cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
tactoid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tactoids
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: An elongated liquid crystal microdomain
examples: text: Because immunotactoids may be composed of either immune complexes or monoclonal proteins, which are capable of forming tactoids or microtubules, the variability in the size and the orientation of the tactoids from one patient to another may be a result of concentration or biochemical composition of the protein similar to that described in cryoglobulinemia.
ref: 2006, Korbet SM, Schwartz MM, Lewis EJ, “Immunotactoid glomerulopathy (fibrillary glomerulonephritis)”, in Clin J Am Soc Nephrol, volume 1, number 6, →DOI, →PMID, pages 1351–1356:
text: Minute quantities of chiral molecules such as amino acid L-alanine and limonene transform the racemic array of left- and right-twisted tactoids into a homochiral set.
ref: 2015, Chenhui Peng, Oleg D. Lavrentovich, “Chirality Amplification and Detection by Tactoids of Lyotropic Chromonic Liquid Crystals”, in arXiv:
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: An elongated particle, particularly a cell
Derived terms: immunotactoid
Related terms: tactoidal
tactoids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tactoid
plethysm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: plethysms
Senses: examples: text: Motivated by questions of Mulmuley and Stanley we investigate quasi-polynomials arising in formulas for plethysm.
ref: 2015, Thomas Kahle, Mateusz Michalek, “Obstructions to combinatorial formulas for plethysm”, in arXiv:
topics: algebra
mathematics
sciences
glosses: A particular group-theoretic operation on a set of functions of a given symmetry type.
plethysms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of plethysm
grey power
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gray power
Senses: examples: text: The outstanding example of grey power in action is the AARP—once known as the American Association of Retired Persons. This is probably the most influential lobbying set-up in the world.
ref: 2002 September 15, Luke Johnson, “The silver revolution is here”, in Telegraph, UK, retrieved 28 Jul 2015:
text: Grey power is increasing its influence over the world's tourism industry—and with a new nickname. If you're over 60 and have the time, the inclination and the funds to travel, you're now a "bloomer", according to a British holiday company.
ref: 2004 March 20, “Late 'bloomers' catch travel bug”, in Illawarra Mercury, Australia, retrieved 28 Jul 2015:
text: If you needed any proof that grey power rules Maritime politics, check out the party platforms in the Nova Scotia provincial election. . . . Sure, dead people don’t vote, the party reasons. But pensioners do.
ref: 2009 May 21, “It’s 1 a.m. Do you know where your kids are?”, in Macleans magazine, Canada, retrieved 28 Jul 2015:
glosses: The collective political, economic, and social influence of senior citizens, especially when they are mobilized by a common interest.
Related terms: gray energy
kaluki
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of kalooki.
kalooki
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kalookie
form: kaluki
Senses: topics: card-games
games
glosses: A form of contract rummy, popular in Jamaica.
gray power
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of grey power.
frog-marches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of frog-march
frog-marches
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of frog-march
frog-marched
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of frog-march
frog-marching
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of frog-march
hamfest
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hamfests
Etymology: From ham + -fest.
Senses: examples: text: A morning at my local hamfest got me a low-band transceiver (everybody called it a "rice box") for what seemed to me a very reasonable price. The antenna, however, was a more difficult problem.
ref: 2002, 73 Amateur Radio Today, numbers 494-505:
glosses: An event where amateur radio operators can meet up and trade equipment.
hamfests
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hamfest
sarothrum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /səˈɹɑθ.ɹəm/
Forms: form: sarothra
Etymology: Borrowed from Ancient Greek σάρωτρον (sárōtron, “a broom”).
Senses: glosses: Any of the stiff hairs on a bee that collect pollen.
Arbuthnot
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈɑːɹ.bʌθ.nɒt/
Forms: form: Arbuthnots
Etymology: Variant of Arbuthnott.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Scottish Gaelic.
glosses: A community in the Regional Municipality of Glen Bain, Saskatchewan, Canada.
Derived terms: Arbuthnotian
Mountfield
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /maʊntfiːɫd/
Etymology: From mount + field.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
glosses: A village and civil parish in Rother district, East Sussex, England (OS grid ref TQ7420).
glosses: A village in County Tyrone, Northern Ireland.
carnyces
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɑːnɪsiːz/
ipa: /ˈkɑɹnəˌsiz/
Senses: glosses: plural of carnyx
acre's breadth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: acre's breadths
form: acre-breadth
form: acre breadth
Etymology: From an ordinance by Edward I of England fixing the size of an acre as a 'furlong in length and four poles in breadth'.
Senses: glosses: Chain; A unit of length equal to 22 yards.
wikipedia: Edward I of England
acre's breadths
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of acre's breadth
acre-breadth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: acre-breadths
Senses: examples: text: In the huge Music Hall of the Scottish capital is seen an acre-breadth of the human face divine—the intelligent countenances of the middle and upper classes of a city noted for its cultivation of literature and science.
ref: 1840, Robert Chambers, William Chambers, Chambers's Edinburgh Journal - Volume 8, page 410:
text: The cricketer who reads that the acre ' was fixed by the ordinance of Edward I. as a 'furlong in length and four poles in breadth' will notice that this acre-breadth exactly corresponds with the interval between the wickets of his favourite game.
ref: 1902, Edinburgh Review, Or Critical Journal - Volume 196, page 117:
text: The gād of modern Cambridgeshire has been a stick 9 feet long; but the surveyor put eight into the acre-breadth, reckoning two of these gāds to the customary pole of 18 feet.
ref: 1987, F. W. Maitland, Domesday Book and Beyond, →ISBN, page 377:
glosses: Alternative form of acre's breadth.
acre-breadths
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of acre-breadth
acre breadth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: acre breadths
Senses: examples: text: This breadth is that which is still familiarly called in many parts of England acre breadth, that is, four perches or poles, of five yards and a half each, or twenty-two yards;
ref: 1863, Notes and Queries:
text: The knights rode together by companies, some here and some there, and the king rode somewhat apart because of the dust : and the Duke of Berry, and the Duke of Burgoyne, rode on his left hand talking together, an acre breadth of land off from the king;
ref: 1893, Sir Henry Craik, English Prose: Selections - Volume 1, page 135:
text: The South'rons front they fought all face to face, Who to their ignominy and disgrace, Did neither stand nor fairly foot the score, But did retire five acre breadth and more.
ref: 1998, Henry (the Minstrel.), William Hamilton, Blind Harry's Wallace, →ISBN, page 108:
glosses: Alternative form of acre's breadth.
acre breadths
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of acre breadth
karyomorphism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The development of a cell nucleus.
introspectability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: introspectibility
Etymology: From introspect + -ability.
Senses: examples: text: This shows, I think, that sensitivity to the argument from soft introspectability is an untenable halfway house; we must accept strict introspectability or nothing.
ref: 2000, Roger Teichmann, Logic, Cause and Action, →ISBN, page 93:
text: Besides the open question of the full introspectability of arbitrary application code, there is another mental obstacle: conventional programmers consider that dynamic symbolic models are mere gadget applications, “too slow and not professional" but this situation could change with the maturity of web-based scripting (like wikis, active technology, ...).
ref: 2006, Jonathan Gratch, Intelligent Virtual Agents: 6th International Conference, IVA, →ISBN, page 155:
text: It includes subfactors such as introspectability, controlability, and notifiability of the Web service and of the platform, measured by both taking into account the possibility that these sub-factors can be achieved and whether they are actually achieved.
ref: 2010, M. Papazoglou, Klaus Pohl, Michael Parkin, Service Research Challenges and Solutions for the Future Internet, →ISBN, page 162:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
glosses: The quality of being subject to introspection.
The quality of supporting type introspection.
qualifier: object-oriented programming
examples: text: Introspectability cannot be the mark of the mental because one can introspect physical states, like indigestion or other internal physical events in the body.
ref: 2007, UMI, Eliminative Materialism and the Distinction Between Common Sense and Science, →ISBN:
text: Moreover, everyone will now accept that some aspects of our mental lives aren't even accessible to introspection. So transparent-access theorists need to provide an account o the distingction between those mental events that are, in principle, transparently accessible and those that are not. In effect, they need to provide us with a criterion of introspectability.
ref: 2013, Peter Carruthers, The Opacity of Mind: An Integrative Theory of Self-Knowledge, →ISBN:
text: For example, is introspectability a necessary condition for presence to consciousness?
ref: 2014, David Bennett, Christopher Hill, Sensory Integration and the Unity of Consciousness, →ISBN, page 342:
topics: human-sciences
psychology
sciences
glosses: The quality of being subject to introspection.
The quality of being accessible to self-examination and awareness.
introspectibility
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of introspectability.
hell mend someone
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: examples: text: 'You do not want to look after yourself at all. You want Roderick Peters to look after you. Well, hell mend you, Nicola, hell mend you,' Charlotte snapped ...
ref: 2008, Jessica Stirling, The Fields of Fortune, →ISBN:
text: And then hell mend you. You've never danced in your life, have you? Well, by God, she'll lead you a dance.
ref: 2010, George Friel, A Glasgow Trilogy, →ISBN, page 229:
text: Just because he's single he thinks he can do anything he wants with anybody and hell mend him if this latest venture turns sour on him.
ref: 2013, Christine Marion Fraser, Kinvara Wives, →ISBN:
glosses: Expressing exasperation at someone whose behavior is likely to result in trouble but who will not heed warnings.
antimonarchism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From anti- + monarchism.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of anti-monarchism.
gram equivalents
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gram equivalent
monoalkylate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: monoalkylates
form: monoalkylating
form: monoalkylated
form: monoalkylated
Etymology: From mono- + alkylate.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: To introduce a single alkyl group into a molecule
death trap
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: death traps
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of deathtrap.
monobaric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From mono- + baric.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
thermodynamics
glosses: Having constant external pressure
monoblepsis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: A defect of vision that is evident only if both eyes are open
nikah
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nikahs
form: nikaah
Etymology: From Arabic نِكَاح (nikāḥ, “marriage”).
Senses: examples: text: There are no official statistics on how many Tajiks have married via Skype, but we spoke to five couples who said they performed the Islamic wedding ceremony nikah through the video chat service, which they say is becoming even more common in more the country’s rural areas.
ref: 2015 July 29, “The Skype ceremony – the young Tajiks getting married online”, in The Guardian:
glosses: The Islamic marriage ceremony
that cock won't fight
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: examples: text: But in "refined" strata? That cock won't fight, O thou Aspirant to the Sacred Wisdom!
ref: 1943 (written), Aleister Crowley, Magick Without Tears, published in 1954
glosses: Synonym of that dog won't hunt.
synonyms: word: that dog won't hunt
the cowl does not make the monk
Language: English
Part of speech: proverb
Senses: glosses: The superficial trappings of something are unrelated to its true essence.
Related terms: clothes don't make the man
bingoing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of bingo
kererus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kereru
wheki
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Maori.
Senses: glosses: Dicksonia squarrosa, a fast-growing tree fern endemic to New Zealand.
rimus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rimu
mamaku
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Borrowed from Maori [Term?].
Senses: glosses: Cyathea medullaris, the black tree fern of New Zealand.
bioconvert
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: bioconverts
form: bioconverting
form: bioconverted
form: bioconverted
Etymology: From bio- + convert.
Senses: examples: text: The gut bacteria are important for programming early immune responses, bioconverting ingested nutrients and inhibiting pathogenic bacteria.
ref: 2015 April 2, Cary R. Allen-Blevins, David A. Sela, Katie Hinde, “Milk bioactives may manipulate microbes to mediate parent–offspring conflict”, in Evolution, Medicine, and Public Health, volume 2015, →DOI:
glosses: To subject to bioconversion.
bioconverted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of bioconvert
bioconverts
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of bioconvert
bioconverting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of bioconvert
biostimulants
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of biostimulant
calcsilicates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of calcsilicate
calcschists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of calcschist
protolithic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From protolith + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to a protolith.
coadapt
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: coadapts
form: coadapting
form: coadapted
form: coadapted
Etymology: From co- + adapt.
Senses: examples: text: Such networks determine regulation complexity in various ways and may coadapt to different functions than they originally evolved for.
ref: 2013 March 4, Luis P Villarreal, Guenther Witzany, “The DNA Habitat and its RNA Inhabitants: At the Dawn of RNA Sociology”, in Genomics Insights, volume 6, →DOI:
glosses: To adapt together.
coadapting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of coadapt
coadapts
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of coadapt
deoxyanthocyanins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of deoxyanthocyanin
extramediastinal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From extra- + mediastinal.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Outside the mediastinum.
femoropopliteal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From femoro- + popliteal.
Senses: examples: text: The locations of PAOD were defined as proximal when the iliac arteries were involved, and distal when the femoropopliteal arteries were involved.
ref: 2014 December 31, Young Ae Kim et al., “Prevalence and Risk Factors for the Peripheral Neuropathy in Patients with Peripheral Arterial Occlusive Disease”, in Vascular Specialist International, volume 30, →DOI:
glosses: Relating to the femur and popliteus.
givinostat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Moreover, the notable beneficial effect of givinostat on liver fibrosis was also confirmed in the mouse models.
ref: 2015 July 21, Yu-Gang Wang et al., “Givinostat inhibition of hepatic stellate cell proliferation and protein acetylation”, in World Journal of Gastroenterology : WJG, volume 21, →DOI:
glosses: A histone deacetylase inhibitor with potential anti-inflammatory, antiangiogenic and antineoplastic activity.
hematologically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From hematological + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Usually antibiotic administration is recommended until there is no evidence of infection clinically and hematologically.
ref: 2015 June 30, Joong Kee Youn et al., “Surgical Treatment of Infected Aortoiliac Aneurysm”, in Vascular Specialist International, volume 31, →DOI:
glosses: In terms of hematology.
haematologically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From haematological + -ly.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of hematologically.
hepatographic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From hepatography + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to hepatography.
unicentric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From uni- + centric.
Senses: synonyms: monocentric
glosses: Having a single center.
plexopathies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of plexopathy
unelicitable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unelicitable
form: most unelicitable
Etymology: From un- + elicitable.
Senses: examples: text: F wave studies of the right peroneal and right tibial nerves were unelicitable.
ref: 2015 July 13, Sandeep Singh Lubana et al., “Non-Systemic Vasculitic Neuropathy: An Enigmatic Clinical Entity”, in The American Journal of Case Reports, volume 16, →DOI:
text: We show that our novel construction is not only unelicitable thanks to using cryptographic techniques, but also has favourable robustness properties.
ref: 2024 November 5, Andis Draguns, Andrew Gritsevskiy, Sumeet Ramesh Motwani, Christian Schroeder de Witt, “Unelicitable Backdoors via Cryptographic Transformer Circuits”, in 38th Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS 2024):
glosses: That cannot be elicited.
spectromicroscopic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From spectro- + microscopic.
Senses: examples: text: Here we report pharmacological studies that indicate a role for thiol-targeted oxidative events in regulating the abscission process as well as SR-FTIR spectromicroscopic evidence of free radical attack in the abscission zone of dropped roots.
ref: 2015 July 9, Michael F. Cohen et al., “Bimodal effect of hydrogen peroxide and oxidative events in nitrite-induced rapid root abscission by the water fern Azolla pinnata”, in Frontiers in Plant Science, volume 6, →DOI:
glosses: Relating to spectromicroscopy.
reanesthetize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: reanesthetizes
form: reanesthetizing
form: reanesthetized
form: reanesthetized
Etymology: From re- + anesthetize.
Senses: examples: text: After 24 h, animals were reanesthetized; cardiac output (CO), inulin and PAH clearances were measured and later on kidneys were harvested; and creatinine, urea, cystatin C and neutrophil gelatinase-associated lipocalin (NGAL) were analysed.
ref: 2014 December 9, Martin A Schick et al., “Sepsis-induced acute kidney injury by standardized colon ascendens stent peritonitis in rats - a simple, reproducible animal model”, in Intensive Care Medicine Experimental, volume 2, →DOI:
glosses: To anesthetize again.
reanesthetized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of reanesthetize
reanesthetizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of reanesthetize
reanesthetizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of reanesthetize
pyronecrotic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pyro- + necrotic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to pyronecrosis.
precontrast
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pre- + contrast.
Senses: examples: text: The lesion in Segment 2 was hypointense on precontrast T1, hyperintense on T2-weighted images, and showed avid enhancement on the arterial and portal venous phases.
ref: 2015 July 24, Michael Kueht et al., “Concurrent hepatic hemangioma and solitary fibrous tumor: diagnosis and management”, in Journal of Surgical Case Reports, volume 2015, →DOI:
glosses: Prior to administration of a contrast medium.
polysensory
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From poly- + sensory.
Senses: examples: text: So, on the one hand, the odorivector gives the observer cues about polysensory space, that is if all the mechanical envelopes, viz., acoustic and haptic, coincide and so constitute, with the osmotic, a hermetic space; and he interprets the cues by 'associative concatenation'.
ref: 1981, Guy Ankerl, Experimental Sociology of Architecture:
text: These studies highlighted that audio–visual semantic interactions can affect activity in polysensory regions of the superior temporal sulcus, as well as higher-order areas in the medial temporal cortex and the left prefrontal cortex.
ref: 2015 July 10, Serena Mastroberardino, Valerio Santangelo, Emiliano Macaluso, “Crossmodal semantic congruence can affect visuo-spatial processing and activity of the fronto-parietal attention networks”, in Frontiers in Integrative Neuroscience, volume 9, →DOI:
glosses: Relating to multiple senses, or modes of perception.
peripherality
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: peripheralities
Etymology: From peripheral + -ity.
Senses: synonyms: peripheralness
glosses: The quality of being peripheral.
oligodendrocytic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From oligodendrocyte + -ic.
Senses: examples: text: Perineuronal oligodendrocytes have been identified in later studies as the subtype of oligodendrocytic cell affected.
ref: 2015 July 10, Wendy K. Jo et al., “Glia in the cytokine-mediated onset of depression: fine tuning the immune response”, in Frontiers in Cellular Neuroscience, volume 9, →DOI:
glosses: Relating to oligodendrocytes.
Derived terms: interoligodendrocytic
nontemplated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + templated.
Senses: examples: text: Various classes of noncoding RNAs target each other for posttranscriptional regulation via alternative splicing, polyadenylation, 5′ capping, nontemplated modifications, and RNA editing.
ref: 2013 March 4, Luis P Villarreal, Guenther Witzany, “The DNA Habitat and its RNA Inhabitants: At the Dawn of RNA Sociology”, in Genomics Insights, volume 6, →DOI:
glosses: Not templated.
nonpairing
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + pairing.
Senses: examples: text: This means the stem-loop tool—with its base-pairing and nonpairing composition—is relevant to all agents of the current RNA world being active in cellular genomes after transcription.
ref: 2013 March 4, Luis P Villarreal, Guenther Witzany, “The DNA Habitat and its RNA Inhabitants: At the Dawn of RNA Sociology”, in Genomics Insights, volume 6, →DOI:
glosses: Not pairing.
nonlong
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + long.
Senses: examples: text: Today we can identify several consortia of key players that coordinate and organize the genetic content compositions of host organisms: endogenous viruses and defectives, transposons, retrotransposons, long terminal repeats, nonlong terminal repeats, long interspersed nuclear elements, short interspersed nuclear elements, group I introns, group II introns, phages, and plasmids are currently investigated examples that use genomic DNA as their preferred living habitat.
ref: 2013 March 4, Luis P Villarreal, Guenther Witzany, “The DNA Habitat and its RNA Inhabitants: At the Dawn of RNA Sociology”, in Genomics Insights, volume 6, →DOI:
glosses: Not long.
multiannual
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From multi- + annual.
Senses: examples: text: Latitude, altitude, multiannual averaged minimum and maximum air temperatures and soil classification of the FG, PG, and FL sites, as well as other information on the different experimental trials, are reported in Table 1 .
ref: 2015 July 10, Giulia Conversa et al., “A decision support system (GesCoN) for managing fertigation in vegetable crops. Part II—model calibration and validation under different environmental growing conditions on field grown tomato”, in Frontiers in Plant Science, volume 6, →DOI:
glosses: Relating to more than one year.
subfascial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From sub- + fascial.
Senses: examples: text: Indication: anatomic or pathophysiologic indication includes venous diameter within 2–20 mm, reflux time ≥0.5 seconds and distance from the skin ≥5 mm or subfascial location.
ref: 2014 December 31, Jin Hyun Joh et al., “Consensus for the Treatment of Varicose Vein with Radiofrequency Ablation”, in Vascular Specialist International, volume 30, →DOI:
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Beneath the fascia.
interfascial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From inter- + fascial.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Between fasciae.
reexploration
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: reexplorations
Etymology: From re- + exploration.
Senses: examples: text: Unlike higher readmission and reexploration rate in these reports, we had only 2 readmissions with BMP related complication and none of them required any surgical intervention.
ref: 2015 June 30, Sunil Kukreja et al., “Complications of Anterior Cervical Fusion using a Low-dose Recombinant Human Bone Morphogenetic Protein-2”, in Korean Journal of Spine, volume 12, →DOI:
glosses: exploration again or anew
radiolabelling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of radiolabel
radiolabeling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of radiolabel
macrohaemodynamics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From macro- + haemodynamics.
Senses: examples: text: As shown previously, stable macrohaemodynamics in our model remained near the lower limit of the renal auto-regulatory range reported for anaesthetized rats.
ref: 2014 December 9, Martin A Schick et al., “Sepsis-induced acute kidney injury by standardized colon ascendens stent peritonitis in rats - a simple, reproducible animal model”, in Intensive Care Medicine Experimental, volume 2, →DOI:
glosses: Alternative form of macrohemodynamics.
macrohaemodynamic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From macro- + haemodynamic.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of macrohemodynamic.
undervaluedness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From undervalued + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or condition of being undervalued.
saphenofemoral
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From sapheno- + femoral.
Senses: examples: text: There are 4 stages with difficulty in performing endovenous treatment for varicose veins: cannulation of a vein, advancement of the working part to the saphenofemoral or saphenopopliteal junction, visualization of the tip of the working part at the saphenofemoral or saphenopopliteal junction, and difficulty in performing the ablation and delivering the planned linear energy density.
ref: 2014 December 31, Jin Hyun Joh et al., “Consensus for the Treatment of Varicose Vein with Radiofrequency Ablation”, in Vascular Specialist International, volume 30, →DOI:
glosses: Relating to the saphenous vein and the femur.
saphenopopliteal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From sapheno- + popliteal.
Senses: examples: text: A classification system based on the level of EHIT in relation to the saphenopopliteal junction is reported [ 30 ].
ref: 2014 December 31, Jin Hyun Joh et al., “Consensus for the Treatment of Varicose Vein with Radiofrequency Ablation”, in Vascular Specialist International, volume 30, →DOI:
glosses: Relating to the saphenous vein and the popliteus.
maltoporin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: maltoporins
Senses: examples: text: The image shows phage λ bound to its maltoporin receptor LamB on the E.coli membrane during DNA ejection.
ref: 2015 July 22, “Subscriptions”, in Nucleic Acids Research, volume 43, →DOI:
glosses: Any of a family of outer membrane proteins associated with the diffusion of maltodextrin.
maltoporins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of maltoporin
nooked
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From nook + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: Turn down Willing's Alley, to the westward, between tall warehouses, and you come to an iron-gated archway, on your right, which leads you through a building and into a nooked courtyard— and here, in this nooked and unsuspected corner, is the church!
ref: 1920, Robert Shackleton, The Book of Philadelphia, page 35:
text: Maybe it was too difficult to negotiate, too obviously nooked and crannied […]
ref: 2001, Alan Bissett, Damage Land: New Scottish Gothic Fiction, page 55:
text: Paula mused over the idea as she took small bites of her nooked and crannied muffin.
ref: 2012, John M. Garzone, Crazed Control, page 157:
glosses: Having nooks.
nooked
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From nook + -ed.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of nook
lipodermatosclerosis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From lipo- + dermato- + sclerosis.
Senses: examples: text: It requires treatment in patients with various complications such as thrombophlebitis, bleeding from superficial varicose veins, or signs of more advanced forms of chronic venous insufficiency (CVI) such as edema and skin changes including lipodermatosclerosis, eczema, pigmentation, atrophie blanche, and healed or active ulceration.
ref: 2014 December 31, Jin Hyun Joh et al., “Consensus for the Treatment of Varicose Vein with Radiofrequency Ablation”, in Vascular Specialist International, volume 30, →DOI:
glosses: A disease of the skin and connective tissue: chronic panniculitis with lipomembranous changes.
Derived terms: lipodermatosclerotic
double-bazingas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of double-bazinga
double bazingas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of double bazinga
repeels
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of repeel
repeeling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of repeel
repeeled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of repeel
lateralise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: lateralises
form: lateralising
form: lateralised
form: lateralised
Etymology: From lateral + -ise.
Senses: examples: text: Crossmodal spatial cueing studies have shown that a lateralised auditory stimulus (non-predictive cue) can influence the response to a subsequent visual target, with better performance when the target is presented at the same location as the cue (valid trials) than on the opposite side […]
ref: 2015 July 10, Serena Mastroberardino, Valerio Santangelo, Emiliano Macaluso, “Crossmodal semantic congruence can affect visuo-spatial processing and activity of the fronto-parietal attention networks”, in Frontiers in Integrative Neuroscience, volume 9, →DOI:
glosses: Alternative form of lateralize.
Derived terms: nonlateralised
lateralises
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of lateralise
lateralising
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of lateralise
lateralised
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of lateralise
homoeopaths
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of homoeopath
bioclasts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bioclast
bioerode
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: bioerodes
form: bioeroding
form: bioeroded
form: bioeroded
Etymology: From bio- + erode.
Senses: glosses: To cause to undergo bioerosion.
glosses: To undergo bioerosion.
Derived terms: bioeroder
bioeroded
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of bioerode
bioerodes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of bioerode
bioeroding
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of bioerode
bioerosional
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From bio- + erosion + -al.
Senses: examples: text: The Ordovician hardgrounds and their bioerosional trace fossils are best known in North America.
ref: 2015 July 29, “Bioerosion of Inorganic Hard Substrates in the Ordovician of Estonia (Baltica)”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Relating to bioerosion.
calflagin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: calflagins
Etymology: From calcium, flagellar, -in.
Senses: examples: text: Analysis of the amino-terminal composition of available AK3 sequences revealed striking common features (Fig 2): the occurrence of a glycine in position 2 and the presence of 5 lysine residues, exactly as in FCaBP and in all 3 calflagins.
ref: 2015 July 29, “The Flagellar Arginine Kinase in Trypanosoma brucei Is Important for Infection in Tsetse Flies”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: A flagellar calcium-binding protein.
calflagins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of calflagin
woosh
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wooshes
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of whoosh.
woosh
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: wooshes
form: wooshing
form: wooshed
form: wooshed
Senses: examples: text: For a while, purple-robed, heel-dangling, I sat on the edge of one of the rude tables, under the wooshing pines.
ref: 1955, Vladimir Nabokov, chapter 1, in Lolita:
glosses: Alternative form of whoosh.
osteochondroprogenitor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: osteochondroprogenitors
Etymology: From osteo- + chondroprogenitor.
Senses: glosses: A progenitor cell that arises from mesenchymal stem cells in the bone marrow and has the ability to differentiate into an osteoblast or a chondrocyte.
osteochondroprogenitors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of osteochondroprogenitor
wooshes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of woosh
wooshes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of woosh
cornulitid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cornulitids
Senses: examples: text: A single eroded cornulitid was found cemented to the hardground.
ref: 2015 July 29, “Bioerosion of Inorganic Hard Substrates in the Ordovician of Estonia (Baltica)”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Any member of the extinct order Cornulitida of encrusting animals in the class Tentaculita.
cornulitids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cornulitid
hyporeactivity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From hypo- + reactivity.
Senses: examples: text: Thus, the injection of LPS caused severe hypotension, tachycardia, hypoglycemia, vascular hyporeactivity, multiple organ dysfunction syndrome, and high mortality at the end of the experiment.
ref: 2015 July 29, “Distinct Patterns of Wnt3a and Wnt5a Signaling Pathway in the Lung from Rats with Endotoxic Shock”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: The quality of being hyporeactive.
intrajudge
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From intra- + judge.
Senses: examples: text: The mean intrajudge reliability of measurement of %SS was 83%.
ref: 2015 July 29, “Direct versus Indirect Treatment for Preschool Children who Stutter: The RESTART Randomized Trial”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
topics: sciences
glosses: Within the evaluations of a single judge.
Related terms: interjudge
microfluctuation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: microfluctuations
Etymology: From micro- + fluctuation.
Senses: examples: text: Although our data cannot help explain why this occurs, we infer that microfluctuations in accommodation contribute to VA instability.
ref: 2015 July 29, “Mesopic Functional Visual Acuity in Normal Subjects”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: A tiny fluctuation.
microfluctuations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of microfluctuation
mitofilin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Rossi and colleagues showed that the mitochondrial protein mitofilin co-localized with PARP-1 in mitochondria of HeLa cells, which shows the mitochondrial presence of the enzyme.
ref: 2015 July 29, “Differentiation-Associated Downregulation of Poly(ADP-Ribose) Polymerase-1 Expression in Myoblasts Serves to Increase Their Resistance to Oxidative Stress”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: A transmembrane protein of the inner mitochondrial membrane.
paranodal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From para- + nodal.
Senses: examples: text: Auto-antibodies against the paranodal proteins contactin-1 and neurofascin-155 and the nodal protein neurofascin-186 have been detected in subgroups of patients with chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy.
ref: 2015 July 29, “Contactin-1 and Neurofascin-155/-186 Are Not Targets of Auto-Antibodies in Multifocal Motor Neuropathy”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Relating to a paranode
topics: anatomy
biology
botany
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: Alongside a node
Derived terms: juxtaparanodal
polyclonality
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: polyclonalities
Etymology: From polyclonal + -ity.
Senses: examples: text: Plasma cells detected in Hashimoto’s thyroiditis show polyclonality with staining for IgG, IgM, and IgA heavy chains and kappa and lamda light chains.
ref: 2015 July 29, “Graves’ Disease Patients with Persistent Hyperthyroidism and Diffuse Lymphoplasmacytic Infiltration in the Thyroid Show No Histopathological Compatibility with IgG4-Related Disease”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: The condition of being polyclonal
conchiolins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of conchiolin
prefeeding
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: By surface analysis, pre- + feed + -ing.
Senses: examples: text: Near-synonyms: premeal, preprandial, precibal
text: prefeeding blood glucose levels
text: We investigated a new approach to ground based control that combined aerial distribution of non-toxic ‘prefeed’ baits followed by sparse distribution of toxic baits at regular intervals along the GPS tracked prefeeding flight paths.
ref: 2015 July 29, “Aerial Prefeeding Followed by Ground Based Toxic Baiting for More Efficient and Acceptable Poisoning of Invasive Small Mammalian Pests”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
antonyms: postfeeding
postmeal
postprandial
postcibal
;
postbreakfast
postlunch
postdinner
glosses: Before feeding.
raw_tags: of infants or animals
Related terms: refeeding
prefeeding
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: By surface analysis, pre- + feed + -ing.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of prefeed
septohippocampal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From septo- + hippocampal.
Senses: examples: text: Thus, GIRK channels might play a role as a part of the mechanisms underlying the loss of septohippocampal rhythmic state that promote failures in synaptic plasticity and memory formation observed in AD patients.
ref: 2015 July 29, “Amyloid- β (25-35) Modulates the Expression of GirK and KCNQ Channel Genes in the Hippocampus”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Relating to the septum and the hippocampus.
triazophos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A particular insecticide.
encruster
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: encrusters
Etymology: From encrust + -er.
Senses: examples: text: Some rock encrusters can occupy large areas and impart new morphological, biological, and geological characteristics upon the environment they settled. Probably the most widespread encrusters along karst coastlines are coralline red algae […]
ref: 2013, Michael J. Lace, John E. Mylroie, Coastal Karst Landforms, page 42:
topics: biology
ecology
natural-sciences
glosses: Any organism that encrusts part of its environment.
encrusters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of encruster
Averroistic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Averroistic
form: most Averroistic
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to Averroism.
mudrock
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mudrocks
Etymology: From mud + rock.
Senses: examples: text: Complex dielectric variations can address neatly the maturity of organic-rich mudrocks.
ref: 2015, Rezwanur Rahman, John A. Scales, Manika Prasad, “Complex dielectric properties of organic-rich mudrocks as functions of maturity”, in arXiv:
topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: Any of various fine-grained siliciclastic sedimentary rocks.
mudrocks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mudrock
multiexonic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From multi- + exonic.
Senses: examples: text: This has resulted in the identification of over five thousand new transcriptional multiexonic events in human and/or chimpanzee that are not observed in the rest of species.
ref: 2015, Jorge Ruiz-Orera, Jessica Hernandez-Rodriguez, Cristina Chiva, Eduard Sabidó, Ivanela Kondova, Ronald Bontrop, Tomàs Marqués-Bonet, M. Mar Albà, “Origins of de novo genes in human and chimpanzee”, in arXiv:
glosses: Of or relating to more than one exon.
multiarm
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From multi- + arm.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to more than one arm.
pseudomanifold
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pseudomanifolds
Etymology: From pseudo- + manifold.
Senses: glosses: A special type of topological space that looks like a manifold at most of its points, but may contain singularities.
pseudomanifolds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pseudomanifold
rationalisable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From rationalise + -able.
Senses: examples: text: A natural (non-binary) measure of the degree of rationality exhibited by the consumer is the minimum number of data points whose removal induces a rationalisable data-set.
ref: 2015, Shant Boodaghians, Adrian Vetta, “Testing Consumer Rationality using Perfect Graphs and Oriented Discs”, in arXiv:
glosses: Alternative form of rationalizable.
Regge theory
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Developed by Tullio Regge in 1959.
Senses: qualifier: quantum mechanics
glosses: The study of the analytic properties of scattering as a function of angular momentum, where the angular momentum is not restricted to an integer but may take any complex value.
Related terms: Reggeize
Reggeization
reggeon
semisimplicity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From semi- + simplicity.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: Quality of being semisimple.
valleytronic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: Monolayer (ML) transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) have been attracting great research attentions lately for their extraordinary properties, in particular the exotic spin-valley coupled electronic structures that promise future spintronic and valleytronic applications.
ref: 2015, Hongjun Liu, Jinglei Chen, Hongyi Yu, Fang Yang, Lu Jiao, Gui-Bin Liu, Wingking Ho, Chunlei Gao, Jinfeng Jia, Wang Yao, Maohai Xie, “Observation of intervalley quantum interference in epitaxial monolayer WSe2”, in arXiv:
glosses: Relating to valleytronics.
straight as a die
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: * Used in the sense of ‘correct,’ attested since April, 1871, originally American English, from the 18th-century expression as true as a die, from the 16th-century expression as smooth as a die, referring to the osseous substance that dice were formerly created with.
* Possibly connected with, or confused with, the metal-cutting tool called a die.
Senses: qualifier: simile
glosses: Completely or totally straight.
schizophrenialike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -aɪk
Forms: form: more schizophrenialike
form: most schizophrenialike
form: schizophrenia-like
Etymology: From schizophrenia + -like.
Senses: examples: text: His father described how other relatives had been mentally ill, including an aunt of the gunman who has a schizophrenialike condition.
ref: 2015 July 28, Jack Healy, “Aurora Killer’s Parents Plead to Spare His Life”, in New York Times:
topics: human-sciences
medicine
psychiatry
psychology
sciences
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of schizophrenia.
yogilike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more yogilike
form: most yogilike
Etymology: From yogi + -like.
Senses: examples: text: His destroyed-cellphone defense calls to mind Richard Nixon, whose secretary, Rose Mary Woods, claimed that in a yogilike stretch of arm, back and leg, she had managed to mistakenly erase a key 18-minute stretch of tape that just might have proved that the president had committed a criminal act.
ref: 2015 July 28, Michael Powell, “Tom Brady Hands Off the Dirty Work”, in New York Times:
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a yogi.
tabloidlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more tabloidlike
form: most tabloidlike
Etymology: From tabloid + -like.
Senses: examples: text: While its subject means that “Listen to Me” is easy to like, Mr. Riley’s shaping of Brando’s words can make the movie, every so often, difficult to fully embrace. Mr. Riley’s handling of the fatal 1990 shooting of Dag Drollet by Christian Brando, Brando’s son, is especially unfortunate, and the use of some tabloidlike news material sleazes up the movie a touch.
ref: 2015 July 28, Manohla Dargis, “Review: ‘Listen to Me Marlon’ Explores Brando’s Life of Contention”, in New York Times:
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a tabloid newspaper; lowbrow and sensationalistic.
enterorrhagia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: enterorrhagias
Etymology: From enter- (“intestine”) + -rrhagia (“excessive discharge”).
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: intestinal hemorrhage
chion-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Etymology: From New Latin chion- (“snow”), chio, German chio, from Ancient Greek χιών (khiṓn, “snow”), χιόνι (khióni, “snow”), akin to Ancient Greek χειμών (kheimṓn, “winter”).
Senses: glosses: snow
nasal demons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nasal demon
nasal demon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nasal demons
Etymology: From a 1992 post on the Usenet newsgroup comp.std.c; see http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/N/nasal-demons.html.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
glosses: Unexpected behavior of a compiled program as a result of source code that employs an undefined construct.
custard slice
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: custard slices
Senses: glosses: Synonym of vanilla slice.
synonyms: word: vanilla slice
custard slices
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of custard slice