cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
glycosylphosphatidylinositol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: glycosylphosphatidylinositols
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A glycolipid, containing inositol as the sugar entity, that is involved in the posttranslational modification of protein
Synonyms: glycophosphatidylinositol
GPI
glycosynapse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: glycosynapses
Etymology: From glyco- + synapse.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: A molecular assembly that functions as a microdomain that mediates cell adhesion and signals transduction events that affect cellular phenotypes
microdomain
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: microdomains
Etymology: From micro- + domain.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Any of several small regions of a cell membrane that has a distinct structure and a distinct function
gehenna
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gehennas
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of Gehenna.
halothane
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈhæl.ə.θeɪn/
Forms: form: halothanes
Etymology: Blend of halogen + ethane.
Senses: examples: text: Hepatic injury due to halothane is well described and can be an indirect cause of encephalopathy.
ref: 1998, Thomas Markham Brown, Alan Stoudemire, Psychiatric Side Effects of Prescription and Over-the-Counter Medications:
topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: The halogenated hydrocarbon 2-bromo-2-chloro-1,1,1-trifluoroethane that is used as an inhalational general anaesthetic.
inhalational
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From inhalation + -al.
Senses: glosses: Administered as a gas or vapour that is inhaled
raw_tags: of an anesthetic
highwire
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: highwires
form: high wire
form: high-wire
Etymology: From high + wire.
Senses: antonyms: low wire
coordinate_terms: highline
glosses: A wire strung high above the ground which is used for acrobatic stunts.
Derived terms: word: high-wire
word: highwire walker
word: highwire walking
Related terms: tightrope
immunizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of immunize
immunizing
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more immunizing
form: most immunizing
Senses: glosses: That immunizes
immunoblotted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of immunoblot
immunoblotted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Produced by immunoblotting
immunocytochemical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From immuno- + cytochemical.
Senses: topics: immunology
medicine
sciences
glosses: Relating to immunocytochemistry
Derived terms: immunocytochemically
immunocytochemical
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: immunocytochemicals
Etymology: From immuno- + cytochemical.
Senses: glosses: Any chemical compound that is active in immunocytochemistry
immunocytochemistry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From immuno- + cytochemistry.
Senses: topics: chemistry
immunology
medicine
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: The field of study that encompasses immunochemistry and cytochemistry
Derived terms: cryoimmunocytochemistry
immunolabeled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of immunolabel
immunolabeled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more immunolabeled
form: most immunolabeled
Senses: glosses: Subjected to immunolabeling
immunolabeling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of immunolabel
immunolabeling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: immunolabelings
Senses: topics: immunology
medicine
sciences
glosses: A method of identifying antigens by using antibodies containing a fluorescent tag
Derived terms: cryoimmunolabeling
immunolabel
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: immunolabels
form: immunolabeling
form: immunolabelling
form: immunolabeled
form: immunolabeled
form: immunolabelled
form: immunolabelled
Etymology: From immuno- + label.
Senses: topics: immunology
medicine
sciences
glosses: To analyze antigens by using immunolabeling
Synonyms: immunotag
Derived terms: coimmunolabel
immunoreactivity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: immunoreactivities
Etymology: From immuno- + reactivity.
Senses: glosses: A measure of the immune reaction caused by an antigen.
Derived terms: coimmunoreactivity
radioimmunoreactivity
immune reaction
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: immune reactions
Senses: glosses: All the changes in a tissue that result from the action of a foreign substance introduced into an organism
Synonyms: immunoreaction
truckler
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: trucklers
Etymology: From truckle + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who truckles.
immunostaining
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: immunostainings
Etymology: From immuno- + staining.
Senses: topics: immunology
medicine
sciences
glosses: Any of several staining techniques that are used to detect specific proteins.
topics: immunology
medicine
sciences
glosses: An application of any such technique.
Derived terms: coimmunostaining
improvision
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɪm.pɹəˈvɪʒ.ən/
Forms: form: improvisions
Etymology: From im- + provision.
Senses: examples: text: there would be a main defect, and her improvision justly accusable, if such a feeding animal […] should want a proper conveyance for choler, or have no other receptacle for that humour than the veins and general mass of blood.
ref: 1646, Sir Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica, III.2:
glosses: the lack of provision, a failure to provide something
improvision
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɪm.pɹəˈvɪʒ.ən/
Forms: form: improvisions
Etymology: From improvise + -ion.
Senses: examples: text: A similar improvision, a modification of the device used to measure the planar ways (photo 8), makes several measurements at once.
ref: 1948 October, Alexander Maxwell, “Gauges—the Guide to Perfection”, in Popular Mechanics, volume 90, number 4, Hearst Magazines, →ISSN, page 250:
text: It was a revolution grounded in exoterics, which may account in some part for the general air of naivety and improvision which surrounds it.
ref: 1987, John Davis, “The Libyan Contribution”, in Libyan Politics: Tribe and Revolution: An Account of the Zuwaya and their Government, University of California Press, published 1988, →ISBN, page 248:
text: There are two general conceptions of improvision. The first, commonly applied is of a rather romantic woolly kind. It suggests that anything can happen in improvisation.
ref: 1991, Martine Millon, Oliver Ortolanai, quoting Yoshi Oida, “Energy and the Ensemble: Actors' Perspectives”, in David Williams, editor, Peter Brook and the Mahabharata: Critical Perspectives, Part II Practitioners' accounts, Taylor & Francis, →ISBN, page 108:
text: Tonal centring: Providing a tonal centre, scale, or harmonic ground as a base for the client's improvision
ref: 2005, Daniel Gilbert Perret, Roots of Musicality: Music Therapy and Personal Development, Jessica Kingsley Publishers, →ISBN, Appendix 7: Improvisation Techniques in Music Therapy, page 177:
glosses: the act of improvising, or something improvised; improvisation
internodal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From inter- + nodal.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to an internode.
glosses: Situated or acting between nodes.
with flying colours
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of with flying colors.
trudger
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: trudgers
Etymology: From trudge + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who trudges.
intramembranous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɛmbɹənəs
Etymology: From intra- + membranous.
Senses: glosses: within a membrane
iodoacetamide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: iodoacetamides
Etymology: From iodo- + acetamide.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The halogenated derivative of acetamide, CH₂I-CO-NH₂, that is used, in peptide mapping, to bind to cysteine
A440
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A 440 Hertz musical pitch, which serves as the tuning standard for the note A above middle C in concert pitch.
Related terms: A415
junctional
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From junction + -al.
Senses: glosses: Of, pertaining to, situated at, or operating at a junction
Derived terms: extrajunctional
interjunctional
junctionally
multijunctional
nonjunctional
parajunctional
perijunctional
postjunctional
prejunctional
transjunctional
leupeptin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: leupeptins
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: A protease inhibitor that also inhibits calpain
calpain
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: calpains
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of a family of enzymes that regulate calcium in the body.
lysate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lysates
Etymology: From lyse + -ate (noun-forming suffix).
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: All the material formed by the lysis of cells.
Derived terms: cytolysate
homolysate
Related terms: autolysate
dialysate
hemolysate
lysable
monolayer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: monolayers
Etymology: From mono- + layer.
Senses: examples: text: Recently a stable monolayer of antimony in buckled honeycomb structure called antimonene was successfully grown on 3D topological insulator Bi#95;2Te#95;3 and Sb#95;2Te#95;3, which displays semiconducting properties.
ref: 2016, Yuanfeng Xu, Bo Peng, Hao Zhang, Hezhu Shao, Rongjun Zhang, Hongliang Lu, David Wei Zhang, Heyuan Zhu, “First-principle calculations of phononic, electronic and optical properties of monolayer arsenene and antimonene allotropes”, in arXiv:
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A layer of material that is one molecule thick
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: A layer of tissue that is one cell thick
Derived terms: heteromonolayer
intermonolayer
monolayerlike
submonolayer
transmonolayer
mucin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmjuːsɪn/
Forms: form: mucins
Etymology: From muc- + -in.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of several glycoproteins found in mucus
Derived terms: apomucin
endomucin
mucigen
mucinlike
mucinoid
mucinolysis
mucinolytic
mucinosis
mucinous
ovomucin
pseudomucin
pseudomucinous
sialomucin
sulfomucin
sulphomucin
myelinating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /maɪ(j)əlɪneɪtɪŋ/
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of myelinate
myelinating
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /maɪ(j)əlɪneɪtɪŋ/
Senses: glosses: That promotes, or is involved in, myelination
Derived terms: hypomyelinating
nonmyelinating
premyelinating
promyelinating
remyelinating
unmyelinating
myelination
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: myelinations
Etymology: From myelin + -ation.
Senses: glosses: The production of a coating of myelin around an axon
Synonyms: myelinization
Derived terms: amyelination
demyelination
dysmyelination
hypermyelination
hypomyelination
premyelination
promyelination
undermyelination
myelinogenesis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From myelin + -o- + -genesis.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: The process of forming myelin throughout the nervous system
Derived terms: dysmyelinogenesis
hypomyelinogenesis
neuregulin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: neuregulins
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of a family of proteins that have functions in the development of the nervous system.
truckle bed
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: truckle beds
form: truckle-bed
Etymology: From truckle + bed.
Senses: examples: text: Romeo, good night: I'll to my truckle-bed; This field-bed is too cold for me to sleep:
ref: c. 1591–1595 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Romeo and Ivliet”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene i]:
text: When a truckle-bed with a sick man (some invalided agent from upcountry) was put in there, he exhibited a gentle annoyance.
ref: 1899 February, Joseph Conrad, “The Heart of Darkness”, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume CLXV, number M, New York, N.Y.: The Leonard Scott Publishing Company, […], →OCLC, part I, page 208:
glosses: Synonym of trundle bed.
synonyms: word: trundle bed
neurexin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: neurexins
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of a family of proteins found in nerve tissue
veterinary hospital
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: veterinary hospitals
Senses: glosses: A hospital facility designed to treat animals.
neurofascin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: neurofascins
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of a family of proteins involved in cell adhesion.
deffered
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of deferred.
oligodendroglial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From oligodendroglia + -al.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to the oligodendroglia
ornithine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ornithines
Etymology: Blend of ornith- + (ur)ine.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: An amino acid, 2,5-diaminopentanoic acid, that is not present in protein, but is an intermediate in the biosynthesis of urea.
Derived terms: acetylornithine
hyperornithinemia
hypoornithinemia
ornithine carbamoyltransferase
ornithine cycle
ornithine transcarbamylase
ornithine transcarbamylase deficiency
polyornithine
palmitoylated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of palmitoylate
palmitoylated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more palmitoylated
form: most palmitoylated
Senses: glosses: Reacted with a fatty acid (especially with palmitic acid)
raw_tags: of a protein
Derived terms: monopalmitoylated
nonpalmitoylated
repalmitoylated
tetrapalmitoylated
tripalmitoylated
unpalmitoylated
palmitoylate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: palmitoylates
form: palmitoylating
form: palmitoylated
form: palmitoylated
Etymology: From palmitoyl + -ate (verb-forming suffix).
Senses: glosses: To (cause to) undergo palmitoylation
Derived terms: depalmitoylate
Related terms: bipalmitoylate
palmitoylatable
palmitoylation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: palmitoylations
Etymology: From palmitoyl + -ation.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: modification by reaction with a palmitoyl group
topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The reaction of a membrane protein with a fatty acid (especially palmitic acid) via the sulfur atom of a cysteine amino acid
Derived terms: bipalmitoylation
hyperpalmitoylation
hypopalmitoylation
paraformaldehyde
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: paraformaldehydes
Etymology: From para- + formaldehyde.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
synonyms: paraform
triformol
glosses: A solid oligomer of formaldehyde that is used as a fumigant, and as a fixative in histology
paranodin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A transmembrane neuronal glycoprotein that has a role in cell adhesion
phenylmethylsulfonyl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: phenylmethanesulfonyl
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The univalent radical formed by the attachment of a sulfonyl group to methylbenzene (toluene)
Synonyms: tosyl
Derived terms: phenylmethylsulfonyl chloride
phenylmethylsulfonyl fluoride
tosyl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tosyls
Etymology: From toluene + sulfonyl.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: toluenesulfonyl, phenylmethylsulfonyl
wikipedia: tosyl
Synonyms: english: strictly p-tosyl
translation: strictly p-tosyl
word: ptosyl
Derived terms: ditosyl
tosylamide
tosylate
tosylation
tosylimine
phosphodiesterase
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: phosphodiesterases
Etymology: From phosphodiester + -ase.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of a family of enzymes that catalyze the cleavage of phosphodiester links in nucleic acids.
Derived terms: alkylglycerophosphoethanolamine phosphodiesterase
ectophosphodiesterase
postfixation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: postfixations
Etymology: From post- + fixation.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: A secondary fixation of a histological sample, often using osmium tetroxide to fixate lipids.
postfixed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of postfix
postfixed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more postfixed
form: most postfixed
Senses: glosses: Subjected to postfixation
chalcid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈkælsɪd/
Forms: form: chalcids
Etymology: From New Latin genus name Chalcis, from Ancient Greek Χαλκίς, from χαλκός ("copper", "bronze"), because wasps of that genus have metallic colors on their exoskeletons.
Senses: synonyms: chalcid wasp
chalcidoid
glosses: Any of many small wasps of the superfamily Chalcidoidea, most of which are parasitoids of other insects.
Derived terms: chalcidology
Related terms: english: and its derivatives
translation: and its derivatives
word: chalco-
palladia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of palladium
full as a goog
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: See Australian slang goog (“egg”).
Senses: examples: text: ‘I′m full as a goog, Mr Goldberg. Couldn′t manage another crumb.’
ref: 1998, Bryce Courtenay, Jessica, unnumbered page:
text: After a while I sat back and breathed a heavy sigh. “I am full as a goog!”
ref: 2003, Michael Michalak, A Voice from the Ashes: A Tribute to Elaine, page 74:
text: ‘Don't worry this one′s as full as a goog. It won′t get far,’ Dig yelled, watching the albatross struggle to keep itself aloft.
ref: 2007, James Woodford, Whitecap, page 39:
qualifier: simile
glosses: Having eaten too much.
examples: text: “Well, old Foll was in that bar, as full as a goog.” Mr Jennings leered with the delight that seeing old Foll full as a goog had brought him.
ref: 1974, Brian James., The Advancement of Spencer Button, page 95:
text: Amos′s grin widened, “You mean the man was drunk?”
Mathewson laughed out loud, “He was full as a goog but you said it, laddie, I din′t!”
ref: 2005, Clara M. Miller, The Eye of the Storm, page 147:
text: Jack′s as full as a goog and near the Town Hall he spews up his lunch. (Of course, neither of them today has any idea that Jack will one day be Premier of New South Wales.)
ref: 2007, Pip Wilson, Faces in the Street: Louisa and Henry Lawson and the Castlereagh Street Push, page 167:
glosses: Very drunk.
Synonyms: engorged
full as a tick
stuffed
chalcidology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From chalcid + -ology.
Senses: examples: text: The major milestone in Nearctic chalcidology during the latter half of the 20th century is perhaps the catalog by Peck
ref: 1997 — Gibson et al. Annotated Keys to the Genera of Nearctic Chalcidoidea (Hymenoptera) (NRC Research Press)
text: The publication of this CD-ROM catalogue marks an important step in the history of chalcidology.
ref: 1999 — Systematic Entomolgy (1999) 24, 301-304
text: This paper is dedicated to the doyen of chalcidology, Zdenek Bouček, in the year of his 81st birthday.
ref: 2005, Simon van Noort, Jean-Yves Rasplus, Revision of the Papua New Guinean fig wasp genus Robertsia Bouček (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea: Pteromalidae: Sycoecinae):
glosses: The study of chalcid wasps.
Eugenia
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /juːˈd͡ʒiːniə/
/juːˈd͡ʒɛniə/
Etymology: From Ancient Greek Εὐγενία (Eugenía), feminine form of Εὐγένιος (Eugénios) ( =Eugene) "well born".
Senses: glosses: A female given name from Ancient Greek. Variant: Eugenie.
topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: 45 Eugenia, a main belt asteroid.
Synonyms: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
word: 45 Eugenia
topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
word: ㊺
Related terms: Eugenie
Eugenie
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: note: variously
ipa: /juːˈdʒiːni/
ipa: /juːˈʒiːni/
ipa: /juːˈʒeɪni/
Senses: examples: text: The name agreed upon the child was Eugenie Victoria, but that afternoon Melanie unwittingly bestowed a name that clung, even as "Pittypat" had blotted out all memory of Sarah Jane. — And Bonnie she became until even her parents did not recall that she had been named for two queens.
ref: 1936 June 30, Margaret Mitchell, Gone with the Wind, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company, →OCLC; republished New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company, 1944, →OCLC:
glosses: A female given name from Ancient Greek, variant of Eugenia via French Eugénie.
Derived terms: word: Genie
Senni
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A short river in Powys, Wales, which joins the River Usk at Sennybridge.
Derived terms: Sennybridge
free-range
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: We've imbued "natural food" with such virtuous connotations that meat supposedly raised according to the law of nature is, ipso facto, thought to be an ethically worthwhile choice. It's on this basis, I believe, that many morally concerned meat eaters justify purchasing meat from small, free-range animal farms.
ref: 2011 April 8, James McWilliams, “An Inconvenient Truth: Free-Range Meat Isn't 'Natural'”, in The Atlantic:
glosses: Of, pertaining to, or produced by animals that are allowed to roam freely, rather than being confined indoors.
examples: text: free-range children
text: While I have not found corroboration for King's claim, Ivy and Bean series author Annie Barrows has acknowledged that there is a delicate balancing act involved in representing free-range children today
ref: 2015, Jennifer Miskec, Annette Wannamaker, The Early Reader in Children’s Literature and Culture, →ISBN:
glosses: Allowed to move about outdoors without supervision.
raw_tags: of children
examples: text: free-range parents
text: To correct helicopter parenting, critics have proposed slow parenting, simplicity parenting, and free-range parenting.
ref: 2019, Gayle Kimball, How Global Youth Values Will Change Our Future, page 95:
text: I think they would laugh if someone asked them whether I was a loose, free-range parent — or my husband, Jesse, for that matter. No, we’re pretty organized and pretty intense.
ref: 2025 October 16, Ross Douthat, quoting Amy Coney Barrett, “Amy Coney Barrett Is Looking Beyond the Trump Era”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC:
glosses: Relating to a hands-off parenting style in which children are allowed to go out and explore alone.
Related terms: helicopter parent
preincubation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: preincubations
Etymology: From pre- + incubation.
Senses: glosses: incubation prior to some other treatment or process
Aline
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from French Aline.
Senses: glosses: A female given name from French.
glosses: A ghost town in Idaho.
glosses: A small town in Oklahoma.
Related terms: Alina
premyelinating
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pre- + myelinating.
Senses: glosses: That has not yet been involved in myelination
Derived terms: premyelinating oligodendrocyte
footle around
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: footles around
form: footling around
form: footled around
form: footled around
Senses: glosses: To pass time doing unimportant things; to mess around.
Synonyms: footle about
mess around
mess about
proteolipid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: proteolipids
Etymology: From proteo- + lipid.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any lipoprotein that is soluble in lipids
Derived terms: proteolipidic
footle about
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: footles about
form: footling about
form: footled about
form: footled about
Senses: glosses: To pass time doing unimportant things; to mess around.
Synonyms: footle around
mess around
mess about
resuspended
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of resuspend
resuspended
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Subject to resuspension.
resuspend
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: resuspends
form: resuspending
form: resuspended
form: resuspended
Etymology: From re- + suspend.
Senses: examples: text: Jolyon Maugham QC […] argued that since the government had not applied to delay the effect of the ruling, parliament is no longer suspended. If the government wants to delay prorogation further, he maintained, ministers would have to make a fresh application at a UK court immediately to resuspend parliamentary sittings.
ref: 2019 September 11, Owen Bowcott, Severin Carrell, “Scottish court ruling: what happens next in prorogation dispute?”, in The Guardian:
glosses: To suspend again.
topics: biology
chemistry
ecology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: To undergo (or cause to undergo) resuspension.
septate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From septum + -ate (adjective-forming suffix).
Senses: examples: text: Ascodesmis is a third type which might be derived either directly or through the erysiphaceous type from an endomycetous ancestor; the antheridium and oogonium are but little differentiated, but the latter is furnished with a trichogyne and becomes septate after fertilization; the ascogenous hyphae are few and the sheath simple.
ref: 2010, Helen Gwynne-Vaughan, Fungi: Ascomycetes, Ustilaginales, Uredinales, page 54:
glosses: Of, pertaining to, or divided by a septum.
Derived terms: aseptate
biseptate
dictyoseptate
distoseptate
multiseptate
nonseptate
quadriseptate
quinqueseptate
uniseptate
septate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: septates
form: septating
form: septated
form: septated
Etymology: From septum + -ate (verb-forming suffix) or back-formation from septation.
Senses: glosses: To form a septation.
spectrin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spectrins
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A contractile protein found on the surface of the membranes of blood cells
Related terms: spectrinopathy
subcellular
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From sub- + cellular.
Senses: glosses: Smaller than a normal cell.
glosses: Relating to objects or processes that involve parts of a cell.
Derived terms: subcellularly
subpopulation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: subpopulations
Etymology: From sub- + population.
Senses: examples: text: Holonyms: population < general population
text: Meronym: subsubpopulation
text: Thus, leucine is already being seen as a pharmaconutrient of great relevance for the supplementary feeding of malnourished and frail elderly and for specific subpopulations.
ref: 2015 October 15, “Buffalo Cheese Whey Proteins, Identification of a 24 kDa Protein and Characterization of Their Hydrolysates: In Vitro Gastrointestinal Digestion”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
text: Last year, the situation was further complicated with the discovery of what appears to be a 20th isolated subpopulation in Greenland that has adapted to use ice from glaciers to aid hunting.
ref: 2023 August 30, Patrick Greenfield, “Why it may be time to stop using the polar bear as a symbol of the climate crisis”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
glosses: A subdivision of a population.
sulfoglycolipid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sulfoglycolipids
Etymology: From sulfo- + glycolipid.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of several glycolipids that contain sulfate groups
Related terms: seminolipid
sulfatide
footle away
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: footles away
form: footling away
form: footled away
form: footled away
Senses: examples: text: You've just footled away twenty minutes!
glosses: To waste (time).
Synonyms: english: which, however, is intransitive
translation: which, however, is intransitive
word: footle about
seminolipid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: seminolipids
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of a family of sulfoglycolipids found in mammalian testes
foot passenger
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: foot passengers
Senses: examples: text: As a user, my feeling is that Wightlink has little interest in foot passengers.
ref: 2020 December 2, Barry Doe, “National Rail Timetable changes and reductions”, in Rail, page 72:
glosses: A passenger on a ferry who does not have a car, or any other form of transport, with them.
sulfotransferase
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sulfotransferases
Etymology: From sulfo- + transferase.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any transferase enzyme that catalyses the transfer of sulfate groups
telencephala
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of telencephalon
telencephalon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˌtɛlənˈsɛfələn/
/ˌtɛlənˈsɛfəlɒn/
Forms: form: telencephalons
form: telencephala
Etymology: From tele-, prevocalic form of teleo- + encephalon.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
neuroanatomy
neurology
neuroscience
sciences
glosses: The anterior part of the forebrain; the endbrain.
Synonyms: word: cerebrum
word: endbrain
word: telencephalon
Meronyms: word: cerebral hemisphere
word: cerebral cortex
word: frontal lobe
word: temporal lobe
word: parietal lobe
word: occipital lobe
Aurelia
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Aurelias
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin Aurēlia, the feminine form of the Roman gens name Aurēlius, from aureus (“golden”).
Senses: glosses: A female given name from Latin.
Derived terms: word: Aura
word: Auralee
word: Aura Lee
word: Aura-Lee
word: Ora
word: Ora-Lee
word: Ora Lee
word: Oralee
tetraspan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tetraspans
Etymology: From tetra- + span.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of a family of membrane glycoproteins whose multimolecular complexes have four transmembrane domains
thermodynamically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From thermodynamic + -ally.
Senses: examples: text: The byproduct of the lifestyle, is polluted rivers, greenhouse effect, spouse abuse, televangelists, and serial killers. But as long as you have that four-wheel-drive vehicle and can keep driving north, you can sustain it, keep moving just quickly enough to stay one step ahead of your own waste stream. In twenty years, ten million white people will converge on the north pole and park their bagos there. The low-grade waste heat of their thermodynamically intense lifestyle will turn the crystalline icescape pliable and treacherous. It will melt a hole through the polar icecap, and all that metal will sink to the bottom, sucking the biomass down with it.
ref: 1992, Neal Stephenson, Snow Crash, page 274:
glosses: With regard to thermodynamics.
footplate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: footplates
Etymology: From foot + plate.
Senses: examples: text: Unlike the earlier standard designs, in which the whole of the footplate was on the engine, fall plates are re-introduced and these are hinged from the front of the tender to rest on the rearward extension of the cab floor.
ref: 1954 March, “New Class "9" 2-10-0 Locomotives”, in Railway Magazine, page 166:
text: All the same, nearly eight hours on the footplate covering a distance of 320 miles, with an ambient temperature of up to 103° for much of the time, proved an ordeal which I would not lightly undertake again.
ref: 1960 October, P. Ransome-Wallis, “Modern motive power of the German Federal Railway: Part Two”, in Trains Illustrated, page 611:
text: After a while we left the engine, but not before André had examined the 4-6-4 very carefully, with hammer and torch, both outside and underneath. And that was the end of my footplate work on this particular weekend.
ref: 1961 March, 'Balmore', “Driving and firing modern French steam locomotives”, in Trains Illustrated, page 148:
text: This uncoupling done, Gimbert opened the regulator as Nightall climbed back onto the footplate, in order to pull the one burning wagon away from the rest of the bomb-laden train.
ref: 2022 January 12, Benedict le Vay, “The heroes of Soham...”, in RAIL, number 948, page 42:
topics: rail-transport
railways
transport
glosses: The metal plate which forms the base platform of a steam locomotive and supports the boiler and the driver's cab, particularly in the United Kingdom.
examples: text: Kit had fallen into conversation with a footplate man who was deadheading back out to Samarkand, where he lived with his wife and children.
ref: 2006, Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day, Vintage, published 2007, page 845:
glosses: The engineer's cab in any kind of train.
examples: text: The footplate of the stapes develops and ossifies in conjunction with the otic capsule and thus takes its origin from the otic placode in the embryo.
ref: 2008, Michael Valente, Holly Hosford-Dunn, Ross J. Roeser, Audiology Treatment, page 218:
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: The flat portion at the base of the stapes; pedicel.
glosses: The part of a roller skate that attaches to the boot.
topics: business
construction
manufacturing
glosses: A timber in a wood frame that distributes a concentrated load.
topics: automotive
transport
vehicles
glosses: A platform on which the driver's foot rests but which, unlike a pedal, has no effect.
Derived terms: footplateman
footplate man
footplate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: footplates
form: footplating
form: footplated
form: footplated
Etymology: From foot + plate.
Senses: examples: text: Hard work is required from men and machines as I was to experience later when footplating Lambton No 5 on five bogies battling its way up Newtondale.
ref: 1979 August, Michael Harris, “A line for all reasons: the North Yorkshire Moors Railway”, in Railway World, page 415:
topics: rail-transport
railways
transport
glosses: To travel (or work) on the footplate of a locomotive.
thyronine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: thyronines
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A phenolic amino acid that occurs naturally only in the iodinated form of thyroxine
triiodo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From tri- + iodo-.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Three iodine atoms in a molecule.
tribromo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From tri- + bromo.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: (in combination) Three bromine atoms in a molecule.
trifluoro
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Three fluorine atoms in a molecule.
footplate man
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: footplate men
Senses: examples: text: The circular attacks the policy of ASLEF, the principal footplatemen's union, for its opposition to pay differentials between main-line drivers and other footplate men, claiming that it destroys ambition and enterprise.
ref: 1964 May, “News and Comment: Breakaway footplate union”, in Modern Railways, page 293:
text: Kit had fallen into conversation with a footplate man who was deadheading back out to Samarkand, where he lived with his wife and children.
ref: 2006, Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day, Vintage, published 2007, page 845:
glosses: Alternative spelling of footplateman.
unclustered
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + clustered.
Senses: glosses: Not clustered.
vortexing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From vortex + -ing.
Senses: glosses: The formation of a vortex.
foot rot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: foot rots
Senses: glosses: A common infection of the hoof of animals such as cattle, sheep and goat caused by two species of anaerobic bacteria, Fusobacterium necrophorum and Bacteroides melaninogenicus; infectious pododermatitis.
glosses: A disease of citrus plants, caused by a fungus of species Gibberella baccata.
glosses: Athlete's foot.
footslogger
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: footsloggers
form: foot-slogger
Etymology: From foot + slogger.
Senses: glosses: A foot soldier; one who footslogs.
dicarboxylate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dicarboxylates
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any salt or ester of a dicarboxylic acid, but especially any of such compounds (such as glutamates) that have biological activity
Derived terms: azodicarboxylate
oxodicarboxylate
-ridden
Language: English
Part of speech: suffix
Pronunciation: /ˈɹɪdən/
[ˈɹɪdn̩]
Etymology: Back-formation from bedridden.
Senses: examples: text: crime + -ridden → crime-ridden
text: bug + -ridden → bug-ridden
glosses: Figuratively construed as “repeatedly/perennially affected by” or “unable to escape from”.
Synonyms: lousy with
riddled with
-riddled
endolysosome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: endolysosomes
Etymology: From endo- + lysosome.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: The product of the fusion of an endosome and a lysosome during endocytosis
Derived terms: endolysosomal
nefazodone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /nəˈfæz.əˌdoʊn/
Forms: form: nefazodones
Etymology: Probably blend of nef- (“alteration and inversion of phen(yl)”) + trazodone.
Senses: topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: A serotoninergic modulating antidepressant that is used in therapy of depression, aggressive behavior and panic disorder.
osmoregulatory
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From osmo- + regulatory.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to osmoregulation
Derived terms: hypoosmoregulatory
osmoregulatorily
photoactivatable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more photoactivatable
form: most photoactivatable
Etymology: From photo- + activatable.
Senses: glosses: That is able to be activated by light
Related terms: photoswitchable
attorney-in-fact
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: attorneys-in-fact
Etymology: From attorney (“any personal representative”) and fact (“act, deed”). Both words now rarely have those senses (outside of fixed expressions like this).
Senses: topics: law
glosses: An agent of the person giving him/her the power of attorney (for a specific purpose or for general purposes) to act on his or her behalf. The attorney-in-fact’s power and responsibilities depend on the specific powers granted in the power of attorney document.
protocerebrum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɛɹɪbɹəm
-iːbɹəm
Forms: form: protocerebra
form: protocerebrums
Etymology: From proto- + cerebrum.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: The anterior part of the arthropod brain.
vaccenyl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From vaccenic + -yl.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The univalent radical, octadec-11-enyl, found in compounds related to vaccenic acid.
Derived terms: vaccenyl acetate
vaccenic acid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: the unsaturated fatty acid octadec-11-enoic acid found in the fat of dairy products
Related terms: vaccenate
vaccenyl acetate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A mating pheromone specific to male fruit flies
venlafaxine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌvɛn.ləˈfækˌsiːn/
Forms: form: venlafaxines
Etymology: Probably from venla- (of unknown origin) + ph(enyl) + -ax- (“alteration of (cycloh)exa(ne)”) + (am)ine.
Senses: topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: A drug that functions as an SNRI and is used in the form of its hydrochloride C₁₇H₂₇NO₂·HCl especially to treat depression, anxiety, and panic disorder. It is marketed under the trademark Effexor.
Derived terms: venlafaxine hydrochloride
apocarpous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From apo- + -carpous.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Having carpels that are not joined
Derived terms: subapocarpous
fangle
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfæŋ.ɡəl/
rhymes: -æŋɡəl
Forms: form: fangles
form: fangling
form: fangled
form: fangled
Etymology: From Middle English fangelen (verb), from fangel (“inclined to take”, adjective), from Old English *fangol, *fangel (“inclined to take”), from fōn (“to take, seize”). Compare Old English andfangol (“undertaker, contractor”), Old English underfangelnes (“undertaking, hospitality”), Middle English fangen (“to take, seize, catch”), German fangen (“to catch”). More at fang.
Senses: examples: text: […]not hereby to control and new fangle the Scripture, God forbid, but to mark how corruption and apostasy crept in by degrees, and to gather up wherever we find the remaining sparks of original truth,[…]
ref: 1641, John Milton, Of Prelatical Episcopacy:
text: Jonathan Swift (1726), Gulliver's Travels, 1st edition: “But I have since found that the sea Yahoos are apt, like the land ones, to become new-fangled in their words, which the latter change every year; insomuch, as I remember upon each return to my own country their old dialect was so altered, that I could hardly understand the new.”
glosses: To fashion, manufacture, invent, or create.
glosses: To trim showily; entangle; hang about.
glosses: To waste time; trifle.
Derived terms: fangleness
newfangle
newfangled
fangle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfæŋ.ɡəl/
rhymes: -æŋɡəl
Forms: form: fangles
Etymology: Back-formation from newfangled (adjective) as if new + fangle (noun). See newfangle.
Senses: glosses: A prop; a taking up; a new thing.
glosses: Something newly fashioned; a novelty, a new fancy.
glosses: A foolish innovation; a gewgaw; a trifling ornament.
glosses: A conceit; whim.
Derived terms: fingle-fangle
cabanas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cabana
cabling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cablings
Senses: examples: text: We have to redo all this cabling for the network and this time remember which wire goes where.
glosses: A collection of cables.
topics: architecture
glosses: The decoration of a fluted shaft of a column or of a pilaster with reeds, or rounded mouldings, which seem to be laid in the hollows of the fluting.
cabling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of cable
cablings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cabling
new fangled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more new fangled
form: most new fangled
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of newfangled.
cablecar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cablecars
Etymology: From cable + car.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of cable car.
cable car
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: kā′bəl kär′
ipa: /ˈkeɪ.bəl ˌkɑːɹ/
ipa: /ˈkeɪ.bəl ˌkɑɹ/
ipa: /ˈkeɪ.bəl ˌkɒɹ/
ipa: /ˈkæɪ.bəl ˌkɐːɹ/
ipa: /ˈke.bəl ˌkaɹ/
ipa: /ˈkeː.bel ˌkaːɾ/
Forms: form: cable cars
form: cablecar
form: cable-car
Senses: synonyms: cable tram
;
cable tramway
glosses: A streetcar moved by gripping to rotating loop of cable running along the track.
examples: text: The Luton Direct Air-Rail Transit (DART) opened to passengers on March 10. The 1.3-mile cable car system is initially available for public use between 1400-1900 before opening in full at the end of the month.
ref: 2023 March 22, “Network News: Luton DART opens for business”, in RAIL, number 979, page 13:
synonyms: people mover
cable tramway
glosses: Any passenger vehicle attached to a moving cable for propulsion, and guided by some form of rails, on a specially-built track not in a street.
synonyms: tram
aerial tram
ropeway
gondola
gondola lift
telpher
cable tramway
glosses: A hanging carriage or car for transporting people or cargo.
cable cars
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cable car
cable-car
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cable-cars
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of cable car.
cable-cars
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cable-car
deprecative
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɛp.ɹɪ.keɪ.tɪv/
ipa: /ˈdɛp.ɹə.keɪ.tɪv/
Forms: form: more deprecative
form: most deprecative
Etymology: From Middle French déprécatif.
Senses: examples: Near-synonym: depreciative
synonyms: deprecating
disapproving
glosses: Tending to deprecate.
glosses: Tending to avert evil by prayer.
Derived terms: deprecatively
cablecars
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cablecar
caftans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of caftan
criers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of crier
deprecatively
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more deprecatively
form: most deprecatively
Etymology: From deprecative + -ly.
Senses: synonyms: disapprovingly
deprecatingly
glosses: In an deprecating manner; in a manner that deprecates
folic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Latin folium (“leaf”) + -ic. Coined in 1941 (see quote below).
Senses: examples: text: It is especially abundant in green leaves of many kinds, including grass. Because of this fact, and since we have obtained what appears to be a nearly pure chemical entity, we suggest the name folic acid (Latin, folium—leaf).
ref: 1941 August 1, Herschel K. Mitchell, Esmond E. Snell, Roger J. Williams, “The concentration of ‘folic acid’”, in Journal of the American Chemical Society, page 2284:
glosses: Of or relating to foliage; pteroylglutamic, as in folic acid.
Derived terms: antifolic
folate
folyl
wherever you go, there you are
Language: English
Part of speech: proverb
Senses: glosses: One cannot run from one's problems, or one's nature, indefinitely.
Related terms: there is no there there
matriculant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: matriculants
form: matriculand
Senses: examples: text: There were herds of leather sofas and enough computers to ensure that no prospective matriculant or visiting parent could enter a room and not see at least one available keyboard, not even in the dining hall or field house.
ref: 2001, Jonathan Franzen, The Corrections:
glosses: A person who has matriculated or been registered on a list or roll, usually at a school.
Related terms: alma mater
matriculate
matriculation
matrix
pteroylglutamic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Describing an amino acid in the vitamin B complex; folic (as in pteroylglutamic acid).