cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
chiasmal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to chiasma
glosses: Relating to chiasmus
Derived terms: prechiasmal
Related terms: parachiasmal
chiasmic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -æzmɪk
Senses: glosses: Relating to chiasma
glosses: Relating to chiasmus
Derived terms: heterochiasmic
postchiasmic
chickee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chickees
form: cheekee
form: chikee
Etymology: Borrowed from Mikasuki cheke.
Senses: glosses: A traditional open-sided dwelling built by the Native Americans of Florida.
chickees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chickee
chicon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chicons
Etymology: Borrowed from French chicon.
Senses: topics: cooking
food
lifestyle
glosses: An edible chicory bud.
chicons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chicon
chiefing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of chief
chiefed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of chief
chiefer
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: Perhaps there was yet another cause, chiefer than those above named, why Grisi came out with such determined vigour and renovated powers.
ref: 1847, The Musical World, volume 22, page 537:
glosses: comparative form of chief: more chief
TETS
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: TETS however, has the problems of fluctuation of coupling factor and load resistance. TETS must be controlled to ensure stable power transmission.
ref: 2006, Hidekazu Miura, Fumihiro Sato, Hidetoshi Matsuki, Tadakuni Sato, “Primary Power Factor Controlled Transcutaneous Energy Transmission System”, in Future Medical Engineering Based on Bionanotechnology, →ISBN:
text: The internal unit and TETS coil were implanted into subcutaneous space at the abdominal wall.
ref: 2007, Ryohei Saisho, Takuya Ohsugi, Masaya Watada, Yong-Jae Kim, Katsuhiro Ohuchi, Setsuo Takatani, Yong-su Um, “The re-design of Transformer portion in Transcutaneous Energy Transmission System for Left Ventricle Assist Device”, in World Congress of Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering 2006, →ISBN, page 3150:
text: A research team from the University of Pennsylvania tested the health effects of the TETS‐powered ventriculus sinister assistant device [63]. They implanted a 160 kHz max power 16.9W TETS system into a cow's body.
ref: 2016, Mary Mehrnoosh Eshaghian-Wilner, Wireless Computing in Medicine, →ISBN:
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Initialism of transcutaneous energy transmission system: an experimental subcutaneous device for generating current in heart patients.
examples: text: TETS binds noncompetitively and irreversibly to GABA receptors on neuronal cell membranes and blocks chloride channels.
ref: 2011, Gary Strange, William Ahrens, Robert Schafermeyer, Pediatric Emergency Medicine: Just the Facts, Second Edition, →ISBN:
text: We characterized TETS as an activator of spontaneous Ca2+ oscillations and electrical burst discharges in mouse hippocampal neruonal cultures at 1317 days in vitro using FLIPR Fluo-4 fluorescence measurements and extracellular microelectrode array recording.
ref: 2013, GABA Receptors—Advances in Research and Application, →ISBN:
text: And there is no proven antidote to TETS. Once ingested, the poison attacks the membranes of the neurone cells, causing death by convulsion in seconds.
ref: 2014, Charlie Charters, Bolt Action, →ISBN:
text: In his stomach and vomit the ME found traces of Tetramethylenedisulfotetramine, commonly known as TETS, or, in simplest terms, rat poison.
ref: 2016, Song Ying, Apricot's Revenge: A Crime Novel, →ISBN, page 158:
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Abbreviation of tetramethylenedisulfotetramine.
TETS
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: The driver had three hundred quid in his pocket when he died - he was going to put a deposit on a car for his daughter after his shift. That's not the action of a suicide. I suppose some good came out of it, with TETS.
ref: 2011, Christopher Fowler, Bryant and May Off the Rails, →ISBN, page 128:
text: The accident led to the introduction of TETS, or Trains Entering Terminal Stations (London Underground) or alternatively Moorgate Control (National Rail), named after the disaster and introduced on all dead-end terminal stations.
ref: 2015, Richard M. Jones, End of the Line - The Moorgate Disaster, →ISBN, page 166:
qualifier: railway
glosses: Initialism of Trains Entering Terminal Stations: a failsafe device for stopping trains that are entering a station at the end of a railway line.
TETs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of TET
soilsome
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more soilsome
form: most soilsome
Etymology: From soil + -some.
Senses: examples: text: It has got the notion into its paper head that Mr. G., not Mrs. G., is to set table at the White House, and that political pressure is putting its soilsome foot on his conscience to make a dent large enough to hold a bottle of wine.
ref: 1881, Potter's American Monthly, volume 16:
text: They muss our Monday washing up; on Tuesdays steal our tubs; a most distressful nuisance are these soilsome, spoilsome Blubs.
ref: 1918, St. Nicholas, Volume 45, Part 2:
text: She had shared his sheets, and, in nightmares of remorse, he had shared her body, waking with drastic regret, feeling as soiled and soilsome as the city itself.
ref: 1995, Barry Hannah, The Tennis Handsome:
glosses: Characterised or marked by soil; soiled
worm turns
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: examples: text: "The poor old Worm turns as if she was treading on him instead of cuddling him like a pussy cat."
ref: 1875, Louisa M[ay] Alcott, chapter 12, in Eight Cousins:
text: "I've waited on you hand and foot, done dirty work for you, put up with your ill-humours and your tyranny, and never grumbled. But there is a limit! You've made a poor sort of creature of me, but even the worm turns, you know."
ref: 1914, E. Phillips Oppenheim, chapter 22, in The Vanished Messenger:
text: However, the evidence to date in the new session indicates the worm may have turned. The government has become more seasoned and confident of its political skills.
ref: 1982 December 11, Frances Russell, “Economic performance buoys Pawley’s position”, in The Vancouver Sun (The Weekend Sun), Vancouver, BC, page A6:
text: "New Jersey used to be the armpit of the universe," Mr. Rockland said. "Well, the worm turns. And I think anything that's down so long eventually is going come up."
ref: 2002 April 21, Vicki Vasilopoulos, “Word's Out. New Jersey's In.”, in New York Times, retrieved 13 Dec 2016:
qualifier: usually preceded by the
glosses: Circumstances change so that a previously disadvantaged party gains the advantage, or vice-versa.
Related terms: english: proverb
translation: proverb
word: even a worm will turn
word: turnabout
word: turn the tables
worm has turned
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: present perfect of worm turns
magnetorquer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: magnetorquers
form: magnetic torquer
Etymology: Blend of magnet + torque + -er
Senses: glosses: A satellite system for attitude control, detumbling, and stabilization, built from electromagnetic coils.
magnetorquers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of magnetorquer
detumble
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: detumbles
form: detumbling
form: detumbled
form: detumbled
Etymology: From de- + tumble.
Senses: examples: text: The goal of the described control application is to detumble a satellite (reduce its kinetic energy) while achieving a desired orientation.
ref: 1995, Jose Mira, From Natural to Artificial Neural Computation, page 315:
topics: aerospace
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: To prevent tumbling or spinning of (a satellite, an astronaut, etc.).
detumbles
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of detumble
detumbling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of detumble
detumbled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of detumble
bicolpate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From bi- + colpate.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
palynology
physical-sciences
glosses: Having two grooves, or colpi, on each grain.
raw_tags: of a pollen
chinkie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chinkies
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of chinky.
chivariing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of chivari
chlamyses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chlamys
CNTs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of CNT
chokecoil
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chokecoils
Etymology: From choke + coil.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of choking coil.
synonyms: word: choking coil
chokecoils
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chokecoil
ecoservice
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ecoservices
form: eco-service
Etymology: From eco- + service.
Senses: glosses: An activity other than research and teaching assistantships that increases the public's environmental awareness.
examples: text: It also includes ecoservice grass clippings from marginal land where the biodiversity is threatened by an excess level of nutrients.
ref: 2013, L. Lange, Biomass combustion science, technology and engineering:
glosses: The benefits of nature to households, communities, and agriculture.
ecoservices
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ecoservice
eco-service
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: eco-services
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of ecoservice.
eco-services
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of eco-service
RNA expression profile
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: RNA expression profiles
Senses: topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: A diagram that shows the differing levels of gene expression of a particular gene / protein) in different parts of an organism
Synonyms: RNA expression pattern
RNA expression pattern
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: RNA expression patterns
Senses: glosses: Synonym of RNA expression profile.
synonyms: word: RNA expression profile
preaxial polydactyly
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: The presence of an additional thumb (or equivalent digit in animals)
Related terms: postaxial polydactyly
postaxial polydactyly
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: postaxial polydactylies
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: The presence of an additional little finger (or equivalent digit in animals)
Related terms: preaxial polydactyly
worriable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwʌɹi.əbl/
Forms: form: more worriable
form: most worriable
Senses: glosses: Capable of becoming worried.
GERP score
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: GERP scores
Senses: topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: A genomic evolutionary rate profiling score that measures the evolutionary conservation of a particular genetic sequence across a species.
enhancer RNA
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: enhancer RNAs
Senses: topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: A short form of non-coding RNA transcribed from an enhancer region of DNA
Synonyms: eRNA
eRNAs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of eRNA
enhancer RNAs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of enhancer RNA
premature optimizations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of premature optimization
letters of intent
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of letter of intent
matrix diagram
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: matrix diagrams
Senses: glosses: Any of several diagrams that show the correspondence between multiple parameters
topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: A triangular diagram that shows the pairwise correlation of gene expression in a specific condition
chromosome conformation capture
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chromosome conformation captures
Senses: topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: A set of molecular biology methods used to analyze the spatial organization of chromatin in a cell
structured illumination
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: The projection of a grid of lines onto a target in order to obtain information about its structure, typically by analysing the Fourier transform of the reflected light.
Derived terms: structured illumination microscopy
structured illumination microscopy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A form of microscopy that employs structured illumination to observe biological structures smaller than the wavelength of the light used
poly(ADP-ribosyl)ation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: polyation
form: poly(ADP-ribosyl)ations
form: poly ADP-ribosylation
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
genetics
medicine
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: The transfer of multiple ADP-ribose molecules to a target protein
Synonyms: parylation
ADP-ribose
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A phosphate ester of ribose and adenosine diphosphate
Synonyms: adenosine diphosphate ribose
RNA polymerase
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: RNA polymerases
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
genetics
medicine
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: An enzyme that is involved in the transcription of RNA.
TESS
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: The dedicated time Cheops spent observing the star helped astronomers iron out the mixed signals from the TESS data to determine how many planets were crossing in front of the star and the resonance of their orbits.
ref: 2023 November 29, Ashley Strickland, “Astronomers discover nearby six-planet solar system with ‘pristine configuration’”, in CNN:
glosses: Initialism of Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite, a planned space telescope for NASA's Explorers program.
Derived terms: sense: Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite
word: TOI
CHEOPS
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Cheops
Senses: glosses: Initialism of CHaracterising ExOPlanets Satellite, a planned European space telescope for the study of the formation of extrasolar planets.
run one's mouth off
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: runs one's mouth off
form: running one's mouth off
form: ran one's mouth off
form: run one's mouth off
Senses: examples: text: I ran my mouth off a bit too much, oh, what did I say? / Well, you just laughed it off, it was all okay
ref: 2004, Modest Mouse, “Float On”, in Good News for People Who Love Bad News:
glosses: Alternative form of run off at the mouth.
Related terms: talk someone's ear off
abamine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: abamines
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The compound methyl {[(2E)-3-(3,4-dimethoxyphenyl)prop-2-en-1-yl](4-fluorobenzyl)amino}acetate that inhibits epoxycarotenoid dioxygenase
epoxycarotenoid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: epoxycarotenoids
Etymology: From epoxy- + carotenoid.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any epoxy derivative of a carotenoid, especially one involved in the biosynthesis of abscisic acid
acetoamide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: acetoamides
Etymology: From aceto- + amide.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any aceto- derivative of an amide
Related terms: acetamide
acetoamides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of acetoamide
acetovanillone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From aceto- + vanillone.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of apocynin.
synonyms: word: apocynin
acetoxyalkene
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: acetoxyalkenes
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any acetoxy derivative of an alkene
acetoxyalkenes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of acetoxyalkene
acetoxycholesterol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: acetoxycholesterols
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any acetoxy derivative of cholesterol
acetoxyl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: acetoxyls
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The acetate group, CH₃COO-, when viewed as a substituent
acetoxylated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Modified by acetoxylation
Derived terms: deacetoxylated
acetoxylations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of acetoxylation
Leaver
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Leaver
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Leavers
form: leaver
Etymology: From leave + -er (ideological suffix).
Senses: topics: government
politics
glosses: Someone who supports Brexit, the United Kingdom's exit from the European Union.
Synonyms: Brexiter
Brexiteer
acetoxylating
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: That leads to acetoxylation
final frontier
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From the introductory voice-over of Star Trek: The Original Series: "Space, the final frontier..."
Senses: examples: text: Back to The Final Frontier
ref: 2012, Neil deGrasse Tyson, “Back to The Final Frontier”, in Discover:
text: Mars, Our First Outpost on the Final Frontier
ref: 2013, James Fallows, “Mars, Our First Outpost on the Final Frontier”, in The Atlantic:
text: With all the troubles here on planet Earth, it’s comforting that things are at least looking up for the Final Frontier.
ref: 2015, Glenn Harlan Reynolds, “Cashing in on the Final Frontier”, in USA Today:
text: Space, the 'final frontier', is rapidly becoming an extra-terrestrial battleground for corporate espionage and other types of cyber attack as hackers seek to gain commercial advantage from rival networks operating in the $330-billion space economy.
ref: 2015, “The final frontier for HACKERS: Experts reveal hi-tech extra-terrestrial cyberbattles to control surveillance satellites”, in The Daily Mail:
text: The final frontier: Israel signs agreement with UN space group
ref: 2015, “The final frontier: Israel signs agreement with UN space group"”, in The Times of Israel:
text: Hedge funds head for the final frontier
ref: 2016, Chris Carter, “Hedge funds head for the final frontier”, in MoneyWeek, archived from the original on 06 Nov 2016:
text: Space may be the final frontier and it’s starting to get awfully crowded.
ref: 2016, Phillip Swarts, “Need to know, 2016: Air Force Space Command on the final frontier”, in Air Force Times:
synonyms: word: high frontier
word: last frontier
word: outer space
glosses: Synonym of outer space.
wikipedia: Star Trek: The Original Series
acetylglucosaminyl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From acetyl + glucosaminyl.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any acetyl derivative of a glucosaminyl radical
Derived terms: acetylglucosaminylation
acetylglucosaminylglycopeptide
acetylkaempferol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: acetylkaempferols
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any acetyl derivative of kaempferol
acylazolium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: acylazoliums
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any acyl derivative of an azolium ion
azolium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: azoliums
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The cation formed by protonation of an azole
azoliums
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of azolium
deep states
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of deep state
Leavers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Leaver
athletize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: athletizes
form: athletizing
form: athletized
form: athletized
Senses: examples: text: You won't athletize without regular exercise.
text: I neither rode recklessly, flirted'desperately, carried clothes imperially, turned men's heads, broke their hearts, sang divinely, athletized, literatized, antagonized.
ref: 1895, Godey's Magazine - Volume 131, page 384:
text: We must remember that they are athletes, now athletes do not 'sleep': they are forever athletizing: awake or dreaming.
ref: 1991, Fidelis Odun Balogun, Tradition and Modernity in the African Short Story:
text: Glenn needed to use his strength- get verticle and jumpshoot- to out athletize Mullin, but only really did this once.
ref: 1996 November 15, Mac Brent Milleur, “Same script, different ending”, in alt.sports.basketball.nba.mil-bucks (Usenet):
glosses: To get athletic or act in an athletic way.
examples: text: Months of training finally athletized my skinny body.
text: To do this rightly, a certain and well-chosen series of exercises, calculated to athletize the Intellect, will require to be undertaken, and in its accomplishment certain qualities of thought will be elicited, produced, or won and nourished.
ref: 1859, The British Controversialist, and Literary Magazine, page 296:
text: But if woman is still to be regarded as the mother of our race, it's high time to ask if this over-athletized framework of bone and sinew, with its muscle-bound torso and its over-tensioned nerves and its stultified glands, is equipped for its final job.
ref: 1926, Arthur Stringer, Cristina and I:
text: Sometimes I think that disco and the red hot chili peppers ruined funk music by 1) forcing a great, raw & organic funky music into an electronic context, and 2) making every jock-rock idiot bass player think that funk is about athletizing music and slapping and popping a whole lot.
ref: 1999 January 6, colin odden, “A drummer that NO ONE can copy!”, in rec.music.makers.percussion (Usenet):
text: My apologies to Albert for de-athletizing him. Who am I to make such a decision?
ref: 2009 December 17, Jonathan P., “My apologies”, in pcclass (Usenet):
glosses: To make athletic.
certificant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: certificants
Senses: glosses: One who is (professionally or academically) certified, one who has received a certification.
athleticize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: athleticizes
form: athleticizing
form: athleticized
form: athleticized
Etymology: From athletic + -ize.
Senses: glosses: To make, or to become athletic
athleticizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of athleticize
athleticizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of athleticize
athleticized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of athleticize
umfundisi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Borrowed from Zulu umfundisi.
Senses: glosses: A teacher, priest, or missionary.
superscripting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of superscript
subscripting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of subscript
transumer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: transumers
Etymology: From transume + -er.
Senses: examples: text: Le Guin is a grand far-fetcher or transumer of the true tradition of romance we call literary fantasy.
ref: 1987, Harold Bloom, Ursula K. Le Guin's the left hand of darkness, page 10:
text: Of course, as much as he suggests that this offers a window into the intentions of the transumer, he is a good enough historian to recognize that this slide often happens "by pun, by misreading, by free association."
ref: 2003 Spring, Peter N. Miller, “Review: Antiquity and Its Interpreters”, in International Journal of the Classical Tradition, volume 9, number 4:
text: The idea that Milton's imitatio operates through a process of gathering and culling rather than one of sublimating and assimilating cuts against the grain of much recent criticism, which views Milton as the great concocter/transumer.
ref: 2004, David B. Goldstein, Recipes for authorship:
glosses: A writer who generates innovative and highly original ideas; a writer who transforms the genre in which they write.
transumer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: transumers
Etymology: Coined by Fitch (a global design and business consultancy firm) in 2003 as Blend of transient + consumer
Senses: examples: text: Of the IDZs, East London has received operating permits and the Johannesburg International Airport (JIA) and Richards Bay have been designated as IDZs. The JIA has a sectoral focus on its competitive advantage as a logistics hub as well as its "transumer" potential (for business travellers requiring tourism, consumer and corporate services), avionics and light industrial assembly of various appliances and goods for the SADC and other African markets (Rogerson, 2002).
ref: 2004, Goldstein Andrea, Development Centre Studies Regional Integration, FDI and Competitiveness in Southern Africa, →ISBN, page 29:
text: Now there are spas and massage stations as well as novel and innovative shopping opportunities in practically every large airport, train station or megahotel that caters to a crowd of “transumers” (consumers in transition), global travelers who increasingly live a transient lifestyle.
ref: 2009, Tracy L. Meerwarth, Julia C. Gluesing, Brigitte Jordan, NAPA Bulletin, Mobile Work, Mobile Lives, →ISBN:
text: It attempts to show that the contours of experimentation encompass both personal shifts (from passenger to transumer) and system transformations (the arrival of 'Airports 3.0').
ref: 2015, Anthony Elliott, Identity Troubles: An introduction, →ISBN:
text: What could you do with the transumer trend in your agency? What about a coffee cart where parents pick up their children from preschool or classes?
ref: 2015, Timothy S O'Connell, Brent Cuthbertson, Terilyn J. Goins, Leadership in Recreation and Leisure Services, →ISBN:
glosses: A consumer who makes purchases while travelling, such as at airports, train stations, hotels, etc.
examples: text: Transumers are ready to pay less to rent, lease, or borrow—all in the name of having new things. For example, transumers who become members of Bag Borrow or Steal pay a monthly fee and pick and order handbags, keeping them until they're ready to trade in for a new model.
ref: 2007, Paul Stinson, Top Careers in Two Years, →ISBN, page 66:
text: These requirements have evolved into a sophisticated and complex set of needs centered on achieving a depth and authenticity of experience, the transumer, no longer accepting materialistic, repetitive or staged tourist experiences.
ref: 2011, Luiz Moutinho, Strategic Management in Tourism, →ISBN:
text: Consistent with this profile, transumers are persons who are turning to transitory experiences as a means of liberating themselves from a lifestyle overwhelmed by the ownership of material goods - products that are rapidly out of date or obsolete, in need of maintenance and upgrades, and increasingly taking up large chunks of time, budgets, and physical space.
ref: 2015, Allan J. Kimmel, People and Products: Consumer Behavior and Product Design, →ISBN:
glosses: A consumer who has a preference for acquiring experiences or temporary goods over permanent possessions.
transumers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of transumer
Christkind
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From German Christkind.
Senses: glosses: A personification of the baby Jesus who, in German-speaking parts of Europe, takes the place of Santa Claus
Synonyms: Kris Kringle
investorship
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: investorships
Etymology: From investor + -ship.
Senses: examples: text: His investorship has been taken away by companies going private and there is no place to seek redress.
ref: 1977, Financial Executive, Volume 45:
glosses: The state or condition of being an investor.
investorships
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of investorship
straylight
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stray light
Etymology: From stray + light.
Senses: examples: text: Within the eye, there are four major sources that contribute to the total amount of straylight: the cornea, the iris and sclera, the eye lens, and the fundus (see Figure 3).
ref: 2010, Joseph Besharse, Reza Dana, Encyclopedia of the Eye, Volume 1:
glosses: Light in an optical system, which was not intended in the design.
acylhydroxyamino
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: acylhydroxyaminos
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any acyl derivative of a hydroxyamino radical
acylketene
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: acylketenes
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any acyl ketene
acylketenes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of acylketene
acyloxazolidinone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: acyloxazolidinones
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any acyl oxazolidinone
NGSTs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of NGST
acyloxazolidinones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of acyloxazolidinone
acyloxylation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: acyloxylations
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any reaction that adds an acyloxy group
acylphenol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: acylphenols
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any acyl derivative of a phenol
acylphenols
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of acylphenol
acylphloroglucinol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: acylphloroglucinols
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any acyl derivative of phloroglucinol
acylphloroglucinols
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of acylphloroglucinol
acylphosphine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: acylphosphines
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any acyl phosphine
acylphosphines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of acylphosphine
NICER
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Neutron Star Interior Composition Explorer, a future NASA Explorers program Mission of Opportunity.
space-borne
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of spaceborne.
Thanksgivukkah
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Thanksgivukah
Etymology: Blend of Thanksgiving + Hanukkah. Coined for 2013, when the first day of Hanukkah fell on Thanksgiving.
Senses: examples: text: We’re still 24 hours away from Thanksgiving 2012, but it’s never too early to start thinking of next year, right? Apparently not, at least, not for the folks behind Thanksgivukkah. You see, next year Thanksgiving falls on the first night of Hanukkah, and well, “Thanksgiving” + “Hanukkah” = “Thanksgivukkah”. Get it?
ref: 2012 November 21, Rafiss, “Well, This Exists: Thanksgivukkah”, in Heeb:
text: Thanksgiving and the first day of Hanukkah — the Jewish Festival of Lights — fall on the same day this year, creating what many celebrants have dubbed “Thanksgivukkah.” And it’s opened up a whole new world of culinary opportunities.
ref: 2013 October 21, Jim Romanoff, “Thanksgiving and Hanukkah — together at the table”, in Houston Chronicle:
text: The pairing of Thanksgiving and Hanukkah as Thanksgivukkah works so well, it raises the question among us daters -- why not pair up even more things in your life that can benefit you romantically?
ref: 2015, Mark Miller, 500 Dates: Dispatches from the Front Lines of the Online Dating Wars, →ISBN:
text: My mother requested that I make sufganiyot" -- Hanukkah jelly doughnuts -- "and did hear that some people are filling them with cranberry jam, which I think is a great idea for Thansgivukkah," Bialik chuckled.
ref: 2016, Vance Lehmkuhl, V for Veg: The Best of Philly’s Vegan Food Column, →ISBN:
text: This recipe is based on one of my contributions to Thanksgivukkah that has lived on past all of that jazz.
ref: 2016, Molly Yeh, Molly on the Range: Recipes and Stories from an Unlikely Life on a Farm, →ISBN:
glosses: A combined celebration of Thanksgiving and Hanukkah.
Thanksgivukah
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: Note that we've moved Shabbat this month to accommodate Thanksgivukah
ref: 2013 November 20, Neal, “Shabbat THIS Friday and a few changes... Please read this”, in Tk Pk Children's Minyan (Usenet):
text: Dear JYCA Friends, To say THANK YOU for all of your support, we are attaching a Thanksgivukah gift from us, to you.
ref: 2013 November 27, Talia Cooper, “[JYCA] Your Thanksgivukah Thank You Gift Enclosed”, in JYCAnews (Usenet):
text: ...a great Thanksgivukah that ended last night.
ref: 2013 December 6, We Give Thanks, “Thanks Thur, 12/5/13”, in wegivethanks (Usenet):
glosses: Alternative form of Thanksgivukkah.
thelony
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Latin telōnium, from Ancient Greek τελώνῐον (telṓnĭon, “custom house”), from τέλος (télos, “due, tax, toll”).
Senses: examples: text: As to thelony, it pleases us to exact old and just thelony from the merchants at bridges, and on ships and at markets. But let new or unjust thelony be not exacted where ropes are stretched or where ships pass under bridges, or in other similar cases in which no aid is lent to the travellers.
ref: 1835, M.G.H., Legum, Tome I, page 228:
text: If a small ship arrives at Billingsgate it will give one obole as thelony [custom]; If it is a long ship, or a barge, and if it stays there, one denarius as thelony. From a ship full of timber, one log as thelony. A freight ship gives thelony on three days a week, namely, Sunday, Tuesday, and Thursday.
ref: 2003, Mary Ellen Snodgrass, Coins and Currency: An Historical Encyclopedia, →ISBN:
text: Merchants, that is Jews – as well as other merchants, wherever they come from, from that country or from others – shall pay the just thelony [toll], both for their servants and their goods, as was always the case in the time of previous kings.
ref: 2011, Paul Kriwaczek, Yiddish Civilisation: The Rise and Fall of a Forgotten Nation, →ISBN:
text: This also I have added that if any Jew should at any time stay with them he shall pay no thelony [tolls].
ref: 2012, Maristella Botticini, Zvi Eckstein, The Chosen Few: How Education Shaped Jewish History, 70-1492, →ISBN, page 333:
glosses: A toll or custom required from travelling merchants as a tax on doing business.
bleddest
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: bled + -est
Senses: glosses: second-person singular simple past indicative of bleed
publishedst
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: second-person singular simple past indicative of publish
recordedst
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: second-person singular simple past indicative of record
murderedst
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: second-person singular simple past indicative of murder
killedst
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: second-person singular simple past indicative of kill
questionedst
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: second-person singular simple past indicative of question
lookedst
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: second-person singular simple past indicative of look
diedst
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: second-person singular simple past indicative of die
owedst
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: second-person singular simple past indicative of owe
dog bread
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dog-bread
form: dogbread
Senses: examples: text: Cornbread was on the table at each meal, but it was cooked in different ways: dog bread, milk bread, pone bread, fried bread, molasses bread, and clabber bread, which has a sour taste. The dog bread was put on the table each morning six days a week, cooked in a round cast-iron pan and cut like a pie to serve each person at the table.
ref: 1999, Mildred Council, Mama Dip's Kitchen:
text: Dog bread is just about the simplest way to consume cornmeal, short of simply parching it and eating it out of the hand. Served hot, with lots of butter, these crisp griddle cakes have a charm that can pair them well with sophisticated beef and pork roasts.
ref: 2009, Bill Neal, Bill Neal's Southern Cooking:
text: I guess the "dog bread" Miss Dora threw into the backyard was too great a treat to walk out on. She made it with hot water instead of milk and it was crusty and brown.
ref: 2009, Brenda Starks Miles, Summer Nights/Dixie Dog Delights: And Other Memories:
glosses: A variant of cornbread, sometimes made into patties and fried.
examples: text: A large quantity of the different kinds of damaged meal is annually baked in London into what is called dog-bread, for kennels, &c.
ref: 1810, William Dixon, An inquiry into the impolicy of the continuance of the prohibition of distillation from grain in Great-Britain:
text: Dog-bread, as Spratt's for instance, is convenient, but not good for regular use.
ref: 1884, Charles M. Green, The Friend of All: A Cyclopaedia of Practical Information for the Housekeeper, the Gardener, the Farmer, the Artisan, the Business Man, and the Young Folks:
text: Dog bread must be made from good wheat flour, of a medium sort, mixed with 15 or 16 per cent of sweet, dry chopped meat, well baked and dried like pilot bread or crackers.
ref: 1910, Gardner Dexter Hiscox, Henley's twentieth century book of recipes, formulas and processes, page 265:
text: The best things for dogs are meat — cooked, but a little raw meat at times does the dog good; hominy, dog bread, biscuits, bread, gravy, and in short everything you would eat yourself with the exception of potatoes and sweets. Do not eat dog bread yourself — you might grow a tail and bark.
ref: 1926 August 24, Boys' Life, page 57:
glosses: A bread made for dogs to consume; a dog biscuit.
suckedst
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: second-person singular simple past indicative of suck
dog-bread
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of dog bread.
contrivedst
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: second-person singular simple past indicative of contrive
smiledst
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: second-person singular simple past indicative of smile
dippedst
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: second-person singular simple past indicative of dip
synurban
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more synurban
form: most synurban
Etymology: From syn- + urban.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of synurbic.
synonyms: word: synurbic
synurbization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: biology
ecology
natural-sciences
glosses: The adaptation of an organism to live predominantly in an urban ecosystem
Related terms: synurban
synurbic
acylphosphonate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: acylphosphonates
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any acyl phosphonate
acylphosphonates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of acylphosphonate
acylphosphonite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: acylphosphonites
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any acyl phosphonite
acylphosphonites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of acylphosphonite
acylpyrazole
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: acylpyrazoles
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any acyl pyrazole
acylpyrazoles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of acylpyrazole
albanol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: albanols
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Either of two complex phenols isolated from the white mulberry Morus alba.
albanols
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of albanol
alkenoyl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The acyl radical of an alkenoic acid
alkenoylbenzamide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: alkenoylbenzamides
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any alkenoyl derivative of benzamide
alkenoylbenzamides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of alkenoylbenzamide
alkenoylcarbamate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: alkenoylcarbamates
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any alkenoyl carbamate
alkenoyloxazolidinone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: alkenoyloxazolidinones
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any alkenoyl oxazolidinone
alkenoyloxazolidinones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of alkenoyloxazolidinone
alkenylalane
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: alkenylalanes
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any alkenyl alane
alkenylalanes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of alkenylalane
alkenyloxindole
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: alkenyloxindoles
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any alkenyl oxindole
alkenyloxindoles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of alkenyloxindole
smugglesome
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more smugglesome
form: most smugglesome
Etymology: From smuggle + -some.
Senses: examples: text: "By the memory of George Washington you swear that you are not a smugglesome man?"
ref: 1905, George Vere Hobart, The Silly Syclopedia:
text: The sly old rascal might easily be deceiving his daughter for a second time with regard to his smugglesome traits.
ref: 1908, Edward Henry Peple, The Spitfire:
glosses: Characterised or marked by smuggling
teleiotic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more teleiotic
form: most teleiotic
Etymology: From Byzantine Ancient Greek τελειωτικός (teleiōtikós, “perfective, effective”), from Koine Greek τελειωτής (teleiōtḗs, “accomplisher, finisher”), from Ancient Greek τελειοῦν (teleioûn, “to perfect, to complete”).
Senses: examples: text: It seems therefore to imply, that the Mysteries of the Law were of the lower sort, Cathartic only, not Teleiotic.
ref: 1702, Henry Dodwell, Concerning Marriages in Different Communions:
text: […] I shall apply the term teleiotic homology to the results of the method of examining into the structures of organisms which I now recommend, and which, fixing definitely upon a primary teleiotic idea or law of development, examines them not only per se, but as constructed according to that law, in relation to each other, as parts of a harmonious whole […]
ref: 1860, Thomas Laycock, Mind and brain; or, The Correlations of consciousness and organisation, volume 2, page 183:
text: The foregoing considerations lead us to remark that it is a mistaken waste of power to attempt by education to assimilate any animal to man; for the true education of every animal is to realise the possibility of its particular type—fully to display the teleiotic idea which it embodies.
ref: 1863, “The Genesis of Mind”, in The Journal of Mental Science, volume 8, page 74:
text: The Neoplatonic exegesis of the two “complete” (teleiotic) dialogues that follow the basic cycle of ten—Timaeus and Parmenides—begins to answer this question.
ref: 2014, Danielle A. Layne, The Neoplatonic Socrates, page 103:
glosses: Complete, perfect.
hacksilver
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hacksilber
Etymology: Partial calque of German Hacksilber.
Senses: examples: text: Tenth-century hoards still consist mainly of coins from Central Asia, but with variable amounts of hacksilver. The latter consists of whole and cut coins, whole and broken ornaments and ingots (both of bar form and flat 'spills' of molten metal).
ref: 2001, The Early Slavs: Culture and Society in Early Medieval Eastern Europe:
text: The non-numismatic elements of Class 4 and 5 hoards, which for the purposes of this paper are dealt with together, comprise, respectively, finds containing hacksilver with complete ingots and/or ornaments and finds consisting exclusively of hacksilver.
ref: 2004, John Hines, editor, Land, Sea and Home: Proceedings of a Conference on Viking-period Settlement, at Cardiff, July 2001, page 186:
text: Hacksilver, for instance (silver plate cut up and circulated for its monetary value) is well-studied as a late antique phenomenon, and has most recently been the subject of a major new study associated with the re-publication of the Traprain Law treasure, a hoard of Late Roman hacksilver found at a hill-fort site in Scotland.
ref: 2015, Field Methods and Post-Excavation Techniques in Late Antique Archaeology:
glosses: Silver objects that have been cut up or otherwise defaced and circulated as currency, especially in archaeological contexts.
impactedness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From impacted + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: The usual feeling of impactedness was there.
ref: 2007, Nathaniel Mackey, Bass Cathedral:
glosses: The state or condition of being impacted.
Derived terms: information impactedness
Chancellor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Chancellors
Senses: examples: text: The other option – typified by the unapologetically noncharismatic leaders of Britain and Germany, Prime Minister Keir Starmer and Chancellor Friedrich Merz – has been to persuade the electorate they’ll work hard to deliver sustainable policy results on issues like immigration, and above all, economic growth, in a way that tub-thumping populists simply cannot.
ref: 2025 July 24, Ned Temko, “In Japan, too, voters want their country to be ‘great again’”, in The Christian Science Monitor, archived from the original on 27 Jul 2025:
glosses: An honorific for the head of state in various German-speaking states.
glosses: Ellipsis of Chancellor of the Exchequer.
Chancellor
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
glosses: A hamlet in Wheatland County, Alberta, Canada, named after the Chancellor of Germany by settlers.
glosses: A place in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Geneva County, Alabama.
glosses: A place in the United States:
A town in Turner County, South Dakota, named for Chancellor Otto von Bismarck.
glosses: A place in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Spotsylvania County, Virginia.
Chancellors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Chancellor