Europeanization, in certain social and cultural aspects, of Latin America, as well as of a de-whitenization, in racial terms, of its population.
ref: 1966, Gilberto Freyre, The racial factor in contemporary politics, page 12:
text: One of them recently lectured in Bangalore and spoke of the blackness of Christ and of how, ' In the history of Western painting the depiction of Christ evidences his progressive whitenization or bleaching with the object of changing him from a Semitic to an Aryan person.
ref: 1975, Richard Warren Taylor, Jesus in Indian paintings, page 7:
glosses: The process, or the result, of whitenizing.
examples: text: The clustering decision-making method has been proposed based on the grey interval incidence coefficient and a pre-set class number by making use of the grey whitenization function.
ref: 2010, Sifeng Liu, Advances in Grey Systems Research, page 48:
topics: mathematics
sciences
systems-theory
glosses: The calculation of a weighted average over all possible values of a quantity that is only known down to an interval, as opposed to a precise value.
naval base
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: naval bases
Senses: topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: an installation in a port or harbour used as a centre of operations by the country's navy.
naval bases
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of naval base
misdisplay
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɪsdɪspleɪ/
ipa: /mɪsdɪsˈpleɪ/
Forms: form: misdisplays
Etymology: From mis- + display.
Senses: glosses: incorrect display
misdisplay
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɪsdɪspleɪ/
ipa: /mɪsdɪsˈpleɪ/
Forms: form: misdisplays
form: misdisplaying
form: misdisplayed
form: misdisplayed
Etymology: From mis- + display.
Senses: glosses: To display incorrectly.
misdisplayed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of misdisplay
misdisplaying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of misdisplay
misdisplays
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of misdisplay
misdisplays
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of misdisplay
Orani
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A municipality of Bataan, Philippines.
acleioproctic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: a- + Ancient Greek κλείς (kleís, “collarbone”) + πρωκτός (prōktós, “anus”) (see procto-).
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Having the anus located dorsally.
Related terms: pleuroproctic
acroanesthesia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of acroanaesthesia.
acrystalliferous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From a- + crystalliferous.
Senses: glosses: Not crystalliferous
adamantinomatous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to adamantinomas
beglories
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of beglory
begloried
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of beglory
beglorying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of beglory
beghosts
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of beghost
beghosting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of beghost
beghosted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of beghost
intersibling
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From inter- + sibling.
Senses: glosses: Between siblings.
Hypernyms: intrafamilial
brown leaf spot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: BROWN LEAF SPOT Cercospora fusca Rand The brown leaf spot of the pecan is found generally distributed thruout the pecan-growing area.
ref: 1917, H. Drew, Bulletin - Issues 140-175, page 145:
text: IAA biosynthesis by Pseudomonas syringae pv. syringae, the causal agent of brown leaf spot disease of bean, is produced via the indoleacetamide pathway, similar to the pathway in P.s. pv. savastanoi.
ref: 1993, Clarence I. Kado, Jorge H. Crosa, Molecular Mechanisms of Bacterial Virulence, →ISBN, page 605:
text: Foliar fungicides are not economical for controlling brown leaf spot on most commercial long grain varieties.
ref: 2009, Samuel S. Gnanamanickam, Biological Control of Rice Diseases, →ISBN, page 35:
text: The most economically important fungal diseases in India are blast, sheath blight, brown leaf spot, foot rot, stem rot, sheath rot, false smut, kernel smut /bunt, leaf smut, narrow brown leaf spot and udbatta disease.
ref: 2010, K. G. Mukerji, C. Manoharachary, Taxonomy and Ecology of Indian Fungi, →ISBN, page 223:
text: The potential of acibenzolar-S-methyl (ASM), when applied alone or in combination with fungicides or antibiotics was assessed for the control of coffee rust (Hemileia vastatrix) and brown leaf spot (Phoma costarricencis) under field conditions and also for the control of brown eye spot (Cercospora cofffeicola) and bacerial blight (Pseudomonas syringae pv. garcae) on coffee seedlings.
ref: 2013, P. Narayanasamy, Biological Management of Diseases of Crops, →ISBN, page 583:
glosses: Any of various plant diseases that cause brown spots on leaves.
flea-bag
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: flea-bags
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of fleabag.
flea-bags
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of flea-bag
at the risk of
Language: English
Part of speech: prep
Senses: examples: text: At the risk of sounding stupid, how does it work?
glosses: Despite the likelihood of (something bad happening).
Related terms: at one's own risk
on pain of
pass the baton
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: passes the baton
form: passing the baton
form: passed the baton
form: passed the baton
Senses: examples: text: But having now passed on the baton, she expects him to develop his own style of chairmanship and provide strong leadership.
ref: 2020 June 3, Lilian Greenwood talks to Paul Stephen, “Rail's 'underlying challenges' remain”, in Rail, page 35:
synonyms: pass the mantle
step down
stand aside
glosses: To pass the torch.
reerode
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: reerodes
form: reeroding
form: reeroded
form: reeroded
Etymology: From re- + erode.
Senses: examples: text: Gradually they reerode and need to be replaced from time to time.
ref: 1973, United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Armed Services, Research and development, page 2887:
text: The leached loess may subsequently reerode by water.
ref: 1974, A. P. Schick, Geomorphic processes in arid environments, page 99:
text: If bioturbation is not present, the newly deposited material stays at the bed surface. The winter storms will then be able to reerode it and to transport it to the Norwegian trench.
ref: 2012, Wilfried Michaelis, Estuarine Water Quality Management: Monitoring, Modelling and Research, →ISBN:
text: Consequently, constructing fabricated beaches or replenishing eroded beaches that ocean currents swiftly reerode are profligate colossal wastefulness of public resources and time.
ref: 2017, JaVee, What Does GOD Do All Day?, →ISBN:
glosses: To erode again.
reerodes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of reerode
reeroding
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of reerode
reeroded
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of reerode
sponsorette
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sponsorettes
Etymology: From sponsor + -ette.
Senses: examples: text: The girls hold assemblies of their own, maintain a system of “sponsors and sponsorettes,” give parties for all the girls of the school, to which mothers are often invited.
ref: 1920, The School Review - Volume 28, page 55:
text: Unusual situation whereby the wives of radio executives themselves have become sponsors — or "sponsorettes" has resulted from a business venture entered into recently by Georgia Weil and Adele Ronson.
ref: 1946 December 28, “Radio Execs' Wives In Sponsors Role”, in Billboard, volume 58, number 52, page 7:
text: “You know perfectly well, old chum,” said the other man, “that you have electro-photoscopular shields all over the Academy, and we wouldn't be allowed past them. After all, it was my sponsorette who invented them!"
ref: 2014, H. Norsen, Orchidus Academy, →ISBN, page 83:
glosses: A female sponsor.
sponsorettes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sponsorette
pruning-hook
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pruning-hooks
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of pruning hook.
pruning-hooks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pruning-hook