cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
semisocialist
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From semi- + socialist.
Senses: examples: text: The second, considered a semisocialist form, involved the distribution of harvests according to the amount of labor and land invested; lands were consolidated and farm management carried out jointly.
ref: 1976, Ellen Brun with Jacques Hersh, chapter 6, in Socialist Korea: A Case Study in the Strategy of Economic Development, New York: Monthly Review Press, →ISBN, page 200:
glosses: Somewhat or partly socialist.
tridacnine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tridacnines
Senses: glosses: Any giant clam of the subfamily Tridacninae
tridacnines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tridacnine
tritricosanoate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tritricosanoates
Etymology: From tri- + tricosanoate.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any salt or ester containing three tricosanoate groups
Related terms: tritricosanoin
tritricosanoin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The triglyceride of tritricosanoic acid; glyceryl tritricosanoate
Trypillian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Of or from Trypillia.
examples: text: Several projects in recent years have tried to make sense of the Trypillian proto-cities.
ref: 2021 February 24, Laura Spinney, “The rise and fall of the mysterious culture that invented civilisation”, in New Scientist, archived from the original on 11 Mar 2023:
topics: archaeology
history
human-sciences
sciences
glosses: Relating to the archaeological culture of which Trypillia is a type site.
Trypillian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Trypillians
Senses: glosses: A native or inhabitant of Trypillia
topics: archaeology
history
human-sciences
sciences
glosses: A representative of the archaeological culture of which Trypillia is a type site.
Trypillians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Trypillian
tritricosanoates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tritricosanoate
Trypillia
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village near Kyiv in Ukraine that was the site of an ancient settlement
Derived terms: Trypillian
tubulonecrosis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From tubulo- + necrosis.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: necrosis of renal tubules
Related terms: tubulonecrotic
tubulonecrotic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From tubulo- + necrotic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to tubulonecrosis
ubiquitilation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of ubiquitylation.
ultramicrostructural
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From ultra- + microstructural.
Senses: glosses: Relating to ultramicrostructure
unequivocality
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From un- + equivocality or unequivocal + -ity.
Senses: synonyms: unequivocalness
glosses: The condition of being unequivocal
unforecasted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + forecasted.
Senses: glosses: Not forecasted
uricemic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to uricemia
urogonadal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From uro- + gonadal.
Senses: glosses: Relating to the urinary system and the gonads
vasospasmolysis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From vaso- + spasmolysis.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: vascular spasmolysis
Related terms: vasospasmolytic
vasospasmolytic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From vaso- + spasmolytic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to vasospasmolysis
vegeculturalist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vegeculturalists
Senses: glosses: A person who cultivates vegetables
Related terms: vegeculture
vegeculturalists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of vegeculturalist
ventriculosubgaleal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From ventriculo- + subgaleal.
Senses: glosses: ventricular and subgaleal
vespertilionines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of vespertilionine
vibraknife
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vibraknives
Senses: glosses: A hand-held vibratome
Squash
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Squashs
Senses: glosses: A surname
videomorphometric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From video- + morphometric.
Senses: glosses: Relating to videomorphometry
videomorphometry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From video- + morphometry.
Senses: glosses: morphometry aided by a video camera
Related terms: videomorphometric
videoscopic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From video- + -scopic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to videoscopy or videoscopes
volcanosedimentary
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From volcano- + sedimentary.
Senses: glosses: Relating to or composed of sediment that originated in a volcanic eruption
vorinostatin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A particular antineoplastic drug
webspaces
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of webspace
xerohalophyte
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: xerohalophytes
Etymology: From xero- + halophyte.
Senses: glosses: A halophyte that thrives in very dry conditions.
Related terms: xerohalophytic
xerohalophytes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of xerohalophyte
xerohalophytic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From xero- + halophytic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to xerohalophytes
xerosol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈzeɹ.oʊˌsɑl/
ipa: /ˈzeɹ.əˌsɑl/
Forms: form: xerosols
Etymology: From xero- + -sol.
Senses: glosses: A very dry soil.
xerosols
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of xerosol
xiphopubic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From xipho- + pubic.
Senses: examples: text: xiphopubic distance
text: xiphopubic line
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Relating to the xiphoid process and the pubis; as (usually, especially) the distance between those points, or an anthropometric axis defined by them.
zooxanthellal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: zooxanthella + -al
Senses: glosses: Relating to, or characteristic of zooxanthellae.
zymotype
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: zymotypes
Etymology: From zymo- + type.
Senses: glosses: A type (typically of an enzyme) produced by fermentation
zymotypes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of zymotype
tipping element
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tipping elements
Etymology: Introduced in a 2008 paper.
Senses: examples: text: Accordingly, ice is a tipping element that responds abruptly to changes across this tipping point. Trespassing the tipping point for phase transition from ice to liquid water sets all the other tipping elements contained in the Arctic region in motion […]
ref: 2011, Paul Wassmann, Arctic Tipping Points, Fundacion BBVA, →ISBN, page 17:
topics: climatology
natural-sciences
glosses: Large-scale components of the Earth climate system that may pass a tipping point.
climate system
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: climate systems
Senses: examples: text: The climate system is a part and the atmosphere another part of this. The earth's climate system provides a habitable zone. I agree with scientists who argue that human beings as a part of nature have altered the “natural system” to such an extent that we are now unable to reverse the present system back to a preindustrial or even prehuman state.
ref: 2011, Detlev Möller, Chemistry of the Climate System, Walter de Gruyter, prologue
glosses: The interaction of the Earth's atmosphere, hydrosphere, cryosphere, lithosphere, and biosphere, responsible for the climate.
BARMM
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Acronym of Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao.
ring doughnut
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ring doughnuts
form: ring donut
Senses: glosses: A doughnut with a hole in the middle, formed in the shape of a ring.
ring doughnuts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ring doughnut
overtranslate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: overtranslates
form: overtranslating
form: overtranslated
form: overtranslated
Etymology: From over- + translate.
Senses: examples: text: When we select too-specific a rendering, we overtranslate, and, thus, risk adding information which may not be true.
ref: 1974, American Translators Association, State University of New York at Binghamton. Translation Center, Translators and translating: selected essays from the American Translators Association summer workshops, 1974, page 8:
text: Translate the gateway, but don't overtranslate
ref: 2010, John Yunker, The Art of the Global Gateway: Strategies for Successful Multilingual Navigation, Byte Level Books, →ISBN, page 86:
text: To overtranslate: 'as far as my having slaves is concerned, I have – none'.
ref: 2010, Eleanor Dickey, Anna Chahoud, Colloquial and Literary Latin, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 179:
glosses: To translate (language) in too much detail, or including the translation of things that should be left as they are.
Related terms: overtranslation
overtranslation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: overtranslations
Etymology: From over- + translation.
Senses: examples: text: Mistaking a servitude for an option can lead to overtranslation.
ref: 1995, Jean-Paul Vinay, Jean Darbelnet, Comparative Stylistics of French and English: A Methodology for Translation, John Benjamins Publishing, →ISBN, page 16:
text: One result of overtranslation is to render this development incoherent, trivial, or even imperceptible, since the development is already tacitly built into the translation from the beginning.
ref: 2000, Hans Georg Gadamer, Lawrence Kennedy Schmidt, Language and Linguisticality in Gadamer's Hermeneutics, Lexington Books, →ISBN, page 73:
text: The aim of this article is to illustrate the commonest forms of overtranslation through representative examples drawn from a variety of sources and source languages.
ref: 2001, Sin-wai Chan, David E. Pollard, An Encyclopaedia of Translation: Chinese-English, English-Chinese, Chinese University Press, →ISBN, page 716:
text: The [given] example [that "the closest natural equivalent may stand in a contradictory relation with dynamic equivalents"] is of the English words animal, vegetable, mineral and monster. The closest Chinese equivalents are dòng wù [動物／动物], zhí wù [植物], kuàng wù [礦物／矿物] and guài wù [怪物]. These all happen to contain the character wù [物], meaning ‘object’ (thus, dòng wù means ‘moving object’, hence animal). If these Chinese equivalents are chosen, such an unintended cohesive link would lead to what Qian Hu terms ‘overtranslation’.
ref: 2022, Jeremy Munday, Sara Ramos Pinto, Jacob Blakesley, Inroducing Translation Studies: Theories and Applications, Routledge, →ISBN, page 58:
glosses: The act of overtranslating.
undertranslate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: undertranslates
form: undertranslating
form: undertranslated
form: undertranslated
Etymology: From under- + translate.
Senses: examples: text: Secondly, there is a tendency to undertranslate, viz. to normalise by generalising, to understate, in all translation but particularly in literary translation.
ref: 1991, Peter Newmark, About Translation, Multilingual Matters, →ISBN, page 104:
text: Only Borell and Adam undertranslate this opener as "What brings you here, Adler?"
ref: 2017, Geraldine Brodie, Adapting Translation for the Stage, Taylor & Francis, →ISBN, page 45:
text: I was told specifically that they were going to undertranslate differences between, say, present and aorist infinitives, because there was no agreement on how to handle the differences.
ref: 2019, David R. Miller, Greek Pedagogy in Crisis: A Pedagogical Analysis and Assessment of New Testament Greek in Twenty-First-Century Theological Education, Wipf and Stock Publishers, →ISBN, page 185:
glosses: To translate (language) in insufficient detail, or failing to translate certain elements.
undertranslation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: rhymes: -eɪʃən
Forms: form: undertranslations
Etymology: From under- + translation.
Senses: examples: text: An expression which lacks the proper specificity results in undertranslation; when the translator is too specific, on the other hand, overtranslation results.
ref: 1974, American Translators Association, State University of New York at Binghamton. Translation Center, Translators and translating: selected essays from the American Translators Association summer workshops, 1974, page 69:
text: If mere identification does not suffice, transfer is restricted, thus indicating that a certain amount of information content is lost in transfer; in other words, undertranslation occurs.
ref: 1984, Multilingua, page 130:
text: Overtranslation and undertranslation are standard translation mistakes resulting from improper T.U. delineation:
ref: 2014, Michele H. Jones, The Beginning Translator’s Workbook: or the ABCs of French to English Translation, University Press of America, →ISBN, page 7:
glosses: the act or result of undertranslating
picotta
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: picottas
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of picota.
picottas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of picotta
picottah
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: picottahs
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of picota.
picottahs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of picottah
oleoresin capsicum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Any oleoresin extracted from a plant of the genus Capsicum, containing capsaicin, used in pepper spray.
whitesplaining
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of whitesplain
snake fright
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of snake-fright.
snake fear
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: snake-fear
form: snakefear
Etymology: From snake + fear.
Senses: examples: text: The present writer is inclined to think that cat-fear is analogous to snake-fear.
ref: 1908, The Scrap Book, volume 5, page 556:
text: All groups would demonstrate reductions in snake fear during treatment.
ref: 1966, Abstracts of Dissertations and Theses, page 51:
text: […] it is meaningful to consider differences between high and low snake fear groups in general, rather than considering each separate measure of fear individually.
ref: 1970, Jean Tronick Barnett, Development of Children's Fear: The Relationship Between Three Systems of Fear Measurement, page 34:
text: There was no snake fear in infant primates (Lorenz 1971) or in human infants up to 2 years old; in humans caution appeared by age 3% and definite fear by age 4 (Jones & Jones 1928), while fear increased from age 4 to 6 (Morris & Morris 1965).
ref: 1987, Isaac Marks, Fears, Phobias and Rituals: Panic, Anxiety, and Their Disorders:
text: His snakefear if anything was more unhealthy than healthy, carrying with it an almost uncontrollable tendency to freeze into a panic-stricken target.
ref: 1998, James Jones, The Thin Red Line, page 52:
text: Intense snake fear is prevalent in both humans and other primates. Humans and monkeys learn snake fear more easily than fear of most other stimuli through direct or vicarious conditioning (Ohman and Mineka, 2003).
ref: 2010, Tigerpaper, volumes 37-38:
text: A well-known research example is the use of Fear Thermometer ratings during behavioral approach tasks in the early snake-fear desensitization experiments.
ref: 2012, Alan S. Bellack, Michel Hersen, Handbook of Clinical Behavior Therapy with Adults, page 29:
text: Presumably, when preparedness for snake fear was being naturally selected, delaying one's fearresponse while one drew a distinction between poisonous and nonpoisonous snakes was not the most adaptive way to respond to the situation of suddenly coming across a snake.
ref: 2012, Allan V. Horwitz, PhD, Jerome C. Wakefield, DSW, PhD, All We Have to Fear: Psychiatry's Transformation of Natural Anxieties into Mental Disorders:
glosses: A fear of snakes.
Synonyms: ophidiophobia
ophiophobia
snake-fright
mercuriall
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mercurialls
Senses: examples: text: She had paſſed through the milder Remedies frequently without ſucceſs: upon which account I deſigned Mercurialls; and beginning with Venæſection, afterwards purged her with decoct. epithymi, as it is preſcribed in the method of Cure. [...] After I had thus evacuated the Plethora, and diſpoſed her body for Mercurialls more operative, I gave her each morning and evening a few grains of Mercur. diaphoret. in a bolus with conſ. lujule and Mithridate, [...]
ref: 1676, Richard Wiseman, “Of Lepra, or Elephantiasis”, in Several Chirurgicall Treatises, London: Printed by E. Flesher and J[ohn] Macock, for R[ichard] Royston […], and B[enjamin] Took […], →OCLC, 1st book (A Treatise of Tumours), page 139:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of mercurial.
mercuriall
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more mercuriall
form: most mercuriall
Senses: examples: text: I know the ſhape of's Legge: this is his Hand: / His Foote Mercuriall: his martiall Thigh / The brawnes of Hercules: but his Iouiall face— / Murther in heaven?
ref: 1611 April (first recorded performance), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Cymbeline”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene ii], page 390, column 1:
text: Beware alſo of Mercuriall lotions, I meane any which haue Mercurie Sublimate Precipitat or otherwiſe prepared in them, for though they haue good qualities, yet they are vpon my knowledge and experience dangerous, [...]
ref: 1617, John Woodall, “Of the Small Siringe”, in The Svrgions Mate, or A Treatise Discouering Faithfully and Plainely the due Contents of the Svrgions Chest, the Uses of the Instruments, the Vertues and Operations of the Medicines, the Cures of the Most Frequent Diseases at Sea: […], London: Printed by Edward Griffin for Laurence Lisle, […], →OCLC, page 22:
text: [Y]our Mercuriall wit hath mangonized a Gigantean fury with an humble hue.
ref: 1642, Thomas Barton, “Section II”, in ΑΠΟΔΕΙΞΙΣ ΤΟΥ ΑΝΤΙΤΕΙΧΙΣΜΑΤΟΣ. [APODEIXIS TOU ANTITEICHISMATOS.] Or, A Tryall of the Covnter-scarfe, Made 1642. […], London: Printed by Thomas Purslow, for Andrew Crooke, […], published 1643, →OCLC, page 16:
text: When the ſoule bringeth its fire deſire out of its owne ſelfe-will into the Love-deſire of God; and goeth out of its owne ſelfneſſe, and ſinketh into the mercy and compaſſion of God, and caſteth it ſelfe into the death of Chriſt; and willeth no longer the fire-ſource, but deſireth in its fire-life to be dead in the death of Chriſt; then the poyſon of the Mercuriall life dyeth in the will of iniquity, and there ariſeth a new twigge, and budding of love-deſire.
ref: 1649, Jacob Behmen [i.e., Jakob Böhme], “The Nineteenth Epistle”, in J[ohn] E[llistone], transl., The Epistles of Jacob Behmen: Aliter, Tevtonicvs Philosophvs. […] Translated out of the German Language, London: Printed by Matthew Simmons […], →OCLC, paragraph 24, page 149:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of mercurial.
mercurialls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mercuriall; obsolete spelling of mercurials.
schlockster
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: schlocksters
Senses: glosses: One who creates schlock.
bar-tend
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: bar-tends
form: bar-tending
form: bar-tended
form: bar-tended
Senses: examples: text: He bar-tended at the fire station whenever he was needed and worked all kinds of odd jobs, anything that needed to be done he could do it.
ref: 2004, David Bereznak, The Devil's Kitchen:
text: But it never did heal properly and Lizzie stayed on at the bar — waitressing until she came of legal age to bar-tend.
ref: 2004, Janelle Taylor, Dying To Marry:
text: Theresa had planned to bar-tend Darwin's Theory for one year.
ref: 2011, Vincent Robillard, The Devil Sure Does: The Anti-Biography of Nathan Dawn, page 3:
glosses: Alternative form of bartend.
bar-tends
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of bar-tend
bar-tending
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of bar-tend
bar-tended
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of bar-tend
itty bitty titty committee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: the itty bitty titty committee
form: Itty Bitty Titty Committee
Etymology: Coined for the rhyme. First attested on American musical comedian Rusty Warren's record Rusty Rides Again (1967).
Senses: examples: text: Oh yeah, there's lots of little Nanny-No-Knockers – in fact, we've got our own group. It's called the I.B.T.C., that's the itty bitty titty committee.
ref: 1967, Rusty Warren, Rusty Rides Again, Jubilee Records, side B, 09:02
text: Sandy smiled dryly. "When my friends were getting breasts, but eons before I was, they would say I was on the Itty-bitty Titty Committee. […]"
ref: 1997, Naomi Wolf, Promiscuities: The Secret Struggle for Womanhood, Random House, page 46:
text: "I’m gettin’ me some implants … so I can get my Pamela Anderson on." ¶ "I heard that, cause you know you belong to the itty bitty titty committee."
ref: 2011, Sheila Copeland, Saved and Single, Kensington Books, page 298:
text: "But please try to keep your expectations in check. As a former member of the Itty Bitty Titty Committee myself, I can understand your hype. But I still don't want you to feel crushed if they don't get as big as you'd like."
ref: 2017 January 24, Jocelyn Samara D., Rain (webcomic), Comic 907 - Committee:
text: When I failed to develop large breasts, my father asked me if I planned to join the "Itty Bitty Titty Committee".
ref: 2019 March 8, Rachel Inberg, “My life in sex: the woman who grew up in the porn industry”, in The Guardian:
glosses: Women or girls with small breasts, viewed collectively.
wikipedia: Rusty Warren
brassero
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: brasseros
Etymology: Borrowing from Spanish
Senses: examples: text: Here Colonel T. was received by the Minister in an easy and familiar style; and having drawn chairs round the brassero, (one of which the Prince presented to him,) they sat down.
ref: 1804, Public Characters of 1798-9 [-1806] - Volume 4, page 442:
text: The evening was excessively cold, a brisk wind from the mountain having set in ; and we all crowded round the brassero, which was placed in the corner of a very pretty drawing-room, till supper was served, about nine o'clock ; and we were complimented on having ridden well, as the distance from the city is upwards of fourteen leagues, which we had done in nine hours with the same horses, including two hours' rest, which we had given our steeds, and some time wasted in mending my stirrup, which broke on the road.
ref: 1824, Lady Maria Callcott, Judas Tadeo de Reyes, Journal of a Residence in Chile, During the Year 1822, page 241:
text: Your Spanish rental may include a portable space heater, but it's most likely to offer the traditional brassero, a heater that's built into the base of a table.
ref: 1991, Cynthia W. Harriman, Take Your Kids to Europe, page 55:
glosses: A tall dish for burning charcoal.
brasseros
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of brassero
muggability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From muggable + -ity.
Senses: examples: text: I gingerly venture down the streets and into the subway exuding the palpable aura of muggability.
ref: 1978, The Listener - Volumes 100-101, page 496:
text: Individuals who received high muggability ratings tended to move along awkwardly, unaware that their nonverbal communication might cause them trouble (Grayson and Stein, 1981).
ref: 2004, Andrew Karmen, Crime Victims: An Introduction to Victimology, page 27:
text: In a classic study imprisoned muggers were asked to rate the muggability of people by simply watching them walk down the street. The study concluded that the most attractive targets were people whose gait was perceived as "nonsynchronous".
ref: 2017, Michael J. Gelb, The Art of Connection: 7 Relationship-Building Skills Every Leader Needs to Know, page 214:
glosses: The quality of being muggable.
muggable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more muggable
form: most muggable
Etymology: From mug + -able.
Senses: examples: text: How come I'm so muggable? It sounds like the beginning of a corny love lyric, but maybe if I could figure out the answer it would teach other women how not to be.
ref: 1980, Mary Glatzle, Evelyn L. Fiore, Muggable Mary, page 15:
text: As a decoy cop in the Street Crime Unit, Salpeter made himself as muggable as possible by dressing up as, among other things, Hasidic Jews and drunken businessmen.
ref: 2007, Michael Benson, Robert Mladinich, Lethal Embrace:
text: They asked the muggers which of the 60 people in the films they considered easy mark or most muggable and which ones they would stay away from.
ref: 2012, Jerome H. Blass, The Family Counselor, page 150:
glosses: Likely to be mugged; easy to attack.
Derived terms: muggability
gorhen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈɡɔːˌhɛn/
Forms: form: gorhens
Etymology: Probably from gore + hen, in reference to its red colour.
Senses: glosses: female red grouse
Synonyms: moorhen
gorhens
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gorhen
tooth-bottle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tooth-bottles
Etymology: Unknown. Most likely from use as a washstand container.
Senses: examples: text: They filled up their glasses with the red wine from the tooth-bottle and they had other little glasses of brown wine as well.
ref: 1930, Life and Letters and the London Mercury - Volume 4, page 367:
text: But perhaps the most interesting of these fragments in pale-green metal is the neck from a bottle, in shape and size resembling a washstand 'tooth bottle', but with a flatly everted orifice.
ref: 1935, William Arnold Thorpe, English Glass, page 83:
text: The tooth-bottle is at your elbow.
ref: 1938, P.G. Wodehouse, The Code of the Woosters:
glosses: A small metal bottle often used to contain a small amount of alcohol.
tooth-bottles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tooth-bottle
feathers in one's cap
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of feather in one's cap
in fine feather
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: examples: text: Dowley was in fine feather, and I early got him started, and then adroitly worked him around onto his own history for a text and himself for a hero, and then it was good to sit there and hear him hum.
ref: 1889, Mark Twain, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court:
text: The little actress was in fine feather.
ref: 1900, Theodore Dreiser, Sister Carrie:
text: Yes, indeed, Miss Jane, you look in fine feather! I couldn't be more pleased.
ref: 2000, Elizabeth Mansfield, Miscalculations, →ISBN:
glosses: Doing well; healthy and successful.
parrotless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From parrot + -less.
Senses: examples: text: She wore her parrotless hat, and looked determined. "I'll be back in a few minutes," she announced. Rosamond nodded and sank into a chair. I looked about vaguely for my shoe-box. The angel-dog brought a bone and languidly let it drop.
ref: 1903, Anne Story Allen, Merry Hearts: The Adventures of Two Bachelor Maids, page 11:
text: This squawking blue pest became the center of his pride, so one morning when he discovered a parrotless perch, he hovered with rage.
ref: 1998, Tibor Fischer, The Collector Collector: A Novel, Macmillan, →ISBN, page 24:
text: The bold Buccaneer who sailed the seven seas in all their varied humours had become a whimpering, parrotless child.
ref: 2014, Keith M. Costain, The Opera Singer, FriesenPress, →ISBN, page 338:
glosses: without parrots.
mosquitoless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From mosquito + -less.
Senses: examples: text: I am on record for ten years past, of saying that we can't boast of a mosquitoless New Jersey until after our annual expenditures are at least a half-million dollars. Our experience this year is good proof.
ref: 1923, Mosquito Extermination Association, Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the New Jersey Mosquito Extermination Association, New Jersey, page 136:
text: Is this not too high a price to pay for a sproutless potato or a mosquitoless patio?
ref: 2002, Rachel Carson, Silent Spring, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, →ISBN, page 216:
text: It was a mosquitoless day, and very cold; a heavy sea still broke against the shore; ever and anon the sun shone, but masses of cloud kept drifting over the sky.
ref: 2011, Henry Seebohm, The Birds of Siberia: A Record of a Naturalist's Visits to the Valleys of the Petchora and Yenesei, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 219:
glosses: without mosquitos.
feather merchants
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of feather merchant
fool-heartedness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From fool-hearted + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state, quality, or condition of being fool-hearted.
chow hound
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chow hounds
Senses: examples: text: I'm Al and this chow hound is my son, Jason.
ref: 1999, Ronal S. Burris Jr., A Martian Adventure: We Can Go, page 120:
text: He'd always been a real “chow hound” and looked forward to meals.
ref: 2002, Randall L. Braddom, Murder on the Rehab Unit, page 150:
text: Maury was a chow hound, and he knew everything and everybody in town.
ref: 2010, Edward S. Clark, Gentry's Gamble, page 61:
glosses: Alternative form of chowhound.
chow hounds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chow hound
Kangding
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /kɒŋ.dɪŋ/
/kɑŋ-/
Forms: form: Kangting
form: K'ang-ting
Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 康定 (Kāngdìng).
Senses: examples: text: The U.S. Geological Survey said the magnitude-5.9 quake hit Saturday about 30 kilometers (20 miles) from the town of Kangding in Sichuan province. China’s seismological agency put the magnitude at 6.3.[…]
No major damage was reported in the town of Kangding, where CCTV video showed residents strolling the town’s streets, looking up at the steep surrounding hillsides and talking on their cellphones.[…]
Kangding and the surrounding county have a population of 129,320 people, about 70 percent of them Tibetan.
ref: 2014 November 22, Christopher Bodeen, “Strong quake in west China kills 2; 54 hurt”, in AP News, archived from the original on 18 May 2022:
glosses: A county-level city of Garzê, Sichuan, southwest China.
Synonyms: Dartsedo
Tachienlu
play it close to the hip
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: plays it close to the hip
form: playing it close to the hip
form: played it close to the hip
form: played it close to the hip
Senses: examples: text: Goodman wanted to play it close to the hip by starting the evening out with his more commercial arrangements—which fell flat with the audience; however, when he launched the band into Fletcher Henderson's arrangement of "King Porter Stomp," the fans went wild.
ref: 2013, Michael Stephans, Experiencing Jazz: A Listener's Companion, page 101:
text: If I opened my mouth a string of accusations would fly out and if I didn't play it close to the hip, I'd ruin any chances I might have at coaxing some information out of him.
ref: 2015, Amanda Bonilla, Shadows at Midnight:
text: Rin would play this close to the hip. No way would he show his hand so soon.
ref: 2017, Kate Baxter, The Lost Vampire:
glosses: To behave conservatively and discreetly.
plays it close to the hip
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of play it close to the hip
playing it close to the hip
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of play it close to the hip
played it close to the hip
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of play it close to the hip
mantri
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mantris
form: mantree
form: muntree
form: muntri
Senses: examples: ref: 2024 February 27, Sureshkumar, “HC junks DMK mantri acquittal, orders retrial in 2012 graft”, in The Times of India:
glosses: A minister or high official.
Related terms: mandarin
abaxializing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of abaxialize
acylimmonium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: acylimmoniums
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: An acyl immonium cation
adenoreceptor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: adenoreceptors
Senses: glosses: An adenosine receptor
afluzosin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of alfuzosin.
aggregesome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of aggresome.
aigialosaurid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: aigialosaurids
Senses: glosses: Any of the family †Aigialosauridae extinct lizards,
aigialosaurids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of aigialosaurid
allododecaploid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From allo- + dodecaploid.
Senses: topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: Having twelve sets of chromosomes, six from each parent
allododecaploid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: allododecaploids
Etymology: From allo- + dodecaploid.
Senses: glosses: Such an organism
allododecaploids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of allododecaploid
allooctoploids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of allooctoploid
aminopeptidasic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Relating to an aminopeptidase
aminotransferance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: aminotransferances
Senses: glosses: Synonym of transamination.
synonyms: word: transamination
ampelozizyphoid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ampelozizyphoids
Senses: glosses: Any plant of the genus Ampelozizyphus
ampelozizyphoids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ampelozizyphoid
anamorsin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A protein that inhibits apoptosis
anapleural
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Synonym of anaplerotic.
synonyms: word: anaplerotic
annellovirus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of anellovirus.
anodophile
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: anodophiles
Etymology: From anode + -phile.
Senses: glosses: an anodophilic material
anodophilic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From anode + -philic.
Senses: glosses: That is attracted to the anode of a cell
Related terms: anodophile
anodophiles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of anodophile
antepubic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From ante- + pubic.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of prepubic.
synonyms: word: prepubic
antiproliferatives
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of antiproliferative
apatosaurine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: apatosaurines
Senses: glosses: Any sauropod of the subfamily †Apatosaurinae
apatosaurines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of apatosaurine
apicoectomize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: apicoectomizes
form: apicoectomizing
form: apicoectomized
form: apicoectomized
Etymology: From apicoectomy + -ize.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
surgery
glosses: To carry out an apicoectomy
apicoectomized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of apicoectomize
aponecrotic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From apo- + necrotic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to aponecrosis
arthropodial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of arthropodal.
glosses: Relating to plants of the genus Arthropodium
ascocarpous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Having an ascocarp
baitfishery
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The fishing of baitfish
Synonyms: baitfishing
baitfishing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From baitfish + -ing.
Senses: glosses: The fishing of baitfish
biannulate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From bi- + annulate.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Having two rings.
bioinformative
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From bio- + informative.
Senses: glosses: That provides bioinformation
biointerference
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From bio- + interference.
Senses: glosses: biological interference
bionanocomposite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bionanocomposites
Etymology: From bio- + nanocomposite.
Senses: glosses: A biological nanocomposite
bionanocomposites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bionanocomposite
bioprintability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From bio- + printability.
Senses: glosses: The condition of being bioprintable
bioserotyped
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of bioserotype
biospectrophotometer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: biospectrophotometers
Etymology: From bio- + spectrophotometer.
Senses: glosses: A spectrophotometer designed for use with biological materials
blattinine
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Blattinae + -ine.
Senses: glosses: Related to cockroaches of the subfamily Blattinae
Fourteen Words
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: 14 Words
Senses: qualifier: white supremacy
glosses: A white supremacist slogan originated by American domestic terrorist David Lane: "We must secure the existence of our people and a future for white children".
Derived terms: 14
1488
Related terms: white genocide
brahminoside
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The pentacyclic triterpenoid 8,10,11-trihydroxy-9-(hydroxymethyl)-1,2,6a,6b,9,12a-hexamethyl-1,2,3,4,4a,5,6,6a,6b,7,8,8a,9,10,11,12,12a,12b,13,14b-icosahydropicene-4a-carboxylic acid present in the pennywort Centella asiatica
Related terms: brahmoside
brahmoside
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The pentacyclic triterpenoid 8,10,11-trihydroxy-9-(hydroxymethyl)-1,2,6a,6b,9,12a-hexamethyl-1,2,3,4,4a,5,6,6a,6b,7,8,8a,9,10,11,12,12a,12b,13,14b-icosahydropicene-4a-carboxylic acid present in the pennywort Centella asiatica
Related terms: brahminoside
brasinolide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of brassinolide.
bronchoaspirates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of bronchoaspirate
bronchoaspirated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of bronchoaspirate
brunsvicamide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: brunsvicamides
Senses: glosses: Any of a group of cyanobacterial peptides
brunsvicamides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of brunsvicamide
burkavidin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A biotin-binding protein present in Burkholderia
butyrometric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From butyro- + -metric.
Senses: glosses: Relating to butyrometry
glosses: Measured using a butyrometer
calaphidine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: calaphidines
Senses: glosses: Any aphid of the subfamily Calaphidinae
calaphidines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of calaphidine
calibrationless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From calibration + -less.
Senses: glosses: Lacking calibration
Related terms: uncalibrated
camarasaur
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: camarasaurs
Senses: glosses: Any dinosaur of the genus †Camarasaurus
camarasaurs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of camarasaur
camphorimine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: An imine derived from camphor
canalolithiasis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From canal + -o- + lithiasis.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of canalithiasis.
synonyms: word: canalithiasis
candonine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: candonines
Senses: glosses: Any ostracod of the subfamily Candoninae
candonines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of candonine
cardioprotect
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: cardioprotects
form: cardioprotecting
form: cardioprotected
form: cardioprotected
Etymology: From cardio- + protect.
Senses: glosses: To provide cardioprotection
cardioprotected
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of cardioprotect
cardioprotected
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Protected by cardioprotection
cardiorenoprotective
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From cardio- + renoprotective.
Senses: glosses: cardioprotective and renoprotective
chaotropy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The disruption of hydrogen bonds by a chaotropic material
circalunidian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: circalunar
colaminar
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From co- + laminar.
Senses: glosses: Describing two layers of fluid that move alongside one another
colaminarity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The condition of being colaminar
corticoresponsiveness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From corticoresponsive + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The condition of being corticoresponsive
cryocontainer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cryocontainers
Etymology: From cryo- + container.
Senses: glosses: An insulated container used for cryofluids
cryocontainers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cryocontainer
cryodiluent
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cryodiluents
Etymology: From cryo- + diluent.
Senses: glosses: A cryogenic diluent
cryodiluents
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cryodiluent
cyclohexapeptide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cyclohexapeptides
Etymology: From cyclo- + hexapeptide.
Senses: glosses: A cyclic hexapeptide (cyclopeptide composed of six amino acids)
cyclohexapeptides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cyclohexapeptide
cypridoid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cypridoids
Senses: glosses: Any ostracod of the superfamily Cypridoidea
cypridoids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cypridoid
cytheroidean
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cytheroideans
Senses: glosses: Any ostracod of the superfamily Cytheroidea
cytheroideans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cytheroidean
cytoembryological
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From cyto- + embryological.
Senses: glosses: Relating to cytoembryology
cytoembryology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From cyto- + embryology.
Senses: glosses: The cytology of embryos
Related terms: cytoembryological
deltocephaline
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: deltocephalines
Senses: glosses: Any leafhopper of the subfamily Deltocephalinae
deltocephalines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of deltocephaline
depsidomycin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: depsidomycins
Senses: glosses: Any of a group of cyclic heptadepsipeptide antibiotics present in ginseng roots
depsidomycins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of depsidomycin
dequantized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of dequantize
dermatovenereological
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From dermato- + venereological.
Senses: glosses: Relating to dermatovenereology
dermatovenereologist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dermatovenereologists
Etymology: From dermato- + venereologist.
Senses: glosses: A specialist in dermatovenereology
dermatovenereologists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dermatovenereologist
white ball
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: white-ball
Senses: examples: text: His team was scheduled to play a white ball match against England.
text: Kohli says that his white-ball batting is essentially an extension of his Test batting.
ref: 2017 January 28, Jonathan Liew, “To cling together or drift apart? Red and white-ball cricket facing a divided future”, in The Daily Telegraph, London:
text: Adil Rashid has put his ambitions for a Test return on hold and negotiated a new white-ball deal at Yorkshire after losing some of his appetite for the first-class game. ... “I’ve made the decision to just concentrate on white ball, something which makes me very happy and gives me the best chance of improving my cricket,” said Rashid.
ref: 2018 February 15, Ali Martin, Vithushan Ehantharajah, “Adil Rashid opts out of first-class cricket for 2018 season”, in The Guardian, London:
topics: ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: limited overs cricket, as distinct from first-class cricket
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see white, ball.
white-ball
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of white ball (“type of cricket”).
hammerfish
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From hammer + fish.
Senses: glosses: The hammerhead shark.
in a snap
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From phrases such as in the snap of one's fingers, etc.
Senses: glosses: At once, almost immediately, very quickly or suddenly.
helmlessness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From helmless + -ness.
Senses: glosses: Absence of a helm.
knoblessness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From knobless + -ness.
Senses: glosses: Absence of knobs.
lintlessness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From lintless + -ness.
Senses: glosses: Absence of lint.
tenantlessness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From tenantless + -ness.
Senses: glosses: Absence of tenants.
pastorlessness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From pastorless + -ness.
Senses: glosses: Absence of a pastor.
toelessness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From toeless + -ness.
Senses: glosses: Absence of toes.
toillessness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From toilless + -ness.
Senses: glosses: Absence of toil.
torsionlessness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From torsionless + -ness.
Senses: glosses: Absence of torsion.
dicklessness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From dickless + -ness.
Senses: glosses: Lack of a penis.
cocklessness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From cockless + -ness.
Senses: glosses: Lack of a penis.