cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
polygraph
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɒliɡɹæf/
ipa: /ˈpɒliɡɹɑːf/
rhymes: -æf
rhymes: -ɑːf
Forms: form: polygraphs
Etymology: From poly- + -graph.
Senses: examples: text: It used to be just a plain office with a chair and some instruments on a table. Then they got the new, fancy polygraph system.
ref: 1992, Neal Stephenson, Snow Crash, page 270:
synonyms: lie detector
glosses: A device which measures and records several physiological variables such as blood pressure, heart rate, respiration and skin conductivity while a series of questions is being asked to a subject, in an attempt to detect lies.
synonyms: manifold writer
autopen
glosses: A mechanical instrument for multiplying copies of a writing, resembling multiple pantographs.
glosses: A collection of different works, either by one or several authors.
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: A group of letters that represent a single phoneme.
examples: text: A polygraph consists of an unspecified number of adjacent letters. A polygraph need not be recognisable as a word in a language but if we are attempting to decipher a message which is expected to be in English and we find the heptagraph MEETING it is much more promising than if we find a heptagraph such as DKRPIGX.
ref: 2002, Robert Churchhouse, Codes and Ciphers: Julius Caesar, the Enigma, and the Internet, page 3:
glosses: Any group of letters treated as a single item.
glosses: An author who writes on many subjects.
topics: mathematics
sciences
synonyms: computad
glosses: A multidimensional directed graph.
Derived terms: polygrapher
polygraphist
polygraph
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɒliɡɹæf/
ipa: /ˈpɒliɡɹɑːf/
rhymes: -æf
rhymes: -ɑːf
Forms: form: polygraphs
form: polygraphing
form: polygraphed
form: polygraphed
Etymology: From poly- + -graph.
Senses: examples: text: The FBI polygraphed the suspect but learned nothing because they already knew he was lying.
glosses: To administer a polygraph test to.
Related terms: truth serum
digraph
trigraph
hotshot
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhɒtˌʃɒt/
Forms: form: more hotshot
form: most hotshot
form: hot shot
form: hot-shot
Etymology: From hot + shot.
Senses: examples: text: He was a hotshot lawyer, with an astounding win-loss record.
glosses: Highly skilled.
examples: text: Keep up those hotshot baskets, and the scouts are sure to take notice.
glosses: Displaying talent.
hotshot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhɒtˌʃɒt/
Forms: form: hotshots
form: hot shot
form: hot-shot
Etymology: From hot + shot.
Senses: examples: text: She sure was a hotshot on the keyboard, 93 words per minute!
text: Heading into 2016 and 2020, if you told the hotshots from Obamaworld that you thought Biden would be a good candidate, they would uniformly offer a look of infinite patience, tolerance and condescension and say something like, “Well, I could understand how someone would think that.”
ref: 2021 March 20, Maureen Dowd, “Old Pol, New Tricks”, in The New York Times:
glosses: Someone with exceptional skills in a certain field.
glosses: A type of firefighter highly skilled in wildfire firefighting without external support, using basic tools that are backpacked in and manhandled about.
glosses: A portable device that is used to jump-start an automobile battery, or the electrical output of such a device.
examples: text: Indeed, development proceeded so rapidly thereafter that Mopac, for instance, was rebuilding a series of 10-year-old Woodard 2-8-4's into 4-8-4's by 1940 - not because they couldn't steam but because their 63-inch drivers couldn't roll the hotshots fast enough.
ref: 1959, David P. Morgan, editor, Steam's Finest Hour, Kalmbach Publishing Co.:
topics: rail-transport
railways
transport
glosses: A fast freight train.
examples: text: I sniffed glue, transmission fluid, gasoline, whatever drug anybody gave me, I took. […] [Y]ears ago, I was in a drug rehabilitation program and found out that my brother was killed after somebody gave him a hotshot, drugs laced with poison.
ref: 1997, Andi Rierden, The Farm: Life inside a women's prison, page 120:
glosses: A dose of recreational drugs deliberately laced with poison.
examples: text: “You guys are being babies.” “Babies.” “Oh, we're being babies, Mac? Why don't you go work for your dad all day?” “My dad's a meth dealer.” “[Mock Crying] Oh, oh, no! My daddy's in prison!” “My daddy used to give hot shots to prostitutes. Feel sorry for me!”
ref: 2006 July 6, Charlie Day & Glenn Howerton & Rob McElhenney, “Dennis and Dee Go on Welfare” (0:21 from the start), in It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, season 2, episode 3, spoken by Dennis Reynolds (Glenn Howerton):
glosses: A lethal injection of heroin or another opiate.
Coordinate terms: sense: firefighter
word: smokejumper
hotshot
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhɒtˌʃɒt/
Forms: form: hotshots
form: hotshotting
form: hotshotted
form: hotshotted
form: hot shot
form: hot-shot
Etymology: From hot + shot.
Senses: glosses: To give (somebody) a dose of recreational drugs deliberately laced with poison.
florist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈflɒɹɪst/
ipa: /ˈfloɹɪst/
ipa: /ˈflɑɹɪst/
rhymes: -ɒɹɪst
Forms: form: florists
Etymology: From French fleuriste, from Latin floris (“genitive singular of flōs, flower”), + -ist.
Senses: glosses: A person who sells flowers.
glosses: A person who cultivates flowers.
glosses: A person who studies or writes about flowers.
examples: text: “After the gown, we can go to the florist, then stop by the lingerie store.”
ref: 2010, Cassie Miles, Hook, Line and Shotgun Bride, page 33:
glosses: A florist's shop.
Derived terms: artificial florist
floristry
floristy
drummer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɹʌmə(ɹ)/
ipa: /ˈdɹʌmɚ/
rhymes: -ʌmə(ɹ)
Forms: form: drummers
Etymology: From drum + -er (occupational suffix) or + -er (relational noun suffix).
Senses: examples: text: Kate is the lead guitarist, Luna is the drummer, and Izzy is the bass guitarist.
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: One who plays the drums.
glosses: A drumstick (the lower part of a chicken or turkey leg).
examples: text: Bullock's liver will catch drummer.
ref: 1983, The Fisherman Who Laughed, page 67:
glosses: Any of various fish of the family Kyphosidae, which make a drumming sound.
Synonyms: sense: musician who plays drums
word: drummist
sense: musician who plays drums
word: drumslade
sense: musician who plays drums
word: percussionist
sense: musician who plays drums
word: stickman
sense: salesman
word: hawker
sense: salesman
word: peddler
Derived terms: bass drummer
bucket drummer
double drummer
drummerless
frame drummer
kettledrummer
march to a different drummer
march to one's own drummer
march to the beat of a different drummer
march to the beat of one's own drummer
snare drummer
steel drummer
talking-drummer
talking drummer
tenor drummer
tom-tom drummer
drummer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɹʌmə(ɹ)/
ipa: /ˈdɹʌmɚ/
rhymes: -ʌmə(ɹ)
Forms: form: drummers
Etymology: From drum (“house”) + -er.
Senses: examples: text: Bennett's central figure, Ray, is first and foremost a serial "drummer" (housebreaker in crim-speak), and only secondly a human being, […]
ref: 1999, Theatre Record, volume 19, numbers 17-20:
glosses: A housebreaker.
examples: text: You know what life on the road is like — these poor salesmen when they don't sell some big account they been counting on why they go into one terrible slump they set there in the hotel room brooding over it and after a while they go out and meet some other drummer down in the lobby and start chewing the rag about all their troubles and then they get feeling so sorry they go across the street and commence drinking beer and about three hours later they come back to the room and write the house one of these here letters how rotten the product is.
ref: 1953, Richard Bissell, chapter 14, in 7½ Cents, Atlantic-Little, Brown, page 154:
glosses: A travelling salesman.
conditioner
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: conditioners
Etymology: From condition + -er.
Senses: glosses: Anything that improves the condition of something.
glosses: Hair conditioner.
glosses: Fabric conditioner, fabric softener.
glosses: Someone who trains athletes or racehorses.
glosses: An agricultural machine that crimps and crushes newly cut hay to promote faster and more even drying.
Derived terms: air conditioner
fabric conditioner
hair conditioner
mower-conditioner
preconditioner
beeper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbiːpə/
ipa: /ˈbipɚ/
rhymes: -iːpə(ɹ)
Forms: form: beepers
Etymology: From beep + -er.
Senses: examples: text: The Controls option enables you to resize and move a currently displayed window, as well as toggle the PC beeper.
ref: 1986, Dr. Dobb's journal of software tools for the professional programmer: volume 11, page 53:
glosses: Something that makes a beeping sound.
A simple computer speaker.
examples: text: No stages, front pages, no phones, no beepers
ref: 1993, “Just Another Day”, in Black Reign, performed by Queen Latifah:
glosses: Something that makes a beeping sound.
A pager (wireless telecommunication device).
glosses: Something that makes a beeping sound.
A robot.
examples: text: Radio "beepers" are easy: all you need is a telephone, and you can basically have an overseas conversation with any DJ or radio news director in America.
ref: 2009, Keith Oliver, Command Attention: Promoting Your Organization the Marine Corps Way, page 11:
topics: broadcasting
media
radio
glosses: A broadcast interview taking place over the telephone (originally having to include a beeping sound to indicate that it was not a live broadcast).
Derived terms: backup beeper
makeover
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: makeovers
form: make-over
Senses: examples: text: This room is a mess; it needs a makeover.
text: There was no furniture or carpet to speak of. The wallpaper was peeling off the walls and there was a smell of damp everywhere. It was as if they were living like squatters in their own flat. However, this was no time for a makeover, even a fifteen-minute one like on TV[…].
ref: 2012, David Walliams [pseudonym; David Edward Williams], Ratburger, London: HarperCollins Children’s Books, →ISBN:
glosses: A major change in the use of something, or in the appearance of something or someone; a radical transformation.
Coordinate terms: facelift
overhaul
revamp
Derived terms: mummy makeover
Related terms: word: make over
jacuzzi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /d͡ʒəˈkuːzi/
Forms: form: jacuzzis
form: jacuzzies
Etymology: Genericized trademark of the proprietary name Jacuzzi.
Senses: examples: The jacuzzi’s powerful jets created a swirling current that massaged his back.
glosses: A hot tub or whirlpool bath with underwater jets that massage the body.
Related terms: hot tub
spa
jacuzzi
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /d͡ʒəˈkuːzi/
Forms: form: jacuzzis
form: jacuzzies
form: jacuzziing
form: jacuzzied
form: jacuzzied
Etymology: Genericized trademark of the proprietary name Jacuzzi.
Senses: examples: text: The suite was jacuzzied.
glosses: To equip with a jacuzzi.
examples: text: They jacuzzied after a late dinner.
glosses: To use a jacuzzi.
examples: text: He jacuzzied his sore muscles.
glosses: To treat with a jacuzzi.
interstate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɪntɚˌsteɪt/
ipa: [ˈɪɾ̃ɚˌsteɪ̯t]
Forms: form: I
form: IH
form: IR
form: Int.
form: ISR
Etymology: From inter- + state, originally as an adjective only; the noun is by (ellipsis) from interstate highway. The noun also serves adjectivally as a (noun adjunct) in such collocations as interstate construction and interstate rest stops.
Senses: examples: text: interstate commerce
text: interstate reciprocity
text: The difference between intrastate and interstate prison transfers, Justice Blackmun said, "is a matter of degree, not of kind," while confinement in a mental hospital is qualitatively different than an ordinary prison sentence.
ref: 1983 April 27, “STATES CAN TRANSFER PRISONERS TO OTHER STATES, COURT HOLDS”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 18 Sep 2022:
text: Jordan Gee, 37, of Nanticoke, Pennsylvania, was charged with three felony counts of threats against the president and one count of interstate threats, according to the Justice Department.
ref: 2024 May 16, Casey Gannon, “Pennsylvania man charged with threatening Biden in online video”, in CNN, archived from the original on 23 May 2025:
coordinate_terms: state#Noun
intrastate
intraprovincial
;
interprovincial
;
federal
;
federated
;
national
nationwide
countrywide
;
suprastate
supranational
;
international
glosses: Of, or relating to two or more states.
Derived terms: interstate compact
interstate
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɪntɚˌsteɪt/
ipa: [ˈɪɾ̃ɚˌsteɪ̯t]
Forms: form: I
form: IH
form: IR
form: Int.
form: ISR
Etymology: From inter- + state, originally as an adjective only; the noun is by (ellipsis) from interstate highway. The noun also serves adjectivally as a (noun adjunct) in such collocations as interstate construction and interstate rest stops.
Senses: examples: text: The truck driver drove interstate to unload.
glosses: Crossing states (usually provincial state, but also e.g. multinational sense).
Related terms: Pan-American
pan-Indian
trans-Siberian
interstate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɪntɚˌsteɪt/
ipa: [ˈɪɾ̃ɚˌsteɪ̯t]
Forms: form: interstates
form: I
form: IH
form: IR
form: Int.
form: ISR
Etymology: From inter- + state, originally as an adjective only; the noun is by (ellipsis) from interstate highway. The noun also serves adjectivally as a (noun adjunct) in such collocations as interstate construction and interstate rest stops.
Senses: examples: text: The speed-limit increase would not apply to Delaware, where the interstates are all near populated areas.
ref: 1987 March 19, Bernard Weinraub, “HOUSE BACKS A SPEED LIMIT OF 65 FOR RURAL INTERSTATES”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 19 Dec 2024:
text: There was no reason to pull off the interstate and drive twenty miles down a bumpy local road, just to stay in a dilapidated no-tell motel.
ref: 2013, Robin Wasserman, Seven Deadly Sins, volume 1: Lust; Envy, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 120:
glosses: A freeway that is part of the Interstate Highway System.
Derived terms: interstater
firemen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fireman
shush
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʃʊʃ/
ipa: /ʃʌʃ/
rhymes: -ʊʃ
rhymes: -ʌʃ
Forms: form: shushes
form: shushing
form: shushed
form: shushed
form: shoosh
Etymology: Imitative. Compare shh and hush.
Senses: examples: text: He wouldn't shush so I kicked him.
text: Shush, my parents are back!
glosses: To be quiet; to keep quiet.
examples: text: The boy in front of us was making too much noise, so we shushed him.
text: The sequence where Sam carves off Jorah’s infected tissue in secret, stopping every few moments to shush his patient, is presented as comic relief why? Jorah reels back into a diagonal close-up whimpering like a dog. Yellow pus oozes to get those good gross-out laughs. Is the substance of this operation funny to anyone on its face?
ref: 2017 July 23, Brandon Nowalk, “The great game begins with a bang on Game Of Thrones (newbies)”, in The Onion AV Club:
glosses: To ask someone to be quiet, especially by saying shh.
Derived terms: shushee
shusher
shushing
unshushable
Related terms: shh
grownup
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: grownups
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of grown-up.
grownup
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more grownup
form: most grownup
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of grown-up.
Derived terms: grownupness
sync
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /sɪŋk/
rhymes: -ɪŋk
homophone: sink
homophone: cinque
homophone: synch
homophone: zinc
Forms: form: syncs
form: synch
Etymology: Clipping of synchronization.
Senses: glosses: Clipping of synchronization or synchrony.
glosses: Harmony.
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A music synchronization license, allowing the music to be synchronized with visual media such as films.
Derived terms: composite sync
in sync
lip sync
lip-sync
off sync
on sync
out of sync
sync on green
V-sync
sync
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /sɪŋk/
rhymes: -ɪŋk
homophone: sink
homophone: cinque
homophone: synch
homophone: zinc
Forms: form: syncs
form: syncing
form: synching
form: synced
form: synced
form: synched
form: synched
form: sunk
form: sunk
form: synch
Etymology: Clipping of synchronization.
Senses: examples: text: Our cloud storage automatically syncs your files to all your devices.
text: He synced his phone to the laptop to transfer data about the field trip.
glosses: To synchronize, especially in the senses of data synchronization, time synchronization, or synchronizing music with video.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: To flush all pending I/O operations to disk.
Derived terms: sync up
platoon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /pləˈtuːn/
rhymes: -uːn
Forms: form: platoons
Etymology: From obsolete French plauton, variant of peloton, from Middle French pelote + -on. Doublet of peloton. Compare pellet.
Senses: examples: text: Needless to say, one's seat must be booked in advance and a platoon of urbane officials, one to each door of the train, awaits passengers to usher them to their seats and relieve them of their bulkier baggage.
ref: 1960 March, G. Freeman Allen, “Europe's most luxurious express - the "Settebello"”, in Trains Illustrated, page 140:
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: A unit of thirty to forty soldiers typically commanded by a lieutenant and forming part of a company.
glosses: A subdivision of a fire company, led by a captain or lieutenant.
glosses: A group of self-driving vehicles travelling in a close convoy and communicating electronically with each other.
topics: education
glosses: A group of children in the platoon grouping education system.
Derived terms: platooner
platoonmate
platoon
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /pləˈtuːn/
rhymes: -uːn
Forms: form: platoons
form: platooning
form: platooned
form: platooned
Etymology: From obsolete French plauton, variant of peloton, from Middle French pelote + -on. Doublet of peloton. Compare pellet.
Senses: examples: text: Taylor has been hitting poorly against left-handers, and Morgan has been hitting poorly against right-handers, so they will platoon.
topics: ball-games
baseball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: To alternate starts with a teammate of opposite handedness, depending on the handedness of the opposing pitcher
examples: text: You must understand the rules of football in 1939. There was no platooning, so each man played both offense and defense.
ref: 2014, The Cedar Rapids Gazette, Greatest Moments in Iowa Hawkeyes Football History:
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: To specialize in a particular position or playing style.
glosses: Of self-driving vehicles: to travel in a close convoy, each vehicle communicating electronically with the others.
Related terms: platoon system
exams
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of exam
exams
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of exam
prof
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɹɑf/
rhymes: -ɑf
Forms: form: profs
Etymology: Shortening.
Senses: examples: text: He assumes a monotone: "'Yeah, I went to Southern.' 'Yeah, I majored in psych.' 'Yeah, I had a couple of profs who were interesting.'"
ref: 1988 June 17, Harold Henderson, “Big Ideas”, in Chicago Reader, archived from the original on 03 Jun 2010:
glosses: Clipping of professor.
examples: text: I link up Flipz, then we burn your bridge
Then we laugh about it and split the prof
ref: 2017, Stormzy, Mr Skeng:
glosses: Clipping of profit.
booking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbʊkɪŋ/
rhymes: -ʊkɪŋ
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of book
booking
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbʊkɪŋ/
rhymes: -ʊkɪŋ
Forms: form: bookings
Senses: glosses: The act or process of writing something down in a book or books, e.g. in accounting.
examples: text: Advance bookings were initially suspended. They are now available again, but with less than one-week's availability at a time.
ref: 2022 September 21, Mel Holley, “MPs debate Avanti West Coast future as MD departs”, in RAIL, number 966, page 14:
glosses: A reservation for a service, such as travel or hotel accommodation.
glosses: The engagement of a performer for a particular performance.
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: The issuing of a caution which is usually written down in a book, and results in a yellow card or (after two bookings) a red card, that is to say, the player is sent from the field of play.
topics: law
glosses: The process of photographing, fingerprinting and recording the identifying data of a suspect following arrest.
Derived terms: block-booking
block booking
booking class
booking clerk
booking hall
booking lad
booking office
overbooking
reservation booking designator
telebooking
underbooking
Related terms: inscription
back seat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: back seats
form: back-seat
form: backseat
Etymology: From back + seat.
Senses: examples: 2011, Rebecca Black featuring Patrice Wilson, Friday
Gotta catch my bus, I see my friends
Kickin' in the front seat
Sittin' in the back seat
Gotta make my mind up
Which seat can I take?
synonyms: rearseat
coordinate_terms: front seat
glosses: Any of the seats in the rear of a vehicle.
examples: text: The bluntness of King Vajiralongkorn's intervention—and the determination it reveals to resist relatively small checks on royal power—is both a snub to the junta and a worry for democrats, some of whom had dared hope that the new king might be happy to take a back seat in public life.
ref: 2017 January 14, “Thailand's new king rejects the army's proposed constitution”, in The Economist:
glosses: A lesser or inferior position; a position of deliberate noninvolvement, in which decision-making or leadership is left to others.
raw_tags: in the expression take a back seat
Derived terms: word: backseat
word: back-seat driver
word: backseat driver
word: back-seat driving
word: backseater
word: back-seat gamer
word: backseat gamer
word: back-seat gaming
word: back-seat moderator
word: backseat moderator
word: take a back seat
backseat driver
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: backseat drivers
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of back-seat driver.
bossy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɔsi/
ipa: /ˈbɑsi/
ipa: /ˈbɒsi/
ipa: /ˈbɒsɪ/
rhymes: -ɒsi
rhymes: -ɔːsi
Forms: form: bossier
form: bossiest
Etymology: From boss + -y.
Senses: examples: text: Over in the wardrobe department a bossy woman in ill-fitting dungarees tried to talk her into wearing a short red low-cut dress for the test.
ref: 1994, Jackie Collins, Hollywood Kids:
text: Cuphead is a difficult gauntlet through a ton of bosses, from evil clowns to bossy queen bees.
ref: 2017 October 2, Heather Alexandra, “Cuphead Player Beats Bosses Without Taking A Single Hit”, in Kotaku, archived from the original on 18 Feb 2018:
text: Where American Jewish men contend with stereotypes of being oversexed, needy, nebbishy and neurotic (like Woody Allen, boo hiss), Jewish women are cast as withholding, bossy, exotic, and materialistic (like Fran Drescher, which honestly? Goals).
ref: 2019 August 20, Fancy Feast, “On Being a Fetish”, in Jewish Currents, number Summer 2019, archived from the original on 08 Aug 2020:
glosses: Tending to give orders to others, especially when unwarranted; domineering.
Synonyms: word: dictatorial
word: authoritarian
word: commanding
word: tyrannical
word: demanding
word: inflexible
word: autocratic
word: bossy
word: coercive
word: controlling
word: despotic
word: dominant
word: domineering
word: forceful
word: harsh
word: heavy-handed
word: iron-fisted
word: iron-handed
word: monocratic
word: obtrusive
word: oppressive
word: overbearing
word: strict
Coordinate terms: word: antiliberal
word: BDSM
word: illiberal
word: might makes right
word: procontrol
word: sadomasochism
Derived terms: bossily
bossiness
bossyboots
bossy pants
bossy r
overbossy
Related terms: word: arrogant
bossy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɔsi/
ipa: /ˈbɑsi/
ipa: /ˈbɒsi/
ipa: /ˈbɒsɪ/
rhymes: -ɒsi
rhymes: -ɔːsi
Forms: form: bossies
Etymology: Diminutive of dialectal English boss + -y, as used in the term boss-calf (which, like buss-calf, is a variant form of boose-calf, a calf kept in a boose (“stall”)).
Senses: examples: text: A week before, while riding the prairies, Raidler had come upon a sick and weakling calf deserted and bawling. Without dismounting he had reached and slung the distressed bossy across his saddle, and dropped it at the ranch for the boys to attend to.
ref: 1903 February, O. Henry [pseudonym; William Sydney Porter], “Hygeia at the Solito”, in Everybody’s Magazine, volume VIII, number 2, New York, N.Y.: John Wanamaker, →ISSN, page 174, column 1:
glosses: A cow or calf.
bossy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɔsi/
ipa: /ˈbɑsi/
ipa: /ˈbɒsi/
ipa: /ˈbɒsɪ/
rhymes: -ɒsi
rhymes: -ɔːsi
Forms: form: more bossy
form: most bossy
Etymology: From boss + -y.
Senses: glosses: Ornamented with bosses; studded.
Synonyms: word: authoritarian
word: autocratic
word: bossy
word: coercive
word: commanding
word: controlling
word: demanding
word: despotic
word: dictatorial
word: dominant
word: domineering
word: forceful
word: harsh
word: heavy-handed
word: iron-fisted
word: iron-handed
word: monocratic
word: obtrusive
word: oppressive
word: overbearing
word: strict
word: tyrannical
Coordinate terms: word: antiliberal
word: BDSM
word: illiberal
word: might makes right
word: procontrol
word: sadomasochism
Related terms: word: arrogant
aides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /eɪdz/
rhymes: -eɪdz
homophone: ades
homophone: aids
homophone: AIDS
Senses: glosses: plural of aide
OST
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: OSTs
Senses: examples: text: I really like the OST of that game.
coordinate_terms: UST
glosses: Initialism of original soundtrack.
OST
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: The most important source of space law is the 1967 Treaty on Principles Governing the Activities of States in the Exploration and Use of Outer Space, including the Moon and Other Celestial Bodies (OST).¹⁶ […] The OST is a product of the Cold War era when the United States and the Soviet Union—the only states with spacefaring capability—were bitter rivals, each fundamentally distrustful of the other.
ref: 2014, John G Sprankling, “Rights in Airspace and Outer Space”, in The International Law of Property, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 176:
topics: aerospace
business
engineering
law
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
space-science
glosses: Initialism of Outer Space Treaty: a treaty that represents the basic legal framework of international space law, signed in 1967.
glosses: Initialism of Open Skies Treaty.
topics: government
politics
glosses: Initialism of Office of Science and Technology.
veiled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: As usual, Ayesha was veiled like the marble Truth (by the way, I wonder if she originally got the idea of covering up her beauty from that statue?).
ref: 1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC:
glosses: Covered by a veil.
examples: text: veiled threats
text: When asked about her veiled threat to Professor Jones, that she'd “be sorry,” Ms. Smith said she meant that she would file a formal complaint against Professor Jones for harassment.
ref: 2014, J. Reid Meloy, Jens Hoffmann, International Handbook of Threat Assessment, page 121:
glosses: Partly hidden or concealed.
Derived terms: thinly-veiled
veiled plate
veiled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of veil
subsidy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsʌbsɪdi/
Forms: form: subsidies
Etymology: From Middle English subsidy, subsidie, from Anglo-Norman subsidee, subsidie, from Old French subside, from Latin subsidium (support, assistance), from subsido from sub- (“below”) + sīdō (“sit”).
Senses: examples: text: Manufacturing firms are supported by government subsidies in some countries.
text: British journalists shun complete respectability, feeling a duty to be ready to savage the mighty, or rummage through their bins. Elsewhere in Europe, government contracts and subsidies ensure that press barons will only defy the mighty so far.
ref: 2013 August 10, Lexington, “Keeping the mighty honest”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8848:
text: You don't have to be Einstein to work out that this level of government subsidy is unsustainable.
ref: 2022 January 12, Sir Michael Holden, “Reform of the workforce or death by a thousand cuts?”, in RAIL, number 948, page 22:
glosses: Financial support or assistance, such as a grant.
glosses: Money granted by parliament to the British Crown.
Derived terms: cross-subsidy
export subsidy
spare room subsidy
subsidy publisher
Related terms: subside
subsidence
subsidiary
subsidize
subsidise
handyman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhændimæn/
Forms: form: handymen
form: handiman
Etymology: From handy + -man.
Senses: examples: text: I complained that the heat was not working, and the landlord sent the handyman to fix it.
text: There was one thing she wanted; she said to hubby dear, / "The time would pass more quickly if I had a rocking chair." / [...] As Strings is such a handyman, by night the job was done / He took that thing upstairs and said, "Now try this out for fun."
ref: 1983, Stan Rogers, “Strings and Dory Plug”, in For the Family:
synonyms: odd-job man
glosses: A person who does small tasks and odd jobs, especially building repairs and the like.
Derived terms: handyman's special
Related terms: jack of all trades
handyman
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhændimæn/
Forms: form: handymans
form: handymanning
form: handymanned
form: handymanned
form: handiman
Etymology: From handy + -man.
Senses: examples: text: Instead I walk, uncertainly across the concrete backyard my father and his friends handymanned into existence so proudly, so that none of us would ever have to play in dirt, in muck, in mud again.
ref: 2014, Peter Wells, Boy Overboard:
text: My daddy worked too hard at Buck's Sporting Goods by day plus handymanning in the evenings, and my mother spent too many hours fixing trays at the meat-and-three for me to act like we had neither pot nor window. Let the record show that we had both.
ref: 2018, Tayari Jones, An American Marriage, page 5:
text: They handymanned all week. And every night Grandad would come in with rosy cheeks and a huge appetite and compliment my mom on what a great cook she was.
ref: 2020, Wendelin Van Draanen, Flipped:
glosses: To work as a handyman; to do odd jobs.
manicure
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmæ.nɪ.kjʊɹ/
Forms: form: manicures
Etymology: From French manucure, coming from Latin manus, hand, and cura, care.
Senses: glosses: A cosmetic treatment for the fingernails.
glosses: A manicurist.
manicure
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmæ.nɪ.kjʊɹ/
Forms: form: manicures
form: manicuring
form: manicured
form: manicured
Etymology: From French manucure, coming from Latin manus, hand, and cura, care.
Senses: glosses: To apply such a treatment to the hands.
glosses: To polish or trim something very finely or evenly.
Derived terms: French manicure
manicurer
manicurism
manicurist
Related terms: pedicure
hectic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhɛktɪk/
rhymes: -ɛktɪk
Forms: form: more hectic
form: most hectic
form: hectick
form: hectical
Etymology: From Middle English etik, ethik, from Old French etique, from Medieval Latin *hecticus, from Ancient Greek ἑκτικός (hektikós, “habitual, hectic, consumptive”), from ἕξις (héxis, “a state or habit of body or of mind, condition”), from ἔχειν (ékhein, “to have, hold, be in a certain state”).
Senses: examples: text: The city center is so hectic at 8 in the morning that I go to work an hour beforehand to avoid the crowds
synonyms: feverish
glosses: Very busy with activity and confusion.
examples: text: hectic fever
glosses: Denoting a type of fever accompanying consumption and similar wasting diseases, characterised by flushed cheeks and dry skin.
examples: text: Ann had a hectic cough, and many unfavourable prognostics […].
ref: 1788, Mary Wollstonecraft, chapter VI, in Mary: A Fiction:
text: She never complained, but sleep and appetite fled from her, a slow fever preyed on her veins, her colour was hectic, and she often wept in secret […].
ref: 1826, [Mary Shelley], chapter I, in The Last Man. […], volume III, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC:
glosses: Pertaining to or symptomatic of such a fever.
Derived terms: antihectic
hectically
hecticity
hecticness
hectivity
unhectic
hectic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhɛktɪk/
rhymes: -ɛktɪk
Forms: form: hectics
form: hectick
form: hectical
Etymology: From Middle English etik, ethik, from Old French etique, from Medieval Latin *hecticus, from Ancient Greek ἑκτικός (hektikós, “habitual, hectic, consumptive”), from ἕξις (héxis, “a state or habit of body or of mind, condition”), from ἔχειν (ékhein, “to have, hold, be in a certain state”).
Senses: examples: text: […] Do it England, / For like the Hecticke in my blood he rages, / And thou muſt cure me: […]
ref: c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene iii], page 273:
glosses: A hectic fever.
examples: text: The poor Franciscan made no reply: a hectic of a moment pass’d across his cheek, but could not tarry […]
ref: 1768, Mr. Yorick [pseudonym; Laurence Sterne], A Sentimental Journey through France and Italy, volume I, London: […] T. Becket and P. A. De Hondt, […], →OCLC, page 17:
text: For still he lay, and on his thin worn cheek / A purple hectic played like dying day / On the snow-tops of distant hills […]
ref: 1819 July 15, [Lord Byron], Don Juan, London: […] Thomas Davison, […], →OCLC, canto II, stanza 147:
text: an angry hectic in each cheek, a fierce flirt of her fan, and two or three short sniffs that betokened mischief
ref: 1863, Sheridan Le Fanu, The House by the Churchyard:
glosses: A flush like one produced by such a fever.
bitty
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɪti/
rhymes: -ɪti
Forms: form: bittier
form: bittiest
Etymology: From bit + -y.
Senses: examples: text: Here wrangling, bitty conflicts neutered change.
ref: 1974, John Boorman, Zardoz, London: Pan Books, page 51:
glosses: Containing bits; fragmented.
glosses: Very small.
Derived terms: bittily
bittiness
bitty box
itty-bitty
itty bitty
litty bitty
litty-bitty
bitty
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɪti/
rhymes: -ɪti
Forms: form: bitties
Etymology: From bit + -y.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of bittie.
scooter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈskuːtə(ɹ)/
rhymes: -uːtə(ɹ)
Forms: form: scooters
Etymology: From scoot + -er.
Senses: glosses: A kick scooter or push scooter; a human-powered land vehicle with a handlebar, deck and wheels that is propelled by a rider pushing off the ground.
synonyms: e-scooter
motorized scooter
glosses: An electric version of the kick scooter.
glosses: A motorscooter; a small motorcycle or moped with a step-through frame.
glosses: A mobility scooter; an electric-powered scooter specially designed for disabled or elderly people.
glosses: An ice scooter; a type of flat-bottomed, buoyant ice yacht used in the state of New York, equipped with runners for traveling over ice.
topics: diving
government
hobbies
lifestyle
military
nautical
politics
sports
transport
underwater-diving
war
synonyms: word: water scooter
word: DPV
word: diver propulsion vehicle
glosses: Synonym of diver propulsion vehicle.
glosses: Any of the large, black ducks of the genus Melanitta; the scoter.
examples: text: Bow Pocket Scooter […] Pull-on twill scooter with three-pleat front, […]
ref: 2017, Classroom Uniforms Catalog 2017, page 6:
text: With thoughtful details like shorts hidden under scooters, wrinkle-resistant, moisture-wicking fabrics, power knees and strength, stretch, and adjustability exactly where growing kids need it most, […]
ref: 2021, French Toast Catalog 2022, page 10:
glosses: A scooter skirt (skort), especially when worn by girls as part of a school uniform.
Derived terms: air scooter
diving scooter
dog scooter
electric scooter
gym scooter
ice scooter
kick scooter
knee scooter
maxiscooter
mobility scooter
motorized scooter
motor scooter
push scooter
scooterboy
scooterer
scootering
scooterist
sea scooter
sky scooter
snow scooter
square scooter
water scooter
Related terms: moped
scooter
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈskuːtə(ɹ)/
rhymes: -uːtə(ɹ)
Forms: form: scooters
form: scootering
form: scootered
form: scootered
Etymology: From scoot + -er.
Senses: examples: text: But execs at parent company Piaggio noticed something odd as they scootered back and forth to their Manhattan offices […]
ref: 2005 October 24, “Love Those Boomers”, in Business Week:
synonyms: scoot
glosses: To ride on a scooter.
Derived terms: scootering
rah
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹɑː/
rhymes: -ɑː
Forms: form: ra
form: rahh
form: raa
form: raah
Etymology: Clipping of hurrah.
Senses: examples: text: Not so very long ago, a row of docile cheerleaders would say, “rah, rah, rah, sis-boombah”—maybe a leg would kick up into the air, perhaps a jump under the cheerleader's own power.
ref: 2011, Kern Alexander, M. David Alexander, American Public School Law, page 668:
glosses: An exclamation of support or encouragement.
examples: text: I FUCKING LOVE PEOPLE!!!! I FUCKING WANT TO USE THE LIMITED TIME I HAVE TO RESPECT OTHERS AND WHAT THEY ENJOY RAHHHHH
ref: 2023 June 24, u/crappylilAccident, “Clamworks truth”, in Reddit, r/Clamworks, archived from the original on 24 Jan 2024:
text: RAHHHH IRELAND MENTIONED 🗣🗣🗣🇮🇪🗣🗣🗣🇮🇪🗣🗣🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪🔥🟢⚪️🟢⚪️🟢⚪️🟢⚪️💪💪
ref: 2023 October 28, u/Safe-Scarcity2835, “Choose Your Side:”, in Reddit, r/balkans_irl, archived from the original on 24 Jan 2024:
text: MORDEKAISER MENTIONED RAAHHHH ❗❗❗❗❗❗🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷 WTF IS MOBILITY
ref: 2024 January 6, u/our_cut, “What old school league terms or 'memes' have disappeared from the game in recent years?”, in Reddit, r/leagueoflegends, archived from the original on 24 Jan 2024:
text: PHILIPPINES MENTIONED RAHHHH 🇵🇭 🦅
ref: 2024 January 7, @pop_priestess, Twitter, archived from the original on 24 Jan 2024:
glosses: An exclamation of patriotic or passionate excitement.
Derived terms: rah-rah
rah-rah skirt
rah
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹɑː/
rhymes: -ɑː
Forms: form: rahs
form: ra
form: rahh
form: raa
form: raah
Etymology: Clipping of hurrah.
Senses: examples: text: I didn't need to make a mental note not to follow their advice: like every other pretentious foreigner from the gap year rahs to the retired yoga addicts, I had no intention of stepping into a shopping centre. I was going to discover the real India.
ref: 2012, Helen Pidd, Letter from India: it's no easy matter being a woman looking for a decent drink in Delhi: The Guardian:
synonyms: Hooray Henry
glosses: A young adult (often a student) who behaves in a stereotypically upper class manner; especially when associated with undeserved privilege or a lack of self-awareness.
rah
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹɑː/
rhymes: -ɑː
Forms: form: more rah
form: most rah
form: ra
form: rahh
form: raa
form: raah
Etymology: Clipping of hurrah.
Senses: examples: text: The June 2020 protest at which the Bristol slave-trader and philanthropist's statue was brought down was a BLM protest. But none of the defendants were black. Rather, as you can tell from their names (including Milo Ponsford and Sage Willoughby) they were almost comically typical of a certain rah, right-on Bristol type.
ref: 2022 January 9, Douglas Murray, “Boris Johnson has utterly failed to back up his anti-woke rhetoric with action”, in Chris Evans, editor, The Daily Telegraph, London: Telegraph Media Group, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 25 Dec 2023:
glosses: Posh.
rah
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹɑː/
rhymes: -ɑː
Forms: form: ra
form: rahh
form: raa
form: raah
Etymology: Clipping of rhatid.
Senses: examples: text: He’s like, “Shut up, man. Whatever man. Skip, man, was a shot.” And I’m like, “Rah, this is a bit of a weird reaction?”
ref: 2019 June 6, Skepta, quoted in “Skepta opens up about becoming a father and enduring two heartbreaking miscarriages” by Narjas Zatat, Metro
glosses: An expression of surprise.
examples: text: Target bought the tape round, I listened to it and I was like, ‘Rah, this is sick, this kid is so sick’.
ref: 2016, Wiley, quoted in This Is Grime by Hattie Collins and Olivia Rose, Hachette UK, page 145
glosses: An expression of admiration.
examples: text: I was daydreaming, smoking weed out the curtain / Looking at my baby like rah, I'm just a burden
ref: 2016, Big Narstie (lyrics), “Fire In The Booth (Part 3)”, performed by Big Narstie on BBC Radio 1Xtra
glosses: An expression of frustration or anger.
Synonyms: wow
casserole
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkæs.əˌɹoʊl/
Forms: form: casseroles
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from French casserole.
Senses: glosses: A dish of glass or earthenware, with a lid, in which food is baked and sometimes served.
examples: text: a chicken casserole
glosses: Food, such as a stew, cooked in such a dish.
glosses: Any type of food that fills the high-walled dish or pan in which it was cooked.
Synonyms: sense: glass or earthenware dish
word: casserole dish
sense: food cooked in such a dish
word: hotpot
sense: both senses
word: hotdish
Hyponyms: Chicago-style pizza
lasagna
tuna casserole
Coordinate terms: sense: food cooked in such a dish
word: stew
Derived terms: caterole
pizza casserole
tuna casserole
tuna noodle casserole
casserole
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkæs.əˌɹoʊl/
Forms: form: casseroles
form: casseroling
form: casseroled
form: casseroled
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from French casserole.
Senses: examples: text: Just now I'm waiting for Tony Goodwin [the publisher] to arrive, casseroling a rabbit, fricasseeing it actually, listening to Revolver on the record player and the gale stripping the olive trees outside, and answering my correspondence, when […]
ref: 1999, Peter Craven, The Best Australian Essays 1999, Black Inc., →ISBN, page 16:
glosses: To cook like, or as, a casserole; to stew.
vigilante
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌvɪd͡ʒ.ɪˈlæn.ti/
ipa: /ˌvɪd͡ʒ.ɪˈlɑːn.teɪ/
ipa: /ˌvɪd͡ʒ.əˈlæn.ti/
Forms: form: vigilantes
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish vigilante (“watchman, guard”), from Latin vigilans. Doublet of vigilant.
Senses: glosses: A member of a vigilance committee.
examples: text: For example, a voice accusing a man of being a paedophile might be based on recent TV news programmes about antipaedophile vigilante groups, plus the memory of having been accused of being a pervert by a neighbour, plus fears that he might be a secret paedophile because he enjoyed reading Lolita.
ref: 2005, Hazel E. Nelson, Cognitive-behavioural therapy with delusions and hallucinations, page 217:
text: Jeptha Billingsley, who was no prize pig himself (he had been arrested for horse theft and assault with intent to murder), was to be taught a lesson, and the vigilantes made him cut down the McLemores.
ref: 2011, Richard Zelade, Lone Star Travel Guide to Central Texas, page 274:
glosses: A person who acts outside of legal authority, often violently, to punish or avenge a crime, right a perceived wrong, etc.
Derived terms: bond vigilante
vigilantism
digilante
reclaim
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹiːkleɪm/
rhymes: -eɪm
Forms: form: reclaims
Etymology: From Middle English reclaymen, recleymen, reclamen, from Anglo-Norman reclamer (noun reclaim and Middle French reclamer (noun reclaim), from Latin reclāmō, reclāmāre. Equivalent to re- + claim.
Senses: topics: falconry
hobbies
hunting
lifestyle
glosses: The calling back of a hawk.
examples: text: The louing couple need no reskew feare, / But leasure had, and libertie to frame / Their purpost flight, free from all mens reclame […].
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto X”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
glosses: The bringing back or recalling of a person; the fetching of someone back.
glosses: An effort to take something back, to reclaim something.
glosses: Clipping of baggage reclaim.
Derived terms: baggage reclaim
insulin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɪnsjʊlin/
ipa: /ˈɪnʃʊlɪn/
ipa: /ˈɪnsəlɪn/
ipa: /ˈɪnsəlɪn/
ipa: /ˈɪnʃʊlɪn/
Forms: form: insulins
Etymology: From Latin īnsula (“island”) (named for the islets of Langerhans, where insulin is produced) + -in.
Senses: examples: text: Mommy said that Grandma's diabetes happened because her body stopped making its own insulin.
text: Ask a dozen persons to tell you what they know about insulin and you will get some surprising and contradictory answers. The truth is this: Insulin is not a cure for diabetes, but it is helping to prolong and gladden lives.
ref: 1926, The Survey Volume 56, 65
text: Nationally the average insulin price nearly tripled from 2002 through 2013, and prices have risen 10% or more a year since then, forcing many diabetics to ration their insulin.
ref: 2019, Associated Press, “Colorado law caps cost of insulin at $100 a month,” The Washington Times
text: And that’s not all – EGCG in matcha can help improve insulin sensitivity, which aids in blood sugar control, and may help to reduce inflammation related to Alzheimer’s disease.
ref: 2021 December 14, Lisa Drayer, “Delicious winter drinks to get you through the holidays and cold weather”, in CNN:
coordinate_terms: glucagon
glosses: A polypeptide hormone that regulates carbohydrate metabolism (in various animals including humans).
examples: text: The advent of insulin in the mid-20th century changed the lives of millions of people with diabetes.
glosses: Any exogenous preparation of this hormone for use as a medication.
examples: text: A: What kind of insulin do you take? B: I use basal-bolus therapy, which in my case involves glargine and lispro.
glosses: Any exogenous preparation of this hormone or its analogues for use as a medication.
Derived terms: human insulin
insulinaemia
insulinase
insulin aspart
insulin degludec
insulin detemir
insulinemia
insulinergic
insulin glargine
insulin glulisine
insulinic
insulinitis
insulinization
insulinize
insulinlike
insulin-like growth factor
IGF
insulin lispro
insulinogenesis
insulinogenic
insulinogogue
insulinoma
insulinopathy
insulinopenia
insulinopenic
insulinostatic
insulinotropic
insulinotropism
insulin resistance
insulin shock therapy
insulysin
neutral insulin
noninsulin
proinsulin
regular insulin
soluble insulin