cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
apodisation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: apodisations
Senses: examples: text: Apodisation of the receive beam can be achieved by giving different amplifications to the signals from each element. The receive beam apodisation can be changed dynamically to control side lobe characteristics as the receive focus is advanced.
ref: 2003, Peter Hoskins, Abigail Thrush, Diagnostic Ultrasound: Physics and Equipment, →ISBN, page 34:
text: We have realised experimentally various apodisations with the phase plate process.
ref: 2012, P. Jacquot, J.-M. Fournier, Interferometry in Speckle Light: Theory and Applications, →ISBN, page 647:
glosses: Alternative form of apodization.
apodisations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of apodisation
watchcat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: watchcats
Etymology: From watch + cat.
Senses: glosses: A cat that fulfils the duties of a watchdog.
watchcats
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of watchcat
housespouse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: housespouses
Etymology: From house + spouse, after housewife.
Senses: examples: text: Few men have assumed the role of housespouse. Male housespouses are evaluated more negatively than female housespouses.
ref: 1996, Joan H. Rollins, Women's Minds/women's Bodies:
glosses: A housewife, househusband, or nonbinary equivalent.
Helton
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhɛl.tən/
rhymes: -ɛltən
Etymology: From helde ‘slope’ + tun ‘farmstead or settlement’. The Old English surname is said to have originated in Cumbria, England. The motto is Artibus et armis which means by art and arms. The name could be a derivative of Hilton or Elton.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
glosses: A village in Eden district, Cumbria, England.
glosses: A town in Kentucky.
glosses: A town in Missouri.
glosses: A township in North Carolina.
Derived terms: Hilton
Elton
milliberal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: milliberals
Etymology: Blend of millennial + liberal.
Senses: glosses: A liberal millennial.
December bride
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: December brides
Senses: examples: text: She was too old. Too dried-up. A December bride rescued from spinsterhood and assigned the place of helpmeet, companion, cook and laundress, with the sex thrown in as a bonus.
ref: 2013, T. Coraghessan Boyle, San Miguel, →ISBN, page 290:
text: Marguerite: She's afraid y'all will laugh at 'em and make fun of 'em for getting married when they're so old. . . .
Mr Mingo: Oh, we'll laugh a little bit. They have to expect that. A December bride has to expect some teasing.
ref: 2013, Charles Portis, “Delray's New Moon”, in Escape Velocity: A Charles Portis Miscellany, →ISBN:
glosses: A woman who marries when she is significantly older than most brides.
Related terms: autumn romance
May-December
May-September romance
May-to-December
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of May-December.
May and December
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of May-December.
pleasuresome
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more pleasuresome
form: most pleasuresome
Etymology: From pleasure + -some.
Senses: examples: text: “Do you mean to say all remembrances are vexatitous [sic]? Some are pleasuresome, too, aren't they?”
ref: 2003, Shriman Yogi, Shivaji the Great:
text: The pleasuresome characteristics of jokes that were associated with libidinal sastisfactions [sic] were referred to as a joke's tendentious nature.
ref: 2012, Herbert M. Lefcourt, Humor: The Psychology of Living Buoyantly:
text: Before, he had always seemed to believe revenge a dirty business, all thundering muskets and brandished steel, a pleasuresome stench.
ref: 2013, Alex Taylor, The Name of the Nearest River:
glosses: Characterised or marked by pleasure; enjoyable
treasuresome
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more treasuresome
form: most treasuresome
Etymology: From treasure + -some.
Senses: examples: text: And now you, you wretched boy, refuse her the sight of your squealing piglet, as if a piglet is too treasuresome to go anywhere near the likes of lion—all the while waging your war with such enthusiasm for death, such carelessness for life, that it's clear nothing on earth is precious in your eyes.
ref: 2011, Sonya Hartnett, The Midnight Zoo:
text: If i had not this sensitivity / Such a treasuresome wealth of knowledge / Would not be my proclivity [...]
ref: 2016, Paul Baichoo, Are We Not The Gods?:
glosses: Characterised or marked by treasure; valued; precious
autumn romance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: autumn romances
Senses: examples: text: Robin and Marian—Autumn romance with Audrey Hepburn as older Maid Marian who, now in a convent, meets up with older Robin, Sean Connery.
ref: 2006, Susan Swartz, “Movies that know how to treat a tomato”, in The Juicy Tomatoes Guide to Ripe Living After 50, →ISBN, page 77:
text: Ms. Stuart and Mr. Ritchie also began an autumn romance that lasted until Mr. Ritchie's death in 1996 at the age of 91.
ref: 2010 September 27, Aljean Harmetz, Robert Berkvist, “Gloria Stuart, an Actress Rediscovered Late, Dies at 100”, in New York Times, retrieved 15 Nov 2016:
text: It was an autumn romance in the September of my years
When the hourglass of my life was exactly three-quarters run through
ref: 2015, Pete Winslow, "O god of spring forgive me" in City Lights Pocket Poets Anthology (Lawrence Ferlinghetti, ed.), p. 146 (Google preview)
glosses: A romantic relationship which occurs in a later stage of life.
Related terms: December bride
May-December
May-September romance
victimologic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more victimologic
form: most victimologic
Etymology: From victimology + -ic.
Senses: examples: text: 4. Identify possible suspects based on victimologic principles
ref: 2014, James M. Adcock, Sarah L. Stein, Cold Cases: Evaluation Models with Follow-up Strategies for Investigators:
glosses: Of, or related to victimology; victimological.
haematophagy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of hematophagy.
hematophagia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of hematophagy.
frailsome
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more frailsome
form: most frailsome
Etymology: From frail + -some.
Senses: examples: text: You may have also noticed the same small boat seeking shelter under the lee of its huge ally, when gusts of wind blew lustily, and angry waves came lashing on, as if to swallow up the frailsome bark.
ref: 1999, George Francklin Atkinson, Curry & Rice on Forty Plates:
glosses: Characterised or marked by frailness
pork-knocker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pork-knockers
form: pork knocker
form: porkknocker
form: porknocker
Senses: glosses: A freelance gold or diamond prospector in Guyana.
pork knocker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pork knockers
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of pork-knocker.
pork-knockers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pork-knocker
pork knockers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pork knocker
porkknocker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: porkknockers
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of pork-knocker.
porknocker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: porknockers
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of pork-knocker.
porkknockers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of porkknocker
porknockers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of porknocker
sugar palm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sugar palms
Senses: examples: text: Though the sugar palm tree grows slowly, it is resistant to variable weather and has a life-span of up to 80-90 years.
ref: 2003, Thanapol (Lamduan) Chadchaidee, Thailand in My Youth, →ISBN, page 122:
text: Sugar palm is tolerant of temperatures below freezing but is damaged at –2°C.
ref: 2008, Jules Janick, Robert E. Paull, The Encyclopedia of Fruit and Nuts, →ISBN, page 88:
glosses: Any of various palm species used to produce sugar, including
examples: text: Arenga pinnata, the sugar palm or gomuti palm, was probably one of mankind's first sources of sugar.
ref: 1989, M. Boelen, Utilization of Tropical Foods: Trees, →ISBN, page 7:
glosses: Any of various palm species used to produce sugar, including:
especially, Arenga pinnata
glosses: Any of various palm species used to produce sugar, including:
Borassus flabellifer (palmyra palms)
glosses: Any of various palm species used to produce sugar, including:
Caryota urens (fishtail palm, sago palm, toddy palm, wine palm)
glosses: Any of various palm species used to produce sugar, including:
Corypha elata (buri palm, gebang palm)
glosses: Any of various palm species used to produce sugar, including:
Nypa fruticans (nipa palm)
glosses: Any of various palm species used to produce sugar, including:
Phoenix spp. (date palm)
glosses: Any of various palm species used to produce sugar, including:
Cocos nucifera (coconut palm)
sugar palms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sugar palm
acetonylating
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: That results in acetonylation
acetonylation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: acetonylations
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A reaction with acetone
alkoxycarbonyl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: alkoxycarbonyls
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any alkoxy derivative of a carbonyl radical
alkylimino
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: alkyliminos
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any alkyl imino radical
ambiphilic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From ambi- + -philic.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Having both electrophilic and nucleophilic character.
topics: lifestyle
sexuality
glosses: Having a teleiophilic attraction to both men and women.
Related terms: ambiphilicity
ambiphilicity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From ambiphilic + -ity.
Senses: glosses: The condition of being ambiphilic
anthanthrenylene
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: anthanthrenylenes
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any arylene derived from anthanthrene
chrysenylene
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chrysenylenes
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any arylene derived from chrysene
cycloarylene
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cycloarylenes
Etymology: From cyclo- + arylene.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any cyclic compound formed of arylene units
cycloarylenes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cycloarylene
cyclonaphthylene
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cyclonaphthylenes
Etymology: From cyclo- + naphthylene.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any cyclic compound formed of naphthylene units
naphthylene
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: naphthylenes
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any arylene derived from naphthalene
Derived terms: cyclonaphthylene
trinaphthylene
cyclonaphthylenes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cyclonaphthylene
cyclophenanthrenylene
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cyclophenanthrenylenes
Etymology: From cyclo- + phenanthrenylene.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any cyclic compound formed of phenanthrenylene units
phenanthrenylene
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: phenanthrenylenes
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any arylene derived from phenanthrene
Derived terms: cyclophenanthrenylene
naphthylenes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of naphthylene
furanosyl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: furanosyls
Etymology: From furanose + -yl.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any univalent radical derived from a furanose
Derived terms: galactofuranosyl
arabinofuranosyl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: arabinofuranosyls
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any univalent radical derived from an arabinofuranose
arabinofuranosyladenine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: arabinofuranosyladenines
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any arabinofuranosyl derivative of adenine
Related terms: vidarabine
arabinofuranosylpurine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: arabinofuranosylpurines
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any arabinofuranosyl derivative of a purine
arylboronic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Relating to any aryl derivative of a boronic acid
arylpyrazole
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: arylpyrazoles
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any aryl derivative of a pyrazole
astexin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: astexins
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of a family of heat-sensitive lasso peptides
lasso peptide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lasso peptides
form: lassopeptide
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of a large group of macrocyclic peptides whose structure resembles a knotted lasso
lasso peptides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lasso peptide
textual criticisms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of textual criticism
arabinofuranosylpurines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of arabinofuranosylpurine
arabinofuranosyladenines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of arabinofuranosyladenine
cui prodest
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Latin.
Senses: examples: text: On the basis of cui prodest, the British and French might have helped kill Rasputin (to prevent him from persuading the Tsar to make peace with the Germans), but the presence of agents from both countries seems unlikely.
ref: 2016 November, Donald Rayfield, “The Monk behind the Myth”, in Literary Review:
glosses: The rhetorical question "Who benefits?", as used to establish motive for a crime etc.
Synonyms: cui bono
arylpyrazoles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of arylpyrazole
arabinofuranosyls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of arabinofuranosyl
microscript
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: microscripts
Etymology: From micro- + script.
Senses: examples: text: Impromptu, selfreflexive, and distinctly owlish, the microscript is quite different from the two feuilletons that W. extracted from it for the periodical Sport im Bild.
ref: 2005, Christopher Middleton, Speaking to the Rose:
text: “Do you see this?” he said, holding the pad up to me, which was now largely covered in a kind of microscript.
ref: 2014, Ben Lerner, 10:04, page 216:
text: All he had to do was replicate his near-indecipherable microscript, originally developed in response to an acute paper shortage.
ref: 2016 November, Andrew Gallix, “The Making of Mersault”, in Literary Review:
glosses: Very small lettering (especially handwriting), or a handwritten manuscript consisting of such writing.
olive baboon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: olive baboons
Etymology: From the greenish-grey colour of its fur.
Senses: examples: text: A study of Kenyan olive baboon troops by Margaret Crofoot and her team at the University of California, Davis, considered first the patterns made on a map by the animals' movements […].
ref: 2016 November, Richard Smyth, “Bird's-Eye Watching”, in Literary Review:
synonyms: Anubis baboon
glosses: A subspecies of savannah baboon, Papio hamadryas anubis, found in highland areas of East Africa.
azidophenylalanine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: azidophenylalanines
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any azido derivative of phenylalanine but especially 4-azidophenylalanine
azidopurine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: azidopurines
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any azido derivative of a purine, but especially the prodrug 6-azidopurine
azidyl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From azide + -yl.
Senses: topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The free radical N₃· related to azide
mass line
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: A calque of Chinese 群眾路線／群众路线 (qúnzhòng lùxiàn).
Senses: topics: government
politics
glosses: The policy of consulting the masses, interpreting their suggestions within the framework of Marxism-Leninism, and then enforcing the resulting policies, as introduced by the Chinese Communist Party.
Related terms: general line
slannish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /slæn.ɪʃ/
rhymes: -ænɪʃ
Forms: form: more slannish
form: most slannish
Etymology: From slan + -ish.
Senses: examples: text: To err is human and slannish too, / But we can correct our mistakes with u.
ref: 1944, John Bristol Speer, Fancyclopedia, Obliterine:
text: It had been said that First Fandom arose around 1930 when the first fans of Brooklyn crawled out of the slime and extended slannish tendrils to one another across the ooze of the Hudson River.
ref: 1991 November 24, Bob Tucker, “In the Tradition of Ephless Elmer”, in Science-Fiction Five-Yearly, number 9, page 7:
text: Does resisting the avalanche of advertising take a slannish mind? No, just an intelligent one, and you know the advertisers are counting on the less intelligent minds so they can make a living
ref: 2006 March 28, Lloyd Penney, “[Letter]”, in And furthermore..., number 3, page 6:
topics: lifestyle
glosses: Like a science fiction fan; characteristic of or pertaining to a science fiction fan.
Zionwards
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: Zionward
Etymology: From Zion + -wards.
Senses: glosses: Towards Zion.
slanhood
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈslænhʊd/
rhymes: -ænhʊd
Etymology: From slan (“fan of science fiction”) + -hood (suffix denoting a condition or state of being). Slan is from the title of the science fiction novel Slan (1940) by Canadian-born author A. E. van Vogt (1912–2000), about persecuted – yet physically, mentally and morally superior – telepathic mutant humans.
Senses: examples: text: Because the central character in the story [Slan (1940) by A. E. van Vogt] was a youth in unsympathetic surroundings, and because of the obvious similarities to fans' dreams of greatness, the unserious claim to slanhood has become the Third Fandom parallel to the Second Fandom's half-serious Star-Begotten claims.
ref: 1944, John Bristol Speer, “slan”, in Fancyclopedia, Los Angeles, Calif.: Forrest J[ames] Ackerman, →OCLC, archived from the original on 21 Apr 2020, page 81, column 1:
text: In the specific focus of providing a reference who can verify your tenured slanhood to the administrators, let's set the record straight and let's get very real and very clear about something here.
ref: 1997 October 29, Dave Locke, “Re: The Good Ol’ ‘Write-In’ Ballot”, in rec.arts.sf.fandom (Usenet), retrieved 16 Nov 2016, message-ID <34567d4e.63131406@news.pipeline.com>:
text: This sense of difference was summed up in the well-known fan slogan that serves as an epigraph to this section, "Fans are slans." The Fancyclopedia describes the importance of this notion of "slanhood": [...]
ref: 2002, Justine Larbalestier, “Faithful to Thee, Terra, in Our Fashion”, in The Battle of the Sexes in Science Fiction (Wesleyan Early Classics of Science Fiction), Middletown, Conn.: Wesleyan University Press, →ISBN, page 35:
text: Believe you me, there was much wailing and gnashing of teeth amongst the other members of the class. But I happily wallowed in my slanhood.
ref: 2005 November 22, “Cliffy”, “My Students Can’t Name 3 First Amendment Rights: Sad or Normal?”, in Straight Dope Message Board, The Straight Dope, archived from the original on 16 Jul 2018:
topics: lifestyle
glosses: The state of being a science fiction fan.
wikipedia: A. E. van Vogt
Slan
Related terms: fans are slans
slan
slan center
slannish
slanshack
prochein ami
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: prochein amis
form: prochein amy
form: prochain ami
Etymology: From late Middle English, from Anglo-Norman, from Old French prochain (“next”) + ami (“friend”); now sometimes spelt prochain ami following the French spelling.
Senses: topics: law
glosses: Next friend.
symposiastic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From symposiast (“one who participates in a symposium”) + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Pertaining to symposia or symposiasts.
Derived terms: symposiastically
Livi
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Clipping of Livingston.
Senses: examples: text: Fernandez helped Livi towards a Uefa Cup place in their first-ever campaign in the top flight after joining from Airdrie in March last year.
ref: 2002 May 31, “Celtic close in on Fernandez”, in The Guardian:
text: A win and two draws for Livi against Hearts this season is a good indication of the job being done by Martindale.
ref: 2023 January 30, Iain Collin, “Managers content to share the points after frenetic encounter”, in The National, page 39:
topics: ball-games
games
hobbies
lifestyle
soccer
sports
glosses: Livingston FC.
Salafis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Salafi
Salafi jihadism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Whether it be the terror of salafi jihadism or the insidious institutional racism of the British National Party, there are those who stand ready to fill the vacuum with a sanitised identity and twisted vision if the silent majority hold back from forging a new identity.
ref: 2009, John Sentamu, quoted in The Guardian, 5 April
text: He seeks to trace the intellectual history of Salafi-Jihadism from its origins in the mountains of the Hindu Kush to the rise of Osama bin Laden to the explosion of jihadism during and after the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq until the present day.
ref: 2016 November, David Patrikarakos, “Progression through Regression”, in Literary Review:
topics: Islam
lifestyle
religion
glosses: An Islamist ideology calling for a struggle to reclaim what adherents see as the pure, true form of Sunni Islam as exemplified by the first three generations of Muslims.
symposiastically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more symposiastically
form: most symposiastically
Etymology: From symposiastic + -ally.
Senses: glosses: In a symposiastic manner.
sympotically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more sympotically
form: most sympotically
Etymology: From sympotic + -ally.
Senses: glosses: In a sympotic manner.
gimbri
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gimbris
Senses: examples: text: The gimbri or sintir is a three stringed rectangular lute from Morocco commonly used by Gnawan musicians. The body of the gimbri is a rectangular trough covered by camel skin from which protrudes a round wooden neck […]
ref: 2010, RANDY RAINE-REUSCH, Play The World: The 101 Instrument Primer: The 101 World Instrument Primer, Mel Bay Publications, →ISBN, page 21:
glosses: Alternative spelling of guembri.
gimbris
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gimbri
if you fly with the crows, you get shot with the crows
Language: English
Part of speech: proverb
Senses: glosses: Somebody who spends time with undesirable people will be regarded as one of them.
Related terms: a man is known by the company he keeps
if you lie down with dogs, you get up with fleas
who keeps company with the wolf will learn to howl
betulinic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɪnɪk
Etymology: From betulin.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Relating to betulinic acid or its derivatives
Derived terms: epibetulinic
bisheteroarene
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bisheteroarenes
Etymology: From bis- + heteroarene.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any compound, especially a metal complex, that has two heteroarene groups
bisheteroarenes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bisheteroarene
bisoxygenated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From bis- + oxygenated.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: oxygenated in two places
cyclostereoisomerism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From cyclo- + stereoisomerism.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: stereoisomerism as a result of a chiral centre that is part of a ring or of the side chain of a ring
desupersaturation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: desupersaturations
Etymology: From de- + supersaturation.
Senses: examples: text: The reliability of this assumption must be checked with the aid of a desupersaturation calculation, starting from the measured kinetic data.
ref: 2002, John Garside, Measurement of Crystal Growth and Nucleation Rates, page 183:
glosses: The process of becoming less than supersaturated.
azidations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of azidation
diazidation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: diazidations
Etymology: From di- + azidation.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any reaction that produces a diazide
diethylacrylamide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The N-diethyl derivative of acrylamide
sanguinously
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more sanguinously
form: most sanguinously
Etymology: From sanguine + -ous + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Now where can we meet with more relief from art in this case than from mercury? --And whilst practice confirms. such a theory, I think we can have no greater inducement to put it into execution; and, for my own part, I am sanguinously persuaded many lives will in future be saved by it, who otherwise must be lost.
ref: 1776, N. D. FALCK, A treatise on the medical qualities of mercury, etc, page 301:
text: Neither of these figures exactly duplicates any of the Fiorida-Georgia designs, but comparison makes it clear that analogies in features of motive, grouping, and execution are remarkably close--too close certainly to have arisen save through identity or most intimate relationship, socially or sanguinously, of the peoples employing them.
ref: 1894 January, W.H. Holmes, “Caribbean Influence in the Prehistoric Art of Southern States”, in American Anthropologist, volume A7, number 1:
text: Most arabs are some fiery tempered, sanguinously passionate motherfuckers, and that translates into more suicide bombings than the average honkey.
ref: 2001 July 13, Voltair, “Conservative Nazis Group”, in rec.music.industrial (Usenet):
glosses: Synonym of sanguinely.
synonyms: word: sanguinely
Foix
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From French Foix.
Senses: glosses: A commune, the capital of Ariège department, Occitania, France.
Related terms: Foix-Alajouanine syndrome
howdie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: howdies
Senses: examples: text: It's a beautiful point of presumptive murder, and there's been nane like it in the Justiciar Court since the case of Luckie Smith the howdie, that suffered in the year saxteen hundred and seventy-nine.
ref: 1818 July 25, Jedediah Cleishbotham [pseudonym; Walter Scott], chapter IV, in Tales of My Landlord, Second Series, […] (The Heart of Mid-Lothian), volume I, Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne and Co.] for Archibald Constable and Company, →OCLC, pages 121–122:
text: Sae Beatrice wis ready whan she wis cried on in the middle o the nicht tae halp the howdie. It wis a saicont bairn, an Derriakin wis muckle-boukit, sae the birth gaed quick.
ref: 2011, Wulf Kurtoglu, Caroline Macafee, Braken Fences, →ISBN, page 195:
text: 'I've sent Davie for Lizzie, the howdie,' she said. 'Ye're not to worry. A seven month bairn can survive.'
ref: 2011, Catherine M. Byrne, Follow the Dove, →ISBN, page 110:
text: The children born in Hawick in the olden times were, with few exceptions, ushered into the world with the aid of the howdie or midwife; for the practice of midwifery was, unless in very special cases, almost confined to women.
ref: 2012, Margaret Bennett, Scottish Customs: From the Cradle to the Grave, →ISBN:
glosses: Alternative form of howdy.
howdie
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: examples: text: Howdie there, Wanda. How about a cuppa .
ref: 1984, Preston Jones, A Place on the Magdalena Flats: A Play in Three Acts, →ISBN, page 60:
text: He says howdie and says he got a deal for Doogan.
ref: 2015 November 24, Kristine Francis, “NCIS Recap 11/24/15: Season 13 Episode 10 "Blood Brothers"”, in Celebrity Dirty Laundry:
text: Then he went round the gypsy saying “Howdie?” to the youngsters inside, who obviously seemed fear stricken.
ref: 2016 May 21, Sunita Mudaliar, “Trying to control tourists in Umred-Karhandla is not such a good idea!”, in Nagpur Today:
glosses: Alternative form of howdy.
mixter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mixters
Senses: glosses: Nonstandard spelling of mixture.
arcanology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From arcane + -ology.
Senses: glosses: The study of the esoteric, metaphysical, secret and hidden.
la'ship
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: la'ships
Senses: glosses: ladyship
la'ships
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of la'ship
arcanologist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: arcanologists
Senses: glosses: One who studies arcanology.
benzo flu
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Withdrawal symptoms resulting from the discontinuance of benzodiazepines, resembling those of influenza.
honyak
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: honyaks
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of honyock.
Aegates
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /iˈɡeɪtiz/
rhymes: -eɪtiz
Senses: glosses: The Egadi Islands.
Derived terms: Aegates Islands
next-level
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: I'm in because look, there's some next-level shit going on around here, and I'm with that.
ref: 1997, Ed Solomon, Men in Black, spoken by James Darrell (Will Smith):
text: I would give him some thugged-out braids, a wife-beater, a pair of jeans, and penny loafers. I'd bring him back on some next-level kind of flavor.
ref: 2005 August, Amy Phillips, “Q&A Missy Elliott”, in SPIN, volume 21, number 8, page 24:
text: This broad-based thinking begins to define areas that require next-level thinking, something that is a major focus of this book.
ref: 2011, Robert A. Rudzki, Robert J. Trent, Next Level Supply Management Excellence, →ISBN:
text: This isn't that boring brown lentil mush you find in places where food goes to die. We wouldn't do you like that. The spices and lemon makes this some next-level shit that you will actually want to eat.
ref: 2014, Thug Kitchen, Thug Kitchen: Eat Like You Give a F**k, →ISBN, page 85:
glosses: Significantly more advanced, better, or more extreme.
tahan
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtahan/
ipa: [ˈt˭a˧han˦]
Etymology: From Malay tahan.
Senses: examples: text: "Many local artists cannot tahan me," he says, using the Malay word for "tolerate". "If you live next to Picasso, can you tahan or not?"
ref: 2017, Wong Kim Hoh, It Changed My Life: What Tan Swie Hian wants - a free mind, The Sunday Times:
text: 2017, Zhangxin Zheng, Here’s why you shouldn’t be alarmed by pictures of “flooding” in Bishan-Ang Mo Kio Park, Mothership.sg
The 3.2km meandering naturalised river at Bishan-Ang Mo Kio Park used to be a 2.7 km long straight concrete Kallang channel in the past, which would not otherwise have been able to tahan as much rainwater as it now does.
text: If you’re buying a new car, especially a better one than your previous, it’s gonna be able to tahan your need for speed. Step on the pedal only la, why so kancheong?
ref: 2017, 8 Things Malaysians Immediately Do When They Get a New Car... Which One Have You Done?, CILISOS (Current Issues Tambah Pedas)
glosses: To endure; to bear.
Derived terms: buay tahan
moonsault
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈmuːnsɔːlt/
Forms: form: moonsaults
Etymology: Blend of moon + somersault
Senses: topics: government
hobbies
lifestyle
martial-arts
military
politics
professional-wrestling
sports
war
wrestling
glosses: An attack where the wrestler faces away from the supine opponent and executes a backflip landing on the opponent in a splash/press position but facing towards the elevated position.
moonsaults
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of moonsault
troglodyke
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɹɒɡləʊdaɪk/
ipa: /ˈtɹɒɡlədaɪk/
Forms: form: troglodykes
Etymology: Blend of troglodyte + dyke.
Senses: examples: text: Tony…focused on a large woman with cropped hair, a yellowing complexion, grey sunken eyes and a lip ring. ‘Who’s the troglodyke?’ he said, horrified at the thought of being stuck with such a creature…. // ‘You mean the rug-muncher with the nose ring?’ Dan said…. ‘That’s Kim Radclyffe. She hosts a phone-in show on Radio Five. Rumour has it she’s on male hormones, which would help explain the facial hair.’ // Tony laughed. ‘She’s certainly got a good face for radio.’
ref: 2007, Paul Burston, chapter 13, in Lovers and Losers, published 2011:
glosses: A repugnant lesbian.
troglodykes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: For quotations using this term, see Citations:troglodykes.
glosses: plural of troglodyke
capi di tutti capi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of capo di tutti capi
Rushawn
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Apparently coined in 1944 in honour of the Russian people engaged in fighting World War II. Alteration of Russian, after Shawn.
Senses: glosses: A male given name.
2XL
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Synonym of XXL.
synonyms: word: XXL
3XL
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: A very large clothing size; same as XXXL.
biggun
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bigguns
form: bigun
Etymology: Eye-dialect spelling of big 'un (one).
Senses: examples: text: Blimey, that's a biggun!
glosses: A large thing.
Synonyms: whopper
bigun
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: biguns
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of biggun.
goodun
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gooduns
Etymology: Contraction of good one.
Senses: examples: text: He'll always help you out – he's a goodun, that one.
glosses: A good thing or person.
Derived terms: job's a goodun
badun
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: baduns
Etymology: Eye-dialect spelling of bad one.
Senses: examples: text: Keep away from him; he's a badun.
glosses: A bad thing or person.
hauntsome
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more hauntsome
form: most hauntsome
Etymology: From haunt + -some.
Senses: examples: text: The sudden spasm of grief that swept her little heart welled to her hauntsome eyes. She struggled valiantly, but she could withstand its oncoming no longer. She burst into a torrent of tears.
ref: 1922, Everett MacDonald, Slimtonian Socker:
text: The Indians were making their third visit of the season to the Polo Grounds, the cavernous arena set beneath Coogan's Bluff on the fringe of New York's hauntsome Harlem.
ref: 2006, Franklin A. Lewis, The Cleveland Indians:
glosses: Characterised or marked by haunting
detrouser
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: detrousers
form: detrousering
form: detrousered
form: detrousered
Etymology: From de- + trouser.
Senses: examples: text: On his stag night, he was detrousered and left handcuffed to a lamppost.
glosses: To remove the trousers of.
Suckerberg
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Blend of sucker + Zuckerberg.
Senses: examples: text: And tell Mark Suckerberg that I will sue him if he tries to use my student’s pictures again.
ref: 2013, Herbert, “Ditch Chris”, in Random Conversations, Partridge India, →ISBN, page 87:
text: “Suckerberg,” a British woman wrote. “let me guess,” a woman from Washington State wrote, “you guys never really thought of how explosive free speech really was did ya??”
ref: 2019, Andrew Marantz, “Common Sense”, in Antisocial: Online Extremists, Techno-Utopians, and the Hijacking of the American Conversation, Viking, →ISBN, part six (A Night for Freedom), page 346:
text: They stopped reading poetry books during Shakespeare’s time and Suckerberg is only 32.
ref: 2019, Tendai Rinos Mwanaka, “The Poet’s Revenge To No One Who Buys Poetry Books”, in Tendai Rinos Mwanaka, Jabulani Mzinyathi, editors, Zimbolicious Anthology: An Anthology of Zimbabwean Literature and Arts, volume 4, Chitungwiza: Mwanaka Media and Publishing Pvt Ltd, →ISBN, page 39:
synonyms: Fuckerberg
glosses: Mark Zuckerberg (born 1984), founder of social media company Facebook.
screel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: screels
Senses: examples: text: The screams began as the usual long screel.
ref: 2010, Sabrina Broadbent, You Don't Have to Be Good, →ISBN, page 150:
text: Someone had got hold of a bullhorn and was bellowing out instructions that, thanks to screels of feedback, were utterly incomprehensible.
ref: 2011, Tom Wolfe, A Man in Full, →ISBN, page 480:
text: As for the Minimoog itself, it proved capable of creating whole new registers of possibility: a viscid bass that stirs the entrails, a tonal warmth that solicits well-being, a cringing static that conjures animal fear, a piercing screel that commands almost spiritual submission.
ref: 2016, Paul Youngquist, A Pure Solar World: Sun Ra and the Birth of Afrofuturism, →ISBN, page 217:
glosses: A discordant high-pitched noise.
screel
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: screels
form: screeling
form: screeled
form: screeled
Senses: examples: text: Katherine steps into the train and the sides hiss closed. Candlewax waves as it screels its way out of the station.
ref: 2008, Bev Cooke, Feral, →ISBN, page 98:
text: The creature screels, a spine-chilling sound so intense the two unbroken windows at the far left corner of the room shatter, spraying chunks and slivers of glass everywhere.
ref: 2016, Elvi Joy, Soul Reaper's Mate, →ISBN, page 91:
text: The bagpipe suddenly screeled in a peculiar off-beat, sending chills down Neil's spine.
ref: 2016, Melanie Tem, Out of the House of Darkness:
glosses: To emit a screel; to screech or skirl.
screels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of screel
screels
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of screel
screeling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of screel
screeled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of screel
coconut octopus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: coconut octopuses
form: coconut octopusses
form: coconut octopi
form: coconut octopii
form: coconut octopodes
form: coconut octopus
Etymology: From coconut + octopus from the propensity of this octopus to live in coconut shells.
Senses: examples: text: Coconut octopuses can make themselves look like coconuts even without the visual aid, by gathering most of their arms around their body to make a rough sphere.
ref: 2017, Danna Staaf, Squid Empire, ForeEdge, →ISBN, page 176:
glosses: A tropical species of octopus, Amphioctopus marginatus.
Synonyms: veined octopus
common octopus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: common octopuses
form: common octopusses
form: common octopi
form: common octopii
form: common octopodes
form: common octopus
Etymology: From common + octopus, being the stereotypical octopus, most commonly thought of form of octopus in English-language media, and most commonly studied octopus in science.
Senses: glosses: An octopus common to coastal waters worldwide, Octopus vulgaris
Coordinate terms: common squid
temptsome
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more temptsome
form: most temptsome
Etymology: From tempt + -some.
Senses: examples: text: Sam and I were privates in Henceforth's company, and next Saturday, another temptsome day for lake or country, Dr. Darnell stood grim and forbidding on his balcony.
ref: 2016, Robert Barr, Measure of the Rule:
glosses: Characterised or marked by temptation; alluring; tempting; inviting
jumpsome
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more jumpsome
form: most jumpsome
Etymology: From jump + -some.
Senses: examples: text: [...] for he would lie down by a 'sclusively yellowish-greyish- brownish stone or clump of grass, and when the Giraffe or the Zebra or the Eland or the Koodoo or the Bush- Buck or the Bonte-Buck came by he would surprise them out of their jumpsome lives.
ref: 2002, Rudyard Kipling, Janet Taylor Lisle, Just So Stories:
text: Lone Sahib entered the room gingerly, and there, on the pillow of his bed, sprawled and whimpered a wee white kitten; not a jumpsome, frisky little beast, but a sluglike crawler with its eyes barely opened and its paws lacking strength or direction—a kitten that ought to have been in a basket with its mamma .
ref: 2008, Rudyard Kipling, Rudyard Kipling's Tales of Horror and Fantasy:
glosses: Characterised or marked by jumping
giant octopus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: giant octopuses
form: giant octopusses
form: giant octopi
form: giant octopii
form: giant octopodes
form: giant octopus
Senses: glosses: A mythical or fictional large sea creature with features of an octopus
Synonym of Kraken (Norse sea monster)
synonyms: word: Kraken
extra: Norse sea monster
glosses: A mythical or fictional large sea creature with features of an octopus
Synonym of Cthulhu (Lovecraftian horror monster)
synonyms: word: Cthulhu
extra: Lovecraftian horror monster
glosses: One of certain large sea creatures of the order Octopoda
Haliphron atlanticus (giant Atlantic octopus)
glosses: One of certain large sea creatures of the order Octopoda
Enteroctopus spp.
glosses: One of certain large sea creatures of the order Octopoda
Enteroctopus spp.
especially, Enteroctopus dofleini (giant Pacific octopus)
Coordinate terms: giant squid
common squid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: common squids
form: common squid
Etymology: From common + squid, being the commonly found squid in European waters, thus common to the lands where the English language originated, and the stereotypical squid.
Senses: glosses: Squid of two species in the family Loliginidae, common in coastal waters of the eastern Atlantic Ocean and the Mediterranean Sea:
European squid (Loligo vulgaris)
glosses: Squid of two species in the family Loliginidae, common in coastal waters of the eastern Atlantic Ocean and the Mediterranean Sea:
European common squid (Alloteuthis subulata)
Coordinate terms: common octopus
Related terms: European squid
European common squid
common European squid
forting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of fort
direct selling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: business
marketing
glosses: The marketing and selling of products directly to consumers away from a fixed retail location.
fish feed
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Commercially manufactured feed for farmed fish
Related terms: fish food
disialylate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: disialylates
Etymology: From di- + sialylate.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any compound that has two sialylate groups or anions
sialylate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sialylates
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of sialate.
sialylate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: sialylates
form: sialylating
form: sialylated
form: sialylated
Senses: glosses: To produce, or to undergo sialylation
disilanyl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: disilanyls
Etymology: From di- + silanyl.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Two silanyl groups in a molecule
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A univalent radical derived from a disilane
enantiospecificity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: enantiospecificities
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The condition of being enantiospecific
extraorbital
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɔː(ɹ)bɪtəl
Forms: form: extra-orbital
Etymology: From extra- + orbital.
Senses: glosses: Situated outside of an orbit (in any sense)
Derived terms: extraorbitally
fluoropyrrole
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fluoropyrroles
Etymology: From fluoro- + pyrrole.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any fluoro derivative of a pyrrole
glycinyl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A univalent radical derived from (the amino group of) glycine
lariatin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lariatins
Etymology: From lariat.
Senses: glosses: Any of a group of antimycobacterial lasso peptides produced by Rhodococcus
lariatins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lariatin
madecassic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Relating to madecassic acid or its derivatives
madecassic acid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A particular triterpenoid carboxylic acid that is an immunomodulator
Synonyms: brahmic acid
hydroxyasiatic acid
mitoxanthrone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of mitoxantrone.
monoazidation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From mono- + azidation.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: azidation involving a single azide group
multimonomeric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From multi- + monomeric.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
qualifier: typically of a copolymer
glosses: Composed of many different monomers
enantiodifferentiations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of enantiodifferentiation
lower than a snake's belly
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: qualifier: simile
glosses: Deeply low.
Rem
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Remi
Etymology: From Egyptian rmj (“to weep”).
Senses: topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
glosses: An Egyptian fish god who fertilized the land with his tears.