cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
ringful
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ringfuls
form: ringsful
Etymology: From ring + -ful.
Senses: examples: text: A very good opening was made with a class of ten aged bulls and they made quite an imposing "ringful."
ref: 1937, Aberdeen-Angus Review - Issues 37-42, page 15:
text: I saw a whole ringful of black clouds and this little ray of sunshine just couldn't penetrate them.
ref: 1949, John Harold Johnson, Negro Digest - Volume 8, page 12:
text: He looked at the round-shouldered, almost humpbacked figure of this unpleasantly quiet man whose mysteriously growing talent could have been checked only by a ringful of poison in a glass of wine— this all-comprehending man with whom he had never yet had a chance to have the good talk he dreamt of having some day and in whose presence he, writhing, burning and hopelessly summoning his own poems to come to his aid, felt himself a mere contemporary.
ref: 1979, Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov, The Gift, page 76:
text: And he thrusts a ringful of dangling strips of leather into the cab.
ref: 1979, Kate Simon, Mexico, places and pleasures, →ISBN, page 378:
text: Bolton, an industrial town in the north-west sector of Greater Manchester's built-up sprawl, has long been identified with unglamorous grit; it is the home of Fred Dibnah, television's steeplejack, of a ringful of professional wrestlers, and the setting for Bill Naughton's treatment of working-class patriarchalism.
ref: 1991, Robert Waller, The Almanac of British Politics, page 117:
text: Another had jumped Don, who wrapped the leather strap around his hand and hit the biker in the face with his ringful of keys.
ref: 2008, Craig Glazer, The King of Sting: The Amazing True Story of a Modern American Outlaw, →ISBN:
text: Time ticked by agonizingly, and he would have traded an entire ringful of dilithium crystals for one good laser solderer.
ref: 2012, Greg Cox, The Rings of Time, →ISBN:
glosses: The amount that fills or makes up a ring.
ringful
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more ringful
form: most ringful
Etymology: From ring + -ful.
Senses: examples: text: Let's face it: anyone with a ring in his ear and long hair is a kind of 'sonofabitch', even if his bike isn't unduly 'ringful', with spokes radiating out from a narrow hub.
ref: 2013, John O'Loughlin, Literature and the Intercardinal Axial Compass, →ISBN:
glosses: Ringlike or pertaining to rings.
ringfuls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ringful
ringsful
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ringful
Kilmers
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Kilmer
metachemical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more metachemical
form: most metachemical
Etymology: From meta- + chemical.
Senses: examples: text: The greater part of this is in comparative thermal equilibrium, and so we should not expect metachemical change to occur.
ref: 1910, Knowledge and Illustrated Scientific News - Volume 33, page xxii:
text: Alfred Nordmann, in Chapter 19, draws on the work of Emile Meyerson and Gaston Bachelard — two philosophers with some genuine chemical knowledge — to articulate a more general, a richer, and a metachemical notion of substance.
ref: 2011, Davis Baird, Eric Scerri, Lee McIntyre, Philosophy of Chemistry: Synthesis of a New Discipline, →ISBN, page 15:
text: This is by no means reducing chemistry to a sub-division of physics, and even less making it a defenceless victim of Don Quixote-like pseudomathematical and metachemical theorists; a fundamental knowledge of natural history is still an essential condition for any further progress in an understanding of chemical bonding.
ref: 2012, C.K. Jorgensen, Inorganic Complexes, →ISBN:
glosses: Pertaining to metachemistry.
end off
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: ends off
form: ending off
form: ended off
form: ended off
Senses: examples: text: “And when I got up to Prescott, the first Capitol of the Territory and a busy place, what with all the mines up on the Bradshaw Mountains and down on the Hassayampa River, I ended off buying half the livery and a piece of their freightin' company and their stage line.
ref: 2007, Douglas D. Murray, The 1001 Outfit, page 295:
glosses: Synonym of end up.
synonyms: word: end up
examples: text: “[…] As I was the new student and was very quiet, Desiree arranged without Brenda to frame me, making me Desiree's scapegoat, but fortunately, Brenda was able to guess that I was going to be the scapegoat, and wrote the letter,” Charlotte ended off with a sigh.
ref: (Can we date this quote?), Ethel Widjaja, Repelled yet Attracted, page 16:
glosses: To finish, come to an end
examples: text: While 1:1-10 introduces the letter as a whole and not just chapters 1–4, a recollection of the theme of Christ's universal Lordship in the church to end off the first major unit is fitting and suggests that 4:14-17 is the end of the section.
ref: 2010, Roy E. Ciampa, Brian S. Rosner, The First Letter to the Corinthians, page 189:
glosses: To bring to an end, conclude.
Related terms: start off
ended off
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of end off
ending off
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of end off
ends off
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of end off
Tigerville
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From tiger + -ville.
Senses: glosses: The former name of an unincorporated community in Humboldt County, California, now Pine Hill.
glosses: An unincorporated community in St. John the Baptish Parish, Louisiana.
glosses: An unincorporated community and census-designated place in Greenville County, South Carolina.
glosses: A ghost town in Pennington County, South Dakota.
Travelers Rest
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: The name "Travelers Rest" came from the fact that it is situated close to the border with the North Carolina mountains. Travelers would stop for a moment in the town before they began the difficult journey into the mountains. Travelers would often have to spend the winter there, waiting for the snow to clear in the mountains before continuing northward.
Senses: glosses: A city in Greenville County, South Carolina, United States.
metachemistry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From meta- + chemistry.
Senses: examples: text: It is none the less true that a metachemistry came into being with the Mendeleeff table and that the ordering and rationalizing tendency led to ever more numerous, ever more profound successes.
ref: 1968, Gaston Bachelard, The Philosophy of No: A Philosophy of the New Scientific Mind, page 49:
text: Metachemistry includes orthodox chemistry. In orthodox chemistry, the chemist is concerned principally with the contents of acts of chemical understanding. In metachemistry, both the contents of the chemist's acts of chemical understanding, as well as the acts themselves, are of interest.
ref: 1988, William J. Danaher, Insight in chemistry, page 141:
text: By contrast, 'metachemistry' pays attention to the variety of states of matter, to the plurality of materials.
ref: 2012, Dov M. Gabbay, Paul Thagard, Andrea Woody, Philosophy of Chemistry, →ISBN, page 145:
glosses: An extension of the ideas or methods of chemistry into other areas of inquiry.
examples: text: Metachemistry would concern itself with the release of energy of the sun's radiation which impinges on the highest strata of the atmosphere and is stored in the atoms and molecules which it excites and ionizes.
ref: 1949, Journal of the American Rocket Society - Issues 76-85, pages 180–181:
text: The two main problems of metachemistry as related to the field of propellants are the stabilization of metastable states in macroscopic bulk and the exploitation of the freely available excited particles in the upper atmosphere for the generation of HAL discharges especially blue starters, blue jets and red sprites is calculated.
ref: 1959, Otis E. Lancaster, High Speed Aerodynamics and Jet Propulsion:
text: In addition to the importance of metachemistry for propulsion, there exist intimate relations between metachemistry and the problem of directly exploiting the radiation from the sun as well as the problem of storing energy for varying periods.
ref: 1962, Fritz Zwicky, Morphology of propulsive power, page 208:
glosses: The study of substances that can release large amounts of energy relative to their mass, such as molecules in metastable excited states.
smoke someone's pole
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: smokes someone's pole
form: smoking someone's pole
form: smoked someone's pole
form: smoked someone's pole
Senses: examples: text: "[…] Usually businessmen. Married, middle-aged guys who'll cough up fifty bucks to smoke my pole."
ref: 2006, K. M. Soehnlein, You Can Say You Knew Me When, page 240:
text: “You like me! You sure you don't love me? Is that it? You some kind of faggot tryin' to pass in this man's Army? You want to smoke my pole?”
ref: 2018, Kent Anderson, Sympathy for the Devil:
glosses: To perform fellatio on someone.
Synonyms: suck someone's cock
Derived terms: smoke my pole
smoked one's pole
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of smoke one's pole
Wade Hampton
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Named after Wade Hampton III, a Confederate States of America military officer during the American Civil War and politician from South Carolina.
Senses: glosses: A census-designated place in Greenville County, South Carolina, United States.
wikipedia: Wade Hampton III
smokes one's pole
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of smoke one's pole
smoking one's pole
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of smoke one's pole
Greers Ferry
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A city in Cleburne County, Arkansas, United States.
Greers
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Greer
Nicholtown
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Nichol + town.
Senses: glosses: A predominantly African-American community in Greenville, South Carolina, United States.
palila
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: palilas
Etymology: From Hawaiian [Term?].
Senses: glosses: Loxioides bailleui, a finch-billed species of Hawaiian honeycreeper with a golden-yellow head and breast.
pseudometaphysical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more pseudometaphysical
form: most pseudometaphysical
Etymology: From pseudo- + metaphysical.
Senses: examples: text: Scientific reason may pass only an after-the-fact judgment on this fact of religion; it has no right to an a priori pseudometaphysical judgment that God has definitively died at some given moment in the evolution of humankind.
ref: 1976, José María González Ruiz, The New Creation: Marxist and Christian?, page 4:
text: Mill's attempt to answer this pseudometaphysical question is so admirable that it almost raises pseudometaphysics to the rank of a science.
ref: 2016, R. G. Collingwood, An Essay on Metaphysics, →ISBN:
text: In essence one will find very little in the scripts of, say, the detailed metaphysical or pseudometaphysical content of the Seth books or the other channelled material referred to in studies of channelling (Klimo, Hastings) .
ref: 2018, Trevor Hamilton, Arthur Balfour's Ghosts, →ISBN:
glosses: Pertaining to pseudometaphysics
pathside
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From path + -side.
Senses: glosses: Located beside a path.
pathside
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pathsides
Etymology: From path + -side.
Senses: glosses: The area on either side of a path.
pathsides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pathside
pseudocusp
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pseudocusps
Etymology: From pseudo- + cusp.
Senses: topics: dentistry
medicine
sciences
glosses: A structure resembling a cusp.
pseudocusps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pseudocusp
pseudometaphysics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From pseudo- + metaphysics.
Senses: examples: text: Finally, with good reason, this psychology aims to be a psychology of a purely empiriological type. It is pervaded and overwhelmed on every side, however, by a pseudometaphysics of the most vulgar character, which Freud is all the less anxious to dispense with as he imagines he has no philosophy or metaphysics at all. I say pseudometaphysics of the most vulgar type, because it combines all the prejudices of deterministic, mechanistic scientism with all the prejudices of irrationalism.
ref: 1964, Cross Currents of Psychiatry and Catholic Morality, page 351:
text: Without the explanatory dimension, insights into concrete data regarding reality, the ethical, human life and relationships run the risk of shading off into a pseudometaphysics that is in fact mythical.
ref: 2008, Andrew Beards, Method in Metaphysics: Lonergan and the Future of Analytical Philosophy, →ISBN:
text: Mill's attempt to answer this pseudometaphysical question is so admirable that it almost raises pseudometaphysics to the rank of a science.
ref: 2016, R. G. Collingwood, An Essay on Metaphysics, →ISBN:
glosses: A hypothesized explanation of the nature of reality that lacks the rigor of true metaphysics, especially one that involves a supersensual realm or phenomena which transcend the physical world.
pseudo-metaphysics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: This is definitely not what Berkeley does in his early published works: there he leads us into pseudo-metaphysics in a dialectical manner in order to lead us out from its toils.
ref: 2012, Gavin Ardley, Berkeley’s Renovation of Philosophy, →ISBN, page 156:
glosses: Alternative form of pseudometaphysics.
empiriological
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more empiriological
form: most empiriological
Senses: examples: text: Finally, with good reason, this psychology aims to be a psychology of a purely empiriological type.
ref: 1964, Cross Currents of Psychiatry and Catholic Morality, page 351:
text: If the emphasis is put on mobile seu sensibile, we have a discipline of a physical and nonontological character, an empiriological science.
ref: 1999, Yves René Marie Simon, Anthony O. Simon, Philosopher at Work: Essays, →ISBN, page 26:
text: Physics, chemistry, experimental psychology, and other empiriological studies" are rooted in such evidence and, accordingly, are valid bodies of knowledge.
ref: 2007, Leo Sweeney, William J. Carroll, John J. Furlong, Authentic Metaphysics in an Age of Unreality, →ISBN, page 6:
text: Personality and character express the empiriological person.
ref: 2012, Brother Charles Madden, A Compendium of the Doctrines of Genesis 1-11, →ISBN, page 48:
glosses: Based on, characterized by, or pertaining to empirical study.
Sebright bantam syndrome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Albright's hereditary osteodystrophy.
synonyms: word: Albright's hereditary osteodystrophy
Martin-Albright syndrome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Albright's hereditary osteodystrophy.
synonyms: word: Albright's hereditary osteodystrophy
nonappropriate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + appropriate.
Senses: glosses: Not appropriate.
Synonyms: inappropriate
unappropriate
unsuitable
slackish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more slackish
form: most slackish
Etymology: From slack + -ish.
Senses: examples: text: He is shabbily smart, and looks what he is, a slackish, hard-drinking unsuccessful man of forty-two.
ref: 2001, J. B. Priestley, An Inspector Calls and Other Plays, →ISBN:
text: A slackish kicking strap allows the top of the mainsail to fall off forward in the heaviest gusts.
ref: 2009, Eric Twiname, Start to Win: The Classic Text, →ISBN, page 106:
text: In ordinary language perceived events and movements can both be described in the same language, using spatial, temporal, and nonspatiotemporal concepts as well. We see movements that are short, large, fast, hasty, or slackish—and we can perform such movements as well.
ref: 2016, Herbert Heuer, Andries Sanders, Perspectives on Perception and Action, →ISBN, page 65:
glosses: Somewhat slack.
curf
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: curfs
Senses: glosses: A limestone containing cherts
curfs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of curf
progestagenic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of progestogenic.
progesteronic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to, or characteristic of progesterone
promastocyte
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: promastocytes
Etymology: From pro- + mastocyte.
Senses: topics: biology
cytology
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: A form of mast cell
promastocytes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of promastocyte
propanolysis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From propanol + -lysis.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: alcoholysis using propanol
proprioceptory
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to proprioception or to a proprioceptor
limneth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From limn + -eth.
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of limn
limnest
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From limn + -est.
Senses: glosses: second-person singular simple present indicative of limn
radical feminist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: radical feminists
Senses: examples: text: Then they were going to try to explain why, at a time when transgender rights are ascendant, radical feminists insist on regarding transgender women as men, who should not be allowed to use women’s facilities, such as public rest rooms, or to participate in events organized exclusively for women.
ref: 2014 August 4, Michelle Goldberg, “What Is A Woman? The Dispute between Radical Feminism and Transgenderism”, in The New Yorker:
glosses: An adherent or proponent of radical feminism.
Derived terms: TERF
radical feminist
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: The last time a feminist of any standing published an attack on transgenderism as caustic as “Gender Hurts” was in 1979, when Janice Raymond produced “The Transsexual Empire: The Making of the She-Male.” Raymond was a lesbian ex-nun who became a doctoral student of the radical-feminist theologian Mary Daly, at Boston College.
ref: 2014 August 4, Michelle Goldberg, “What Is A Woman? The Dispute between Radical Feminism and Transgenderism”, in The New Yorker:
glosses: Pertaining to or supporting radical feminism.
radical feminists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of radical feminist
prostatourethral
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From prostato- + urethral.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Relating to the prostate gland and the urethra
protochelin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A tris(catecholamide) siderophore present in the bacterium Azotobacter vinelandii
proximocaudally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From proximo- + caudally.
Senses: glosses: In a proximocaudal manner
psychophysiologic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of psychophysiological.
pulsology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
synonyms: pulse diagnosis
sphygmology
glosses: Examination of the pulse as a means of diagnosis
pycnosome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pycnosomes
Senses: glosses: A person with a stocky body
pycnosomes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pycnosome
quinochalcones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of quinochalcone
authograph
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: authographs
Senses: glosses: a handwritten manuscript
rabelomycin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The angucycline antibiotic (3R)-3,6,8-trihydroxy-3-methyl-2,4-dihydrobenzo[a]anthracene-1,7,12-trione
raingarden
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: raingardens
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of rain garden.
raingardens
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of raingarden
ranbezolid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A particular antibacterial oxazolidinone
recapillarization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From re- + capillarization.
Senses: glosses: The restoration of a network of capillaries to a part of the body
redoxocline
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: redoxoclines
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of redoxcline.
rehearsable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From rehearse + -able.
Senses: glosses: That can be rehearsed
reprocessable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From reprocess + -able.
Senses: glosses: That can be reprocessed
reptarenavirus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: reptarenaviruses
Senses: glosses: Any virus of the genus Reptarenavirus
reptarenaviruses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of reptarenavirus
resistotype
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: resistotypes
Senses: glosses: A type of an organism that is resistant to attack (by pesticide etc)
resistotypes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of resistotype
retinochorodial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of retinochoroidal.
retromutagenesis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From retro- + mutagenesis.
Senses: topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: A reversal of normal mutagenesis that allows a mutation to escape being selected
rhaphidophoridan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rhaphidophoridans
Senses: glosses: Any insect (such as cave crickets) of the superfamily Rhaphidophoridae
rhaphidophoridans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rhaphidophoridan
riverdune
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: riverdunes
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of river dune.
riverdunes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of riverdune
river dune
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: river dunes
form: riverdune
Senses: glosses: A dune formed in or by a river.
rocovitine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of roscovitine.
rugopunctate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From rugo- + punctate.
Senses: glosses: rugose and punctate
saffranine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of safranin.
sandostatin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A somatostatin analog used to control symptoms of some cancers
saponitic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to, or composed of saponite
saquayamycin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: saquayamycins
Senses: glosses: Any of a group of aquayamycin antibiotics present in Streptomyces nodosus
aquayamycin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: aquayamycins
Senses: glosses: An anthraquinone glycoside that is the basis of some antibiotics
saquayamycins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of saquayamycin
saturably
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: In a saturable manner
scansoriopterygid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: scansoriopterygids
Senses: glosses: Any of the family †Scansoriopterygidae of maniraptoran dinosaurs.
scansoriopterygids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of scansoriopterygid
dolime
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Blend of dolomite + lime
Senses: glosses: Dolomitic lime, which is produced by heating (calcining) dolomitic limestone.
Synonyms: dolomitic lime
burnt dolomite
pigeon-blood
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Of a ruby, being of a deep red colour.
peg legging
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: We see him peg legging his way down the alley as Twist gives the signal once more.
ref: 2011, Matthew Specktor, Sean Howe, The Sting, →ISBN, page 101:
glosses: present participle and gerund of peg leg
peg legged
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of peg leg
peg legged
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: The car pulled off the road with the headlights glaring at the 'peg legged' deer.
ref: 2009, Carlos Reid, Stalking the Warden, →ISBN, page 73:
glosses: Alternative form of peg-legged.
kakahi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kakahi
Etymology: From Maori kākahi.
Senses: glosses: Echyridella menziesii, the New Zealand freshwater mussel.
Cory's shearwater
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Cory's shearwaters
Etymology: Named after Charles B. Cory (1857–1921), American ornithologist.
Senses: glosses: Calonectris borealis, a large shearwater in the seabird family Procellariidae.
tractor trailer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tractor trailers
Senses: glosses: alternative spelling of tractor-trailer
tractor trailers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tractor trailer
clovewort
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cloveworts
Etymology: From clove + wort.
Senses: glosses: Clove pink, which has clove-scented flowers
glosses: Any plant of the family Caryophyllaceae.
glosses: Avens, which has clove-scented roots
clovewort
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cloveworts
Etymology: From Old English clufwyrt.
Senses: glosses: an herb mentioned in Old English herbals, probably Ranunculus acris
cloveworts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of clovewort
shell shoveling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: The redirection of the shell to a remote service so that input can be entered and output received without being physically present.
self-assessment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: self-assessments
form: selfassessment
Etymology: From self- + assessment.
Senses: examples: text: The following table sets out the reporting and self-assessment requirements for Signatories of the Principles for Responsible Banking.
ref: 2021 January 24, “Reporting and Self-Assessment Template”, in UNEP, page 1:
text: From a leadership perspective, these self-assessments can “also help uncover successes/wins that have yet to be celebrated and shared within the broader organization,” he adds.
ref: 2022 March 4, Johanna Ambrosio, “10 self-evaluation tips for a better performance review”, in CIO:
glosses: An assessment of oneself (especially of one's income tax).
schlerophyll
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of sclerophyll.
scropolioside
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: scropoliosides
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of a group of iridoid glycosides present in Scrophularia deserti
selenodonty
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The presence of selenodont teeth
semiprecociality
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From semi- + precociality.
Senses: glosses: The condition of being semiprecocial
slopeland
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: slopelands
Senses: examples: text: In the Taipei area, the government recently completed the Keelung River Yuanshanzih Flood Diversion Tunnel to stop flooding around Sijhih. Housing developments built on slopeland in Sijhih had destroyed the hydrological balance in recent years, causing heavy loads of sediment to wash down into the river and reducing much of its drainage capacity.
ref: 2006, Taiwan Business Topics, volume 36, American Chamber of Commerce in Taipei, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 30, column 2:
glosses: Any sloping piece of land, such as a hillside.
slopelands
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of slopeland
snowcoach
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: snowcoaches
Etymology: From snow + coach.
Senses: glosses: A coach (type of bus) equipped for travelling on snow.
snowcoaches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of snowcoach
solenocerid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: solenocerids
Senses: glosses: Any marine decapod of the family Solenoceridae
solenocerids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of solenocerid
solvothermolysis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From solvo- + thermolysis.
Senses: glosses: thermolysis in the presence of a solvent
Related terms: hydrothermolysis
hydrothermolysis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From hydro- + thermolysis.
Senses: glosses: solvothermolysis with water as the solvent
spinotrigeminal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɛmɪnəl
Etymology: From spino- + trigeminal.
Senses: glosses: Relating to the spine and the trigeminal nerve
spirotane
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spirotanes
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Synonym of rotane.
synonyms: word: rotane
staphylothrombin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: staphylothrombins
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A complex formed of coagulase and prothrombin
streptavidinate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: streptavidinates
form: streptavidinating
form: streptavidinated
form: streptavidinated
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: To bind with streptavidin
streptavidinated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of streptavidinate
streptavidinated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Bound with streptavidin
subaltricial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From sub- + altricial.
Senses: glosses: Somewhat altricial
subchoroidal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From sub- + choroidal.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Beneath the choroid
submillisievert
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From sub- + millisievert.
Senses: glosses: Less than a millisievert
raw_tags: of a radiation dose
subsarcolemal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of subsarcolemmal.
superprecociality
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From super- + precociality.
Senses: glosses: The condition of being superprecocial
supratemporally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From supra- + temporally.
Senses: glosses: In a supratemporal manner
surfgrass
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: surfgrasses
Senses: glosses: Any seagrass of the genus Phyllospadix
surfgrasses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of surfgrass
tabersonine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: An indole alkaloid present in Catharanthus roseus.
talometatarsal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From talo- + metatarsal.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Relating to the talus and metatarsus
wakan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wakan
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of waegwan.
taphofacies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -eɪʃiiːz
Forms: form: taphofacies
Etymology: From tapho- + facies.
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: taphonomic facies
teleconsult
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: teleconsults
form: teleconsulting
form: teleconsulted
form: teleconsulted
Etymology: From tele- + consult.
Senses: glosses: To take part in teleconsultation
telecoprids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of telecoprid
tellenid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of tellinid.
telosomics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The study of telosomes
Related terms: telosomic
thiophenones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of thiophenone
titanohyracid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: titanohyracids
Senses: glosses: Any extinct hyrax of the genus †Titanohyrax
titanohyracids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of titanohyracid
tocomonoenol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tocomonoenols
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of a group of enolic isomers of vitamin E
tocomonoenols
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tocomonoenol
topisomerase
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: topisomerases
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of topoisomerase.
transmantle
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From trans- + mantle.
Senses: glosses: Across or through a mantle (typically of the brain)
transporionic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From trans- + porionic.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Across or through the porion
Derived terms: transporionic axis
trelagliptin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From [Term?] + -gliptin (“dipeptidyl aminopeptidase-IV inhibitor”).
Senses: topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: A pharmaceutical drug used for the treatment of diabetes mellitus.
triricinolein
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The triglyceride of ricinoleic acid
tubulotoxicity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The condition of being tubulotoxic
step out of line
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: steps out of line
form: stepping out of line
form: stepped out of line
form: stepped out of line
Senses: examples: text: It starts when you're always afraid / Step out of line, the man come and take you away
ref: 1966 December, Stephen Stills, “For What It's Worth”performed by Buffalo Springfield:
text: By recalling the lynching and imagining that as the “rightful” place for black men who step out of line, Jesse, the sheriff, can collect his nerves sufficiently to confront the demonstrators
ref: 2009, Trudier Harris, The Scary Mason-Dixon Line: African American Writers and the South, LSU Press, →ISBN:
text: If you step out of line and indulge in immoral acts, you're breaking the contract with your fellow citizens.
ref: 2012, Henry Jacoby, Game of Thrones and Philosophy: Logic Cuts Deeper Than Swords, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 176:
text: We have been conditioned from early childhood to be afraid; if we step out of line we will not be accepted.
ref: 2013, Chris Hamilton, On the Path to Enlightenment, Balboa Press, →ISBN, page 65:
glosses: To break the rules of society.
Related terms: cross the line
fall in line
toe the line
ubichromenol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A polyisoprenoid derivative of chromenol
uncompromized
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + compromized.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of uncompromised.
underarousal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From under- + arousal.
Senses: glosses: Less than the normal extent of arousal
underdevelopments
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of underdevelopment
underglycolysation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of underglycosylation.
unicortically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From uni- + cortically.
Senses: glosses: In a unicortical manner
unisegmental
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From uni- + segmental.
Senses: glosses: Relating to, or composed of a single segment
unoviposited
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + oviposited.
Senses: glosses: Not oviposited
urdamycin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: urdamycins
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of a group of angucycline antibiotics present in Streptomyces fradiae.
urdamycins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of urdamycin
ureteroileal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From uretero- + ileal.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Relating to the ureter and the ileum
eicosadiene
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: eicosadienes
Etymology: From eicosa- + -diene.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of several isomeric unsaturated alkenes having twenty carbon atoms and two double bonds
Derived terms: eicosadienoic
specifyings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of specifying
takes shape
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of take shape
taking shape
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of take shape
took shape
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past of take shape
taken shape
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: past participle of take shape
takes flight
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of take flight
taking flight
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of take flight
took flight
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past of take flight
taken flight
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: past participle of take flight
exor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: exors
Senses: topics: law
glosses: Abbreviation of executor.
Related terms: admr
sciagraphing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of sciagraph
sciagraphed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of sciagraph
skiagraphing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of skiagraph
skiagraphed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of skiagraph
range light
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: range lights
Etymology: From range + light.
Senses: glosses: One of the lights placed in line, usually at or near a lighthouse, to direct the course of a ship through a channel.
glosses: One of the lights on board ship placed to give a ready indication of changes of course to other vessels.
range lights
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of range light
skiascopic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to skiascopy.
sension
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sensions
Senses: examples: text: […] which communicates with a pipe which leads to the palate, and which is equally necessary to produce the sension of exterior sounds.
ref: 1797, The New-York Weekly Magazine, Or, Miscellaneous Repository:
glosses: sensation; awareness of being affected by something external
sensions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sension
limbies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of limby
glosses: plural of limbie
mimography
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The art of writing sign language by means of pictorial symbols constituting ideographs.
Related terms: mimeography
pad-tree
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pad-trees
Senses: glosses: The frame to which harness-pads are attached, for riding an animal.
pad-trees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pad-tree
pettyfog
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: pettyfogs
form: pettyfogging
form: pettyfogged
form: pettyfogged
Senses: examples: text: His was the nimble brain which delayed, pettyfogged, and conceived the confusing novel.
ref: 1949, News Bulletin of the Iowa State Bar Association - Volumes 9-13:
text: Member: You are pettyfogging now.
ref: 1975, Canada. Parliament. House of Commons, House of Commons Debates, Official Report - Volume 6, page 6023:
text: Such pettyfogging was not the temper desired for what King Manoel of Portugal already termed his Empire of the Indies.
ref: 2013, Ziauddin Sardar, Robin Yassin-Kassab, Critical Muslim 07: Muslim Archipelago, →ISBN:
glosses: Alternative form of pettifog.
pettyfogs
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of pettyfog
pettyfogging
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of pettyfog
pettyfogging
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more pettyfogging
form: most pettyfogging
Senses: glosses: Trivial; nitpicky.
smoked someone's pole
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of smoke someone's pole
smokes someone's pole
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of smoke someone's pole
smoking someone's pole
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of smoke someone's pole
pettyfogged
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of pettyfog
petty-fog
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: petty-fogs
form: petty-fogging
form: petty-fogged
form: petty-fogged
Senses: examples: text: By works of darkness hopes to rise to day, And damns a brief, and petty-fogs a play; Cabals and plots, and wriggles for a name, And shrinks and withers at a rival's fame;
ref: 1786, Arthur Murphy, Works - Volume 7, page 31:
glosses: Alternative form of pettifog.
petty-fogs
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of petty-fog
petty-fogging
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of petty-fog
petty-fogging
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more petty-fogging
form: most petty-fogging
Senses: examples: text: In his opinion, the English hospitals 'have got Colonials well set because we won't stand for their petty-fogging ways.
ref: 2018, Anna Rogers, With Them Through Hell, →ISBN, pages 213–214:
glosses: Alternative form of pettyfogging.
petty-fogged
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of petty-fog
proptosing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of proptose
reversing shaft
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: reversing shafts
Senses: glosses: A shaft which permits a reversal of the order of steam passage through the ports of a steam engine.
reversing shafts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of reversing shaft
proptosed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of proptose
proptotic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: exophthalmic
Related terms: proptosis
wingies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wingy
limbie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: limbies
Senses: examples: text: Among those forced to adjust to life as a 'limbie' was John A. Lee, who, in his novel Soldier, left a searing description of the wounding in France that cost him his left arm.
ref: 2018, Anna Rogers, With Them Through Hell, →ISBN, page 347:
glosses: Alternative form of limby.
allohistory
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /alə(ʊ)ˈhɪst(ə)ɹi/
ipa: /alə(ʊ)ˈhɪst(ə)ɹɪ/
ipa: /æləˈhɪst(ə)ɹi/
ipa: /æloʊˈhɪst(ə)ɹi/
Forms: form: allohistories
Etymology: From allo- + history.
Senses: examples: text: But some discussion of the complex relationship between “allohistory” and sf is appropriate here, as the genres overlap in certain ways. Classical allohistory— such as Trevelyan's "What if Napoleon had won the Battle of Waterloo?" and Churchill's "If Lee had not won the Battle of Gettysburg" —is a rigorously consistent thought-experiment in historical causality.
ref: 2011 February 1, Istvan Csicsery-Ronay, Jr., The Seven Beauties of Science Fiction, Wesleyan University Press, →ISBN, pages 102–103:
text: […]the early twenty-second century in a timeline where the atomic bomb that instilled such dread in Royland never materialized, resulting in an Axis victory. Over fifty years old now, "Two Dooms" predated Philip K. Dick's more famous World War II allohistory, The Man in the High Castle by three years.
ref: 2015 July 19, Nader Elhefnawy, After the New Wave: Science Fiction Today, pages 46–47:
text: I define alloliterature as the alteration of known literary texts to present an alternate outcome from the original text. As with allohistory, a large range of texts can be deemed alloliterary in nature, with the three primary types of alloliterature aligning with the three types of allohistory:[…]
ref: 2018 January 19, Brett Carol Young, “"The great change in human history": The Recasting of the Fall of Man as the Crisis of Faith in His Dark Materials”, in Sara K. Day, Sonya Sawyer Fritz, editors, The Victorian Period in Twenty-First Century Children’s and Adolescent Literature and Culture, Routledge, →ISBN, page 36:
glosses: Synonym of alternate history.
synonyms: word: alternate history
Synonyms: word: alternate history
english: both senses
translation: both senses
word: alternative history
Related terms: allohistorical
allohistories
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of allohistory
allosucks
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of allosuck
store farm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: store farms
Senses: glosses: A stock farm; a cattle farm.
store farms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of store farm
Sikeliot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Sikeliots
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Siceliot.
Sikeliots
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Sikeliot
Siceliot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Siceliots
form: Sikeliot
Etymology: From Ancient Greek Σικελιώτης (Sikeliṓtēs).
Senses: glosses: A member of the colonies of immigrant Greeks in Sicily, who gradually became assimilated with the native Siculi.
glosses: A Greek settler in Sicily; a Siculian.
Siceliots
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Siceliot