cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
neurocardiogenic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: neurocardiogenic syncope
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Of neurological and cardiac origin.
presyncopal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more presyncopal
form: most presyncopal
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Of, relating to, or exhibiting features of presyncope.
bradydysrhythmia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bradydysrhythmias
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A slow (< 60 bpm) and abnormal heart rhythm; bradyarrhythmia.
tachydysrhythmia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tachydysrhythmias
Etymology: From tachy- + dysrhythmia.
Senses: topics: cardiology
medicine
sciences
glosses: A fast (> 100 bpm) and abnormal heart rhythm; tachyarrhythmia.
hepatopulmonary
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From hepato- + pulmonary.
Senses: examples: text: hepatopulmonary syndrome
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Of or relating to the liver and lungs.
Synonyms: hepatopneumonic
hepaticopulmonary
Derived terms: hepatopulmonary syndrome
hypochromatic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more hypochromatic
form: most hypochromatic
Senses: glosses: Hypochromic.
hyperabduct
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: hyperabducts
form: hyperabducting
form: hyperabducted
form: hyperabducted
Etymology: From hyper- + abduct.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: To abduct beyond the normal range of motion.
hyperadduct
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: hyperadducts
form: hyperadducting
form: hyperadducted
form: hyperadducted
Etymology: From hyper- + adduct.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: To adduct beyond the normal range of motion.
hyperpronate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: hyperpronates
form: hyperpronating
form: hyperpronated
form: hyperpronated
Etymology: From hyper- + pronate.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: To pronate beyond the normal range of motion.
hypersupinate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: hypersupinates
form: hypersupinating
form: hypersupinated
form: hypersupinated
Etymology: From hyper- + supinate.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: To supinate beyond the normal range of motion.
hyperrotate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: hyperrotates
form: hyperrotating
form: hyperrotated
form: hyperrotated
Etymology: From hyper- + rotate.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: To rotate beyond the normal range of motion.
pulmonectomy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pulmonectomies
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
surgery
glosses: Pneumectomy.
odontodysplasia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: dentistry
medicine
sciences
glosses: An abnormal development of the teeth, characterised by the deficient formation of enamel and dentin.
schistocytosis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From schistocyte + -osis.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: An increase in the number of schistocytes in the blood.
dacrocytosis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: The presence of an abnormal number of dacrocytes in the blood.
spirocheticidal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˌspaɪroʊˌkitɪˈsaɪdəl/
Forms: form: more spirocheticidal
form: most spirocheticidal
form: spirochetocidal
Etymology: From spirochete + -cidal (with -i-).
Senses: examples: text: Penicillin was found to be actively spirocheticidal in vitro against the Reiter, Kazan, Nichols, and Noguchi strains of so called S. pallida, and a strain of mouth spirochetes.
ref: 1944, H Eagle, AD Musselman, “The spirocheticidal action of penicillin in vitro and its temperature coefficient”, in Journal of Experimental Medicine, volume 80, number 6, →DOI, →PMID, pages 493–505:
topics: biology
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: Killing spirochetes.
Synonyms: spirochetolytic
Coordinate terms: alt: spirochetostatic is to spirocheticidal as bacteriostatic is to bacteriocidal
word: spirochetostatic
tocography
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tocographies
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Synonym of cardiotocography.
synonyms: word: cardiotocography
Derived terms: pneumatocography
Related terms: tocographic
thyrocardiac
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Of or relating to the thyroid and heart.
examples: text: thyrocardiac disease
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Affecting the heart as a consequence of thyroid pathologies.
uncal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: uncal herniation
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Of or relating to the uncus.
preprocalcitonin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A precursor in the biosynthesis of procalcitonin, as well as calcitonin and katacalcin further downstream.
preicteric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pre- + icteric.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Prior to becoming jaundiced.
parasacral
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From para- + sacral.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Adjacent to the sacrum.
hysterosalpingographic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From hysterosalpingography + -ic.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Of or relating to hysterosalpingography.
hashitoxicosis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of Hashitoxicosis.
gonococcemia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: The presence of gonococci in the blood.
dyspoiesis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Abnormal formation of blood cells.
tocograph
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tocographs
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Cardiotocograph.
bumboclaat
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: [bʌmbəklɑt]
Forms: form: bumboclat
form: bumbaclat
form: bumberclot
form: bumbleclot
form: bumberclart
form: bumbaclart
Etymology: Borrowed from Jamaican Creole bumboclaat.
Senses: synonyms: fucking
bloody
qualifier: by some in MLE
glosses: cursed, that is expressly disdained
bumboclaat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: [bʌmbəklɑt]
Forms: form: bumboclaats
form: bumboclat
form: bumbaclat
form: bumberclot
form: bumbleclot
form: bumberclart
form: bumbaclart
Etymology: Borrowed from Jamaican Creole bumboclaat.
Senses: examples: text: How in the bumboclaat did it turn out to be like this?
synonyms: fuck
hell
qualifier: by some in MLE
glosses: any cursed or disdained thing or occasion, a filling word
bumboclaat
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: ipa: [bʌmbəklɑt]
Forms: form: bumboclat
form: bumbaclat
form: bumberclot
form: bumbleclot
form: bumberclart
form: bumbaclart
Etymology: Borrowed from Jamaican Creole bumboclaat.
Senses: qualifier: by some in both MLE
glosses: an expression of anger or frustration
Synonyms: bloodclaat
aerolysins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of aerolysin
amastatin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A peptide that inhibits aminopeptidases
amylotrophic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of amyotrophic.
anthrapyrazolone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: anthrapyrazolones
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Synonym of pyrazoloanthrone.
synonyms: word: pyrazoloanthrone
pyrazoloanthrone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A tetracyclic heterocyclic ketone composed of a pyrazole ring fused to an anthrone
Synonyms: anthrapyrazolone
archaeoplankton
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: archaeoplanktons
form: archaeoplankton
Senses: glosses: Any marine plankton of the kingdom Archaea
archaeostracan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: archaeostracans
Senses: glosses: Any extinct crustacean of the order Archaeostraca
aureusimine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: aureusimines
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of a group of cyclic dipeptides found in Staphylococcus aureus
aureusimines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of aureusimine
biochronographic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From bio- + chronographic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to the display of biological timescales
biogeoclimatology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A study of the interrelationships between biology, geology and climate
biopathogen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: biopathogens
Etymology: From bio- + pathogen.
Senses: glosses: Any biological pathogen
biopathogens
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of biopathogen
brevibacterium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: brevibacteria
Senses: glosses: Any bacterium of the genus Brevibacterium
brevibacteria
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of brevibacterium
lady of pleasure
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ladies of pleasure
Senses: examples: text: I instructed her with all those things which a Lady of Pleasure ought to know, for the heaping up a Sum of Money wherewith she may maintain her self during her Old Age.
ref: 1683, anonymous author, The London Jilt:
text: By 1765, a visitor to London noted that prints of celebrated ladies of pleasure were both extraordinarily cheap (‘a few guineas will buy a whole seraglio’) and were issued in huge editions, of three or four thousand at a time.
ref: 2012, Faramerz Dabhoiwala, The Origins of Sex:
glosses: A female prostitute or courtesan.
genetic determinism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The hypothesis that an organism's genes (as opposed to social or environmental factors) determine psychological and behavioural traits.
Related terms: biologism
biological determinism
lookism
heightism
ladies of pleasure
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lady of pleasure
Citrine
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Citrines
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Related terms: Citirini
Citrini
Slivovitz
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Slivovitzes
Senses: examples: text: The spirit called Sirmischer Slivovitz is met with at Trieste. It is distilled from fermented plums, and is made in Sirmia near Belgrade. This kind of spirit is also in use at Vienna and Prague.
ref: 1820, W[illiam] A[rchibald] Cadell, chapter I, in A Journey in Carniola, Italy, and France, in the Years 1817, 1818, […] In Two Volumes, volume I, Edinburgh: Printed for Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Hurst, Robinson, and Co. Cheapside, →OCLC, page 18:
text: Four fairs are held at Pest annually; and while they last, it is calculated that 20,000 strangers and 14,000 waggons pass the outer lines. 8000 large barges unload at the quay in the course of the year: the principal trade lies in wines, raw hides, honey, wax, and a vile spirit, called Slivovitz, made from plums.
ref: 1850, “Route 282. The Danube (F[rance]).—Presburg to Pest.”, in A Hand-book for Travellers in Southern Germany; […], 5th corrected and enlarged edition, London: John Murray, […] ; Paris: A[nthony] & W[illiam] Galignani & Co.; Stassin and Xavier; Leipzig: Longman, →OCLC, section XV (Hungary), page 420, column 1:
text: We went in the hotel bar, sat down and proceeded to order some Slivovitz. When I first tasted it I thought that it was nice, but it tasted so much like apple cider that I said to myself, "This stuff ain't so bad," and, before long, I had ordered many of these bad drinks.
ref: 1986, Buck Clayton, assisted by Nancy Miller Elliott, “Humphrey Lyttelton and My English Tours”, in Buck Clayton’s Jazz World, Basingstoke, Hampshire; London: The Macmillan Press, →ISBN, page 176:
glosses: Alternative letter-case form of slivovitz.
Slivovitzes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Slivovitz. (Alternative letter-case form of slivovitzes.)
useful as tits on a bull
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: synonyms: useful as a chocolate teapot
useless as tits on a bull
qualifier: simile
glosses: Totally useless.
cellobiosidases
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cellobiosidase
chitobiosyl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A univalent radical derived from chitobiose
cholangiocytic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to, or composed of cholangiocytes
Synonyms: cholangiocellular
citriform
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more citriform
form: most citriform
Senses: glosses: lemon-shaped
clashscore
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: clashscores
Etymology: From clash + score.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A numerical indication of how many pairs of atoms are unusually close together
raw_tags: of a molecular model
clashscores
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of clashscore
cochleates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cochleate
cosolute
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cosolutes
Etymology: From co- + solute.
Senses: glosses: One of two or more solutes in the same solution
cosolutes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cosolute
cryptophycean
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cryptophyceans
Senses: glosses: Any cryptomonad of the class Cryptophyceae
cryptophyceans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cryptophycean
Champagnes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Champagne. (Alternative letter-case form of champagnes.)
decidements
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of decidement
Hebraical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Hebraical
form: most Hebraical
Etymology: From Latin hebraicus + -al.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Hebraic.
synonyms: word: Hebraic
dinucleotidic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From di- + nucleotidic.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Relating to a dinucleotide
dulexetine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of duloxetine.
endocannabinergic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From endo- + cannabinergic.
Senses: glosses: Activated by endocannabinoids
endogeneously
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of endogenously.
Federals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Federal
endonuclear
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From endo- + nuclear.
Senses: glosses: endonucleic
endoreplicating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of endoreplicate
enteropathology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From entero- + pathology.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: The pathology of enteropathies
compromization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: compromizations
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of compromisation.
Derived terms: immunocompromization
epibrassicasterol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From epi- + brassicasterol.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Synonym of crinosterol.
synonyms: word: crinosterol
compromizations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of compromization
crinosterol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The sterol (3S,8S,9S,10R,13R,14S,17R)-17-[(E,2R,5S)-5,6-dimethylhept-3-en-2-yl]-10,13-dimethyl-2,3,4,7,8,9,11,12,14,15,16,17-dodecahydro-1H-cyclopenta[a]phenanthren-3-ol present in marine invertebrates
Synonyms: epibrassicasterol
flagellular
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of flagellar.
galanergic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Activated by galanin
die-hards
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of die-hard
panisc
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: paniscs
form: Panisc
form: Panisk
Senses: glosses: The god Pan, represented as a satyr.
paniscs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of panisc
gasteroid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to fungi of the former class Gasteromycetes
Devonports
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Devonport
germinality
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The condition of being germinal
glycerolize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: glycerolizes
form: glycerolizing
form: glycerolized
form: glycerolized
Senses: glosses: To treat, react or preserve with glycerol
Related terms: glycerolization
glycerolized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of glycerolize
Emishi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Yemishi
Etymology: From Japanese 蝦夷 (Emishi, literally “shrimp barbarians”).
Senses: examples: text: This area was one of the last pieces of tribal land to be taken from the indigenous Emishi, descendants of the Jōmon people, who had lived there from prehistoric times until they were defeated by the Japanese Imperial Army in the eighth century.
ref: 2013, Ruth Ozeki, A Tale for the Time Being, Canongate Books (2019), page 151:
synonyms: Ebisu
Ezo
glosses: An ancient ethnic group of northeastern Honshū in the Tōhoku region of Japan.
Related terms: Ainu
Yamato
Ezo
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Yeso
form: Yesso
form: Yezo
form: Jezo
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese 蝦夷 (Ezo).
Senses: glosses: A former name for the Ainu.
examples: text: A fascination with Hokkaido's wild country first drew the veterinarian to Abashiri, and he is a leading expert on the Ezo red fox. Like much of Hokkaido's wildlife, this fox is not found on Honshu.
ref: 1980, National Geographic Society (U.S.), National geographic, →OCLC:
glosses: A former name for Hokkaido and neighboring islands.
Derived terms: Ezo brown bear
Yezo brown bear
Ezo brown frog
Ezo Fuji
Yezo-Fuji
Ezo red fox
Ezo salamander
Ezo spruce
Yezo spruce
Jezo spruce
Ezo wolf
Republic of Ezo
Yesso scallop
yessotoxin
Yezo sika deer
pilger mills
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pilger mill
pilgers
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of pilger
pilgered
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of pilger
slivovices
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of slivovic (alternative form of slivovitzes).
steming
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of steme
stemed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of steme
stemes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of steme
mount of Venus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mounts of Venus
Senses: qualifier: palmistry
glosses: The elevation at the base of the thumb.
mounts of Venus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mount of Venus
helicoidization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From helicoid + -ization.
Senses: glosses: Modification to a helicoid form
bird-witted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more bird-witted
form: most bird-witted
Senses: glosses: flighty; incapable of sustained attention
hemosensitivity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From hemo- + sensitivity.
Senses: glosses: The condition of being hemosensitive
hemosensitive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From hemo- + sensitive.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: sensitive to some aspect of blood chemistry (typically oxygenation)
histoknife
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: histoknives
Etymology: From histo- + knife.
Senses: glosses: A small, very sharp knife designed for the sectioning of biological specimens
hologenome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hologenomes
Etymology: From holo- + genome.
Senses: topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: The collective genome of a holobiont
Related terms: hologenomic
hologenomics
homotrimerize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: homotrimerizes
form: homotrimerizing
form: homotrimerized
form: homotrimerized
Etymology: From homo- + trimerize.
Senses: glosses: To form into a homotrimer
Related terms: homotrimerization
homotrimerized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of homotrimerize
talked over
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of talk over
talking over
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of talk over
talkover
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: talkovers
Etymology: Deverbal from talk over.
Senses: glosses: An instance of talking over someone; an interruption that continues over another's speech.
topics: broadcasting
film
media
radio
television
glosses: An instance of commentary or narration in a broadcast, film, piece of performed music, etc.
talkovers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of talkover
hydroxymetabolite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hydroxymetabolites
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A metabolite that is a hydroxy form of an initial compound
hypercalcuria
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of hypercalciuria.
misventure
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: misventures
Senses: glosses: misadventure
hyperoxidised
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of hyperoxidized.
misventures
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of misventure
misventurous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more misventurous
form: most misventurous
Etymology: From mis- + venturous.
Senses: examples: text: There, after all is ended, the enchantment too shall end, and the misventurous lady and her imprisoned knight shall both be set free.
ref: 1792, Thomas Holcroft, Anna St. Ives, vol. VII, letter 125:
glosses: Subject to misventure; unfortunate.
glosses: Not adventurous; timid.
hyperoxidize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: hyperoxidizes
form: hyperoxidizing
form: hyperoxidized
form: hyperoxidized
Etymology: From hyper- + oxidize.
Senses: glosses: To oxidize excessively
glosses: To treat with hydrogen peroxide
immunodestructive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From immuno- + destructive.
Senses: topics: immunology
medicine
sciences
glosses: destructive to the immune system
intralineage
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From intra- + lineage.
Senses: glosses: Within a lineage
isodichroic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From iso- + dichroic.
Senses: glosses: Equally or constantly dichroic
isosterically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From iso- + sterically.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: In an isosteric manner
isovelocity
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From iso- + velocity.
Senses: glosses: Having a constant velocity
change tack
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: changes tack
form: changing tack
form: changed tack
form: changed tack
form: change one's tack
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
synonyms: switch tack
glosses: To change course or heading.
examples: text: So MySpace has changed tack. What was seen as a competitor to traditional media platforms is starting to resemble one.
ref: 2008 January 21, Brian Stelter, “MySpace changes tack to expand”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
text: Anderson rarely ventured forward in the opening two sets, coming to the net on seven occasions, before changing tack and making 14 approaches in the final set alone.
ref: 2018 July 15, Jonathan Jurejko, “Novak Djokovic wins fourth Wimbledon by beating Kevin Anderson”, in BBC Sport:
text: Industry experts are concerned that if the railway doesn't change tack, it would soon find itself out of step with the needs of the nation and in the crosshairs of a Treasury looking to slash spending.
ref: 2021 October 20, Ben Jones, “The benefits of (and barriers to) more leisure travel by rail”, in RAIL, number 942, page 32:
synonyms: switch tack
glosses: To take a different approach.
Derived terms: change of tack
hoddengrey
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of hoddengray.
save one's skin
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: saves one's skin
form: saving one's skin
form: saved one's skin
form: saved one's skin
Senses: examples: text: Boris Johnson has been accused of changing the ministerial code to help “save his skin” ahead of a new Partygate inquiry that could publish more photos and subject him to a public grilling by MPs.
ref: 2022 May 27, Rowena Mason, Aubrey Allegretti, “Boris Johnson accused of changing ministerial code to ‘save his skin’”, in The Guardian:
synonyms: save one's neck
glosses: To escape without injury.
Related terms: risk one's neck
royal rat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: royal rats
Senses: glosses: paca (the rodent)
gibnuts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gibnut
royal rats
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of royal rat
bowmouth guitarfish
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bowmouth guitarfishes
form: bowmouth guitarfish
Senses: glosses: Rhina ancylostoma, a ray of the family Rhinidae.
Synonyms: mud skate
shark ray
bowmouth guitarfishes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bowmouth guitarfish
lactoserum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of whey.
synonyms: word: whey
tower defence
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of tower defense.
landbird
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: landbirds
Senses: glosses: Any bird that lives mostly on or over land (though may migrate over water)
landbirds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of landbird
larviposit
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: larviposits
form: larvipositing
form: larviposited
form: larviposited
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: To deposit living larvae rather than eggs
Related terms: larviposition
larviposition
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: larvipositions
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: The act or the result of larvipositing
lipoxygenate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: lipoxygenates
form: lipoxygenating
form: lipoxygenated
form: lipoxygenated
Etymology: From lipo- (“lipid(s), fat(s)”) + oxygenate (“(chemistry) to add oxygen to”, verb).
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: To oxidize fat (especially polyunsaturated fats)
Related terms: lipoxygenation
body-positive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more body-positive
form: most body-positive
Senses: examples: text: For Alex Light, a British body-positive influencer, things had started to change even before the arrival on the mass market in the UK and US of GLP-1 inhibitor drugs used exclusively, via prescription, for weight loss[…].
ref: 2025 August 10, Rose Stokes, “I thought we’d entered the age of body positivity. Then came ‘shrinking girl summer’ – is everyone getting smaller except me?”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
glosses: Exhibiting or relating to body positivity.
body positivity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: And she is owning her look. An icon of body positivity who once cloaked her curves under neon tone track suits and hoodies, she appears to be done with all that.
ref: 2021 May 4, Ruth La Ferla, “On That Bombshell Billie Eilish Cover for British Vogue”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
text: […] I am engaging in what has become a new and unhealthy ritual: scrolling through Instagram and trying to work out which of the people behind accounts I once followed for their body positivity content are now taking weight-loss drugs.
ref: 2025 August 10, Rose Stokes, “I thought we’d entered the age of body positivity. Then came ‘shrinking girl summer’ – is everyone getting smaller except me?”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
synonyms: word: BoPo
glosses: The acceptance and appreciation of all types of human body (associated with fat acceptance)
Related terms: body-positive
lipoxygenated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of lipoxygenate
schizothecal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From schizo- + thecal.
Senses: glosses: Having the tarsal envelope divided, as by scutella.
lordokyphosis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
synonyms: kypholordosis
glosses: lordosis and kyphosis
holothecal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From holo- + thecal.
Senses: glosses: Having the tarsal envelope undivided.
macrocolinearity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From macro- + colinearity.
Senses: topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: Large-scale colinearity
pyrgoidal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more pyrgoidal
form: most pyrgoidal
Etymology: From Ancient Greek πύργος (púrgos, “tower”) + -oid + -al.
Senses: glosses: tower-shaped
mammospheric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From mammo- + spheric.
Senses: glosses: Relating to mammospheres
lopt
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: lop + -t
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of lop
ewe neck
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ewe necks
Senses: glosses: A neck that is ewe-necked.
ewe necks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ewe neck
ewe lamb
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ewe lambs
Etymology: From Middle English ewe lambren pl.
Senses: glosses: A female lamb.
examples: text: It was my first book, my only book, my ewe lamb; but it was not a “work,” not an “important publication, ” like Mr. Lecky's “Map of Life." The reviewers did not welcome it either eagerly or seriously.
ref: 1900, The Book Lover, numbers 5-10, page 234:
glosses: A poor person's sole possession (in reference to the Bible, 2 Samuel xii).
ewe lambs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ewe lamb
hilch
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: hilches
form: hilching
form: hilched
form: hilched
Senses: glosses: To hobble.
hilch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hilches
Senses: glosses: A limp.
hilches
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of hilch
hilching
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of hilch
hilched
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of hilch
Romany rye
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Romany ryes
Senses: glosses: A gentleman who cultivates the acquaintance of Gypsies.
Romany ryes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Romany rye
I'll show you
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see show.
examples: text: I'll show them who's the failure in this family!
text: Athletics gave me persistence as a teenager. [...] I used to train eight times a week. Even in the middle of winter I would break into the stadium and shuffle through snow on the track. [...] Building a quantum computer is like space travel to Mars. For many years, people said this is completely impossible. That's what got me into this field. I thought, I'll show you.
ref: 2018 August 1, Jacqui Bealing, quoting Winfried Hensinger, “Progress in Quantum Technology”, in The w:University of Sussex:
text: "Hey Jack," Bobby said, changing the subject. "Did you notice Bernie in front of the formation tonight? When he saluted Major Reynolds he jiggled. He's gained some weight. Better get in shape if he's going to war."
"Don't you believe it, Jarhead," Bernie retorted. "Step outside. I'll show you who's out of shape!" They all laughed.
ref: 2011, Robert Riggs, War in the Land of Morning Calm: A Korean War Novel, →ISBN, page 3:
text: "The fact that I was a [Broadway] director of color directing this play was the most important banner I wanted to wave," he said. "Because I'm breaking a boundary there. Whereas, if the [homo]sexuality is stressed, that excuses on a certain level the racial thing," [...] He had returned to his home town of Frankfort, Kentucky, for George C. Wolfe Week. He didn't recall feeling oppressed by segregation while he was growing up, but, as the returning hero, he felt the childhood emotions flooding back. "It was so interesting, walking into these tiny little shops and going, ‘What was so precious here that a little six-year-old boy couldn't touch, couldn't walk inside of?' " he said. "Or the Capitol Theatre—they wouldn't let me go in there? Oh, it's a parking lot now? Good. The first eleven years of my life came rushing back to me with a certain sort of rage. I thought, I'll show you. And it wasn't George Wolfe showing you. It was a little black boy showing you."
ref: 1993 September 20, Arthur Lubow, “George Wolfe in Progress”, in w:The New Yorker:
text: [Jubilee blinds Juggernaut with brief flare]
Juggernaut: What's this, the 4th of July? No one told me.
Jubilee: Leave him alone!
Wolverine: Jubilee, don't.
Juggernaut: [Laughs] What's she gonna do, hit me with her diaper?
Jubilee: I'll show you, you overgrown trash can!
[Jubilee vents a stream of plasma behind Juggernaut, almost topples him]
ref: 1993 March 6, “The Unstoppable Juggernaut”, in w:X-Men: The Animated Series, season 1, episode 8:
glosses: prove someone wrong; overturn prejudices; seek vindication
I'll show you
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: examples: text: I was taken into custody by Preventive Security ... The moment I went in to the investigator, he asked me why I had not saluted him, and I replied that I was in a confused state of mind. And because I had not saluted him, he said to me, "I'll show you!" and called in a soldier who held me firmly from behind while blows from the investigator rained down on me. He then escorted me to the torture yard, where the investigator fell upon me, [...]
ref: 2010 August 11, “Second follow-up to the report of the United Nations Fact-Finding Mission on the Gaza Conflict”, in UNGA, page 104:
glosses: vow vengeance
skyline operator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: skyline operators
Etymology: From the concept of selecting buildings on the Manhattan skyline by visibility, based on height and distance.
Senses: topics: computing
databases
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A proposed operator, for use in database queries, that filters out results that are worse than others according to multiple criteria.
skyline operators
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of skyline operator
surpassingness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From surpassing + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being surpassing.
unsurpassing
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + surpassing.
Senses: glosses: Misconstruction of unsurpassed.
phlegmonoid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more phlegmonoid
form: most phlegmonoid
Etymology: From phlegmon + -oid.
Senses: glosses: Resembling a phlegmon.
sing small
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /sɪŋ ˈsmɔːl/
ipa: /sɪŋ ˈsmɔl/
ipa: /-smɑl/
rhymes: -ɔːl
Forms: form: sings small
form: singing small
form: sang small
form: sung small
form: no-table-tags
form: glossary
form: sing small
form: sing small
form: sang small
form: sing small
form: singest small
form: sang small
form: sangest small
form: sungest small
form: sings small
form: singeth small
form: sang small
form: sing small
form: sang small
form: sing small
form: sang small
form: sing small
form: -
form: singing small
form: sung small
Etymology: From sing + small (“in a small fashion; (obsolete) in a low tone, softly”).
Senses: examples: text: By all that's good, I muſt myſelf ſing ſmall in her company!—I vvill never meet at hard-edge vvith her— […]
ref: 1753 (indicated as 1754), [Samuel Richardson], “Letter XVII. Miss Byron. In Continuation.”, in The History of Sir Charles Grandison. […], volume I, London: […] S[amuel] Richardson; [a]nd sold by C. Hitch and L. Hawes, […], →OCLC, page 111:
text: Then shoots through my enjoyment / The one sharp drop of gall: / The host—the cur, the heathen— / On 'Baccy singeth small.
ref: 1877 October, “The Nicotian Lotos-eater. [From the German of Leistner.]”, in Cope’s Tobacco Plant. A Monthly Periodical, Interesting to the Manufactuerer, the Dealer, and the Smoker, volume II, number 91, Liverpool, Lancashire: John Fraser, →OCLC, page 86, column 2:
glosses: To assume a humble tone.
examples: text: Deutschland sleeps: her star has waned. / France, the Thundress whilome, now / Singeth small, with bated breath.
ref: a. 1850 (date written), James Clarence Mangan, “An Invitation”, in Poems […], New York, N.Y.: P. M. Haverty, […], published 1859, →OCLC, page 436:
glosses: To not say anything; to keep quiet.
glosses: To play a minor part.
examples: text: [A]re not moſt of our kings being vvhen they ſing ſmall and fine, after a puling maner, ſaluted Apolloes for their muſicke: […]
ref: 1603, Plutarch, “How a Man may Discerne a Flatterer from a Friend”, in Philemon Holland, transl., The Philosophie, Commonlie Called, The Morals […], London: […] Arnold Hatfield, →OCLC, pages 93–94:
text: I marvell'd ſhe ſung ſo ſmall indeed, being no Maid.
ref: c. 1623–1624 (date written), Tho[mas] Middleton, “Women Beware Women. A Tragedy”, in Two New Playes. […], London: […] Humphrey Moseley, […], published 1657, →OCLC, Act IV, scene ii, page 180:
text: The Poet culls that dainty flowers; he saileth on the floods; / Leaps with the fountain's ecstacy,^([sic – meaning ecstasy]) and dwelleth in the woods; / Launcheth his barque of hopeful song, nor dreads the roaring fall; / Singing with lark and nightingale, though oft he singeth small.
ref: 1870, J. P. Robson, “The Poet’s Photograph”, in Evangeline: Or, The Spirit of Progress; […], Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Northumberland: […] J. M. Carr, […], →OCLC, page 236:
qualifier: singing
glosses: To sing softly.
Related terms: play second fiddle
bolin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bolins
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of bowline (“type of knot”).
bolins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bolin
Lantian
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Lantien
form: Lan-t'ien
Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 藍田 /蓝田 (Lántián).
Senses: examples: text: The Homo erectus cranium, mandible and hundreds of associated lithic artifacts found in Lantian (central China) in the 1960s demonstrate that the area was important for hominin habitation during the early to middle Pleistocene.
ref: 2017 April 20, Haixin Zhuo et al., “Lower Palaeolithic stone tools have been found in Lantian County, China”, in Quaternary Research, →DOI, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 15 May 2022:
text: In China, researchers also found evidence of early hominin occupation. In 1964, researchers unearthed a Homo erectus skull in a western county called Lantian. Initial estimates found it to be 1.15 million years old.
ref: 2018 July 11, Carl Zimmer, “Archaeologists in China Discover the Oldest Stone Tools Outside Africa”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 11 Jul 2018, Science:
glosses: A county of Xi'an, Shaanxi, China.
Derived terms: Lantian Man
Lantian
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Lan-t'ien
Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 嵐天 /岚天 (Lántiān).
Senses: glosses: A township in Chengkou, Chongqing, China.
Related terms: Lam Tin
Yushan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: yüʹshänʹ
Forms: form: Yü-shan
form: Yu Shan
form: Yü Shan
Etymology: From Mandarin 玉山 (Yùshān).
Senses: topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
glosses: Jade Mountain, a mythological mountain and residence of The Queen Mother of the West
examples: text: Another range is the Yushan or Mount Morrison Range, a group of lofty mountains with the general appearance of a high plateau. This range lies to the west of the main Taiwan Range across the mountain pass Patungkuan (Hattukan), which has an altitude of 2800 m. This group of mountains is dominated by Yushan or Mount Morrison (Niitakayama) , with a height of 3950 m., the highest peak of Taiwan as well as of all eastern Asia. North of Yushan are other peaks like Chuntashan (Gundaisan) 3323 m., and Luantashan (Randaisan) 3170 m.
ref: 1963, Hui-Lin Li, “The Physical Background of Taiwan”, in Woody Flora of Taiwan, Narberth, Penn.: Livingston Publishing Company, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 4:
text: To get away from Taipei's humid heat and see some of the spectacular mountain scenery of central Taiwan, a number of plane, bus and rail tours are available. One of the most popular places within reach of two or three-day tours is Sun Moon Lake, which offers an exceptional view of 13,114-foot Mount Yushan and the Sea of Clouds that rings it.
ref: 1981 September 13, Henry Kamm, “What's doing in TAIPEI”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 25 May 2015, Section 10, page 5:
text: Yushan, Taiwan's tallest mountain, has numerous peaks rising over 10,000 feet (3,000 m). Climbing any of these peaks requires a high fitness level and experience.
ref: 2004, Phil Macdonald, National Geographic Traveler: Taiwan, National Geographic Society, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 231:
text: Chinese state media has given broad coverage to “island encirclement” exercises near Taiwan this month, including showing pictures of Chinese bomber aircraft with what they said was Taiwan’s highest peak, Yushan, visible in the background.
ref: 2017 December 26, “Get used to drills, China tells Taiwan; Taipei says it seeks peace”, in Reuters, archived from the original on 10 Dec 2018, World News:
text: With its hundreds of mountains reach over 3,000 meters above sea level, Taiwan is home to a diversity of precious natural resources. Among its many mountains, Yushan or Mt. Jade Main Peak, at an elevation of 3,952 meters, is the highest, and has become a spiritual symbol of Taiwan.
ref: 2022 August 8, “Final Call for Submissions to the E.SUN Awards”, in AP News, PR Newswire, archived from the original on 15 Apr 2023:
synonyms: Mount Morrison
glosses: the highest mountain in Taiwan
examples: text: In order to compel him to give up Yenping and retreat to Chekiang, Chiang sent a division from Yushan in Kiangsi to advance into the border of Chekiang.
ref: 1937, Hollington K. Tong, Chiang Kai-shek: Soldier And Statesman, volume 1, London: Hurst & Blackett, →OCLC, page 120:
glosses: A county of Shangrao, Jiangxi, China.
glosses: A town in Lantian, Xi'an, Shaanxi, China.
Yushan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: yüʹshänʹ
Forms: form: Yü-shan
form: Yu Shan
form: Yü Shan
Etymology: From Mandarin 峪山 (Yùshān).
Senses: glosses: A town in Xiangzhou district, Xiangyang, Hubei, China.
McShittles
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Blend of McDonald's + shit (omitting the apostrophe).
Senses: examples: text: Plans include a skithru McShittles, a skithru hummer shack, a skithru sushi bar, a warp speed funicular, a skithru virtual reality ski-arcade. You'll love it. Buy now and save.
ref: 1997, M. Drazen, “Killington purchase?”, in rec.skiing.alpine (Usenet), retrieved 13 Jul 2018:
text: The Chip and the French Fry are nouns to denote very different things. On one hand the French Fry (especiallyu^([sic]) from McShittles) has a fried outside and nothing of consequence inside, whilst the Chip has both a fried outside, and as consequence of having less surface area to mass, has cooked potatoe^([sic]) inside.
ref: 2000, Alistair Mann, “BNP censorship”, in soc.culture.british (Usenet), retrieved 13 Jul 2018:
text: When you stop working at McShittles then you can try to spar mentally with me.
ref: 2004, Roger Morgan, “WHY DO NIGGERS CHASE WHITE CHICKS?”, in soc.culture.african.american (Usenet), retrieved 13 Jul 2018:
glosses: McDonald's (the fast food restaurant chain).
Synonyms: McDonald's
Shangchen
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Shang-ch'en
Etymology: From Mandarin 上陳 /上陈 (Shàngchén).
Senses: examples: text: The new finds imply that hominins covered vast distances before 2 million years ago — Shangchen is 14,000 kilometres from the nearest sites in East Africa where other hominins of this age have been found. It’s possible that the Shangchen toolmakers, hunter-gatherers, were simply following their foods, says Vivek Venkataraman, an evolutionary ecologist at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
ref: 2018 July 11, Colin Barras, “Tools from China are oldest hint of human lineage outside Africa”, in Nature, →DOI, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 19 Feb 2019:
text: According to the most recent reports, the earliest evidence of hominins in Asia is in the Shangchen site in Lantian in the northern Qinling Mountains with, and the age range is 2.12—1.26 Ma (Zhu et al., 2018).
ref: 2018 October 15, Xuefeng Sun, Huayu Lu, Shejiang Wang, Xinghua Xu, Qingxuan Zeng, Xuehe Lu, Chengqiu Lu, Wenchao Zhang, Xiaojian Zhang, Robin Dennell, “Hominin distribution in glacial-interglacial environmental changes in the Qinling Mountains range, central China”, in Quaternary Science Reviews, volume 198, →DOI, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 48:
text: At the same time, the earliest hominin evidence outside Africa came from our newly found 2.12-million-year old^([sic – meaning year-old]) stone tools, which were found at Shangchen, a paleolithic locality, in Lantian County in the southern margin of the Chinese Loess Plateau.
ref: 2019 August 29, Zhaoyu Zhu, Weiwen Huang, Yi Wu, Shifan Qiu, Zhiguo Rao, Shixia Yang, Yamei Hou, Jiubing Xie, Jiangwei Han, Shuqing Fu, Tingping Ouyang, Houyun Zhou, Shasha Peng, Robin Dennell, “New progress in the geochronology of hominin relics in loess strata of the Chinese Loess Plateau”, in Chinese Science Bulletin, volume 64, number 25, →DOI, →ISSN, →OCLC:
glosses: A village in Yushan, Lantian, Xi'an, Shaanxi, China.
pantoscope
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pantoscopes
Etymology: From panto- + -scope.
Senses: glosses: A panoramic camera.
glosses: A very wide-angled photographic lens.
pantoscopes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pantoscope
sarcenchyme
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: By surface analysis, sarc- + -enchyme.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: One of the soft tissues of sponges.
Related terms: mesenchyme
sarcenchymatous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to sarcenchyme.