cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
outpoint
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: outpoints
Etymology: From out- + point.
Senses: examples: text: Edit the clip in to the sequence by making the outpoint of the source clip the first frame of the reverse motion.
ref: 2009, Greg Staten, Steve Bayes, The Avid Handbook, page 192:
antonyms: inpoint
glosses: The closing portion of an edited sequence of audio or video.
outproduce
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: outproduces
form: outproducing
form: outproduced
form: outproduced
Etymology: From out- + produce.
Senses: examples: text: Aaron disarms his rivals by outproducing them; his staff sends forth sprouts and blossoms, whereas the staffs of the other tribes cannot flower.
ref: 2001, David L. Lieber, Jules Harlow, Etz Hayim: Torah and Commentary, page 865:
glosses: To produce more than.
outrace
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: outraces
form: outracing
form: outraced
form: outraced
Etymology: From out- + race.
Senses: glosses: To travel faster than another in a competitive event.
outrider
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: outriders
Etymology: From Middle English outridere.
Senses: examples: text: Then they went from farmhouse to farmhouse, two little girls walking at the head of the procession as bridesmaids, and six or eight outriders galloping ahead on hobby-horses to announce their coming.
ref: 1890, James George Frazer, The Golden Bough, volume 2, page 91:
glosses: A guide or escort, especially one who rides in advance.
glosses: One who rides out on horseback to inspect a ranch etc.
examples: text: The Winchester MP is something of an outrider for a new project now: moving his party into the space vacated by the Conservative shift to the right under Iain Duncan Smith.
ref: 2001 November 2, “Outrider for a new project”, in BBC News:
synonyms: precursor
harbinger
trailblazer
glosses: A forerunner.
Related terms: outriding
vanguard
outshout
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: outshouts
form: outshouting
form: outshouted
form: outshouted
Etymology: From out- + shout.
Senses: examples: text: Ordinarily, sheʼd resort to outshouting the man.
ref: 2018, Richard Powers, The Overstory, Vintage (2019), page 196:
glosses: To shout louder or longer than.
examples: text: This advertising campaign will outshout the competition.
glosses: To gain more attention than.
outstation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: outstations
Etymology: From out- + station.
Senses: examples: text: It is proposed also to provide two Regional stores, one at Doncaster and one at Stratford, to supply outstations and the main works with diesel locomotive spares.
ref: 1955 October, “Notes and News: Diesel Maintenance in Eastern Region”, in Railway Magazine, page 726:
glosses: A station or post in a remote position; an outpost.
outstation
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From out- + station.
Senses: glosses: Out of town.
outstation
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From out- + station.
Senses: glosses: Out of town.
outstretch
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /aʊtˈstɹɛt͡ʃ/
rhymes: -ɛtʃ
Forms: form: outstretches
form: outstretching
form: outstretched
form: outstretched
Etymology: From Middle English outstrecchen, equivalent to out- + stretch. Cognate with West Frisian útstreekje (“to outstretch”), Dutch uitstrekken (“to outstretch”), German Low German utstrecken (“to outstretch”), German ausstrecken (“to outstretch”), Danish udstrække (“to outstretch”), Swedish utsträcka (“to outstretch”).
Senses: examples: text: She knew from avalanche safety courses that outstretched hands might puncture the ice surface and alert rescuers. She knew that if victims ended up buried under the snow, cupped hands in front of the face could provide a small pocket of air for the mouth and nose. Without it, the first breaths could create a suffocating ice mask.
ref: 2012, John Branch, “Snow Fall : The Avalanche at Tunnel Creek”, in New York Times:
glosses: To extend by stretching.
Derived terms: outstretcher
outvote
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: outvotes
form: outvoting
form: outvoted
form: outvoted
Etymology: From out- + vote.
Senses: glosses: To cast more votes than another
glosses: To defeat another by obtaining more votes
outwear
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: outwears
form: outwearing
form: outwore
form: outworn
Etymology: From out- + wear.
Senses: glosses: To outlast; to survive longer than: to outlive.
examples: text: Crushed impotent beneath this reign of terror,
Dazed with mysteries of woe and error,
The soul is too outworn for wondering.
ref: 1874, James Thomson, The City of Dreadful Night:
text: According to the audio commentary on “Treehouse Of Horror III,” some of the creative folks at The Simpsons were concerned that the “Treehouse Of Horror” franchise had outworn its welcome and was rapidly running out of classic horror or science-fiction fodder to spoof.
ref: 2012 April 29, Nathan Rabin, “TV: Review: THE SIMPSONS (CLASSIC): “Treehouse of Horror III” (season 4, episode 5; originally aired 10/29/1992)”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name):
glosses: To wear out.
outwork
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: out-wûkʹ
ipa: /aʊtˈwɔːk/
enpr: outʹwûk
ipa: /ˈaʊtwɔːk/
enpr: out-wûrkʹ
ipa: /aʊtˈwɔːɹk/
enpr: outʹwûrk
ipa: /ˈaʊtwɔːɹk/
Forms: form: outworks
form: outworking
form: outworked
form: outworked
Etymology: From out- + work.
Senses: examples: text: A few may be able to outsmart him, but no one can outwork him.
text: And I am one of those people who is indefatigable, in the true sense that I beg someone to find someone who can outwork me.
ref: 2009, Bill Boggs, Got What It Takes?:
hypernyms: outdo
glosses: To work more, faster, or harder than (someone else).
examples: text: For now three dayes of men were full outwrought, / Since he this hardie enterprize began [...].
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto VII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
glosses: To work out to a finish; to complete.
outwork
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: out-wûkʹ
ipa: /aʊtˈwɔːk/
enpr: outʹwûk
ipa: /ˈaʊtwɔːk/
enpr: out-wûrkʹ
ipa: /aʊtˈwɔːɹk/
enpr: outʹwûrk
ipa: /ˈaʊtwɔːɹk/
Forms: form: outworks
Etymology: From out- + work.
Senses: examples: text: Beyond the castle, scattered outworks offered some protection for the farther-flung peasants.
topics: architecture
coordinate_terms: fieldwork
glosses: A minor, subsidiary fortification built beyond the main limits of fortification.
synonyms: fieldwork
glosses: Agricultural work done outdoors in the fields.
nomade
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nomades
Etymology: From French nomade.
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of nomad.
nomadism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nomadisms
Etymology: From nomad + -ism.
Senses: examples: text: Like the Mesolithic age of 10,000-8000 B.C., the period 6000-4000 B.C. seems to be one of the fall of fortresses and the rise of pastoral nomadism.
ref: 1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 160:
glosses: The way of life of a nomad or nomads.
Derived terms: digital nomadism
Related terms: nomadistic
way of life
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ways of life
Senses: examples: text: My fellow citizens: I want to talk to you about Korea, about why we are there, and what our objectives are. It is your liberty and mine which is involved. What is at stake is the free way of life- the right to worship as we please, the right to express our opinions, the right to raise our children in our own way, the right to choose our jobs, the right to plan our future and the right to live without fear.
ref: 1950 September 1, Harry S. Truman, 0:13 from the start, in MP72-73 Korea and World Peace: President Truman Reports to the People, Harry S. Truman Presidential Library and Museum, National Archives Identifier: 595162:
synonyms: lifestyle
lifeway
glosses: A style of living that reflects the attitudes of a person or group.
knock back
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: knocks back
form: knocking back
form: knocked back
form: knocked back
Senses: examples: text: I was knocked back by the sheer size of the hall.
glosses: To stun; to surprise.
examples: text: My friends were already knocking back drinks when I arrived at the bar.
glosses: To drink an alcoholic beverage swiftly or often; to finish a beverage.
examples: text: The impact of the collision knocked him back several feet.
glosses: To push or strike someone or something backward with force.
examples: text: Despite facing numerous challenges, she managed to knock them back and keep moving forward.
glosses: To withstand or endure a difficult situation or setback.
examples: text: Their latest album really knocked it back and received critical acclaim.
glosses: To achieve a significant accomplishment or success.
examples: text: How many job seekers did you knock back today?
glosses: To reject; to refuse.
topics: baking
cooking
food
lifestyle
glosses: To press or knead (dough) so as to remove air bubbles.
astar
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From a- + star.
Senses: examples: text: […] they could follow the high-rose hedge, already astar with buds.
ref: 1903, Katherine Cecil Burton, The Circle, New York: A.L. Burt, Part 2, Chapter 6, p. 171:
text: 1959, Mabel Esther Allan (as Jean Estoril), Drina Dances Alone, New York: Scholastic, 1989, Chapter 6, p. 71,
The hedges were astar with blackthorn and there were primroses and cowslips on the banks.
synonyms: spangled
glosses: Covered with bright or sparkling objects.
examples: text: She found Anne standing motionless before a picture hanging on the wall between the two windows, with her hands clasped behind her, her face uplifted, and her eyes astar with dreams.
ref: 1908, Lucy Maud Montgomery, chapter 8, in Anne of Green Gables, Boston: L.C. Page, pages 79–80:
text: Astar with the cold fire of gems, it [the palace] was.
ref: 1993, Anne Gay, chapter 33, in Dancing on the Volcano, London: Orbit, page 373:
synonyms: sparkling
twinkling
glosses: Shining as if with sparks or small points of light.
inquiringly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more inquiringly
form: most inquiringly
Etymology: From inquiring + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: "Ready?" said the old gentleman inquiringly, when his guests had been washed, mended, brushed, and brandied.
ref: 1836 March – 1837 October, Charles Dickens, “A Short One—Showing among Other Matters, How Mr. Pickwick Undertook to Drive, and Mr. Winkle to Ride; and How They Both Did It”, in The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published 1837, →OCLC, page 50:
glosses: In an inquiring manner.
insatiably
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more insatiably
form: most insatiably
Etymology: From insatiable + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an insatiable manner.
glosses: To an insatiable extent.
inscrutably
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more inscrutably
form: most inscrutably
Etymology: From inscrutable + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an inscrutable manner.
insensitively
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more insensitively
form: most insensitively
Etymology: From insensitive + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an insensitive manner.
Derived terms: case-insensitively
insecurely
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more insecurely
form: most insecurely
Etymology: From insecure + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an insecure manner.
inseparably
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more inseparably
form: most inseparably
Etymology: From inseparable + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an inseparable manner.
insipidly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more insipidly
form: most insipidly
Etymology: From insipid + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an insipid manner.
insistingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more insistingly
form: most insistingly
Etymology: From insisting + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an insisting manner.
insolently
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more insolently
form: most insolently
Etymology: From insolent + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an insolent manner.
Derived terms: over-insolently
institutionally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɪnstɪˈtjuʃənəli/
ipa: /ˌɪnstɪˈtʃuːʃənəli/
ipa: /-ʃnəli/
ipa: /ˌɪnstɪˈtjuʃənəli/
ipa: /ˌɪnstɪˈtuʃənəli/
ipa: /-ʃnəli/
Etymology: From institutional + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Japanese retail stores have strove to, and have succeeded in, fulfilling these severe demands, and in doing so, have constantly had to innovate both technologically and institutionally in order to keep up with the competition.
ref: 2013 February 6, Hideo Otake, “Revising the Interpretation of the Japanese Economy”, in Michio Muramatsu, Frieder Naschold, editors, State and Administration in Japan and Germany: A Comparative Perspective on Continuity and Change, page 319:
glosses: In an institutional manner.
examples: text: Around a third of both Black and White respondents said they believed the opposition Labour Party to be institutionally racist.
ref: 2020 June 22, Rob Picheta, “Most Black British people think the Conservative Party is institutionally racist, CNN poll finds”, in CNN:
glosses: Throughout an institution.
Derived terms: noninstitutionally
instructively
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more instructively
form: most instructively
Etymology: From instructive + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an instructive manner.
insubstantially
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more insubstantially
form: most insubstantially
Senses: glosses: In an insubstantial manner.
insuperably
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more insuperably
form: most insuperably
Etymology: From insuperable + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an insuperable manner.
insurmountably
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more insurmountably
form: most insurmountably
Etymology: From insurmountable + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an insurmountable manner.
glosses: To an insurmountable extent.
intangibly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more intangibly
form: most intangibly
Etymology: From intangible + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an intangible manner.
intelligibly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more intelligibly
form: most intelligibly
Etymology: From intelligible + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: O my God, (euer conſtant to thine ovvne vvayes), thou haſt proceeded opẽly [openly], intelligibly, manifeſtly, by the book.
ref: 1624, John Donne, “IX. Expostulation”, in Deuotions upon Emergent Occasions, and Seuerall Steps in My Sicknes: […], London: […] A[ugustine] M[atthews] for Thomas Iones, →OCLC, page 217:
text: When people can no longer disagree intelligibly, a society disintegrates; where they need interpreters, they cannot either unite or emerge from conflict into unbelittling compromise.
ref: 1997, Frederic Raphael, The necessity of anti-semitism, page 87:
text: In order to state intelligibly the working hypothesis suggested by the foregoing facts, it will be necessary to briefly state the conclusions as to the formation of åsar and the determination of river courses reached by the senior author after a practically exhaustive survey of the cenology of the north-eastern quarter of Iowa.
ref: 2023, James D. Dana, Edward S. Dana, B. Silliman, The American Journal of Science: Vol. XXIV, page 221:
antonyms: unintelligibly
glosses: In an intelligible manner.
interactively
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more interactively
form: most interactively
Etymology: From interactive + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: In a similar way, we may interpret the evolution from lexical code-switching to borrowing as a change in the interpretation of the status of the lexical form in the sense that it is considered an orthonym not only in bilingual settings ('the right word comes from the other language and therefore I code-switch'), but also in monolingual ones ('there is a proper word in another language and therefore I propose to introduce it as a "guest word" in the respective monolingual lexicon'). In other terms, a "foreign" element can be a borrowing from its very first occurrence if it is intended and interactively accepted as the orthonym in a monolingual setting.
ref: 2004, Ulrich Ammon, Sociolinguistics, →ISBN, page 349:
glosses: In an interactive manner.
interdependently
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more interdependently
form: most interdependently
Etymology: From interdependent + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an interdependent manner.
intermediately
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From intermediate + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an intermediate manner.
glosses: To an intermediate extent.
maladroitly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more maladroitly
form: most maladroitly
Etymology: From maladroit + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: There was only one chair, and they offered it to her. They stood over her, maladroitly, apparently unsure how to proceed.
ref: 1985, Lance Parkin, The Infinity Doctors, page 103:
glosses: In a maladroit manner.
malignantly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more malignantly
form: most malignantly
Etymology: From malignant + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: So miserably fallen is the faculty of the nation, that the greater portion of the books which are annually published are made or compiled, and not conceived; and if an original work appears, to flash upon the region of dulness, the bibliothetic dolts meanly and malignantly confederate to limit its influence, and destroy its character—an evil which they are enabled to perpetrate so effectually, by their power and their number, that the mightiest Genius, who disdains to pay homage to such unworthy grubs, or become a servile pensioner upon their illiberal and base establishments, must eternally retire from the mart of Letters, with desperation and a broken heart!
ref: 1797 February 25, John Williams, “Dedication. To the Noblemen and Gentlemen Constituting That Very Honorable Society, Called, The Literary Fund.”, in The Pin-Basket to the Children of Thespis. With Notes Historical, Critical, and Biographical., London: […] H. D. Symonds, […]; and T. Bellamy, […], page 10:
text: Macaulay was concerned to interpret the seventeenth century in terms of the triumph of the Whigs as champions of public rights; and he upheld this one-sidedly but not malignantly.
ref: 1913, G. K. Chesterton, chapter 1, in The Victorian Age in Literature:
glosses: In a malignant manner.
manically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more manically
form: most manically
Etymology: From manic + -ally.
Senses: glosses: In a manic manner.
mannishly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more mannishly
form: most mannishly
Etymology: From mannish + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a mannish manner.
masochistically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more masochistically
form: most masochistically
Etymology: From masochistic + -ally.
Senses: glosses: In a masochistic manner.
materialistically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more materialistically
form: most materialistically
Etymology: From materialistic + -ally.
Senses: glosses: In a materialistic manner.
maternally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more maternally
form: most maternally
Etymology: From maternal + -ly.
Senses: synonyms: motherwise
glosses: In a maternal manner; motherly, as a mother.
Derived terms: nonmaternally
maturely
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: /məˈtjʊə(ɹ)li/
Forms: form: more maturely
form: most maturely
Etymology: From mature + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: When the teachers again ignored the crying and attended to Bill only when he acted maturely, the crying spells dropped sharply
ref: 2001 Sep/Oct, Jacob Azerrad, “Why our kids are out of control”, in Psychology Today, volume 34, number 5, page 42:
glosses: In a mature manner.
examples: text: Maturely, she simply declined to participate in the ceremony.
glosses: Acting with maturity.
mawkishly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more mawkishly
form: most mawkishly
Etymology: From mawkish + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a mawkish manner.
maximally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more maximally
form: most maximally
Etymology: From maximal + -ly.
Senses: glosses: To a maximal extent; as much as possible.
measurably
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more measurably
form: most measurably
Etymology: From measurable + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a measurable manner.
glosses: To a measurable extent.
mechanistically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more mechanistically
form: most mechanistically
Etymology: From mechanistic + -ally.
Senses: glosses: In a mechanistic, impersonal or automatic manner.
examples: text: The two systems are mechanistically equivalent.
glosses: In terms of a mechanism.
Derived terms: pathomechanistically
meditatively
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more meditatively
form: most meditatively
Etymology: From meditative + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: “Yes,” she said meditatively; then suddenly dropped her voice. “Mr. Hastings, you do not think—surely it could not have been Lawrence—Oh, no, that could not be!”
ref: 1920, Agatha Christie, The Mysterious Affair at Styles, London: Pan Books, published 1954, page 157:
text: This done, he sank on to a stretcher, and glanced meditatively about the room.
ref: 1936, F.J. Thwaites, chapter XIV, in The Redemption, Sydney: H. John Edwards, published 1940, page 153:
text: ESTRAGON: I've forgotten. (Chews.) That's what annoys me. (He looks at the carrot appreciatively, dangles it between finger and thumb.) I'll never forget this carrot. (He sucks the end of it meditatively.) Ah yes, now I remember.
ref: 1954 [1948], Samuel Beckett, Waiting for Godot […] , New York: Grove Press, translation of En attendant Godot, page 12:
glosses: In a meditative manner.
mellifluously
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more mellifluously
form: most mellifluously
Etymology: From mellifluous + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: When amatory poets sing their loves
In liquid lines mellifluously bland,
And pair their rhymes as Venus yokes her doves,
They little think what mischief is in hand […]
ref: 1821, Lord Byron, Don Juan, Canto V, Stanza 1:
text: […] Mr Wyse had made no secret about the pleasure it would give him to hear his sister and herself mellifluously converse in the Italian tongue […]
ref: 1931, E. F. Benson, chapter 6, in Mapp and Lucia:
text: Govind sang less mellifluously: he partly whined and partly grunted, from his habit of singing while lying on his belly.
ref: 1961, V. S. Naipaul, A House for Mr Biswas, Vintage International, published 2001, Part Two, Chapter 4:
glosses: In a mellifluous manner; sweetly.
mellowly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more mellowly
form: most mellowly
Etymology: From mellow + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a mellow manner.
melodically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more melodically
form: most melodically
Etymology: From melodic + -ally.
Senses: glosses: In a melodic manner.
melodiously
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more melodiously
form: most melodiously
Etymology: From Middle English melodyously; equivalent to melodious + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a melodious manner.
menacingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more menacingly
form: most menacingly
Etymology: From menacing + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Food, more and better, was placed near her - but, dumb and motionless, she lay with her face turned to the wall, and her dog growled menacingly at the stranger.
ref: 1902, Barbara Baynton, edited by Sally Krimmer and Alan Lawson, Bush Studies (Portable Australian Authors: Barbara Baynton), St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, published 1980, page 19:
text: Thor glared at him [...] what little light there was in the place mustered its forces briefly to glint menacingly off the horns of his helmet.
ref: 1982, Douglas Adams, Life, the Universe and Everything, page 110:
glosses: In a menacing manner.
scunnering
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of scunner
scunnered
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of scunner
menially
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more menially
form: most menially
Etymology: From menial + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a menial manner.
mercifully
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɜːsɪf(.ə)li/
ipa: /ˈmɝ.sɪf(.ə)li/
Forms: form: more mercifully
form: most mercifully
Etymology: From merciful + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a merciful manner.
examples: text: The whole Planet of the Apes set-up has been ripe for metaphor – from slavery and Afro-American revolution to European conquest of the Americas, even the war on terror. But mercifully, there's no big subtext being troweled on here.
ref: 2014 July 1, Steve Rose, “Dawn of the Planet of the Apes: a primate scream - first look review”, in The Guardian:
text: The fruits of these kickstarted endeavors began to show in 1915, first in the deployment of a new range of depth charges. These were, mercifully, smaller than Jellicoe's "crushing hand of God" prototype, and, whilst practically just as lethal to submarines, they were significantly less risky to the launching ship, and could also be carried in larger numbers.
ref: 2019 July 24, Drachinifel, 11:06 from the start, in Anti-Sub Warfare in WW1 - From Hammers to Hunter-Killers, archived from the original on 24 Nov 2022:
glosses: Thankfully.
mercurially
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more mercurially
form: most mercurially
Etymology: From mercurial + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a mercurial manner.
meretriciously
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more meretriciously
form: most meretriciously
Etymology: From meretricious + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a meretricious manner.
meritoriously
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more meritoriously
form: most meritoriously
Etymology: From meritorious + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a meritorious manner.
metabolically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From metabolic + -ally.
Senses: examples: text: Here [the new fire ant queen] raises a few tiny “minim” workers entirely from her body reserves of stored fat and metabolically cannibalized wing muscles.
ref: 2016, Justin O. Schmidt, The Sting of the Wild, Johns Hopkins University Press, →ISBN, page 66:
glosses: In terms of, or by means of, metabolism.
Derived terms: cardiometabolically
cometabolically
metabolically challenged
metaphysically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more metaphysically
form: most metaphysically
Etymology: From metaphysic + -ally.
Senses: glosses: In a metaphysical manner.
glosses: Concerning metaphysics.
meteorically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more meteorically
form: most meteorically
Etymology: From meteoric + -ally.
Senses: examples: text: The students, at least, swore by his name, and Fettes believed himself, and was believed by others, to have laid the foundations of success when he had acquired the favour of this meteorically famous man.
ref: 1884, Robert Louis Stevenson, The Body Snatcher:
glosses: In a meteoric manner.
methodologically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more methodologically
form: most methodologically
Etymology: From methodological + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a methodological manner.
examples: text: Methodologically, Wiktionary represents an implementation of the descriptive approach to linguistics and specifically to grammar.
text: Since it is methodologically desirable that a test of an hypothesis should be as stringent as possible, the strongest possible logic should be used in deriving consequences from the hypothesis, so that its class of potential falsifiers should be as inclusive as possible.
ref: 1974, Susan Haack, Deviant Logic: some philosophical issues:
text: Once these things have been decided, collecting the real world data will be, methodologically, fairly simple.
ref: 1992, Frank Hutson Gregory, Logic and Meaning in Conceptual Models: Implications for Information System Design:
text: We first provide one example of a study with serious methodological limitations, and then give greater attention to methodologically superior studies.
ref: 2006, Paul D. Hastings, Johanna Vyncke, Caroline Sullivan, Kelly E. McShane, Michael Benibgui, William Utendale, Children's Development of Social Competence Across Family Types:
qualifier: domain
glosses: From the perspective of methodology.
metrically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more metrically
form: most metrically
Etymology: From metrical + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a metrical manner.
Derived terms: historiometrically
hypermetrically
metrically compatible
oscillometrically
osteometrically
sociometrically
xylometrically
microscopically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more microscopically
form: most microscopically
Etymology: From microscopic + -ally.
Senses: examples: text: Mr. Bowerbank […] has had the kindness to examine the specimens for me microscopically.
ref: 1846, Proceedings of the Geological Society of London: November 1826 to June 1833, volume 4, page 571:
glosses: In a microscopic manner.
glosses: To a microscopic extent.
Derived terms: endomicroscopically
otomicroscopically
submicroscopically
militantly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more militantly
form: most militantly
Etymology: From militant + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Pushed by militantly conservative activists — and heeding the demands of an increasingly censorious group of conservative voters — Republican lawmakers are, in states across the country, introducing bills that suppress debate and stifle discussion in favor of the rote memorization of approved facts.
ref: 2022 February 18, Jamelle Bouie, “Opinion: You Just Can’t Tell the Truth About America Anymore”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 02 May 2023:
glosses: In a militant manner; extremely.
mindfully
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more mindfully
form: most mindfully
Etymology: From Middle English myndefully, myndfolly, equivalent to mindful + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: There are some low-tech approaches to forming those good posture habits, like the Alexander Method. The Alexander Method is a process that helps realign posture mindfully. It’s often used by performers, and often involves a coach.
ref: 2017 March 30, Rachel Crane, “Straighten up and stand right, with some electronic nagging”, in CNN:
text: Once you have been mindfully eating for a while, the mindset can apply to other areas of your life.
ref: 2021 October 14, Kristen Rogers, “Mindful eating could change your food habits and overall life. Here’s how to start”, in CNN:
glosses: In a mindful manner.
mindlessly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more mindlessly
form: most mindlessly
Etymology: From mindless + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: For that is all there is: material atoms moving mindlessly in the beingless void of space.
ref: 1996, Robert Cecil Olby, Companion to the history of modern science:
text: The Nanny is one of Pippa's favourite shows, but tonight the pleasure of mindlessly blobbing out in her usual Sunday-laid-back-luxury style...
ref: 2004, Brigid Lowry, Guitar Highway Rose:
glosses: In a mindless manner.
miraculously
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /məˈɹækjələsli/
note: in rapid speech
ipa: /məˈɹækləsli/
Forms: form: more miraculously
form: most miraculously
Etymology: From miraculous + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: When he woke for the second time he saw me, and began to question me as to what had happened, but I had to put him off as best I could till the morrow, when he awoke almost miraculously better.
ref: 1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC:
text: Almost miraculously, [risk-neutral valuation] finesses the problem that we know hardly anything about the risk aversion of the buyers and sellers of options.
ref: 2018, John C. Hull, Options, Futures and Other Derivatives, 10th edition, Pearson, page 276:
glosses: In a miraculous manner.
miscellaneously
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more miscellaneously
form: most miscellaneously
Etymology: From miscellaneous + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a miscellaneous manner.
misguidedly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more misguidedly
form: most misguidedly
Etymology: From misguided + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a misguided manner.
misleadingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more misleadingly
form: most misleadingly
Etymology: From misleading + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a misleading manner.
mistily
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more mistily
form: most mistily
Etymology: From misty + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a misty manner.
cyclic nucleotide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cyclic nucleotides
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
genetics
medicine
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Any nucleotide in which the phosphate group is bonded to two hydroxyl groups on the same sugar
tinniest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of tinny: most tinny
tinnier
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of tinny: more tinny
merry-making
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: It is true, that two clowns, who drove before them a herd of cattle—one or two village wenches, who seemed bound for some merry-making—a strolling soldier, and a wandering student, as his thread-bare black cloak and his satchel of books proclaimed him—passed our travellers without observation, or with a look of contempt; […]
ref: 1820, [Walter Scott], chapter XIII, in The Abbot. […], volume I, Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne & Co.] for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, […]; and for Archibald Constable and Company, and John Ballantyne, […], →OCLC, page 266:
glosses: Alternative spelling of merrymaking.
industrial espionage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ɪnˈdʌstɹɪəl ˈɛspiəˌnɑːʒ/
Etymology: From industrial + espionage.
Senses: examples: text: The American Consul at Leipzig requested the Chamber of Commerce of that city to furnish him with certain information concerning the preparation of rabbit’s skin for the hat trade. The Chamber replied that, although it was desirous of promoting the trade of Germany with foreign countries, it must, as a matter of principle, decline to furnish technical reports on German manufactures that would be likely to assist foreign competitors. The Leipziger Faerber Zeitung published the following, headed “Unfair Competition & Industrial Espionage" by the Consuls of the United States.”
ref: 1899 April 29, “What Our Consuls are Doing for American Trade”, in Scientific American, page 261:
topics: espionage
government
military
politics
war
glosses: The use of clandestine methods to acquire secret information for commercial advantage.
glosses: Spying by an employer on labor union activities of employees and on labor unions.
glosses: Spying on industrial activities for military advantage.
Related terms: trade secret
celebrates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of celebrate
face cloth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: face cloths
Senses: glosses: A small cloth used to wash one's face.
Synonyms: word: face washer
word: flannel
word: washcloth
word: washrag
pressmaster
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pressmasters
form: press-master
form: press master
Etymology: From press + master.
Senses: glosses: A person in charge of a press gang, who was authorized to press recruits into the navy.
overabundance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /oʊvɚəˈbʌndɪnts/
Forms: form: overabundances
Etymology: From Middle English overaboundaunce, equivalent to over- + abundance.
Senses: synonyms: excess
superabundance
surfeit
glosses: An excess of what is needed or is appropriate.
overabundant
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more overabundant
form: most overabundant
Etymology: From Middle English overaboundaunt, equivalent to over- + abundant.
Senses: examples: text: Algae are a natural part of the ecosystem, but when they are overabundant the compounds they release can accumulate to levels harmful to wildlife and people, the California Water Quality Monitoring Council says.
ref: 2022 September 3, Taylor Romine and Jason Hanna, “An algae bloom has killed thousands of fish in the San Francisco Bay Area”, in CNN:
glosses: excessively abundant.
Derived terms: overabundantly
Related terms: overabundance
overachieve
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: overachieves
form: overachieving
form: overachieved
form: overachieved
Etymology: From over- + achieve.
Senses: glosses: To achieve more or at a higher level of quality than was expected.
Synonyms: topics: finance
business
word: overperform
word: punch above one's weight
Derived terms: overachievement
overachiever
overactive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -æktɪv
Forms: form: more overactive
form: most overactive
Etymology: From over- + active.
Senses: glosses: Excessively active.
Synonyms: hyperactive
Derived terms: overactive bladder
overactiveness
overage
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈəʊvəɹˈeɪd͡ʒ/
rhymes: -eɪdʒ
Forms: form: more overage
form: most overage
Etymology: From over- + age.
Senses: glosses: Having an age that is greater than a stipulated minimum.
glosses: Too old to be of use in a particular situation.
Derived terms: overageness
overager
overage
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈəʊvəɹˈeɪd͡ʒ/
rhymes: -eɪdʒ
Forms: form: overages
form: overaging
form: overaged
form: overaged
Etymology: From over- + age.
Senses: examples: text: The heat-treatable alloys may overage (soften) with time at temperature due to the coalescence of the precipitate particles which, when present in a smaller dispersed size, enhance roomtemperature strength.
ref: 1997, George Murray, Handbook of Materials Selection for Engineering Applications, →ISBN, page 92:
text: Structures that have been precipitation hardened to peak values may overage, and steels that have been hardened and tempered may overtemper.
ref: 2013, Mahmoud M. Farag, Materials and Process Selection for Engineering Design, →ISBN:
glosses: To have too long an aging process.
overage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈəʊvəɹˈeɪd͡ʒ/
rhymes: -eɪdʒ
ipa: /ˈəʊvəɹɪd͡ʒ/
ipa: /ˈəʊvəɹˈeɪd͡ʒ/
rhymes: -eɪdʒ
Forms: form: overages
Etymology: From over + -age.
Senses: glosses: A surplus of inventory or capacity or of cash that is greater than the amount in the record of an account.
examples: text: You're entitled to bring a bag weighing fifty pounds onto the airplane, and will be charged extra for any overage.
text: Receiving department, 3 A.M. / Staff cuts have socked up the overage. / Directives are posted, no callbacks, complaints. / Everywhere is calm.
ref: 1998, “Daysleeper”, in Up, performed by R.E.M.:
text: The overage charge on this plan has been reduced to 10 cents per megabyte over the limit. Previously, the company charged 25 cents per megabyte for overages.
ref: 2009 May 14, Marguerite Reardon, “Verizon Netbook to hit stores this weekend”, in CNN:
glosses: Excess; a state of being more than it ought to be.
topics: law
property
glosses: Any additional sums payable following the purchase of land, calculated on a prearranged basis, on the occurrence of certain specified events that are deemed to increase the value of that land; usually in the context of the development and further sale of that land.
begonias
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of begonia
bagger
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbæɡɚ/
ipa: /ˈbæɡə/
ipa: /ˈbæːɡə/
Forms: form: baggers
Etymology: From Middle English bagger, baggere, baggare, equivalent to bag + -er (agent noun suffix).
Senses: glosses: One who bags.
glosses: One who bags.
A retail employee who bags customers' purchases and carries them to the customers' vehicles.
synonyms: courtesy clerk
sacker
hyponyms: bag boy
Derived terms: brown-bagger
carpet bagger
double-bagger
four-bagger
gallybagger
Munro bagger
rag-bagger
rag bagger
she-bagger
teabagger
three-bagger
two-bagger
wagger-pagger-bagger
bagger
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbæɡɚ/
ipa: /ˈbæɡə/
ipa: /ˈbæːɡə/
Forms: form: baggers
Etymology: From bag + -er (relational noun suffix).
Senses: related: word: bagger motorcycle
word: bagger motorbike
word: bagger bike
glosses: A touring motorcycle equipped with saddlebags.
Robinson Crusoe
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A fictional castaway.
examples: text: A Robinson Crusoe economy
glosses: Something isolated and independent.
Derived terms: Robinson Crusoe Island
Related terms: Crusoean
Crusoesque
robinsonade
Robinsonesque
Robinsonian
girl Friday
man Friday
pimp-slap
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pimp-slaps
form: pimp slap
Senses: examples: 1998, Ron Nixon, "Farrakhan, the Hip-Hop Generation, and the Failure of Black American Leadership", in Amy Alexander (ed.), The Farrakhan Factor: African-American Writers on Leadership, Nationhood, and Minister Louis Farrakhan, Grove Press, →ISBN, page 190,
Although Jesse Jackson and several other Civil Rights Era leaders criticized Clinton for the remarks, they nevertheless endorsed him for president. Many politically-aware young black people saw that as a pimp-slap in the face.
1999, Dan Kelly, "Birchismo", in The Baffler 13, reprinted in Thomas Frank and David Mulcahey (eds.), Boob Jubilee: The Cultural Politics of the New Economy, W. W. Norton & Company (2003), →ISBN, page 356,
[…] a generation for whom the landmark events of Sixties were an unpleasant series of pimp-slaps.
2002, Jai Anthony-Lewis Husband, Behold..., iUniverse, →ISBN, page 118,
“ […] I spent hours preparing and I still got slammed—” ¶ “Yeah, it was like an opened-handed pimp-slap!”
2004, Rita Rashad, Love At Half-court: It May Be The Same Game, But It’s No Ordinary Love!, iUniverse, →ISBN, pages 27–28,
Then the next thing I knew, my Mom whipped around and gave Kellie one of those backhanded pimp-slaps across the face.
glosses: Alternative spelling of pimp slap.
pimp-slap
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: pimp-slaps
form: pimp-slapping
form: pimp-slapped
form: pimp-slapped
form: pimp slap
Senses: examples: 1994, Jervey Tervalon, Understand This, Morrow, →ISBN, page 71,
Come over here like you think you gonna pimp-slap me because you driving your brother’s Benz.
1997, Belle Waring, "Eleventh Day of Rain", in Dark Blonde Poems, Sarabande Books, →ISBN, page 58,
This is the eleventh day of rain in a row / when the wind off the river pimp-slaps us university whores / heading to class.
2004 December 29, Neil Prakash, "9 November(D+1): Fire for Effect", in Matthew Currier Burden, The Blog of War: front-line dispatches from soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan, Simon and Schuster (2006), →ISBN, page 182,
When that round hit the building, it looked like God himself came down and pimp-slapped him off the building. He just flew sideways like he was catapulted into orbit.
2006, O.G. Wise, Queen Bee, Cook City Publishing Inc., →ISBN, page 142,
Renny got up and pimp-slapped the taste outta his mouth!
For additional quotations, see pimp slap.
glosses: To slap powerfully in the face; to deliver a pimp slap to.
tween
Language: English
Part of speech: prep
Pronunciation: ipa: /twiːn/
rhymes: -iːn
Etymology: Clipping of in between.
Senses: examples: text: “Skunks first colonized this land in 1794. With the arrival of European settlers, an uneasy truce was established tween man and skunk. Gifts were exchanged. Treaties were struck... and broken. A feud ignited, resulting in the Battle of Skunktown.”
ref: 2021 April 18, Christy Stratton & Erin Wagoner, “Hoot 'N Haw” (1:33 from the start), in Bless the Harts, season 2, episode 18, spoken by Denise (Kristen Wiig):
glosses: Alternative spelling of 'tween.
tween
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /twiːn/
rhymes: -iːn
Forms: form: tweens
Etymology: Clipping of in between.
Senses: examples: text: Because the results of a shape tween can be unpredictable, you can set shape hints to let Flash know how to proceed with the tween.
ref: 2004, Andy Anderson, Mark Del Lima, Steve Johnson, Show Me Macromedia Flash MX 2004, page 237:
text: A tween is a method of creating animation, where you tell Flash where to start and where to end, and Flash does all the work in the middle. There are three types of tweens: Classic, Shape, and Motion.
ref: 2009, Keith Butters, Teach Yourself VISUALLY Flash CS4 Professional, page 186:
text: If you select the frames first, they will be replaced by the copied tween.
ref: 2009, Rich Shupe, Learning Flash CS4 Professional, page 129:
qualifier: animation
glosses: An action of tweening (inserting frames for continuity); a sequence of frames generated by tweening.
tween
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /twiːn/
rhymes: -iːn
Forms: form: tweens
form: tweening
form: tweened
form: tweened
Etymology: Clipping of in between.
Senses: examples: text: The two most important and advanced ingredients of today's animation are tweening and morphing.
ref: 2004, D. P. Mukherjee, Fundamentals of Computer Graphics and Multimedia, page 117:
text: Simple motion tweening moves your objects in a straight line from here to there.[…]You can also combine frame-by-frame animation with tweened animation.
ref: 2005, Ellen Finkelstein, Gurdy Leete, Macromedia Flash 8 For Dummies, page 191:
text: The first parameter is the object that you want to tween, and the second parameter is the amount of time you want it to take in seconds.
ref: 2012, Christopher Griffith, Real-World Flash Game Development, 2nd edition, page 113:
topics: broadcasting
cinematography
film
media
television
glosses: To generate intermediate frames in an animated sequence so as to give the appearance of smooth movement.
Derived terms: tweener