cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
undrain
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: undrains
form: undraining
form: undrained
form: undrained
Etymology: From un- + drain.
Senses: examples: text: The probable differences between gross and net drain also require an explanation of why some manpower "undrains" by returning home after a period of working in the United States.
ref: 1970, John R. Niland, The Asian engineering brain drain, page 7:
text: On this score, monastics are will-positioned, in that one of the purposes of monastic work was to recreate the garden of paradise. The Cistercians, however, have not made a move to undrain the swamps.
ref: 2000, The American Benedictine Review - Volume 51, Issue 3, page 290:
text: Remove the repair reason, clear the problem from the database, and undrain the switch.
ref: 2018, Betsy Beyer, Niall Richard Murphy, David K. Rensin, The Site Reliability Workbook: Practical Ways to Implement SRE, →ISBN:
glosses: To restore that which has drained away.
undrain
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: undrains
Etymology: From un- + drain.
Senses: examples: text: The experiments with fresh and septic sludge show that for filters of the same size material, fresh sludge passes through into the undrains while septic sludge merely gives up its water.
ref: 1911, Engineering and Contracting - Volume 36, page 307:
text: New undrains, gravel retaining screens and air wash systems were installed.
ref: 1952, Pennsylvania water works operators' association, Journal - Volumes 24-34, page 25:
text: Absence of filtered undrains beneath spillways or behind walls.
ref: 1993, Loren Runar Anderson, Geotechnical practice in dam rehabilitation:
glosses: A water collection system that drains water away from a location.
undrains
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of undrain
undrains
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of undrain
undraining
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of undrain
undraining
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more undraining
form: most undraining
Senses: examples: text: Hesiod speaks of the mysterious region where 'dark earth, misty Tartarus, the undraining sea, and the starry heaven all have their sources and extremities in order', and in Homer's account of the division by lot among the sons of Kronos 'everything' is divided up into the four portions, earth, broad heaven, hoary sea, and misty darkness.
ref: 1997, M. L. West, The East Face of Helicon:
text: If heavy undraining soil spoils your plant selection, grow 'Passion Mix' in containers with a soilless mix.
ref: 1999, California Garden - Volumes 90-91, page 54:
glosses: That does not drain.
resip
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: resips
form: resipping
form: resipped
form: resipped
Etymology: From re- + sip.
Senses: examples: text: According to the Bhāșyakāra he is supposed to resip the water with 'satyena tvā' etc. and touch his navel part with 'amo asi' etc.
ref: 1984, Jagannātha Dīkṣita Cipol̲aṇakara, H. G. Ranade, Brahmatva-mañjarī, page 13:
text: It was pretty good then, but resipped towards the end of the night it was showing especially well, and made it to #3 in my voting for WOTN.
ref: 2009 November 13, Bi!!, “TN: 1989 Bordeaux at Mortons”, in alt.food.wine (Usenet):
text: Slowly, as I sipped and resipped and re-resipped, the amount of coffee in my cup reduced and the amount of coffee in my stomach increased.
ref: 2013, Adam Roberts, I, Soddit: The Autobiography, →ISBN:
glosses: To sip again.
resips
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of resip
resipping
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of resip
resipped
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of resip
wh-questions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wh-question
chookyard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chookyards
Etymology: From chook + yard.
Senses: examples: text: The chooks ran free in the paddock behind the chookyard, where the house cow also grazed.
ref: 2002, Susan Hawthorne, Wild Politics: Feminism, Globalisation, Bio/diversity, →ISBN, page 177:
text: I walked over to the chookyard, where my dad's voice had come from.
ref: 2013, Yasar Duyal -, Paper Clips, →ISBN, page 141:
text: Oblivious to the scorching heat and rising wind she turned her tear-stained face towards the pigsty and chookyard, setting off at yet another frenzied pace.
ref: 2018, The Outback: Anthology of Short Stories, →ISBN:
glosses: A chicken run.
chookyards
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chookyard
chookish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more chookish
form: most chookish
Etymology: From chook + -ish.
Senses: examples: text: 'Most mist-ish, indeed. You perceived my true essence. Would you describe my thoughts as uniform? At one? Eh?' 'I guess so. Uniformly... chookish.'
ref: 2011, D. C. Green, Erasmus James and the Grat Siege, →ISBN, page 54:
text: One thing that interests me is the clucking, chookish reaction of so many of my friends.
ref: 2014, Gillian Dooley, Graham Nerlich, Never Mind about the Bourgeoisie, →ISBN:
text: I was exquisitely aware of the irises' bluish purple corolla and the yellow markings like tongues of flame; of the smell of the ginger cake I'd just baked, the cool air, the morning light, the chookish utterances in the backyard.
ref: 2018, Diana Blackwood, Chaconne, →ISBN:
glosses: Chickenlike.
steppification
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: steppifications
Etymology: From steppe + -ification.
Senses: topics: biology
ecology
natural-sciences
glosses: The process of becoming a steppe.
upwing
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From up- + wing.
Senses: examples: text: Should you find no drakes or upwing insects floating on the surface and that a greater number of duns or lapwing insects are on the wing, you can fish dry with a dun fly like the natural insect you see, or fish the duns wet with two or more flies, till later on when you see drakes floating, then fish with dry fly imitations.
ref: 1921, Louis Rhead, How to Fish the Dry Fly:
text: The four of us — Tom Poole, Clint Lere, Peter and I — would try various upwing dry flies, including the Flame Thrower, and count and measure all of the trout caught throughout the evening.
ref: 1993, Gary LaFontaine, Trout Flies: Proven Patterns, page 180:
text: Size and color may be changed to replicate any hatch, and the wing position simulates both upwing and downwing spinners.
ref: 1993, Dick Stewart, Farrow Allen, Flies for Trout, →ISBN, page 49:
topics: fishing
hobbies
lifestyle
glosses: Holding the forewings together above the body.
raw_tags: of a fly
examples: text: This method involves the use of a radar transponder sited (at any rate for the purpose of this illustration) at a known distance upwing from the landing threshold — say 4,000 yards — and complementary airborne equipment capable of measuring to an accuracy of 1/10 n. ml.
ref: 1952 -, The Canadian Air Line Pilot - Volumes 8-10, page 39:
text: The extra drag on the upwing side causes the nose of the plane to yaw toward the upwing direction.
ref: 1979, Richard A. Wolters, The world of silent flight, page 68:
text: Feeling the sensation of banking as the airplane turned onto its upwing approach to landing, he reached between his feet and hoisted a briefcase onto his lap
ref: 1990, Tom Willard, Bold Forager, →ISBN, page 36:
topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Toward the side of the plane where the wing is higher than the plane.
examples: text: ...of responses to sex attractants on other species of moths, antennal vibrations, wing fanning, the whirling dance, and induction of upwing movement seem to represent a general behavioral pattern with some species-specific variation.
ref: 1967, Warren E. Finn, The Structure and Function of the Wing Gland in Achroia Grisella (Fabricius), page 19:
text: Try an upwing position somewhat similar in angle to the one illustrated here. Point the bird's head further up or further down.
ref: 1988 -, Ray Ovington, How to draw and paint fish and game, →ISBN, page 62:
glosses: In a position with the wing raised.
upwing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: upwings
form: upwinging
form: upwinged
form: upwinged
Etymology: From up- + wing.
Senses: examples: text: A chapter then was read, in solemn guise And prayer upwing'd its incense to the skies ;
ref: 1804, John Gregory, Parental Legacies:
text: And lo, they all upwing from their dim tombs, Not in the forms apparelled they were when The crimson brooklets of our early blood Did sparkle, leap and purl, in unison With the felicity of their sweet life,
ref: 1883, Franklin Evert Denton, The Early Poetical Works of Franklin E. Denton, page 119:
glosses: To fly upward, on or as if on wings.
upwing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: upwings
Etymology: From up- + wing.
Senses: examples: text: The situation has helped trigger an upwing of crime in the area.
ref: 1980, Extension Review, page 28:
text: As such industrial fields remain largely mum, the air is now filled with the plaintive voices of the industries suffering from the drastic upwing of the yen.
ref: 1986, Tokyo Business Today, page 64:
text: This agreement was signed shortly after India and Bangladesh signed the Ganga Waters Treaty and gave a major upwing to the relations between the two countries.
ref: 2000, Poonam Mann, India's foreign policy in the post cold war era, page 95:
text: By 2004, we think evidence of an upwing in Industrial America will be more pronounced.
ref: 2003, The Value Line Investment Survey:
glosses: An upsurge.
aeolidiid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: aeolidiids
Senses: glosses: Any nudibranch of the family Aeolidiidae
aeolidiids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of aeolidiid
aflatoxisome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: aflatoxisomes
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: A vesicle, in some fungi, that generates aflatoxin
aflatoxisomes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of aflatoxisome
allomelanin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: allomelanins
Etymology: From allo- + melanin.
Senses: glosses: An oxidised form of the pigment melanin present in some plants such as black oat
black oat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: black oats
Senses: glosses: The grass Avena strigosa
glosses: The grass Avena strigosa
The edible seeds of the grass
allomelanins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of allomelanin
aluminoborosilicate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: aluminoborosilicates
Senses: topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A complex anion derived from borosilicate by replacing some boron atoms with aluminium
aluminoborosilicates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of aluminoborosilicate
amberwing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: amberwings
Senses: glosses: Any dragonfly of the genus Perithemis
amberwings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of amberwing
amodiaquone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of amodiaquine.
amyloidolytic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to amyloidolysis
amyloidolysis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The enzymatic breakup (hydrolysis) of amyloids
Related terms: amyloidolytic
anastrazole
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of anastrozole.
anguilloids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of anguilloid
ankylosaurine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ankylosaurines
Senses: glosses: Any dinosaur of the subfamily Ankylosaurinae
ankylosaurines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ankylosaurine
antafumicin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: antafumicins
Senses: glosses: Any of a group of antifungal agents, based on (3S,5S)-5-(3-acetyl-2,6-dihydroxyphenyl)-3-methoxyoxolan-2-one, present in the mold Aspergillus niger or its close relatives.
antafumicins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of antafumicin
anticardiovascular
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From anti- + cardiovascular.
Senses: glosses: That prevents cardiovascular disease
anticytochrome
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From anti- + cytochrome.
Senses: topics: immunology
medicine
sciences
glosses: That generates an immune response with a cytochrome
antifibroblastic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From anti- + fibroblastic.
Senses: glosses: That counters the formation of fibroblasts
antihyperalgesics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of antihyperalgesic
antihyperinsulinemic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From anti- + hyperinsulinemic.
Senses: glosses: That counters hyperinsulinemia
antimicrobiotic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From anti- + microbiotic.
Senses: glosses: That counters the development of normal microbiota
glosses: Synonym of antimicrobial.
synonyms: word: antimicrobial
antimicrobiotic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: antimicrobiotics
Etymology: From anti- + microbiotic.
Senses: glosses: Such a drug
antitachycardia
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From anti- + tachycardia.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of antitachycardic.
antituberculars
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of antitubercular
aplocheiloid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: aplocheiloids
Senses: glosses: Any killifish of the suborder Aplocheiloidei
aplocheiloids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of aplocheiloid
aquareoviral
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -aɪɹəl
Senses: glosses: Relating to the aquareoviruses
araneophagous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: Araneophagous jumping spiders consume a disproportionately large number of spiders and spider eggs in their diet although they also catch insects outside webs and, in the case of Portia, build webs themselves (Jackson, 1992b).
ref: 2011, Marie Elisabeth Herberstein, Spider Behaviour: Flexibility and Versatility, page 205:
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: That feeds on spiders (of the order Araneae).
archaeacidal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: That kills microorganisms of the domain Archaea
archipallial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to the archipallium
work shift
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: work shifts
Senses: glosses: A shift (change of workers).
upwings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of upwing
upwings
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of upwing
upwinging
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of upwing
upwinged
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of upwing
upwinged
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: an upwinged fly
glosses: Having wings that stay in a raised position rather than folding down over the body.
ardisiaquinone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ardisiaquinones
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of a group of alkyl benzoquinone derivatives present in a pant of genus Ardisia.
ardisiaquinones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ardisiaquinone
ardisicrenoside
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ardisicrenosides
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of a group of triterpenoid saponins present in Ardisia crenata
ardisicrenosides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ardisicrenoside
ardisiphenol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ardisiphenols
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of a group of phenolic antioxidants present in Ardisia colorata
ardisiphenols
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ardisiphenol
asperazine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From translingual Aspergillus + English azine.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A diketopiperazine alkaloid present in molds of genus Aspergillus.
atherosclerotically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From athero- + sclerotically.
Senses: glosses: In an atherosclerotic manner
australosphenidan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: australosphenidans
Senses: glosses: Any echidna or platypus of the infraclass Australosphenida
australosphenidans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of australosphenidan
autolymphocyte
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: autolymphocytes
Etymology: From auto- + lymphocyte.
Senses: glosses: A lymphocyte, formed from a patient's own leukocytes, once used therapeutically
autolymphocytes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of autolymphocyte
auxotrophical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of auxotrophic.
azoxysyrobin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of azoxystrobin.
pixel-hunting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: First, you must scan a series of dreadful, low-res QuickTime panoramas looking for evidence.. This includes pixel-hunting, the tedious process of waving your mouse pointer across the screen looking for hotspots that indicate the presence of evidence.
ref: 2003, Facts on File, Software and CD-ROM Reviews on File, volume 19, Facts on File, Incorporated, page 240:
glosses: Alternative form of pixel hunting.
pixel-hunting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of pixel hunting.
bacDNA
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bacDNAs
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: bacterial artificial chromosome DNA
bacrna
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bacrnas
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of bacRNA.
bacRNA
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bacRNAs
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: bacterial artificial chromosome RNA
mannaz
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Kali reached with her own left hand and clasped Whit's, palm to palm; seconds later, they joined right hand to right hand, forming the mannaz symbol, the ancient runic sign for "humanity," with the figure-eight of their crossed arms.
ref: 1995, Jean Stewart, Warriors of Isis, AZ: Rising Tide Press, →ISBN:
text: According to the mannaz rune, the beginning of everything is in the self, and the source is found in clear water. The connection between the self and the rest of creation comes about by means of water. The mannaz rune reflects [...]
ref: 2002, Hali Morag, Runes, →ISBN:
text: This was followed by similar offerings of a tiwaz to Thorkel, a gebo to Gunnar, a mannaz to Morkere and a sowolo to Styr. Nothing was given to Edwine who was clearly disappointed.
ref: 2015, R. Hyslop, Blood Feud: The Wanderer Part 4: Iceland 984-85, Cuthan Books, →ISBN:
glosses: The Runic character ᛗ.
gut out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: guts out
form: gutting out
form: gutted out
form: gutted out
Senses: examples: text: to gut it out
synonyms: tough out
glosses: To endure stoically.
thanks in advance
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Forms: form: TIA
form: tia
how should I know
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Forms: form: how am I to know
form: how do I know
form: how would I know
Senses: examples: Near-synonyms: God knows, who knows, I don't know
antonyms: I know
glosses: A rhetorical question asked to show that the person asking it neither knows the answer nor would be able to know it; sometimes therefore also implying that the asker was wrong to ask the askee at all.
Related terms: what do I know
at the top of one's game
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Forms: form: on top of one's game
Senses: synonyms: on one's game
glosses: Performing as well as one can.
on top of one's game
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of at the top of one's game.
at the top of the tree
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: examples: text: Apple’s at the top of the tree, but the winds of change can blow it down [title]
ref: 2016 April 3, “Apple’s at the top of the tree, but the winds of change can blow it down”, in The Guardian:
glosses: At the highest level.
bacterioruberins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bacterioruberin
basidiomyceteous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of basidiomycetous.
basiflagellum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: basiflagella
Etymology: From basi- + flagellum.
Senses: examples: text: Antennae of first instar larvae comprised a smooth four-segmented basiflagellum and a seven-segmented, sensilla-rich distiflagellum. Lengthening of the basiflagellum was achieved by the addition of two annuli per moult, generated by division of the basal annulus (meriston).
ref: 2009 March, Dorit Hockman, Mike D. Picker, Klaus-Dieter Klass, Leonie Pretorius, “Postembryonic development of the unique antenna of Mantophasmatodea (Insecta)”, in Arthropod Structure & Development, volume 38, number 2, →DOI, page 125:
text: Morphologically, the antennae (Figs. 2, 3) (the average length, n = 4 for both species) in L. occidentalis are shorter (12.22 mm) in comparison to L. zonatus (15.67 mm). In L. occidentalis (Fig. 3a,c,e,g), the length of the particular segments is approximately: scape (2.61 mm), pedicel (3.86 mm), basiflagellum (2.60 mm), distiflagellum (3.14 mm).
ref: 2023 January 12, Artur Taszakowski, Adrian Masłowski, Kent M. Daane, Jolanta Brożek, “Closer view of antennal sensory organs of two Leptoglossus species (Insecta, Hemiptera, Coreidae)”, in Scientific Reports, volume 13, →DOI, article 617, page 4:
topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
coordinate_terms: scape
pedicel
distiflagellum
glosses: The portion of an insect's antenna that lies between the pedicel and the distiflagellum; the first segment of the flagellum.
Related terms: basiflagellar
basiflagellar
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From basiflagell(um) + -ar.
Senses: topics: biology
entomology
natural-sciences
glosses: Of or relating to the basiflagellum.
worry someone sick
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: worries someone sick
form: worrying someone sick
form: worried someone sick
form: worried someone sick
Senses: examples: text: Frankly, it worries me sick to even think about it.
ref: 1990, Susan Beth Pfeffer, Sybil at Sixteen:
glosses: To cause someone to worry to a great degree.
examples: text: to worry oneself sick
synonyms: tie oneself in knots
glosses: To worry to a great degree.
Derived terms: english: originally a passive past participle, now used adjectivally
translation: originally a passive past participle, now used adjectivally
word: worried sick
Related terms: sick with worry
by sight
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: examples: text: to know by sight
glosses: By appearance.
with good grace
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: synonyms: willingly
cheerfully
graciously
antonyms: with bad grace
glosses: In a gracious manner.
Liburnia
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A coastal region of the northeastern Adriatic between the rivers Arsia (Raša) and Titius (Krka) in what is now Croatia.
diego
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: diegos
Etymology: From Spanish Diego.
Senses: examples: text: They're just like Ludds, them diegos — nothing but a load of scum. I've seen 'ow they live. O' course, we soldiers dwell in mud 'alf the time, but that's different. We're building an empire. But them diegos! Them Jimmies! Well, I tell you!
ref: 1987, Glyn Hughes, The Rape of the Rose, page 177:
text: "... Around twenty years old and pretty tall for a diego, maybe five-seven or five-eight." / "A diego?" Armand said. "He's a diego?" / "From Napoli."
ref: 1985, Robert Anton Wilson, The Widow's Son (The Historical Illuminatus Chronicles), page 17:
text: Now I don't know what it is with the diegos, but as we were walking back to the hotel a couple of them started giving us a bit of verbals.
ref: 2009, Mickey Smith, For The Claret & Blue:
glosses: A Spanish-speaker, especially from Latin America.
Derived terms: dago
moios
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of moio
binuclearity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: biology
cytology
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: The condition of being binuclear
biocathodic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From bio- + cathodic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to a biocathode
bioclimatical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of bioclimatic.
biofeature
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: biofeatures
Etymology: From bio- + feature.
Senses: glosses: A biological feature
biofeatures
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of biofeature
bioflavone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bioflavones
Etymology: From bio- + flavone.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any flavone of biological origin
Related terms: bioflavonoid
up-to-datenesses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of up-to-dateness
biogel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: biogels
Etymology: From bio- + gel.
Senses: glosses: Any gel of biological origin
biomeasure
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: biomeasures
Etymology: From bio- + measure.
Senses: glosses: A biological measure
Related terms: biomeasurement
biomeasures
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of biomeasure
biotolerable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From bio- + tolerable.
Senses: glosses: biologically tolerable
blastodics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of blastodisc.
bodenvag
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bodenvags
Senses: examples: text: Organisms that occur across heterogeneous habitats, such as serpentine bodenvags that tolerate serpentine but occur off of it as well, and rare organisms, such as the endemic flora of many serpentine regions that are fully restricted to serpentine substrates, are likely to show markedly different patterns of genomic variation.
ref: 2011, Susan Harrison, Serpentine: The Evolution and Ecology of a Model System, page 147:
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Any plant that is indifferent to the pH of the soil.
bodenvags
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bodenvag
boselaphine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: boselaphines
Senses: glosses: Any antelope of the tribe Boselaphini
boselaphines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of boselaphine
botralin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A polycyclic phenol that is a fungal metabolite
botrydial
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A bicyclic aldehyde, [(1S,3aR,4S,6R,7S,7aS)-1,7-diformyl-7a-hydroxy-1,3,3,6-tetramethyl-2,3a, 4,5,6,7-hexahydroinden-4-yl] acetate that is a phytotoxic sesquiterpene metabolite secreted by the fungus Botrytis cinerea
Related terms: botryendial
botryendial
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A bicyclic aldehyde, related to botrydial, that is a phytotoxic sesquiterpene metabolite secreted by the fungus Botrytis cinerea
branchials
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of branchial
continuous clocks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of continuous clock
reconserve
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: reconserves
form: reconserving
form: reconserved
form: reconserved
Etymology: From re- + conserve.
Senses: examples: text: Furthermore, the preparation of the traveling exhibition offered the Museum's staff an opportunity to restudy, reconserve, and newly photograph the Ur materials.
ref: 1998, Richard L. Zettler, Lee Horne, Treasures from the Royal Tombs of Ur, →ISBN, page xi:
text: Though well intentioned, using traditional materials can make it difficult to distinguish between original and restoration work, making it impossible to accurately remove restoration work and reconserve the building.
ref: 2000, Chris Caple, Conservation Skills: Judgement, Method, and Decision Making, →ISBN:
text: Whether the disadvantages or advantages in using plexiglass over conserving the leaves between simple glass panes will dominate will become clear after a few years, when it becomes necessary to reconserve the leaves again.
ref: 2014, James M. Robinson, The Manichaean Codices of Medinet Madi, →ISBN, page 153:
glosses: To conserve again.
reconserves
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of reconserve
reconserving
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of reconserve
reconserved
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of reconserve
unrestore
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: unrestores
form: unrestoring
form: unrestored
form: unrestored
Etymology: From un- + restore.
Senses: examples: text: The film manufacturer enlarged the few good areas on the negatives and replaced the roll of film, but can not unrestore the car for photos.
ref: 1962, The Antique Automobile - Volumes 26-27, page 185:
text: How could one "only true end-time apostle" contradict another "only true end-time apostle"? If one had restored the truth, how could another "unrestore" that same truth?
ref: 2001, J. Michael Feazell, The Liberation of the Worldwide Church of God, page 113:
text: They had been clumsily and crudely restored around the face and hair, and she had decided to unrestore them and return them as closely as possible to their original appearance.
ref: 2013, Robert Holdstock, The Fetch, →ISBN:
text: I had to take it to the shop and have them unrestore it. It had been kept too well.
ref: 2013, John Brandon, A Million Heavens, →ISBN:
glosses: To undo work that was done to restore something.
unrestores
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of unrestore
unrestoring
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of unrestore
unrestoring
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: That does not restore.
rerestore
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: rerestores
form: rerestoring
form: rerestored
form: rerestored
Etymology: From re- + restore.
Senses: examples: text: The corner has, however, been turned, and it is now clear that dentists are acknowledging many of the drawbacks of yesterday's restorative philosophy and are adopting a more cautious approach when deciding whether or not to restore or rerestore; and when they do restore, they are being more conservative in their cavity preparations.
ref: 1987, Richard J. Elderton, Positive Dental Prevention: The Prevention in Childhood of Dental Disease in Adult Life, page 57:
text: As analytical technology has advanced, Colonial Williamsburg has grappled with the philosophical complexities of how best to rerestore, how much to intervene, how to reinterpret reconstructions that are in themselves historic, and how, in the process, to create new learning opportunities for visitors.
ref: 1996, Association for Preservation Technology Communique, page 7:
text: When they got rid of that, the museum personnel put it all back, but they did not make any attempt to rerestore what we had restored.
ref: 2012, Abbye A. Gorin, Conversations with Samuel Wilson, →ISBN:
glosses: To restore again.
rerestores
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of rerestore
rerestoring
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of rerestore
rerestored
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of rerestore
reweed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -iːd
Forms: form: reweeds
form: reweeding
form: reweeded
form: reweeded
Etymology: From re- + weed.
Senses: examples: text: And no matter how thoroughly you do this job you may always count upon having to reweed later for seeds abound and weeds you do not find at first cleaning will mock you when once the area has been cleared.
ref: 1949, The American Horticultural Magazine - Volumes 28-30, page 113:
text: Buckingham stated that first we must weed, then plan, then reweed.
ref: 1987, Library Insights, Promotion & Programs:
text: Precipitation works to their advantage in two ways: a) workers are forced to extend their working day to its limits given the constant possibility of rains forcing them to reweed; and b) wage laborers are usually intent on finishing each guwaal as soon as possible given the abbreviated periods of time in which their labor is in demand.
ref: 1998, Johnathan Bascom, Losing Place: Refugee Populations and Rural Transformations in East Africa, →ISBN:
text: Instead, I find myself having to reweed areas in my spiritual life. I find myself facing the same lesson many times over.
ref: 2001, Laurie Ostby Kehler, Gardening Mercies: Finding God in Your Garden, →ISBN:
glosses: To weed again.
reweeds
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of reweed
reweeding
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of reweed
reweeded
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of reweed
unweed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: unweeds
form: unweeding
form: unweeded
form: unweeded
Etymology: From un- + weed.
Senses: examples: text: Then now's the time, while you've a chance Hanging o'er you, To unweed your mind of Ignorance — Look before you !
ref: 1852, Thomas Forster Ker, Voices for progress, and other poems, page 17:
text: He is so diligently engaged in unweeding the soil that he has not given a thought to what he will grow there.
ref: 1912, Ambrose Bierce, The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce, page 16:
text: We need to cultivate our own gardens, to “unweed” our own “seed-beds” before we presume to colonize the world.
ref: 2008, Jeffrey M. Heath, The Creator as Critic and Other Writings by E.M. Forster, →ISBN, page 347:
glosses: To remove weeds from; to weed.
unweeds
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of unweed
unweeding
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of unweed
angelshark
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: angelsharks
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of angel shark.
birthtown
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: birthtowns
Etymology: From birth + town.
Senses: glosses: The town where someone was born
brandering
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of brander
brandered
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of brander
murderize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: murderizes
form: murderizing
form: murderized
form: murderized
form: murderise
Etymology: From murder + -ize.
Senses: examples: text: I love me some bad guys. Cuz nobody’s gonna complain when I murderize ’em!
ref: 2019, Tatsuki Fujimoto, “ゴースト・ヘビ・チェンソー [Gōsuto・Hebi・Chensō]”, in チェンソーマン [Chensō Man], volume 3, Shueisha Inc.; republished as “Chapter 25: Ghost, Snake, Chainsaw”, in Amanda Haley, transl., Chainsaw Man, San Francisco, CA: Viz Media, 2021 February, →ISBN, page 184:
roman: Gōsuto・Hebi・Chensō
glosses: To murder.
Related terms: murdelize
murderized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of murderize
murderizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of murderize
murderizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of murderize
nerve rack
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nerve racks
form: nerve-rack
form: nerverack
form: nerve wrack
form: nerve-wrack
form: nervewrack
Senses: examples: text: A hypodermic will secure much needed rest and promptly relieve bone ache and nerve rack.
ref: 1903, Burnside Foster, Saint Paul Medical Journal - Volume 5, page 372:
text: Prayer has been abundantly answered in my case, and I desire your further intercessions that right soon all nerve rack and strain may pass away and that I may be once more full of power and vigor for the work of the Lord.
ref: 1917, The Christian Workers Magazine - Volume 18, page 420:
text: I think after these evenings of suspense and nerve rack a reaction of fatigue and depression is apt to follow the next morning.
ref: 1927, Ruby Elliot Cromer, Lamuriac and other sketches, page 18:
glosses: A state of extreme emotional distress from a nerve-racking experience.
nerve racks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nerve rack
nerve-rack
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nerve-racks
Senses: examples: text: For a week or two he answered airily enough, but as the time rolled on, the stereotyped replies grew forced, and the cold questions more pointed and insulting; clearly Mr. Melgarf was losing his respect once more, and showing it, until those exactly-timed visits became more the nerve-racks which they had been before.
ref: 1890, Hume Nisbet, Ashes: A Tale of Two Spheres, page 235:
text: I shouted and laughed in a wild frenzy of overspilling nerve-rack while the blood in my veins swelled and leaped to the rhythm of the wheels—I was again stealing my way along one of vagrancy's beaten paths, and the going was none too certain!
ref: 1907, William Bittle Wells, Lute Pease, The Pacific Monthly: A Magazine of Education and Progress:
text: John Stoem, during this time of nerve-rack and distress for Murchison, was thinking of quite other things.
ref: 1916, George Allan England, The Golden Blight, page 44:
glosses: Alternative form of nerve rack.
nerve-racks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nerve-rack
nerverack
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nerveracks
Senses: examples: text: No doubt in most of such cases the physician to secure repose and rest from the boneache and nerverack has taken a small hypodermic with a feeling of perfect indifference as to danger.
ref: 1902, Journal of the American Medical Association:
text: In figuring up the cost of doing business, how much should dealers allow for nerverack?
ref: 1917, Coal and Coal Trade Journal - Volume 48, Issue 1, page 87:
text: Wonder at the nerverack experienced by a director who, in addition to a multitude of technical demands and production pressures, has the risk of these personalities not gelling.
ref: 1999, Richard E. Grant, With Nails: The Film Diaries of Richard E. Grant, →ISBN:
glosses: Alternative form of nerve rack.
nerveracks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nerverack
nerve wrack
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nerve wracks
Senses: examples: text: He had not known that he was wearied with nerve wrack and pell-mell dashing from firing point to firing point.
ref: 1920, Charles Neville Buck, The Law of Hemlock Mountain, page 190:
text: Nerve wrack and tension are registered in their faces, for in addition to road dangers they have to contend with growing competition and police vigilance which keep their minds continually on the lack of funds.
ref: 1923, The London City Mission Magazine - Volumes 88-89, page 184:
text: Through fatigue and nerve wrack, his voice broke on the last word.
ref: 1925, Albert Payson Terhune, Najib, page 132:
glosses: Alternative form of nerve rack.
nerve wracks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nerve wrack
nerve-wrack
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nerve-wracks
Senses: examples: text: Dull and heavy, but with his headache and nerve-wrack gone. Billy sauntered out into the street.
ref: 1919, The Cosmopolitan - Volume 68, page 159:
text: It lies just where it can be of most service to our workaday world in short spells of rest from the nerve-wrack of the week, though that is not to say that there are not innumerable retreats amid hills, dales and woodlands where those in need of rest and healing may linger and "fleet the time carelessly as they did in the golden world."
ref: 1926, Thomas L. Tudor, The High Peak to Sherwood: The Hills and Dales of Old Mercia:
text: Where too often a suburban street may suggest the opening pageant of a mask ball, here is something picturesque without motley, interesting without nerve-wrack.
ref: 1928, Architect and Engineer - Volumes 94-95, page 125:
glosses: Alternative form of nerve rack.
nerve-wracks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nerve-wrack
nervewrack
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nervewracks
Senses: examples: text: Brother to those who dare the diving tower, the pole, the nervewrack of trapeze; all flirting with people's fear walking the rope with ease.
ref: 1961, Borrow the Spring: Poems, page 19:
text: But rising costs, a dearth of good material available with stars, the persistent nervewrack of keeping up a good relationship with the community, make their jobs little more than an exercise in indomitable hope.
ref: 1962, U S A 1: Monthly News and Current History - Volume 1, page 49:
text: Or has old nervewrack thrown open the windows and knocked the mementoes on the floor, poured the sleepingpills in the toilet, tugged on the doorknob?
ref: 1980, Poetry Northwest - Volumes 21-23, page 19:
glosses: Alternative form of nerve rack.
nervewracks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nervewrack
nerve-racked
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more nerve-racked
form: most nerve-racked
form: nerveracked
form: nerve-wracked
form: nervewracked
Senses: examples: text: He was the last person a nerve-racked trader wanted to see.
ref: 1989, Michael Lewis, Liar's Poker, →ISBN, page 13:
text: But as things are to-day it is scarcely an exaggeration to say that the majority of wives are left wakeful and nerve-racked to watch with tender motherly brooding, or with bitter and jealous envy, the slumbers of the men who, through ignorance and carelessness, have neglected to see that they too had the necessary resolution of nervous tension.
ref: 2009, Anthony Capella, The Wedding Officer, →ISBN:
text: Siana spent a nerve-racked night, searching her conscience as she tossed and turned.
ref: 2014, Janet Woods, A Handful of Ashes, →ISBN:
glosses: Experiencing nerve rack.
nerveracked
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more nerveracked
form: most nerveracked
Senses: examples: text: They face life in varied ways — some nerveracked and tense, some graceful and ironic, some lusty and ruthless, some shadowed and mysterious, some bitter and defiant — but unquestionably they all face it, with scant truckling to any public thirsting for spurious joy and the conventional happy ending.
ref: 1922, The Bookman - Volume 54, page 33:
text: The men grew nerveracked and hysterical, after months of having every wish gratified and of being unable to imagine anything — except freedom — which was not instantly provided.
ref: 1959, Will Jenkins, Monsters and such, page 26:
text: One problem for this biographer is that the dramatic climax of his life, which throws a romantic light even on what was tedious and nerveracked in his past, may make him seem too remarkable: unique as no man is, instead of unique as all men are.
ref: 1986, The Anglo-Welsh Review - Issues 82-88, page 150:
glosses: Alternative form of nerve-racked.
nerve-wracked
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more nerve-wracked
form: most nerve-wracked
Senses: examples: text: Amateur traders get nerve-wracked, and tend to sell short of their predetermined exit points.
ref: 2009, Josh DiPietro, The Truth About Day Trading Stocks, →ISBN:
text: I dropped to my knees in the Saint Aquinas chapel every single night for two weeks straight and dialed the divine Dr. Phil for guidance, implicitly blaming him for my woes: You created my pitiful self-consciousness and nerve-wracked sexuality with your religious rules and prohibitions —do something about it!
ref: 2013, Shozan Jack Haubner, Zen Confidential: Confessions of a Wayward Monk, →ISBN, page 135:
text: With regard to the latter, she wrote of “the undeniable calmative value of the motion picture as a relaxation for nerve-wracked humanity."
ref: 2014, Robert Sitton, Lady in the Dark: Iris Barry and the Art of Film, →ISBN, page 99:
glosses: Alternative form of nerve-racked.
nervewracked
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more nervewracked
form: most nervewracked
Senses: examples: text: Distracted, their dupes worry through life. Nervewracked, they stumble from the cradle to the grave.
ref: 1977, Maximilian Beyer, The purpose of life, page 106:
text: This groove throws up a higher panic, issued by the grown-ups at headquarters this time, a nervewracked-at-the-nerve-center vibe.
ref: 2012, Jonathan Lethem, Talking Heads' Fear of Music, →ISBN, page 52:
text: He met her gaze easily, as if unaware of the nervewracked entreaty of her expression.
ref: 2013, Tim Jeal, A Marriage of Convenience, →ISBN:
glosses: Alternative form of nerve-racked.
nerve-wreck
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nerve-wrecks
Senses: examples: text: It stands not far under these circumstances from the lunatic asylum and leaves a memory of nerve-wreck, or even of cowardice, which does not minister to self-respect.
ref: 1908, The Lancet, page 410:
text: The result as we saw it was a terrible one, and we could fancy the nerve-wreck of Charles Baudelaire, before the bow snapped, from the ravaged picture before us.
ref: 1920, Martin Birnbaum, Oscar Wilde: Fragments and Memories, page 15:
text: Plunging deep in trauma and nerve-wreck after surviving a Nazi' shelling in one of the felled London streets.
ref: 2003, Achife Francis, The Priest: Nil, →ISBN, page 1:
glosses: Alternative form of nerve rack.
examples: text: Behold the triumph of hypnotic mystification by the might of which the vacuous become profound and the flabby-willed nerve-wreck a heroine of dauntless faith!
ref: 1911, The Literary Digest - Volume 42, page 684:
text: It wouldn't happen again, for not one in a hundred of your Squadron-Leaders is a nerve-wreck.
ref: 1978, Harford Montgomery Hyde, Solitary in the ranks: Lawrence of Arabia as airman and private soldier:
text: He was a nerve-wreck.
ref: 1979, Anwar Sadat, Raphael Israeli, The public diary of President Sadat - Volume 3, →ISBN, page 1041:
glosses: A person who is debilitated by stress.
nerve-wrecks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nerve-wreck
Juvenal
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Latin Iuvenālis.
Senses: glosses: A male given name from Latin.
glosses: Decimus Junius Juvenalis, a Roman poet, active in the late 1st and early 2nd century CE, noted for a collection of poems called the Satires.
Derived terms: Juvenalian
stercorated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of stercorate