cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
chordin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A particular bone morphogenetic protein antagonist
chromatographer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chromatographers
Senses: glosses: A person skilled in chromatography or who operates a chromatograph
chromosomic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From chromosome + -ic.
Senses: topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: Having a specified type or number of chromosomes
Derived terms: chromosomically
interchromosomic
intrachromosomic
monochromosomic
transchromosomic
Related terms: chromosomal
cryoimmobilized
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: cryo-immobilized
Etymology: From cryo- + immobilized.
Senses: topics: biology
cytology
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: immobilized by freezing
cryotransfer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cryotransfers
Etymology: From cryo- + transfer.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
surgery
glosses: An IVF technique in which one or more frozen embryos are transferred to a mother's uterus
deadhesion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: de-adhesion
Etymology: From de- + adhesion.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: The detachment of a cell from a surface to which it was adhering
deglutathionylating
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: That is involved in deglutathionylation
periosteophyte
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: periosteophytes
Etymology: From periosteum + -phyte (“growth”).
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Any small, abnormal growth on the periosteum
deglutathionylation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: deglutathionylations
Etymology: From de- + glutathione + -yl + -ation.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The removal of a glutathione moiety from a protein (typically by severing a disulfide linkage).
periosteophytes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of periosteophyte
ethacrynic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of etacrynic.
Vsp.
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of Völuspá.
frameshifted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From frame + shifted.
Senses: topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: That has undergone a frameshift mutation
gastulation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of gastrulation.
herboxidiene
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A polyketide herbicide isolated from Streptomyces chromofuscus
hypermyelination
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From hyper- + myelination.
Senses: glosses: Excessive myelination
Related terms: hypermyelinate
phyllophyte
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: phyllophytes
Etymology: From German Phyllophyt. Surface reading: phyllo- (“leaf”) + -phyte (“plant”).
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
synonyms: cormophyte
glosses: A plant characterized as structurally based upon or possessing true leaves.
phyllophytes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of phyllophyte
masticatory force
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: masticatory forces
Senses: glosses: A force created by the dynamic action of the masticatory muscles during the physiological act of chewing.
mesodermalized
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Provided with a mesoderm
bimorphemic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -iːmɪk
Etymology: From bi- + morphemic.
Senses: glosses: Consisting of, or relating to, two morphemes
glosses: Relating to bimorphemes
monothiol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: monothiols
Etymology: From mono- + thiol.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any thiol that has a single -SH group
Related terms: monothiolic
mycobacteriology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From myco- + bacteriology.
Senses: glosses: The study of mycobacteria
Related terms: mycobacteriological
tongue sandwich
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tongue sandwiches
Senses: glosses: A French kiss.
tongue sandwiches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tongue sandwich
organellular
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: Interaction of nuclear and organellular genomes with one another and with the environment determines both the course and the dynamics of cell differentiation, plant growth, development, and maturation.
ref: 1982, Advances in Agronomy, volume 34, page 118:
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Relating to, or functioning via organelles.
Derived terms: interorganellular
parchorin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: An intracellular chloride-channel protein
pladienolide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pladienolides
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Any of a family of macrocyclic lactones, isolated from Streptomyces platensis, that exhibit antitumor activity
pladienolides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pladienolide
radioimmune
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From radio- + immune.
Senses: examples: text: The rapid progress of radioimmune conjugates in the field of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma has been facilitated by two major factors.
ref: 2007, Robert Marcus, Lymphoma: Pathology, Diagnosis and Treatment:
glosses: Synonym of radioimmunological.
synonyms: word: radioimmunological
recircularization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: recircularizations
form: recircularisation
Etymology: From re- + circularization.
Senses: glosses: The restoration of circularity (especially of a plasmid).
selenoenzyme
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: selenoenzymes
Etymology: From seleno- + enzyme.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any enzyme that contains a selenium atom.
spliceostatin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spliceostatins
Etymology: From splice + -o- + statin.
Senses: glosses: Any of a class of cytotoxic agents that function via inhibition of the spliceosome
spliceostatins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of spliceostatin
recircularizations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of recircularization
thioltransferase
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: thioltransferases
Etymology: From thiol + transferase.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any transferase that catalyzes the transfer of a thiol group
ubiquitins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ubiquitin
trifoil
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: trifoils
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of trefoil.
archpriesthood
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: archpriesthoods
Etymology: From archpriest + -hood.
Senses: examples: text: [Y]et Philoſophers I cannot call them, reported men factious and ambitious, contending ſomtimes about the archprieſthood not without civil Warr and ſlaughter; […]
ref: 1670, John Milton, “The Second Book”, in The History of Britain, that Part Especially now Call’d England. […], London: […] J[ohn] M[acock] for James Allestry, […] , →OCLC, page 49:
topics: ecclesiastical
lifestyle
religion
glosses: The office of an archpriest.
monograde
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From mono- + grade. For sense 3, compare Japanese 一段 (ichidan).
Senses: topics: education
glosses: Relating to students of the same grade level.
glosses: Of an oil: having a viscosity specified for a single temperature range.
topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: Belonging to a certain conjugation class of verbs in Japanese or Old Japanese, so called due to their use of one vowel (grade or row on the gojūon chart).
Related terms: word: multigrade
sense: sense 3
word: bigrade
sense: sense 3
word: quadrigrade
sense: sense 3
word: pentagrade
monograde
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: monogrades
Etymology: From mono- + grade. For sense 3, compare Japanese 一段 (ichidan).
Senses: glosses: An oil having a viscosity specified for a single temperature range.
pedestal fans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pedestal fan
creature of habit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: creatures of habit
Senses: glosses: One who is prone to routine.
bane of someone's existence
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: banes of one's existence
Senses: synonyms: bane of someone's life
glosses: Someone or something that poses a significant problem to someone.
if at first you don't succeed
Language: English
Part of speech: proverb
Etymology: Shortened from if at first you don't succeed, try try again.
Senses: glosses: Persistence is important in the pursuit of success.
get through one's head
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: gets through one's head
form: getting through one's head
form: got through one's head
form: got through one's head
form: gotten through one's head
Senses: examples: text: Pearl nodded obediently, pretending understanding. "If Jack can get his back off the bed in the morning, and get it through his thick head that he has to do his share of mucking out and grooming, not just riding the gee-gees, he ́ll be laughing.[…]"
ref: 2017, India Millar, Pearl´s Story:
text: He still couldn't get through his head that she was interested in him. Outside of Gloria Williams, the little girl next door who suddenly moved away, he couldn't remember anyone who paid that much attention to him.
ref: 2000, Terry Larson, House of Parrotise:
glosses: To come to terms with a fact, a state of affairs, etc. that one was previously unable or refusing to accept.
sequal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of sequel.
frejoles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of frejol
complexability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: complexabilities
Etymology: From complex + -ability.
Senses: examples: For quotations using this term, see Citations:complexability.
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The relative ability to form a chemical complex
FDS
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: video-games
glosses: Initialism of Famicom Disk System.
close only counts in horseshoes
Language: English
Part of speech: proverb
Forms: form: close only counts in horseshoes and hand grenades
form: close only counts in horseshoes and darts
Etymology: Referring to the game of horseshoes.
Senses: synonyms: a miss is as good as a mile
nearly never bulled a cow
glosses: Coming close to achieving a goal is not good enough.
Related terms: close enough for horseshoes and hand grenades
whoa, Nelly
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Etymology: From whoa! (a command to slow or stop) + Nelly (a common name for a mule or horse). A popular catch-phrase, together with "Whoa, Nellybelle" on the Roy Rogers TV show (1951–1957).
Senses: examples: text: ...the jeep’s brakes never quite worked, even when Brady uttered the catch phrases "Whoa, Nellybelle" or "Whoa, Nelly."
ref: 2020 June 17, The Denver Gazette:
glosses: an exclamation of surprise, especially one in response to an unexpected acceleration of speed
Otomis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Otomi
transliteral
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Probably from transliterate, perhaps influenced by literal.
Senses: examples: 1897, Syamacharan Ganguli, TRANSLITERAL versus PHONETIC ROMANISATION, article IX in the Calcutta Review, volume 105 (number 210)
glosses: Transliterating; using transliteration.
transliteral
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From trans- + literal.
Senses: examples: text: Freud's understanding of sexuality was always transliteral, […]
ref: 2006, Christine Downing, Myths and Mysteries of Same-Sex Love, page 31:
glosses: More than literal; beyond literal.
Related terms: transliterally
transliterally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From transliteral + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: An ironic utterance may be successful at the locutionary level if it is properly understood transliterally, but fails at the perlocutionary level if the conversational reaction does not respect the 'literal complicity' of the ironic game.
ref: 2001, Edda Weigand, Marcelo Dascal, Negotiation and Power in Dialogic Interaction, →ISBN, page 143:
glosses: In a transliteral (more than literal, beyond literal) way; more than literally.
examples: text: “Taneic ," "Sabaneeff" and others preferred to be spelled abroad this way, rather than transliterally Tanyeyev or Sabanyeyev.
ref: 1996, Faubion Bowers, Scriabin, a Biography, →ISBN, page 7:
text: Likewise, ποιητικῆς^([sic]) [transliterally poetikes] is not an untranslatable term.
ref: 2008, A Feminist Rhetorical Translating of the "Rhetoric", →ISBN, page 61:
glosses: In a way that exhibits simple transliteration; in a transliteral (transliterating) way; (that is,) being (or having been) transliterated.
Related terms: transliteral
resubordinate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: resubordinates
form: resubordinating
form: resubordinated
form: resubordinated
Etymology: From re- + subordinate.
Senses: examples: text: Although representations of abject white masculinity in Jackass are potentially valid critiques of working-class subjugation, they may also resubordinate the historically marginalized through erasure. In other words, the victimized white male is depicted in a way that subsumes the variegated histories of racial, gender, and sexual ‘minorities’.
ref: 2007, Sean Brayton, “MTV's Jackass: Transgression, Abjection and the Economy of White Masculinity”, in Journal of Gender Studies, volume 16, page 60:
glosses: To subordinate again; to make once again subordinate.
resubordinated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of resubordinate
resubordinating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of resubordinate
resubordinates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of resubordinate
pregender
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more pregender
form: most pregender
Etymology: From pre- + gender.
Senses: glosses: Before (the advent or consideration of, or division by) gender.
postgendered
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From post- + gendered.
Senses: glosses: Postgender.
gayed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of gay
gaying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of gay
de-gay
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: de-gays
form: de-gaying
form: de-gayed
form: de-gayed
Etymology: From de- + gay.
Senses: glosses: To cause (an issue, especially AIDS) to no longer be associated with gay people.
Related terms: gay
re-gay
re-gay
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: re-gays
form: re-gaying
form: re-gayed
form: re-gayed
Etymology: From re- + gay.
Senses: examples: text: This is why AIDS simply had to be re-gayed.
ref: 2002, Simon Watney, Imagine Hope, page 189:
glosses: To cause (an issue, especially AIDS) to be associated once again with gay people.
Related terms: gay
de-gay
prochlorophyte
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɹəʊˈklɒɹəfʌɪt/
ipa: /pɹəʊˈklɔːɹəfʌɪt/
ipa: /pɹoʊˈklɔɹəˌfaɪt/
Forms: form: prochlorophytes
Etymology: From pro- (“earlier, prior”) + chlorophyte, from chloro- (“green”) + -phyte (“plant”).
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: a bright green cyanobacterium of the class Prochlorophyta, distinguished by the presence of both chlorophyll a and b and the lack of phycobilins (and so resembling the chloroplasts of higher plants)
prochlorophytes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of prochlorophyte
spermaphyte
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spermaphytes
form: spermatophyte
form: spermophyte
Etymology: Ancient Greek σπέρμα (spérma, “seed”) + -phyte (“plant”)
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Alternative form of spermatophyte.
spermaphytes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of spermaphyte
sphenophyte
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sphenophytes
Etymology: From spheno- (“wedge”) + -phyte (“plant”).
Senses: glosses: Any of an ancient type of simple vascular plants of which only the horsetails remain which have hollow stems that produce spores
crossunder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: crossunders
Etymology: From cross + under.
Senses: examples: text: The crossovers and crossunders of the warp yarns form diagonal twill lines across both the support and the contact surfaces
ref: 1998, Scott D. Quigley, Papermakers forming fabric with weft dominated paper support surface, US Patent US5988229 A:
text: The pits […] will include a series of steps and an elevator that will enable access to the crossunder
ref: 2011 July 26, “Major Milestone for the Panama Canal Expansion, Permanent Concrete Work Begins”, in The Maritime Executive:
text: […] every crossunder included in the final layout was scrupulously analyzed for any possible impact […]
ref: 2013, Jim Williams, Analog Circuit Design: Art, Science and Personalities, →ISBN, page 258:
glosses: A place where one thing crosses under another.
crossunders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of crossunder
Salons des Refusés
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Salon des Refusés
synurophyte
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: synurophytes
Etymology: From syn- (“with”) + uro- (“tail”) + -phyte (“plant”). See synurid.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: A member of the synurids, a small group of heterokont algae.
teleophyte
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈtɛliːəʊfaɪt/
Forms: form: teleophytes
Etymology: From teleo- (“end; goal”) + -phyte (“plant”).
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: a plant of perfect or complete organization; one of the higher plants
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: a plant composed of a number cells arranged in tissues
thalassophyte
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: thalassophytes
form: thalassiophyte
Etymology: From thalasso- (“sea”) + -phyte (“plant”).
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Alternative form of thalassiophyte.
thalassophytes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of thalassophyte
thalassiophyte
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: thalassiophytes
form: thalassophyte
Etymology: From translingual Thalassiophyta. Surface reading: thalasso- (“sea”) + -phyte (“plant”).
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: any plant belonging to one of the obsolete taxonomic groups known as Thalassiophyta, which were believed to comprise various parts of the marine algae or seaweeds, depending on the classification system.
lesbianistic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more lesbianistic
form: most lesbianistic
Etymology: From lesbian + -istic.
Senses: glosses: Pertaining to lesbianism
thalassiophytes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of thalassiophyte
trichophytes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of trichophyte
eat, drink and be merry
Language: English
Part of speech: proverb
Etymology: A reference to Ecclesiastes 8:15: "Then I commended mirth, because a man hath no better thing under the sun, than to eat, and to drink, and to be merry".
Senses: examples: text: And if you do not put the motto "Eat, drink, and be merry," above your dining-room door, fix it in your mind, and put it into practice. Laugh, talk, and crack jokes at the table, and thereby heal an injured body.
ref: 1879, “Eat, Drink, and Be Merry”, in University Chronicle, volume 10, page 101:
text: He says his motto is ' Let us eat, drink, and be merry.' Just so, young man : my motto is exactly the same as yours, ' Let us eat, drink, and be merry.'
ref: 1880, William Young Fullerton, Waymarks for wanderers: 5 addresses, page 122:
text: Life is not all bread and butter. It is not eat, drink and be merry. It is much more.
ref: 1995, V. R. Taneja, Educational Thought And Practice, →ISBN, page 28:
text: Our days here were spent visiting beaches and resting under huge parasols to hide from the sun and eat, drink and be merry while occasionally joining the children to bathe in the warm, grey sea.
ref: 2015, Adrian Breeden, Time Grooves and Travel Records, →ISBN, page 556:
glosses: Enjoy yourself; forget your cares; do not worry.
Related terms: eat, drink and be merry for tomorrow we die
pop fastener
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pop fasteners
Senses: glosses: Synonym of snap fastener.
synonyms: word: snap fastener
snap fasteners
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of snap fastener
Tarskian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Tarskian
form: most Tarskian
Etymology: From Tarski + -an.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to Alfred Tarski (1901–1983), Polish logician, mathematician and philosopher.
liar paradox
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: liar paradoxes
form: liar's paradox
Senses: examples: text: Graham Priest has argued the liar paradox is a true dialetheia.
topics: human-sciences
logic
mathematics
philosophy
sciences
glosses: A paradox involving statements such as "this sentence is false", or "the following statement is true: the previous statement is false", which cannot be meaningfully regarded as either true or false.
HEO
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: HEOs
Senses: hypernyms: orbit#Noun
<
path#Noun
coordinate_terms: VLEO
LEO
MEO
glosses: Acronym of high Earth orbit.
topics: aerospace
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
space-science
hypernyms: orbit#Noun
<
path#Noun
coordinate_terms: VLEO
LEO
MEO
glosses: Acronym of high Earth orbit.
Initialism of highly elliptical orbit.
Related terms: english: distant retrograde orbit
translation: distant retrograde orbit
word: DRO
alt: geostationary orbit / geostationary Earth orbit
word: GEO
alt: geosynchronous orbit / geosynchronous Earth orbit
word: GSO
english: low Earth orbit
translation: low Earth orbit
word: LEO
english: lunar transfer orbit
translation: lunar transfer orbit
word: LTO
asemanticity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From asemantic + -ity or a- + semanticity.
Senses: glosses: Quality of being asemantic.
HEOs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of HEO
asemantic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From a- + semantic.
Senses: glosses: Not semantic; not conveying or involving meaning.
Related terms: asemantically
asemanticity
asemantically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From asemantic + -ally or a- + semantically.
Senses: glosses: In an asemantic way.
dialethism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of dialetheism.
principle of Pseudo-Scotus
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: human-sciences
logic
mathematics
philosophy
sciences
glosses: principle of explosion
DRO
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: DROs
Senses: topics: aerospace
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
space-science
glosses: Initialism of distant retrograde orbit.
glosses: Initialism of digital readout.
Related terms: sense: distant retrograde orbit
alt: geostationary orbit/geostationary Earth orbit
word: GEO
sense: distant retrograde orbit
alt: geosynchronous orbit/geosynchronous Earth orbit
word: GSO
sense: distant retrograde orbit
english: highly elliptical orbit
translation: highly elliptical orbit
word: HEO
sense: distant retrograde orbit
english: low Earth orbit
translation: low Earth orbit
word: LEO
sense: distant retrograde orbit
english: lunar transfer orbit
translation: lunar transfer orbit
word: LTO
DROs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of DRO
Wien approximation
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Wien's approximation
Etymology: First derived by Wilhelm Wien in 1896.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A law of physics used to describe the spectrum of thermal radiation.
Related terms: Wien distribution law
Wien's law
liar paradoxes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of liar paradox
railbike
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: railbikes
Etymology: From rail + bike.
Senses: glosses: A form of bicycle designed to be ridden along a railway track.
railbikes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of railbike
achkan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈɑt͡ʃ.kən/
/ˈʌt͡ʃ.kən/
Forms: form: achkans
Etymology: Borrowed from Hindi अचकन (ackan).
Senses: glosses: A man's knee-length jacket worn in parts of India, Bangladesh, and Pakistan.
Related terms: Nehru jacket
sherwani
achkans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of achkan
Sheerios
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Sheerio
Cardan grille
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Cardan grilles
Etymology: Proposed in 1550 by Girolamo Cardano (1501-1576), known in French as Jérôme Cardan.
Senses: topics: computing
cryptography
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A sheet of card or thin metal, etc., used in composing secret messages. The words of the message are written through a number of holes cut arbitrarily in the sheet, and the remaining paper is then filled with irrelevant words to disguise it.
Cardan grilles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Cardan grille
calciosome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: calciosomes
Etymology: From calcio- + -some.
Senses: glosses: A sarcoplasmic reticulum-like organelle involved in intracellular calcium-handling by non-muscle cells
Related terms: calciosomal
EELS
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: qualifier: spectroscopy
glosses: Initialism of electron energy loss spectroscopy.
TPD
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Tobacco Products Directive.
TPD
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: qualifier: spectroscopy
glosses: Initialism of temperature programmed desorption.
Synonyms: TDS
hypervisibility
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From hyper- + visibility.
Senses: examples: text: Hypervisibility leads by a straight line to forms of self-scrutiny explicitly oriented toward social conformity while undermining visibility in its more genuine forms.
ref: 2005, Paul Fairfield, Public/private, page 147:
text: Her feeling of hypervisibility persisted all the way through breakfast and throughout the morning.
ref: 2023, Eleanor Catton, Birnam Wood, page 386:
text: Students who experience hypervisibility feel pressure from their peers and professors to be a model minority and a spokesperson for all that hold that identity (Corbin, 2018).
ref: 2023, Eleni Meletiadou, Handbook of Research on Exploring Gender Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion Through an Intersectional Lens, page 427:
glosses: The quality of being hypervisible.
perspection
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: perspections
Senses: glosses: contemplation; scrutiny
examples: text: Now this set of twelve triangles has the following remarkable property — any two triangles in the same row are six-fold perspective; any two triangles in the same column are four-fold perspective with three centers of perspection on a line […]
ref: 1931, American Journal of Mathematics, page 340:
text: Select pairs of triangles perspective from each point and such that the axes of perspection will be the lines of the figure. Show that the configuration can be regarded as made up of a complete 4-point and a complete 4-line.
ref: 1962, Roy Martin Winger, An introduction to projective geometry, page 104:
glosses: perspective
examples: text: […] he never spent his ammunition in useless parade, but tried on the proper moment, with the keenest perspection, to make his attack with success, which ever crowned his endeavours.
ref: 1790, The Gentleman's Magazine, volume 68, page 671:
glosses: perspicuity
Pha̍k-fa-sṳ
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pha̍k-fa-sṳ
Etymology: From Hakka 白話字 /白话字 (pha̍k-fa-sṳ, “vernacular writing”).
Senses: glosses: A Latin alphabet-based orthography for Hakka.
Vancian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Vancian
form: most Vancian
form: Vancean
Etymology: From Vance + -ian.
Senses: examples: text: Vance has, in short, more than any other science fiction writer ‘colonised’ the entirely new imaginative space created by the nineteenth- and twentieth-century science of anthropology, […] Is it merely local colour? To answer that, one has to note, beneath the constant Vancean surface of strange ‘xenography’,⁸ the recurrent Vancean theme of human ‘plasticity’.
ref: 2016, Tom Shippey, ““People are Plastic”: Jack Vance and the Dilemma of Cultural Relativism”, in Hard Reading: Learning from Science Fiction, Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, →ISBN, →JSTOR, page 111:
topics: literature
media
publishing
glosses: Of or relating to Jack Vance (1916–2013), American writer of mystery, fantasy, and science fiction stories.
Derived terms: Vancian magic
RepRap
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: RepRaps
Etymology: Short for replicating rapid-prototyper. The name, like the design, is not a trademark, but available for general use under an open licence.
Senses: examples: text: I used my RepRap to print a new coat-hook and some parts for another RepRap.
glosses: A 3D printer capable of printing most of its own components, so as to allow further printers to be created.
RepRaps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of RepRap
3D printing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: three-dimensional printing
Senses: synonyms: additive manufacturing
glosses: The manufacture of three-dimensional solid objects from digital models.
Related terms: 3D printer
3D printing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: three-dimensional printing
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of 3D print
farmwards
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From farm + -wards.
Senses: glosses: Towards a farm.
storewards
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From store + -wards.
Senses: glosses: Towards a store.
take the bitter with the sweet
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: takes the bitter with the sweet
form: taking the bitter with the sweet
form: took the bitter with the sweet
form: taken the bitter with the sweet
Senses: synonyms: take the rough with the smooth
glosses: To accept positive things with negative things.
bokors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bokor
supermethod
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: supermethods
Etymology: From super- + method.
Senses: qualifier: object-oriented programming
glosses: A method in a superclass that is overridden in a subclass.
supermethods
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of supermethod
trannydom
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From tranny + -dom.
Senses: examples: text: So you see, I do have a life beyond trannydom.
ref: 1999, Reflections International: The TV & TS Magazine, number 17, page 3:
text: […] a phenomenon that promoted and accelerated the growth of trannydom via the net.
ref: 2006, Tanya Richards, Tranz-Mania, page 4:
text: PM Anna Warhola is on-the-edge trannydom. In her performance for Anna Conda's fundraiser running for District 6 Supervisor, she was a middle-aged Dom in stiletto heels […]
ref: 2010, Red Jordan Arobateau, Days Before The Yoke, page 179:
glosses: The realm or sphere of transgender people and/or cross-dressing.
IMNAAHO
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: examples: text: IMNAAHO (In my not at all humble opinion) I feel that anybody who passes their judgement on others without considering that person's context is acting in most heinously ethnocentric (anthro term) fashion.
ref: 1991 September 14, Brian A. Bargmeyer, “Re: Drugs and kids -- the neverending flame-fest”, in alt.drugs (Usenet):
text: _Earth_ is possibly my least favorite Brin novel (though _The Practice Effect_ probably edges it out...)- it really didn't do much for me. There were some interesting ideas there, but it just didn't click, IMNAAHO.
ref: 1995 October 30, Chad R Orzel, “Re: David Brin: Recommendations?”, in rec.arts.sf.written (Usenet):
text: People who want to control who you talk to are *not* suitable relationship material, IMNAAHO.
ref: 1999 September 8, maenad [username], “Re: To A. Stone from Julyana...”, in alt.callahans (Usenet):
glosses: Initialism of in my not at all humble opinion.
Synonyms: IMNSHO
Elouise
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: -iːz
Etymology: Alternative form of Eloise, influenced by Louise.
Senses: glosses: A female given name from French.
sarmie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sarmies
Etymology: Compare sarnie and sammie.
Senses: examples: text: It was the lunch break and I was eating my peanut-butter sarmies out of clear grease-proof paper, when, to my great surprise, big drops of water began to fall on me from above, hitting my head and my raised knees, and speckling my sarmies until they were soggy.
ref: 2012, David Robert Dalton, Wild West Adventures In The Great African Bush, page 8:
glosses: A sandwich.
Synonyms: sandwich
sarnie
sarmies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sarmie
patty melt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: patty melts
Senses: glosses: A kind of hamburger consisting of a meat patty and cheese between two slices of bread (traditionally rye but sometimes sourdough), or on a single slice.
patty melts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of patty melt
Upper German
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Calque of German Oberdeutsch / oberdeutsch.
Senses: glosses: One of two major dialect groups of the High German language; spoken primarily in southern Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Liechtenstein, Alsace, and South Tyrol; distinguished from Central German / Middle German (= Mitteldeutsch) by the shifts of Proto-Germanic *-pp-, *-mp- to -pf-, -mpf-.
Coordinate terms: Central German
Middle German
Low German
Meronyms: word: EUG
word: Alemannic
word: Alemannic German
word: Bavarian
word: Swabish
word: Swabian
word: Upper Franconian
word: WUG
Upper German
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Calque of German Oberdeutsch / oberdeutsch.
Senses: glosses: of the Upper German dialects
droskys
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of drosky
droshkys
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of droshky
dimorphemic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -iːmɪk
Etymology: From di- + morphemic.
Senses: glosses: Consisting of, or relating to, two morphemes.
Central German
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Calque of German Mitteldeutsch/mitteldeutsch.
Senses: glosses: One of two major dialect groups of the High German language which is spoken primarily in central Germany, Luxembourg, easternmost Belgium, and southeastern Limburg (in the Netherlands); distinguished from Upper German by the preservation of Proto-Germanic *-pp- and *-mp-.
Synonyms: Middle German
Coordinate terms: Upper German
Meronyms: West Central German
West Middle German
East Central German
East Middle German
Central German
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Calque of German Mitteldeutsch/mitteldeutsch.
Senses: glosses: of the Central German dialects
baby carrots
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of baby carrot
baby-cut carrot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: baby-cut carrots
Senses: glosses: A small finger-shaped piece cut from a larger carrot.
Synonyms: baby carrot
baby-cut carrots
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of baby-cut carrot
baby-cut
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Only used in baby-cut carrot
Trager approach
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Trager approach
Etymology: Named after the founder, Milton Trager, who called it "psychophysical integration".
Senses: glosses: A technique combining movements and meditation to attempt to facilitate relaxation and mental clarity.
myofascial release
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A soft tissue therapy that attempts to treat skeletal muscle immobility and pain by stretching the fascia.
neigong
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /neɪˈɡʊŋ/
Etymology: From Mandarin 內功／内功 (nèigōng, “internal exercises”).
Senses: glosses: Any of the variety of Chinese breathing, meditation and spiritual disciplines associated with Taoism and martial arts.
shen ring
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shen rings
Etymology: Borrowed from Egyptian šn (“shen ring, circuit”), a derivative of šnj (“to be round, to encircle”).
Senses: examples: text: In its elongated form, the shen ring became the cartouche which enclosed and protected a royal name.
glosses: A circle with a line at a tangent to it, represented in hieroglyphs as a stylized loop of rope, representing eternal protection.
shen rings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shen ring
pentarchic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pentarchy + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to a pentarchy or a pentarch
polar opposites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of polar opposite
Stam
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Hebrew סְתָ״ם (sta"m), acronym of סִפְרֵי קוֹדֶשׁ, תְּפִלִּין, וּמְזוּזוֹת (sifréi qodéš, t'filín um'zuzót).
Senses: glosses: collectively, the Jewish ritual scrolls, including holy scrolls, tefillin, and mezuzot
flash grenades
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of flash grenade
stun grenades
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stun grenade
concussion grenade
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: concussion grenades
Etymology: From concussion + grenade, from the loud noise and shockwave it generates.
Senses: glosses: A flashbang.
concussion grenades
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of concussion grenade
revisioning
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of revision
revisioned
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of revision
heterodifunctional
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From hetero- + difunctional.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Alternative form of heterobifunctional.
heterobifunctional
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From hetero- + bifunctional.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Having two different functional groups or binding sites
raw_tags: of a ligand
Marques
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A Portuguese surname.
glosses: A commune in Seine-Maritime department, Normandy, France.
allodapic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ἀλλοδαπός (allodapós, “foreign”) + -ic, perhaps on the basis that the sediment originates elsewhere.
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: deposited as a sediment from a turbid current
amphikinesis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From amphi- + -kinesis.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: The movement of both upper and lower parts of a bird's beak where it joins the skull.
Derived terms: amphikinetic
Related terms: prokinesis
rhynchokinesis
anteriomedian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of anteromedian.
anteromedian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From antero- + median.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: In the front of the midline
antialignment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: anti-alignment
Etymology: From anti- + alignment.
Senses: glosses: The alignment of two things in opposite directions
Related terms: antialigned
antically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more antically
form: most antically
Etymology: From antic + -ally.
Senses: glosses: In an antic manner
anticarbohydrate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: anti-carbohydrate
Etymology: From anti- + carbohydrate.
Senses: topics: immunology
medicine
sciences
glosses: That targets carbohydrates
anticerebral
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɛɹɪbɹəl
-iːbɹəl
Etymology: From anti- + cerebral.
Senses: examples: anticerebral antibodies
topics: immunology
medicine
sciences
glosses: That is active within the brain or cerebral cortex
examples: anticerebral oedema therapy in Reye's syndrome
glosses: That counters the specifies cerebral condition
antiformal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From antiform + -al.
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: Relating to an antiform
autistic spectrum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of autism spectrum.
synonyms: word: autism spectrum
Derived terms: alt: ASD
word: autistic spectrum disorder
Related terms: autistic
autistic spectrum disorders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of autistic spectrum disorder
antikeratin
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From anti- + keratin.
Senses: topics: immunology
medicine
sciences
glosses: That targets keratin
antimullerian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of anti-Müllerian.
anti-Müllerian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: antimüllerian
form: antimullerian
Etymology: From anti- + Müllerian.
Senses: topics: medicine
physiology
sciences
glosses: That inhibits the function or development of the Müllerian ducts
antinominalism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From anti- + nominalism.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
glosses: A doctrine that is counter to nominalism
antiprogram
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: antiprograms
form: antiprogramme
Etymology: From anti- + program.
Senses: glosses: A set of actions that is counter to those of another's program
antiperinuclear
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From anti- + perinuclear.
Senses: examples: text: An antiperinuclear factor counters the perinuclear factor.
topics: immunology
medicine
sciences
glosses: That is counter to a given perinuclear material
antistable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: anti-stable
Etymology: From anti- + stable.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: That becomes increasingly unstable
anti-Stokes
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From anti- + Stokes.
Senses: qualifier: spectroscopy
glosses: Relating to a Stokes shift to lower (rather than higher) wavelengths
antithrust
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: anti-thrust
Etymology: From anti- + thrust.
Senses: examples: text: An antithrust plate is a flat plate that is fitted to the external face of a door, overlapping the edge and covering the gap between the door and frame to prevent someone using an implement to tamper with the latch or bolt.
glosses: That resists the effects of a thrust
antitypic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more antitypic
form: most antitypic
Etymology: From anti- + typic.
Senses: glosses: antitypical
basaloid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From basal + -oid.
Senses: glosses: Relating to, or composed of basal cells
basosquamous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From baso- + squamous.
Senses: glosses: basaloid and squamous
boreoarctic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: boreo-arctic
Etymology: From boreo- + Arctic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to northern and Arctic regions
DMF
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: DMFs
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Initialism of dimethylformamide.
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Initialism of dimethylfuran.
topics: Windows
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
software
glosses: Initialism of distribution media format.
qualifier: occupational health
glosses: Alternative form of DFM.
Coordinate terms: sense: MS Windows DMF
word: CAB
sense: MS Windows DMF
word: MSI
sense: MS Windows DMF
word: MSU
Eastralia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: ēsʹtrālyə
ipa: /iːsˈtɹæɪljə/
Etymology: Blend of east + Australia
Senses: examples: text: …a far pleasanter holiday trip, mingled with cricket, might be arranged for them through Maoriland [New Zealand] after their matches in Eastralia have finished.
ref: 1897 September 1, “Cricket.”, in The Referee (Sydney), page 8:
text: …Wyndham, for instance, is governed from Perth, and to all intents and purposes it is as far from the centre as Westralia is from Eastralia…
ref: 1913 May 9, “Labor Logic and Fusion Fancies.”, in Westralian Worker, page 7:
text: …those of the Murchison district in W.A. are gigantic in comparison with those of Eastralia…
ref: 1930 March 3, “Western Scorpions.”, in Wagga Wagga Daily Advertiser, page 6:
glosses: Eastern Australia; the eastern states (and previously colonies) of Australia.
Hypernyms: word: Eastern Australia
word: Eastern states
word: t'otherside
word: used in Western Australia
Related terms: Westralia
fulcral
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From fulcr(um) + -al.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to a fulcrum.
cantic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: angled
glosses: oblique, slanting
glosses: canting
catchstitch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɪtʃ
Forms: form: catchstitches
Etymology: From catch + stitch.
Senses: glosses: A stitch used in bookbinding to hold a sheet of paper to the next one.
Synonyms: kettle stitch
circumsaccate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From circum- + saccate.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Surrounding the saccus of a pollen grain
Related terms: bisaccate
monosaccate
columellate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From columella + -ate (adjective-forming suffix).
Senses: glosses: Having, or resembling a columella
couching stitch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: couching stitches
form: couch stitch
Senses: glosses: A form of embroidery in which a length of wool (or similar) is laid across the surface of a piece of fabric and held in place by fine stitches
digitonide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: digitonides
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A (usually insoluble) complex of digitonin and a sterol.
dorsoposterior
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɪəɹiə(ɹ)
Etymology: From dorso- + posterior.
Senses: glosses: Having its back oriented towards the back of its mother
raw_tags: of a fetus
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: dorsal and posterior
Derived terms: dorsoposteriorly
Related terms: dorsoanterior
stocking caps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stocking cap
dryline
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /ˈdɹaɪlaɪn/
Forms: form: drylines
form: drylining
form: drylined
form: drylined
Etymology: From dry + line.
Senses: glosses: To line (a wall) with plasterboard or similar.
Derived terms: dryliner
drylined
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of dryline