cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
consumerization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: consumerizations
Etymology: From consumer + -ization or consumerize + -ation.
Senses: examples: text: For many technologies, commercialization happens decades before consumerization.
text: Mechanical refrigeration and air conditioning underwent commercialization decades before their consumerization.
text: “What’s behind this is the mass consumerization of health information,” said Dr. David J. Brailer, the former health information technology coordinator in the Bush administration, who now heads a firm that invests in health ventures.
ref: 2007 August 14, Steve Lohr, “Google and Microsoft Look to Change Health Care”, in New York Times:
glosses: The process of consumerizing.
examples: text: a wave of IT consumerizations leading to the advent of the bring-your-own-device era
glosses: An instance of that process.
Related terms: consumerism
commercialization
commodification
commoditization
productization
listmakers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of listmaker
listmaking
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From list + making.
Senses: glosses: The compilation of a list.
nonexercise
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + exercise.
Senses: examples: text: So does nonexercise activity, and so, according to a pivotal set of sweat studies done during World War II, does clothing, although not in the way one might predict.
ref: 2007 August 14, Abigail Zuger, “Sweatology”, in New York Times:
glosses: Not being or pertaining to exercise.
partywide
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From party + -wide.
Senses: examples: text: Those setbacks have contributed to a partywide sense of foreboding about keeping the White House in Republican hands.
ref: 2007 August 14, Adam Nagourney, “Rove Legacy Laden With Protégés”, in New York Times:
glosses: Throughout a political party.
paruretic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more paruretic
form: most paruretic
Etymology: From para- + uretic.
Senses: synonyms: pee shy
piss shy
piss proud
glosses: Having or relating to paruresis; unable to urinate in the presence of others.
Related terms: paruresis
paruretic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: paruretics
Etymology: From para- + uretic.
Senses: glosses: A person who has paruresis.
racegoer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: racegoers
Etymology: From race + goer.
Senses: examples: text: On December 9, No. 4056, Princess Margaret, worked a racegoers' excursion from Stapleton Road, Bristol, to Newbury Racecourse, via Devizes.
ref: 1956 February, “Notes and News: Locomotive Notes: Western Region”, in Railway Magazine, page 143:
text: Many of the racegoers — the ones from New York, at least — said they knew about the governor’s troubles, but they largely chalked them up to politics as usual.
ref: 2007 August 14, Danny Hakim, “Spitzer in His Element at Nascar Race”, in New York Times:
text: The line had been forced into spending £500,000 to repair a landslip during the winter at Gotherington, and the railway was only just able to open in time in order to transport racegoers to the annual Cheltenham Festival in March.
ref: 2020 July 1, Daniel Puddicombe, “How can heritage lines recover from enforced closures?”, in RAIL, page 30:
glosses: One who attends horse races or dog races.
racegoing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From race + going.
Senses: glosses: Attendance at horse races.
racegoing
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From race + going.
Senses: glosses: Attending horse races.
racegoers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of racegoer
spectacularity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spectacularities
Etymology: From spectacular + -ity.
Senses: examples: text: ABC can’t just show the video, as spectacular as it is — the moment when a water buffalo throws a lion in the air is downright amazing — so it adds some newsmagazine value by interviewing professional wildlife photographers, who testify to the video’s spectacularity; Mr. Budzinski, who tells us how he got the shot; and Mr. Schlossberg, who tells us why he put it on YouTube.
ref: 2007 August 14, Mike Hale, “TV Meets the Web. All Is Safe.”, in New York Times:
glosses: The condition of being spectacular.
signability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From sign + -ability.
Senses: examples: text: The clubs base their selections on signability, not on talent.
ref: 2007 August 14, Murray Chass, “Deadline Nears for Clubs to Sign Top Draft Picks”, in New York Times:
glosses: The quality of being signable.
undisclosing
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more undisclosing
form: most undisclosing
Etymology: From un- + disclosing.
Senses: examples: text: Elizabeth Murray’s death is enough to teach you how separate and undisclosing an artist’s work always is.
ref: 2007 August 14, Verlyn Klinkenborg, “Elizabeth Murray”, in New York Times:
glosses: Not tending to disclose; secretive.
uneroded
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more uneroded
form: most uneroded
Etymology: From un- + eroded.
Senses: examples: text: But even if the Kirchners’ personal appeal is uneroded, the government’s credibility has been nibbled away by a series of scandals in recent months.
ref: 2007 August 14, Alexei Barrionuevo, “Cash-Stuffed Suitcase Splits Venezuela and Argentina”, in New York Times:
glosses: Not eroded.
marcs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of marc
nonseafood
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From non- + seafood.
Senses: examples: text: CRAVE CEVICHE BAR Ceviche is given global interpretations, including Italian (shrimp with Tuscan beans) and French (Arctic char with Champagne and truffles), with assorted sangrias on the bar and a number of nonseafood options in a breezy, rustic setting that opened Monday: 946 Second Avenue (50th Street), (212) 355-6565.
ref: 2007 August 15, The New York Times, “Off the Menu”, in New York Times:
glosses: Food that is not seafood.
precaucus
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pre- + caucus.
Senses: examples: text: He is making his first precaucus trip to Iowa this week, and he sends out regular e-mail messages to supporters detailing his positions.
ref: 2007 August 15, Susan Saulny, “A Campaign Undeclared, Not Invisible”, in New York Times:
glosses: Before a caucus.
postcaucus
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From post- + caucus.
Senses: glosses: After a caucus.
unrecognize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: unrecognizes
form: unrecognizing
form: unrecognized
form: unrecognized
form: unrecognise
Etymology: From un- + recognize.
Senses: examples: text: We are so good that it is almost impossible to unrecognize a face in order to notice the asymmetries that help us first recognize it.
ref: 2007 August 15, “Reading Lincoln’s Face”, in New York Times:
glosses: To cease to recognize.
unrecognizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of unrecognize
unrecognizing
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unrecognizing
form: most unrecognizing
Senses: glosses: Not showing recognition.
unrecognizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of unrecognize
anticough
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From anti- + cough.
Senses: examples: text: Among the ingredients that have caused concern are anticough medicines including dextromethorphan, which is the DM in many preparations.
ref: 2007 August 16, Gardiner Harris, “Parents Warned Cough Medicines Imperil Infants”, in New York Times:
glosses: Suppressing coughing.
raw_tags: of a medicine
antidrilling
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more antidrilling
form: most antidrilling
Etymology: From anti- + drilling.
Senses: examples: text: The decision bans Shell from exploration activities pending a review of antidrilling petitions.
ref: 2007 August 16, The Associated Press, “Alaska: Shell Must Postpone Drilling Plans”, in New York Times:
glosses: Opposing a commercial drilling operation.
boothmate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: boothmates
Etymology: From booth + mate.
Senses: examples: text: John B. wrote that Rizzuto once stopped telling a story to interject, “And Mattingly flies out,” to which his boothmate, Bill White, added, “Uh, Phil, Mattingly struck out two batters ago.”
ref: 2007 August 16, Richard Sandomir, “Rizzuto’s Fans Post Tributes and Recount Funny Moments”, in New York Times:
glosses: One who shares the same booth.
boothmates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of boothmate
caulklike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more caulklike
form: most caulklike
Etymology: From caulk + -like.
Senses: examples: text: While confident that a repair was within the capabilities of the astronauts, mission managers also want to avoid unnecessary risks. Mr. Shannon said that this type of spacewalk, underneath the shuttle, had never been done before, that the tool for squirting a caulklike material into the gouge had not been tested in space and that the repair could conceivably make the situation worse.
ref: 2007 August 16, Kenneth Chang, “Shuttle Crew Is Told to Study for Repairs, as NASA Wavers”, in New York Times:
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of caulk.
cometlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more cometlike
form: most cometlike
Etymology: From comet + -like.
Senses: examples: text: WASHINGTON, Aug. 15 — Astronomers have discovered that a giant star that has been studied for centuries is streaking across the sky trailing an enormous, cometlike tail.
ref: 2007 August 16, Warren E. Leary, “Long-Studied Giant Star Displays Huge Cometlike Tail”, in New York Times:
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a comet.
dichondra
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dichondras
Etymology: From the genus name.
Senses: examples: text: But the Agricultural Extension Services in several southern states have listed dichondra — a member of the bindweed family — under "weeds," where it appears by the name ponyfoot.
ref: 1964, LAWNS GROUNDS AND COVERS, page 76:
text: “That’s silver ponyfoot,” she said, using the apt common name for a kind of dichondra.
ref: 2007 August 16, Anne Raver, “A Connecticut Hillside of Feisty Beauties”, in New York Times:
glosses: Any of the genus Dichondra of prostrate perennial herbaceous plants with creeping stems.
Synonyms: sense: Dichondra
word: ponyfoot
miniblind
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: miniblinds
Etymology: From mini- + blind.
Senses: glosses: A Venetian blind with very narrow slats.
miniblinds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of miniblind
gomphrena
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ɡɒmˈfriːnə/
Forms: form: gomphrenas
Etymology: From the genus name, from the Ancient Greek γόμφος (gómphos, “peg”).
Senses: glosses: Any plant of the genus Gomphrena of globe amaranths.
gomphrenas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gomphrena
heuchera
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈhjuːkɨrə/
Forms: form: heucheras
Etymology: From the genus name.
Senses: examples: text: Silver plants bring out the colors of everything else: purple gomphrenas, lime-green nicotianas, the apricot leaves of Caramel, a tough heuchera that can take humidity.
ref: 2007 August 16, Anne Raver, “A Connecticut Hillside of Feisty Beauties”, in New York Times:
glosses: Any of the genus Heuchera of herbaceous perennial plants; coral bells, alumroot.
heucheras
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of heuchera
jihadization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From jihad + -ization.
Senses: examples: text: The report identified four steps in the process of radicalization: pre-radicalization, self-identification, indoctrination and jihadization.
ref: 2007 August 16, Al Baker, “New York City Police Report Explores Homegrown Terrorism”, in New York Times:
glosses: The movement towards Islamic holy war.
minimike
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: minimikes
Etymology: From mini- + mike.
Senses: examples: text: Assuming you still have a phonograph turntable (or eight-track or cassette deck) and it is not the console type from the 1950s or earlier, plug the audio output from the turntable’s amplifier/receiver into the minimike port found on virtually all home computers.
ref: 2007 August 16, Eric A. Taub, “The Record of Your Life as a Digital Archive”, in New York Times:
glosses: A small microphone.
minimikes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of minimike
minimicrophone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: minimicrophones
Etymology: From mini- + microphone.
Senses: glosses: A small microphone.
Synonyms: minimike
minimicrophones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of minimicrophone
Habacuc
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: The fact that in his book he is twice called "the prophet" (i, 1; iii, 1) leads indeed one to surmise that Habacuc held a recognized position as prophet[…]
ref: 1910, Francis E. Gigot, “Habacuc”, in The Catholic Encyclopedia, volume 7, page 98:
glosses: Alternative form of Habakkuk.
mojarra
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mojarras
form: moharra
Senses: examples: text: I assumed they were farm fish, but Gorinsky, a friend and local fishing guide who has cast a line for everything from 6-inch mojarra to 300-pound marlin, assured me otherwise.
ref: 2007 August 16, Dave Sherwood, “Above the Clouds, It’s Almost Heaven, Costa Rica”, in New York Times:
glosses: Any perciform fish in the family Gerreidae, often used as bait.
mojarras
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mojarra
nonharassment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From non- + harassment.
Senses: examples: text: Because of their accusations, Chetrit was unable to obtain a nonharassment certificate from the city that it needed to proceed with construction, said Councilwoman Gale A. Brewer, who represents the area and was involved in negotiations over the fate of the Empire.
ref: 2007 August 16, David W. Dunlap, “A Hotel Is Back, Much Changed, but Still a Hotel”, in New York Times:
glosses: Lack of harassment.
poolscape
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: poolscapes
Etymology: From pool + -scape.
Senses: examples: text: Seven masonry crews of five to ten men each carved boulders and cement into a naturalistic poolscape, with elaborate lighting and sound systems.
ref: 2007 August 16, Kimberly Stevens, “Pools Conceived to Make a Splash”, in New York Times:
glosses: A landscape dominated by a pool.
poolscapes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of poolscape
preprofessionalism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From pre- + professionalism.
Senses: examples: text: But other parents and some educators have criticized it as preprofessionalism run amok or a marketing gimmick.
ref: 2007 August 16, Winnie Hu, “Forced to Pick a Major in High School”, in New York Times:
glosses: The early inclusion in education of elements relating to a later profession.
roughcasting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of roughcast
roughcasts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of roughcast
talinum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: talinums
Etymology: From the genus name.
Senses: examples: text: These plants have to look good, because of their striking shape, vibrant color or tendency to spread out and meander over the stones in the path, or to weave themselves through other plants the way a golden form of talinum winds through the swordlike leaves of a yucca.
ref: 2007 August 16, Anne Raver, “A Connecticut Hillside of Feisty Beauties”, in New York Times:
glosses: Any of the genus Talinum of herbaceous succulent plants, some with edible leaves.
talinums
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of talinum
ultradelicate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more ultradelicate
form: most ultradelicate
Etymology: From ultra- + delicate.
Senses: examples: text: Instead of focusing on a specific period, he said, use furniture that has “a beefy, substantial silhouette, rather than something that’s very thin and ultradelicate, which will look dwarfed in most modern environments.”
ref: 2007 August 16, Stephen Milioti, “Room to Improve”, in New York Times:
glosses: Extremely delicate.
biobehavioural
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From bio- + behavioural.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of biobehavioral.
misbehavioral
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of misbehavioural.
biobehavioral
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: biobehavioural
Etymology: From bio- + behavioral.
Senses: examples: text: In fact, the Language Research Center at Georgia State University has engaged in continuous social, cognitive and biobehavioral research on primates, including language training and research, since 1981.
ref: 2007 August 17, “Ape Research in Georgia (1 Letter)”, in New York Times:
glosses: Pertaining to the biological causes of behavior.
galumphingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more galumphingly
form: most galumphingly
Etymology: From galumphing + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Other “Mozart Dances” motifs certainly move, as when a dancer, standing with feet together, briskly bobs up to half-toe and down in time to a figure in the music; or a sideways jump, engaging in its slightly galumphingly stiff arrival and the way the upper body swings in the opposite direction from the legs.
ref: 2007 August 17, Alastair Macaulay, “Morris Meets Amadeus: Odd, Elective Affinities”, in New York Times:
glosses: Heavily; clumsily.
illustrational
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more illustrational
form: most illustrational
Etymology: From illustration + -al.
Senses: examples: text: MARLèNE MOCQUET: RECENT PAINTINGS This young French painter presents small, vaporous, psychologically charged canvases — occupied by hapless, mostly hybrid beings — that might be called illustrational, not the least for the way their titles narrate very specific events.
ref: 2007 August 17, “Art Listings”, in New York Times:
glosses: Serving to illustrate.
kkoktu
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kkoktu
Etymology: Borrowed from Korean 꼭두 (kkokdu).
Senses: examples: text: The brightly colored replica also gives an idea of how the kkoktu would have looked when they were new and makes clear how much effort went into constructing a bier.
ref: 2007 August 17, Martha Schwendener, “Korea’s Extraordinary Send-Offs for Ordinary People”, in New York Times:
glosses: A Korean funerary figure believed to protect, serve and care for the deceased in the immediate afterlife.
heteromecic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: Twice a triangular number is a heteromecic number.
text: [1] Again, then, to take a fresh start, a number is called heteromecic if its representation, when graphically described in a plane, is quadrilateral and quadrangular, to be sure, but the sides are not equal to one another, nor is the length equal to the breadth, but they differ by 1. Examples are 2, 6, 12, 20, 30, 42, and so on, for if one represents them graphically he will always construct them thus: 1 times 2 equals 2, 2 times 3 equals 6, 3 times 4 equals 12, and the succeeding ones similarly, 4 times 5, 5 times 6, 6 times 7, 7 times 8, and thus indefinitely, provided only that one side is greater than the other by 1 and by no other number.
ref: 1952 [c. 100], Nicomachus of Gerasa, translated by Martin Luther D’Ooge, edited by Robert Maynard Hutchins, Mortimer J. Adler, and Wallace Brockway, Introduction to Arithmetic II (Great Books Of The Western World; 11), William Benton (Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.), page 838:
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: Being the product of two consecutive integers.
Synonyms: pronic
Related terms: rectangular number
oblong number
midinterview
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From mid- + interview.
Senses: examples: text: Westhoff was in midinterview when receiver Laveranues Coles ran up behind him and wrapped Westhoff in a big bear hug.
ref: 2007 August 17, Karen Crouse, “A Jets Coach Who Is Able to Bend but Not Break”, in New York Times:
glosses: A point in time during an interview.
midiskirt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɪdiskəːt/
Forms: form: midiskirts
form: midi skirt
form: midi-skirt
Etymology: From mid- (in mid-calf) + skirt, with linking -i- after miniskirt. Compare midi-.
Senses: examples: text: The midi skirt, which you would imagine to be an almost polar opposite look to black trousers, has unexpectedly edged them out of my wardrobe.
ref: 2016 October 28, Jess Cartner-Morley, The Guardian:
glosses: A skirt with a hemline at mid-calf.
midiskirts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of midiskirt
rectangular number
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rectangular numbers
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: A number which is the product of two consecutive integers.
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: A composite number; or a composite number which is not a square; or a composite number which is neither square nor heteromecic.
Related terms: heteromecic
oblong number
pronic
oblong number
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: oblong numbers
Senses: examples: text: If, however, the sides differ otherwise than by 1, for instance, by 2, 3, 4 or succeeding numbers, as in 2 times 4, 3 times 6, 4 times 8, or however else they may differ, then no longer will such a number be properly called a heteromecic, but an oblong number. For the ancients of the school of Pythagoras and his successors saw “the other”³ and “otherness” primarily in 2, and “the same” and “sameness” in 1, as the two beginnings of all things, and these two are found to differ from each other only by 1. Thus “the other” is fundamentally “other” by 1, and by no other number, and for this reason customarily “other” is used, among those two speak correctly, of two things and not of more than two.
ref: 1952 [c. 100], Nicomachus of Gerasa, translated by Martin Luther D’Ooge, edited by Robert Maynard Hutchins, Mortimer J. Adler, and Wallace Brockway, Introduction to Arithmetic II (Great Books Of The Western World; 11), William Benton (Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.), page 838:
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: rectangular number
midslide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From mid- + slide.
Senses: examples: text: DiFelice yelled — and instead turned toward third base, where LaRoche was already in midslide.
ref: 2007 August 17, Ben Shpigel, “An Ugly Loss the Mets Hope Is Soon Forgotten”, in New York Times:
glosses: A point in time during a slide.
ploddingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more ploddingly
form: most ploddingly
Etymology: From plodding + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: His stance as being against the world of finance and his proposal of a 75% tax on incomes over €1m (£817,000) was approved by a majority in polls. He was convinced that his more measured, if ploddingly serious, style would win out with an electorate tired of Sarkozy's bling and frenetic policy initiatives.
ref: 2012 April 23, Angelique Chrisafis, “François Hollande on top but far right scores record result in French election”, in the Guardian:
text: “The Intruders,” which seems like such a ploddingly literal-minded title for a book that begins with a home invasion, turns out to signal a sci-fi horrific strain, one that guarantees puzzling questions about the characters’ true identities and motives.
ref: 2007 August 17, Janet Maslin, “Can’t Tell a Book (Kapow!) by Its Cover”, in New York Times:
glosses: In a dull, predictable manner.
ridgepieces
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ridgepiece
stippler
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stipplers
Etymology: From stipple + -er.
Senses: glosses: An artist who uses the technique of stippling.
glosses: A brush with a spongy circle of soft bristles.
stipplers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stippler
protoxylem
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: protoxylems
Etymology: From proto- + xylem.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
synonyms: proxyle
proxylem
glosses: The first xylem to form in a plant.
protoxylems
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of protoxylem
nonstipulated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + stipulated.
Senses: glosses: Not stipulated.
unsensationalist
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unsensationalist
form: most unsensationalist
Etymology: From un- + sensationalist.
Senses: examples: text: The implications are both celebratory and valedictory, which makes sense for work that looks back on suppressed histories but also brings those histories, and the reality of their suppression, forward in a stylish and unsensationalist art of the present. Ms. Winterling will screen another film, “The Flambards,” at the gallery tonight at 7.
ref: 2007 August 17, The New York Times, “Art in Review”, in New York Times:
glosses: Not sensationalist.
kubba
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kubbas
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of kibbeh.
tuckeroo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tuckeroos
Senses: examples: text: Two canopy-forming trees, Tuckeroo (Cupaniopsis anacardioides), and Coast Banksia (Banksia integrifolia var. integrifolia), are typical of these latter rainforests.
ref: 1993, Geoff Williams, Terry Evans, Hidden Rainforests: Subtropical Rainforests and Their Invertebrate Diversity, page 60:
text: You can sit in the shade of the tuckeroo tree.
ref: 2008, Ryan Ver Berkmoes, East Coast Australia, page 267:
glosses: A flowering tree, Cupaniopsis anacardioides, native to northern and eastern Australia.
get under someone's skin
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: gets under someone's skin
form: getting under someone's skin
form: got under someone's skin
form: got under someone's skin
form: gotten under someone's skin
form: get underneath someone's skin
Senses: examples: text: [T]his Bolshevist stuff gets under my skin. I've got a home and a family here. I started in to work when I was thirteen, and all I've got I've made and saved right here.
ref: 1920, Mary Roberts Rinehart, chapter 15, in A Poor Wise Man:
text: She could get under his skin and drag on the raw places.
ref: 1929, Edgar Wallace, chapter 57, in The Black:
text: The pope has not said if Milei’s tirades have got under his skin. “I know they say things about me but I ignore it for my mental health,” he said in a television interview. “I will pray for them.”
ref: 2023 August 27, Uki Goñi, “The ‘false prophet’ v the pope: Argentina faces clash of ideologies in election”, in The Observer, →ISSN:
glosses: To irritate someone.
examples: text: Some TV shows get under your skin with lovable characters or subtle writing.
ref: 2003 July 28, James Poniewozik, “Body Shop”, in TIME, archived from the original on 30 Jan 2012:
text: More than 400 people died from heat in 2022, but there was one story, an African American teenager called Caleb Blair, which got under my skin.
ref: 2023 February 17, Nina Lakhani, “Down to Earth: The Arizona teen whose death in extreme heat is a warning of tragic things to come”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
glosses: To make a memorable impression or have a strong effect on someone; to impact someone's feelings, especially when such an effect is not expected or wanted.
Related terms: get in someone's hair
get under someone's goat
circle gets the square
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Etymology: A phrase commonly used by the host of the game show Hollywood Squares.
Senses: examples: text: "You guys are going to mock me for this aren't you?"
"And circle gets the square!"
glosses: An affirmative response; often used sarcastically.
wikipedia: Hollywood Squares
foreteach
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: foreteaches
form: foreteaching
form: foretaught
form: foretaught
Etymology: From fore- + teach.
Senses: examples: text: But 'tis impossible to foreteach the senseless opinions on this.
ref: 1887, Sophocles, Tragedies: in English prose: The Oxford translation:
glosses: To teach or instruct beforehand.
keep one's fingers crossed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: keeps one's fingers crossed
form: keeping one's fingers crossed
form: kept one's fingers crossed
form: kept one's fingers crossed
Senses: glosses: To hope for the best, to show support.
Synonyms: sense: to hope for the best
word: have one's fingers crossed
maons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of maon
foretake
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: foretakes
form: foretaking
form: foretook
form: foretaken
Etymology: From fore- + take. Also as a back-formation from foretaken. Compare Danish foretage, Swedish företaga.
Senses: examples: text: You shall bring and lay in our hands tne product of your activity: we will divide it into two parts — the one shall be ours; it shall be sacred; you shall call it tithe; we will foretake it [...]
ref: 1855, John Claudius Pitrat, Paul and Julia:
text: Enraptures a man to foretake his pleasure, And capture a woman to partake her treasure.
ref: 2006, Robert L. Sanders, An Appeal to Reveal Poetic Ideal:
text: Upon entering, she showed me to the bedroom. I got undressed and laid on the bed, thinking of the course of action I had to foretake as I lay there.
ref: 2010, Raymond A. Francis, True Experiences: The Sins That Brought Me to My Knees:
glosses: To take, receive, or adopt beforehand; assume.
examples: text: To be healthy and acknowledged I strive to be my very best / I am grateful and thankful For the blessings I do have / I foretake to dream the biggest dream yet [...]
ref: 2011, Jacqueline Prost, Journey Through Experiences:
glosses: To take or choose before another (option); prefer.
forethoughtful
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfɔɹθɔtfʊl/
ipa: /ˈfɔːθɔːtfʊl/
Forms: form: more forethoughtful
form: most forethoughtful
Etymology: From fore- + thoughtful; or forethought + -ful.
Senses: examples: text: But we live in an age of the world when a spirit is abroad which is more than directly and blessedly influential on the present,— which is forethoughtful and prospective, casting its relations like strong grappling-irons over the future, and claiming its issues.
ref: 1827, Thomas Aird, Religious Characteristics, William Blackwood (Edinburgh), p. 290 (Google preview)
text: Meal times always caught the majority unaware. They tumbled and jostled down the companionways only to find the wise and forethoughtful had preëmpted every chair.
ref: 1913, Stewart Edward White, chapter 3, in Gold:
text: And I should have been forethoughtful enough to see the looming danger.
ref: 2006, Roger MacBride Allen, BSI Starside: The Cause of Death, →ISBN, page 225:
glosses: Having or full of forethought; provident; proactive; visionary.
Derived terms: forethoughtfully
forethoughtfulness
unforethoughtful
cæmentum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Archaic spelling of cementum.
æquivocate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: æquivocates
form: æquivocating
form: æquivocated
form: æquivocated
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of equivocate.
mechanick
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mechanicks
Senses: examples: text: The Farmer left his Plough, the Mechanick his Tools, the Merchant his Compting-house, and every body scorning to work, took his Pleasure and turn’d Gentleman. They thought they had reason to value themselves above all their Neighbours[…]
In the mean time, let no Man be so weak or so wicked as to deny, that when poor Children cannot meet with Employment in any other honest Way, rather than suffer their tender Age to be spent in Idleness, or in learning the Arts of Lying and Swearing and Stealing, ’tis true Charity to Them and good Service done to our Country, to employ them in learning the Principles of Religion and Virtue, till their Age and Strength will enable them to become Servants in Families, or to be engag’d in Husbandry, or Manufacture, or any kind of Mechanick Trade or Laborious Employment; for to these laborious Employments are the Charity Children generally, if not always turn’d, as soon as they become capable of them[…]
ref: 1732, Bernard Mandeville, The Fable of the Bees or Private Vices, Publick Benefits, volume I:
text: But to return to the marriages of the Jentoes, under which I comprehend all the ſects or caſts of Indian idolaters, they conſtantly marry in their own tribe or caſt, and they have as many ſeveral caſts as they have trades or profeſſions ; a merchant will not match into a mechanick tribe, or a mechanick into thoſe of a huſbandman or fiſherman. Theſe have each other in as much abhorrence as they have Chriſtians ; but what is ſtranger ſtill, a mechanick of one trade will not match with a mechanick’s daughter of another ; a ſmith muſt not match into the carpenters or weavers caſt, or either of them into a ſmith’s, and ſo of every other trade[…]
ref: 1744, Thomas Salmon, “Modern History or the Present State of all Nations”, in The Present State of Proper India, volume I, Chapter XII, №. XIX, page #279:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of mechanic.
tutours
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tutour.
destroyed jeans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Blue jeans that have ragged edges, holes in them and worn-out sections, either due to long wear or as a result of design and manufacture.
countercampaign
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: countercampaigns
Etymology: From counter- + campaign.
Senses: examples: text: Determined to show that it is responding to the crisis, the government has moved aggressively in recent months to mount a countercampaign, announcing a lengthy list of new regulations and inspection controls and promising to crack down on illegal and counterfeit operations.
ref: 2007 August 18, David Barboza, “China Seeks to Regain Confidence on Food Safety”, in New York Times:
glosses: A campaign that opposes another campaign.
countercampaigns
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of countercampaign
archetypically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more archetypically
form: most archetypically
Etymology: From archetypical + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: From the city sidewalk, there are few summer sights more archetypically urban than the face glimpsed in an open window, gazing silently out at the street.
ref: 2007 August 18, Andy Newman, “Raising Sash for a View of the City’s Daily Ballet”, in New York Times:
glosses: In an archetypical fashion.
shoetop
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shoetops
Etymology: From shoe + top.
Senses: examples: text: Castillo snagged the short-hop throw at his shoetops and, while falling toward the mound, whipped a strong sidearm throw to Easley to nab Zimmerman by a half-step and complete the double play.
ref: 2007 August 18, Ben Shpigel, “It’s Time to Get Going, So Mets and Glavine Do”, in New York Times:
glosses: The upper surface of a shoe.
shoetops
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shoetop
marshalls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of marshall
meranti
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Malay meranti.
Senses: examples: text: Homeowners can also use cedar, at $1.50 to $3 or more per foot, or exotic hardwoods like meranti from Southeast Asia or ipê from Brazil at about $3 a foot.
ref: 2007 August 19, Jay Romano, “Decks: Real Wood or a Look-Alike?”, in New York Times:
glosses: The timber of any of various trees of the genus Shorea.
Derived terms: taxonomic: Shorea faguetiana
word: yellow meranti
midmarriage
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From mid- + marriage.
Senses: examples: text: There is a noticeable shift in emphasis this season, a darkening of mood away from the premarital frolics of blind dates, Manolo Blahniks and Central Perk hookups to closely watched midmarriage malaise.
ref: 2007 August 19, Alessandra Stanley, “Say, Darling, Is It Frigid in Here?”, in New York Times:
glosses: During a period of marriage.
miniportrait
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: miniportraits
Etymology: From mini- + portrait.
Senses: examples: text: And, for something completely different, there is “Incarnat,” a brutal and heartbreaking dance show from Brazil that features miniportraits of self-abasement involving nudity, gobs of chocolatelike liquid and a variety of beastly physical violence.
ref: 2007 August 19, Jason Zinoman, “High-Energy Behemoth Devours Edinburgh”, in New York Times:
glosses: A small portrait.
miniportraits
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of miniportrait
nonillness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nonillnesses
Etymology: From non- + illness.
Senses: glosses: Absence of illness; a state that is not illness.
nonillnesses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nonillness
nicknamer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nicknamers
Etymology: From nickname + -er.
Senses: examples: text: The Hudson River Cafe, which opened in May, is tucked beneath the West Side Highway at 133rd Street, in West Harlem, on that still-gritty stretch of 12th Avenue along the Riverside Drive viaduct that hopeful real-estate nicknamers have dubbed “ViVa,” for Viaduct Valley.
ref: 2007 August 19, Jonathan Miles, “Sanguine Sangria”, in New York Times:
glosses: One who bestows a nickname.
nicknamers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nicknamer
noninhaler
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: noninhalers
Etymology: From non- + inhaler.
Senses: examples: text: In her slim and jaunty new graphic novella, “These Things Ain’t Gonna Smoke Themselves,” the cartoonist Emily Flake riffs on her perverse, self-destructive habit for an audience of willful creative types like herself who know cigarettes are bad for them but can’t bear to join the ranks of safe, tedious noninhalers.
ref: 2007 August 19, Liesl Schillinger, “Light ’Em if You Got ’Em”, in New York Times:
glosses: One who avoids inhaling the smoke from a cigarette, pipe, etc.
Related terms: noninhalation
noninhaling
noninhalers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of noninhaler
nonrunning
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + running.
Senses: examples: text: Never mind that the auction house expects the car to sell for more than $1.5 million — last February in Paris, Christie’s sold a nonrunning 1890 De Dion for $929,773 — the sale is just too upsetting.
ref: 2007 August 19, Paul Duchene, “For Sale: ’84 Model. Runs Great.”, in New York Times:
glosses: Not running (in various senses).
overraced
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of overrace
pattypans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pattypan
prescripted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pre- + scripted.
Senses: examples: text: “This is not like a television show where you’ve got 150 people, writers, prescripted interviews and everything put together so that everything’s guaranteed to go great,” he said, one eye on the clock.
ref: 2007 August 19, Joe Rhodes, “Tom Green Works at Home (You Can Watch)”, in New York Times:
glosses: Scripted in advance.
rookielike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more rookielike
form: most rookielike
Etymology: From rookie + -like.
Senses: examples: text: Chad Pennington, the Jets’ usually cool-headed veteran quarterback, made two rookielike mistakes in the first quarter, which resulted in Vikings scores.
ref: 2007 August 19, Karen Crouse, “No Shortage of Culprits in Meltdown by the Jets”, in New York Times:
glosses: Characteristic of a rookie; amateurish, naive.
schemings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of scheming
lagerstätten
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lagerstätte
shuttler
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shuttlers
Etymology: From shuttle + -er.
Senses: examples: text: The federation is investigating pledges of money and airline tickets that were reportedly made by Kang’s deputy, the former Malaysian shuttler Datuk Gunalan.
ref: 2007 August 19, Agence France-Presse, “President Critical of Officials”, in New York Times:
glosses: A badminton player.
Related terms: shuttlecock
shuttlers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shuttler
thermoception
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌθɜː(ɹ)məʊˈsɛpʃən/
ipa: /ˌθɜː(ɹ)məˈsɛpʃən/
Senses: examples: text: […] a region which has been shown to be involved in a variety of interoceptive modalities like thermoception, visceral sensations, thirst and hunger.
ref: 2006, Fernando Cervero, Handbook of Clinical Neurology, Series 3, Volume 81: Pain, page 251
text: Aristotle failed to specify proprioception (the sense of how our body parts are positioned in space relative to one another), equilibrioception (the sense of linear acceleration and head position), thermoception (the sense of heat and cold) and nociception (the sense of pain).
ref: 2007 August 19, Daniel B. Smith, “Without a Net”, in New York Times:
text: The frog, with its selective eye for instantly usable information; the pit viper, with its thermoception, which at night can sense the blood temperature of its prey; the common house fly, which equilibrates its flight with two cilia—these have supplied a new species of engineers with models.
ref: 2008, Georges Canguilhem, Paola Marrati, Todd Meyers, Knowledge of life, page 175:
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: The sense of heat and cold: the ability of humans, and many other organisms, to perceive temperature.
Synonyms: thermoreception
Related terms: thermoceptive
thermoceptor
thermoreceptor
timebound
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more timebound
form: most timebound
form: time-bound
Etymology: From time + bound.
Senses: examples: text: Because speech is timebound and words can come only one after the other, the way we stall, stumble and start again provides clues to the way we render thought with sound.
ref: 2007 August 19, Christine Kenneally, “Thinking Out Loud”, in New York Times:
text: It also wants the strategy to include a timebound plan for the implementation of the appropriate mitigation measures at prioritised crossings.
ref: 2019 October 23, Rail, page 23:
glosses: Attached to a certain moment or era in time.
examples: text: Time-blind societies are more relaxed and have a more casual attitude towards punctuality than their “time-bound” peers.
ref: 2009, Susan Cartwright, Cary L. Cooper, The Oxford Handbook of Organizational Well-being, page 305:
antonyms: time-blind
glosses: Focused on the passage of time, and on deadlines, etc.
Derived terms: time-bound measure
time-bound program
unaffecting
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unaffecting
form: most unaffecting
Etymology: From un- + affecting.
Senses: examples: text: “Power Play” is absorbing yet unaffecting.
ref: 2007 August 19, Julia Scheeres, “Hostile Takeover”, in New York Times:
glosses: Not affecting.
unaffecting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From unaffect + -ing.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of unaffect
unparagraphed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + paragraphed.
Senses: examples: text: Contrary to legend, the scroll was not a roll of teletype paper but a series of large sheets of tracing paper that Kerouac cut to fit and taped together, and it is not unpunctuated — merely unparagraphed, which makes a certain physical demand on the reader, who is deprived of the usual rest stops.
ref: 2007 August 19, Luc Sante, “On the Road Again”, in New York Times:
glosses: Not divided into paragraphs.
untrivial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more untrivial
form: most untrivial
Etymology: From un- + trivial.
Senses: examples: text: Lately, his clientele has been preoccupied with a very untrivial question: Will it be months, weeks or just days before this unlikely nerd hangout closes?
ref: 2007 August 19, Saki Knafo, “Where Everybody Knows Your Name (and the Capitals of 192 Countries)”, in New York Times:
glosses: Not trivial.
windbreaking
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From wind + breaking.
Senses: examples: a row of windbreaking trees
glosses: Serving as a windbreak.
alphacypermethrin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: alpha-cypermethrin
Etymology: From alpha + cypermethrin.
Senses: glosses: An isomer of cypermethrin.
hookswitch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hookswitches
form: hook switch
Etymology: From hook + switch.
Senses: examples: text: At 4 or 5, he learned to dial by using the hookswitch like a telegraph key.
ref: 2007 August 20, Douglas Martin, “Joybubbles, 58, Peter Pan of Phone Hackers, Dies”, in New York Times:
synonyms: switchhook
glosses: The spring-loaded button on a telephone that is depressed by the action of returning the handset to the cradle, thus terminating the call.
hookswitches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hookswitch
multimagazine
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From multi- + magazine.
Senses: examples: text: Mr. Huey said the multimagazine experiment was not intended to build Web traffic or attract advertisers; rather, it was an attempt to put the journalistic weight of 10 big magazines behind a particular topic.
ref: 2007 August 20, Brian Stelter, “Editor Acts, and 10 Time Inc. Magazines Revisit Katrina”, in New York Times:
glosses: Of or pertaining to more than one magazine.
needleworking
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From needle + working.
Senses: glosses: Needlework.
nonhomeowner
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nonhomeowners
Etymology: From non- + homeowner.
Senses: examples: text: Among nonhomeowners, the debt-to-income ratio has not risen significantly since the early ’80s, the authors said.
ref: 2007 August 20, David Leonhardt, “Debt and Spending May Slow as Housing Falters, Fed Suggests”, in New York Times:
glosses: One who is not a homeowner.
nonhomeowners
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nonhomeowner
needleworker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: needleworkers
Senses: examples: text: When I first joined the Communist Party in 1957, I was assigned to the Needle Club, being a needleworker.
ref: 1965, United States. Congress. House. Committee on Un-American Activities, Communist Activities in the Chicago, Illinois Area: Hearings..., page 334:
glosses: One who carries out needlework.
needleworkers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of needleworker
etymologicon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: etymologicons
Etymology: Borrowed from Medieval Latin etymologicon.
Senses: glosses: A book of etymologies.
etymologicons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of etymologicon
semireformed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From semi- + reformed.
Senses: examples: text: Many of his stock characters (the pastor with a secret, the nosy neighbors, the semireformed ex-con, the stuttering pimp) and melodramatic revelations would be at home in a play by Tyler Perry, Shelly Garrett, Angela Barrow-Dunlap or David E. Talbert.
ref: 2007 August 20, Kelefa Sanneh, “Outrageous Farce From R. Kelly: He’s In on the Joke, Right?”, in New York Times:
glosses: Reformed to a certain degree.