cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
Botocudo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Botocudos
Etymology: Borrowed from Portuguese botocudo, from botoque (“plug”), in allusion to the wooden disks worn in their lips and ears.
Senses: glosses: One of a tribe of South American Indians of eastern Brazil.
Botocudos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Botocudo
druzhinas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of druzhina
druzhina
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: druzhinas
Etymology: From Russian дружи́на (družína, “fellowship”), from друг (drug, “companion, friend”).
Senses: glosses: A retinue in the service of a chieftain in mediaeval Slavic Europe.
Related terms: droog
yackety
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more yackety
form: most yackety
Senses: examples: text: I don't remember why I was in such a yackety mood. My mouth was obviously going much faster than my brain's ability to keep up!
ref: 2009, David L. Thomas, A Teacher's Gift, page 33:
text: But Mr. Eighner was such an agreeably yackety companion that his plight sometimes felt abstract.
ref: 2009 March 25, Dwight Garner, “Dispatches From the Streets: The Grim Particulars of Homelessness”, in New York Times:
glosses: talkative, garrulous
Related terms: yackety-yak
countertrafficking
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From counter- + trafficking.
Senses: examples: text: Mexican officials complain about mixed signals from the United States, noting that even as the administration steps up law enforcement help on the border, Congress has cut back funds for a three-year, $1.4 billion drug countertrafficking campaign called the Merida Initiative.
ref: 2009 March 26, Mark Landler, “Clinton Says U.S. Feeds Mexico Drug Trade”, in New York Times:
glosses: Serving to counter human trafficking or drug trafficking.
raw_tags: of legislation
darbouka
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌdɑːˈbuːkə/
Forms: form: darboukas
Senses: examples: text: The youths scratched at their violins and the Holocaust survivors clapped along, trying to keep up with the changing rhythms of the darbouka drums.
ref: 2009 March 26, Isabel Kershner, “Palestinians Serenade Survivors in Israel”, in New York Times:
glosses: Alternative spelling of darbuka.
darboukas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of darbouka
fullcourt
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From full + court.
Senses: examples: text: Missouri does not employ fullcourt pressure all the time, but it uses varying defensive schemes to remain unpredictable.
ref: 2009 March 26, Thayer Evans, “Missouri Thrives on Running Opponents Ragged”, in New York Times:
topics: ball-games
basketball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: Of or pertaining to the entire basketball court.
Related terms: fullcourt press
full-court press
full court press
minican
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: minicans
Etymology: From mini- + can.
Senses: examples: text: The 260 households on the second route were given eight-gallon minicans and biodegradable liners for food residuals.
ref: 1996, BioCycle, volume 37, numbers 1-6:
text: You might wash those down with a Coke Swigger — a cute minican that holds three ounces of noncarbonated cola.
ref: 2009 March 26, David Pogue, “When Laptops Go Light”, in New York Times:
glosses: A small can.
minicans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of minican
swoonily
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more swoonily
form: most swoonily
Etymology: From swoony + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Claude, swoonily charming, master of the “stratospheric orgasm” and genuinely in love with Eloise — their rupture came when she had an abortion without telling him — incorporates a whole buttery serving of great-French-lover clichés.
ref: 2009 March 26, Richard Eder, “Even a Failing Mind Feels the Tug of History”, in New York Times:
glosses: In a swoony manner.
trendspotting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From trend + spotting.
Senses: examples: text: Complete coverage of the New York, Milan and Paris collections, including runway slide shows, videos, blogging from Cathy Horyn, trendspotting, the Moment blog from T: The Times Style Magazine and more.
ref: 2009 March 26, Guy Trebay, “Fashion’s New and Bigger Role in India”, in New York Times:
glosses: The identification of new trends.
Related terms: trendspotter
yellowhorn
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: yellowhorns
Etymology: From yellow + horn.
Senses: examples: text: If you must have something exotic, though, consider two non-native trees: the Japanese snowbell and the yellowhorn from China.
ref: 2009 March 26, Stephen Orr, “Alternatives to the Usual”, in New York Times:
glosses: Xanthoceras sorbifolium, the Chinese flowering chestnut.
hypercivilized
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more hypercivilized
form: most hypercivilized
Etymology: From hyper- + civilized.
Senses: examples: text: A fascination with the natural world — which seems at once fragile and enduring, forbiddingly strange and intimately known — is an obvious response to, and escape from, our hypercivilized, technology-saturated, globalized habitations.
ref: 2009 March 27, A. O. Scott, “Film Festival: The City as Bane, Nature as Balm”, in New York Times:
glosses: Very highly civilized.
pipeliner
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pipeliners
Etymology: From pipeline + -er.
Senses: examples: text: […] The other pipeliners would hoot and often somebody hollered, 'Look at them rags!' Hence the name."
ref: 1991 September 22, A. C. Greene, “From Rags to Rather”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 27 Nov 2022:
text: Danny Wayland Seals was born Feb. 8, 1948, in McCamey, Tex. His father, an amateur guitarist who performed with Bob Wills and Ernest Tubb, worked as a pipeliner in the oil fields of West Texas. Mr. Seals’s older brother, Jim Seals, played in fiddle championships as a child and later had several pop hits as part of the 1970s duo Seals & Crofts.
ref: 2009 March 27, Bill Friskics-Warren, “Dan Seals, 61, Pop Duo’s England Dan, Dies”, in The New York Times:
glosses: One who works on oil pipelines.
glosses: One who works in the laying or maintenance of pipelines.
pipeliners
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pipeliner
postfilm
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From post- + film.
Senses: glosses: After watching a film.
prefilm
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pre- + film.
Senses: glosses: Before watching a film.
trendspotter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: trendspotters
Etymology: From trend + spotter.
Senses: glosses: One who identifies new trends.
Related terms: trendspotting
trendspotters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of trendspotter
spermist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spermists
Etymology: From sperm + -ist.
Senses: examples: text: Esa-Pekka Salonen, in his wry program notes for his “Homunculus” (2007) for string quartet, writes that he has long “been fascinated (and amused) by the theory of the arcane spermists, who held the belief that the sperm was in fact a ‘little man’ (homunculus) that was placed inside a woman for growth into a child.”
ref: 2009 March 27, Vivien Schweitzer, “Night of New York Debuts, and a Farewell”, in New York Times:
glosses: One who believed that the complete human being was contained in the sperm rather than the ovum.
Related terms: ovist
spermists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of spermist
ovist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈəʊvɪst/
Forms: form: ovists
Etymology: From Latin ōvum + -ist.
Senses: glosses: Someone who believes that the complete embryo is contained preformed within the ovum; a proponent of ovism.
ovist
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈəʊvɪst/
Etymology: From Latin ōvum + -ist.
Senses: examples: text: Applying the term ‘ovary’ to the female gonad, he contended that the ovum played the key role in reproduction, launching the ‘ovist’ school of thought, and giving rise to fierce embryological controversy.
ref: 1997, Roy Porter, The Greatest Benefit to Mankind, Folio Society, published 2016, page 219:
glosses: Pertaining to ovism.
Related terms: animalculist
spermist
ovists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ovist
unskewered
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + skewered.
Senses: glosses: Not skewered.
skiability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From ski + -ability.
Senses: glosses: The quality or degree of being skiable, suitable for skiing.
wirewalker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wirewalkers
Etymology: From wire + walker.
Senses: examples: text: That is not to overlook the feats of assorted acrobats, wirewalkers and other daredevils blasted from a double-barreled cannon, or flying through the air, or trying to maintain their balance atop a spinning wheel high above the arena floor.
ref: 2009 March 27, Lawrence Van Gelder, “Where’s That Elephant? It Was Here a Second Ago”, in New York Times:
glosses: One who performs the feat of walking on a highwire.
Related terms: wirewalking
wirewalkers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wirewalker
wirewalking
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From wire + walking.
Senses: glosses: The feat of walking on a highwire.
Related terms: wirewalker
dissemblance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪˈsɛmbləns/
Forms: form: dissemblances
Senses: examples: text: Such dissemblance, at any rate, is not a temptation at this exhibition.
ref: 2009 March 28, Edward Rothstein, “Catching Some Z’s in Days of Yore”, in New York Times:
synonyms: concealment
dissimulation
indirectness
glosses: An act of dissembling.
examples: text: With Mae West, coquettish dissemblance was out; womanly seductiveness was in.
ref: 1980 December 22, Virginia Haradon, “Letters”, in Time:
synonyms: concealment
dissimulation
indirectness
glosses: Dissembling, as a kind of behavior; dissembling, generally.
examples: text: As this latter animal [the sperm whale] is quite one-third head, he has no very great dissemblance to the alligator in this particular.
ref: 1849, James Fenimore Cooper, chapter 11, in The Sea Lions:
text: Moreover, at any season there is a difference between down grass and mountain grass, between sea grass and valley grass, between moor grass and wood grass. It may be slight, and not in kind but only in shadowy dissemblances of texture and hue.
ref: 1916 February 7, “The Greatest Miracle”, in Hawera & Normanby Star, New Zealand, retrieved 12 Aug 2011, page 2:
synonyms: difference
distinction
glosses: Dissimilarity, unlikeness.
dissemblances
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dissemblance
unhousebroken
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + housebroken.
Senses: examples: text: The minority party you’re emasculating today may be the majority tomorrow, and it’s better they not be totally unhousebroken.
ref: 2009 March 28, Gail Collins, “How to Train a Governor”, in New York Times:
glosses: Not housebroken.
small whites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of small white
meekhead
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Middle English mekehede, equivalent to meek + -head.
Senses: examples: text: For though we feel in us wrath, debate, and strife, yet we be all mercifully beclosed in the mildhead of God, and in his meekhead, in his benignity, and in his buxomness.
ref: 1902, Julienne De Norwich, Sixteen revelations of Divine Love:
glosses: The state or quality of being meek; meekness.
speckled wood
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: speckled woods
Senses: glosses: A brown and cream butterfly with a row of small eyespots, Pararge aegeria, of the family Nymphalidae.
speckled woods
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of speckled wood
pangasius
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pangasia
Etymology: From Bengali পাঙ্গাশ (paṅgaś).
Senses: glosses: Any of various edible freshwater fish of the genus Pangasius, native to southeast Asia, especially the iridescent shark, Pangasius hypophthalmus.
Derived terms: giant pangasius
melinite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈmɛl.ɪ.naɪt/
Forms: form: melinites
Etymology: Borrowed from French mélinite, from Ancient Greek μήλινος (mḗlinos, “quince-yellow”).
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A yellow clay mineral from Bavaria.
glosses: An explosive containing picric acid and guncotton.
Synonyms: sense: explosive
word: lyddite
Related terms: melinitic
jooked
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of jook
jooking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of jook
jooks
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of jook
dowp
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dowps
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of doup.
melos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Ancient Greek μέλος (mélos).
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: The melody in Ancient Greek music.
Related terms: melic
melody
melos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of melo
wall brown
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wall browns
Senses: examples: text: Other common farmland butterflies to have suffered steep declines include the small tortoiseshell (64%), the wall brown (37%) and the large skipper (35%).
ref: 2015 November 24, Patrick Barkham, “Pesticide may be reason butterfly numbers are falling in UK, says study”, in The Guardian:
synonyms: wall
glosses: An orange and brown butterfly (Lasiommata megera), of the family Nymphalidae.
wall browns
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wall brown
white admiral
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: white admirals
Senses: glosses: A striking, white and black butterfly, of species Limenitis camilla, Limenitis arthemis or Limenitis trivena, of the family Nymphalidae.
Synonyms: red-spotted purple
white admirals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of white admiral
white-letter hairstreak
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: white-letter hairstreaks
Senses: glosses: A small, brown butterfly with a W-shaped white streak, Satyrium w-album, of the family Lycaenidae.
white-letter hairstreaks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of white-letter hairstreak
wood white
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wood whites
Senses: glosses: A small, white butterfly, Leptidea sinapis, of the family Pieridae.
wood whites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wood white
operationality
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: operationalities
Etymology: From operational + -ity.
Senses: glosses: That characteristic of being operational.
operationalities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of operationality
achirality
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From achiral + -ity.
Senses: topics: chemistry
geometry
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: The characteristic of being achiral; the absence of chirality.
Papes
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Papeses
Senses: glosses: A surname
related: word: Papeš
glosses: A surname from the Slavic languages
Papes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Pape
falterings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of faltering
laborlore
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From labor + lore.
Senses: examples: text: Returning to college at 40, he began studying what he called laborlore: the work songs, slang, craft techniques and tales that helped to define the trade unions and create a sense of group identity.
ref: 2009 March 29, William Grimes, “Archie Green, 91, Union Activist and Folklorist, Dies”, in New York Times:
glosses: Folk elements of the lives of workers.
microfocus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: microfoci
Etymology: From micro- + focus.
Senses: topics: medicine
radiography
radiology
sciences
glosses: The ability to focus on a microscopic target
microfocus
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: microfocuses
form: microfocusing
form: microfocused
form: microfocused
Etymology: From micro- + focus.
Senses: topics: medicine
radiography
radiology
sciences
glosses: To focus on a microscopic target
microforces
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of microforce
microfoams
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of microfoam
mayories
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mayory
midplay
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From mid- + play.
Senses: examples: text: LaBute’s plays are, in fact, so provocative that some past audience members have walked out midplay or screamed out “kill the playwright” or slapped an actor’s face after a performance.
ref: 2009 March 29, Pat Jordan, “Neil LaBute Has a Thing About Beauty”, in New York Times:
glosses: During a play.
multirotational
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From multi- + rotational.
Senses: examples: text: Belbin said the difference between gold and silver could have been their downgraded twizzle, a multirotational turn on one foot while gliding across the ice.
ref: 2009 March 29, Juliet Macur, “Russian Ice Dancers Take Gold and Aim for Vancouver”, in New York Times:
glosses: Of or pertaining to more than one rotation.
nonlosing
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + losing.
Senses: examples: text: He has managed the Marines to their only five nonlosing seasons in the past 25 years, but he is not expected to return next year.
ref: 2009 March 29, Jack Curry, “Classic Bobby Valentine: Waiting for a Call”, in New York Times:
glosses: Not losing.
nontitle
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + title.
Senses: examples: text: The longest title and nontitle matches are allowed 25 and 15 minutes, respectively.
ref: 2009 March 29, “Blood Sport”, in New York Times:
glosses: Not of or pertaining to a title.
nontitular
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + titular.
Senses: glosses: Not titular.
speakability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From speak + -ability.
Senses: examples: text: Why, if speakability is Carson’s aim, would she have one of her characters declare, “Look at him, look how he drips unhealth — shudder object!”
ref: 2009 March 29, Brad Leithauser, “Family Feuds”, in New York Times:
glosses: The quality of being speakable.
counterhistory
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: counterhistories
Etymology: From counter- + history.
Senses: examples: text: It is a counterhistory, a celebration of an explorer scarcely known in the United States, an Italian-born, French-educated aristocrat, Pietro Savorgnan di Brazza.
ref: 2009 March 30, Edward Rothstein, “Casting a Sliver of Light on the Heart of Darkness”, in New York Times:
glosses: An alternative interpretation of history
Related terms: counterhistorical
counterhistories
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of counterhistory
neurotrauma
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: neurotraumas
Etymology: From neuro- + trauma.
Senses: examples: text: One of the most promising neurotrauma protocols comes from an Emory University researcher, Donald Stein, whose work suggests that a dose of the hormone progesterone administered within 24 hours of a brain injury could have a profound protective effect.
ref: 2009 March 30, Michael Paul Mason, “Keeping Our Heads”, in New York Times:
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Neural trauma.
Hyponyms: english: acquired brain injury
translation: acquired brain injury
word: ABI
english: spinal cord injury
translation: spinal cord injury
word: SCI
english: traumatic brain injury
translation: traumatic brain injury
word: TBI
Related terms: neurotraumatic
neurotraumas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of neurotrauma
nichey
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more nichey
form: most nichey
Etymology: From niche + -y.
Senses: examples: text: “There are so many of the nichey, maybe weird-at-first communities, that can use this,” said Andrew Bolwell, head of the MagCloud effort at Hewlett-Packard.
ref: 2009 March 30, Ashlee Vance, “Do-It-Yourself Magazines, Cheaply Slick”, in New York Times:
glosses: niche; not mainstream but serving a narrow market or audience
tormas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of torma
blackhearted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more blackhearted
form: most blackhearted
Senses: examples: text: Eventually he asked them to “go somewhere else with your negative, hateful, blackhearted and useless souls.”
ref: 2009 March 31, David Segal, “A Signature Shuffle Enjoys a New Life”, in New York Times:
glosses: Alternative form of black-hearted.
Derived terms: blackheartedness
multimorbidity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: multimorbidities
Etymology: From multi- + morbidity.
Senses: examples: text: Yet people with multiple health problems — a condition known as multimorbidity — are largely overlooked both in medical research and in the nation’s clinics and hospitals.
ref: 2009 March 31, Siri Carpenter, “Treating an Illness Is One Thing. What About a Patient With Many?”, in New York Times:
glosses: The condition of being multimorbid.
Related terms: comorbidity
multimorbidities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of multimorbidity
nobiletin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: One group of chemicals, called polymethoxylated flavones, includes nobiletin, tangeretin and sinesetin.
ref: 2009 March 31, C. Claiborne Ray, “More Than Skin Deep”, in New York Times:
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: An O-methylated flavone found in citrus peels.
nonvertebral
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɜː(ɹ)tɪbɹəl
-iːbɹəl
Etymology: From non- + vertebral.
Senses: examples: text: A new review of clinical trials appears to show a strong dose-dependent effect for vitamin D in lowering the risk for nonvertebral fractures in the elderly.
ref: 2009 March 31, Nicholas Bakalar, “Vitamin D Pills May Prevent Fractures in Older Adults”, in New York Times:
glosses: Not vertebral.
clergypersons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of clergyperson
pastorpreneur
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌpɑː.stə.pɹəˈnɜː/
ipa: /ˌpæs.tɚ.pɹəˈnɝ/
ipa: /ˌpæs.tɚ.pɹəˈnʊɚ/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)
rhymes: -ʊə(ɹ)
Forms: form: pastorpreneurs
Etymology: From pastor + -preneur.
Senses: examples: text: This American style of religion has begun to spread around the world through the efforts of what the authors call pastorpreneurs, who have modeled themselves on their American counterparts, building megachurches and entrepreneurial empires.
ref: 2009 March 31, Michiko Kakutani, “Almighty Empire With a Global Reach”, in New York Times:
glosses: An entrepreneur who sets up churches as a business venture.
pastorpreneurs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pastorpreneur
nonmethoxylated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + methoxylated.
Senses: glosses: Not methoxylated.
premilitary
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pre- + military.
Senses: examples: text: The allegations arose from the accounts of soldiers at a conference of graduates of a premilitary course at an academic college in northern Israel.
ref: 2009 March 31, Isabel Kershner, “Israel Ends Inquiry Into Abuse in Gaza”, in New York Times:
glosses: Before military service.
zurek
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: żurek
Etymology: Borrowed from Polish żurek.
Senses: glosses: Sour cereal soup (a type of sour rye soup, originating from Poland)
restructural
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: Could President Obama really scare the restructural recidivists in Detroit into coming up with changes big enough to do the job?
ref: 2009 March 31, David Brooks, “Car Dealer in Chief”, in New York Times:
glosses: Of or pertaining to a restructuring.
flaki
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Borrowed from Polish flaki (“tripe soup”).
Senses: glosses: A traditional Polish tripe soup.
runover
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: runovers
Etymology: Deverbal from run over.
Senses: topics: media
printing
publishing
synonyms: overrun#Noun
turnover
glosses: A line of text that overruns the available space.
examples: text: CBS ranked No. 1 on Sunday night, aided by “60 Minutes” and an 18-minute runover into the 7 o’clock hour of live basketball coverage from the afternoon.
ref: 2009 March 31, Felicia R. Lee, “Television Ratings”, in New York Times:
topics: broadcasting
media
television
glosses: The situation where a television programme overruns its scheduled slot.
runovers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of runover
sinensetin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A methylated flavone found in Orthosiphon aristatus var. aristatus (syn. Orthosiphon stamineus).
tangeritin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: An O-polymethoxylated flavone found in tangerine and other citrus peels.
unstagey
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unstagey
form: most unstagey
Etymology: From un- + stagey.
Senses: examples: text: This improvisatory element engendered a vibrant, appealingly unstagey quality of performance.
ref: 2009 March 31, The New York Times, “Dance in Review”, in New York Times:
glosses: Alternative form of unstagy.
nontaxing
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + taxing.
Senses: glosses: Not imposing a tax.
examples: text: The result is a nontaxing documentary whose highest use might be as a primer for high school students headed to Jerusalem on a class trip.
ref: 2009 April 1, Neil Genzlinger, “Visiting the Dry City Where 3 Religions Have Flourished”, in New York Times:
glosses: Not taxing; straightforward, simple.
underinsureds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of underinsured
overinsure
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: overinsures
form: overinsuring
form: overinsured
form: overinsured
Etymology: From over- + insure.
Senses: examples: text: I am overinsured on this boat.
ref: 2009 April 1, David Streitfeld, “Boats Too Costly to Keep Are Littering Coastlines”, in New York Times:
glosses: To insure for too great a value.
Related terms: overinsurance
overinsuring
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of overinsure
overinsures
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of overinsure
overinsured
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of overinsure
scornfulness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From scornful + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: It bears no real resemblance to that attitude of negativity and jaded scornfulness that sees the worst of intentions behind the apparent good motives of others.
ref: 2009 April 1, Simon Critchley, “Cynicism We Can Believe In”, in New York Times:
glosses: The quality of being scornful.
hypernationalism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hypernationalisms
Etymology: From hyper- + nationalism.
Senses: examples: text: The most talked-about new book here, “China is Unhappy,” combines hypernationalism with biting criticism of Western mismanagement and of China’s reluctance to grasp its place in history.
ref: 2009 April 2, Michael Wines, “An Unsure China Steps Onto the Global Stage”, in New York Times:
glosses: Extreme nationalism, the belief in the superiority of one's nation and of the paramount importance of advancing it.
Related terms: ultranationalism
recharacterization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: recharacterizations
form: recharacterisation
Etymology: From re- + characterization.
Senses: examples: text: Images of trapped, unconscious, and dead wolves reflect as well as contribute to the recharacterization of the wolf.
ref: 2012, Debra Mitts-Smith, Picturing the Wolf in Children's Literature, page 123:
glosses: The assignment of a new character or personality to something.
examples: text: You owe tax on April 15 on $100,000, unless you reverse the transaction — a process called recharacterization.
ref: 2009 April 2, Deborah L. Jacobs, “For This Year, a Chance to Shift Financial Strategies”, in New York Times:
topics: business
finance
law
glosses: The treatment of a certain course of conduct in a different manner to which the participants describe it.
recharacterizations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of recharacterization
antislave
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more antislave
form: most antislave
Etymology: From anti- + slave.
Senses: examples: text: (The Browns gave the Obamas an ornate penholder made from the timber of a Victorian antislave ship.)
ref: 2009 April 3, Helene Cooper, “Obama’s Star Turn at Summit Gets Mixed Results”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 26 Feb 2022:
glosses: Opposing slavery.
contortionism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From contortion + -ism.
Senses: examples: text: On days at Shea Stadium last season when he did not pitch, Mike Pelfrey retreated to the clubhouse to show off his hidden talent: contortionism.
ref: 2009 April 3, Ben Shpigel, “The Mets’ Players Are Eager to Unwrap Ballpark’s Goodies”, in New York Times:
text: Because most stretching exercises involve no amazing feat of contortionism, they can be performed by anyone […]
ref: 2014, Amber O'Connor, 105 Stretching Exercises for Women:
glosses: An acrobatic display involving the dramatic bending and flexing of the human body.
minishow
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: minishows
Etymology: From mini- + show.
Senses: examples: text: We’d do a night of five 10- to 15-minute minishows.
ref: 2009 April 3, Neil Genzlinger, “The More She Drinks, the More She’ll Spill”, in New York Times:
glosses: A small show.
minishows
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of minishow
superaggressive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: rhymes: -ɛsɪv
Forms: form: more superaggressive
form: most superaggressive
Etymology: From super- + aggressive.
Senses: examples: text: We are being superaggressive in these communities.
ref: 2009 April 3, Michael Barbaro, “Bloomberg Makes Early, Aggressive Bid for Black Support”, in New York Times:
glosses: Highly aggressive.
Related terms: superaggressiveness
recharacterisation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: recharacterisations
Etymology: From re- + characterisation.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of recharacterization.
recharacterisations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of recharacterisation
nonalive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + alive.
Senses: examples: text: “If you see a corpse and refer to it as nonalive, it doesn’t make it less dead.”
ref: 2009 April 4, Robin Pogrebin, “Parsons Faculty Is Cut Amid Protests by Artists”, in New York Times:
glosses: Not alive.
recanvass
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: recanvasses
form: recanvassing
form: recanvassed
form: recanvassed
Etymology: From re- + canvass.
Senses: glosses: To canvass again or anew.
recanvass
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: recanvasses
Etymology: From re- + canvass.
Senses: examples: text: Each man had exactly 77,225 votes as of Friday at 1:45 p.m., with a recanvass of voting machines completed in 5 of the district’s 10 counties, elections officials said.
ref: 2009 April 4, David M. Halbfinger, “Amid Signs of a Shove, Tedisco Quits as Assembly Minority Leader”, in New York Times:
glosses: A second or subsequent canvassing.
recanvassed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of recanvass
recanvassing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of recanvass
recanvasses
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of recanvass
recanvasses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of recanvass
seapower
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: seapowers
form: sea power
Etymology: From sea + power.
Senses: examples: text: Representative Gene Taylor, a Democrat from Mississippi and chairman of a House seapower subcommittee, said questions had emerged about whether a new system for catapulting planes off the next generation of carriers would work.
ref: 2009 April 4, Christopher Drew, “Pentagon Weighs Cuts and Revisions of Weapons”, in New York Times:
glosses: naval military power
glosses: A country that has an effective military navy
Coordinate terms: airpower
bloggerati
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Blend of blogger + literati
Senses: examples: text: That’s why the bloggerati pounced gleefully last week on the news that one of their own had fallen in love with a commoner, er, commenter.
ref: 2009 April 5, Jan Hoffman, “Commoner Captures Princess, Blog Version”, in New York Times:
glosses: Blog authors collectively.
burdensomely
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more burdensomely
form: most burdensomely
Etymology: From burdensome + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: On this and other shows, and in her 2008 biography, “sTori Telling,” Tori Spelling freely discusses her “complicated” relationship with her mother, her distress at the will, and her burdensomely privileged childhood.
ref: 2009 April 5, Liesl Schillinger, “Monkey See? Monkey, Do Tell”, in The New York Times:
glosses: In a burdensome fashion.
canoodlings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of canoodling
palindromicity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From palindromic + -ity.
Senses: examples: text: A program that repeatedly checks an input line for palindromicity (a word or sentence is a palindrome if it is the same as its reverse, eg 'able was I ere I saw elba' is a palindrome).
ref: 1993, Marinus Jacobus Plasmeijer, Rinus Plasmeijer, M. C. J. D. van Eekelen, Functional programming and parallel graph rewriting:
glosses: The state or quality of being palindromic.
palingenetic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to palingenesis.
Derived terms: palingenetically
Palinistas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Palinista
diplomaed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From diploma + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: In June 1959, I bought Snow’s “Two Cultures and the Scientific Revolution” and read it with the kind of delighted assent that only a newly diplomaed graduate of a comprehensive liberal arts high school might muster.
ref: 2009 April 5, “Frames of Mind”, in New York Times:
glosses: Having an academic diploma.
Derived terms: undiplomaed
rewritings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rewriting
feedable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From feed + -able.
Senses: examples: text: I didn’t fantasize about its features, as I did with the feedable Baby Alive doll when I was 6 or with my first Macintosh, when I was 19.
ref: 2009 April 5, Virginia Heffernan, “I Hate My iPhone”, in New York Times:
glosses: Capable of being fed (given food).
examples: text: feedable crops
glosses: Capable of being fed (given as food).
examples: text: mechnically feedable paper
glosses: Able to be fed into a machine.
Derived terms: unfeedable
flaglet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: flaglets
Etymology: From flag + -let.
Senses: examples: text: Given the present crisis and empty coffers, working meetings geared toward results are more appropriate for politicians than a program of touristy forays, throngs waving flaglets and bulletproof glass, the whole culminating in a neo-feudal state banquet.
ref: 2009 April 5, Christoph Peters, “No Hurt Feelings in Germany”, in New York Times:
glosses: A small flag.
flaglets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of flaglet
hyperverbal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more hyperverbal
form: most hyperverbal
Etymology: From hyper- + verbal.
Senses: examples: text: If it haunts him, it’s going to haunt his alter ego. Mr. Leary, 51, who is also a producer of the show, isn’t Tommy Gavin, but the resemblance is no accident: both men are Irish-Americans, lapsed Catholics, sometime hockey players and prone to hyperverbal explosions of caustic wit.
ref: 2009 April 5, Mark Harris, “Fifth Alarm for That Haunted Fireman”, in New York Times:
glosses: Highly verbal; tending to talk very much.
idolizer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: idolizers
form: idoliser
Etymology: From idolize + -er.
Senses: examples: text: But he does pretty good work to the body of the Ali image, and it was a fairly humiliating read for me, an Ali idolizer stuck back in that night in 1975.
ref: 2009 April 5, Joe Sexton, “The Thrilla Continues to Thrill”, in New York Times:
glosses: One who idolizes.
idolizers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of idolizer
oldfangled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more oldfangled
form: most oldfangled
form: old-fangled
Etymology: From old + fangled, modelled after new-fangled.
Senses: examples: text: Made from hand-harvested agave hearts roasted over a mesquite fire, Sombra seems a fitting partner for Chartreuse, with its producers’ similar adherence to oldfangled tradition.
ref: 2009 April 5, Jonathan Miles, “A Splash of Incognito”, in New York Times:
glosses: old-fashioned
Synonyms: antiquated
disused
passé
obsolete
unfashionable
Derived terms: oldfangledness
postgenocide
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From post- + genocide.
Senses: examples: text: According to Gérard Prunier, everything conspired to turn Congo into a kill zone: a dying dictator; the end of the cold war; Western guilt; and a tough, suspicious, postgenocide, Israel-like Rwanda, whose national ethos, simply stated, was Never Again.
ref: 2009 April 5, Jeffrey Gettleman, “A Wound in the Heart of Africa”, in New York Times:
glosses: After a genocide.
pregenocide
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pre- + genocide.
Senses: glosses: Before a genocide.
rondels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rondel
secretarially
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more secretarially
form: most secretarially
Etymology: From secretarial + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: I spent my adolescence touch-typing, convinced my life would be passed secretarially, my left pinkie building novelty muscle manning the A. Then the technology changed, and I improvised an inelegant three-finger style for computer keyboards.
ref: 2009 April 5, Virginia Heffernan, “I Hate My iPhone”, in New York Times:
glosses: In secretarial fashion.
studiedness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From studied + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: The tale of Meade and Ms. Althouse is a cross between the studiedness of a Victorian epistolary courtship a modern-day Robert Browning googling his dear Elizabeth Barrett — and the wackiness of 21st-century life online.
ref: 2009 April 5, Jan Hoffman, “Commoner Captures Princess, Blog Version”, in New York Times:
glosses: The quality of being studied.
transportive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more transportive
form: most transportive
Etymology: From transport + -ive.
Senses: examples: text: For all the hype and initial success of devices like the Kindle, they threaten to strip traditional books of much of their transportive appeal.
ref: 2009 April 5, Brad Stone, “Is This the Future of the Digital Book?”, in New York Times:
glosses: Serving to transport to another place.
unbookish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unbookish
form: most unbookish
Etymology: From un- + bookish.
Senses: examples: text: The death of her mother when Margaret was just 6, followed by the arrival of an unbookish stepmother, led to her position as the most important female in her father’s life.
ref: 2009 April 5, Claire Tomalin, “A Woman for All Seasons”, in New York Times:
glosses: Not bookish.
I'm full
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: Indicates that the speaker does not wish to continue eating.
unscenic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unscenic
form: most unscenic
Etymology: From un- + scenic.
Senses: examples: text: SOMEWHERE in the five boroughs of New York City there may be a less appealing view, but this one is certainly a contender for the prize: the vantage point from the profoundly unscenic Roosevelt Island Bridge, on a dank and blustery March night, as you look straight down into the frigid East River.
ref: 2009 April 5, Mark Harris, “Fifth Alarm for That Haunted Fireman”, in New York Times:
glosses: Not scenic.
unvain
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unvain
form: most unvain
Etymology: From un- + vain.
Senses: examples: text: The great thing about Russell is that he’s so unvain.
ref: 2009 April 5, Charles Mcgrath, “Fleet Street Scoop on Capitol Hill”, in New York Times:
glosses: Not vain.
yachtboard
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From yacht + board.
Senses: examples: text: According to one version, he'd been so drunk at a yachtboard party one night that he'd fallen overboard and drowned in Sydney Harbour within sight of the Cremorne ferry dock.
ref: 1988, Janette Turner Hospital, Charades, page 274:
text: Cheeta swings from vine to vine through le tout Hollywood, from saucy poolside romps with Marlene Dietrich, Mercedes de Acosta, Clark Gable and Clara Bow, to suave yachtboard revels — “a couple of cocktails, some caviar and a good cigar” — with Katharine Hepburn, Humphrey Bogart, and Errol Flynn.
ref: 2009 April 5, Liesl Schillinger, “Monkey See? Monkey, Do Tell”, in New York Times:
glosses: On board a yacht.
minisymphony
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: minisymphonies
Etymology: From mini- + symphony.
Senses: examples: text: The humorous program began with Mr. Robertson’s droll conducting of “A Musical Joke,” Mozart’s intentionally clunky and satirical minisymphony.
ref: 2009 April 6, Anthony Tommasini, “Is That in Your Job Description, Maestro?”, in New York Times:
glosses: A short symphony.
antisalt
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more antisalt
form: most antisalt
Etymology: From anti- + salt.
Senses: examples: text: Like other critics, he has compared the antisalt campaign to the campaign against fat that began several decades ago.
ref: 2009 April 7, John Tierney, “Public Policy That Makes Test Subjects of Us All”, in New York Times:
glosses: Opposing salt.
eotaxins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of eotaxin
debtlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more debtlike
form: most debtlike
Etymology: From debt + -like.
Senses: examples: text: Before the crisis, perhaps 70 percent of demand came from practitioners of convertible arbitrage, who aimed to profit from the interplay of the debtlike and equitylike characteristics of the securities.
ref: 2009 April 7, “A Window Opens for Stock Issues”, in New York Times:
glosses: Resembling debt.
equitylike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more equitylike
form: most equitylike
Etymology: From equity + -like.
Senses: examples: text: Before the crisis, perhaps 70 percent of demand came from practitioners of convertible arbitrage, who aimed to profit from the interplay of the debtlike and equitylike characteristics of the securities.
ref: 2009 April 7, “A Window Opens for Stock Issues”, in New York Times:
topics: business
finance
glosses: Resembling equity.
overscreened
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of overscreen
folar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Borrowed from Portuguese folar.
Senses: examples: text: Mr. Alexandre is no stranger to the kitchen, as he’s proud to announce, having won several contests at the social club for his folar, a traditional Easter bread that in Trás-os-Montes is stuffed with cured meat.
ref: 2009 April 8, David Leite, “Newark’s Portuguese Community Keeps Fires of Tradition Burning”, in New York Times:
glosses: A traditional Portuguese bread served at Passover and Easter.
megafortune
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: megafortunes
Etymology: From mega- + fortune.
Senses: examples: text: The provision would funnel an additional $91 billion over 10 years to the heirs of megafortunes, money that would otherwise have been paid in federal taxes or donated to charity.
ref: 2009 April 8, “Guarding the Family Fortune”, in New York Times:
glosses: A fortune of an amount in the millions.
megafortunes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of megafortune
overhire
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: overhires
form: overhiring
form: overhired
form: overhired
form: over-hire
Etymology: From over- + hire.
Senses: examples: text: He borrowed from Sequoia’s presentation and told the staff that Jive needed to conserve cash, make swift and deep cuts and invest based on results instead of ahead of them, as they had when they overhired.
ref: 2009 April 8, Claire Cain Miller, “Start-Up Gets Course in Survival”, in New York Times:
text: “It is now clear to me that we over-hired,” he wrote. A Coinbase spokesman declined to comment.
ref: 2022 June 14, David Yaffe-Bellany, Erin Griffith, quoting Brian Armstrong, “‘The Music Has Stopped’: Crypto Firms Quake as Prices Fall”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
glosses: To hire too many employees.
overhires
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of overhire
overhiring
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of overhire
overhired
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of overhire
recorked
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of recork
chiffonlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more chiffonlike
form: most chiffonlike
Etymology: From chiffon + -like.
Senses: examples: text: At the time, her brief to Margi Kent, who still designs much of her wardrobe, was to create “something urchinlike out of ‘Great Expectations’ or ‘A Tale of Two Cities,’” a chiffonlike, raggedy skirt that would still look beautiful with black velvet platform boots.
ref: 2009 April 9, Ruth La Ferla, “Still Dressing for Stevie”, in New York Times:
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of chiffon.
counterinterpretation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: counterinterpretations
Etymology: From counter- + interpretation.
Senses: examples: text: I ask because when historians of any era run out of new things to say, they inevitably turn to a counterinterpretation.
ref: 2009 April 9, “The New Deal Revisionists: Will They Ever Learn?”, in New York Times:
glosses: An interpretation that goes against another interpretation.
counterinterpretations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of counterinterpretation
Loft
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Lofts
Etymology: Two main origins:
* From Middle English lofte (“loft, attic”), possibly a surname given to a household servant who worked in an upper chamber; see the noun loft.
* Borrowed from Danish Loft, a habitational surname.
Senses: glosses: A surname.