cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
smolderingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more smolderingly
form: most smolderingly
form: smoulderingly
Etymology: From smoldering + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: The huge cast and crew included scene makers, hipsters, hangers-on, socialites, amphetamine-thin actress/models, black militants, the publisher Barney Rosset, the boxing champ Jose Torres, the Warhol superstar Ultra Violet, Mailer’s wife at the time — Beverly Bentley — two of his ex-wives, and a sprinkling of professional actors, including Hervé Villechaize and, most crucially, a smolderingly intense Rip Torn.
ref: 2007 August 26, Gerald Howard, “Mailer Gets Hammered”, in New York Times:
glosses: With repressed anger or passion.
sneakerlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more sneakerlike
form: most sneakerlike
Etymology: From sneaker + -like.
Senses: examples: text: They were as comfortable as advertised, and were surprisingly easy to move around in — almost sneakerlike, in fact.
ref: 2007 August 26, Brendan I. Koerner, “These Boots Are Made for Herding”, in New York Times:
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of sneakers.
spearfisher
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spearfishers
Etymology: From spear + fisher.
Senses: examples: text: There is a reckless driver, a liar (Ann Hood fibs compulsively, a hilariously inherited trait), a Catholic adolescent with some confessions to make about confession and a spearfisher who, playing hooky in Mexico from family Christmas, cheats by luring her prey with cheese.
ref: 2007 August 26, Lynn Harris, “Lying and One-Night Stands”, in New York Times:
glosses: One who fishes with a spear.
Derived terms: spearfishery
spearphisher
spearfishers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of spearfisher
stolovaya
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stolovayas
Etymology: Borrowed from Russian столовая (stolovaja).
Senses: examples: text: In the largely intact stolovaya, or canteen, the kitchens had rusting cookers.
ref: 2007 August 26, Alison Smale, “‘We All Live in a Red Submarine ...’”, in New York Times:
glosses: A basic, utilitarian cafeteria in Soviet Russia.
stolovayas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stolovaya
servicemember
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: servicemembers
form: service member
Etymology: From service + member.
Senses: synonyms: serviceperson#Noun
hypernyms: person#Noun
coordinate_terms: veteran
glosses: One who serves in the armed forces.
servicemembers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of servicemember
ultrafeminine
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more ultrafeminine
form: most ultrafeminine
Etymology: From ultra- + feminine.
Senses: examples: text: On those occasions he was with Georgina Chapman, his English girlfriend of two and a half years, who, with Keren Craig, designs Marchesa, a three-year-old line of ultrafeminine evening clothes.
ref: 2007 August 26, Cathy Horyn, “The New Halston?”, in New York Times:
glosses: Highly feminine.
drag-net
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: drag-nets
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of dragnet.
dollybird
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dollybirds
Senses: examples: text: Ms. Boyd had been a successful London model in her dollybird days.
ref: 2007 August 27, Janet Maslin, “The Muse Who Made the Guitars Gently Weep”, in New York Times:
glosses: Alternative form of dolly bird.
dollybirds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dollybird
drag-nets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of drag-net
fingerpointing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fingerpointings
Senses: examples: text: The case is the same with words like ‘here’ and ‘there’. In all such cases, the mere wording, as it can be written down, is not the complete expression of the thought—but one further needs for its correct apprehension the knowledge of certain circumstances accompanying the utterance, which are used as means of expressing the thought. Fingerpointings, gestures and glances may belong here too.
ref: 1979 July, Tyler Burge, “Sinning Against Frege”, in The Philosophical Review, volume LXXXVIII, number 3, Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, →ISSN, →JSTOR, →OCLC, section I, page 399:
text: The delays have caused much fingerpointing about who at the United Nations -backed Special Court for Sierra Leone is most to blame.
ref: 2007 August 27, Marlise Simons, “Liberian Ex-Leader’s War Crimes Trial Is Stalled”, in New York Times:
glosses: Alternative form of finger-pointing.
miniclimax
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: miniclimaxes
Etymology: From mini- + climax.
Senses: examples: text: BRISTOL, Tenn., Aug. 26  The race to the playoffs is almost over in Nascar ’s Nextel Cup series, and the drama that usually makes the final few weeks of the regular season a miniclimax is oddly missing this time.
ref: 2007 August 27, Viv Bernstein, “As Playoffs Near, Edwards Is Gaining Momentum”, in New York Times:
glosses: A minor climax.
miniclimaxes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of miniclimax
suburbanize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: suburbanizes
form: suburbanizing
form: suburbanized
form: suburbanized
Etymology: From suburban + -ize.
Senses: examples: text: Only in 2007 they are less about pure socialism than a kind of suburbanized version of it.
ref: 2007 August 27, Isabel Kershner, “The Kibbutz Sheds Socialism and Gains Popularity”, in New York Times:
glosses: To make suburban; to convert or adapt to a suburb.
Related terms: suburbanization
suburbanized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of suburbanize
suburbanizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of suburbanize
suburbanizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of suburbanize
topspinning
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of topspin
backspun
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of backspin
backspinning
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of backspin
cupless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From cup + -less.
Senses: glosses: Without a cup.
judgeless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From judge + -less.
Senses: glosses: Without a judge.
divvers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Jocular modification of divinity + -ers. See Oxford "-er".
Senses: examples: text: It is indeed no small hardship to give up fourteen successive evenings to an examination so farcical and extravagant as Divvers, which is void of definite purpose or result, when they might have been doing a thousand and one things of enjoyment and interest such as only a University can provide.
ref: 1911, A. Hamilton Gibbs, The Compleat Oxford Man, page 211:
text: It was obvious to everybody by then that he was not going to pass "divvers".
ref: 1988, Bevis Hillier, Young Betjeman, →ISBN, page 194:
text: With the increasing loss of faith by experiences in the trenches, many students after the war turned away from Christianity, some embracing humanism, and even Marxism. As a result, the University supported the abolishment of the biblical literacy exam "Divvers".
ref: 2020 May 31, Jackie Brown, “Surviving through History: Oxford’s ambition for learning unplagued by pandemics”, in The Oxford Student:
qualifier: Oxford University slang
glosses: divinity (as a subject or examination).
wikipedia: Oxford "-er"
Synonyms: div
Radder
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: rhymes: -ædə(ɹ)
Forms: form: the Radder
Etymology: Jocular modification of Radcliffe + -er. See Oxford "-er".
Senses: synonyms: Rad Cam
qualifier: Oxford University slang
glosses: The Radcliffe Camera.
wikipedia: Oxford "-er"
raddlemen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of raddleman
fire cupping
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of cupping therapy.
synonyms: word: cupping therapy
urbanizer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: urbanizers
Etymology: From urbanize + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who develops a place into a city.
examples: text: However, rapid urbanization would be a major break from India's past as the country has been, so far, a reluctant urbanizer. It took half a century for the share of urban population to rise from 17% in 1951 to 28.5% in 2001.
ref: 2008, Sanjeev Sanyal, The Indian renaissance: India's rise after a thousand years of decline, page 193:
glosses: A place that takes on the characteristics of cities.
urbanizers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of urbanizer
blenderize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: blenderizes
form: blenderizing
form: blenderized
form: blenderized
Etymology: From blender + -ize.
Senses: examples: text: He has returned, leading small jazz bands, and the one he led on Sunday had a curious duality. Mr. Williams is a crowd pleaser, with a neat synthesis of John Coltrane’s and Cannonball Adderley’s phrasing and harmonic language; his pianist, Eric Lewis, was a crowd-riler, moving from ostinatos to blenderized whirls of notes, hitting the keys about as hard as anyone can, lodging his solos into your neck.
ref: 2007 August 28, Ben Ratliff, “Headliner Can’t Make It? Here’s a First-Class Fill-In”, in New York Times:
glosses: To liquefy (food) in a blender.
Related terms: blenderization
blenderizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of blenderize
blenderizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of blenderize
blenderized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of blenderize
liquefication
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of liquefaction.
Derived terms: reliquefication
blenderization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From blender + -ization.
Senses: glosses: The liquefaction of food in a blender.
protobacco
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more protobacco
form: most protobacco
Etymology: From pro- + tobacco.
Senses: examples: text: The studies were selected from an original group of 131 papers if they were peer-reviewed and directly compared protobacco media messages in African-American and Caucasian markets.
ref: 2007 August 28, Nicholas Bakalar, “Insights: Racial Disparity Affirmed in Tobacco Advertising”, in New York Times:
glosses: In favour of tobacco or public smoking in general.
rediscussion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rediscussions
Etymology: From re- + discussion.
Senses: examples: text: Eni released a subdued statement Monday saying only that it had "received a letter in the last few days with an offer for friendly rediscussion of the contract."
ref: 2007 August 28, Andrew E. Kramer, “Kazakhs Suspend Permits for Oil Field”, in New York Times:
glosses: Discussion of a previous topic again.
unpaint
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: unpaints
form: unpainting
form: unpainted
form: unpainted
Etymology: From un- + paint.
Senses: glosses: To remove paint from.
glosses: To efface.
unpainting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of unpaint
unpaints
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of unpaint
Ryukyuan
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈɹjuːkjuːən/
Forms: form: Loochooan
form: Loo Chooan
form: Lewchewan
form: Lew Chewan
form: Luchuan
form: Ryūkyūan
Etymology: From Ryukyu + -an.
Senses: glosses: Of, relating to, or derived from Ryukyu.
Ryukyuan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈɹjuːkjuːən/
Forms: form: Ryukyuans
form: Loochooan
form: Loo Chooan
form: Lewchewan
form: Lew Chewan
form: Luchuan
form: Ryūkyūan
Etymology: From Ryukyu + -an.
Senses: glosses: A native or inhabitant of Ryukyu.
Ryukyuan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈɹjuːkjuːən/
Forms: form: Loochooan
form: Loo Chooan
form: Lewchewan
form: Lew Chewan
form: Luchuan
form: Ryūkyūan
Etymology: From Ryukyu + -an.
Senses: glosses: Any of the traditional languages of Ryukyu, in modern times predominantly displaced by Japanese.
Derived terms: Proto-Ryukyuan
Ryukyuans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Ryukyuan
retraumatize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: retraumatizes
form: retraumatizing
form: retraumatized
form: retraumatized
Etymology: From re- + traumatize.
Senses: examples: text: One risk of introducing potent material too fast is that a veteran could become retraumatized and perhaps unwilling to continue other kinds of therapy, as well.
ref: 2007 August 28, Amanda Schaffer, “Not a Game: Simulation to Lessen War Trauma”, in New York Times:
topics: human-sciences
psychology
sciences
glosses: To traumatize again or anew.
Related terms: retraumatization
retraumatizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of retraumatize
retraumatizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of retraumatize
retraumatized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of retraumatize
postdefection
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From post- + defection.
Senses: examples: text: Intriguingly, what won them back to him was an attempt by Soviet officials and expatriates in Paris to ruin his first postdefection performance by booing and throwing coins onto the stage as he began the demanding Bluebird solo in “The Sleeping Beauty.”
ref: 2007 August 29, Jennifer Dunning, “Love Lost and Fame Gained for a Young Nureyev”, in New York Times:
glosses: After defection.
predefection
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pre- + defection.
Senses: examples: text: The predefection years have so far been portrayed best in “Rudolf Nureyev: Three Years in the Kirov Theater,” a loving, little-known collection of reminiscences by friends and colleagues published in 1995 in Russia.
ref: 2007 August 29, Jennifer Dunning, “Love Lost and Fame Gained for a Young Nureyev”, in New York Times:
glosses: Before defection.
unextraordinary
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unextraordinary
form: most unextraordinary
Etymology: From un- + extraordinary.
Senses: examples: text: And maybe her very unextraordinary singing is part of her appeal.
ref: 2007 August 29, Kelefa Sanneh, “Amid All the Cheers, a Few Signs of Change”, in New York Times:
glosses: Not extraordinary; mundane, ordinary.
underpunctuated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more underpunctuated
form: most underpunctuated
Etymology: From under- + punctuated.
Senses: examples: text: Before “Come Clean,” also known as the theme song for the MTV reality drama “Laguna Beach: The Real Orange County,” she made a characteristically dispassionate (and, it seemed, underpunctuated) request for audience participation: “Hey you guys know this song help me sing O.K.”
ref: 2007 August 29, Kelefa Sanneh, “Amid All the Cheers, a Few Signs of Change”, in New York Times:
glosses: Having insufficient punctuation.
underpunctuated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of underpunctuate
callicarpa
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: callicarpas
Etymology: Learned borrowing from taxonomic name Callicarpa.
Senses: examples: text: There were callicarpas full of pale lavender berries, which would turn purple in the fall; viburnums and shrub dogwoods; and lacy elderberries juxtaposed against dense evergreens or the large, floppy leaves of an oakleaf hydrangea.
ref: 2007 August 30, Anne Raver, “Vistas and Close-Ups, Staged by a Filmmaker”, in New York Times:
glosses: Any of the genus Callicarpa of shrubs and small trees, the beautyberries.
callicarpas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of callicarpa
stephanandra
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stephanandras
Etymology: From the genus name.
Senses: examples: text: MIXOLOGY In Duncan and Julia Brine's garden, a sugar maple shelters stephanandra.
ref: 2007 August 30, Anne Raver, “Vistas and Close-Ups, Staged by a Filmmaker”, in New York Times:
glosses: Any of the genus Stephanandra of deciduous shrubs with wavy-margined leaves.
stephanandras
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stephanandra
boula
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: boulas
Senses: examples: text: Instead of trap drums, his band features two drummers playing the island’s traditional boula and marké hand drums.
ref: 2007 August 31, Jon Pareles, “Somber and Soulful World Fusion Meets Dance Club”, in New York Times:
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: Any of various Caribbean drums.
confidentialities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of confidentiality
contentments
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of contentment
exceedances
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of exceedance
frostinglike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more frostinglike
form: most frostinglike
Etymology: From frosting + -like.
Senses: examples: text: There are variations, like Al Held’s stark, existentialist compositions, with the canvas divided into quadrants. Ms. Goldfarb’s impasto is applied, frostinglike, with a palette knife, and Norman Bluhm offers a symphony of splatters.
ref: 2007 August 31, The New York Times, “Art in Review”, in New York Times:
text: Combine baking soda and castile or liquid soap to form a frostinglike consistency to use as a soft scrub cleanser instead of a sink, tub, and tile cleaner.
ref: 2009, Lindsey Carmichael, Greening Your Family, page 91:
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of frosting.
grippier
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of grippy: more grippy
grippiest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of grippy: most grippy
scorepad
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: scorepads
Etymology: From score + pad.
Senses: glosses: A pad of paper on which the scores for a game are noted.
scorepads
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of scorepad
twinklier
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of twinkly: more twinkly
twinkliest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of twinkly: most twinkly
biogeneric
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: biogenerics
Etymology: From bio- + generic.
Senses: examples: text: The European Commission cleared the biogeneric version of the drug known as epoetin alfa, Novartis, based in Basel, Switzerland, said yesterday.
ref: 2007 September 1, Bloomberg News, “Generic Anemia Drug Allowed”, in New York Times:
glosses: A copy of a drug, created through biotechnology.
biogenerics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of biogeneric
securitizer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: securitizers
Etymology: From securitize + -er.
Senses: examples: text: The company, based in Boston and the third-largest securitizer of student loans, received a subpoena on Aug. 22, according to a statement yesterday on its Web site.
ref: 2007 September 1, Bloomberg News, “Firm Is Issued Subpoena in Inquiry on Student Loans”, in New York Times:
glosses: One who or that which securitizes.
securitizers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of securitizer
semibiographical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From semi- + biographical.
Senses: examples: text: 9 P.M. (Starz) THE QUEEN (2006) Queen Elizabeth II and Tony Blair struggle with the death of Diana, Princess of Wales, in this semibiographical drama directed by Stephen Frears from a screenplay by Peter Morgan (“Last King of Scotland”).
ref: 2007 September 1, Kathryn Shattuck, “What’s on Tonight”, in New York Times:
glosses: Combining elements of biography with fiction.
underprices
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of underprice
underpricing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of underprice
underpricing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: underpricings
Senses: glosses: The setting of a price too low.
waterstained
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more waterstained
form: most waterstained
Etymology: From water + stained.
Senses: examples: text: The Hotel Carter is one of the last cheap places to stay in Times Square, a reputation borne out by its waterstained carpets, peeling walls and healthy occupancy rates.
ref: 2007 September 1, Cara Buckley, “Corpse in 608 Poses Mystery at Old Hotel for the Frugal”, in New York Times:
glosses: Stained with water.
brownface
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈbɹaʊnˌfeɪs/
Etymology: From brown + face, based on earlier blackface.
Senses: examples: text: The problem isn’t so much Lancaster’s unconvincing brownface makeup — though it looks as if it had been applied by the same heavy laborers who blacktopped Laurence Olivier for “Othello” — as it is the extremely un-Leonardian softness of his presence.
ref: 2007 September 2, Terrence Rafferty, “Elmore Leonard’s Men of Few Words, in a Few Words”, in New York Times:
glosses: A style of theatrical makeup in which a white person colours the face brown in order to represent somebody of another race.
Related terms: blackface
redface
transface
whiteface
womanface
yellowface
cytotechnology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cytotechnologies
Etymology: From cyto- + technology.
Senses: examples: text: His mother is the director of cytotechnology at the Albany College of Pharmacy of Union University.
ref: 2007 September 2, “Wendy Wu and Vinod Balachandran”, in New York Times:
glosses: The microscopic interpretation of cells to detect cancer and other abnormalities.
cytotechnologist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cytotechnologists
Etymology: From cyto- + technologist.
Senses: examples: text: Her mother retired as a clinical instructor and cytotechnologist at the University of Connecticut Health Center in Farmington, Conn.
ref: 2009 September 6, “Catherine Rychert, Nicholas Harmon”, in New York Times:
synonyms: word: cytotechnician
word: cytotech
glosses: A scientist working in the field of cytotechnology.
cytotechnologists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cytotechnologist
Ozymandian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Ozymandian
form: most Ozymandian
Etymology: From Ozymandias + -ian.
Senses: examples: text: Travelers in the antique land of the genre fable will find themselves confronted not perhaps by a wreck of Ozymandian proportions, but still with a sizable selection of rubble.
ref: 2002, Niklas Holzberg, The Ancient Fable: An Introduction, page 1:
text: Delhi is littered with the Ozymandian debris of empires.
ref: 2013, James Astill, The Great Tamasha:
glosses: Suggesting or pertaining to Shelley's Ozymandias, a proud king whose empire and memory have long since crumbled into obscurity.
larkily
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more larkily
form: most larkily
Etymology: From larky + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Paul’s account of his childhood and youth is energetic, deeply felt and often quite funny in a larkily satiric way: his parents’ emotional withdrawal after his brother’s death; the petty sadism of institutional authority (Gaullism, it seems, writ small); and always, the raging hormones of adolescence.
ref: 2007 September 2, William Deresiewicz, “His Generation”, in New York Times:
glosses: playfully
lobotomization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lobotomisation
Etymology: From lobotomize + -ation.
Senses: examples: text: Those inclined to lament golden ages long past might be inclined to put forth this distinguished musician’s latest gig as evidence of the lobotomization of musical theater in recent years.
ref: 2007 September 2, Charles Isherwood, “Serious Conductor Answers the Call of the Roller Disco”, in New York Times:
glosses: Performing a lobotomy, the act of lobotomizing.
minifilm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: minifilms
Etymology: From mini- + film.
Senses: examples: text: These gorgeous minifilms feature muscled figures, often shirtless, looking like jewel thieves or Spiderman,^([sic]) atop buildings where they skip and leap with such death-defiance and frank grace that it’s hard to keep from calling their sport dance.
ref: 2007 May 27, Virginia Heffernan, “The Many Tribes of YouTube”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 01 Jun 2016:
text: Yet this stylized minifilm captures some elemental aspects of his career.
ref: 2007 September 2, Caryn James, “A Star Without a Charm Offensive”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 05 Jun 2015:
glosses: A short film.
topics: medicine
radiography
radiology
sciences
glosses: A 10 cm² film used for chest X-rays that requires only 2.0 mrad (as opposed to the standard film of 35 by 42.5 cm, which requires at least 9.2 mrad).
meltage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: meltages
Etymology: From melt + -age.
Senses: examples: text: While the resulting ice balls make a dramatic visual statement, their size and shape also serve a functional purpose, chilling the cocktail with little meltage.
ref: 2007 September 2, Jonathan Miles, “Barkeep, There’s a ...”, in New York Times:
glosses: The process of melting.
multistation
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From multi- + station.
Senses: examples: text: Like the Universal multistation gym, the Nautilus made exercise simpler.
ref: 2007 September 2, Kirk Semple, “The Rise of the Machines”, in New York Times:
glosses: Of or pertaining to more than one station.
multivenue
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From multi- + venue.
Senses: examples: text: WHEN Paris held its first Nuit Blanche — a frenetic all-night, multivenue cultural bash — in 2002, few could have imagined that five years later White Night fever would be sweeping Europe ’s capitals, and spreading to other cities.
ref: 2007 September 2, Elisabetta Povoledo, “Outbreak of Insomnia Is Spreading”, in New York Times:
glosses: Of or pertaining to more than one venue.
noncloying
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + cloying.
Senses: examples: text: He and his partners, the trumpeter Marvin Stamm and the cellist Alisa Horn, manage to imbue the material with a noncloying kind of romance.
ref: 2007 September 2, Nate Chinen, “That Ticking Sound? It’s Beck’s New Single”, in New York Times:
glosses: Not cloying.
nonimplicated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + implicated.
Senses: examples: text: Part of an earlier generation of refugees, imbued with nostalgia for the storied, soulful Eastern Europe of her parents’ past, Lewycka seems to look on the incoming wave with less indulgence and more mortification than a nonimplicated person might.
ref: 2007 September 2, Liesl Schillinger, “Let Them Eat Shortcake”, in New York Times:
glosses: Not implicated.
prepractice
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pre- + practice.
Senses: examples: text: The Austin club is across the street from Tam Deli and Café, an unassuming Vietnamese restaurant and a convenient stop for prepractice banh mi, sandwiches served on French rolls.
ref: 2007 September 2, Paula Disbrowe, “The Hot Table”, in New York Times:
glosses: Before a period of practice.
preround
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pre- + round.
Senses: topics: golf
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: Before a round of golf.
pulverizers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pulverizer
supercapitalism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From super- + capitalism.
Senses: examples: text: Together, newly powerful shoppers and shareholders of this supercapitalism drove a decline in labor unions and a frenzy by corporations desperate to buy some market advantage in Washington.
ref: 2007 September 2, Stephen Kotkin, “Dangers of a Turbocharged Economy”, in New York Times:
topics: capitalism
government
human-sciences
ideology
philosophy
politics
sciences
synonyms: hypercapitalism
coordinate_terms: late capitalism
glosses: Any especially intense and competitive form of capitalism.
examples: text: When Lenin spoke about “a series of exclusions from freedom” which individuals and “capitalists” enjoy in what he called “democratism”, he was not very far away from Mussolini's rejection of “supercapitalism” which according to him meant the degeneration of “heroic and dynamic capitalism.”
ref: 2014, Peter Murphy, Eduardo de la Fuente, editors, Aesthetic Capitalism, BRILL, →ISBN, page 35:
glosses: A form of degenerated capitalism according to Italian fascism.
unaging
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ʌnˈeɪd͡ʒɪŋ/
Etymology: From un- + aging.
Senses: examples: text: Age notwithstanding, none of these men seem interested in sailing to Byzantium anyway: Justine’s got them all on the last stage to someplace wilder and scarier, where Yeats’s “monuments of unaging intellect” are thoroughly beside the point.
ref: 2007 February 9, Terrence Rafferty, “Technicolor Dreamboat”, in The New York Times:
glosses: That does not age; timeless, immortal.
unairbrushed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + airbrushed.
Senses: glosses: Not painted with an airbrush.
examples: text: Rich and strange in detail, magnanimous yet unsparing in tone, it presents an unairbrushed portrait of two quarreling middle-aged Ukrainian-English sisters, Vera and Nadia, who reconcile to save their stubborn father from a disastrous late marriage.
ref: 2007 September 2, Liesl Schillinger, “Let Them Eat Shortcake”, in New York Times:
glosses: Real, genuine; without the removal of blemishes and inconveniences.
underrealized
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more underrealized
form: most underrealized
Etymology: From under- + realized.
Senses: examples: text: Murray’s characters are both overdetermined and underrealized.
ref: 2007 September 2, Bee Wilson, “Secret Histories”, in New York Times:
glosses: Inadequately realized.
unelect
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: unelects
form: unelecting
form: unelected
form: unelected
Etymology: From un- + elect.
Senses: examples: text: In detailing the machinations of superrich Democratic activists like George Soros, who blew through close to $30 million of his wealth in an unsuccessful attempt to unelect George W. Bush in 2004, and barricade-bashing cyberpunks like Markos Moulitsas Zúniga, founder of the popular Daily Kos Web site, whose participant-readers attack all things Republican with the same fervor they showed when championing the already forgotten Ned Lamont in his unsuccessful attempt to unseat Senator Joseph Lieberman in 2006, Bai reluctantly and repeatedly owns up to a hard truth: “There’s not much reason to think that the Democratic Party has suddenly overcome its confusion about the passing of the industrial economy and the cold war, events that left the party, over the last few decades, groping for some new philosophical framework.”
ref: 2007 September 2, Nick Gillespie, “Democratic Vistas”, in New York Times:
glosses: To vote (somebody previously elected) out of office.
unelecting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of unelect
unfeminist
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unfeminist
form: most unfeminist
Etymology: From un- + feminist.
Senses: examples: text: DEPENDING on who is doing the talking, fashion is bourgeois, girly, unfeminist, conformist, elitist, frivolous, anti-intellectual and a cultural stepchild barely worth the attention paid to even the most minor arts.
ref: 2007 September 2, Guy Trebay, “Admit It. You Love It. It Matters.”, in New York Times:
glosses: Not feminist.
unionless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From union + -less.
Senses: examples: text: It is also a unionless job.
ref: 2007 September 2, Melissa Plaut, “An Unwanted Passenger”, in New York Times:
glosses: Without an industrial union.
countermotion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: countermotions
Etymology: From counter- + motion.
Senses: glosses: A physical movement that counterbalances another movement.
examples: text: Last week, United States District Court Judge Joel A. Pisano refused to issue a temporary injunction halting the state investigation, and the state filed a countermotion asking the federal government not to interfere in a state legal matter.
ref: 2007 September 3, Jill P. Capuzzo, “Civil Union Dispute Pits Methodist Retreat Against Gays Who Aided in Its Rebirth”, in New York Times:
glosses: A legal motion filed in opposition to a previous motion.
countermotions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of countermotion
countermodels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of countermodel
reflip
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: reflips
form: reflipping
form: reflipped
form: reflipped
Etymology: From re- + flip.
Senses: examples: text: Ten pages into my Baby-sitters Club book, time to reflip onto my stomach.
ref: 2007 September 3, Bridie Clark, “First Day of Cool”, in New York Times:
glosses: To flip again.
reflips
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of reflip
reflipped
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of reflip
reflipping
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of reflip
reflexological
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From reflexology + -ical.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to reflexology.
Derived terms: reflexologically
roastery
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: roasteries
form: roasterie
Etymology: From roast + -ery. Doublet of rosticceria and rotisserie.
Senses: examples: text: Mr. Peet was born in 1920 in Alkmaar, the Netherlands, where he learned the coffee trade while cleaning machinery and running errands at his father’s small coffee roastery.
ref: 2007 September 3, Carolyn Marshall, “Alfred H. Peet, 87, Dies; Leader of a Coffee Revolution”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 08 Mar 2021:
text: “Eating meat means prosperity in the coming year,” the roastery wrote on Weibo on February 5, days before the Lunar New Year began.
ref: 2024 February 20, Jessie Yeung and Hassan Tayir, “Pork flavored coffee is Starbucks’ newest China pitch”, in CNN Business:
glosses: A place where meat, coffee, etc. is roasted.
Derived terms: microroastery
roasteries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of roastery
glosses: plural of roasterie
unelaborate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unelaborate
form: most unelaborate
Etymology: From un- + elaborate.
Senses: examples: text: The body design has been carried out to the requirements of the B.T.C. Design Panel in association with the Design Research Unit and its lines are described as "intentionally unelaborate".
ref: 1959 March 24, “The 2,500 h.p. electric locomotives for the Kent Coast electrification”, in Trains Illustrated, pages 124–125:
text: He uses a mode of lyric writing that’s unelaborate, untheoretical.
ref: 2007 September 3, The New York Times, “New CDs”, in The New York Times:
glosses: Not elaborate; simple.
untheoretical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more untheoretical
form: most untheoretical
Etymology: From un- + theoretical.
Senses: examples: text: He uses a mode of lyric writing that’s unelaborate, untheoretical.
ref: 2007 September 3, The New York Times, “New CDs”, in The New York Times:
glosses: Not theoretical.
amenorrheic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: But when we combined stress, exercise, and cut down on food, 75 percent became amenorrheic.
ref: 2007 September 4, Randi Hutter Epstein, M.D., “A Low-Tech Approach to Fertility: Just Relax”, in New York Times:
glosses: Alternative spelling of amenorrhoeic.
amenorrheic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: amenorrheics
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of amenorrhoeic.
amenorrheics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of amenorrheic
amenorrhoeics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of amenorrhoeic
bachatero
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bachateros
Etymology: From Spanish bachatero.
Senses: examples: text: Oscar, Mr. Díaz’s homely homeboy hero, is “not one of those Dominican cats everybody’s always going on about — he wasn’t no home-run hitter or a fly bachatero, not a playboy” with a million hot girls on the line.
ref: 2007 September 4, Michiko Kakutani, “Travails of an Outcast”, in New York Times:
glosses: A singer of bachata music.
bachateros
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bachatero
chunni
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chunnis
form: chunari
form: chunri
form: chundari
Etymology: Borrowed from Punjabi چُنّی (cunnī) / Punjabi ਚੁੰਨੀ (cunnī).
Senses: examples: text: Her head was covered with a green and yellow bandhani chunni which was tucked into the cleavage of her blouse.
ref: 1997, Kiran Nagarkar, Cuckold, HarperCollins, published 2013, page 1:
text: She no longer wears the scarf, called a chunni, while she works.
ref: 2007 September 4, Tanzina Vega, “An Unorthodox Cabby on a Path Less Traveled”, in New York Times:
glosses: Synonym of dupatta – a long scarf worn by South Asian women.
synonyms: word: dupatta
extra: – a long scarf worn by South Asian women
Synonyms: dupatta
chunnis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chunni
clawedness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From clawed + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: One reason for this, the researchers say, is that it might be more difficult for a fiddler to size up an opponent of opposite clawedness.
ref: 2007 September 4, Henry Fountain, “In a Righty World, Left-Clawed Crabs Are at a Loss”, in New York Times:
glosses: The property of having claws (of a specified type or number).
indignance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: And seeing him behind a stranger Knight,
Where - as no living Creature he mistook,
With great Indignance he that Sight forsook
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto II”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
text: “We were all insulted,” Mr. Goodwin said, “and indignance translates into action.”
ref: 2007 September 4, Carol Pogash, “In Remote Canyon, Calif., a Pay Phone Is Celebrated”, in New York Times:
glosses: indignation
innovational
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more innovational
form: most innovational
Etymology: From innovation + -al.
Senses: examples: text: “I am looking for things that are going to stimulate the American people” to find the value in space exploration, he said, “the inspirational, the innovational and just the human quest to discover.”
ref: 2007 September 4, John Schwartz, “Film Takes Us Back 38 Years, to That First Walk”, in New York Times:
glosses: Of or pertaining to innovation.
otologist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /əʊˈtɒlədʒɪst/
Forms: form: otologists
Etymology: From oto- + -logist, after otology.
Senses: examples: text: “We need to identify children early and provide them with hearing tools and training by the time they are 6 months,” said Dr. John Greinwald, a pediatric otologist at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center.
ref: 2007 September 4, Jamie Talan, “Early Action Proving Crucial to Hearing Success”, in New York Times:
text: Today's teenagers are siphoning dangerous levels of membrane-damaging noise directly into their eardrums, with long-term effects that otologists prophesy will be disastrous for their hearing and lead to an epidemic of middle-aged deafness in the next thirty years.
ref: 2012 Sep, Rupert Christiansen, “Quiet, Please”, in Literary Review:
glosses: A doctor specializing in otology.
Synonyms: word: aurist
otologists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of otologist
overequip
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: overequips
form: overequipping
form: overequipped
form: overequipped
Etymology: From over- + equip.
Senses: examples: text: More precisely, he is overequipped: among the items he takes from London are a collapsible canoe, a Union Jack, six linen suits, an astrolabe and a portable humidor.
ref: 2007 September 4, Margalit Fox, “Bill Deedes, Journalist in Britain, Is Dead at 94”, in New York Times:
glosses: To furnish with too much equipment.
overequipped
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of overequip
overequipping
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of overequip
overenthusiastically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more overenthusiastically
form: most overenthusiastically
Etymology: From overenthusiastic + -ally.
Senses: glosses: With excessive enthusiasm.
overestimator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: overestimators
Etymology: From overestimate + -or.
Senses: glosses: One who overestimates.
underestimator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: underestimators
Etymology: From underestimate + -or.
Senses: glosses: One who underestimates.
overestimators
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of overestimator
underestimators
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of underestimator
postflight
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From post- + flight.
Senses: examples: text: The great game of golf offered an antidote to the inevitable dead space — blocks of difficult-to-use hours, pre- and postflight — that are one of business travel’s biggest drags.
ref: 2007 September 4, John Berg, “Time on the Greens Beats Time at the Gate”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 10 Jan 2021:
glosses: After a flight.
postflight
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: postflights
Etymology: From post- + flight.
Senses: examples: text: Between the preflight and postflight is the block, a rapid motion in which the gymnast’s hands hit the vault and she pushes herself off, converting the horizontal momentum from her sprint down the runway into vertical momentum.
ref: 2024 July 27, Maggie Astor, “Your Guide to Olympic Gymnastics: Vault”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 31 Jul 2024:
topics: gymnastics
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: The portion of the movement after pushing off the vault but before landing on the mat.
stringcourse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stringcourses
form: string course
Etymology: From string + course.
Senses: examples: text: Seismic improvements and strengthening interventions like inserting tie-rods or adding upper stringcourses, or horizontal bands, to the masonry can be designed case by case to meet specific weaknesses.
ref: 2007 September 4, Elisabetta Povoledo, “Italy, a Land of Earthquakes, Works to Protect the Priceless From the Unexpected”, in New York Times:
topics: architecture
glosses: A thin projecting course of brickwork or stone that runs horizontally around a building, typically to emphasize the junction between floors.
stringcourses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stringcourse
sunblocked
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From sunblock + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: Skin needs ultraviolet radiation to begin the synthesis of vitamin D, but dermatologists say you can probably get the necessary electromagnetic input from a mere 20 minutes of sun exposure a week, as you go about your daily affairs, sunblocked and sans beach.
ref: 2007 September 4, Natalie Angier, “A Supple Casing, Prone to Damage”, in The New York Times:
glosses: Wearing sunblock.
undented
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + dented.
Senses: examples: text: She has written a fierce, haunting book about exile and loss and family love, and how that love can survive distance and separation, loss and abandonment and somehow endure, undented and robust.
ref: 2007 September 4, Michiko Kakutani, “A Haitian Tragedy: Brothers Yearn in Vain”, in New York Times:
glosses: Not dented.
bruschettas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bruschetta
otocyst
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: otocysts
Etymology: From oto- + cyst.
Senses: examples: text: If the otocysts were removed from these animals, they swam normally and no peculiarities were observed in their behavior.
ref: 1898, E. P. Lyon, “The Functions of the Otocyst”, in The Journal of Comparative Neurology, volume 8:
qualifier: invertebrate zoology
glosses: An organ involved in balance and orientation.
qualifier: vertebrate embryology
glosses: The precursor of the inner ear.
Derived terms: otocystic
string course
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: string courses
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of stringcourse.
otocysts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of otocyst
popcorns
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of popcorn
popcorns
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of popcorn
commandwide
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From command + -wide.
Senses: examples: text: The Air Combat Command has ordered a commandwide stand down on Sept. 14 to review procedures, officials said.
ref: 2007 September 6, The Associated Press, “Flight of Nuclear Warheads Over U.S. Is Under Inquiry”, in New York Times:
glosses: Throughout a military command.
gaspy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: gaspier
form: gaspiest
Etymology: From gasp + -y.
Senses: examples: text: Then his eyes began to spread and his breath to come out kinder gaspy like, and he says: "Ger-reat Scott, it's the LONGITUDE!"
ref: 1894, Mark Twain, Tom Sawyer Abroad:
text: When I tried it on, I discovered why my friends were so gaspy: it fit perfectly.
ref: 2007 September 6, Mike Albo, “The Department of Just Right”, in New York Times:
glosses: Resembling or characterised by gasps.
Derived terms: gaspiness
gaspier
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of gaspy: more gaspy
hopscotcher
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hopscotchers
Etymology: From hopscotch + -er.
Senses: examples: text: Out came vanilla-scented pillar candles and shiny brass candleholders, bags of potpourri and cellophane-wrapped flip-flops, and enough unopened packages of rainbow chalk to keep an entire neighborhood of hopscotchers content.
ref: 2007 September 6, Melissa Clark, “The Retailer Next Door”, in New York Times:
glosses: One who plays the game of hopscotch.
hopscotchers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hopscotcher
hyperliteracy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From hyper- + literacy.
Senses: examples: text: But to audiences who appreciate the collision of hyperliteracy with parables from the tabloids, she’s an outstanding M.C.
ref: 2007 September 6, Virginia Heffernan, “A Pop Savant, Up Late and Armed With Wit”, in New York Times:
glosses: Very high literacy.
glosses: Familiarity with hypertext technologies.