cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
postcristid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: postcristids
Senses: topics: dentistry
medicine
sciences
glosses: An enamel ridge that connects hypoconid and hypoconulid of some molars
postcristids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of postcristid
postdural
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ʊəɹəl
Etymology: From post- + dural.
Senses: glosses: posterior to the dura mater
posteromesially
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From postero- + mesially.
Senses: glosses: In a posteromesial manner
overdiscuss
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: overdiscusses
form: overdiscussing
form: overdiscussed
form: overdiscussed
Etymology: From over- + discuss.
Senses: glosses: To discuss too long or too often.
overdiscussing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of overdiscuss
overdiscusses
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of overdiscuss
overdiscussion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From over- + discussion.
Senses: glosses: Excessive discussion.
postfusional
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From post- + fusional.
Senses: glosses: Following fusion
postintraperitoneal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From post- + intraperitoneal.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
surgery
glosses: Following intraperitoneal surgery
postpineal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From post- + pineal.
Senses: glosses: posterior to the pineal gland
prefrontostriatal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From prefronto- + striatal.
Senses: glosses: prefrontal and striatal
preopsonized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of preopsonize
preprotocristid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pre- + protocristid.
Senses: glosses: anterior to a protocristid
preprotocristid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: preprotocristids
Etymology: From pre- + protocristid.
Senses: glosses: Such a tooth
preprotocristids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of preprotocristid
proarrhythmia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From pro- + arrhythmia.
Senses: glosses: cardiac arrhythmia typically initiated by a therapeutic drug
Chilcotin
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /t͡ʃɪlˈkoʊtɪn/
Etymology: Borrowed from Chilcotin Tŝinlhqut’in (literally “river man”).
Senses: glosses: A region of British Columbia, on the inland lee of the Coast Mountains on the west side of the Fraser River.
glosses: The river that drains that region.
glosses: A Northern Athabaskan language spoken in British Columbia by the Tsilhqot'in people.
Chilcotin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /t͡ʃɪlˈkoʊtɪn/
Forms: form: Chilcotins
form: Chilcotin
Etymology: Borrowed from Chilcotin Tŝinlhqut’in (literally “river man”).
Senses: glosses: A Native American from that region.
Chilcotins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Chilcotin
qualitylessness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From qualityless + -ness.
Senses: glosses: Absence of qualities.
hitlessness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From hitless + -ness.
Senses: glosses: Absence of hits.
holdlessness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From holdless + -ness.
Senses: glosses: Absence of holds.
pennylessness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From pennyless + -ness.
Senses: glosses: Dated spelling of pennilessness.
protectotype
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: protectotypes
Senses: glosses: A serovar that provides protection from other serotypes
protectotypes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of protectotype
proteodynamic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to proteodynamics
proteodynamics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The dynamics of a proteostasis network
Related terms: proteodynamic
protofibrilic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From protofibril + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of protofibrillar.
synonyms: word: protofibrillar
psammohalophyte
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: psammohalophytes
Etymology: From psammo- + halophyte.
Senses: glosses: A halophyte that thrives in sandy conditions
psammohalophytes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of psammohalophyte
pseudophylactocarp
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pseudophylactocarps
Etymology: From pseudo- + phylactocarp.
Senses: glosses: A hydrocladium that resembles a phylactocarp.
pseudophylactocarps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pseudophylactocarp
psychostimulative
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From psycho- + stimulative.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of psychostimulatory.
pyridostigimine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of pyridostigmine.
radiculomyelopathy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From radiculo- + myelopathy.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: radiculopathy combined with myelopathy
radioanalyse
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: radioanalyses
form: radioanalysing
form: radioanalysed
form: radioanalysed
Etymology: From radio- + analyse.
Senses: glosses: To carry out a radioanalysis
radioanalysed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of radioanalyse
radiodefluorination
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From radio- + defluorination.
Senses: glosses: The removal of radiofluorine
reattachable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From re- + attachable.
Senses: glosses: That may be reattached
redehydration
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From re- + dehydration.
Senses: glosses: A second or subsequent dehydration
reintoxication
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: reintoxications
Etymology: From re- + intoxication.
Senses: glosses: A second or subsequent intoxication
renitrosylation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: renitrosylations
Etymology: From re- + nitrosylation.
Senses: glosses: A second or subsequent nitrosylation, typically following a denitrosylation
resinoside
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: resinosides
Senses: glosses: The glycoside of a resin
resinosides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of resinoside
robinioid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: robinioids
Senses: glosses: Any legume of the clade Robinioids
robinioids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of robinioid
rodogram
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rodograms
Etymology: Initial letters of root of difference + -gram.
Senses: coordinate_terms: madogram
glosses: A form of variogram that plots the square root of spatial differences
rodograms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rodogram
roxythromycin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of roxithromycin.
Sandomierz
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from Polish Sandomierz.
Senses: glosses: A town in Holy Cross Voivodeship, Poland.
Świętokrzyskie
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from Polish Świętokrzyskie.
Senses: synonyms: Holy Cross Mountains
glosses: A mountain range in Poland.
synonyms: Świętokrzyskie Voivodeship
glosses: A voivodeship located in southern Poland.
Shadean
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Shadeans
Senses: topics: literature
media
publishing
glosses: A proponent of an interpretation of Vladimir Nabokov's 1962 novel Pale Fire according to which the character John Shade wrote not only the poem, but the commentary as well, having invented his own death and the character of Kinbote as a literary device.
Coordinate terms: Kinbotean
Shadeans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Shadean
Kinboteans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Kinbotean
MTSOs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of MTSO
gladhandings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gladhanding
temperance movement
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: temperance movements
Senses: glosses: A social movement which campaigned against the consumption of alcohol, and which spread to many countries in its heyday in the 19th and early 20th centuries.
Related terms: prohibition
prohibitionism
prohibitionist
teetotaler
temperance movements
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of temperance movement
beef bourguignons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of beef bourguignon
crook as Rookwood
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: In reference to Rookwood Cemetery.
Senses: glosses: Extremely unwell.
wikipedia: Rookwood Cemetery
tradwives
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tradwife
PDRs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of PDR
subdiagonals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of subdiagonal
cheretta
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of chiretta.
opinionation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: opinionations
Senses: examples: text: Violence doesn't need a leather jacket or police uniform for a vehicle. It can come in politically correct attire just as easily. It can manifest itself through opinionation, stubbornness and ostracism.
ref: 1983 February 5, Shiva, “SM/Feminism/Antisemitism”, in Gay Community News, volume 10, number 28, page 4:
glosses: The quality of being opinionated.
opinionations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of opinionation
thick sandwich degree
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: thick sandwich degrees
Senses: topics: education
synonyms: thick sandwich course
glosses: A sandwich degree where the placement or internship takes up a whole unbroken year.
Coordinate terms: thin sandwich degree
thin sandwich degree
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: thin sandwich degrees
Senses: topics: education
synonyms: thin sandwich course
glosses: A sandwich degree involving multiple short placements or internships rather than one that lasts a whole year.
Coordinate terms: thick sandwich degree
thick sandwich degrees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of thick sandwich degree
thin sandwich degrees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of thin sandwich degree
Tripitakas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Tripitaka
thanatographic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to thanatography.
thanatographical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From thanato- + -graphical.
Senses: glosses: Relating to thanatography.
thanatocratic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more thanatocratic
form: most thanatocratic
Senses: glosses: Relating to thanatocracy.
ensanguinated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more ensanguinated
form: most ensanguinated
Senses: glosses: Covered in blood; made bloody.
Related terms: sanguine
kettler
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kettlers
Etymology: From kettle + -er.
Senses: glosses: The worker in charge of a kettle used in dyeing, bleaching, etc
glosses: A person who mends kettles
kettlers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kettler
cultigenic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to a cultigen.
sitting-out area
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sitting-out areas
Senses: glosses: A public space provided with outdoor seating and some shelter; a parklet.
sitting-out areas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sitting-out area
Barbours
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Barbour
Blounts
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Blount
Bullocks
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Bullock
Butlers
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Butler
Calhouns
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Calhoun
Colquhouns
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Colquhoun
Chamberses
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Chambers
Chiltons
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Chilton
Clarkes
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Clarke
Clays
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Clay
Cleburnes
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Cleburne
Colberts
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Colbert
Kolbert
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Kolberts
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Related terms: Colbert
Kolberts
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Kolbert
Crenshaws
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Crenshaw
Crenshaws
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Crenshaw
Cullmans
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Cullman
Cullmann
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Cullmanns
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Derived terms: Cullman
Cullman County
Related terms: Cullman
Culman
Culmann
Kullman
Kullmann
Kulman
Kulmann
Cullmanns
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Cullmann
Culman
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Culmans
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Related terms: Cullman
Cullmann
Culmann
Kullman
Kullmann
Kulman
Kulmann
Culmans
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Culman
Culmann
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Culmanns
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Related terms: Cullman
Cullmann
Culman
Kullman
Kullmann
Kulman
Kulmann
Culmanns
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Culmann
Kullmann
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Kullmanns
Etymology: From the German surname, possibly altered from Konrad, and a variant of Kuhlmann.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Related terms: Cullman
Cullmann
Culman
Culmann
Kullman
Kulman
Kulmann
Kulman
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Kulmans
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Related terms: Cullman
Cullmann
Culman
Culmann
Kullman
Kullmann
Kulmann
Kullmanns
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Kullmann
Kulmann
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Kulmanns
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Related terms: Cullman
Cullmann
Culman
Culmann
Kullman
Kullmann
Kulman
Kulmanns
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Kulmann
Kulmans
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Kulman
Dales pony
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Dales ponies
Etymology: The horse is strongly associated with the Yorkshire Dales in northern England.
Senses: glosses: A mountain and moorland pony breed native to the United Kingdom.
Dales ponies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Dales pony
flypapering
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of flypaper
fly paper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fly papers
Senses: examples: text: They had even hung fly paper but the flies did not go near it!
ref: 2012, Shelley LeRoux, The Secret Ingredient:
text: My wife Lara and I try to keep the doors and windows shut, and from the beams we hang dozens of fly papers, which quickly become covered in a revolting mass of struggling, sticky flies.
ref: 2014, Dave Goulson, A Buzz in the Meadow, page 58:
text: Create your own homemade fly paper and hang near doorways or other areas where flies congregate.
ref: 2014, Dionna Ford, Mandy O'Brien, Homemade Cleaners:
glosses: Alternative form of flypaper.
fly papers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fly paper
fly-paper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fly-papers
Senses: examples: text: : Mrs. Maybrick purchased these fly-papers from two chemists' shops, where she was well known.
ref: 1896, The Maybrick Case, a Statement of the Case as a Whole:
text: Fly-paper has accomplished nothing. The percentage of flies that get hitched to it is but one in the hundred, and the other ninety-nine assemble as at a circus and enjoy the.performance.
ref: 2001, Mark Twain, “The Supremacy of the House Fly”, in Microfilm Edition of Mark Tawin's Literary Manuscripts Available in the Mark Twain Pages, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley:
text: We get rid of flies with fly-spray and by hanging up fly-paper.
ref: 2012, Roald Dahl, Roald Dahl: Three Tales of Magic and Mischief, page 306:
glosses: Alternative form of flypaper.
fly-paper
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: fly-papers
form: fly-papering
form: fly-papered
form: fly-papered
Senses: examples: text: Be firm, Woody, don't get fly-papered into staying on here.
ref: 1976, Stephen Longstreet, God and Sarah Pedlock, page 356:
text: For people who fear getting fly-papered by a first job, the Tremayne case makes it clear that the first job can be a stepping-stone to bigger and better things.
ref: 1983, Auren Uris, John J. Tarrant, Career stages: surmounting the crises of working life, page 47:
text: Once Pleurobrachia senses it has 'fly-papered' a copepod onto a tentacle, it spins its body to rapidly wrap its tentacles around the body, somehow wiping the copepod across the single body opening to the central gut.
ref: 2009, Iain M. Suthers, David Rissik, Plankton:
glosses: Alternative form of flypaper.
fly-papers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fly-paper
fly-papers
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of fly-paper
fly-papering
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of fly-paper
fly-papered
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of fly-paper
fly-papered
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more fly-papered
form: most fly-papered
Senses: examples: text: It was the heat and fumes and bounces from buses that moved your stomach up to your throat and it was greasy meals at fly-papered diners at three a.m. and uniforms that were seldom off your back.
ref: 2012, Sports Illustrated Great Baseball Writing:
glosses: Alternative form of flypapered.
kick loose
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: kicks loose
form: kicking loose
form: kicked loose
form: kicked loose
Senses: glosses: to give someone the freedom to do what they want
autocrash
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: autocrashes
Etymology: From auto + crash.
Senses: examples: text: The death of his parents in that autocrash a few years ago was one reason, he knew, why Willing had picked him out of the final group of volunteers.
ref: 1959, Edmond Hamilton, The star of life, page 12:
text: In New York on Thursday no fewer than ten of Andy Warhol's superstars had their faces and limbs altered to ressemble autocrash victims.
ref: 1974, The Story So Far - Volumes 3-5, page 61:
text: Taxes first performed at New York Theatre Strategy in 1976, (Word Plays 3 PAJ Publication, NY 1984) is a 'word play' set against a fairly urbanised world with the traffic sounds and the autocrashes penetrating the life of this Californian bungalow.
ref: 1997, Jasbir Jain, Deconstructing character, page 109:
glosses: A crash involving one or more cars, trucks, vans, or similar motorized vehicles that normally travel on roads.
autocrashes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of autocrash
thistle butterflies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of thistle butterfly
saphranin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of safranin.
scandenone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Synonym of warangalone.
synonyms: word: warangalone
secologanoside
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A secoiridoid glycoside present in Olea europaea
Ixcuintepec
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish Ixcuintepec, from a Nahuan language (equivalent to Classical Nahuatl Itzcuintepēc, from itzcuintli (“dog”) + tepētl (“mountain”) + -c (locative suffix)), calqued from a Mixe language (e.g. Totontepec Mixe Oc Cuvajcm, from oc (“dog”) + cuvajc (“head”)).
Senses: synonyms: Santiago Ixcuintepec
glosses: A town in Oaxaca, Mexico.
synonyms: Santiago Ixcuintepec
glosses: A municipality of Oaxaca whose municipal seat is the town of the same name.
late-stage capitalism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Rami Malik’s Elliot had the dead-inside, beaten down glare that only late-stage capitalism can give you, and Christian Slater as Mr Robot – Mr Miyagi to his Karate Kid – was a charismatic, memorable mentor.
ref: 2019 February 11, James Donaghy, “Computer says no: how Mr Robot's big reveals didn't hack it”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
text: “The individualization of systemic problems under late-stage capitalism is crazy,” Diacono later said.
ref: 2023 August 28, Michelle Lhooq, quoting Tommy Diacono, “Burning Man attendees roadblocked by climate activists: ‘They have a privileged mindset’”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
glosses: Alternative form of late capitalism.
late stage capitalism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Welcome to Late Stage Capitalism: The Musical – the show formerly known as fashion week. Fashion week has never just been about fashion. It is a microcosm of everything that is compelling and seductive about modern life, and of everything that is terrifying about modern life as well.
ref: 2019 September 17, Jess Cartner-Morley, “So hot it hurts: London fashion week in the age of climate activism”, in The Guardian:
glosses: Alternative form of late capitalism.
lapta
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Russian лапта́ (laptá).
Senses: glosses: A Russian bat and ball game first known to be played in the 14th century.
semicystic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From semi- + cystic.
Senses: examples: text: Its dura periost had been partly destroyed by the tumor, which proved to be macroscopically semicystic and, microscopically, a chromophobe adenmoa.
ref: 1959, Acta Ophthalmologica: Supplementum - Issues 56-58, page 50:
text: Ultrasound shows a multiloculated semi-solid semicystic pelvic mass in a twelve year old girl with low back pain.
ref: 1997, Jane Bates, Practical Gynaecological Ultrasound, page 168:
text: Other germ cell tumours are either solid or semicystic, and often malignant.
ref: 2003, C. J. Mieny, Principles of Surgical Patient, page 983:
text: Imaging studies may show a cystic, semicystic, or solid lesion within the diploë of the bone or within the orbital soft tissues, with or without erosion of the adjacent bone [63].
ref: 2014, Zeynel A. Karcioglu, Orbital Tumors: Diagnosis and Treatment, page 386:
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Including both cysts and pronounced solid sections.
examples: text: Also Callichthyidae (Mattei et al. 1993), some Gobiidae (Mazzoldi et al. 2005) and Scorpaenidae (Muñoz et al. 2002) are characterized by a semicystic mode of spermiogenesis.
ref: 2009, Barrie G M Jamieson, Reproductive Biology and Phylogeny of Fishes, page 168:
text: This is semicystic spermatogenesis first described by Mattei et al. (1993) in the Ophidion genus, and has rarely been reported in fish.
ref: 2010, Kathleen S. Cole, Reproduction and Sexuality in Marine Fishes:
text: In semicystic spermatogenesis, Sertoli cells form, earlier than in other species, an epithelial lining of the spermatogenic tubules.
ref: 2011, Encyclopedia of Fish Physiology: From Genome to Environment:
text: In fishes with semicystic spermatogenesis, round spermatids complete spermiogenesis while in a free state in the tubular lumen.
ref: 2014, Michael D. Griswold, Sertoli Cell Biology, page 401:
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Having spermatoceles that open before spermatogenesis is complete, so that sperm maturation finishes in the lumen.
semidentine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From semi- + dentine.
Senses: glosses: A form of dentine that forms the teeth of placoderms
seroreverter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: seroreverters
Etymology: From sero- + reverter.
Senses: glosses: A person who has undergone seroreversion
seroreverters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of seroreverter
servoflurane
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of sevoflurane.
shamixanthones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shamixanthone
socioenvironment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: socioenvironments
Etymology: From socio- + environment.
Senses: glosses: social environment
socioenvironments
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of socioenvironment
sociofamilial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From socio- + familial.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
sciences
social-science
sociology
glosses: Relating to society and the family
somatometrics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From somato- + -metrics.
Senses: glosses: The study of somatometry
Related terms: somatometric
sonomorphologies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sonomorphology
ips
Language: English
Part of speech: symbol
Senses: examples: text: The contest calls for a 15 to 17 minute mixed program (on cassette or 7½ ips quarter-track tape reel) of West End material only, and a five minute radio edit, marked with the DJ's name and address on the box.
ref: July 3, 1982, Brian Chin, Billboard, page 40:
topics: audio
electrical-engineering
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Initialism of inch(es) per second.
soundward
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From sound + -ward.
Senses: glosses: Describing the direction from which a sound is coming
Related terms: soundwards
soundwards
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From soundward + -s.
Senses: glosses: In a soundward direction
sparatoxin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sparatoxins
Senses: glosses: Any of a group of toxins produced by huntsman spiders
sparatoxins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sparatoxin
sphenomorphine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sphenomorphines
Senses: glosses: Any lizard of the subfamily Sphenomorphinae
sphenomorphines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sphenomorphine
spirulirostrid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spirulirostrids
Senses: glosses: Any pelagic mollusk of the genus Spirulirostra
spirulirostrids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of spirulirostrid
spotwise
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From spot + -wise.
Senses: glosses: One spot at a time
stenonid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stenonids
Senses: glosses: Any plant of the genus Stenonia
stenonids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stenonid
striatoamygdalar
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From striato- + amygdalar.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Relating to the corpus striatum and the amygdala
Related terms: strioamygdaloid
striopallidal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of striatopallidal.
subarboreal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From sub- + arboreal.
Senses: glosses: Beneath a tree
subarboreally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From sub- + arboreally.
Senses: glosses: In a subarboreal manner
suburethrally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: In a suburethral manner
wokesters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wokester
cum-ex
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: business
finance
glosses: Being or relating to a tax fraud scheme in which traders buy shares cum dividend and sell them ex dividend, yielding above-normal profits.
more power to someone
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Forms: form: more power to
Senses: examples: text: “Long life to your grace" says O'Dempsy, taking off his hat; “you desarve to be an O'Shaughnessy!” “More power to you, Paddy!" says Lord Edward […]
ref: 1837, Samuel Lover, Rory O'More: A National Romance, volume 1, page 81:
text: Peter didn't seem to be married, and if she wanted to make a run at him, more power to her.
ref: 2008, Sarah Atwell, Pane of Death, page 34:
text: It doesn't really click with me, but if that's what he wants, more power to him.
ref: 2012, Lance J. Lessler, Sascha's World, page 264:
glosses: Used to express wishes for someone's success in an endeavour of their own choosing.
Derived terms: word: more power to your elbow
Apostolescu
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Apostolescus
Etymology: Borrowed from Romanian Apostolescu.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Romanian.
wokescold
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wokescolds
Etymology: Compound of woke (“aware of social-justice issues”) + scold.
Senses: examples: text: Wokescolds are the new representatives of moral panic.
ref: 2019 January 10, Ben Shapiro, “2019: The Year Of The Wokescolds”, in The Cocheco Times, page 6:
text: Like Pope Urban VII, the self-righteous wokescolds seek to impose their questionable views and shifty standards on the rest of society by silencing dissenters with labels.
ref: 2019 November 6, Jason O'Day, “Obama isn't feeling 'woke'”, in The Daily Iowan, University of Iowa, page 4:
text: When it was announced that David Mamet's American Buffalo was returning to Broadway, cranky theater wokescolds protested.
ref: 2020, Dana Loesch, Grace Canceled: How Outrage is Destroying Lives, Ending Debate, and Endangering Democracy, unnumbered page:
synonyms: social justice warrior
hypernyms: wokeling
wokester
woketard
wokie
glosses: A person who criticizes or shames others for being insufficiently woke, or not supporting social justice causes.
wokescold
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: wokescolds
form: wokescolding
form: wokescolded
form: wokescolded
Etymology: Compound of woke (“aware of social-justice issues”) + scold.
Senses: examples: text: He then proceeded to wokescold the woman for not changing her pfp like everyone else had recently done.
glosses: To aggressively chastise or berate somebody for holding insufficiently social-liberal political or social views, or for behaving in a manner antithetical to such views.
wokescolds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wokescold
busbys
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of busby
Galatae
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The Galatians (Celtic tribe).
deescalatory
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more deescalatory
form: most deescalatory
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of de-escalatory.
de-escalatory
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more de-escalatory
form: most de-escalatory
form: deescalatory
Senses: glosses: Tending to de-escalate a situation.
de-essers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of de-esser
de-esses
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of de-ess
de-essed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of de-ess
affectatiously
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more affectatiously
form: most affectatiously
Etymology: From affectatious + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an affectatious manner; with affectation or pretension.
flushless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From flush + -less.
Senses: examples: text: When the environmental protection movement rose to full swing in the 1970s, she came upon a new Swedish design for a flushless toilet […]
ref: 1977, Alvin Moscow, The Rockefeller inheritance, page 433:
glosses: Without a flush.
man lift
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: man lifts
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of manlift.
Falkland Sound
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Named by John Strong in 1690 for Viscount Falkland, the name only later being applied to the archipelago and its two largest islands.
Senses: glosses: A southwest-northeast sea strait in the Falkland Islands, separating East and West Falkland.
wikipedia: Viscount Falkland
Johnny Canucks
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Johnny Canuck
chamoised
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of chamois
chamoising
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of chamois
chamoises
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chamois
chamoises
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of chamois
CHAT
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Acronym of cultural-historical activity theory.
superimpositional
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to superimposition
sympathicolysis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sympathicolyses
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
surgery
glosses: The temporary destruction of the sympathetic nervous system
sympathicolyses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sympathicolysis
teleoanticipatory
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From teleo- + anticipatory.
Senses: glosses: Relating to teleoanticipation.
tendonogenesis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The creation and development of tendons
Related terms: tendonogenic
tendonogenic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to tendonogenesis
tetrazonium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A divalent cation containing two diazonium groups
thermoprotectants
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of thermoprotectant
thiocarbohydrate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: thiocarbohydrates
Etymology: From thio- + carbohydrate.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any compound derived from a carbohydrate by replacing one or more oxygen atoms by sulfur
thiocarbohydrates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of thiocarbohydrate
thioxanthine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of thioxanthene.
tipuloid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tipuloids
Senses: glosses: Any fly of the superfamily Tipuloidea
Related terms: tipuloidean
tipuloids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tipuloid
tipuloidean
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to the tipuloids
tipulomorph
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tipulomorphs
Senses: glosses: Any fly of the infraorder Tipulomorpha
tipulomorphs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tipulomorph
topobathy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From topo- + Ancient Greek βαθύς (bathús, “deep”).
Senses: glosses: underwater topography; bathymetry.
Related terms: topobathic
be the bigger man
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: see conjugation of "be"
Senses: examples: text: Even if it's in retaliation for a roommate disrespecting your room, be the bigger Man and leave his room alone.
ref: 2012, Joseph Greene, The ComMANdments; The Official Guide Book to Man Rules, King-Size Edition, Lulu.com, →ISBN, page 84:
text: I left 'em in the evidence locker. Someday, he's gonna come apologizing to me and I'll be the bigger man and let him have 'em.
ref: 2014, Barry Lyga, Lucky Day: An I Hunt Killers Novella, Hachette UK, →ISBN, page 39:
text: I remember at a very early age being taught that, when faced with the prospect of fighting, I should always be the bigger man and walk away from it. It's something young boys hear over and over again in their early life. The idea of being the 'bigger man' evokes the belief that those who don't fight are, in fact, superior in their masculinity as they don't have to prove their dominance physically.
ref: 2017, Chris Hemmings, Be a Man, Biteback Publishing, →ISBN, page 62:
glosses: To walk away from a conflict to prevent it from escalating.
Synonyms: to be above
global heating
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: A continuation of present trends in the emission of CO₂ and the other greenhouse gases is expected to result in additional global heating of at least 2° by the year 2030.
ref: 1989, Timothy Wirth, Challenge of Global Warming, Island Press, →ISBN, page 5:
text: […] the popular term for the human influence on global climate is “global warming,” although it really means global heating, of which the observed global temperature increase is only one consequence […]
ref: 2006, Donald Kennedy, Science Magazine's State of the Planet 2006–2007, Island Press, →ISBN, page 92:
glosses: Global warming.
bushful
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bushfuls
Etymology: From bush + -ful.
Senses: examples: text: What caused the breaking of that twig? — what the low, alarmed twittering in that bushful of birds?
ref: 1884, Ambrose Bierce, A Tough Tussle:
text: The best thing about Hayling Island (apart from its spanners) was its bounteous bushfuls of blackberries, from which I readily grazed.
ref: 2011, Josie Dew, Slow Coast Home:
text: He rooted in the ground for pale grubs and tore at bee trees for honey and ate huckleberries by the bushful and was happy and strong.
ref: 2019, Charles Frazier, Cold Mountain:
glosses: As much as a bush holds.
bushfuls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bushful
maskful
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: maskfuls
form: masksful
Etymology: From mask + -ful.
Senses: examples: text: That maskful of sleeping gas was worse than the poison, worse than death itself.
ref: 2002, Susanna Vance, Sights, page 11:
text: The snorkels have automatic closing devices that usually work by gravity — which means little when a diver is upside down. A maskful of water isn't uncommon with these, but perhaps experience will show that you prefer one.
ref: 2005, John Blaine, Rick Brant's Science Projects, page 53:
text: And there he was, some thirty minutes later, being placed on a stretcher by a muscular young paramedic, getting treated to a maskful of delicious oxygen that made breathing downright fun, if a gent can have fun under these kinds of circumstances.
ref: 2012, Ashraf Kagee, Khalil's Journey, page 2:
glosses: As much as a mask holds.
maskfuls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of maskful
masksful
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of maskful
woodsful
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: woodsfuls
Etymology: From woods + -ful.
Senses: examples: text: And when he is talking about a whole woodsful of these abstract trees he calls it "some branchy bunchy bushybowered wood," because he wants to feel as though it were here.
ref: 1939, Max Eastman, Enjoyment of Poetry: With Other Essays in Aesthetics, page 144:
text: 1847-84 – Described by the historian William Bone as “a period in which farms were being fully established, a new county government was growing, the wilderness was still very pervasive with giant trees and woodsfuls of predators and bears."
ref: 1995, Mary Hufford, “Landscape and History at the Headwaters of the Big Coal River Valley”, in Tending the Commons: Folklife and Landscape in Southern West Virginia, published 2001, page 9:
text: Then it wasn't one lonesome critter; it was a woodsful, tearing each others' eyeballs out.
ref: 2012, James Still, Ted Olson, The Hills Remember: The Complete Short Stories of James Still:
text: The melody from a woodsful of leafless tree-limbs blowing in the wind is not a single sound, but a combination of music from each species, and from each individual tree within a species.
ref: 2012, Jean M. Hughes, Walking Around The Sun, page 359:
glosses: As much as can be found in a woods; forestful.
woodsfuls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of woodsful
cat's-paws
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cat's-paw
cat's paws
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cat's paw
Vadim
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Vadym
Etymology: A Transliteration of Russian Вадим (Vadim).
Senses: glosses: A male given name from the Slavic languages, equivalent to English Bademus.
wikipedia: Vadim
line up one's ducks
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: lines up one's ducks
form: lining up one's ducks
form: lined up one's ducks
form: lined up one's ducks
Etymology: Unknown. Most likely a reference to the line of ducks in a shooting gallery.
Senses: examples: text: "Senator Allen was one reason he made up his mind to go to Washington. He'd like to get some of the windbags out of our way and line up our ducks."
ref: 1968, Henrietta Buckmaster, The lion in the stone: a novel, page 340:
text: On Saturday, August 1, the Commissioner lined up his ducks and summoned the owners to a conference the following day at 12:30 p.m. in his wood-paneled office on the twelfth floor at 410 Park Avenue.
ref: 1971, George R. Metcalf, Up from Within: Today's New Black Leaders, page 230:
text: In other words, in the course of investigating the single contribution involving one company, Yellow Cab, they had discovered a whole chain involving other companies of C. Arnholt Smith and for that reason they wanted to get Thornton before he had time to line up his ducks.
ref: 1972, United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary, Richard G. Kleindienst [and] Louis Patrick Gray III, page 1453:
text: Horace hasn't yet learned to line up his ducks before he starts shooting.
ref: 1992, B. J. Hoff, Land of a Thousand Dreams, page 128:
glosses: To organize one's affairs so that one is ready to act efficiently.
Related terms: have one's ducks in a row
lines up one's ducks
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of line up one's ducks
lining up one's ducks
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of line up one's ducks
lined up one's ducks
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of line up one's ducks
take a flutter
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: takes a flutter
form: taking a flutter
form: took a flutter
form: taken a flutter
Senses: examples: text: Jenny's pulse took a flutter at the word 'newspaper' now knowing that she was guilty.
ref: 2016 -, Laurie Pegrum, Looking at Clouds, page 218:
text: “Now, that's a good question, and I'm glad to answer it,” Potter said. “The fact is that it occurred to me there might be a pigeon somewhere round here that was thinking of taking a flutter.
ref: 2017, Richard Mason -, The Fever Tree:
glosses: To flutter for a short period of time.
examples: text: Hughes takes a flutter on the nearest six, nickel bets on thirty-one to thirty-six.
ref: 2010, Steven Manners, Valley of Fire:
text: Although they aspired, like all natural-born gamblers, to taking a flutter and beating that system (they all loved the idea of tips, of course), they were sufficiently cynical to know it's a mug's game and that it was largely bound to fail.
ref: 2012, David Stevenson, FT Guide to Exchange Traded Funds and Index Funds:
text: I was ridin' the horses then, you understand, and maybe known to take a flutter or two on the bangtails while I was about it.
ref: 2018, Kasey Michaels, The Promise:
glosses: To place a small bet.
examples: text: You'd hardly believe how difficult it was to interest the public and make them take a flutter on the old boy.
ref: 1919, P.G. Wodehouse, My Man Jeeves:
text: In the next general election in 2007 the Liberals hung on to only a couple of these ridings: most of their voters took a flutter with the ADQ.
ref: 2012, Peter F. Trent, Merger Delusion:
text: In time Getz took up the slack left by the dearth of commercial presenters and took a flutter on big-name artists in mid-career, often in the Orpheum.
ref: 2019 August 28, David Gordon Duke, “Classical music: Vancouver Recital Society celebrates 40 years going strong”, in Vancouver Sun:
glosses: To support a risky option.
takes a flutter
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of take a flutter
taking a flutter
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of take a flutter
took a flutter
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past of take a flutter
taken a flutter
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: past participle of take a flutter
Radic
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Radich
Etymology: From Serbo-Croatian Radić or Slovak Radič.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Serbo-Croatian.
bobbypin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bobbypins
Senses: examples: text: "You look like a tramp," Quinn said, and starting forward suddenly, so that she cried out, he gave a flip at her hair and the bobbypin fell out.
ref: 1941, Whit Burnett, Martha Foley, Story - Volumes 19-21, page 90:
text: Ida turned swiftly with mouth full of golden bobbypins.
ref: 2012, Xavier Herbert, Soldiers' Women:
text: She held it up to the light — a standard wire bobbypin of a dark shade, the sort that is manufactured for brunettes.
ref: 2015, Niven Busch, California Street, page 386:
glosses: Alternative form of bobby pin.
bobbypins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bobbypin
dogs of war
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Coined by William Shakespeare in 1599 in "Julius Caesar," act 3, scene 1:
: Cry 'Havoc!', and let slip the dogs of war.
Senses: examples: text: Many believe that this country should set the other nations of the world a great moral example by pulling the teeth of our dogs of war, making them lambs, and inviting the lions to lie down with them, unheedful of the lesson of all ages that when the lion does lie down with the lamb, the lamb is always inside the lion.
ref: 2012, Hudson Maxim, Defenseless America:
text: His tragedy is an eloquent critique of Europe's leaders, diplomats, and intellectuals who were, again, about to unleash the dogs of war.
ref: 2013, Thomas Rid, Cyber War Will Not Take Place, page xiii:
text: It should not come to anyone's surprise that the dogs of war, once loosed, did not and do not take readily to the leash.
ref: 2014, Robert Emmet Meagher, Killing from the Inside Out: Moral Injury and Just War, page 107:
text: It became a practice on our side, at 10 o'clock each day, to turn all of these dogs of war loose upon the enemy for an hour or so.
ref: 2015, Justin S. Solonick, Engineering Victory: The Union Siege of Vicksburg, page 140:
glosses: The destructive capabilities of an army or war force.
transtegumental
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From trans- + tegumental.
Senses: glosses: Across or through an integument
transtuzumab
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of trastuzumab.
traseolide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The indane ketone 1-(1,1,2,6-tetramethyl-3-propan-2-yl-2,3-dihydroinden-5-yl)ethanone used in perfumery