cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
diverter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: diverters
Etymology: From divert + -er.
Senses: glosses: A person or thing that diverts.
glosses: A valve used to change the flow of fluid through a system of pipes.
topics: communications
electrical-engineering
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
telecommunications
glosses: A device for forwarding calls to another telephone line.
examples: text: The diverter clearly gains from a successful diversion but pays a heavy price if caught.
ref: 2012, Morton D. Davis, Game Theory: A Nontechnical Introduction, page 47:
text: The game theory also requires a precise statement of all the conceivable moves the diverter might make and counter-moves available to the defender.
ref: 1980, LBL Newsmagazine, volumes 5-9, page 20:
topics: computing
engineering
game-theory
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: One who uses diversionary tactics.
renunciant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: renunciants
Etymology: From Latin renuntiāns, present participle of renuntiāre.
Senses: examples: text: The stereotypical image of the Jain renunciant is a monk (or possibly nun) dutifully sweeping the ground gently before him with a small broom […].
ref: 2016, Sunil Khilnani, Incarnations, Penguin, published 2017, page 10:
glosses: A person who renounces something; especially, someone who renounces worldly life for spiritual reasons, or a person who renounces their citizenship.
Synonyms: renunciate
renunciant
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more renunciant
form: most renunciant
Etymology: From Latin renuntiāns, present participle of renuntiāre.
Senses: glosses: That renounces; renouncing.
Synonyms: renunciate
riding habit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: riding habits
Senses: synonyms: riding robe
glosses: A woman's outfit for horseback riding, traditionally comprising a tailored jacket with a long skirt, a tailored shirt or chemisette, and a formal hat.
riding habits
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of riding habit
rose quartz
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rose quartzes
Senses: glosses: A pinkish to reddish-colored type of quartz.
glosses: A light rosy pink color like that of the gem.
geostatistic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more geostatistic
form: most geostatistic
Etymology: From geo- + statistic.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to geostatistics.
geostatistical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From geo- + statistical.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to geostatistics
Derived terms: geostatistically
geostatistics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From geo- + statistics.
Senses: topics: geography
geology
mathematics
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: The application of statistics to geological observations
intersample
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From inter- + sample.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
statistics
glosses: Between samples
petabit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: petabits
Etymology: From peta- + bit.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: One quadrillion (10¹⁵, or 1,000,000,000,000,000) bits or 1,000 terabits.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: a pebibit.
Synonyms: Pbit
Coordinate terms: sense: Previous
word: terabit
sense: Next
word: exabit
Related terms: pebibyte
petabyte
pebibit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pebibits
Etymology: From pebi- + bit.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Strictly, 2⁵⁰ (1024⁵, 1,125,899,906,842,624) bits or 2¹⁰ (1024) tebibits, as opposed to a petabit.
Synonyms: Pibit
Coordinate terms: sense: Previous
word: tebibit
sense: Next
word: exbibit
regionalized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of regionalize
regionalized
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more regionalized
form: most regionalized
Senses: glosses: Divided into regions or considered on a regional basis
regionalize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: regionalizes
form: regionalizing
form: regionalized
form: regionalized
Etymology: From regional + -ize.
Senses: glosses: To divide into or organize according to regions.
glosses: To administer on a regional basis.
riffler
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rifflers
Etymology: From riffle + -er.
Senses: glosses: A mechanical device consisting of a metal box with a series of vertical slats through which material is poured and randomly divided into two samples; this process is repeated to obtain a small representative sample of a bulk material.
glosses: A curved file used in carving wood and marble.
Synonyms: sense: device for obtaining a sample
word: riffle sampler
sense: device for obtaining a sample
word: riffle splitter
riffling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of riffle
riffling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: sampling by use of a riffler
cue balls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cue ball
semivariance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: semivariances
Etymology: From semi- + variance.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
statistics
glosses: A measure of the dispersion of those values that fall below the mean or target value of a data set
Related terms: semivariogram
variance
punch up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpʌntʃ ˌʌp/
ipa: /ˌpʌntʃ ˈʌp/
Forms: form: punches up
form: punching up
form: punched up
form: punched up
Senses: examples: text: He came back all punched up. He got a few stitches — they really punched him up good.
glosses: To beat (someone) up by punching, to fist-fight.
examples: text: Her standup act involves a lot of punching up. It's possible to punch down in standup, a little bit here and there, but it's tricky to get right.
synonyms: punch upward
punch upwards
antonyms: punch down
coordinate_terms: counterpunch#Verb
fight back#Verb
glosses: To attack, counterattack, or target a group of greater power or status than oneself.
examples: text: Near-synonyms: kick up, spice up
text: He punched up his sauce with some habaneros. He figured he needed something to punch it up a little.
text: To punch up the flavor even more, we looked to an untraditional ingredient: fish sauce.
ref: 2013, America's Test Kitchen, Comfort Food Makeovers: All Your Favorites Made Lighter:
text: Yet AI is becoming the invisible infrastructure of personal communications, too – punching up text messages, birthday cards and obituaries, even though we associate such compositions with “from the heart” authenticity.
ref: 2025 June 30, Adrienne Matei, “‘Hey man, I’m so sorry for your loss’: should you use AI to text?”, in Katharine Viner, editor, The Guardian, London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC:
coordinate_terms: spruce up
gussy up
enliven
glosses: To make bolder, zestier, or more exciting.
examples: text: Sound films have to be loaded so that the sound is 5 seconds before the sound drum so a wow does not result when the film is punched up on the air.
ref: 1970, Larry G. Goodwin, Thomas Koehring, Closed-circuit Television Production Techniques, page 80:
text: In this illustrated example, camera 2 is punched up on the program buss and is therefore being sent out directly […]
ref: 1982, Thomas D. Burrows, Donald N. Wood, Television Production: Disciplines and Techniques, page 132:
topics: broadcasting
media
television
glosses: To switch (a source) into the main transmission.
Related terms: punch-up session
punch up
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpʌntʃ ˌʌp/
ipa: /ˌpʌntʃ ˈʌp/
Forms: form: punch ups
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of punch-up.
rum go
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹʌm ˌɡəʊ/
Forms: form: rum gos
form: rum goo
Etymology: UK dialectal (chiefly Cockney); rum (“strange, peculiar”) + go (“incident, occurrence”).
Senses: examples: text: ‘Here’s rayther a rum go, sir,’ replied Sam. / ‘What?’ inquired Mr. Pickwick. / ‘This here, Sir,’ rejoined Sam. ‘I’m wery much afeerd, sir, that the properiator o' this here coach is a playin' some imperence vith us.’
ref: 1836 March – 1837 October, Charles Dickens, chapter XXXV, in The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published 1837, →OCLC:
text: “Well, who's a better right?” growled the gamekeeper. “A pretty rum go if squire ain't to talk for Dr. Livesey, I should think.”
ref: 1881–1882, Robert Louis Stevenson, “I Go to Bristol”, in Treasure Island, London; Paris: Cassell & Company, published 14 November 1883, →OCLC, part II (The Sea Cook), page 55:
text: There they are, Strawberry—Fledge, I should say. This is a rum go.
ref: 1955, C[live] S[taples] Lewis, The Magician’s Nephew, London: The Bodley Head, →OCLC:
text: Bert: Life's a rum go, Guv'nor, and that's the truth.
ref: 1964, William Crozier Walsh et al., Mary Poppins:
text: Adrian thought it worth while to try out his new slang. ‘I say, you fellows, here's a rum go. Old Biffo was jolly odd this morning. He gave me a lot of pi-jaw about slacking and then invited me to tea. No rotting! He did really.’
ref: 1991, Stephen Fry, chapter III, in The Liar, London: William Heinemann, →ISBN, page 26:
synonyms: rum one
rum start
rum 'un
glosses: A peculiar, surprising, and/or confusing event, thing, etc.
VRE
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: VREs
Senses: topics: biology
medicine
microbiology
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: vancomycin-resistant enterococcus
Related terms: MRSA
VRSA
VRE
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Virginia Railway Express
VRSA
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: biology
medicine
microbiology
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: Initialism of vancomycin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus.
Related terms: MRSA
VISA
VRE
vCJD
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: variant CJD, a form of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease
Synonyms: nvCJD
human BSE
human spongiform encephalopathy
human mad cow disease
human mad cow
nvCJD
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Initialism of new variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease.
Synonyms: vCJD
human BSE
human spongiform encephalopathy
human mad cow disease
human mad cow
enterococcus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: enterococci
Etymology: From entero- + -coccus.
Senses: topics: bacteriology
biology
microbiology
natural-sciences
glosses: Any of a group of streptococci bacteria, of the genus Enterococcus, that inhabit the human gastrointestinal tract and have great resistance to antibiotics
Derived terms: enterococcal
enterococcemia
enterococcosis
VRE
Related terms: coccus
cyno-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsaɪnəʊ/
homophone: Sino-
Etymology: Combining form of Ancient Greek κύων (kúōn, “dog”). Cf. cynic.
Senses: glosses: of or pertaining to dogs
semivariogram
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: semivariograms
Etymology: From semi- + variogram.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
statistics
glosses: A function of the spatial dependence of semivariance; a graph of this function.
Related terms: variogram
variogram
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: variograms
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
statistics
glosses: A function of the spatial dependence of variance; a graph of this function
Related terms: rodogram
semivariogram
variographic
variography
subpart
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsʌbˌpɑː(ɹ)t/
Forms: form: subparts
Etymology: From sub- + part.
Senses: examples: text: Holonyms: part; portion; (sometimes) subassembly; assembly
text: Near-synonyms: subportion, subsection
text: You will find your obligations in this regard clearly defined in Part D, Subpart b, Section 8 of the second Addendum to the contract.
glosses: Part of a part.
uncorrelated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more uncorrelated
form: most uncorrelated
Etymology: From un- + correlated.
Senses: glosses: Not correlated
topics: mathematics
sciences
statistics
glosses: Having a covariance of zero
unsampled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + sampled.
Senses: glosses: That has not been sampled.
acetogenic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more acetogenic
form: most acetogenic
Etymology: From aceto- + -genic.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Capable of converting carbon dioxide or sugars into acetic acid or acetate; used especially of bacteria.
Derived terms: nonacetogenic
Related terms: acetogenesis
amphiphilicity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: amphiphilicities
Etymology: From amphiphilic + -ity.
Senses: glosses: The condition of being amphiphilic
glosses: The extent to which something is amphiphilic
bioelectrocatalysis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bioelectrocatalyses
Etymology: From bio- + electrocatalysis.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: biochemical electrocatalysis (The biological catalysis of electrochemical processes)
Related terms: bioelectrocatalytic
biomacromolecule
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: biomacromolecules
Etymology: From bio- + macromolecule.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any macromolecule (such as protein, nucleic acid or polysaccharide) of biological origin
Related terms: biomacromolecular
bioregulator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bioregulators
Etymology: From bio- + regulator.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any substance that regulates a biological process
biosystem
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: biosystems
Etymology: From bio- + system.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Any system of mutually interacting biological organisms
chemoselective
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more chemoselective
form: most chemoselective
Etymology: From chemo- + selective.
Senses: glosses: Of, pertaining to, or promoting chemoselectivity
Derived terms: chemoselectively
chemoselectivity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chemoselectivities
Etymology: From chemo- + selectivity.
Senses: glosses: The preferential reaction of a chemical reagent with one of two or more different functional groups.
Related terms: chemoselective
cotranslationally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From cotranslational + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a cotranslational manner; whilst being translated.
Texas mickey
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Texas mickeys
Etymology: Canada, Texas + mickey.
Senses: glosses: A very large bottle of hard liquor, holding 3,000 ml (106 imperial oz. or 101 US oz.), or, formerly, one holding 133.3 oz.
cotranslational
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From co- + translational.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Occurring at the same time as the translation stage of protein synthesis.
Derived terms: cotranslationally
silyne
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: silynes
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: a molecule containing a silicon atom which forms a triple bond
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: an organosilyne, a molecule containing a silicon atom triply bonded to a carbon atom
topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: a silicon analog of alkynes containing at least one silicon-silicon triple bond.
Derived terms: silynyl
disilyne
Related terms: 1,1,4,4-tetrakis(bis(trimethylsilyl)methyl)-1,4-diiopropyl-2-tetrasilyne
silane
silene
disilane
disilene
silynes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of silyne
disilyne
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: disilynes
Etymology: From di- + silyne.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: a molecule containing a silicon atom which forms a triple bond to another silicon atom
topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: a silicon analog of alkynes containing at least one silicon-silicon triple bond.
topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: a silicon analog of ethyne, Si₂H₂ ( SiH≡SiH )
Derived terms: disilynyl
Related terms: silyne
silane
silene
disilane
disilene
disilynes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of disilyne
disilene
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: disilenes
Etymology: From di- + silene.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: a molecule containing a silicon atom which forms a double bond to another silicon atom
topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: a silicon analog of alkenes containing at least one silicon-silicon double bond.
topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: a silicon analog of ethene, Si₂H₄ ( SiH₂=SiH₂ )
Derived terms: disilenyl
Related terms: silene
silyne
silane
disilane
disilyne
disilenes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of disilene
silene
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: silenes
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: a molecule containing a silicon atom which forms a double bond
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: an organosilene, a molecule containing a silicon atom doubly bonded to a carbon atom
topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: a silicon analog of alkenes containing at least one silicon-silicon double bond.
Derived terms: silenyl
disilene
Related terms: silane
silyne
disilane
disilyne
silene
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: silenes
Etymology: Borrowed from translingual Silene.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Any of several plants of the genus Silene.
silenes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of silene
dicysteine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dicysteines
Etymology: From di- + cysteine.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The dimer of cysteine; cystine
dilative
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /daɪˈleɪtɪv/
rhymes: -eɪtɪv
Forms: form: more dilative
form: most dilative
Etymology: From dilate + -ive.
Senses: glosses: That dilates, or causes dilation
Derived terms: bronchodilative
vasodilative
electrosynthesis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: electrosyntheses
Etymology: From electro- + synthesis.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: the synthesis of compounds in an electrochemical cell
Related terms: electrosynthetic
enantioselectivity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: enantioselectivities
Etymology: From enantio- + selectivity.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The selectivity of a reaction towards one of a pair of enantiomers
endogenic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From endo- + -genic.
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: Originating within the system (as an organism) that it acts upon.
Originating within the earth; endogenous or endogenetic.
antonyms: exogenic
glosses: Originating within the system (as an organism) that it acts upon.
Of a system (“set of alters of a person”), having become multiple for any reason other than psychological trauma.
synonyms: endo
antonyms: traumagenic
qualifier: multiplicity slang
Related terms: endogenicity
exogenic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more exogenic
form: most exogenic
Etymology: From exo- + -genic.
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: Originating on or above the surface of the earth; exogenetic.
glosses: Existing or arising outside of a system.
topics: dermatology
medicine
sciences
glosses: Relating to the exogen growth phase.
Synonyms: sense: related to the exogen phase
word: exogenous
Derived terms: exogenically
Related terms: endogenic
monosilane
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: monosilanes
Etymology: From mono- + silane.
Senses: topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: the silicon analog of methane, SiH₄
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: silane
Synonyms: silane
tetrahydrosilane
tetrahydrosilicon
tetrahydic silicon
silicon tetrahydride
silicomethane
Derived terms: monosilanyl
Related terms: disilane
silanyl
silyl
heptahelical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From hepta- + helical.
Senses: glosses: having seven helices; especially describing a portion of a protein having seven associated α-helices
Derived terms: heptahelical domain
heptahelical receptor
slip off
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: slips off
form: slipping off
form: slipped off
form: slipped off
Senses: examples: text: I'm going to try to slip off from work early, if I can.
glosses: To leave a place, or a meeting, without being noticed
examples: text: He slipped off his jacket and hung it in the wardrobe.
glosses: To remove an article of clothing
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: To leave a port, anchorage or mooring
Synonyms: sense: leave
word: slide off
sense: leave
word: slip away
sense: leave
word: sneak off
sense: remove clothing
word: take off
sense: remove clothing
word: undress
sense: remove clothing
word: disrobe
lipidome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lipidomes
Etymology: From lipid + -ome.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The set of all lipids in a cell or organism
Derived terms: glycerolipidome
lipidomic
lipidomics
microlipidome
neurolipidome
phospholipidome
slide off
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /slaɪd ˈɒf/
ipa: /slaɪd ˈɔf/
Forms: form: slides off
form: sliding off
form: slid off
form: slid off
Senses: examples: text: I'm going to try to slide off from work early, if I can.
text: Soon as he could, he slid off to Jim's rooms to make sure he'd left nothing around that a journalist might pick on if a journalist were clever enough to make the connection, Ellis to Prideaux.
ref: 1974 June, John Le Carré, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, London: Hodder & Stoughton; republished in The Quest for Karla, London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1982, page 162
text: Susan and I slid off to an Indian restaurant in Shepherd's Bush, and I slid off on to the floor.
ref: 2003, David Nobbs, “The Nervous Nineties”, in I Didn't Get Where I Am Today: An Autobiography, London: Heinemann; republished London: Arrow Books, The Random House Group, 2004, page 444
text: As Simone and the crowd praised Drew I slid off to the back hurt, ashamed, and pissed off.
ref: 2010 December 16, Lamont Z. Brown, “Standing within His Shadow”, in Between the Gates of Heaven and Hell: My Crazy Crayola World, [Bloomington, Ind.]: Trafford Publishing, →ISBN, page 10:
text: I slid off to follow her and I heard the scrape of a board on snow.
ref: 2013 January 8, Steven Gould, “Cent: ‘Was He Hitting On You?’”, in Impulse, New York, N.Y.: Tor Books, →ISBN:
text: If you knew your girl was sliding off with the next dude you telling me you wouldn't negatively react?
ref: 2014 February 27, Robert A. Grant, Jr., “This Here Generation”, in Mind of a Writer, Bloomington, Ind.: AuthorHouse, →ISBN, page 103:
glosses: To leave a place, a meeting, etc., without being noticed; to slip away, slip off.
examples: text: Make sure your cup doesn't slide off the tray.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see slide, off.
Synonyms: sense: leave
word: slip away
sense: leave
word: slip off
sense: leave
word: sneak off
lipidomic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From lipidome + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to lipidomics or to a lipidome
Derived terms: neurolipidomic
oxylipidomic
lipidomics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From lipid + -omics.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The study of the lipidome of an organism or cell
Derived terms: glycolipidomics
neurolipidomics
oxylipidomics
Related terms: lipidomic
get a wriggle on
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: gets a wriggle on
form: getting a wriggle on
form: got a wriggle on
form: got a wriggle on
form: gotten a wriggle on
Senses: examples: text: Informed our hostess a thousand times we had to leave early, and do you think she'd get a wriggle on with the tea ?
ref: 1928-29, Jack Lindsay and Percy Reginald Stephensen, The London Aphrodite: a miscellany of poems, stories, and essays by various hands eminent or rebellious, London, The Fanfrolico Press, pg. 218
text: While accepting he needs to get a wriggle on, Australia's annual great hope remains defiant and insists he can overcome a nightmare draw and once again challenge for the Norman Brookes Challenge Cup.
ref: 2008 January 13, Darren Walton, “Don't write me off”, in The Advertiser:
glosses: To hurry up.
Synonyms: get a wiggle on
mesophylic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more mesophylic
form: most mesophylic
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: That lives in a medium temperature range
Related terms: extremophilic
psychrophilic
nanoanalytical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more nanoanalytical
form: most nanoanalytical
Etymology: From nano- + analytical.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Of or pertaining to nanoanalysis
nanoanalysis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nanoanalyses
Etymology: From nano- + analysis.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: The analysis of a surface or material at the nanometer level
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The analysis of nanogram amounts of material
nanolithography
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɒɡɹəfi
Etymology: From nano- + lithography.
Senses: glosses: the use of lithography to fabricate nanoscale patterns
neuromorphic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: medicine
neuroscience
sciences
glosses: That mimic and implement neuro-biological architectures present in the nervous system to be used in a practical computing system.
Derived terms: neuromorphically
nonclassic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + classic.
Senses: glosses: nonclassical
nonclassic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nonclassics
Etymology: From non- + classic.
Senses: examples: text: He's seen critical classics (including the work of David Cronenberg and George Romero), popular classics (Friday the 13th, Halloween), and nonclassics (Happy Birthday to Me, My Bloody Valentine).
ref: 1988 October 14, Holly Greenhagen, “Theater Notes: 80 gallons of blood a month”, in Chicago Reader, archived from the original on 30 Oct 2020:
glosses: Something that is not a classic.
noncovalently
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From non- + covalently.
Senses: glosses: Not covalently.
nonlinking
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + linking.
Senses: glosses: That does not link to others.
nonproteogenic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + proteogenic.
Senses: glosses: That does not lead to the production of proteins; not proteogenic
proteogenic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more proteogenic
form: most proteogenic
Etymology: From proteo- + -genic.
Senses: glosses: That is used in the production of proteins
overexpressed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of overexpress
overexpressed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more overexpressed
form: most overexpressed
Senses: glosses: Produced by overexpression
Derived terms: cooverexpressed
gegenion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gegenions
Etymology: From the German gegen (“against”) + ion.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A counterion: an ion of opposite charge to another in an electrochemical or ion transport system.
postgenomic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more postgenomic
form: most postgenomic
Etymology: From post- + genomic.
Senses: topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: Describing any of various fields of study that are only possible after the publication of the genome of an organism.
Related terms: postgenomics
postgenomics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From post- + genomics.
Senses: topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: Any of various fields of study that are only possible after the publication of the genome of an organism
Related terms: postgenomic
precharged
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more precharged
form: most precharged
form: pre-charged
Senses: glosses: charged in advance
precharged
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: pre-charged
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of precharge
proteinogenic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more proteinogenic
form: most proteinogenic
Etymology: From protein + -o- + -genic.
Senses: glosses: proteogenic (that serves to produce protein)
proteinomimetic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more proteinomimetic
form: most proteinomimetic
Etymology: From protein + -o- + mimetic.
Senses: glosses: That mimics the action of a protein
proteinomimetic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: proteinomimetics
Etymology: From protein + -o- + mimetic.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any relatively small molecule, especially a peptide that mimics some characteristic of a protein
proteinomimetics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of proteinomimetic
proteinomimetics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The branch of biology that studies proteinomimetic compounds
regularities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of regularity
selenoproteome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: selenoproteomes
Etymology: From seleno- + proteome.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A proteome of selenoproteins.
thermostability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: thermostabilities
Etymology: From thermo- + stability.
Senses: glosses: The condition of being thermostable
glosses: The extent to which something is thermostable
thermostable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more thermostable
form: most thermostable
Etymology: From thermo- + stable.
Senses: glosses: Physically or chemically unaffected by high temperatures
Related terms: thermostability
let something slip
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: lets something slip
form: letting something slip
form: let something slip
form: let something slip
Senses: examples: text: We were talking about Natalie when I let slip that she was pregnant.
glosses: To accidentally reveal a secret.
side-to-side
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: side to side
Etymology: side + to + side
Senses: examples: text: The boat rocked with a steady side-to-side motion.
text: It was nearly all downhill into Shrewsbury, with two intermediate stops, and a grand sequence of long curves around which Soult nuzzled her way with a quick side-to-side action.
ref: 1951 October, R. S. McNaught, “Lines of Approach”, in Railway Magazine, page 706:
glosses: Moving horizontally, from one side to another and back.
clutcher
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: clutchers
Etymology: From clutch + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who clutches.
Derived terms: pearl-clutcher
at ease
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Etymology: Calque of Old French a eise, from a (“at”) + eise (“ease”).
Senses: related: word: at one's ease
synonyms: easygoing
laid-back
glosses: Free of anxiety; not stressed or tense.
topics: government
military
politics
war
qualifier: marching
glosses: In a relaxed position with the feet apart rather than at attention.
examples: text: At this command, the soldiers will carry their firelocks as they please, as prescribed in the soldier's drill, No 120, and are no longer required to march with the same step, or to observe silence ; the files will march at ease ; but they will be careful not to confuse the ranks, and the front rank must never pass before the guide, who is on the directing side, and that the two last ranks always preserve about three feet distance from each other.
ref: 1809, William Duane, The American military library:
text: If the column be composed of a considerable number of battalions, the commander can march it at ease, as a column of route.
ref: 1821, Pierce Darrow, Winfield Scott, Scott's Militia Tactics, page 133:
text: When marching at ease, you must march in orderly ranks in silence, but you need not keep step or march at attention.
ref: 1984, Wayne R. Gustafson, Military requirements for petty officer third class, page 3-28:
topics: government
military
politics
war
qualifier: marching
glosses: Allowed to refrain from being in rigid formation.
at ease
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Etymology: Calque of Old French a eise, from a (“at”) + eise (“ease”).
Senses: examples: At ease, privates!
glosses: A command to be at ease.
Related terms: ill at ease
put at ease
stand easy
windboard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwɪndbɔː(ɹ)d/
Forms: form: windboards
form: wind-board
Etymology: From wind + board.
Senses: glosses: A snowboard or surfboard with an attached sail
topics: climbing
hobbies
lifestyle
skiing
sports
glosses: The hard crust formed by high winds on exposed snow.
examples: text: The platform grain shield and the windboard at rear of the binder deck will assist in making better bundles and prevent scattering of grain, if properly adjusted for long or short straw.
ref: 1935, Deere & Company, The Operation, Care, and Repair of Farm Machinery, page 114:
topics: agriculture
business
lifestyle
glosses: In a mechanical harvester, a board which shelters harvested grain and prevents it being blown away by the wind.
Related terms: windboarder
windboarding
biospecific
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: bī′ō-spĭ-sĭf′ĭk
ipa: /ˌbaɪ.əʊ.spɪˈsɪf.ɪk/
ipa: /ˌbaɪ.oʊ.spɪˈsɪf.ɪk/
ipa: /ˌbɑɪ.əʉ.spɪˈsɪf.ɪk/
ipa: /ˌbaɪ.ɐʉ.spəˈsəf.ək/
ipa: /ˌbaɪ.o.spɪˈsɪf.ɪk/
ipa: /ˌbaj.oː.spiˈsif.ik/
rhymes: -ɪfɪk
Etymology: From bio- + specific.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Whose properties or activities vary according to the specific biological molecule that it interacts with.
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Of or relating to a biospecies.
stoush
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /staʊʃ/
rhymes: -aʊʃ
Forms: form: stoushes
Etymology: Possibly from stash. Australian from 1893; Boer War military slang. Also may be derived from stushie or stooshie, a Scottish term for a commotion, rumpus, or row.
Senses: examples: text: 1996, Elizabeth Knox, Glamour and the Sea, Victoria University Press, New Zealand, page 166,
Barry explained that his friend wasn′t drunk, he′d been in a stoush, had a ding on his head and was covered in money.
text: Now Henry knows dead cert he′s in for a stoush, but Snake-hips says he should go with him, and out on Nymagee-street Henry Lawson refuses a twenty-pound note, and the two men shake and Henry accepts the next billiards game, doubles with Snake-hips (who plays even worse than Henry), the Minister for Public Instruction, and the Austrian chappie.
ref: 2006, Pip Wilson, Faces in the Street: Louisa and Henry Lawson and the Castlereagh Street Push, page 200:
text: She and Anna used to reproduce Veronica′s stoushes with Pat, conducted with gusto over the fence but never brought into the confining space of either house where they might smoulder and flare.
ref: 2004, Jay Verney, Percussion, University of Queensland Press, page 151:
text: 2008, Anna Haebich, Spinning the Dream: Assimilation in Australia 1950-1970, Fremantle Press, page 63,
Melbourne almost lost the event when union go-slow tactics and a stoush over federal and state funding responsibilities seriously delayed work on the construction of the Olympic Stadium and Village.
glosses: A fight, an argument.
stoush
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /staʊʃ/
rhymes: -aʊʃ
Forms: form: stoushes
form: stoushing
form: stoushed
form: stoushed
Etymology: Possibly from stash. Australian from 1893; Boer War military slang. Also may be derived from stushie or stooshie, a Scottish term for a commotion, rumpus, or row.
Senses: examples: text: 1916, C. J. Dennis, The Call of Stoush, The Moods of Ginger Mick, 2009, Sydney University Press, page 15,
Wot price ole Ginger Mick? ′E′s done a break— / Gone to the flamin′ war to stoush the foe.
text: The two business moguls have stoushed over rights to televise rugby union, whose marketability has greatly risen since institution of the World Cup in 1987.
ref: 1999, Marion Halligan, Marlene Mathews, A Sporting Nation: Celebrating Australia′s Sporting Life, page 121:
text: There was a lot of corporate stoushing and things said that people didn′t like.
ref: 2008, Matthew Kidman, Alex Feher, Master CEOs: Secrets of Australia′s Leading CEOs, published 2012, unnumbered page:
glosses: To fight; to argue.
electrochromatography
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɒɡɹəfi
Etymology: From electro- + chromatography.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: a form of chromatography in which the compounds to be separated move under the action of an electric current; electropherography
Related terms: electrophoresis
electrodispersion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From electro- + dispersion.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: a broadening of the peaks in electrophoresis due to differential conductivity
electroendosmosis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From electro- + endosmosis.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: endosmosis under the influence of an electric field
isotachophoresis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From iso- + tacho- + -phoresis.
Senses: glosses: A form of electrophoresis that uses a discontinuous electric field
microemulsion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: microemulsions
Etymology: From micro- + emulsion.
Senses: glosses: A stable emulsion that is clear because the individual droplets of the dispersed phase are less than 100 nanometers in diameter
wind-board
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wind-boards
Senses: examples: text: The gale scouring the exposed surface of the mountain had swept the snow surface into a wind-board crust.
ref: 1925, Ernest Hemingway, Cross-Country Snow:
glosses: Alternative spelling of windboard.
packings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of packing
uncoated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more uncoated
form: most uncoated
Senses: examples: text: We polish our uncoated metal disks to a mirror finish for optimum headflight characteristics and virtually no possibility of media-induced headcrash.
ref: 1982, Mini-micro Systems - Volume 15, page 253:
glosses: Not coated
Derived terms: uncoated free sheet
uncoated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of uncoat
hsync
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hsyncs
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of HSYNC.
HSYNC
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: HSYNCs
Senses: topics: business
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
electronics
energy
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: The horizontal synchronization signal incorporated in a video transmission, such as for a TV broadcast.
Related terms: VSYNC
studmuffin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: studmuffins
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of stud muffin.
rugrat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rugrats
form: rug rat
form: rug-rat
Etymology: Circa 1975. rug + rat, presumably from crawling on the floor.
Senses: glosses: A toddler, a young child.
Synonyms: ankle-biter
brat
child
snotnose
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From snot + nose.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of snot-nosed.
snotnose
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: snotnoses
Etymology: From snot + nose.
Senses: glosses: One who is snot-nosed.
snot-nose
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of snot-nosed.
snotnosed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: My gut reaction was to lay into him for being a snotnosed little creep doing no more than spouting his rich daddy's BS and asking him where he got off making comments like that to a customer.
ref: 2006 October 17, Gasonfires, “Neocon Divisiveness Has Worked - On Me! Oh Damn!”, in Daily Kos:
glosses: Alternative spelling of snot-nosed.
sweet young thing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sweet young things
Senses: examples: text: I just know he's off spending the night with some sweet young thing he picked up in a bar.
glosses: An attractive young woman.
examples: text: Isabel's a sweet young thing; but do you think she's so good as that?
ref: 1908, Henry James, chapter XVIII, in The Portrait of a Lady (The Novels and Tales of Henry James; III), New York edition, volume I, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, →OCLC, page 264:
glosses: A sweet-tempered young woman.
Related terms: bright young thing
imploy
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: imploys
form: imploying
form: imployed
form: imployed
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of employ.
glosses: Obsolete spelling of imply.
fructifier
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfɹʌktɪfaɪə/
Forms: form: fructifiers
Etymology: From fructify + -er.
Senses: glosses: Someone or something that fructifies.
Falco
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Falcos
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian Falco and Catalan Falcó.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Falco
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Acronym for the Florida-Alabama Land COmpany, which harvested timber in the area.
Senses: glosses: An unincorporated community in Covington County, Alabama, United States.
biochar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: biochars
Etymology: From bio- + char.
Senses: examples: text: But the key thing that excites Jolliffe about biochar is that it avoids waste and it can actually give something back to the environment. "The nice thing is that the biochar doesn't just sit there in a heap," she says. "It's used for soil regeneration. You can spread it on the land and it can not only enhance the soil's capacity to manage moisture, but it also acts as a fertiliser.
ref: 2023 December 27, Richard Foster, “Building a greener future”, in RAIL, number 999, page 35:
glosses: Charcoal that is used as a soil conditioner.
crop rotation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: crop rotations
Senses: topics: agriculture
business
lifestyle
glosses: A farming practice in which the same land is used to grow different crops in successive seasons or years (when once the land would have been left fallow); used to prevent erosion and increase fertility.
Derived terms: Norfolk crop rotation
honey fungus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: honey fungi
Senses: examples: text: The common edible Mushroom or Honey-fungus (Agaricus melleus) is also a very common, and in many places a very dangerous, parasite in young crops of conifers, which, however, also occurs extensively as a saprophyte on dead stools and roots of old trees, especially of Beeches.
ref: 1893, Hermann Heinrich von Fürst, The Protection of Woodlands Against Dangers Arising from Organic and Inorganic Causes, page 75:
text: Zhu ling grows on honey fungi (Armelliaria mellea) rhizomorph for nutrients, leading to a unique cultivation process (Huang 1993, Yao & Huang 1993).
ref: 2000, Science and Cultivation of Edible Fungi, volume 2, page 545:
text: Honey fungus (Armillaria mellea) is most obvious when, in autumn, clumps of honey-coloured, pale-stemmed toadstools appear at the base of a tree.
ref: 2012, Ruth Binney, The Gardener's Wise Words and Country Ways, page 160:
synonyms: honey mushroom
bootlace fungus
shoestring mushroom
glosses: A parasitic mushroom of the genus Armillaria that lives on trees and shrubs.
birch bracket
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: birch brackets
Senses: topics: biology
mycology
natural-sciences
glosses: A polypore mushroom that grows almost exclusively on birch trees, Piptoporus betulinus.
Synonyms: birch polypore
razor strop
forbite
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: forbites
form: forbiting
form: forbit
form: forbitten
Etymology: From Middle English forbiten (“to bite up”), from Old English forbītan, equivalent to for- + bite. Cognate with West Frisian forbite (“to forbite”), Dutch verbijten (“to forbite”), Low German verbīten (“to forbite”), German verbeissen (“to forbite”). More at for-, bite.
Senses: glosses: To bite up, bite to pieces.
policymaker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: policymakers
form: policy maker
Etymology: From policy + maker.
Senses: examples: text: The choice for vice president is of much more than a junior campaign partner. The nation is deciding on a powerful leader and policymaker who will not be vetted by Congress.
ref: 2016 July 11, Julian Zelizer, “The vice presidency is no longer a joke”, in CNN:
text: Major websites such as Facebook, Google and Netflix are speaking up today to oppose an effort by Republican policymakers who are seeking to undo the government's net neutrality regulations — those federal rules passed in 2015 aimed at making sure Internet providers like Verizon or AT&T can't manipulate what you can see online.
ref: 2017 July 12, Brian Fung, “Even 4chan Is Opposing the Republican Plan for Net Neutrality”, in The Washington Post, archived from the original on 12 Jul 2017:
glosses: One involved in the formulation of policies, especially politicians, lobbyists, and activists.
Related terms: policymaking
policy makers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of policy maker
policymakers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of policymaker
policymaking
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: policy-making
Etymology: From policy + making.
Senses: examples: text: As Washington Post reporter Barton Gellman showed in his brilliant biography, Cheney deployed his masterful knowledge of policymaking to exert influence at all levels of government.
ref: 2016 July 11, Julian Zelizer, “The vice presidency is no longer a joke”, in CNN:
glosses: The formulation of policies.
Related terms: policymaker
rood screens
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rood-screens
Senses: glosses: plural of rood screen.
zygosperms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of zygosperm
heliophyte
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: heliophytes
Etymology: From helio- (“sun”) + -phyte (“plant”).
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Any plant that thrives in bright sunlight
Related terms: heliophytic
welches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of welch
welches
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of welch
welching
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of welch
welched
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of welch
war games
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of war game