cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
procreationally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From procreational + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: They may not be involved procreationally "ever" by choice. They may be involved however in the child-rearing process.
ref: 1974, Richard Green, Human Sexuality: A Health Practitioner's Text, page 101:
glosses: In a procreational manner.
swing off
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: swings off
form: swinging off
form: swung off
form: swung off
Senses: examples: text: When the sleigh rider takes up chase, attack him again as soon as he's finished his effort, whether it be because he's caught the breakaway rider, has swung off for someone else to take pace, or is just plain slowing down from fatigue.
ref: 1999, Ashok Kumar, Cycling, page 172:
topics: cycling
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: To steer one's bicycle to the side in order to allow other riders to overtake.
propco
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɹɒpkəʊ/
Forms: form: propcos
form: PropCo
Etymology: Abbreviated from property company
Senses: topics: business
finance
glosses: A property holding company (a subsidiary that holds a company's real estate)
propcos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of propco
shashlyk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shashlyks
form: shashlyki
Senses: examples: text: My spirits rose as I passed among the tents and savored the aroma of steaming pots of pilaf and the long skewers of shashlyk roasting over the open fires.
ref: 1952, Cothburn O’Neal, chapter 1, in Master of the World (Avon; N158), New York, N.Y.: Avon Books, published 1967, →OCLC, book 1, page 17:
text: I heard 1 million Georgians left Georgia during past 8 years, so it can't be good. Well at least you can buy good shashlyki in Moscow :)
ref: 1999 August 27, Dimitry Volshebnik, “Editor Chosed^([sic]) a strange pick?”, in soc.culture.russian (Usenet), archived from the original on 20 Jun 2025:
text: The Bakaldin Festival rotates between several nearby Evenki villages in late May or early June, with traditional song, dance, reindeer rides and plenty of reindeer shashlyki and other native delicacies.
ref: 2012, Simon Richmond et al., “Tynda”, in Russia, 6th edition, Footscray, Vic.; Oakland, Calif.; London: Lonely Planet, →ISBN, page 589, column 2:
text: Third, the garage is also a place for spending leisure time, barbecuing (making shashlyki), drinking, socialising and maintaining relationships with other men.
ref: 2024, Alexandrina Vanke, “In the garage”, in The Urban Life of Workers in Post-Soviet Russia: Engaging in Everyday Struggle, Manchester: Manchester University Press, →ISBN, part II (Ways of life), chapter 3 (A gendered sense of place: intersectional inequalities in urban space):
glosses: Alternative spelling of shashlik.
shashlyks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shashlyk
when you find yourself in a hole, the first thing to do is stop digging
Language: English
Part of speech: proverb
Senses: glosses: Synonym of if you find yourself in a hole, the first thing to do is stop digging.
rust mites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rust mite
CSTIT
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Computer Speech, Text and Internet Technology (speech and language processing, and its application to Internet technology).
Goliaths
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Goliath
automorph
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: Within the crystalline quartz assemblage two main categories can be distinguished and both were exploited in the HP layers of Sibudu: vein quartz (milky or xenomorph) and crystal quartz (also called hyaline or automorph quartz).
ref: 2015 December 4, “Refining Our Understanding of Howiesons Poort Lithic Technology: The Evidence from Grey Rocky Layer in Sibudu Cave (KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa)”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Alternative form of automorphic.
cohorted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From cohort + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: Our results agree with recent reports of cross-infection with intra-strain sublineages of the highly successful LES strain in CF patients cohorted according to strain-based segregation policies at an English CF centre.
ref: 2015 December 4, “Genotypic Diversity within a Single Pseudomonas aeruginosa Strain Commonly Shared by Australian Patients with Cystic Fibrosis”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Placed in a cohort
cytostructure
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cytostructures
Etymology: From cyto- + structure.
Senses: examples: text: Liver section of S50 shows better cytostructure with minor inflammation (PI) .
ref: 2015 December 4, “Wild Edible Fruit of Prunus nepalensis Ser. (Steud), a Potential Source of Antioxidants, Ameliorates Iron Overload-Induced Hepatotoxicity and Liver Fibrosis in Mice”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
topics: biology
cytology
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: The structure of cells in a tissue
glycerophosphatidic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From glycerophosphatide + -ic.
Senses: examples: text: The most common GP in mammalian cell membrane are glycerophosphatidic acids, glycerophosphocholines, glycerophosphoethanolamines, glycerophosphoinositols, glycerophosphoglycerols, glycerophosphoserines, and cardiolipins [29 ].
ref: 2015 December 4, “Lipid Fingerprinting in Mild versus Severe Forms of Gestational Diabetes Mellitus”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Relating to, or derived from, a glycerophosphatide.
glycerophosphatide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: glycerophosphatides
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Synonym of phosphoglyceride.
synonyms: word: phosphoglyceride
Derived terms: glycerophosphatidic
glycerophosphatides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of glycerophosphatide
glycoproteinaceous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From glycoprotein + -aceous.
Senses: examples: text: ZP is a glycoproteinaceous translucent matrix that surrounds the mammalian eggs and embryos, and plays important roles during oogenesis, sperm-egg binding, fertilization and implantation [9 –11 ].
ref: 2015 December 4, “Melamine Impairs Female Fertility via Suppressing Protein Level of Juno in Mouse Eggs”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Composed of glycoprotein
heteropycnotic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: heteropyknotic
Senses: examples: text: Significantly, the largest pair, designated HC1, is strongly heteropycnotic, shows differential condensation, and has massive enrichment in PIVE-40 repeats.
ref: 2015 December 4, “The Molecular Cytogenetic Characterization of Pistachio ( Pistacia vera L.) Suggests the Arrest of Recombination in the Largest Heteropycnotic Pair HC1”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Relating to heteropycnosis
heteropycnotic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: heteropycnotics
form: heteropyknotic
Senses: glosses: Such a section of a chromosome
Kellerian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Kellerian
form: most Kellerian
Etymology: From Keller + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to Gottfried Keller (1819–1890), Swiss poet and writer of German literature.
heteropycnosis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: heteropyknosis
Senses: topics: biology
cytology
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: The differential coiling and staining of parts of a chromosome
Related terms: heteropycnotic
isopycnosis
grandchildhood
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: grandchildhoods
Etymology: From grandchild + -hood.
Senses: glosses: The state or period of being a grandchild.
grandchildhoods
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of grandchildhood
heterosigosity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: In order to better investigate the association between TPMT heterosigosity and AZA-induced BMT, an extra meta-analysis by excluding individuals with homozygosity genotypes of the genotyped TPMT polymorphisms was performed.
ref: 2015 December 4, “Association between Thiopurine S-Methyltransferase Polymorphisms and Azathioprine-Induced Adverse Drug Reactions in Patients with Autoimmune Diseases: A Meta-Analysis”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Misspelling of heterozygosity.
outknit
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: outknits
form: outknitting
form: outknitted
form: outknitted
Etymology: From out- + knit.
Senses: glosses: To surpass in knitting; to knit more or better than.
outknitting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of outknit
outknits
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of outknit
outknitted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of outknit
symmetry group
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: symmetry groups
Senses: examples: text: [The] situation is more delicate in the case of higher dimensional symmetry groups; it is not in general possible to reduce the order of an equation invariant under an r-parameter symmetry group by r using only quadratures.
ref: 1993, Peter J. Olver, Applications of Lie Groups to Differential Equations, published 2000, page 76:
text: It is often assumed that the design unit inside each fundamental region (particularly for monotranslational symmetry groups p111 and p1a1 and ditranslational symmetry groups p1 and pg) is asymmetric.
ref: 2000, C. E. Horne, Geometric Symmetry in Patterns and Tilings, page 79:
text: The structure of the symmetry group of a molecule affects several spectroscopic aspects and vice versa. Thus, it is clearly important to know the possible symmetries of fullerenes and similar structures.
In this chapter, we study symmetry groups of fulleroids.
ref: 2010, Stanislav Jendrol, František Kardoš, “28: Symmetry of Fulleroids”, in Klaus D. Sattler, editor, Handbook of Nanophysics: Clusters and Fullerenes, pages 28–1:
topics: algebra
geometry
group-theory
mathematics
sciences
glosses: A group whose elements are all the transformations under which a given object remains invariant and whose group operation is function composition.
Synonyms: sense: group of transformations
english: emphasises the inclusion of orientation-reversing transformations
translation: emphasises the inclusion of orientation-reversing transformations
word: full symmetry group
Hyponyms: sense: group of transformations
word: lattice
sense: group of transformations
word: point group
sense: group of transformations
word: rotation group
sense: group of transformations
word: space group
Derived terms: sense: group of transformations
word: discrete symmetry group
sense: group of transformations
word: proper symmetry group
Related terms: isometry group
Lie group
symmetry groups
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of symmetry group
regulationist
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From regulation + -ist. Attested since the 19th century.
Senses: glosses: Favoring (statist) regulations on a product, service, or matter.
regulationist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: regulationists
Etymology: From regulation + -ist. Attested since the 19th century.
Senses: glosses: An advocate of (statist) regulations on a product, service, or matter.
stomach ulcer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stomach ulcers
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: Synonym of peptic ulcer.
synonyms: word: peptic ulcer
tiend
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tiends
Senses: examples: text: Tiends are introduced by Law and Custom, … for Tennents paying a Joint-duty for Stock and Tiend, are not liable for the Tiend (but their Masters are)…
ref: 1693, James Viscount of Stair, The Institutions of The Law of Scotland, book 4, title 24 “Petitory Actions for Tiends or Tiend-duties”, page 615
text: In New Luce, Wigtonshire, the free tiends of the parish are already exhausted … the sum modified would more than exhaust the tiend, part being in grain…
ref: 1804, February 6, anonymous, The Farmer's Magazine, volume 5, “On Augmentation of Stipends in Victual”, page 48
text: Ay at the end of seven years,
We pay a tiend to hell,
ref: 1884, Francis James Child, The English and Scottish Popular Ballads, volume 1, part 2, ballad 39A “Tam Lin”, verse 24, page 342
glosses: Alternative form of teind.
tiends
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tiend
dadhood
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From dad + -hood. Attested since the 20th century.
Senses: examples: text: The latest commentary I've gotten on first-time dadhood came from a friend after he heard the news from his wife.
ref: 1992, Yevrah Ornstein, From the Hearts of Men, page 283:
glosses: Synonym of fatherhood.
synonyms: word: fatherhood
loanback
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: loanbacks
Etymology: From loan + back.
Senses: examples: text: For example, a unit-linked office may require the borrower to have part at least of his personal pension premiums invested in units in a special fund from which the office makes loans to loanback borrowers.
ref: 1982, Norman Toulson, Modern Pensions, page 134:
text: Furthermore, the Target plans provide a guaranteed loanback facility with loans from as little as £5,001.
ref: 1987, Accountancy - Volume 99, page 13:
text: Most of the plans have loanback facilities, which allow you to use your pension to get a loan.
ref: 2014, Sara Williams, The Financial Times Guide to Business Start Up 2015, →ISBN:
glosses: A loan made from a pension or annuity to someone who has contributed money to that pension or annuity.
examples: text: A prearranged loanback of the entire gift property itself (rather than just the income therefrom) may well be disregarded as being merely a grantor retained control over the property, thereby causing the entire amount of the "loan" to be included in the grantor's estate.
ref: 1983, Malcolm A. Moore, Use of Trusts in Estate Planning, page 434:
text: The following, in combination, may avert an implication of prior agreement: (a). Use of an independent trustee; (b). Reasonable time between creation of trust and loanback.
ref: 1984, Resource Materials: Estate Planning in Depth - Volume 2, page 583:
text: A more modest approach is for the parent to give money to a child, followed by a loanback to the parent.
ref: 1990, Richard A. Westin, Federal Tax Planning, page 23:
glosses: A loan from a trust fund to the grantor that created the fund.
loanbacks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of loanback
loan-back
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: loan-backs
Etymology: From loan + back.
Senses: examples: text: It was Lansky who pioneered the “loan-back” technique. Money was moved in the form of cash, traveller's cheques, or bearer bonds for deposit in numbered Swiss accounts. The money then returned home in the form of "loans" to the person who had initiated the cycle, who would replay the loan with interest, deducting the interest from his taxable income as a business expense. Multinational corporations continue to use a variant of this scheme to reduce their tax obligations.
ref: 2013, Richard Swift, Great Revenue Robbery: How to Stop the Tax Cut Scam and Save Canada, →ISBN:
text: The loan-back scheme involves an offshore shell company that receives illegally obtained money through the placement mechanism. The owner of the illegal money goes to an offshore bank of which he is the owner or in which he has a criminal ally and applies for a loan for his front company. The offshore shell is then transfers the illegal monies through layers to the offshore bank, which will, after receipt, approve the loan and transmit it to the front company. The interest payments incurred on the loan may also be tax deductible on the level of the front company.
ref: 2014, Karoline Spies, Raffaele Petruzzi, Tax Policy Challenges in the 21st Century: Schriftenreihe IStR Band 86, →ISBN:
text: He told them about the great secrecy havens – Switzerland, the Netherlands Antilles, the Cayman Islands, Liechtenstein – about dummy corporations and the byzantine loan-back systems which criminals had devised to cover their tracks.
ref: 2015, Keith Baker, Reckoning, →ISBN:
glosses: A money laundering or tax avoidance scheme in which money is deposited in an offshore bank and then borrowed back by a shell company controlled by the holder of that bank account.
loan-backs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of loan-back
ZUI
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /zɛd.juːˈaɪ/
ipa: /ˈzuː.i/
ipa: /zijuˈaɪ/
ipa: /ˈzu.i/
homophone: zooey
rhymes: -aɪ
rhymes: -uːi
Forms: form: ZUIs
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
graphical-user-interface
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Acronym of zooming user interface.
topics: computing
engineering
graphical-user-interface
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Acronym of zero user interface.
procreaters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of procreater
gunnybag
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gunnybags
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of gunny-bag.
gunnybags
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gunnybag
radiobroadcasted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of radiobroadcast
radiobroadcasting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of radiobroadcast
corn oils
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of corn oil
immunogram
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: immunograms
Etymology: From immuno- + -gram.
Senses: topics: immunology
medicine
sciences
glosses: The graphical result of an immunodiffusion test.
immunograms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: To generate the HPLC immunograms, the remaining fraction was lyophilized, reconstituted in 100 μL of 40% methanol, and subjected to the PGFM EIA as described above.
ref: 2015 December 4, “Non-Invasive Pregnancy Diagnosis in Big Cats using the PGFM (13,14-dihydro-15-keto-PGF 2α ) Assay”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: plural of immunogram
lysised
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: One month later, the veinal blood of the recipient mice was gathered, lysised of red cells and detected GFP positive ratio by cytometry.
ref: 2015 December 4, “Nestin Positive Bone Marrow Derived Cells Responded to Injury Mobilize into Peripheral Circulation and Participate in Skin Defect Healing”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Subjected to lysis
macrotrace
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: macrotraces
Etymology: From macro- + trace.
Senses: glosses: A trace (track) that is large enough to see with the unaided eye
macrotraces
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Pieces with macrotraces on dolerite. 7 and 8 Burins on hornfels.
ref: 2015 December 4, “Refining Our Understanding of Howiesons Poort Lithic Technology: The Evidence from Grey Rocky Layer in Sibudu Cave (KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa)”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: plural of macrotrace
metalloendoprotease
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: metalloendoproteases
Etymology: From metallo- + endoprotease.
Senses: examples: text: Following fertilization, ZP2 undergoes proteolytic cleavage by an oocyte-specific astacin-like metalloendoprotease, first reported as ovastacin (citation), released from the cortical granules, and sperm no longer bind to mouse embryos [22 ].
ref: 2015 December 4, “Melamine Impairs Female Fertility via Suppressing Protein Level of Juno in Mouse Eggs”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: any endoprotease that is a metalloenzyme
microsclerotial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From micro- + sclerotial.
Senses: examples: text: The defect in VdCYC8 clearly compromised wild type levels of microsclerotial formation, and we speculate that defect directly or indirectly affects virulence in V.
ref: 2015 December 4, “VdCYC8, Encoding CYC8 Glucose Repression Mediator Protein, Is Required for Microsclerotia Formation and Full Virulence in Verticillium dahliae”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Relating to microsclerotia
monosialylated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From mono- + sialylated.
Senses: examples: text: In plasma, apoC-III exists in non-sialylated (apoC-III 0a without glycosylation and apoC-III 0b with glycosylation), monosialylated (apoC-III 1 ) or disialylated (apoC-III 2 ) proteoforms.
ref: 2015 December 4, “The Association of Human Apolipoprotein C-III Sialylation Proteoforms with Plasma Triglycerides”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: sialylated with a single sialic acid residue
octanolysis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From octanol + -lysis.
Senses: examples: text: After hydrolysis, octanolysis and TMS-derivatization (Fig 2 ; 4a, 4′a ) the samples were subjected to GC/MS analysis.
ref: 2015 December 4, “Estimation of D-Arabinose by Gas Chromatography/Mass Spectrometry as Surrogate for Mycobacterial Lipoarabinomannan in Human Urine”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: alcoholysis using octanol
overreactivity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: overreactivities
Etymology: From over- + reactivity.
Senses: examples: text: In this study, we examined parenting behavior using items of overreactivity in the Japanese version of the PS. Participants rated each item using a seven-point Likert scale.
ref: 2015 December 4, “Development and Evaluation of a Parenting Resilience Elements Questionnaire (PREQ) Measuring Resiliency in Rearing Children with Developmental Disorders”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Excessive reactivity
oxalotrophic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɒfɪk
Etymology: From oxalo- + -trophic.
Senses: examples: text: Oxalate is such a carbon source because soils generally harbour oxalotrophic bacteria that may derive all their energy needs from oxalates via the oxalate-carbonate pathway.
ref: 2015 December 4, “Novel Applications for Oxalate-Phosphate-Amine Metal-Organic-Frameworks (OPA-MOFs): Can an Iron-Based OPA-MOF Be Used as Slow-Release Fertilizer?”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Relating to oxalotrophy
oxalotrophy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From oxalo- + -trophy.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: feeding (obtaining nourishment) on oxalates or oxalic acid
Related terms: oxalotrophic
protochordates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: In taxa after protochordates, additional Rho GTPase genes arose without further expansion of subfamily members as a result of whole-genome duplication, gene duplication and retrotransposition [1, 24 ].
ref: 2015 December 4, “The Rho GTPase Family Genes in Bivalvia Genomes: Sequence, Evolution and Expression Analysis”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: plural of protochordate
successivity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: successivities
Etymology: From successive + -ity.
Senses: glosses: The quality or fact of being successive.
successivities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of successivity
kakar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Muntjac (Muntiacus muntjak)
glased
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of glase
nonisochronous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + isochronous.
Senses: examples: text: Using the correction of a vector field to characterize isochronicity and explicit computations of this quantity for polynomial vector fields, wa are able to describe a very large class of nonisochronous Hamiltonian system of even degree of degree arbitrary large.
ref: 2016, Jacky Cresson, Jordy Palafox, “Isochronous centers of polynomial Hamiltonian systems and a conjecture of Jarque and Villadelprat”, in arXiv:
glosses: Not isochronous.
undeconvolved
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + deconvolved.
Senses: examples: text: Auxiliary tests include solutions for deficiencies of data partitioning methods (e.g. the use of masks to remove clean bias and hybrid methods to remove sidelobes from sources left undeconvolved), the effect of sources not at pixel centers and the consequences of various other numerical approximations within software implementations.
ref: 2016, Urvashi Rau, Sanjay Bhatnagar, Frazer N. Owen, “Deep wideband single pointings and mosaics in radio interferometry - How accurately do we reconstruct intensities and spectral indices of faint sources?”, in arXiv:
glosses: Not deconvolved.
dark fluid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: astronomy
cosmology
natural-sciences
glosses: A linked phenomenon conjectured to explain dark matter and dark energy as different manifestations of the same underlying laws of gravity.
subeffect
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: subeffects
Etymology: From sub- + effect.
Senses: glosses: A secondary or subsidiary effect.
subeffects
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of subeffect
subeffective
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From sub- + effective.
Senses: examples: a subeffective dose
glosses: Below the threshold where an effect would be produced.
piratesses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of piratess
Debs
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A short form of the female given name Deborah.
glosses: A surname.
summa genera
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of summum genus
gallopheasant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gallopheasants
Senses: glosses: Any of the pheasants in the genus Lophura of the family Phasianidae.
gallopheasants
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gallopheasant
dumpster fire
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdʌmpstəˈfaɪ.ə(ɹ)/
ipa: /ˈdʌmpstəˈfaɪə(ɹ)/
ipa: /ˈdʌmpstɚˈfaɪəɹ/
Forms: form: dumpster fires
Senses: examples: text: As honeymoons go, this was a total dumpster fire.
ref: 2015, Michael Cosgrove, Imperfect Passage: A Sailing Story of Vision, Terror, and Redemption:
text: Illinois football and the entire university are in a state of mayhem. . . . Illinois athletics is a dumpster fire right now.
ref: 2015 August 28, Kevin Trahan, “The University of Illinois is a dumpster fire”, in insidenu.com, retrieved 27 Oct 2016:
text: [W]ith these two candidates, this election remains a dumpster fire.
ref: 2016 July 7, Sean Sullivan, Philip Rucker, “Trump, seeking GOP unity, has tense meeting with Senate Republicans”, in Washington Post, retrieved 27 Oct 2016:
text: “It was a dumpster fire of diplomacy,” Kelly said.
ref: 2025 March 2, Michael Sainato, quoting Mark Kelly, “Bernie Sanders dismisses Republicans’ ‘horrific’ calls for Zelenskyy to resign”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
synonyms: shemozzle
tire fire
glosses: A chaotic, unpleasant, unmanageable thing, situation, or person; a disaster.
examples: text: When the arsonist lit the dumpster, he started a dumpster fire.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see dumpster, fire.
Derived terms: Trumpster fire
Related terms: hot mess
trash fire
dumpster fires
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dumpster fire
freedom fighting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The activities of a freedom fighter; armed conflict against an occupation, an oppressive government, etc.
monarchofascist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: monarchofascists
Etymology: From monarcho- + fascist.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of monarcho-fascist.
monarchofascists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of monarchofascist
throttle down
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: throttles down
form: throttling down
form: throttled down
form: throttled down
Senses: examples: text: Therefore, before declutching, throttle down your engine.
ref: 1908 March, Popular Mechanics, page 112:
text: "You can feel it in here when it throttles down," noted Aldrin. "Better than the simulator."
ref: 2008, W. David Woods, chapter 10, in How Apollo Flew to the Moon, Springer, published 2011, page 294:
glosses: To reduce power to (an engine), reduce speed
examples: text: She had throttled down the chagrin the loss had caused her, observant of conventions, leaving it until decay had robbed the debtor of the right to the respect that must be given those that are Lying Dead.
ref: 1938, Xavier Herbert, chapter X, in Capricornia, New York: D. Appleton-Century, published 1943, page 165:
text: "Yes, Madame," Elena replied, throttling down her joy. They still might change their minds—something might happen.
ref: 2016, Mercedes Lackey, chapter 1, in The Fairy Godmother, Harlequin:
glosses: To suppress (an emotion)
throttled down
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of throttle down
throttling down
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of throttle down
throttles down
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of throttle down
zymograph
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: zymographs
Etymology: From zymo- + -graph.
Senses: glosses: An image produced by zymography.
Related terms: zymogram
zymographs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of zymograph
Anglical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Anglical
form: most Anglical
Senses: glosses: Anglican.
chemotax
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: chemotaxes
form: chemotaxing
form: chemotaxed
form: chemotaxed
Etymology: Back-formation.
Senses: glosses: To move by means of chemotaxis
Related terms: chemotaxin
chemotaxed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of chemotax
chemotaxing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of chemotax
artist's conk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: synonyms: artist's fungus
artist's bracket
bear bread
glosses: A bracket fungus of species Ganoderma applanatum.
on one's pat
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of on one's Pat Malone.
artist's fungus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of artist's conk.
synonyms: word: artist's conk
sportsfisherman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sportsfishermen
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of sportfisherman.
sportsfishermen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sportsfisherman
sportfisherman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sportfishermen
Etymology: From sport + fisherman.
Senses: glosses: A person who participates in sportfishing.
glosses: A boat intended for sportfishing.
sportfishermen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sportfisherman
sportsfishing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From sports + fishing.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of sportfishing.
big hitter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: big hitters
Senses: examples: text: It is easy to forget, given the lack of an impressive Transport Secretary since Patrick McLoughlin, that there have been several big hitters in the job.
ref: 2024 January 10, Christian Wolmar, “A time for change? ... just as it was back in issue 262”, in RAIL, number 1000, page 60:
text: De Bruyne and Haaland both suffered lengthy injury absences this season - in particular the Belgian, who required hamstring surgery after the first league game at Burnley - but if the big hitters needed assistance it was always there.
ref: 2024 May 19, Phil McNulty, “Guardiola turns Man City into PL's great untouchables”, in BBC Sport:
glosses: A powerful and influential person or organization.
topics: ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: Synonym of biffer.
synonyms: word: biffer
big hitters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of big hitter
big dog of the tanyard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A pompous, overbearing person who will not stand for dissent.
carboxylterminal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From carboxyl + terminal.
Senses: glosses: Relating to a carboxyl terminus.
bird's eye chili
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bird's eye chilis
Senses: glosses: A spicy chili pepper, a cultivar from the species Capsicum annuum, commonly found in Southeast Asia.
Vietnamese sandwiches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Vietnamese sandwich
echelon parking
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of angle parking.
synonyms: word: angle parking
chemoheterotrophy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From chemo- + heterotrophy.
Senses: glosses: chemotrophic heterotrophy
Related terms: chemoheterotroph
chemoheterotrophic
ra-ra
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more ra-ra
form: most ra-ra
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of rah-rah.
ra-ra
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of rah-rah.
ra-ra
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ra-ras
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of rah-rah.
Related terms: ra-ra skirt
ra-ras
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ra-ra
truck and trailer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: ball-games
games
hobbies
lifestyle
rugby
sports
glosses: The situation where the ball carrier leaves a maul and is followed by teammates.
qualifier: roller derby
glosses: The situation where one player skates directly behind a teammate and holds onto their hips in order to pivot.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see truck, and, trailer: especially, a tractor-trailer.
restart kick
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɪk
Forms: form: restart kicks
Senses: topics: ball-games
games
hobbies
lifestyle
rugby
sports
glosses: A drop kick of the ball by the non-scoring team toward the opposition, used to recommence play after a point has been scored.
restart kicks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of restart kick
artisanate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: artisanates
Etymology: From artisan + -ate (forming nouns denoting rank, class). Compare French artisanat.
Senses: examples: text: The ‘sixties had been indisputably prosperous; an affluence had come to the artisanate and even to the laboring classes that made the possibility of revolution recede, at least in Great Britain, almost out of mind.
ref: 1969 November 10, John Fowles, chapter 3, in The French Lieutenant’s Woman, 1st US edition, Boston, Mass.; Toronto, Ont.: Little, Brown and Company […], →OCLC, page 10:
glosses: The class of artisans or skilled manual workers, collectively.
artisanates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of artisanate
pneumomassage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From pneumo- + massage.
Senses: glosses: pneumatic massage of the internal portions of the ear
pneumic acid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: taurine
Related terms: pneumate
pulmonic acid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: taurine
anthropornography
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Blend of anthropomorphic + pornography or similar, coined by activist Amie Hamlin and popularised by Carol J. Adams' book The Pornography of Meat (2003).
Senses: glosses: The presentation of animals, especially those raised to be killed for food, in quasi-pornographic poses.
plesiadapiform
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: plesiadapiforms
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Any extinct mammal of the order Plesiadapiformes
shuttle run
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shuttle runs
Senses: glosses: An exercise consisting in repeated sprints between two points.
qualifier: semiconductor industry
glosses: A microchip production run that is part of a multi-project wafer service.
Hyponyms: bleep test
abegging
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈbɛɡɪŋ/
Etymology: From a- + begging.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of beg
Related terms: go a-begging
paragraphoi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of paragraphos
shuttle runs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shuttle run
Pinkman
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
plateosaur
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: plateosaurs
Senses: glosses: A plateosaurid dinosaur of the genus Plateosaurus that lived during the Late Triassic period.
plateosaurs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of plateosaur
nitrovin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A feed additive used as a growth stimulant for pigs.
noodgy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more noodgy
form: most noodgy
Etymology: From noodge + -y.
Senses: glosses: whiny; peevish; complaining
northered
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of norther
northering
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of norther
nowmun
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nowmuns
Etymology: Perhaps equivalent to no man.
Senses: synonyms: word: absolute zero
word: asswipe
word: badling
word: blatherskite
word: bugger
word: carrion
word: cipher
word: cockstain
word: crumb
word: custron
word: dandiprat
word: doink
word: fellow
word: fritlag
word: geek
word: good-for-naught
word: good-for-nothing
word: hoon
word: lidderon
word: losel
word: loser
word: louse
word: maggot
word: nonce
word: nowmun
word: ne'er-do-well
word: no-good
word: no-mark
word: nonentity
word: pelf
word: pig dog
word: pile of shit
word: pissant
word: punk
word: puny
word: quat
word: ramp
word: rinky-dink
word: roly-poly
word: scullion
word: slubberdegullion
word: sparrow-fart
word: streak of piss
word: toerag
word: truant
word: twerp
word: wankstain
word: waste of space
word: underperson
word: unworthy
qualifier: Lancashire
glosses: A worthless person.
nowmuns
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nowmun
tizoxanide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A thiazolide antiparasitic that occurs as a metabolite of nitazoxanide in humans through hydrolysis.
nocicipient
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: nociceptive
steganalyzer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: steganalyzers
Senses: glosses: A program or algorithm that carries out steganalysis.
steganalyzers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of steganalyzer
steganalytical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to steganalysis.
steganalytic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to steganalysis.
pupes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pupe
soup bone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: soup bones
Senses: glosses: A bone used in cooking soup.
topics: ball-games
baseball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: The arm that a player uses to pitch the ball.
soup bones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of soup bone
Morrisian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Morrisian
form: most Morrisian
Etymology: From Morris + -ian.
Senses: examples: text: a Morrisian utopia
glosses: Of or relating to William Morris (1834–1896), English writer, artist and socialist activist.
examples: text: The port of embarkation for a postjournalistic life was Venice, and the first recognisably Morrisian work was a biography of the city (1960), “less a case of finding a voice and more the voice finding something that was right for it”.
ref: 2020 November 20, Veronica Horwell, “Jan Morris obituary”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
glosses: Of or relating to Jan Morris (1926–2020), Welsh writer and journalist.
resiliates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of resiliate
resiliating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of resiliate
uveomeningoencephalitic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to uveomeningoencephalitis.
resiliated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of resiliate
VKH
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Vogt-Koyanagi-Harada disease.
uveomeningitis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From uveo- + meningitis.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Vogt-Koyanagi-Harada disease.
synonyms: word: Vogt-Koyanagi-Harada disease
ABQB
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Alberta Court of Queen's Bench.
ABCA
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Alberta Court of Appeal.
glosses: Initialism of Alcohol Beverage Control Administration, the alcoholic beverage control authority in the U.S. state of West Virginia
glosses: Initialism of American Baseball Coaches Association, an organization for baseball coaches.
glosses: Initialism of American, British, Canadian, and Australian, an international military organization.
glosses: Initialism of Army Bureau of Current Affairs, an organisation set up to educate and raise morale amongst British servicemen in World War II.
glosses: Initialism of Ausable Bayfield Conservation Authority.
Vogt-Koyanagi-Harada disease
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Named for ophthalmologists Alfred Vogt from Switzerland and Yoshizo Koyanagi and Einosuke Harada from Japan.
Senses: glosses: A disease characterized by bilateral diffuse uveitis.
Synonyms: uveomeningitis
VKH
BCCA
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of British Columbia Court of Appeal.
SKCA
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Saskatchewan Court of Appeal.
MBCA
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Manitoba Court of Appeal.
duresses
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of duress
ONCA
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Ontario Court of Appeal.
QCCA
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Quebec Court of Appeal.
NSCA
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Nova Scotia Court of Appeal.
fructotransferases
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fructotransferase
glucotransferases
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of glucotransferase
blockheadess
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: blockheadesses
Etymology: From blockhead + -ess.
Senses: examples: text: "If I did, every body would say I put them into my book," said the Princess, "for all the blockheads and blockheadesses think themselves printable; and draw what you may, 'each cries that was levelled at him.'"
ref: 1827, Lady Morgan, The O'Briens and the O'Flahertys, Volume 4, p. 360 (Google Books view)
glosses: A female blockhead.
minhag
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈmɪn.həɡ/
Forms: form: minhags
form: minhagim
Etymology: From Hebrew מִנְהָג (minhág).
Senses: examples: text: My family's minhag is to sit while saying kiddush.
text: The Persian Jews have a Passover minhag to beat each other with vegetables when singing Dayenu.
text: In the Polish rite the refrain only is said, while the Western German and Minhag of Posen recite the entire poem.
ref: 1996, Macy Nulman, The Encyclopedia of Jewish Prayer, page 300:
glosses: a longstanding religious custom or tradition that is not required by Jewish law
lay some skin on
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: lays some skin on
form: laying some skin on
form: laid some skin on
form: laid some skin on
Senses: examples: text: Name's Jack. Lay some skin on me, man.
ref: 2004, Terry Griggs, The Silver Door, →ISBN, page 97:
text: Frankie set down the light gray duffel bag on the dark gray kitchen table and said, "Lay some skin on me, blood."
ref: 2016, Jimmy James, Snitches N B*Tches, →ISBN:
text: We laid some skin on each other.
ref: 2016, Michael Z. Lewin, The Way We Die Now, →ISBN:
glosses: To shake hands with.
lays some skin on
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of lay some skin on
laying some skin on
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of lay some skin on
laid some skin on
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of lay some skin on
leaf monkey
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: leaf monkeys
Senses: examples: text: White-headed leaf monkey (T. leiwocephalus) is also restricted to southern Guangxi.
ref: 2008, Martin Walters, Heather Angel, Chinese Wildlife: A Visitor's Guide, →ISBN, page 57:
text: The banded leaf monkey (Presbytis femoralis) is a very shy animal and keeps to the canopy.
ref: 2011, Peter K. L. Ng, Richard Corlett, Hugh T. W. Tan, Singapore Biodiversity, →ISBN:
text: Oh, a Francois' leaf monkey, about 2 years old, was looking at him sadly and giving a mournful wail. Its left hand was bleeding. Without a second thought, the highlander held the leaf monkey in his arms and hurried back home.
ref: 2015, Kekang He, New Theory of Children’s Thinking Development, →ISBN:
glosses: Any of various leaf-eating, arboreal Asian monkeys of the subfamily Colobinae of family Cercopithecidae, related to and including the langurs.
leaf monkeys
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of leaf monkey
like a dose of salts
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Etymology: From the laxative properties of Epsom salts.
Senses: examples: text: After five minutes' conversation with me the old folks would penetrate the deception like a dose of salts.
ref: 1949, P.G. Wodehouse, The Mating Season:
text: Every so often a mass campaign swept the country like a dose of salts, and officials, writers, artists, people in the public eye were purged and flushed out on a tidal wave of hysteria.
ref: 2009, Esther Cheo Ying, Black Country to Red China, →ISBN:
text: Carew, a notorious axeman, had just gone through a neighbouring regional station like a dose of salts, restructuring and streamlining, as he liked to call it.
ref: 2010, Coleen Nolan, Envy, →ISBN:
text: She was a bit concerned about the old woman getting down on her knees because of her complaints about rheumatism, but ever since Becky had dropped her off, the maid had not stopped working and had gone through the hotel like a dose of salts.
ref: 2015, June Francis, A Mother's Duty, →ISBN, page 212:
qualifier: simile
glosses: Very quickly and thoroughly.