cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
necklacelike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more necklacelike
form: most necklacelike
Etymology: From necklace + -like.
Senses: examples: text: “Papillons” follows Schumann’s Opus 1 (the “Abegg Variations”) and serves as prototype for the fanciful pianistic storytelling and the fragmentary necklacelike format that would occupy his early work.
ref: 2008 March 7, Bernard Holland, “Pianistic Tales, Fanciful and Eccentric”, in New York Times:
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a necklace.
oyamel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: oyamels
Etymology: From Nahuatl [Term?].
Senses: examples: text: Forests of oyamel fir trees in Michoacán and Mexico States have for thousands of years been a winter haven for the resplendent orange and black butterflies, the most famous “charismatic megafauna” of the insect world, said Lincoln P. Brower, a professor emeritus of biology at Sweet Briar College in Virginia, who has studied the butterflies and their shrinking winter habitat for decades.
ref: 2008 March 7, Andrew C. Revkin, “Loggers Invaded Butterfly Haven, Photos Show”, in New York Times:
glosses: Abies religiosa, the sacred fir, an evergreen coniferous tree of South America with needle-like leaves.
oyamels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of oyamel
oyabuns
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of oyabun
stageful
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stagefuls
Etymology: From stage + -ful.
Senses: examples: text: There is a range of themes and moods, and you can’t get much more slyly evil than in “Cloven Kingdom”; more sumptuous than “Arden Court”; more joyously and meditatively abandoned than “Esplanade”; or more goofy than “Diggity,” with its stageful of dogs and designs by Alex Katz.
ref: 2008 March 7, The New York Times, “Dance Listings”, in New York Times:
glosses: As much as a stage will hold.
stagefuls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stageful
dislodgment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dislodgments
Senses: examples: text: “There will be a period of dislodgment and disenfranchisement,” said William L. McComb, chief executive of Liz Claiborne, whose efforts to revive flagging sales hinge upon his company’s aggressive wooing of Mr. Mizrahi from Target.
ref: 2008 March 8, Eric Wilson, “Big Names in Retail Fashion Are Trading Teams”, in New York Times:
glosses: Alternative form of dislodgement.
dislodgments
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dislodgment
precandidate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: precandidates
Etymology: From pre- + candidate.
Senses: examples: text: Arguello was approved as a precandidate for the November elections at a meeting of the Sandinista National Liberation Front, according to Daysi Torrez, a journalist who was nominated to run for deputy mayor.
ref: 2008 March 8, The Associated Press, “Hall of Famer in Mayor’s Race”, in New York Times:
glosses: A person approved as a possible candidate.
Related terms: precandidacy
precandidates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of precandidate
Kirchnerism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish kirchnerismo. By surface analysis, Kirchner + -ism.
Senses: examples: text: While Mauricio Macri of the Cambiemos (Let’s Change) party won Argentina’s recent presidential election, ending 12 years of “Kirchnerism”, the country’s population remains deeply divided on Macri’s centre-right ideology.
ref: 2015 December 10, Tom Stevens, “'I'm hoping for better things to come': readers' views on Argentina's future”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
qualifier: Argentine politics
glosses: The political philosophy of Néstor Kirchner, president of Argentina from 2003 to 2007, and his wife Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, president from 2007 to 2015.
underbanked
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more underbanked
form: most underbanked
Etymology: From under- + banked.
Senses: examples: text: In some contexts, the fact that the unbanked or underbanked individuals use fringe banking services is a matter of some considerable concern since they tend to be associated with exorbitant costs and unfair conditions.
ref: 2007, Luisa Anderloni, Maria Debora Braga, Emanuele Maria Carluccio, New Frontiers in Banking Services, page 15:
text: According to a 2004 report by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, the “rapid growth of the underbanked Hispanic market suggests a new growth opportunity for many institutions.”
ref: 2008 March 8, Liz Galst, “Banks Springing Up to Serve the Underserved”, in New York Times:
hypernyms: underserved#Adjective
coordinate_terms: unbanked
glosses: Having inadequate access to financial services or formal banking facilities.
Related terms: debank
unjuried
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + juried.
Senses: examples: text: In the end, that supposedly open, unjuried show didn’t work that way at all.
ref: 2008 March 8, Roberta Smith, “How Art Is Framed: Exhibition Floor Plans as a Conceptual Medium”, in New York Times:
glosses: Without a jury.
unsmokeable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unsmokeable
form: most unsmokeable
Senses: examples: text: I feared that I would either bloody my fingers, or perhaps even worse, twist the fine tobacco before me into an unsmokeable swizzle stick.
ref: 2008 March 8, Harry Hurt Iii, “Rolling and Unraveling Through Thick and Thin and Smoking the Result”, in New York Times:
glosses: Alternative form of unsmokable.
smokeable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more smokeable
form: most smokeable
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of smokable.
unsmokable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unsmokable
form: most unsmokable
form: unsmokeable
Etymology: From un- + smokable.
Senses: examples: text: Those cigars I bought were abysmal — utterly unsmokable.
glosses: Impossible or undesirable to smoke.
alleycat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: alleycats
Senses: examples: text: Having dropped just nine games in two matches – two short of Jimmy Connors's 1980 record – [Roger] Federer was reduced to fighting like an alleycat.
ref: 2012 June 29, Kevin Mitchell, “Roger Federer back from Wimbledon 2012 brink to beat Julien Benneteau”, in The Guardian, archived from the original on 15 Nov 2016:
text: There are also competitions called alleycats, in which bicyclists pick their own routes between a series of checkpoints where monitors stamp their paper manifests.
ref: 2008 March 9, Colin Moynihan, “Add Alleycat Races to List of Bike Messengers’ Risks”, in New York Times:
glosses: Alternative form of alley cat.
alleycat
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: alleycats
form: alleycatting
form: alleycatted
form: alleycatted
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of alley cat.
alleycats
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of alleycat
alleycats
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of alleycat
bulimorexia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Blend of bulimia + anorexia
Senses: examples: text: It is not bulimorexia, exercise-bulimia or any other kind of eating disorder.
ref: 2008 March 9, “Letters”, in New York Times:
glosses: The combination of bulimia and anorexia.
deprivatization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: deprivatizations
Etymology: From de- + privatization.
Senses: examples: text: But his aides argue that reaching that level will require significant improvements in efficiency because in 2004, the deprivatization of the motor vehicles department added 3,000 positions, and 900 additional child-welfare caseworkers were hired under a court order.
ref: 2008 March 9, David Kocieniewski, “Corzine Plan to Cut Jobs Could Pinch State Services”, in New York Times:
glosses: The act or process of deprivatizing.
deprivatize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: deprivatizes
form: deprivatizing
form: deprivatized
form: deprivatized
Etymology: From de- + privatize.
Senses: glosses: To strip the privacy from; to make public.
topics: business
glosses: To transfer from the private sector to the public sector.
Synonyms: nationalize
deprivatizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of deprivatize
deprivatizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of deprivatize
deprivatized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of deprivatize
horah
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: horahs
Senses: examples: text: That evening, many hundreds of men gathered on the streets and on a grandstand to sing for the groom, who with other young Jewish men formed a circle and held hands to dance the horah.
ref: 2008 March 9, Gianni Cipriano, “In the Land of Black Coats”, in New York Times:
glosses: Alternative form of hora.
horahs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of horah
hybridist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hybridists
Etymology: From hybrid + -ist.
Senses: examples: text: The skill of hybridists has consistently improved the quality of what they offer for our gardens, replacing the older varieties [of tulips] with larger, sturdier, healthier bulbs with flowers in a much wider colour range.
ref: 2014 September 26, Charles Quest-Ritson, “The Dutch garden where tulip bulbs live forever: Hortus Bulborum, a volunteer-run Dutch garden, is dedicated to conserving historic varieties before they vanish for good [print version: Inspired by a living bulb archive, 27 September 2014, p. G5]”, in The Daily Telegraph (Gardening):
glosses: A horticulturist who hybridizes plants.
hybridists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hybridist
lapward
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From lap + -ward.
Senses: examples: text: At home, one could conceivably reach down and flip on one’s new toy when one’s family member, despite having been admonished about texting friends at the dinner table, continues to peer lapward, hands curled around a tiny — but now ineffectual — keypad.
ref: 2009 March 3, Alex Kuczynski, “Talk to the Hand”, in New York Times:
glosses: Toward a lap.
multiracialist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: multiracialists
Etymology: From multiracial + -ist.
Senses: examples: text: “I’m a passionate multiracialist and a very poor multiculturalist,” Martin Amis said a few weeks ago.
ref: 2008 March 9, Rachel Donadio, “Amis and Islam”, in New York Times:
glosses: A supporter of multiracialism.
multiracialists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of multiracialist
pashalike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more pashalike
form: most pashalike
Etymology: From pasha + -like.
Senses: examples: text: They had been in bed together all afternoon, Glass and his girl, and now at evening he was sprawled pashalike in his undershorts against a bank of pillows while Alison sat at her worktable with her back turned toward him, naked, on a red-plush piano stool, before the glowing and intently silent screen of her laptop.
ref: 2008 March 9, Benjamin Black, “The Lemur”, in New York Times:
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a pasha.
pivotman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɪvətman/
Forms: form: pivotmen
form: pivot man
Etymology: From pivot + man.
Senses: topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: A pivot; the soldier around whom a body of troops wheels.
examples: text: An injury had sidelined our 6-10 senior pivotman, Connie Dierking, so we were still adjusting at both ends of the court.
ref: 2008 March 9, Oscar Robertson, “When the Big O First Played the Garden: 56 in ’58”, in New York Times:
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A player in a central position.
examples: text: George Stephanopoulos was the campaign's floppy-banged pivot man for communications.
ref: 2017, David Friend, The Naughty Nineties, Twelve Books:
glosses: A central or key person; someone around whom a particular project etc. rotates.
pivotmen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pivotman
presentness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: presentnesses
Etymology: From present + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: In recent years, stars have learned that their intense presentness in people’s daily lives and their access to the uppermost realms of politics, business and the media offer them a peculiar kind of moral position, should they care to use it.
ref: 2008 March 9, James Traub, “The Celebrity Solution”, in New York Times:
glosses: The characteristic of being present, of existing in a place.
glosses: The characteristic of being present, of the current time.
ribbony
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more ribbony
form: most ribbony
Etymology: From ribbon + -y.
Senses: examples: text: Jean-Luc Godard’s radiant, ambiguous, serenely perverse “Contempt,” 45 this year, is being revived again, in startling color and elegant, ribbony CinemaScope, for the second time in just over a decade, and it’s beginning to look like one of those movies we can’t do without for very long: a classic.
ref: 2008 March 9, Terrence Rafferty, “Man, Godard and Nature (and Bardot, Too)”, in New York Times:
glosses: Like ribbon.
semifunctional
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From semi- + functional.
Senses: examples: text: Apparently, Horsley is a semifunctional bisexual.
ref: 2008 March 9, Choire Sicha, “I, Narcissus”, in New York Times:
glosses: Partly functional.
subagency
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: subagencies
Etymology: From sub- + agency.
Senses: examples: text: Mr. Kleinman said he envisioned a new intelligence agency or subagency devoted solely to interrogation — sponsoring research, conducting training and building a team of sophisticated interrogators with linguistic and psychological skills.
ref: 2008 March 9, Scott Shane, “The Unstudied Art of Interrogation”, in New York Times:
glosses: An agency that is subordinate to, or part of, another.
subagencies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of subagency
superhype
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From super- + hype.
Senses: examples: text: You can spring for the $198 Quinta do Crasto Tinta Roriz, which is foot-trodden, unfiltered and considered a “Super Douro” (like Italy’s super-Tuscans but without the superhype).
ref: 2008 March 9, S.S. Fair, “Vinho Culture”, in New York Times:
glosses: Extreme hype.
superstreamlined
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more superstreamlined
form: most superstreamlined
Etymology: From super- + streamlined.
Senses: examples: text: The sculptor Josh Hadar’s hybrid-powered hot rods and superstreamlined pedal cruisers bring new meaning to the word “bespoke.”
ref: 2008 March 9, Sandra Ballentine, “Reinventing the Wheels”, in New York Times:
glosses: Very streamlined.
unpedicured
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + pedicured.
Senses: examples: text: Further up the yummy scale, a Viseu de Carvalho Grande Escolha at $35 and a foot-pressed 2004 Poeira for $52 were both worth every unpedicured toe.
ref: 2008 March 9, S.S. Fair, “Vinho Culture”, in New York Times:
glosses: Not pedicured.
unshiftable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unshiftable
form: most unshiftable
Etymology: From un- + shiftable.
Senses: examples: text: This was a cramped space, not much bigger than a closet, with an angled ceiling and an unshiftable dank smell.
ref: 2008 March 9, Benjamin Black, “The Lemur”, in New York Times:
glosses: Impossible to shift; immovable.
unwarmable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unwarmable
form: most unwarmable
Etymology: From un- + warmable.
Senses: examples: text: “How can one be so fat and have cold feet?” he muses, contemplating his own stodgy and unwarmable extremities.
ref: 2008 March 9, James Parker, “Ego Check”, in New York Times:
glosses: Impossible to warm.
warmable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more warmable
form: most warmable
Etymology: From warm + -able.
Senses: glosses: Capable of being warmed.
ventriloquize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: ventriloquizes
form: ventriloquizing
form: ventriloquized
form: ventriloquized
form: ventriloquise
Etymology: From ventriloquy + -ize.
Senses: glosses: To practice ventriloquism.
examples: text: Ms. Seltzer has talked about being “torn,” about wanting somehow to ventriloquize her subjects, to “put a voice to people who people don’t listen to.” Ms. De Wael has similarly referred to a longing to be part of the group to which she did not, emphatically, belong: “I felt different.
ref: 2008 March 9, Daniel Mendelsohn, “Stolen Suffering”, in New York Times:
glosses: To speak the words of (another person), as though by ventriloquism.
Related terms: ventriloquism
ventriloquizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of ventriloquize
ventriloquizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of ventriloquize
ventriloquized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of ventriloquize
ventriloquisms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ventriloquism
fiddliness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From fiddly + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: An acoustic guitarist of demonstrable skill  she used to demonstrate it all the time when she played by herself, tapping or slapping the strings, using the heel of her hand, deftly fingerpicking — she turned a corner a few years ago, taking a few steps away from fiddliness.
ref: 2008 March 10, Jon Pareles, “Music Ripe to Remix”, in New York Times:
glosses: The quality of being fiddly; complicated awkwardness.
misconnect
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /mɪskəˈnɛkt/
ipa: /ˈmɪskənɛkt/
Forms: form: misconnects
form: misconnecting
form: misconnected
form: misconnected
Etymology: From mis- + connect.
Senses: examples: text: Once Amenah arrived at the medical school in Nashville, Dr. Christian discovered that the girl had a far more complicated disorder than suspected: the heart’s chambers were misconnected and one chamber was too small to function fully.
ref: 2008 March 10, Erica Goode, “Toddler Returns to Iraq After Life-Saving Surgery”, in New York Times:
glosses: To connect incorrectly.
misconnect
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /mɪskəˈnɛkt/
ipa: /ˈmɪskənɛkt/
Forms: form: misconnects
Etymology: From mis- + connect.
Senses: glosses: A misconnection.
misconnecting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of misconnect
misconnected
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of misconnect
misconnects
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of misconnect
misconnects
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of misconnect
misconstered
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of misconster
misconjugation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: misconjugations
Etymology: From mis- + conjugation.
Senses: examples: text: It was worse with French, which was taught by a very strict pedagogue of the old school who corrected the misconjugation of verbs with a rap across the knuckles.
ref: 1986, Andrei Codrescu, A craving for swan:
glosses: Incorrect conjugation.
misconjugations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of misconjugation
misconnection
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: misconnections
Etymology: From mis- + connection.
Senses: glosses: Incorrect connection.
misconnections
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of misconnection
nonoxygenated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + oxygenated.
Senses: examples: text: In a three-hour operation on Feb. 11, she and her team divided the large vein that carries blood from the upper body, the superior vena cava, and sewed it to the pulmonary artery, taking nonoxygenated blood and sending it straight to the lungs, bypassing the heart.
ref: 2008 March 10, Erica Goode, “Toddler Returns to Iraq After Life-Saving Surgery”, in New York Times:
glosses: Not oxygenated.
superenthusiastic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more superenthusiastic
form: most superenthusiastic
Etymology: From super- + enthusiastic.
Senses: examples: text: Ethan Miller, the superenthusiastic singer, songwriter and guitarist of this sextet, has played for most of this decade with another band, Comets on Fire.
ref: 2008 March 10, Jon Pareles, “Music Ripe to Remix”, in New York Times:
glosses: Highly enthusiastic.
surrogacies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of surrogacy
hexamethylenamin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
medicine
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: urotropin (hexamethylenetetramine) when used as a therapeutic agent
overenthusiasm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: overenthusiasms
Etymology: From over- + enthusiasm.
Senses: examples: text: Paik Hong-yul, president of the Korea Aerospace Research Institute, which oversees South Korea’s space program, said Mr. Ko had made “mistakes out of his overenthusiasm in training.”
ref: 2008 March 11, Choe Sang-Hun, “Woman Replaces Colleague for South Korea’s First Space Mission”, in New York Times:
glosses: Excessive enthusiasm.
fuck-tard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈfʌktɑɹd/
Forms: form: fuck-tards
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of fucktard.
semiperpetual
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From semi- + perpetual.
Senses: examples: text: Elation was tempered by exhaustion, relief by the fact that I was finally abandoning my semiperpetual student lifestyle...
ref: 2006, Philip Gold, The coming draft:
text: What level of complication can the performer rise to? Mr. Grubinger, with his flailing body and semiperpetual grin, is master of the high-speed chase.
ref: 2008 March 11, Bernard Holland, “As Mallets Fly, Bells Ring, Woodblocks Knock, Drums Beat”, in New York Times:
glosses: Almost perpetual; permanent during some periods.
name names
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: names names
form: naming names
form: named names
form: named names
Senses: examples: text: "Pr'ythee, peace, man," said Avenel; "what need of naming names, so we understand each other? [...]"
ref: 1820 March, [Walter Scott], chapter X, in The Monastery. A Romance. […], volume II, Edinburgh: […] Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, […]; and for Archibald Constable and Co., and John Ballantyne, […], →OCLC, page 307:
text: They named names—names which I shall not record here.
ref: 1918, Henry B[lake] Fuller, On the Stairs, Boston, Mass.; New York, N.Y.: Hougton Mifflin Company; Cambridge, Mass.: The Riverside Press, →OCLC, part V, section III, page 164:
text: He named names; the whole gang was rounded up, and all were sentenced to two years in reform school.
ref: 1953 May 25, “West Germany: Panthers in the Streets”, in Time:
text: Sometimes it is not the journalist who is in peril but the subject of a story, and naming names can leave both the reporter and the reader uneasy.
ref: 2008 May 18, Clark Hoyt, “Journalism From the Bottom of the Boat”, in New York Times, retrieved 16 Jun 2011:
synonyms: word: inform
word: grass up
word: snitch
word: bewray
word: blow the whistle
word: clepe
word: denounce
word: dime
word: dob
word: drop a dime
word: drop a dime on someone
word: finger
word: fink
word: fizgig
word: inform
word: inform on
word: grass on
word: grass up
word: lolly up
word: name names
word: nark
word: peach
word: rat on
word: rat out
word: roll on
word: sing
word: snitch
word: snitch up
word: squeak
word: squeal
word: tattle
word: tell
word: tell all
word: tell on
word: tell tales
word: tip off
word: turn in
glosses: To identify specific people, especially people involved in misdeeds or other secretive activity.
Related terms: informant
put one's name in the hat
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: puts one's name in the hat
form: putting one's name in the hat
form: put one's name in the hat
form: put one's name in the hat
form: throw one's name in the hat
form: toss one's name in the hat
Etymology: From the informal practice of putting ballots into a hat, and then drawing a single ballot from the hat at random to decide the winner. When one put one's own name on a ballot in the hat, one would therefore be eligible to win.
Senses: examples: text: [H]e would not embarrass his friends by running. So they rose up and put his name in the hat—which is exactly what I expected them to do.
ref: 1996, Lillian Smith, edited by Margaret Rose Gladney, How Am I to Be Heard?: Letters of Lillian Smith, →ISBN, page 118:
text: "Most students now think to themselves: ‘How can I not apply to Yale?’" he said. "You just have to put your name in the hat."
ref: 2006 May 14, Brian Wise, “A Free Ride at Yale? Where Do I Sign Up?”, in New York Times, retrieved 16 Jun 2011:
text: "That's why I decided to put my name in the hat and see if there's a fit here."
ref: 2009 October 17, “Astros interview ex-manager Garner for vacancy”, in USA Today, retrieved 16 Jun 2011:
text: "Oh hiiii @AmericanIdol—I hear a seat opened up at the judges table!" she [Jordin Sparks] wrote on X (formerly known as Twitter) in February. "I’m putting my name in the hat! 🙋🏻♀️."
ref: 2024 September 4, Adrianna Freedman, “Who Will Replace Katy Perry as an 'American Idol' Judge? Here's Who's Taking Over in 2025”, in Cosmopolitan:
glosses: To run in an election or to nominate oneself for consideration in some other selection process; to nominate someone other than oneself for such consideration.
Synonyms: throw one's hat in the ring
throw one's name in the hat
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: throws one's name in the hat
form: throwing one's name in the hat
form: threw one's name in the hat
form: thrown one's name in the hat
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of put one's name in the hat.
toss one's name in the hat
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: tosses one's name in the hat
form: tossing one's name in the hat
form: tossed one's name in the hat
form: tossed one's name in the hat
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of put one's name in the hat.
Classical Syriac
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: An extinct language of the Northwest branch of the Semitic language family.
toss one's hat in the ring
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: tosses one's hat in the ring
form: tossing one's hat in the ring
form: tossed one's hat in the ring
form: tossed one's hat in the ring
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of throw one's hat in the ring.
toss one's hat into the ring
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: tosses one's hat into the ring
form: tossing one's hat into the ring
form: tossed one's hat into the ring
form: tossed one's hat into the ring
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of throw one's hat in the ring.
nymphæ
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nymph
præfiguration
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: præfigurations
Senses: examples: text: For which reasons I think it rather probable that the murderous anti‐theism of Herod the Edomite was among the reasons for that name being used in præfiguration of the great apostacy.
ref: 1828, Algernon Herbert, Nimrod, volume III, page 410:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of prefiguration.
xat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: kät
enpr: ᴋʜät
ipa: /kɑt/
ipa: /xɑt/
rhymes: -ɑːt
Forms: form: xats
Etymology: Borrowed from Haida ḥa·d.
Senses: glosses: A carved pole erected as a memorial to the dead by some Native Americans of Western North America.
backrub
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: backrubs
form: back rub
Etymology: From back + rub.
Senses: examples: text: AT what point in the chef-diner relationship is it O.K. to offer a backrub?
ref: 2008 March 12, Julia Moskin, “Your Waiter Tonight... Will Be the Chef”, in New York Times:
glosses: A massage of the back.
backrubs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of backrub
codebreaking
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From code + breaking.
Senses: examples: text: Most museums are built from the urge to broadcast the past loud and clear, but most museums do not receive money from the National Security Agency, the arm of the intelligence network devoted to codemaking and codebreaking.
ref: 2008 March 12, Peter Wayner, “Psst! Follow Me and I’ll Show You the Exhibition”, in New York Times:
glosses: The decipherment of a code.
Synonyms: decryption
codemaking
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From code + making.
Senses: examples: text: Most museums are built from the urge to broadcast the past loud and clear, but most museums do not receive money from the National Security Agency, the arm of the intelligence network devoted to codemaking and codebreaking.
ref: 2008 March 12, Peter Wayner, “Psst! Follow Me and I’ll Show You the Exhibition”, in New York Times:
glosses: The development of codes or ciphers.
cryptophone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cryptophones
Etymology: From crypto- + phone.
Senses: examples: text: The bulky refrigerator-size boxes that scrambled the phone discussions of Roosevelt and Churchill are just steps from the hefty cryptophones of the 1970s and more modern versions.
ref: 2008 March 12, Peter Wayner, “Psst! Follow Me and I’ll Show You the Exhibition”, in New York Times:
glosses: A secure telephone that provides security against eavesdropping and electronic surveillance.
cryptophones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cryptophone
deadset
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more deadset
form: most deadset
Senses: examples: text: Some Democrats were equally deadset against it.
ref: 2008 March 12, Carl Hulse, “House Creates a Panel to Watch Over Lawmakers’ Behavior”, in New York Times:
glosses: Alternative form of dead set.
keywording
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of keyword
keyworded
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of keyword
keyways
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of keyway
lullabylike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more lullabylike
form: most lullabylike
Etymology: From lullaby + -like.
Senses: examples: text: The “Pastoral Symphony,” often milked for a lullabylike sentimentality, became a rousing country dance, and the sprint was on until the end of Part 1.
ref: 2008 March 12, Bernard Holland, “Music in Review”, in New York Times:
synonyms: lullabyish
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a lullaby; soothing.
noncharging
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + charging.
Senses: examples: text: Even so, the policy has found a hidden plus: increased crowds visiting noncharging permanent collections have meant more people buying $16 to $22 tickets for temporary exhibitions.
ref: 2008 March 12, Alan Riding, “Liberty, Equality, Free Admission: The French Take a Cue From the British”, in New York Times:
glosses: Not charging (in various senses).
noncutting
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + cutting.
Senses: examples: text: The blade is easily adjusted and can be placed in a protective, noncutting position by turning a circular dial on the underside.
ref: 2008 March 12, Florence Fabricant, “A More Efficient Way to the Thinnest Slivers, With Hand Protection”, in New York Times:
glosses: That does not cut.
tummo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Borrowed from Tibetan གཏུམ་མོ (gtum mo, literally “fierce woman”).
Senses: examples: text: Following a 72-minute immersion in ice in front of the museum on Jan. 26 by Wim Hof, the Dutch-born practitioner of tantric tummo meditation who is known as the Iceman, the tally of people who bought tickets to the museum (and its shows on the art of the Bon, a shamanistic group living in the Himalayas and Central Asia, and the photographs of Bhutan by Kenro Izu), was 997, Mr. McHenry said, adding, “And who knows how many stopped to watch as they walked by outside?”
ref: 2008 March 12, Celia Mcgee, “He’s Hauling in the Visitors by Livening Up the Events”, in New York Times:
glosses: A Tibetan Buddhist discipline supposed to create heat in the body.
noncompetitiveness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From non- + competitiveness.
Senses: examples: text: “There is such a uniqueness and also a noncompetitiveness to what they do that it comes across as being what it is, which is really natural,” Ms. Gilhart said.
ref: 2008 March 13, Eric Wilson, “Be a Fashion Insider or Just Look Like One”, in New York Times:
glosses: The quality of not being competitive.
nondomicile
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + domicile.
Senses: examples: text: While the new budget omits many such proposals, it will require anyone who has lived in Britain more than seven years to pay about $60,000 a year to retain nondomicile status.
ref: 2008 March 13, Julia Werdigier, “British Budget Raises Taxes and Borrowing”, in New York Times:
glosses: Not of or pertaining to domicile.
nonhiker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nonhikers
Etymology: From non- + hiker.
Senses: examples: text: One final attraction, even for nonhikers: these machines are among the very first products to address the rarely discussed Accessory Fatigue Syndrome.
ref: 2008 March 13, David Pogue, “Media Players, Untethered”, in New York Times:
glosses: One who is not a hiker.
nonhikers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nonhiker
nonscratchable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + scratchable.
Senses: examples: text: They're indispensable for backpackers, campers and anyone else who plans to be away from a power outlet for a while; indeed, both the Solar and the Eco Player are ruggedly built, with rubberized nonscratchable surfaces.
ref: 2008 March 13, David Pogue, “Media Players, Untethered”, in New York Times:
glosses: Not scratchable; impossible to scratch.
handscroll
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: handscrolls
form: hand scroll
Etymology: From hand + scroll.
Senses: examples: text: He is depicted by the painter Qian Xuan, another connoisseur of reclusion, in a 13th-century handscroll at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
ref: 2008 March 14, Holland Cotter, “The Art Is in the Detail”, in New York Times:
glosses: A traditional Asian scroll that unfolds horizontally so that the reader can view one section at a time while holding it in the hands.
handscrolls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of handscroll
jichimu
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: He has a set of four faux-bamboo drum stools made of jichimu, a Chinese hardwood.
ref: 2008 March 14, Wendy Moonan, “Rare Works by Eminent Britons”, in New York Times:
glosses: A Chinese hardwood with a grain that resembles a bird's feathers.
microdetail
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: microdetails
Etymology: From micro- + detail.
Senses: examples: text: Calmly, with none of the Heston-plays-Moses speaking style that Mr. Spitzer affected, Mr. Paterson answered questions on both the microdetails of government and the far-more-intriguing milestone of his being New York’s first black and first legally blind governor.
ref: 2008 March 14, Clyde Haberman, “Plucked From Obscurity, They Also Serve Who Ascend by Fate”, in New York Times:
glosses: microscopic detail
microdetails
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of microdetail
multidirector
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From multi- + director.
Senses: examples: text: One of Broadway’s busiest directors, Mr. McAnuff said he would not have accepted the job two years ago were it not for the multidirector management structure.
ref: 2008 March 14, Campbell Robertson, “Two Directors Resign From Stratford Shakespeare Festival”, in New York Times:
glosses: Having or pertaining to more than one director.
wirily
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more wirily
form: most wirily
Etymology: From wiry + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: At 6 feet 5 inches and 180 pounds, wirily strong, Potter dressed in jeans and blue T-shirt emblazoned with a hawk.
ref: 2008 March 14, JerLongman, “900 Feet Up With Nowhere to Go but Down”, in New York Times:
glosses: In a wiry manner.
præsidents
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of præsident
had best
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: Had better.
Derived terms: 'd best
best
prævalent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more prævalent
form: most prævalent
Senses: examples: text: Nature therefore would præsently work the more prævalent way, if there were nothing but this inferior bent of herself to restraine her.
ref: 1806, Charles Symmons, John Milton quoted in The Prose Works of John Milton; page 49
glosses: Obsolete spelling of prevalent.
præsently
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more præsently
form: most præsently
Etymology: Equivalent to præsent + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Nature therefore would præsently work the more prævalent way, if there were nothing but this inferior bent of herself to restraine her.
ref: 1806, Charles Symmons, quoting John Milton in The Prose Works of John Milton; page 49
glosses: Obsolete spelling of presently.
prævaricate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: prævaricates
form: prævaricating
form: prævaricated
form: prævaricated
Senses: examples: text: And how far Augustine and his successors did well, and where, without scripture, by humane devises they did fondlie prævaricate, and Greg. himself was not free.
ref: 1843, Abraham Wheelock, quoted in Original Letters of Eminent Literary Men; page 158
glosses: Obsolete spelling of prevaricate.
ångstrom
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ångstroms
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of angstrom.
workwords
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of workword
ångstroms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ångstrom
chartbook
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chartbooks
Etymology: From chart + book.
Senses: glosses: A book of charts.
chartbooks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chartbook
megillahs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of megillah
big phat
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: Celebrity, Crime: Big Phat Liar. How a federal inmate duped the Los Angeles Times, fabricated FBI reports, and linked Sean 'Diddy' Combs to 1994 ambush of Tupac Shakur.
ref: 2008, The Smoking Gun, "Big Phat Liar"
glosses: Nonstandard form of big fat
functionoid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: functionoids
Etymology: From function + -oid.
Senses: qualifier: object-oriented programming
glosses: An object that encapsulates a function pointer (or equivalent).
Synonyms: function object
functional
functor
functionoids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of functionoid
pre-theoretical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: pretheoretical
Etymology: From pre- + theoretical.
Senses: examples: text: Likewise, the force function can be related in an obvious way to the pre-theoretical notion of how much "push and pull" it takes to set some medium-sized physical object in motion and keep it moving.
ref: 1979, Joseph D. Sneed, The Logical Structure of Mathematical Physics:
topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
glosses: Arising before any theoretical considerations.
Kazuo
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A male given name from Japanese.
Kazuo
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin Chinese pronunciation for 喀左.
Senses: examples: text: Several fragments of reddish-brown clay statuettes of the Hongshan culture, found at Dongshanzui in Kazuo county, Liaoning province and dating to 3500 B.C., all seem to be kneeling or seated figures of about half life-size or smaller.
ref: 1997, Helmut Brinker, “On the Origin of the Human Image in Chinese Art”, in "Visions of Man in Chinese Art" with Selected Japanese Paintings, Kaikodo, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 28:
text: She plans to expand further if she can find the money for an orphanage on the Gansu-Ningxia border and two more homes for the children of convicts, one in Kazuo county, an ethnic Mongolian area in Liaoning province, and another in Ningxia for Muslim children. 'In these regions, people are poor and the crime rates are higher.'
ref: 2006 March 5, “Ray of hope”, in South China Morning Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 10 May 2024:
glosses: Synonym of Harqin: the Mandarin Chinese-derived name.
synonyms: word: Harqin
extra: the Mandarin Chinese-derived name
stubtail
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stubtails
Etymology: From stub + tail.
Senses: glosses: Any of the three species of passerine birds in the genus Urosphena, native to Asia.
Pecksniffery
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Pecksniff + -ery.
Senses: examples: text: Dangerous stuff. The worst kind of cant and pecksniffery.
ref: 1993, TC Boyle, The Road to Wellville, Penguin, published 1994, page 390:
synonyms: Pecksniffism
Pecksniffianism
glosses: Hypocritical or sanctimonious behaviour or language.
sets apart
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of set apart
setting apart
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of set apart
persiflageous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more persiflageous
form: most persiflageous
Etymology: From persiflage + -ous.
Senses: glosses: Discussed in a frivolous, light-hearted way. See persiflage.
dream pop
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɹiːm ˌpɒp/
ipa: /ˈdɹim ˌpɑp/
Forms: form: dreampop
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A subgenre of alternative rock with ethereal textures and breathy vocals rather than hard riffs.
inscriptionist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: inscriptionists
Etymology: From inscription + -ist.
Senses: examples: text: The Egyptians were indeed indefatigable architects, sculptors, painters, hieroglyphists, and inscriptionists[…]
ref: 1841, The Christian observer, page 369:
text: Rothko more than any artist I have known succumbed to the lure of light, light that, as the Byzantine inscriptionist said, can be contained but never captured really[…]
ref: 1984, Bonnie Clearwater, Mark Rothko, works on paper:
text: But it also reminds us from the beginning that words are the physical materials of this poet's work, as they are the materials for the inscriptionist.
ref: 1994, Kathleen Henderson Staudt, At the turn of a civilization: David Jones and modern poetics, page 72:
text: For quotations using this term, see Citations:inscriptionist.
synonyms: word: scribe
english: the standard term:
translation: the standard term:
qualifier: especially non-native speakers' English
glosses: One who inscribes; a writer of inscriptions.
dotless i
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dotless i's
Senses: glosses: A letter whose uppercase version is "I" and lowercase version is "ı". A letter "I"/"i" without the lowercase dot, that is used in the Turkish language.
dotless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From dot + -less.
Senses: examples: text: The Turkish keyboard can be frustrating to use so ask for help. Look out for the dotless Turkish “ı”, for example, which will render web and email addresses invalid if used inadvertently.
ref: 2011, Nick Inman, Rose (CON) Baring, DK Eyewitness Travel Guide: Istanbul (page 234)
glosses: Without dots.
Derived terms: dotless i
ballistæ
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ballista
salivæ
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of saliva
thirdy
Language: English
Part of speech: num
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈθɝdi/
Senses: glosses: Pronunciation spelling of thirty.
fordy
Language: English
Part of speech: num
Pronunciation: ipa: [ˈfɔɚ̯ɾi]
note: without the horse–hoarse merger
ipa: [ˈfoɚ̯ɾi]
Senses: glosses: Pronunciation spelling of forty.
œdematic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more œdematic
form: most œdematic
Etymology: From œdema(t) + -ic.
Senses: examples: text: The swelling of both tonsils was now considerable, and the uvula was swollen and œdematic, so that it was very difficult for her to take either fluid food or medicine, the larger part being regurgitated through the nose.
ref: 1892, Frank A. Bottome, Medical Record, volume XLII, number 25, William Wood & Company, page 703:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of oedematic.
sevendy
Language: English
Part of speech: num
Pronunciation: ipa: [ˈsɛv.n̩.i]
ipa: [ˈsɛv.n̩.ɾ̃i]
Senses: glosses: Pronunciation spelling of seventy.
uncuddlable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + cuddlable.
Senses: examples: text: These children are touchy, often uncuddlable — as if the world is too close.
ref: 1983, Louise Bates Ames, Betty David, Your one-year-old: the fun-loving, fussy 12-to-24-month-old:
glosses: not cuddlable.
edematic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more edematic
form: most edematic
Etymology: From edema(t) + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of oedematic.
smoochfest
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: smoochfests
Etymology: From smooch + -fest.
Senses: glosses: An encounter featuring a lot of kissing.
Synonyms: kissfest
oedematic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more oedematic
form: most oedematic
form: œdematic
form: edematic
Etymology: From oedema(t) + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Characteristic of an oedema, pertaining to oedemata; oedematous.
Synonyms: oedematous
cuddlefest
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cuddlefests
Etymology: From cuddle + -fest.
Senses: glosses: An encounter featuring a lot of cuddling.
Related terms: hugfest
kissfest
reassault
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: reassaults
form: reassaulting
form: reassaulted
form: reassaulted
Etymology: From re- + assault.
Senses: glosses: To assault again.
statemented
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From statement (noun) + -ed.
Senses: topics: education
glosses: Having been provided with a Statement of Educational Needs.
statemented
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From statement (verb) + -ed.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of statement
diarrhœal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From diarrhœa + -al.
Senses: examples: text: Rainfall exerts an influence upon diarrhœal mortality, but probably an indirect one, through its influence on the temperature of the soil.
Air‐movement also influences diarrhœal mortality, wind lessening, and calm, in the diarrhœal season, promoting it.
ref: 1898, Thomas Stevenson, A Treatise on Hygiene and Public Health, P. Blakiston, Son, & Co.; Volume II of III, page 844
glosses: Obsolete spelling of diarrheal.
fœderacy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: An enraged enemy glutting their inſatiable vengeance in the blood of their royal countrymen immolated to the menacing pride and cruelties of an inefficient fœderacy of crowned heads in the cauſe of Royalty.
ref: 1794, Francis Plowden, A Short History of the British Empire, page 283:
glosses: Archaic spelling of federacy.
plummed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of plum