cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
mistag
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: mistags
form: mistagging
form: mistagged
form: mistagged
Etymology: From mis- + tag.
Senses: glosses: To tag incorrectly; to mislabel.
mistags
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of mistag
mistagging
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of mistag
mistagging
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mistaggings
Senses: glosses: An instance of incorrect tagging.
mistagged
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of mistag
aminosteroid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: aminosteroids
Etymology: From amino- + steroid.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of a group of drugs (steroidal amines) with a similar structure based on a steroid nucleus
Derived terms: aminosteroidal
vecuronium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌvɛk.jəˈɹoʊ.ni.əm/
rhymes: -əʊniəm
Etymology: From ve- (of unknown origin) + -curonium (“neuromuscular blocking agent”).
Senses: topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: A particular muscle relaxant drug.
Derived terms: vecuronium bromide
aminosteroids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of aminosteroid
gypsie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gypsies
Senses: examples: text: […]work of a diffident unexperienced man, who, mistrusting his own powers, hoped to conciliate critics by leaning on Spanish historians and gypsie poets.
ref: 1904, Charles Wells Moulton, The Library of Literary Criticism of English and American Authors: 1875-1890, page 311:
glosses: Archaic spelling of gypsy.
nonlabelled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: nonlabeled
Etymology: From non- + labelled.
Senses: glosses: Not labelled; unlabelled.
nonlabeled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + labeled.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of nonlabelled.
blot on the escutcheon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: blots on the escutcheon
form: blots on escutcheons
form: blotch on the escutcheon
Senses: examples: text: In the sin of adultery, for instance, hath the government provided any law to punish it; or doth the priest take any care to correct it? On the contrary, is the most notorious practice of it any detriment to a man’s fortune, or to his reputation in the world? doth it exclude from him any preferment in the state, I had almost said, in the church? Is it any blotch in his escutcheon, any bar to his honour?
ref: 1751 December (indicated as 1752), Henry Fielding, chapter 5, in Amelia, volume III, London: […] [William Strahan] for A[ndrew] Millar […], →OCLC, book VII, page 25:
text: The most zealous advocates of the unfortunate monarch cannot deny that this is an indelible blot on his escutcheon.
ref: 1819, Mathew Carey, chapter 6, in Vindiciæ Hibernicæ: or, Ireland Vindicated, Philadelphia: self-published, page 164:
text: He had been commissioned by Chapman & Hall to write another Christmas book—The Kickleburys on the Rhine—had received an advance payment, and with it had removed the last blot from his stepfather’s escutcheon by paying off the last instalment of his debt.
ref: 1971, G. U. Ellis, chapter 6, in Thackeray, New York: Haskell House, page 95:
text: Consequently, where the pardon became a convenient punching bag among contending Democrats, it was no blot on Ford’s escutcheon in the primary contest between Ford and Reagan.
ref: 1984, Kathleen Hall Jamieson, chapter 8, in Packaging the Presidency, 3rd edition, Oxford University Press, published 1996:
glosses: Something damaging to one's reputation.
Related terms: chink in the armor
misdeems
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of misdeem
misdeeming
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /mɪsˈdiːmɪŋ/
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of misdeem
misdeeming
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /mɪsˈdiːmɪŋ/
Forms: form: more misdeeming
form: most misdeeming
Senses: examples: text: Those two he tooke, and in a secret bed, / Couered with darknesse and misdeeming night, / Them both together laid, to ioy in vaine delight.
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto I”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
glosses: Judging wrongly; mistaken.
misdeeming
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /mɪsˈdiːmɪŋ/
Forms: form: misdeemings
Senses: glosses: misjudgment
misdeemed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of misdeem
pharmacometrician
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pharmacometricians
Senses: glosses: An expert at pharmacometrics.
skeletonise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: skeletonises
form: skeletonising
form: skeletonised
form: skeletonised
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of skeletonize.
skeletonises
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of skeletonise
skeletonising
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of skeletonise
skeletonised
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of skeletonise
skeletonizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of skeletonize
skeletonizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of skeletonize
cabbage palm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cabbage palms
form: cabbage-palm
Senses: examples: text: Their cabbage, which is known by the name of cabbage-palm, is susceptible of many modes of dressing, and may be ranked among the most delicious foods.
ref: 1791, Charles Pierre Claret de Fleurieu, Discoveries of the French in 1768 and 1769, page 54:
text: It isn't bad when we come back; we notice little similarities to our dreaming places. The cabbage palms, the fire pit, the family.
ref: 2006, Tara June Winch, Swallow the Air, in Heiss & Minter, Macquarie PEN Anthology of Aboriginal Literature, Allen & Unwin 2008, p. 242
glosses: Any of several different types of palms and palm-like plants.
Any of several palms of the genera Corypha and Livistona of northeastern and central Australia.
glosses: Any of several different types of palms and palm-like plants.
Any of several palms of the genera Corypha and Livistona of northeastern and central Australia.
Corypha utan, an East Asian fan palm (including Northern Australia)
glosses: Any of several different types of palms and palm-like plants.
Any of several palms of the genera Corypha and Livistona of northeastern and central Australia.
Livistona australis, an Australian palm
glosses: Any of several different types of palms and palm-like plants.
Cordyline fruticosa, a tropical tree native to Asia and Polynesia
glosses: Any of several different types of palms and palm-like plants.
Euterpe oleracea (acai palm), a Brazilian palm tree
glosses: Any of several different types of palms and palm-like plants.
Roystonea oleracea, a Caribbean palm
glosses: Any of several different types of palms and palm-like plants.
Sabal palmetto, native to the south-eastern USA, Cuba and the Bahamas
cabbage palms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cabbage palm
ocinaplon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From [Term?] + -plon (“imidazopyrimidine or pyrazolopyrimidine derivative”).
Senses: topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: A particular kind of anxiolytic pyrazolopyrimidine drug.
octodrine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From oct(ane) + -o- + -drine (“sympathomimetic”).
Senses: topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: A particular kind of stimulant drug.
olprinone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From [Term?] + -rinone (“amrinone derivative”).
Senses: topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: A particular kind of cardiotonic agent.
ornidazole
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From (chl)or- + -nidazole (“metronidazole derivative”).
Senses: topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: A particular kind of drug that cures some protozoan infections.
econazole
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From [Term?] + -conazole (“miconazole derivative”).
Senses: topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: A particular kind of imidazole antifungal drug.
oxaceprol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A particular kind of anti-inflammatory drug that is used to treat osteoarthritis.
oxantel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From ox- + -antel.
Senses: glosses: A particular kind of anthelmintic that is used to cure intestinal parasites.
bisoxatin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: A type of laxative.
zingerone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: zingerones
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A crystalline solid organic compound that gives ginger its pungent taste.
zingerones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of zingerone
oxeladin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A particular kind of cough suppressant.
oxodipine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: A type of calcium channel blocker.
ozagrel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: An antiplatelet agent that works as a thromboxane A2 synthesis inhibitor.
tocainide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A particular antiarrhythmic drug that is a lidocaine analog.
indigenity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: indigenousness.
Related terms: indigeneity
Sonnenscheins
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Sonnenschein
ryū
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ryū
form: ryūs
Senses: examples: text: Prior the 1950s there may have been more sanshin players in Hawaii who had studied other ryū in Okinawa before coming to Hawaii, […]
ref: 1979, Asian Culture Quarterly, volume VII, Taipei: Asian Cultural Center, →ISSN, →OCLC, note 20, page 19:
text: Rather than being separated by ryū affiliation, performers are being separated into those who can and those who cannot read staff notation.
ref: 1987, Asian Music, volume 19, New York, N.Y.: Society for Asian Music, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 77:
text: Moreover, innumerable clans had their own martial practices that were not codified in the manner of martial ryū as is generally conceived; […]
ref: 2013, Ellis Amdur, “Tenshinshō-den Katori Shintō-ryū”, in Old School: Essays on Japanese Martial Traditions, 2nd edition, Wheaton, Ill.: Freelance Academy Press, →ISBN, part 1 (Something Once New), page 32:
text: Add in to that, some ryūs also taught how to parry and counterattack against swords and spears by somebody only armed with a knife or short stick.
ref: 2019, Angus MacM. Hodgson, chapter 1, in The Omega Project, book 3 (The Path of War), Indianapolis, Ind.: Dog Ear Publishing, →ISBN, page 34:
glosses: Alternative form of ryu.
connecting rods
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of connecting rod
horse mackerels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of horse mackerel
money bomb
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: money bombs
Etymology: Coined in 2007 by the presidential campaign of Ron Paul.
Senses: examples: text: He set up a website that solicited pledges for contributions to be made directly to the Paul campaign on that day — a technique that became known as a "money bomb," which he used again to such great effect Sunday.
ref: 2007 December 17, Kenneth P. Vogel, “'Money bomb': Ron Paul raises $6 million in 24-hour period”, in USA Today:
text: After the November 5th money bomb, an Obama supporter tried to have a money bomb for Obama.
ref: 2008, Mark Frazier, Ron Paul Revolution: History in the Making, page 98:
topics: government
politics
synonyms: fundraising bomb
glosses: An intense, short-term Internet fundraising campaign, usually taking 24 hours or less.
lavers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of laver
pharmacometrics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From pharmaco- + metrics.
Senses: glosses: The quantitative analysis of the interaction between drugs and patients
Related terms: pharmacometric
Commonwealth of the Bahamas
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɑmənwɛlθ əv ðə bəˈhɑməz/
ipa: /ˈkɒmənwɛlθ əv ðə bəˈhɑːməz/
Forms: form: the Commonwealth of the Bahamas
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Commonwealth of The Bahamas: Official name of the Bahamas: an island country in the Caribbean.
Commonwealth of Dominica
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Official name of Dominica: an island country in the Caribbean.
Related terms: Dominican Republic
Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: The official name of the Northern Mariana Islands.
isonyms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of isonym
Federal Republic of Germany
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Federal Republic of Germany
form: FRG
Etymology: Calque of German Bundesrepublik Deutschland.
Senses: glosses: The official name of a German-speaking country in Europe.
Official name of West Germany: a former country in Central Europe.
synonyms: West Germany
raw_tags: since 1949
glosses: The official name of a German-speaking country in Europe.
Official name of Germany: a country in Central Europe, reunified with the former East Germany.
synonyms: Germany
raw_tags: since 1949
Related terms: German Democratic Republic
Vuoksi River
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A river running in Finland and Russia.
Europol
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Short for European Police Office.
Senses: examples: text: Europol also said on Monday that several other chat sites used by perpetrators of child sexual abuse had been seized on the same occasion.
ref: 2021 May 3, James Frater and Claudia Otto, “German police bust child sex abuse imagery network with 400,000 users”, in CNN:
glosses: The criminal intelligence agency of the European Union.
bassinette
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bassinettes
Etymology: See bassinet.
Senses: examples: text: He found two children dead in the living room, then went upstairs and found the mother dead in the bedroom with her baby dead in the bassinette beside her."
ref: 2009 May 2, Brett Popplewell, “When half the city took ill”, in Toronto Star:
text: It now sits in the bassinette where she was to sleep.
ref: 2009 October 11, Katie Zezima, “Indigent Burials Are on the Rise”, in New York Times:
glosses: Alternative spelling of bassinet.
Derived terms: bathinette
porers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of porer
plastres
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of plastre
varans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of varan
give someone enough rope and they'll hang themself
Language: English
Part of speech: proverb
Senses: glosses: If one gives someone else enough freedom of action, they may destroy themself by foolish actions.
Related terms: cut someone some slack
set a beggar on horseback and he'll ride to the Devil
short leash
spare the rod and spoil the child
blast beat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: blast beats
Senses: glosses: Rapid beats of a drum which often come at set intervals or as on/off beats.
blue mussels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of blue mussel
koiné
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: koinés
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of koine.
koinés
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of koiné
huskarls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of huskarl
Popsicles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Popsicle
circular firing squads
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of circular firing squad
driving irons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of driving iron
phago-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Pronunciation: ipa: /faɡ.ə(ʊ)/
ipa: /fæɡ.oʊ/
ipa: /fæɡ.ə/
Forms: form: phag-
Etymology: From Byzantine Greek φᾰγ- (phăg-), perfective stem of ἔφᾰγον (éphăgon, “I ate, I devoured”), singular first-person aorist active indicative form (by suppletion) of ἐσθῐ́ω (esthĭ́ō, “to eat, devour, consume”).
Senses: glosses: Eating, feeding, consuming.
topics: medicine
physiology
sciences
glosses: Of or pertaining to the phagocyte.
black-and-white televisions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of black-and-white television
fagopyrin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fagopyrins
Etymology: Fagopyrum + -in
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of a group fluorescent red pigments, found in buckwheat (Fagopyrum), that cause hypersensitivity to sunlight if ingested.
fagottino
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fagottinos
form: fagottini
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian fagottino.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of tenoroon.
synonyms: word: tenoroon
fagopyrism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Fagopyrum + -ism
Senses: glosses: Photosensitivity of the skin caused by the ingestion of fagopyrin.
puerperal fevers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of puerperal fever
nee-naw
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: examples: text: If it had not been preceded by the nee-naw of fire engines it meant that no warning had been given. There would be casualties.
ref: 2001, Bernard MacLaverty, The Anatomy School:
text: Whenever an opponent went down, be it genuine or feigned, the West Ham faithful would simultaneously cry 'Nee-naw, nee-naw, nee-naw, nee-naw', mimicking the sound of an ambulance.
ref: 2004, Neil Humphreys, Notes from an Even Smaller Island:
text: Tom is in rapt communion with his police car, lying on his stomach, pushing it round and round, making nee-naw noises.
ref: 2007, Penelope Lively, Consequences:
glosses: Imitating the two-tone siren on a vehicle used by emergency services.
Related terms: mee-maw
hee-haws
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hee-haw
hee-haws
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of hee-haw
heavy goods vehicle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: heavy goods vehicles
Senses: glosses: A lorry, truck or other large vehicle used to transport cargo with a total weight of at least 3.5 tonnes.
Synonyms: word: HGV
heavy goods vehicles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of heavy goods vehicle
up quarks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of up quark
down quarks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of down quark
RHIP
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: Initialism of "rank has its privilege" or "rank hath its privileges".
glosses: Initialism of rest here in peace.
Related terms: RIP
suspended cymbal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: suspended cymbals
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: a cymbal that is suspended horizontally and usually played with one or two sticks
pewterware
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈpjuːtə(ɹ)ˌwɛə(ɹ)/
Forms: form: pewterwares
Etymology: From pewter + -ware.
Senses: glosses: Articles made from pewter.
pewterwares
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pewterware
pewterer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pewterers
Etymology: From pewter + -er.
Senses: glosses: A manufacturer of pewterware.
pewterers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pewterer
hoarfrosts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hoarfrost
nats
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nat
huns
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /hʌnz/
rhymes: -ʌnz
Senses: glosses: plural of hun
silkwear
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: silkwears
Etymology: From silk + -wear.
Senses: glosses: Clothing made of silk.
silkware
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: silkwares
Etymology: From silk + -ware.
Senses: glosses: Articles made from silk.
silkwares
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of silkware
vulvovaginitis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vulvovaginitises
form: vulvovaginitides
Etymology: From vulvo- + vaginitis.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Inflammation of the vulva and vagina.
vulvovaginitides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of vulvovaginitis
paperware
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: paperwares
Etymology: From paper + -ware.
Senses: glosses: Articles made from paper.
paperwares
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of paperware
tutters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tutter
blackware
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: blackwares
Etymology: From black + -ware.
Senses: glosses: Any pottery of a black or nearly black colour.
blackwares
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of blackware
tacolike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more tacolike
form: most tacolike
Etymology: From taco + -like.
Senses: glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a taco.
penislike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more penislike
form: most penislike
Etymology: From penis + -like.
Senses: examples: text: As early as 1916 Steinach described the growth and development of the clitoris to a penislike structure in spayed guinea pigs […]
ref: 1948, Kenneth Vivian Thimann, Edwin B Astwood, The hormones: physiology, chemistry, and applications:
glosses: Resembling a penis.
Synonyms: penisish
phallic
priapic
toleware
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tolewares
Etymology: From tole + -ware.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of tole (“decorative metallic items”).
synonyms: word: tole
extra: decorative metallic items
outswear
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: outswears
form: outswearing
form: outswore
form: outsworn
Etymology: From out- + swear.
Senses: examples: text: When she was not speaking honeyed words, she used earthy language, outswearing the men around her.
ref: 1998, Jane Resh Thomas, Behind the mask: the life of Queen Elizabeth I:
glosses: To swear (use vulgar or profane language) more frequently or powerfully than.
Québécoises
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Québécoise
outswears
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of outswear
outswearing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of outswear
outswore
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past of outswear
outsworn
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: past participle of outswear
Québécoise
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Québécoises
form: Quebecoise
Etymology: From French Québécoise.
Senses: glosses: Female equivalent of Québécois.
Québécoise
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: Quebecoise
Etymology: From French québécoise.
Senses: examples: text: Not surprisingly, moreover, it was divided on gender lines, the Québécoise (women) reviewers for Le Journal de Montréal and CITÉ-FM radio alone giving the production rave reviews.[…]Finally, Marie Labrecque, in her (generally balanced) article about the “controversy” over the production, quotes a number of prominent (male) Québécois playwrights who agree that “la seule chose qui reste pareille, c’est le texte.”
ref: 2004, Richard Paul Knowles, Shakespeare and Canada: Essays on Production, Translation, and Adaptation, P.I.E.-Peter Lang, →ISBN, page 89:
text: Quebec children left home slightly earlier than their Maritime counterparts: the singulate mean age at marriage for Québécoise women was 25 compared to 26 among Nova Scotian women, while the singulate mean age at marriage for Québécois men was 27 compared to 29 for men in Nova Scotia.
ref: 2008, Lisa Yvette Dillon, “Ambiguity and Discontinuity in the Lives of Elderly Women”, in The Shady Side of Fifty: Age and Old Age in Late Victorian Canada and the United States, McGill-Queen’s University Press, page 153:
text: However, this discourse is complicated because on the one hand, Sara creates a new space as she was not born in Québec, nor did she grow up there, but goes on to explain that she feels Québécoise and that she belongs there apparently sharing a collectivity with the Québécois, however, on the other hand, she talks about the Québécois people as a homogeneous group, as a single entity with one language and one culture even though her own position is heterogeneous and diverse.[…]At the same time, she self-identifies as all three identities: Franco-Ontarian, Québécoise, and French Canadian, simultaneously in this interaction.
ref: 2009, Julie Byrd Clark, “Appropriating and Negotiating Symbolic Investments: Strategies across, between, between, and within Multiple Spaces”, in Multilingualism, Citizenship, and Identity: Voices of Youth and Symbolic Investments in an Urban, Globalized World, Continuum International Publishing Group, →ISBN, pages 177–178:
text: If Self’s languages define her identity, and have made her ‘very Canadian,’ her French does not correspond to Canadian French as she discovers in Montreal, her Québécois heritage absent from her pronunciation:[…]it is precisely Self’s ‘French French’ that undermines her in public in Quebec, as the dignity of her claims to being Québécoise is attacked.
ref: 2011, Gillian Roberts, “‘Un Québécois francophone écrivant en anglais’: Yann Martel’s Zoos, Hospitals, and Hotels”, in Prizing Literature: The Celebration and Circulation of National Culture (Cultural Spaces), Toronto, Ont.; Buffalo; London: University of Toronto Press, →ISBN, pages 187–188:
glosses: feminine of Québécois
spongeware
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spongewares
Etymology: From sponge + -ware.
Senses: synonyms: spatterware
glosses: Traditional pottery decorated by spattering or sponging on colour
spongewares
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of spongeware
treenware
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈtɹiːnwɛə(ɹ)/
Forms: form: treenwares
Etymology: From treen + -ware.
Senses: glosses: treen (wooden articles)
treenwares
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of treenware
caneware
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: canewares
Etymology: From cane + -ware.
Senses: glosses: A form of traditional unglazed light-brown stoneware.
canewares
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of caneware
demogrant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: demogrants
Etymology: Blend of demographic + grant
Senses: glosses: A grant awarded on purely demographic principles such as age and sex.
skillless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From skill + -less.
Senses: examples: text: It may appear skillless for a preacher to snub the simple aspirations of his audience so brutally.
ref: 2000, Muhammad Khalid Masud, Travellers in faith:
text: The system taught children to be skillless, "big head but small hands."
ref: 2005, Juliana Essen, "Right development": the Santi Asoke Buddhist reform movement of Thailand:
text: Fool, someone not bright or skillless.
ref: 2006, David Salomon, Foundations of computer security:
glosses: Uncommon spelling of skilless.
demogrants
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of demogrant
stiffware
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From stiff + -ware.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Software that is inflexible, cannot be customized or upgraded, etc.
seaware
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈsiːˌwɛə(ɹ)/
Forms: form: sea-ware
Etymology: From sea + -ware.
Senses: glosses: Flotsam; articles cast up by the sea.
glosses: A kind of kelp; sea girdles.
mibefradil
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /mɪˈbɛf.ɹəˌdɪl/
Etymology: Probably from m(ethox)y + be(nzimidazole) + f(luorotet)ra(lin) + -dil (“vasodilator”).
Senses: topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: A particular calcium channel blocker used to treat hypertension and chronic angina pectoris.
rofecoxib
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɹoʊ.fəˈkɑk.sɪb/
Etymology: From rofe- (of unknown origin) + -coxib (“selective cyclo-oxygenase inhibitor”).
Senses: topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: A COX-2 inhibitor C₁₇H₁₄O₄S (trademark Vioxx) used to relieve the signs and symptoms of osteoarthritis and rheumatoid arthritis, to manage acute pain in adults, and to treat primary dysmenorrhea but withdrawn from sale by the manufacturer because of its link to cardiovascular events (as heart attack and stroke).
amineptine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: An atypical tricyclic antidepressant.
trovafloxacin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌtɹoʊ.vəˈflɑk.səs.ɪn/
Etymology: From [Term?] + -floxacin (“nalidixic acid derivative”).
Senses: topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: A broad-spectrum antibiotic that inhibits the uncoiling of supercoiled DNA in various bacteria by blocking the activity of DNA gyrase and topoisomerase IV.
osteochondrotic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˌɒstiəʊkɒnˈdɹɒtɪk/
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to osteochondrosis.
osteochondroses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of osteochondrosis
tegaserod
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /təˈɡæs.əˌɹɑd/
Etymology: Probably from [Term?] + g(u)a(nidine) + -serod (“serotonin receptor antagonist/partial agonist”).
Senses: topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: A particular drug used to treat irritable bowel syndrome and constipation.
alpidem
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From [Term?] + -pidem (“zolpidem derivative”).
Senses: topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: An anxiolytic imidazopyridine drug that is related to zolpidem.
etretinate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪˈtɹɛt.n̩ˌeɪt/
Etymology: From e(thyl) + (aci)tretin (“retinol derivative”) + -ate.
Senses: topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: A retinoid drug C₂₃H₃₀O₃ used especially to treat severe psoriasis that has been withdrawn from use in the U.S. for its tendency to cause birth defects and is typically replaced in treatment by acitretin.
nomifensine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˌnəʊmɪˈfɛnsiːn/
Senses: glosses: A norepinephrine and dopamine reuptake inhibitor once investigated as an antidepressant.
tolrestat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈtɒlɹɪstæt/
Senses: topics: chemistry
medicine
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
pharmacology
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: An aldose reductase inhibitor formerly used to treat certain diabetic complications.
temafloxacin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From [Term?] + -floxacin (“nalidixic acid derivative”).
Senses: topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: A fluoroquinolone antibiotic drug.
rapacuronium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From [Term?] + -curonium (“neuromuscular blocking agent”).
Senses: topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: A nondepolarizing neuromuscular blocker formerly used in anesthesia.
ximelagatran
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From [Term?] + -gatran (“thrombin inhibitor”).
Senses: topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: An anticoagulant drug once proposed as a replacement for warfarin but withdrawn due to hepatotoxicity risks.
Related terms: melagatran
efalizumab
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From [Term?] + -li- (“immunomodulating”) + -zumab (“humanized monoclonal antibody”).
Senses: topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: A recombinant humanized monoclonal antibody, formerly available to treat autoimmune diseases, especially psoriasis, by binding CD11a of lymphocyte function-associated antigen 1, and associated with fatal brain infections.
Synonyms: sense: trade name
word: Raptiva
antipsoriasis
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From anti- + psoriasis.
Senses: topics: dermatology
medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: Serving to prevent or counter psoriasis.
Synonyms: antipsoriatic
antipsoriatic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From anti- + psoriatic.
Senses: topics: dermatology
medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: Serving to prevent or counter psoriasis.
Synonyms: antipsoriasis
antipsoriatic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: antipsoriatics
Etymology: From anti- + psoriatic.
Senses: glosses: A drug that prevents or counters psoriasis.
antipsoriatics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of antipsoriatic
ticrynafen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /tɪˈkɹɪnəfɛn/
Senses: topics: chemistry
medicine
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
pharmacology
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: The drug tienilic acid.
tienilic acid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
medicine
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
pharmacology
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A diuretic drug with uricosuric action, formerly marketed for the treatment of hypertension.
Synonyms: ticrynafen
lumiracoxib
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
medicine
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
pharmacology
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug, an analogue of diclofenac.
polyomaviruses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of polyomavirus
JC virus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: JC viruses
Etymology: After the patient, John Cunningham, in whom ZuRhein and Chou identified this virus in 1965 by electron microscopy.
Senses: glosses: A human double-stranded DNA virus of the species JC polyomavirus, causing progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy and other diseases in immunodeficient patients.
Synonyms: sense: dsDNA virus
word: JCV
sense: dsDNA virus
word: John Cunningham virus
JC virus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: JC viruses
Senses: glosses: Jamestown Canyon virus
oxyamphetamine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˌɒksi.æmˈfɛtəmɪn/
/-miːn/
Etymology: From oxy- + amphetamine.
Senses: glosses: The drug phenylpropanolamine.
Synonyms: phenylpropanolamine
norephedrine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The drug phenylpropanolamine.
alosetron
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈloʊ.səˌtɹɑn/
Etymology: From alo- (of unknown origin) + -setron (“serotonin receptor 5-HT₃ antagonist”).
Senses: topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: A 5-HT₃ antagonist used for the management of severe diarrhea-predominant irritable bowel syndrome in women.
troglitazone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /tɹoʊˈɡlɪt.əˌzoʊn/
Etymology: From [Term?] + -glitazone (“thiazolidinedione derivative”).
Senses: topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: A thiazolidinedione derivative C₂₄H₂₇NO₅S formerly used to treat type 2 diabetes but now withdrawn from use because of its link to serious hepatic reactions.
flosequinan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /fləˈsɛkwɪnæn/
Senses: glosses: A particular quinolone vasodilator.
diethylstilbestrol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /daɪˌɛθ.əl.stɪlˈbɛˌstɹɔl/
Forms: form: diethylstilbestrols
form: DES
form: diethylstilboestrol
Etymology: From diethyl + stilb(ene) + -estr- (“estrogen”) + -ol.
Senses: examples: text: In 1971, yet another such study identified an even more unusual carcinogen, a synthetic hormonal medicine called diethylstilbestrol.
ref: 2010, Siddhartha Mukherjee, The Emperor of All Maladies, Fourth Estate (2011), page 277:
topics: chemistry
medicine
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
pharmacology
physical-sciences
sciences
synonyms: stilbestrol
glosses: A synthetic estrogen drug C₁₈H₂₀O₂ used formerly to prevent miscarriage or premature delivery in humans and to promote growth in livestock. The medical use of diethystilbestrol was discontinued in the U.S. during the early 1970s due to its association with serious side effects (such as reproductive tract abnormalities and increased rates of infertility) in offspring exposed to the drug while developing in the uterus. It is no longer commercially available in the U.S. and its use is currently limited to specially compounded formulations for veterinary care.
trifluoromethylphenylpiperazine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A particular piperazine-based drug, used recreationally but not medicinally.
ibogaine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ibogaines
Etymology: From French ibogaïne, from Myene iboga.
Senses: examples: text: The biotech is launching clinical trials looking at ibogaine […] as a treatment for traumatic brain injury (TBI), they said. Ibogaine has historically been used in spiritual rituals by forest-dwelling tribes in Gabon for its mind-altering effects.
ref: 2024 July 23, Oliver Barnes, “Google co-founder Brin backs biotech tapping psychedelic shrub for remedies”, in Financial Times, page 1:
topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A naturally-occurring psychoactive compound found in a number of plants, principally iboga (Tabernanthe iboga), and used for medicinal and ritual purposes in African spiritual traditions of the Bwiti. Its use in opioid addiction treatment seems promising but has safety issues.
iboga
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Myene iboga.
Senses: examples: text: The powdered bark (especially the root bark) of the iboga shrub is consumed by the natives of Gabon and part of the Congo in the initiation rites of a number of secret societies.
ref: 1985, Richard Alan Miller, The Magical and Ritual Use of Aphrodisiacs, page 41:
text: Native to Africa, Iboga has been used ceremonially as a hallucinogen. A powerful medicinal plant, Iboga has several pharmacological effects that have led it to be employed in the use of breaking addictive cycles, including tobacco and alcohol addiction.
ref: 2004, Chris D. Meletis, Jason E. Barker, Herbs and Nutrients for the Mind: A Guide to Natural Brain Enhancers, page 15:
text: Under the influence of iboga, the Bwiti initiates are able to communicate directly with an assembly of dead ones—a chain of ancestors.
The initiate falls to the ground in a stupor after drinking the iboga brew.
ref: 2009, Marlene Dobkin de Rios, The Psychedelic Journey of Marlene Dobkin de Rios, page 85:
glosses: Tabernanthe iboga, a perennial rainforest shrub and a source of the hallucinogen ibogaine.
Derived terms: ibogaine
Igbos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Igbo
voacangine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Voacanga + -ine.
Senses: glosses: 12-methoxyibogamine-18-carboxylic acid methyl ester, a tryptamine derivative and iboga alkaloid found predominantly in the rootbark of the tree Voacanga africana.
bufotenin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Bufotenin is capable of producing server hallucinations of a psycho-erotic nature.
ref: 1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page 51:
glosses: Alternative spelling of bufotenine.
alphamethyltryptamine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From alpha + methyltryptamine.
Senses: synonyms: AMT
IT-290
glosses: A synthetic tryptamine drug that can act as a psychedelic hallucinogen, as a monoamine oxidase inhibitor, and as a stimulant.
dipropyltryptamine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From di- + propyl + tryptamine.
Senses: glosses: A particular psychedelic tryptamine drug.
cryogenine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: ? + -ine
Senses: glosses: A biphenylquinolizidine lactone alkaloid, obtained from sinicuichi, with antiinflammatory activity similar to that of aspirin.
Synonyms: vertine
vertine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: ? + -ine
Senses: glosses: cryogenine
sinicuichi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Any member of the genus Heimia of two or three closely related species of shrub in the family Lythraceae, native to the Americas, with five-petalled yellow flowers.
Synonyms: sense: Heimia
word: sun opener
sense: Heimia
word: shrubby yellowcrest
first-time buyers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of first-time buyer
elemicin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: 3,4,5-trimethoxyallylbenzene, a natural organic compound found in the essential oil of nutmeg.
refutatively
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more refutatively
form: most refutatively
Etymology: From refutative + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a refutative manner.
myristicin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /maɪˈɹɪstɪsɪn/
Etymology: From myristic + -in.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: 3-methoxy-4,5-methylenedioxyallylbenzene, a natural organic compound found in the essential oil of nutmeg and to a lesser extent in other spices; it can be used as an insecticide and acaricide and has hallucinogenic properties at high doses
Derived terms: isomyristicin
Heinleinian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Heinleinian
form: most Heinleinian
Etymology: From Heinlein + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to Robert A. Heinlein (1907–1988), American science fiction writer, or to his works; characteristic of the writing of Robert A. Heinlein.
unliberated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + liberated.
Senses: examples: text: "Smash the nuclear family" was a common slogan in the Women's Movement of the early 1970's. It went along with a general hostility to families, motherhood, being a housewife — any role that seemed at all traditionally female. To want to be a mother somehow seemed an unliberated desire.
ref: 1978 April 22, Nancy Wechsler, “The Evolution of a Gay Parents Center”, in Gay Community News, page 8:
glosses: Not liberated; unfreed.
Synonyms: nonliberated
unmilked
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + milked.
Senses: examples: text: Rising early for the unexpected journey, the farmer left his cows unmilked.
text: And part of one cow's udder remained unmilked when the robot retracted.
ref: 1990 July 25, “BUSINESS TECHNOLOGY; A Mechanical Milkmaid: Will Cows Be Content?”, in The New York Times:
text: Not Judy Garland, I can hear you moaning, the show business legend whose sorry life has not exactly gone unmilked for cheap pathos elsewhere.
ref: 2010 November 30, Matt Wolf, “It's Judy's World and Welcome to It”, in The New York Times:
glosses: Not milked.
unfreed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + freed.
Senses: glosses: Not freed.
Synonyms: unliberated
nonliberated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + liberated.
Senses: glosses: unliberated
nonmystically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From nonmystical + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a nonmystical manner.
Hirschsprung's disease
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: After Harald Hirschsprung (1830–1916), Danish physician who first described it.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Congenital aganglionic megacolon, a disorder in which the bowel is obstructed by an aganglionic section of bowel and the colon becomes enlarged.
shitkicker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈʃɪtˌkɪkə(ɹ)/
Forms: form: shitkickers
form: shit kicker
form: shit-kicker
Etymology: From shit + kicker.
Senses: examples: text: I saw a tomboy wearing a pair of shitkickers.
text: A week after his feat, Don Eyles, wearing John Lennon glasses, a drooping mustache, long blond hair, black cords and shitkickers, walks down a long hall past phones labeled “Don’t Chatter Classified Matter” and red padlocked waste cans marked “Classified Waste Only” on his way to Draper’s million-dollar mockup of the Lunar Module.
ref: 1971 March 18, Timothy Crouse, “Don Eyles: Extra! Weird-Looking Freak Saves Apollo 14!”, in Rolling Stone:
glosses: A workboot.
synonyms: redneck
glosses: A poor, rural person, especially from the southern United States.
examples: text: I have a shitkicker of a headache.
glosses: Something unusually unpleasant or difficult.
glosses: A crude, violent and/or uncivilized person; a barbarian; a heathen.
parallelogrammatic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Having the shape of a parallelogram
shitkickers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shitkicker
fods
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fod
igovomab
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A mouse monoclonal antibody for the diagnosis of ovarian cancer that is no longer available.
keliximab
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: A chimeric monoclonal antibody used in treating severe chronic asthma.
matuzumab
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From [Term?] + -tu- (“tumor”) + -zumab (“humanized monoclonal antibody”).
Senses: topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: A humanized monoclonal antibody used to treat cancer.
monoclonal antibodies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of monoclonal antibody
Gutenbergian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Gutenbergian
form: most Gutenbergian
Etymology: From Gutenberg + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to Johannes Gutenberg (c. 1398–1468), inventor of the European technology of printing with movable type.
misbidding
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From mis- + bidding.
Senses: topics: bridge
games
glosses: Incorrect bidding.
subgeneration
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: subgenerations
Etymology: From sub- + generation.
Senses: glosses: A generation that belongs to another generation.
subgenerations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of subgeneration
sprawlingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more sprawlingly
form: most sprawlingly
Etymology: From sprawling + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a sprawling manner; widely and haphazardly.
unrulily
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more unrulily
form: most unrulily
Etymology: From unruly + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an unruly fashion.
sea breams
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sea bream