cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
alpine skiers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of alpine skier
alkylimidates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of alkylimidate
alaskites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of alaskite
air bearings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of air bearing
aftercurrents
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of aftercurrent
aerotonometers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of aerotonometer
aerial ladders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of aerial ladder
aerobioscopes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of aerobioscope
adverbial particles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of adverbial particle
adrenates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of adrenate
aditicules
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of aditicule
acyladenylates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of acyladenylate
A.U.S.A.s
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of A.U.S.A.
actographs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of actograph
macrocapsule
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: macrocapsules
Etymology: From macro- + capsule.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A relatively large capsule (when compared to a microcapsule)
macrocapsules
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of macrocapsule
macropollutant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: macropollutants
Etymology: From macro- + pollutant.
Senses: glosses: A relatively large-scale pollutant, especially when compared with a micropollutant
macropollutants
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of macropollutant
maculopapillary
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From maculo- + papillary.
Senses: glosses: Characterised by macules and papillas
maltohydrolase
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: maltohydrolases
Etymology: From malto- + hydrolase.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any enzyme that hydrolyses a polysaccharide by removing a terminal maltose moiety
maltohydrolases
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of maltohydrolase
manefish
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: manefishes
form: manefish
Senses: glosses: A perciform fish of the family Caristiidae
manefishes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of manefish
mechanoacoustic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: mechano-acoustic
Etymology: From mechano- + acoustic.
Senses: glosses: mechanical and acoustic
mechanoprotective
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From mechano- + protective.
Senses: glosses: That provides mechanoprotection
megrivirus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: megriviruses
Senses: glosses: Any virus of the genus Megrivirus
megriviruses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of megrivirus
actinophryids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of actinophryid
metabotyping
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of metabotype
metabotyping
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The identification and characterisation of metabotypes
adjuvantations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of adjuvantation
agmatites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of agmatite
aldarates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of aldarate
metalloestrogen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: metalloestrogens
Etymology: From metallo- + estrogen.
Senses: glosses: Any of several metallic compounds that mimic the action of estrogen
metalloestrogens
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of metalloestrogen
microalteration
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: microalterations
Etymology: From micro- + alteration.
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: A microscopic alteration in the structure of a mineral etc.
microalterations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of microalteration
microamplification
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: microamplifications
Etymology: From micro- + amplification.
Senses: topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: microscale amplification of nucleic acid sequences
microamplifications
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of microamplification
micropetrosis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: mineralization of the lacunar space of bone following osteocyte apoptosis
Related terms: micropetrotic
microviscometer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: microviscometers
Etymology: From micro- + viscometer.
Senses: glosses: A viscometer that uses a very small sample
microviscometers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of microviscometer
midesophageal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From mid- + esophageal.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: In the middle of the esophagus
monoassociation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: monoassociations
Etymology: From mono- + association.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: The colonisation of an otherwise germ-free organism with microbes of a single species
monohexosylceramides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of monohexosylceramide
monorhamnolipid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: monorhamnolipids
Etymology: From mono- + rhamnolipid.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any rhamnolipid that has a single rhamnose moiety
monorhamnolipids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of monorhamnolipid
monotrichously
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From monotrichous + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a monotrichous manner.
mucogingivitis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From muco- + gingivitis.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: inflammation of the mucogingival junction
mycetobiont
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mycetobionts
Etymology: From myceto- + -biont.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of mycobiont.
synonyms: word: mycobiont
mycetobionts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mycetobiont
myoperiosteal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From myo- + periosteal.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Relating to muscle and periosteum
Enneads
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Ennead
twin prime pair
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: twin prime pairs
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: A pair of twin primes.
pay for itself
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: pays for itself
form: paying for itself
form: paid for itself
form: paid for itself
Senses: examples: text: Although welded rails cost considerably more to lay than ordinary track, there is a great saving in maintenance, and it is estimated that welding pays for itself in less than three years.
ref: 1950 July, “Long Welded Rails in America”, in Railway Magazine, page 434:
synonyms: pay one's own way
glosses: To produce or result in revenue which will cover its costs.
Related terms: break even
wash its face
nanogrooved
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From nano- + grooved.
Senses: glosses: Having nanogrooves
nanoinject
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: nanoinjects
form: nanoinjecting
form: nanoinjected
form: nanoinjected
Etymology: From nano- + inject.
Senses: glosses: To carry out a nanoinjection
nanoinjected
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of nanoinject
nanoinjecting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of nanoinject
neogobiid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: neogobiids
Senses: glosses: Any goby of the tribe Neogobiini
neogobiids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of neogobiid
neuroanesthesiologist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: neuroanesthesiologists
Etymology: From neuro- + anesthesiologist.
Senses: glosses: An anesthesiologist whose speciality is neuroanesthesia.
Related terms: neuroanaesthetist
neuroanesthesiologists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of neuroanesthesiologist
neuroaxial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From neuro- + axial.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of neuraxial.
neurodepressants
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of neurodepressant
neurodepressive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɛsɪv
Etymology: From neuro- + depressive.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of neurodepressant.
synonyms: word: neurodepressant
neurodestruction
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From neuro- + destruction.
Senses: glosses: Extreme neurodegeneration
neurodysfunction
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From neuro- + dysfunction.
Senses: glosses: neurological dysfunction
aerial parks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of aerial park
aerometes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of aeromete
afterminds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of aftermind
after-strokes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of after-stroke
agastaches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of agastache
agate lines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of agate line
neurolupus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From neuro- + lupus.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: neuropsychiatric systemic lupus erythematosus
scaletail
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: scaletails
Etymology: From scale + tail, from the scales that appear on the tails.
Senses: examples: text: There is to be found in Africa, only, a flying-squirrel so different in structure and relationships that it is held to represent a separate order by some zoölogists, — the anomalurus lurus, or "scaletail."
ref: 1907, Ernest Ingersoll, The life of animals: the mammals, page 446:
text: The most generalised member of the family is the flightless scaletail (Zenkerella insignis) of West Africa, which has the appearance of a small grey squirrel, although furnished with scales on the tail.
ref: 1910, Harmsworth Natural History: A Complete Survey of the Animal Kingdom, page 550:
text: Scaly-tailed flying squirrels, or scaletails, are placed in 4 genera and about 12 species, all but one of which, the flightless scaletail (Zenkerella insignis), possess gliding membranes.
ref: 1983, The New Encyclopaedia Britannica: Micropaedia (10 v.), page 204:
text: It can be found both in the capybara and the harvest mouse, in the beaver and the squirrel, and in the meadow mouse and the scaletail.
ref: 2013, Pierre-P. Grassé, Evolution of Living Organisms: Evidence for a New Theory of Transformation, →ISBN, page 6:
glosses: Any of the scaly-tailed species of flying squirrel, especially of Zenkerella insignis; a Cameroon scaly-tail.
scaletails
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of scaletail
neuropercolation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: neuropercolations
Etymology: From neuro- + percolation.
Senses: glosses: A mathematical model of the function of a neuropil
neurotactins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of neurotactin
nitroindazole
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nitroindazoles
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any nitro derivative of indazole
nitroindazoles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nitroindazole
nonalternation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From non- + alternation.
Senses: glosses: The absence of alternation
want no part of
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: wants no part of
form: wanting no part of
form: wanted no part of
form: wanted no part of
form: want no part in
Senses: glosses: to not want to be involved in.
nonhomophonic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + homophonic.
Senses: glosses: Not homophonic
nonoccludable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + occludable.
Senses: glosses: Not occludable
nontherapeutical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + therapeutical.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of nontherapeutic.
normoperfused
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From normo- + perfused.
Senses: glosses: Normally perfused
nostopeptolide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A peptolide present in cyanobacteria of the genus Nostoc
cavallettos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cavalletto
caravelles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of caravelle
Caravelle
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Caravelles
Senses: examples: text: After much consideration, Friedkin decided not to purchase the Caravelles.
ref: 2010, Alan Renga, Mark E. Mentges, Pacific Southwest Airlines, →ISBN:
text: The airline has bought 4 Caravelles from Swissair, and they are very nice aircraft and are far superior to the previous planes they had.
ref: 2012, David Chance, Around the World in 80 Years, →ISBN, page 559:
text: The Comet disasters gave all the more prestige to Air France when in 1959 it began flying its elegant jet the Caravelle, through Europe as far as Istanbul.
ref: 2012, Anthony Sampson, Empire of the Sky:
glosses: A type of twin-engine jet that was the first medium-haul modern jet airplane.
Caravelles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Caravelle
wharra
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: examples: text: Hey, you, wharra you lookin' at?
qualifier: representing slurred pronunciation
glosses: What are.
examples: text: Wharra you think you're doin'?
qualifier: representing slurred pronunciation
glosses: What do.
illuviate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: illuviates
form: illuviating
form: illuviated
form: illuviated
Senses: examples: text: This is due to the reason that these materials are rich in organic matter which tend to illuviate from the surface to the subsurface in the longrun and have tend to increase the clay per cent in the subsurface soil layers (Prashanthi, 1997).
ref: 1998, Agricultural Reviews - Volumes 19-22, page 22:
text: Defining the exact mechanism by which these metal cations become mobile and illuviate is where the two main theories of podzolization diverge.
ref: 2011, Pan Ming Huang, Yuncong Li, Malcolm E. Sumner, Handbook of Soil Sciences: Properties and Processes, →ISBN:
text: In flooding seasons, because the Eh value rises beginning from the lower part of this horizon downwards, some substances moving with the water begin to illuviate here, resulting in the formation of mottling spots and coatings.
ref: 2012, B.A. Stewart, Advances in Soil Science - Volume 5, →ISBN, page 190:
topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: To leach from an overlying stratum and accumulate in suspension.
Related terms: illuviation
illuvium
illuviates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of illuviate
illuviating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of illuviate
twin prime pairs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of twin prime pair
Jigglypuffs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Jigglypuff
Saulteaux
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From French saulteux, or French saulteurs, from French sault (“waterfall”) in reference to Sault Ste. Marie (then called Sault de Gaston) where the French first encountered them.
Senses: glosses: an indigenous nation from the northern Great Plains and southern Canadian Shield, the Westernmost branch of the Ojibwe or Anishnaabe
Saulteaux
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From French saulteux, or French saulteurs, from French sault (“waterfall”) in reference to Sault Ste. Marie (then called Sault de Gaston) where the French first encountered them.
Senses: glosses: the language of this nation
Related terms: word: Hypernyms:Anishinaabe
word: Ojibwe
word: Ojibway
word: Ojibwa
word: Chippewa
word: Baawitigong
sense: Synonyms
word: Plains Ojibwa
sense: Synonyms
word: Sault Indians
sense: Synonyms
word: Sotoos
sense: Synonyms
word: Nahkawininiwak
sense: Synonyms
english: people
translation: people
word: Nakawē
topics: language
linguistics
human-sciences
sciences
sense: Synonyms
word: Nakawēmowin
allotypy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: allotypies
Etymology: From allotype + -y.
Senses: examples: text: Other allotypies have been found in 1961 by Benaceraff and Gell [32] in guinea-pigs, likewise in 1961 by Kelus and Moor-Jankowski in mice [219] and in baboons [220], in 1963 by Greuter and Butler [159] in Rhesus monkeys, ...
ref: 1969, Rene Butler, Isoantigenicity of human plasma proteins - Volume 31, page 10:
text: Since the differences in amino acid sequence associated with allotypy are small, rabbit IgG molecules of different allotype share most of their antigenic specificities.
ref: 2014, Alfred Nisonoff, John E. Hopper, Susan B. Spring, The Antibody Molecule, →ISBN, page 346:
text: Oudin named these reactive serum components allotypes and further concluded that it is reasonable to suppose that allotypy is not an unusual phenomenon, particularly with regard to certain rabbit serum proteins, that it might also be expected to occur in other species, and that the phenomenon may have a genetic basis, a proposition arising from the individual rabbit diversity of allotypic reactivity.
ref: 2014, Anthony R. Rees, The Antibody Molecule: From antitoxins to therapeutic antibodies, →ISBN:
glosses: The occurrence of multiple allotypes within a single individual.
allotypies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of allotypy
wyliecoat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wyliecoats
Senses: examples: text: Wyliecoats, stiffened at the hem and heavily lined with plaiding or scouringis', were made from fustian and grogram.
ref: 1987, Margaret H. B. Sanderson, Mary Stewart's People: Life in Mary Stewart's Scotland, page 85:
text: No doubt it was she who made the wyliecoats, possibly for pauper children or orphans but perhaps for sale, and was probably one of many textile craftsmen's wives who added to the family income by sewing.
ref: 2002, Margaret H. B. Sanderson, A Kindly Place?: Living in Sixteenth-century Scotland, page 112:
text: The hearth glowing red with sleepy eyes and he reached for his breeches and put them on and took his wyliecoat off the chair, sleeved it and buttoned it and set towards the door leaving his boots by the bed.
ref: 2013, Paul Lynch, Red Sky in Morning, →ISBN:
glosses: A heavy vest that is worn to provide warmth.
wyliecoats
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wyliecoat
snippable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more snippable
form: most snippable
Etymology: From snip + -able.
Senses: glosses: Capable of being snipped.
transcodable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From transcode + -able.
Senses: glosses: Capable of being transcoded.
oversizedness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From oversized + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being oversized.
undersizedness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From undersized + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being undersized.
narratings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of narrating
washaway
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: washaways
Etymology: Deverbal from wash away.
Senses: examples: text: The first report of damage was received at 5.45 a.m. on Monday, July 30, when there was a slight washaway of the bank on the down side of the line two miles north of Daviot station, and subsequently further damage was reported between Inverness and Daviot. Shortly afterwards, a washaway occurred on the line between Dunphail and Dava, and this route was closed to all traffic from 10.30 a.m. until 3.30 p.m.
ref: 1956 October, “Summer Floods in Scotland”, in Railway Magazine, page 656:
text: It was the giddy sight down the gullies below the twisting road which had been formed and re-formed from years of washaways, and now hung like fish gills, out over edges of the limestone substrata.
ref: 2006, Alexis Wright, Carpentaria, Giramondo, published 2012, page 145:
synonyms: word: washout
coordinate_terms: slipout
glosses: The washing away of earth, a road, structure etc. by flood, or the channel caused by this.
washaways
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of washaway
UGG
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: UGGs
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of ugg (“boot”).
Horsely
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
ruboff
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ruboffs
form: rub-off
Etymology: Deverbal from rub off.
Senses: examples: text: For example, if there tend to be qualitative or other "ruboffs" between product advertisements that are presented in the same spot, marketers must be extremely careful as to when, where, and with what products their ads are being seen.
ref: 1974, Southern Marketing Association, Proceedings, page 168:
text: We saw good absorption and low ruboff.
ref: 1994, American Printer, volume 213, page 33:
text: They know that in the business world, doors open on doors through personal contact, mutual experiences and all the other ruboffs from white middle-class life style.
ref: 2000, Mary-Lou Weisman, Intensive Care: A Family Love Story, page 89:
text: […] the researchers identified the notion of 'reputation impact', whereby creative employees were attracted to companies that were highly reputable and visible, because of the perceived reputation rub-off for the employees' personal identity […]
ref: 2010, Christine Daymon, Immy Holloway, Qualitative Research Methods in Public Relations and Marketing Communications:
glosses: The situation where something rubs off, either physically or figuratively.
Related terms: effect
impact
influence
Immy
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A diminutive of the female given name Imogen.
prebeginner
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: prebeginners
Etymology: From pre- + beginner.
Senses: glosses: One who has not yet reached the status of beginner.
prebeginners
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of prebeginner
Cullen stone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Cullen stones
Etymology: The first word is a form of Cologne, the German city.
Senses: glosses: A form of black lava quarried in the Rhine Valley and used for millstones.
glosses: A millstone made from this substance.
Cullen stones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Cullen stone
pumpkin seed
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pumpkin seeds
form: pumpkinseed
Senses: glosses: An edible seed of a pumpkin or other cultivars of squash.
Synonyms: pepita
Derived terms: english: Lepomis gibbosus
translation: Lepomis gibbosus
word: pumpkinseed
pumpkin seeds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pumpkin seed
chia seed
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chia seeds
Senses: glosses: An edible seed of Salvia hispanica, a flowering plant in the mint family native to Central America, or of the related Salvia columbariae of southwestern United States and Mexico.
chia seeds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chia seed
mustard seed
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mustard seeds
Senses: glosses: A small, round seed of the mustard plant.
examples: text: Start with a mustard seed of irrelevant fact. Rutherford Hayes’s wife, Lucy, was the first American president’s wife to be referred to as the first lady.
ref: 2013 February 7, Joy Williams, “The New Uncanny”, in The New York Times:
text: It was obvious to anybody with eyes and ears and a mustard seed of sense that Thomas had been chosen as a blunt instrument of Black oppression.
ref: 2022 August 8, Mitchell S. Jackson, “Looking for Clarence Thomas”, in Esquire:
synonyms: word: bit
word: crumb
word: ace
word: tinge
word: atom
word: trace element
word: aught
word: bissel
word: bit
word: crumb
word: glimpse
word: dab
word: damn
word: dash
word: diddly
word: glint
word: dot
word: spatter
word: drop
word: dusting
word: fleck
word: hint
word: flip
word: flyspeck
word: grain
word: halfpennyworth
word: inch
word: iota
word: jot
word: lick
word: mite
word: modicum
word: molecule
word: morceau
word: morsel
word: mote
word: ooch
word: ounce
word: particle
word: pennyworth
word: piece
word: pinch
word: scantling
word: semblance
word: scent
word: scintilla
word: scooch
word: scrap
word: scruple
word: shred
word: skerrick
word: skoosh
word: skosh
word: sliver
word: smattering
word: smidge
word: smidgen
word: smidget
word: smidgy
word: smitch
word: smithereen
word: soupçon
word: spark
word: speck
word: speckle
word: spot
word: sprinkle
word: sprinkling
word: strain
word: tad
word: tidbit
word: tidge
word: tittle
word: toddick
word: touch
word: trace
word: trifle
word: tuppence worth
word: vestige
word: whiff
word: whit
glosses: A small amount.
examples: text: Being myself much given to the collection of birds for scientific purposes, a line of operation, requiring, in most cases, the finest shot that can be procured, I use mustard seed habitually, and have learned, incidentally as it were, its efficacy when directed against birds which, it might be thought, could not be brought down with it.
ref: 1873 November 22, Dr. Elliott Coues, U. S. A., “Use of Small Shot”, in The American Sportsman, volume 3, number 8, West Meriden, Conn., page 117:
text: “ […] Much as I hated to do it, while that sow was chasing after him, I let him have it in the stern with a light load of mustard-seed shot. That combination worked!” […] The mustard-seed shot he mentions are No. 12's and the load was extremely light.
ref: 1972 May, Robert Halverson, “Punishment …Or Reward?”, in Field & Stream, volume 77, number 1, page 223:
text: Hmmmm... you suppose if you miss, you might blow a 1+1/2" hole anyway, with that rig? :) Even #9? 22rf shot (mustard seed) is supposed to be #12, not sure what that would do either. :/
ref: 2007 June 6, alv...@example.com, “Re: the downside”, in rec.knives (Usenet):
topics: engineering
firearms
government
military
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
politics
tools
war
weaponry
synonyms: dust shot
rat shot
snake shot
glosses: Small lead shot, usually of size No. 12, used for shooting birds and other animals at close range.
mustard seeds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mustard seed
sunflower seeds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sunflower seed
merching
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of merch
merches
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of merch
almond butter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: almond butters
form: almond-butter
Senses: examples: text: If you only have peanut butter, you can also use it instead of the almond butter.
ref: 2012, Steve G. Jones, Frank Mangano, Power of Thin: Change Your Thinking, Change Your Weight:
text: The recall was expanded when Sunland Inc., the makers of the peanut butter, voluntarily recalled all of its almond butter and peanut butter products.
ref: 2013, W. Timothy Coombs, Applied Crisis Communication and Crisis Management:
glosses: A kind of food paste made from almonds.
Synonyms: almond paste
almond butters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of almond butter
flax seed
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: flax seeds
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of flaxseed.
flax seeds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of flax seed
handraulically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From handraulic + -ally.
Senses: glosses: Manually; by hand.
handraulic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Blend of hand + hydraulic
Senses: glosses: Manual; operated by hand.
Derived terms: handraulically
not a bit of it
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: examples: text: It was vainly hoped that New Cross bank might bring her to a standstill, but not a bit of it; Forest Hill was passed, and on the level the engine began gaily to accelerate.
ref: 1942 February, “Notes and News: A Brighton Runaway”, in Railway Magazine, page 55:
glosses: Not at all; in no way whatsoever.
constant morphism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: constant morphisms
Senses: examples: text: Any morphism to a zero object must be constant.
topics: category-theory
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A morphism which yields the same morphism when post-composed with either one of a parallel pair of morphisms.
Synonyms: left zero morphism
Hyponyms: zero morphism
Related terms: coconstant morphism
coconstant morphism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: coconstant morphisms
Senses: topics: category-theory
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A morphism which yields the same morphism when pre-composed with either one of a parallel pair of morphisms.
Synonyms: right zero morphism
Hyponyms: zero morphism
Related terms: constant morphism
zero morphism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: zero morphisms
Senses: examples: text: The composition of a zero morphism with any morphism (that it is composable with) yields another zero morphism.
topics: category-theory
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A morphism which is both a constant morphism and a coconstant morphism.
Hypernyms: constant morphism
coconstant morphism
morphism set
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: morphism sets
Senses: topics: category-theory
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: hom-set
Synonyms: hom-set
octeocyte
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of osteocyte.
oculodigital
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From oculo- + digital.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: Relating to the eyes and the fingers
Derived terms: oculodigital syndrome
oligodendrogliopathic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: Relating to the pathology of oligodendrogliomas
oncotherapy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: oncotherapies
Etymology: From onco- + therapy.
Senses: glosses: The treatment of tumours (especially cancerous ones)
Related terms: oncotherapeutic
oncotherapies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of oncotherapy
orotidylate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: orotidine 5'-phosphate
osmoadapt
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: osmoadapts
form: osmoadapting
form: osmoadapted
form: osmoadapted
Etymology: From osmo- + adapt.
Senses: examples: text: These are usually regarded as freshwater cyanobacteria, although they osmoadapt to sodium chloride and can grow in brackish waters.
ref: 1992, E. J. Carpenter, Marine Pelagic Cyanobacteria: Trichodesmium and other Diazotrophs, page 319:
glosses: To undergo osmoadaptation.
osmoadapted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of osmoadapt
osmoadapted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Modified by osmoadaptation
osteocompetent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From osteo- + competent.
Senses: glosses: Able to develop into bone tissue
osteoprotection
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From osteo- + protection.
Senses: glosses: The protection of bone from physical damage
Related terms: osteoprotective
ovoalbumin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of ovalbumin.
Hippocratic sleeve
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Hippocratic sleeves
Senses: glosses: A conical strainer of fine cloth used in the preparation of hippocras. It can made by stitching together two adjacent sides of a square piece of cloth.
Synonyms: Hippocrates' sleeve
Hong'an
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ho͝ongʹänʹ
Forms: form: Hung-an
form: Hungan
Etymology: c. late 20th c., from the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 紅安 /红安 (Hóng'ān).
Senses: examples: text: At the city’s No. 2 Mill, on the other hand, the management signed a collective contract with the neighboring Hong’an county government, thus utilizing bureaucratic channels, in the belief that a group from one home place would be “easier to control.”
ref: 1997, Xiaobo Lü, Elizabeth J. Perry, editors, Danwei: The Changing Chinese Workplace in Historical and Comparative Perspective, M. E. Sharpe, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 199:
text: Delegates to the Congress, particularly local officials, vied with one another about how to implement duohao kuaisheng and the general line, and how to promote the GLF. Zealots from Central and South China, in particular, were the most extravagant.[…]Hubei’s Wang Renzhong dwelt on the experimental plots which originated in Hongan County and how they had changed social attitudes.
ref: [2001, Alfred L. Chan, “Policy Formulation Under a Dominant Mao”, in Mao's Crusade: Politics and Policy Implementation in China's Great Leap Forward, Oxford University Press, sourced from Li Rui, Dayuejin Qinliji (A record of my personal experience of the GLF) (Shanghai: Shanghai yuandong chubanshe, 1996), 317 ff., →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 58:
text: [...]villages in Hong'an County, Hubei had expended nearly 200,000 yuan in 1983 for making "clan dragon-lanterns" (xingshi longdeng).
ref: 2002, Elizabeth J. Perry, Challenging the Mandate of Heaven: Social Protest and State Power in China, published 2015, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 295:
text: Yan Cheng had cerebral palsy and died on January 29 while in the care of officials in Huajiahe township, Hongan county, more than 100 kilometres (62 miles) from Wuhan, the epicentre of the outbreak.
ref: [2020 February 6, Laurie Chen, “Communist officials fired after disabled Chinese boy died when relatives were put in coronavirus quarantine”, in South China Morning Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 06 Feb 2020, Society:
glosses: A county of Huanggang, Hubei, China.
Synonyms: Huang'an
Huang-an
oxonorbornene
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: oxonorbornenes
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of oxanorbornene.
stop and smell the flowers
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: stops and smells the flowers
form: stopping and smelling the flowers
form: stopped and smelled the flowers
form: stopped and smelled the flowers
form: stopped and smelt the flowers
form: stopped and smelt the flowers
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of stop and smell the roses.
Hippocrates sleeve
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Hippocrates sleeves
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Hippocrates' sleeve.
Hippocrates sleeves
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Hippocrates sleeve
jet cocoon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: jet cocoons
Senses: qualifier: supernovae astronomy
glosses: A cloud of gas that obscures the poles of a star undergoing hypernova (HN), which gets heated by the polar jet escaping the hypernova progenitor star (hnp), and may absorb the energy of a weak gamma-ray burst (GRB), leaving an observable HN lacking the associated GRB, or be penetrated by a stronger GRB, giving a HN with an associated GRB.
Renchen
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A town in western Baden-Württemberg, Germany.
M4
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: M4s
Senses: qualifier: money supply
glosses: broad money
topics: engineering
firearms
government
military
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
politics
tools
war
weaponry
related: word: M-4
glosses: Ellipsis of M4 carbine, a military assault rifle.
Related terms: M0
M1
M2
M3
at one's best
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: examples: text: She’s not at her best in the moming(s).
glosses: Performing as well as one can.
look one's best
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: looks one's best
form: looking one's best
form: looked one's best
form: looked one's best
Senses: examples: text: Lately, I've been movin' close to the edge
Still be lookin' my best
ref: 2023 May 25, Dua Lipa, Caroline Ailin, Andrew Wyatt, Mark Ronson, “Dance the Night”, in Barbie the Album, performed by Dua Lipa:
glosses: To have one's best possible appearance.
Related terms: put one's best foot forward
spool out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: spools out
form: spooling out
form: spooled out
form: spooled out
Senses: examples: text: The old songs spool out, reaffirming once again everything that is great about the Streets. "Brace yourself, 'cause this goes deep," runs a line from Turn the Page, pointing up [Mike] Skinner's ability to grapple with existential dread as well as the cinematic, blow-by-blow accounts of everyday lairiness.
ref: 2019 January 26, Kitty Empire [pseudonym], “The Streets review – the agony and ecstasy of a great everyman”, in Katharine Viner, editor, The Guardian, London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 08 Apr 2019:
glosses: To appear in succession, as if from a film spool.
pachyrhizodontid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pachyrhizodontids
Senses: glosses: Any extinct fish of the family Pachyrhizodontidae
pachyrhizodontids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pachyrhizodontid
palaeoscolecid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: palaeoscolecids
Senses: examples: text: The holes do not pass deeply – palaeoscolecids are horizontal burrowers.
ref: 2022, Thomas Halliday, Otherlands, Penguin, published 2023, page 254:
glosses: An extinct ecdysozoan worm of the class Palaeoscolecid.
yellable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more yellable
form: most yellable
Senses: examples: text: Call Me in the Morning also fuses old and new, referencing the Rolling Stones' Paint It Black while swimming in Auto-Tune. The circle pit then swirls anew for Open the Till, which features a yellable chorus and more gnomic Skinnerisms. "You make ends meet," he [Mike Skinner] notes, "then they move the ends."
ref: 2019 January 26, Kitty Empire [pseudonym], “The Streets review – the agony and ecstasy of a great everyman”, in Katharine Viner, editor, The Guardian, London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 08 Apr 2019:
synonyms: shoutable
glosses: Able to be, or suitable for being, yelled.
palaeoscolecids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of palaeoscolecid
panendoscopic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pan- + endoscopic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to panendoscopy
panendoscopy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: panendoscopies
Etymology: From pan- + endoscopy.
Senses: glosses: endoscopy of the pharynx, larynx, upper trachea and oesophagus
Related terms: panendoscope
panendoscopic
paracommissural
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From para- + commissural.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Over or across a commissure
paratubal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From para- + tubal.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Over a tube (especially a Fallopian tube)
pedostratigraphy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pedostratigraphies
Etymology: From pedo- (“soil”) + stratigraphy.
Senses: glosses: The stratigraphy of soil
Related terms: pedostratigraphic
pedostratigraphic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pedo- (“soil”) + stratigraphic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to pedostratigraphy
pentaacylated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From penta- + acylated.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: acylated in five positions
pentachlorocyclohexanol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pentachlorocyclohexanols
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any pentachloro derivative of cyclohexanol, but especially 2,3,4,5,6-pentachlorocyclohexanol
pentadecene
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pentadecenes
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any alkene that has fifteen carbon atoms and one double bond, but especially 1-pentadecene or cis 7-pentadecene
Derived terms: pentadecenoic
Related terms: pentadecane
pentadecyne
pentadecenes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pentadecene
pentadienyl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pentadienyls
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any univalent radical or ion derived from a pentadiene
pentuplicate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pentuplicates
Senses: glosses: Synonym of quintuplicate.
synonyms: word: quintuplicate
perimetropolitan
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From peri- + metropolitan.
Senses: glosses: Surrounding a metropolis
perioesophageal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From peri- + oesophageal.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of periesophageal.
peripupillary
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From peri- + pupillary.
Senses: glosses: Surrounding the pupil of the eye
perirolandic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From peri- + rolandic (“Rolandic”).
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Surrounding the Rolandic fissure
peroxychromate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: peroxychromates
Etymology: From peroxy- + chromate.
Senses: topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The unstable oxyanion CrO₈³⁻ known only in solution
pharmacophorically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: In a pharmacophoric manner
phenetically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: In a phenetic manner
phosphoregulator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: phosphoregulators
Etymology: From phospho- + regulator.
Senses: glosses: Any material or system that produces phosphoregulation
phosphoregulators
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of phosphoregulator
phosphorothiolate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: phosphorothiolates
Senses: topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The oxyanion S=P(OH)O₂²⁻
phosphorothiolates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of phosphorothiolate
photoassimilatory
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From photo- + assimilatory.
Senses: glosses: Relating to, or causing photoassimilation
phyllanemblinins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of phyllanemblinin
polcalcin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: polcalcins
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A calcium-binding protein associated with chenopod pollinosis
polcalcins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of polcalcin
polycalin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: polycalins
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A lipocalin associated with the silkworm (of genus Bombyx)
polycalins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of polycalin
polysaccharopeptides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of polysaccharopeptide
polysequence
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: polysequences
Etymology: From poly- + sequence.
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: A stratigraphic sequence of many strata
polysequences
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of polysequence
poroids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of poroid
postembryogenic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From post- + embryogenic.
Senses: glosses: Following embryogenesis
poststyloid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -aɪlɔɪd
Etymology: From post- + styloid.
Senses: glosses: posterior to the styloid process
predepleted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pre- + depleted.
Senses: glosses: depleted prior to some other process
predonated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pre- + donated.
Senses: glosses: donated in advance of need
prehydration
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From pre- + hydration.
Senses: glosses: hydration prior to some other process
prelubricated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pre- + lubricated.
Senses: glosses: lubricated prior to some other operation
prenecrotic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pre- + necrotic.
Senses: glosses: Prior to necrosis
prepolymerised
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pre- + polymerised.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of prepolymerized.
preprocurement
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From pre- + procurement.
Senses: glosses: procurement prior to need
cowl-staff
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cowl-staffs
form: cowl-staves
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of cowlstaff.
cowl-staffs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cowl-staff
cowl-staves
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cowl-staff
prestyloid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pre- + styloid.
Senses: glosses: anterior to the styloid process
presynchronized
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pre- + synchronized.
Senses: glosses: synchronized prior to some other operation
stubble rake
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stubble rakes
Senses: glosses: A rake with long teeth for raking stubble together.
stubble rakes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stubble rake
plumb rule
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: plumb rules
Senses: glosses: A narrow board with a plumb line fastened to the top, used to determine a perpendicular.
plumb rules
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of plumb rule
lac dye
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A scarlet pigment obtained from sticklac.
kiss the book
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: kisses the book
form: kissing the book
form: kissed the book
form: kissed the book
Senses: glosses: To kiss a copy of the New Testament, in England, after taking a legal oath.
compositionism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From composition + -ism.
Senses: glosses: An approach to understanding things, such as chemical substances, based on the parts of which they are composed.
Related terms: compositionalism
nichers
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of nicher
nichered
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of nicher
nichering
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of nicher