cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
electrospinnable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: That may be produced by electrospinning
raw_tags: of a fibre
Derived terms: unelectrospinnable
embryogram
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: embryograms
Etymology: From embryo- + -gram.
Senses: glosses: A count, using microscopy, of viable embryos (typically of roundworms)
embryograms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of embryogram
endocavity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ævɪti
Forms: form: endocavities
Etymology: From endo- + cavity.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: An internal body cavity
endoreduplicative
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From endo- + reduplicative.
Senses: topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: Relating to endoreduplication
epornitics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of epornitic
erioglaucine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A particular blue triarylmethane dye
triarylmethane dye
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: triarylmethane dyes
Senses: glosses: Any of a group of brightly-coloured dyes based on a triphenylmethane backbone
esirna
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: esirnas
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of esiRNA.
esirnas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of esirna
esiRNA
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: esiRNAs
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: endoribonuclease-prepared siRNA
esiRNAs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of esiRNA
esophagoduodenal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From esophago- + duodenal.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Relating to the esophagus and the duodenum
ethosome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ethosomes
Etymology: From eth- + -o- + -some (body).
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
hypernyms: liposome
qualifier: pharmacy
glosses: A phospholipid nanovesicle used for dermal and transdermal delivery of drugs and other molecules that is characterized by high ethanol content.
ethosomes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ethosome
samurai sword
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: samurai swords
Senses: glosses: Synonym of katana.
synonyms: word: katana
Anti-Comintern Pact
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: history
human-sciences
sciences
glosses: An alliance between the Third Reich and the Empire of Japan, in opposition to the Comintern, the Soviet Union, and all communists.
heka
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Egyptian ḥkꜣ.
Senses: examples: text: Endowed with heka, both people and the gods can make words and wishes effective.
ref: 1998, Ogden Goelet, Jr., edited by Eva von Dassow, The Egyptian Book of the Dead, 2nd edition, page 146:
text: The distinction between white (life-giving) and black (life-destroying) magic was not simplistically defined, because heka was viewed as a neutral force.
ref: 2004, Rosemary Clark, The Sacred Tradition in Ancient Egypt, page 359:
text: Heka was especially expressed in words, spoken or written, but also by ritual, often linked to particular stones, plants and incenses.
ref: 2017, Ronald Hutton, The Witch, Yale University Press, published 2018, page 45:
glosses: A mystic animating force present in the universe, used by deities and people.
ashipu
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ashipus
form: ashipu
form: āshipu
form: asipu
form: āšipu
Senses: examples: text: Whatever the patient's requirements, however, the āšipu is unlikely to have had time to acquire more than a basic working knowledge of the medicaments which he was attempting to use.
ref: 1999, JoAnn Scurlock, edited by Abusch & van der Toorn, Mesopotamian Magic, page 79:
text: The average Mesopotamian believed the cause of stomachaches, headaches, and other mysterious aches was a demon in the body. The remedy was to call an ashipu for a cure.
ref: 2010, Barbara A Somervill, Empires of Ancient Mesopotamia, page 120:
text: Virtually all the evidence that we possess for the practice of Mesopotamian magic consists of the records amassed by and for the āshipu […]
ref: 2017, Ronald Hutton, The Witch, Yale University Press, published 2018, page 49:
glosses: A magical healer in ancient Mesopotamia.
exarticulated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of exarticulate
exoanthropic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From exo- + anthropic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to non-humans
exsheathment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: exsheathments
Etymology: From ex- + sheath + -ment.
Senses: glosses: Removal of (or from) a sheath
Bass Rock
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: An island in the Firth of Forth, Scotland
exterosensorimotor
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From extero- + sensorimotor.
Senses: glosses: Relating to sensorimotor activity outside of the body
extraerythrocyte
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of extraerythrocytic.
falstatin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: falstatins
Senses: glosses: A cysteine protease inhibitor of the malaria-causing parasite Plasmodium falciparum.
falstatins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of falstatin
felopdipine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of felodipine.
fertirrigation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of fertigation.
fibrillopathy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fibrillopathies
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: Any disease that affects the muscle fibres of the heart
interabled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˌɪntɚˈeɪbl̩d/
Etymology: From inter- + abled, formed on the pattern of interracial.
Senses: examples: text: But that does not mean that Flora needs to sit and watch the spider to understand the metaphor of its web, or that Flora won't describe the web of interracial and interabled friendship as an object that can be seen, […]
ref: 2015, Susan Antebi, Beth E. Jörgensen, Libre Acceso: Latin American Literature and Film through Disability Studies, SUNY Press, →ISBN, page 184:
text: Ms. Jamison and Mr. Sydnor decided to record a couple of videos and post them on YouTube answering some common questions they were constantly getting about interabled couples.
ref: 2020 December 4, Robbie Spencer, “Interabled YouTubers, ‘Cole and Charisma,’ Celebrate Wedding”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
glosses: Existing between a disabled person and one who is not disabled (of a romantic relationship or the like).
fluosphere
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fluospheres
Senses: glosses: A fluorescent microsphere
fluospheres
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fluosphere
frontotemporoparietal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From fronto- + temporoparietal.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: frontal and temporoparietal
fucosylating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of fucosylate
gabapentine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of gabapentin.
gametocytemias
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gametocytemia
gastroduodenoesophageal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From gastro- + duodenoesophageal.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: gastroduodenal and esophageal
duodenoesophageal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From duodeno- + esophageal.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: duodenal and esophageal
Derived terms: gastroduodenoesophageal
geogenomic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From geo- + genomic.
Senses: topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: Relating to geogenomics
geogenomics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From geo- + genomics.
Senses: glosses: A branch of genomics that studies geographic variation
glosses: A branch of genomics that studies its relationship with geology
Related terms: geogenomic
geranylfarnesyl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A geranyl derivative of a farnesyl radical
gestagenic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to, or caused by gestation (pregnancy)
glaucolide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: glaucolides
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of a particular set of sesquiterpene lactones related to germacranolides
glaucolides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of glaucolide
gliocytoma
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gliocytomas
Senses: glosses: Synonym of glioma.
synonyms: word: glioma
gliocytomas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gliocytoma
gyrorotary
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Synonym of gyrational.
synonyms: word: gyrational
regionarius
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɹiːd͡ʒəˈnɛəɹi.əs/
ipa: /ˌɹid͡ʒəˈnɛɹi.əs/
rhymes: -ɛəɹi.əs
Forms: form: regionarii
Senses: topics: Christianity
synonyms: regionary
glosses: A Roman Catholic ecclesiastic having jurisdiction over certain districts of Rome.
regionarii
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of regionarius
hamburger sauces
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hamburger sauce
undovetailed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + dovetailed.
Senses: glosses: Not dovetailed.
occupns.
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of occupn.
have the laugh on one's side
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: has the laugh on one's side
form: having the laugh on one's side
form: had the laugh on one's side
form: had the laugh on one's side
Senses: glosses: To be able to laugh at another person through having got the better of them.
Related terms: have the last laugh
the joke is on someone
rotational dining
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The practice of having passengers eat in several different restaurants during a cruise.
pvt.
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: pvt
Senses: examples: pvt. property
glosses: Abbreviation of private.
SBDs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of SBD
tint tool
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tint tools
Senses: glosses: An engraver's implement for producing a tint by parallel lines.
tint tools
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tint tool
univ.
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: univs.
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of Univ..
groundsell
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: groundsells
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of groundsill.
groundsells
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of groundsell
Ardern
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Arderns
Senses: examples: text: Through an array of strategies, gimmicks and Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern's encouragement through the day, 124,669 shots were administered by late in the day in a country of 4.9 million.
"We set a target for ourselves, Aotearoa, you've done it, but let's keep going," Ardern said, using a Maori name for New Zealand at a vaccination site, according to the Newshub news service. "Let's go for 150 [thousand]. Let's go big or go home."
ref: 2021 October 16, Lidia Kelly, “New Zealand vaccinates 2.5% of its people in a day in drive to live with COVID-19”, in William Mallard, editor, Reuters, archived from the original on 16 Oct 2021, Asia Pacific:
glosses: A surname.
Jacinda
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /d͡ʒəˈsɪndə/
rhymes: -ɪndə
Etymology: Probably an alteration of Spanish Jacinta under the influence of the female given name suffix -inda.
Senses: examples: text: So the nice travel agent Jacinda, has rung and offered us a one-time special to another island it's called Corona Island, that's an island just north of where we are, but your mothere isn't too sure about going there as she has heard they once had a bad outbreak of Wu Flu and she doesn't want to risk catching anything. nasty.
ref: 2020 April 18, “Your View: Letters with Love”, in Ashburton Guardian, page 14:
text: Through an array of strategies, gimmicks and Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern's encouragement through the day, 124,669 shots were administered by late in the day in a country of 4.9 million.
"We set a target for ourselves, Aotearoa, you've done it, but let's keep going," Ardern said, using a Maori name for New Zealand at a vaccination site, according to the Newshub news service. "Let's go for 150 [thousand]. Let's go big or go home."
ref: 2021 October 16, Lidia Kelly, “New Zealand vaccinates 2.5% of its people in a day in drive to live with COVID-19”, in William Mallard, editor, Reuters, archived from the original on 16 Oct 2021, Asia Pacific:
glosses: A female given name.
Derived terms: Jacindamania
haemoglobinaemia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of hemoglobinemia.
hemilaminotomy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hemilaminotomies
Etymology: From hemi- + laminotomy.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
surgery
glosses: A form of laminotomy in which only one of the pairs of lamina are removed
hemilaminotomies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hemilaminotomy
hemivertebral
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɜː(ɹ)tɪbɹəl
-iːbɹəl
Etymology: From hemi- + vertebral.
Senses: glosses: Relating to hemivertebra
heterofibril
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: heterofibrils
Etymology: From hetero- + fibril.
Senses: glosses: A fibril composed of two or more types of collagen
heterofibrils
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of heterofibril
heteromultimerized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of heteromultimerize
heteromultimerizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of heteromultimerize
Hatra
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhæ.tɹə/
rhymes: -ætɹə
Etymology: From Latin Hatra, from Hatran Aramaic 𐣧𐣨𐣣𐣠 (ḥṭrʾ /⁠Ḥaṭrā⁠/).
Senses: glosses: A caravan city, the capital of the small kingdom of Araba, in present-day Iraq, which flourished in 2nd-century Mesopotamia.
Synonyms: al-Hadr
Hatris
Atra
Related terms: Hatran
Hatrene
hippocampic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to the hippocampus
hirsutinolide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hirsutinolides
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of a group of tricyclic sesquiterpene lactones present in Vernonia.
hirsutinolides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hirsutinolide
homopolyamide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: homopolyamides
Etymology: From homo- + polyamide.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any polyamide that is a homopolymer
homorhabdic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From homo- + rhabdic.
Senses: glosses: Having equally shaped and sized lamellibranch gill filaments
raw_tags: of molluscs
rhabdic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to, or composed of rhabds
Derived terms: heterorhabdic
rhabd
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rhabds
Senses: glosses: A rod-shaped spicule in some sponges
hyperandrogen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of hyperandrogenism.
hyperreflectance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From hyper- + reflectance.
Senses: glosses: The condition of being hyperreflective
hyperstabilisation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From hyper- + stabilisation.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of hyperstabilization.
hypobicarbonatemia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From hypo- + bicarbonatemia.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: A reduced level of bicarbonate in the blood
bicarbonatemia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From bicarbonate + -emia.
Senses: glosses: The presence of bicarbonate in the blood
Derived terms: hyperbicarbonatemia
hypobicarbonatemia
word-bound
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more word-bound
form: most word-bound
form: wordbound
Senses: synonyms: lost for words
speechless
glosses: Unable to find expression in words.
Related terms: aphasic
ineffable
Cadbury
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From personal name Cada + Old English byriġ, the dative case of burg (“fortified place”), meaning "Cada's fort".
Senses: glosses: A surname.
glosses: A small village and civil parish in Mid Devon district, Devon, England (OS grid ref SS9104).
Derived terms: North Cadbury
South Cadbury
Mattheas
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A male given name, variant of Matthias.
Ninawa
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Nineveh.
lovekin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lovekins
Etymology: From love + -kin.
Senses: glosses: A term of endearment for a lover or sweetheart.
deerie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: deeries
Etymology: From deer + -ie.
Senses: examples: text: “I wish you were a live deer,” Margaret was saying, as she stood by the little stone deer.[…]“You are very much mistaken if you think I can't run and play,” said the little deer, and, oh! he began to run and prance about the lawn.
Margaret was delighted. “Oh, can you, deerie, can you really?” she cried, running after him as he pranced about.
ref: 1903, Ellen D. Masters, “The Little Deer at the Fountain”, in Northwestern Christian Advocate, volume 51, page 17:
text: A deer is very willing to give up his bed when the least danger signal is sounded. However, when it is rainy and cool, a good many chances are taken to see if the enemy will not just pass by without noticing little deerie.
ref: 1920, Henry Schenkofsky, Seeing America First: The Elwha:
text: A blind deer moved through the organic rubble that had been the woods of central Pennsylvania, pacing in crazed parabolas of misery and hunger. Poor deerie, George could hear Holly saying.
ref: 2013 June 13, James Morrow, This Is the Way the World Ends, Hachette UK, →ISBN:
glosses: A deer.
immunocytologically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From immuno- + cytologically.
Senses: glosses: In an immunocytological manner
Allex
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A male or female given name of rare usage, variant of Alex.
immunodetecting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of immunodetect
Karene
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A female given name, variant of Karen.
glosses: A male given name.
immunofixative
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From immuno- + fixative.
Senses: topics: immunology
medicine
sciences
glosses: Relating to immunofixation
immunoprivilege
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From immuno- + privilege.
Senses: topics: immunology
medicine
sciences
glosses: The ability to tolerate the introduction of antigens without eliciting an immune response
incisiviform
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Having the form of an incisor
incisiviform
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: incisiviforms
Senses: glosses: Such a tooth
incisiviforms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of incisiviform
infraexpression
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: infraexpressions
Etymology: From infra- + expression.
Senses: topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: The abnormal expression of a gene in decreased quantity
infrakinetosomal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From infra- + kinetosomal.
Senses: glosses: Beneath a kinetosome
kinetosomal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to a kinetosome
Derived terms: infrakinetosomal
insonification
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: insonifications
Senses: glosses: The process, or the result of insonifying
interadaptation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: interadaptations
Etymology: From inter- + adaptation.
Senses: glosses: mutual adaptation
intervibrissal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From inter- + vibrissal.
Senses: glosses: Between vibrissae
intramyelinic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɪnɪk
Etymology: From intra- + myelinic.
Senses: glosses: Within the myelin sheath
intraspinous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of intraspinal.
glosses: Misspelling of infraspinous.
ionophoresis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From iono- + -phoresis.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: The movement of charged particles in an electric field
Derived terms: ionophoretic
Related terms: iontophoresis
isomangiferin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From iso- + mangiferin.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The xanthone glycoside 1,3,6,7-tetrahydroxy-4-[(2S,3R,4R,5S,6R)-3,4,5-trihydroxy-6-(hydroxymethyl)oxan-2-yl]xanthen-9-one
isomenthol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From iso- + menthol.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The isomer of menthol (1S,2R,5R)-5-methyl-2-propan-2-ylcyclohexan-1-ol
isomorphicity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The condition of being isomorphic
iteroparitive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: That exhibits iteroparity
justicidin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: justicidins
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of a group of bioactive lignans present in the water willow Justicia procumbens
Derived terms: neojusticidin
justicidins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of justicidin
owe out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: owes out
form: owing out
form: owed out
form: owed out
Senses: examples: text: In all, we owed out about $600,000 as opposed to $300,000 in receivables.
ref: 2009, Jim Azzarelli, One Way Out: The Story of a Baby Boomer Chasing His American Dream:
glosses: To be under an obligation to pay out on a debt; to owe
owes out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of owe out
owing out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of owe out
owed out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of owe out
cosmopolitanist
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more cosmopolitanist
form: most cosmopolitanist
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to cosmopolitanism.
glosses: Supporting the principles of cosmopolitanism.
Related terms: cosmopolitanism
Sarikamish
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A town in Kars Province, Turkey.
lactaptin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A casein fragment that has some anticancer activity
leukocytopaenia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: leukocytopaenias
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of leukocytopenia.
leukocytopaenias
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of leukocytopaenia
lidamycin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: An enediyne antitumor antibiotic
lifeboated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of lifeboat
lifeboating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of lifeboat
lipodecapeptide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lipodecapeptides
Senses: glosses: A lipopeptide in which the peptide component is a decapeptide
lipodecapeptides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lipodecapeptide
kludge out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: kludges out
form: kludging out
form: kludged out
form: kludged out
Etymology: From kludge + out.
Senses: examples: text: Backdoors and hidden control codes were found and deleted, alternate routes were explored, and power systems were kludged out of anything available—one major router in Boston was being powered by teams of bicycle riders taking shifts turning portable generators.
ref: 2013, JD Ludwig, Overreach: Blood of Patriots:
glosses: To work out or fix a problem, usually in a makeshift fashion.
Related terms: jury-rig
kludges out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of kludge out
kludging out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of kludge out
kludged out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of kludge out
Thiene
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A city in Veneto, Italy.
oddening
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of odden
oddened
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of odden
oldify
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: oldifies
form: oldifying
form: oldified
form: oldified
Etymology: From old + -ify.
Senses: examples: text: He is become very tottering & oldified & Souk now beats him in bodily strength.
ref: 1938, Baroness Dorothea Mary Roby Thorpe Charnwood, Call Back Yesterday, page 172:
text: Mickleover has a good timber-framed house tucked away behind a still rural-looking village square, and Chellaston, besides some buildings on the main street and one old pub that has been modernised and re-oldified, has the memory of its former importance in the alabaster industry.
ref: 1978, Roy Christian, Derbyshire, page 36:
text: It is written in a vaguely oldified English - the sort of language an upmarket Hollywood hack might imagine them speaking at a jousting tournament circa 1180.
ref: 2005, Theatre Record, page 1096:
text: He cared more about history, and had vast projects for preserving, beautifying and “oldifying" the city.
ref: 2005, Louisa Blair, The Anglos: The Hidden Face of Quebec City - Volume 2, page 50:
text: In the following example, I'm going to show you how to “oldify” an image by giving it a sepia tint and adding some noise to it to make it seem a bit less crisp.
ref: 2006, Todd Yard, Matt Voerman, Paul Barnes-Hoggett, Flash 8 Essentials, →ISBN, page 276:
text: Me and Dad would go to auctions and buy bits and bobs, then we'd oldify them — a sup of tea on a map, an ancient frame on a new picture.
ref: 2009, Nuala Ní Chonchúir, Nude, →ISBN, page 35:
glosses: To cause to appear older.
oldifies
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of oldify
oldifying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of oldify
oldified
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of oldify
inhalatory
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: of or relating to inhalation
oddify
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: oddifies
form: oddifying
form: oddified
form: oddified
Etymology: From odd + -ify.
Senses: examples: text: And since, as I suggested at the beginning of this essay, all people are alike in being somewhat odd, and since all writers are alike in being similarly oddified in their work, it may be that many children's writers will agree that their own reasons for doing what they do are not very dissimilar from mine.
ref: 1975, Edward Blishen, The thorny paradise: writers on writing for children, page 56:
text: Processes are turned into objects, new language games are created to oddify everyday language and objectify social practices.
ref: 1993, Jyvèaskylèa studies in education, psychology, and social research:
text: The work shows us how it is now, with the nostalgia of the musee oddified by idiosyncratic clutter from Toothy the Tooth to Asteroids.
ref: 2006 -, Rodney Koeneke, Musee mechanique, →ISBN, page 94:
text: This raises a question: are behaviourist studies using a new vocabulary and a new language that actually creates distance and 'oddifies' the everyday?
ref: 2013, Terrell Carver, Matti Hyvarinen, Interpreting the Political: New Methodologies, →ISBN, page 90:
glosses: To cause to appear strange.
examples: text: The inverse quantized coefficients are oddified following the MPEG-1 (and H.261) method.
ref: 1997, Joan L. Mitchell, Chad Fogg, Didier J. LeGall, MPEG Video Compression Standard, →ISBN, page 417:
text: Put another way, bit-for-bit, there will be little difference between the original dequantized data and the corresponding oddified data after they are converted to LNS for F < 6.
ref: 2002, IEEE Signal Processing Society, Proceedings, →ISBN, page 127:
text: With a strand on the authority of 'Āșim b. Ḑamra—'Alī b. Abī Ṭa-lib on the supererogatory nightly prayer, which 'oddifies', i.e. makes the total number of rak'as performed by an individual that day odd (i.e. witr):
ref: 2007, Gautier H.A. Juynboll, Encyclopedia of Canonical Ḥadīth, →ISBN, page 49:
glosses: To make odd (not even).
oddifies
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of oddify
oddifying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of oddify
oddified
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of oddify
optionalize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: optionalizes
form: optionalizing
form: optionalized
form: optionalized
Etymology: From optional + -ize.
Senses: examples: text: It seems easier to optionalize or abandon a subject altogether than to provide opportunities for small group discussion guided by faculty in the security of a laboratory type of environment.
ref: 1968, Teacher Education - Issues 1-6, page 36:
text: If societies can come to accept (value) and optionalize (permit) ethnolinguistic diversity, so that some can treasure it for maintenance purposes, others for enrichment, and others for transitional purposes, I am sure that bilingual education will quickly become what it should be: an internally diversified alternative kind of education for those who want it.
ref: 1978, National Conference on Social Welfare, The Social Welfare Forum, →ISBN:
text: But I think we need to optionalize contingencies.
ref: 2010, Charles W. Colson, God and Government, →ISBN, page 24:
text: Small business lending programs, proposed bank fees; whatever the decision, Geithner was a man determined to optionalize.
ref: 2012, Noam Scheiber, The Escape Artists: How Obama's Team Fumbled the Recovery, →ISBN:
text: But it does mean that they experience a demand to optionalize each and every one of them.
ref: 2018, Aaron James Wendland, Christopher Merwin, Christos Hadjioannou, Heidegger on Technology, →ISBN:
glosses: To make optional; to add as an option, permit to be optionally omitted, or provide various options for implementing.
optionalizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of optionalize
optionalizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of optionalize
optionalized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of optionalize
optionalise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: optionalises
form: optionalising
form: optionalised
form: optionalised
Senses: examples: text: And, lastly, he proposed to optionalise Greek for the M.D. degree— a point unanimously agreed on by the recommendation of every University to the present Commission.
ref: 1890, John Malcolm Bulloch, The Lord Rectors of the Universities of Aberdeen, page 30:
text: A major effort will be made to optionalise and implement the policies outlined in the White Paper on small business promotion.
ref: 1996, Towards Democracy: Journal of the Institute for Multi-Party Democracy:
text: Tennyson's would not be the superbly Victorian valediction it is did it not prize the leap of hope more than the leap of faith, and did it not, to that end, see fit to pluralise and optionalise its closure.
ref: 1998, Australasian Victorian Studies Journal - Volume 4, page 13:
glosses: Alternative form of optionalize.
optionalises
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of optionalise
optionalising
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of optionalise
belly flopping
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of belly flop
belly flopped
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of belly flop
optionalised
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of optionalise
daylight time
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of daylight saving time.
Derived terms: Eastern Daylight Time
Central Daylight Time
Mountain Daylight Time
pressing out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of press out
pressed out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of press out
damps off
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of damp off
damping off
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of damp off
damped off
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of damp off
pitches in
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of pitch in
pitching in
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of pitch in
pitched in
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of pitch in
Yilan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: yēʹlänʹ
Forms: form: Ilan
form: I-lan
Etymology: From Mandarin 宜蘭 (Yílán).
Senses: examples: text: Those who know Formosa will have heard of a large rice-producing place called Kapsulan. This place, known officially as Komalan-t'ing was changed in January 1878 into Yilan-hsien (宜蘭縣), by which name it is now known.
ref: [1880 February 20, “Tamsui Trade Report for the Year 1879”, in Reports on Trade at the Treaty Ports for the Year 1879, Shanghai, page 181:
text: Wu, concurrently manager of the Taiwan Petroleum Exploration Division of CPC, said his division has conducted geographical surveys in Taipei, Tainan, and Yilan Counties, covering an area of 497 square kilometers.
Seismic surveys of costal areas covering 604 square kilometers also have been conducted, as well as a gravity survey of coastal areas in Yilan.
ref: 1977 August 14, “Petroleum corporation stepping up search for oil and gas on Taiwan”, in Free China Weekly, volume XVIII, number 32, Taipei, page 4:
text: In December 1971, the ROC government included the Diaoyutai Islets in the administrative district of Yilan county of Taiwan province.
ref: 1998, Wang Ke-wen, editor, Modern China: An Encyclopedia of History, Culture, and Nationalism, New York & London: Garland Publishing, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 98:
text: Taiwan’s Yilan County in the northeast was hit the hardest by Dujuan’s strongest winds on the right side of the eye.
ref: 2015 September 28, Angela Fritz, “Watch Typhoon Dujuan roar ashore in Taiwan with violent 140 mph winds”, in The Washington Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 01 Feb 2016, CAPITAL WEATHER GANG:
text: On Monday morning, the Taiwan Railways Administration released a 12-second video of the moment the Puyuma Express train derailed in northeast Taiwan’s Yilan County. The train was carrying 366 passengers.[…]
Taiwan’s president, Tsai Ing-wen, and its premier, Lai Ching-te, both visited Yilan County after the accident.
ref: 2018 October 22, Chris Horton, “8 Members of Family Killed in Taiwan’s Worst Rail Crash in Decades”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 22 Oct 2018, Asia Pacific:
glosses: A county of Taiwan.
examples: text: From 1920 to 1940, the Taiwanese population of the nine major cities (excluding Hualien and Yilan¹³) increased from 365 thousand to 808 thousand.
ref: 1954, George W. Barclay, A Report on Taiwan's Population to the Joint Commission on Rural Reconstruction, Princeton, N.J., page 66:
text: At an information session on Wednesday, the ministry suggested a fifth possible location in Yilan City, which is 350m south of the Yilan County Hall, Wang said.
ref: 2021 November 22, Shelley Shan, “MOTC might soon decide Yilan HSR station’s location”, in Taipei Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 21 Nov 2021, Taiwan News, page 3:
glosses: A city in Yilan County, Taiwan.
Synonyms: word: ILA
Derived terms: Yilan Creole
Yilan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: yēʹlänʹ
Forms: form: Ilan
form: I-lan
Etymology: From Mandarin 依蘭／依兰 (Yīlán).
Senses: examples: text: Tens of thousands of peasants in Tulungshan of Ilan county started large-scale riots, and within ten days killed or injured three thousand Japanese soldiers together with their commanders.
ref: [1977 December, “Victory Over the Fourth 'Encirclement and Suppression Campaigns'”, in Eastern Horizon, volume XVI, number 12, Hong Kong: Eastern Horizon Press, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 39:
text: Many impact craters have been found around the world, but most of them were formed long before the emergence of homo sapiens 300,000 years ago.
But the “impossibly deep” crater discovered in Yilan county near Harbin in Heilongjiang is thought to have been formed about 49,000 years ago by an asteroid about 100 metres wide.
ref: 2021 August 9, “Chinese scientists find evidence of most powerful asteroid strike humans ever experienced”, in South China Morning Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 11 Aug 2021, Science:
glosses: A county of Harbin, Heilongjiang, China.
Huadong Valley
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: hwäʹdo͝ongʹ
Forms: form: Huatung Valley
form: Wade-Giles
form: Hualien-Taitung Valley
form: Wade-Giles
Etymology: Partial calque of Mandarin 花東縱谷 (Huādōng Zònggǔ)
Senses: examples: text: The line along the southeastern coast and through the Huadong Valley (花東縱谷) is Taiwan’s only main railway line that is not fully electrified.
ref: 2020 December 18, Shelley Shan, “Electrified South Link Line services to start on Sunday”, in Taipei Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 26 Jan 2021, Taiwan News, page 2:
text: While earthquakes occur frequently in Taiwan, most occur near or in eastern counties, as the Huadong Valley was formed when the Eurasian and Philippine Sea plates collided. The valley marks the exact location where the latter overlaps the former.
ref: 2022 February 16, Stephanie Chiang, “Magnitude 4.4 earthquake jolts east Taiwan”, in Taiwan News, archived from the original on 15 Apr 2025, Environment:
glosses: A long and narrow valley located between the Central Mountain Range and the Coastal Mountain Range in Taiwan.
putting by
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of put by
Anping
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɑːnˈpɪŋ/
enpr: änʹpǐngʹ
Forms: form: An-p'ing
Etymology: From Mandarin 安平 (Ānpíng).
Senses: examples: text: The shipping port of Tainan-fu is Anping, situated on the coast about three miles to the eastward of the city and connected with the suburbs by a creek....Anping has of late risen greatly in importance, the foreign firms making it their headquarters instead of Takow, which port in former years was considered of more significance. Tempered by sea breezes, Anping during the summer months can boast of a cool climate.
ref: 1900, European Settlements in the Far East, London: Sampson Low, Marston & Company, →OCLC, page 39:
text: The Dutch ship Witte Paert which sailed to Nagasaki, Japan from Anping, carried 54,700 pieces of ordinary deer skin and 2,000 pieces of large deer skin, with still 30,000 pieces more awaiting shipment at Anping. The Jacht de Sperwer sailing from Anping to Japan on July 29 of the same year sank near the Chi Chou Island (濟州島), with a load, among other things, of 19,952 pieces of deer skin, 3,000 pieces of large deer skin, 3,078 pieces of goat skin, and 920 piculs of sugar.
ref: 1963 May, Cheng-siang Chen [陳正祥], “Foreign Trade”, in Taiwan: An Economic and Social Geography, volume I, number 96, Taipei: Weiwen Press Co., Ltd., →OCLC, page 609:
english: 陳正祥
translation: 陳正祥
text: A US$9.4 million plan will get under way to establish a small but modern port of Anping, where the Dutch colonists built a fortress in the 17th century.
ref: 1973 October 7, “Old Dutch port will be revived”, in Free China Weekly, volume XIV, number 39, Taipei, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 4:
text: Milkfish is a popular ingredient in Tainan. So popular that in Anping District it has its own museum selling products such as milkfish popsicles. Riding a fine line between salty and sweet, it's not as fishy as it sounds.
ref: 2015 February 25, Clarissa Wei, “Tainin is Taiwan's food capital; these 19 dishes show why”, in CNN, archived from the original on 30 Dec 2017:
text: The angular concrete facade of Mao House is an anomaly among the temple roofs and low-slung brick dwellings of Yuguang Island, a forested isle connected by bridge to Tainan’s western Anping district.
ref: 2023 January 27, Chris Schalkx, “Chefs and Bartenders Are Injecting New Life Into Taiwan’s Oldest City”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 27 Jan 2023:
glosses: A district of Tainan, Taiwan.
glosses: A county of Hengshui, Hebei, China.
glosses: A town in the county-level city of Cenxi, Guangxi autonomous region, China.
glosses: A town in Anping County, Hebei, China.
glosses: A town in Xianghe County, Hebei, China.
glosses: A town in Zhecheng County, Henan, China.
glosses: A town in Anren County, Hunan, China.
glosses: An urban town in the county-level city of Lianyuan, Hunan, China.
glosses: A town in Chenxi County, Hunan, China.
Synonyms: alt: from Pe̍h-ōe-jī
word: An-peng
holds on
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of hold on
holding on
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of hold on
held on
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of hold on
hangs on
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of hang on
hanging on
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of hang on
hung on
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of hang on
plant louse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: plant lice
form: plant-louse
Senses: glosses: An aphid.
Derived terms: jumping plant louse
plant lice
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: plant-lice
Senses: glosses: plural of plant louse
witchcamp
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: witchcamps
Etymology: From witch + camp.
Senses: examples: text: At my first Reclaiming witchcamp, within two weeks of arriving in San Francisco, my morning class teachers surprised me by opening with a discussion of gifts and commodities.
ref: 2015, R Morgain, “Sacred materialism: Things and relations in a US Pagan community”, in The Australian Journal of Anthropology:
glosses: A Wiccan or pagan workshop or retreat.
witchcamps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of witchcamp
Reclaiming Wicca
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A branch of Wicca which emphasises Starhawk's teachings, The Spiral Dance and feminism.
spar deck
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spar decks
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: The upper deck of a ship.
spar decks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of spar deck
smoke consumer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: smoke consumers
Senses: glosses: An apparatus for burning all the smoke from a fire.
Reclaiming
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Reclaiming Wicca
smoke consumers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of smoke consumer
storm sail
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: storm sails
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: A sail of the strongest canvas, for use in stormy weather.
storm stay
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -eɪ
Forms: form: storm stays
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: A stay on which a storm sail is set.
storm sails
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of storm sail
storm stays
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of storm stay
reticulary
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more reticulary
form: most reticulary
Senses: glosses: reticular
overpicky
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more overpicky
form: most overpicky
Etymology: From over- + picky.
Senses: glosses: Excessively picky or discerning.
provants
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of provant
provanting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of provant
provanted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of provant
dead-alive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more dead-alive
form: most dead-alive
Senses: examples: 1906, Hilaire Belloc, , introduction to Essays in Literature and History by James Anthony Froude
In one epoch lubricity, in another fanaticism, in a third dulness and a dead-alive copying of the past, are the faults which criticism finds to attack.
glosses: Dull; lifeless; lacking originality and vitality.
Related terms: dead or alive
astronomical time
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The time past mean noon of a particular day, reckoned on to twenty-four hours in mean time.
master of one's time
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A person who is free to do what they like.
principle of sufficient reason
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
synonyms: law of sufficient reason
glosses: The proposition that nothing happens without a sufficient reason why it should be as it is and not otherwise.
ungone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From un- + gone.
Senses: qualifier: Antarctica
glosses: People temporarily remaining in Antarctica because their scheduled departure was cancelled.
go about one's business
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: goes about one's business
form: going about one's business
form: went about one's business
form: gone about one's business
Senses: glosses: To attend to one's duties; to do what one would normally be doing if not detained, distracted, etc.
glosses: To depart; to resume one's usual activities, after being detained, distracted, etc.
Synonyms: go about one's day
messenger-at-arms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: messengers-at-arms
Senses: glosses: An officer who executes the summonses of the Court of Session.
messengers-at-arms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of messenger-at-arms