cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
tucuma
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tucumas
form: tucumã
Etymology: Borrowed from Brazilian Portuguese tucumã, from Old Tupi tukuma.
Senses: glosses: A Brazilian palm (Astrocaryum aculeatum) with edible fruit.
examples: text: His [Vinicius Cantuária’s] songs, written in Portuguese (some are composed with Mr. [Arto] Lindsay and Caetano Veloso, and all are translated into English), are as typically internal and love-fixated as the best bossa nova, but rich with allusions to Brazilian food, music and geography. (A Tucuma is a rare Amazonian fruit.)
ref: 1999 April 9, Ben Ratliff, “Record of the Week”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 27 May 2015:
text: There are always seasonal treats to be gathered from our land: mangoes, oranges, guavas, mandarins, nuts, and the palm fruits tucuma and acai.
ref: 2010 December 12, Peter Menzel, “Life on a Plate”, in The Times, London: News UK, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 02 Sep 2025:
text: After letting my hair air dry, I loved how the cupuacu, tucuma and Brazil nut oil came together to create a silky soft finish, with my ends feeling as if they had been freshly cut.
ref: 2025 July 31, Lucy Smith, “13 best leave-in conditioners that are deeply hydrating for every hair type”, in The Independent, London: Independent News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 08 Aug 2025:
glosses: A fruit from this palm.
Related terms: tucum
tucumas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tucuma
mistide
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: mistides
form: mistiding
form: mistided
form: mistided
Etymology: From Old English mistīdan. See mis- + tide.
Senses: glosses: To happen or come to pass through misfortune.
glosses: To suffer misfortune.
mistided
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of mistide
mistides
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of mistide
mistiding
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of mistide
dimyristoyl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From di- + myristoyl.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Two myristoyl groups in a compound
Derived terms: dimyristoylphosphatidylcholine
homotonous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Latin homotonus, from Ancient Greek [Term?].
Senses: glosses: Of the same tenor or tone; equable; without variation.
Related terms: homotony
restagnate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: restagnates
form: restagnating
form: restagnated
form: restagnated
Etymology: Latin restagnare to overflow.
Senses: examples: text: the Bloud returns thick, and is apt to restagnate, and usually increaseth the Veins at those times to fix or seven
ref: 1676, Richard Wiseman, Severall Chirurgicall Treatises, London: […] E. Flesher and J. Macock, for R[ichard] Royston […], and B[enjamin] Took, […], →OCLC:
glosses: To stagnate; to cease to flow.
restagnated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of restagnate
restagnates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of restagnate
restagnating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of restagnate
diphenoloxidase
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: diphenoloxidases
form: diphenol oxidase
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of a class of copper-containing oxidoreductase enzymes that oxidize catechols to quinones
diploidization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: diploidizations
Etymology: From diploid + -ization.
Senses: topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: The repeated loss of chromosomes by a tetraploid organism to become diploid
Derived terms: allodiploidization
amphidiploidization
autodiploidization
electrophorized
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Produced by, or subjected to, electrophoresis.
Synonyms: electrophoresed
endoribonucleases
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of endoribonuclease
epiretinal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɛtɪnəl
Etymology: From epi- + retinal.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Over or covering the retina
erythroagglutinin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: erythroagglutinins
Etymology: From erythro- + agglutinin.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A lectin, isolated from the red kidney bean (Phaseolus vulgaris), that is involved in red cell agglutination
Related terms: erythroagglutination
leucoagglutinin
ethylideneproline
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From ethylidene + proline.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: An ethylidene derivative of proline whose structure is the core of the lucentamycins
adhort
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /ædˈhɔː(ɹ)t/
/ədˈhɔː(ɹ)t/
Forms: form: adhorts
form: adhorting
form: adhorted
form: adhorted
Etymology: From Latin adhortor. See adhortation.
Senses: examples: text: That eight-times Martyr'd Mother in the Maccabees when she would adhort her Son to a passive Fortitude against the exacuated Tortures of Antiochus, she desires him to look upon the Heavems, the Earth, and all in them contained.
ref: 1623, Owen Feltham, Resolves: Divine, Moral, Political:
text: adhorting all to concurre and joyne with them in rejecting the same peace
ref: 1676, Nicholas French, The Vnkinde Desertor of Loyall Men and True Friends:
glosses: To exhort; to advise.
Derived terms: adhortative
adhorted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of adhort
adhorting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of adhort
adhorts
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of adhort
turfite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: turfites
Etymology: From turf + -ite.
Senses: glosses: A horse racing enthusiast.
examples: text: such turfites and men about town
ref: 1875, Anne Thackeray, Miss Angel, and Fulham Lawn:
glosses: A blackleg, or notorious gambler.
turfites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of turfite
stemmeries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stemmery
stemmery
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stemmeries
Etymology: From stem + -ery.
Senses: examples: text: Good progress is being made with the arrangements for the establishment of a stemmery for tobacco-leaf at Wangaratta, and the Government expert, Mr.. A. J. Bondurant, expects that he will be able to commence the work of stemming shortly after the new year.
ref: 1901 April 12, “District Reports”, in The Agricultural Journal and Mining Record, volume 4, number 3, page 68:
glosses: A building in which tobacco is stemmed.
lucentamycin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lucentamycins
Etymology: lucentensis + -mycin
Senses: glosses: Any of a group of cytotoxic derivatives of ethylideneproline isolated from the actinomycete Nocardiopsis lucentensis
eumelanogenesis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From eu- + melanogenesis.
Senses: glosses: The production of the normal quantity of melanin in the skin.
Related terms: pheomelanogenesis
euryarchaeal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to the Euryarchaeota
exoprotease
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: exoproteases
Etymology: From exo- + protease.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: exopeptidase
Related terms: endoprotease
follistatin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: follistatins
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A protein that binds to, and neutralizes, activin
gambogenic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From gamboge + -genic, since it was first obtained from gamboge.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to gambogenic acid and its derivatives.
gambogenic acid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
medicine
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A xanthonoid anticancer agent that induces apoptosis
Synonyms: guttatic acid
guttic acid
xanthonoid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: xanthonoids
Etymology: From xanthone + -oid.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A phenolic compound having a xanthone backbone; many derivatives of this compound that occur in nature, and are biologically active
garcinia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: garcinias
Etymology: From the genus name, translingual Garcinia.
Senses: examples: text: The paint in Mr Li's hand was the resin of the garcinia, and it had been tapped using a similar method to rubber extraction – except for one critical difference.
ref: 2002, Victoria Finlay, Colour, Sceptre, published 2003, page 244:
glosses: A tropical tree of the genus Garcinia, including the mangosteen and the gamboge tree.
geosmin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /d͡ʒiːˈɒz.mɪn/
ipa: /d͡ʒiˈɑz.mɪn/
Forms: form: geosmins
Etymology: From Ancient Greek γεω- (geō-, “earth”) + ὀσμή (osmḗ, “smell”) + -in.
Coined by American biochemist Nancy N. Gerber and by French-American biologist Hubert A. Lechevalier in 1965.
Senses: examples: text: A good example of this is geosmin, for which a typical sensitivity for the human nose is below 10 parts per trillion (10 parts in 10¹⁸ v/v) (ppt).
ref: 1998, F. Colin, Ph. Quevauviller, Monitoring of Water Quality, Elsevier, →ISBN, page 151:
text: A. versicolor may be one of the major producers of the moldy smelling component, geosmin, in buildings (Bjurman and Kristensson 1992).
ref: 2011, Olaf C.G. Adan, Robert A. Samson, Fundamentals of mold growth in indoor environments and strategies for healthy living, Springer, →ISBN, page 255:
text: Beetroots: The flavor is decisively characterized by the earthy note of geosmin
ref: 2014, Burkhard Fugmann, Susanne Lang-Fugmann, Wolfgang Steglich, editors, RÖMPP Encyclopedia Natural Products, Georg Thieme Verlag, →ISBN:
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A bacterial derivative of decahydronaphthalene that has a strong earthy smell and is the material responsible for petrichor and for the earthy taste of beetroot.
glycoproteomic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to glycoproteomics
Derived terms: sialoglycoproteomic
glycoproteomics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From glyco- + proteomics.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The branch of proteomics concerned with glycoproteins
Derived terms: sialoglycoproteomics
Related terms: glycoproteome
glycoproteome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: glycoproteomes
Etymology: Blend of glycoprotein + genome.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
genetics
medicine
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: The complete set of glycoproteins encoded by a particular genome.
Derived terms: sialoglycoproteome
Related terms: glycoproteomic
glycoproteomics
glypiation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: glypiations
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The attachment of glycosylphosphatidylinositol to a protein as a posttranslational modification
EBRD
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: business
finance
glosses: Initialism of European Bank for Reconstruction and Development.
granulysin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: granulysins
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A type of antimicrobial protein released by cytotoxic T cells
MSME
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: MSMEs
Senses: glosses: Initialism of micro, small, or medium-sized enterprise.
indolylglucuronide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From indolyl + glucuronide.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any indolyl derivative of a glucuronide; the compound 5-bromo-4-chloro-3-indolylglucuronide is used in histochemical analysis
intratracheally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From intratracheal + -ly.
Senses: glosses: within the trachea
iodoacetic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From iodo- + acetic.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to iodoacetic acid and its derivatives
chloroacetic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From chloro- + acetic.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to chloroacetic acid and its derivatives
bromoacetic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From bromo- + acetic.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to bromoacetic acid and its derivatives
iteron
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: iterons
Etymology: From iterative + -on.
Senses: topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: A repetitive sequence of DNA in some plasmids that is involved in the control of replication.
jasplakinolide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: jasplakinolides
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A cyclodepsipeptide, isolated from the marine sponge Jaspis johnstoni, that is a potent inducer of actin polymerization and stabilization
denotive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From denote + -ive
Senses: glosses: denotative
gyrose
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈd͡ʒaɪɹəʊs/
Forms: form: more gyrose
form: most gyrose
Etymology: From gyre + -ose.
Senses: examples: text: Colt's-foot gyrose
ref: 1828, John Claudius Loudon, An Encyclopaedia of Plants:
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Turned round like a crook, or bent to and fro.
minioning
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From minion + -ing.
Senses: glosses: Kind or loving treatment.
thrist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Who ſhall him rew, that ſwimming in the maine, / Will die for thriſt, and water doth refuſe? / Refuſe ſuch fruitleſſe toile, and preſent pleaſures chuſe.
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto VI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 17, page 261:
glosses: Obsolete form of thirst.
thrist
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: thrists
form: thristing
form: thristed
form: thristed
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of thirst.
lactoferricin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lactoferricins
Senses: glosses: Any of a group of amphipathic, cationic peptides with antimicrobial and anticancer properties
Related terms: lactoferrin
neophilia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /niːəˈfɪ.li.ə/
Forms: form: neophilias
Etymology: From neo- + -philia.
Senses: examples: text: LIKE SOCIABILITY, conscientiousness, or any other trait, your particular expression of neophilia has potential advantagesand drawbacks. Exploiting its strengths and compensating for its limitations begins with an understanding of your […]
ref: 2011, Winifred Gallagher, New: Understanding Our Need for Novelty and Change, Penguin, →ISBN:
text: On the one hand, it was certainly imbued with the desire for change (rampant neophilia). On the other hand, it argued that what ordinary people wanted — rather than what planners, architects and other aesthetic judges said they ought to want […]
ref: 2013, Jonathan Hughes, Simon Sadler, Non-Plan: Essays on Freedom, Participation and Change in Modern Architecture and Urbanism, Routledge, →ISBN, page 2:
antonyms: neophobia
traditionalism
cainophobia
cainotophobia
misoneism
glosses: The love of novelty, new things, innovation, or unfamiliar places or situations.
examples: text: In order to account for the appearance of a novelty response in the deficient or recovered rat, Rozin and Rodgers (1967) suggest that either the state of deficiency triggers an innate neophilia, or that the deficient rat develops an aversion to the deficient diet and thus shows a strong preference for any new food. […] The neophilia of thiamine-deficient rats could be a direct consequence of a specific aversion for familiar deficient diet (paleophobia). On the other hand, it is also possible that a true neophilia exists along with the paleophobia.
ref: 1967, Paul Rozin, “Specific aversions as a component of specific hungers”, in Journal of Comparative and Physiological Psychology, volume 64, number 2, →DOI, page 237; 242:
topics: biology
natural-sciences
coordinate_terms: paleophobia
glosses: The preference for any new foods not forming part of the diet associated with an earlier nutritional deficiency or other illness.
Related terms: neophile
neophiliac
neophilic
ephemerality
progressivism
mislist
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: mislists
form: mislisting
form: mislisted
form: mislisted
Etymology: From mis- + list.
Senses: glosses: To list incorrectly.
mislisted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of mislist
mislisting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of mislist
mislists
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of mislist
extirp
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: extirps
form: extirping
form: extirped
form: extirped
Etymology: Compare French extirper and Latin extirpāre. Doublet of extirpate.
Senses: examples: text: Yes in good ſooth, the vice is of a great kindred; it is vvell allied, but it is impoſſible to extirpe it quite, Frier, till eating and drinking be put dovvne.
ref: c. 1603–1604 (date written), William Shakespeare, “Measure for Measure”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene i], page 73, column 2:
glosses: To extirpate (something).
Derived terms: extirpable
extirped
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of extirp
extirping
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of extirp
extirps
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of extirp
goel
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: goeler
form: goelest
Etymology: Compare yellow.
Senses: examples: text: The goeler and yonger the better I loue;
well gutted and pared, the better they proue
ref: 1557 February 13 (Gregorian calendar), Thomas Tusser, A Hundreth Good Pointes of Husbandrie, London: […] Richard Tottel, →OCLC; republished London: […] Robert Triphook, […], and William Sancho, […], 1810, →OCLC:
glosses: yellow
goel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: goels
form: goelim
Etymology: Borrowed from Hebrew גוֹאֵל (goél, “he redeems”).
Senses: examples: text: The go·el neutralizes the deleterious effect of the blood of the slain, restoring the ecologic balance.
ref: 2001, David L. Lieber, Jules Harlow, Etz Hayim: Torah and Commentary, page 963:
topics: biblical
lifestyle
religion
glosses: A person who, as the nearest relative of another, has certain obligations toward them, such as having to free them from slavery, to repurchase their property if sold through poverty, and to avenge their murder.
Derived terms: goelism
obliquation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ɒblɪˈkweɪʃən/
Etymology: From Latin obliquātiō, from obliquō (“to turn obliquely”). See oblique.
Senses: examples: text: the obliquation of the eye
ref: 1756-1757, Thomas Birch, The History of the Royal Society of London:
glosses: The act of becoming oblique; a turning to one side; obliquity.
glosses: Deviation from moral rectitude.
ungain
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more ungain
form: most ungain
Etymology: From Middle English ungain, ungayn, ungein, equivalent to un- + gain (“suitable; convenient”). See ungainly.
Senses: examples: text: she take th ' ungain'st weas she can
ref: c. 1607–1611, Francis Beaumont, John Fletcher, “Cupid’s Revenge”, in Comedies and Tragedies […], London: […] Humphrey Robinson, […], and for Humphrey Moseley […], published 1679, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):
text: an ungain, dull sort of a body,
ref: 1786, John Burgoyne, The Heiress:
text: Tom's hard, ungain, scrag-of-mutton frame; wilted, apple-john face (he always looked twenty years older than he really was), his long spider legs, as thick at the ankles as at the hips, and perfectly straight all the way down
ref: 1907, John Nyren, The Hambledon Men:
glosses: ungainly; clumsy or awkward
examples: text: to know a person if one leaves but a quart in a hogshead, it's two pints too much. That's my notion. But, Sir, that was but an ungain business at 'Squire Monckton's t'other morning. Every body was no-how, as one may say.
ref: 1782, Frances Burney, Cecilia:
glosses: troublesome or inconvenient
Derived terms: word: ungainly
alacriously
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more alacriously
form: most alacriously
Etymology: From alacrious + -ly.
Senses: glosses: With alacrity; briskly.
termagancies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of termagancy
termagancy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: termagancies
Senses: glosses: The quality or state of being termagant; turbulence; tumult.
Apollinarian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: homophone: Apollinairean
homophone: Apollinairian
ipa: /əˈpɒlɪˈnɛəɹi.ən/
ipa: /əˈpɑləˈnɛɹi.ən/
rhymes: -ɛəɹiən
Forms: form: Apollinarians
Senses: topics: lifestyle
religion
theology
glosses: A follower of Apollinaris, Bishop of Laodicea in the fourth century, who denied the proper humanity of Christ.
Apollinarian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: homophone: Apollinairean
homophone: Apollinairian
ipa: /əˈpɒlɪˈnɛəɹi.ən/
ipa: /əˈpɑləˈnɛɹi.ən/
rhymes: -ɛəɹiən
Forms: form: more Apollinarian
form: most Apollinarian
Senses: examples: the Apollinarian games
glosses: In honour of Apollo.
Apollinarians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Apollinarian
capellane
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: capellanes
Etymology: See chaplain.
Senses: examples: text: inform them of the dignities and duties of the […]capellane , ostiary , vestiary , ceroferary[…]
ref: a. 1662 (date written), Thomas Fuller, The History of the Worthies of England, London: […] J[ohn] G[rismond,] W[illiam] L[eybourne] and W[illiam] G[odbid], published 1662, →OCLC:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of chaplain.
moorball
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: moorballs
Etymology: From moor + ball.
Senses: synonyms: Cladophora ball
moss ball
moss ball pet
lake ball
glosses: A freshwater alga (Aegagropila linnaei) which forms a ball-shaped mass.
moorballs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of moorball
tumultuousness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From tumultuous + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being tumultuous.
Moldovenism
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Moldovanism.
oligopolize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: oligopolizes
form: oligopolizing
form: oligopolized
form: oligopolized
Etymology: From oligopoly + -ize.
Senses: examples: text: Also, another reason to oligopolize is uncertainity^([sic]) of world economy because of value of the US high dollar.
ref: 1987, United States. Congress. Joint Economic Committee. Subcommittee on Trade, Productivity, and Economic Growth, United States-Japanese Trade in Semiconductors: Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Trade, Productivity, and Economic Growth of the Joint Economic Committee, Congress of the United States, Ninety-ninth Congress, First Session, October 10, 1985:
text: Japanese trading companies and large seafood companies responded with attempts to monopolize or oligopolize import and sales routes.
ref: 2006, Japan Environemntal Council (JEC), The State of Environment in Asia: 2005/2006, Springer Science & Business Media, page 47
text: It is, of course, possible for an enterprising body to highly diversify its business into various industries and concurrently to oligopolize some of the industries, but it is rather rare.
ref: 2018, Takashi Shiraishi, Approaching Suharto's Indonesia from the Margins, Cornell University Press, →ISBN, page 152:
glosses: To convert a market into an oligopoly.
Related terms: oligopoly
mycoremediation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mycoremediations
Etymology: From myco- + remediation, coined by Paul Stamets.
Senses: glosses: The use of fungi to degrade or sequester contaminants in the environment.
Hypernyms: bioremediation
emboil
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: emboils
form: emboiling
form: emboiled
form: emboiled
Etymology: From em- + boil.
Senses: examples: text: quench thy hot emboiling Wrath
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto V”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
glosses: To boil with anger; to effervesce.
examples: text: Emboyled, grieued, brent.
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto XI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
glosses: To cause to boil with anger; to irritate; to chafe.
emboiled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of emboil
emboiling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of emboil
emboils
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of emboil
maleadministration
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: maleadministrations
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of maladministration.
maleadministrations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of maleadministration
dumb hole
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dumb holes
Etymology: Similar to black hole, formed with dumb (“mute, silent”). Used at least since 1994.
Senses: glosses: A phenomenon in which phonons (sound perturbations) are unable to escape from a fluid that is flowing more quickly than the local speed of sound.
Synonyms: sonic black hole
disassimilate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: disassimilates
form: disassimilating
form: disassimilated
form: disassimilated
Etymology: From dis- + assimilate.
Senses: topics: medicine
physiology
sciences
glosses: To subject to disassimilation.
disassimilated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of disassimilate
disassimilates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of disassimilate
disassimilating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of disassimilate
worrit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: worrits
Etymology: Dialectal alteration of worry, 19th c.
Senses: examples: text: "Where have you been, you young monkey?" said Mrs. Joe, stamping her foot. "Tell me directly what you’ve been doing to wear me away with fret and fright and worrit, or I’d have you out of that corner if you was fifty Pips, and he was five hundred Gargerys."
ref: 1860 December – 1861 August, Charles Dickens, Great Expectations […], volume I, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published October 1861, →OCLC, page 15:
text: Them hunting and fishing things, if it was nothing else, puts Mr. Saunders and John in a continual worrit, special when there's gentlemen coming that don't bring a vally — and half the gentlemen here don't.
ref: 1891, Margaret Oliphant, The Heir Presumptive and the Heir Apparent, published 2009, page 113:
glosses: Worry; anxiety.
glosses: One who worries excessively or unnecessarily.
worrit
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: worrits
form: worriting
form: worrited
form: worrited
form: worrit
form: worrit
Etymology: Dialectal alteration of worry, 19th c.
Senses: examples: text: “Yes; don't worrit your poor mother,” said Mrs. Sanders. “She's quite enough to worrit her, as it is, without you, Tommy,” said Mrs. Cluppins, with sympathising resignation.
ref: 1836 March – 1837 October, Charles Dickens, chapter XXVI, in The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published 1837, →OCLC, page 271:
text: 'Och, it's you, is it, Mr Kilmartin? Wherever have ye been? The young lady was fair worrit to death when ye didna come home.'
ref: 1940, Hammond Innes, The Trojan Horse, published 2012, unnumbered page:
text: I dinna wish to worrit myself about ye running off to the nunnery or wi' another man.
ref: 2010, Amanda Forester, The Highlander’s Sword, page 169:
glosses: To cause (someone) to be anxious; to worry.
examples: text: Well Sir, would you believe it, there’s that in Mr Pontifex’s face which is just like young Watkins; he looks that worrited and scrunched up at times, but it’s never for the same reason, […]
ref: 1873–1884 (date written), Samuel Butler, edited by R[ichard] A[lexander] Streatfeild, The Way of All Flesh, London: Grant Richards, published 1903, →OCLC:
text: I'd best be turning for home. Mrs. Maggot will be worriting with the night getting thick.
ref: 1954 July 29, J[ohn] R[onald] R[euel] Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring: Being the First Part of The Lord of the Rings, London: George Allen & Unwin, →OCLC:
glosses: To be anxious; to worry.
Derived terms: worriter
worrit
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more worrit
form: most worrit
Etymology: Dialectal alteration of worry, 19th c.
Senses: examples: text: An' every day Chinook Bill got more an' more worrit an' turrible reticent.
ref: 1906, Robert Love Taylor, John Trotwood Moore, Thornwell Jacobs, editors, The Taylor-Trotwood Magazine, volumes 3-4, page 641:
text: 'She's gey sickly, but more worrit that she should be sick at all than by whatever it is itself.'
ref: 1926, Marshall Newton Goold, Heather Heretics, page 204:
text: “I don' think Dallen'd let me break m'neck,” Mags pointed out. “I'd be more worrit about them as is on foot or reg'lar horses.”
ref: 2010, Mercedes Lackey, Intrigues, published 2012, unnumbered page:
glosses: Worried.
worrits
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of worrit
rice wines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rice wine
allwork
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: allworks
Etymology: From all + work.
Senses: examples: text: A dark and tyrannical count; an aged crone of a house-keeper, the depositart of many a family legend; a garrulous waiting-maid; a gay and light-hearted valet; a villain or two of allwork; and a heroine , fulfilled with all perfections, and subjected to all manner of hazards, from the stock in trade of a romancer or a melo-dramatist ; and if these personages be dressed in the proper costume, and converse in language sufficiently appropriate to their stations and qualities, it is not expected that the audience shall shake their sides at the humour of the dialogue, or weep over its pathos.
ref: 1826, Walter Scott, The Works of Walter Scott, Esq - Volume 4, page 67:
text: Mr. Giles acted in the double capacity of butler and steward to the old lady of the mansion; and Brittles was a lad of allwork, who, having entered her service a mere child, was treated as a promising young boy still, though he was something past thirty.
ref: 1839, Charles Dickens, The Adventures of Oliver Twist, page 215:
text: They had one female servant, a "girl of allwork."
ref: 1864, "A Retired Guardian", “Sketches of the Poor”, in The Sunday at Home, volume 11, page 298:
text: Plaintiff's intestate was a man of allwork in defendant's power house .
ref: 1902, The New York Supplement - Volume 74, page 987:
text: She also permitted the excellent Mrs. Heathcote to say a great deal about the advantages of taking their own two capital maids of allwork with them.
ref: 2016, Frances Milton Trollope, Delphi Collected Works of Frances Trollope:
text: a maid of allwork, that is, a general servant'
glosses: Work of all kinds; general purpose tasks.
examples: text: Their skills ranged over 36 different trades, from general catgories such as allwork and general servant through to more specific skills such as upholsterer and jeweller.
ref: 1988, Stephen Nicholas, Convict Workers: Reinterpreting Australia's Past, page 91:
text: Whilst employed as an "allwork" she was convicted of "man stealing" at the Middlesex Session Peace on 5 September, 1834. She reached Australia on the Numa in 1834.
ref: 1991, James Hugh Donohoe, The Forgotten Australians, page 96:
text: Domestic servants: allwork, allwork in a country inn, allwork in an inn, allwork in a ladies' house, country allwork, town allwork, chambermaid, chambermaid in a hotel, chambermaid in an inn, child's maid, cook, cook in a hotel, country housemaid, housemaid, housemaid in a hotel, […]
ref: 1996, Deborah Oxley, Convict Maids: The Forced Migration of Women to Australia, page 250:
glosses: A general-purpose servant; a maid of all work.
senocular
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /siːˈnɒkjʊlə(ɹ)/
Etymology: From Latin sēnī (“six each”), from sex (“six”) + oculus (“eye”).
Senses: examples: text: spiders[…], for the most part octonocular, and ſome[…] senocular
ref: 1713, W[illiam] Derham, Physico-Theology: Or, A Demonstration of the Being and Attributes of God, from His Works of Creation. […], London: […] W[illiam] Innys, […], →OCLC:
glosses: Having six eyes.
proximad
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more proximad
form: most proximad
Etymology: From proximo- + -ad.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
synonyms: proximally
glosses: Toward a proximal part, or on the proximal side of
subcorneous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From sub- + corneous.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Situated under a horny part or layer.
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Partially horny.
tetraonid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tetraonids
Etymology: Latin tetrao (“a heath cock, grouse”), from Ancient Greek. Compare French tétraonide.
Senses: examples: text: The grouse, partridge and quail are tetraonids.
topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: A bird belonging to the tribe Tetraonini, of which the genus Tetrao is the type.
tetraonids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tetraonid
astatically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more astatically
form: most astatically
Etymology: From astatic + -ally.
Senses: glosses: In an astatic manner.
conchinine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Anagram of cinchonine.
Senses: glosses: quinidine
lankacidin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lankacidins
Etymology: Derived from Sri Lanka.
Senses: topics: chemistry
medicine
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Any of a family of macrolide tetraenes, isolated from Streptomyces, that are antitumor antibiotics.
leptospires
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of leptospire
lankacidins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lankacidin
leptospire
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: leptospires
Senses: glosses: Any bacterium of the genus Leptospira.
Derived terms: leptospiruria
difformities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of difformity
difformity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: difformities
Etymology: From Middle French difformité. See difform, deformity.
Senses: examples: text: For whilst they murmur against the present disposure of things, regulating determined realities unto their private optations, they rest not in their established natures, but unwishing their unalterable verities, do tacitly desire in them a difformity from the primitive rule
ref: 1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC:
glosses: irregularity or diversity of form; lack of uniformity
misseek
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: misseeks
form: misseeking
form: missought
form: missought
Etymology: From mis- + seek.
Senses: examples: text: And yet the thing that most is your desire, / Ye do misseek, with more travail and care!
ref: c. 1527–1542, Sir Thomas Wyatt, “Of the Mean and Sure Estate (written to John Poyntz)”, in Edward Arber, editor, The Surrey & Wyatt anthology, 1509-1547, published 1901, page 7:
text: Still this doctrine must be extended further: for thereby we gather generally that God is missought under outward shapes, which have no likeness or affinity to his heavenly glory.
ref: 1840, Jean Calvin, A commentary on the Psalms of David:
text: Yet, when missought, she is often found, and when unexpected, often obtained; while those who seek for her most diligently, fail the most because they seek her where she is not.
ref: 1841 April, “What is Earthly Happiness”, in The New York Visitor and Lady's Parlor Magazine, page 315:
text: What missought pleasure or ill-timed errand could have brought them out on such a night?
ref: 1908 March, Aurelius E. Philips, “Victorious Though Defeated”, in The University of Tennessee Magazine, volume 21, number 6, page 147:
glosses: To seek for wrongly.
misseeking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of misseek
misseeks
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of misseek
missought
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of misseek
bloomeries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bloomery
lucentamycins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lucentamycin
bloomaries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bloomary
bloomary
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bloomaries
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of bloomery.
extumescence
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: extumescences
Etymology: From Latin ex + tumescens, present participle of tumescere, inchoate from tumere (“to swell”). Compare French extumescence.
Senses: examples: text: Often did her hand press the soft extumescences growing from the sides
ref: 1842, Louisa Sidney Stanhope, Rosaline:
glosses: A swelling or rising.
extumescences
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of extumescence
inshave
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: inshaves
Etymology: From in + shave?
Senses: glosses: A two-handled plane for shaving or hollowing out the inside of barrels.
inshaves
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of inshave
piscaries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of piscary
macrolactones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of macrolactone
Thomsonian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /tɒmˈsəʊ.ni.ən/
ipa: /tɑmˈsoʊ.ni.ən/
rhymes: -əʊniən
Forms: form: more Thomsonian
form: most Thomsonian
Etymology: From Thomson + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Relating to Thomsonianism.
Thomsonian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /tɒmˈsəʊ.ni.ən/
ipa: /tɑmˈsoʊ.ni.ən/
rhymes: -əʊniən
Forms: form: Thomsonians
Etymology: From Thomson + -ian.
Senses: glosses: A believer in Thomsonianism; one who practices Thomsonianism.
Related terms: Thompsonian
Thomsonians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Thomsonian
markerless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From marker + -less.
Senses: glosses: lacking markers
puteal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈpjuːti.əl/
Forms: form: puteals
Etymology: From Latin puteal, from puteālis, from puteus (“well”) + -ālis (“-al: forming adjs”).
Senses: topics: architecture
glosses: An enclosure around a well to prevent people from falling into it.
wikipedia: John Weale
puteals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of puteal
conservable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more conservable
form: most conservable
Etymology: Latin conservabilis.
Senses: examples: text: conservable material
text: conservable milk
text: conservable waste
glosses: Capable of being preserved from decay or injury.
Derived terms: unconservable
gallopin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gallopins
Etymology: From French galopin. See gallop (intransitive verb).
Senses: examples: text: He was permitted to run about the streets of Paris , and to become a mere Gallopin
ref: 1793, The Sentimental and Masonic Magazine:
glosses: An underservant in the kitchen; a scullion, or cook's errand boy.
gallopins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gallopin
melaninization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From melanin + -ization.
Senses: glosses: melanization
underservant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: underservants
Etymology: From under- + servant.
Senses: glosses: A lower-ranking servant
underservants
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of underservant
meristemic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From meristem + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to the meristem
Related terms: meristematic
epencephalic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From epi- + encephalic.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Pertaining to, or located in, the hindbrain.
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Situated on or over the brain.
Cameronian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌkæməˈɹəʊ.ni.ən/
ipa: /ˌkæməˈɹoʊ.ni.ən/
rhymes: -əʊniən
Forms: form: Cameronians
Etymology: From Cameron + -ian.
Senses: glosses: A follower of Richard Cameron (Covenanter) (1648?–1680), a leader of the militant Presbyterians, known as Covenanters, who resisted attempts by the Stuart monarchs to control the affairs of the Church of Scotland.
glosses: A member of the Cameronians (Scottish Rifles), a Scottish regiment.
Cameronians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Cameronian
zombiesque
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more zombiesque
form: most zombiesque
Etymology: From zombie + -esque.
Senses: glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a zombie.
Synonyms: zombielike
degarnish
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /dɪˈɡɑː(ɹ)nɪʃ/
Forms: form: degarnishes
form: degarnishing
form: degarnished
form: degarnished
Etymology: From French dégarnir. See garnish, and compare disgarnish.
Senses: examples: text: to degarnish a house
glosses: To strip or deprive entirely, as of furniture, ornaments, etc.; to disgarnish.
examples: text: to degarnish a city or fort
text: 1780 August 22, George Washington, letter to Governor Trumbull
West point , which post is now almost entirely degarnished
glosses: To deprive of a garrison, or of troops necessary for defence.
Derived terms: degarnishment
degarnished
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of degarnish
degarnishes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of degarnish
degarnishing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of degarnish
betumble
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: betumbles
form: betumbling
form: betumbled
form: betumbled
Etymology: From be- + tumble.
Senses: examples: text: When showers betumble the chestnut spikes
ref: 1922, Thomas Hardy, “Weathers”, in Late Lyrics and Earlier with Many Other Verses, London: Macmillan and Co., […], →OCLC, page 1:
glosses: To cause to tumble, or to throw into disorder or disarrange the parts of.
Derived terms: betumbled
betumbled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of betumble
betumbled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more betumbled
form: most betumbled
Senses: examples: text: This ſaid, from her betombled couch ſhee ſtarteth, / To finde ſome deſp'rat Inſtrument of death, […]
ref: 1594, William Shakespeare, Lucrece (First Quarto), London: […] Richard Field, for Iohn Harrison, […], →OCLC, lines 1037–1038:
glosses: Tossed in confusion; disordered.
wormil
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wormils
form: warble
form: worble
form: wormal
form: wormul
form: wornil
Etymology: Compare warble.
Senses: glosses: warble fly
wormils
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wormil
ichthyophagist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ichthyophagists
Etymology: See ichthyophagous and -ist.
Senses: synonyms: piscivore
glosses: An eater of fish.
Related terms: ichthyophagous
ichthyophagy
ichthyophagists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ichthyophagist
bicarbureted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Only used in bicarbureted hydrogen
coercionists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of coercionist
sarn
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sarns
Etymology: From Welsh sarn (“a causeway, paving”).
Senses: glosses: A pavement or stepping stone.
examples: text: "Not now," he went on, "but there was a high sarn formerly, and only for that both vehicles and foot passengers would ovten have found it impossible to get into Carmarthen from that direction. The tides and floods there were terrible in those times."
ref: 1906, H.C. Tierney, “What Does "Pensarn" Mean”, in Transactions of the Carmarthenshire Antiquarian Society and Field Club, volumes 1-6, page 23:
text: The ground in the immediate neighbourhood is somewhat boggy and treacherous, and a 'sarn' has doubtless always been necessary for traversing the bog.
ref: 1913, Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments and Constructions in Wales and Monmouthshire, An Inventory of the Ancient Monuments in Wales and Monmouthshire, page 105:
glosses: A causeway.
sarns
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sarn
serpentiform
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more serpentiform
form: most serpentiform
Etymology: Latin serpens (“serpent”) + -iform.
Senses: examples: text: a newly discovered genus of serpentiform fishes
text: a number of parallel serpentiform lines
synonyms: ophiomorphic
anguiform
serpentine
glosses: Having the form of a snake.