cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
Magellanic Clouds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From having a cloud-like appearance, and having been discovered on Magellan's circumnavigation of the globe, a voyage of discovery during the Age of Exploration. Named after Portugeuese explorer Ferdinand Magellan.
Senses: glosses: plural of Magellanic Cloud
nonquota
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + quota.
Senses: examples: text: a nonquota immigrant
text: More "nonquota" teachers--teachers not assigned to a classroom but to a special program—are allotted magnet schools than segregated schools[…].
ref: 1988 January 29, Steve Bogira, “School Desegregation”, in Chicago Reader:
glosses: Not included in, or not subject to, a quota.
maggies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of maggie
glosses: plural of maggy
maggotiness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From maggoty + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state of being maggoty
maggotorium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: maggotoriums
form: maggotoria
Etymology: From maggot + -orium.
Senses: glosses: A place where maggots are stored.
maggotoriums
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of maggotorium
Frisia
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Latin Frisia, from Frisii (“Frisians”).
Senses: examples: text: Devoting himself to labour among the heathen, [Winfrid] crossed to Frisia, in 716; […]
ref: 1878, Philip Smith, The History of the Christian Church During the First Ten Centuries, page 519:
glosses: A coastal geographical region in Western Europe, along the southeastern corner of the North Sea in what today is mostly a large part of the Netherlands (including the present-day province of Frisia; see below) and smaller parts of northern Germany (including present-day East Frisia). It is the traditional homeland of the Frisians.
examples: text: The population of the Province of Frisia, which is divided into eleven urban and thirty rural communes, is of a people of a distinct national character, who have never known feudalism and who attach a high importance to their independence and personal value, hard-working, and of a serious and grave character, with little sentiment for the past.
ref: 1913, Municipal Journal, Public Works Engineer and Contractors' Guide, Volume 22, page 1166:
text: The three areas populated by Frisians today are the Dutch province of Frisia (West-Frisia), the German landscape East-Frisia […], and the German district North-Frisia […].
ref: 2005, Carl Skutsch, Encyclopedia of the World's Minorities, Routledge, →ISBN, page 470:
text: Klein is celebrating the release of his new album Unity with an 18-stop, 35,000-ticket tour that doesn’t just loop in Frisia and Wallonia but also includes sold-out shows in London and LA […]
ref: 2025 March 11, Philip Oltermann, “‘If all I cared about was a career, I’d make listenable music’: Joost Klein on Eurovision, scandal and having the last laugh”, in The Guardian:
glosses: Fryslân, a province of the Netherlands. Also referred to as Friesland (using the Dutch vernacular endonym) and West Frisia.
Derived terms: Frisian
North Frisia
West Frisia
Related terms: Friso-Saxon
maggoty-pie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: maggoty-pies
Senses: glosses: magpie
maggoty-pies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of maggoty-pie
electabilities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of electability
Febo
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Febos
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish and Italian Febo.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
peepier
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of peepy: more peepy
peepiest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of peepy: most peepy
kelim
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kelims
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of kilim.
pluralisms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pluralism
coated felt sheets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of coated felt sheet
ambulacrum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ambulacrums
form: ambulacra
Etymology: From Latin ambulacrum, from ambulō (“walk; travel”).
Senses: glosses: A row of pores in an echinoderm, for the protrusion of appendages such as tube feet.
glosses: A walk or promenade planted with trees, often near a house.
Derived terms: ambulacriform
Related terms: ambulacral
interambulacrum
Gestalt therapy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Gestalt therapies
form: gestalt therapy
Senses: topics: human-sciences
psychology
sciences
glosses: An existential and experiential psychotherapy that focuses on the individual's experience in the present moment.
uncoated free sheet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: uncoated free sheets
Senses: examples: text: Other grades of paper, such as uncoated free sheet paper used in electronic printers and copiers, are increasing in per capita consumption.
ref: 1999, PJ Ince, “Long-range outlook for US paper and paperboard demand, technology, and fiber supply-demand”, in Proceedings of the Society of American Foresters 1998:
glosses: A grade of paper containing little or no mechanical wood pulp that is often used in the production of office papers.
gnasher
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gnashers
Etymology: From gnash + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who gnashes the teeth.
examples: text: Teeth for the ladies; teeth for the gentlemen — at upwards of two pound ten a gnasher"
ref: 1993, Alethea Helbig with Agnes Perkins, Children's Literature Association, The Phoenix Award of the Children's Literature Association, 1985-1989, page 85:
text: COUNTRY park ranger Bob Thurston could hardly believe his luck when he casually asked bosses at the gravel quarry next door whether any interesting old
ref: 1999 June 19, “Holy molar's, look at this gnasher!; MAMMOTH TOOTH DISCOVERED”, in Coventry Evening Telegraph:
ref: 2005 November 2, “Bidders to get bite at Napoleon's gnasher”, in Europe Intelligence Wire:
glosses: A tooth.
ritual abuse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ritual abuses
Senses: glosses: Any form of physical, sexual, or psychological mistreatment that involves the use of ritual.
Derived terms: satanic ritual abuse
satanic ritual abuse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: satanic ritual abuses
Senses: glosses: Any form of physical, sexual, or psychological mistreatment that involves the use of a satanic ritual; the subject of a moral panic in the 1980s and 1990s.
parental alienation syndrome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A supposed disturbance in which children are obsessively preoccupied with depreciation and/or criticism of a parent.
complex post-traumatic stress disorder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: human-sciences
medicine
psychiatry
psychology
sciences
related: word: C-PTSD
glosses: A form of post-traumatic stress disorder that results from extended exposure to extreme trauma.
hockey rink
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hockey rinks
Senses: glosses: An ice surface delimited and with goal nets which people play ice hockey.
glosses: A building that houses such a surface.
Hypernyms: skating rink
ice skating rink
ice rink
dissociative identity disorder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪˈsəʊʃi.ətɪv aɪˈdɛntɪti dɪsˈɔːdə/
ipa: /dɪˈsoʊʃi.ətɪv aɪˈdɛntɪti dɪsˈɔɹdɚ/
Forms: form: dissociative identity disorders
Senses: topics: human-sciences
medicine
psychiatry
psychology
sciences
glosses: A mental disorder of disputed validity characterized by the presence of two or more personality states or distinct identities that repeatedly take control of a person's behavior.
Synonyms: word: multiple personality disorder
roller rink
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: roller rinks
Etymology: From roller-skating rink.
Senses: glosses: A surface that is specially delimited, designed, and maintained for roller skating.
glosses: A building housing such a surface.
roller rinks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of roller rink
reexhumation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: reexhumations
Etymology: From re- + exhumation.
Senses: glosses: A second or subsequent exhumation.
regasify
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: regasifies
form: regasifying
form: regasified
form: regasified
Etymology: From re- + gasify.
Senses: examples: text: This new LNG business required very large investments […] to construct the plants that, at one end, would liquefy the gas and, at the other, regasify it […].
ref: 2020, Daniel Yergin, The New Map, Penguin, published 2021, page 33:
coordinate_terms: degasify
glosses: To convert (a substance, especially liquefied natural gas (LNG)) back to gas.
Related terms: regasification
reevaporate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: reevaporates
form: reevaporating
form: reevaporated
form: reevaporated
form: re-evaporate
Etymology: From re- + evaporate.
Senses: glosses: To evaporate a liquid subsequent to its being condensed from the gas phase
rainbow tables
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rainbow table
historiographic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more historiographic
form: most historiographic
Etymology: From historiography + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to the writing of history.
glosses: Relating to the study and practice of historical scholarship.
Synonyms: historiographical
Derived terms: historiographic metafiction
nonhistoriographic
decodings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of decoding
supervillainess
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: supervillainesses
Etymology: From supervillain + -ess or super- + villainess.
Senses: examples: text: On the everlasting As the World Turns, Lisa was another kind of person, a sort of supervillainess of the soaps. Yet she was always saved from damnation...
ref: 1987, Shirley Rogers Radl, Mother's Day is Over:
text: Disappointingly, Valkyrie turns out really to be the Enchantress, a supervillainess whose intention is the destruction of both sexes.
ref: 1996, Trina Robbins, The Great Women Superheroes:
text: Created by DC Comics and featured in Batman, supervillainess Poison Ivy is a potent femme fatale.
ref: 2005, Lois H Gresh, Robert E Weinberg, The Science of Supervillains:
glosses: A female supervillain.
supervillainesses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of supervillainess
paraphs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of paraph
Mons.
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of Monsignor.
Synonyms: Msgr.
Msgr.
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of Monsignor.
Synonyms: Mons.
showinesses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of showiness
scarlet fevers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of scarlet fever
scarlatinas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of scarlatina
dang tootin'
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: dang tootin’
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of darn tootin'.
dang tootin'
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: dang tootin’
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of darn tootin'.
dang tootin'
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of darn tootin'.
dang tooting
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of darn tootin'.
dang tooting
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of darn tootin'.
dang tooting
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of darn tootin'.
futures contract
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: futures contracts
Senses: examples: text: He led the way with futures contracts (by which buyer and seller fix a price, immune from market fluctuations, for commodities that do not even exist at the time, such as crops yet to be sown) when these were exotic financial instruments few had hitherto tried.
ref: 2022, Hernan Diaz, Trust, Picador (2023), page 139:
topics: business
finance
glosses: A standardized contract, traded on a futures exchange, to buy or sell a standardized quantity of a specified commodity (or financial instrument) of standardized quality at a certain date in the future, at a stated price (the futures price).
Synonyms: futures
Related terms: actuals
forward contract
rottweiler
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rottweilers
Senses: examples: text: In September 2006 five-month-old Caydee-Lee Glaze was mauled to death by two rottweilers at her family's pub in the Midlands, and that Christmas one-year-old Archie-Lee Hirst was killed by a family rottweiler in Leeds.
ref: 2009 February 8, David Smith, Charles Yates, “Baby boy savaged to death by family dogs”, in The Observer:
glosses: Alternative letter-case form of Rottweiler.
multithreading
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From multi- + threading.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: The use of multithreaded code.
genericity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: genericities
Etymology: From generic + -ity.
Senses: examples: text: The essence of genericity analysis rests on counting equations and unknowns.
ref: 1995, Andreu Mas-Colell, Michael D. Whinston, and Jerry R. Green, Microeconomic Theory, Oxford University Press, page 593:
glosses: Genericness, the state or quality of being generic.
Synonyms: word: genericness
word: catholicity
word: generality
word: genericity
word: universality
genericities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of genericity
impactful
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɪmpæktfəl/
ipa: /ɪmˈpæktfəl/
Forms: form: more impactful
form: most impactful
Etymology: From impact + -ful.
Senses: examples: text: We might suppose that some of the most impactful heroines of current films would combine these two functions: that of the good-bad girl ...
ref: 1950, Movies: A Psychological Study, Digitized edition, Free Press, published 2008, page 22:
text: It is strongly recommended that in the future such investigations not be reported in the literature unless they are designed to test the effects of some hopefully impactful treatment variation.
ref: 1969, W. James Popham, “Curriculum Materials”, in Review of Educational Research, volume 39, number 3, page 321:
text: Everyone knows that vividly presented information is impactful and persuasive.
ref: 1982, S. E. Taylor, S. C. Thompson, “Stalking the Elusive 'Vividness' Effect”, in Psychological Bulletin, volume 89, number 2, page 155:
text: A dominant finding in psychology and consumer behavior has been that negative information is more impactful than positive information.
ref: 2001, A. Mukherjee, W. D. Hoyer, “The Effect of Novel Attributes on Product Evaluation”, in The Journal of Consumer Research, volume 28, number 3, page 463:
text: “The evening will help to raise money to create a place where children can have fun and enjoy playing for years to come; a fitting legacy of a short-lived but impactful life."
ref: 2013 March 22, “Pals organise night out to remember Florence”, in West Sussex Gazette:
glosses: Having impact.
Synonyms: effectual
impactive
consequential
significant
eventful
Derived terms: impactfully
impactfulness
unimpactful
pluricentric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌplʊəɹɪˈsɛntɹɪk/
ipa: /ˌplɔːɹɪˈsɛntɹɪk/
ipa: /ˌpljʊəɹɪˈsɛntɹɪk/
ipa: /ˌplʊɹəˈsɛntɹɪk/
ipa: /ˌplʊɹəˈsɛntɹək/
Forms: form: more pluricentric
form: most pluricentric
Etymology: From pluri- + -centric.
Senses: examples: text: Tumors which appear to grow from a single focus are spoken of as unicentric. Some growths are clearly pluricentric, or multicentric.
ref: 1910, John George Adami with Albert George Nicholls, The Principles of Pathology, page 693:
glosses: Having more than one center; multicentric.
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: (of a language) Having several interacting codified standard forms, often corresponding to different countries.
Synonyms: pluricentral
betokeneth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: betoken + -eth
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of betoken
impactive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more impactive
form: most impactive
Etymology: From impact + -ive.
Senses: examples: text: It is necessary to distinguish all forces sharply into two groups: 1, the attractional (gravity, adhesion, cohesion, chemism), and 2, the impactive or momentum forces of masses, molecules and atoms.
ref: 1880, W. S. Barnard, “Protoplasmic Dynamics”, in The American Naturalist, volume 14, number 4, page 237:
text: As Rosemary came onto the beach a boy of twelve ran past her and dashed into the sea with exultant cries. Feeling the impactive scrutiny of strange faces, she took off her bathrobe and followed.
ref: 1934, F[rancis] Scott Fitzgerald, Tender is the Night: A Romance, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, →OCLC; republished as chapter II, in Malcolm Cowley, editor, Tender is the Night: A Romance … With the Author’s Final Revisions, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1951, →OCLC, book II (Rosemary’s Angle: 1919–1925), pages 59–60:
text: Along with this revolution has come another, quieter and more subtle, but perhaps more impactive and ultimately more dynamic in its potential for change.
ref: 1970, Kent Kirby, “Art, Technology and the Liberal Arts College”, in Art Journal, volume 29, number 3, page 330:
text: And in what may prove to be the most impactive development, the university is nurturing the nexus of science and business to create a biotechnology sector that has already brought millions of dollars and hundreds of jobs into town.
ref: 2001 February 18, Elissa Gootman, “An Intricate Bond; New Haven's past and future are so tied to Yale, but it took 300 years for the two to get along”, in New York Times:
glosses: Of, pertaining to, possessing, or caused by impact.
Derived terms: nonimpactive
betokenest
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: betoken + -est
Senses: glosses: second-person singular simple present indicative of betoken
arch.
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more arch.
form: most arch.
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of archaic.
glosses: Abbreviation of architectural.
arch.
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: archs.
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of archaism.
glosses: Abbreviation of archery.
glosses: Abbreviation of archipelago.
glosses: Abbreviation of architect.
glosses: Abbreviation of architecture.
pers.
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more pers.
form: most pers.
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of personal.
Derived terms: pers. comm.
pers.
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more pers.
form: most pers.
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of personally.
pers.
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pers.
form: pers's
form: ppl.
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of person.
glosses: Abbreviation of perspective.
Derived terms: dram. pers.
sing.
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: Abbreviation of singular.
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Abbreviation of singulorum.
raw_tags: in prescriptions
pres.
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: præs.
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of present.
glosses: Abbreviation of presidential.
glosses: Abbreviation of presumed.
glosses: Abbreviation of presumptive.
Derived terms: pres. part.
pres.
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pres
form: pres's
form: præs.
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of presentation.
glosses: Abbreviation of president.
glosses: Abbreviation of presidency.
præs.
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more præs.
form: most præs.
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of pres..
præs.
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: præs.
form: præs's
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of pres..
string up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: strings up
form: stringing up
form: strung up
form: strung up
Senses: examples: text: I'd string up the whole lot if I had my way, Silver. Poachers and blackguards every one of them.
ref: 1911, Fergus Hume, chapter 8, in Red Money:
text: After years of brutal repression, any member of Saddam's palace guard stands to be strung up from the nearest lamppost by a vengeful Iraqi populace.
ref: 2003 February 17, J. Barry, E. Thomas, “Boots, Bytes and Bombs”, in Newsweek:
synonyms: word: hang
word: scrag
word: forhang
word: Guy Fawkes
word: hang
word: ketch
word: send to the scaffold
word: scrag
word: stretch
word: string up
word: truss
word: tuck up
glosses: To kill (a person) by hanging, especially to lynch.
examples: text: "And now, my friend," said the Captain, "let us understand each other. You have confessed yourself a spy, and should string up to the next tree."
ref: 1818, Sir Walter Scott, chapter 13, in Rob Roy:
synonyms: word: hang
word: swing
word: dance on a rope
word: dance on nothing
word: dance the hempen jig
word: dance the Tyburn jig
word: dance upon nothing
word: dangle
word: hang
word: ride a horse foaled by an acorn
word: stretch hemp
word: string up
word: swing
word: take a ride to Tyburn
word: trine
word: truss
word: wag hemp
glosses: To die by hanging.
examples: text: He has scars on his ankles, feet and hands from where they strung him up with ropes and beat him.
ref: 2007 March 7, Brigid Schulte, “Escaping a Painful Past To Find a Shaky Future”, in Washington Post, retrieved 24 Jan 2009:
glosses: To suspend by means of rope, cord or similar material.
examples: text: to string up a sentence
glosses: To concatenate; to link in a line.
act.
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of acting.
topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: Abbreviation of active.
glosses: Abbreviation of actual.
act.
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of activities.
glosses: Abbreviation of actor.
glosses: Abbreviation of actuary.
gargouillade
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˌɡɑː(ɹ)ɡuːˈjɑːd/
Forms: form: gargouillades
Etymology: From French gargouillade, from gargouiller (“to bubble”).
Senses: examples: text: […] Ms. Ashley didn’t trump that of the role’s originator, Patricia Wilde (whose gargouillades — the sideways jumps where the feet write rings in the air — are still recalled in awe).
ref: 2009 January 24, Alastair Macaulay, “A Young, Lively Crew From Florida Steps Up and Takes Flight”, in New York Times:
qualifier: ballet
glosses: A complex balletic step, defined differently for different schools but generally involving a double rond de jambe
gargouillades
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gargouillade
zingingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more zingingly
form: most zingingly
Etymology: From zinging + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Stooping, he plucked a blade of grass and ran it zingingly through his very white teeth.
ref: 1952, Edward Francis Murphy, chapter 1, in Yankee Priest, Garden City, NY: Doubleday, page 43:
text: The six young women of its corps de ballet each extended a leg sideways, not high, but so zingingly as — you realized only in the next millisecond — to reveal the music, which only arrived in time with their feet.
ref: 2009 January 24, Alastair Macaulay, “A Young, Lively Crew From Florida Steps Up and Takes Flight”, in New York Times:
glosses: While zinging, or as if making a zinging sound.
examples: text: zingingly fresh; zingingly spicy
text: I looked splendid in my dark blue Canali jacket, a zingingly white shirt, a silly colourful tie covered with cartoon men and women in various stages of undress and my soft black leather Gucci shoes.
ref: 2000, Ike Oguine, A Squatter’s Tale, London: Heinemann, page 148:
synonyms: intensely
glosses: To the point of zinging.
examples: text: Everyone got on zingingly […]
ref: 1970, Michael Thomas, “John Phillips: The Wolfking as Lord Byron”, in Ben Fong-Torres, editor, The Rolling Stone Rock ’n’ Roll Reader, New York: Bantam, published 1974, page 509:
text: Her mind roams back over the evening. How had it all gone? Quite zingingly, she thinks. Everybody seemed to have enjoyed themselves […]
ref: 1989, Margaret Drabble, A Natural Curiosity, New York: Viking, page 274:
synonyms: beautifully
fabulously
famously
swimmingly
glosses: In a very agreeable, favourable or successful way.
ind.
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of independent.
glosses: Abbreviation of indicative.
glosses: Abbreviation of indigenous.
glosses: Abbreviation of indirect.
glosses: Abbreviation of industrial.
Related terms: Ind Est
ind.
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of indirectly.
ind.
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: inds.
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of independence.
glosses: Abbreviation of index.
glosses: Abbreviation of indication.
glosses: Abbreviation of indigo.
glosses: Abbreviation of industry.
ind.
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of indicate.
gumaguma
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gumagumas
Senses: examples: text: I found the Gumagumas who said they were here to help people to cross.
ref: 2006 December 21, Nicole Johnston, quoting "Zimbabwean boy", “The grass isn't greener on the other side”, in Mail & Guardian:
text: Perhaps the greatest risk is the gumagumas — the swindlers, thieves and rapists who stalk the vulnerable as they wander in the bush.
ref: 2009 January 24, Barry Bearak, “Desperate Children Flee Zimbabwe, for Lives Just as Bleak”, in New York Times:
glosses: An outlaw who preys upon refugees crossing the South African border.
gumagumas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gumaguma
in d.
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin in dies.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Abbreviation of in dies.
in dies
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin in dies.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Daily.
melodist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: melodists
Etymology: From melody + -ist.
Senses: examples: text: Debussy was the last melodist.
ref: 1929, Arthur Lourié, “An Inquiry into Melody”, in Modern Music, volume VII, number 1, page 10:
text: At the same time Mr. Elling has proved his finesse as a Hartman-like melodist, on multiple albums and many more stages.
ref: 2009 January 24, Nate Chinen, “Playfully Laying Claim to Songs of Two Jazz Greats”, in New York Times:
glosses: A performer or composer of melodies.
nonfinance
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + finance.
Senses: examples: text: With the economy slipping, G.E. also faces challenges across the spectrum of its nonfinance businesses.
ref: 2009 January 24, Steve Lohr, “G.E. Meets Expectations for Fourth Quarter, but Questions Persist for 2009”, in New York Times:
glosses: Not, nor not directly related to, finance
melodists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of melodist
skiercross
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: skier cross
form: skier-cross
form: skier-X
form: skier X
Etymology: From skier + -cross, by analogy with the snowboarding competition of boardercross.
Senses: examples: text: A new skiercross pro tour is on the docket, as well as freeskiing. Just like racing, both require strong but supple legs rather than jackhammer quads.
ref: 2006 September 24, Skiing:
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
skiing
sports
glosses: A downhill skiing discipline over obstacles with many simultaneous racers.
Synonyms: skicross
Coordinate terms: english: analogous snowboarding discipline
translation: analogous snowboarding discipline
word: boardercross
english: analogous ice skating disciple
translation: analogous ice skating disciple
word: ice cross downhill
english: analogous bicycle disciple
translation: analogous bicycle disciple
word: BMX racing
english: analogous outdoor motorcycle disciple
translation: analogous outdoor motorcycle disciple
word: motocross
english: analogous indoor motorcycle disciple
translation: analogous indoor motorcycle disciple
word: supercross
outskate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: outskates
form: outskating
form: outskated
form: outskated
Etymology: From out- + skate.
Senses: examples: text: “Jeremy outskated him right after he skated well,” Abbott’s coach, Tom Zakrajsek, said of Abbott’s short program after Lysacek’s strong performance.
ref: 2009 January 24, Juliet Macur, “Weir and Lysacek Find Company at the Top”, in New York Times:
topics: hobbies
ice-hockey
lifestyle
skating
sports
glosses: To skate better than.
supersecure
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From super- + secure.
Senses: examples: text: Those include 9 detention centers that hold defendants awaiting trial, 21 high-security penitentiaries and a supersecure prison in Florence, Colo., where several convicted terrorists are already locked up.
ref: 2009 January 24, Mark Mazzetti, “Where Will Guantánamo Detainees Go?”, in New York Times:
glosses: Having an extremely high level of security.
outskates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of outskate
outskating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of outskate
outskated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of outskate
techniquewise
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From technique + -wise.
Senses: examples: text: Near-synonym: technically
text: “And forever his guys are always sound techniquewise, always play very hard, look like they’re disciplined in drills.”
ref: 2009 January 24, Sean D. Hamill, quoting Clarence Brooks, “Football Pioneer Builds Big Men for Steelers”, in New York Times:
glosses: In terms of technique.
teleiophile
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /tɛˈleɪ.əˌfaɪl/
ipa: /tɛˈlaɪ.əˌfaɪl/
Forms: form: teleiophiles
Etymology: From teleio- + -phile.
Senses: examples: text: Of the remaining 428, 70 were classified as pedophiles, 225 as hebephiles, and 133 as teleiophiles.
ref: 2003, Ray Blanchard et al., “Self-Reported Head Injuries Before and After Age 13 in Pedophilic and Nonpedophilic Men Referred for Clinical Assessment”, in Archives of Sexual Behavior, →DOI:
text: Daniel Bergner, age 48, the divorced father of two teenage children, is what sexologists would call a straight, vanilla teleiophile.
ref: 2009 January 24, Charles Mcgrath, “Surveying the Outer Reaches of Lust”, in New York Times:
topics: lifestyle
sexology
sexuality
synonyms: adultophile
hypernyms: normophile
coordinate_terms: pedophile
hebephile
ephebophile
gerontophile
glosses: A person who is sexually attracted to adults.
Related terms: teleiophilia
teleiophilic
bellmen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bellman
streete
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: streetes
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of street.
fulfiller
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɪlə(ɹ)
Forms: form: fulfillers
Etymology: From fulfill + -er.
Senses: examples: text: For them, he was it - a game changer, soul restorer, dream fulfiller.
ref: 2009 January 24, Charles M. Blow, “No More Excuses?”, in New York Times:
glosses: One who fulfills.
fulfillers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fulfiller
ecotone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈiːkətəʊn/
Forms: form: ecotones
Etymology: Combination of eco- (“ecology”) + -tone, from the Greek τόνος (tónos, “tension”).
Senses: glosses: A transition area between two adjacent ecological communities (ecosystems).
Derived terms: ecotonal
ecotonic
Aristotelianism
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Aristotelian + -ism.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
glosses: The philosophical system of Aristotle (384 BCE – 322 BCE) and his followers.
Related terms: non-Aristotelian
headachey
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: Well, maybe one does: a jokey shot taken in 1953 (whose rights he signed away), showing him with a sour, headachey expression of generic woe; it has been used dozens of times, even in the last decade, in ads for aspirin, tax services, hangover remedies and other stress relievers.
ref: 2009 January 25, Bruce Weber, “Jim Horne, a Familiar Face in Ads From the 1950s, Dies at 91”, in New York Times:
glosses: Alternative spelling of headachy.
haikus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of haiku
snowologists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of snowologist
snowologist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: snowologists
Etymology: From snow + -ologist.
Senses: examples: text: But considering the impossibly large number of flakes in a single snowfall, let alone that have ever fallen, how could snowologists have possibly taken a sample large enough to conclude that no two are alike?
ref: 1988 February 5, Cecil Adams, “The Straight Dope”, in Chicago Reader:
text: "Dress warm," advises one brilliant snowologist. "Wear a hat."
ref: 2005, Dennis Hamill, “Amid Hype, I Ask "Snow What?"”, in New York Daily News:
glosses: A person who studies the snow, or is an expert on snow-related matters.
preachiness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From preachy + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: Although Radium City clearly belongs to a tradition of investigative, muckraking journalism, the film exhibits none of the preachiness or self-righteousness that often accompanies such forays.
ref: 1988 February 5, Jonathan Rosenbaum, “Process of Illumination”, in Chicago Reader:
glosses: The quality of being preachy
nonphotic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + photic.
Senses: examples: text: BBs, "stars," and other "nonphotic" visual stimuli (i.e., those not actually produced by light) are called photopsia or phosphenes.
ref: 1988 February 5, Cecil Adams, “The Straight Dope”, in Chicago Reader:
glosses: Not photic in nature or origin; unrelated to visible light
untelegenic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more untelegenic
form: most untelegenic
Etymology: From un- + telegenic.
Senses: examples: text: Then, finished with this last in a series of fly-around press conferences, his untelegenic features reddened from the cold, Simon quipped as he strolled to the car: "It's kind of nice and pleasant out here."
ref: 1988 February 5, David Moberg, “Jackson and Simon in Iowa”, in Chicago Reader:
glosses: Not telegenic
unindentured
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + indentured.
Senses: examples: text: […] for 15 years Miss Lulu Bett, a stereotypical spinster and poor relation, has been slaving in her married sister's home as an unindentured cook and housemaid.
ref: 1988 February 5, Lawrence Bommer, “Miss Lulu Bett”, in Chicago Reader:
glosses: Not indentured
unfeathered
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + feathered.
Senses: examples: text: On most birds, the tarsus is scaly and unfeathered, but a few arctic species--snowy owls, ptarmigans, and rough-legged hawks among them--have feathered tarsi.
ref: 1988 February 5, Jerry Sullivan, “Field & Street”, in Chicago Reader:
glosses: Lacking feathers
Synonyms: apteric
featherless
photopsia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: photopsias
Etymology: From photo- + -opsia.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
synonyms: spintherism
glosses: The presence of perceived flashes of light.
subminimum
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From sub- + minimum.
Senses: examples: text: Over the years Simon has voted for some conservative clinkers--for example, […] a subminimum wage for teenagers.
ref: 1988 February 5, David Moberg, “Jackson and Simon in Iowa”, in Chicago Reader:
glosses: Below the normal minimum
subminimum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: subminimums
form: subminima
Etymology: From sub- + minimum.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: A point or value below a minimum.
stratiform
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more stratiform
form: most stratiform
Etymology: From Latin stratus (“layer”) + -form.
Senses: glosses: Occurring in layers
topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: Descriptive of rocks with extensive horizontal development
topics: climatology
meteorology
natural-sciences
glosses: Descriptive of clouds with extensive horizontal development
spiraculum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spiracula
Etymology: From Latin spīrāculum.
Senses: glosses: A spiracle.
balthazar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: balthazars
Senses: examples: text: Constantine went for a 12-liter bottle of Veuve Clicquot called a balthazar.
ref: 2007 January 1, Michael Cooper, “Amid Champagne and Cheers, Spitzer Is Sworn In as Governor”, in New York Times:
glosses: Alternative letter-case form of Balthazar.
postmidnight
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: post-midnight
Etymology: From post- + midnight.
Senses: examples: text: Near-synonym: predawn
text: Hussein's being taken to his execution from his cell in an American military detention center in the postmidnight chill of Saturday had a surreal and even cinematic quality.
ref: 2007 January 1, John F. Burns, “U.S. Questioned Iraq on the Rush to Hang Hussein”, in New York Times:
synonyms: wee hour
glosses: After midnight, but before dawn.
Synonyms: wee hours
small hours
colature
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: colatures
Etymology: From Latin colatura. Compare French colature. See colander.
Senses: glosses: The matter that is strained with a strainer
glosses: A strainer, or the process of straining.
bifida
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: I believe that the tumor is a lipoma, such as we sometimes find with bifida spines, and that this child probably had a true meningocele which did not extend the entire depth of the tumor.
ref: 1900 March 15, “Meningeal Lipoma”, in Pediatrics, volume 9, number 6:
glosses: spina bifida
buteos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of buteo
extraparliamentary
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From extra- + parliamentary.
Senses: examples: text: Unlike Jackson, he has not made himself part of a political movement or exercised extraparliamentary leadership, except in his early newspapering days.
ref: 1988 February 5, David Moberg, “Jackson and Simon in Iowa”, in Chicago Reader:
glosses: Outside of a parliament or legislature
gigajillion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gigajillions
Etymology: From giga- + jillion.
Senses: examples: text: On the other hand, a single snow crystal contains perhaps 100 million molecules, which can be arranged in a gigajillion different ways.
ref: 1988 February 5, Cecil Adams, “The Straight Dope”, in Chicago Reader:
glosses: An enormously large number; arbitrarily many
hausfrau
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hausfraus
form: hausfrauen
Senses: examples: text: JoEllen is a dumpy small-town hausfrau trying to be good and stick to her bowl of dry salad, but unable to resist the call of the chocolate cake she keeps moving around from the icebox to the cupboard to the stove.
ref: 1988 February 5, Albert Williams, “Hungry Hearts”, in Chicago Reader:
text: "I wouldn't have thought that Camille, of all people, who's so sort of peasant-earthy, like a hausfrau in Brueghel, would be such a fantasist, would you?" - "Middle Age : A Romance" (2001) by Joyce Carol Oates (Fourth Estate, paperback edition, 303)
glosses: Alternative letter-case form of Hausfrau.
huipil
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwi.pil/
Forms: form: huipils
form: huipiles
Etymology: From Spanish huipil, from Classical Nahuatl huīpīlli (“woman's blouse”).
Senses: examples: text: A woman weaves her huipil after praying to the saints, who are believed to have taught women to weave "in the beginning of time.
ref: 1988 February 5, Salena Fuller, “On Exhibit: modern art of the ancient Maya”, in Chicago Reader:
glosses: A traditional blouse worn by the women of various indigenous peoples of Central America including the Maya and Zapotec, or the textile from which such a garment is made.
motivationless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more motivationless
form: most motivationless
Etymology: From motivation + -less.
Senses: examples: text: Fran Austin (as Mary, Reno's compliant wife) is bland and motivationless.
ref: 1988 February 5, Tom Boeker, “They Sure Are Strange in New York”, in Chicago Reader:
glosses: Having no motivation
Synonyms: unmotivated
Derived terms: motivationlessness
knock-ons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of knock-on
netless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From net + -less.
Senses: examples: text: In the demo, this drama is captured by footage of a teenager, small and spindly, walking across a vacant lot, basketball in hand, to a netless court in a nearby school yard.
ref: 1988 February 5, Ben Joravsky, “Basketball dreams: filmmakers find a passport to black culture”, in Chicago Reader:
glosses: Lacking a net.
examples: text: For the netless, id [software company] plans to ship 500,000 copies of a CD-ROM-based version to retail stores.
ref: 1996, TIME, page 62:
glosses: Without Internet access.
nonhostile
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + hostile.
Senses: examples: text: "People are grappling with it, and they're doing it in a nonhostile atmosphere," he said.
ref: 1988 February 5, David Moberg, “Jackson and Simon in Iowa”, in Chicago Reader:
glosses: Not hostile; free of hostility
huipiles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of huipil
nongay
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + gay.
Senses: glosses: Not gay (homosexual)
nongay
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nongays
Etymology: From non- + gay.
Senses: examples: text: The description was patently transparent: not only did it hint broadly to nongays, but it also belied the truth of Isherwood and Bachardy's off-and-on living situation.
ref: 1988 February 5, Achy Obejas, “The Press: Averting Our Gays”, in Chicago Reader:
glosses: A person who is not gay
Synonyms: straight
het
nongays
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nongay
buoyance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: buoyances
Etymology: Alteration of buoyancy.
Senses: examples: text: Veronica Petrillo's typical virgin is ironically similar to her streetwise actor, except for a certain added buoyance.
ref: 1988 February 5, Tom Boeker, “They Sure Are Strange in New York”, in Chicago Reader:
glosses: The state or quality of being buoyant
Synonyms: buoyancy
coowner
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: coowners
Senses: examples: text: […] when a gay man really does die of something other than AIDS, as in the case of Tom Norton, the popular coowner of Unabridged Books, festering doubt will plague his memory.
ref: 1988 February 5, Achy Obejas, “The Press: Averting Our Gays”, in Chicago Reader:
glosses: Alternative form of co-owner.
auteurist
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more auteurist
form: most auteurist
Etymology: From auteur + -ist.
Senses: examples: text: In the case of documentaries, our thinking tends to be less warped and biased, if only because the auteurist sensibility has never been too comfortable outside of fiction.
ref: 1988 February 5, Jonathan Rosenbaum, “Process of Illumination”, in Chicago Reader:
topics: broadcasting
film
media
television
synonyms: auteuristic
glosses: Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of auteurism.
Derived terms: antiauteurist
auteurist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: auteurists
Etymology: From auteur + -ist.
Senses: topics: broadcasting
film
media
television
glosses: A proponent of auteurism
antimilitarist
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more antimilitarist
form: most antimilitarist
Etymology: From anti- + militarist.
Senses: examples: text: […] Iowa Democrats tend to be more liberal and antimilitarist than downstate Illinois Democrats.
ref: 1988 February 5, David Moberg, “Jackson and Simon in Iowa”, in Chicago Reader:
topics: government
politics
glosses: Opposed to militarism
antimilitarist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: antimilitarists
Etymology: From anti- + militarist.
Senses: topics: government
politics
glosses: One who opposes militarism.
coowners
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of coowner
burlesquing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of burlesque
burlesquing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: burlesquings
Senses: examples: text: According to Stoddard, a little group at one time during this period headed by Taylor delighted to meet on certain ambrosial nights to dissipate in poetic composition, in deliberate burlesquings and parodyings and imitatings of the various poets […]
ref: 1923, Fred Lewis Pattee, Development of the American Short Story: An Historical Survey:
glosses: An instance of burlesque.
burlesqued
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of burlesque
bitcheries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bitchery
auteurists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of auteurist
bitchery
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bitcheries
Etymology: From bitch + -ery.
Senses: examples: text: Again, Sometime Soon, the evening's opener, has a barbed comic style that recalls the bitcheries of The Boys in the Band[…].
ref: 1988 February 5, Albert Williams, “Slowdance in Room 8-C/Again, Sometime Soon”, in Chicago Reader:
text: He had been a noise, a recurrent clatter of bitchery and ambition, a kind of monster of the Union and the MCR, throughout Nick's years in college.
ref: 2004, Alan Hollinghurst, chapter 3, in The Line of Beauty […], London: Picador, →ISBN:
text: […] nonprofessional actresses of a certain age enact playlets on the themes of conspicuous consumption, marital tension, and motiveless bitchery.
ref: 2010 October 21, Troy Patterson, “The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills”, in Slate:
glosses: Behavior typical of a bitch.
bacchantes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bacchant
glosses: plural of bacchante
Lampedusa
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˌlæmpɪˈduːzə/
Etymology: From Italian Lampedusa, from Latin Lopadusa, from Ancient Greek Λοπαδοῦσσα (Lopadoûssa). Compare Sicilian Lampidusa.
Senses: glosses: The largest island of the Italian Pelagie Islands, located in the Mediterranean Sea between Malta and Tunisia.
octosyllable
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: octosyllables
Etymology: From octo- + syllable.
Senses: topics: communications
journalism
literature
media
poetry
publishing
writing
glosses: line of verse with eight syllables
Coordinate terms: monosyllable
disyllable
trisyllable
tetrasyllable
pentasyllable
sexisyllable
heptasyllable
enneasyllable
decasyllable
endecasyllable
dodecasyllable
polysyllable
Related terms: octosyllabic
trisyllable
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: trisyllables
form: trissyllable
Etymology: From tri- + syllable.
Senses: glosses: A word of three syllables.
Coordinate terms: monosyllable
disyllable
tetrasyllable
pentasyllable
sexisyllable
heptasyllable
octosyllable
enneasyllable
decasyllable
endecasyllable
dodecasyllable
polysyllable
Related terms: trisyllabic
ambisyllabicity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From ambi- + syllabicity.
Senses: topics: communications
human-sciences
journalism
linguistics
literature
media
phonetics
phonology
poetry
publishing
sciences
writing
glosses: The property of a consonant being analysed as acting simultaneously as the coda of one syllable and the onset of the following syllable, as in "upper" or "button".