cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
thought criminal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: thought criminals
form: thoughtcriminal
form: thought-criminal
Senses: glosses: A person who has committed a thoughtcrime.
thought criminals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of thought criminal
university college
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: university colleges
Senses: glosses: A tertiary educational institution that is a constituent unit of a university, and whose degrees are granted through the parent university.
Dragomir
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Dragomirs
Senses: glosses: A surname.
apple moth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɒθ
Forms: form: apple moths
Senses: glosses: Any moth whose larvae are found on apple trees, especially of species Epiphyas postvittana.
Derived terms: taxonomic: Erechthias mystacinella
word: curve-winged apple moth
taxonomic: Epiphyas postvittana
alt: syn. Tortrix postvittana
word: light brown apple moth
taxonomic: Orgyia anartoides
word: painted apple moth
SPAR
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: topics: rail-transport
railways
transport
coordinate_terms: SPAD
glosses: Initialism of signal passed at red.
webmoth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: webmoths
form: web moth
Etymology: From web + moth.
Senses: glosses: Any moth that creates web-like structures for its larvae.
Derived terms: taxonomic: Plutella xylostella
word: cabbage webmoth
taxonomic: Hymenia recurvalis
word: Hawaiian beet webmoth
word: lucerne seed webmoth
word: lucerne webmoth
word: tea tree webmoth
word: weed webmoth
web moth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: web moths
form: webmoth
Senses: glosses: Any moth that creates web-like structures for its larvae or whose larvae spread webbing over the plants on which they feed.
Derived terms: taxonomic: Plutella xylostella
word: cabbage web moth
taxonomic: Hymenia recurvalis
word: Hawaiian beet web moth
taxonomic: Etiella behrii
word: lucerne seed web moth
word: lucerne web moth
taxonomic: Macalla thyrsisalis
word: mahogany web moth
taxonomic: Macalla thyrsisalis
word: tea tree web moth
taxonomic: Achyra affinitalis
word: weed web moth
Related terms: web worm
webworm
webworm moth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: webworm moths
Senses: examples: text: He shuffled along next to Randall, his hand wrapped up to the wrist in gauze and tape so that it looked like a webworm moth nest wound tight in a pecan tree, a yarn of larvae eating at the ripe green leaves beneath to burst forth in black-winged flurry in the throat-closing heat of fall.
ref: 2011, Jesmyn Ward, Salvage the Bones, Bloomsbury (2017), page 132:
glosses: Any moth whose larvae inhabit web-like structures.
Derived terms: taxonomic: Omphalocera munroei
word: asimina webworm moth
taxonomic: Omiodes indicata
word: bean-leaf webworm moth
taxonomic: Spoladea recurvalis
word: beet webworm moth
alt: Parapediasia teterrellus
word: bluegrass sod webworm moth
alt: Parapediasia teterrellus
word: bluegrass webworm moth
taxonomic: Acrolophidae spp.
word: burrowing webworm moth
taxonomic: Hellula undalis
word: cabbage webworm moth
alt: Rhectocraspeda periusalis
word: eggplant webworm moth
taxonomic: Hyphantria cunea
word: fall webworm moth
taxonomic: Achyra rantalis
word: garden webworm moth
taxonomic: Diathrausta harlequinalis
word: harlequin webworm moth
alt: Friseria cockerelli
word: mesquite webworm moth
taxonomic: Homadaula anisocentra
word: mimosa webworm
taxonomic: Archips fervidana
word: oak webworm moth
taxonomic: Dichomeris citrifoliella
word: orange webworm moth
alt: Davara caricae
word: papaya webworm moth
taxonomic: Diathrausta reconditalis
word: recondite webworm moth
taxonomic: Nola cereella
word: sorghum webworm
english: (Herpetogramma bipunctalis
translation: (Herpetogramma bipunctalis
word: southern beet webworm
taxonomic: Omiodes indicata
word: soybean leaf folder
taxonomic: Hymenia perspectalis
word: spotted beet webworm moth
taxonomic: Helcystogramma convolvuli
word: sweetpotato webworm moth
bell ends
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bell end
bread boxes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bread box
cackle bladders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cackle bladder
Köchel number
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Köchel numbers
Etymology: Named after Austrian musicologist Ludwig Ritter von Köchel (1800–1877).
Senses: examples: text: Every Mozart piece has a Köchel number. The Fourth Concerto is K. 218, and the highest Köchel number is 626. I was spending my summer with a Köchel number.
ref: 2014, Virginia Euwer Wolff, The Mozart Season, Square Fish, →ISBN, page 78:
synonyms: K
glosses: A number assigned to each work composed by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.
builder's mugs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of builder's mug
businessowners
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of businessowner
butcherblocks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of butcherblock
business owners
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of business owner
caddiemasters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of caddiemaster
calcimeters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of calcimeter
camera shots
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of camera shot
camote cues
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of camote cue
canidates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of canidate
capronates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of capronate
capsidations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of capsidation
butt bags
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of butt bag
refugeedom
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From refugee + -dom.
Senses: glosses: The state of being a refugee.
anarcho-leftism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From anarcho- + leftism.
Senses: examples: text: Yes, of course, all three filmmakers are working from different viewpoints: Vidor from a rural Populism, Disney from a somehow suburbanized eupepsia, and Chaplin from his anarcho-leftism.
ref: 1988, Raymond Durgnat, Scott Simmon, King Vidor, American, →ISBN, page 160:
text: But, more importantly in the long-term, in interring Bookchin's work it also performs the last rites over anarcho-leftism.
ref: 1997, Anarchist Studies - Volumes 5-6, page 183:
text: Type 1 refers to anarcho-leftism and type 2 to anarcho-capitalists, even though he is quick to dismiss them as unrepresentative of the anarchist tradition.
ref: 2006, G. Curran, 21st Century Dissent: Anarchism, Anti-Globalization and Environmentalism, →ISBN:
glosses: A form of anarchism that emphasizes community and social equality as well as mutual responsibility.
cholaneresis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cholanereses
Etymology: Compare choleresis, and potentially Ancient Greek ἀναίρεσις (anaíresis, “a taking away”).
Senses: examples: text: The patient was treated with hepatoprotection in addition to medication for cholaneresis and nourishing blood, the jaundice and other symptoms markedly improved.
ref: 2012 July, Yu Guo-hang, Wu Na, Liu Zi-zhuo, Xu Jiao-yan, “A Rare Case of Ectopic Pregnancy with Hemolytic Jaundice as Initial Symptom”, in Clinical Misdiagnosis & Mistherapy:
text: For all patients, a bland diet was demanded and a series of preoperative preparations, such as any necessary application of antibiotics or cholaneresis treatments, were adopted.
ref: 2015 February, De‑Kang Gao, Shao‑Hua Wei, Wei Li, Jie Ren, Xiao‑Ming Ma, Chun‑Wei Gu, Hao‑Rong Wu, “Totally laparoscopic gallbladder-preserving surgery: A minimally invasive and favorable approach for cholelithiasis”, in Experimental and Therapeutic Medicine, volume 9, number 2:
text: In addition, most of herbs that drain downward have the effects of cholaneresis, diuresis, antiinflammation, antitumor, and antibacterium, and also can strenghen the immunologic function.
ref: 2017, Shengyan Xi, Yuewen Gong, Essentials of Chinese Materia Medica and Medical Formulas, →ISBN:
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Increased production of cholic acid or related substances.
Mars symbol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Mars symbols
Senses: glosses: the symbol ♂
Venus symbol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Venus symbols
Senses: glosses: the symbol ♀
downballot
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more downballot
form: most downballot
Senses: examples: text: White won with 54 percent of the vote, and the Republicans failed to gain any downballot statewide offices.
ref: 2000, Roy R. Barkley, Mark F. Odintz, The Portable Handbook of Texas, →ISBN, page 99:
text: There is some evidence, however, that downballot races can influence turnout.
ref: 2003, Kimberly Love Nalder, Democracy and the electoral consequences of term limits:
text: Is there any precedent in Ohio for a downballot candidate receiving on a percentage or absolute basis so many more votes than the Presidential candidate of the same party in this or any other presidential election?
ref: 2009, United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights, and Civil Liberties, Lessons learned from the 2004 presidential election, page 302:
text: There is a substantial political science literature on the effects of presidential campaigns on downballot races.
ref: 2017, Amnon Cavari, Richard J. Powell, Kenneth R. Mayer, The 2016 Presidential Election, →ISBN:
glosses: Alternative form of down-ballot.
down-ballot
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more down-ballot
form: most down-ballot
Etymology: From the organization of most electoral ballots, which list electoral offices in descending order of the amount of power wielded by the officeholder.
Senses: examples: text: Just as I stepped out of the shower, I got a call from a state senator who was planning to run for a down-ballot statewide office against the mayor of a suburban city.
ref: 2012, Howie Carr, Hard Knocks, →ISBN:
text: In 2012, Coleman again secured his reelection with more than 90 percent of the vote, and Democratic candidates in his district secured a greater share of the mean precinct down-ballot vote in 2012 than in 2000.
ref: 2013, George Hawley, Voting and Migration Patterns in the U.S., →ISBN:
text: In down-ballot races, television advertising is rare.
ref: 2015, John S Klemanski, David A. Dulio, Michael Switalski, Campaigns from the Ground Up, →ISBN:
text: One task of these developers at the party was to create tools for state parties and down-ballot candidates built from this data architecture.
ref: 2016, Daniel Kreiss, Prototype Politics, →ISBN:
glosses: Pertaining to the election of a relatively minor officeholder.
down-ticket
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more down-ticket
form: most down-ticket
Senses: examples: text: He should form a PAC to dole out dollars to down-ticket Republicans.
ref: 2013, John Heilemann, Mark Halperin, Double Down, →ISBN, page 91:
text: Second, each percentage point gain for Obama among whites translated into a 1.16 point gain for the down-ticket Democrats (all of whom except for the challengers to Jeff Sessions [R-Ala.] and Thad Cochran [R-Miss.] are white).
ref: 2014, Charles S. Bullock, Ronald Keith Gaddie, The Triumph of Voting Rights in the South, →ISBN, page 370:
text: When one uses linear regression to test the relationship between white vote shares of down-ticket candidates for U.S. Senate and governor and the Obama performance among whites, while controlling for incumbency in the contest, the following patterns emerge.
ref: 2016, Charles S. Bullock, Ronald Keith Gaddie, Justin J. Wert, The Rise and Fall of the Voting Rights Act, →ISBN:
glosses: Synonym of down-ballot.
synonyms: word: down-ballot
mirror-like
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more mirror-like
form: most mirror-like
Etymology: From mirror + -like.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of mirrorlike.
downticket
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more downticket
form: most downticket
Senses: examples: text: Republicans may fare better in this round of reapportionment than they did twenty years ago because after four years in office, Huckabee is not the novice that White was, but hte pattern of electoral competition during the first decade of the twenty-first century will probably continue to look like that of the 1990s — slow, consistent, hard-fought gains for downticket Republicans — when, with a little foresight, electoral gains might have gone much easier for them.
ref: 2003, Charles S. Bullock, Mark J. Rozell, The new politics of the old South: an introduction to Southern politics:
text: I wasn't delighted to think success would mean four more years of Bill Clinton either, or might come at the price of downticket losses, as many red-state Democrats fear.
ref: 2010, Beverly Guy-Sheftall, Johnnetta Betsch Cole, Who Should Be First?, →ISBN:
text: While Charlie Crist did run ahead of his downticket running mates, the vote totals for both gubernatorial candidates was 230,000 lower than that in the voting for the constitutional amendment legalizing medical marijuana.
ref: 2018, Robert E. Crew Jr., Mary Ruggiero Anderson, The 2014 Elections in Florida: The Last Gasp From the 2012 Elections, →ISBN:
glosses: Alternative form of down-ticket.
double park
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: double parks
form: double parking
form: double parked
form: double parked
Senses: examples: text: They double park. They park next to fire hydrants. They ignore meters, rarely troubling to fish for coins in the cushions of their seats (not that their zlotys, crowns, and francs would do them any good.)
ref: 2005, Andrew Thomas Breslin, Mother's Milk, →ISBN, page 156:
text: In deciding whether to double park, a resident of Econville will compare his benefit from double parking to the expected fine.. .Therefore, to achieve optimal deterrence – that is, deterrence only of those double-parking violations in which the benefits are less than the [previously stipulated] $10 congestion cost – it is necessary for the expected fine to equal $10. . .
ref: 2005, Francesco Parisi, Vernon L. Smith, The Law and Economics of Irrational Behavior, →ISBN, page 268:
text: Keisha decided to double park and blocked Pastor Blake Bentley.
ref: 2014, Janice Burkett, Kiss Me on the Inside, →ISBN:
text: A risk-neutral person will double park if his benefit exceeds the expected fine.
ref: 2018, A. Mitchell Polinsky, An Introduction To Law and Economics, →ISBN:
glosses: Alternative form of double-park.
double parks
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of double park
double parking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of double park
double parking
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: In deciding whether to double park, a resident of Econville will compare his benefit from double parking to the expected fine...Therefore, to achieve optimal deterrence – that is, deterrence only of those double-parking violations in which the benefits are less than the [previously stipulated] $10 congestion cost – it is necessary for the expected fine to equal $10. . .
ref: 2005, Francesco Parisi, Vernon L. Smith, The Law and Economics of Irrational Behavior, →ISBN, page 268:
text: Some airport operators restrict curbside parking or standing to a single lane for operational reasons (e.g., a narrow curbside roadway or curbsides used exclusively by commercial vehicles where double parking is prohibited).
ref: 2010, Airport Curbside and Terminal Area Roadway Operations, →ISBN, page 46:
text: Where on-street parking occupancy is high, bike lanes may be blocked by double parking, rendering them useless.
ref: 2011, Jeffrey Tumlin, Sustainable Transportation Planning, →ISBN:
glosses: Alternative form of double-parking.
double parked
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of double park
doublepark
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: doubleparks
form: doubleparking
form: doubleparked
form: doubleparked
Senses: examples: text: The police car did not turn the last corner, but instead continued across the street where it stopped, permitting its occupants to watch the taxi doublepark once again in front of the same hotel and see the accused get out and hurry into the hotel.
ref: 1950, W. J. Tremeear, Canadian Criminal Cases Annotated - Volume 96, page 130:
text: ...the problem is especially evident since visitors or guests may occupy any additional available parking spaces and may force others to doublepark or to park in front of hydrants or in designated firelanes.
ref: 1978, Glenn A. Gaines, Firefighting operations in garden apartments and townhouses, →ISBN, page 96:
text: A car slows to doublepark in front of you, and you decide that the cars behind will have to move left anyway.
ref: 1981, John Stewart Allen, The Complete Book of Bicycle Commuting, page 161:
glosses: Alternative form of double-park.
doubleparks
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of doublepark
doubleparked
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of doublepark
doubleparking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of doublepark
doubleparking
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: In New York, doubleparking is a violation of a traffic ordinance which is not a crime.
ref: 1960, Cleveland-Marshall law review - Volume 9, page 541:
text: Because space is tight around the university, doubleparking is permitted in front of the inn to allow for check-in.
ref: 2007, Tom Snyder, The Two-Lane Gourmet, →ISBN:
text: They adore doubleparking. They do. This is true love - a love whose month is ever May. They park in the middle of the goddamned street.
ref: 2010, Martin Amis, London Fields, →ISBN, page 326:
glosses: Alternative form of double-parking.
hypergranulation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From hyper- + granulation.
Senses: glosses: Excessive granulation.
Related terms: hypergranular
hypergranulated
overgranulation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From over- + granulation.
Senses: glosses: hypergranulation
overgranulated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more overgranulated
form: most overgranulated
Etymology: From over- + granulated.
Senses: glosses: hypergranulated
unbannings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of unbanning
reproductive justice
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: government
politics
glosses: A subset of human rights based around personal bodily autonomy, including the right to have children or abort them (pro-choice), associated with political activism of the 2000s.
defoil
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: defoils
form: defoiling
form: defoiled
form: defoiled
Etymology: From Middle English defoil (“to defile”), from Old French defouler.
Senses: examples: text: A murder'd body huge beside him stood, Of head and right hand both but lately spoiled, His left hand bore the head, whose visage good Both pale and wan with dust and gore defoiled, Yet spake, though dead, with whose sad words the blood Forth at his lips in huge abundance boiled:— Fly Argillan, from this false camp fly far, Whose guide a traitor, captains murderers are.
ref: 1853, Torquato Tasso, Edward Fairfaix, Leigh Hunt, Godfrey of Bulloigne, Or: The Recovery of Jerusalem, page 252:
text: Naught, Answered his hot desires : within the air The war-horse neighed, he heard the tourney-spears Ring in attaint, with moans from one defoiled.
ref: 1890, Frank Carr, Of Palomide: Famous Knight of King Arthur's Round Table, page 81:
text: Then Sir Thomas came thither with his company and mounted up into the gate, and there found the said lords with twenty-five knights with them, who yielded them to Sir Thomas; and he took them for his prisoners and left company to keep them, and then mounted again on his horse and rode into the streets, and saved many lives of ladies, damosels, and cloisterers from defoiling,— for the soldiers were without mercy.
ref: 1895, Jean Froissart, translated by John Bourchier, edited by George Campbell Macaulay, The Chronicles of Froissart, page 97:
text: As the so-called experts of life continue to defoil the natural, living world, they also defoil the minds and tongues of its human inhabitants.
ref: 1980, Larry Tifft, Dennis Sullivan, The Struggle to Be Human: Crime, Criminology, and Anarchism, page 21:
glosses: To defile or despoil.
defoils
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of defoil
defoiling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of defoil
defoiled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of defoil
leniwe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Borrowed from Polish leniwe (literally “lazy”) as a clipped form of the dishes pierogi leniwe and kluski leniwe.
Senses: examples: text: I decided to throw together some leniwe as a simple supper but when she asked if I could top them with fried sauerkraut the whole affair became less lazy and more high-effort.
text: "What will you have, madam?" / "Leniwe, please. But no jam." / "Excellent choice. [as a thought:] Jam is the whole point of leniwe!"
ref: 2013, Rutu Modan, translated by Jessica Cohen, The Property, Drawn & Quarterly, →ISBN, page 52:
text: "When I was growing up, my parents threw me into swim practice and I swam every day. I would come home with chlorine in my hair — my hair super crispy ... freezing cold. And when I saw this platter of these leniwe with bread crumbs and sugar, I knew that meant that my parents were going out that night, and I got to have dessert for dinner," says Porowski.
ref: 2021 September 15, Laura Brehaut, “Cook this: Lazy pierogies with wild mushrooms, cabbage and prunes from Let's Do Dinner”, in National Post:
text: Biting into leniwe and hearing the crunch is my favorite moment.
ref: 2023, Michał Korkosz, Polish'd: Modern Vegetarian Cooking from Global Poland, The Experiment, →ISBN, page 144:
glosses: A simple Polish dumpling made with farmer cheese or quark.
interclick
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: interclicks
Etymology: From inter- + click.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A click of one button while another is already being held down.
unsceptre
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: unsceptres
form: unsceptring
form: unsceptred
form: unsceptred
form: unscepter
Etymology: From un- + sceptre.
Senses: examples: text: It is the cuſtome for their Kings to inherite, the ſonne alvvayes taking the Kingdome after his fathers death. If there be no ſonne, then the Queene rules; if no Queene, the next to the blood-royall, vvho comes in othervvise, is but counted an uſurping intruder, and if his faire carriage beare him not out the better, they vvill ſoone unſcepter him.
ref: 1634, William Wood, “Of Their Kings Government, and Subjects Obedience”, in New Englands Prospect. A True, Lively, and Experimentall Description of that Part of America, Commonly Called New England; […], London: […] Tho[mas] Cotes, for Iohn Bellamie, […], →OCLC, 2nd part (Of the Indians, […]), page 79:
text: Upon the sodden ground / His [the god Saturn’s] old right hand lay nerveless, listless, dead, / Unsceptred; and his realmless eyes were closed; […]
ref: 1818–1819, John Keats, “Hyperion, a Fragment”, in Lamia, Isabella, the Eve of St. Agnes, and Other Poems, London: […] [Thomas Davison] for Taylor and Hessey, […], published 1820, →OCLC, page 146:
text: Ye hate, shall hatred then unsceptre Zeus, / Or anger empty any throne in heaven?
ref: 1870, John Leicester Warren, “Pandora”, in Rehearsals, London: Strahan, page 23:
text: I can make kings and unsceptre them, / Yet cannot give my heart to whom I choose.
ref: 1967, John Cairncross (translator), Berenice by Jean Racine, Act 3, Scene 1, in Andromache and Other Plays, Penguin, 1982, p. 255
synonyms: decrown
depose
descepter
dethrone
discrown
disenthrone
dissceptre
uncrown
unking
unthrone
glosses: To deprive of a sceptre; to deprive of the status of monarch or of authority.
Related terms: word: unsceptred
fluid loading
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fluid loadings
Senses: glosses: The process of injecting essential bodily fluids into a person that has experienced severe body water loss or sustained a traumatic injury
Related terms: water loading
used bookstore
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: used bookstores
form: used-book store
form: used book store
form: used-bookstore
Etymology: From used book + store.
Senses: examples: text: Used bookstores have been disappearing for decades: The Booksellers tells us that 1950s New York had 368 bookstores, and today it has about 79.
ref: 2023 May 13, Lilah Raptopoulos, “The charms of New York's Antiquarian book fair”, in FT Weekend, Life & Arts, page 21:
glosses: A bookstore that principally sells secondhand or used books.
Synonyms: word: secondhand bookshop
Related terms: bookstore
book town
antique shop
used bookstores
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of used bookstore
immune complex
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: immune complexes
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
immunology
medicine
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
synonyms: word: IC
glosses: A molecule formed from the integral binding of an antibody to a soluble antigen; an antigen-antibody complex.
immune complexes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of immune complex
abamectins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of abamectin
acidotoxicity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From acido- + toxicity.
Senses: topics: medicine
physiology
sciences
glosses: toxicity due to the presence of acid
adenocancer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: adenocancers
Etymology: From adeno- + cancer.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: Synonym of adenocarcinoma.
synonyms: word: adenocarcinoma
aerenchymatic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to an aerenchyma
aerenchymatous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to an aerenchyma
aeruginoside
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: aeruginosides
Senses: glosses: Any of a group of cyanobacterial peptide glycosides related to the aeruginosins
aeruginosides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of aeruginoside
aldonitrile
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: aldonitriles
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any aldosidic nitrile
aldonitriles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of aldonitrile
alinearity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From a- + linearity.
Senses: glosses: The condition of being alinear
amplitudinal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From amplitude + -in- + -al.
Senses: glosses: Relating to amplitude.
anellivirus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of anellovirus.
angiotensinergic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From angiotensin + -ergic.
Senses: topics: medicine
physiology
sciences
glosses: Produced or activated by angiotensin
anguiliform
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of anguilliform.
antiestrogenicity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From anti- + estrogenicity.
Senses: glosses: The condition of being antiestrogenic
antifadant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: antifadants
Senses: glosses: Any antifadent material
antifadants
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of antifadant
antiprions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of antiprion
apiogalacturonan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: apiogalacturonans
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A form of galacturonan containing apiose and apiobiose groups
razor sharp
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of razor-sharp.
ramrod straight
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: totally, or very, straight
ramrod-straight
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of ramrod straight.
ruby red
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: 'Ruby red, the colour of blood, and, I am willing to bet, ruby will be the colour for Delia. The only question is whether she will be returned wearing jewellery with a ruby in it, or if she will be murdered: rich red ruby blood.' A chill went around the group
ref: 2015, Derek Shield, Ruby Red, Lulu Press, Inc, →ISBN:
glosses: Having the red colour of a ruby.
topics: government
politics
glosses: Extremely Republican-leaning.
ruby-red
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of ruby red.
a pox on
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Etymology: Originally an expression of abuse to wish that someone develop pocks, that is to say, contract pox. Though pox can range from smallpox to chickenpox to cowpox to syphilis, this expression almost always referred to the last one, the Great Pox.
Senses: examples: text: A pox o' your throat, you bawling, blasphemous, incharitable dog!
ref: 1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i]:
glosses: To express curses upon (somebody), when irked or wroth, as though wishing someone "a pox".
examples: text: A pox of that jest! and I beshrew all shrows.
ref: c. 1595–1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, “Loues Labour’s Lost”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene ii]:
text: […] A pox of drowning thyself!
ref: c. 1603–1604 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Othello, the Moore of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene iii]:
glosses: To hell with (abstract or unalive things).
raw_tags: said alternatively with of
Synonyms: woe betide
fie upon
to hell with
in a corner
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: examples: text: Paul almost had poor Keeper in a corner
Where he would have to quit his politics
Or be a Christian.
ref: 1947, Robert Frost, A Masque of Mercy:
glosses: Placed in a difficult or awkward situation.
examples: text: something done in a corner
glosses: Secretly; covertly.
chals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chal
systematician
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: systematicians
Senses: glosses: A person who works or studies according to a system.
systematicians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of systematician
archeospore
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: archeospores
Etymology: From archeo- + spore.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of archespore.
archespore
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: archespores
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
synonyms: archesporium
glosses: A group of cells from which microspores or megaspores develop.
archespores
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of archespore
ascarite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A form of silica that has a coating that absorbs carbon dioxide
aspyridone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: aspyridones
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A polyketide derivative of pyridone produced as a metabolite by Aspergillus
asteriacerebroside
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: asteriacerebrosides
Etymology: From translingual Asteroidea + cerebroside.
Senses: glosses: Any of a group of cerebroside glycosides produced by starfish of the class Asteroidea
asteriacerebrosides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of asteriacerebroside
astrocytopathy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: astrocytopathies
Etymology: From astrocyte + -pathy.
Senses: examples: text: Together, these conclusions suggest that astrocytes play an essential role in the pathophysiology of selected leukodystrophies, the astrocytopathies.
ref: 2019, Alexei Verkhratsky, Neuroglia in Neurodegenerative Diseases, page 212:
topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: An autoimmune disorder of the central nervous system associated with astrocytes.
autophagosomic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to autophagosomes
extraordinaries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of extraordinary
scopuliform
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more scopuliform
form: most scopuliform
Etymology: See -ule.
Senses: glosses: scopiform on a smaller scale
glosses: Synonym of scopuliferous.
synonyms: word: scopuliferous
burrowstown
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: burrowstowns
Senses: glosses: A town that is a burgh.
burrowstowns
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of burrowstown
bioeconomy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bioeconomies
Etymology: From bio- + economy.
Senses: glosses: An economy based on biotechnology
biofeedstock
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: biofeedstocks
Etymology: From bio- + feedstock.
Senses: glosses: biological feedstock (for the production of biofuel)
biofeedstocks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of biofeedstock
bassiacridin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A protein, toxic to locusts, present in the entomopathogenic fungus Beauveria bassiana
biliovascular
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From bilio- + vascular.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Relating to bile ducts and blood vessels
bumblebee moth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bumblebee moths
Senses: glosses: Any of several species of moth that somewhat resemble bumblebees in coloration.
Abraxas grossulariata (magpie moth).
glosses: Any of several species of moth that somewhat resemble bumblebees in coloration.
Aphomia sociella, a pyralid moth.
glosses: Any of several species of moth that somewhat resemble bumblebees in coloration.
Hemaris diffinis (syn. Haemorrhagia diffinis, snowberry clearwing).
glosses: Any of several species of moth that somewhat resemble bumblebees in coloration.
Hemaris thysbe (hummingbird clearwing).
biocompendium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: biocompendiums
Etymology: From bio- + compendium.
Senses: glosses: A compendium of biological and/or biochemical data
bioidentification
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bioidentifications
Etymology: From bio- + identification.
Senses: glosses: biometric identification
Related terms: bioidentity
bioinvade
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: bioinvades
form: bioinvading
form: bioinvaded
form: bioinvaded
Etymology: From bio- + invade.
Senses: glosses: To take part in a bioinvasion
bioinvading
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of bioinvade
bioinvaded
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of bioinvade
bioperspective
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bioperspectives
Etymology: From bio- + perspective.
Senses: glosses: A biological perspective
bioreabsorbable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From bio- + reabsorbable.
Senses: glosses: biologically reabsorbable
blackheaded
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: black-headed
Etymology: From black + headed.
Senses: glosses: Having a black head.
topics: dermatology
medicine
sciences
coordinate_terms: whiteheaded
glosses: Of the skin, having or consisting of many blackheads.
bonegrafts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bonegraft
bonewax
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of bone wax.
bosminid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bosminids
Senses: glosses: Any anomopod of the family Bosminidae
magpie moth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: magpie moths
Senses: glosses: Any of several moths that resemble magpies in color or pattern.
Nyctemera spp. (Arctiidae), of Australasia
glosses: Any of several moths that resemble magpies in color or pattern.
Anania hortulata (Pyralidae), syn. Eurrhypara hortulata), of North America;
glosses: Any of several moths that resemble magpies in color or pattern.
Abraxas grossulariata (Geometridae), of North America and Europe.
bosminids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bosminid
anomopod
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: anomopods
Etymology: Borrowed from translingual Anomopoda.
Senses: glosses: Any crustacean of the suborder Anomopoda.
anomopods
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of anomopod
branchiostegial
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of branchiostegal.
bryconid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bryconids
Senses: glosses: Any fish of the family Bryconidae
bryconids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bryconid
bryodin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A glycoprotein present in the bryony Bryonia dioica
cutworm moth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cutworm moths
Senses: glosses: Any of several moths of similar appearance and their close relatives, principally in genus Agrotis.
Derived terms: taxonomic: Agrotis munda
word: brown cutworm moth
taxonomic: Agrotis gladiaria
word: clay-backed cutworm moth
taxonomic: Agrotis venerabilis
word: dusky cutworm moth
taxonomic: Agrotis malefida
word: pale-sided cutworm moth
taxonomic: Agrotis orthogonia
word: pale western cutworm moth
taxonomic: Agrotis munda
word: pink cutworm moth
taxonomic: Agrotis vetusta
word: spotted-legged cutworm moth
taxonomic: Agrotis porphyricollis
word: variable cutworm moth
chronoportation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -eɪʃən
Forms: form: chronoportations
Etymology: Coined from chrono- + teleportation.
Senses: examples: 1961: Analog Science Fact and Fiction, Volume 67, Issue 4, "The Judas Bug" by Kelly Freas
Too bad that chronoportation is not yet fully developed. If it were, we could go back and perhaps help the old professor figure out a gimmick for storing his universal solvent.
1988:Robert Crossley, introduction to Kindred by Octavia Butler
Perhaps Butler deliberately sacrificed the neat closure that a scientific--or even pseudo-scientific--explanation of telekinesis and chronoportation would have given her novel.
glosses: Any of many (mostly hypothetical or fictional) processes of moving matter from one temporal (and possibly spatial) point to another, generally instantaneously.
glosses: A technique to send one's mind to another time.
warrant of payment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: warrants of payment
Senses: topics: law
glosses: A written order from a first person that instructs a second person to pay a specified recipient a specific amount of money or goods at a specific time.
Synonyms: writ of payment
payment summons
default summons
order to pay
prompt note
Related terms: warrant
writ
injunction
payment order
glass bone disease
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: glass-bone disease
Senses: examples: text: For this reason it is often known as 'glass bone disease' The mutations have their devastating effects because of the hierarchical nature in which collagens are organised.
ref: 2005, Armand Marie Leroi, Mutants: On Genetic Variety and the Human Body, Penguin, →ISBN:
text: […] and creating a better quality bone tissue: it is used in fractures, osteoporosis and is credited as having an action in osteopsatyrosis (glass bone disease) where it could prevent the almost spontaneous fractures characteristic of this disease.
ref: 2013, Dr. Joe Rozencwajg NMD., Dynamic Gemmotherapy: Integrative Embryonic Phytotherapie, Lulu Press, Inc, →ISBN:
glosses: Synonym of osteogenesis imperfecta.
synonyms: word: osteogenesis imperfecta
supermajoritarian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more supermajoritarian
form: most supermajoritarian
Etymology: From supermajority + -arian.
Senses: examples: text: These supermajoritarian proposals mark a significant departure from our normal majoritarian processes and would often permit minority political interests in one House to thwart the electorate's most recent expression of support for the policies offered by a majority of the representatives it had elected.
ref: 1987, United States Congress, House Committee on the Judiciary, Subcommittee on Monopolies and Commercial Law, Proposed Balanced Budget Constitutional Amendments: Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Monopolies and Commercial Law of the Committee on the Judiciary, One Hundredth Congress, First Session, October 15, November 17, and November 18, 1987, Volume 4, p. 611
text: The core of Ackerman's idea is to offer the Executive substantial emergency power in exchange for the political safeguard of a supermajoritarian escalator.
ref: 2009, David Dyzenhaus, Civil Rights and Security, page 146:
text: Moreover, many things that win supermajoritarian approval do so through what John Rawls called an overlapping consensus and what Cass Sunstein calls incompletely theorized agreements.
ref: 2015, James E. Fleming, Fidelity to Our Imperfect Constitution, page 53:
glosses: Supporting the requirement that proponents of a position have a supermajority if they wish to overrule the minority.
supermajoritarianism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From supermajoritarian + -ism.
Senses: examples: text: Buchanan and Tullock (1962) provide a different justification for supermajoritarianism.
ref: 2006, Anthony J. McGann, The Logic of Democracy: Reconciling Equality, Deliberation, and Minority Protection, page 93:
glosses: A form of democracy in which decisions must be made by a supermajority of the whole group.
parens patriae
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Latin parēns patriae (“parent of the country”).
Senses: topics: law
glosses: The government authority to act as the parent of a child or individual to protect them from abusive or negligent parents, legal guardian, or caretaker.
jiggot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: jiggots
Senses: examples: text: A jiggot of mutton is the leg with part of the loin; provide ſuch a one as has been killed two or three days at leaſt, thump it well, and bind it with packthread; […]
ref: 1759, William Verral, “Jigot de mouton aux onions Espaniols. Jiggot of Mutton with Spanish Onions.”, in A Complete System of Cookery. […], London: Printed for the author, and sold by him; as also by Edward Verral bookseller, […]; and by John Rivington […], page 47:
glosses: Archaic form of gigot.
Related terms: jigget
jigot
jiggots
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of jiggot
capravirine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From [Term?] + -virine (“nonnucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitor”).
Senses: topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: A nonnucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitor [5-(3,5-dichlorophenyl)sulfanyl-4-propan-2-yl-1-(pyridin-4-ylmethyl)imidazol-2-yl]methyl carbamate.
caprinaldehyde
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Synonym of decanal.
synonyms: word: decanal
carmazapine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of carbamazepine.
caudorostrally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From caudo- + rostrally.
Senses: glosses: In a caudorostral manner or direction
centromatid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: centromatids
Senses: glosses: The structure, in the centre of a chromosome, to which the sister chromatids are attached
centromatids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of centromatid
chaperokine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chaperokines
Etymology: From chaperone + -kine.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A chaperone cytokine
chronotrophic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of chronotropic.
coerulospinal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of coeruleospinal.
connectins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of connectin
copepodologists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of copepodologist
cottonworm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cottonworms
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of cotton worm.
cottonworms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cottonworm
cotton worm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cotton worms
Senses: glosses: A moth (Alabama argillacea) that is a pest of cotton plants
cotton worms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cotton worm
countershaded
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From counter- + shaded.
Senses: glosses: Having countershading
craniotubular
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From cranio- + tubular.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: Relating to a disorder of the skull caused by abnormal bone growth
crustin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: crustins
Senses: glosses: An antimicrobial peptide present in some prawns
crustins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of crustin
cryoclamp
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cryoclamps
Etymology: From cryo- + clamp.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
surgery
glosses: A clamp designed to be used at low temperatures
cryoclamp
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: cryoclamps
form: cryoclamping
form: cryoclamped
form: cryoclamped
Etymology: From cryo- + clamp.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
surgery
glosses: To use such a device
cryoclamps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cryoclamp
cryophilicity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The condition of being cryophilic
crystalizability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of crystallizability.
cyanopeptide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cyanopeptides
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of a group of peptides produced by cyanobacteria
cyanopeptides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cyanopeptide
bewitchful
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more bewitchful
form: most bewitchful
Etymology: From bewitch + -ful.
Senses: glosses: Bewitching; alluring; fascinating; amazing.
cycloligase
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cycloligases
Etymology: From cyclo- + ligase.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any ligase that catalyses a cyclization reaction
cycloligases
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cycloligase
cytomechanically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From cyto- + mechanically.
Senses: glosses: In a cytomechanical manner