nandhakumarms/qualc-wiktionary-en huggingface dataset:
Word: mediamaking Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From media + making. 1. The relationship between the world and the media and the way they each influence one another. Labels: uncountable
Word: New York reload Part of Speech: noun Etymology: * From New York City Police Department officers carrying a backup revolver rather than an unwieldy speed loader. 1. The act of drawing a second handgun when the first jams or runs out of ammunition, rather than reloading the first, in order to gain a speed advantage. Example: The fastest revolver reload is a second revolver, a.k.a. "the New York reload." Example: And handling a long gun is out, so the drill is to drop or holster the first handgun, and do a New York Reload.
Word: one-banana problem Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Derived from the idea that trained monkeys can do low-level jobs, working for bananas. It also may come from Sherlock Holmes lore; see three-pipe problem. 1. A problem that should be easily resolved. Labels: slang Example: It's only a one-banana problem at the most; what's taking them so long?
Word: portulent Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Uncertain. Possibly a corruption of corpulent, perhaps influenced by portly. Pronunciation: /ˈpɔː(ɹ)t.jə.lənt/ 1. overweight Labels: obsolete, rare Example: The gentleman's portulent figure required a custom tailored suit.
Word: Pouyan Part of Speech: name Etymology: From Persian پویان (puyân, literally “runner, seeker, persistent”). It has the same root as in Pouya, Pooya. Common in Iran (Persia). 1. A transliteration of the Persian male given name پویان (puyân).
Word: pracademic Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *per-der. Proto-Indo-European *pr̥h₂-k-yé-ti Proto-Hellenic *prā́ťťō Ancient Greek πρᾱ́σσω (prā́ssō)der. Ancient Greek πρᾱγ- (prāg-) Proto-Indo-European *-tis Ancient Greek -τις (-tis) Ancient Greek -σῐς (-sĭs) Proto-Indo-European *-kos Proto-Hellenic *-kos Ancient Greek -κός (-kós) ? Proto-Indo-European *-tós Proto-Hellenic *-tós Ancient Greek -τος (-tos) ▲ Ancient Greek -κός (-kós) ? Ancient Greek -τῐκός (-tĭkós) Ancient Greek πρακτικός (praktikós)der. Latin prācticusder. Middle French practique Proto-Indo-European *-nós Proto-Italic *-nos Latin -nus Latin -ānus Latin -iānus Old French -ien Middle French -ien Middle French practicienbor. English practician Proto-Indo-European *-yósder. Proto-Italic *-āzios Latin -āriusnom. Latin -āriusbor. Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz Proto-West Germanic *-ārī Old English -ere Middle English -ere English -er English practitioner Ancient Greek Ἀκάδημος (Akádēmos) Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-i-eh₂ Proto-Hellenic *-íā Ancient Greek -ία (-ía) Ancient Greek Ἀκαδημία (Akadēmía) ▲ Ancient Greek -κός (-kós) Ancient Greek -ικός (-ikós) Ancient Greek Ἀκάδημος (Akádēmos) Proto-Indo-European *-os Proto-Indo-European *-ēs Ancient Greek -ης (-ēs) Proto-Indo-European *-is Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-ih₂der. Ancient Greek -ῐᾰ (-ĭă) Ancient Greek -εια (-eia) Ancient Greek Ἀκαδήμεια (Akadḗmeia) ▲ Ancient Greek -ικός (-ikós) Ancient Greek ἀκαδημικός (akadēmikós)der. Medieval Latin acadēmicusder. ▲ Latin acadēmicusbor. French académiqueder. English academic blend English pracademic Blend of practitioner + academic. The earliest reference may have been identified by a subscriber to Worldwide Words in 1973. 1. Someone who is both an academic and an active practitioner in their subject area. Example: The life and times of pracademics
Word: pracademic Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *per-der. Proto-Indo-European *pr̥h₂-k-yé-ti Proto-Hellenic *prā́ťťō Ancient Greek πρᾱ́σσω (prā́ssō)der. Ancient Greek πρᾱγ- (prāg-) Proto-Indo-European *-tis Ancient Greek -τις (-tis) Ancient Greek -σῐς (-sĭs) Proto-Indo-European *-kos Proto-Hellenic *-kos Ancient Greek -κός (-kós) ? Proto-Indo-European *-tós Proto-Hellenic *-tós Ancient Greek -τος (-tos) ▲ Ancient Greek -κός (-kós) ? Ancient Greek -τῐκός (-tĭkós) Ancient Greek πρακτικός (praktikós)der. Latin prācticusder. Middle French practique Proto-Indo-European *-nós Proto-Italic *-nos Latin -nus Latin -ānus Latin -iānus Old French -ien Middle French -ien Middle French practicienbor. English practician Proto-Indo-European *-yósder. Proto-Italic *-āzios Latin -āriusnom. Latin -āriusbor. Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz Proto-West Germanic *-ārī Old English -ere Middle English -ere English -er English practitioner Ancient Greek Ἀκάδημος (Akádēmos) Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-i-eh₂ Proto-Hellenic *-íā Ancient Greek -ία (-ía) Ancient Greek Ἀκαδημία (Akadēmía) ▲ Ancient Greek -κός (-kós) Ancient Greek -ικός (-ikós) Ancient Greek Ἀκάδημος (Akádēmos) Proto-Indo-European *-os Proto-Indo-European *-ēs Ancient Greek -ης (-ēs) Proto-Indo-European *-is Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-ih₂der. Ancient Greek -ῐᾰ (-ĭă) Ancient Greek -εια (-eia) Ancient Greek Ἀκαδήμεια (Akadḗmeia) ▲ Ancient Greek -ικός (-ikós) Ancient Greek ἀκαδημικός (akadēmikós)der. Medieval Latin acadēmicusder. ▲ Latin acadēmicusbor. French académiqueder. English academic blend English pracademic Blend of practitioner + academic. The earliest reference may have been identified by a subscriber to Worldwide Words in 1973. 1. Pertaining to a type of teaching style for entrepreneurs Example: I earned a pracademic degree. Example: The Pracademic Curve
Word: skip car Part of Speech: noun 1. A small cart used to carry iron ore, coke, or limestone, especially inside a blast furnace. It travels through the furnaces on a skip hoist.
Word: skip hoist Part of Speech: noun 1. An inclined ramp used to transport skip cars carrying iron ore, coke, or limestone, inside a blast furnace.
Word: sweet seventeen Part of Speech: noun 1. A girl's seventeenth birthday, or seventeenth-birthday party. It is often used to mitigate a failed sweet sixteen birthday. Labels: US, colloquial
Word: TTSN Part of Speech: noun 1. Initialism of total time since new: the duration of time for which an aircraft has been in active use since its manufacture. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
Word: durf Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Etymology tree English denim Middle English suffe? English suff? English surf blend English durf Blend of denim + surf. Pronunciation: /dɝf/ 1. To dry-hump by wearing clothes. Labels: slang Example: @exmolex also mentioned that there are other names for soaking like "floating" and "marinating." In another video, she also says there's something called "durfing," which is like humping with your clothes on. You learn something new every day! Example: It would be fair to say that while I was there, I may or may not have durfed on occasion. […] So while some students at Brigham Young University might justify durfing as not quite sex, it clearly falls within the realm of chastity violations according to church doctrine.
Word: brussen Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From bursten, by metathesis. 1. burst Labels: UK, Yorkshire, dialectal, not-comparable, obsolete
Word: reedist Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From reed + -ist. 1. A musician who plays reed instruments (usually more than one). Example: In what's becoming an annual tradition, Chicago-via-Boston reedist Ken Vandermark is joined by his former Beantown cohort, drummer Curt Newton […].
Word: reedists Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of reedist Labels: form-of, plural
Word: musique concrète Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from French musique concrète. Pronunciation: /mjuːˌziːk kɒnˈkɹɛt/, /mjuːˈziːk kɒnˌkɹɛt/, /ˈmjuːzɪk kɒnˌkɹɛt/ 1. A genre of music created by the electronic manipulation of sounds that occur naturally. Labels: uncountable Example: Pierre Henry's musique concrète, the Dixie Cups Example: Largely self-taught, he claimed to have been influenced by Schoenberg, Messiaen, and the musique concrete movement.
Word: la belle indifférence Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From French la + belle + indifférence. 1. Alternative spelling of la belle indifference. Labels: alt-of, alternative, uncountable Example: Most of us have heard of la belle indifférence of the French neurologists. This term attempts to convey the beautiful calm of those hysterics who have achieved their ambition to avoid responsibility by inducing in themselves a state of resistless torpor and the reputation for chronic invalidism bravely borne. Example: As such this term is close in meaning to what Jung has referred to as "euphoric apathy" or la belle indifférence, usually in connection with hysterical manifestations but here mainly in reference to the gods.
Word: asteria Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of asterion Labels: form-of, plural
Word: centro- Part of Speech: prefix Etymology: From centre + -o-, from from Latin centrum, from Ancient Greek κέντρον (kéntron). 1. central, especially of mass nouns Labels: morpheme
Word: centrosphere Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From centro- + -sphere. 1. The cytoplasm surrounding the centriole of a centrosome. 2. barysphere
Word: rosy terns Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of rosy tern Labels: form-of, plural
Word: cerato- Part of Speech: prefix 1. Alternative spelling of kerato-. Labels: alt-of, alternative, morpheme
Word: ceratosaur Part of Speech: noun 1. Any of many dinosaurs of the infraorder Ceratosauria.
Word: crepusculum Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin crepusculum. Doublet of crepuscle and crepuscule. Pronunciation: /kɹɪˈpʌs.kjʊ.ləm/, /kɹɪˈpʌs.kjə.ləm/ 1. crepuscule; twilight; dusk Labels: uncountable Example: [Earthshine] should appear more splendid and be visible after the crepusculum in the dark of night.
Word: osmoticum Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From 1961 osmotic + Latin -um (“Latin neuter noun ending”) on model of Latin -um nouns. First attested in American Journal of Botany. 1. Any substance that acts to supplement osmotic pressure in a cell Example: Second, potassium is a major osmoticum of plant cells, an especially crucial feature for plants under high-salt conditions, and one requiring controlled partitioning of the element among organs, tissues, and cell compartments.
Word: glasphalt Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Blend of glass + asphalt 1. A type of asphalt that uses crushed glass in place of rock aggregate. Labels: uncountable Example: One 58-foot-long test strip of glasphalt pavement, outside the Owens-Illinois Technical Center in Toledo, has held up well during the worst winter in years […] Example: Indeed, in a glut, contaminated materials may find no market at any price, or they may be used for low-value uses such as landfill cover, glasphalt paving, or sandblasting--not for closed-loop recycling that reduces solid waste and saves natural resources.
Word: superlunary Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From super- + lunary. 1. translunary. Labels: not-comparable
Word: poivoit Part of Speech: noun 1. Pronunciation spelling of pervert, representing New York City English. Labels: alt-of, pronunciation-spelling
Word: aprés Part of Speech: prep 1. Nonstandard spelling of apres. Labels: alt-of, nonstandard 2. Nonstandard spelling of après. Labels: alt-of, nonstandard Example: 2004, Brian Thacker, The Naked Man Festival http://books.google.com/books?vid=ISBN1741143993&id=p7sjIR5_LIAC&pg=PA205&lpg=PA205&sig=RsH_YwTjv0QzNYFqosuU126tcLY After dinner we decided to take an aprés-lobster stroll around town.
Word: radicated Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /ˈɹadɪkeɪtɪd/ 1. simple past and past participle of radicate Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: radicated Part of Speech: adj Pronunciation: /ˈɹadɪkeɪtɪd/ 1. Rooted; firmly established. Labels: archaic, not-comparable Example: Nor have we let fall our Pen upon discouragement of Contradiction, Unbelief and Difficulty of disswasion from radicated beliefs [...].
Word: ahead of Part of Speech: prep 1. In front of. Example: A hill loomed ahead of them. Example: The island bore but little a-head of us. 2. Preceding. Example: He's giving a series of concerts in London ahead of his international tour. 3. In the future of. Example: You have a long trip ahead of you. Example: Peter has a lot of work ahead of him. 4. In advance of. Example: I arrived at the suite half an hour ahead of Jack. 5. Having made more progress than. Example: He is far ahead of his class in math. Example: The Reggie Clemons case has been a cause of legal dispute for the past two decades. Prosecutors alleged that he and his co-defendants brutally cut short the lives of Julie and Robin Kerry, sisters who had just started college and had their whole adult lives ahead of them.
Word: Munchkin Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From munchkin. 1. A domestic cat breed with short legs. Example: Munchkins are in fact one of the Healthiest ^([sic]) of the registered cat breeds.
Word: stunsail Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ˈstʌnsəl/ 1. studding sail Example: And, when running into more sufferable latitudes, the ship, with mild stun’sails spread, floated across the tranquil tropics […]
Word: brandis Part of Speech: noun 1. A triangular fire stand; trivet. Labels: Cornwall, Devon, archaic Example: These stones are then placed, as the country people have it, “brandis-wise” ; that is, in the form of a brandis, the name by which the triangular stands on which the kettles are set on the hearth are called. Example: I'll bush the fire a bit, if you'll leave me do it, and git un up all of a broze under the brandis. (She puts furze on the fire.)
Word: brandirons Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of brandiron Labels: form-of, plural
Word: attester Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From attest + -er. 1. One who attests.
Word: young'uns Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of young'un Labels: form-of, plural
Word: manifestants Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of manifestant Labels: form-of, plural
Word: crèches Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of crèche Labels: form-of, plural
Word: sourdine Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From French sourdine. Pronunciation: /sʊəˈdiːn/ 1. A muted trumpet. Labels: historical 2. A mute; a damper. Labels: historical
Word: sourdine Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From French sourdine. Pronunciation: /sʊəˈdiːn/ 1. Muffled, muted; subdued. Example: The streets had been considerably quieter in the sourdine Past.
Word: sourdines Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of sourdine Labels: form-of, plural
Word: feed a cold, starve a fever Part of Speech: proverb Etymology: An old wives' tale that dates back to 1574 from the original "Fasting is a great remedie of fever." 1. Expressing the common belief that eating more will cure the common cold, and eating less will cure a fever. Example: "Feed a cold, starve a fever." There is a deal of wisdom in the first part of this advice. A person with a catarrh should take an abundance of light nutritious food, and some light wine, but avoid spirits, and above all tobacco. Example: I have a cold. 'Feed a cold, starve a fever.' You certainly know that.
Word: reconstructed language Part of Speech: noun 1. A hypothetical, usually unattested language formed by making comparisons between the similarities of actual languages.
Word: reconstructed languages Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of reconstructed language Labels: form-of, plural
Word: contractor combatant Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Author and United States Department of Defense (DoD) contractor Carter Andress coined the term “contractor combatant” in his book about the Iraq War titled Contractor Combatants: Tales of an Imbedded Capitalist. 1. A civilian in a war zone who performs the tasks of an armed soldier under the Geneva Convention. Labels: US
Word: mannopeptimycins Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of mannopeptimycin Labels: form-of, plural
Word: mannopeptimycin Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ˌmnæəʊˌpɛptɪˈmaɪsɪn/ 1. Any of a family of cyclic glycopeptide antibiotics obtained from Streptomyces bacteria
Word: on-roader Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From on-road + -er. 1. A vehicle designed to be driven principally on normal roads; an on-road vehicle.
Word: megaloblastic Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From megaloblast + -ic. 1. Pertaining to, or produced by a megaloblast Labels: not-comparable
Word: Christian rock Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Christian + rock 1. A genre of rock music with a Christian theme. Labels: uncountable
Word: megaloblast Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From megalo- + -blast. 1. An abnormally large red blood cell associated with pernicious anemia and with folic acid deficiency.
Word: insultant Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Blend of insult + consultant. 1. A consultant who is willing to criticise the organisation that they work for. Labels: colloquial Example: As a consultant, he has specialized in strategy and policy for businesses, nonprofits, and government agencies around the globe. He is perhaps most famous for his direct criticisms of management, acknowledging that clients consider him a management "insultant." Example: Not surrounding yourself with only the 'Yes' men and women. Invite some 'Insultants' instead of just Consultants to keep you honest. Most consultants will tell you what you want to hear […]
Word: insultant Part of Speech: adj 1. insulting Labels: rare
Word: insultant Part of Speech: noun 1. One who delivers an insult. Labels: rare Example: The insult is one of the highest art forms. It is a form of minimalism, like the minimalism of an abstract artist. The one who insults is an insultant who, rather than use a canvas, uses another person. The insultant draws lines on a person to reduce them to the person they see and want others to see; and lines which they want the insulted one to feel.
Word: metagenomically Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From metagenomic + -ally. 1. With regard to metagenomics Labels: not-comparable
Word: multilocular Part of Speech: adj Etymology: By surface analysis, multi- + locule + -ar. 1. Having multiple or many locules or loculi (chambers, cells, or compartments). Example: Apothecia lecanoroid; multilocular; each cell containing a single theke; paraphyses deficient.
Word: mutilin Part of Speech: noun 1. Any of a family of polycyclic ketone drugs used to treat microbial infections
Word: mycopeptone Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From myco- + peptone. 1. Any of a family of peptones derived from fungi.
Word: cheesetastic Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From cheese + -tastic. Pronunciation: /t͡ʃiːzˈtæstɪk/ 1. incredibly cheesy (overdramatic or clichéd) Labels: informal 2. fantastic, in contexts related to cheese. Labels: informal
Word: myeloblastosis Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From myeloblast + -osis. 1. The presence of an abnormally large number of myeloblasts in the body Labels: uncountable
Word: 'erb Part of Speech: noun Etymology: A representation of the pronunciation of herb by a speaker whose dialect renders the word [ɜːɹb] rather than [hɜː(ɹ)b]. 1. herb Labels: pronunciation-spelling
Word: 'erbs Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of 'erb Labels: form-of, plural
Word: étincelé Part of Speech: adj 1. Semé (strewn) with sparks. Labels: not-comparable, rare
Word: sextastic Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From sex + -tastic. Pronunciation: /sɛksˈtæstɪk/ 1. great, with regards to sex Labels: informal
Word: just compensation Part of Speech: noun 1. The compensation provided for property taken via eminent domain. It is usually the fair market value of the property, but may be determined by other means. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: [...] ; nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation.
Word: just compensations Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of just compensation Labels: form-of, plural
Word: Touro Part of Speech: name 1. A municipality of A Coruña, Galicia, Spain.
Word: abb wools Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of abb wool Labels: form-of, plural
Word: acute accents Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of acute accent Labels: form-of, plural
Word: circumflex accents Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of circumflex accent Labels: form-of, plural
Word: artificial languages Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of artificial language Labels: form-of, plural
Word: central processing units Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of central processing unit Labels: form-of, plural
Word: lawn mowers Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of lawn mower Labels: form-of, plural
Word: rendevous Part of Speech: noun Etymology: A spelling of rendezvous that eliminates the silent z. Pronunciation: /ˈɹɑndəˌvu/, /ˈɹɑndeɪˌvu/ 1. Misspelling of rendezvous. Labels: alt-of, misspelling
Word: rendevous Part of Speech: verb Etymology: A spelling of rendezvous that eliminates the silent z. Pronunciation: /ˈɹɑndəˌvu/, /ˈɹɑndeɪˌvu/ 1. Misspelling of rendezvous. Labels: alt-of, misspelling
Word: fustilarian Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Possibly from fustilugs (“unattractive, grossly overweight person”) + -arian. Pronunciation: /ˌfʌs.tɪˈlæɹ.ɪ.ən/ 1. A low fellow; a stinkard; a scoundrel. Labels: nonce-word, obsolete Example: Away you scullion, you rampallian, you fustilarian.
Word: jungled Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From jungle + -ed. 1. Covered by jungle Example: […] these jungled islands[…] pleased my fancy to such an extent, that at one time I intended to abide there. Example: Until 1975, Samorn says, Sen lived with her family in Bo Pailin, a heavily jungled subprovince in southwest Cambodia.
Word: LMHO Part of Speech: phrase Etymology: Variant of LMAO (“laughing my ass off”) 1. Initialism of laughing my head off. Labels: Internet, abbreviation, alt-of, initialism 2. Initialism of laughing my heinie off. Labels: Internet, abbreviation, alt-of, euphemistic, initialism
Word: Solen Part of Speech: name 1. A city and village in North Dakota.
Word: stinkard Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From stink + -ard. 1. Any of various malodorous animals. Labels: obsolete Example: His nose, however, again gushed out blood, a system of defence which seemed as natural to him as that resorted to by the race of stinkards. Example: Next you have a group of stinkards, vermin whom I hold in abomination. . . . [T]here have been cases proved of persons being killed in their beds by the odour of stinkards; and it is sufficient for one of these creatures merely to pass through a granary, a fruit-room, or a cellar, to render every provision in them uneatable. 2. A teledu or stink badger, endemic to the island of Java, Mydaus javanensis. 3. A person whose behavior is hurtful and unsavory; a stinker. Labels: archaic, figuratively, rare Example: [H]e asked with great emotion, if I thought him a monster and a stinkard! Example: Thou'rt a sweatbox and a stinkard, sir.
Word: amnio Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Shortening. 1. amniocentesis Labels: uncountable
Word: nalidixic Part of Speech: adj 1. Of or pertaining to nalidixic acid or its derivatives Labels: not-comparable
Word: nanoplasmonics Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From nano- + plasmonics. 1. plasmonics involving nanofabricated systems Labels: uncountable
Word: nanofabricated Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From nano- + fabricated. 1. fabricated using nanofabrication
Word: nonaffected Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From non- + affected. 1. Not affected. Labels: not-comparable
Word: nonaffected Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From non- + affected. 1. Someone not affected, as by a disease. Example: Affecteds felt that they get conflicting orders from superiors more frequently than did nonaffecteds […]. Affecteds were more frequently bothered by feelings of a sharp increase in their workload than nonaffecteds […].
Word: nonagouti Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From non- + agouti. 1. Describing a mutation in the colouring of animal fur in which distributed white hairs are absent Labels: not-comparable
Word: nonciliated Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From non- + ciliated. 1. Not ciliated Labels: not-comparable
Word: nondelayed Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From non- + delayed. 1. Not delayed Labels: not-comparable
Word: nondispersive Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From non- + dispersive. 1. Not dispersive. Labels: not-comparable
Word: nonsuspended Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From non- + suspended. 1. Not suspended. Labels: not-comparable
Word: nonvarying Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From non- + varying. 1. Not varying. Labels: not-comparable
Word: nonparallelism Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From non- + parallelism. 1. The condition of not being parallel Labels: uncountable
Word: outcoupling Part of Speech: noun 1. The escape of photons from a light-emitting diode after being generated Labels: uncountable
Word: oxyimino Part of Speech: noun 1. A divalent radical of the form R-O-N= Labels: especially, in-compounds, uncountable
Word: phytohaemoagglutinin Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative spelling of phytohemagglutinin. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: postattachment Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From post- + attachment. 1. Occurring after attachment Labels: not-comparable
Word: postdepositional Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From post- + depositional. 1. Occurring after deposition Labels: not-comparable
Word: preadipocyte Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From pre- + adipocyte. 1. An undifferentiated fibroblast that can be stimulated to form an adipocyte
Word: preadipocytes Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of preadipocyte Labels: form-of, plural
Word: preadipose Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From pre- + adipose. 1. Describing a cell or tissue that may be stimulated to become adipose Labels: not-comparable
Word: unassuageable Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From un- + assuageable. Pronunciation: /ˌʌnəˈsweɪdʒəbəl/ 1. Impossible to assuage Labels: not-comparable, usually Example: Haven't Americans lived long enough with the heartache of unassuageable grief? Example: The most powerful character in the story, Diana, never truly appears, other than in radiant glimpses. The unassuageable anguish of the 12-year-old Harry’s loss gives Moehringer a potent, overarching literary device.
Word: cousinly Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From cousin + -ly. 1. Characteristic of, or suitable to, a cousin Example: "Katie," he broke out, "if you have any cousinly love in your heart, and know anything about Walt Whitman, tell me something, so I can go back and spring it on Helen."
Word: prolonge Part of Speech: noun Etymology: French [Term?]. See prolong. 1. A rope with a hook and a toggle, sometimes used to drag a gun carriage or to tie it to the limber, and for various other purposes. Labels: historical
Word: prolonges Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of prolonge Labels: form-of, plural
Word: thinghood Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From thing + -hood. 1. The quality, condition, or character of being a thing. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: tablehood Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From table + -hood. 1. The quality of being a table. Labels: uncountable
Word: applehood Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From apple + -hood. 1. The quality of being an apple. Labels: uncountable Example: We see an apple. We see it as an apple. Do we see of it its applehood?
Word: douroucouli Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From an unidentified South American Indian language, 19th c. 1. Any New World monkey of the genus Aotus, which are active at night and have no pinna of the outer ear.
Word: pseudoplanktonic Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From pseudo- + planktonic or pseudoplankton + -ic. 1. Describing any marine organism (a pseudoplankton) that lacks buoyancy and so attaches itself to a floating object. Labels: not-comparable
Word: pseudospin Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From pseudo- + spin. 1. A quantum degree of freedom analogous to spin
Word: dialect continuum Part of Speech: noun 1. A range of dialects that vary slightly across a geographical area, but whose differences accumulate over a certain distance.
Word: pseudotabular Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From pseudo- + tabular. 1. Having some tabular characteristics
Word: protofascist Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From proto- + fascist. 1. Showing the beginnings of fascism. Labels: not-comparable Example: Even Lemon, for all her protofascist beliefs, wins our sympathy. Example: When Newt Gingrich and his protofascist comrades took over Congress in 1994, they sneeringly boasted that they intended to take the federal government back to the 1920s.
Word: protofascist Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From proto- + fascist. 1. One whose beliefs resembled fascism before the founding of fascism in 1919. Labels: historical Example: The Social Darwinists are sometimes considered protofascists. 2. One whose opinions or policies show the beginnings of fascism. Labels: derogatory Example: That congressman is a protofascist. Example: Along with stereotype-mongering phrases like “redneck America's life in the electronic theme park,” he occasionally reduces his countrymen to mindless proto-fascists.
Word: puglike Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From pug + -like. 1. Similar to a pug.
Word: pyridopyrimidines Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of pyridopyrimidine Labels: form-of, plural
Word: pyridopyrimidine Part of Speech: noun 1. Any of a class of bicyclic heterocycles consisting of a pyridine fused to one of pyrimidine
Word: rapalogs Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of rapalog Labels: form-of, plural
Word: rapalog Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of rapalogue. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: retransduction Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From re- + transduction. 1. A second or subsequent transduction Labels: uncountable
Word: retrotransposed Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of retrotranspose Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: retrotransposed Part of Speech: adj 1. Subject to, or formed by retrotransposition
Word: anadromes Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ˈæ.nə.dɹoʊmz/ 1. plural of anadrome Labels: form-of, plural
Word: anadiploses Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of anadiplosis Labels: form-of, plural
Word: ployé Part of Speech: adj Etymology: French. Doublet of plicate. 1. Bowed, curved. Labels: not-comparable Example: Thus, Argent, a chevron ployé gules (d'Argent, au chevron ployé de gueules) is the coat of the Danish AUGUSTINS or OWSTINS; the reverse is that of the RODENEGGS, Counts WOLKENSTEIN.
Word: cyte Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Ancient Greek κῠ́τος (kŭ́tos, “hollow”, “vessel”); compare -cyte. Pronunciation: /saɪt/, /sʌɪt/ 1. Synonym of cell (“quantity of protoplasm, containing a nucleus, enclosed within a cell membrane”). Labels: rare Example: The low form elements devoid of a nucleus were in 1866 by Hæckel (Generelle Morphologie der Organismen 1866, vol. 1, p. 270) called cytodes (cell like) to distinguish them from cytes or cells.
Word: cyte Part of Speech: noun 1. Obsolete form of city. Labels: alt-of, obsolete
Word: compromit Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Latin compromittere. Pronunciation: /ˈkɒmpɹəmɪt/ 1. To compromise. Labels: obsolete, transitive Example: The embassador, Alexeief, was authorized to make all proper protestations of friendship, but to be very cautious not to compromit the dignity of his sovereign. Example: The President […] was of opinion, that the arming and equipping vessels in the ports of the United States to cruise against nations with whom they are at peace, was incompatible with the territorial sovereignty of the United States; that it made them instrumental to the annoyance of those nations, and thereby tended to compromit their peace […] 2. To pledge by some act or declaration; to promise. Labels: obsolete, transitive Example: XXIV. Also, the same Lord Cardinal, at many Times when any Houses of Religion have been void, he hath sent his Officers thither, and with crafty Persuasions hath induced them to compromit their Election in him.
Word: compromissions Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of compromission Labels: form-of, plural
Word: fa shizzle Part of Speech: intj 1. Alternative spelling of fo shizzle. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: cuirasse Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from French cuirasse. 1. The armour-like crust that forms upon the exposure of a lateritic soil profile. Labels: countable, uncountable 2. Alternative form of cuirass (“breastplate”). Labels: alt-of, alternative, countable, uncountable Example: As to the equipment of the Russian warrior of the period, his armor consisted of a helmet, a cuirasse, and a shield; and his standard weapons were the sword and the spear; bows and arrows were also used, […] Example: […] now had a lighter armour called three-quarter armour, comprising a cuirasse, jointed elements protecting the shoulders, arms and the front of the thighs, a doublet protecting the ...
Word: dog in the hunt Part of Speech: noun 1. Something that may lead to gain, depending on the outcome; a position for which to campaign or cheer. Labels: idiomatic Example: A national political party is unlikely to feel it has a particular dog in the hunt for a typical small town mayoral race. Example: The ideal solution is to find individuals or agencies without what is often called "a dog in the hunt." Governmental monitoring organizations […] and the World Health Organization (WHO), are probably the most reliable sources of raw data [for this issue] 2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see dog, hunt.
Word: cerebral oximetry Part of Speech: noun 1. A noninvasive method of measuring oxygen metabolism in the brain. Labels: uncountable
Word: retrotransposing Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From retro- + transposing. 1. present participle and gerund of retrotranspose Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: retrotransposing Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From retro- + transposing. 1. That leads to retrotransposition
Word: rodlet Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From rod + -let. Pronunciation: /ˈɹɒdlət/ 1. Any small rod, or rod-shaped structure (especially on the surface of some fungal spores) Example: It issues in one continuous appetizing rodlet [...], which looks as if it retained the shape of an earthworm's tract (but watch, watch, do not be deflected!).
Word: rodlets Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of rodlet Labels: form-of, plural
Word: scientiometrics Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of scientometrics. Labels: alt-of, alternative, uncountable
Word: sextupole Part of Speech: noun 1. a distribution of either electric charge or magnetization equivalent to three dipoles that point in different directions 2. a magnet with three north poles and three south poles, used to focus or contain a beam of particles
Word: sharkfin Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From shark + fin. 1. Alternative spelling of shark fin. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: shelly Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From shell + -y. Pronunciation: /ˈʃɛli/ 1. Composed of the shells of dead marine creatures Example: After all, we live today in an unusual world: sea level is low, the continents are dispersed, ice occupies the poles, and the shelly fauna of the oceans is composed largely of aragonite rather than calcite. Example: the shelly shore 2. Resembling, or comprising, the shell of a mollusc Example: Shrined are your offspring in a chrystal cradle, / Brighter than Helen's ere she yet had burst / Her shelly prison. Example: It is seen commonly in connection with flat-foot, and where the horn of the wall is thin and shelly. 3. Abounding with shells. Example: a shelly beach Example: the snail, whose tender horns being hit Shrinks backward in his shelly cave.
Word: subdiffusive Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From sub- + diffusive. 1. Of or pertaining to subdiffusion.
Word: subdiffusion Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From sub- + diffusion. 1. The tendency of particles in a fluid not to diffuse due to random trapping Labels: uncountable
Word: superlinear Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From super- + linear. 1. Above a line. 2. Describing a function (or rate of growth, etc) that eventually grows faster than any linear one. Labels: especially Example: […] in their study of Mono (a F/OSS implementation of Microsoft's .NET services, libraries and interfaces), their measurements indicate superlinear growth rate in the code size and the number of code updates that are committed […]
Word: sweeplike Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From sweep + -like. 1. Characteristic of a sweep (in all senses)
Word: tastants Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of tastant Labels: form-of, plural
Word: tastant Part of Speech: noun 1. Any substance that stimulates the sense of taste. Example: Early structure-taste theories attempted to identify certain common structural features of tastants and to attribute a specific taste to these.
Word: topoisomerization Part of Speech: noun 1. A variation (isomerization) in the topology of a biological macromolecule (especially a nucleic acid)
Word: toxinogenic Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From toxin + -o- + -genic. 1. toxicogenic
Word: tranduce Part of Speech: verb 1. Misconstruction of transduce. Labels: alt-of, misconstruction
Word: tranduced Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of tranduce Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: woodsmoke Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From wood + smoke. 1. Smoke from burning wood. Labels: uncountable, usually Example: I came to the southern end of a line of cliffs loftier than any I had seen before, and as I approached them, there was wafted to my nostrils the pungent aroma of woodsmoke. What could it mean? There could, to my mind, be but a single solution: man abided close by, a higher order of man than we had as yet seen, other than Ahm, the Neanderthal man.
Word: trifluoracetic Part of Speech: adj 1. Alternative form of trifluoroacetic. Labels: alt-of, alternative, not-comparable
Word: unassociated Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From un- + associated. 1. Not associated, as: Labels: not-comparable 2. Not associated, as: Labels: not-comparable
Word: ungapped Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From un- + gapped. 1. Not gapped Labels: not-comparable
Word: undermethylated Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From under- + methylated. 1. Insufficiently methylated
Word: undersampling Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From under- + sampling. 1. sampling at a lower rate than normal Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: language continuum Part of Speech: noun 1. A situation where two or more languages in the same geographic region merge together without a definable boundary.
Word: jurant Part of Speech: adj 1. Under oath; swearing. Example: Not that such universally prevalent, universally jurant, feeling of Hope, could be a unanimous one. Example: Because “the least body” was jurant, and had not the bishops politically “at its head;” therefore, it had them not spiritually!
Word: jurant Part of Speech: noun 1. One who has taken an oath, especially a religious one. Example: They are divided into jurants, and nonjurants. The jurants qualify to the government, and are on the same footing with episcopals in England. The nonjurants, who will not qualify, are avowed friends to the wicked old cause of the pretender. Example: Thus the solemn work of swearing is awfully profaned by both the imposer and the jurant.
Word: sea bass Part of Speech: noun Etymology: sea (attributive use) + bass (fish) Pronunciation: /ˈsiːbæs/ 1. Any of various species of saltwater fish in various families, or a specimen thereof, in several families in order Perciformes
Word: sea basses Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of sea bass Labels: form-of, plural
Word: orchestrant Part of Speech: noun 1. A musician who plays an instrument in an orchestra. Example: At this conjuncture a gentleman in a blouse, affected perchance by the heat of the weather or by inordinate libations of cocoa, and stung to desperation by the prolonged absence of the Wild Woman and the monotonous iteration of the flageolet and kettle-drum, cried out, "Attrape, Mayeux!" and flung a roasted apple at the orchestrant. Example: Later on he complemented his studies at the Grand Opera in Paris, worked as an orchestrant at the Vanemuine from 1906-1910 and thereafter as a conductor at the Vanemuine from 1916-1940.
Word: orchestrions Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of orchestrion Labels: form-of, plural
Word: point mutations Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of point mutation Labels: form-of, plural
Word: Constant Spring Part of Speech: name Etymology: Named after a district of Jamaica. 1. A variant of hemoglobin in which a mutation in the alpha globin gene produces an alpha globin chain that is abnormally long.
Word: McKees Rock Part of Speech: noun 1. A particular type of hemoglobin. Labels: uncountable
Word: annule Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Latin annulus. 1. A circular band formed by two transverse grooves in the cuticle of some nematodes with consequent apparent segmentation; annulus.
Word: annules Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of annule Labels: form-of, plural
Word: Turner syndrome Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Named after Henry Turner who first described the condition in 1938. 1. A particular genetic condition, caused by partially or completely missing an X chromosome (monosomy), that leads to sterility and other issues. Labels: uncountable
Word: dupions Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of dupion Labels: form-of, plural
Word: Prader-Willi syndrome Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Named after Andrea Prader and Heinrich Willi. 1. A human disease caused by deletion of part of chromosome 15, and manifested by intellectual disability, a constant feeling of hunger, and other problems. Labels: uncountable
Word: mixe Part of Speech: verb 1. Archaic form of mix. Labels: alt-of, archaic
Word: aniridia-Wilms' tumor syndrome Part of Speech: noun 1. A particular human disease, caused by deletion of part of chromosome 11, and causing aniridia and other problems. Labels: uncountable
Word: recense Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Borrowed from Latin recensere. 1. To review; to revise. Labels: obsolete, transitive Example: Pope Sixtus and Clemens at a vast expense had an assembly of learned divines, to recense and adjust the Latin Vulgate
Word: recenses Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of recense Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: testons Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of teston Labels: form-of, plural
Word: Philadelphia chromosome Part of Speech: noun Etymology: The abnormality was first discovered and described in 1959 by David Hungerford from the Institute for Cancer Research and Peter Nowell from the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine. Both facilities are located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. 1. Human chromosome 22, after it has, pathologically, traded some of its genetic material with chromosome 9; this often causes chronic myelogenous leukemia.
Word: Philadelphia chromosomes Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of Philadelphia chromosome Labels: form-of, plural
Word: wideband Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From wide + band. 1. A communications transmission rate between that of narrowband and broadband. Labels: attributive, often, uncountable, usually
Word: expanded form Part of Speech: noun 1. A representation of a number in terms of powers of a base, such as the representation of 1234 as 4×16²+13×16+2×16⁰ or the representation of 2345 as 2000+300+40+5.
Word: latrating Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of latrate Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present Example: With everything boiling over; with everyone rapping, yakking, or latrating, it would restore dignity to a number of America’s newspapers if the objectivity of their reporting would harden in direct proportion to the subjectivity of the story being reported.
Word: latrating Part of Speech: adj 1. Of barking. Labels: not-comparable, rare Example: I once saw a big dog plunging out furiously as a passing car, and, as I watched him, his gait looked peculiar. The reason for this eccentricity became clear when he returned from his latrating orgy: he had only three legs. 2. Of barking. Labels: not-comparable, rare Example: That seems to be, nowadays, the barker’s pet name for his latrating art.
Word: latrated Part of Speech: adj 1. Filled in with open lattice-work (?). Labels: not-comparable, obsolete, rare Example: A large wooden frame, composed of a series of mouldings, which are one foot seven inches and seven tenths wide, encloses six (not five as represented by Messrs. Taylor and Cresy), bronze “latrated” panels, thus admitting air into the interior of the building and keeping up a ventilation, even when the doors are closed. […] These impressions lead to the conclusion, that the restorers of the Pantheon, guided by some example now no longer in existence, adopted the doors and latrated panels over them from some ancient monument, and filled up the vacant space by an arrangement, such as we now see it. Example: The intercolumnar lateral space next the antæ or pilasters, is latrated or filled in with open lattice-work, of which examples are to be found in several bassi-relievi.
Word: cyster Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From cyst + -er, chosen as a homophone of sister. Compare cister. Pronunciation: /ˈsɪ.stə(ɹ)/ 1. A person who has ovarian cysts, especially one with polycystic ovary syndrome. Labels: slang Example: My concern (I'm sure others share this with me) is that your RE does not plan to monitor your ovaries' response to the Clomid. It's my understanding that we cysters are more inclined to hyperstimulate. I did last Clomid cycle and had to take a month off. Who knows if it's happened before? I went to 4 Drs. before I found one who did monitor me while on Clomid.
Word: cysters Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of cyster Labels: form-of, plural
Word: reünion Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative spelling of reunion. Labels: alt-of, alternative Example: We are concerned with the fact — not with its genesis. Whether the war between France and Austria was unjust or unavoidable ; which party prepared, and which began, the conflict ; whether Louis Napoleon originally designed, and whether he now relishes, that creation of a Kingdom of United Italy, of which he was the undoubted instrument ; whether the citizens of the new state ought to be grateful to him for their emancipation and reünion, or to Providence for having overruled his purposes ; whether the cession of Savoy and Nice was a moderate and necessary, or a questionable and a needless, price ; how far the duplicity and misstatements which undeniably discredited the transaction, exceeded the recognized limits of diplomatic mystification […] Example: Overture on Reünion: The Reports of the Joint Committee of the Two Assemblies of 1866–7, and of the Special Committee of the (N.S.) General Assembly of 1868
Word: reünions Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of reünion Labels: form-of, plural Example: This was the moment of Scarron and burlesque. The reünions of the Hotel Rambouillet were at an end.
Word: re-union Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative spelling of reunion. Labels: alt-of, alternative Example: And I do take leave, longing for a happy re-union, and trusting, that when we meet again, it will be under circumstances which may open our hearts to each other without any remnant or shadow of reserve.
Word: re-unions Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of re-union Labels: form-of, plural
Word: tohu-bohu Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Biblical Hebrew תֹהוּ וָבֹהוּ, from תֹּהוּ (tóhu, “nothingness, void”) + בֹּהוּ (bóhu, “emptiness, desolation”). Pronunciation: /ˌtəʊ.huːˈbəʊ.huː/, /ˌtoʊ.huˈboʊ.hu/ 1. Chaos, disorder, confusion. Labels: uncountable Example: Yet a judge may […] be required to dive, at a moment's notice, into the tohu-bohu of inquiries, which have never yet emerged from the stage of chaos... Example: […] / The decorative manias we obey / Die in grimaces round us every day, / Yet through their tohu-bohu comes a voice / Which utters an absurd command — Rejoice.
Word: tonsillolith Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From tonsillo- + -lith. 1. A calculus that forms in the rear of the mouth, in the crevasses of the palatine tonsils. Example: In a 2008 case report from India, doctors described removing a giant tonsillolith that was making it painful for a young patient to swallow.
Word: tonsilloliths Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of tonsillolith Labels: form-of, plural
Word: natural price Part of Speech: noun 1. A price for a good or service that is equal to the cost of production, augmented by the average profit rate. Example: 1776, Adam Smith, An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations: Book I: Chapter 7: Of the natural and market Price of Commodities When the price of any commodity is neither more nor less than what is sufficient to pay the rent of the land, the wages of the labour, and the profits of the stock employed in raising, preparing, and bringing it to market, according to their natural rates, the commodity is then sold for what may be called its natural price.
Word: natural prices Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of natural price Labels: form-of, plural