cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
cerebronic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Related to cerebronic acid or its derivatives
cerebronic acid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The hydroxyacid (2R)-2-hydroxytetracosanoic acid derived from sphingomyelin
cerebropathia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cerebropathias
Etymology: From cerebro- + -pathia.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: Synonym of encephalopathy.
synonyms: word: encephalopathy
cerebroretinal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɛtɪnəl
Etymology: From cerebro- + retinal.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Relating to the cerebrum and the retina
Derived terms: cerebroretinal angiomatosis
cerebroretinal degeneration
cerebroretinal vasculopathy
cerebrosclerosis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From cerebro- + sclerosis.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: hardening of the substance of the cerebrum
cerebrosidosis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cerebrosidoses
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: lipidosis involving cerebrosides
cerebrosterol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From cerebro- + sterol.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The sterol 24S-hydroxycholesterol that is found in larger than normal amounts in the brain and spinal cord of people with Alzheimer’s disease
cerebrotomy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cerebrotomies
Etymology: From cerebro- + -tomy.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
surgery
glosses: incision into the brain
cereolysin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
toxicology
glosses: A haemolytic toxin produced by the bacterium Bacillus cereus.
dine out on
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: dines out on
form: dining out on
form: dined out on
form: dined out on
Senses: examples: text: […] worse things can happen than a picked pocket. One can dine out on that for a season.
ref: 1973, Stefan A. Szczelkun, Survival Scrapbook: Energy:
text: Indeed, three of the most recognisable male actors in Hollywood at the moment used to dine out on powerbombs and bodyslams.
ref: 2021 July 28, Sam Moore, “Dwayne Johnson and why wrestlers make ideal Hollywood stars”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name):
text: It's a story I can dine out on for years.
ref: 2023, Peter Murphy, A Week on Mount Olympus: and other Tales from the Bench:
text: Every guest is appalled and fantastically humourless about the experience, even at this distance. You cannot help but wonder at cultural divides and how differently the British might have approached – or at least recalled – such events, at least in the early days. For us, surely, it would be a story for the ages. You could dine out on it for ever, so to speak.
ref: 2026 June 24, Lucy Mangan, “Poop Cruise review – a fascinating look at a toilet disaster that still haunts passengers 12 years later”, in The Guardian:
glosses: To be invited to dinner because of one's conversation about (a particular subject or incident).
ninjatō
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ninjatō
Senses: examples: text: The ninjatō’s twenty-three-inch blade glinted in the noonday sun, as bright and clear as the day Sensei Yamamoto had presented it to him in Okinawa.
ref: 2010, Max Brooks, “Steve and Fred”, in John Joseph Adams, editor, The Living Dead 2, San Francisco, Calif.: Night Shade Books, →ISBN, pages 205–206:
text: He struck a pose. “Ta-daa!” / Torralba didn’t look impressed. “Fucking ninjas,” he muttered. / “Do you think so?” August looked down at himself. “I think I need a ninjatō to really sell the image, personally, but—”
ref: 2020, Cari Z, L.A. Witt, chapter 2, in Hitman vs. Hitman, GallagherWitt, →ISBN:
text: “You mean there’s some maniac running around, cutting our people up with a samurai sword?” Chi’s incredulity made him lean forward, eyes wide. “What is wrong with people? In the good old days, we used machetes.” / “Possibly also a ninjatō,” Mattis put in, unhelpfully. “It’s unlikely to be a machete.”
ref: 2021, John Goodrich, chapter 7, in Little Britches, Macabre Ink, →ISBN:
glosses: Alternative form of ninjato.
conifered
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more conifered
form: most conifered
Senses: glosses: Containing conifers
Lydda
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Former name of Lod (“city in Israel”).
opens the batting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of open the batting
opening the batting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of open the batting
opened the batting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of open the batting
foetus in foetu
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: foetuses in foetu
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of fetus in fetu.
cryodevice
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cryodevices
Etymology: From cryo- + device.
Senses: glosses: A cryogenic device
fetofetal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: foetofoetal
form: feto-fetal
form: foeto-foetal
Etymology: From feto- + fetal.
Senses: examples: text: 1980, Angelo Ferrara, Anantham Harin, Emergency transfer of the high-risk neonate: a working manual for medical, nursing, and administrative personnel, C.V. Mosby
Fetofetal transfusion is a condition in which one twin (recipient) will be hypervolemic, in cardiac failure, and plethoric, while the donor twin will be hypovolemic, shocky, and pale. Chronic fetofetal transfusions can result in a discrepancy of weight of over 10%.
text: In four cases, appropriate shunt communications meant that the morpho-anatomical conditions were available for the presence of a fetofetal transfusion syndrome.
ref: 1989, Journal of Perinatal Medicine:
text: The incidence of fetofetal transfusion syndrome was 20%, more than double the incidence previously reported in large series of twin deliveries that encompassed a wider gestational age range. The overall mortality was 55%, and mortality for the fetofetal transfusion group was 70%, whereas a subset of the fetofetal transfusion group, those without weight discordancy, had a mortality rate of 75%.
ref: 1990, Excerpta medica. Section 10: Obstetrics and gynecology:
text: When fetofetal transfusion syndrome occurs in very preterm gestation, treatment options are limited and often unsuccessful. The perinatal morbidity and mortality of fetofetal transfusion syndrome in very premature twin gestations in 48 pairs of twin gestations delivered at 24-28 weeks' gestation were studied.
ref: 1991, Daniel R. Mishell, 1991 Year Book of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Year Book Medical Pub, →ISBN:
text: As a result of this imbalance, a net fetofetal transfusion occurs, from one twin (the donor) to the other (the recipient).
ref: 2005, Laura B. Myers, Linda A. Bulich, Anesthesia for Fetal Intervention and Surgery, PMPH-USA, →ISBN, page 127:
text: Acute fetal hypovolemia may be secondary to hemorrhage, as in placenta previa at the end of the pregnancy, or to fetomaternal or fetofetal transfusion. The fetal circulation is theoretically independent, but at the end of pregnancy, fetomaternal or fetofetal circulatory anastomosis may exist.
ref: 2012, Claus Diebler, Olivier Dulac, Pediatric Neurology and Neuroradiology: Cerebral and Cranial Diseases, Springer Science & Business Media, →ISBN, page 185:
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Relating to, or communicating between two fetuses, especially twin fetuses; twin-to-twin.
foetofoetal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: Anemic foetal circulatory failure from a placental vein rupture, foetal maternal haemorrhage, or foetofoetal transfusion may lead to infarcts and secondary thrombosis.
ref: 1977, James G. McNulty, Radiology of the liver, Saunders Limited.:
text: Hyperbilirubinemia is found to occur significantly higher in twins than in singletons. Such high incidence may be due to prematurity, higher haematocrit possibly from foetofoetal transfusion etc.
ref: 1985, Singapore Medical Journal:
text: In 4 DG (13 %) a foetofoetal transfusion syndrome occurred. 5 DF (6 %) had some of the serious malformations. 27 DG were completed.
ref: 1990, Geburtshilfe und Frauenheilkunde:
text: For example, there can be a greater discrepancy in the birth weights of MZ twins relative to DZ twins due to the foetofoetal transfusion syndrome, and certain perinatal complications are more likely to occur in MZ than DZ twins.
ref: 2012, Joseph Glicksohn, The Neurobiology of Criminal Behavior, Springer Science & Business Media, →ISBN:
text: In particular, the foetofoetal transfusion syndrome (which arises when the blood from one identical twin transfuses into the other twin) causes significantly different prenatal environments for monozygotic twins.
ref: 2016, E. Stewart, Exploring Twins: Towards a Social Analysis of Twinship, Springer, →ISBN, page 47:
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Alternative spelling of fetofetal.
diplotype
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: diplotypes
Senses: topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: Either of two or more haplotypes on homologous chromosomes
Related terms: diplotypic
diplotypes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of diplotype
dithionitrobenzoic acid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dithionitrobenzoic acids
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The dimeric carboxylic acid 5-[(3-carboxylato-4-nitrophenyl)disulfanyl]-2-nitrobenzoic acid that is a reagent for the determination of reactive sulfhydryl groups in proteins
fertilizability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fertilizabilities
Senses: glosses: The condition of being, or the extent to which something is fertilizable
hapmap
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hapmaps
form: HapMap
Senses: glosses: A map of haplotypes that is used to display common patterns of human genetic variation that are involved in human health and disease
stereomicroscopy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: microscopy by means of a stereomicroscope
paper book
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: paper books
Senses: glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see paper, book.
topics: law
glosses: A document prepared in English legal practice containing a record or summary of the pleadings.
examples: text: "Instead of cases of books moldering away in warehouses, your inventory consists of a single digital file, which any "bookmaking" machine can use to crank out a paper book."
ref: 2002, Richard Curtis et al., How to get your e-book published: an insider's guide to the world of ...:
text: "The evidence strongly indicates that libraries and end users expect e-books to have the same functionalities of the paper book, and yet do much more."
ref: 2003, Susan L.Gibbons et al., E-book Functionality: What Libraries and Their Patrons Want and ...:
text: "The link with the Internet disrupts the concentration that the paper book facilitates."
ref: 2013, Joost Kircz et al., The Unbound Book:
glosses: A traditional hardback or softback book, as opposed to an e-book
examples: text: Publishers of the paper books are uncertain whether their old reading public has tired of the motion picture or whether a new class of readers has arisen.
ref: 1919, The Bookseller, Newsdealer and Stationer, volume 51, page 11:
text: Even more important to those promoting paper books was the stark fact that there were not enough book stores to produce an adequate volume of sales to sustain quarter books.
ref: 1959, The Catholic Library World, volumes 29-30, page 464:
text: The ad—the first the department ran in more than three years—was inserted after the department had enlarged its space, using the additional area for paper books.
ref: 1959, Stores, volume 41, page 34:
glosses: A paperback book.
Related terms: hard copy
ceroidosis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ceroidoses
Etymology: From ceroid + -osis.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: Any disease that is characterised by the presence of ceroids
cerotinic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɪnɪk
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Synonym of cerotic.
synonyms: word: cerotic
Derived terms: cerotinic acid
cerotinic acid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Synonym of cerotic acid.
synonyms: word: cerotic acid
ceruminal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to cerumen.
ceruminolytic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: That softens cerumen (earwax)
ceruminosis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: Excessive secretion or buildup of cerumen (earwax)
cervicoaxillary
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From cervico- + axillary.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Related to the cervical vertebrae and the axilla
Derived terms: cervicoaxillary canal
cervicodynia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From cervico- + -odynia.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: pain in the neck
cervicolabial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -eɪbiəl
Etymology: From cervico- + labial.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Relating to the labial region of the neck of an incisor or canine tooth
cervicolingual
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɪŋɡwəl
Etymology: From cervico- + lingual.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Relating to the lingual region of the neck of a tooth
cervicolumbar
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From cervico- + lumbar.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Relating to the neck and the lumbar region of the spine
lowpriced
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more lowpriced
form: most lowpriced
Senses: examples: text: Free concerts by bands and orchestras during the summer season; free or lowpriced concerts by bands and orchestras, popular priced opera, free organ recitals during the winter; lectures on music with copious illustrations, concerts by school organizations, open demonstrations of the wonderful possibilities of mechanical music producers; the use of these same instruments in countless homes—these are all indications of the tremendous development of opportunities for even the lowliest to hear all the music he desires.
ref: 1916, Peter W. Dykema, “The Spread of the Community Music Idea”, in The Annals of the American Academy, page 219:
text: Output of lowpriced cigars, to be true, is now expanding sharply but mainly at the expense of the higher priced brands, a fact which has been creating divergent production trends among leading cigar makers.
ref: 1945, The Magazine of Wall Street and Business Analyst:
text: Car ownership was characterized by a multichotomous classification that started with a 1 for no ownership, 2 for households owning a lowpriced car, etc.
ref: 1966 August, Ronald E. Frank, “Use of Transformations”, in Journal of Marketing Research, volume 3, number 3, page 251:
text: 1972, F.A. Gibson, "Export and Import of Shellfish 1961 - 1970.", Fishery Leaflet No. 38., An Roinn Talmhaiochta Agus Iascaigh (Department of Agriculture and Fisheries), page 3.
It was £272 per ton in 1961 and £424 per ton in 1970, but in 1966 it had reached a peak of £988 per ton, when its content consisted of more luxury items and fewer lowpriced ones (Table 3).
text: Hohner has a lowpriced new one, the Big River Harp, as good as the well known Marine Bands.
ref: 1998 February 16, Wouter Maréchal, “harp advice”, in alt.music.harmonica (Usenet):
text: You have explained away the point that lowpriced goods aimed at pensioners were taken by ethnics then re-priced for the same social group.
ref: 1998 December 17, macdiarmid, “Does Baroness Thatcher know what she is dealing with?”, in uk.politics.misc (Usenet):
text: In canada, where they call pop pop, there used to be a lowpriced generic named 'canadian cola' which was an excellent coke clone.
ref: 2001 June 7, ralph, “Bush parenting skills”, in alt.tv.pol-incorrect (Usenet):
glosses: Rare spelling of low-priced.
cervicoplasty
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cervicoplasties
Etymology: From cervico- + -plasty.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
surgery
glosses: plastic surgery to the neck or to the cervix of the uterus
cervicotomy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cervicotomies
Etymology: From cervico- + -tomy.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
surgery
glosses: Incision into the neck or the cervix of the uterus.
insaka
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: insakas
Etymology: From Bemba [Term?] (“a place to gather”).
Senses: glosses: A cultural center point within an African village. The community elders and leaders often gather under the Insaka to discuss community and business matters. The term insaka is most commonly used in the countries of Zambia and South Africa. In years gone by villages were established and built surrounding a large tree which served the purpose of the place to meet but in recent generations the Insaka is commonly built as a circular thatch roofed gazebo supported by wooden poles. A circle of low level walls serve as seating or as shelter from the wind. Larger insakas sometimes have fire-pits built in the center for winter warmth.
lose the run of oneself
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: loses the run of oneself
form: losing the run of oneself
form: lost the run of oneself
form: lost the run of oneself
Senses: examples: text: Belief in a high incidence of mental illness, as well as beliefs in high rates of alcoholism and suicide, may be metaphors for a culturally understandable and excusable `losing the run' of oneself.
ref: 1986 Winter, Eileen Kane, "Stereotypes and Irish Identity: Mental Illness as a Cultural Frame", Studies: An Irish Quarterly Review Vol.75 No.300 p.549
text: I think we have gone over the top on this, that we are losing the run of ourselves [...] and that it would be nice to see a little bit of common sense in the debate for a change.
ref: 1993 December 16, Seán Power, “[http://oireachtasdebates.oireachtas.ie/debates%20authoring/debateswebpack.nsf/takes/dail1993121600007#N68 Interpretation (Amendment) Bill, 1993 [ Seanad ]: Second Stage.]”, in Dáil debates:
text: 2015 February 4, Paul Murphy "Personal Insolvency (Amendment) Bill 2014: Second Stage (Resumed)" Dáil debates
The vast majority of people who are in debt are not those who theoretically "lost the run of themselves" in the course of the boom. Their only crime was to provide for their very basic need to have a home.
text: In my opinion, Europe lost the run of itself. When we joined the EU and traded goods, it was a great thing, but it basically went from that to trying to own people.
ref: 2017 September 26, Michael Fitzmaurice, “UK Withdrawal from the EU: Statements”, in Dáil debates:
glosses: get carried away; lose one's self-control; exceed one's limits or limitations
Judeo-Bolshevik
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Judeo-Bolsheviks
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Judeo-Bolshevist.
synonyms: word: Judeo-Bolshevist
Judeo-Bolsheviks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Judeo-Bolshevik
cetylpyridinium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From cetyl + pyridinium.
Senses: topics: chemistry
medicine
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
pharmacology
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A cetyl derivative of the pyridinium cation that is the basis of several cationic disinfectants
Derived terms: cetylpyridinium chloride
cevadine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Crystallized veratrine.
Related terms: english: amorphous veratrine
translation: amorphous veratrine
word: veratridine
cevitamic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Synonym of ascorbic.
synonyms: word: ascorbic
Derived terms: cevitamic acid
cevitamic acid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Synonym of ascorbic acid.
synonyms: word: ascorbic acid
chalasia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: chalas- + -ia
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: relaxation of a normally contracted muscle, especially a sphincter
chalcosis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From chalco- (“copper”) + -osis.
Senses: examples: text: In the case of a copper alloy, the inflammatory reaction may be minimal and a slow diffusion of copper occurs and impregnates limiting membranes of the eye to produce the picture of chalcosis that may include peripheral corneal ring, sunflower cataract, and heterochromia of the iris.
ref: 2011, Anita Agarwal, Gass' Atlas of Macular Diseases, volume 1, page 770:
topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: copper poisoning
chalkitis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of chalcosis.
synonyms: word: chalcosis
measure off
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: measures off
form: measuring off
form: measured off
form: measured off
Senses: glosses: To measure something (such as wood, fabric etc), prior to marking or cutting it
chappa
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: The disease called chappa by the Popo people, in the western district of the colony of Lagos, seems to me to be a specific ailment, and one which I have not seen described in any of the text-books.
ref: 1901 October 15, Edward H. Read, “Chappa”, in The Journal of Tropical Medicine:
topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: A painful disease characterised by subcutaneous nodules
checkbite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: checkbites
Senses: topics: dentistry
medicine
sciences
glosses: An interocclusal record made by placing a plastic material (that subsequently hardens) between the upper and lower teeth
checkdigit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: checkdigits
Senses: examples: text: In most applications involving identification numbers, each number may be verified for accuracy by a checkdigit, which is essentially a redundant digit added to the normal number. The checkdigit is determined by performing an arithmetic operation on the number in such a way that the usual errors encountered in transcribing a number are detected.
ref: 1975, COS 300/310 System Reference Manual, Maynard, MA: Digital Equipment Corporation, DEC-08-OCOSA-F-D, page E-1:
text: One so-called internal sentinel is the checkdigit or checksum feature, often written into programs that deal with strings of numbers such as customer accounts or part order numbers. Checkdigits flag transpositions and other data entry gaffes.
ref: 1985 August, Wendy L. McKibbin, “Conventional Wisdom”, in PC World, volume 3, number 8, San Francisco: PC World Communications, →ISSN, page 267:
text: Older accounts payable systems used a checkdigit in the vendor number or in the general ledger account number to verify the accuracy of these fields as they were entered.
ref: 1991, Douglas A. Potter, Automated Accounting Systems and Procedures Handbook, New York: Wiley, →ISBN, page 248:
text: The ten-digit code consists of four elements that identify (1) a national, geographic, or language group; (2) a specific publisher or producer; (3) a particular title produced by that publisher; and (4) a checkdigit that is computer generated by algorithmic calculation to determine the validity of the entire number.
ref: 2004, R. Michael Fling, Library Acquisition of Music, Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press, →ISBN, pages 52–53:
glosses: Alternative form of check digit.
cheilion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cheilions
Etymology: From New Latin, equivalent to cheilo- (“lip”) + -ion (“cephalometric reference point”).
Senses: glosses: The corner of the mouth (as used in cephalometry)
choralose
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of chloralose.
spadeworker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spadeworkers
form: spade-worker
Etymology: From spadework + -er or spade + worker.
Senses: examples: text: Like master like man. The peasants and artisans follow their neighbors; the spade-workers voting with Bismarck and Falkenstein, the hand-workers with Jacoby and Rosenkranz.
ref: 1868, William Hepworth Dixon, chapter 4, in Spiritual Wives, London: Hurst & Blackett, page 37:
text: […] potato-growing can evidently be more profitably followed by producers on a large scale, having all the advantages of labour-saving appliances, than by market-gardeners, allotment-holders, and other spade-workers on comparatively small line.
ref: 1906, Edwin A. Pratt, chapter 10, in The Transition in Agriculture, London: John Murray, page 116:
text: “Where I think you political spade-workers are so silly,” said the Duke, “is in the misdirection of your efforts. You spend thousands of pounds of money, and Heaven knows how much dynamic force of brain power and personal energy, in trying to elect or displace this or that man, whereas you could gain your ends so much more simply by making use of the men as you find them. […]”
ref: 1911, Saki, “Ministers of Grace”, in The Chronicles of Clovis, London: John Lane, published 1912, page 267:
text: 1942, Lewis Mumford, article on Constance Rourke first published in Saturday Review, Volume 25, 15 August, 1942, cited in Dorothy Nyren Curley et al. (editors), Modern American Literature, New York: Frederick Ungar, 1960, p. 109,
She was equally at home in music, literature, painting, drama, and the crafts; and she would run down an obscure picture, ferret out a local tale, or rummage through heaps of faded letters with the relentless patience that marks the useful spadeworker.
text: Say I am less an artist
than a spadeworker but one
who has no aversion to taking
his spade to the head
of any who would derrogate
his performance in the craft.
ref: 1950, William Carlos Williams, “The Visit”, in The Collected Later Poems, revised edition, New York: New Directions, published 1963, page 235:
glosses: One who does spadework, now especially in the figurative sense of preparatory work.
spadeworkers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of spadeworker
spade-worker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spade-workers
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of spadeworker.
spade-workers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of spade-worker
cladiellin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cladiellins
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of a group of oxacyclic diterpenes found in certain soft corals
cumic acid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The carboxylic acid 4-isopropylbenzoic acid derived from cumin
Derived terms: cumate
Ghop
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: Jessore Town. — A latrine was constructed at Ghop and another near the Collectorate was in progress.
ref: 1878, Jacques Jean B.A. Garnier, Catalogue méthodique de la bibliothèque communale de la ville d'Amiens:
text: A gang of armed operatives attacked the car of Abdus S Attar, the chief editor of The Daily Isfulinga at Ghop in Jessore district town.
ref: 2005, Moonis Ahmar, Violence and Terrorism in South Asia: Chronology and Profiles, 1971-2004:
text: This age-less, Mahammad Meherulla was born at the maternal house, Ghop village near historical Barobazar, Jhenaidah subdivision, in Jessore, on Monday, 26 December in 1861.
ref: 2014 February, Md. Mohirul Islam, “The valliant warrior of the insomnia of Bengali Muslim: A study of Mahammad Meherulla”, in International Journal of Advanced Research in Management and Social Sciences, volume 3, number 2:
glosses: A small village near Khulna in Bangladesh
curacin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: curacins
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of a group of peptide synthases found in some cyanobacteria
cheilognathopalatoschisis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cheilognathopalatoschises
Etymology: From cheilo- + gnatho- + palato- + schisis.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: A developmental anomaly characterised by a cleft in the palates, upper jaw, and lip
cheilorrhaphy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From cheilo- + -rrhaphy.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
surgery
glosses: A suture of the lip, typically to repair a congenital cleft lip
cheilotomy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cheilotomies
Etymology: From cheilo- + -tomy.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
surgery
glosses: incision into the lip
Batuan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A barangay of Ormoc, Leyte, Philippines.
glosses: A municipality of Bohol, Philippines.
glosses: A municipality of Masbate, Philippines.
Sorsogon
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /soɾ.soˈɡon/
ipa: /ˈsɔr.sə.ɡɔn/
Senses: glosses: Sorsogon Province (a province of the Bicol Region, Luzon, Philippines; capital and largest city: Sorsogon City)
glosses: Sorsogon City (a city, the provincial capital of Sorsogon, Bicol Region, Luzon, Philippines).
Related terms: Albay
Camarines Norte
Camarines Sur
Catanduanes
Masbate
Bicol Peninsula
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A peninsula located in the extreme southeast of Luzon, Philippines.
cheirokinesthetic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From cheiro- + kinesthetic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to cheirokinesthesia
cheirokinesthesia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From cheiro- + kinesthesia.
Senses: glosses: The sensation that one's hands are moving
Related terms: cheirokinesthetic
cheirology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From cheiro- + -logy.
Senses: glosses: The representation of words or letters by use of the fingers
cheirospasm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cheirospasms
form: chirospasm
form: keirospasm
Etymology: From cheiro- + spasm.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: Any spasm of the muscles of the hand.
Related terms: writer's cramp
xyrospasm
arccotangents
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of arccotangent
wizz
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wizzes
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of whiz.
Derived terms: take a wizz
redcurrant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: redcurrants
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of red currant.
blackcurrant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈblækˌkʌɹənt/
ipa: /ˈblækˌkɜɹənt/
Forms: form: blackcurrants
form: black currant
form: black-currant
Etymology: From black + currant.
Senses: examples: text: 1993, R. D. Davidson, 19: The vegetation of Lough Neagh wetlands, R.B. Wood, R.V. Smith (editors), Lough Neagh: The Ecology of a Multipurpose Water Resource, Monographae Biologicae: Volume 69, page 487,
Blackcurrant (Ribes nigrum) and guelder rose (Viburnum opulus) are frequent but alder buckthorn (Frangula alnus) a common constituent of East Anglian carr is very rare.
text: Blackcurrant leaf has a diuretic action [11,12,14], therefore it should not be taken concurrently with diuretics indicated for cardiac or renal insufficiency except on medical advice.
ref: 2003, European Scientific Cooperative on Phytotherapy, ESCOP Monographs: The Scientific Foundation for Herbal Medicinal Products, page 426:
text: On this first day I concentrated on bushes - gooseberry and blackcurrants for the bottom end borders, rhododendrons for the front inside the wall and a couple of hydrangeas in the spaces left in the monoblocking to the left of the front door.
ref: 2005, Bernard Stocks, The Teenage Pensioner, page 112:
glosses: A shrub, Ribes nigrum, that produces small, very dark purple, edible berries.
examples: text: Their wines are intense and elegant, tasting of blackcurrants and made to be aged.
ref: 2003, Maria Villegas, Kay Halsey, Sarah Randell, A Little Taste of France, page 120:
text: Blackcurrant jam is easy, but this year I have left the blackcurrants so long that they are sweet and ripe enough to eat raw: delicious rolled in a crunch of granulated sugar.
ref: 2011, Katherine Swift, The Morville Hours: The Story of a Garden, page 222:
glosses: The berry borne by this shrub.
Synonyms: english: chiefly in drinks
translation: chiefly in drinks
word: black
Derived terms: blackcurranty
whitecurrant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: whitecurrants
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of white currant.
Camaligan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A municipality of Camarines Sur, Philippines.
prison wine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: synonyms: word: toilet wine
word: pruno
glosses: Synonym of pruno.
National Assemblies
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of National Assembly
epistemics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: See epistemic, and compare physic : physics, mechanic : mechanics, and similar pairs.
Senses: examples: text: This involves articulating epistemics as collective actions in the here and now through which answers to politicoepistemic questions are enacted in the workings of concepts expressing a variety of epistemicities.
ref: 2022, Helen Verran, Towards Decolonising. A Translating World Philosophy:
glosses: The epistemic factors or attributes (of something).
raw_tags: in form and plural in construction
examples: Near-synonym: epistemic regime
glosses: The collective examination thereof; the body of knowledge and beliefs derived therefrom; synonym of epistemology.
raw_tags: in form and plural or singular in construction
CWV
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Initialism of cloudy wing virus.
CWV
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Catholic War Veterans.
commaing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of comma
commaing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The usage of commas.
commaed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: comma'd
Senses: glosses: Followed, preceded, or surrounded by a comma or commas.
commaed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of comma
comma'd
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of comma.
introgressional
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From introgression + -al.
Senses: glosses: Pertaining to introgression.
endomyometrium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Endometrium and myometrium.
endomyometrial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Relating to endometrium and myometrium, or the junction of the two.
atheriniform
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more atheriniform
form: most atheriniform
Senses: topics: biology
ichthyology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: of or belonging to the order Atheriniformes
atheriniform
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: atheriniforms
Senses: topics: biology
ichthyology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Any fish in the order Atheriniformes
atheriniforms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of atheriniform
commified
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: See commify.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of commify
commified
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From commy + -ify + -ed.
Senses: glosses: Having become communist; converted to communism.
commify
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: commifies
form: commifying
form: commified
form: commified
form: commafy
Etymology: From comma + -ify.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
software
glosses: To insert commas into (a piece of code).
commifies
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of commify
commifying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of commify
commafy
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: commafies
form: commafying
form: commafied
form: commafied
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of commify.
commafies
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of commafy
commafying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of commafy
commafied
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of commafy
'onna
Language: English
Part of speech: contraction
Senses: glosses: Only used in I'm 'onna
wingback chair
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wingback chairs
Senses: glosses: A chair with a high back from which project small side pieces, originally to protect from draught.
Synonyms: ear chair
grandfather chair
wing chair
wingback chairs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wingback chair
hologenomics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The omics study of hologenomes.
Xishuangbanna
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌʃiːʃwɑŋbɑnˈnɑː/
enpr: shēʹshwängʹbänʹnäʹ
Forms: form: Hsishuangpanna
form: Hsi-shuang-pan-na
Etymology: Borrowed from the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 西雙版納 /西双版纳 (Xīshuāngbǎnnà), from Lü ᧑᧒ᦗᧃᦓᦱ (12pannaa) or ᦉᦲᧇᦉᦸᧂᦗᧃᦓᦱ (ṡiibṡoangpannaa) meaning twelve townships of rice-fields.
Senses: examples: text: After a drive of nearly ten hours, through small villages of thatched houses built on stilts, we stop on the last hairpin bend halfway down the mountain. Below, brilliant green and glistening wet, lies Xishuangbanna, in China’s southernmost valley.
ref: 1980 [1978], Jan Bredsdorff, translated by Alice Roughton, Revolution tur/retur [To China and Back], New York: Pantheon Books, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, pages 164–165:
english: To China and Back
translation: To China and Back
text: In Jinghong, the capital of Xishuangbanna Prefecture (pronounced she-shwang-ban-na), a cavalcade of bronze and stone elephant statues — some ferocious looking, others positively giddy — have been mounted on traffic islands and in front of new Thai-style shopping malls.
ref: 2014 April 25, Andrew Jacobs, “In Land That Values Ivory, Wild Elephants Find a Safe Haven”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 26 Apr 2014, Asia Pacific:
text: A herd then consisting of 16 elephants left their home in Xishuangbanna 300 km further south in March last year and eventually settled in a protected habitat in Puer.
ref: 2021 August 9, David Stanway, “China's wild elephants head to safety after long trek”, in Tom Hogue, editor, Reuters, archived from the original on 10 Aug 2021:
glosses: An autonomous prefecture of Yunnan, China.
Synonyms: Sibsongpanna
Mong Ri Mong Ram
Mungrimungram
Related terms: Sip Song Chau Tai
paleogenome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: paleogenomes
Senses: topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: An ancient genome.
Neanderthalic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Neanderthalic
form: most Neanderthalic
Etymology: From Neanderthal + -ic.
Senses: synonyms: Neanderthaloid
glosses: Of, relating to, or showing the characteristics of Neanderthals.
mtgs.
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mtg.
banked slalom
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: banked slaloms
Senses: glosses: A discipline of snowboarding and parasnowboarding, competing on a twisty curvy course with banked turns. The course is similar to that found in snowboardcross, except smoothed out and without the notch jumps or stepwise rhythm sections. Also unlike snowboardcross, competitors run separately instead of jointly in a heat.
glosses: A banked slalom course, or race.
analysize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: analysizes
form: analysizing
form: analysized
form: analysized
Etymology: Formed from analysis like synthesize from synthesis; see analyze and usage notes.
Senses: qualifier: non-native speakers' English
glosses: To analyze.
analysizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of analysize
analysizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of analysize
analysized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of analysize
adenomyomatous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Of, relating to, or exhibiting the features of an adenomyoma.
ultrasonographist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ultrasonographists
Senses: glosses: An ultrasonographer.
OMAM
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Of Monsters and Men.
glosses: Initialism of Of Mice and Men.
monosyllabification
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: The evolution towards monosyllabicity; monosyllabicization.
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: The division of a word into single syllables; syllabification.
monophyleticity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: The quality of being monophyletic.
steroidophobia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Steroidphobia.
epigeneticity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: The quality of being epigenetic.
monosyllabicization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: The evolution towards monosyllabicity; monosyllabification.
biorenewable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From bio- + renewable.
Senses: glosses: Able to be renewed via biological means; produced by biological organisms.
raw_tags: of a resource
biorenewable
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: biorenewables
Etymology: From bio- + renewable.
Senses: glosses: A resource of this kind.
cytomegaloviremia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cytomegaloviraemia
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Systemic bloodstream infection with cytomegalovirus.
pubbies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pubbie
chemiclave
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chemiclaves
Senses: glosses: A form of autoclave, used to sterilize surgical instruments, that incorporates steam, alcohol and formaldehyde under pressure.
chemiclave
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: chemiclaves
form: chemiclaving
form: chemiclaved
form: chemiclaved
Senses: glosses: To sterilize using this device.
chemicoparasitic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From chemico- + parasitic.
Senses: topics: dentistry
medicine
sciences
glosses: Relating to the formation of caries by a combination of chemical decalcification and attack by microorganisms
chemocautery
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From chemo- + cautery.
Senses: glosses: cauterization by means of a caustic chemical
chemodifferentiation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From chemo- + differentiation.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: An early stage in the differentiation of embryonic cells caused by differences in the chemical constituents of cells
chemotactant
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Synonym of chemotactic.
synonyms: word: chemotactic
blind lantern
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: blind lanterns
Senses: examples: text: Another feeble wail from the infant. "'Tis a baby, sartain ! I'll go and get a blind lantern!" exclaimed the woman.
ref: 1859, E. D. E. N. Southworth, Lionne, page 358:
text: From the folds of his robe he brought out a blind lantern, a fat, stubby candle within set in a hard pine socket.
ref: 1944, Gertrude Robinson, Fox Fire, page 33:
text: [S]he was moved to compassion and sprung out of the pot like the light of a candle comes out of a blind lantern [translating lanterna a bota].
ref: 2007, Giambattista Basile, translated by Nancy L. Canepa, Tale of Tales, Penguin, page 29:
glosses: A dark lantern.
blind lanterns
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of blind lantern
efficient market hypothesis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: efficient markets hypothesis
Senses: topics: economics
sciences
glosses: The idea that the prices generated by a financial market represent the best possible estimate of any investment’s value.
dynamic stochastic general equilibrium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: DSGE
Senses: topics: economics
sciences
glosses: The proposal that macroeconomic analysis be concerned with the theoretical consequences of optimizing behaviour by rational consumers, firms, and labourers, rather than with observable phenomena such as booms or slumps.
trickle down hypothesis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of trickle-down hypothesis.
Usipetes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: synonyms: Usipii
glosses: An ancient tribe who moved into the area on the right bank (the northern or eastern bank) of the lower Rhine in the 1st century BC, putting them in contact with Gaul and the Roman Empire.
Menlo Parker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Menlo Parkers
Etymology: From Menlo Park + -er.
Senses: glosses: Someone from or living in Menlo Park, California.
Menlo Parkers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Menlo Parker
Big Data
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of big data.
jack it
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: jacks it
form: jacking it
form: jacked it
form: jacked it
Senses: examples: text: Sometimes a man just needs to jack it to clear his head.
text: Eric Cartman: Oh, gee whiz, I'm not.. watchin' television, Dad, I'm just... laying around jacking it.
Stephen Stotch: Jacking it? Jacking what?
Eric Cartman: Well my hot spicy boner, of course, Dad.
ref: 2002 March 6, Trey Parker, “Jared Has Aides”, in South Park, season 6, episode 1, production code 602:
glosses: To masturbate.
Related terms: jack off
aegloid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: aegloids
Senses: glosses: Any crustacean of the superfamily Aegloidea
chirostyloid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chirostyloids
Senses: glosses: Any crustacean of the superfamily Chirostyloidea
chirostyloids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chirostyloid
demersally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From demersal + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a demersal manner
remains to be seen
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of remain to be seen
remaining to be seen
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of remain to be seen
remained to be seen
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of remain to be seen
fibrochondrocyte
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fibrochondrocytes
Etymology: From fibro- + chondrocyte.
Senses: glosses: A matrix cell in the meniscus of the knee
fibrochondrocytes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fibrochondrocyte
galatheoid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: galatheoids
Senses: glosses: Any decapod crustacean of the superfamily Galatheoidea
galatheoids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of galatheoid