cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
overreport
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: overreports
form: overreporting
form: overreported
form: overreported
Etymology: From over- + report.
Senses: examples: text: Just as the rising tide of cancellations leads the Census Bureau to overreport sales in the short term, it leads the government to underreport inventories.
ref: 2007 January 7, Daniel Gross, “A Phantom Rebound in the Housing Market”, in New York Times:
glosses: To report too much or too often.
Derived terms: overreporter
overreports
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of overreport
overreporting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of overreport
overreported
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of overreport
parkside
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From park + side.
Senses: examples: text: I learn I would be able to “shop along with the best chefs, indulge my inner gourmet, and enjoy the exhilaration and true spirit of parkside living, along with uptown elegance with a downtown edge.”
ref: 2007 January 7, Suzanne Slesin, “Park Vistas, With Produce”, in New York Times:
glosses: By the side of a park.
postscreening
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From post- + screening.
Senses: examples: text: The film also prompted an unusual response during the postscreening question-and-answer session.
ref: 2007 January 7, Margy Rochlin, “Dry as Ever, Shrugging at Hollywood”, in New York Times:
glosses: Occurring after a screening process.
Related terms: prescreen
prescore
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: prescores
form: prescoring
form: prescored
form: prescored
Etymology: From pre- + score.
Senses: examples: text: That’s less the fault of composers than of directors, who commonly prescore their films with temporary music during editing, then frequently expect the final score to emulate that “temp track.”
ref: 2007 January 7, Jon Burlingame, “Thinking in Colors and Textures, Then Writing in Music”, in New York Times:
glosses: To provide (a film, etc.) with a musical score in advance.
prescores
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of prescore
prescoring
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of prescore
prescored
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of prescore
recrown
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: recrowns
form: recrowning
form: recrowned
form: recrowned
Etymology: From re- + crown.
Senses: examples: text: As a result, many buildings scalped of their cornices in the mid-20th century have been recrowned in the last decade.
ref: 2007 January 7, Christopher Gray, “Along Broadway, Jettisoned Cornices Are Being Rebuilt”, in New York Times:
synonyms: recoronate
glosses: To crown again; to provide with another crown.
Related terms: recoronate
recoronation
recrowns
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of recrown
recrowning
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of recrown
recrowned
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of recrown
ristorantes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ristorante
signmaker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: signmakers
Etymology: From sign + maker.
Senses: examples: text: “Look, this is her,” said Ms. Poggi, 55, a signmaker and the founder of the Ferry Point Park West Coalition, a community group. “
ref: 2007 January 7, Jennifer Bleyer, “Offerings to Mother Ganga, Worries About Mother Nature”, in New York Times:
glosses: A maker of signs.
signmakers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of signmaker
soymilk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: soymilks
Senses: examples: text: Childless readers who fear the un-cooling effects of parenthood will be relieved to learn kids, born slam dancers, really dig the Ramones, and will be heartened to see that Pollack, despite drinking chai with soymilk and listening to NPR, hasn’t become Mr. Rogers in a Black Sabbath T-shirt.
ref: 2007 January 7, Elissa Schappell, “Exile on Sesame Street”, in New York Times:
text: Soybeans can be used to make soyburgers, souffles, fritters, casseroles, soysages, soymilk, ice bean, tofu (Japanese bean curd), tempeh (Indonesian cultured soy cake), spreads, dips and soups and many more.
ref: 2013, William Shurtleff, Akiko Aoyagi, History of Whole Dry Soybeans:
glosses: Alternative spelling of soy milk.
soymilks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of soymilk
signator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: signators
form: signatour
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin signātor.
Senses: glosses: A signatory: someone who signs something.
stocklike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more stocklike
form: most stocklike
Etymology: From stock + -like.
Senses: examples: text: BOND investors seldom find themselves reveling in fancy, stocklike gains.
ref: 2007 January 7, Robert D. Hershey, “Where’s the Party? In Emerging Markets”, in New York Times:
topics: business
finance
glosses: Resembling a stock (capital raised through shares) or stocks, or some aspect of stock trading.
topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: Shaped like a pipe
thumbholes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of thumbhole
thumbholes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of thumbhole
thumbhole
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: thumbholes
Etymology: From thumb + hole.
Senses: examples: text: The paint set is the top-of-the-line model, the Extra-Fine Oil Artist’s Box with a 39-tube spectrum of colors, 6 different painting mediums, 10 brushes (5 sable and 5 hog bristle), palette knives and a palette (with old-fashioned thumbholes), all in a portable walnut box.
ref: 2007 January 7, David Colman, “It’s Like Nothing, Really”, in New York Times:
glosses: A hole designed to receive a thumb.
thumbhole
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: thumbholes
form: thumbholing
form: thumbholed
form: thumbholed
Etymology: From thumb + hole.
Senses: glosses: To cut thumbholes (for carrying) in the lids of boxes.
Derived terms: thumbholer
untinged
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + tinged.
Senses: examples: text: Mr. Abbott would not say which of the 70 ways might have suited Mr. Hussein, but if the idea is to “pay the penalty untinged by revenge,” then “I would say firing squad,” he said. “
ref: 2007 January 7, Mary Jo Murphy, “A Slim Guidebook for Executing a Deposed Ruler”, in New York Times:
glosses: Not tinged; untouched, unpolluted.
unorchestrated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + orchestrated.
Senses: examples: text: Although he has trotted out this particular DVD on countless occasions for hospital employees, visitors, reporters and others whom he is intent on winning over, Dr. Pardes says his emotions are real, his response unorchestrated.
ref: 2007 January 7, Ron Stodghill, “The Doctor Is In”, in New York Times:
glosses: Not orchestrated; unarranged or off the cuff.
lateralisations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lateralisation
lateralizations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lateralization
unconsuming
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + consuming.
Senses: examples: an unconsuming fire
glosses: That does not consume.
fallings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of falling
costumey
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more costumey
form: most costumey
Etymology: From costume + -y.
Senses: examples: text: But I get bored fast, and I wear more costumey clothes — wild, crazy, funky stuff from all kinds of shops on Melrose or downtown Manhattan.
ref: 2004, Paris Hilton, Merle Ginsberg, Jeff Vespa, Confessions of an heiress:
text: Flappers and prohibition are not that interesting and anything too long will look costumey instead of fashionable...
ref: 2005, April Masini, Think and Date Like a Man:
glosses: Overly elaborate, like a costume.
raw_tags: of clothing
costumiers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of costumier
headhouse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: headhouses
form: head house
Etymology: From head + house.
Senses: examples: text: Several members cast it as an either-or issue, pitting the form of the headhouse against the function of the passageway.
ref: 2007 January 8, William Neuman, “Planners Clash Over Transit Hub, and Riders Win”, in New York Times:
glosses: The portion of a passenger railway terminal not housing the tracks and platforms, comprising ticket counters, baggage facilities, etc.
glosses: The overground portion of a subway station.
examples: text: HS2 Ltd has unveiled the final design for the Little Missenden ventilation shaft headhouse on the ten-mile-long Chilterns Tunnel. Its single-storey design is said to have been inspired by barns and historic agricultural buildings in the area. [...] The headhouse will sit above a ventilation shaft 17.4 metres in diameter and 30 metres deep.
ref: 2020 December 2, “Network News: Vent shaft design revealed”, in Rail, page 19:
glosses: A structure built at the top of a ventilation shaft or mineshaft.
headhouses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of headhouse
head house
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: head houses
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of headhouse.
indigency
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: indigencies
Senses: examples: text: Our data suggested that, contrary to the law’s rather binary notion of indigency, a large chunk of felony criminal defendants are what we have called “marginally indigent.”
ref: 2007 January 8, Morris B. Hoffman, “Free-Market Justice”, in New York Times:
glosses: Alternative form of indigence.
indigences
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of indigence
indigencies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of indigency
memorialist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: memorialists
Etymology: From memorial + -ist.
Senses: examples: text: The impediment comes in Mr. McCann’s effort to fashion a novel out of a search; in this case his diligent immersion in the work of scholars, the writings of Romany (now a preferred term) poets and memorialists, and his studies and travels in Slovakia, where much of the book is set.
ref: 2007 January 8, Richard Eder, “Ultimate Exile: A Gypsy Poet Expelled by Her People”, in New York Times:
glosses: A writer of memorials.
glosses: One who signs a petition.
memorialists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of memorialist
noncity
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + city.
Senses: examples: text: A spokesman for the board said “there is a general prohibition against using city resources for noncity purposes” with exceptions for “de minimis,” or negligible, occasions.
ref: 2007 January 8, Sam Roberts, “After Hevesi Ordeal, Officials Struggle With Travel Rules”, in New York Times:
glosses: Not of or pertaining to a city.
Synonyms: nonurban
noncity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: noncities
Etymology: From non- + city.
Senses: glosses: A habitation that is not a city, such as a smaller town.
overcontrol
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: overcontrols
form: overcontrolling
form: overcontrolled
form: overcontrolled
Etymology: From over- + control.
Senses: examples: text: She’s not fancy or overcontrolled: she sounds relaxed but alert, and a slight nasal flatness in her voice humanizes her, makes her touch the ground.
ref: 2007 January 8, The New York Times, “New CDs”, in New York Times:
glosses: To control to too great a degree.
overcontrol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From over- + control.
Senses: examples: text: After a stressful event, the histrionic patient often manifests swings from rigid overcontrol to uncontrolled intrusions and emotional repetition.
ref: 2011, Mardi Jon Horowitz, Stress Response Syndromes:
glosses: Excessive control.
overcontrols
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of overcontrol
overcontrolling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of overcontrol
overcontrolling
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more overcontrolling
form: most overcontrolling
Senses: glosses: Excessively controlling.
overcontrolled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of overcontrol
nonkin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nonkins
form: nonkin
form: non-kin
Etymology: From non- + kin.
Senses: examples: text: When it is necessary to state an unpleasant truth or an opposing opinion, or to make a request of a nonkin, it is done in as pleasant a speech as possible.
ref: 1969, Frederic H. Chaffee, American University (Washington, D.C.). Foreign Area Studies, Area Handbook for the Philippines (page 176)
text: Table 3b: The general frequency of friendly contacts with in the same matriline and with nonkins in the group of Macaca arctoides.
ref: 1990, Primate Report, numbers 28-31, page 33:
text: Among those who derive information related to work from personal contacts, nonkins, rather than kins, constitute the most important sources even for women.
ref: 2016, Saraswati Raju, Santosh Jatrana, Women Workers in Urban India, page 280:
glosses: A person who is not one's relative.
Related terms: nonkinship
oysterless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From oyster + -less.
Senses: glosses: Without oysters.
salvational
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more salvational
form: most salvational
Etymology: From salvation + -al.
Senses: examples: text: And it is that composer’s song (which prevents a suicide) that provides the sole salvational counterpoint to another plot, in which a neighbor murders and dismembers his wife, which Jimmy Stewart discerns from his rear window.
ref: 2007 January 8, Edward Rothstein, “Hitchcock, Thrilling the Ears as Well as the Eyes”, in New York Times:
glosses: Of or pertaining to salvation.
Synonyms: salvatory
Derived terms: salvationally
nonkinship
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: non-kinship
Etymology: From non- + kinship.
Senses: glosses: The absence of kinship in a group
Related terms: nonkin
salvationally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /salˈveɪʃənəli/
ipa: /salˈveɪʃnəli/
ipa: /salˈveɪʃənli/
ipa: /sælˈveɪʃənəli/
ipa: /sælˈveɪʃnəli/
ipa: /sælˈveɪʃənli/
rhymes: -eɪʃənəli
Forms: form: more salvationally
form: most salvationally
Etymology: From salvational + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a salvational way.
nonrelative
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of non-relative.
nonrelative
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nonrelatives
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of non-relative.
non-relative
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: nonrelative
Etymology: From non- + relative.
Senses: glosses: Not relative.
non-relative
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: non-relatives
form: nonrelative
Etymology: From non- + relative.
Senses: glosses: A person who is not a relative.
postinformation
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From post- + information.
Senses: examples: text: Whereas the initially perceived risks are the result of a voluntary self-selection process, the postinformation risks are not...
ref: 1987, W Kip Viscusi, Wesley A Magat, Joel Huber, Learning about risk:
text: Participants in the course of performing their postinformation writing task apparently formed a new representation that was generally more abstract...
ref: 2007, Tina M Lowrey, Psycholinguistic phenomena in marketing communications:
topics: human-sciences
psychology
sciences
social-science
sociology
glosses: After the receipt of information.
nonrelatives
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nonrelative
bifidobacteria
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: See Bifidobacterium
Senses: examples: text: There was no effect on enteric bacteria, enterococci, Lactobacillus, bifidobacteria, or total anaerobic bacteria.
ref: 2007 January 9, Nicholas Bakalar, “Remedies: Small Study Raises a Question About Echinacea”, in New York Times:
glosses: plural of bifidobacterium
costumeless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From costume + -less.
Senses: glosses: Without a costume.
Synonyms: uncostumed
contumelies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of contumely
cervical vertebras
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cervical vertebra
boatbuilding
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: boatbuildings
form: boat-building
Etymology: From boat + building.
Senses: glosses: The construction of a boat or boats.
Related terms: boatbuilder
shipbuilding
boatbuildings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of boatbuilding
boatbuilder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: boatbuilders
Etymology: From boat + builder.
Senses: coordinate_terms: shipbuilder
glosses: A person involved in boatbuilding; one who builds boats.
Related terms: boater
boatowner
boatbuilders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of boatbuilder
cattelo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkæt.əl.əʊ/
ipa: /ˈkæt.ə.loʊ/
Forms: form: cattelo
form: catteloes
form: cattalo
form: catalo
Etymology: Blend of cattle + buffalo
Senses: examples: text: “They purposely crossed bison with domestic cattle to make a better beef animal,” which they called cattelo, said James Derr, a geneticist at the Texas A&M College of Veterinary Medicine.
ref: 2007 January 9, Jim Robbins, “Strands of Undesirable DNA Roam With Buffalo”, in New York Times:
glosses: A cross between domestic cattle and buffalo.
dhaincha
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: daincha
form: danchi
form: dhunchee
form: dhunchi
form: dunchi
Senses: examples: text: The main material is dhaincha, a weed commonly grown in India to restore nitrogen to depleted soils.
ref: 2007 January 9, Keith Bradsher, “Paying in Pollution for Energy Hunger”, in New York Times:
glosses: The legume Sesbania bispinosa, native to Asia and North Africa.
Synonyms: sense: Sesbania bispinosa
word: canicha
sense: Sesbania bispinosa
word: prickly sesban
sense: Sesbania bispinosa
word: spiny sesbania
refixes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of refix
refixing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of refix
liedlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more liedlike
form: most liedlike
Etymology: From lied + -like.
Senses: examples: text: Thus was born the notion of presenting operetta in liedlike terms.
ref: 2007 January 9, Anne Midgette, “Retrofitting Operetta for a 21st-Century Crowd”, in New York Times:
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a lied (type of German song).
nonpassenger
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nonpassengers
form: non-passenger
Etymology: From non- + passenger.
Senses: examples: text: NO TO RELAXED CHECKPOINT ACCESS A proposal by the Transportation Security Administration to test allowing nonpassengers to pass through airport security to use retail stores and restaurants is getting a thumbs down from the Association of Corporate Travel Executives.
ref: 2007 January 9, Joe Sharkey, “Memo Pad”, in New York Times:
glosses: One who is not a passenger.
nonpassengers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nonpassenger
overmedicalize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: overmedicalizes
form: overmedicalizing
form: overmedicalized
form: overmedicalized
Etymology: From over- + medicalize.
Senses: examples: text: To be sure, we overmedicalize at times.
ref: 2007 January 9, “Letters”, in New York Times:
glosses: To medicalize too much.
overmedicalizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of overmedicalize
overmedicalizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of overmedicalize
overmedicalized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of overmedicalize
preflavored
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pre- + flavored.
Senses: examples: text: Momofuku Ando, who — to the delight of dormitory students and other kitchen-resistant customers worldwide — invented those small packets of preflavored dried noodles that require just a three-minute boil, died Friday at a hospital in Osaka, Japan. Mr. Ando, the founder of the Nissin Food Products Company, was 96.
ref: 2007 January 9, Dennis Hevesi, “Momofuku Ando, 96, Dies; Invented Instant Ramen”, in New York Times:
glosses: Flavored in advance.
recreationist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: recreationists
Etymology: From recreation + -ist.
Senses: examples: text: Hypothermia, a condition in which the body’s core temperature drops below 95 degrees, is the No. 1 killer of outdoor recreationists.
ref: 2007 January 9, Jane E. Brody, “Surviving the Cold, or Even the Not So Cold”, in New York Times:
text: Recreationists use either the frontcountry or the backcountry—or both.
ref: 2014, Andrew Gulliford, Outdoors in the Southwest: An Adventure Anthology, page 54:
glosses: One who takes part in recreation.
examples: a Civil War recreationist
synonyms: reenactor
glosses: One who takes part in a historical reenactment.
recreationists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of recreationist
urka
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: urkas
Etymology: Russian у́рка (úrka, “professional criminal, career criminal, thug, thief”)
Senses: examples: text: He then proceeds to describe the daily calendar of violence at the camp: one urka sprinting flat-out after another urka “with a bloody mattock in his hand, a pig methodically clubbing a fascist to the ground, a workshy snake slicing off the remaining fingers of his left hand.”
ref: 2007 January 9, Michiko Kakutani, “Love, Bludgeoned and Bent by the Camps”, in New York Times:
glosses: A common criminal in Russia.
urkas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of urka
antiforeign
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more antiforeign
form: most antiforeign
Etymology: From anti- + foreign.
Senses: examples: text: Taken as a whole, however, the riots were anti-foreign, not anti-official. This was dramatically true in the Wu-hsüeh riot of June 5, where two foreigners were killed by an angry mob,⁴⁹ and the I-ch’ang riot of September 2, where responsible officials failed to take action and the collusion of important persons was widely suspected.⁵⁰
ref: 1972, Charlton M. Lewis, “Some Notes on the Ko-lao Hui in Late Ch’ing China”, in Jean Chesneaux, editor, Popular Movements and Secret Societies in China 1840-1950, Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 108:
text: With foreigners already wary of investing in Thailand, the last thing the country needed, analysts say, was a new law perceived as antiforeign.
ref: 2007 January 10, Wayne Arnold, “Thailand May Add Measures to Restrict Foreign Investment”, in New York Times:
glosses: Opposed to foreigners or to what is foreign.
Synonyms: xenophobic
Derived terms: antiforeignism
beepings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈbiːpɪŋz/
Senses: glosses: plural of beeping
unthorough
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unthorough
form: most unthorough
Etymology: From un- + thorough.
Senses: examples: text: I did an unthorough patrol of the area, skipping both the cul-de-sac and the lane where the Piras lived.
ref: 2024, Scott Alexander Howard, The Other Valley, Atlantic Books (2025), page 299:
glosses: Not thorough.
Derived terms: unthoroughly
unthoroughness
unthoroughness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From unthorough + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or condition of being unthorough.
unthoroughly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more unthoroughly
form: most unthoroughly
Etymology: From unthorough + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an unthorough way.
changüí
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: changui
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A style of Cuban music which originated in the early nineteenth century in the eastern region of Guantánamo Province, combining Spanish and African elements.
changui
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Keyla Orozco’s “Para Tí Nengón” (1998), a transfixing percussion work, elaborates on rhythmic patterns typical in nengón, a form native to eastern Cuba, from which the later popular styles son and changui evolved. Ms. Orozco’s four-movement fantasy begins with comparatively simple, light-textured patterns, played on wood blocks, but its rhythms grow increasingly complex as the players — Matthew Gold and Eduardo Leandro — move to bongos and tom-toms, then to bell-like instruments and percussive vocalizations.
ref: 2007 January 10, Allan Kozinn, “Earthy Cuban Sounds, Rendered With an Urban Complexity”, in New York Times:
glosses: Alternative spelling of changüí.
chowtime
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chow time
Etymology: From chow + time.
Senses: glosses: The time when food is eaten; a mealtime.
chowline
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chowlines
form: chow line
Etymology: From chow + line.
Senses: examples: text: ...men who had grown up in a world of dogtags, chowlines and mass organization.
ref: 1974, Victor C Ferkiss, The future of technological civilization:
text: At lunchtime, the train stopped again, and an army style chowline was set up...
ref: 1982, John Weitz, Friends in high places:
text: Yet apparently millions of us just love being nudged or browbeaten into particular chowlines by someone else with an air of authority, from weight-loss guru to restaurant reviewer.
ref: 2007 January 10, Anne Mendelson, “At the Temples of Food, an Outsider’s Look at the Sacred Texts”, in New York Times:
glosses: A line of people waiting for food.
chowlines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chowline
disunify
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪsˈjuːnɨfaɪ/
enpr: dĭs-yo͞oʹnĭ-fī'
ipa: /dɪsˈjunɪ̈faɪ/
rhymes: -uːnɪfaɪ
Forms: form: disunifies
form: disunifying
form: disunified
form: disunified
Etymology: From dis- + unify.
Senses: examples: text: And so the 16th annual New York Jewish Film Festival — not to be confused with the Woody Allen retrospective currently wrapping up downtown at Film Forum — presents an engagingly disunified program, with something to appeal to, or alienate, every taste.
ref: 2007 January 10, A.O. Scott, “A Film Festival for a Jewish World That Spans the Globe”, in New York Times:
glosses: To cause to cease to be unified; to split up or dissociate.
Related terms: disunification
disunifies
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of disunify
disunifying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of disunify
disunified
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of disunify
towelless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From towel + -less.
Senses: glosses: Without a towel or towels.
gospelmonger
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gospelmongers
Etymology: From gospel + monger.
Senses: examples: text: Mr. Glassner’s latest book, “The Gospel of Food: Everything You Think You Know About Food is Wrong” (Ecco/HarperCollins $25.95), posits that misguided (and misguiding) gospelmongers are persuading Americans to eat according to ever more irrational notions and sillier motivations.
ref: 2007 January 10, Anne Mendelson, “At the Temples of Food, an Outsider’s Look at the Sacred Texts”, in New York Times:
glosses: One who peddles the gospel; a Bible thumper.
gospelmongers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gospelmonger
haimish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more haimish
form: most haimish
form: heimish
form: heymish
form: haimisch
form: hymish
Etymology: From Yiddish היימיש (heymish) (compare German heimisch).
Senses: examples: text: The subject matter covers everything from New York nightclubs to settlements in Gaza, and the tone ranges from the haimish to the horrific.
ref: 2007 January 10, A.O. Scott, “A Film Festival for a Jewish World That Spans the Globe”, in New York Times:
glosses: homey, folksy
klezmers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of klezmer
klezmorim
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of klezmer
ketchuppy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more ketchuppy
form: most ketchuppy
form: catsuppy
form: ketchupy
Etymology: From ketchup + -y.
Senses: examples: text: But when all’s said and done, it is nothing more than a lot of ketchuppy-tasting diced tomatoes, rather highly seasoned with garlic and chilli, ahem, I mean “specially selected spices”.
ref: 2001, New Statesman, volume 130, page 49, column 1:
text: The Soyles have been trying to come up with their own versions, with different spices and flavors, but here’s the thing: people just like their ketchup . . . ketchuppy.
ref: 2008, Lauren Mechling, Dream Girl, New York, N.Y.: Delacorte Press, →ISBN, page 169:
text: Lift the ketchup off the heat and leave to cool slightly before pouring the whole lot into a food processor (in batches), or use a hand blender to blend to a lovely thick ‘ketchuppy’ consistency.
ref: 2017, Hollie Newton, How to Grow: A Guide for Gardeners Who Can’t Garden Yet, London: Orion Spring, →ISBN, page 122:
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of ketchup.
examples: text: They tease Emmie that their nannies have to pick up the slack, like making the kids the lunchtime chopped ham and ketchuppy hot dogs.
ref: 2008, Kirstin Allio, “Clothed, Female Figure”, in Laura Furman, editor, The PEN/O. Henry Prize Stories 2010, New York, N.Y.: Anchor Books, Random House, Inc., published May 2010, →ISBN, page 49:
text: Then Clive makes a misjudged remark about Faruk’s sister, Deniz, but the ketchuppy sausage-end Faruk flicks in immediate retribution falls short of its grinning target and drops onto Ros’s plate, where it sits among the last of her lettuce leaves.
ref: 2014, Ross Gilfillan, Losing It: The Growing Pains of a Teenage Vampire, Winchester: Lodestone Books, John Hunt Publishing Ltd., →ISBN, pages 138–139:
text: He stabbed another forkful of ketchuppy eggs and waved it at me.
ref: 2015, Ellie Cahill [pseudonym; Liz Czukas], When Joss Met Matt: A Novel, New York, N.Y.: Ballantine Books, →ISBN, page 54:
synonyms: ketchupped
glosses: Covered with ketchup.
gleewoman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gleewomen
Etymology: From gleeman and woman.
Senses: glosses: A female gleeman.
gleewomen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gleewoman
core constituent
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: core constituents
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of core constituency.
air du temps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɛɹ du tɑn/
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from French air du temps (literally “air of the time”).
Senses: examples: text: With the global financial crisis still hitting hard, the air du temps today is a countrywide depressive mood.
text: What's hip with your kids: Emo is the air du temps in teenage fashion and music.
synonyms: trend
craze
fashion
glosses: Current popular opinion or trends of a very large group of people, a city or a country.
Related terms: zeitgeist
redimension
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: redimensions
form: redimensioning
form: redimensioned
form: redimensioned
Etymology: From re- + dimension.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
glosses: To resize (an array or similar data structure) so as to change its dimensionality; to reallocate.
redimensions
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of redimension
redimensioning
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of redimension
redimensioned
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of redimension
nonforeign
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + foreign.
Senses: glosses: Not foreign.
Synonyms: local
native
predeployment
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pre- + deployment.
Senses: examples: text: He also said the Guard would like to shorten the predeployment training in the United States, and do more of it in the units’ home states to lessen the burden on their soldiers, who must leave civilian jobs to serve.
ref: 2007 January 10, David S. Cloud, “Bush’s Troop-Increase Plan Is Expected to Draw Six Guard Brigades to Iraq”, in New York Times:
glosses: Before deployment.
undeployed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + deployed.
Senses: examples: text: The war ended early, and the undeployed tanks never saw combat.
glosses: Not deployed.
undeployed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of undeploy
quasigovernment
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From quasi- + government.
Senses: examples: text: She also called upon Congress to create a federal oversight agency to supervise quasigovernment retirement plans, “to ensure that they are carrying out their fiduciary duties.”
ref: 2007 January 10, Lynnley Browning, “I.R.S. Use of Private Debt Collectors Is Criticized”, in New York Times:
glosses: Quasigovernmental.
undimensioned
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + dimensioned.
Senses: examples: text: The intended scale of the undimensioned drawing was not clear.
glosses: Not dimensioned; dimensionless.
truffly
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more truffly
form: most truffly
form: truffley
Etymology: From truffle + -y.
Senses: glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a truffle.
truffley
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more truffley
form: most truffley
Etymology: From truffle + -y.
Senses: examples: text: One critic detected “almost truffley flavors.”
ref: 2007 January 10, Frank J. Prial, “A Brighter Future for a Wine With a Past”, in New York Times:
glosses: Alternative spelling of truffly.
uncanonical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + canonical.
Senses: examples: text: What I said in my epistle to my reverend friend and master, Doctor James, the incomparably industrious and learned bibliothecary of Oxford, I profess still; but I hold those canons of the apostles uncanonical.
ref: 1620, Joseph Hall, The Honour of the Married Clergy:
text: He was also that rare thing, a connoisseur of the uncanonical hybrid in art, as demonstrated by the presence of a headdress mask of a water spirit from Sierra Leone.
ref: 2007 January 10, Holland Cotter, “At Yale, Renovation Puts Africa in Spotlight”, in New York Times:
glosses: Not canonical.
Synonyms: noncanonical
Derived terms: uncanonically
noncanonically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From noncanonical + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a noncanonical way.
uncanonically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From uncanonical + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an uncanonical way.
uninstigated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + instigated.
Senses: examples: text: After four years of pointless, fruitless, uninstigated combat, if President Bush indeed escalates the “sacrifice” of other parents’ beloved children — against all reason, against the will of the electorate and without any personal sacrifice to call his own — it would not be vanity.
ref: 2007 January 10, “This Time, a True Strategy for Iraq? (8 Letters)”, in New York Times:
glosses: Not instigated.
untenably
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more untenably
form: most untenably
Etymology: From untenable + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: And there is something ingenious or untenably sneaky about the Disney Channel making movies about teenagers learning to love musicals at a time when it seriously got into the business of making made-for-TV movie musicals.
ref: 2007 January 10, Ginia Bellafante, “Trading Math Class for Corsets and Minis”, in New York Times:
glosses: In an untenable way.
eudemonistic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more eudemonistic
form: most eudemonistic
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of eudaemonistic.
antiharassment
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From anti- + harassment.
Senses: examples: text: The department has been under pressure from the Department of Justice to comply with federal equal employment and antiharassment laws.
ref: 2007 January 11, Ray Rivera, “Dispute Erupts Over Flag Decals on the Lockers of Firefighters”, in New York Times:
glosses: Counteracting harassment.
cardboardy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more cardboardy
form: most cardboardy
Etymology: From cardboard + -y.
Senses: examples: text: Archie never becomes more than a cardboardy cutout figure — a well-meaning, not-too-bright social climber with a dislike of “heavy conversations,” a fellow who “wanted to wear a club tie — the right tie, not all clubs being equal.”
ref: 2007 January 11, Michiko Kakutani, “Hurdles in Harvard Yard and the World Beyond”, in New York Times:
glosses: Resembling cardboard.
emunctions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of emunction
classicly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more classicly
form: most classicly
Etymology: From classic + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: He was a classicly educated man, but he had a brusque manner...
ref: 1887, Elizabeth Moore Chapin, American Court Gossip:
text: Tilting your head to the side, inching a clip off your ear as you answer the phone, is a classicly flirtatious act, like dabbing wrists with perfume or slipping into high heels.
ref: 2007 January 11, Alexa Brazilian, “Clip-Ons Are Back. Fondling Allowed.”, in New York Times:
glosses: In a classic way.
Related terms: classically
farreaching
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more farreaching
form: most farreaching
Etymology: From far + reaching.
Senses: examples: text: Venezuela is preparing to sign a farreaching economic assistance agreement with Nicaragua.
ref: 2007 January 11, Simon Romero, “Chávez Begins New Term Vowing Socialism”, in New York Times:
glosses: Alternative spelling of far-reaching.
minidomes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of minidome
minidome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: minidomes
Etymology: From mini- + dome.
Senses: examples: text: Companies that sell kits for large-scale domes offer custom options like cupolas, balconies, rectangular additions for extra rooms and even matching minidomes for pets.
ref: 2007 January 11, Alastair Gordon, “The Dome Gains Weight and Settles Down”, in New York Times:
glosses: A miniature dome.
bed-ridden
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more bed-ridden
form: most bed-ridden
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of bedridden.
inflectable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From inflect + -able.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: That can be inflected.
uninflectable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + inflectable.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: Not inflectable; that cannot be inflected.
nonfrivolous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + frivolous.
Senses: examples: text: In a Dec. 29 meeting with the parties in the case, Chancellor Chandler said that while he was certain Caremark would argue forcefully that its directors exercised their duties of care and loyalty to the company’s owners, he also concluded that “there is a tenable argument on the other side, and nonfrivolous claims here on the other side, that at least need to be tested against a fuller record.”
ref: 2007 January 11, Gretchen Morgenson, “A Public Pension Fund Sues Directors of Caremark Rx”, in New York Times:
topics: law
glosses: Not frivolous.
joysticking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of joystick
joysticked
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of joystick
noninjurious
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: non-injurious
Etymology: From non- + injurious.
Senses: examples: text: Vegans, who may be thought of as extreme vegetarians, strive for a diet and way of life that is noninjurious to both animals and the environment, directly or through the processing of materials like leather, wool or silk.
ref: 2007 January 11, Ruth La Ferla, “Uncruel Beauty”, in New York Times:
glosses: Not injurious.
reacclimate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: reacclimates
form: reacclimating
form: reacclimated
form: reacclimated
Etymology: From re- + acclimate.
Senses: examples: text: It took Richardson no time to get reacclimated.
ref: 2007 January 11, Howard Beck, “Knicks Look at the Sixers and See a Reflection”, in New York Times:
glosses: To acclimate again; to reaccustom.
reacclimates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of reacclimate
reacclimating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of reacclimate
reacclimated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of reacclimate
overclean
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: overcleans
form: overcleaning
form: overcleaned
form: overcleaned
Etymology: From over- + clean.
Senses: examples: text: It’s basically resistant to dirt, so there’s no reason to overclean it.”
ref: 2007 January 11, Mitchell Owens, “Room to Improve”, in New York Times:
glosses: To clean to an excessive degree.
overclean
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more overclean
form: most overclean
Etymology: From over- + clean.
Senses: examples: text: The kitchen floor was not overclean.
glosses: Excessively clean.
overcleans
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of overclean
overcleaning
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of overclean
overcleaned
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of overclean
unpropelled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + propelled.
Senses: examples: an unpropelled craft
glosses: Not propelled.
spaceworthy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more spaceworthy
form: most spaceworthy
form: space-worthy
Etymology: From space + -worthy, after roadworthy etc.
Senses: examples: text: NASA has set Sept. 11, 2008, as the target date for launching a mission intended to revitalize the telescope and keep it spaceworthy into the next decade, according to a planning document made public by nasawatch.com, an independent Web site.
ref: 2007 January 11, Dennis Overbye, “NASA Schedules Flight to Update Space Telescope”, in New York Times:
glosses: Suitable for a launch into, or travel through, space.
indigenizations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of indigenization
indigenisations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of indigenisation
indigestions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of indigestion
stepgranddaughter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stepgranddaughters
Etymology: From step- + granddaughter.
Senses: glosses: The daughter of one's stepchild.
examples: text: Besides her daughter, Joan, of Manhattan, surviving are a brother, Edmund S. Morgan of New Haven, a Pulitzer Prize -winning historian; and a stepgranddaughter.
ref: 2007 January 11, Dennis Hevesi, “Roberta Wohlstetter, 94, Military Policy Analyst, Dies”, in New York Times:
glosses: The stepdaughter of one's child.
Related terms: stepgrandchild
stepgrandfather
stepgrandmother
stepgrandparent
stepgrandson
stepgranddaughters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stepgranddaughter
supermonster
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: supermonsters
Etymology: From super- + monster.
Senses: examples: text: However, Rutskoi's opponents maintain that this new creation will only be a supermonster compared to which the sadly notorious Gosagroprom (the state agrarian and industrial department ) is peanuts.
ref: 1992, New Times International, New Times Publishing House, page 9:
text: That's because they've already fallen under the supermonster's spell. They don't know how to fight back. They don't even remember that they can fight back.
ref: 2005, Rick Tobin, Feeding the Monster: The True Threat to American Education:
text: Running won’t help when you encounter each mission’s final supermonster or enemy V.S. These battles are brutal; I would die several times just figuring out a basic strategy and then die a few more times while I perfected my technique.
ref: 2007 January 11, Charles Herold, “Large Beasts, Mean Weapons and a Terrifying Judge”, in New York Times:
glosses: An especially powerful or fearsome monster.
supermonsters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of supermonster
tubside
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tubsides
Etymology: From tub + side.
Senses: examples: text: The ochre water laps against the marble tubsides.
ref: 1973, G Y Dryansky, Other people:
text: Tubside rituals: Gloria Swanson, here in a scene from Male and Female (1919), inhabited only luxury bathrooms.
ref: 1974, Parker Tyler, A pictorial history of sex in films:
text: Her willowy friend, mysteriously joined to the young man, no longer a part of the general situation, had sagged against the warm tubside […]
ref: 2004, Richard Monaco, Parsival or a Knight's Tale:
text: BUBBLY Rachel Lang, the bath butler at the Hotel Gansevoort in Manhattan, serves champagne at tubside.
ref: 2007 January 11, Alix Strauss, “Room Service, Draw Me a Bath”, in New York Times:
glosses: The side of a bathtub.
unmesmerized
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˌʌnˈmɛzməɹaɪzd/
Senses: examples: text: On the day I checked into comedycentral.com, with its discordant graphic styles, clown-colored ads, egg-yolk-yellow background and general I-exist-to-pester-you design scheme, I was dangerously unmesmerized by the digital video.
ref: 2007 January 11, Virginia Heffernan, “Television That's Rude, Crude, Hilarious and Only on the Web”, in New York Times:
glosses: Not mesmerized.
unmesmerized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /ˌʌnˈmɛzməɹaɪzd/
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of unmesmerize
unmesmerised
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + mesmerised.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of unmesmerized.
unhypnotised
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + hypnotised.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of unhypnotized.
unhypnotized
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + hypnotized.
Senses: glosses: Not hypnotized.
Synonyms: unmesmerized
unhypnotized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of unhypnotize
counterterror
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From counter- + terror.
Senses: glosses: Counter-terrorism.
counterterrorists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of counterterrorist
Stacee
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A female given name from Ancient Greek, a fanciful respelling of Stacy or Stacey.