cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
erubescence
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˌɛɹʊˈbɛsəns/
/ˌɛɹuˈbɛsəns/
Forms: form: erubescences
form: erubescency
Etymology: Mid 18th century. From Latin erubescens, from erubesco, from ex- + rubesco. Compare French érubescence.
Senses: glosses: The act of becoming red; reddening.
examples: text: I then ventured to ask the master to ask small and red Dougal what cutlery was; but from the sudden erubescence of his pallid, ill-fed cheek, and the alarming brightness of his eyes, I twigged at once that he didn't himself know what it meant.
ref: 1861, John Brown, “Education Through the Senses”, in Spare Hours, page 306:
glosses: Redness of the skin or surface of anything; a blushing.
glosses: Reddishness.
Coordinate terms: english: becoming white
translation: becoming white
word: albescence
english: becoming blue
translation: becoming blue
word: cerulescence
english: becoming yellow
translation: becoming yellow
word: flavescence
english: becoming black
translation: becoming black
word: nigrescence
english: becoming green
translation: becoming green
word: virescence
Related terms: erubescent
crestings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈkɹɛstɪŋz/
Senses: glosses: plural of cresting
funktastic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /fʌŋkˈtæstɪk/
Forms: form: more funktastic
form: most funktastic
Etymology: From funk + -tastic.
Senses: glosses: funky; cool or stylish, especially in a way that relates to funk music
ametabolic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: ametabolous
Etymology: From a- + metabolic.
Senses: examples: text: ametabolic insects
topics: biology
entomology
natural-sciences
glosses: Not undergoing metamorphosis
Related terms: ametabolism
ametabolous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of ametabolic.
long drop
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: long drops
Senses: glosses: An outhouse; a pit latrine.
synonyms: measured drop
coordinate_terms: short drop
glosses: A technique for execution by hanging, according to which the individual's height and weight were used to determine how much slack would be provided in the rope, to ensure breaking of the neck without decapitation.
Synonyms: alt: latrine
word: outhouse
incondensable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more incondensable
form: most incondensable
form: incondensible
Etymology: From in- + condensable.
Senses: synonyms: uncondensable
glosses: Not condensable; incapable of being made more dense or compact, or reduced to liquid form.
discretionarily
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more discretionarily
form: most discretionarily
Etymology: From discretionary + -ly.
Senses: glosses: At one's discretion.
discretionally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more discretionally
form: most discretionally
Etymology: From discretional + -ly.
Senses: glosses: At one's discretion.
incondensible
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more incondensible
form: most incondensible
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of incondensable.
prowfishes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of prowfish
zaprorid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: zaprorids
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Any of the family Zaproridae of prowfish.
zaprorids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of zaprorid
crescent spanner
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: crescent spanners
Senses: glosses: An adjustable hand tool for tightening and loosening nuts and bolts.
Synonyms: word: adjustable spanner
word: adjustable wrench
word: Crescent wrench
word: crescent wrench
prowesses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of prowess
crescent spanners
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of crescent spanner
Bernsteinian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Bernsteinian
form: most Bernsteinian
Etymology: From Bernstein + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to Basil Bernstein (1924-2000), British sociologist and linguist, known for his work in the sociology of education.
backpieces
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of backpiece
crowingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more crowingly
form: most crowingly
Etymology: From crowing + -ly.
Senses: examples: 1902, Watson Bradshaw, "Thyestes", Act V., in The Ten Tragedies of Seneca, page 135.
Wicked Atreus crowingly congratulates himself on his cruel revenge […]
glosses: So as to crow; with jubilation or schadenfreude.
Synonyms: sense: so as to crow
word: exultantly
sense: so as to crow
word: exultatingly
sense: so as to crow
word: exultingly
sense: so as to crow
word: jubilantly
Related terms: crow
crawlingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more crawlingly
form: most crawlingly
Etymology: From crawling + -ly.
Senses: glosses: With a crawling motion.
glosses: In a humble or sycophantic manner.
conqueringly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more conqueringly
form: most conqueringly
Etymology: From conquering + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: E'en nature's boldest barriers he conqueringly assails.
ref: 1867, William T. Butler, “The Gathering On the Plains”, in Harper's Magazine:
glosses: So as to conquer.
unfittingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more unfittingly
form: most unfittingly
Etymology: From Middle English unfittyngly, equivalent to unfitting + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a way that is not fitting; inappropriately; unsuitably.
driftingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more driftingly
form: most driftingly
Etymology: From drifting + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: The clouds moved driftingly across the horizon.
glosses: In a way that drifts.
deludedly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more deludedly
form: most deludedly
Etymology: From deluded + -ly.
Senses: glosses: under a delusion
contendingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more contendingly
form: most contendingly
Etymology: From contending + -ly.
Senses: glosses: So as to contend or compete.
feigningly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more feigningly
form: most feigningly
Etymology: From feigning + -ly.
Senses: glosses: With feigning or deception.
flaggingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more flaggingly
form: most flaggingly
Etymology: From flagging + -ly.
Senses: glosses: So as to flag or slow down; wearyingly.
forewarningly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more forewarningly
form: most forewarningly
Etymology: From forewarning + -ly.
Senses: glosses: So as to forewarn; in a way that gives advance warning.
faintingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more faintingly
form: most faintingly
Etymology: From fainting + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Newly rescued from the desert, she faintingly asked for water.
glosses: While fainting; so as to faint.
muddlingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more muddlingly
form: most muddlingly
Etymology: From muddling + -ly.
Senses: glosses: So as to muddle or confuse.
wanderingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more wanderingly
form: most wanderingly
Etymology: From wandering + -ly.
Senses: glosses: So as to wander; while wandering.
examples: text: I seem to remember talking wanderingly to myself during that last spurt.
ref: 1898, H.G. Wells, The War of the Worlds, London: William Heinemann, page 110:
glosses: In a wandering manner; without any particular direction.
twiningly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more twiningly
form: most twiningly
Etymology: From twining + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: The cap she selected for the occasion was one which owed almost all its Barnabian grace to a very magnificent wreath of crimson roses, which ran twiningly and caressingly round the front of it, […]
ref: 1843, Frances Trollope, chapter XXXII, in The Barnabys in America, or Adventures of the Widow Wedded, Paris: Published by A[nthony] and W[illiam] Galignani and Co., […], →OCLC, page 249:
glosses: So as to twine.
twangingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more twangingly
form: most twangingly
Etymology: From twanging + -ly.
Senses: glosses: With a twanging sound.
unpretendingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more unpretendingly
form: most unpretendingly
Etymology: From unpretending + -ly.
Senses: glosses: Without pretence or pretension.
underlyingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more underlyingly
form: most underlyingly
Etymology: From underlying + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a way that underlies.
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: In the underlying form.
scrutinisingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more scrutinisingly
form: most scrutinisingly
Etymology: From scrutinising + -ly.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of scrutinizingly.
scrutinizingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more scrutinizingly
form: most scrutinizingly
form: scrutinisingly
Etymology: From scrutinizing + -ly.
Senses: glosses: So as to scrutinize; with close visual attention.
incondensability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: incondensibility
Senses: glosses: The quality or state of being incondensable.
cuttermen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cutterman
Walmartians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Walmartian
inviolated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more inviolated
form: most inviolated
Etymology: From in- + violated.
Senses: glosses: Not violated or injured; inviolate.
GMOs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of GMO
GEOs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of GEO
trimorphous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From tri- + -morphous.
Senses: glosses: trimorphic; having, or relating to, three forms
denunciating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of denunciate
denunciated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of denunciate
denunciates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of denunciate
nonunionism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From non- + unionism.
Senses: glosses: Lack of unionism; absence of support for a union or trade union.
noncommitments
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of noncommitment
nonclogging
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + clogging.
Senses: examples: nonclogging fluids
a nonclogging pump
glosses: That does not clog, or get clogged.
nonimplication
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nonimplications
Etymology: From non- + implication.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
logic
mathematics
philosophy
sciences
glosses: That which is not implied; the opposite of an implication.
Derived terms: material nonimplication
nonimplications
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nonimplication
nonmarkets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nonmarket
nonconcurrences
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nonconcurrence
jugglingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more jugglingly
form: most jugglingly
Etymology: From juggling + -ly.
Senses: glosses: deceitfully
prattlingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more prattlingly
form: most prattlingly
Etymology: From prattling + -ly.
Senses: glosses: With prattle, or worthless talk.
pursuingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more pursuingly
form: most pursuingly
Etymology: From pursuing + -ly.
Senses: glosses: With pursuit; so as to pursue or chase.
pipingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more pipingly
form: most pipingly
Etymology: From piping + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: The father said nothing, but the daughter pipingly suggested, "We could go and stay next door."
glosses: With a piping sound; with a high pitch.
biddi-biddi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈbɪdi ˌbɪdi/
Forms: form: biddy-biddy
form: biddy-bid
form: bidibid
Etymology: Irregular formation from Maori piri-piri.
Senses: examples: text: Two days ago in the Duke, and still the hooks in that conversation stick in her throat like a half-swallowed bidibid.
ref: 1983, Keri Hulme, The Bone People, Penguin, published 1986, page 136:
glosses: The burr of the piri-piri plant.
intreatingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more intreatingly
form: most intreatingly
Etymology: From intreating + -ly.
Senses: glosses: Archaic spelling of entreatingly.
interrogatingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more interrogatingly
form: most interrogatingly
Etymology: From interrogating + -ly.
Senses: glosses: So as to interrogate; with urgent or bullying questioning.
deludingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more deludingly
form: most deludingly
Etymology: From deluding + -ly.
Senses: glosses: So as to delude or cause delusion.
nontruth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nontruths
Etymology: From non- + truth.
Senses: glosses: That which is not true; a lie or falsehood.
nontruths
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nontruth
defacingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more defacingly
form: most defacingly
Etymology: From defacing + -ly.
Senses: glosses: So as to deface.
nonparity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From non- + parity.
Senses: glosses: Absence or lack of parity.
noddingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more noddingly
form: most noddingly
Etymology: From nodding + -ly.
Senses: glosses: With a nodding motion, possibly expressing agreement.
examples: text: You could name ten thousand goodish books that you might, without any pressing necessity, noddingly know; you might name a hundred authors that cultured persons would be expected to talk about.
ref: 1938, Ford Madox Ford, The March of Literature: From Confucius' Day to Our Own, →ISBN, page 692:
text: You may find in the first few months that your budgeted estimates are only noddingly close to your actual expenses.
ref: 1990, Sylvia Field Porter, Sylvia Porter's your finances in the 1990s, page 25:
text: In the primary and secondary schools, the student is taught the rudiments of literacy and arithmetic; is introduced to history and literature; acquires the beginner's skills in mathematics; is noddingly acquainted with science; and in general, is given a perspective on the modern world and of his and her place in it.
ref: 1991, Robert A. Solo, Opportunity Knocks: American Economic Policy After Gorbachev, →ISBN:
text: Emma may claim to have copied that very poem out of Elegant Extracts, but Austen herself, and any reader even noddingly familiar with the anthology, would have known that David Garrick's 'A Riddle' from 1757 was far too saucy and laden with innuendo to have been admitted to Knox's edifying volume.
ref: 2015, Peter Sabor, The Cambridge Companion to ‘Emma', →ISBN, page 29:
glosses: To a very minor degree; slightly.
drivingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more drivingly
form: most drivingly
Etymology: From driving + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Keep her eyes, for the time, from her husband’s as she might, she soon found herself much more drivingly conscious of the strain on his own wit.
ref: 1904, Henry James, The Golden Bowl, Part 4, Chapter 34:
glosses: So as to drive or motivate.
examples: text: One black and gusty night, when the moon was down and the inky clouds swept fiercely overhead through the starless void; when the cruel wind raged and tore, and the sleety rain came swirlingly, drivingly down […]
ref: 1870, The Shamrock, volume 8, page 18:
glosses: With forceful, inexorable motion.
topics: engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: So as to drive.
drizzlingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more drizzlingly
form: most drizzlingly
Etymology: From drizzling + -ly.
Senses: glosses: With drizzle, or light rain.
nonproductivity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From non- + productivity or nonproductive + -ity.
Senses: glosses: Lack of productivity.
aphonous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Without a voice; voiceless; aphonic.
retributory
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more retributory
form: most retributory
Etymology: Compare Latin retributorius (“worthy of retribution”).
Senses: synonyms: retributive
retributionary
glosses: Of or relating to retribution; of the nature of retribution; involving retribution or repayment.
suck the kumara
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: sucks the kumara
form: sucking the kumara
form: sucked the kumara
form: sucked the kumara
Etymology: Presumably because both a buried corpse and a kumara (“sweet potato”) are found under the earth.
Senses: glosses: To die.
Synonyms: sense: to die
word: kick the bucket
sense: to die
word: bite the dust
hokey pokey
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: rhymes: -əʊki
Forms: form: hokey pokeys
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Hokey Pokey (“dance”).
glosses: A confection made from golden syrup, white sugar, and baking soda; honeycomb toffee
glosses: Vanilla ice cream with small pieces of honeycomb toffee.
Synonyms: sense: confection made from golden syrup
word: honeycomb toffee
sense: confection made from golden syrup
word: honeycomb
sense: confection made from golden syrup
word: cinder toffee
sense: confection made from golden syrup
word: sponge toffee
sense: confection made from golden syrup
word: seafoam candy
cumshawing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of cumshaw
cumshawed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of cumshaw
tritheistical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From tri- + theistical.
Senses: examples: a. 1751, Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke, an essay
The very contrary happened in the tritheistical system , after the establishment of Christianity : and the second and the third divine hypostases grew by degrees
glosses: Of or relating to tritheism.
trithianes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of trithiane
philtered
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of philter
philtering
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of philter
geogonic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Compare French géogonique.
Senses: examples: text: geogonic myth
text: geogonic planning
text: geogonic impact
glosses: Of or relating to geogony, or to the formation of the Earth.
geogonical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of geogonic.
talismanical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more talismanical
form: most talismanical
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of talismanic.
antorbitals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of antorbital
coleopteral
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From κολεός (koleós, “sheath”) and πτερόν (pterón, “wing”), + -al.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: coleopterous.
hypsometrical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From hypsometry + -ical.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to hypsometry.
Derived terms: hypsometrically
polytech
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈpɒliˌtɛk/
Forms: form: polytechs
Etymology: Shortening.
Senses: glosses: A polytechnic.
polytechs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of polytech
catechistical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more catechistical
form: most catechistical
Senses: glosses: Pertaining to a catechism.
southeastwardly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more southeastwardly
form: most southeastwardly
Etymology: From southeastward + -ly.
Senses: glosses: Toward the southeast.
southwestwardly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more southwestwardly
form: most southwestwardly
Etymology: From southwestward + -ly.
Senses: glosses: Toward the southwest.
hoopoo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hoopoos
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of hoopoe.
hoopoos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hoopoo
housewrights
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of housewright
contradistinctively
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more contradistinctively
form: most contradistinctively
Etymology: From contradistinctive + -ly.
Senses: glosses: in contradistinction
bureaucratical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more bureaucratical
form: most bureaucratical
Etymology: From bureaucratic + -al.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of bureaucratic.
synonyms: word: bureaucratic
ayry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ayries
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of eyrie.
ayrie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ayries
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of eyrie.
ambitioning
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of ambition
inexpediencies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of inexpediency
inexpedience
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: inexpediences
form: inexpediency
Senses: glosses: The quality or state of being inexpedient; unsuitableness or impropriety.
refluence
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: refluences
form: refluency
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being refluent, of flowing back.
examples: text: Scared by the faith they feigned, each priestly slave
Knelt for his mercy whom they served with blood,
And, like the refluence of a mighty wave
Sucked into the loud sea, the multitude
With crushing panic, fled in terror’s altered mood.
ref: 1817 December, Percy Bysshe Shelley, “The Revolt of Islam. […]”, in [Mary] Shelley, editor, The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley. […], volume I, London: Edward Moxon […], published 1839, →OCLC, page 360:
glosses: A flowing back.
languaging
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: languagings
Derived terms: translanguaging
languaging
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of language
periphrastical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of periphrastic.
Martello towers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Martello tower
unsign
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -aɪn
Forms: form: unsigns
form: unsigning
form: unsigned
form: unsigned
Etymology: From un- + sign.
Senses: examples: text: Listen : I say we signed, and there's no unsigning.
And the voyage is never completed, though some may ask
What creature is this, with the sea through his eyes looking[?]
[…]
We signed and there's no unsigning.
Hell, no, but she rolls
And she rolls us like foam from her flanks, the gay mulatto.
ref: 1942, Robert Herring, editor, Life and Letters To-Day, volume 34, page 203:
text: UNSIGNING AND CHANGING A REPORT SHOULD ONLY BE USED IN VERY RARE CASES IN WHICH FAILURE TO CHANGE THE ORIGINAL REPORT COULD RESULT IN SIGNIFICANT HARM TO THE PATIENT.
ref: 2010, Manual of Surgical Pathology, 3rd edition, Susan Carole Lester, →ISBN, page 38:
glosses: To remove one's signature from (something one has signed).
examples: text: Third, transnational legal process could be used to erode the force of the novel US tactic of unsigning the Rome Treaty.
ref: 2005, Michael Ignatieff, American Exceptionalism and Human Rights, page 137:
text: Unsigning the Rome Statute. My happiest moment at State was personally “unsigning” the Rome Statute that created the International Criminal Court (ICC). […] bureaucrats urged at every turn that foreign governments would be extremely upset if we unsigned. In fact, only High Minded Europeans cared even slightly, which was simply further evidence that unsigning was the right thing to do.
ref: 2008, John Bolton, Surrender Is Not an Option: Defending America at the United Nations, page 85:
text: The administration took the unprecedented step of unsigning the treaty, entered into negotiations with over 100 countries to inoculate the United States from its provisions, […]
ref: 2011, Lee Feinstein, Tod Lindberg, Means To An End: U.S. Interest in The International Criminal Court, page 46:
qualifier: or those acting on behalf of a state
glosses: To declare void one's signing of (a treaty).
raw_tags: of a state
covelline
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: covellines
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: covellite
micronuclear
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From micro- + nuclear.
Senses: examples: text: The micronuclear genes, which are normally inactive, are split into multiple sections, with lots of interrupting DNA, called internal eliminated sequences, between the coding regions.
ref: 1998 August 21, Elizabeth Pennisi, “MOLECULAR EVOLUTION:How the Genome Readies Itself for Evolution”, in Science, volume 281, number 5380, →DOI, pages 1131–1134:
glosses: Of or pertaining to a micronucleus.
microporosity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: microporosities
Etymology: From micro- + porosity.
Senses: examples: text: But microporosity is not the only beneficial property in the world of solids and the design of crystal structures of small organic molecules remains an attractive research area with considerable intellectual challenge and potentialities for further applications as materials ( 20 ).
ref: 1997 October 17, Gautam R. Desiraju, “SOLID-STATE CHEMISTRY: Crystal Gazing: Structure Prediction and Polymorphism”, in Science, volume 278, number 5337, →DOI, pages 404–405:
glosses: The state of being microporous
microseismicity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From micro- + seismicity.
Senses: examples: text: This interpretation is supported by the occurrence of enhanced pre-earthquake microseismicity in the epicentral area (49, 50 ) (Fig. 1 ).
ref: 2000 September 1, R. E. Reilinger et al., “Coseismic and Postseismic Fault Slip for the 17 August 1999, M=7.5, Izmit, Turkey Earthquake”, in Science, volume 289, number 5484, →DOI, pages 1519–1524:
glosses: The state of being microseismic
microtopography
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɒɡɹəfi
Forms: form: microtopographies
Etymology: From micro- + topography.
Senses: examples: text: It is this interface, delineated by chemical and structural features on the surface of the organism (such as concentration and localization of cytochromes and reductases and the physical structure of the outer membrane) and the mineral surface (such as density and coordination of iron-oxide moieties, surface microtopography, and crystallographic orientation), which probably has a major impact on the kinetics and extent of bacterial reduction of Fe(III) minerals.
ref: 2001 May 18, Steven K. Lower et al., “Bacterial Recognition of Mineral Surfaces: Nanoscale Interactions Between Shewanella and alpha -FeOOH”, in Science, volume 292, number 5520, →DOI, pages 1360–1363:
text: Each surface of phlogopite, or any other mineral, must behave according to the particular atomic structure, composition, and microtopography of that surface.
ref: 1999 August 6, Eric Rufe, Michael F. Hochella, “Quantitative Assessment of Reactive Surface Area of Phlogopite During Acid Dissolution”, in Science, volume 285, number 5429, →DOI, pages 874–876:
glosses: microrelief
microvillar
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɪlə(ɹ)
Etymology: From micro- + villar.
Senses: examples: text: At about 90% of pupal development (pd), after the onset of rhodopsin expression at 75% pd, RTW microfilaments elongated commensurate with the increasing microvillar length and gathered into bundles (Fig. 1 D).
ref: 2000 December 8, Hui-Yun Chang, Donald F. Ready, “Rescue of Photoreceptor Degeneration in Rhodopsin-Null Drosophila Mutants by Activated Rac1”, in Science, volume 290, number 5498, →DOI, pages 1978–1980:
text: Brush border M1 tethers the microvillar core bundle to the plasma membrane of intestinal microvilli (3).
ref: 1998 January 23, Valerie Mermall et al., “Unconventional Myosins in Cell Movement, Membrane Traffic, and Signal Transduction”, in Science, volume 279, number 5350, →DOI, pages 527–533:
glosses: Of or pertaining to a microvillus
Derived terms: amicrovillar
midtime
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: midtimes
Etymology: From mid- + time.
Senses: examples: text: (i) The peak of the central flash occurs about 2 s later than the midtime between the half-light times, and (ii) the slope of the light curve is shallower before the peak of the central flash than afterward.
ref: 1997 October 17, J. L. Elliot et al., “Triton's Distorted Atmosphere”, in Science, volume 278, number 5337, →DOI, pages 436–439:
text: Twas noontide of summer, And midtime of night, And stars, in their orbits, Shone pale, through the light Of the brighter, cold moon. '
ref: 1850, Edgar Allan Poe, Edgar Allan Poe's Complete Poetical Works:
glosses: The time that occurs in the middle; the point midway through an event, etc.
minareted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: minaretted
Etymology: From minaret + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: The war as it appeared in the American press was a gorgeous tapestry of romance and swashbuckling adventure--frenzied Nazi rallies, weird religious rites in Japan, hairbreadth escapes on overcrowded trains teetering along mountain ravines, nights sleeping in haystacks in the backcountry of France after the fall of Paris, journeys in remotest Yugoslavia where the reporter "spent hours watching the army, with its wagons, horses, and guns, file past the minareted village in the moonlight."
ref: 1997 March 7, Lee Sandlin, “World War II has faded into movies, anecdotes, and archives nobody cares about anymore. Are We Finally Losing the War?; also Losing the War, part two”, in Chicago Reader:
text: But some were straight and tall, some were squat and fairy-colored and others blossomed from thin stalks into impossibly bulbous, minareted domes, like long-stemmed tulips reproduced in stone.
ref: 1954, Lester del Rey, The Sky Is Falling:
text: IV THE KASBAH OF THE OUDAYAS Salé the white and Rabat the red frown at each other over the foaming bar of the Bou-Regreg, each walled, terraced, minareted, and presenting a singularly complete picture of the two types of Moroccan town, the snowy and the tawny.
ref: 1920, Edith Wharton, In Morocco:
glosses: Having a minaret or minarets.
minnie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: minnies
Etymology: A variant of minnow.
Senses: examples: text: In quiet, sheltered places, where the water is clear but does not run too swiftly, the ‘minnie,’ as the stickleback is locally called, makes its nest by the bank. […] On these fibres the ova are deposited, and they are then either purposely partly covered with sand by the minnie, or else the particles that are brought down by the current gather over the bundle of fibres and conceal it, excepting one small spot.
ref: 1879, R[ichard] J[efferies], chapter XIX, in Wild Life in a Southern County […], London: Smith, Elder, & Co., […], →OCLC, page 356:
glosses: Alternative spelling of minnow.
minnie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: minnies
Senses: glosses: Mother, mummy.
minnie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: minnies
form: Minnie
Etymology: Clipping of minenwerfer + -ie.
Senses: topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: A minenwerfer trench mortar.
moqueca
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: moquecas
Etymology: Borrowed from Brazilian Portuguese moqueca, from Kimbundu mukeka.
Senses: examples: text: Now he serves up such Bahian specialties as moqueca, a zesty shellfish stew simmered in rich coconut milk and rice ($16).
ref: 1999 February 26, Don Rose, “Restaurant Tours: Nuevo Latino is heating up”, in Chicago Reader:
text: Eating the crayfish moqueca was almost as painful at the outset as it was delicious.
ref: 2003, Peter Robb, A Death in Brazil, Bloomsbury, published 2005, page 180:
text: But the standout of the evening had to be the moqueca do mar, a seafood stew with a kick-ass tomato-coconut milk broth perfumed with saffron and served with a little silver dish of rice and a few tostones.
ref: 2005 November 4, Martha Bayne, Kate Schmidt, Mike Sula, “Chichi Sushi in Uptown, Nuevo Latino on the Near South Side, and the Ultimate Serbian Bakery”, in Chicago Reader:
glosses: A Brazilian stew from the state of Bahia, based on fish, onions, garlic, tomatoes, and cilantro.
mordancy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mordancies
Senses: examples: text: Despite their name--and the name of their record--any morbidity or malice the Ships harbor is aggressively sublimated into relentlessly upbeat, largely staccato indie pop, with just a tinge of mordancy in the lyrics and the lap steel (which they underutilize criminally).
ref: 2007 February 16, “The Treatment”, in Chicago Reader:
text: But its overall feel is a stark and regretful one, with sentimentality ("Catching an all-night station / Somewhere in Louisiana / Sounds like 1963 / But for now it sounds like heaven") vying for dominance with mordancy ("Driving down sunny 44 highway / There's a beach there known for cancer").
ref: 1995 August 4, Bill Wyman, “Son Volt”, in Chicago Reader:
text: And yet this joy that is basic in Synge, this exaltation, is no more basic than emotions and attitudes of mind that are often, in other men, at war with joy and exaltation--irony and grotesquerie, keen insight into "the black thoughts of men," and insistent awareness of the quick passing of all good things, diablerie and mordancy.
ref: 1912, Cornelius Weygandt, Irish Plays and Playwrights:
glosses: The state or quality of being mordant.
mucket
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: muckets
Senses: examples: text: Of those, a few made up the lion's share of trade, among them the yellow sandshell, the black sandshell, the pocketbook, and the mucket.
ref: 1992 November 6, Peter Friederici, “Lonely at the Bottom”, in Chicago Reader:
glosses: Any of various species of mussels, especially those in the genus Lampsilis.
glosses: A heavy cup with lid and bail which can be used over an open fire. Sizes can range from 0.5 to 1.0 liter.
motionally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From motional + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: At the low-frequency end, one observes motionally narrowed spectra, whereas, at the high-frequency end, the spectra display very slow motion, almost at the rigid limit (due to the increased importance of the g tensor).
ref: 2001 January 12, P. P. Borbat et al., “Electron Spin Resonance in Studies of Membranes and Proteins”, in Science, volume 291, number 5502, →DOI, pages 266–269:
glosses: In terms of motion.
silogime
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of syllogism.
tuwhit tuwhoos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tuwhit tuwhoo
aluminium bronze
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: aluminium bronzes
Senses: topics: engineering
metallurgy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: An alloy of copper with about 5% to 10% aluminium
cyanocobalamine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cyanocobalamines
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of cyanocobalamin.
bardos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bardo.
hydroxycarbonate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hydroxycarbonates
Etymology: From hydroxy + carbonate.
Senses: topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any material that is a mixed hydroxide and carbonate
moquecas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of moqueca
motherlands
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: I would therefore take as a guiding principle of the peace that as far as is humanly possible the different races should be allocated to their motherlands, and that this human criterion should have precedence over considerations of strategy or economics or communications, which can usually be adjusted by other means.
ref: 1922, Francesco Saverio Nitti, Peaceless Europe:
glosses: plural of motherland
muchee
Language: English
Part of speech: det
Senses: examples: text: "Make muchee noisee," he said, indicating the fleeing musicians with his thumb.
ref: 1947, Garrett Putnam Serviss, Edison's Conquest of Mars:
text: My think 'm dlinkee too muchee, too muchee vahine, maybe play cart, losee too muchee flanc.
ref: 1921, Frederick O'Brien, Mystic Isles of the South Seas.:
text: After the usual greetings Dam Li remarked:-- "Hon'lable officer lookee too muchee sad."
ref: 1919, Various, Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 156, Jan. 15, 1919:
text: I understood him to say that it would require "too muchee words" to render in our prosaic tongue the amount of poetic imagery concentrated in the expressions "Chih-Yuen," or "Kwang-Kai."
ref: 1898, James Allan, Under the Dragon Flag:
text: "Pleece he nevir too muchee quick," returned the man, coolly.
ref: 1876, R M Ballantyne, Under the Waves:
glosses: Pronunciation spelling of much.
mulcher
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmʌlt͡ʃɚ/
Forms: form: mulchers
Etymology: From mulch + -er.
Senses: examples: text: There were no gender-assigned tasks in my family: we had to go out and help my father put leaves and twigs in the mulcher or lay insulation in the attic."
ref: 1995 August 11, Fred Camper, “Art People: Holly Greenberg fights genderfication”, in Chicago Reader:
glosses: A mulching mower.
muscadel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: muscadels
Senses: examples: text: The rich muscadel and malmsey, and the wines of Gascoigne and the Rhine, are no longer quaffed by the abbot and his more honoured guests, but drunk to his destruction by his foes.
ref: 1854, William Harrison Ainsworth, The Lancashire Witches:
text: It was his custom to wash the tobacco in muscadel and grains, and to keep it moist by wrapping it in greased leather, and oiled rags, or by burying it in gravel.
ref: 1875, E. R. Billings, Tobacco; Its History, Varieties, Culture, Manufacture and Commerce:
text: Howbeit, as the beer well sodden in the brewing, and stale, is clear and well coloured as muscadel or malvesey, or rather yellow as the gold noble, as our pot-knights call it, so our ale, which is not at all or very little sodden, and without hops, is more thick, fulsome, and of no such continuance, which are three notable things to be considered in that liquor.
ref: 1910, Jean Froissart, Thomas Malory, Raphael Holinshed, Chronicle and Romance (The Harvard Classics Series):
text: Chestnuts, soaked in muscadel, then boiled, along with satyrion, pistachio nuts, pine kernels, cubebs, cinnamon, rocket seed and sugar. Compounded together, these ingredient form a stimulating electuary.
ref: 1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page 60:
glosses: Alternative form of muscatel (“wine or grape”).
myristylated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of myristylate
myristylating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of myristylate
myristylates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of myristylate
overgeneralization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: overgeneralizations
Etymology: From over- + generalization.
Senses: examples: text: "George Orwell put the easy use of words like 'unique' under the headings of 'pretentious diction' and overgeneralization.
ref: 1995 July 7, Gary Houston, “Everything's Unique”, in Chicago Reader:
text: Fortunately for all of us, the rhetoric of both cultural pessimism and postmodernism contains more than its fair share of exaggeration and overgeneralization.
ref: 1988 November 11, Andrew Goodwin, “Reading: The Cultural Crash of '89”, in Chicago Reader:
glosses: The act of overgeneralizing.
examples: text: It's an overgeneralization to say that everywhere you look is the hand of man in the presettlement era," says Thomas Swetnam, a fire ecologist at the University of Arizona in Tucson.
ref: 2000 January 28, Keith Kloor, “RESTORATION ECOLOGY:Returning America's Forests to Their 'Natural' Roots”, in Science, volume 287, number 5453, →DOI, pages 573–575:
glosses: An instance of overgeneralizing.
ornithurine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ornithurines
Etymology: From translingual Ornithurae + -ine.
Senses: examples: text: Not only is the specimen a long-coveted ornithurine, but it is also breathtakingly well preserved.
ref: 2001 January 12, Erik Stokstad, “PALEONTOLOGY: New Fossil Fills Gap in Bird Evolution”, in Science, volume 291, number 5502, →DOI:
glosses: A bird of the clade Ornithurae.
Hypernyms: ornithuromorph
euornithian
Hyponyms: cimolopterygid
hesperornithean
ichthyornithean
vegaviid
neuropathologically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From neuropathologic + -ally or neuropathological + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Tissues were obtained from controls and neuropathologically confirmed AD and DS cases (12 ).
ref: 1998 January 9, Fred W. van Leeuwen et al., “Frameshift Mutants of {beta}?Amyloid Precursor Protein and Ubiquitin-B in Alzheimer's and Down Patients”, in Science, volume 279, number 5348, →DOI, pages 242–247:
glosses: In terms of, or by means of, neuropathology.
overgeneralizations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of overgeneralization
lolwut
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of LOLWUT.
replat
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: replats
form: replatting
form: replatted
form: replatted
Etymology: From re- + plat.
Senses: glosses: To create a new plat; to plat again.
retrodismutation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From retro- + dismutation.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The reverse of a dismutation reaction
covellines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of covelline
loline
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lolines
Etymology: So named because it is found in Lolium.
Senses: examples: text: Hydrolysis of lolidine yields loline and norloline:
[…]
MS and NMR spectra of loline from L. cunneatum and festucine from Festuca arundinacea showed that both alkaloids are identical.
ref: 1991, Abdel-Fattah M. Rizk, Poisonous plant contamination of edible plants, page 96:
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: festucine or any of several similar alkaloids
Related terms: norloline
lolidine
lolinine
replats
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of replat
streetworthy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: streetworthier
form: more streetworthy
form: streetworthiest
form: most streetworthy
Etymology: From street + -worthy.
Senses: glosses: Fit to be driven or ridden on the street.
Derived terms: streetworthiness
panormium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Panormus (“in reference to the University of Palermo”) + -ium.
Senses: glosses: An early proposed name for the element technetium
fall wind
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fall winds
Etymology: Cognate to German Fallwind.
Senses: glosses: A katabatic wind.
katabatic winds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of katabatic wind
fall winds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fall wind
Crozets
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: The Crozet Islands.
unalienate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: unalienates
form: unalienating
form: unalienated
form: unalienated
Etymology: From un- + alienate.
Senses: glosses: To undo the alienation of.
unabandon
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: unabandons
form: unabandoning
form: unabandoned
form: unabandoned
Etymology: From un- + abandon.
Senses: glosses: To go back to; to undo one's abandonment of.
unabashing
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: This man still flaunts his presence on the public streets, and with most unabashing front frequents business places and markets.
ref: 1889, The Deseret Weekly, volume 38, page 382:
text: Enhanced vigilance to a greater extent can curb unabashing contravention of the legislation.
ref: 1983, M. L. Monga, Industrial relations and labour laws in India, page 152:
glosses: unabashed, unashamed: not abashing
biodilution
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From bio- + dilution.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: a decrease in concentration of especially a pollutant with a corresponding increase in the trophic level in a body of water
unabate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: unabates
form: unabating
form: unabated
form: unabated
Etymology: Back-formation from unabated and unabating. See un- and abate.
Senses: examples: text: The process unabates, whether Red Man chewing tobacco, the Indian Head nickel, barbershop manikins, paratroopers with their Geronimo shouts, or Boy Scout troop names
ref: 2003, A. Robert Lee, Multicultural American literature: comparative Black, Native, Latino/a and Asian American fictions, page 93:
text: Feeling the heat as the impact unabates. Hearing the screech as a body will not wait.
ref: 2011, Stephen Elkin, Mirror in the Bathroom, page 69:
glosses: To continue without abating or after temporarily abating.
unabdicate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: unabdicates
form: unabdicating
form: unabdicated
form: unabdicated
Etymology: From un- + abdicate.
Senses: glosses: To rescind one's abdication.
equipluve
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: equipluves
Etymology: From equi- and Latin pluvia (“rain”).
Senses: glosses: A line, drawn on a map, that connects places having the same amount of rainfall in a particular time period
unabbreviate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: unabbreviates
form: unabbreviating
form: unabbreviated
form: unabbreviated
Etymology: From un- + abbreviate.
Senses: examples: text: It is easy to see what is going on, if in G & ∀x∃yP(x, y) we not only unabbreviate G, but take the outer conjunctions apart, […]
ref: 1967, Stephen Cole Kleene, Mathematical Logic, Dover, published 2002, page 293:
synonyms: deabbreviate
glosses: To make unabbreviated, to expand something which was abbreviated.
Related terms: unabbreviated
unabbreviation
unabducted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + abducted.
Senses: glosses: Not abducted.
Independent Olympic Participant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Independent Olympic Participants
Senses: glosses: An athlete participating in the Olympic Games under the Olympic flag, i.e. without representing any nation, either because the athlete is stateless, or because their nation has no international recognition or is banned.
IOP
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: IOPs
Senses: glosses: Independent Olympic Participant
COLA
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: COLAs
Etymology: Acronym
Senses: glosses: Acronym of cost of living adjustment.
COLA
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Acronym
Senses: glosses: comp.os.linux.advocacy (a Usenet newsgroup promoting the Linux operating system)
Derived terms: COLAtard