cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
homoeroticism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: homoeroticisms
Etymology: From homoerotic + -ism.
Senses: examples: text: Masculine images in the ballet tend toward one of two poles: the homoeroticism of contemporary European choreographers […], and the men-drained-of-maleness we often see in Cunningham's dances.
ref: 1988 September 30, Cerinda Survant, “Truly New”, in Chicago Reader:
glosses: The state or quality of being homoerotic
Related terms: homoromanticism
homewares
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of homeware
impersonality
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: impersonalities
Etymology: From impersonal + -ity.
Senses: examples: text: Yet paradoxically, Huston being Huston, its most personal quality is the director's self-effacement, its impersonality.
ref: 1988 July 8, Jonathan Rosenbaum, “Portfolio Without Artist”, in Chicago Reader:
glosses: The state or quality of being impersonal
Related terms: impersonally
indeterministic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From in- + deterministic.
Senses: examples: text: For instance, suppose that one thinks that the world is indeterministic.
ref: 2007 November 21, Frank Arntzenius, “No Regrets, or: Edith Piaf Revamps Decision Theory”, in Erkenntnis, volume 68, number 2, →DOI:
topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
glosses: Not deterministic; containing randomness
Derived terms: indeterministically
Related terms: nondeterministic
homeware
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: homewares
Etymology: From home + -ware.
Senses: examples: text: […] selling homewares has become the toughest job on the high street.
ref: 2009 January 23, Zoe Wood, “War on the home front as Ikea chief tempts flatpack-phobic”, in The Guardian:
glosses: Furnishings for the home, such as furniture and cushions.
Related terms: houseware
groundouts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of groundout
juried
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From jury + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: I had my doubts. I knew that it was not a juried show — in other words that everything sent in had been exhibited.
ref: 1980 August 30, Andrea Loewenstein, “Amazon Art”, in Gay Community News, volume 8, number 6, page 10:
glosses: Overseen by a jury
raw_tags: of a competition
Derived terms: unjuried
wedgy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwɛdʒ.i/
rhymes: -ɛdʒi
Forms: form: wedgier
form: wedgiest
Etymology: From wedge + -y.
Senses: examples: text: The wedgy Triumph was lauded as having “the shape of things to come.”
ref: 2007 March 18, Rob Sass, “End of a Breed”, in New York Times:
glosses: Resembling a wedge, especially in shape
Synonyms: cuneiform
wedgelike
Related terms: wedgie
bicoastal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more bicoastal
form: most bicoastal
Etymology: From bi- + coastal.
Senses: examples: text: Chess, it seems, is even more bicoastal than the usual occasions of midwestern envy.
ref: 1988 April 1, Harold Henderson, “Addicted to Chess”, in Chicago Reader:
text: It would be false to suggest CBD is nothing more than an obsession for reiki-adjacent bicoastal millennials.
ref: 2018 October 27, Alex Williams, “Why Is CBD Everywhere?”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, archived from the original on 13 Mar 2022:
glosses: Of, pertaining to, or concentrated on two coasts, often specifically the Atlantic and Pacific coasts of North America.
Derived terms: bicoastalism
bicoastally
bicoastal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bicoastals
Etymology: From bi- + coastal.
Senses: examples: text: Ms. Zohn said being married bicoastals poses a variety of challenges, not the least of which is explaining their situation.
ref: 2007 February 4, Robin Epstein, “This Couple Walks Into a Bar ...”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 27 Apr 2020:
glosses: A person who lives near two coasts.
midphrase
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From mid- + phrase.
Senses: examples: text: He reared his body up and down with emotion as he played, and often grunted midphrase.
ref: 2007 June 2, Corey Kilgannon, “A Jazzman’s Farewell Album, All Heart and Soul”, in New York Times:
glosses: In the middle of a phrase
raw_tags: with "in"
housedress
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhaʊsˌdɹɛs/
Forms: form: housedresses
Etymology: From house + dress.
Senses: examples: text: Betty Schlafer, head honcho of the Airport Cafe, is wearing a housedress with a purple floral design; a brooch filled with colored stones is pinned to her collar.
ref: 1988 October 7, Judy Robb, “Restaurant Tours: a diner to fly for”, in Chicago Reader:
glosses: A simple dress suitable for housework
Derived terms: housedressed
mastman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mastmen
form: mast man
Etymology: From mast + -man.
Senses: examples: text: “I just said to the boys that when Australia won in Newport, they were 3-1 down, and we all know what happened there,” said Matt Mason, Team New Zealand’s mastman.
ref: 2007 July 1, Christopher Clarey, “Alinghi Within One Victory of America’s Cup”, in New York Times:
topics: nautical
sailing
transport
glosses: A sailor who is charged with tending the halyards and other lines near the mast
mastmen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mastman
housedresses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of housedress
at one
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: examples: text: She felt perfectly at one with nature during her retreat to the lake.
glosses: In harmony or unity.
raw_tags: with with
examples: text: The pastoral deity to whom they paid their devotions was Pales, as to whose sex the ancients themselves were not at one.
ref: 1890, James George Frazer, The Golden Bough, volume 2, page 326:
text: Vidal's old antagonist Norman Mailer was largely at one with him on this, jauntily alleging that endless war was the only way to vindicate the drooping virility of the traditional white American male.
ref: 2010, Christopher Hitchens, Hitch-22, Atlantic, published 2011, page 245:
glosses: In agreement, unanimous, of the same opinion.
raw_tags: with with
examples: text: And the next daye he shewed himsilfe unto them as they strove, and wolde have sett them at one agayne saynge: Syrs ye are brethren why hurte ye won another?
ref: 1526, [William Tyndale, transl.], The Newe Testamẽt […] (Tyndale Bible), [Worms, Germany: Peter Schöffer], →OCLC, Acts:
glosses: Into a state of harmony, friendship or reconciliation.
Derived terms: at-one-ness
Related terms: atone
as one
toxic debt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: toxic debts
Senses: examples: text: This means the providers of the funds are basically swapping good, solid cash for potentially toxic debt.
ref: 2005 February 15, Anthony Hilton, “Debt Game's Winners and Losers”, in Evening Standard:
topics: business
finance
glosses: Debt that is acquired through normal financial transactions which later proves to have little or no actual value.
Related terms: toxic asset
mereological
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˌmɪəɹiəˈlɒd͡ʒɪkəl/
Etymology: From mereology + -ical.
Senses: examples: text: Join is a mereological relation which can be interpreted as union set-theoretically.
text: I think that theories like mereological nihilism are interesting in the way that epistemological skepticism is interesting, the main question for both being how do we avoid this?
ref: 2008 August 13, Jonathan Schaffer, “Truthmaker commitments”, in Philosophical Studies, volume 141, number 1, →DOI:
topics: human-sciences
logic
mathematics
philosophy
sciences
glosses: Of or pertaining to mereology, a collection of axiomatic first-order theories dealing with parts and their respective wholes.
Derived terms: mereologically
eat someone's dust
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: eats someone's dust
form: eating someone's dust
form: ate someone's dust
form: eaten someone's dust
Senses: examples: text: You better move fast before you eat his dust.
glosses: To be outrun.
glosses: To get one to be on a losing end.
Derived terms: eat my dust
Related terms: bite the dust
eat my dust
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Forms: form: eat my dust !
Senses: examples: text: I'm ahead of ya! Eat my dust!
glosses: An in-your-face mockery to a losing rival, especially in a race
Related terms: eat someone's dust
kagan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kagans
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of khagan.
Derived terms: kaganate
multipronged
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more multipronged
form: most multipronged
form: multi-pronged
Etymology: From multi- + pronged.
Senses: glosses: Having multiple prongs
glosses: Having multiple elements or aspects
stewpot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stewpots
Etymology: From stew + pot.
Senses: examples: text: What my parents served me from that very same stewpot was chicken.
ref: 2009 February 4, Melissa Clark, “Braised Rabbit, Easier on the Fat”, in New York Times:
glosses: A pot used for making stew, usually large and heavy.
examples: text: It’s a nasty stewpot of intellectually untenable premises and irresponsible speculation that frequently reads like a “Saturday Night Live” parody of the crackpot right.
ref: 2007 February 6, Michiko Kakutani, “Dispatch From Gomorrah, Savaging the Cultural Left”, in New York Times:
topics: art
arts
literature
media
publishing
glosses: A jumble, especially one that lacks intellectual coherence.
stewpots
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stewpot
snowmaking
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From snow + making.
Senses: examples: text: During the winter, Mohawk Mountain Ski Area is a draw for those who like to hit the slopes where snowmaking was pioneered back in 1949.
ref: 2007 February 9, C. J. Hughes, “On the Housatonic, a Destination for Anglers and Skiers”, in New York Times:
glosses: The artificial production of snow
preshow
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: preshows
form: preshowing
form: preshowed
form: preshown
Etymology: From pre- + show.
Senses: glosses: To show in advance.
preshow
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: preshows
Etymology: From pre- + show.
Senses: glosses: A lesser show that occurs before the main entertainment.
qualifier: magic performance
glosses: A part of a routine that happens before the actual show, unknown to the audience.
storages
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈstɔːɹɪd͡ʒɪz/
ipa: /ˈstɔɹəd͡ʒəz/
Senses: glosses: plural of storage
storages
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈstɔːɹɪd͡ʒɪz/
ipa: /ˈstɔɹəd͡ʒəz/
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of storage
subbasement
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: subbasements
form: sub-basement
Etymology: From sub- + basement.
Senses: examples: text: Joan H. Geismar is trying to unravel the mystery of old stone walls in the subbasement of Federal Hall National Memorial on Wall Street.
ref: 2007 February 8, David W. Dunlap, “What May Have Made Good Neighbors Now Present a Puzzle”, in New York Times:
glosses: A basement located beneath another basement
multipolar
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /mʌltiˈpəʊlə/
rhymes: -əʊlə(ɹ)
Forms: form: more multipolar
form: most multipolar
form: multi-polar
Etymology: From multi- + polar.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Having more than two poles.
examples: text: The first diagram reveals a multi-polar system, in which a plurality of forces and interests balance each other in precarious equilibrium.
ref: 2012, Christopher Clark, The Sleepwalkers, Penguin, published 2013, page 121:
text: Mr. Putin and his Chinese counterpart, Xi Jinping, like to claim that we now live in a multipolar world.
ref: 2022 February 23, Madeleine Albright, “Putin Is Making a Historic Mistake”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
topics: government
politics
glosses: Of or relating to an international system in which a number of states wield most of the cultural, economic, and political influence.
Related terms: multipolarity
tripolar
multipolar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /mʌltiˈpəʊlə/
rhymes: -əʊlə(ɹ)
Forms: form: multipolars
form: multi-polar
Etymology: From multi- + polar.
Senses: glosses: An electromagnetic machine in which several magnetic poles exist.
subbasements
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of subbasement
serialist
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From serial + -ist.
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: Of, pertaining to, or employing serialism.
serialist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: serialists
Etymology: From serial + -ist.
Senses: examples: text: In the last decade or so, this once unabashedly complex serialist, now 68, seems to have allowed a lyrical generosity into his works.
ref: 2007 January 16, Anthony Tommasini, “Serious German Violinist Gets a Rock Star Ovation”, in New York Times:
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A practitioner or adherent of serialism, an approach to composing which emphasizes the use of a series of notes, especially scales, to achieve coherence.
topics: criminology
human-sciences
law
sciences
glosses: A serial offender; usually a serial killer, but may also include a serial rapist or serial arsonist depending on the context.
glosses: A writer or creator of serials; someone who creates a work that is published in installments.
multiplatform
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From multi- + platform.
Senses: examples: text: That Dragon, Cancer was funded for multiplatform release, having initially been announced through Kickstarter as a timed exclusive for the Android-based Ouya.
ref: 2016, Mike Diver, Indie Games: The Complete Introduction to Indie Gaming, →ISBN:
glosses: Alternative form of multi-platform.
serialists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of serialist
postproduction
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: postproductions
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of post-production.
schooler
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: schoolers
Etymology: From school + -er. Compare the similarly formed English scholar.
Senses: examples: text: Those kids are all junior high schoolers.
text: We're a bunch of old-schoolers.
text: Some middle schoolers are learning that history isn’t always meant to be celebrated after the N-word was inadvertently printed on the front cover of their yearbooks.
ref: 2017 June 7, AnneClaire Stapleton, “Students get yearbooks with N-word on the cover”, in CNN:
glosses: A student, or in some cases member, of a particular type of school or schooling. (ordinarily used in combinations such as "high schooler")
examples: text: Is the Shareef of Ain Araish a schooler of servants and waiting men?
ref: 1902, Alec John Dawson, Hidden Manna, page 48:
glosses: One who provides schooling; a teacher.
Related terms: elementary schooler
highschooler
homeschooler
middle schooler
schoolers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of schooler
myelodysplastic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more myelodysplastic
form: most myelodysplastic
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Of, pertaining to, or showing evidence of myelodysplasia
Derived terms: myelodysplastic syndrome
mineralogies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mineralogy
nebbishy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more nebbishy
form: most nebbishy
Etymology: From nebbish + -y.
Senses: examples: text: Jeff Johnson's nebbishy Blanche, for example, is a complete comic character, a demented Dorothy (a la Martin Short) who can write her way back to Kansas.
ref: 1988 August 26, Lawrence Bommer, “The Book of Blanche”, in Chicago Reader:
text: As we have seen, one of the intellectual architects of that war was Sayyid Qutb, a nebbishy Egyptian writer with a Hitler mustache who arrived in the placid town of Greeley, Colorado, in 1949 to attend college.
ref: 2011, Peter L. Bergen, The Longest War:
text: Where American Jewish men contend with stereotypes of being oversexed, needy, nebbishy and neurotic (like Woody Allen, boo hiss), Jewish women are cast as withholding, bossy, exotic, and materialistic (like Fran Drescher, which honestly? Goals).
ref: 2019 August 20, Fancy Feast, “On Being a Fetish”, in Jewish Currents, number Summer 2019, archived from the original on 08 Aug 2020:
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a nebbish.
Synonyms: nebbishlike
multiplatinum
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: multi-platinum
Etymology: From multi- + platinum.
Senses: examples: text: Ms. Sparks, 17, was named the winner of the competition, a television phenomenon that has spurred multiplatinum sales for an array of contestants[…].
ref: 2007 May 24, The New York Times, “Arizona Teenager Wins ‘American Idol’”, in New York Times:
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: Having exceeded the platinum level of sales on multiple occasions
nonconfrontational
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more nonconfrontational
form: most nonconfrontational
form: non-confrontational
Etymology: From non- + confrontational.
Senses: examples: text: Of course,[…] physicians and students need to be educated about how to give feedback in professional and nonconfrontational ways.
ref: 2007 April 17, Barron H. Lerner, “In a Hospital Hierarchy, Speaking Up Is Hard to Do”, in New York Times:
text: Just a few days before McNamara died, Politico uncovered a particularly graphic example involving The Post: an invitation to lobbyists to shell out $25,000 to $250,000 to sponsor off-the-record, nonconfrontational "salons" where they could mix with what a promotional flier called "the right people" and "alter the debate."
ref: 2009 July 25, Frank Rich, “And That's Not the Way It Is”, in New York Times:
glosses: Not confrontational; approaching a dispute indirectly.
Derived terms: nonconfrontationally
nonheavyweight
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + heavyweight.
Senses: examples: text: De La Hoya’s 17 pay-per-view events — including 1.4 million for his loss to Felix Trinidad in 1999, the most ever for a nonheavyweight bout — have grossed $492 million.
ref: 2007 May 3, Richard Sandomir, “All About Money for De La Hoya and Mayweather”, in New York Times:
topics: boxing
government
hobbies
lifestyle
martial-arts
military
politics
sports
war
glosses: In a weight class other than heavyweight
Belgian Limburg
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Belgian + Limburg
Senses: glosses: The roughly southwestern part of the Benelux region of Limburg (speaking Dutch and two groups of its dialects; not to be geographically confused with historical political entities), which is part of Flanders region (northern Belgium), where it is administratively designated as the provincie (province) Limburg, as opposed to Dutch Limburg, which belongs to the Kingdom of the Netherlands, confusingly under the same administrative designation
multicar
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: multi-car
Etymology: From multi- + car.
Senses: examples: text: Case in point: this morning’s traffic report included the usual five or six accidents with injuries and multicar crashes that snarl the Bay Area freeways twice a day.
ref: 2007 January 15, “Fed Up in San Francisco: Tales From the Parking Wars (3 Letters)”, in New York Times:
glosses: Using or involving multiple cars
nonmarket
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: non-market
Etymology: From non- + market.
Senses: examples: text: nonmarket forces
text: In fact, it is arguably the nonmarket orientation (monopoly characteristics) of professional baseball that has sent players’ earnings, team owners’ profits and companies’ market valuations (and dividends) into the stratosphere.
ref: 2007 June 24, “Letters”, in New York Times:
glosses: Not market-based; often specifically lacking the openness of a free market.
nonmarket
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nonmarkets
form: non-market
Etymology: From non- + market.
Senses: glosses: That which is not a market.
plaine
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more plaine
form: most plaine
Senses: examples: text: Or plaine and perfite way of teachyng children, to vnderstand, write, and speake, the Latin tong, but specially purposed for the priuate brynging vp of youth in Ientlemen and Noble mens houses, and commodious also for all such, as haue forgot the Latin tonge, and would, by themselues, without a Scholemaster, in short tyme, and with small paines, recouer a sufficient habilitie, to vnderstand, write, and speake Latin.
ref: 1570, Roger Ascham, The Scholemaster:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of plain.
nonmusical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + musical.
Senses: examples: text: Some marketers are hiring musicians for nonmusical tasks.
ref: 2009 February 6, Stuart Elliott, “Commercials and Musicians Share the Need to Be Heard”, in New York Times:
glosses: Not musical; unrelated to music
Derived terms: nonmusically
nonmusical
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nonmusicals
Etymology: From non- + musical.
Senses: glosses: A production that is not a musical.
outperformance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From out- + performance.
Senses: examples: text: Investors in overseas stock markets had more to show for their wandering spirit as those markets continued a long run of outperformance.
ref: 2007 April 8, Conrad De Aenlle, “A (Relatively) Good Quarter for Foreign Stocks”, in New York Times:
glosses: The act or state of outperforming
plie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: plies
Senses: examples: text: Eventually, parts of bodies appear--a hand covers a face; arms reach, fingers spread, while the dancer turns in plie.
ref: 1988 July 22, Cerinda Survant, “Choreography Collections”, in Chicago Reader:
glosses: Alternative spelling of plié.
plié
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pliés
Etymology: Borrowed from French plié. Doublet of plicate.
Senses: qualifier: ballet
glosses: A smooth and continuous bending of the knees
Derived terms: plié squat
pluckings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈplʌkɪŋz/
Senses: glosses: plural of plucking
postmarketing
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From post- + marketing.
Senses: examples: text: The clearest lesson is that the F.D.A. needs the power to demand adequate postmarketing studies and the resources to analyze the results.
ref: 2007 June 12, “Misdirected Studies on Avandia”, in New York Times:
topics: business
glosses: Subsequent to the release of a product on the market
preteenage
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pre- + teenage.
Senses: examples: text: So the same chains that had won over the preteenage, teenage and college crowd decided to tackle older women.
ref: 2007 February 27, Michael Barbaro, “Gap Closing Chain Aimed at Over-30s”, in New York Times:
glosses: Younger than teenage; often specifically of an age shortly before the teens, such as 10-12.
Related terms: preteen
priser
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: prisers
Senses: examples: text: "Well, then, here goes to shatter his timbers," said Grasper, with a lively tone; and seizing, as he spoke, a weighty crowbar from Dan, he assailed the door. […] "Here, Dan," said he, " bring another priser."
ref: 1863, J. Pascoe, The Brigantine, page 263:
glosses: A tool for prising something open.
glosses: Obsolete form of prizer.
prehuman
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pre- + human.
Senses: examples: text: In the recently opened Anne and Bernard Spitzer Hall of Human Origins, there are more than 200 casts of prehuman and human fossils and artifacts that illustrate stages in physical and behavioral evolution.
ref: 2007 March 9, The New York Times, “Spare Times”, in New York Times:
synonyms: antehuman#Adjective
antonyms: posthuman#Adjective
transhuman#Adjective
hypernyms: nonhuman#Adjective
coordinate_terms: human#Adjective
glosses: Preceding the advent of modern humanity, Homo sapiens.
Related terms: infrahuman
inhuman
subhuman
unhuman
prehuman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: prehumans
Etymology: From pre- + human.
Senses: examples: text: They said the find also added to evidence that painted a picture of Homo erectus as the prehumans who took long evolutionary strides — figuratively and, now it seems, also literally.
ref: 2009 February 27, John Noble Wilford, “Prints Show a Modern Foot in Prehumans”, in New York Times:
antonyms: posthuman#Noun
transhuman#Noun
hypernyms: nonhuman#Noun
coordinate_terms: human#Noun
glosses: One of the human-like creatures that existed before Homo sapiens.
Related terms: infrahuman
subhuman
NINJA
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: business
finance
glosses: Initialism of no income, no job or assets, describing credit characteristics of a borrower, usually of a residential mortgage.
Derived terms: ninja loan
NINJA loan
ninja mortgage
NINJA mortgage
Related terms: alt-a
pressroom
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pressrooms
Etymology: From press + room.
Senses: examples: text: When Robert Shaw--alderman of the Ninth Ward--rises to speak, most of the wise guys in the City Hall pressroom put aside their pencils and just listen.
ref: 1988 May 6, Ben Joravsky, “Mystery zoning: What's going down in the Ninth Ward”, in Chicago Reader:
topics: government
politics
glosses: The room in a public building where press conferences are given
pressrooms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pressroom
salesroom
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: salesrooms
Etymology: From sales + room.
Senses: examples: text: […] he must refixture his salesrooms. He is not going to sell new designs unless he has them in stock. And there is little use having them in stock unless they are adequately displayed.
ref: 1928, American Builder, volume 45, page 119:
text: “For great things there’s still a lot of money,” said Mr. Feigen, who sat in the front of Sotheby’s salesroom watching the morning’s proceedings.
ref: 2009 January 30, Carol Vogel, “Turner and a Few Others Succeed at Slow Sales”, in New York Times:
topics: business
glosses: The room where sales are made
Related terms: sales floor
ulnare
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ulnares
Senses: examples: text: For more than 50 years, it has been known that some lobe-finned fish have homologues of two wrist bones, the intermedium and ulnare.
ref: 2009 February 11, Neil Shubin et al., “Deep homology and the origins of evolutionary novelty”, in Nature, volume 457, number 7231, →DOI, pages 818–823:
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: One of the carpal bones, situated at the distal end of the ulna.
semidetached
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From semi- + detached.
Senses: examples: text: The houses, made of brick and siding, are generally smaller one- and two-family dwellings, many semidetached.
ref: 2007 March 4, David Scharfenberg, “Homey, if You Don’t Mind a Building Boom”, in New York Times:
glosses: Alternative spelling of semi-detached.
semidetached
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: semidetacheds
Etymology: From semi- + detached.
Senses: examples: text: Semidetacheds and council housing estates alternated with the occasional high-rise block […]
ref: 2013, Robert Barnard, A City of Strangers:
glosses: Alternative spelling of semi-detached.
salesrooms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of salesroom
-penia
Language: English
Part of speech: suffix
Etymology: From Ancient Greek πενίᾱ (peníā, “poverty, lack”).
Senses: glosses: deficiency
Derived terms: erythropenia
neutropenia
pancytopenia
vivificate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /vɪˈvɪfɪkeɪt/
Forms: form: vivificates
form: vivificating
form: vivificated
form: vivificated
Etymology: From Latin vīvificātus, past participle vīvificō. See vivify.
Senses: examples: text: God vivificates and actuates the whole world.
ref: 1653, Henry More, Conjectura Cabbalistica:
glosses: To give life to; to animate or vitalise.
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: To bring back a metal to the metallic form, as from oxide or solution; to reduce.
Related terms: revivificate
vivify
primitivism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: primitivisms
Etymology: From primitive + -ism.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being primitive.
glosses: The opinion that life was better or more moral among primitive peoples, or among children, and has deteriorated with civilization.
examples: text: Exuberant in its primitivism, High Kicks has a joyous, slightly naive spark that sometimes evokes the sort of tuneful messes to which Calvin Johnson's name is often attached.
ref: 2009 January 18, Ben Rayner, “Ben Rayner's reasons to live”, in Toronto Star:
glosses: Any of a group of related styles in the arts, influenced by a belief in the superiority of primitive forms.
Derived terms: anarcho-primitivism
neoprimitivism
Related terms: primitivist
arborio
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɑːˈbɔːɹɪ.əʊ/
ipa: /ɑɹˈbɔɹi.oʊ/
rhymes: -ɔːɹiəʊ
Forms: form: arborios
form: Arborio
Senses: glosses: Ellipsis of arborio rice.
FICO
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈfaɪ.kəʊ/
Senses: examples: text: Fifteen hundred dollars stolen through the extortion exerted through the credit bureaus and the FICO nonsense. This is not theft by deception, this is robbery in broad daylight.
ref: 2008, Robert Steele, Fico Is a Four Letter Word, →ISBN:
text: In addition to these variations of FICO Scores, each credit reporting agency also offers its own proprietary credit scoring model and makes their own credit scores available to consumers as well as creditors and lenders.
ref: 2009, Jason R. Rich, Complete Book of Dirty Little Secrets From the Credit Bureaus, →ISBN:
text: In my view then Voodoo FICO credit scoring had to go and common sense had to move back in.
ref: 2010, William Kirkendale, The FICO Hoax: Secrets Revealed, →ISBN, page 1:
topics: business
finance
glosses: Acronym of Fair Isaac Corporation, the first corporation to introduce credit scores.
bistate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From bi- + state.
Senses: examples: text: The legislation, which also allows for expansion at an airport in New Jersey, was needed under the rules that created the Port Authority, a bistate agency run by New York and New Jersey that controls the region’s biggest airports.
ref: 2007 May 4, The Associated Press, “Trenton Codey Approves Airport Plan”, in New York Times:
glosses: Spanning two states
buildable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more buildable
form: most buildable
Etymology: From build + -able.
Senses: glosses: That can be built.
examples: text: It is […] perched on the last buildable site on the presidential inaugural parade route between the Capitol and the White House.
ref: 2007 May 8, Katharine Q. Seelye, “A Museum for Artifacts of the News Media’s Hunters and Gatherers”, in New York Times:
topics: business
construction
manufacturing
glosses: Suitable for building on.
Synonyms: sense: that can be built
word: constructible
codirector
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: codirectors
form: co-director
Etymology: From co- + director.
Senses: examples: text: The film's codirector explained that she'd aimed to convey an emotional understanding of the topic […
ref: 1988 December 9, James Krohe Jr., “Media: Not Made for TV”, in Chicago Reader:
glosses: Someone who directs something together with one or more other people.
Related terms: codirect
hematogenous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌhiməˈtɒd͡ʒɪnəs/
ipa: /ˌhɛməˈtɒd͡ʒɪnəs/
rhymes: -ɒd͡ʒɪnəs
Forms: form: haematogenous
Etymology: From hemato- + -genous.
Senses: glosses: Producing blood
glosses: Spread by blood
Derived terms: hematogenously
lymphohematogenous
nonhematogenous
credit score
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: credit scores
Senses: examples: text: Compared to other major credit card issuers, Capital One has historically catered to customers with credit scores in the 600s range, which is considered subprime.
ref: 2024 February 20, Elisabeth Buchwald, “America is on the cusp of a new biggest credit card company. Here’s what it could mean for you”, in CNN Business:
topics: business
finance
glosses: A measure of credit risk, usually for a consumer, calculated from credit information using a standardized formula.
Related terms: credit rating
FICO
hemizygosity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From hemi- + zygosity.
Senses: glosses: The state of being hemizygous.
credit scores
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of credit score
hemophagocytic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From hemophagocyte + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to hemophagocytes or hemophagocytosis
Derived terms: hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis
hemophagocyte
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hemophagocytes
Etymology: From hemo- + phagocyte.
Senses: glosses: A phagocyte that destroys blood cells
Derived terms: hemophagocytic
Related terms: hemophagocytosis
Bornes
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Borne
hemophagocytosis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From hemo- + phagocytosis.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Phagocytosis of blood cells.
Related terms: hemophagocytotic
GSEs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of GSE
heterointerfaces
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of heterointerface
heterointerface
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: heterointerfaces
Etymology: From hetero- + interface.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: An interface between two solid, or two liquid phases.
coloristic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: colouristic
Etymology: From color + -istic.
Senses: examples: text: Christian Tetzlaff […] played the work with exquisite control and coloristic fluidity.
ref: 2007 March 17, Allan Kozinn, “Muscular Approach Accented With a Ghostly Whisper”, in New York Times:
topics: art
arts
entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: Of, pertaining to, or focused on coloring or an enhanced use of colour
Derived terms: coloristical
coloristically
Related terms: colorism
heterologously
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more heterologously
form: most heterologously
Etymology: From heterologous + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a heterologous manner
heteromultimeric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more heteromultimeric
form: most heteromultimeric
Etymology: From hetero- + multimeric.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Describing a protein containing two or more different polypeptide chains
Related terms: heteromultimer
homomultimeric
multimeric
homomultimeric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From homo- + multimeric.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Describing a protein containing two or more identical polypeptide chains
Related terms: heteromultimeric
multimeric
heterothallism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: heterothallisms
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: The condition of being heterothallic
codirectors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of codirector
hexapolar
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From hexa- + polar.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Having six poles
histomorphological
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From histo- + morphological.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to histomorphology.
Derived terms: immunohistomorphological
histomorphology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: histomorphologies
Etymology: From histo- + morphology.
Senses: glosses: The use of histology to study the morphology of cells
Derived terms: immunohistomorphology
Related terms: histomorphic
desaparecidos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of desaparecido
call centres
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of call centre
call centers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of call center
Babilonia
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Babilonias
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish Babilonia; this surname is predominantly found in Colombia.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Spanish.
synchronized skating
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spelling
form: synchronised skating
Senses: glosses: A discipline of figure skating where 8–20 skaters skate in a team, doing synchronous movements and precise formations with precise timing.
synchronised skating
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spelling
form: synchronized skating
Senses: glosses: A discipline of figure skating where 8–20 skaters skate in a team, doing simultaneous movements and precise formations with precise timing.
inna
Language: English
Part of speech: contraction
Senses: examples: text: In state-of-the-art dance hall, the bass booms like electrified tympani, the snare gets busy inna quasimilitary techno stylee […]
ref: 1991, The Beat:
text: Thrill as Babyface protégé Jon B sings "Pride & Joy" inna ragga stylee, and keep in mind that hardcore reggae (see last year's blockbuster "Who Am I") makes the best crossover.
ref: 1999, SPIN, volume 15, number 8, page 155:
glosses: In the.
Related terms: onna
prisonlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more prisonlike
form: most prisonlike
form: prison-like
Etymology: From prison + -like.
Senses: examples: text: “The prisonlike conditions, this form of detention, is not necessary,” said Michelle Brané, who heads the detention and asylum program at the Women’s Commission for Refugee Women and Children.
ref: 2007 February 22, Rachel L. Swarns, “2 Groups Compare Immigrant Detention Centers to Prisons”, in New York Times:
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a prison
primitivist
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more primitivist
form: most primitivist
Etymology: From primitive + -ist.
Senses: examples: text: […] they developed a sound that mixed the menace of rockabilly’s primitivist fringe with dark psychedelia and the blunt simplicity of punk.
ref: 2009 February 6, Ben Sisario, “Lux Interior, 62, Singer in the Punk-Rock Era, Is Dead”, in New York Times:
glosses: Exhibiting or practicing primitivism, the advocacy of primitive over refined forms
primitivist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: primitivists
Etymology: From primitive + -ist.
Senses: glosses: A proponent of primitivism.
Derived terms: anarcho-primitivist
Related terms: primitivism
prerevolutionary
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: pre-revolutionary
Etymology: From pre- + revolutionary.
Senses: examples: text: Although Brogan sees the history as a “medley of fiction and wishful thinking,” he is deeply impressed with Tocqueville’s pioneering use of local archives, which allowed him to lay out the continuity between prerevolutionary and postrevolutionary France.
ref: 2007 July 8, Christopher Caldwell, “Even God Quotes Tocqueville”, in New York Times:
text: But there are those within the senior ranks of the Party who count you among the heroes of the prerevolutionary cause.
ref: 2016, Amor Towles, A Gentleman in Moscow, →ISBN, page 7:
glosses: Occurring before a revolution.
Synonyms: prerevolution
disturbe
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: disturbes
form: disturbing
form: disturbed
form: disturbed
Senses: examples: text: The infernall powers appeaſed with ſacrifice, prayers, and tedious murmurings (words ſoftly muttered barbarous and vnſignificant, leaſt they ſhould diſturbe the Imagination: although held by the deluded of a compulſative power) Medea cauſeth Æſon to be brought forth: […]
ref: 1632, G[eorge] S[andys], “Vpon the Seaventh Booke […] ”, in Ovid, translated by G[eorge] S[andys], Ovid’s Metamorphosis Englished, Mythologiz’d, And Repreſented in Figures, Oxford: Iohn Lichfield, page 256:
glosses: Obsolete form of disturb.
reliabilists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of reliabilist
reliabilist
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From reliable + -ist.
Senses: examples: text: However, reliabilist accounts of a priori knowledge are paradigmatically naturalistic, and although they are psychologistic in the sense that they locate warrant within the psychological processes and methods that generate belief, if correct, they cannot be faulted for failing to establish the objectivity of their target beliefs: a belief is apriori-justified on a reliabilist account of justification just in case it is solely the result of a process that is, in fact, reliable and is indifferent to the particulars of experiential input.
ref: 2008 January 30, Lisa Warenski, “Naturalism, fallibilism, and the a priori”, in Philosophical Studies, volume 142, number 3, →DOI:
topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
glosses: Of or pertaining to reliabilism
reliabilist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: reliabilists
Etymology: From reliable + -ist.
Senses: examples: text: To be sure, most reliabilists don’t want to be too ambitious in what they include in their foundations.
ref: 2008 November 22, Richard Fumerton, “Luminous enough for a cognitive home”, in Philosophical Studies, volume 142, number 1, →DOI:
topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
glosses: A person who supports the doctrine of reliabilism
reliabilism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: reliabilisms
Etymology: From reliable + -ism.
Senses: examples: text: He now rejects reliabilism in favor of a socio-historical conception of knowledge.
ref: 2008 November 28, Albert Casullo, “Analyzing a priori knowledge”, in Philosophical Studies, volume 142, number 1, →DOI:
text: Notice that both the truth-preservation account of logical consequence and GTT constitute a very specific version of reliabilism, where the relevant property a valid argument is reliable about is truth (rather than knowledge, unfalsity, truth together with unfalsity, etc.)
ref: 2018, Jeremy Wyatt, Nikolaj J. L. L. Pedersen, Nathan Kellen, Pluralisms in Truth and Logic (page 270)
topics: epistemology
human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
glosses: Any of a group of related doctrines holding that knowledge or justified belief must be the result of a reliable process
Related terms: reliabilist
reworkings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of reworking
moyo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: moyos
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of moio.
sortal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From sort + -al. Coined by John Locke in 1690 in his An Essay Concerning Human Understanding.
Senses: examples: text: But, it being evident that things are ranked under names into sorts or species, only as they agree to certain abstract ideas, to which we have annexed those names, the essence of each genus, or sort, comes to be nothing but that abstract idea which the general, or sortal (if I may have leave so to call it from sort, as I do general from genus), name stands for.
ref: 1690, John Locke, “Chapter III: Of General Terms”, in An Essay Concerning Human Understanding, Book III:
topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
glosses: Of or pertaining to a sort, or kind.
examples: text: The possession of sortal concepts is a prerequisite for philosophers like Wiggins or Lowe in determining the nature and extent of our referential capacities.
ref: 2008 January 8, John E. Sarnecki, “Sortals for Dummies”, in Erkenntnis, volume 69, number 2, →DOI:
topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
glosses: Having the character of a sortal.
sortal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sortals
Etymology: From sort + -al. Coined by John Locke in 1690 in his An Essay Concerning Human Understanding.
Senses: examples: text: And central to this notion is the distinction, among semantic types of g-words, between sortals on the one hand and non-sortal general-character-specifiers on the other
ref: 1974, P.F. Strawson, Subject and Predicate in Logic and Grammar, →ISBN, page 135:
topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
glosses: A type of universal that defines a particular sort of object
Derived terms: nonsortal
sortalism
sortalist
sortalize
Related terms: urls: http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/sortals/
word: Sortals in the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
sortals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sortal
sloganeer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sloganeers
Etymology: From slogan + -eer, US origin (1922), popularized by Franklin D. Roosevelt.
Senses: examples: text: As a sloganeer too, he overspent his voice shouting slogans during demonstrations and he eventually lost it.
ref: 2012 January 17, Aparajita De, Amrita Ghosh, Ujjwal Jana, Subaltern Vision, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, →ISBN, page 84:
topics: government
politics
glosses: Someone who makes and spreads slogans.
sloganeer
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: sloganeers
form: sloganeering
form: sloganeered
form: sloganeered
Etymology: From slogan + -eer, US origin (1922), popularized by Franklin D. Roosevelt.
Senses: examples: text: At such times, the nuanced and expert advice of what they call the rational center — career professionals, scholars, analysts and others working in government and at universities and think tanks — is sidelined or ignored, while emotional sloganeering is amplified by 24/7 cable news and Internet chatter that prize raucous confrontations between fervent avatars of the right and the left.
ref: 2007 February 20, Michiko Kakutani, “The Silence of the Rational Center”, in New York Times:
topics: government
politics
glosses: To make and disseminate slogans; often contrasted with substantive debate.
supervoting
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: super-voting
Etymology: From super- + voting.
Senses: examples: text: The Ochs-Sulzberger family owns about a 19 per cent equity stake in the company and controls it through a special class of supervoting shares.
ref: 2009 January 21, “New York Times gets Mexican bailout”, in Toronto Star:
topics: business
finance
law
glosses: Having greater than normal voting rights.
supervoting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: super-voting
Etymology: From super- + voting.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of supervote
sloganeers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sloganeer
sloganeers
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of sloganeer
sloganeering
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of sloganeer
sloganeering
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sloganeerings
Senses: examples: text: James Clyburn, the House majority whip and Democratic “kingmaker” who played an outsized role in Joe Biden’s successful presidential run, has said the “sloganeering” of the Black Lives Matter protests and other social justice efforts this summer might have hampered them at the polls.
ref: 2020 November 8, Richard Luscombe, “James Clyburn: ‘defund the police’ slogan may have hurt Democrats at polls”, in the Guardian, retrieved 11 Nov 2020:
glosses: The act of one who sloganeers.
sloganeered
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of sloganeer
upfronts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of upfront
language isolate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: language isolates
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: A natural language with no proven genetic relationship to another language.