cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
regnal number
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: regnal numbers
Senses: examples: text: Umberto I, who had fought at Solferino, had been christened with the name of the dynasty's founder, and changed his regnal number from IV to I.
ref: 2011, Norman Davies, Vanished Kingdoms, Penguin, published 2012, page 429:
glosses: An ordinal number that distinguishes a monarch from others of the same name.
bezier
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: beziers
Etymology: Clipping of Bézier curve.
Senses: topics: computer-graphics
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A Bézier curve.
beziers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bezier
regnal name
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: regnal names
Senses: synonyms: throne name
glosses: A name, which need not be the person's birth name, used by a monarch or pope during their reign.
Related terms: regnal number
regnal names
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of regnal name
dine at the Y
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: dines at the Y
form: dining at the Y
form: dined at the Y
form: dined at the Y
Etymology: From the shape of the female groin. Possibly derived from the term for the YMCA.
Senses: examples: text: “Then let us have sex, right here next to her body. Let me dine at the Y now. I'm hungry for some girl juice.”
ref: 2015, Rachel Redhead, Curse-Breaker Origins - The Vampires: Debbie Fall, page 158:
glosses: To perform cunnilingus.
comarket
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: comarkets
form: comarketing
form: comarketed
form: comarketed
Etymology: From co- + market.
Senses: glosses: To market (a pharmaceutical product) under different names in different regions.
comarkets
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of comarket
comarketing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of comarket
comarketed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of comarket
copromotional
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From co- + promotional.
Senses: glosses: Pertaining to copromotion.
copromotion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: copromotions
Etymology: From co- + promotion.
Senses: glosses: The act or process of copromoting.
copromotions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of copromotion
copromote
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: copromotes
form: copromoting
form: copromoted
form: copromoted
form: co-promote
Etymology: From co- + promote.
Senses: glosses: To promote (a pharmaceutical product) under the same name and in the same territory by more than one company in order to maximize market share.
copromotes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of copromote
copromoting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of copromote
copromoted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of copromote
cross-reactivities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cross-reactivity
crossreactivity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: crossreactivities
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of cross-reactivity.
crossreactivities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of crossreactivity
etherealize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: etherealizes
form: etherealizing
form: etherealized
form: etherealized
Etymology: From ethereal + -ize.
Senses: glosses: To make ethereal.
etherealization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: etherealizations
form: etherealisation
Etymology: From ethereal + -ization.
Senses: glosses: The act or process of etherealizing.
etherealisation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: etherealisations
Etymology: From ethereal + -isation.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of etherealization.
etherealizations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of etherealization
etherealisations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of etherealisation
etherealizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of etherealize
etherealizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of etherealize
etherealized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of etherealize
bastardies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bastardy
bastardy bonds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bastardy bond
echolocate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: echolocates
form: echolocating
form: echolocated
form: echolocated
Etymology: From echo + locate. Coined by American zoologist Donald Griffin in 1944.
Senses: glosses: To locate by means of echolocation.
Derived terms: echolocative
nonecholocating
echolocated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of echolocate
echolocates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of echolocate
echolocating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of echolocate
ethnogeographer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ethnogeographers
Etymology: From ethno- + geographer.
Senses: glosses: A person involved in ethnogeography.
ethnogeographers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ethnogeographer
faqueer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: faqueers
Senses: examples: text: a thousand human bodies, priests, brahmins, faqueers, and all. (III, xvi)
ref: 1820, Charles Maturin, Melmoth the Wanderer:
glosses: Dated form of faqir.
faqueers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of faqueer
flügelhorn
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: flügelhorns
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of flugelhorn.
flügelhorns
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of flügelhorn
RPGer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: RPGers
Etymology: From RPG + -er.
Senses: topics: games
glosses: A roleplayer.
Hyponyms: LARPer
RPGers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of RPGer
Marioesque
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Marioesque
form: most Marioesque
form: Mario-esque
Etymology: From Mario + -esque.
Senses: examples: text: Or the clever blend of puzzles and hair raisingly, chilling battles in the kitchen of the conway estate with undead chefs whipping meat cleavers at me, while I mow em down with my shotgun in Killing time, or The Marioesque approach to a 3-d shooter's paradise that is bladeforce, lotsa secrets, but lotsa stuff to destroy!!!
ref: 1995, Emeka B. Okwuje, “Survey: How many of you are thinking about getting a 3DO”, in rec.games.video.sony (Usenet):
text: Yes, it's becoming possible to do so, but the same can really be said of plenty of genres, including Mario-esque action games.
ref: 1999, Frioniel, “My Thoughts on Final Fantasy's Genre -- Narrative Games???”, in alt.games.final-fantasy (Usenet):
text: It was a platformer type game. I do not think in ^([sic]) was pengo, but more of a marioesque type platformer.
ref: 2000, Wade E. Solowoniuk, “name that game”, in alt.games.mame (Usenet):
text: I wasn't aware that MDK2 was a Marioesque platformer...
ref: 2000, Joe Ottoson, “Rayman 2 - WOW!”, in rec.games.video.sega (Usenet):
topics: video-games
synonyms: Mariolike
glosses: Resembling the character Mario or the games in which he appears, typified by bright, cheerful environments, platform obstacles, and often the rescue of a princess from a monster.
electrophonically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From electrophonic + -ally.
Senses: glosses: in an electrophonic way
corner shops
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of corner shop
variety stores
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of variety store
emmetropic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From emmetropia + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Pertaining to emmetropia.
Derived terms: emmetropically
nonemmetropic
emmetropically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From emmetropic + -ally.
Senses: glosses: In an emmetropic way.
immanant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈɪmənənt/
Forms: form: immanants
Senses: topics: linear-algebra
mathematics
sciences
glosses: A function or property of a matrix, defined as a generalization of the concepts of determinant and permanent.
homogene
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈhɒməd͡ʒiːn/
Forms: form: more homogene
form: most homogene
Etymology: Compare French homogène (“homogeneous”).
Senses: examples: text: Know you the Sapor ponticks Sapor stipstick?
Or, what is Homogene, or Heterogene?
ref: 1610 (first performance), Ben[jamin] Jonson, The Alchemist, London: […] Thomas Snodham, for Walter Burre, and are to be sold by Iohn Stepneth, […], published 1612, →OCLC, (please specify the Internet Archive page), (please specify the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):
glosses: homogeneous
first-order spectrum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: first-order spectra
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A spectrum produced by a diffraction grating whose adjacent slits are one wavelength apart.
midstory
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From mid- + story.
Senses: examples: text: The songs often start in midstory, packed with more detail than the mind can process.
ref: 2007 November 5, Kelefa Sanneh, “With a Torrent of Lyrics, Daring the Fans to Keep Up”, in New York Times:
glosses: The middle part of a story, neither the beginning nor the end.
midstory
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From mid- + story.
Senses: examples: text: If you interrupt him midstory, he absolutely loses it.
ref: 2004, Intelligent Systems, translated by Nintendo of America, Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door, Nintendo, GameCube:
glosses: In the middle of a story; during a story.
minerally
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more minerally
form: most minerally
Etymology: From mineral + -y.
Senses: examples: text: The sweet, firm apples turned out to be the perfect foil for the soft, minerally oyster.
ref: 2007 April 11, Marian Burros, “The Enticing Oyster, in Months With ‘R’ or Not”, in New York Times:
glosses: Having a mineral flavor
midshow
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From mid- + show.
Senses: examples: text: “I am the diabolical Bobby Brown,” he said, exhausted, before an excellent midshow run of songs […].
ref: 2009 February 14, Jon Caramanica, “The Newest New Edition: Three Singers, Trading Styles With Equanimity”, in New York Times:
glosses: Occurring in the middle of a show, neither at the beginning nor the end
midcycle
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From mid- + cycle.
Senses: examples: text: Mike Thompson, managing director of global research at Thomson Financial, says he believes that the potential slowdown in earnings reflects a midcycle slowdown.
ref: 2007 November 11, Paul J. Lim, “Is the Market Finally Waking Up?”, in New York Times:
glosses: Occurring in the middle of a cycle
microtrend
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: microtrends
Etymology: From micro- + trend.
Senses: examples: text: This last microtrend—effectively a re-revival—highlights one of the ironies of the 80's resurgence, for the 80's were the first era in pop in which recycling and retrospection became rife.
ref: 2002 May 5, Simon Reynolds, “The 70's Are So 90's. The 80's Are The Thing Now.”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
text: Replace the resin with real ice, and substitute an orchid or rose petal or other edible niblet for the fly, and you’ve got the latest microtrend in upscale mixology — or at least in precious garnishes.
ref: 2007 February 9, Jonathan Miles, “Barkeep, There’s a ...”, in The New York Times:
text: Is this another TikTok microtrend? I’m so tired: I just want to stare at a tree.
ref: 2023 February 14, “Enyacore: the 1990s revival absolutely no one saw coming”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
text: Much like other microtrends, grandpacore has seamlessly transitioned from the high-fashion runways to the world of TikTok, proving that it's no exception to the influential runway-to-social-media pipeline.
ref: 2024 March 3, Shelby Comroe, “Goodbye Coastal Grandmother, Hello Grandpacore”, in InStyle:
text: Is it possible that the fire hydrant of trends is starting to run dry? Business of Fashion predicted in January that viral microtrends were on their way out, in part because of the uncertain fate of TikTok, which was set to face a federal ban in January.
ref: 2025 March 7, Callie Holtermann, “Gen Z Is Tired of Chasing the Trend Cycle”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
glosses: A very small, specific trend or vogue.
Related terms: macrotrend
minitrend
marchy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: marchier
form: marchiest
Etymology: From march + -y.
Senses: examples: text: But halfway through, this stateliness devolves into the kind of marchy clatter that Wagner’s Italian counterparts were writing.
ref: 2009 February 27, Allan Kozinn, “A Viennese Meal Served With the Dessert First”, in New York Times:
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: Having the character of a march
masterplan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: masterplans
Senses: examples: text: It has been suggested that Mikel Jollett formed the Airborne Toxic Event driven by a cunning masterplan that involved combining the best bits of the Strokes, Arcade Fire and the Killers, to catapult the band from suburban Los Angeles to global indie-rock domination.
ref: 2009 February 4, Chris Salmon, “The Airborne Toxic Event”, in The Guardian:
text: The rail options in this first phase concentrate on developing major stations. Edinburgh Waverley's masterplan moves forward [...], and Transport Scotland will review capacity at Glasgow Central to find short-term ways of allowing longer and perhaps more frequent trains to run. A masterplan beckons too for Inverness, in line with long-standing local wishes.
ref: 2021 February 24, Philip Haigh, “A shift from cars: Scotland's railways are friends of electric!”, in RAIL, number 925, page 30:
glosses: Alternative form of master plan.
masterplan
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: masterplans
form: masterplanning
form: masterplanned
form: masterplanned
Senses: examples: text: I'm keen to discuss the extent to which masterplanning can manage and, perhaps, even forecast the future.
ref: 2013, Tom Verebes, editor, Masterplanning the Adaptive City: Computational Urbanism in the Twenty-First Century, Routledge, →ISBN, page 23:
glosses: To make a master plan of; to strategize.
microtrends
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of microtrend
marathoning
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From marathon + -ing.
Senses: examples: text: Farrell[…
ref: 1988 July 29, Lawrence Rand, “Body Work: training for the triathlon”, in Chicago Reader:
glosses: The act of running a marathon.
marathoning
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From marathon + -ing.
Senses: glosses: present participle of marathon
lowriders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lowrider
lowriders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lowrider
Senses: examples: text: In the foyer, a game of Twister has started. It's appealing because all of the women are wearing lowriders. I carefully step over somebody's ass crack and start to look for Lamb.
ref: 2008, Daccia Bloomfield, Dora Borealis:
text: No sense even trying to resist the pull of that voice, not when he was talking about secrets and sitting so close and wearing lowriders she wanted to ease off with her teeth.
ref: 2015, Maggie Kelley, Unexpectedly His:
glosses: Trousers or shorts worn with the top sagging down below the wearer's waist.
mandolinlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more mandolinlike
form: most mandolinlike
Etymology: From mandolin + -like.
Senses: examples: text: The Edge's distinctive mandolinlike upper-position chord fills took on a more sparkling quality, and Bono added some depth to his singing.
ref: 1988 December 9, Alex Wilding-White, “Ho and Hum: Is success spoiling U2?”, in Chicago Reader:
glosses: Resembling a mandolin, or the sound of mandolin music
lowrider
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lowriders
Etymology: From low + rider.
Senses: examples: text: The first lowriders were rounded models from the 1930s and 40s.
ref: 2007 November 18, Phil Patton, “Inches Above the Road and in The Mans Face”, in New York Times:
glosses: A vehicle, usually a passenger car, with its suspension system modified so that it rides as low to level ground as possible without dragging.
glosses: The driver or a frequent passenger of such a vehicle.
examples: text: Cecily was dressed as a pile of laundry—wide-legged lowrider pants that she wore down on her hips, layers of shirts, her face dusted with what looked like particles of silver.
ref: 1999, Jane Vandenburgh, The Physics of Sunset, New York, N.Y.: Pantheon Books, →ISBN, page 106:
text: Another young woman walked past us, wearing tight lowrider trousers and a cropped T-shirt that stopped several inches shy of the trousers.
ref: 2005, Robert B[rown] Parker, Cold Service (a Spenser novel), Harpenden, Herts: No Exit Press, published 2014, →ISBN, page 130:
text: Behind them stood a woman in a pants suit with a poodle on a leash and a couple of teenage girls in lowrider jeans with iPods and earphones that were currently slung around their necks so they could murmur together—earnestly, no giggles.
ref: 2006, Stephen King, Cell, New York, N.Y.: Scribner, →ISBN, page 4:
glosses: Attributive form of lowriders.
Derived terms: lowrider bicycle
Related terms: lowriders
invitationals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of invitational
fleshlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From flesh + -like.
Senses: examples: text: The artist's imposition on the fleshlike malleability of the clay is an urgent presence.
ref: 1988 March 4, Harold Henderson, quoting Esther Saks Gallery, “City File”, in Chicago Reader:
glosses: Resembling flesh
filmgoing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From film + going.
Senses: examples: text: ONE of Ken Kwapis’s earliest filmgoing memories is watching the 1962 rampaging-monster movie “King Kong vs. Godzilla” at the local drive-in with his father in Belleville, Ill. Or rather, not watching it.
ref: 2009 February 1, Margy Rochlin, “Keeping Things Human Size, Despite the Stars”, in New York Times:
glosses: The activity of attending a film screening
Related terms: filmgoer
flowerlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more flowerlike
form: most flowerlike
Etymology: From flower + -like.
Senses: examples: text: I designed clothes for flowerlike women, with rounded shoulders, full feminine busts and hand-span waists above enormous spreading skirts.
ref: 2007 December 2, “Fashion”, in New York Times:
glosses: Resembling a flower, especially in shape
invincibles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Morris had been a member of Don Bradman's 1948 "invincibles" cricket team.
glosses: plural of invincible
window frames
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of window frame
frame balls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of frame ball
leftfield
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: left-field
Etymology: From left + field.
Senses: examples: text: Deacon's second album, Bromst, will be an intricate merry-go-round of joyous, leftfield compositions.
ref: 2009 February 26, Mikey Cahill, “Rock City”, in Herald Sun:
text: A lot of the left-field techno producers in this country were moving towards jungle and breakbeat influences then – so it was almost perverse for you to go towards techno.
ref: 2020, Joe Muggs, Brian David Stevens, Bass, Mids, Tops: An Oral History of Sound System Culture, MIT Press, →ISBN:
glosses: From out of left field; off-the-wall; unconventional.
grippy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: grippier
form: grippiest
Etymology: From grip + -y.
Senses: examples: text: Naturally, the men play the set, drumming on the metal scaffolding as they climb around it wearing special grippy gloves.
ref: 2007 August 31, Melena Ryzik, “Portable Theater (Just Go With the Flow)”, in New York Times:
glosses: Having a tight grip, or tending to grip well.
glosses: Tight-fisted, greedy, stingy.
examples: text: The book is a quick, grippy summer read.
glosses: Gripping; compelling.
Derived terms: grippiness
grippy sock
grippy tape
Related terms: grippie
grippy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From grippe + -y.
Senses: examples: text: Let me state again that we must never make light of the grippy infections.
ref: 1916, George Frederick Shrady, Thomas Lathrop Stedman, Medical Record:
glosses: Afflicted with, or relating to, grippe, or influenza.
grassfire
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: grassfires
form: grass fire
Etymology: From grass + fire.
Senses: examples: text: FIREFIGHTERS have controlled a grassfire which threatened houses in a heavily populated area in Melbourne's south.
ref: 2009 January 20, Anne Wright with AAP, “Grassfire under control after burning property in Frankston North”, in Herald Sun, archived from the original on 24 Feb 2009:
glosses: A fire burning over grass or grassland.
grassfires
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of grassfire
garbageman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: garbagemen
Etymology: From garbage + -man.
Senses: examples: text: That immemorial stench has been mostly a bad memory for the last two years, though, thanks to Sidney D. Torres IV, a stylish garbageman whose vigorous sweeping and spraying broke the unloved tradition, astonishing citizens here.
ref: 2009 January 31, Adam Nossiter, “The Smell of Success in the Quarter May Change”, in New York Times:
glosses: Alternative form of garbage man.
fuguelike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more fuguelike
form: most fuguelike
Etymology: From fugue + -like.
Senses: glosses: Resembling a fugue
fuguelike
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more fuguelike
form: most fuguelike
Etymology: From fugue + -like.
Senses: examples: text: Ultimately, Furst suggests that each generation is condemned to live out its parents’ unresolved stories, over and over, fuguelike.
ref: 2007 October 21, Field Maloney, “Here in Dinkytown”, in New York Times:
glosses: In the manner of a fugue
foredeck
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: foredecks
Etymology: From fore- + deck.
Senses: examples: text: Holonyms: watercraft, vessel, vessel
text: On a recent Saturday during the confusion of this watery city’s annual Gay Pride Parade along the majestic Princes Canal, a beach umbrella was knocked into the water from the foredeck of Jackie Wijnakker’s houseboat, so she dove into the water to fetch it, unsuccessfully.
ref: 2007 August 14, John Tagliabue, “A Rising Tide of Gentrification Rocks Dutch Houseboats”, in New York Times:
antonyms: afterdeck
hypernyms: deck
related: word: forecastle
word: aftcastle
word: aftercastle
glosses: The part of the deck of a ship or boat that lies forward of the mast.
foredecks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of foredeck
fritted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of frit
fritting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of frit
fritting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The formation of frit or slag by heat with only incipient fusion.
gruyere
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Other entrees offered periodically include a tart of leeks and chevre, or leeks and gruyere ($8.75)[…].
ref: 1988 March 25, Stephanie Ross, “Restaurant Tours: a lofty approach to health food”, in Chicago Reader:
glosses: Alternative form of Gruyère.
pitched battle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pitched battles
Etymology: From pitched (“prepared”) + battle.
Senses: examples: text: Have I not in a pitched battle heard / Loud 'larums, neighing steeds, and trumpets' clang?
ref: c. 1590–1592 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Taming of the Shrew”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene ii]:
text: That barbarian warriors, led by barbarian chiefs, should win a pitched battle against Greek valor guided by Greek science, seemed as incredible as it would now seem that the Burmese or the Siamese should, in the open plain, put to flight an equal number of the best English troops.
ref: 1834–1838 (date written), Thomas Babington Macaulay, “The Prophecy of Capys”, in Lays of Ancient Rome, London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, […], published 1842, →OCLC, page 170:
text: In pitched battle the Romans knew that they were unlikely to experience a reverse (Tac. Ann. I.68); when it came, defeat by a foreign enemy was rarely in pitched battle, but was usually as a result of an attack or ambush on an army on the march.
ref: 2007, Philip Sabin, Hans van Wees, Michael Whitby, editors, The Cambridge History of Greek and Roman Warfare, volume II, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 125:
text: In an earlier phase of the war, Ukraine’s leadership had been more equivocal about pitched battles like Bakhmut.
ref: 2023 January 9, Andrew E. Kramer, Nicole Tung, “Without Hesitation, Ukraine Goes Toe to Toe With Russia in Bakhmut”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
topics: government
military
politics
war
synonyms: set-piece battle
coordinate_terms: guerrilla warfare
raid
skirmish
siege
glosses: A battle which opposing forces anticipate and commit to fighting; a sustained, intense and confrontational fight.
examples: text: At every post where we changed horses and drivers, we had a pitched battle with the driver for more money than we had been told was the regular rate.
ref: 1889, Harriet Beecher Stowe, chapter 13, in The Life of Harriet Beecher Stowe:
synonyms: blow-up
brouhaha
shouting match
glosses: An intense, rancorous argument or confrontation.
hivelike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more hivelike
form: most hivelike
Etymology: From hive + -like.
Senses: examples: text: He might orchestrate the curved lines into stepped, hivelike hills […].
ref: 2007 January 26, Roberta Smith, “Outside In”, in New York Times:
glosses: Resembling a beehive
hyperlocal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From hyper- + local.
Senses: examples: text: Or, as Placeblogger.com, a Web site that promotes and tracks blogs with a hyperlocal focus, put it: “Placeblogs are about the lived experience of a community, some of which is news and some of which isn’t.”
ref: 2007 July 8, Gregory Beyer, “Cracker-Barrel 2.0”, in New York Times:
text: Each customized boutique location would be a one-of-a-kind representative for its neighborhood, allowing you to go out on the (home)town, then walk or bike back to your room […] .
Everything about the experience would be hyperlocal. Dine at a neighborhood restaurant, hit the bar down the street, stop at a gallery or shop at a store.
ref: 2010 September, Bill Keaggy, "STL Lo-tels", St. Louis magazine, ISSN 1090-5723, volume 16, issue 9, page 76
topics: blogging
journalism
media
glosses: Related to a very small area, smaller than normally considered local.
Derived terms: hyperlocalism
hypermasculine
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˌhaɪpə(ɹ)ˈmæskjʊlɪn/
/ˌhaɪpə(ɹ)ˈmæskjələn/
Forms: form: more hypermasculine
form: most hypermasculine
Etymology: From hyper- + masculine.
Senses: examples: text: But it's also in keeping with menswear's current preoccupation with authenticity, a return to basic, hardworking and hypermasculine clothing.
ref: 2009 February 26, Loretta Chin, “Canada produces fashion by buddies and brothers”, in Toronto Star:
text: I can see why Jeremy’s Razors is focusing its ad dollars on men who might appreciate its hypermasculine message. But the reverse is not as clear: Are these men better off for having been pitched an “anti-woke” razor?
ref: 2023 April 6, Julia Angwin, “If It’s Advertised to You Online, You Probably Shouldn’t Buy It. Here’s Why.”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
glosses: Extremely masculine
waterbombers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of waterbomber
waterbomber
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: waterbombers
form: water-bomber
form: water bomber
Etymology: From waterbomb + -er.
Senses: examples: text: Near-synonyms: air tanker, airtanker, AT (broadly synonymous)
text: Some 50 firefighters, 10 tankers and waterbombers battled the grass and scrub blaze, which began about 12.30pm.
ref: 2009 February 28, Anthony Dowsley, Jane Metlikovec, “Relief for Victorians as weather fails to hit extremes”, in Herald Sun, archived from the original on 28 Feb 2009:
topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
firefighting
government
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: An aircraft that engages in waterbombing, usually in the course of fighting a wildfire.
Related terms: douse
douser
Spengler
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Spenglers
Etymology: From German Spengler.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
tiebreaking
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From tie + breaking.
Senses: examples: text: Jones will play MacPhee in the tiebreaking game today for fourth.
ref: 2009 February 27, Brian McAndrew, “Muted Mallett rocks rivals en route to top”, in Toronto Star:
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: Serving as a tiebreaker
French leave
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /fɹɛnt͡ʃ ˈliːv/
ipa: /fɹɛnt͡ʃ ˈliv/
rhymes: -iːv
Etymology: From French (adjective) + leave (noun), apparently from a French custom, already recorded in the 18th century, of leaving from receptions or other events without formally announcing one’s departure to the host or hostess. Compare Spanish irse a la francesa and Portuguese sair à francesa (“go in the French manner”) but also the otherwise ubiquitous attribution of this behaviour to the English as with French filer à l’anglaise (“leave in the English manner”), Italian filarsela all'inglese, Polish wyjść po angielsku, etc.
Senses: examples: text: As for Ditton, after all his courting, and his compliment, he ſtole avvay an Iriſhman's bride, and took a French leave of me and his maſter; […]
ref: 1771, [Tobias Smollett], “To Mrs. Mary Jones, at Brambleton-hall”, in The Expedition of Humphry Clinker […], volume II, London: […] W. Johnston, […]; and B. Collins, […], →OCLC, page 226:
synonyms: French exit
;
AWOL
disappearing act
Irish goodbye
glosses: A departure taken quietly and unnoticed, without asking for permission or informing anyone.
examples: text: he may have felt a particular need to mitigate the responsibility of those who shirked their duty, for as he wrote that letter he had just returned from French leave himself.
ref: 2010, William Marvel, The Great Task Remaining: The Third Year of Lincoln’s War, page 10:
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: Desertion or temporary absence from duty or service without permission; absence without leave, AWOL.
Derived terms: word: take French leave
word: take a French leave
Related terms: by your leave
duck out
slip out
sneak out
anticollision
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From anti- + collision.
Senses: examples: text: […] he would meet with the acting F.A.A. administrator to demand that new anticollision equipment be installed at the airport.
ref: 2007 December 11, Matthew L. Wald, “Commuter Jet and Boeing 747 in Near Miss”, in New York Times:
glosses: Acting to combat or prevent collisions
antireligious
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more antireligious
form: most antireligious
form: anti-religious
Etymology: From anti- + religious.
Senses: examples: text: The many nonbelievers he interviewed[…] were anything but antireligious, for example.
ref: 2009 February 28, Peter Steinfels, “Scandanavian Nonbelievers, Which Is Not to Say Atheists”, in New York Times:
antonyms: antisecular
glosses: Opposed to religion.
Synonyms: word: antireligious
word: antireligion
word: antitheist
Hyponyms: word: anti-Buddhist
word: anti-Christian
word: anti-Islam
word: anti-Islamic
word: anti-Jewish
word: anti-Hindu
word: anti-Mormon
word: anti-Muslim
word: antisemitic
word: anti-Taoist
Coordinate terms: word: agnostic
word: atheist
word: irreligious
word: nonreligious
word: unreligious
Derived terms: antireligiousness
Related terms: word: religiophobic
word: Christianophobic
word: Christophobic
word: Hinduphobic
word: Islamophobic
word: Muslimophobic
word: xenophobic
word: :Category:English terms suffixed with -phobic
word: Special:Search/intitle:/phobic/
word: believer
word: religion
word: religism
auteurism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From auteur + -ism.
Senses: examples: text: Samantha Who?, a comedy beginning tonight on ABC, makes quite a good case against auteurism.
ref: 2007 October 15, Ginia Bellafante, “Emerging From a Coma a Slightly Better Person”, in New York Times:
topics: broadcasting
film
media
television
glosses: A theory that considers a work of cinema or television as the work of its director, rather than of the actors or producers
boxscore
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: boxscores
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of box score.
booklike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more booklike
form: most booklike
Etymology: From book + -like.
Senses: examples: text: Page by page the booklike maps show country lanes, farmhouses and churches with arrows indicating the correct route.
ref: 2007 November 23, William Grimes, “From the Glove Compartment to the Shelf”, in New York Times:
glosses: Resembling a book
biotas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of biota
box score
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: box scores
form: boxscore
Senses: topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A score showing the final scores of the teams in a game, as well as certain individual and team achievements.
Related terms: line score
scorecard
bamboozlement
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bamboozlements
Etymology: From bamboozle + -ment.
Senses: examples: text: This is bamboozlement of the highest order.
ref: 2007 December 9, Robert H. Frank, “Reshaping the Debate on Raising Taxes”, in New York Times:
text: "You're not trying to bamboozle me, are you?" He smiled and chanted, "No sir! There is no bamboozlement here. I have quoted you the correct fare."
ref: 2001, Yan Martel, “Author's Note”, in The Life of Pi, →ISBN, page vii:
glosses: The act or process of bamboozling or being bamboozled.
box scores
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of box score
bricklike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more bricklike
form: most bricklike
Etymology: From brick + -like.
Senses: examples: text: Thousands of small bricklike packages wrapped in plastic and packing tape were piled on a platform.
ref: 2007 November 29, James C. Mckinley Jr., “Mexico Tries to Show Resolve With Big Drug Seizure”, in New York Times:
glosses: Resembling a brick.
Orenburg
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Russian Оренбу́рг (Orenbúrg).
Senses: glosses: An oblast of Russia.
glosses: A city, the administrative center of Orenburg Oblast, Russia, on the Ural River.
Derived terms: Orenburg gum
carmaking
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From car + making.
Senses: examples: text: Born of Silicon Valley and the dot-com culture, they are trying to apply to carmaking the same entrepreneurial spirit that built the information superhighway.
ref: 2007 November 14, Matt Richtel, “Taking a Whack at Making a Car”, in New York Times:
glosses: The manufacture of automobiles.
Related terms: carmaker
cantilevering
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of cantilever
cantilevering
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cantileverings
Senses: glosses: The motion or use of a cantilever.
Ryazan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Riazan
Senses: glosses: An oblast of Russia.
glosses: A city, the administrative center of Ryazan Oblast, Russia, 196 kilometres south of Moscow.
cluttery
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more cluttery
form: most cluttery
Etymology: From clutter + -y.
Senses: examples: text: a large, cluttery attic
glosses: Cluttered; full of clutter.
examples: text: a room full of cluttery junk
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of clutter.
examples: text: "One cluttery night in November, thirty of our Ashbury chaps thay started down to Longcott, and dug 'un up, and brought 'un cler away on handspikes, all the waay to the Crown'd Inn at Ashbury, and 'tis quite vour mil'd."
ref: 1859, Thomas Hughes, The Scouring of the White Horse: Or, The Long Vacation Ramble of a London Clerk, page 129:
text: "'tis cluttery weather, an' no mistake. Fight my way up your path I did, though I baint so easy to upset, neither."
ref: 1894, The Argosy, page 245:
text: ... days were dark and rainy, not, perhaps, days of a steady, dull downpour, but wild and gusty with bursts of rain that make puddles everywhere- "cluttery weather" I have heard my friend the gamekeeper call this when it comes in spring.
ref: 1908, George Albemarle Bertie Dewar, Life and Sport in Hampshire, page 45:
text: [...] wind changed too, with the schooner being assailed by gusts and squalls that kept turning her sails aback, with thunderous detonations of canvas. Mr Crowle was on the first watch of the night, and Zachary knew that the cluttery weather would serve to keep him occupied on deck.
ref: 2009 September 29, Amitav Ghosh, Sea of Poppies: A Novel, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, →ISBN, page 420:
glosses: Rainy, stormy, or inclined to be.
mainstreamer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mainstreamers
Etymology: From mainstream + -er.
Senses: examples: text: And what a strange souvenir it is of its time: when mainstreamers desperate to save a newspaper clung for dear life to subversive wit!
ref: 1991 February 8, Michael Miner, “Sun-Times Picks a Critic/Skip in Time”, in Chicago Reader:
text: But to Goldwater and Bozell it was the mainstreamers who were the true aliens.
ref: 2007 November 8, Peter Beinart, “Marching After Goldwater in the Opposite Direction”, in New York Times:
glosses: Someone in the mainstream.
Synonyms: word: basic bitch
word: bourgeois
word: L7
word: mainstreamer
word: mainstreamist
word: muggle
word: mundane
word: normal
word: normalfag
word: normaloid
word: normie
word: square
word: straight
Hypernyms: word: person
Related terms: word: normality
mairatour
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: moreover, furthermore
optic neuritis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The inflammation of the optic nerve that may cause a complete or partial loss of vision.
maistrie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Mastery.
maistry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of mastery.
maistry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: maistries
form: mistry
Etymology: Borrowed from Hindi मिस्त्री (mistrī), from Portuguese mestre.
Senses: examples: text: Anstruther laughed good-naturedly. “Well, yes, of a kind. I shall take out half a dozen intelligent maistries from our Press and get them to give our villagers instruction when they begin work and when they are in the fields.”
ref: 1927, F. E. Penny, chapter 5, in Pulling the Strings:
glosses: A foreman.
glosses: Any artisan, such as a cook or a tailor.
digitalisation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: digitalisations
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of digitalization.
exasperatedly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more exasperatedly
form: most exasperatedly
Etymology: From exasperated + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: His eyes trailed over her feline pose on the sofa, finding her limbs adorable while he tried exasperatedly to extract the truth of licentious revelations from them.
ref: 1930, Norman Lindsay, Redheap, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, →OCLC, page 228:
glosses: In an exasperated manner.
maitre d'
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: maitre d's
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of maître d'.
hippyish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈhɪpiɪʃ/
Forms: form: more hippyish
form: most hippyish
Etymology: From hippy + -ish.
Senses: glosses: Having characteristics of a hippy.
maize mushroom
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Corn smut.
inexpressibility
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From in- + expressibility.
Senses: examples: text: Even in this least poetical age, when it comes to expressing the inexpressibility of grief, only poetry will do.
ref: 2009 March 1, Carole Cadwalladr, “Carole Cadwalladr: What's Masterchef got to do with food?”, in The Observer:
glosses: The condition of being inexpressible.
leblouh
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The practice, in Mauritania, of forcibly fattening young girls in preparation for marriage
leopardskin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: leopardskins
form: leopard-skin
form: leopard skin
Etymology: From leopard + skin.
Senses: glosses: The skin or pelt of a leopard.
examples: text: I turned, and followed him down the passage, and when we reached the great central cave saw that many Amahagger, some robed, and some merely clad in the sweet simplicity of a leopard skin, were hurrying along it.
ref: 1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC:
text: Opposite him was the Fat Lady, red-faced and laughing. Beside her, the India-rubber Man wound spaghetti on to a fork with an expression of deepest melancholy. Further down the table, the Strong Man, an overcoat covering his leopard-skin, talked garrulously.
ref: 1957, Sydney J. Bounds, The Robot Brains, London: Digit Books, page 26:
glosses: Such a skin forming a simple article of clothing.
glosses: A design, especially on fabric, similar to the markings of a leopard.
corn smut
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: corn smuts
Senses: glosses: A fungus that affects corn (maize), taxonomic name Mycosarcoma maydis, which induces tumors in the plant, known to be eaten as a delicacy.
Synonyms: huitlacoche
maize mushroom
onfield
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From on + field.
Senses: glosses: That takes place on a sports field
Related terms: off-field
oversubscription
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: oversubscriptions
Etymology: From over- + subscription.
Senses: glosses: A subscription for more than is available.
examples: text: This paper explores thread oversubscription, i.e., provisioning more threads than the available cores, to exploit CPU elasticity in the cloud.
ref: 2021, Hang Huang, Jia Rao, Song Wu, Hai Jin, Hong Jiang, “Towards Exploiting CPU Elasticity via Efficient Thread Oversubscription”, in Proceedings of the 30th International Symposium on High-Performance Parallel and Distributed Computing (HPDC '21), New York, NY, USA: Association for Computing Machinery, →DOI, →ISBN, pages 215–226:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
glosses: A multithreading technique involving an extra thread that runs tasks when all other threads are blocked.
examples: text: You can overcome the oversubscription of an ISL by adding an ISL between the switches to increase the bandwidth.
ref: 2018, Jon Tate, Pall Beck, Hector Hugo Ibarra, Introduction to Storage Area Networks, page 171:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
networking
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: The practice of connecting multiple devices to the same switch port in a storage area network.
Related terms: oversubscribe
postwoman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: postwomen
Etymology: From post + woman.
Senses: glosses: A female letter carrier, a woman who delivers mail.
Synonyms: mailwoman
mail lady
post lady
Hypernyms: mail carrier
letter carrier
postal carrier
postal worker
mailperson
postperson
quayside
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈkiːsaɪd/
Forms: form: quaysides
Etymology: From quay + side.
Senses: examples: text: It was purchased by the Isle of Wight Railway in 1882, and continued to work between Brading and Bembridge until 1917, when it was taken over by the War Department, and sent overseas for war service in Mesopotamia, whence it never returned. It survived until at least 1921, when it was observed on the quayside at Basra.
ref: 1948 July and August, K. Westcott Jones, “The Isle of Wight Railway”, in Railway Magazine, page 217:
text: The boat trains are run straight into the quayside shed alongside the ship, where immigration and customs formalities are carried out under cover.
ref: 1959 February, G. Freeman Allen, “Southampton—Gateway to the Ocean”, in Trains Illustrated, page 89:
glosses: An area alongside a quay.
maizena
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Spanish in many contexts. In German contexts, from Maizena.
Senses: glosses: Cornflour, cornstarch.
stretchmarks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stretchmark
stretchmark
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stretchmarks
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of stretch mark.
majat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Cannabis of low quality with too many sticks and seeds.
glosses: Any other product or service that is of inferior quality.
totted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of tot
totting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of tot
totting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tottings
Senses: examples: text: This remarkable "paying off" did not pass off without a record for, strangely enough, the sheet of paper on which Hullock did his tottings was the only thing found in the mate's cabin — as reported from Gibraltar.
ref: 1929, Laurence J. Keating, The Great Mary Celeste Hoax: A Famous Sea Mystery Exposed:
glosses: The act of adding up; an addition.
totting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: […] junk collectors who go 'totting' for old clothes and broken furniture around Shepherd's Bush […]
ref: 2011, Christopher Stevens, The Masters of Sitcom: From Hancock to Steptoe:
glosses: Collecting rags, bones, or other junk to sell on.
majestatic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more majestatic
form: most majestatic
Etymology: From Medieval Latin maiestāticus.
Senses: glosses: majestic
twerpish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more twerpish
form: most twerpish
Etymology: From twerp + -ish.
Senses: glosses: Characteristic of a twerp
majestify
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: majestifies
form: majestifying
form: majestified
form: majestified
Senses: glosses: To become majestic.
unchipped
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unchipped
form: most unchipped
Etymology: From un- + chipped.
Senses: examples: text: an unchipped plate
text: And there, in the centre of the picture, with its carved back scarcely three feet below the soil, is the throne of the ancient king, with the lines of its strange crocketing fresh and unchipped, unmoved from the day when it was packed away in the earth three-and-thirty centuries ago.
ref: 1907, Ronald M. Burrows, The Discoveries In Crete, page 2:
glosses: Not chipped.
majestifies
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of majestify