cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
gangsterwise
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more gangsterwise
form: most gangsterwise
form: gangster-wise
Etymology: From gangster + -wise.
Senses: examples: text: Indeed the Sunday Express is so upset by the success of "that stolid public school Englishman, Clive Brook, talking Cockney and twisting his mouth gangsterwise" in "Silence," that its critic suggests that this adopted virtuosity may be "another of Hollywood's crushing blows at the British Empire.
ref: 1932, George Jean Nathan, Henry Louis Mencken, The American Mercury - Volume 26:
text: But what he did not respect, gangster-wise or otherwise but no wise, was that part of the pie that belonged to his uncles.
ref: 2012, Amun, Carrentein Poochiona Ponderas:
text: I wasn't cuttin' much of a figure, gangsterwise.
ref: 2014, Michael Walsh, And All the Saints:
glosses: According to, or in the manner of a gangster
Dann
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
rift saw
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rift saws
Senses: examples: text: This size is also used for rift saws, heavy edger saws, and bench saws.
ref: 1912, Henry Disston, Disston lumberman handbook, page 53:
text: The wing or rift saw, it may be said, is of special design having six wings with portions of the saw plate cut away between the wings.
ref: 1948, Veneers and Plywood - Volume 42, page 48:
text: We just use a rift saw so we do not have to ask for permission.
ref: 1992, Pinkaew Leungaramsri, Noel Rajesh, The Future of People and Forests in Thailand After the Logging Ban:
text: At the sawmill lightning damaged logs can be processed using a rift saw, whereby the damaged part of the stem is cut off as slab wood with the first cut (Fig. 7.12).
ref: 2014, Christoph Richter, Wood Characteristics: Description, Causes, Prevention, Impact on Use and Technological Adaptation, →ISBN:
glosses: A circular saw with toothed arms for cutting logs radially.
rift saw
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: rift saws
form: rift sawing
form: rift sawed
form: rift sawn
Senses: examples: text: Softwood flooring, such as pitch pine, Oregon pine and deal, should be rift sawn if a good finish and even wearing surface are required.
ref: 1956, Edward Molloy, Builder's and Decorator's Reference Book:
text: Because rift sawing reduces the number of cuts parallel to a log's medullary rays, it reduces the flake effect common to quartered oak.
ref: 2003, Elena M. S. Garrison, The Graphic Standards Guide to Architectural Finishes, →ISBN:
glosses: To cut a log into boards by first quartering and then cutting radially at an angle of 30-60 degrees to the grain (as opposed to quartersaw, which involves cutting radially at an angle of 60-90 degrees).
rift saws
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rift saw
rift saws
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of rift saw
rift sawing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of rift saw
rift sawed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past of rift saw
rift sawn
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: past participle of rift saw
rift sawn
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: In rift sawn wood cuts, the end grain is oriented 30-60 degrees to the face of the board.
ref: 2003, Brent Hull, Historic Millwork, →ISBN:
text: Rift sawn planks shrink about one half of those cut tangentially, due to the restraining action of medullary rays. Also, rift sawn timber gives a harder wearing surface than the other and hence these may be used in flooring and other locations subjected to abrasive actions.
ref: 2003, . B.C. Punmia, Ashok Kumar Jain, & Arun Kr. Jain, Basic Civil Engineering, →ISBN, page 79:
glosses: Alternative form of riftsawn.
rift-saw
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: rift-saws
form: rift-sawing
form: rift-sawed
form: rift-sawn
Senses: examples: text: All material should be rift-sawed in so far as possible but flat-sawed lumber is acceptable up to 33 1/3 per cent of the board- foot contents of a shipment when necessary to utilize all the material in the log or cant that is of the required quality.
ref: 1944, Leno Ceno Michelon, Raymond J. Devereaux, Composite Aircraft Manufacture and Inspection, page 79:
text: The mill's second major difference is that it rift-saws and quarter-saws the majority of its wood.
ref: 1994, Wood Technology, page 24:
text: However, they are also rift-sawed or quarter-sawed, which means that the saw cut is radial, as shown in B, Fig.1.
ref: 2015, Fred Crawshaw, Emil Lehmann, Byron Halsted, Ultimate Guide to Farm Mechanics, →ISBN:
glosses: Alternative form of rift saw.
rift-saws
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of rift-saw
rift-sawing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of rift-saw
rift-sawed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past of rift-saw
rift-sawn
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: past participle of rift-saw
rift-sawn
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: There are three important things to keep in mind about the tangential and radial directions in a rift-sawn board.
ref: 1999, Dave Gerr, The Elements of Boat Strength: For Builders, Designers, and Owners, →ISBN, page 86:
text: Rift-sawn boards have a straight grain pattern as opposed to the circular pattern of the plain-sawn boards.
ref: 2011, Jeff Strong, Woodworking For Dummies, →ISBN:
glosses: Alternative form of riftsawn.
mason bees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mason bee
materials recovery facilities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of materials recovery facility
symbolic languages
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of symbolic language
hoboglyphs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hoboglyph
Hieroglyphics
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A miscapitalization of hieroglyphics, used as a proper noun because of the false assumption by many that hieroglyphics (i.e. Egyptian hieroglyphics) is itself a language.
gallock
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gallocks
form: gallack
form: gallac
form: gallak
form: gaulic
form: gaulick
form: gallic
Etymology: Unknown. Perhaps derived from Old English gagol (“foolish”) + -ock, in the sense of "foolish person; fool"; or possibly from the same origin as French gauche.
Senses: glosses: The left hand.
gallock
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more gallock
form: most gallock
form: gallack
form: gallac
form: gallak
form: gaulic
form: gaulick
form: gallic
Etymology: Unknown. Perhaps derived from Old English gagol (“foolish”) + -ock, in the sense of "foolish person; fool"; or possibly from the same origin as French gauche.
Senses: glosses: left-handed or left-footed
glosses: clumsy; awkward
Derived terms: gallock-handed
miscapitalization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: miscapitalizations
form: miscapitalisation
Etymology: From mis- + capitalization or miscapitalize + -ation.
Senses: examples: text: Note the intentional miscapitalization on the word “pLatter,” tipping you off that this is a preapocalyptic event, sponsored by Mormon missionaries.
ref: 2011, Roland Boyle, The Tea Party Guide to Being a Real American, unnumbered page:
glosses: Incorrect capitalization; an act of miscapitalizing.
miscapitalizations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of miscapitalization
miscapitalisation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: miscapitalisations
Etymology: From mis- + capitalisation.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of miscapitalization.
miscapitalisations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of miscapitalisation
fren'
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fren's
Senses: glosses: Pronunciation spelling of friend.
fren's
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fren'
balc'ny
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: balc'nies
Senses: glosses: Pronunciation spelling of balcony.
balc'nies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of balc'ny
roose
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: rooses
form: roosing
form: roosed
form: roosed
form: ruse
form: ruis
Etymology: From Middle English rosen (“to boast”), from Old Norse hrósa (“to boast; praise”), from Proto-Germanic *hrōþsōną, from *hrōþaz, *hrōþiz (“fame; glory; praise”). Cognate with Icelandic hrósa, Danish rose, Swedish rosa.
Senses: examples: text: Ha'e na ye roosed my cheeks like the morning? Ha'e na ye roosed my cherry-red mou?
ref: 1809, Hector MacNeill, Oh, Tell Me How For to Woo.:
text: He roosed my e'en, sae bonnie blue, He roosed my waist sae genty sma' And aye my heart came to my mou' When ne'er a body heard or saw.
ref: 1870, Robert Burns, “Young Jockey”, in The Poetical Works of Robert Burns. Complete.:
text: For some of them ha'e roosed their hawks, And some other their hounds; And some other their ladies fair, As the roosing went the rounds.
ref: 1871, “Maid Mettelil”, in The Ballad Minstrelsy of Scotland:
text: You will have seen how a' the newspapers roosed the skatin o' an offisher, that they said lived in the Castle.
ref: 1876, John Wilson, Sir John Skelton, The Comedy of the Noctes Ambrosianae, page 51:
text: I suld ha'e said ' Ye're a' that's guid,' I suld ha'e sung, ' Ye're a' that's bonnie,' I suld ha'e roosed your race an' bluid — O' a' the three I've ne'er dune ony.
ref: 1890, James Coghill, “To Her Majesty, Queen Victoria, On the Anniversary of Her Coronation, 28th June”, in Poems, Songs and Sonnets, page 52:
text: They danced round and round their merry Jockie Faw, And roosed the gypsie laddie.
ref: 1921, Lowry Charles Wimberly, Minstrelsy, Music, and the Dance in the English and Scottish Popular Ballads:
glosses: to flatter or praise.
examples: text: I'll cock my nose aboon them a' — I'm roosed by Craigengillan !
ref: 1865, The British Poets - Volume 2, page 43:
text: A'm roosed — a'm roosed to deeds o' bluid, ye ken, when ye tell me a canna gaff a fusshe ! Tak aff yere coat, mon, for a'm roosed to deeds o' bluid.
ref: 1874, Francis Francis, By Lake and River: an Angler's Rambles in the North of England and Scotland:
text: Mrs. Tam, like all decent people in the village, was "real roosed."
ref: 1957, Robert Blackwood Robertson, Of sheep and men, page 164:
glosses: to be proud.
rooses
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of roose
roosing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of roose
roosed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of roose
whuzzat
Language: English
Part of speech: contraction
Senses: examples: text: Hmph? Whuzzat? Someone there? Who is it? WHO?!? What do you want from me?
ref: 2004, Intelligent Systems, translated by Nintendo of America, Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door, Nintendo, GameCube, level/area: Petalburg:
glosses: Alternative form of wassat.
whuzzamatter
Language: English
Part of speech: contraction
Senses: qualifier: especially represents drunken or slurred speech
glosses: Contraction of what is the matter.
goo'
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Pronunciation spelling of good.
goo'
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: glosses: Pronunciation spelling of good.
whizyer
Language: English
Part of speech: contraction
Senses: qualifier: especially representing drunken or slurred speech
glosses: Contraction of with you.
same's
Language: English
Part of speech: contraction
Senses: glosses: Contraction of same as.
somebody'd
Language: English
Part of speech: contraction
Senses: glosses: Contraction of somebody would.
damfidon't
Language: English
Part of speech: contraction
Senses: glosses: Pronunciation spelling of damned if I don't.
Related terms: damfino
hassome
Language: English
Part of speech: contraction
Senses: examples: text: "I'm hungry, sir," said Jurgis.
"Hungry! Why don't you hassome supper?"
"I've got no money, sir."
ref: 1906, Upton Sinclair, The Jungle:
glosses: Contraction of have some.
gangstership
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From gangster + -ship.
Senses: examples: text: The case of ethical opposition to the death penalty for deliberate political gangstership and murder has been put to me by a logical person who is well informed on depth-psychology and by no means of an unkind disposition.
ref: 2013, Samuel Lowy, Co-Operation, Tolerance, And Prejudice:
text: Lean hard on his promises and ask the Holy Spirit to guide you as to whether, when and how to renounce your gangstership.
ref: 2015, J. R. Woodgates, Daily Light on the Prisoner's Path:
text: Oh for the “good ol' days” of Johnny Torrio's gentlemen gangstership.
ref: 2016, Leonardo Guisieppi, America's First and Only King:
glosses: The state or official status of a gangster
workation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: workations
Senses: examples: text: As long as you do it right, a workation could very well improve your performance.
ref: 2013 May 8, Vanessa Van Edwards, “How I Make My Living on 'Workations'”, in The Huffington Post:
text: Call it a "workation." You know, a vacation, but for work. Something of a combination company retreat and hackathon.
ref: 2015 December 11, Christine Lagorio-Chafkin, “How a Rogue Team Secretly Built Uber's Latest Project Over a Weekend”, in Inc.com:
text: Joshua Reeves, the co-founder and chief executive at the payroll and benefits management start-up Gusto, rented a house for a week in 2013 with his roughly 10 colleagues for what he called a “workation.”
ref: 2016 January 11, Martha C. White, “In Retreats, Start-Ups Find a Way to Recharge Workers’ Batteries”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
text: I had planned a vacation. What I really needed and wanted was a “workation” – a trip designed not just for exploring international destinations, but also for productivity and personal and professional growth.
ref: 2016 May 24, Brian David Crane, “An Insider's Guide for Digital Nomads”, in Tech.co:
glosses: Alternative form of workcation.
be a hundred years too early
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: see conjugation of "be"
Etymology: Calque of Japanese 百年早い (hyaku-nen hayai).
Senses: examples: text: Don't make me waste my time! You are a hundred years too early to be an opponent worthy of fighting me!
topics: anime
broadcasting
film
manga
media
television
glosses: To be so immature and unprepared as to have no hope of achieving an accomplishment.
syame
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: seyame
Etymology: From Classical Syriac ܣܝܡܐ.
Senses: glosses: A diacritical mark used in Aramaic, written as two horizontal dots above a letter, indicating that a noun or adjective is plural, or occasionally that a word ends in /e/ or /ε/. If written above resh in the Syriac script, it replaces the single dot that differentiates it from daleth.
apoptotically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more apoptotically
form: most apoptotically
Etymology: From apoptotic + -ally.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: In an apoptotic manner; by the means of apoptosis.
career changer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Related terms: career change
lateral hire
Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: An administrative region of France, created in 2016 by the merger of Auvergne and Rhône-Alpes. Seat: Lyon.
career change
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Related terms: career changer
microtensile
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From micro- + tensile.
Senses: examples: text: We first determined the microtensile bond strength of commercially available adhesive resins to dentin surface in the presence of salivary components ( Figure 7 ).
ref: 2015 July 15, Sang-Bae Lee et al., “Catechol-Functionalized Synthetic Polymer as a Dental Adhesive to Contaminated Dentin Surface for a Composite Restoration”, in Biomacromolecules, volume 16, →DOI:
glosses: tensile at a microscopic level
nanodumbbell
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nanodumbbells
Etymology: From nano- + dumbbell.
Senses: examples: text: Rodríguez-González et al. studied the effect of a silver shell on the plasmonic behavior of gold nanodumbbell cores, describing a complex plasmonic scenario where the transversal mode of the core–shell system cannot be directly related to an equivalent silver nanorod. 45 To the best of our knowledge, the only available study of the plasmonic properties of silver–gold–silver nanorods is the work by Ahn et al. using dark-field spectroscopy, which indicated no influence of the gold core. 35 The most important prerequisites for a precise engineering of the plasmonic properties of noble metal nanoparticles are monodispersity and size tunability.
ref: 2015 July 2, Martin Mayer et al., “Controlled Living Nanowire Growth: Precise Control over the Morphology and Optical Properties of AgAuAg Bimetallic Nanowires”, in Nano Letters, volume 15, →DOI:
glosses: Any object that has the form of a nanoscale dumbbell
neoadjuvantly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From neo- + adjuvantly.
Senses: examples: text: Therapeutic options for desmoids are (radical) surgical resection with a wide resection margin, radiation (50-60 Gy, as single treatment postoperatively or neoadjuvantly), chemotherapy (antracyclines, vinca alkaloids, methotrexate, dacarbazine, temozolomide), tyrosine kinase inhibitors (imatinib, sorafenib), and also non-cytotoxic medical therapies such as high-dose antiestrogens and non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs).
ref: 2014 March 28, Ralph Schneider et al., “Gender-Specific Aspects of Lynch Syndrome and Familial Adenomatous Polyposis”, in Viszeralmedizin, volume 30, →DOI:
glosses: In a neoadjuvant manner
behaps
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of behap
behapping
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of behap
sindhooram
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of sindooram.
behapped
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of behap
paximadi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: paximadia
Senses: glosses: Various forms of Greek rusk, made commonly from barley or chickpea flour, and softened with wine, water or oil before eating.
eliopsomo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Transliteration of Greek ελιόψωμο (eliópsomo).
Senses: glosses: Greek bread with olives in the dough.
Related terms: tyropsomo
fundoplasties
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fundoplasty
workations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of workation
Nivôses
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Nivôse
autoinduces
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of autoinduce
autoinduced
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of autoinduce
FEBS
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: FEBSs
Senses: coordinate_terms: FRCS
glosses: Initialism of Fellow of the European Board of Surgery.
FEBS
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Federation of European Biochemical Societies.
semichemical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From semi- + chemical.
Senses: glosses: Of a wood pulping process: using both chemical and mechanical techniques.
semichemically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: By a semichemical process.
burn books
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of burn book
melopoeian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Consisting of, or relating to, melopoeia.
antlet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: antlets
Etymology: From ant + -let.
Senses: examples: text: […] if any one of the antlets wanted to come out of his silken covering he could be helped to cut his way through […]
ref: 1903, Agnes Warner McClelland Daulton, Wings and Stings, page 107:
text: I wondered whether ants found it necessary to hold classes of instruction for all upcoming antlets in order to maintain their organized and busy mound-building society.
ref: 1997, Larry Dean Olsen, Outdoor Survival Skills, page 3:
glosses: A small immature ant; an antling.
antlets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of antlet
askarel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: askarels
Senses: glosses: A synthetic electrically insulating liquid which is nonflammable; when decomposed by an electric arc, the gaseous products also are nonflammable.
askarels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of askarel
tear catcher
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tear catchers
Senses: glosses: A kind of ornamental glass vase with a fixture shaped for a person's eye, supposed to be used to collect tears of sorrow.
tear catchers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tear catcher
haddocky
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more haddocky
form: most haddocky
Etymology: From haddock + -y.
Senses: examples: text: […] a secret and terrible old woman called Magsby, whom Lady Hampshire could ruin on the spot for forging a valueless cheque of her father's, opened the door to the clients, and made gruesome haddocky meals for herself in the kitchen.
ref: 1920, E. F. Benson, The Countess of Lowndes Square and Other Stories:
text: When she opened her eyes again, that haddocky smell would be gone!
ref: 2014, Sarah Courtauld, Buckle and Squash and the Monstrous Moat-Dragon:
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of haddock.
scatter rugs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of scatter rug
lepaked
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of lepak
lepaks
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of lepak
lepaking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of lepak
Himalayish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Belonging or relating to a certain (variously defined) subgroup of the Tibeto-Burman languages.
armed bullhead
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: armed bullheads
Senses: glosses: Agonus cataphractus, a fish covered in hard bony plates.
Synonyms: hooknose
sea-poacher
armed bullheads
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of armed bullhead
diff lock
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: diff locks
Senses: topics: automotive
transport
vehicles
glosses: locking differential
diff locks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of diff lock
locking differential
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: locking differentials
Senses: topics: automotive
transport
vehicles
glosses: A kind of automotive differential that provides increased traction by restricting each of the two wheels on an axle to the same rotational speed without regard to available traction or differences in resistance seen at each wheel.
Synonyms: word: differential lock
word: diff lock
word: locking diff
Hyponyms: unlocked differential
locked differential
lunchbox locker
Aussie locker
Coordinate terms: limited-slip differential
open differential
locking differentials
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of locking differential
sidereal periods
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sidereal period
PNW
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Pacific Northwest.
anthostele
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: anthosteles
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: The rigid lower part of a polyp.
anthosteles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of anthostele
pottagers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pottager
bioamplification
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From bio- + amplification.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of biomagnification.
synonyms: word: biomagnification
Related terms: biodilution
rechannelings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rechanneling
rechannellings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rechannelling
postcoital test
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: postcoital tests
Senses: topics: gynaecology
medicine
sciences
synonyms: Hühner test
Sims test
glosses: A laboratory test which examines the cervical mucus in the postcoital period, for the evaluation of infertility.
Sims test
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Sims tests
Etymology: Named after Marion Sims, American physician and surgeon.
Senses: topics: gynaecology
medicine
sciences
glosses: Synonym of postcoital test.
synonyms: word: postcoital test
megalophallic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more megalophallic
form: most megalophallic
Etymology: From megalo- + phallic.
Senses: glosses: macrophallic
Synonyms: macrophallic
undespondent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more undespondent
form: most undespondent
Etymology: From un- + despondent.
Senses: glosses: Not despondent.
Neorican
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌniː.əʊˈɹiː.kən/
ipa: /ˌni.oʊˈɹi.kən/
rhymes: -iːkən
Forms: form: Neoricans
Etymology: From neo- + Puerto Rican, modeled after Spanish neorriqueño, itself a blend of neoyorquino (“New Yorker”) + puertorriqueño (“Puerto Rican”).
Senses: glosses: A Puerto Rican who lives in the mainland United States.
Hyponyms: Nuyorican
Neoricans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Neorican
neurotize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: neurotizes
form: neurotizing
form: neurotized
form: neurotized
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
surgery
glosses: To reinnervate.
Related terms: neurotization
neurotizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of neurotize
neurotizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of neurotize
neurotized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of neurotize
text neck
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Are smartphones a pain in the neck? According to new research carried out by a US doctor, they are far worse – “text neck” is becoming an epidemic that could lead to permanent damage.
ref: 2014 November 24, Homa Khaleeli, “Text neck: how smartphones are damaging our spines”, in The Guardian:
text: Do you have text neck? How phones are affecting us physically [title]
ref: 2024 January 24, Tik Root, “Do you have text neck? How phones are affecting us physically”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
glosses: Neck pain caused by hunching over a mobile device for long periods.
Coordinate terms: golfer's elbow
runner's knee
tennis elbow
Related terms: repetitive strain injury
spiceful
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more spiceful
form: most spiceful
Etymology: From spice + -ful. According to the Poly-Olbion project, coined by Michael Drayton in 1612.
Senses: examples: text: That those proud Airies, bred whereas the scorching skie
Doth sindge the sandie Wyldes of spicefull Barbarie;
ref: 1612, Michael Drayton, Poly-Olbion, song 5 p. 82:
glosses: Full or laden with spice; spicy; aromatic
mucous acid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: An acid obtained, by the use of nitric acid, from gum arabic and other mucilaginous substances.
Synonyms: saccholactic acid
mundan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mundans
Etymology: Sanskrit मुण्डन (muṇḍana)
Senses: examples: text: There are no birth records of when my grandmother was born because most children in the refugee camps died before their mundans, when babies have their heads ritually shaved.
ref: 2020, Avni Doshi, Burnt Sugar, Hamish Hamilton, page 70:
glosses: The ceremonial first tonsure of a child's hair.
Murji'ah
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Arabic مُرْجِئَة (murjiʔa)
Senses: topics: Islam
lifestyle
religion
glosses: An early Islamic school of divinity.
Derived terms: Murji'ite
Murjite
Murji'ite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Murji'ites
Senses: topics: Islam
lifestyle
religion
glosses: A follower of the Murji'ah school of divinity.
Murjite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Murjites
Senses: topics: Islam
lifestyle
religion
glosses: Alternative form of Murji'ite.
Murji'ites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Murji'ite
Murjites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Murjite
Billericay
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɪləˈɹɪkiː/
Etymology: Various theories; see Billericay#Toponym. First recorded in 1291 as Byllyrica.
Senses: glosses: A town and civil parish in Basildon borough, Essex, England (OS grid ref TQ6794).
wikipedia: Billericay#Toponym
aminobutyric acid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Any of three isomeric chemical compounds: α-aminobutyric acid (AABA), β-aminobutyric acid (BABA), and γ-aminobutyric acid (GABA).
Derived terms: gamma-aminobutyric acid
photoproduce
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: photoproduces
form: photoproducing
form: photoproduced
form: photoproduced
Senses: glosses: To produce by means of photoproduction.
photoproduces
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of photoproduce
photoproducing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of photoproduce
zizit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of tsitsith.
ziganka
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: zigankas
Senses: glosses: A traditional lively Russian dance in 2/4 time.
zigankas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ziganka
zibellines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of zibelline
zelants
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of zelant
Reed-Kellogg system
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A technique for drawing diagrams of syntactic structure, based on a subject and a verbal predicate, with modifiers written on slanted lines leading off from the words they modify.
zoecial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to the zoecium.
zoecium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: zoecia
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of zooecium.
Related terms: zoecial
zoecia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of zoecium
zooea
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /zoʊˈi.ə/
Forms: form: zooeas
form: zooeae
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of zoëa.
zooeae
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /zoʊˈi.i/
Senses: glosses: plural of zooea
zooeas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /zoʊˈi.əz/
Senses: glosses: plural of zooea
zooeal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of zoeal.
Codd
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Derived terms: Boyce-Codd normal form
Codd bottle
Codd-neck bottle
Codd
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Codds
Senses: glosses: A poor man who received charity from the Charterhouse in London, England.
EAV
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Initialism of Entity–attribute–value model.
topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Initialism of Equine arteritis virus.
topics: alternative-medicine
medicine
sciences
glosses: Initialism of Electroacupuncture according to Voll.
lemon pepper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A seasoning made from granulated lemon zest and cracked black peppercorns.
DGs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of DG
pubkey
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pubkeys
Senses: topics: computing
cryptography
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: public key
pubkeys
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pubkey
zincos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of zinco
zurf
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: zurfs
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of zarf.
zurfs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of zurf
Zoechrome
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Former trade name, presumably from Ancient Greek ζωή (zōḗ, “life”) and χρῶμα (khrôma, “color”).
Senses: glosses: A subtractive tricolor motion picture film process.
Olmecoid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Olmecoid
form: most Olmecoid
Etymology: From Olmec + -oid.
Senses: topics: archaeology
history
human-sciences
sciences
glosses: Showing influences from the Olmec culture.
neurohospitalist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: neurohospitalists
Etymology: From neuro- + hospitalist.
Senses: examples: text: In addition, we will discuss the impact of important trials such as the Third Interventional Management of Stroke (IMS3) trial, and the more recent trials Multicenter Randomized Clinical Trial of Endovascular Treatment for Acute Ischemic Stroke in the Netherlands (MR CLEAN), Endovascular Treatment for Small Core and Proximal Occlusion Ischemic Stroke (ESCAPE), Extending the Time for Thrombolysis in Emergency Neurological Deficits—Intra-Arterial (EXTEND-IA), and Solitaire With the Intention for Thrombectomy as Primary Endovascular Treatment (SWIFT PRIME) on acute stroke management and the implications for the practicing neurohospitalist.
ref: 2015, Bart M. Demaerschalk et al., “What is the Role for Intra-Arterial Therapy in Acute Stroke Intervention?”, in The Neurohospitalist, volume 5, →DOI:
glosses: A hospitalist who looks after neurological patients
neurohospitalists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of neurohospitalist
unessenced
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + essenced.
Senses: examples: text: Unkempt, unshaven, and unessenced, he was assisted on deck […]
ref: 1841, The New Sporting Magazine, page 421:
text: He only revelled in the thought of freedom and cold, unessenced baths.
ref: 1901, The Strand Magazine, volume 22, page 388:
glosses: Not perfumed with essence.
normogram
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Patients received standard anticoagulation prior to the procedure according to our institutional practice (heparin normogram) seeking therapeutic levels.
ref: 2015, Mohammad Arabi et al., “Endovascular treatment of thrombosed inferior vena cava filters: Techniques and short-term outcomes”, in The Indian Journal of Radiology & Imaging, volume 25, →DOI:
glosses: Misspelling of nomogram.
opopponax
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: The oleo-gum-resin of C. guidottii (gum opopponax first grade), collected from Ogaden Region, in eastern Ethiopia from September - October 2010, was purchased from the Ethiopian Natural Gum Processing and Marketing Enterprise (ENGPME), Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
ref: 2015 August 18, Michael Gebrehiwot et al., “Evaluation of the wound healing property of Commiphora guidottii Chiov. ex. Guid.”, in BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine, volume 15, →DOI:
glosses: Alternative form of opopanax.
pharmacomechanical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pharmaco- + mechanical.
Senses: examples: text: Anatomical success was defined as either restoration of in-line flow with venous patency or removal of 50% or more of the thrombus burden, while clinical success was defined as the presence of anatomical success and improvement in presenting symptoms.[ 13 ] Patients underwent one or more of the following endovascular treatments depending on the chronicity and extent of thrombosis: (a) Catheter-directed thrombolysis (CDT) ( n = 25), (b) pharmacomechanical thrombolysis (PMT) ( n = 15), (c) balloon angioplasty ( n = 45), and/or (d) stent placement across the filter ( n = 42).
ref: 2015, Mohammad Arabi et al., “Endovascular treatment of thrombosed inferior vena cava filters: Techniques and short-term outcomes”, in The Indian Journal of Radiology & Imaging, volume 25, →DOI:
glosses: pharmacological and mechanical
unsettlements
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of unsettlement
physiopathogenic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From physio- + pathogenic.
Senses: examples: text: Ever since its initial description, the actinic physiopathogenic hypothesis has been debated by many authors.
ref: 2015, Inês D Coutinho et al., “O’Brien Actinic Granuloma: A Case Report and Brief Review of Literature”, in Indian Journal of Dermatology, volume 60, →DOI:
glosses: physiological and pathogenic
Related terms: physiopathogeny
untaming
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of untame
untames
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of untame
untanglement
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: disentanglement
pipelle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pipelles
Senses: examples: text: Although no evidence has been documented, pipelle aspiration biopsy is recommended on a yearly basis for all female Lynch syndrome patients in the German guidelines.
ref: 2014 March 28, Ralph Schneider et al., “Gender-Specific Aspects of Lynch Syndrome and Familial Adenomatous Polyposis”, in Viszeralmedizin, volume 30, →DOI:
topics: medicine
sciences
surgery
glosses: A flexible polypropylene suction cannula
pipelles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pipelle
placentomegaly
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From placento- + -megaly.
Senses: examples: text: Fetal magnetic resonance imaging at 23 + 3 revealed placentomegaly and normal central nervous system architecture.
ref: 2015 April 15, Sruti S. Nadimpalli et al., “Congenital Parvovirus B19 Infection: Persistent Viremia and Red Blood Cell Aplasia”, in Open Forum Infectious Diseases, volume 2, →DOI:
topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: The presence of an abnormally enlarged placenta
urman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: urmans
Etymology: From Kazan Tatar.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of taiga (a kind of subarctic forest)
synonyms: word: taiga
extra: a kind of subarctic forest
urmans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of urman
preprocedure
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pre- + procedure.
Senses: examples: text: The preprocedure fetal hematocrit (Hct) levels for the 3 procedures were 8.3%, 16.8%, and 10.4%, respectively, and the MCA Doppler peak systolic velocities were >1.5 multiples of the median in each case.
ref: 2015 April 15, Sruti S. Nadimpalli et al., “Congenital Parvovirus B19 Infection: Persistent Viremia and Red Blood Cell Aplasia”, in Open Forum Infectious Diseases, volume 2, →DOI:
topics: medicine
sciences
surgery
synonyms: preprocedural
glosses: Prior to a surgical or medicinal procedure.
Coordinate terms: periprocedural
postprocedural
postprocedure
preprocedure
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From pre- + procedure.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
surgery
glosses: Prior to a surgical or medicinal procedure.
procarcinogenic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pro- + carcinogenic.
Senses: examples: text: Probably, this change, as well as differences in the molecular biology, can be attributed to the observations described, in combination with screening achievements and changes in lifestyle with different exposures to procarcinogenic agents in the proximal colon; at least, previous polypectomy is more likely in the distal colon than in the proximal colon.
ref: 2014 February 3, Johanna Munding, Andrea Tannapfel, “Epidemiology of Colorectal Adenomas and Histopathological Assessment of Endoscopic Specimens in the Colorectum”, in Viszeralmedizin, volume 30, →DOI:
glosses: That leads to the formation of carcinogenic agents
procarcinogenic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: procarcinogenics
Etymology: From pro- + carcinogenic.
Senses: glosses: Any such material
pseudoinvasion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pseudoinvasions
Etymology: From pseudo- + invasion.
Senses: examples: text: Histologically, they show characteristic serration of crypts with basal architectural disturbances with branching and pseudoinvasion or inverted crypts [ 16 ].
ref: 2014 February 3, Johanna Munding, Andrea Tannapfel, “Epidemiology of Colorectal Adenomas and Histopathological Assessment of Endoscopic Specimens in the Colorectum”, in Viszeralmedizin, volume 30, →DOI:
topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: An apparent invasion (of carcinomas)
pseudopneumoperitoneum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pseudopneumoperitoneums
Etymology: From pseudo- + pneumoperitoneum.
Senses: examples: text: The various causes of pseudopneumoperitoneum are basal linear atelectasis, pneumomediastinum, Chilaiditi syndrome, gas within skin folds, subdiaphragmatic lipomatosis, properitoneal fat stripe, and diaphragmatic undulations [ Figure 2 ].
ref: 2015, Binit Sureka, Kalpana Bansal, Ankur Arora, “Pneumoperitoneum: What to look for in a radiograph?”, in Journal of Family Medicine and Primary Care, volume 4, →DOI:
topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: A disturbance having the appearance of pneumoperitoneum
quinoneimine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: quinoneimines
Senses: examples: text: At 37 °C, pH 7, H 2 O 2 concentration of 0.7 mM and horse radish peroxidase enzyme concentration of 0.1 U/ml, maximum intensity of the quinoneimine dye was resulted at 30 min and the colour was stable until 60 min ( Fig.
ref: 2015 May 18, Chamira Dilanka Fernando, Preethi Soysa, “Optimized enzymatic colorimetric assay for determination of hydrogen peroxide (H2O2) scavenging activity of plant extracts”, in MethodsX, volume 2, →DOI:
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any imine derived from a quinone
Related terms: quinonediimine
quinoneimines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of quinoneimine
retrorectal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From retro- + rectal.
Senses: examples: text: Nineteen consecutive patients, detailed in Table 1, underwent hernia repair with bilateral component separation and intraperitoneal and retrorectal placement of FlexHD ® or FlexHD ® Diamond™, human acellular dermal matrix mesh using an open abdominal approach.
ref: 2015 July 29, Alvaro Garcia, Anthony Baldoni, “Complex ventral hernia repair with a human acellular dermal matrix and component separation: A case series”, in Annals of Medicine and Surgery, volume 4, →DOI:
glosses: Behind the rectum
retrorectus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: We placed the FlexHD Diamond mesh in the retrorectus space and to date with 15–25 month follow-up, no recurrences have been seen in these cases.
ref: 2015 July 29, Alvaro Garcia, Anthony Baldoni, “Complex ventral hernia repair with a human acellular dermal matrix and component separation: A case series”, in Annals of Medicine and Surgery, volume 4, →DOI:
glosses: The retrorectal area
sarcoidal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From sarcoid + -al.
Senses: glosses: sarcoid (adjective).
sclerodermoid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: Porphyria and Kindler syndrome were excluded by lack of photosensitivity, scarring, atrophy, and sclerodermoid changes.
ref: 2015, Subhash Kashyap, Vinay Shanker, Neelam Sharma, “Ectodermal Dysplasia-Skin Fragility Syndrome: A Rare Case Report”, in Indian Journal of Dermatology, volume 60, →DOI:
glosses: Characteristic of a scleroderma
soligenous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: Water drains from surrounding sandy banks into a peaty bowl where it is held by underlying clay, an example of a soligenous mire .
ref: 2016 September 27, Susie White, “Shades of Tolkien in a Northumbrian mire”, in The Guardian:
topics: geography
hydrology
natural-sciences
synonyms: soligenic
glosses: Produced by groundwater or an inflow of surface water, and not by local precipitation.
raw_tags: of the water of a region
secting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sectings
Senses: examples: text: The secting procedure for in situ hybridization was performed as previously described [29] .
ref: 2015 July 29, Dongjuan Yuan et al., “The effect of antibiotic exposure on eicosanoid generation from arachidonic acid and gene expression in a primitive chordate, Branchiostoma belcheri”, in FEBS Open Bio, volume 5, →DOI:
topics: medicine
sciences
surgery
glosses: Synonym of cutting.
synonyms: word: cutting
unjaunty
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unjaunty
form: most unjaunty
Etymology: From un- + jaunty.
Senses: glosses: Not jaunty.
superolaterally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From superolateral + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: The canal is surrounded superiorly by the jugular tubercle, superolaterally by the jugular foramen, laterally by the sigmoid sinus and inferiorly by occipital condyle.
ref: 2015, Bayat Parvindokht, Darabi Mohammad Reza, Babaei Saeid, “Morphometric analysis of hypoglossal canal of the occipital bone in Iranian dry skulls”, in Journal of Craniovertebral Junction & Spine, volume 6, →DOI:
glosses: In a superolateral direction
tacrolymus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: He was discharged under treatment with prednisolone (50 mg/daily) and tacrolymus (1 cap/BD).
ref: 2015 July 29, Majid Moosavi Movahed et al., “Spontaneous pneumothorax followed by reversed halo sign in immunocompromised patient with pulmonary mucormycosis”, in Medical Mycology Case Reports, volume 9, →DOI:
glosses: Misspelling of tacrolimus.
tetrachloroaurate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tetrachloroaurates
Senses: examples: text: These are compared with our results from AgAuAg NWs experiments (pink diamonds) and calculations (blue triangles). 63 − 75 Benzyldimethylhexadecylammonium chloride, hexadecyltrimethylammonium bromide (CTAB, ≥96.0%), hexadecyltrimethylammonium chloride (CTAC, 25 wt % in water), hydrogen tetrachloroaurate trihydrate (HAuCl 4 ·3H 2 O, ≥99.9%), silver nitrate (AgNO 3, ≥99.9%), l -ascorbic acid (AA, ≥99%), deuterium oxide (D 2 O, 99.9 atom % D), sodium borohydride (NaBH 4, 99%), and trisodium citrate (≥98%) were purchased from Aldrich.
ref: 2015 July 2, Martin Mayer et al., “Controlled Living Nanowire Growth: Precise Control over the Morphology and Optical Properties of AgAuAg Bimetallic Nanowires”, in Nano Letters, volume 15, →DOI:
topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The monovalent anion AuCl₄⁻ formally derived from the aurate anion; any salt containing this anion
tetrachloroaurates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tetrachloroaurate