cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
artgoing
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From art + going.
Senses: examples: text: Among his conceptual peers, those who set out to wrest art from the realm of objects and move it more fully into one of ideas, Mr. Graham, 67, is someone whose work does not come easily to mind even for an informed artgoing public.
ref: 2009 June 28, Randy Kennedy, “A Round Peg”, in New York Times:
glosses: Attending art exhibitions.
inapprehension
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From in- + apprehension.
Senses: examples: text: These, like the over-largely lettered signs and placards of the street, escape observation by dint of being excessively obvious; and here the physical oversight is precisely analogous with the moral inapprehension by which the intellect suffers to pass unnoticed those considerations which are too obtrusively and too palpably self-evident.
ref: 1844, Edgar Allan Poe, The Purloined Letter:
text: He paled a little, and sucked his lip, his eyes wandering to the girl, who stood in stolid inapprehension of what was being said.
ref: 1909, Raphael Sabatini, St Martin's Summer, published 2008, →ISBN, page 29:
text: Camile is naturally disgusted with Paul but he doesn't seem to apprehend her reason—it is this inapprehension of the obvious which creates the tension.
ref: 1966, Paul J. Sharits, “Red, Blue, Godard”, in Film Quarterly, volume 19, number 4, page 27:
glosses: Failure to notice; failure to be aware of; lack of apprehension.
farsee
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: farsees
form: farseeing
form: farsaw
form: farseen
Etymology: From far + see. Compare Dutch verziend (“farseeing, long-sighted”), German fernsehen (“to look from afar, watch television”).
Senses: examples: text: They set off again, the tall, elegant human and the violet-skinned exotic, too abstracted to farsee the person waiting for them in the shadows a few dozen meters ahead.
ref: 1997, Julian May, Magnificat:
text: “That's a long way to farsee, even for you.” “The ge-eagle helps,” he admitted. “Cheat!” Edeard laughed.
ref: 2008, Peter F. Hamilton, The Dreaming Void:
glosses: To see at or from a distance.
examples: text: As Yoda would put it, if you want to 'farsee' into your future needs, first make sure your homework you have done.
ref: 2006, Arthur Goldstuck, The hitchhiker's guide to going mobile:
glosses: To see by foresight; see clairvoyantly; view or sense telepathically.
Derived terms: farseer
farseeing
farsight
Related terms: farspeak
farseer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfɑːsɪə/
ipa: /ˈfɑɹˌsiːɚ/
rhymes: -ɪə(ɹ)
rhymes: -iːə(ɹ)
Forms: form: farseers
Etymology: Modelled after German Fernseher (“TV set”, literally “farseer”), from Fernsehen (“television”, literally “farsee”), calque of French télévision, from Ancient Greek τῆλε (têle, “far away”) and Latin visio (“sight”).
By surface analysis, far + seer.
Senses: examples: text: "I received word from the Farseer only this morning. They had been studying the motion of the central band in Brutus, […] "The men of the Farseer could not be mistaken?
ref: 1989, Jerry Pournelle, John F. Carr, The Crash of empire:
text: The farseer opened its right hand and its witchblade leapt from the sheath across its back and settled into his grip.
ref: 2008, Marc Gascoigne, Christian Dunn, Let the Galaxy Burn:
topics: fantasy
glosses: One who farsees; prophet; soothsayer; fortuneteller.
examples: text: “Never mind that,” the Hunter put his hand on the barrel of the farseer. “Look now.” Damien lowered his eye to the viewpiece—and saw the […] Magnified exactly as it had been, with the farseer still fixed on the features he had chosen.
ref: 1992, C. S. Friedman, Black sun rising:
topics: fantasy
glosses: An instrument or tool used to farsee; scope
glosses: A television set.
slowers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of slower
Zeeman slower
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Zeeman slowers
Senses: glosses: An experimental system that enables the cooling of atoms to temperatures of the order of a few kelvins, based on the principle that a magnetic field can change the resonance frequency of an atom using the Zeeman effect.
Zeeman slowers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Zeeman slower
farseers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of farseer
Zeeman
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Dutch, meaning seaman.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Derived terms: Zeeman effect
Zeeman energy
Zeeman slower
Zeeman energies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Zeeman energy
farsight
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: farsights
form: far-sight
Etymology: From far + sight.
Senses: glosses: The faculty of looking far ahead; farsightedness; prescience.
Derived terms: farsighted
Related terms: farsee
Whartonian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /wɔːˈtəʊ.ni.ən/
note: without the wine–whine merger
ipa: /ʍɔːˈ-/
ipa: /wɔɹˈtoʊ.ni.ən/
note: without the wine–whine merger
ipa: /ʍɔɹˈ-/
rhymes: -əʊniən
Forms: form: more Whartonian
form: most Whartonian
Etymology: From Wharton + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to Edith Wharton (1862–1937), American novelist and designer.
Hawthornian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Hawthornian
form: most Hawthornian
Etymology: From Hawthorne + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Hawthornean.
Nasserism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈnæsəɹˌɪzəm/
Forms: form: Nasirism
form: Nāṣirism
Etymology: From Nasser + -ism.
Senses: glosses: An Arab nationalist political ideology based on the thinking of the former Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser.
Related terms: Nasserist
Nasserist
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Nasserist
form: most Nasserist
form: Nasirist
form: Nāṣirist
Etymology: From Nasser + -ist.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to Nasserism.
Nasserist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Nasserists
form: Nasirist
form: Nāṣirist
Etymology: From Nasser + -ist.
Senses: glosses: A proponent of Nasserism
Nasserists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Nasserist
starthistle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: starthistles
form: star thistle
form: star-thistle
Etymology: From star + thistle.
Senses: glosses: Any of the genus Centaurea of herbaceous thistle-like flowering plants.
Derived terms: taxonomic: Centaurea americana
word: American starthistle
taxonomic: Centaurea solstitialis
word: golden starthistle
taxonomic: Centaurea iberica
word: Iberian starthistle
taxonomic: Centaurea melitensis
word: Maltese starthistle
taxonomic: Centaurea calcitrapa
word: purple starthistle
taxonomic: Centaurea calcitrapa
word: red starthistle
taxonomic: Centaurea aspera
word: rough starthistle
taxonomic: Centaurea solstitialis
word: yellow starthistle
starthistles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of starthistle
centrins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of centrin
bashisms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bashism
Minitel
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈmɪniˌtɛl/
Forms: form: MINITEL
Etymology: From French Minitel.
Senses: examples: text: The lesson of MINITEL is that hypermedia within Europe should be developed as a hybrid of state intervention, capitalist entrepreneurship and d.i.y. culture.
ref: 1995 September, Richard Barbrook, Andy Cameron, “The Californian Ideology”, in Mute, volume 1, number 3, →ISSN:
text: Minitel was a computer terminal. It housed a screen, a keyboard, and a modem—but not a microprocessor. Instead of computing on its own, Minitel connected to remote services via uplink, like a 1960s mainframe or a modern Google Chromebook. Terminals were given out, for free, to every French telephone subscriber by the state (which also ran the phone company).
ref: 2017 June 16, Julien Mailand, “Minitel, the Open Network Before the Internet”, in The Atlantic:
glosses: A French videotex service utilising the telephone network, popular before and alongside the World Wide Web.
unenticing
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unenticing
form: most unenticing
Etymology: From un- + enticing.
Senses: glosses: Not enticing; unprepossessing.
unenticed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + enticed.
Senses: glosses: Not enticed.
moyl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: moyls
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of moil.
upleap
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: upleaps
form: upleaping
form: upleaped
form: upleapt
form: uplept
form: uplope
form: upleaped
form: upleapt
form: uplept
form: uplope
form: uplopen
Etymology: From Middle English uplepen, equivalent to up- + leap. Cognate with Dutch oplopen (“to incur, run up”), German auflaufen (“to accumulate, mount up, run aground”).
Senses: glosses: To leap up; spring up.
Bethy
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Beth + -y.
Senses: examples: text: “I'll settle Bethy's troubles, and then I'll tell you mine. They are not very wearing, so they'll keep,” and Jo stitched away, with a wise nod which set her mother's heart at rest about her for the present at least.
ref: 1868–1869, Louisa M[ay] Alcott, Little Women: […], (please specify |part=1 or 2), Boston, Mass.: Roberts Brothers, →OCLC:
glosses: A diminutive of the female given name Elizabeth.
upleaps
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of upleap
upleaping
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of upleap
upleaped
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of upleap
uplifter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: uplifters
Etymology: From uplift + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who, or that which, uplifts.
uplifters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of uplifter
adjectiveless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From adjective + -less.
Senses: glosses: Without an adjective or adjectives.
enfolder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: enfolders
Etymology: From enfold + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who, or that which, enfolds.
enfolders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of enfolder
dirgy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more dirgy
form: most dirgy
Etymology: From dirge + -y.
Senses: glosses: Like a dirge; funereal.
guestfriendships
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of guestfriendship
easellike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more easellike
form: most easellike
Etymology: From easel + -like.
Senses: glosses: Resembling an easel.
periodlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more periodlike
form: most periodlike
Etymology: From period + -like.
Senses: examples: text: You may notice some periodlike cramping, particularly when you nurse if you're breast-feeding.
ref: 1999, Pamela Maraldo, Women's health for dummies:
glosses: Resembling a period (time of menstruation).
inula
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɪnjʊlə/
ipa: /ˈɪnjələ/
Forms: form: inulas
Etymology: From Latin inula. Compare elecampane.
Senses: examples: text: In springtime the ruins are a blaze of contrapuntal colour: wild gladioli of magenta, bright yellow inulas and spiky acanthus thrust up among sarcophagi carpeted with tiny blue saxifrage and sprawled over by convolvulus with great pink trumpets.
ref: 1977, Alistair Horne, A Savage War of Peace, New York: Review Books, published 2006, page 45:
glosses: Any of several plants of the genus Inula, such as elecampane.
glosses: The dried root of such a plant used as a stimulant.
Derived terms: inulin
inulas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of inula
elfishly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more elfishly
form: most elfishly
Etymology: From elfish + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an elfish manner; mischievously.
bioresearch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bioresearches
Etymology: From bio- + research.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: research in any of the biological sciences
divertissementlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more divertissementlike
form: most divertissementlike
Etymology: From divertissement + -like.
Senses: examples: text: Her confident, full-bodied playing was well suited to the D-Major Sonata, with its quasi-orchestral textures and long, divertissementlike structure (both of which Mozart surely derived from the keyboard style of JC Bach).
ref: 1982, The New Yorker, volume 57:
text: Both Caught and Ms. Tharps In the Upper Room (1986) are new to Pacific Northwest repertory, and whereas Kiss and Caught are slight and divertissementlike, In the Upper Room is an ensemble blockbuster.
ref: 2007 November 5, Alastair Macaulay, “Turning 50 With Wit and Youthful Vigor to Spare (So Who Needs Gimmicks?)”, in New York Times:
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a divertissement.
hygrometric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From hygro- + -metric.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to hygrometry
glosses: Measured using a hygrometer
Derived terms: nonhygrometric
bioreporters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bioreporter
ecotax
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ecotaxes
Etymology: From eco- + tax.
Senses: examples: text: SARKOZY: Oui, oui, we levy an ecotax on pollutant cars and double our high-speed train network.
ref: 2007 November 5, Roger Cohen, “From Paris With Love”, in New York Times:
glosses: green tax
ecotaxes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ecotax
ecotaxation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From eco- + taxation.
Senses: glosses: The imposition of green taxes.
geebag
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: geebags
Senses: glosses: An irritating or obnoxious person.
glosses: An objectionable person.
examples: text: 'OhmyGod', I said, matching his peeved tone and doing the same geebag accent I'd used to get Naylor out of his hedge.
ref: 2008, Tana French, The Likeness, page 312:
text: “Get it offa me, ye mindless geebag!” Tomlinson's glazed eyes danced with sudden glee, and he tore the top from her, Dymphna's breasts spilling out like the screams spilled from her mouth.
ref: 2010, Gerald Hansen, Hand in the Till:
glosses: A person of a lower class.
Related terms: gee
Elysse
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A female given name from Hebrew, variant of Elise.
elytrotomies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of elytrotomy
emberizid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: emberizids
Senses: glosses: Any member of the taxonomic family Emberizidae of passerine birds.
emberizids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of emberizid
geebags
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of geebag
gazellelike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more gazellelike
form: most gazellelike
Etymology: From gazelle + -like.
Senses: examples: text: The second-cast Ms. Pastastico was the first woman I had seen dance this solo; with her gazellelike jump, she was also the most exciting since Mr Parsons himself in the 1980s.
ref: 2007 November 5, Alastair Macaulay, “Turning 50 With Wit and Youthful Vigor to Spare (So Who Needs Gimmicks?)”, in New York Times:
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a gazelle.
multititle
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From multi- + title.
Senses: examples: text: Our publishing company has made a multititle purchase of three popular magazines.
glosses: Of or pertaining to more than one title.
noncollapsible
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + collapsible.
Senses: examples: text: The site's packaging, meanwhile, carries more than a whiff of cachet; shoes come inside noncollapsible boxes tied with brocade ribbon, which are then wrapped in tissue and placed inside cloth bags and placed inside another box tied with ribbons.
ref: 2007 November 5, Bob Tedeschi, “$7,900 Valentino Gowns, a Click Away”, in New York Times:
glosses: Not collapsible.
perpetuator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: perpetuators
Etymology: From perpetuate + -or.
Senses: examples: text: Pornography, a business many feel may be the essence and perpetuator of so many straight men's need to prove their masculinity by abusing women.
ref: 1977 April 30, Dai Thompson, “Conntact”, in Gay Community News, page 2:
text: Thus, by the end of the twentieth century, Christian scholars of Islam had become the unwitting guardians and perpetuators of the myth of Islamic tolerance.
ref: 2005, Robert Spencer, The myth of Islamic tolerance:
glosses: One who perpetuates.
perpetuators
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of perpetuator
unperpetrated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + perpetrated.
Senses: glosses: Not having been perpetrated.
superband
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: superbands
Etymology: From super- + band.
Senses: examples: text: 10:15 P.M. (Sundance) THE TRUE HISTORY OF THE TRAVELING WILBURYS This 25-minute documentary from Willy Smax tells the story of the 1980s superband Nelson Wilbury (George Harrison), Lefty Wilbury (Roy Orbison), Charlie T. Wilbury Jr. (Tom Petty), Lucky Wilbury (Bob Dylan) and Otis Wilbury (Jeff Lynne) — which made two albums and then journeyed into oblivion.
ref: 2007 November 5, Kathryn Shattuck, “Whats on Tonight”, in New York Times:
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A supergroup.
topics: communications
electrical-engineering
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
telecommunications
glosses: A transmission band used in cable television in Europe.
Related terms: hyperband
midband
band I
band II
band III
band IV
band V
UHF
VHF
FM
AM
OTA
TV-B
CATV
superbands
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of superband
superball
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: superballs
Etymology: From super- + ball. From a trademark, Super Ball.
Senses: examples: text: Does it bounce around like a superball in a hollow cavity? Or does it rapidly lose its force, like a beanbag hitting a pillow?
ref: 1992, Rick Altman, Sound theory, sound practice, page 40:
glosses: A bouncy ball.
polybutadienes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of polybutadiene
bouncy ball
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bouncy balls
Senses: glosses: A small polybutadiene rubber ball with a strong rebound when thrown or dropped.
Synonyms: superball
unionbuster
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: unionbusters
Etymology: From union + buster.
Senses: examples: text: Not only is Hillary more reliant on large donations and corporate money than her Democratic rivals, warned the article, but advisers in her inner circle are closely affiliated with unionbusters, G.O.P. operatives, conservative media and other Democratic Party antagonists.
ref: 2007 November 5, Paul Krugman, “Wobbled by Wealth?”, in New York Times:
glosses: A person employed to prevent the formation or expansion of trade unions.
Related terms: unionbusting
unionbusters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of unionbuster
cel shading
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: computer-graphics
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A style of non-photorealistic rendering suggesting the flat, hand-drawn appearance of a comic or cartoon.
Synonyms: toon shading
toon shading
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: computer-graphics
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Synonym of cel shading.
synonyms: word: cel shading
metaarsenites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of metaarsenite
colonette
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: colonettes
Etymology: French
Senses: examples: text: What is now revealed, in a limestone several shades blonder than the rest of the cathedral, are crisp buttresses, gables, colonettes, gargoyles, pinnacles, crockets and ornaments known as trefoils (three cusps), quatrefoils (four cusps) and cinquefoils (five cusps).
ref: 2007 November 6, David W. Dunlap, “A Blossoming Cathedral Tower Sheds Its Scaffolding”, in New York Times:
topics: architecture
glosses: A narrow decorative column supporting a beam or lintel.
colonettes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of colonette
riffly
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more riffly
form: most riffly
Etymology: From riffle + -y.
Senses: examples: text: I was confronted with that question on a crisp morning last month on Coldwater Pool, a riffly, copper-tinted stretch of the Miramichi River owned by Wilson's Sporting Camps.
ref: 2007 November 6, Monte Burke, “How Long to Wait for Salmon Before Casting Again? Sometimes, It's All Winter”, in New York Times:
glosses: Shallow and fast-flowing.
undauntingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more undauntingly
form: most undauntingly
Etymology: From undaunting + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an undaunting manner.
ecodisaster
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ecodisasters
Etymology: From eco- + disaster.
Senses: examples: text: The college had been suing in state and federal courts for twenty years to preserve this wetland from the "ecodisaster" of drainage and development as a medium-security prison.
ref: 2001, Jonathan Franzen, The Corrections:
text: Novelists like Michael Crichton have imagined nanoscale robots creating an ecodisaster.
ref: 2007 November 7, Barnaby J. Feder, “Aiding the Environment, a Nanostep at a Time”, in New York Times:
glosses: An ecological disaster.
ecodisasters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ecodisaster
nanocosmetics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nanocosmetic
nanomedicines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nanomedicine
nanomechanisms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nanomechanism
undaunting
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more undaunting
form: most undaunting
Etymology: From un- + daunting.
Senses: glosses: Not daunting.
unpure
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unpure
form: most unpure
Etymology: From un- + pure.
Senses: glosses: Not pure.
entases
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of entasis
enstasis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From extasis (Ancient Greek ἔκστασις (ékstasis)), by replacing ex- with en-. Attested in 1948.
From ἐν- (en-, “in”) and ἵστημι (hístēmi, “I stand”).
Senses: topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
glosses: Contemplation of one's own self.
Related terms: ekstasis
desoul
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: desouls
form: desouling
form: desouled
form: desouled
Etymology: From de- + soul.
Senses: examples: text: The crucial shared features are desouling, release of the soul from its “vessel,” and travel by transformation from one level of existence to another through a portal linking levels.
ref: 1998, Shirley Boteler Mock, The Sowing and the Dawning, page 38:
text: […] there followed centuries of the exploration of matter that has led to the matter-worship of our modern age and the desouling of the world.
ref: 2005, Robert B. Clarke, An Order Outside Time:
glosses: To strip of a soul.
desouling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of desoul
desouled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of desoul
Moravian star
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Moravian stars
Etymology: Named after the Moravian church, which first commercially produced them at Herrnhut.
Senses: glosses: A (usually illuminated) star, made of a geometric solid such as a rhombicuboctahedron to which a large number of pyramidal points are attached, a popular Advent or Christmas decoration in Germany and other places having Moravian congregations.
Related terms: rhombus star
Star of David
Seal of Solomon
Moravian stars
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Moravian star
smilish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more smilish
form: most smilish
Etymology: From smile + -ish.
Senses: examples: text: Fred turned over a new sheet, looked back at us and did that smilish thing with his teeth.
ref: 2013, Charles Gordon, The Grim Pig, McClelland & Stewart, →ISBN:
glosses: Smiling; inclined to smile.
nanoproduct
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nanoproducts
Etymology: From nano- + product.
Senses: examples: text: Unfortunately for nanotechnology's reputation, the most exciting green nanoproducts are still on the drawing boards.
ref: 2007 November 7, Barnaby J. Feder, “Aiding the Environment, a Nanostep at a Time”, in New York Times:
glosses: Any product containing nanoparticles.
nanoproducts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nanoproduct
overchill
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: overchills
form: overchilling
form: overchilled
form: overchilled
Etymology: From over- + chill.
Senses: examples: text: If you dont have a profound understanding of where the hot spots are, you just overchill everything, Mr. Brouillette said.
ref: 2007 November 7, Matthew L. Wald, “Taming the Guzzlers That Power the World Wide Web”, in New York Times:
glosses: To chill too much.
overchilling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of overchill
overchilled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of overchill
petrale sole
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: petrale soles
form: petrale sole
Senses: glosses: Any of species Eopsetta jordani of edible demersal flatfish.
spartina
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -aɪnə
Forms: form: spartinas
Etymology: From the genus name.
Senses: examples: text: The spartina, which grows along a sheltered cove and makes up about 15 acres of the whole parcel, is what makes Arlington Marsh so dear, said William K. Tai, director of the park's departments natural resources group.
ref: 2007 November 7, Andy Newman, “Protecting a Wild Patch of City Marshland”, in New York Times:
glosses: cordgrass (Spartina).
spartinas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of spartina
superdurable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more superdurable
form: most superdurable
Etymology: From super- + durable.
Senses: examples: text: To most Americans, nanotechnology means limited improvements, as in stain-resistant clothing, superdurable bowling balls or transparent sunscreens.
ref: 2007 November 7, Barnaby J. Feder, “Aiding the Environment, a Nanostep at a Time”, in New York Times:
glosses: Highly durable.
unpristine
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unpristine
form: most unpristine
Etymology: From un- + pristine.
Senses: examples: text: The subject of all this breathlessness is a decidedly unpristine swath of Staten Island known as Arlington Marsh, a boggy green break in one of the city's most industrialized stretches of waterfront.
ref: 2007 November 7, Andy Newman, “Protecting a Wild Patch of City Marshland”, in New York Times:
glosses: Not pristine; sullied, dirty, impure.
untradable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + tradable.
Senses: examples: text: Analysts are skeptical about the way China's stocks are valued, particularly those like PetroChina with huge amounts of untradable government shares.
ref: 2007 November 7, David Barboza, “Little-Known Entrepreneurs Putting China Near Top of Billionaires List”, in New York Times:
glosses: Impossible to trade.
agapanthuses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of agapanthus
authorizer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: authorizers
Etymology: From authorize + -er.
Senses: examples: text: Ohio allows 70 groups, including universities, nonprofits and many unconventional agencies to be authorizers.
ref: 2007 November 8, Sam Dillon, “Ohio Goes After Charter Schools That Are Failing”, in New York Times:
glosses: One who, or that which, authorizes.
authorizers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of authorizer
haircalf
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From hair + calf.
Senses: examples: text: Giuseppe Zanotti haircalf boots, $1,195 at Giuseppe Zanotti.
ref: 2007 November 8, Karin Nelson, “Perfect for Prowling”, in New York Times:
glosses: A material made from the skin, including hair, of a very young or aborted calf.
milliroentgen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: milliroentgens
form: milliroentgen
form: milliröntgen
form: mR
Etymology: From milli- + roentgen.
Senses: examples: text: Mineral residue tested on the bridge and on the banks of the river found levels of radioactivity as high as 10 milliroentgen per hour, about 33 times what Congo considers a tolerable limit.
ref: 2007 November 8, “Radioactive Dumping Is Reported in Congo”, in New York Times:
glosses: A unit of exposure to ionizing radiation, one thousandth of a roentgen.
milliroentgens
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of milliroentgen
miniset
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: minisets
Etymology: From mini- + set.
Senses: examples: text: That started a miniset of Duran Duran songs and electro oldies like the Normals Warm Leatherette, paying tribute while flaunting Duran Duran's pop skills, even in skeletal arrangements.
ref: 2007 November 8, Jon Pareles, “Duran Duran Is Still Big, Just the Stage Got Small”, in New York Times:
glosses: A small set.
minisets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of miniset
MOUT
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Military operations in urban terrain (MOUT) present many unique and challenging conditions for the warfighter.
ref: 2011, Borko Furht, Handbook of Augmented Reality, page 681:
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: Acronym of military operations in urban terrain.
sunbeamy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more sunbeamy
form: most sunbeamy
Etymology: From sunbeam + -y.
Senses: examples: text: But it is Mr. Romney who has most thoroughly incorporated such sunbeamy phrases and anecdotes into his repertory on the stump.
ref: 2007 November 8, Michael Luo, “On Campaign Stump, Romney Preaches the Importance of Optimism”, in New York Times:
glosses: Like a sunbeam; bright, golden, cheerful.
seizurelike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more seizurelike
form: most seizurelike
Etymology: From seizure + -like.
Senses: examples: text: Both the children presented with a coma and seizurelike movements, said Dr. Naren Gunja, the deputy director of the center.
ref: 2007 November 8, Keith Bradsher, “Sleuthing for a Danger in Toy Beads”, in New York Times:
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a seizure.
khon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Borrowed from Thai โขน (kǒon).
Senses: examples: text: But he has found his perfect complement in Mr. Klunchun, a practitioner of khon, a form of classical Thai masked dance, who wanders serenely with Mr. Bel through a series of cultural collisions until the gentle cataclysm that suddenly and amusingly ends the conversation.
ref: 2007 November 9, Jennifer Dunning, “Hear Them Talk and See Them Dance, Then Watch Their Cultures Clash”, in New York Times:
glosses: A Thai form of dance with music and narration.
maitake
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: maitakes
Etymology: From Japanese 舞茸 (maitake).
Senses: examples: text: Truffles, maitake, matsutake, king boletes, shiitake and dozens of other edible types are hunted commercially around the planet.
ref: 2007 November 9, Stephen Regenold, “Hot on the Trail of the Edible Fungi in Illinois”, in New York Times:
glosses: Grifola frondosa, an edible polypore mushroom that grows in clusters at the bases of trees.
Synonyms: hen of the woods
ram's head
sheep's head
signorina
maitakes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of maitake
minicompound
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: minicompounds
Etymology: From mini- + compound.
Senses: examples: text: The result is a minicompound that includes the two-bedroom barn, a cookhouse and a separate studio/office that also serves as guest quarters.
ref: 2007 November 9, Billie Cohen, “The Square Footage Out Back”, in New York Times:
glosses: A small compound.
minicompounds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of minicompound
nonperiod
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + period.
Senses: examples: text: By contrast, one of the best parts of the Wrightsman Galleries is a nonperiod room offering a display of Sèvres ceramics, including 10 small pieces of wood furniture decorated with vividly colored ceramic tiles, plaques and panels.
ref: 2007 November 9, Ken Johnson, “Gilding the Ancien Rgime”, in New York Times:
glosses: Not associated with a (financial or historical) period.
auriculo-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Pronunciation: enpr: ôrĭʹkyo͝olō
ipa: /ɔːˈɹɪk.jʊl.əʊ/
ipa: /ɔˈɹɪk.jəl.oʊ/
Etymology: Formed from auricular + -o-; compare aur-.
Senses: examples: text: The auriculo-ventricular orifice is an oblique slit[.]
ref: 1836, Robert Bentley Todd, editor, The Cyclopædia of Anatomy and Physiology, 1st edition, volumes 1: A–DEA, page 330, column 2:
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Of or pertaining to the auricle of the heart.
examples: text: The first of these, the auriculo-temporal nerve, passes backwards, under the external pterygoid muscle, and then upwards between the mandible and the external meatus, underneath the parotid gland.
ref: 1881, St. George Jackson Mivart, “IX. The Cat's Nervous System and Organs of Sense”, in The Cat: An Introduction to the Study of Backboned Animals, Especially Mammals, 1st edition, John Murray, page 273:
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Of or pertaining to the external ear; aural, auricular.
Related terms: aur-
outflung
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more outflung
form: most outflung
Etymology: From out- + flung.
Senses: examples: text: But credit must go to Mr. Saarinen, who, starting from the original Shaker dances, has forged a wonderfully earthy movement language, full of lurching, rhythmically stamping processionals, arched backs, outflung arms and shoulders that look as if they could bear up under a greater burden than Atlas's. Mr. Saarinen and his seven dancers disappeared into this language, leaving the audience to squint through Mikki Kunttu's thick, murky lighting design.
ref: 2007 November 9, Claudia La Rocco, “Brooklyn Convocation of Shakers (and Movers)”, in New York Times:
glosses: Flung outwards.
outflung
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: See outfling (verb).
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of outfling
outfluxing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of outflux
outfluxed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of outflux
outflies
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of outfly
outflown
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: past participle of outfly
outflying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of outfly
leafily
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more leafily
form: most leafily
Etymology: From leafy + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: My aunt and uncle lived in a leafily attractive suburb.
glosses: In a leafy manner.
palpability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: palpabilities
Senses: examples: text: But the very palpability of the Hooks' happiness and contentment works against this novel's larger design, undermining Mr. Swift's supposition that this family could be blown to bits by a little revelation about DNA.
ref: 2007 November 9, Michiko Kakutani, “Uncorking One Familys Secret”, in New York Times:
glosses: The quality of being palpable.
Derived terms: nonpalpability
unhope
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Middle English unhope, equivalent to un- + hope.
Senses: examples: text: Black is night's cope;
But death will not appal
One who, past doubtings all
Waits in unhope.
ref: 1902, Thomas Hardy, In Tenebris I:
synonyms: word: despondency
word: wanhope
word: despair
word: desperation
word: despond
word: despondency
word: hopelessness
word: unhope
word: wanhope
glosses: Absence or lack of hope; hopelessness; despair.
operalike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more operalike
form: most operalike
Etymology: From opera + -like.
Senses: examples: text: Working amplified in a small room for about 15 tables of listeners digesting their dinners, Ms. Racette made sounds that were strikingly darker: sometimes in a contraltolike belt, alternating between various purrs and growls, and at selected moments opening up fully in operalike climaxes.
ref: 2007 November 10, Bernard Holland, “An Operatic Voice Retuned for Cabaret”, in New York Times:
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of opera.
operanda
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of operandum
superalkaline
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more superalkaline
form: most superalkaline
Etymology: From super- + alkaline.
Senses: examples: text: The top of the line are lithium batteries (not to be confused with lithium-ion batteries, which are typically used in laptops and cellphones) which cost $9.99 for Energizer AA batteries at CVS, $4 more than the superalkaline ones.
ref: 2007 November 10, Alina Tugend, “In Battery Buying, Enough Decisions to Exhaust That Bunny”, in New York Times:
glosses: Highly alkaline.
unnarrated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + narrated.
Senses: examples: text: A ride-along, three-segments-each reality show, Cops is unnarrated, except when an officer driving a patrol car loosely decodes the cryptic numerals exchanged with the precinct, thus warning the viewer of what is to come.
ref: 2007 November 10, Ned Martel, “Perp Nation: Cops and Its Steady Run of Bad Boys”, in New York Times:
glosses: Not narrated.
copperwork
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From copper + work.
Senses: examples: text: With its lavish brass and copperwork, this [bright chocolate] seemed a trifle too gay and unbecoming for a G.W.R. locomotive, and apparently the Company soon shared this view for there was a reversion to the standard Brunswick green.
ref: 1955 January, R. S. McNaught, “From the Severn to the Mersey by Great Western”, in Railway Magazine, page 18:
text: The cafe serves a Moroccan breakfast (orange juice, yogurt, sweet crepes, honey and jam; 100 dirhams), and the Museum of Islamic Art offers wrought Persian astrolabes, Syrian copperwork and shimmering Moroccan textiles.
ref: 2007 November 11, Seth Sherwood, “36 Hours in Marrakesh, Morocco”, in New York Times:
text: Although much of the copperwork done in school workshops is planished only once, many craftsmen planish their work three or four times in order to get a perfect finish.
ref: 2014, P. F. Lye, Metalwork Theory, page 35:
glosses: Works made from copper.
copperworks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: copperworks
Etymology: From copper + works.
Senses: glosses: A place where copper is manufactured or shaped.
Coordinate terms: sense: type of works
word: works § Hyponyms
devisement
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: devisements
Senses: examples: text: Praising nursery rhymes, Vita Sackville-West observed, The direct statement can seldom compare in aesthetic value with the oblique statement — which is probably the ultimate meaning that man sets on that strange devisement he calls art.
ref: 2007 November 11, “The Mother of All Rhymes”, in New York Times:
glosses: Something devised or invented.
examples: text: The devisement of schemes for the abolishment of slavery in the rebellious states should be frowned upon.
ref: 1904, James McSherry, History of Maryland, Baltimore, page 374:
glosses: The act of devising something
devisements
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of devisement
Devizes
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /dɪˈvaɪzɪz/
Etymology: From Latin. Because the castle was on the boundaries of the manors of Rowde, Bishops Cannings and Potterne it became known as the castrum ad divisas ("the castle at the boundaries"). On John Speed's map of Wiltshire (1611), the town's name is recorded as The Devyses.
Senses: glosses: A market town and civil parish with a town council in Wiltshire, England (OS grid ref SU0061).
discographical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: Rock songs blare between scenes while their discographical information is projected on a video screen, and the plays finale takes place at the first concert by the Rolling Stones in Prague.
ref: 2007 November 11, Jon Pareles, “Rock n Revolution”, in New York Times:
glosses: Of or pertaining to discography.
divester
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɛstə(ɹ)
Forms: form: divesters
Etymology: From divest + -er.
Senses: examples: text: This familial relic may be rich with meaning, but when it comes to objects, Mr. Demand is not an investor but a divester.
ref: 2007 November 11, David Colman, “Just the Basics, in Shades of Gray”, in New York Times:
glosses: One who divests.
divesters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of divester
donnishly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more donnishly
form: most donnishly
Etymology: From donnish + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: I'm not usually a cherub person, he said donnishly, but the carvings are spectacular.
ref: 2007 November 11, Alex Williams, “Odd Man In”, in New York Times:
glosses: In a donnish manner.
donnishness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From donnish + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: In the morning he got up pallid and he shaved badly, but he was a generation ahead of his own Euphemia series, and the school of charm and quiet humour and of letting things slide with a kind of elegant donnishness, had lost him for ever…
ref: 1914, H. G. Wells, chapter 9, in The Wife of Sir Isaac Harman:
glosses: The quality of being donnish.
beretlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more beretlike
form: most beretlike
Etymology: From beret + -like.
Senses: examples: a beretlike hat
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a beret.
berewicks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of berewick
encyclopedialike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more encyclopedialike
form: most encyclopedialike
Etymology: From encyclopedia + -like.
Senses: examples: text: The text, a series of encyclopedialike Star Wars trivia blurbs, is generally as dull and dry as the Tatooine desert.
ref: 2007 November 11, David Pogue, “A Galaxy in Your Face”, in New York Times:
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of an encyclopedia.
endodontists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of endodontist
equilibristic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Back-formation from equilibristics.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to equilibristics.
equilibristics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Any of various circus skills involving balance or equilibrium, such as juggling, tightrope walking, or riding a unicycle.
ghassoul
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rhassoul
Etymology: From French ghassoul, from Arabic غَاسُول (ḡāsūl).
Senses: examples: text: For 450 dirhams, youll be steamed to melting, lathered in black Moroccan beldi soap, exfoliated with a rough kissa glove, massaged with oil by four hands, coated in local ghassoul clay, rinsed in hot water, stuffed into a fluffy robe and served a mint tea.
ref: 2007 November 11, Seth Sherwood, “36 Hours in Marrakesh, Morocco”, in New York Times:
glosses: A kind of saponifying vulcanic clay used for hair and skin care.
Homintern
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Blend of homosexual + Comintern, coined in the mid-twentieth century.
Senses: glosses: A supposed conspiracy of homosexual elites who controlled the art world.
hovercam
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhʌ.vɜɹ.kæm/
Forms: form: hovercams
Etymology: From hover + cam.
Senses: examples: text: Like almost everyone else in her world, Aya records everything she does with the help of a semi-sentient hovercam (a sort of floating soccer ball that's a cross between R2D2 and Weegee), using the resulting footage to boost her face rank.
ref: 2007 November 11, James Hynes, “Looks Aren't Everything”, in New York Times:
topics: literature
media
publishing
science-fiction
glosses: A mobile hovering camera.
hovercams
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hovercam
humuhumu
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Shortening of Hawaiian humuhumunukunukuāpuaʻa, under influence from humuhumu (“triggerfish”).
Senses: examples: text: And so he does: Jules travels the globe to hug, among others, a chimpanzee, a giraffe, a gnu, a panda, a wombat and a humuhumu fish (fun to read aloud, whether you know how to pronounce it or not).
ref: 2007 November 11, Bruce Handy, “Escapes”, in New York Times:
glosses: The reef triggerfish.
kibbitzer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kibbitzers
Etymology: From kibbitz + -er.
Senses: examples: text: Vaughan Pratt, a Stanford professor emeritus in computer science who was one of the designers of Stanley and an officially recognized kibbitzer in the creation of Junior, said the six-hour race through faux suburbia was an important watershed.
ref: 2007 November 11, John Markoff, “No Drivers, but a Lot of Drive”, in New York Times:
glosses: Alternative form of kibitzer.
kibbitzers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kibbitzer
mesmerizable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more mesmerizable
form: most mesmerizable
form: mesmerisable
Etymology: From mesmerize + -able.
Senses: examples: text: The solid yet mesmerizable girls who fantasized, and still do, of being the muse to inspire songs of devotion, loves redemption and physical allure will climb into Wonderful Tonight as if it were that comfy pair of hip-hugging bell-bottoms with just the right amount of wear and sex appeal.
ref: 2007 November 11, “Songs of Devotion”, in New York Times:
glosses: Capable of being mesmerized.
topics: pseudoscience
glosses: Capable of storing a hypnotic force.
raw_tags: of metals
Derived terms: unmesmerizable
mesmerizations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mesmerization
mesmerisations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mesmerisation
mesmerically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more mesmerically
form: most mesmerically
Etymology: From mesmeric + -ally.
Senses: examples: text: "What do you want me to do?" she asked, in her nervousness holding the bowl of her glass — it was a large glass on a stem, that the Mexicans call a Copa, a Cup — and swaying the wine mesmerically.
ref: 1925, D.H. Lawrence, chapter XVIII, in Louis L. Martz, editor, Quetzalcoatl, New York: New Directions, published 1998, page 307:
glosses: In a mesmeric manner; by, or as if by, hypnotism.
midargument
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From mid- + argument.
Senses: examples: text: She accuses him of having a thing for white girls, which really sets him off — and Tomine takes voyeuristic delight in capturing every gruesome facial expression of a couple in midargument.
ref: 2007 November 11, Jim Windolf, “Asian Confusion”, in New York Times:
hypernyms: argument
glosses: A point in time during an argument.