cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
prenumber
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: prenumbers
form: prenumbering
form: prenumbered
form: prenumbered
Etymology: From pre- + number.
Senses: examples: text: It may also be necessary to prenumber purchase order forms and store them in a secure location.
ref: 2009, Steven M. Bragg, Just-in-Time Accounting, page 156:
glosses: To number in advance.
prenumbered
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of prenumber
prenumbers
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of prenumber
prenumbering
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of prenumber
preordainment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: preordainments
Etymology: From preordain + -ment.
Senses: glosses: The act of preordaining something.
preordainments
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of preordainment
doucheface
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: douchefaces
Etymology: From douche + face.
Senses: glosses: A term of abuse.
preperformances
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of preperformance
douchefaces
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of doucheface
prewarm
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: prewarms
form: prewarming
form: prewarmed
form: prewarmed
Etymology: From pre- + warm.
Senses: glosses: To warm in advance.
topics: computer-graphics
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: To initialize with the illusion of prior activity.
raw_tags: of a particle system
prewarms
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of prewarm
prewarming
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of prewarm
sadhe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sadhes
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of tsade.
sadhes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sadhe
sadi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sadis
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of tsade.
sadis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sadi
tzadi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tzadis
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of tsade.
tzadis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tzadi
safrols
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of safrol
saikei
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Japanese 栽景, literally "planted landscape".
Senses: glosses: The art of creating miniature landscapes with living trees, rocks, water, etc., each landscape in a single tray.
scentable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From scent + -able.
Senses: glosses: Capable of, or suitable for, being scented.
perfumable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From perfume + -able.
Senses: glosses: Capable of being perfumed.
saintfoin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: saintfoins
Senses: glosses: Dated form of sainfoin.
saintfoins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of saintfoin
salpingitises
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of salpingitis
salpinxes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of salpinx
saltpetres
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of saltpetre
saltpetres
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of saltpetre
saltpeters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of saltpeter
saltpeters
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of saltpeter
saltwork
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: saltworks
Etymology: From salt + work.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of saltworks.
synonyms: word: saltworks
check and balance
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: checks and balances
form: checking and balancing
form: checked and balanced
form: checked and balanced
Senses: examples: text: A second distinguishing feature, Shackleton contends, is that the separation of powers also stresses the checking and balancing of one power against another, whereas the mixed state combines all interests solely to prevent or stall the inevitable degeneration of government, not to check power.
ref: 1992, Isaac Kramnick, Bolingbroke and His Circle, →ISBN, page 145:
text: Since each branch had exclusive powers, separated powers did not mean an aggressively political process of checking and balancing of executive policy choices by Congress.
ref: 1998, Richard A. Brisbin, Jr., Justice Antonin Scalia and the Conservative Revival, →ISBN, page 46:
text: The Constitution achieves this checking and balancing function in several ways.
ref: 1999, Jethro Koller Lieberman, A Practical Companion to the Constitution, →ISBN, page 3:
text: Rather, they should find their proper places in a dialectics of mutual checking and balancing toward forming a convergence and universalization of feelings.
ref: 2000, Lewis Edwin Hahn, Perspectives on Habermas, →ISBN, page 217:
text: As technology takes new forms, it brings new opportunities for corruption and hence demands new checking and balancing.
ref: 2011, Adam Graycar, Russell G. Smith, Handbook of Global Research and Practice in Corruption, →ISBN, page 16:
glosses: Provide mutual oversight and limitation by independent organizations in order to prevent abuses of power.
check and balance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: checks and balances
Senses: examples: text: Whoever has taken a critical and serious look at human history will indisputably come to conclusion that man's madness and craziness know no boundary or limit even when check and balance of power are being applied.
ref: 2009, Celly Luyinduladio, Hidden and Inaccessible Knowledge, →ISBN:
text: Because of the check and balance function of journalists, they are sometimes called the “watchdog for the people”.
ref: 2013, United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), Freedom of Expression Toolkit: A Guide for Students, →ISBN, page 36:
text: In this way, moral check and balance is combined with legal check and balance (i.e., legally based check and balance).
ref: 2014, Yining Li, Beyond Market and Government, →ISBN:
text: Practices show that check and balance of powers and democratic oversight belong to two different categories, with differences in their subjects, objects, methods and other aspects.
ref: 2015, Ning Fang, China’s Democracy Path, →ISBN, page 158:
glosses: The mutual oversight provided by a system of independent organizations with control over each other.
checking and balancing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of check and balance
checked and balanced
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of check and balance
salvagee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: salvagees
Etymology: From salvage + -ee.
Senses: examples: H. G. Wells, The World Set Free
We are no creators, we are consequences, we are salvagers — or salvagees.
glosses: One who is salvaged.
examples: text: The salvagee or sub-division system is intended to remove this objection. The gradual and progressive re-action, which forms a distinctive character of this system, generates the strongest adhesion of the twists, or component parts of the rope, . (which at the same time are in spiral directions) nearly parallel; and of consequence, with a power but fractionally inferior to a combination of yarns parallel to each other.
ref: 1800, The Commercial Agricultural and Manufacturer's Magazine:
text: Take a piece of good rope, splice a thimble in one end, and fit the other like a salvagee.
ref: 1834, Charles Martelli -, The naval officer's guide for preparing ships for sea, page 81:
text: My mind misgives me, sir, that we Were wrong about that salvagee— I should restore it.
ref: 1872, William Schwenck Gilbert, More "Bab" Ballads: Much Sound and Little Sense, page 193:
text: She had then only to be steered very close to the buoy, when the salvagee was laid hold of with a boat-hook, and the bite of the hawser thrown over the cross-head. But the salvagee, by this method, was always left at the buoy, and was, of course, more liable to chafe and wear than a hawser passed through the ring, which could be wattled with canvas, and shifted at pleasure.
ref: 2011, Robert Louis Stevenson, Records of a Family of Engineers, →ISBN, page 119:
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: A free rope on a sailing ship (one that does not have a single dedicated purpose).
salvagees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of salvagee
salverform
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more salverform
form: most salverform
Etymology: From salver + -form.
Senses: synonyms: hypocraterimorphous
glosses: Shaped like a salver.
salvoed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of salvo
salvoing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of salvo
salutational
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From salutation + -al.
Senses: glosses: Relating to salutation.
sannyasi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sannyasis
form: sanyasi
form: sunnyasee
form: sunnyasi
form: sunyasee
form: sunyasi
Etymology: Via Hindi संन्यासी (sannyāsī), ultimately from Sanskrit संन्यासिन् (saṃnyāsin).
Senses: examples: text: Only a householder could do the rites, they said – not a sannyasi.
ref: 2016, Sunil Khilnani, Incarnations, Penguin, published 2017, page 56:
glosses: A man in the stage of sannyasa; a wandering ascetic, a religious mendicant.
sannyasis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sannyasi
santimat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of santim
sappanwood
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sapan wood
form: sapanwood
Etymology: From sappan + wood.
Senses: examples: text: The dye I'm talking about is quite a different thing from indigo or sappanwood [translating verzino]; it's a dye that makes the color of myrtle appear like flesh to people!
ref: 2007, Giambattista Basile, translated by Nancy L. Canepa, Tale of Tales, Penguin, page 195:
synonyms: sibucao
glosses: The wood of Biancaea sappan (syn. Caesalpinia sappan), a flowering timber tree of the legume family Fabaceae that also yields medicine and red dye.
sapanwood
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of sappanwood.
sapidless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more sapidless
form: most sapidless
Etymology: From sapid + -less.
Senses: glosses: Lacking sapidity; tasteless; flavorless.
sarcosomal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From sarcosome + -al.
Senses: glosses: Relating to sarcosomes.
sarney
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sarneys
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of sarnie.
sarneys
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sarney
Satanities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Satanity
satyriases
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of satyriasis
savoriest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of savory: most savory
savorier
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of savory: more savory
savourier
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of savoury: more savoury
savouriest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of savoury: most savoury
scabietic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to scabies.
scaldship
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of skaldship.
skaldship
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: scaldship
Etymology: From skald + -ship.
Senses: examples: text: In the first centuries of their history, the West and North of Iceland were culturally superior to the other areas; more families that practiced skaldship, the art of poetry, had chosen to settle there.
ref: 1983, Richard J. Schrader, God's Handiwork: Images of Women in Early Germanic Literature:
glosses: The skill of writing Nordic poetry of the Viking Age.
diagnostic overshadowing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Clearly the consequences of diagnostic overshadowing could be potentially fatal for some people with learning disabilities as their true unerlying health need will not be identified and treated.
ref: 2009, Bob Gates, Owen Barr, Oxford Handbook of Learning and Intellectual Disability, →ISBN, page 106:
text: Multicultural awareness can, in fact, lead to diagnostic overshadowing if clinician attention to race or other diversity issues results in neglect of other important aspects of the client (Vontress & Jackson, 2004).
ref: 2012, Derald Wing Sue, Counseling the Culturally Diverse, →ISBN:
text: Accurate diagnosis is often complicated due to two factors: diagnostic overshadowing and challenging behaviors.
ref: 2007, Robert L. Schalock, User's Guide: Mental Retardation, →ISBN, pages 15–16:
glosses: The mistaken attribution of signs and symptoms of a medical condition to a pre-existing known condition.
scalework
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From scale + work.
Senses: glosses: Artistic ornamentation resembling the scales of a fish.
forty-niners
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of forty-niner
scarre
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: scarres
Senses: examples: text: Art thou that villaine in whoſe damned mouth, / Was neuer heard of any woꝛd but woundes? / Whoſe recreant limbes are nocht with gaping ſcarres, / Thicker then any carking craft-mans ſkoꝛe, / Whoſe very ſkalpe is ſcratcht and craſde and bꝛoken, / Like an old mazzer beaten on the ſtones, / And ſtandſt thou now to ſaue our maimed men? / A plague vppon thee coward.
ref: 1599, [Thomas Heywood], “[The First Part]”, in The First and Second Partes of King Edvvard the Fourth. […], London: […] I. W. for Iohn Oxenbridge, […], →OCLC; reprinted Philadelphia, Pa.; New York, N.Y.: The Rosenbach Company, 1922, →OCLC:
glosses: Obsolete form of scar.
scarres
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of scarre
scatts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of scatt
scarpings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of scarping
scavager
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: scavagers
Etymology: From scavage + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who scavages.
scavaged
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of scavage
scavaging
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of scavage
scavagers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of scavager
scedule
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: scedules
Senses: examples: text: […] immunities, discharges and agreements contained in the said Indenture and Scedules […]
ref: 1633, John Stow, The Survey of London, page 716:
glosses: Obsolete form of schedule.
scedules
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of scedule
scening
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of scene
scentings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of scenting
scherzandos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of scherzando
schlemihl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: schlemihls
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of schlemiel.
schlemihls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of schlemihl
schizogonic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From schizogony + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to schizogony.
schizogonous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to schizogony.
schmoose
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: schmooses
form: schmoosing
form: schmoosed
form: schmoosed
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of schmooze.
schmoose
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: schmooses
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of SCHMOOSE.
schmooz
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: schmoozes
form: schmoozing
form: schmoozed
form: schmoozed
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of schmooze.
schmoosed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of schmoose
schmooses
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of schmoose
schmooses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of schmoose
schmoosing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of schmoose
schnapses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of schnaps
scolecid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: scolecids
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Any member of the Scolecida, an infraclass of polychaete worms.
scolecids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of scolecid
scopelid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: scopelids
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Any member of the obsolete family Scopelidae of deep-sea fish, most of which are now considered to belong to the Myctophidae.
scopelids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of scopelid
scopulate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From scopula + -ate (adjective-forming suffix).
Senses: glosses: Having a scopula or scopulae.
scraugh
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: scraughs
Senses: examples: text: Allan Ravenswood, that was then master, wi' a bended pistol in his hand, - it was a mercy it gaed na aff, -- crying to me, that had scarce as much wind left as serve the necessary purpose of my ain lungs, 'Sound, you poltron! sound, you damned cowardly villain or I will blow your brains out !” and, to be sure, blew sic points of war, that the scraugh of a clockin-hen was music to them.
ref: 1819, Sir Walter Scott, The Bride of Lammermoor:
text: The old woman o'er the way To our cheer a scraugh gave back ;
ref: 1867, John Wilson, The Works - Volume 1, page 198:
text: She haird the scraugh, and Mr. Boriloff frighted her half asleep as she was, by sayin' the R- r- revolution is corne!
ref: 1976, Abraham Merritt, Hannes Bok, The fox woman and The blue pagoda and The black wheel, page 93:
glosses: A screech.
examples: text: The sod, or scraugh, which had been used to cover the mouth of the vessel, and prevent the bones which it contained from falling out, still held together.
ref: 1855, Kilkenny Archaeological Society, Transactions of the Kilkenny Archaeological Society:
text: I also have the scraugh I took from the field behind the house, and every time I looks at it I thinks of the poor ould home.
ref: 1881, David Power Conyngham, The O'Donnells of Glen Cottage: A Tale of the Famine Years in Ireland:
text: Some thought that he must actually have swum under water till he was beneath the scraugh, so as to render rescue impossible and make sure of anathema!
ref: 1887, Chambers's Journal - Volume 64, page 543:
glosses: Sod.
screenland
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From screen + -land.
Senses: examples: text: Paul's arrival in Hollywood coincided with an increase in public awareness that all wasn't perfect in screenland. In Hollywood, most early-1920s problems were drug-related.
ref: 2009, E. J. Fleming, Paul Bern, page 53:
glosses: The industry of films and filmmaking.
examples: text: At times, different symbolic modes were intertwined. Labbo used the metaphor of "screenland" to describe the context of the children's actions with the computer. She identified three different stances: playing in screenland, art in screenland, and writing in screenland.
ref: 2000, Maureen Patricia Carroll, Whitecaps on the Keyboard, page 20:
glosses: Cyberspace, as accessed through a computer screen.
Synonyms: sense: film industry
word: filmland
sense: film industry
word: movieland
screever
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: screevers
Etymology: From screeve + -er.
Senses: examples: text: The Street-Artists—as black profile-cutters, blind paper-cutters, “screevers” or draughtsmen in coloured chalks on the pavement, writers without hands, and readers without eyes.
ref: 1851, Henry Mayhew, London Labour and the London Poor, published 1861:
glosses: One who screeves, or draws with chalks on a pavement or sidewalk.
examples: text: Such a ‘fakement,’ professionally filled up and put into the hands of an experienced lurker, will bring the ‘amanuensis,’ or ‘screever,’ two guineas at least, and the proceeds of such an expedition have in many cases averaged 60l. per week.
ref: 1851, Henry Mayhew, London Labour and the London Poor, published 1861:
glosses: A writer of begging letters.
screevers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of screever
scriggly
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more scriggly
form: most scriggly
Etymology: From scriggle + -y.
Senses: examples: text: He left his tie. The one with the scriggly yellow lines running lopsided across the dark-blue field.
ref: 1973, Toni Morrison, Sula, Chatto & Windus (1993), page 104:
glosses: wiggly; wavy
scroungiest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of scroungy: most scroungy
scroungier
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of scroungy: more scroungy
independent contractors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of independent contractor
scrunchiest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of scrunchy: most scrunchy
scrunchier
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of scrunchy: more scrunchy
scrutoires
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of scrutoire
scutchings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of scutching
scyther
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsaɪ.θɚ/
ipa: /ˈsaɪ.ðɚ/
rhymes: -aɪθə(ɹ)
rhymes: -aɪðə(ɹ)
Forms: form: scythers
Etymology: From scythe + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who scythes.
Hyponyms: Grim Reaper
scythers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of scyther
sealwax
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From seal + wax.
Senses: examples: text: Your organs are not so dull that I should inform you 'tis an inch, Sir, of red sealwax. When this is melted and dropped upon the letter, if Dolly fumbles too long for her thimble, till the wax is over hardened, it will not receive the mark of her thimble.
ref: 1759–1767, [Laurence Sterne], The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman, volume (please specify |volume=I to IX), London: […] T. Becket and P. A. Dehondt, […]:
glosses: sealing wax
seakale
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of sea kale.
seannachy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: seannachies
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of seannachie.
searat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: searats
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of sea rat (a pirate)
searats
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of searat
Ironton
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From iron + -ton.
Senses: glosses: A ghost town in Colorado.
glosses: A census-designated place in Michigan.
glosses: A city in Minnesota.
glosses: A city, the county seat of Iron County, Missouri.
glosses: A city, the county seat of Lawrence County, Ohio.
glosses: A town and village in Wisconsin.
seawardly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From seaward + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Looking seawardly, we distinguish the bursting crests of long ridges of waves, and far off, where the cloud on the horizon has lifted apparently an inch or two, you can observe the irregular, peaked, and jagged outline of the agitated sea.
ref: 1845, “The price of a garter and the price of a life”, in Douglas Jerrold's Shilling Magazine, volume 3, page 434:
text: The environments in question include inland basins, seawardly dipping and off-shore sediments, low-permeability basement under a sedimentary cover, hard rocks in low-relief terrane and small islands.
ref: 2012, H.-G. Attendorn, Isotopes in the Earth Sciences, page 562:
text: He sent a keen, gray, seawardly glance at Miss Vanderholt, and fastened his gaze with an expression of attention upon her father.
ref: 2015, William Clark Russell, Last Entry:
glosses: Toward the sea.
pardau
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pardaus
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of pardo.
Nisswa
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈnɪs.swɑ/
Etymology: From Ojibwe for "in the middle" or "three".
Senses: glosses: A city in Minnesota.
seccos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of secco
sedatest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of sedate: most sedate
seismical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From seismic + -al.
Senses: glosses: seismic
seismal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: seismic
Jeffers
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
glosses: A town in Minnesota.
sememic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -iːmɪk
Etymology: From sememe + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to sememes.
sennachie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sennachies
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of seannachie.
septemfid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Latin
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: cleft into seven
sexifid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of sexfid.
serigrapher
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: serigraphers
Etymology: From serigraphy + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who does serigraphy, or silk-screen printing.
serigraphers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of serigrapher
sextett
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sextetts
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of sextet.
sextetts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sextett
Trevour
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A male given name from Welsh.
Sophies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Sophie
blackcap raspberries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of blackcap raspberry
dumb-shows
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dumb-show
dumb shows
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dumb show
NeXTSTEP
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /nɛkst.stɛp/
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: An object-oriented, multitasking operating system developed by NeXT Computer in the late 1980s and early 1990s, based on UNIX.
NextSTEP
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /nɛkststɛp/
Senses: topics: NASA
aerospace
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
space-science
glosses: Name for a set of projects that aim to develop technology for human spaceflight in deep space exploration.
velfie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈvɛlfi/
rhymes: -ɛlfi
Forms: form: velfies
Etymology: Blend of video + selfie.
Senses: examples: text: There are duckface selfies, velfies, melfies, and what have you.
ref: March 2015, Digit, Siddharth Parwatay, "From Selfies to Selflessness", p. 3
text: Move over selfie, India is embracing the "velfie" with Bollywood stars, sporting heroes, and even politicians taking and posting videos of themselves online using a range of new mobile apps.
ref: 7/10/2015, Voice of Asia, Peter Hutchison, "When a selfie is not enough: India abuzz over 'velfie' craze", p. 14
text: In the winter of 2014 the writer and ad filmmaker had spun off the first Indian velfie (video selfies) movement with a three-minute film titled Pause that compared the Indo-Pak boundaries to walls between homes and led to a movement called Dear Neighbour that is currently on the trending charts with a spate of #ProfileForPeace messages on its wall.
ref: 10/26/2015, Pakistan Today, "Peace call goes viral", p. 2
glosses: A video selfie.
mofetil
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmoʊ.fə.tɪl/
Senses: examples: text: With respect to the cytotoxic effects, compounds 2–7 fall into two groups: the alkyl esters ( 2, 3 ) and the mofetil ester 4 on one hand, and the basic heterocyclic esters 5–7 on the other hand.
ref: 2015 July 22, “Esters of Bendamustine Are by Far More Potent Cytotoxic Agents than the Parent Compound against Human Sarcoma and Carcinoma Cells”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: Contraction of morpholinoethyl.
mollicutes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: To do so, we measured the transmittance at 560nm of ATCC 1161 medium employed to grow diverse bacteria belonging to the class of mollicutes, and observed that the color change caused by acidification of the medium was accurately detected by the VCCD. A linear correlation was observed between transmittance at 560nm and pH from ~6 to 7 (Fig 3D ).
ref: 2015 July 22, “A Small-Volume, Low-Cost, and Versatile Continuous Culture Device”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: plural of mollicute
monogalactosyldiacylglycerol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: monogalactosyldiacylglycerols
Etymology: From monogalactosyl + diacylglycerol.
Senses: examples: text: The up-regulation of oxidoreductase, 2-oxoglutarate and Fe(II) oxygenase family proteins and lipase class 3 family protein genes, as well as the down-regulation of monogalactosyldiacylglycerol synthase and H+-transporting ATP synthase genes were consistent with previous research on ‘Ca.
ref: 2015 July 22, “Transcriptional Analyses of Mandarins Seriously Infected by ‘ Candidatus Liberibacter asiaticus’”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any galactosyl ether of a diglyceride.
Derived terms: monogalactosyldiacylglycerol synthase
monomicrobial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From mono- + microbial.
Senses: examples: text: Type I NF describes polymicrobial infections, whereas type II NF has a monomicrobial pathogenesis.
ref: 2015 July 22, “Improvement of a Clinical Score for Necrotizing Fasciitis: ‘Pain Out of Proportion’ and High CRP Levels Aid the Diagnosis”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Associated with a single species of microorganism
LCROSS
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: aerospace
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
space-science
glosses: Initialism of Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite.
mycetocyte
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mycetocytes
Senses: glosses: Synonym of bacteriocyte.
synonyms: word: bacteriocyte
mycetocytes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Additionally, the insect fat body presents other cell specializations, such as urocytes, hemoglobin cells, mycetocytes, and chromatocytes [4 ,5 ].
ref: 2015 July 22, “Hepato-Nephrocitic System: A Novel Model of Biomarkers for Analysis of the Ecology of Stress in Environmental Biomonitoring”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: plural of mycetocyte
LRO
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: aerospace
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
space-science
glosses: Initialism of Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter.
LRO
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: LROs
Senses: qualifier: Unicode
glosses: Initialism of left-to-right override.
LPRP
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: aerospace
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
space-science
glosses: Initialism of Lunar Precursor Robotic Program.
Hyponyms: LCROSS
LRO
myelinophagia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From myelin + -o- + -phagia.
Senses: examples: text: In addition, formalin-fixed and paraffin-embedded samples of a sciatic nerve of a dog suffering from degenerative neuropathy of unknown origin, characterized by multifocal spheroid formation, dilatation of myelin sheaths and myelinophagia was included to compare the Schwann cell phenotypes in injured peripheral nerve and brain.
ref: 2015 July 22, “Contribution of Schwann Cells to Remyelination in a Naturally Occurring Canine Model of CNS Neuroinflammation”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: Destruction of myelin (as if eaten away).
Related terms: myelinophage
aerophores
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of aerophore
neuroparenchyma
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From neuro- + parenchyma.
Senses: examples: text: The facts that nearly all of the p75 NTR -expressing cells were found in close vicinity to a possible entry point for PNS-resident Schwann cells, and that they clearly resemble normal Schwann cells morphologically might suggested that this CNS population of p75 NTR -expressing cells is most probably constituted by invading Schwann cells originating from the PNS. No immunoreactivity was present within the adjacent normally appearing neuroparenchyma.
ref: 2015 July 22, “Contribution of Schwann Cells to Remyelination in a Naturally Occurring Canine Model of CNS Neuroinflammation”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: The parenchyma of the nervous system
Related terms: neuroparenchymal
neuropsychologic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From neuro- + psychologic.
Senses: examples: text: Caucasian MCI patients underwent significant more neuropsychologic testing; while African-Americans had more depression screening tests and were less likely to be prescribed with acetylcholinesterase inhibitors [47 ].
ref: 2015 July 22, “Population Difference in the Associations of KLOTH Promoter Methylation with Mild Cognitive Impairment in Xinjiang Uygur and Han Populations”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: neuropsychological
octanoylated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more octanoylated
form: most octanoylated
Senses: examples: text: However, the octanoylated ghrelin concentration in the plasma was unchanged in spite of the increased C8:0 availability.
ref: 2015 July 22, “Dietary Caprylic Acid (C8:0) Does Not Increase Plasma Acylated Ghrelin but Decreases Plasma Unacylated Ghrelin in the Rat”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: reacted with octanoic acid
Related terms: octanoylation
octanoylation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From octanoyl + -ation.
Senses: examples: text: The ghrelin O-acyltransferase (GOAT or MBOAT4), the gastric enzyme involved in ghrelin octanoylation, belongs to the family of membrane bound O-acyltransferases (MBOAT), a group of proteins involved in acetyltransferase and acyltransferase activity [23 ,24 ].
ref: 2015 July 22, “Dietary Caprylic Acid (C8:0) Does Not Increase Plasma Acylated Ghrelin but Decreases Plasma Unacylated Ghrelin in the Rat”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: reaction with octanoic acid (to form an octanoate)
parastriatal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From para- + striatal.
Senses: examples: text: However, AN patients presented hyperactivation of left parastriatal visual regions, which were additionally correlated with the severity of the disorder.
ref: 2015 July 22, “Abnormal Social Reward Responses in Anorexia Nervosa: An fMRI Study”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Above or beyond the corpus striatum
periaxin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: For double immunostaining, p-NF was combined with periaxin.
ref: 2015 July 22, “Contribution of Schwann Cells to Remyelination in a Naturally Occurring Canine Model of CNS Neuroinflammation”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A structural protein that is required for the maintenance of myelin
peritumor
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From peri- + tumor.
Senses: examples: text: However, SCM with unknown primary malignancies are very difficult to distinguish from astrocytomas, especially HGAs, because of their similar features on standard MRI, such as obvious enhancement and peritumor edema.
ref: 2015 July 22, “Differentiation between Solitary Cerebral Metastasis and Astrocytoma on the Basis of Subventricular Zone Involvement on Magnetic Resonance Imaging”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Surrounding a tumor
peritumorally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From peritumoral + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: The numbers of CD68 + macrophages, MAC387 + macrophages, and CLEVER-1/Stabilin-1 + macrophages and vessels were scored from three hotspots (areas with the most macrophages by eye) intratumorally and peritumorally with a 0.0625 mm 2 grid using 40× magnification when scoring macrophages and 20× when scoring lymphatic/blood vessels.
ref: 2015 July 22, “Tumor-Associated Macrophages Provide Significant Prognostic Information in Urothelial Bladder Cancer”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Around a tumor
phosphoenzyme
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: phosphoenzymes
Etymology: From phospho- + enzyme.
Senses: examples: text: Indeed, every reaction step measured in the Na,K-ATPase reaction cycle was significantly affected by the concentration of cholesterol: the phosphoenzyme levels increased, the apparent ATP affinity increased, the cytoplasmic Na + activation was inhibited at high Na + concentrations, and the rate of phosphorylation and of spontaneous and K + -activated dephosphorylation increased[51 –53 ].
ref: 2015 July 22, “Effects of Iron Overload on the Activity of Na,K-ATPase and Lipid Profile of the Human Erythrocyte Membrane”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The phosphorylated form of an enzyme
polyphosphoester
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: polyphosphoesters
Etymology: From poly- + phospho- + ester.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: the ester of a polyphosphate
polyphosphoesters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Alkyl (C 1 –C 24 ) esters of bendamustine were reported as potential prodrugs for intravenous application [28 ], and biodegradable polyphosphoesters were described as an approach to stabilize bendamustine in solution [29 ].
ref: 2015 July 22, “Esters of Bendamustine Are by Far More Potent Cytotoxic Agents than the Parent Compound against Human Sarcoma and Carcinoma Cells”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: plural of polyphosphoester
polysensitize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: polysensitizes
form: polysensitizing
form: polysensitized
form: polysensitized
Etymology: From poly- + sensitize.
Senses: glosses: To sensitize to many allergens
Related terms: polysensitization
polysensitized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: Overall, the 72.2%of HDM-sensitized subjects were polysensitized and the remaining 27.8% subjects were monosensitized to seasonal grass pollens, animal hair, moldsor cockroach.
ref: 2015 July 22, “Association between the Interaction of Key Genes Involved in Effector T-Cell Pathways and Susceptibility to Developallergic Rhinitis: A Population-Based Case-Control Association Study”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: simple past and past participle of polysensitize
preduodenal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pre- + duodenal.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Between the stomach and the duodenum
examples: text: A specific dose-response enrichment of the stomach tissue C8:0 was observed as a function of dietary C8:0, supporting the hypothesis of an early preduodenal hydrolysis of medium chain triglycerides and a direct absorption at the gastric level.
ref: 2015 July 22, “Dietary Caprylic Acid (C8:0) Does Not Increase Plasma Acylated Ghrelin but Decreases Plasma Unacylated Ghrelin in the Rat”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Prior to a duodenal process
preproghrelin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From pre- + proghrelin.
Senses: examples: text: A reproducible decrease in the plasma concentration of unacylated ghrelin was observed, which was consistent with a decrease in the stomach preproghrelin mRNA and stomach ghrelin expression.
ref: 2015 July 22, “Dietary Caprylic Acid (C8:0) Does Not Increase Plasma Acylated Ghrelin but Decreases Plasma Unacylated Ghrelin in the Rat”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: A precursor of proghrelin
proghrelin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: proghrelins
Etymology: From pro- + ghrelin.
Senses: topics: medicine
physiology
sciences
glosses: Any of a class of peptides produced by ghrelin cells of the gastric mucosa
Androcles
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Androclus
Etymology: From Ancient Greek Ἀνδροκλῆς (Androklês).
Senses: glosses: The main character of a common folktale that is included in the Aarne–Thompson classification system as type 156.
Androclus
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Androcles.
pyrabactin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: The abscisic acid ligand structure ((+)-ABA; PDB ID: A8S)) was obtained from the ABA-bound pyrabactin resistance domain of the ABA intracellular receptor (PDB ID: 3ZVU).
ref: 2015 July 22, “Identification of Interactions between Abscisic Acid and Ribulose-1,5-Bisphosphate Carboxylase/Oxygenase”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: A synthetic sulfonamide, 4-bromo-N-(2-pyridinylmethyl)-1-naphthalenesulfonamide, that mimics the plant stress hormone abscisic acid.
remyelinating
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From re- + myelinating.
Senses: examples: text: Targeting p75 NTR /Sox2-expressing Schwann cells to enhance their differentiation into competent remyelinating cells appears to be a promising therapeutic approach for inflammatory/demyelinating CNS diseases.
ref: 2015 July 22, “Contribution of Schwann Cells to Remyelination in a Naturally Occurring Canine Model of CNS Neuroinflammation”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: That promotes remyelination
sialobiantennary
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From sialo- + biantennary.
Senses: examples: text: Our results showed that Endo-CC1 acted on both N-linked high-mannose type and sialobiantennary type complex oligosaccharides of glycoproteins RNase B and human transferrin, respectively, but not on the sialotriantennary type complex oligosaccharide of glycoprotein fetuin.
ref: 2015 July 22, “Transglycosylation Activity of Glycosynthase Mutants of Endo-β- N -Acetylglucosaminidase from Coprinopsis cinerea”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Describing a biantennary oligosaccharide that has a sialic acid component
sialotriantennary
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From sialo- + triantennary.
Senses: examples: text: Our results showed that Endo-CC1 acted on both N-linked high-mannose type and sialobiantennary type complex oligosaccharides of glycoproteins RNase B and human transferrin, respectively, but not on the sialotriantennary type complex oligosaccharide of glycoprotein fetuin.
ref: 2015 July 22, “Transglycosylation Activity of Glycosynthase Mutants of Endo-β- N -Acetylglucosaminidase from Coprinopsis cinerea”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Describing a triantennary oligosaccharide that has a sialic acid component
Aswan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /asˈwɑːn/
Forms: form: Assouan
form: Assuan
form: Essouan
Etymology: Borrowed from Egyptian Arabic أسوان (Aswān), itself borrowed from Coptic ⲥⲟⲩⲁⲛ (souan), from Egyptian swnw, s-wn:n-nw:W-T11:niwt.
Senses: glosses: A governorate in southern Egypt.
glosses: The capital of Aswan governorate, Egypt.
stabilogram
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stabilograms
Etymology: From stabile + -o- + -gram.
Senses: examples: text: The effect of the two VBFs on balance was studied through classical postural parameters and a subset of stabilogram diffusion coefficients.
ref: 2015 July 22, “The Effect of Continuous and Discretized Presentations of Concurrent Augmented Visual Biofeedback on Postural Control in Quiet Stance”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: A graphical representation of the small movements of a person in a stable stance (as feedback responds to potential instabilities)
Related terms: stabilography
subcolony
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: subcolonies
Etymology: From sub- + colony.
Senses: glosses: A colony belonging to another colony.
topics: biology
ecology
natural-sciences
glosses: A distinct part of a colony.
Related terms: word: subcolonial
word: subempire
word: subimperialism
anti-imperialisms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of anti-imperialism
subcolonies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: In this split-plot design a field colony represents a whole plot and one of the four experimental subcolonies is nested within the whole plot (representing a subplot).
ref: 2015 July 22, “Effect of Carbohydrate Supplementation on Investment into Offspring Number, Size, and Condition in a Social Insect”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: plural of subcolony
subquadrat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: subquadrats
Etymology: From sub- + quadrat.
Senses: examples: text: Only 3 of 270 subquadrats were remeasured. In addition, some of the discrepancies in the seedling counts may be due to difficulty in replicating the exact borders of the 7 m x 7 m subquadrat in which seedlings were counted.
ref: 1997, Cara Ritchie Nelson, Hemlock Regeneration on the Nicolet National Forest, Wisconsin:
glosses: A subsection of a quadrat (area of land)
subquadrats
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Each station was sampled using a 50 cm x 50 cm quadrat divided into 100 subquadrats.
ref: 2015 July 22, “Habitat Heterogeneity Affects Plant and Arthropod Species Diversity and Turnover in Traditional Cornfields”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: plural of subquadrat
anti-socialist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: anti-socialists
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of antisocialist.
anti-socialists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of anti-socialist
telomerised
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: In future, with further interventions to circumvent the problems we have identified herein, telomerised cells may still be a viable alternative.
ref: 2015 July 22, “Immortalisation with hTERT Impacts on Sulphated Glycosaminoglycan Secretion and Immunophenotype in a Variable and Cell Specific Manner”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Reacted with telomerase
Related terms: telomerisation
tetrapentyl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From tetra- + pentyl.
Senses: examples: text: Thiazolyl blue tetrazolium bromide (MTT), umbelliferone, 4-[4-(dimethylamino)styryl]-N-methylpyridiniumiodide (ASP + ), penicillin-streptomycin and tetrapentyl ammonium (TPA) were from Sigma (Taufkirchen, Germany).
ref: 2015 July 22, “Esters of Bendamustine Are by Far More Potent Cytotoxic Agents than the Parent Compound against Human Sarcoma and Carcinoma Cells”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: (in combination) Four pentyl groups in a molecule
anti-socialism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of antisocialism.
thaumarchaeotic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Thaumarchaeota + -ic
Senses: examples: text: C. subterraneum is closely related to thaumarchaeotic species.
ref: 2015 July 22, “Functional Classification of Uncultured “ Candidatus Caldiarchaeum subterraneum” Using the Maple System”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
synonyms: thaumarchaeotal
thaumarchaeal
glosses: Relating to thaumarchaeotes.
trogged
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of trog