cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
Megapolitan
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /mɛɡəˈpɒlɪtən/
ipa: /mɛɡəˈpɑlɪtən/
ipa: /-lə-/
homophone: megapolitan
Etymology: A variant of Megalopolitan; analysable as Megapolis + -itan. Megapolis is derived from Late Latin megapolis, from Ancient Greek μεγα- (mega-, “prefix meaning ‘large’”) + πόλις (pólis, “city”).
Senses: examples: text: At length he [Antigonus III Doson] assaulted with his right wing the position of Eucleidas; and, favoured by an error of that general, and a timely charge of Philopœmen with the Megapolitan cavalry, gained a complete victory.
ref: 1860, “SELLASIA”, in [Thomas Stewart Traill], editor, The Encyclopædia Britannica, or Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General Literature, 8th edition, Boston, Mass.: Little, Brown, & Co., →OCLC, page 42, column 1:
text: The upshot is, we are guided by a party of shock-headed Arcadians, who are going in the direction of the excavations, and a Megapolitan boy who has probably an eye to gain.
ref: 1902 January, H. R. James, “Art. V.—Across the Peloponnesus.”, in The Calcutta Review, volume CXIV, number CCXXVII, Calcutta: Printed & published by the City Press, […], Messrs. Thacker, Spink & Co., […]; Madras: Messrs. Higginbotham & Co.; London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co., Ld., […], →OCLC, section III (Karytæna and Megalopolis), page 51:
synonyms: Megalopolitan
qualifier: Ancient Greece
glosses: Of, pertaining to, or from the ancient city of Megalopolis (now Megalopoli) in Greece.
Megapolitan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /mɛɡəˈpɒlɪtən/
ipa: /mɛɡəˈpɑlɪtən/
ipa: /-lə-/
homophone: megapolitan
Forms: form: Megapolitans
Etymology: A variant of Megalopolitan; analysable as Megapolis + -itan. Megapolis is derived from Late Latin megapolis, from Ancient Greek μεγα- (mega-, “prefix meaning ‘large’”) + πόλις (pólis, “city”).
Senses: examples: text: The Megapolitans whoſe City did abide the ſiege, were compelled to pay as a fine for their rebellion twenty talents to the Athenians, and the Æolians.
ref: 1670, Quintus Curtius Rufus, “The Sixth Book of Quintus Curtius. Of the Acts of Alexander the Great, King of Macedon.”, in Robert Codrington, transl., The Life and Death of Alexander the Great, King of Macedon. In Ten Books, […], London: Printed for Tho[mas] Johnson for Samuel Speed, […], →OCLC, page 213:
text: The Lacedæmonians, in Conjunction with the Phocenſes, make War with the Megapolitans, Thebans and Argives. After ſeveral Battles, in which both ſides are ſometimes ſucceſsful, and at other times unſucceſsful, a Truce is concluded between the Lacedæmonians and Megapolitans.
ref: 1709, Lewis Ellis du Pin [i.e., Louis Ellies Dupin], “Sect. XXXV. An Abridgment of the History of the Time between Xerxes and Alexander the Great, Extracted from Diodorus Siculus. [Olympiad CVII. 1st Year. Aristodemus Archon.]”, in The Universal Library of Historians; (viz.) The Oriental, Greek, Latin, French, German, Spanish, Italian, English, and Others. […], volume II, London: Printed for R. Bonwicke [et al.], →OCLC, page 159:
text: When, therefore, the above-mentioned request for help from the Megapolitans reached Athens in 352, Demosthenes expressed himself in favour of complying with it, especially emphasizing the necessity of not allowing Sparta to become too powerful.
ref: 1896, Adolf Holm; [Frederick Clarke, transl.], “The Sacred War—Beginning of Demosthenes’ Career (356–352)”, in The History of Greece from Its Commencement to the Close of the Independence of the Greek Nation … Translated from the German: In Four Volumes, volume III (The 4th century B.C. up to the Death of Alexander), London: Macmillan and Co., Limited; New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company, →OCLC, page 238:
synonyms: Megalopolitan
qualifier: Ancient Greece
glosses: An inhabitant of the ancient city of Megalopolis (now Megalopoli) in Greece.
Megapolitans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Megapolitan
incrustants
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of incrustant
nectrotrophic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of necrotrophic.
neocarrabiose
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From neo- + carrabiose.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The sugar 3-O-(3,6-anhydro-α-D-galactopyranosyl)-β-D-galactopyranose that often occurs as the sulfate.
neofibrogenesis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From neo- + fibrogenesis.
Senses: glosses: The formation of new fibrous tissue
incantators
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of incantator
circumciseds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of circumcised
saltery
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: salteries
Etymology: From salt + -ery, or in sense 3, salter + -y.
Senses: glosses: A saltworks.
glosses: A place for fish salting.
examples: saltery wares
glosses: The field or profession of a salter. (Compare drysaltery)
salteries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of saltery
unvisor
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: unvisors
form: unvisoring
form: unvisored
form: unvisored
Etymology: From un- + visor.
Senses: examples: text: The Prior with his silvery locks at the high altar stands ; The Prince in reverend posture bends, ungauntleted his hands ; And doffed the sword of Ravenspur, unvisored too his brow, The warrior of a hundred fields a lowly votary now !
ref: 1889, William Wheater, Some Historic Mansions of Yorkshire and Their Associations:
text: How he would have smitten Paynim with his sword, and then unvisored and held chivalrous interview with Saladin!
ref: 1920, Popular Educator - Volume 38, page 444:
text: During each rehearsal, the unveiling (or more properly, the unvisoring) of the feminine face has been fatal to martial action; Artegall will not strike his revealed opponent.
ref: 2001, Andrew Hadfield, Hadfield Andrew, The Cambridge Companion to Spenser, →ISBN, page 188:
glosses: To remove or lift a visor from one's face.
examples: text: His intrepid good sense confronts and unvisors a sophism, by whose authority soever it may be armed.
ref: 1883, Wesleyan-Methodist Magazine - Volume 106, page 954:
text: It was as if we had taken off something that had hindered our view of each other, like people who unvisored to talk more easily at a masked ball.
ref: 1911, The Forum - Volume 45, page 506:
text: For when Henry Killigrew was come from the Queen of England to comfort her. . .this gentleman stranger's hap was to spill the play, and unvisor the disguising; for when he was, by the Queen's commandment, come to the Court, though...he did nothing hastily, yet he came in so unseasonably before the stage was prepared and furnished, that he found the windows open and the candles not lighted, and all the provisions for the play out of order.
ref: 1930, Reginald Henry Mahon, The Tragedy of Kirk O' Field, page 169:
glosses: To reveal; to unmask or unveil.
unvisors
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of unvisor
unvisoring
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of unvisor
conspirants
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of conspirant
TUFROC
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: aerospace
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Acronym of toughened uni-piece fibrous reinforced oxidation-resistant composite, a reusable material for spacecraft heatshields.
Coordinate terms: PICA
shall've
Language: English
Part of speech: contraction
Etymology: shall + 've
Senses: glosses: shall have (with have as auxiliary verb)
can've
Language: English
Part of speech: contraction
Etymology: can + 've
Senses: glosses: Contraction of can have (with have as auxiliary verb).
scutation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: scutations
Etymology: From scute + -ation.
Senses: examples: text: The morphology of dermal scutation in callichthyids is quite different from that in loricariids, with two rather than three more series of overlapping plates along the body, suggesting that the types of scutation in callichthyids and loricariids are non-homologous.
ref: 1957, Contributions in Science - Issues 393-403, page 25:
text: There has been a great deal of stability in scutation of the carapace during chelonian evolution (Zangerl and Johnson, 1957).
ref: 1989, Charles Wax Caillouet, André M. Landry, Proceedings of the First International Symposium on Kemp's Ridley Sea Turtle Biology, Conservation, and Management, page 202:
text: The dorsal scutations and configurations of the cephalic plates are also different in the two species.
ref: 1991, Mary E. Petersen, J. B. Kirkegaard, Systematics, Biology and Morphology of World Polychaeta:
text: With regard to the comparative anatomy of the bones of the skull, and the pattern of the scutation of the upper surface of the cranium, I regret that the state of the specimen in Professor Bell's collection does not permit the deduction of other distinctive characters which such parts of the cranial organization so satisfactorily afford.
ref: 2011, Richard Owen, Thomas Bell, Monograph on the Fossil Reptilia of the London Clay, →ISBN, page 28:
topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: The number and arrangement of scutes.
scutations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of scutation
Gitega
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: The capital city of Burundi.
undercontextualize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: undercontextualizes
form: undercontextualizing
form: undercontextualized
form: undercontextualized
Etymology: From under- + contextualize.
Senses: glosses: To contextualize inadequately.
overcontextualize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: overcontextualizes
form: overcontextualizing
form: overcontextualized
form: overcontextualized
Etymology: From over- + contextualize.
Senses: glosses: To contextualize excessively.
overcontextualization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From over- + contextualization.
Senses: glosses: The result or process of overcontextualizing.
undercontextualization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From under- + contextualization.
Senses: glosses: The result or process of undercontextualizing.
undercontextualizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of undercontextualize
undercontextualizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of undercontextualize
overcontextualizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of overcontextualize
overcontextualizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of overcontextualize
overcontextualized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of overcontextualize
undercontextualized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of undercontextualize
zone of rarity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: zones of rarity
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: The conceptual gap between well-defined diagnostic categories: any condition that is formally defined neither as disease nor as a normal healthy state.
zones of rarity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of zone of rarity
content knowledge
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: education
glosses: Knowledge of specific facts and techniques (such as dates in history and mathematical equations), as opposed to general thinking skills.
retotal
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: retotals
form: retotaling
form: retotalling
form: retotaled
form: retotaled
form: retotalled
form: retotalled
Etymology: From re- + total.
Senses: glosses: To total again.
retotals
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of retotal
retotalling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of retotal
retotaling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of retotal
retotalled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of retotal
retotaled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of retotal
gamb
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡamb/
ipa: /ɡæmb/
rhymes: -æmb
Forms: form: gambs
form: gambe
Etymology: From Middle French gambe (variant of jambe) from Late Latin gamba (hoof, leg, shank). Doublet of jamb, gamba, and gam.
Senses: examples: text: Vachell, Eng. a bull's gamb in pale, couped, argent. […] Vaughan of Littleton, Middlesex, a lion's gamb, or, holding a human heart, gules.
ref: 1817, Alexander Deuchar, British Crests: containing the crests and mottos of the families of Great Britain and Ireland; together with those of the principal cities; and a glossary of heraldic terms ... Embellished with nearly fourteen hundred crests, engraved by Robert Kirkwood, from original drawings, by G. Sanders, and J. Grant, page 284:
topics: government
heraldry
hobbies
lifestyle
monarchy
nobility
politics
glosses: The leg or shank, typically of an animal, especially of a lion, on a coat of arms, crest, etc.
examples: text: […] but Heavens above what a pair of gambs! Stems. What the vulgar call legs.
ref: 1954, Gerald Kersh, Guttersnipe: Little Novels, page 211:
glosses: A person's leg; gam.
Related terms: related terms of gamba
Phyllida
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfɪlɪdə/
ipa: /fəˈlɪdə/
rhymes: -ɪlɪdə
rhymes: -ɪdə
Senses: glosses: A female given name from Ancient Greek.
boogieboarding
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of boogieboard
boogieboarded
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of boogieboard
black mudfish
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Neochanna diversus, a galaxiid fish found in swamps and wetlands of the North Island of New Zealand.
false sharing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: computing
computing-theory
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A performance-degrading usage pattern where the size of units in a cache means that the system may reload entire units even when it is not necessary.
hybriding
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From hybrid + -ing.
Senses: glosses: The creation of a hybrid of any kind.
TCH
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: synonyms: T-Can
glosses: Initialism of Trans Canada Highway.
Niwari
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A district of Madhya Pradesh, India. Formed after separation from Tikamgarh district, it consists of three tehsil: Niwari, Prithavipur, and Orchha.
glosses: A town in Niwari district, Madhya Pradesh, India.
neoxaline
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A polycyclic alkaloid that has some antimitotic activity
nepenthesin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nepenthesins
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A protease present in Nepenthes pitcher plants
neurotypic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From neuro- + typic.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of neurotypical.
Derived terms: neurotypicity
nigostriatal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of nigrostriatal.
nitroproteome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nitroproteomes
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The proteome of all proteins that have been nitrated (typically at a tyrosine group)
Related terms: nitrotyrosinate
nitrotyrosination
nitrotyrosinate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: nitrotyrosinates
form: nitrotyrosinating
form: nitrotyrosinated
form: nitrotyrosinated
Senses: glosses: To undergo nitrotyrosination
nitrotyrosinated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of nitrotyrosinate
nitrotyrosination
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nitrotyrosinations
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The nitration of a tyrosine group of a protein
Related terms: nitrotyrosilation
nonaccumulating
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + accumulating.
Senses: glosses: Not accumulating
nonadhering
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + adhering.
Senses: glosses: Not adhering
nonchordate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + chordate.
Senses: glosses: Not chordate
nonfaunal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + faunal.
Senses: glosses: Not faunal
nonomonotonic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of nonmonotonic.
nonsenescent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + senescent.
Senses: glosses: Not senescent
nonserotypable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of nonserotypeable.
nonserotypeable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + serotypeable.
Senses: glosses: Not serotypeable
norbornyl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: norbornyls
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A carbocation derived from norbornane
normoglucotolerant
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From normo- + glucotolerant.
Senses: topics: medicine
physiology
sciences
glosses: Having a normal tolerance to glucose
normohomocysteinemic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From normo- + homocysteinemia + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Having a normal amount of homocysteine in the blood
semianthracites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of semianthracite
Laifeng
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Lai-feng
Etymology: From Mandarin 來鳳 /来凤 (Láifèng).
Senses: examples: text: The ruthless and indiscriminate bombings of the defenseless cities in southwest Hupeh has called for extra efforts in the way of extending relief. For a time Rev. Meyer operated a relief camp for some 60 refugee children. After the bombing of Enshih and Laifeng in Hupeh and Wkeifu in Szechaun ^([sic – meaning Szechuan]) relief was extended to thousands of destitute Chinese with monies received from the American relief fund for China.
ref: 1942, “REV. HERBERT MEYER, CHINESE MISSIONARY, ASSUMES DUTIES OF PASTOR OF LUTHERAN CHURCH”, in Petaluma Argus-Courier, Petaluma, California, page 2:
text: (Peng Chao-feng), a delegate to the Fourth NPC, a Tuchia peasant of (Hotsung) brigade of (Laotung) commune in Laifeng County, said: "The two important central decisions completely reflect the desires of the people of the minority nationalities, in resolute response to the call of the party Central Committee we Tuchia and Miao people will unite most closely around the party Central Committee headed by Comrade Hua Kuo-feng, obey the commands of the Central Committee in all actions, persist in taking the class struggle as the key link, in the party's basic line and in continuing the revolution under the dictatorship of the proletariat, struggle against revisionism, the bourgeoisie in the party and all incorrect lines which run counter to Mao Tsetung Thought and advance forever and victoriously along Chairman Mao's revolutionary line."
ref: 1976 October 18 [1976 October 17], “Rural Hupeh Scores Revisionists, Splittists”, in Daily Report: People's Republic of China, volume I, number 202, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, sourced from Wuhan Hupeh Provincial Service, translation of original in Mandarin, →ISSN, →OCLC, People's Republic of China: Central-South Region, page H 4:
text: In a 1739 case from Laifeng County, Hubei, the widow Zhang Shi (forty-five sui) was killed by her new second husband, Jiang Changyi (forty-three sui), when she refused to consummate her marriage with him.
ref: 2000, Matthew H. Sommer, “Widows in the Qing Chastity Cult: The Nexus of Sex and Property in Law and in Women's Lives”, in Sex, Law, and Society in Late Imperial China, Stanford, Cali.: Stanford University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 187:
text: The Paper appeared to be testing that proposition with a daring expose about health problems at a mercury mine in the poor mountainous Guizhou province. Another looked at excessive spending on a construction project in poverty-stricken Laifeng county in central Hubei province.
ref: 2014 July 23, Alexa Olesen, “The New Website That Has China Buzzing”, in Foreign Policy, archived from the original on 17 Dec 2014:
glosses: A county of Enshi prefecture, Hubei, China.
outpurchase
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: outpurchases
form: outpurchasing
form: outpurchased
form: outpurchased
Etymology: From out- + purchase.
Senses: glosses: To purchase more than.
outpay
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: outpays
form: outpaying
form: outpaid
form: outpaid
Etymology: From out- + pay.
Senses: glosses: To pay more than (someone).
outpurchased
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of outpurchase
outpurchases
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of outpurchase
outpurchasing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of outpurchase
outpaid
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of outpay
outpays
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of outpay
outpaying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of outpay
octacalcium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From octa- + calcium.
Senses: topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Eight calcium atoms or ions in a compound
Derived terms: octacalcium phosphate
odontopaediatric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From odonto- + paediatric.
Senses: glosses: Relating to odontopaediatrics
Related terms: odontopaediatrics
odontopediatrics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From odonto- + pediatrics.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of odontopaediatrics.
Related terms: odontopediatric
odontopaediatrics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From odonto- + paediatrics.
Senses: topics: dentistry
medicine
sciences
glosses: dentistry performed on infants
Related terms: odontopaediatric
counting frame
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: counting frames
Senses: glosses: abacus
methylpropanol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: methylpropanols
Etymology: From methyl- + propanol.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: isobutanol (2-methylpropan-1-ol)
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: t-butanol (2-methylpropan-2-ol)
oligornase
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: oligornases
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of oligoribonuclease.
oligornases
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of oligornase
oligopurine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: oligopurines
Etymology: From oligo- + purine.
Senses: topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: A stretch of nucleic acid composed of several contiguous purines
Related terms: oligopyrimidine
oligopurines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of oligopurine
oligoribonucleases
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of oligoribonuclease
organoprotection
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From organo- + protection.
Senses: glosses: protection from the action of organic compounds, especially from organic free radicals
Related terms: organoprotective
orthognathy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The condition of being orthognathous
ostarioclupeomorph
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ostarioclupeomorphs
Senses: glosses: Any teleost of the cohort Ostarioclupeomorpha
Synonyms: otomorph
ostarioclupeomorphs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ostarioclupeomorph
osteophagous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From osteo- + -phagous.
Senses: glosses: That eats bones.
Related terms: osteophagy
overenrichment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From over- + enrichment.
Senses: glosses: Excessive enrichment
overmigration
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From over- + migration.
Senses: glosses: Excessive migration
oxozeaenol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The resorcylic lactone (3S,5Z,8S,9S,11E)-3,4,9,10-tetrahydro-8,9,16-trihydroxy-14-methoxy-3-methyl-1H-2-benzoxacyclotetradecin-1,7(8H)-dione
counting-house
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: counting-houses
Senses: examples: text: The door of Scrooge’s counting-house was open that he might keep his eye upon his clerk, who in a dismal little cell beyond, a sort of tank, was copying letters.
ref: 1843 December 19, Charles Dickens, “Stave I. Marley’s Ghost.”, in A Christmas Carol. In Prose. Being a Ghost Story of Christmas, London: Chapman & Hall, […], →OCLC, page 6:
glosses: Alternative form of countinghouse.
oxypurine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: oxypurines
Etymology: From oxy- + purine.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any oxidised form of a purine, such as hypoxanthine, xanthine or uric acid
oxypurines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of oxypurine
gesheft
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: geshefts
Etymology: Borrowed from Yiddish געשעפֿט (gesheft).
Senses: glosses: A business deal.
geshefts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gesheft
radioecologically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From radioecological + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In terms of radioecology.
radioecologist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: radioecologists
Senses: glosses: One who studies radioecology.
radioecologists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of radioecologist
Club Fed
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Blend of Club Med + fed (“federal”).
A pun on Club Med, a company offering luxurious holidays, and fed (“federal agent”).
Senses: glosses: A prison offering greater comfort and more facilities to inmates than is typical.
wikipedia: en:Club Med
counting-houses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of counting-house
overenrich
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: overenriches
form: overenriching
form: overenriched
form: overenriched
Etymology: From over- + enrich.
Senses: glosses: To enrich excessively.
overenriching
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of overenrich
overenriches
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of overenrich
Buruli ulcer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Buruli ulcers
Etymology: Named after a county of Uganda where important foci of the disease were studied.
Senses: examples: text: All of these farming activities were in swampy riverine areas, as has been observed in all other foci where Buruli ulcer is endemic (van der Werf et al., 1999; van Oye & Ballio, 1950).[…]In Australia, people living near a golf course, that was sprinkled by water pumped from a swamp, developed Buruli ulcers.
ref: 2004, Eldryd Parry, Richard Godfrey, Geoffrey Gill, David Mabey, editors, Principles of Medicine in Africa, Cambridge University Press, page 1302:
text: Other infectious processes, such as tuberculosis and atypical mycobacterium infections (Fig. 5.1), or Buruli ulcers should be considered, depending on the circumstances and clinical findings.
ref: 2005, Avi Shai, Howard I. Maibach, Wound Healing and Ulcers of the Skin: Diagnosis and Therapy - The Practical Approach, Springer, page 55:
text: 2006, WHO Regional Office for Africa, The Health of the People: The African Regional Health Report, World Health Organization, page 56,
Neglected diseases — such as sleeping sickness, visceral leishmaniasis and Buruli ulcer — continue to take their toll in the African Region, but they no longer figure on the disease-control agenda of the developed world.
topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: A type of ulcer caused by the bacterium Mycobacterium ulcerans.
ungradedness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From ungraded + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of not being graded.
schnorer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: schnorers
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of schnorrer.
schnorers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of schnorer
sieve set
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sieve sets
Senses: glosses: A device consisting of a stack of sieves of increasing fineness, shaken to sort gems by size.
sieve sets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sieve set
linecard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: linecards
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of line card.
linecards
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of linecard
line card
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: line cards
form: linecard
Senses: topics: business
communications
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
electronics
energy
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
telecommunications
glosses: A modular electronic circuit designed to fit on a separate PCB and interface with a telecommunications access network.
topics: business
marketing
glosses: A piece of marketing collateral listing the vendors and brands represented by a supplier.
line cards
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of line card
linebroadenings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of linebroadening
e-circle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: e-circles
Etymology: From e- + circle.
Senses: examples: text: Virtual communities, Web-conferencing, chat rooms, e-circles — the names for the new computer technologies of the 1990s resonate with images of collaboration.
ref: 2000, Dennis A. Trinkle, Scott A. Merriman, History.edu: Essays on Teaching with Technology, page vii:
text: His godfather, part of yet another family, helps him maintain an e-circle of friends who make up his garage band.
ref: 2010, J. A. English-Lueck, Being and Well-Being: Health and the Working Bodies of Silicon Valley:
glosses: A social circle on the Internet.
e-circles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of e-circle
Artsakhian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Artsakhian
form: most Artsakhian
Etymology: From Artsakh + -ian.
Senses: examples: text: If this much is done—and Ter Petrosyan thinks that they can be done within a month— Artsakh will be able to restore its dissolved bodies which will have their determining say in Artsakhian affairs while Azerbaijan will have no say.
ref: 1989 September 6, “Karabakh Committee Activist Interviewed [Paris HARATCH 8-10, 11 Jul]”, in JPRS Report (Near East & South Asia), Foreign Broadcast Information Service, JPRS-NEA-89-059, page 2:
text: The share of ICT sector in GDP, competitive advantages of the Armenian and Artsakhian IT fields, export directions, advanced steps taken in the field and the factors hindering the development of digitalization and the potential and prerequisites for the development of this field in Artsakh were discussed in the given article.
ref: 2018, Susan Avetisyan, Nina Balayan, “Արցախի Հանրապետությունը թվային տնտեսության և ինովացիոն համակարգերի զարգացման նոր օրակարգում [The Republic of Artsakh on a New Agenda for the Development of Digital Economy and Innovation Systems]”, in Scientific Artsakh, number 1 (overall work in Armenian), →ISSN, page 341:
english: The Republic of Artsakh on a New Agenda for the Development of Digital Economy and Innovation Systems
translation: The Republic of Artsakh on a New Agenda for the Development of Digital Economy and Innovation Systems
text: Pictures no. 1, 12, and 41 are stored in the “Artsakhian Movement” repository of the Armenian Genocide Museum-Institute (section 1, folder 103, pictures no. 1003, 1020, 1048), […] [footnote]
ref: 2022, Harutyun T. Marutyan, Levon H. Abrahamian, “The “Karabagh-Armenia” Theme in the Iconography of Armenian Identity (Based on Posters and Banners from the Karabagh Movement)”, in International Journal of Armenian Genocide Studies, volume 7, number 2, Yerevan: Armenian Genocide Museum-Institute Foundation, →ISSN, page 10:
synonyms: Artsakhi
glosses: Of or pertaining to Artsakh.
autonomous prefecture
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: autonomous prefectures
Senses: glosses: One of the administrative divisions of China
indosespene
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A particular indolosesquiterpene.
sespenine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A particular indolosesquiterpene.
autonomous prefectures
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of autonomous prefecture
shtinker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shtinkers
Etymology: From Yiddish שטינקער (shtinker).
Senses: qualifier: Israeli intelligence slang
glosses: collaborator; traitor; informer
shtinkers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shtinker
shlepper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shleppers
Senses: examples: text: So I went to New York with the fox and lox crowd, the bagel benders, the shleppers, to hook an agent.
ref: 1980, Sam Ross, Windy City, page 76:
glosses: Alternative form of schlepper.
shleppers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shlepper
wage drift
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: economics
sciences
glosses: The tendency of real-world wages to rise faster than they would if kept in line with wage increases periodically recommended by government.
dowelings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of doweling
dowellings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dowelling
Attempto Controlled English
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Latin Latin attemptō (“I dare”), a motto associated with the University of Tübingen, Germany, at which Norbert E. Fuchs (who began the language project) had studied.
Senses: synonyms: word: ACE
glosses: A subset of English with restricted syntax and semantics described by a small set of formal rules, suitable for knowledge representation and specification or as a query language.
derealize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: derealizes
form: derealizing
form: derealized
form: derealized
form: derealise
Etymology: From de- + real + -ize.
Senses: examples: text: Flaubert's choice of the imaginary is part of a bad-faith project to derealize and demoralize the bourgeoisie who, living in the imaginary world of Second Empire pretense, found in Madame Bovary their resonance.
ref: 2013, Haim Gordon, Dictionary of Existentialism, →ISBN:
glosses: To detach from reality; to subject to or cause to undergo derealization.
derealizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of derealize
derealizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of derealize
derealized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of derealize
derealise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: derealises
form: derealising
form: derealised
form: derealised
Senses: glosses: Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of derealize.
derealises
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of derealise
derealising
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of derealise
derealised
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of derealise
Ancons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Ancon
ultrasofts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ultrasoft
grenz ray
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: grenz rays
Etymology: From German Grenz (“border”) (since the effects were thought to be on the border between ultraviolet light and traditional X-rays) + ray.
Senses: glosses: An ultrasoft X-ray used in treating various skin diseases.
grenz rays
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of grenz ray
housegod
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: housegods
Etymology: From house + god.
Senses: glosses: A household deity.
housegods
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of housegod
Guignet's green
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Named after the French chemist E. E. Guignet.
Senses: glosses: A synthetic emerald green pigment made by hydrating chrome oxide.
wage-push inflation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: economics
sciences
glosses: The situation where rising wages lead to an increase in the cost of goods.
wage stop
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wage stops
Senses: topics: economics
sciences
glosses: A limit on the state benefits an unemployed person can receive, preventing these benefits from exceeding the amount that the person would be expected to earn if employed.
wage stops
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wage stop
palaeoslope
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: palaeoslopes
Etymology: From palaeo- + slope.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of paleoslope.
paleoslope
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: paleoslopes
Etymology: From paleo- + slope.
Senses: glosses: The slope of a region in prehistoric times
palaeotopographic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From palaeo- + topographic.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of paleotopographic.
Related terms: palaeotopography
paleotopographic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From paleo- + topographic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to paleotopography
paleotopography
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From paleo- + topography.
Senses: glosses: Prehistoric topography
Related terms: paleotopographic
hyposelenemia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌhaɪ.poʊˌsɛ.ləˈni.mi.ə/
Forms: form: hyposelenaemia
Etymology: From hypo- + seleno- + -emia.
Senses: examples: text: In 11 of these patients, the hyposelenemia was a result of a variety of gastrointestinal diseases (coeliac disease, malabsorption, Whipple's disease, Crohn's disease, ulcerative colitis, and intestinal obstruction).
ref: 1992, Donald W. Seldin, The Kidney: Physiology and Pathophysiology, volume 3, page 2999:
topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: The condition of having insufficient selenium in the bloodstream.
hyposelenaemia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of hyposelenemia.
palaeotopography
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From palaeo- + topography.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of paleotopography.
Related terms: palaeotopographic
paleolevee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: paleolevees
Etymology: From paleo- + levee.
Senses: glosses: A prehistoric levee
paleolevees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of paleolevee
parasexualism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The condition of being parasexual
parastrachiid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: parastrachiids
Senses: examples: text: On the other hand, a few lineages, namely the burrower bugs and their close relatives the parastrachiids, are characterized by nesting and provisioning.
ref: 2006, James T. Costa, The Other Insect Societies, page 325:
glosses: Any true bug of the family Parastrachiidae
parastrachiids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of parastrachiid
parovirus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of parvovirus.
pedogenetically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From pedo- (“soil; child”) + genetically.
Senses: glosses: In a pedogenetic manner
pentadiagonal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From penta- + diagonal.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: In which the only nonzero entries are on the main diagonal, and the first two diagonals above and below it
raw_tags: of a matrix
perfluoroalkanoate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: perfluoroalkanoates
Etymology: From perfluoro- + alkanoate.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any perfluoro alkanoate
perfluoroalkanoates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of perfluoroalkanoate
peripherome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: peripheromes
Etymology: From peripheral + -ome.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The proteome of all membrane peripheral proteins
peripheromes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of peripherome
periseasonal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From peri- + seasonal.
Senses: glosses: Relating to each side of a season
peruvianolide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: peruvianolides
Senses: glosses: A withanolide present in Physalis peruviana
pharmacochaperone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pharmacochaperones
Etymology: From pharmaco- + chaperone.
Senses: glosses: A pharmacological chaperone
pharmacochaperones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pharmacochaperone
pharmacoepigenetics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From pharmaco- + epigenetics.
Senses: glosses: The epigenetics of pharmaceuticals
Related terms: pharmacoepigenetic
pharmacoepigenome
pharmacoepigenetic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pharmaco- + epigenetic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to pharmacoepigenetics
aural wallpaper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Piped music; Muzak.
wargamed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of wargame
war gamed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of war game
war gaming
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of war game
ICAs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ICA
anaw
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: Borrowed from Scots anaw.
Senses: glosses: and all; as well
anaw
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Human Transplantation (Wales) Act 2013 (2013 anaw 5)
topics: law
glosses: Initialism of Act of the National Assembly for Wales; now called Acts of Senedd Cymru, but still used for Acts passed prior to the change of name.
raw_tags: in citation
Related terms: asc
nawm
verb form
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: verb forms
form: verbform
Senses: topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: A specific instance or form of a verb, as opposed to the entire verb taken in the abstract.
verb forms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of verb form
decalling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of decal
decalled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of decal
decaled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of decal
decaling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of decal
unendured
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + endured.
Senses: glosses: Not endured.
unenduring
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unenduring
form: most unenduring
Etymology: From un- + enduring.
Senses: examples: text: And yet, though the happiness may be unenduring, what heart, though seared by time and worldly care, can fail to sympathise with those emotions of early life? In after years there are none such. They are the high noon of earthly joy. After them, life goes on decayingly and solemnly to its shadowy sunset.
ref: [1877], [Daniel Shepherd], “Elective Affinities”, in Saratoga. An Indian Tale of Frontier Life. A True Story of 1787., Philadelphia, Pa.: T[heophilus] B[easley] Peterson and Brothers; […], →OCLC, page 314:
text: Naturally, the river wasn't wrinkled or creased at all— wrong words, implying something unfluid like skin, something unenduring, prey to age.
ref: 2019, Margaret Laurence, The Diviners:
glosses: That does not endure.
close order
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: in an arrangement in compact units at close intervals and distances, as for marching and/or drill.
raw_tags: of troops etc.
Derived terms: close order drill
Belt and Road
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Belt and Road Initiative
form: One Belt One Road
Etymology: Calque of Chinese 一帶一路 /一带一路 (yīdàiyīlù, literally “one belt one road”). Belt refers to overland corridors and Road to maritime shipping lanes.
Senses: examples: text: “It is a very confusing name,” admits Peter Cai, the author of a recent report about Belt and Road, who blames China’s propaganda-focused state media for failing to properly explain the concept to the world. “There is still a lot of confusion about what the Belt and Road initiative is and what it actually entails.”
ref: 2017 May 12, Tom Phillips, “The $900bn question: what is the Belt and Road initiative?”, in The Guardian:
text: “Russia’s elites’ high expectations regarding Belt and Road have gone through a severe reality check, and now oligarchs and officials are skeptical about practical results,” said Alexander Gabuev, senior associate at the Carnegie Center in Moscow.
ref: 2017 May 13, Jane Perlez, Yufan Huang, “Behind China’s $1 Trillion Plan to Shake Up the Economic Order”, in New York Times:
text: First off, the Belt and Road has failed. It has become the object of relentless criticism, if not ridicule: across the globe, projects have been attacked as overvalued and disconnected to the developmental needs of host countries. Indeed, they are mired in corruption, incompetence and skewed to China’s strategic interests.
ref: 2018 December 18, Karim Raslan, “2018 was meant to be Xi Jinping’s year. Then China’s Belt and Road unravelled”, in South China Morning Post:
text: Chinese officials have repeatedly said the Belt and Road is purely an economic project with peaceful intent. But with its plan for Pakistan, China is for the first time explicitly tying a Belt and Road proposal to its military ambitions — and confirming the concerns of a host of nations who suspect the infrastructure initiative is really about helping China project armed might.
ref: 2018 December 19, Maria Abi-Habib, “China’s ‘Belt and Road’ Plan in Pakistan Takes a Military Turn”, in New York Times:
glosses: Ellipsis of Belt and Road Initiative (“a development strategy adopted by the Chinese government involving infrastructure development and investments in countries in Europe, Asia and Africa”).
phosphoglucerate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of phosphoglycerate.