cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
checkerboardedness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From checkerboarded + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: Granule size is the amount of increase or decrease that a single change in checkerboardedness within the matrix imparts on the C-Score (i.e., the minimum incremental change in C-Score); it is equal to one divided by the number of pairwise comparisons 1/(r(r– 1)/2) where r is the number of rows in the matrix.
ref: 2016 March 5, “The Influence of Matrix Size on Statistical Properties of Co-Occurrence and Limiting Similarity Null Models”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: The presence, in a matrix, of a checkerboard pattern
counterligand
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: counterligands
Etymology: From counter- + ligand.
Senses: examples: text: The involvement in neuroimmune surveillance of P-selectin, a major counterligand for PSGL-1 [6 ] responsible for the initial tethering and rolling of leucocytes on blood vessels, was highlighted by Carrithers and collaborators [7 ].
ref: 2016 March 5, “T-Lymphocytes Traffic into the Brain across the Blood-CSF Barrier: Evidence Using a Reconstituted Choroid Plexus Epithelium”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A ligand that occupies the normal place of another
endoneural
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From endo- + neural.
Senses: examples: text: When re-entering of the endoneural sheath by the distal stump occurred with time, the hyperaesthesia sensation might be restarted but gradually reduced to a lower level.
ref: 2016 March 5, “Longitudinal Treatment Outcomes of Microsurgical Treatment of Neurosensory Deficit after Lower Third Molar Surgery: A Prospective Case Series”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Within a neuron
hyperoncotic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From hyper- + oncotic.
Senses: examples: text: These data were not confirmed by others, who showed a protective effect of hyperoncotic albumin on sepsis-induced intestinal and lung injury [16 ].
ref: 2016 March 5, “Effects of the Infusion of 4% or 20% Human Serum Albumin on the Skeletal Muscle Microcirculation in Endotoxemic Rats”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Having a higher than normal oncotic pressure
mesocotyl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mesocotyls
Senses: examples: text: The bHLH genes R, B, Sn and Hopi were subsequently identified in maize and shown to induce tissue-specific anthocyanin biosynthesis, including expression in the aleurone layer, scutellum, pericarp, root, mesocotyl, leaf and anther.
ref: 2016 March 5, “The Tomato Hoffman’s Anthocyaninless Gene Encodes a bHLH Transcription Factor Involved in Anthocyanin Biosynthesis That Is Developmentally Regulated and Induced by Low Temperatures”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: The white part of a plant's stem between the buried seed and the plumule
Derived terms: mesocotylar
microfilaridermia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: microfilaridermias
Etymology: From microfilaria + -dermia.
Senses: examples: text: The result also showed that microfilaridermia and mean intensity decreased as the number of treatment taken increased.
ref: 2016 March 5, “Impact of Six Years Community Directed Treatment with Ivermectin in the Control of Onchocerciasis, Western Ethiopia”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: The presence of microfilaria in the skin
Related terms: microfilaridermic
microgastrine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: microgastrines
Senses: examples: text: Previous phylogenies including multiple members of microgastrine genera have shown patterns of high host specificity within species and a high degree of host conservatism among closely related species.
ref: 2016 March 5, “Morphological and Molecular Characterization of Reared Parasitoid Wasps of the Genus Glyptapanteles Ashmead 1904 (Insecta: Hymenoptera: Braconidae: Microgastrinae) Associated with Lepidoptera in India”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Any braconid wasp of the subfamily Microgastrinae.
microgastrines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of microgastrine
onchocercoma
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: onchocercomas
form: onchocercomata
Etymology: Onchocerca + -oma
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: A nodule containing Onchocerca in river blindness (onchocerciasis).
onchocercomata
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Pruritis, leopard skin, onchocercomata and hanging groin reduced by 54.4%, 61.3%, 77.7% and 88.5% respectively.
ref: 2016 March 5, “Impact of Six Years Community Directed Treatment with Ivermectin in the Control of Onchocerciasis, Western Ethiopia”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: plural of onchocercoma
periaxonal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From peri- + axonal.
Senses: examples: text: An essential step in Schwann cell myelination, therefore, is formation and maintenance of physical contact between the Schwann cell periaxonal membrane and axolemma.
ref: 1992, Russell E. Martenson, Myelin, page 426:
text: The exact mechanism is not yet fully understood but it seems that oligodendrocytes might provide the axons with metabolites across the soma and cytoplasm near the periaxonal space underneath the myelin sheath.
ref: 2016 March 5, “Microstructure and Cerebral Blood Flow within White Matter of the Human Brain: A TBSS Analysis”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Surrounding an axon (of a nerve).
postatrial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From post- + atrial.
Senses: examples: text: The postventricular atrial refractory period (PVARP), for example, becomes the postatrial ventricular refractory period, ventricular sensing becomes atrial sensing, and the maximum tracking rate serves as a reference rate in defining input requirements for the maximum length of the adjustable AV delay.
ref: 2016 March 5, “A Low-Cost Simulation Model for R-Wave Synchronized Atrial Pacing in Pediatric Patients with Postoperative Junctional Ectopic Tachycardia”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Following an atrial event
postventricular
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From post- + ventricular.
Senses: examples: text: The postventricular atrial refractory period (PVARP), for example, becomes the postatrial ventricular refractory period, ventricular sensing becomes atrial sensing, and the maximum tracking rate serves as a reference rate in defining input requirements for the maximum length of the adjustable AV delay.
ref: 2016 March 5, “A Low-Cost Simulation Model for R-Wave Synchronized Atrial Pacing in Pediatric Patients with Postoperative Junctional Ectopic Tachycardia”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Following a ventricular event
superinertial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From super- + inertial.
Senses: examples: text: Similarly, wake cyclonic sub-mesoscale eddies generated in the lee of St. Croix’s southwest corner were also superinertial as shown in Fig 12 .
ref: 2016 March 5, “Eastern Caribbean Circulation and Island Mass Effect on St. Croix, US Virgin Islands: A Mechanism for Relatively Consistent Recruitment Patterns”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Having a velocity greater than that produced by inertia alone
tazomahery
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From a Malagasy word, literally meaning "strong fever".
Senses: examples: text: According to local perceptions in all areas, tazo and tazomahery were not caused by mosquitos.
ref: 2016 March 5, ““ Tazomoka Is Not a Problem”. Local Perspectives on Malaria, Fever Case Management and Bed Net Use in Madagascar”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: A strong fever (especially one associated with malaria)
tergosternal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: Analysis of the dorso-ventral muscle bundles suggested muscle degeneration in the tergosternal muscles (indirect with levator muscles) (Fig 7D).
ref: 2016 March 5, “Transgenic Drosophila for Investigating DUX4 and FRG1, Two Genes Associated with Facioscapulohumeral Muscular Dystrophy (FSHD)”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Relating to, or connecting the tergite and sternite.
transchoroidal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From trans- + choroidal.
Senses: examples: text: In accord with their transchoroidal route of migration, T cells are present in the choroid plexus stroma.
ref: 2016 March 5, “T-Lymphocytes Traffic into the Brain across the Blood-CSF Barrier: Evidence Using a Reconstituted Choroid Plexus Epithelium”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Across or through the choroid
hyponymously
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From hyponymous + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: In terms of general discourse one can proceed hyponymously, confirming and making more specific the existing expression.
ref: 2014, Raymond Monelle, Linguistics and Semiotics in Music, Harwood Academic, (unpaginated)
glosses: In a hyponymous way.
Synonyms: hyponymically
Coordinate terms: cohyponymically
cohyponymously
More: see Wiktionary:Semantic relations
angiomodulating
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From angio- + modulating.
Senses: examples: text: The list of pathologies that could be treated with effective angiomodulating therapies is long and there are new pathologies joining in like the temporal lobe epilepsy, thus increasing the potential socio-economic impact of effective angiomodulating therapies [28 ].
ref: 2016 March 8, “Zebrafish Caudal Fin Angiogenesis Assay—Advanced Quantitative Assessment Including 3-Way Correlative Microscopy”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: That modulates the action of blood vessels
archazolid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: archazolids
Senses: examples: text: It is also noteworthy that both bafilomycin and archazolid, inhibitors of the vacuolar ATPase, both cause lysosomal alkalinization and cell death [39, 40 ].
ref: 2016 March 8, “The BH3 Mimetic Obatoclax Accumulates in Lysosomes and Causes Their Alkalinization”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Any of a class of cytotoxic macrolactones produced by myxobacteria of the genus Archangium
archazolids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of archazolid
brachypodium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: brachypodiums
Etymology: From the genus name.
Senses: examples: text: Then there are the brachypodiums found abundantly in semi-shaded positions, whose awned spikelets are suspended from the gracefully sagging, thin branchings of the panicles, and the elegant glycerias found in damp places.
ref: 1957, The Bulletin of the Hardy Plant Society, volumes 1-5, page 26:
text: These results suggest that CG methylation acts in some unknown way to limit methylation in the other contexts, at least in brachypodium.
ref: 2016 March 8, “CG Methylation Covaries with Differential Gene Expression between Leaf and Floral Bud Tissues of Brachypodium distachyon”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Any grass of the genus Brachypodium.
carboxyatractyloside
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Further experiments indicated that oligomycin cannot be replaced by the adenine nucleotide translocase inhibitors bongkrekic acid or carboxyatractyloside because, although these compounds have effects in permeabilized cells, they do not inhibit oxidative phosphorylation in intact cells.
ref: 2016 March 8, “Underestimation of the Maximal Capacity of the Mitochondrial Electron Transport System in Oligomycin-Treated Cells”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: A glycoside that induces apoptosis by inhibiting adenine nucleotide translocase
corifollitropin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Trust was an open, uncontrolled trial that evaluated the safety and tolerability of repeated cycles (up to three per patient) with a single injection of corifollitropin alfa in a GnRH antagonist protocol.
ref: 2016 March 8, “Prediction of Ovarian Hyperstimulation Syndrome in Patients Treated with Corifollitropin alfa or rFSH in a GnRH Antagonist Protocol”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Any of a class of gonadotrophic glycoprotein hormones with follicle-stimulating activity.
deesterification
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: deesterifications
Etymology: From de- + esterification.
Senses: examples: text: After ELF-EMF exposure for 3 days, the cells were loaded with HEPES-buffered salt solution (HBSS) containing Fura 2-AM (5 μM, Dojindo, Japan) and 0.01% pluronic acid-127 (Sigma-Aldrich, USA) for 45 min at 37°C and then incubated in fresh HBSS for another 30 min to allow deesterification of the Fura-2 AM. Next, the cells were exposed to the 1 mT ELF-EMF for 30 min, and then the intracellular calcium was immediately measured using an Infinite M200 Microplate Reader (TECAN, Austria).
ref: 2016 March 8, “Extremely Low-Frequency Electromagnetic Fields Promote In Vitro Neuronal Differentiation and Neurite Outgrowth of Embryonic Neural Stem Cells via Up-Regulating TRPC1”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: The removal of ester linkages, typically by hydrolysis
glideosome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: glideosomes
Etymology: From glide + -o- + -some.
Senses: examples: text: This defect was at least partially explained by the demonstration that the gliding associated protein GAP50 requires N-glycosylation for proper trafficking and association with glideosome partners.
ref: 2016 March 8, “Identification of Novel O-Linked Glycosylated Toxoplasma Proteins by Vicia villosa Lectin Chromatography”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
text: This gliding machinery, termed the glideosome...
ref: 2017 September 4, Karine Frénal, Jean-François Dubremetz, Maryse Lebrun, Dominique Soldati-Favre, “Gliding motility powers invasion and egress in Apicomplexa”, in Nature Reviews Microbiology, volume 15, number 11, Nature Portfolio, →DOI, →ISSN, →PMID, pages 1/645–660:
glosses: A dynamic complex that powers gliding motion and host cell invasion by the motile and invasive stages of Apicomplexans (including Toxoplasma and Plasmodium)
Related terms: glideosomal
lymphogenous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /lɪmˈfɒd͡ʒɪnəs/
rhymes: -ɒd͡ʒɪnəs
Etymology: From lympho- + -genous.
Senses: examples: text: This clinical observation fueled intense research efforts to identify processes that control the lymphogenous spread of cancer and, in 2001, it was reported that lymphangiogenesis, which is the sprouting of new lymphatic vessels from pre-existing vessels, facilitates metastasis to lymph nodes [4 –6 ].
ref: 2016 March 8, “Identification of Gene Expression Differences between Lymphangiogenic and Non-Lymphangiogenic Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer Cell Lines”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Characterised by the production or spread of lymphocytes or lymphatic vessels
Related terms: lymphatogenous
microirradiation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: microirradiations
Etymology: From micro- + irradiation.
Senses: examples: text: Before and after microirradiation, confocal image series of one mid z-section were recorded at 1 s time interval (5 or 9 pre-irradiation and 100 or 130 post-irradiation frames).
ref: 2016 March 8, “A New Nanobody-Based Biosensor to Study Endogenous PARP1 In Vitro and in Live Human Cells”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: irradiation of a very small area, typically by means of a laser
midstorey
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From mid- + storey.
Senses: examples: text: Species richness was highest in the understorey community (193 species) and decreased with sampling height, with 167 and 115 species detected in the midstorey and canopy strata respectively.
ref: 2016 March 8, “Past Human Disturbance Effects upon Biodiversity are Greatest in the Canopy; A Case Study on Rainforest Butterflies”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: In the middle part of a storey
what time have you got
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: synonyms: what's the time
what time do you make it
glosses: What is the time of day according to your timepiece?
multivisceral
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From multi- + visceral.
Senses: examples: text: In addition, patients undergoing laparoscopic hepatic resections, planned multivisceral resections, radiofrequency ablation without resection, or emergent operations were also excluded from the study.
ref: 2016 March 8, “Safety of an Enhanced Recovery Pathway for Patients Undergoing Open Hepatic Resection”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Relating to multiple parts of the viscera
nanotrap
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nanotraps
Etymology: From nano- + trap.
Senses: examples: text: No pADPr chains were detected in the internal control samples without NAD+ as substrate or in samples obtained with an unrelated nanotrap (GFP-Trap).
ref: 2016 March 8, “A New Nanobody-Based Biosensor to Study Endogenous PARP1 In Vitro and in Live Human Cells”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: A nanoscale trap
seroreactive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From sero- + reactive.
Senses: examples: text: Testing 1,333 at-risk donors, none (0.0%; 95%, CI 0.0–0.4%) was seroreactive for IgG antibodies to T.
ref: 2016 March 8, “Risk Factors and Screening for Trypanosoma cruzi Infection of Dutch Blood Donors”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: That reacts (e.g. to a virus) in blood serum
seroreactive
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: seroreactives
Etymology: From sero- + reactive.
Senses: glosses: Such a material
Related terms: seroreaction
seroreactor
transglycosylating
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From trans- + glycosylating.
Senses: examples: text: In addition a number of peptidoglycan active enzymes are also seen such as GT51, the peptidoglycan transglycosylating enzymes, as well as a GH23 lytic transglycosylase, and peptidoglycan binding proteins.
ref: 2016 March 8, “Proteomic Analysis of the Secretome of Cellulomonas fimi ATCC 484 and Cellulomonas flavigena ATCC 482”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: That produces transglycosylation
uveovortex
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From uveo- + vortex.
Senses: examples: text: The osmotic driving force for uveovortex outflow, typically associated with pressure-independent outflow, would be eliminated by severing the ocular blood vessels during enucleation.
ref: 2016 March 8, “Measurement of Outflow Facility Using iPerfusion”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: A uveal vortex
lautitious
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more lautitious
form: most lautitious
Etymology: 1640s, Latin lautitia ("elegance, magnificence, splendor") nominalized from past participle of lavare (to wash): lautus ("washed, bathed"), see lave.
Senses: examples: text: To sup with thee thou did'st me home invite; And mad'st a promise that mine appetite should meet and tire on such lautitious meat, The like not Heliogabalus did eat.
ref: 1891, Robert Herrick, Alfred William Pollard, The Hesperides & Noble Numbers - Volume 2, Nabu Press, page 78
text: Of Sewer, or Carver, and the like; with divers great Lords of State, all in their Robes: so that there was nothing order'd, at that High Banquet, but with vast Pomp; the meats lautitious, the wines generous, and gract with an Abundance of sumptuous Plate of Gold, the curious work of Vanlesen.
ref: 1891, K. Paul, The Century Guild Hobby Horse - Volume 6, Trench and Company, page 53
text: I've more compliments to impart, to be sure, but I'd as lief make a gift of them to none but thy lautitious self.
ref: 1993, Amanda Scott, The Rose at Twilight, Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group, page 317
text: 2014, Arthur Machen, The Complete Works of Arthur Machen (Illustrated), Delphi Classics, page 6 of The Lord Maltworm's Second Tale - The Affair Done at the House with the Lattice
I should judge that her taille is a rarer and more lautitious taille than that of Madam Phryne; but, by cock! if you win this lady you must be a very discreet knight, and a cunning, and a daring to boot; since Master Torlesse will have no gallants, keeps his door bolted, and shoots bolts at any he sees lurking about.
glosses: sumptuous; luxurious; splendid
inlineable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From inline + -able.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of inlinable.
sea-boot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sea-boots
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of seaboot.
Anatolian hieroglyphs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The ideographic script used to write the Luwian language, found in several inscriptions across Anatolia.
chucky egg
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chucky eggs
Etymology: Possibly related to chuck (“chicken”).
Senses: examples: text: And we'll have chucky eggs for dinner and chicken for our tea.
ref: 1986, British Homing World:
text: Maria was spooning runny egg into Alex's eager little mouth. 'There's a good boy. ...You love your chucky egg don't you?'
ref: 2011, Marilyn Glenn, Our Fragile Lives, Strategic Book Publishing, →ISBN:
text: So, anyway, for your chucky egg do you want toast soldiers or bread and butter?
ref: 2016, James C. Lee, The End of the Pier, Troubador Publishing Ltd, →ISBN:
glosses: A chicken egg, especially a boiled egg.
examples: text: GORDON. (Almost sadly.) Oh Roy, my poor little chucky egg. No one believes, mate.
ref: 1997, Tim Firth, Neville's Island: A Comedy in Thick Fog, Dramatists Play Service Inc, →ISBN, page 80:
text: “Hello, chucky egg,” I said.
ref: 2013, Marie Browne, Narrow Escape, Accent Press Ltd, →ISBN:
text: How could her father have made a princess out of an ordinary living breathing girl, who was so wholly unconnected with her and her family, when she had only ever risen to being a “chucky egg” or a “little ducky” in his eyes?
ref: 2015, Jane E. James, The Long Weekend, Troubador Publishing Ltd, →ISBN:
glosses: A term of affection.
chucky eggs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chucky egg
begin with the chucky
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: begins with the chucky
form: beginning with the chucky
form: began with the chucky
form: begun with the chucky
Etymology: From a story in which a frugal mother recalls how she used to eat cheap foods such as porridge before becoming wealthy enough to afford chucky (“chicken”).
Senses: examples: text: Half the world now begins with the 'chucky'.
ref: 1865, English Women's Domestic Magazine, page 89:
text: Recollect and apply the general principle involved in the lament over "Andrew's imprudence," and don't "begin with the chucky"!
ref: 1871, Young people, The Juvenile instructor and companion, page 220:
text: Our son Andrew has now got a shop and a wife too. He is trying his hand both at business and at housekeeping : but. oh, sir ! he has made an awfu' mistake : he has begun with the chucky !
ref: 1891, The Quiver:
glosses: To live beyond one's means.
sciacarello
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sciacarellos
Senses: glosses: A red wine grape variety grown in Corsica
chucky
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈt͡ʃʌki/
Forms: form: chuckies
Etymology: From chuck (“chicken”) + -y.
Senses: examples: text: Mr. (afterwards) Lord Kenyon, lived in Bell Yard, Temple Bar. Mr. Kenyon's early habits were those of strict economy : he had his shoulder of mutton roasted first for one day, the next day he had it cold, and for the third or fourth day he had it hashed, resembling the old Scotch trader, who told his son he lived at first very sparingly, so that in his old age he could afford himself a chucky on a Sunday ; but he said, the young men in the present day when they began life wanted a chucky every day!
ref: 1847, The Legal Observer, Digest, and Journal of Jurisprudence, page 586:
text: " The chuckies are sent to Lady Grace's, and you will feed them there. I'll take pussy to the new house," replied Henderson.
ref: 1855, Sarah Elizabeth B. Patterson, Dunellan manse; or Times and trials of the Disruption, page 64:
text: She ran to the barn to help to gather the eggs, and got five, three being nest-eggs, and a cheena one, that was put there to deceive the chuckies.
ref: 1895, The Practical Elocutionist:
text: “I'm not sure taking Katie to the cottage to see the chuckies in the snow was such a good idea,” she complained, her face wracked in pain as she brushed snowflakes off her hair.
ref: 2014, Angela Gascoigne, Soup, Andrews UK Limited, →ISBN:
glosses: chicken
Derived terms: begin with the chucky
chucky egg
chucky
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈt͡ʃʌki/
Forms: form: chuckies
Etymology: From chuck (“pebble”) + -y.
Senses: examples: text: I blinked again and screwed up my eyes to look across the chuckies.
ref: 2006, Bernard MacLaverty, Work: new Scottish writing : The Scotsman & Orange short story collection 2006, →ISBN:
text: She hopped out of the van, and waited calmly as Mr Gray approached. His feet crunched on the chuckies and as he walked, he took out his wallet, again counting the money.
ref: 2013, Grace Banks, Sheena Blackhall, Aberdeenshire Folk Tales, The History Press, →ISBN:
glosses: A pebble, stone chip or piece of gravel.
chucky
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈt͡ʃʌki/
Forms: form: chuckies
form: Chucky
Etymology: From Irish tiocfaidh, from the Republican slogan tiocfaidh ár lá (“our day will come”), perhaps punning on etymologies 1 and/or 2.
Senses: glosses: An Irish Republican, especially one who has supported the armed struggle.
polyzetas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of polyzeta
polyzeta
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: polyzetas
Etymology: From poly- + zeta.
Senses: examples: text: The paper ends by the combinatorial setting of systems of local systems of coordinates on the group of group-like series. * The present work is part of a series of papers devoted to the study of the renormalization of divergent polyzetas (at positive and at non-positive indices) via the factorization of the non commutative generating series of polylogarithms and of harmonic sums and via the effective construction of pairs of dual bases in duality in #92;phi-deformed shuffle algebras.
ref: 2015, Gérard H.E. Duchamp, Vincel Hoang Ngoc Minh, Christophe Tollu, Van Chiên Bui, Quoc Hoan Ngô, “(Pure) transcendence bases in ϕ-deformed shuffle bialgebras”, in Seminaire Lotharingien de Combinatoire, volume Universit\'e Louis:
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: A complex function related to zeta functions
supercuspidal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From super- + cuspidal.
Senses: examples: text: A theorem of Bernstein states that for any compact open subgroup K of G(k), there are, up to unramified twists, only finitely many K-spherical supercuspidal representations of G(k).
ref: 2015, Manish Mishra, “A Galois side analogue of a theorem of Bernstein”, in arXiv:
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: That has a zero Jacquet functor for every proper parabolic subgroup
superforms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: We discuss the definition of Picture Lowering and Picture Raising Operators (acting on the space of superforms and on the space of integral forms) and their relation with the cohomology.
ref: 2015, Leonardo Castellani, Roberto Catenacci, Pietro Antonio Grassi, “Hodge Dualities on Supermanifolds”, in arXiv:
glosses: plural of superform
office suite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: office suites
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
software
glosses: A bundle of applications intended to be used together for productivity purposes, such as a word processor, a spreadsheet, a presentation program, a database etc.
rev counter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rev counters
Senses: glosses: an instrument which displays the speed an engine is operating at in revolutions per minute (RPM).
Synonyms: tachometer
unmotivation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From un- (“lack of”) + motivation.
Senses: examples: text: Most dangerous of all is when the learner starts thinking that learning English is beyond his reach – the farthest degree of unmotivation and frustration.
ref: 2010, Azadeh Shafaei, Frontiers of Language and Teaching:
text: The following quote borrowed from Hunter (1999) quite well summarizes this vicious circle of unmotivation: “Workers with good family background neglect their work and are not pushed by their supervisors because of their family background. [...]”
ref: 2011, Daniel Schwekendiek, A Socioeconomic History of North Korea:
text: It is important to distinguish unmotivation, which may be associated with remarks such as “What's the point of doing a project?” (Interest and Relevance) from demotivation, which may result from difficulties experienced while undertaking the current project, or may be the residual effect of prior experience of project work (Expectation and Satisfaction).
ref: 2013, Sally Fincher, Marian Petre, Martyn Clark, Computer Science Project Work: Principles and Pragmatics:
text: I've been there enough times to know exactly just how painful this state of “unmotivation” can be. Lack of motivation drains our capacity to take action. Stagnation sets in. Our sense of purpose is zapped.
ref: 2013, Robert Dave Johnston, How to Lose 30 Pounds (or More) in 30 Days with Juice Fasting:
text: The linguistic unmotivation of the fully interlingual approach is discussed and – we believe – proved in a number of writings, e.g. Tsujii (1986), van Eynde (this volume) and Allegranza (in press).
ref: 2015, Frank Van Eydne, Linguistic Issues in Machine Translation:
glosses: An absence or lack of motivation.
Related terms: unmotivated
amyloidopathies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of amyloidopathy
glideosomes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of glideosome
deesterifications
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of deesterification
preboost
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pre- + boost.
Senses: glosses: Prior to a boost.
postboost
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From post- + boost.
Senses: glosses: After a boost.
transferree
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: transferrees
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of transferee.
transferrees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of transferree
unvalue
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: unvalues
Etymology: From un- (“lack of”) + value.
Senses: examples: text: There was no happiness nowhere to be found in this life of unvalue, this life that had been devalued a million times in one life time, from the womb to the culture death: abortion, the death penalty, projects, thug life, middle class, bill gates [...]
ref: 2003, Shaka N'Zinga, Robin D. G. Kelley, A Disjointed Search for the Will to Live:
text: Not too surprisingly, signs of unvalue are warning flags—not red flags, but items that might give you some pause about a business.
ref: 2013, Peter Sander, The 25 Habits of Highly Successful Investors:
glosses: Lack of value; valuelessness; worthlessness
examples: text: According to him, God cannot be called the Highest Value, because there in no 'unvalue' with which he can be contrasted. But, here Alexander confuses the absolute predicate with relative ones. If a thing has value, it is in contrast to some unvalue, since all predicts affirmed about finite things are relative. But, applied to God, the case is otherwise. All that is said about God is absolutely predicated.
ref: 1997, Chandrakanta Sharma, Urja Utpaadan Ka Arthshastra:
text: Setting borders is working with “unvalues.” It is a method of value steering that directors or leaders use to indicate what they do not want. They block specific behaviour and thus create space for employees to look for other work practices.
ref: 2012, Jaap J. Boonstra, Cultural Change and Leadership in Organizations:
text: One condition is the city's almost inevitable destruction of burned houses, even when architecturally reconfigured—its inability to recognize unreal estate's unvalues.
ref: 2012, Andrew Herscher, The Unreal Estate Guide to Detroit:
glosses: A negative or undesirable value (all senses)
Synonyms: unworth
unvalues
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of unvalue
PMP
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: PMPs
Senses: glosses: Initialism of project management professional.
glosses: Initialism of poor man's pizza.
glosses: Initialism of portable media player.
topics: government
healthcare
glosses: Initialism of prescription monitoring program.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Initialism of physical memory protection.
PMP
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: Initialism of per million population.
PMPs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of PMP
hoop cheese
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hoop cheeses
Etymology: It is made in a round mould called a hoop.
Senses: glosses: A traditional cheese made only from milk, with the whey completely pressed out.
Related terms: farmer cheese
hoop cheeses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hoop cheese
wagasi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: *A term used among some ethnic groups in northern Benin to describe a locally made cheese. Ultimately from Yoruba wàrà (“milk”) + kàṣì (“to become sour, to mold, to become stale”). "Sour milk."
Senses: glosses: A soft, mild Beninese cheese made from cows' milk.
tractoring
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of tractor
tractored
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of tractor
ouklip
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Afrikaans
Senses: glosses: hardpan (soil layer mostly impervious to water)
naais
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of naai
rooikats
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rooikat
Prichardian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Prichardian
form: most Prichardian
Etymology: From Prichard + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to James Cowles Prichard (1786–1848), English physician and ethnologist.
geckoing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of gecko.
geckoed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of gecko.
commandeerer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: commandeerers
Etymology: From commandeer + -er.
Senses: examples: text: In the bulk of commandeering transactions, however, conciliatory valuations have been the order of the day, and the rebels have in most cases got much the best of the commandeerer.
ref: 1902, Sydney Galvayne, War Horses Present and Future: Or, Remount Life in South Africa:
glosses: One who commandeers.
commandeerers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of commandeerer
carnistic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more carnistic
form: most carnistic
Etymology: From carnism.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to carnism.
jizzers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of jizzer
bloodynouns
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bloodynoun
perikrone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: perikrones
form: perikron
Etymology: From Ancient Greek περί (perí, “around”) + Κρόνος (Krónos, “Saturn”).
Senses: examples: text: Cassini perikrones (periapses at Saturn), sometimes including emissions between the gyroharmonic bands above fuh.
ref: 2006, M. Moncuquet, N. Meyer-Vernet, A. Lecacheux, B. Cecconi, W.S. Kurth, Quasi Thermal Noise in Bernstein Waves at Saturn:
text: The original plan in the primary mission to look for the existence of an internal liquid layer called for four flybys to measure the Love number k₂: two equatorial passes -- one when Titan was at perikrone and one at apokrone, and two inclined passes – also at perikrone and apokrone.
ref: 2009, Robert Brown, Jean Pierre Lebreton, Jack Waite, Titan from Cassini-Huygens, →ISBN, page 459:
text: In order to obtain the value of k₂ with high accuracy, four flybys of the Cassini spacecraft will be devoted to measuring Titan's gravity field near both apokrone and perikrone (Castillo et al., 2002).
ref: 2010, Tilman Spohn, Planets and Moons: Treatise on Geophysics, →ISBN, page 531:
text: We report 5 kHz narrowband Z mode emissions observed by the Cassini Radio and Plasma Waves Science (RPWS) instrument during high latitude perikrone passes.
ref: 2012, Issues in Earth Sciences, Geology, and Geophysics, →ISBN:
glosses: Periapsis around the planet Saturn.
Synonyms: perisaturnium
Related terms: periapsis
perikrones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of perikrone
perikron
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: perikrons
Senses: examples: text: We do not examine the 6 hours surrounding perikron as the ion cyclotron waves in this region have already been extensively discussed [Leisner et al., 2006]. Perikron was close to 2100 on 24 December and the inbound pass cuts through the dayside magnetosphere.
ref: 2006 December, CT Russell, JS Leisner, CS Arridge, MK Dougherty, X Blanco-Cano, “Nature of magnetic fluctuations in Saturn's middle magnetosphere”, in Journal of Geophysical Research, volume 111, number A12:
text: I kept chugging away on ion, adjusting my path so I'd hit perikron in the B ring with orbital velocity.
ref: 2008 February, James L. Cambias, “Balancing Accounts”, in Fantasy & Science Fiction, volume 114, page 20:
glosses: Alternative form of perikrone.
perikrons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of perikron
inbirth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: inbirths
Etymology: From in- + birth. Compare Old English inberþ, inbyrd (“born within one's estate; native-born”).
Senses: examples: text: My dear invisible Church (truly invisible, even to its pastor, as I never set eyes on one of you)-my dear Church, I'll let you into a secret—I am no mystic; I never in my life was in a “high sphere," and never experienced an “inbirth."
ref: 1835, The Shepherd, numbers 1-33:
text: Until the dark fiery soul consents to die, to the light and glory of this temporal nature, the light and glory of eternal nature cannot arise in it as an essential inbirth, and qualify it with these eternal qualities, which it is vainly seeking for amidst temporal effigies.
ref: 1847, James Pierrepont Greaves, The New Nature in the Soul:
text: Two kinds of birth take place in the soul — one is called an inbirth, the other an outbirth.
ref: 1886, Johannes Tauler, The Following of Christ:
text: The Church is concerned with the human soul, and its teaching bears upon the creature's bliss or suffering during life on earth and in the state after death. Totally different is the doctrine of eternal Truth — the Inbirth of the Light into the Soul.
ref: 1940, A. H. Gebhard-L'Estrange, The Tradition of Silence in Myth and Legend:
text: Man the creator is the inbirth of God the creator; he is immersed in the universal spirit of creation.
ref: 1952, Ida C. Knapp, Myself the challenger:
glosses: An inner or inward birth
valuatively
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more valuatively
form: most valuatively
Etymology: From valuative + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Political order supplies conditions for valuatively significant human activity.
ref: 2006, Tibor R. Machan, Liberty and Justice: Philosophical Reflections On a Free Society:
glosses: With respect to values or valuation.
wellah
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: examples: text: He cast out the demons of possessed persons, and he bound the jân, wellah, in yonder corner.
ref: 1888, Charles Montagu Doughty, Travels in Arabia Deserta:
topics: Islam
lifestyle
religion
glosses: Alternative form of wallah.
massness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From mass + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: But the continued movement in the direction of massness and individualism has clearly resulted in huge unpaid emotional debts […]
ref: 1975, Agricultural Development Council. Research and Training Program, University of Wisconsin--Madison. Land Tenure Center, Papers, Volume 4
text: It was the massness of the book in Menzel's view that had transformed it into both a problem and an enormously powerful medium that had the capacity to shape one's dreams.
ref: 2009, Andrew Piper, Dreaming in Books: The Making of the Bibliographic Imagination in the Romantic Age:
glosses: The quality of being a part of a mass.
examples: text: A mass noun, in contrast, does not refer to a discrete object (or objects) in the real world - it refers to massness.
ref: 2013, Rint Sybesma, The Mandarin VP:
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: The quality of being a mass noun.
raw_tags: of a noun
unthoughts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of unthought
end organ
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: end organs
form: end-organ
Senses: glosses: A small organ at the terminal end of a nerve conduction pathway.
glosses: The ultimately affected organ in a chain of events, such as a disease process (pathophysiology) or a drug's mechanism of action (sometimes called a target organ in this sense).
antitransition
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more antitransition
form: most antitransition
Etymology: From anti- + transition.
Senses: glosses: Opposing transition.
end-organ
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: end-organs
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of end organ.
end-organs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of end-organ
end organs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of end organ
unlight
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: unlights
form: unlighting
form: unlighted
form: unlighted
form: unlit
form: unlit
Etymology: From un- + light or, in the case of the verb, perhaps from Middle English *unlighten (suggested by past participle unlight, unlyght, unliȝt (“unlit”)), equivalent to un- + light.
Senses: examples: text: His father, in another room, unlights the lamp and leaves the world alone.
ref: 2002, Ilya Kaminsky, Ilya Kaminsky Greatest Hits:
text: Remember Obi-Wan Kenobi in the first Star Wars film? At one point in the big duel, he unlights his light sabre and stands defenseless but confident before Darth Vader, saying sonorously, “If you strike me down, I shall become more powerful than you can possibly imagine.”
ref: 2005, Conrad H. Gempf, Mealtime Habits of the Messiah:
text: It would be so easy to trace Ian's death back to that match, the one he said he would not unlight if he could. The one that made him appear to be a monster and therefore unfit for romantic love, while also making him rich […]
ref: 2012, Cheryl Strayed, Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar, Vintage, →ISBN, page 154:
glosses: To extinguish, turn off, or dim the light from
unlight
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: unlights
Etymology: From un- + light or, in the case of the verb, perhaps from Middle English *unlighten (suggested by past participle unlight, unlyght, unliȝt (“unlit”)), equivalent to un- + light.
Senses: examples: text: Those of the Unlight is probably Marduk's most traditional black metal recording, and one of my personal favorites.
ref: 2008, Daniel Ekeroth, Swedish Death Metal, Bazillion Points Books, →ISBN, page 255:
text: "The door will only open when you strike it under the unlight of a moon at full dark. And the moon is many days from full dark now." Corydon gasped.
ref: 2009, Tobias Druitt, Corydon and the Island of Monsters, Yearling, →ISBN, page 104:
text: The unlight of Ungoliant
Tolkien, always mindful of his language and especially his metaphors for light, was careful not to call the cloak that Ungoliant wove to hide Melkor and herself during their attack [on] the Two Trees a darkness.
ref: 2011, Greg Harvey, The Origins of Tolkien's Middle-earth For Dummies, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN:
text: “They move and shake, from the unlight! The unlight which blackensss and ssscarsss!” “These men, are they a threat to us? To our plans for these lands?” “They are a threat to the way of thingsss! They count among them powerful magii and […]”
ref: 2012, EJ Spurrell, Children of the Halo: Engines of Creation 1, EJ Spurrell, page 152:
text: […] solidarity to the beings of the unlight, but apart from that, they avoid them. They do this because they also respect the will of the dark beings to stay far away from the light. Light beings don't see the unlight as an enemy […]
ref: 2019, Bernadette von Dreien, Hilary Snellgrove, Christina, Book 2: The Vision of the Good, Govinda-Verlag, →ISBN:
text: Luthan chokes again, coughing up more blood, and for the first time Oriana sees the unlight. She is not sure how else to describe it. An absence of light, a greyness, hovering over the wound like a cloud. It needs mending.
ref: 2020, A.F.E. Smith, Dawn Rising, IronWright Books, →ISBN:
glosses: The absence of light; darkness.
unlight
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: unlights
form: unlighting
form: unlighted
form: unlighted
Etymology: From Middle English unlighten (“to lighten the burden of; alleviate; dismount from horseback”), equivalent to un- + light (“to alight”).
Senses: examples: text: I would rather take the water unmixed," said I. "Just as you like," said the old soldier; "but please to unlight, and come into my barracks, at all events."
ref: 1838, Edward Lanzer Joseph, Warner Arundell the adventures of a creole:
text: Unlight, unlight, you gay Lady Unlight of your middle quite speed Deliver it unto me For I seems it looks too rich and too gay To melder all in the salt sea.
ref: 2015, Bertrand Harris Bronson, The Traditional Tunes of the Child Ballads:
glosses: To alight; dismount
unlight
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Middle English unlight, unlyght, unliȝt (“not light (in weight)”), equivalent to un- + light.
Senses: examples: text: And thought to bere him doun; With a launce unlight, He smote him in the lyoun; And Tristrem that was wight […]
ref: 1821, Walter Scott, The Poetical Works of Sir Walter Scott, Baronet, page 58:
text: Heavy shoulders, of a burden so unlight. Yet because of you, I can see your way through. To now I see through the darkness, with your light. By making my heavy burdens so light. And so my spirit, and my soul, are so bright.
ref: 2018, Runas C. Powers III, A Right to Write, Xlibris Corporation, →ISBN:
glosses: Not light (“having little weight”).
unlighting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of unlight
numericalize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: numericalizes
form: numericalizing
form: numericalized
form: numericalized
Etymology: From numerical + -ize.
Senses: examples: text: In the traditional theory of filtering, we are able to numericalize our problems by viewing signals as members of a vector space […]
ref: 2005, E. G. Rajan, Symbolic Computing: Signal and Image Processing:
glosses: To quantify or represent with numbers.
Derived terms: numericalization
numericalization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: numericalizations
Etymology: From numericalize + -ation.
Senses: examples: text: Human nature resists numericalization, especially in the behavioral aspects of life.
ref: 1965, Proceedings, volume 4:
glosses: Quantification or representation with numbers.
numericalizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of numericalize
numericalizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of numericalize
numericalized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of numericalize