cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
herbaceousness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From herbaceous + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: For the gooseberry-deprived among us, let’s just call it an instantly recognizable flavor that combines lemon, lime and tropical fruit with a sort of grassy herbaceousness.
ref: 2007 June 27, Eric Asimov, “The Evolution of Sauvignon Blanc”, in New York Times:
glosses: The state or quality of being herbaceous
insidery
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more insidery
form: most insidery
Etymology: From insider + -y.
Senses: examples: text: The short entries range from campy, insidery quips to trenchant cultural observations.
ref: 2007 February 25, Claudia La Rocco, “Astute or Campy, the Showdown Must Blog On”, in New York Times:
glosses: Characteristic of an insider; especially, reflecting an insider perspective.
huppah
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: huppahs
form: huppot
form: huppoth
Senses: examples: text: Rabbi Sidney Solomon led the ceremony under a huppah made from a tallit that Mr. Weinstein’s father took with him when he emigrated from Hungary in 1932.
ref: 2007 October 14, Marcelle S. Fischler, “Susan Pashman and Jack Weinstein”, in New York Times:
glosses: Alternative spelling of chuppah.
interruptive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more interruptive
form: most interruptive
Etymology: From interrupt + -ive.
Senses: examples: text: Oh, well, gee, look, if this communiqué is in any way—uh—sleep-interruptive, I'll—uh—re-telephone you later.
ref: 1997, John Cleese, Iain Johnstone, Fierce Creatures, spoken by Vince McCain (Kevin Kline), Jersey Films; distributed by Universal Pictures, published 1997:
text: “Advertising being an annoying, interruptive medium, ‘Hello’ is kind of a nice salutation, a friendly way of introducing yourself,” said Lee Clow, chairman and chief creative officer at the TBWA Worldwide unit of the Omnicom Group who has long worked for Apple.
ref: 2007 May 24, Stuart Elliott, “Madison Avenue Says Hello to ‘Hello,’ Again”, in New York Times:
glosses: Acting or tending to interrupt
Derived terms: interruptively
interruptiveness
uninterruptive
huanghuali
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˌhwɑŋhwɑːˈliː/
Etymology: From Mandarin 黃花梨／黄花梨 (huánghuālí).
Senses: examples: text: His proudest offering is a matched pair of 17th-century huanghuali tapered cabinets formerly in the Museum of Classical Chinese Furniture in Renaissance, Calif.
ref: 2008 March 14, Wendy Moonan, “Rare Works by Eminent Britons”, in New York Times:
glosses: The Chinese tree Dalbergia odorifera, or the wood of this tree, which is often used in Chinese woodworking.
historicize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: historicizes
form: historicizing
form: historicized
form: historicized
form: historicise
Etymology: From historic + -ize.
Senses: examples: text: The breaking point came in 1900 with the hostile reaction to his “Philosophy,” a public commission for the University of Vienna in which Klimt’s historicizing realism began to turn toward a darker, more distorted Symbolist treatment of figures and space.
ref: 2007 October 19, Roberta Smith, “Sensualist With a Cause in Old Vienna”, in New York Times:
glosses: To treat from the perspective of history or historicism
Derived terms: dehistoricize
historicizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of historicize
historicizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of historicize
historicized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of historicize
kewpie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kewpies
Etymology: Diminutive of Cupid; originally a brand name.
Senses: examples: text: A fat little kewpie clutching a pink heart place card stood at each cover.
ref: 1914 February 22, “Dinners, Dances, and Card Parties of the Week”, in New York Times:
glosses: A kewpie doll.
antennæ
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: But it is chiefly in the interesting family Chalcídidæ that we find the greatest number of species having ramose antennæ.
ref: 1837, J. O. Westwood, “Art. VIII. Description of a new Genus of British parasitic Hymenopterous Insects.”, in Magazine of Natural History, and Journal of Zoology, Botany, Mineralogy, Geology, and Meteorology, Longmans, page 258:
glosses: plural of antenna
gym shorts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: gym (short for gymnastics) + shorts
Senses: glosses: A type of relatively lightweight shorts with elastic waistbands designed for use in sports and physical activity, especially gym class. The terms basketball shorts and mesh shorts are used nearly synonymously with gym shorts in the United States, despite their different initial usage.
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lacrimal gland
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lacrimal glands
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
ophthalmology
sciences
glosses: Either of a pair of almond-shaped glands, one for each eye, that secrete the aqueous layer of the tear film.
Synonyms: tear gland
Related terms: Ciaccio's glands
Krause's glands
Wolfring's glands
Co-op
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Co-ops
Senses: glosses: Any of very many shops belonging to the Co-operative Group and its predecessors
Derived terms: Co-op mix
eulogism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: eulogisms
Etymology: From eulogy + -ism.
Senses: glosses: eulogistic language
eosinophilic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more eosinophilic
form: most eosinophilic
Etymology: From eosin + -o- + -philic.
Senses: topics: biology
cytology
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: That is readily stained with eosin.
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Of, pertaining to an eosinophil or to eosinophilia.
Derived terms: eosinophilic granulocyte
hypereosinophilic
noneosinophilic
headcover
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: headcovers
form: head-cover
form: head cover
Etymology: From head + cover.
Senses: examples: text: The Jew wears a headcover in order not to walk bareheaded.
ref: 1996, Macy Nulman, The Encyclopedia of Jewish Prayer, page 116:
glosses: A covering for the head; a head covering.
reconvicted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of reconvict
reconvicted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: convicted again
Salukis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Saluki
Saluki
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /səˈɫuki/
Forms: form: Salukis
Etymology: From Arabic سَلُوقِيّ (salūqiyy). Doublet of sloughi.
Senses: synonyms: Gazelle Hound
Persian Greyhound
Royal Dog of Egypt
glosses: An ancient sighthound breed of dog with a silky coat originating in the Middle East, once sacred to the Egyptians.
singsongs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of singsong
singsongs
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of singsong
spitzes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of spitz
many-sorted logic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: many-sorted logics
Senses: topics: human-sciences
logic
mathematics
philosophy
sciences
glosses: A logic that directly supports classification of entities into disjunct sorts.
trepanner
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: trepanners
Etymology: From trepan + -er.
Senses: glosses: A person who trepans.
glosses: A trepanning tool.
trousering
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of trouser
trousering
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: trouserings
Senses: glosses: fabric for making trousers
undenied
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + denied.
Senses: glosses: Not denied
on-ramps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of on-ramp
onslips
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of onslip
adamantyl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: adamantyls
Etymology: From adamantane + -yl.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The univalent radical derived from adamantane
Derived terms: adamantylamine
adapalene
adarotene
anaphases
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of anaphase
antilatency
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: anti-latency
Etymology: From anti- + latency.
Senses: glosses: The condition of being antilatent
antilatent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: anti-latent
Etymology: From anti- + latent.
Senses: glosses: Describing an antibody to a latent antigen.
arpen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: arpens
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of arpent (old unit of measure)
archaeozoological
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From archaeo- + zoological.
Senses: topics: archaeology
history
human-sciences
sciences
glosses: Of or pertaining to archaeozoology
aseasonal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more aseasonal
form: most aseasonal
Etymology: From a- + seasonal.
Senses: glosses: Not seasonal.
Derived terms: aseasonally
autofluorescing
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From auto- + fluorescing.
Senses: glosses: Exhibiting autofluorescence
mathematical realism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
glosses: A doctrine that mathematical entities such as numbers and triangles exist independently of the human mind.
woundedness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From wounded + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: […] Ms. Ross translated Holiday’s animal woundedness into a weepy, soap-opera pseudo-sincerity.
ref: 2007 April 9, Stephen Holden, “Reflections on a Diva Who Withers Not”, in New York Times:
glosses: The quality or state of being wounded
yeasted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From yeast (noun) + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: I also made ridiculously delicious yeasted doughnut bits (and covered them with chocolate glaze).
ref: 2009 January 24, Vicky Sanderson, “Healthy cooking, healthy eating”, in Toronto Star:
glosses: Treated with yeast; fermented.
yeasted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: See yeast (verb).
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of yeast
whiskering
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From whisker + -ing.
Senses: examples: text: Jeans come in various states of distress, but the best are deep indigo without washing, whiskering or ravaging of any kind ($165).
ref: 2007 October 25, Armand Limnander, “Tangled in Ivy, With a Twist”, in New York Times:
topics: fashion
lifestyle
glosses: The fading of creases in blue jeans, especially around the crotch; often added artificially in order to simulate a "worn" look.
topics: media
printing
publishing
glosses: A defect of gravure printing characterized by printed areas possessing hairlike tendrils of ink sticking out into non-image areas.
topics: category-theory
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: The act of composing a natural transformation and a functor to produce another natural transformation.
rémoulades
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rémoulade
warehouselike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more warehouselike
form: most warehouselike
Etymology: From warehouse + -like.
Senses: examples: text: For much of the day, there was not much to report from outside the warehouselike garage […].
ref: 2007 March 20, James Barron, “Celebrity Offender, Model Begins Sanitation Duties”, in New York Times:
glosses: Resembling a warehouse
laup
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: laups
form: lauping
form: lauped
form: lauped
Etymology: From Old Norse hlaupa.
Senses: examples: Ther's noa end to this scoppedril o a puppy, he's allus lowpin all o'er t'shop
glosses: to jump
wash room
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wash rooms
Senses: glosses: An unfurnished room within a building used for hand washing, bathing, laundry, dish washing, etc.
glosses: A lavatory; a room designed and equipped for washing hands, normally fitted with basins or sinks, drains, and running water available from taps or faucets.
glosses: A similarly equipped room in an institution, such as a hospital or school or manufactory, designated for washing hands, bathing, laundering, or a combination of such.
glosses: A specially designed chamber in a laboratory or industrial plant designed for emergency bathing such as may be needed for human exposure to harmful chemicals and the like.
glosses: A bathroom, lavatory, toilet, restroom, or powder room.
Related terms: word: basin
word: faucet
word: sink
word: spigot
english: as basin or sink
translation: as basin or sink
word: lavatory
word: water line
word: water pipe
word: water tap
verjus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Borrowed from French verjus.
Senses: examples: text: Coat the greens only with verjus, the slightly tart juice of unripe grapes.
ref: 2008 March 2, Howard G. Goldberg, “To Accompany Asparagus”, in New York Times:
text: To the food. It is a tasting menu, but a generous one. Among Haworth’s favourites is a dish of slow-cooked leeks that comes crowned with a handful of frozen verjus (pressed unripe grapes). He also likes the barbecued mushrooms.
ref: 2025 February 14, Morwenna Ferrier, “‘Butter is a perception’: inside the UK’s first plant-based Michelin-starred restaurant”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
glosses: Alternative form of verjuice.
backcrossing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: backcrossings
form: back-crossing
Etymology: From back + crossing.
Senses: topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: The crossing of a hybrid with one of its parents or an individual genetically similar to its parent.
backcrossing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: back-crossing
Etymology: From back + crossing.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of backcross
bandlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more bandlike
form: most bandlike
Etymology: From band + -like.
Senses: glosses: Having the form of a band.
cervids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cervid
vanitas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈvæn.ɪˌtɑs/
Forms: form: vanitases
Etymology: From Latin vanitas. Doublet of vanity.
Senses: examples: text: In her straight-ahead photographs of storefronts, an arrangement of shoes or shrink-wrapped furniture becomes a vanitas still life.
ref: 2009 March 6, Holland Cotter, “Change and Permanence, Captured by Cameras”, in New York Times:
qualifier: painting
glosses: A type of still life painting, symbolic of mortality, characteristic of Dutch painting of the 16th and 17th centuries.
Related terms: memento mori
unstuffy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unstuffy
form: most unstuffy
Etymology: From un- + stuffy.
Senses: examples: text: What was surprising, though, was the blunt and unstuffy way in which he held up his hands.
ref: 2009 February 5, Sam Jones, “Obama's presidential apologies for backing senator”, in The Guardian:
glosses: Not stuffy; straightforward
unpretty
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: unprettier
form: unprettiest
Etymology: From un- + pretty (adjective).
Senses: examples: text: I wish I could tie you up in my shoes, / Make you feel unpretty too. / I was told I was beautiful / But what does that mean to you?
ref: 1999, TLC (band), Unpretty (song)
text: It is bounded […] by Conduit Avenue, the unpretty highway that moves Brooklyn traffic to Kennedy International Airport.
ref: 2008 March 29, Andy Newman, “Eight Undeveloped Acres and Secret Videotapes Figure in Official’s Trial”, in New York Times:
glosses: Not pretty.
Synonyms: unlovely
unpretty
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: unpretties
form: unprettying
form: unprettied
form: unprettied
Etymology: From un- + pretty (verb).
Senses: examples: text: Vast gloom unprettied the features of Herman Ruth today when he gave himself to serious contemplation of the distressing futility of many things and how increasingly tough it's becoming for an honest feller to get along in this wearying world.
ref: 2006, Leigh Montville, The Big Bam: The Life and Times of Babe Ruth:
text: I turned toward him. I wanted to unpretty Simon's prettiness—bloody his outfit, crush his nose, and knock out his teeth.
ref: 2011, Ira Sukrungruang, Talk Thai: The Adventures of Buddhist Boy:
text: I looked around and saw a blond woman wearing old-lady glasses and sitting by herself. It was her. The woman from the modeling spread. It's always a little silly to see pretty women trying to unpretty themselves with glasses.
ref: 2013, Marc Maron, Attempting Normal:
glosses: To make unpretty or less attractive
cervid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsɜː.vɪd/
ipa: /ˈsɝ.vɪd/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)vɪd
Forms: form: cervids
Etymology: From translingual Cervus + -id.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Any animal of the family Cervidae; a deer.
Related terms: cervoid
unpointed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + pointed.
Senses: examples: text: Ms. Marin uses a deliberately slack, unballetic form; limbs are relaxed rather than stretched and feet are unpointed.
ref: 2007 October 4, Roslyn Sulcas, “For $10, a Smorgasbord of the Popular and Daring”, in New York Times:
glosses: Not pointed (formed into a point).
examples: text: The masons laid the brick walls unevenly, leaving unpointed mortar between bricks for a rough-cast texture.
ref: 2007, Russell Versaci, Creating a New Old House: Yesterday's Character for Today's Home:
glosses: Not pointed (finished by filling with cement or mortar).
examples: an unpointed vowel
topics: media
publishing
typography
glosses: Not marked with a point.
unpointed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of unpoint
chlorotic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more chlorotic
form: most chlorotic
Senses: examples: text: “I don't mean all of your friends—only a small proportion—which, however, connects your circle with that deadly, idle, brainless bunch—the insolent chatterers at the opera,[…]the chlorotic squatters on huge yachts, the speed-mad fugitives from the furies of ennui, the neurotic victims of mental cirrhosis,[…]!”
ref: 1907 August, Robert W[illiam] Chambers, chapter VI, in The Younger Set, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, →OCLC:
glosses: Of, pertaining to, or afflicted with chlorosis, anaemic.
Derived terms: antichlorotic
clearcut
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more clearcut
form: most clearcut
Etymology: From clear + cut.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of clear cut.
Derived terms: clearcutness
clearcut
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: clearcuts
Etymology: From clear + cut.
Senses: examples: text: Can clearcuts increase bird species richness in managed forests?
ref: 2008, Czech Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Institute of Agricultural and Food Information, Journal of Forest Science - Volume 54 - Page 189
topics: business
forestry
glosses: The area of the forest cleared of trees.
Related terms: clearcutting
coassemble
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: coassembles
form: coassembling
form: coassembled
form: coassembled
form: co-assemble
Etymology: From co- + assemble.
Senses: glosses: To assemble along with others.
glosses: To make a coassembly.
coassembled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: co-assembled
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of coassemble
coassembled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: co-assembled
Senses: glosses: assembled along with others
coassembly
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: coassemblies
form: co-assembly
Etymology: From co- + assembly.
Senses: glosses: The process of coassembling.
glosses: An assembly that has been assembled in stages, often by different people, from subassemblies.
subassembly
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: subassemblies
Etymology: From sub- + assembly.
Senses: examples: Holonyms: superassembly, supercomposite
glosses: An assembly that is assembled with others to form a larger assembly.
Related terms: component
composite
part
subcomponent
subpart
supercomposite
codiscovery
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: codiscoveries
form: co-discovery
Etymology: From co- + discovery.
Senses: glosses: A discovery made by two or more people, especially such a discovery made independently.
building site
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: building sites
Senses: examples: text: Amid confusion over whether it was appropriate for any building sites to remain open, Cabinet Minister Michael Gove said some construction workers could continue to work but that they should "exercise some common sense" and continue to practise social distancing.
ref: 2020 April 8, “Network News: Crossrail heads the construction projects placed on hold”, in RAIL, page 13:
topics: business
construction
manufacturing
glosses: The site, the place where a building is located, is currently under construction, or shall be constructed (including structures other than buildings).
topics: archaeology
history
human-sciences
sciences
glosses: The site of a former structure, indicated by an assemblage of features, artifacts or debris, remote-sensing data, or historic records (e.g., deed records).
glosses: A messy, disorganized area.
Synonyms: topics: construction
manufacturing
business
word: construction site
codominant
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /kəʊˈdɒmɪnənt/
Forms: form: co-dominant
Etymology: From co- + dominant.
Senses: examples: codominant species in a region
glosses: Equally dominant.
examples: text: A and B are ‘co-dominant’ versions of the same gene, O being the ‘recessive’ form of it.
ref: 1999, Matt Ridley, Genome, Harper Perennial, published 2004, page 137:
topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: Describing two or more alleles that are equally dominant.
codominant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kəʊˈdɒmɪnənt/
Forms: form: codominants
form: co-dominant
Etymology: From co- + dominant.
Senses: examples: text: Landowners cannot afford to cut submerchantable trees, yet many hesitate to cut merchantable dominants and codominants at the risk of downgrading the residual stand.
ref: 1966, John R. Bassett, Thinning loblolly pine from above and below, New Orleans, La: Southern Forest Experiment Station:
glosses: A species or organism that jointly dominates a region.
undertaxed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more undertaxed
form: most undertaxed
Etymology: From under- + taxed.
Senses: examples: text: “Mexico is an undertaxed country, not an overtaxed country,” said Damian Fraser, the head of Latin America research at UBS Securities in Mexico City.
ref: 2007 September 15, Elisabeth Malkin, “Mexico Enacts a Tax-Overhaul Bill”, in New York Times:
glosses: Taxed at less than an appropriate level
congression
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /kənˈɡɹɛʃən/
Forms: form: congressions
Etymology: From Latin congressiōnem.
Senses: glosses: The act of coming together; congress.
topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: The movement of chromosomes to the spindle equator during mitosis
Derived terms: congressional
underregulated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more underregulated
form: most underregulated
Etymology: From under- + regulated.
Senses: examples: text: “This is a harsh but probably necessary strategy to re-establish control over an underregulated sector,” David Zweig[…] said of the death-sentence verdict.
ref: 2007 July 7, David Barboza, “China Sentences Official to Death for Corruption”, in New York Times:
antonyms: overregulated
hypernyms: regulated
coordinate_terms: deregulated
unregulated
glosses: Insufficiently regulated.
Related terms: deregulation
dysregulated
underregulation
underregulated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From under- + regulated.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of underregulate
undersung
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more undersung
form: most undersung
Etymology: From under- + sung.
Senses: examples: text: But plays dont perform themselves, and the most inspiring story of the season may be the return to the center spotlight of that undersung asset, the actor.
ref: 2007 December 30, Charles Isherwood, “Plays Well With Others”, in New York Times:
glosses: Insufficiently valued or praised
copurification
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: copurifications
form: co-purification
Etymology: From co- + purification.
Senses: examples: text: To enhance the specificity of the products obtained, serial copurifications were performed for each protein and resulting mRNAs were reverse-transcribed, radiolabeled, and used to screen colonies identified in the first screen.
ref: 2007, Douglas T. Carrell, The Genetics of Male Infertility, page 175:
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The purification or two or more materials during the same process.
Related terms: copurified
copurify
underhyped
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more underhyped
form: most underhyped
Etymology: From under- + hyped.
Senses: examples: text: All Friday nights at the Mercury Lounge should be like this, and many are: two excellent, underhyped bands and a cover charge that doesn’t necessitate a trip to the A.T.M.
ref: 2007 February 16, The New York Times, “Pop and Rock Listings”, in New York Times:
glosses: Receiving less hype than deserved
cosegregating
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From co- + segregating.
Senses: topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: Describing closely linked genes that are inherited together.
Related terms: cosegregated
underdeliver
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: underdelivers
form: underdelivering
form: underdelivered
form: underdelivered
Etymology: From under- + deliver.
Senses: examples: text: […] the result was a warning to all exhibition organisers about the dangers of overpromising and underdelivering when promoting events.
ref: 2009 March 3, “Promoters fake Howard support”, in Herald Sun:
text: Hope Hicks, one of the President’s longest-serving aides, warned Parscale against touting ticket request numbers, reminding him that the number one rule in politics is not to overpromise and underdeliver, a source familiar with the matter said.
ref: 2020 July 13, Michael Warren, Jeremy Diamond, Ryan Nobles and Fredreka Schouten, “Amid rising coronavirus cases, the Trump campaign struggles to get its rally machine going”, in CNN:
text: "[...] If the economy has tanked... then we don't want to over-promise and under-deliver."
ref: 2022 October 5, “Network News: Private sector's role in a publicly-owned railway”, in RAIL, number 967, page 16:
glosses: To deliver less, or at an inferior level, than promised or expected
Related terms: underdelivery
crossbracing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: crossbracings
form: cross bracing
form: cross-bracing
Etymology: From cross- + bracing.
Senses: glosses: The use of diagonally crossing struts to add stability and rigidity to a structure.
unbreachable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + breachable.
Senses: examples: text: […] we all love work and have a sworn, unbreachable fealty to our employer.
ref: 2009 January 7, Zoe Williams, “It's every cough mixture for itself in these times of ill”, in The Guardian:
glosses: Impossible to breach
ultraslim
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From ultra- + slim.
Senses: examples: text: […] Lenovo was putting its solid-state drives into its ultraslim ThinkPad X300 laptop.
ref: 2008 March 13, Danielle Belopotosky, “Solid-State Drives, the Costly Innards of Slim Laptops”, in New York Times:
glosses: Extremely slim.
ultraslim
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ultraslims
Etymology: From ultra- + slim.
Senses: glosses: A product, such as a computer or a camera, having a very slim form factor.
textilelike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more textilelike
form: most textilelike
Etymology: From textile + -like.
Senses: examples: text: A wall […] will be covered on Tuesday in a shimmering textilelike metal tapestry, fashioned from aluminum, copper wire and bottle caps.
ref: 2008 January 4, Carol Vogel, “Finalists Named for Hugo Boss Prize”, in New York Times:
glosses: Resembling textile
turbos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of turbo
turbos
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of turbo
cyclotrigallane
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cyclotrigallanes
Etymology: From cyclo- + tri- + gallane.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any compound containing a ring of three gallium atoms; they readily dimerize to form an analogue of benzene
torrentially
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more torrentially
form: most torrentially
Etymology: From torrential + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: His characters tend to be either laconic or torrentially talkative.
ref: 2007 April 29, Tibor Fischer, “Hungarian Graffiti”, in New York Times:
glosses: In a torrential manner, or to a torrential degree
cyclotrigermene
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cyclotrigermenes
Senses: topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The germanium analogue of cyclopropene
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any organic compound containing this structure
templelike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more templelike
form: most templelike
Etymology: From temple + -like.
Senses: examples: text: Devi, on Union Square, is named for an Indian goddess and favors templelike décor.
ref: 2008 January 13, Matthew Fishbane, “A Passage to India”, in New York Times:
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a temple
decorrelates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of decorrelate
superyacht
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: superyachts
Etymology: From super- + yacht.
Senses: examples: text: Tom Perkins[…] is putting his superyacht, the Maltese Falcon, up for sale, just two years after he first set sail on it.
ref: 2008 March 30, Elizabeth Olson, “A Google Friend Is Now Facebook’s”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 26 Nov 2022:
text: This latest concept comes as demand for superyachts continues to grow – the global fleet jumped from 3,906 crafts in 2009 to 5,646 in 2019, according to the Superyacht Group. […] Recent examples include Ultra2, a new 95-meter superyacht from Berlin-based T.Fotiadis Design that has its own on-board safe room.
ref: 2020 November 25, Tamara Hardingham-Gill, “The $550 million megayacht concept that looks like a shark”, in CNN:
text: If it has crew working aboard, it's a yacht. If it's more than ninety-eight feet [30 m], it's a superyacht.
ref: 2022 July 18, Evan Osnos, “The Haves and the Have-Yachts”, in The New Yorker, →ISSN:
synonyms: megayacht
white boat
coordinate_terms: gigayacht
glosses: A very large luxury yacht.
plenties
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɛntiz
Senses: glosses: plural of plenty
superyachts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of superyacht
decorrelate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /diːˈkɒɹəleɪt/
Forms: form: decorrelates
form: decorrelating
form: decorrelated
form: decorrelated
Etymology: From de- + correlate.
Senses: glosses: To reduce correlation.
Related terms: decorrelation
superthin
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more superthin
form: most superthin
Etymology: From super- + thin.
Senses: examples: text: The diodes […] are used, for instance, in the superthin screen of the new Apple Air laptops.
ref: 2008 January 27, Phil Patton, “So Efficient, L.E.D.’s Are Now Fashion Plates, Too”, in New York Times:
glosses: Very thin
Related terms: ultrathin
ultraslim
diastemata
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of diastema
swagged
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of swag
droughted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more droughted
form: most droughted
Etymology: From drought + -ed.
Senses: glosses: Affected by drought.
Derived terms: nondroughted
droughting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From drought + -ing.
Senses: glosses: Exposure to drought
superlow
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From super- + low.
Senses: examples: text: […] the magazine’s editors warn that a superlow price should be the first clue.
ref: 2008 January 20, “The Real Price of Fakes”, in New York Times:
glosses: Very low
side horse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: side horses
Senses: glosses: A pommel horse
superchic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From super- + chic.
Senses: examples: text: Why does no one show up at an Oscar party in Prada’s superchic turban?
ref: 2007 August 26, Suzy Menkes, “Sexual Preference”, in New York Times:
glosses: Very chic
superblocks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of superblock
ergodicity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ergodicities
Etymology: From ergodic + -ity.
Senses: examples: text: Hence it is no problem to learn by making hundreds of thousands of largely random, and frequently fatal, mistakes. The ergodicity assumption does not hold outside the safe toy worlds of Atari.
ref: 2020, Brian Christian, “Conclusion”, in The Alignment Problem, New York: W.W. Norton & Company, →ISBN:
glosses: The condition of being ergodic.
glosses: The extent to which something is ergodic.
Derived terms: nonergodicity
Related terms: stochasticity
superhumanly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more superhumanly
form: most superhumanly
Etymology: From superhuman + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: […] Mr. Leleux (born Robert O’Doole) pushes his luck to make them sound superhumanly snappy.
ref: 2008 January 14, Janet Maslin, “A Mother and Son Well Coordinated in Theatrical Flair and Acerbic Humor”, in New York Times:
glosses: In a superhuman way, or to a superhuman extent
tuttis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tutti
superblock
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: superblocks
Etymology: From super- + block.
Senses: examples: text: All are blots on the urban environment, as blandly homogenous in their own way as the Modernist superblocks they were intended to improve on.
ref: 2008 March 21, Nicolai Ouroussoff, “What Will Be Left of Gehry’s Vision for Brooklyn?”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 25 Jan 2021:
text: Conceived as part of a 1950s-era slum-clearance program, the immense superblock required the demolition of an entire neighborhood of dilapidated tenements and brownstones.
ref: 2009 February 20, Nicolai Ouroussoff, “Boxy to Bold: A Concert Hall Busts Out”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 09 Nov 2020:
text: Superblocks are a relatively new urban planning concept that has been pioneered in Barcelona, Spain. The basic idea is to identify a 3 x 3 grid of 9 city blocks and restrict vehicle traffic to the streets on the perimeter. The interior streets then become available for walking, biking, and expanded green space.
ref: 2022 March 8, Sarah DeWeerdt, “Barcelona-style “superblocks” could make a surprising number of cities greener and less car-centric”, in Anthropocene Magazine, archived from the original on 20 Oct 2022:
text: Barcelona’s flagship policy, which has attracted interest from around the world, is its superblocks, where groups of nine city blocks are transformed into people-friendly spaces, with benches, play areas and gardens. Cars may enter but cannot transit the superblock.
ref: 2022 July 29, Rory Carroll, Stephen Burgen, “Fare deal: Ireland joins Europe-wide efforts to coax people out of cars”, in The Guardian, →ISSN, archived from the original on 04 Aug 2022:
topics: architecture
qualifier: urban studies
glosses: A very large block of buildings; in modern urban planning often designed for local needs, with access and speed restrictions.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A segment of metadata describing the file system on a block device.
decontrolled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /diːkənˈtɹəʊɫd/
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of decontrol
decontrolled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /diːkənˈtɹəʊɫd/
Forms: form: more decontrolled
form: most decontrolled
Senses: examples: text: The acolytes are now swirling their red fabric sheaths. The man on the table is, if anything, more decontrolled, more uncentered, than before.
ref: 2004, David Gere, How to Make Dances in an Epidemic: Tracking Choreography in the Age of AIDS, page 249:
text: “very single tenant living in a decontrolled apartment can file for overcharges.
ref: 2009 March 6, Charles V. Bagli, “Rents at Stuyvesant Town Were Wrongly Raised, Court Says”, in New York Times:
glosses: Released from a form of control.
subtherapeutic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From sub- + therapeutic.
Senses: examples: text: […] they require that the pigs be humanely raised and free of subtherapeutic antibiotics. “
ref: 2009 February 1, Christine Muhlke, “Aging Gracefully”, in New York Times:
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Administered at levels lower than would be used in actual treatment of a disease
strozzapreti
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Italian strozzapreti (literally “priest-choker”).
Senses: examples: text: 1 pound orecchiette, strozzapreti or other small macaroni
ref: 2007 February 7, “Recipe: Pasta With Wild Boar Sausage and Kale”, in New York Times:
topics: cooking
food
lifestyle
glosses: An elongated form of hand-rolled pasta.
delistings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of delisting
storklike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more storklike
form: most storklike
Etymology: From stork + -like.
Senses: examples: text: A hovering, storklike balance with the body curling round an unseen sphere--one bent leg raised halfway up in front, bent arms and torso describing the space.
ref: 1988 April 29, Cerinda Survant, “The Invisible Dancer”, in Chicago Reader:
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a stork.
streetwear
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From street + -wear.
Senses: examples: text: That's never going to turn into hot streetwear, is it?
ref: 2009 January 1, Zoe Williams, “Zoe Williams: Straw's vest is full of holes”, in The Guardian:
topics: fashion
lifestyle
glosses: urban fashion; clothing that can be worn on the street
stocktake
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stocktakes
Etymology: From stock + take.
Senses: examples: text: Patrick Barkham attends the annual stocktake at London Zoo, and things are getting confusing
ref: 2009 January 8, “The Guardian: G2”, in The Guardian:
glosses: The process of making an inventory of stock in a store or other location.
examples: text: Of all GE's journals, this diary most closely documents her processes of composition, and the list of 'Order of Writings' in the front of the book (evidently written in 1876 or'7) provides a stocktake of her career.
ref: 2000, George Eliot, Margaret Harris, Judith Johnston, The Journals of George Eliot, page 91:
text: Ben closed his eyes tightly for a quick stocktake of the situation as his heart and mind.
ref: 2009, Brendon Lancaster, Hoodie, page 32:
text: Bordering practices that are seemingly at odds with the modern geopolitical imaginary, such as those explored in Chapter 1, demand a stocktake of what critical resources might be available for new ways of thinking about what borders are, where they come from, and what they do in contemporary political life.
ref: 2012, Nick Vaughan-Williams, Border Politics, page 38:
text: She did a quick stocktake of the man who was standing there, half-hidden behind the door, glowering at her.
ref: 2014, Victoria Purman, Someone Like You:
glosses: The act or process of taking stock of something, or the result of that assessment.
quantitative easing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: quantitative easings
Etymology: Possibly partly after Japanese 量的緩和 (ryōteki kanwa, “quantitative easing”), short form of 量的 (ryōteki, “quantitative”) 金融 (kin'yū, “financial”) 緩和 (kanwa, “easing”).
Senses: examples: text: Summers believes that quantitative easing (printing a lot more yen and getting them circulated) is the most effective way of doing that.
ref: 1999 September 18, “ANALYSIS: Professor Summers teaching Japan a Lesson”, in Asia Times:
text: 2012, The Economist, Jul 14th 2012 issue, Quantitative easing: QE, or not QE?
In times of severe economic distress, however, rates may fall to zero. Cue QE. When the Bank of Japan (BoJ) pioneered QE in 2001, its goal was to buy enough securities to create a desired quantity of reserves (hence, “quantitative easing”). Its actions, it hoped, would raise asset prices and end deflation.
topics: economics
sciences
glosses: A monetary policy in which the central bank increases the money supply in the banking system, as by purchasing bonds from banks.
stickered
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of sticker
Derived terms: unstickered
stepsiblings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stepsibling
stocktakes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stocktake
eumelanin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: eumelanins
Etymology: From eu- + melanin.
Senses: glosses: A dark brown pigment related to melanin
Derived terms: eumelaninogenesis
Related terms: pheomelanin
stepsibling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stepsiblings
form: step-sibling
Etymology: From step- + sibling.
Senses: examples: text: With multiple stepparents, stepsiblings, half siblings and pseudosiblings, it’s a whole new type of family[…].
ref: 2007 April 19, Kate Murphy, “Stepfamilies Try to Stretch Their Space”, in New York Times:
synonyms: step
glosses: The child of one's stepparent by a previous relationship.
stegosaurus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˌstɛɡəˈsɔːɹəs/
Forms: form: stegosauruses
form: stegosauri
Etymology: From the genus name Stegosaurus. From Ancient Greek στέγος (stégos, “roof”) + σαῦρος (saûros, “lizard”).
Senses: examples: text: "You will observe that both the pterodactyl and the stegosaurus are Jurassic, and therefore of a great age in the order of life."
ref: 1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC:
text: So you tell your friends about it, including the people who have no interest in birding and wouldn't know a Le Conte's sparrow from a stegosaurus.
ref: 1988 April 8, Jerry Sullivan, “Field & Street”, in Chicago Reader:
glosses: A stegosaur, a member of the suborder Stegosauria, of the order Ornithischia of the middle Jurassic to early Cretaceous period.
glosses: A member of the genus Stegosaurus within this suborder.
evapotranspirational
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ɪˌvæpoʊˌtɹænspɪˈɹeɪʃənəl/
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to evapotranspiration
stagebound
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From stage + bound.
Senses: examples: text: But the playwright is stagebound: the best he or she can provide (in cinematic terms) is a series of medium-long shots.
ref: 1989 December 22, Jack Helbig, “Sleuth”, in Chicago Reader:
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
theater
glosses: Restricted to the stage
excitonic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From exciton + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to excitons or excitonics
Derived terms: excitonically
interexcitonic
multiexcitonic
nonexcitonic
sombrely
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From sombre + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: But I feel I owe a thank you to someone," Ray Keating explains sombrely.
ref: 2009 February 12, Clementine Cuneo, “'I'm no believer, but I owe someone'”, in Herald Sun, archived from the original on 19 Feb 2009:
glosses: Alternative form of somberly.
excitonics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From exciton + -ics.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: The study of excitons.
soukous
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From French secouer (“to shake”).
Senses: examples: text: The title makes reference to Congolese soukous music, and so does Mr. Koenig’s guitar figure.
ref: 2007 June 18, Kelefa Sanneh, “Preppie Afro-Pop and Other Odd Blends”, in New York Times:
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A genre of African popular music, resembling rumba, that originated in the Congo region in the 1930s.
ferromagnetically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From ferromagnetic + -ally.
Senses: glosses: In a ferromagnetic manner
glosses: With regard to ferromagnetism
soundboard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: soundboards
Etymology: From sound + board.
Senses: examples: text: To many a row of pipes the soundboard breathes.
ref: 1667, John Milton, Paradise Lost:
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A wide, flat board placed within, or forming part of the body of, a musical instrument in order to improve vibrations and increase volume.
topics: audio
electrical-engineering
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A mixing console used to combine and blend different audio sources to a single output.
examples: text: Then, as now, they spent their days walking around the city they love, frequenting favorite restaurants or cooking meals at home, and serving as each other’s creative soundboard.
ref: 2008 February 3, Molly Reid, “Sean Yseult and Chris Lee”, in New York Times:
glosses: A sounding board.
examples: text: Check out these celebrity soundboards and play prank phone calls on your friends, family, and co workers...
ref: 2007, starmuscle@gmail.com, “Celebrity Soundboards”, in alt.gossip.celebrities (Usenet):
glosses: A control panel offering playback of various sound effects.
soldout
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: Every night was a soldout crowd.
ref: 2009 February 21, Dave Feschuk, “Raptors blown out on Broadway”, in Toronto Star:
glosses: Alternative form of sold-out.
sneakered
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From sneaker + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: Red lipsticked, smelling strongly of talc, showing off a swollen, sneakered foot, she proclaimed herself “the queen of fashion, and Mr. Boiz the prince.”
ref: 2008 February 8, Susan Dominus, “A New York Fashion Icon, and Yet a Man of Mystery”, in New York Times:
glosses: Wearing sneakers
forespore
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: forespores
Etymology: From fore- + spore.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: The structure, in bacteria, in which an endospore develops
soundboards
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of soundboard