cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
remineralising
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of remineralise
remineralised
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of remineralise
demineralised
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of demineralise
demineralises
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of demineralise
demineralising
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of demineralise
bulk density
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bulk densities
Senses: glosses: The mass of a particulate material (including voids) in a unit volume
expansile
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more expansile
form: most expansile
Senses: glosses: Expansionary, relating to expansion.
glosses: Expandable, which can be expanded.
Derived terms: nonexpansile
antiriot
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: anti-riot
Etymology: From anti- + riot.
Senses: examples: text: Thus, the administration was not in favor of an antiriot bill before Congress that was designed to curb militant blacks suspected of encouraging riots.
ref: 1990, Brigitte Lebens Nacos, The Press, Presidents, and Crises:
text: ...who told him that things were spiraling out of control in Edgehill and that the police were conducting antiriot maneuvers there.
ref: 2001, Neil Websdale, Policing the poor:
glosses: Serving to counteract rioting.
downslide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: downslides
Etymology: From down- + slide.
Senses: examples: text: Among the most immediate and conspicuous political casualties of the sudden downslide in India-Pakistan relations...
ref: 2003, Robert Wirsing, Kashmir in the shadow of war:
text: "Many of the downslide risks that we identified in our last monetary policy (report) are now materializing.
ref: 2009 March 15, Bruce Campion-Smith, “Bank of Canada foresees delay in recovery”, in Toronto Star:
text: By the time Mr. Hanke took over, the paper was on a downslide, known for slanting the news to support Republicans.
ref: 2009 March 22, Michael Winerip, “He Has Both Sides Covered”, in New York Times:
glosses: A slide downward; a worsening.
downslides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of downslide
moldlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more moldlike
form: most moldlike
Etymology: From mold + -like.
Senses: glosses: Resembling mold (fungal growth) or some aspect of it.
mouldlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more mouldlike
form: most mouldlike
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of moldlike.
belittlingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more belittlingly
form: most belittlingly
Etymology: From belittling + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a belittling way.
centreless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of centerless.
Derived terms: centrelessness
centerless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: centreless
Etymology: From center + -less.
Senses: examples: text: The narrative logic of the Jackass franchise, which is similarly centerless and “ruthlessly efficient,” as described by one Village Voice film review.
ref: 2022, Marisol Cortez, “Ambivalent Anality: Revisiting the Queer Ecology of "the Jackass Moment"”, in Media+Environment:
glosses: Without a center.
topics: group-theory
mathematics
sciences
glosses: Whose center is trivial (contains only the identity element).
raw_tags: of a group
Derived terms: centerlessness
centrelessness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From centreless + -ness.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of centerlessness.
centerlessness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From centerless + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or condition of being centerless; lack of a center.
foodlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more foodlike
form: most foodlike
Etymology: From food + -like.
Senses: examples: text: Once, food was all you could eat, but today there are lots of other edible foodlike substances in the supermarket.
ref: 2007 January 28, Michael Pollan, “Unhappy Meals”, in New York Times:
glosses: Resembling food.
grenadelike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more grenadelike
form: most grenadelike
Etymology: From grenade + -like.
Senses: examples: text: The grenadelike munitions, tens of thousands of which have been found in southern Lebanon, have caused 30 deaths and 180 injuries among civilians since the end of the war, according to the United Nations Mine Action Service.
ref: 2007 January 28, David S. Cloud, “Israel May Have Violated Arms Pact, U.S. Says”, in New York Times:
glosses: Resembling a grenade (weapon).
unworded
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + worded.
Senses: examples: text: The subtext, unworded but looming, was that, like coal miners, poets have to make a living, and Shapiro had children.
ref: 2007 January 28, Jim Harrison, “Don’t Feed the Poets”, in New York Times:
glosses: Not worded; not put into words; unexpressed.
divalike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more divalike
form: most divalike
form: diva-like
Etymology: From diva + -like.
Senses: examples: text: The divalike guests drive the luxury resort's staff to growing despair.
glosses: Like a spoiled diva; capricious, badly behaved or excessively demanding.
Synonyms: bitchy
Related terms: divo
apartness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: apartnesses
Etymology: From apart + -ness. Compare West Frisian apartens (“apartness”).
Senses: examples: text: Families and couples “need a certain balance of togetherness and apartness, […]
ref: 2020 March 19, Kristen Rogers, “Do I have ‘cabin fever?’ What it is, how to ‘cure’ it”, in CNN:
glosses: The state or quality of being apart.
glosses: The result or product of being apart.
unreckonable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + reckonable.
Senses: examples: text: By the 1970s, he was swallowing one bottle of vodka and a couple of bottles of wine every day, along with unreckonable amounts of Champagne and codeine and amphetamine.
ref: 2007 January 28, Ian Jack, “Coming-of-Rage”, in New York Times:
glosses: That cannot be reckoned; uncountable, innumerable.
headbanded
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From headband + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: There are jarring contrasts between the new Clinton video and the old news footage of the headbanded Mrs. Clinton: her physical appearance and her tone of voice, now softer, have changed almost entirely.
ref: 2007 January 31, Patrick Healy, “To ’08 Hopefuls, Media Technology Can Be Friend or Foe”, in New York Times:
glosses: Wearing a headband.
resewn
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: past participle of resew
semiautomate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: semiautomates
form: semiautomating
form: semiautomated
form: semiautomated
Etymology: From semi- + automate.
Senses: glosses: To automate to some degree, without entirely eliminating manual work.
semiautomates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of semiautomate
semiautomating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of semiautomate
semiautomated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of semiautomate
semiautomated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: a semiautomated self-driving car, requiring some human oversight
glosses: Partly automated.
waftings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wafting
counterimage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: counterimages
Etymology: From counter- + image.
Senses: examples: text: So the high-powered Russian delegation of political and business leaders spent part of the past week trying to project a counterimage, buttressed by slabs of statistics to display economic growth and sober stewardship in the service of market freedoms that should not alarm the West.
ref: 2007 January 29, Alan Cowell, “Russia Turns to Spin to Redefine Itself and Reassure the West”, in New York Times:
synonyms: counterpicture
glosses: An image that counters or contradicts another.
counterimages
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of counterimage
nongreasy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + greasy.
Senses: glosses: Not greasy.
crudenesses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of crudeness
probingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more probingly
form: most probingly
Etymology: From probing + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: The contrasting moods of the five movements were probingly explored, and there was no weak link in the band.
ref: 2007 January 29, Vivien Schweitzer, “Yes, Tonal. Have a Problem With That?”, in New York Times:
glosses: In a probing way.
quartal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Latin quārtus + -al.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: Of base four; using only four unique digits.
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: Having a distinct preference for intervals of fourths.
raw_tags: of harmony
quartal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: quartals
Etymology: From Russian кварта́л (kvartál), from German Quartal, from Medieval Latin quārtālis.
Senses: examples: text: According to the police regulation, Moſco is partitioned into twenty chief diviſions, denominated from the principal ſtreets they ſeverally comprehend, e. gr. the Boſmanſkoi, the Verſkoi, &c. Each of theſe main diviſions are again divided into ſeveral quartals.
ref: 1800, W[illiam] Tooke, “Sketch of Mosco”, in History of Russia, from the Foundation of the Monarchy by Rurik, to the Accession of Catharine the Second, volume II, London: […] A. Strahan, […], for T[homas] N[orton] Longman and O[wen] Rees, […], pages 367–368:
text: In order to simplify the regulations of the police, the city is divided into several quarters, or, according to the Russian terms, quartals. […] The first Admiralty Quartal, nearly in the centre of the city, is the smallest, but it is that in which luxury and wealth have established their headquarters.
ref: 1827, George Matthew Jones, Travels in Norway, Sweden, Finland, Russia and Turkey; Also on the Coasts of the Sea of Azof and of the Black Sea: […], volume I, London: John Murray, […], pages 298–299:
text: Thus in the Ishan’s yard, not far from the Russian Company’s office, in the quartal of Bokhara called Juibar, may be seen a number of these patients chained, or rather picketed, to posts like horses.
ref: 1885, Henry Lansdell, “Sundries Concerning Bokhara”, in Russian Central Asia: Including Kuldja, Bokhara, Khiva and Merv, volume II, London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, and Rivington, […], page 145:
text: Design large blocks (quartals) for social service and education units of population, but make them not more than five hundred meters on each side. […] Provide playfields within quartals in the ratio of not less than two and one-half square square meters per person living in the quartal.
ref: 1932, “Russian planning norms”, in City Planning: Official Organ of the American City Planning Institute, the National Conference on City Planning, volume 8/9, page 169:
glosses: A section or block of a city in Russia.
scarifyingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more scarifyingly
form: most scarifyingly
Etymology: From scarifying + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: The performance was scarifyingly funny as a send-up of feminism’s much-maligned sexual “essentialism.”
ref: 2007 January 29, Holland Cotter, “Feminist Art Finally Takes Center Stage”, in New York Times:
glosses: In a scarifying way.
motherlode
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: motherlodes
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of mother lode.
arpeggione
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: arpeggiones
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian arpeggio + -one.
Senses: examples: text: Whether it is better on the original arpeggione, I am helpless to say.
ref: 2007 February 1, Bernard Holland, “Schubert Whispers, Grieg Booms”, in New York Times:
glosses: A six-stringed musical instrument of the 19th century, fretted and tuned like a guitar but bowed like a cello, and held vertically between the knees.
Synonyms: bowed guitar
guitar cello
Derived terms: arpeggionist
arpeggiones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of arpeggione
curatorially
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more curatorially
form: most curatorially
Etymology: From curatorial + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: As a chaser, consider the curatorially smart juxtaposition in the nearby Andrea Rosen Gallery: there a 1968 shaped painting by Robert Mangold and a sculpture by Richard Prince based on a 2005 car hood similarly benefit from each other’s company.
ref: 2007 February 1, Roberta Smith, “Material Guys: Pollock-Inspired Artists, All About the Process”, in New York Times:
glosses: In a curatorial way; suggesting or pertaining to a curator.
mootness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From moot + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: While Mr. Garre urged the court to dismiss the case under threshold questions like mootness and standing, Ms. Beeson tried to steer the judges toward the merits.
ref: 2007 February 1, Adam Liptak, “Judges Weigh Arguments in U.S. Eavesdropping Case”, in New York Times:
glosses: The state or condition of being moot.
mudflap
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈmʌdˌflæp/
Forms: form: mudflaps
Etymology: From mud + flap.
Senses: examples: text: Yohji Yamamoto showed Alpine knits with cropped black trousers, fresh-looking coats in vanilla-colored wool, and knits and other wool colors embellished with the sort of female pinup images you see on old gas-station calendars or on the mudflaps of an 18-wheeler.
ref: 2007 February 1, Cathy Horyn, “The Good, the Bad, the Amusing”, in New York Times:
glosses: A rectangular flap mounted near the wheel of a motor vehicle (especially a truck) to prevent mud or rocks from being thrown up (by the wheel), either onto the body panels or into the path of vehicles following behind.
Derived terms: mudflap girl
Related terms: kickup
mudguard
mudflaps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mudflap
pillowtop
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: pillow-top
Etymology: From pillow + top.
Senses: examples: text: That does not include the more than $20 billion spent on nocturnal accouterments like pillowtop mattresses, adjustable beds, hypoallergenic pillows, white-noise machines and monogrammed cashmere pajamas.
ref: 2007 February 1, Natasha Singer, “Hey, Sleepy, Want to Buy a Good Nap?”, in New York Times:
glosses: Having a cushioned, textured top surface to provide extra softness.
raw_tags: of a mattress
pillow-top
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of pillowtop.
probelike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more probelike
form: most probelike
Etymology: From probe + -like.
Senses: examples: text: Stubby, fat and chunky, it is about three inches shorter than the standard armrests, which are probelike, jutting upward at just the right angle to slip unnoticed in the pocket of a trouser or coat as a person sits.
ref: 2007 February 1, William Neuman, “A Trial Run for Train Armrests Without an Appetite for Clothes”, in New York Times:
glosses: Resembling a probe (instrument for probing).
reilluminate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: reilluminates
form: reilluminating
form: reilluminated
form: reilluminated
Etymology: From re- + illuminate.
Senses: examples: text: And last night, company executives gathered in Atlanta to reilluminate an airport sign that has long been a landmark there.
ref: 2007 February 1, Micheline Maynard, “US Airways Withdraws Its $10.2 Billion Offer for Delta”, in New York Times:
glosses: To illuminate again; to relight.
reilluminates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of reilluminate
reilluminating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of reilluminate
reilluminated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of reilluminate
reillumination
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: reilluminations
Etymology: From re- + illumination.
Senses: glosses: The act or process of reilluminating.
reilluminations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of reillumination
shiplike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more shiplike
form: most shiplike
Etymology: From ship + -like.
Senses: examples: text: Mr. Ando’s maritime museum design borrows from the maritime history of the emirates, with a reflective surface merging sea and land and a shiplike interior with floating decks.
ref: 2007 February 1, Hassan Fattah, “Celebrity Architects Reveal a Daring Cultural Xanadu for the Arab World”, in New York Times:
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a ship.
spaceshiplike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more spaceshiplike
form: most spaceshiplike
Etymology: From spaceship + -like.
Senses: examples: text: The designs presented here in Abu Dhabi, the capital of the United Arab Emirates and one of the world’s top oil producers, are to be built on an island just off the coast and include three museums designed by the celebrity architects Frank Gehry, Jean Nouvel and Tadao Ando, as well as a sprawling, spaceshiplike performing arts center designed by Zaha Hadid.
ref: 2007 February 1, Hassan Fattah, “Celebrity Architects Reveal a Daring Cultural Xanadu for the Arab World”, in New York Times:
glosses: Resembling a spaceship.
unhaveable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unhaveable
form: most unhaveable
Etymology: From un- + haveable.
Senses: examples: text: The marvel of Ian Rickson’s rapturous interpretation of Anton Chekhov ’s “Seagull,” which opened last week at the Royal Court Theater and quickly became a must-have and largely unhaveable ticket, is how seamlessly it captures the vital paradox that so often escapes productions of this masterwork: the bursting theatrical fullness to be found in its unfulfilled lives.
ref: 2007 February 1, Ben Brantley, “In London, Revivals for Now and Posterity”, in New York Times:
glosses: Not haveable; that cannot be had or obtained.
irrigations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of irrigation
teneral
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈtɛ.nə.ɹəl/
Etymology: From Latin tener + -al.
Senses: topics: biology
entomology
natural-sciences
glosses: In the pale, soft-bodied state that follows moulting, before the hardening and darkening of the cuticle, during which the creature is able to expand.
raw_tags: of an arthropod
Related terms: tenerity
teneral
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈtɛ.nə.ɹəl/
Forms: form: tenerals
Etymology: From Latin tener + -al.
Senses: glosses: Such an imago.
ultrapatriotic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more ultrapatriotic
form: most ultrapatriotic
Etymology: From ultra- + patriotic.
Senses: examples: text: This Sunday night talk show, led by Sean Hannity, the conservative radio and television personality, may look like the kind of ultrapatriotic, Blame-the-Clintons-First program that is the lifeblood of Fox News.
ref: 2007 January 30, Alessandra Stanley, “Waving the Flag at Bunny Ranch”, in New York Times:
glosses: Extremely patriotic.
Synonyms: jingoistic
rouget
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Borrowed from French rouget.
Senses: glosses: A porcine infectuous disease.
whitebark
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: whitebarks
Etymology: From white + bark.
Senses: examples: text: But the seeds of the whitebark pine, the pine nuts, feed Clark’s nutcracker birds; red squirrels, which store the nuts underground; and grizzly bears.
ref: 2007 January 30, Charles Petit, “In the Rockies, Pines Die and Bears Feel It”, in New York Times:
glosses: The North American pine Pinus albicaulis, found in mountainous and subalpine regions, often as krummholz.
Derived terms: whitebark pine
whitebark raspberry
whitebarks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of whitebark
decadences
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of decadence
multivehicle
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From multi- + vehicle.
Senses: examples: text: A report in the World Briefing column on Friday about a multivehicle accident east of Toronto carried incorrect information from the authorities about the number of dead.
ref: 2007 February 2, Christopher Mason, “Canada: Five Dead in 20-Vehicle Crash”, in New York Times:
glosses: Involving more than one vehicle.
matchwinning
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From match + winning.
Senses: examples: text: Scoring the matchwinning goal in the county soccer derby made him the town's hero.
glosses: That wins a match.
Synonyms: decisive
blockheadedness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From blockheaded + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: DEER PARK, N.Y., Feb. 2 — Bored teenagers here have a new way of entertaining themselves on a weekend evening, local authorities say: a pastime that combines the latest technological skill with good old teenage blockheadedness.
ref: 2007 February 3, Corey Kilgannon, “Teenagers Run Straight Into Fences, and Trouble”, in New York Times:
synonyms: boneheadedness
duncery
glosses: The state or condition of being blockheaded.
unstocked
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + stocked.
Senses: examples: text: Sainsbury has also struggled to overcome supply chain problems that have left its shelves unstocked.
ref: 2007 February 3, The Associated Press, “3 Weigh Joint Bid for British Grocery Chain”, in New York Times:
glosses: Not stocked.
Related terms: out of stock
stocked up
stockless
understock
weekold
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: The former judge, Karen B. Yellen of Brooklyn Civil Court, who ran on the Democratic ticket in the 2002 primary along with Mr. Norman, was the key witness for the prosecution in the weekold corruption trial against Mr. Norman, a former 12-term state assemblyman, in State Supreme Court in Brooklyn.
ref: 2007 February 3, Trymaine Lee, “Former Judge Cites Pressure to Pay Friends of Party Boss”, in New York Times:
glosses: Misspelling of week-old.
Århus
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Aarhus.
untreed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + treed.
Senses: glosses: Not treed; without trees.
Synonyms: treeless
déclassé
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /deɪˈklæseɪ/
Forms: form: more déclassé
form: most déclassé
Etymology: Borrowed from French déclassé.
Senses: examples: text: Having married a plebian and so become déclassée, the daughter of a patrician was barred by the patrician matrons from sacrifices at the shrine of Patrician Chastity ‘in the cattle market by the round temple of Hercules’.
ref: 2007, John Burrow, A History of Histories, Penguin, published 2009, page 110:
glosses: Degraded from one's social class.
foulbrood
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: foulbroods
Etymology: From foul + brood.
Senses: examples: text: There were problems in my dad’s day: ants, skunks, wax moths and a couple of deadly but well-known bee diseases, like foulbrood and nosema.
ref: 2007 February 22, Verlyn Klinkenborg, “Keeping Bees Among Us”, in New York Times:
text: At times nearly all brood diseases (American foulbrood, European foulbrood, parafoulbrood, sacbrood) were thought to represent a single malady. European and American foulbroods were especially confused.
ref: 2012, Edward Steinhaus, Insect Pathology V2: An Advanced Treatise, page 553:
glosses: A bacterial disease of bees.
Derived terms: American foulbrood
European foulbrood
parafoulbrood
gigglingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more gigglingly
form: most gigglingly
Etymology: From giggling + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: In any case it struck David as perfectly reasonable that his mother demand a description and even a photo of the bed where he planned to have sex; as he gigglingly obliged her with details over the phone, Lauren looked appalled, then resigned.
ref: 2007 February 22, Virginia Heffernan, “No Sex, Please, We’re Engaged: Couples Who Wait for the Wedding”, in New York Times:
glosses: In a giggling way.
gyroballs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gyroball
incrementalist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: incrementalists
Etymology: From incremental + -ist.
Senses: examples: text: Mrs. Clinton, who has been portrayed by Edwards advisers and others as an incrementalist, said she wanted to develop a plan to provide universal care without spending billions of dollars more, given that the United States already spends significantly more on health care than any other nation.
ref: 2007 February 22, Patrick Healy, “Rivals at Democratic Presidential Forum Push Positions on Iraq War Into Spotlight”, in New York Times:
glosses: One who follows a policy of incrementalism.
incrementalists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of incrementalist
indlamu
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Borrowed from Zulu indlamu.
Senses: examples: text: But there was sophistication and beauty in the way that traditional African dance motifs, like the fierce, stamping Zulu indlamu sequences, were woven together with more sinuous abstract movements.
ref: 2007 February 22, Roslyn Sulcas, “Beyond the Body, Making Spirit Move”, in New York Times:
glosses: A traditional Zulu dance from South Africa in which the dancer lifts one foot over the head and brings it down hard, landing squarely on the downbeat.
lawyerspeak
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lawyer-speak
Etymology: From lawyer + -speak.
Senses: examples: text: And, they pointed out in lawyerspeak, “the subplot in plaintiffs’ screenplay about Gordo and his defecation obsession has no analogue in defendants’ motion picture.”
ref: 2007 February 22, William Glaberson, “Dodgeballs and Jokes May Seem Too Close for Comfort”, in New York Times:
glosses: The abstruse jargon of lawyers.
Synonyms: legalese
marriers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of marrier
minigenre
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: minigenres
Etymology: From mini- + genre.
Senses: examples: text: All of them could be called candidate lit, a publishing minigenre that includes runaway best sellers (“The Audacity of Hope” by Senator Barack Obama of Illinois) and unqualified duds (“Between Worlds,” a memoir by Gov. Bill Richardson of New Mexico).
ref: 2007 February 22, Julie Bosman, “Time to Throw Their Books Into the Ring”, in New York Times:
glosses: A small, specialist genre.
minigenres
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of minigenre
genric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From genre + -ic.
Senses: examples: text: […] one can safely argue that in the illustrated adaptations I will examine, we also have a genric transition: from the genre of literature to the genre of painting.
ref: 2011, Lance Weldy, Crossing Textual Boundaries in International Children's Literature, page 223:
text: Select a genric program that appears in one medium (e.g., a science fiction novel).
ref: 2015, Art Silverblatt, Genre Studies in Mass Media: A Handbook, page 27:
glosses: Pertaining to genre.
nontheoretical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + theoretical.
Senses: examples: text: But its particulars are nontheoretical enough to be distracting.
ref: 2007 February 22, Janet Maslin, “The Poor Are Different From You and Me. Or Are They?”, in New York Times:
glosses: Not theoretical.
Synonyms: actual
practical
Derived terms: nontheoretically
nosema
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From nosema disease or directly from translingual Nosema (“a taxonomic genus within the family Nosematidae”), from Latin nosema, from Ancient Greek νόσημᾰ (nósēmă, “disease, sickness, plague, affliction”).
Senses: examples: text: There were problems in my dad’s day: ants, skunks, wax moths and a couple of deadly but well-known bee diseases, like foulbrood and nosema.
ref: 2007 February 22, Verlyn Klinkenborg, “Keeping Bees Among Us”, in New York Times:
topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: Nosema disease:
An infectious disease of adult honey bees caused by some microsporidian parasites of the genus Nosema.
topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: Nosema disease:
Pébrine, a disease of silkworms, also caused by Nosema parasites.
nosemosis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: George (1971) reported that diets deficient in cholesterol or protein enhanced development of a nosemosis in young red flour beetles, Tribolium castaneum (Herbst).
ref: 1978, Journal of the Georgia Entomological Society, Athens, GA: Georgia Entomological Society, →ISSN, page 355:
topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: nosema disease (“infectious disease of some insects caused by some microsporidian parasites”)
examples: text: Nosema apis are the causative agent of nosema disease (nosemosis) in honeybees (Apis mellifera).
ref: 2006, Levant Aydin, Ender Gulegen, Ibrahim Cakmak, A. Onur Girisgin, Harrington Wells, “Relation between Nosema and Chalkbrood diseases, and its implication for an apiary management model”, in The Bulletin of the Veterinary Institute in Pulawy, volume 50, number 4, Puławy, PL: National Veterinary Research Institute, →ISSN, archived from the original on 31 Mar 2015, page 471:
topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
qualifier: honey bees
glosses: nosema disease (“infectious disease of adult honey bees caused by some microsporidian parasites”)
Synonyms: nosema
diskless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: discless
Etymology: From disk + -less.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Without the use of floppy disks.
Derived terms: disklessness
transomed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From transom + -ed.
Senses: glosses: Fitted with a transom.
undertrick
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: undertricks
Etymology: From under- + trick.
Senses: examples: text: Then the Netherlands scored an additional 3 imps for one fewer undertrick in a vulnerable one no-trump.
ref: 2007 February 22, Phillip Alder, “Strong Spade Suit Helps Decide a Hard-Fought Match in Japan”, in New York Times:
topics: bridge
games
glosses: A trick that declarer does not win, causing the contract to go down.
undertricks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of undertrick
unpleasantry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: unpleasantries
Etymology: From un- + pleasantry or unpleasant + -ry
Senses: glosses: That which is unpleasant.
glosses: An unpleasant remark, behaviour, etc.
unpleasantries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of unpleasantry
nyctophobic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more nyctophobic
form: most nyctophobic
Etymology: From nycto- + -phobic.
Senses: glosses: Afflicted with nyctophobia; fearful of the dark or of night.
antivaccination
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From anti- + vaccination.
Senses: examples: text: To a large extent, says Allen, this antivaccination impulse is fueled by an ignorance of the past.
ref: 2007 February 4, David Oshinsky, “Preventive Medicine”, in New York Times:
glosses: Alternative form of anti-vaccination.
ashwood
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ashwoods
Etymology: From ash + wood.
Senses: examples: text: Easily as a sailor handling a blasphemy, the African reached behind him for the Viking ax (whose name, cut in runes along its ashwood haft, translated roughly as “Defiler of Your Mother”), but three little words preserved the cordial relations between the head and neck of the intruder, a wiry old party armed with a short sword, Persian by the look of him, with a knob of scar tissue where his right eye had been and a curious sneer.
ref: 2007 February 4, Michael Chabon, “‘Gentlemen of the Road’”, in New York Times:
glosses: Wood of the ash tree.
ashwoods
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ashwood
templater
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: templaters
Etymology: From template + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who, or that which, generates or uses templates.
glosses: A tool used for precise shaping of materials such as wood or tiles.
templaters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of templater
queryable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: queriable
Etymology: From query + -able.
Senses: examples: text: The application can connect to any queryable data source.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: That can be queried.
Related terms: askable
interrogable
queriable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From query + -able.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of queryable.
categorizer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: categorizers
Etymology: From categorize + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who, or that which, categorizes.
categoriser
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: categorisers
Etymology: From categorise + -er.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of categorizer.
categorizers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of categorizer
categorisers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of categoriser
dewormer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dewormers
Etymology: From deworm + -er.
Senses: examples: text: It is one of three whelping houses at the Puppy Haven Kennel, the 1,600-dog compound that Havens has built up over the last 30 years in the outlands north of Madison, Wis. Nearby, an affable elderly couple hosed feces from slats below the cages, and their daughter, another of Havens’s 14 paid employees, swiftly handled one squeaking pup at a time, issuing dewormer.
ref: 2007 February 4, Jon Mooallem, “The Modern Kennel Conundrum”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 27 Feb 2021:
text: Whether boarding an airplane with underwear on your face to protest mask requirements, injecting yourself with horse dewormer instead of a safe and effective vaccine or swallowing household disinfectants because the President of the United States unironically suggested that it might help, the pandemic has amplified the frequency and tenor of ridiculous and sometimes alarming behavior.
ref: 2022 February 10, Abdul El-Sayed, “Canadian trucker protests are the latest example of Covid-19 absurdity”, in CNN, archived from the original on 22 Apr 2022:
glosses: Medicine used in deworming an animal.
dewormers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dewormer
windtight
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwɪnd.taɪt/
Forms: form: more windtight
form: most windtight
Etymology: From wind + tight.
Senses: glosses: Impermeable to wind.
Related terms: airtight
watertight
gropings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of groping
unobnoxious
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unobnoxious
form: most unobnoxious
Etymology: From un- + obnoxious.
Senses: glosses: Not obnoxious.
gunmaker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gunmakers
Etymology: From gun + maker.
Senses: examples: text: This is like gunmakers coming out with bullets that contain eight essential vitamins.
ref: 2007 February 4, “Laugh Lines: Jay Leno and Conan O’Brien”, in New York Times:
synonyms: gunbuilder
gunsmith
glosses: One who manufactures guns.
gunmakers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gunmaker
manchild
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: manchildren
form: menchildren
Senses: examples: text: John Lewis, Bridget’s fiancé — an appealing, feckless manchild — isn’t so sure.
ref: 2007 February 4, Thomas Mallon, “Pictures at an Excavation”, in New York Times:
glosses: Alternative spelling of man child.
manchildren
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of manchild
micromini
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: microminis
Etymology: From micro- + mini.
Senses: examples: text: On the dance floor, a woman in a micromini apparently forgot she was supposed to be elegant.
ref: 2007 February 4, Alex Williams, “A Whole New World”, in New York Times:
glosses: A very short miniskirt.
microminis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of micromini
neonaticide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: neonaticides
Etymology: From neonate + -cide.
Senses: examples: text: But critics of the law said mothers who immediately kill their babies after giving birth, a practice known as neonaticide, are usually in deep denial about their pregnancies.
ref: 2007 February 4, Cara Buckley, “Brooklyn Girl Threw Away Her Newborn Son, Police Say”, in New York Times:
glosses: The murder of a newborn within 24 hours of birth.
glosses: The murderer of a newborn (anyone who practices or who has practiced this kind of murder).
Derived terms: neonaticidal
Related terms: abortion
filicide
infanticide
pedicide
prolicide
neonaticides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of neonaticide
seldomly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more seldomly
form: most seldomly
Etymology: From Middle English seldomly; equivalent to seldom + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: the universally felt, yet seldomly acknowledged truth […]
ref: 1864, Ellen L. Biscoe Hollis, The Winthrops, page 265:
text: So I the ships may see / That touch how seldomly / Thy shore?
ref: c. 1864, Emily Dickinson, “[Part 5: The Single Hound] So set its sun in thee”, in Martha Dickinson Bianchi and Alfred Leete Hampson, editors, The Poems of Emily Dickinson, centenary edition, Boston, Mass.: Little, Brown, and Company, published November 1930, →OCLC, page 268:
text: Very seldomly will you need to store email addresses or names that are anywhere near as long as 100 characters.
ref: 1999, Philip Greenspun, Philip and Alex's Guide to Web Publishing:
text: Additionally, orthographic variants only very seldomly affect the text itself.
ref: 2011, Bart D. Ehrman, The Reliability of the New Testament, page 132:
synonyms: word: rarely
word: seldom
word: infrequently
word: scarcely
word: seldomly
word: uncommonly
word: unoften
glosses: Seldom; rarely.
nonhero
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɪəɹəʊ
-iːɹəʊ
Forms: form: nonheroes
Etymology: From non- + hero.
Senses: examples: text: It doesn’t matter if that’s really his name, though, because like Melville’s enlightened nonhero, this man does not expect to survive the journey.
ref: 2007 February 4, Kaiama L. Glover, “American Dream Deferred”, in New York Times:
synonyms: unhero
glosses: A character, especially a protagonist, who is not a hero.
Related terms: antihero
nonheroes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nonhero
unanxious
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unanxious
form: most unanxious
Etymology: From un- + anxious.
Senses: examples: 1970, Raymond Apthorpe, University of Sussex. Institute of Development Studies, People Planning and Development Studies: Some Reflections on Social Planning
Governments might, like those of America and Canada, produce cheap brochures explaining to parents how to bring up honest, unanxious, kindly, non-bed-wetting, co-operative children.
synonyms: word: unconcerned
word: unworried
word: airy
word: at ease
word: at peace
word: carefree
word: careless
word: casual
word: chill
word: cool
word: devil-may-care
word: easy-breezy
word: easygoing
word: happy-go-lucky
word: indifferent
word: insouciant
word: laid-back
word: leisurely
word: lighthearted
word: loose
word: mellow
word: nonchalant
word: pococurante
word: relaxed
word: serene
word: solute
word: tranquil
word: unanxious
word: unbothered
word: unconcerned
word: undisturbed
word: unruffled
word: untroubled
word: unworried
word: wanton
glosses: Not anxious.
Derived terms: unanxiousness
unanxiousness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From unanxious + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being unanxious.
patriarchic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more patriarchic
form: most patriarchic
Etymology: Borrowed from Ancient Greek πατριαρχικός (patriarkhikós) via Latin patriarchicus. By surface analysis, patriarch + -ic.
Senses: examples: text: Not the real deal, like the films of the great Senegalese-born auteur Ousmane Sembène, whose 1966 drama “Black Girl” is a classic of postcolonial cinema, and whose 2004 film, “Moolaadé,” manages to tackle the issue of female genital mutilation and critique patriarchic Islam in one entertaining package (really).
ref: 2007 February 4, Manohla Dargis, “Africa, at the Cineplex”, in New York Times:
glosses: Patriarchal.
patriarchically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more patriarchically
form: most patriarchically
Etymology: From patriarchical + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a patriarchic or patriarchical way.
Synonyms: patriarchally
maximumly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more maximumly
form: most maximumly
Etymology: From maximum + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a maximum manner.
Synonyms: maximally
patriarchally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more patriarchally
form: most patriarchally
Etymology: From patriarchal + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: ‘Yes,’ continued Takesure, darting pleading glances at my father, who remained patriarchally impervious and stern.
ref: 1988, Tsitsi Dangarembga, Nervous Conditions, Faber & Faber Limited (2021), page 212:
glosses: In a patriarchal manner.
Synonyms: patriarchically
nouny
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more nouny
form: nounier
form: most nouny
form: nouniest
Etymology: From noun + -y.
Senses: examples: text: Within this line of reasoning, then, Tagalog is classified as a language in which adjectivals are essentially neutral between a nouny and a verby interpretation.
ref: 2013, Harrie Wetzer, The Typology of Adjectival Predication, page 240:
text: To borrow an idea from linguist George Lakoff, the concept of an “apple” is a more nouny noun than the concept of “light,” which in turn is more nouny than a concept such as “health”.
ref: 2021, Kate Crawford, chapter 4, in Atlas of AI […] , →ISBN:
glosses: Having the characteristics of a noun.
Derived terms: nouniness
Related terms: substantival
verby
prefixally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more prefixally
form: most prefixally
Etymology: From prefixal + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a prefixal manner.
determinably
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more determinably
form: most determinably
Etymology: From determine + -ably.
Senses: glosses: in a determinable way
axiomatise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: axiomatises
form: axiomatising
form: axiomatised
form: axiomatised
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of axiomatize.
Derived terms: axiomatisable
axiomatising
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of axiomatise
axiomatised
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of axiomatise
axiomatises
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of axiomatise
axiomatisable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From axiomatise + -able.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of axiomatizable.
axiomatizable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From axiomatize + -able.
Senses: glosses: That can be axiomatized.
Derived terms: nonaxiomatizable
unaxiomatizable
Amparo
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A barangay of Butuan, Agusan del Norte, Philippines.
Consuelo
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A barangay of Bunawan, Agusan del Sur, Philippines.
glosses: A barangay of Floridablanca, Pampanga, Philippines.
glosses: A barangay of Guimba, Nueva Ecija, Philippines.
glosses: A barangay of Macabebe, Pampanga, Philippines.
glosses: A barangay of San Francisco, Cebu, Philippines.
backstroker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: backstrokers
Etymology: From backstroke + -er.
Senses: examples: text: I swam differently from the other backstrokers," he says. "
ref: 1998 August 28, Ted Kleine, “Pool Hustler”, in Chicago Reader:
text: Matt Grevers was struggling to keep his head above water in a deep pool of backstrokers when a coach from the Netherlands offered him a preserver.
ref: 2008 July 13, Karen Crouse, “Wooed by Netherlands, a Swimmer Stays for the Challenge”, in New York Times:
glosses: A swimmer who uses the style backstroke
me-toos
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of me-too
me-tooing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of me-too
me-tooed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of me-too
hypercellularity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From hyper- + cellularity.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: The presence of an abnormally large number of cells
hyperdensity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hyperdensities
Etymology: From hyper- + density.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: An unusually high density (on an X-ray plate etc)
Aida
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Aidas
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Aida cloth.
synonyms: word: Aida cloth
Aida
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian Aida, made famous by Giuseppe Verdi's opera Aida, which premiered in 1871.
Senses: examples: text: Her name was Aida, like the opera, and I said I’d heard it meant happy in Italian. More laughter. Oh, I always live up to it.
ref: 2023, C Pam Zhang, Land of Milk and Honey, Hutchinson Heinemann, page 23:
glosses: A female given name from Italian in quiet use since the 1870s.
song and dance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: songs and dances
Senses: glosses: A display of unnecessary excitement or activity.
examples: text: You could pick up the phone, call your vendors and give them a big song and dance about all the great things happening in your company.
ref: 2011 December 2, Ariel Kaminer, “The Ethicist: Caveat Vendor”, in New York Times, retrieved 06 Apr 2015:
glosses: An excessively elaborate story or excuse used to justify something.
glosses: An excessively complex set of instructions.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see song, and, dance.
copper uranite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The mineral cuprouranite or torbernite.
paddlefishes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of paddlefish
Adelia
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A female given name.
barcoded
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From barcode + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: […]the scanner-computer system reads the decimal bar-coded label on the box of each finished product.
ref: 1974 August 7, Edith Holmes, “Scanner, Mini Combined in Inventory, Shipping System”, in Computerworld:
glosses: Marked or numbered with a barcode.
Derived terms: debarcoded
nonbarcoded
unbarcoded
paraglides
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of paraglide
paraglided
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of paraglide
swine influenza
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: swine flu