cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
unheraldic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unheraldic
form: most unheraldic
Etymology: From un- + heraldic.
Senses: examples: text: The crest of Walpole, as it is now borne by the family […] "A Saracen's head ducally crowned Or, with a long ca on gules, thereon a Catherine-wheel Or; […]." […] However, it was passed by the College of Arms, and ever since the Walpoles have been saddled with this most inartistic and unheraldic crest.
ref: 1900, The Genealogical Magazine, page 8:
topics: government
heraldry
hobbies
lifestyle
monarchy
nobility
politics
glosses: Not heraldic; not adhering to the norms of heraldry.
ketosamine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ketosamines
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any amino sugar derived from a ketose
ketosamines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ketosamine
lapsiine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lapsiines
Senses: glosses: Any spider of the genus Lapsias
lapsiines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lapsiine
lipidate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: lipidates
form: lipidating
form: lipidated
form: lipidated
Senses: glosses: To modify by means of lipidation
Derived terms: delipidate
relipidate
lipofectin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A reagent used in lipofection
lumboperitonial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of lumboperitoneal.
macrophagocytic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From macro- + phagocytic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to macrophagocytes
macrophagocyte
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: macrophagocytes
Etymology: From macro- + phagocyte.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of macrophage.
synonyms: word: macrophage
Related terms: macrophagocytic
magnetosomal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to magnetosomes
Golmud
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Mongolian ᠭᠣᠣᠯᠮᠤᠳ (ɣoolmud).
Senses: examples: text: The only legal means of entering Tibet is by air. It is not, however, the only way. Occasionally young Americans or Europeans hitchhike rides on the road that leads from Golmud in Qinghai province over the Himalayas to Lhasa.
ref: 1985 June 9, Mark A. Cohen, “Tibet: Open to the World at Last”, in The Washington Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 23 Oct 2023:
text: The only place the railway didn't go was Tibet. The Chinese had abandoned this Tibet line at Golmud in Qinghai, faced by the impenetrable Kunlun Mountains.
ref: 1988 January, Paul Theroux, “China Passage”, in National Geographic, volume 173, number 1, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 298:
text: We arrived in Golmud, formerly Tibetan, now a Chinese town, a small oasis in a barren area, at about 7 A.M. The Golmud Hotel dorm ($5) housed only a young Japanese man who had worked as a cook's assistant in Milan. He was going home to Tokyo to open an Italian restaurant. I went over to the office of CITS, the Chinese equivalent of the old Russian Intourist, and booked the last leg of my trip, from Golmud to Lhasa by bus, for $160, including a three-day tour, a low-end hotel and the necessary Tibetan permit.
ref: 1997 October 19, Karen Swenson, “Approaches To Tibet”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 23 May 2009, Travel:
text: We had left the frosty campsite at Koko Nor after a hearty Sherpa breakfast of hot porridge and fried eggs, the car heater was pumping out warmth, we had slept well, and we were a few minutes into our drive to Golmud, 580 kilometres further towards Tibet.
ref: 1998, Rosie Thomas, Border Crossing, Little, Brown and Company, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 111:
text: 'Social development' could obliquely mean a new Chinese invasion - a massive influx of Chinese settlers, drawn by financial incentives and tax breaks. There are precedents here: you do not have to look any further than Golmud itself. Fifty years ago, Golmud was open steppe with nomad herders. After the railway reached town, immigrants from eastern China arrived in droves, leading to the present population of several hundred thousand and a sprawling town.
ref: 2006 August, Michael Buckley, Tibet (Bradt Travel Guides), 2nd edition, Globe Pequot Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 17:
glosses: A river and sub-prefectural county-level city in Haixi prefecture, Qinghai, China.
Synonyms: sense: from Mandarin Chinese
word: Ge'ermu
word: Ko-erh-mu
megafrugivore
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: megafrugivores
Etymology: From mega- + frugivore.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: A relatively large frugivore
megafrugivores
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of megafrugivore
melanocytoma
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: melanocytomas
Etymology: From melano- + cytoma.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: A tumour derived from melanocytes
melanocytomas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of melanocytoma
menaquinol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: menaquinols
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A quinol derived from a menaquinone
menaquinols
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of menaquinol
mesotetraploid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From meso- + tetraploid.
Senses: topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: That has become tetraploid in more recent history
Related terms: mesopolyploid
metanephrogenic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From meta- + nephrogenic.
Senses: glosses: That gives rise to metanephroses
metanephron
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: metanephrons
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of metanephros.
metanephrons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of metanephron
microtopology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: microtopologies
Etymology: From micro- + topology.
Senses: glosses: Very small-scale topology (typically of a surface)
Related terms: microtopological
middorsally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From mid- + dorsally.
Senses: glosses: In a middorsal manner or direction
midventrally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From mid- + ventrally.
Senses: glosses: In a midventral manner or direction
mucohaemorrhagic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From muco- + haemorrhagic.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of mucohemorrhagic.
muroidean
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: muroideans
Senses: glosses: Any rodent of the superfamily Muroidea
Synonyms: murid
muroideans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of muroidean
myocardialize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: myocardializes
form: myocardializing
form: myocardialized
form: myocardialized
Senses: glosses: To cause, or to undergo myocardialization
myocardialization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The formation of myocardium
Derived terms: neomyocardialization
Related terms: myocardialize
myodystony
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The relaxation of a muscle following electrical stimulation
Related terms: myodystonia
myoglobulinuria
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From myoglobulin + -uria.
Senses: glosses: The presence of myoglobulin in the urine
plosivisation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of plosivization.
Topher
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Modern short form of Christopher.
Senses: examples: text: No Carl, but there was Jan Teverer - the Christian lady - and Mike, the father of the three-year-old IVF triplets - Taylor, Topher and Talullah. ('I hate them all, just by name,' said Amy, a grave judge of anything trendy. […]'
ref: 2012, Gillian Flynn, Gone Girl, Phoenix, published 2013, →ISBN, page 63:
glosses: A male given name, a shortened form of Christopher.
PocketQube
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: PocketQubes
Senses: glosses: A standard miniature space satellite which is similar to a CubeSat, but one quarter the size.
PocketQubes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of PocketQube
Tampeño
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /tæmˈpeɪnjoʊ/
Forms: form: Tampeños
Etymology: From Spanish tampeño.
Senses: glosses: A native or inhabitant of Tampa, Florida, especially a Hispanic one.
LYSM
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: glosses: Love you so much.
misappear
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: misappears
form: misappearing
form: misappeared
form: misappeared
Etymology: From mis- + appear.
Senses: examples: text: Anon like folks, that have in masks appeared, And seem as changelings, when they put away That foreign garb, in which they misappeared, So changed here to a jubilee more gay
ref: 1854, C. B. Cayley (Dante Alighieri), Divine comedy: Translated in the original ternary rhyme by C. B. Cayley:
text: So, as a corrective, he appended the affix vat to rajat and dvitiya to stress the point that there was no question of grafting one thing upon another, all that there happens is a thing misappearing like what it is not, or being miscognised as other than it is.
ref: 2000, Shyama Kumar Chattopadhyaya, The Philosophy of Sankar's Advaita Vedanta, →ISBN, page 80:
text: But nobody designed things that way, and his restricted options consequently misappear as mere facts.
ref: 2009, G. A. Cohen, Why Not Socialism?, →ISBN, page 48:
text: Indeed, being the referent of terms and thoughts is established through the usage of language but misappears as if subsisting in objects themselves; thus, it is posited by only names and terminology.
ref: 2017, Jeffrey Hopkins, Absorption in No External World: 170 Issues in Mind-Only Buddhism, →ISBN:
glosses: To give a false appearance; to seem to be something other than the true form.
examples: text: So Bylo scooped the phlegm in the crook of his fetid finger and flung it flush at the young maid's head, though it somehow misappeared behind her in the empty space the trio made.
ref: 2014, John Klobucher, The Lore Anthology, →ISBN, page 23:
glosses: To appear wrongly; to come into view in the wrong place or at the wrong time.
Derived terms: misappearance
misappears
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of misappear
misappearing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of misappear
misappeared
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of misappear
misappearance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: misappearances
Etymology: From mis- + appearance or misappear + -ance.
Senses: examples: text: Certain priests, whom he describes as conversing very learnedly together, appeared to the children, who were at some distance, like dead horses; and many the like misappearances.
ref: 1883, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Essays: First-second Series, page 39:
text: In the standing position, wth the fixation of the leg and foot on the ground, the adduction or abduction of the leg on the pelvis is a misappearance. In reality, there is in this position an actual adduction or abduction of the pelvis on the legs, created by the pelvis tilting laterally on the legs.
ref: 1977, John Jesse, Hidden Causes of Injury, Prevention and Correction, for Running Athletes and Joggers, page 119:
text: Keeping both American theater and its double within the sight lines, I would like to look at MPD as a pathology in which both both performativity and social performance are outstripped by a mise-en-scène that veers past the merely performative and dangerously close to theater itself, threatening to erase the differences in its very misappearance.
ref: 2002, Anthony Kubiak, Agitated States: Performance in the American Theater of Cruelty, →ISBN:
glosses: A false appearance; An instance of seeming as other than what is the true form; an illusion.
examples: text: We know of no set of men who are more quick to detect any misappearance than the force having charge of the condition of the yard.
ref: 1903, Annual Report of the Board of Prison Commissioners of Massachusetts:
glosses: Something that appears in a way that it should not.
misappearances
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of misappearance
miscognise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: miscognises
form: miscognising
form: miscognised
form: miscognised
Etymology: From mis- + cognise.
Senses: examples: text: So, as a corrective, he appended the affix vat to rajat and dvitiya to stress the point that there was no question of grafting one thing upon another, all that there happens is a thing misappearing like what it is not, or being miscognised as other than it is.
ref: 2000, Shyama Kumar Chattopadhyaya, The Philosophy of Sankar's Advaita Vedanta, →ISBN, page 80:
glosses: Alternative form of miscognize.
miscognises
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of miscognise
miscognising
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of miscognise
hypogastria
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hypogastrium
miscognised
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of miscognise
misboding
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of misbode
misboding
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more misboding
form: most misboding
Senses: examples: text: My panting heart Could not resist the strong misboding throbs, That rack'd my breast.
ref: 1816, Lorenzo Da Ponte, Il Ratto di Proserpina; or, the Rape of Proserpine:
text: The tone of this letter convinced Somerset of the inutility of resistance : and with a misboding heart he invited his adversaries to Windsor '.
ref: 1826, John Lingard, A History of England: From the First Invasion by the Romans:
text: His thoughts appeared to recur perpetually to the same theme with a misboding iteration.
ref: 1864, Charles Kent, Footprints on the Road, page 257:
text: The king thus a prisoner in his own palace, with a misboding mind retired to rest a little before midnight.
ref: 1867, The loyalist's daughter, by a royalist, page 303:
glosses: Feeling a sense of impending disaster.
misboding
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: misbodings
Senses: examples: text: Still, with all his misbodings, and with the signs of disaffection everywhere, he could have been but imperfectly aware of what was daily and hourly passing in the Castle of Framlingham, on which the royal standard waved.
ref: 1845, George Ayliffe Poole, A history of England, to the accession of queen Victoria:
text: But the reality far surpasses my most gloomy misbodings.
ref: 1847, John MacHale, The Letters of the Most Reverend John Mac Hale, page 205:
text: Yet this misboding which weighs on my brow Is a domestic ill.
ref: 1853, J. Hector T. Courcelle, The Serf: A Play, in Five Acts, page 8:
glosses: A presentiment of something bad.
misbodings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of misboding
misbodes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of misbode
misboded
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of misbode
deceptresses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of deceptress
woldest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: wold + -est
Senses: glosses: superlative form of wold: most wold
overpeel
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈəʊvəɹˌpiːl/
rhymes: -iːl
Forms: form: overpeels
form: overpeeling
form: overpeeled
form: overpeeled
Etymology: From over- + peel.
Senses: glosses: To peel too much off.
overpeels
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of overpeel
overpeeled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of overpeel
overpeeling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of overpeel
nonacoustic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + acoustic.
Senses: examples: text: For reducing tonal noise, e.g., generated by engines and propellers, the reference microphone can be replaced by a nonacoustic reference sensor, e.g., a tachometer or an optical or inductive sensor.
ref: 2002, Gillian M. Davis, Noise Reduction in Speech Applications, →ISBN, page 313:
text: In addition, the score features common acoustic and nonacoustic Western instruments, including keyboards, synthesized drums and bass, electric and acoustic guitar, piano, and accordion.
ref: 2015, Elsie Walker, Understanding Sound Tracks Through Film Theory, →ISBN:
text: Compared with vestibular schwannomas, eighth cranial nerve symptoms and signs are less frequent, and other cranial nerve and cerebellar symptoms and signs are more frequent in nonacoustic CPA tumours.
ref: 2016, Michael C. Joiner, Albert van der Kogel, Basic Clinical Radiobiology, →ISBN, page 4016:
glosses: Not acoustic.
non-acoustic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more non-acoustic
form: most non-acoustic
Senses: examples: text: The behavioral functions of non-acoustic communication in anurans are poorly understood and its ecological significance is difficult to assess due to the small number of studies available.
ref: 2005, Matthew J. Asay, Polly G. Harowicz, Lixing Su, “Chemically Mediated Mate Recognition in the Tailed Frog (Ascaphus Truei)”, in Chemical Signals in Vertebrates, →ISBN, page 24:
text: The focus of the chapter is to provide a cross section of progress in the area of non-acoustic sensors for underwater mobile platforms and to provide a framework for structuring the subject of oceanographic non-acoustic sensors.
ref: 2016, David Fries, William Kirkwood, “Non-Acoustic Sensors”, in Springer Handbook of Ocean Engineering, →ISBN, page 423:
glosses: Alternative form of nonacoustic.
nonamortizing
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: The assets of thrift institutions are dominated by amortizing (mortgage) instruments (see Appendix B). For banking institutions, nonamortizing assets (particularly commercial loans) are considerably more important than they are for thrifts.
ref: 1993, United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs, The state of the banking industry and the Bank Insurance Fund:
text: The building appraises at its cost basis, and its debt is a nonamortizing mortgage with a loan-to-value ratio of 0.8 and 9 percent interest.
ref: 1995, National Research Council, Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences, Commission on Engineering and Technical Systems, Protecting Buildings from Bomb Damage: Transfer of Blast-Effects Mitigation Technologies from Military to Civilian Applications, →ISBN:
text: For a nonamortizing asset, while the concept of a prepayment does not exist, a projection of defaults is still necessary to project how much will be recovered and when.
ref: 2008, Frank J. Fabozzi, Fixed Income Securities, →ISBN, page 302:
topics: business
finance
glosses: Not requiring the borrower to make scheduled payments; having no amortization schedule.
non-amortizing
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: As an additional risk factor, the majority of ARMs in Korea have less than a three-year maturity with non-amortizing principal.
ref: 2014, H. Kent Baker, Peter Chinloy, Private Real Estate Markets and Investments, →ISBN:
glosses: Alternative form of nonamortizing.
nonamortising
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: Substantially revises the Section 202 program for the elderly, with funding provided through interest-free, nonamortising advances and operating assistance, called “rental assistance.”
ref: 1989, Major Legislation of the Congress: 1989:
glosses: Alternative form of nonamortizing.
non-amortising
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: A non-amortising security's f value is 0.0 for its entire lifetime.
ref: 2016, Andrew Colin, Mastering Attribution in Finance, →ISBN:
glosses: Alternative form of nonamortizing.
nonassumptions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nonassumption
non-assumption
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: non-assumptions
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of nonassumption.
non-assumptions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of non-assumption
Sinkie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Sinkies
Etymology: From Singapore + -ie.
Senses: examples: 2022, Dr Gwee Li Sui, The Leeter Spiaking Singlish Book 3: Loanwords
What to do? Sinkies suka aksi borak and end up liddat lor. We wan to sound tua ki and end up sounding tua ki in a goblok way. Orbigood!
glosses: Somebody from Singapore; a Singaporean.
Related terms: Argie
Aussie
Hongkie
Paki
krissing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of kris
krissed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of kris
countes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of counte
sift through
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsɪft θɹuː/
rhymes: -uː
Forms: form: sifts through
form: sifting through
form: sifted through
form: sifted through
Senses: glosses: To carefully go through a set of objects, or a collection of information, in order to find something.
epiphytism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From epiphyte + -ism.
Senses: examples: text: Wet weight of the main components of the epifauna per 500 g of G. verrucosa (A) and degree of epiphytism (B) found in the algal bed at Isla Santa María.
ref: 2012, Mark A. Ragan, Carolyn J. Bird, Proceedings of the Twelfth International Seaweed Symposium:
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: The quality or condition of being an epiphyte.
semiepiphyte
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: semiepiphytes
Etymology: From semi- + epiphyte.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: A plant that can be an epiphyte (live on the surface of the other plant), or live independently.
Related terms: hemiepiphyte
semiepiphytes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of semiepiphyte
semiepiphytic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From semiepiphyte + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to a semiepiphyte.
skelm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: skelms
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of schelm.
Sinkies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Sinkie
NCM
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: NMC
Senses: topics: chemistry
electrochemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Initialism of nickel-cobalt-manganese, a type of lithium cell chemistry.
glosses: Initialism of non-compact matter.
Synonyms: sense: nickel cobalt manganese
word: NiCoMn
sense: nickel cobalt manganese
word: nicomn
Coordinate terms: sense: nickel cobalt manganese
english: lithium-iron-phosphate
translation: lithium-iron-phosphate
word: LFP
sense: nickel cobalt manganese
english: nickel-cobalt-aluminium
translation: nickel-cobalt-aluminium
word: NCA
b'ys
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of b'y
palladides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of palladide
nanoconjugated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From nano- + conjugated.
Senses: glosses: Formed into a nanoconjugate
Related terms: nanoconjugation
nanoconjugation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From nano- + conjugation.
Senses: glosses: The formation of a nanoconjugate
nektoplankton
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nektoplanktons
Etymology: From nekto- + plankton.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: nektonic plankton
Related terms: nektoplanktonic
nektoplanktonic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From nekto- + planktonic or nektoplankton + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to nektoplankton
nematomorphan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nematomorphans
Senses: glosses: Any nematode of the phylum Nematomorpha
nematomorphans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nematomorphan
5160
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: engineering
metallurgy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: 5160; Ellipsis of 5160 steel.
Synonyms: 5160 steel
5160 stainless steel
5160 spring steel
5160 chromium steel
AISI 5160
AISI 5160 steel
SAE 5160
SAE 5160 steel
Hypernyms: spring steel
stainless steel
chromium steel
steel
iron alloy
iron compound
Bengali People's Republic
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: -ʌblɪk
Senses: glosses: Synonym of People's Republic of Bangladesh.
synonyms: word: People's Republic of Bangladesh
polynomial bases
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of polynomial basis
ministerialis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ministeriales
Etymology: From post-classical Latin ministeriālis (“ministerial”). Doublet of ministerial and minstrel.
Senses: examples: text: Royal officials, recruited from ministeriales, were posted to oversee crown lands, castles, and the growing number of imperial towns that the Staufers also actively promoted.
ref: 2016, Peter H. Wilson, The Holy Roman Empire, Penguin, published 2017, page 355:
glosses: A non-noble (originally unfree) official or retainer under certain feudal systems, especially in the Holy Roman Empire, who had specific military duties to his lord.
nephrograph
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nephrographs
Etymology: From nephro- + -graph.
Senses: glosses: The device used in nephrography
Related terms: nephrogram
nephrographs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nephrograph
subvassal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: subvassals
Etymology: From sub- + vassal. Compare earlier subvavasour.
Senses: examples: text: A Carolingian capitulary of 799 allowed the church to assign its property as benefices to lay subvassals to circumvent the canon law restriction on clergy serving as warriors.
ref: 2016, Peter H. Wilson, The Holy Roman Empire, Penguin, published 2017, page 329:
glosses: The vassal of a vassal.
Synonyms: vavasour
subvassals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of subvassal
neuroinflammative
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From neuro- + inflammative.
Senses: glosses: Associated with neuroinflammation
neuronavigate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: neuronavigates
form: neuronavigating
form: neuronavigated
form: neuronavigated
Etymology: From neuro- + navigate.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
surgery
glosses: To carry out neuronavigation
neuronavigated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of neuronavigate
neurosonologist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: neurosonologists
Senses: glosses: A practitioner of neurosonology
neurosonologists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of neurosonologist
neurosonology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From neuro- + sonology.
Senses: glosses: The use of ultrasound in carotid surgery
Related terms: neurosonologist
noctilionoid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: noctilionoids
Senses: glosses: Any bat of the superfamily Noctilionoidea
noctilionoids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of noctilionoid
nodosomes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nodosome
nonhomogeneously
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From non- + homogeneously.
Senses: glosses: In a nonhomogeneous manner
nonlymphomatous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + lymphomatous.
Senses: glosses: Not lymphomatous
nonrecombined
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + recombined.
Senses: glosses: Not recombined
nonstromatic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + stromatic.
Senses: glosses: Not stromatic
normochloremia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From normo- + chloremia.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: The presence of the normal amount of chlorine (as chloride) in the blood
Related terms: normochloremic
normokinetic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From normo- + kinetic.
Senses: glosses: Having the normal extent of motor function
nucinellid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nucinellids
Senses: glosses: Any bivalve of the family Nucinellidae
nucinellids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nucinellid
glass-ceramic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: glass-ceramics
Senses: glosses: A type of glass that has been devitrified.
glass-ceramic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to such a glass.
triple-deckers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of triple-decker
Replogle tubes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Replogle tube
contextful
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From context + -ful.
Senses: antonyms: contextless
glosses: Having context.
elaichi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: elaichis
form: elachi
form: ilaichi
Etymology: From Hindustani الائچی / इलायची (ilāycī).
Senses: topics: cooking
food
lifestyle
glosses: cardamom
photooxidize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: photooxidizes
form: photooxidizing
form: photooxidized
form: photooxidized
Etymology: From photo- + oxidize.
Senses: glosses: To oxidize photochemically
Related terms: photooxidizable
photooxidation
photooxidizer
photooxidized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of photooxidize
photooxidizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of photooxidize
overpad
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: overpads
form: overpadding
form: overpadded
form: overpadded
Etymology: From over- + pad.
Senses: examples: text: Don't overpad your essay with irrelevant points.
glosses: To pad excessively; to fill with too much padding.
overpadded
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of overpad
overpads
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of overpad
overpadding
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of overpad
Wilson's lichen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: First reported in 1869 by Erasmus Wilson.
Senses: glosses: The disease lichen planus.
stump-water
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: She thought about how folks believed that if you ducked your head in oak stump water, your straight hair would grow out curly. She had always wanted to try it, but Ma forbade it, and besides, oak stump water stunk sour.
ref: 2004, Aileen Kilgore Henderson, Hard Times for Jake Smith, Chapter VI:
synonyms: spunk-water
glosses: Stagnant water from a hollow in a rotting tree stump.
glosses: Inferior beer or similar beverage.
spunk-water
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Regional variant of stump-water. Popularised by Mark Twain in The Adventures of Tom Sawyer.
Senses: examples: text: "Say — what is dead cats good for, Huck?"
"Good for? Cure warts with."
"No! Is that so? I know something that's better."
"I bet you don't. What is it?"
"Why, spunk-water."
"Spunk-water! I wouldn't give a dern for spunk-water."
"You wouldn't, wouldn't you? D'you ever try it?" ...
"Aha! Talk about trying to cure warts with spunk-water such a blame-fool way as that! Why, that ain't a-going to do any good. You got to go all by yourself, to the middle of the woods, where you know there's a spunk-water stump, and just as it's midnight you back up against the stump and jam your hand in and say..."
ref: 1876, Mark Twain, The adventures of Tom Sawyer, Chapter VI:
glosses: Alternative form of stump-water (“stagnant water from a hollow in a rotting tree stump”).
odd-eyed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: I refer to the occurrence of clear-legged and odd-eyed birds (a hazel and a pearl eye), in the Birmingham Muffed Tumbler broods from parent birds both muffed in legs, and with pearl or silver eyes, and vice versa— i.e., muffed-legged and silver-eyed brood from clear-legged and odd-eyed parentage.
ref: 1871, Journal of Horticulture and Practical Gardening - Volume 20, page 16:
text: Odd-eyed rats are more common in certain colors, but breeders are trying to develop them in all colors and varieties.
ref: 2011, Debbie Ducommum, Rats: Practical, Accurate Advice from the Expert, →ISBN:
text: Some Turkish Angoras are “odd-eyed.” This means one eye is gold and one is blue. In Turkey, odd-eyed cats are thought to be special cats.
ref: 2013, Kristin Petrie, Turkish Angora Cats, →ISBN, page 11:
glosses: Having heterochromia of the eyes.
examples: text: One eve, as at my window-panes I stood, Gray films of memory patched the dull gray view, Where thoughts, blithe-winged, meandered as they would, Like odd-eyed fairies that from childhood flew.
ref: 1903, Lionel Josaphare, The Humpback, the Cripple, and the One-eyed Man:
text: Giving Frank an odd-eyed glance, he says, “The other?
ref: 2011, Frank Bill, Crimes in Southern Indiana: Stories, →ISBN, page 119:
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see odd, eye.
unachievably
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From unachievable + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an unachievable way
Synonyms: unreachably
unattainably
put a gun to someone's head
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: puts a gun to someone's head
form: putting a gun to someone's head
form: put a gun to someone's head
form: put a gun to someone's head
form: hold a gun to someone's head
Senses: examples: text: Richard Rosenbaum had deferred to Mr. D'Amato in leading the Dole effort in the state, but Mr. D'Amato delayed organizing it until, as Westchester County legislator Tim Carey put it, "Dole put a gun to his head."
ref: 1988 February 28, “The Region: D'Amato Strays, Willfully, From New York Party Line”, in New York Times, retrieved 27 Nov 2018:
text: "[T]o say the industry hasn't changed is to ignore reality," Yerrid said. "Now, they changed because we put a gun to their head, not because they're nice people and wanted to change."
ref: 2004 September 23, Carol D. Leonnig, “Tobacco Industry Admits Mistakes”, in Washington Post, retrieved 27 Nov 2018:
text: "They have effectively put a gun to our head and said if we don't accept their proposal they will impose a more Draconian contract."
ref: 2007 December 21, Rebecca Smith, “Gordon Brown 'to force GPs to work evenings'”, in Telegraph, UK, retrieved 27 Nov 2018:
text: The prime minister . . . will be disappointed if he thinks he can put a gun to their heads to begin renegotiating Britain's EU membership and then dictate when it will end.
ref: 2013 January 6, Peter Mandelson, “Cameron's absurd behaviour over EU membership”, in Guardian, UK, retrieved 27 Nov 2018:
glosses: To compel someone (to do something); to create a situation in which someone has no alternative course of action.
BTTS
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: examples: text: The odds for BTTS are 1.8
qualifier: sports betting
glosses: Initialism of both teams to score.
hold a gun to someone's head
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: holds a gun to someone's head
form: holding a gun to someone's head
form: held a gun to someone's head
form: held a gun to someone's head
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of put a gun to someone's head.
polyflower
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From poly- + flower.
Senses: examples: text: Average quantities of 20,6; 18,1 and 11,5 mg iron/kg; 0,34; 0,20 and 0,14 mg copper/kg and 1,13; 0,86 mg zinc/kg were detected in manna honey, polyflower honey and acacia honey, respectivly.
ref: 1998, M Marinova, V Peneva, S Kuncheva, “Contents of heavy metals in bee honey”, in Veterinary Medicine:
text: Quality of three kinds of honey from acacia, chestnut and polyflower sources, was evaluated by physicochemical and GC-MS analysis in respect to some chemical composition.
ref: 1991, YG Lee, BU Min, SU Lim, “Comparative study on some quality-related components of different floral honeys -esp. on the contents of unsaturated higher fatty acids”, in Applied Biological Chemistry, volume 34, number 2, page 102:
glosses: Produced from multiple types of flower.
raw_tags: of honey
odd jobbing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of odd job
odd jobbed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of odd job
odd-job
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: odd-jobs
Senses: examples: text: 1902 – Left for Switzerland where he lived in poverty, doing only odd-jobs
ref: 2006, Mark Robson, Access to History: Italy: The Rise of Fascism 1915-1945, →ISBN:
text: After a couple of years he'd come back to Colorado and chilled out at the Scotts' place. He'd planned to stay a few weeks, maybe doing odd-jobs to earn his keep.
ref: 2011, Jenny Oldfield, Horses of Half Moon Ranch: Silver Spur, →ISBN:
text: Rosenblatt had spent eighteen months infiltrating the gang's infrastructure; starting at the lowest level, working odd-jobs for the street pushers Sol had worked his way up the organisation and had now secured a job working in the main drug factory on the south end of Hester Street, a building known as The Ballroom.
ref: 2013, Jack Goldstein, Jimmy Russell, 10 Amazing Slenderman Stories, →ISBN:
glosses: Alternative form of odd job.
examples: text: We had the logs delivered and an odd-job man carted them upstairs, but in the absence of a footman I had to make sure all the fires were lit and kept going in winter.
ref: 2012, Tom Quinn, They Also Serve: The real life story of my time in service as a butler, →ISBN:
text: On Jaffer's second day of joining this group of odd-job seekers, a man who came in his car and hired a fat man from the queue with a ladder and a bucket in his hand, to whitewash his house, also took Jaffer as an extra hand, at almost half the rate which the man was to be paid.
ref: 2014, Javaid Syed, Those Houses on the Ridge: Lone Suicide, →ISBN:
text: This makes it easier to understand why odd-job workers become the target every time the government “cleans up the city,” although they toil for the least pay and are subject to all kinds of injustices.
ref: 2016, Gregory Eliyu Guldin, Farewell to Peasant China, →ISBN:
glosses: Attributive form of odd job.
odd-job
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: odd-jobs
form: odd-jobbing
form: odd-jobbed
form: odd-jobbed
Senses: examples: text: Both boys and girls were expected to 'odd-job' to bring in extra funds.
ref: 2002, Lionel Rose, The Erosion of Childhood: Childhood in Britain 1860-1918, →ISBN:
text: Some of the actors were locals, others outsiders who odd-jobbed it while they performed.
ref: 2016, Harry Turtledove, Typecasting, →ISBN:
text: We were inseparable. Came down to London together, lived in a squat together, odd-jobbed together to pay our way while I was at art college and she studied to be an actuary.
ref: 2016, Sarah Lotz, Skin Deep, →ISBN:
glosses: To work by taking a variety of temporary jobs.
odd-jobs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of odd-job
odd-jobs
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of odd-job
odd-jobbing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of odd-job
odd-jobbed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of odd-job
oddjob
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: oddjobs
Senses: examples: text: This morning Lupo Sassone, the garbage collector and oddjob-man who lives next door, climbed out on to the parapet to make more acute the angle of the jut of the cicogna while the tramontana tore at him.
ref: 2004, Anthony Burgess, M/F, →ISBN:
glosses: Alternative form of odd job.
oddjob
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: oddjobs
form: oddjobbing
form: oddjobbed
form: oddjobbed
Senses: examples: text: I had oddjobbed my way into a dead end in less than three years.
ref: 2014, John Lawton, Sweet Sunday, →ISBN:
glosses: Alternative form of odd-job.
oddjobs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of oddjob
oddjobs
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of oddjob
oddjobbing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of oddjob
oddjobbed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of oddjob
old boyism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: old-boyism
Etymology: From old boy + -ism.
Senses: examples: text: And even amongst those who are of the bachelor persuasion, there are not a few honest trumps who never exhibit old boyism.
ref: 1866, Public Opinion - Volume 9, page 648:
text: I think whatever kind of a frying pan we may be in now with respect to oversight might turn into a fire of old boyism if Congress became the court of last resort on all of these grants.
ref: 1975, United States. Congress. House. Committee on Science and Technology. Subcommittee on Science, Research, and Technology, National Science Foundation Peer Review:
text: Plain old power, the way it is usually practiced in the traditionally male-dominated environment, is the stuff of old boyism.
ref: 1989, Sherry Suib Cohen, Tender Power: A Revolutionary Approach to Work and Intimacy, page 8:
glosses: The existence and use of old boy networks.
old-boyism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: And they serve it up with a powerful seasoning of old-boyism and arbitrary clique preference as between white males.
ref: 1995, Duncan Kennedy, Sexy Dressing Etc, →ISBN, page 45:
text: A recent president of the International Association of Police Chiefs, an organization regarded almost universally as a bastion of 'old-boyism,' was the female chief of police of Gaithersburg, Maryland.
ref: 2008, Margaret E. Beare, Honouring Social Justice, →ISBN:
text: The latter are characteristically few in number, and they reciprocate government old-boyism and good-old-boyism with heart-warmineg liberal donations to conservative causes — electoral and otherwise.
ref: 2014, Preston King, Socialism and the Common Good: New Fabian Essays, →ISBN, page 99:
glosses: Alternative form of old boyism.
old-clothesman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: old-clothesmen
Etymology: From old + clothes + -man.
Senses: examples: text: Having confessed their guilt, on Tuesday in Passion-week, La Hotte, his brother, the sergeant, the locksmith, a shearman, and an old-clothesman called Martin de Coulogne, were ordered to be hanged on the gibbet at Paris by sentence of the provost of Paris.
ref: 1853, The Chronicles of Enguerrand De Monstrelet, page 389:
text: If the old-clothesman is waiting for the student, the student is on the impecunious position, sold them back again to Jules.
ref: 1893, Henry Sutherland Edwards, “Chapter XXXVIII. Petty Trades.”, in Old and New Paris: Its History, Its People, and Its Places, volume 1, Cassell and Company, page 261:
text: At this moment the old-clothesman paused beneath the window, and putting his hand trumpet-wise to his mouth, shrilly declared his ability and willingness to purchase whatever cast-off garments those dwelling in the vicinity might desire to sell.
ref: 1902, Theodore Burt Sayre, Tom Moore: An Unhistorical Romance:
glosses: A dealer in used clothing.
glosses: A person who wears old, cast-off clothing.
old-clothesmen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of old-clothesman
old clothesman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: old clothesmen
Senses: examples: text: “And if he be an old clothesman,” replied Margery, “any trade is better than the idle useless life you are leading, Jack Barnes, which will soon leave you without clothes to wear -- as to his beard, perhaps ere you have one, you may be called to account for all your sinful doings."
ref: 1825, Charlotte Elizabeth, Zadoc, the outcast of Israel: a tale, page 5:
text: My first recollections of Old Clo' are entwined with the remembrance of a threat, very awful and terrifying to me then, of being imprisoned in the bag of an old clothesman, and forthwith conveyed away.
ref: 1852, Charles Dickens, Household Words - Volume 13, page 130:
text: The old, old clothesman is, I am sorry to say, becoming every day a swan of blacker hue.
ref: 1883, George Augustus Sala, Dutch Pictures: With Some Sketches in the Flemish Manner:
glosses: Alternative form of old-clothesman.
old clothesmen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of old clothesman
sunderable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more sunderable
form: most sunderable
Etymology: From sunder + -able.
Senses: examples: text: I have already argued that printed texts, no matter how widely disseminated, are never entirely sunderable from their origins.
ref: 2007, Trish Loughran, The Republic in Print, →ISBN:
text: The power that comes from Christ is a sunderable part of Christ. The sunderable part of Christ gives the erotic impulse to the human being.
ref: 2011, Samael Aun Weor, The Gnostic Bible: The Pistis Sophia Unveiled, →ISBN:
text: Recombination requires recognizing that what you had initially construed as a monolith is actually sunderable.
ref: 2014, Bennett E. McClellan, The Total Question Workout, →ISBN:
glosses: Able to be sundered; able to be split off.
rheumatize
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rheumatizes
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of rheumatiz.
Related terms: rheumatized
Tlazolteotl
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
glosses: An Aztec goddess of vice, filth etc. and of steam baths and purification.
livelodes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of livelode
dream trance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: An early subgenre of trance music typically based around melodies played on acoustic instruments and combined with electronic beats.
OELs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of OEL
fudgels
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of fudgel
Buddha bowl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Buddha bowls
Senses: glosses: A selection of vegetarian foods served in a bowl or high-rimmed plate for a single diner.
Buddha bowls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Buddha bowl
omento-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Senses: glosses: omentum
octadecanal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The aliphatic aldehyde that has 18 carbon atoms
oligoadenosine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From oligo- + adenosine.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: An oligomer of adenosine
oligoadenylation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: oligoadenylations
Etymology: From oligo- + adenylation.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The formation of an oligoadenylate
oligoanovulation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From oligo- + anovulation.
Senses: glosses: Infrequent or irregular anovulation
Related terms: oligoovulation
rosé sauce
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rosé sauces
Senses: glosses: A kind of tomato sauce made with cream.
oligodendromal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of oligodendrogliomal.