cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
psychophant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: By confusion with the prefix psycho-.
Senses: examples: text: Socrates was not a sophist nor a psychophant.
ref: 1911, The Word, volume 13, Theosophical Publishing Co., page 178:
text: Adolescents play out these interim roles of clown, miniature adult, social psychophant, bully, etc., to compensate for the loss of power that accompanies their perceived or real losses.
ref: 2002, University Microfilms, University Microfilms International, Dissertation abstracts international: The sciences and engineering, University Microfilms, page unknown
text: It has destroyed the right ethos in administrative culture and brought to the fore psychophant and the dishonest […]
ref: 2008, G. Ramachandhra Reddy, The challenges of governance in Indian democracy, APH Publishing, page 178:
glosses: Misspelling of sycophant.
keelie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkiːli/
Forms: form: keelies
Etymology: Imitative.
Senses: glosses: A sparrowhawk or kestrel.
examples: text: That was what she said if it was Glasgow people, Oh they are just keelies.
ref: 2008, James Kelman, Kieron Smith, Boy, Penguin, published 2009, page 64:
glosses: A common or violent urban youth.
keelies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of keelie
unbracing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of unbrace
unbraced
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of unbrace
unbraced
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Not braced
unbraces
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of unbrace
make yourself at home
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Forms: form: make yourselves at home
Senses: glosses: An invitation to a guest in the speaker's home to treat the house as if it were theirs.
make oneself at home
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: makes oneself at home
form: making oneself at home
form: made oneself at home
form: made oneself at home
Senses: examples: text: If you were lucky as a child, you were fêted in households other than your own, encouraged to relax, kick back and make yourself at home.
ref: 2007, Jill Alison Ganon, Sandy Gillis, At Home: Pasadena:
glosses: To make oneself comfortable as if one were in one's own home.
fearnought
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fearnoughts
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of fearnaught.
desirements
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of desirement
desirelessness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From desireless + -ness.
Senses: glosses: Absence of desire.
Synonyms: undesire
hypercapitalist
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more hypercapitalist
form: most hypercapitalist
Etymology: From hyper- + capitalist.
Senses: examples: text: What the revisionists have done, Milton Friedman included, is provide ideological cover for a moribund political party. Mr. Friedman’s own place in the history books will rest upon how the chroniclers portray his role in the hypercapitalist free fall of the early 21st century.
ref: 2009 April 9, “The New Deal Revisionists: Will They Ever Learn?”, in New York Times:
text: [Sam] Altman is rapidly building out an economy within Silicon Valley that seems intended to essentially supplant Silicon Valley—a guild of hyper-capitalist entrepreneurs who will help one another fix the broken world.
ref: 2016 October 3, Tad Friend, “Sam Altman’s Manifest Destiny”, in The New Yorker:
glosses: Exhibiting or pertaining to hypercapitalism.
AMOLED
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈæməʊˌlɛd/
Etymology: Acronym of active matrix organic light-emitting diode.
Senses: topics: business
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
electronics
energy
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Abbreviation of active matrix OLED, a display technology for use in mobile devices and televisions.
Related terms: AMLCD
AMEPD
junkpile
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: junkpiles
Etymology: From junk + pile.
Senses: examples: text: The technology behind it is known as active-matrix organic light-emitting diode, or “Amoled,” an acronym that will hopefully have a brief layover on its way to the jargon junkpile, but one that is worth remembering in the short term.
ref: 2009 April 9, Bob Tedeschi, “Sprinting After the iPhone, and Starting to Close the Gap”, in New York Times:
glosses: A pile of junk; a scrapheap.
junkpiles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of junkpile
nonpsychological
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + psychological.
Senses: examples: text: He shows interestingly scant interest in the nonerotic and nonpsychological details of her existence; he prefers the hot stuff, just as his readers will.
ref: 2009 April 9, Janet Maslin, “Doctor and Drug Abuser in Yearlong Tête-à-Tête”, in New York Times:
glosses: Not psychological.
overtheorize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: overtheorizes
form: overtheorizing
form: overtheorized
form: overtheorized
Etymology: From over- + theorize.
Senses: glosses: To theorize too much.
overtheorizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of overtheorize
overtheorizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of overtheorize
overtheorized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of overtheorize
overtheorized
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more overtheorized
form: most overtheorized
Senses: qualifier: Of a field of study
glosses: having been unhelpfully subjected to too much theory.
postserial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From post- + serial.
Senses: examples: text: Here was music by a young composer audaciously combining postserial techniques with the buzz-saw din of rock.
ref: 2009 April 9, Anthony Tommasini, “Four Debuts, One Farewell”, in New York Times:
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: After serialism.
prepasted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pre- + pasted.
Senses: examples: text: Made by Brewster Home Fashions, a wallcovering company, all three murals are printed on vinyl-coated prepasted paper and measure 90 by 108 inches.
ref: 2009 April 9, Marianne Rohrlich, “Wall Coverings That Almost Require a Passport”, in New York Times:
glosses: Having paste already applied, requiring only the addition of water.
raw_tags: of wallpaper
pretrimmed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pre- + trimmed.
Senses: examples: pretrimmed meat
pretrimmed wallpaper
glosses: Trimmed in advance.
priestesslike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more priestesslike
form: most priestesslike
Etymology: From priestess + -like.
Senses: examples: text: Yet when she turns away, raising those arms in a priestesslike gesture, that fabric acts as a curtain, shielding her from prying eyes.
ref: 2009 April 9, Ruth La Ferla, “Still Dressing for Stevie”, in New York Times:
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a priestess.
connoisseurial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more connoisseurial
form: most connoisseurial
Etymology: From connoisseur + -ial.
Senses: examples: text: Finished drawings sometimes were kept as prototypes for paintings and as objects of connoisseurial delectation, but generally they served as the underlying, invisible foundation for paintings.
ref: 2009 April 10, Ken Johnson, “Capturing the Outlines of an Exuberant Universe”, in New York Times:
glosses: Of or pertaining to connoisseurs.
unisexually
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From unisexual + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: The only problem is that the dancers were talking about doing something they loved, and the servers, as the wait staff members are unisexually known, are doing something they hate, just to pay the bills.
ref: 2009 April 10, Anita Gates, “What Waiters Talk About While Diners Are Waiting”, in New York Times:
glosses: In a unisexual way.
cubiclelike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more cubiclelike
form: most cubiclelike
Etymology: From cubicle + -like.
Senses: examples: text: Leah Christiana Gonzalez’s place is more modest, with a cubiclelike bedroom, no living room and a shower she shares with seven roommates who keep odd hours.
ref: 2009 April 11, Anne Barnard, “For Circus Workers, Home Is Where the Train Is”, in New York Times:
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a cubicle.
dinerlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more dinerlike
form: most dinerlike
Etymology: From diner + -like.
Senses: examples: text: Kodak, a 6-year-old Labrador mix that lives with Mike Hickey, the trainmaster, in an apartment with an electric fireplace, trotted up and down the train, then headed to its dinerlike restaurant, the Pie Car, where the cooks give her bacon.
ref: 2009 April 11, Anne Barnard, “For Circus Workers, Home Is Where the Train Is”, in New York Times:
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a diner.
flyspecking
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From flyspeck + -ing.
Senses: glosses: A technique for painting furniture with flicked drops of paint.
flyspecking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From flyspeck + -ing.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of flyspeck
outsave
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: outsaves
form: outsaving
form: outsaved
form: outsaved
Etymology: From out- + save.
Senses: examples: text: The gleefully frugal happily seek new ways to economize and take pride in outsaving the Joneses.
ref: 2009 April 11, Matt Richtel, “Austere Times? Perfect”, in New York Times:
glosses: To save more money than.
outsaves
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of outsave
outsaving
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of outsave
outsaved
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of outsave
sputterings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sputtering
triethylenetetramine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: An oily liquid used as a crosslinker in epoxy curing and in treating Wilson's disease.
Related terms: trientine
trientine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /tɹaɪˈɛnˌtiːn/
Etymology: From short of trie(thyle)n(e)t(etram)ine.
Senses: topics: chemistry
medicine
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
pharmacology
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Triethylenetetramine dihydrochloride, an oral copper chelating agent used to treat Wilson's disease.
unmussed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unmussed
form: most unmussed
Etymology: From un- + mussed.
Senses: examples: text: Two bus shelters […] were replaced this week with shiny new steel-and-glass structures that can keep passengers on the B23 bus line dry on rainy days and unmussed on windy ones.
ref: 2009 April 11, James Barron, “A Nice Place to Stand and Wait for a Bus That Might Stop Coming”, in New York Times:
glosses: Not mussed.
bosomed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From bosom + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: Lo! where the rosy-bosomed Hours,
Fair Venus’ train, appear,
Disclose the long-expecting flowers,
And wake the purple year!
ref: 1748, Thomas Gray, Ode on the Spring, lines 1–4:
text: 1871, George MacDonald, Organ Songs, “Longing,” in Works of Fancy and Imagination, London, Volume II, p. 230,
O all wide places, far from feverous towns!
Great shining seas! pine forests! mountains wild!
Rock-bosomed shores! rough heaths! and sheep-cropt downs!
text: 1922, Emily Post, Etiquette in Society, in Business, in Politics and at Home, Chapter 12, “The Well-Appointed House,”
For luncheon or earlier, if [the butler] is on duty at the door, he wears black trousers, with gray stripes, a double-breasted, high-cut, black waistcoat, and black swallowtail coat without satin on the reverse, a white stiff-bosomed shirt with standing collar, and a black four-in-hand tie.
text: At the back of the cars, one in each, and very upright, sat two dark, bejewelled, deep-bosomed women who had no eyes for the flying landscape but smiled at each other with unhealthy concentration.
ref: 1959, Mervyn Peake, chapter 15, in Titus Alone, London: Eyre & Spottiswoode:
text: The show focuses on three women, including the kittenish, outlandishly bosomed Keri, and Fran, a near-ringer for Mary Wilson of the Supremes .
ref: 2009 April 12, Carol Kino, “A Confidence Highlighted in Rhinestones”, in New York Times:
glosses: Having a bosom (of a specified kind).
Derived terms: book-bosomed
full-bosomed
changefulness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From changeful + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: I have cause to weep—I must weep over my own changefulness, and over the sweetest illusions of my youth.
ref: 1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter IX, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume I, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 106:
text: The faint fluctuations in the light as someone ironed and someone played and someone experimented and the refrigerator cycled on and off had been part of the dream. This changefulness, though barely noticeable, had been a torment. But it had stopped now.
ref: 2001, Jonathan Franzen, The Corrections:
text: Like Nijinsky he had an astounding jump, an extraordinary neck, an animal intensity, an actor’s changefulness.
ref: 2009 April 12, Alastair Macaulay, “‘This Probably Isn’t Possible, But ...’”, in New York Times:
glosses: Propensity to change.
clarities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of clarity
exhilarations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of exhilaration
grapiness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From grapy + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: While the Manischewitz’s cloying sweetness comes through (one suspects it would take a full gallon of bourbon to subdue that candied Concord grapiness), the drink is determinedly balanced, and rather festive to boot.
ref: 2009 April 12, Jonathan Miles, “A Cocktail Mixed With a Punch Line”, in New York Times:
glosses: A resemblance to grapes.
loukoumades
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Greek λουκουμάδες (loukoumádes), ultimately from Arabic لُقْمَة (luqma, “morsel”).
Senses: examples: text: A $28 traditional Greek dinner, available after 5 p.m. next Sunday, will feature magiritsa, Greek salad, rotisserie- or oven-roasted lamb and loukoumades — Greek-style doughnuts.
ref: 2009 April 12, Kris Ensminger, “Lamb Aplenty”, in New York Times:
glosses: Pastries made of deep-fried dough soaked in sugar syrup or honey and cinnamon, and sometimes sprinkled with sesame. (used especially of the Greek version of these pastries)
Synonyms: english: used especially of the Turkish variant of this pastry
translation: used especially of the Turkish variant of this pastry
word: lokma
neomodern
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more neomodern
form: most neomodern
Etymology: From neo- + modern.
Senses: examples: text: Under Hartmut Warkuss, its design director until 2003, Volkswagen styling celebrated its Teutonic origins and the spare modernist tradition expressed in Braun radios and coffee makers, reference points for the neomodern simplicity of the iPod. Freeman Thomas and J Mays, now both with Ford, worked under Mr. Warkuss.
ref: 2009 April 12, Phil Patton, “At VW, the Italian Accent Gets Stronger”, in New York Times:
topics: architecture
art
arts
glosses: Of or pertaining to a "new simplicity" in reaction to the complexity of postmodern architecture and eclecticism.
Derived terms: neomodernist
yawnfest
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: yawnfests
Etymology: From yawn + -fest.
Senses: examples: text: In summation, I was hugely disappointed with this yawnfest.
ref: 2006, Glenn Kay, Michael Rose, Disaster movies:
glosses: A particularly boring event.
yawnfests
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of yawnfest
quackings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of quacking
semidome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: semidomes
Etymology: From semi- + dome.
Senses: examples: text: At Holy Cross Catholic Church on West 42nd Street, opposite the Port Authority Bus Terminal, the uninviting Romanesque exterior is in stark contrast to the airy sanctuary, with its great open space and a main altar set in a lovely semidome and illuminated by nine stained-glass panels.
ref: 2009 April 12, Tanya Mohn, “Blessings Over Broadway”, in New York Times:
topics: architecture
glosses: Half of a dome ("cut" vertically), used to cover a semicircular area.
Related terms: semidomed
semidomes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of semidome
semidomed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From semi- + domed.
Senses: glosses: In the shape of a semidome.
examples: a semidomed chapel
glosses: Supplied with a semidome.
foreacre
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: foreacres
form: forraker
form: forical
Etymology: From fore- + acre.
Senses: glosses: The headland of a ploughed field; the land at the ends of a field where the furrows cross.
tobaccoish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more tobaccoish
form: most tobaccoish
Etymology: From tobacco + -ish.
Senses: examples: text: And a too-sweet, tobaccoish residue lingered in Julian from his unchecked fantasies, and he laughed at himself (so like his father wrapping a fur stole around Billie Holiday’s shoulders), and he laughed at Cait O’Dwyer’s sorcery, and he wondered if, in her real life, she required a steady diet of recent heartbreak in order to manufacture fresh emotion for her consumers.
ref: 2009 April 12, Kate Christensen, “Always on My Mind”, in New York Times:
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of tobacco.
unparodied
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + parodied.
Senses: examples: text: And no president should be left unparodied.
ref: 2009 April 12, “Points of Entry”, in New York Times:
coordinate_terms: unsatirized
glosses: Not having been parodied.
underdefined
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more underdefined
form: most underdefined
Etymology: From under- + defined.
Senses: examples: text: The campaign of 2008 was but the latest instance of a presidential contest (like 1952 and 1964, to name only two) when the debate over foreign affairs was underdeveloped and the election mandate for the new president in foreign policy was strong but underdefined.
ref: 2009 April 12, Michael Beschloss, “We’re Still the One”, in New York Times:
glosses: Inadequately defined.
vampirette
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vampirettes
Etymology: From vampire + -ette.
Senses: examples: text: The bond with the dead, at once sister and young bride, may give us another perspective on the same-sex eroticism that, all agree, this male writer imagines and creates between the vampirette and her victim.
ref: 1999, Laurence A. Rickels, The vampire lectures, page 161:
text: There will be no stores open at midnight for the latest Pinkwater, no nerd swarms, girl gaggles or nerd-girl swaggles, cloaked as wizards or vampirettes, whining at the doors, demanding completion.
ref: 2009 April 12, Larry Doyle, “Iggy in Underland”, in New York Times:
glosses: A female vampire.
Synonyms: vampiress
vampirina
vampirettes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of vampirette
deloft
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: delofts
form: delofting
form: delofted
form: delofted
Etymology: From de- + loft.
Senses: examples: text: To ensure that you do not make a normal transfer of weight to your front foot during the swing, which may be good for full shots or chips but delofts the club in a flop shot, practice keeping your front heel off the ground throughout the swing.
ref: 2009 April 13, Bill Pennington, “Sorenstam’s Tips for Flop Shots in Tough Spots”, in New York Times:
topics: golf
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: To reduce the loft of a stroke with.
delofts
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of deloft
delofting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of deloft
delofted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of deloft
miniloan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: miniloans
Etymology: From mini- + loan.
Senses: examples: text: Others have argued that without these miniloans, people would bounce checks, incurring average costs of $27 or more per overdraft.
ref: 2009 April 13, “391 Percent Payday Loan”, in New York Times:
glosses: A loan for a small amount.
miniloans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of miniloan
miniloci
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of minilocus
redeem oneself
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: redeems oneself
form: redeeming oneself
form: redeemed oneself
form: redeemed oneself
Senses: examples: text: I know in the past I've been a giant twat, but all the hard work I've done since then is to redeem myself. I just want to do something useful, and I'm sorry if I cock it up sometimes.
glosses: To resolve, or make up for, one's previous folly.
Related terms: second chance
premeditatively
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more premeditatively
form: most premeditatively
Etymology: From premeditative + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: “Sure, I would want to get involved, but we’ve been premeditatively kept out of it,” Mr. Padavan said, adding that he would support a payroll tax but saw bridge tolls as problematic.
ref: 2009 April 13, William Neuman, “M.T.A. Rescue Plan May Hinge on Highway Spending, and Republican Support”, in New York Times:
glosses: In a premeditative manner; with premeditation.
timbalero
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: timbaleros
Etymology: Spanish
Senses: examples: text: “The timbales are for providing accompaniment, backup for the group; and a good timbalero must have a strong left hand to play the tumbao and pailas or cascara,” he said, referring to different rhythmic patterns in a measure.
ref: 2009 April 13, A. E. Velez, “Manny Oquendo, Latin Band Leader and Stylistic Innovator, Dies at 78”, in New York Times:
glosses: One who plays the timbales.
timbaleros
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of timbalero
hypervirulent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more hypervirulent
form: most hypervirulent
Etymology: From hyper- + virulent.
Senses: examples: text: “But in the past few years the bugs have become hypervirulent, more severe and now it’s a global threat.”
ref: 2009 April 14, Tara Parker-Pope, “Stomach Bug Crystallizes an Antibiotic Threat”, in New York Times:
glosses: Extremely virulent.
limbolike
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: limbolikes
Etymology: From limbo + -like.
Senses: examples: text: Silt, The Cub, Planet of Lana, and similar platformers demand a new term: the ‘Limbolike’.
ref: 2022, Ari Notis, “Everyone Wants To Make The Next Limbo”, in Kotaku:
glosses: A 2D platform-puzzle video game, often with a melancholy theme, similar to Limbo.
limbolike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more limbolike
form: most limbolike
Etymology: From limbo + -like.
Senses: examples: text: The hall’s organ, a personal gift of Miss Tully herself, remains absent, dismantled and resting in limbolike storage in upstate New York.
ref: 2009 April 14, Daniel J. Wakin, “At Tully Hall, Worry Over the Pipe Organ’s Return”, in New York Times:
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of limbo.
lookover
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lookovers
Etymology: Deverbal from look over.
Senses: examples: text: Originally, whole-body imaging was proposed as an alternative for the relatively few passengers chosen for secondary screening, allowing them to opt for a machine lookover rather than a physical pat-down.
ref: 2009 April 14, Joe Sharkey, “Looking You Over, With a Shameless Gaze”, in New York Times:
glosses: A brief visual inspection.
lookovers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lookover
skeletoned
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of skeleton
skeletoning
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of skeleton
nonterror
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + terror.
Senses: examples: text: Since Sept. 11, 2001, when the country’s attention understandably turned to terrorism, nearly 120,000 Americans have been killed in nonterror homicides, most of them committed with guns.
ref: 2009 April 14, Bob Herbert, “The American Way”, in New York Times:
glosses: Not of or pertaining to terrorism.
ornithologically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɔːnɪθəˈlɒd͡ʒɪkli/
ipa: /ˌɔɹnɪθəˈlɑd͡ʒɪkli/
rhymes: -ɒdʒɪkli
Etymology: From ornithological + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: But Perry, Cabrera and Campbell could hear the Masters bird choir tweeting (that’s 140 characters or less, ornithologically speaking) over the quiet of the gallery following them.
ref: 2009 April 14, Richard Sandomir, “Live From the Masters, It’s Not the Leaders”, in New York Times:
glosses: In terms of ornithology.
ornithomimosaurs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ornithomimosaur
postnatural
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more postnatural
form: most postnatural
Etymology: From post- + natural.
Senses: examples: text: In the gallery of postnatural history, for example, is a goat that has been genetically tinkered with to produce spider silk, useful for fishing line and bulletproof vests, in its milk.
ref: 2009 April 14, Dennis Overbye, “Hello Van Gogh, Can You Hear Me Now?”, in New York Times:
glosses: After nature; encompassing artificially constructed organisms such as the results of genetic engineering and cybernetics.
backstepping
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From back + stepping.
Senses: qualifier: control theory
glosses: A technique for designing stabilizing controls for a special recursive class of nonlinear dynamical systems.
examples: text: Once the sea level stabilized again, the same group of corals grew once more, but farther inshore and up to 10 feet higher in elevation, a process known to geologists as backstepping.
ref: 2009 April 16, Andrew C. Revkin, “Coral Fossils Suggest That Sea Level Can Rise Rapidly”, in New York Times:
topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: A gradual backward movement of organisms or a sedimentary environment caused by changes in environmental factors.
parasequence
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: parasequences
Etymology: From para- + sequence.
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: A relatively conformable, genetically related succession of beds and bedsets bounded by marine flooding surfaces and their correlative surfaces.
parasequences
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of parasequence
paraselenes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of paraselene
paraselenae
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of paraselene
parasitaemias
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of parasitaemia
consumerize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: consumerizes
form: consumerizing
form: consumerized
form: consumerized
Etymology: From consumer + -ize.
Senses: glosses: To turn into a consumer.
examples: text: Mechanical refrigeration and air conditioning were commercialized decades before they were consumerized.
text: Nikon has tried to consumerize an existing S.L.R.; Canon has tried to S.L.R.-ize an existing consumer camera.
ref: 2009 April 16, David Pogue, “The Quest to Shrink the S.L.R.”, in New York Times:
glosses: To make suitable for mass consumption; to convert to a consumer-oriented product or service (as when an industrial, professional, or business-to-business product or service enters the consumer market).
Related terms: consumerism
consumerization
commercialize
commodify
commoditize
productize
consumerizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of consumerize
consumerizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of consumerize
consumerized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of consumerize
endocrinal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From endocrine + -al.
Senses: examples: text: That he who has the time should lack the force, that she who has the force should lack the time! That a trifling and in all probability tractable obstruction of some endocrinal Bandusia, that a mere matter of forty-five or fifty minutes by the clock, should as effectively as death itself, or as the Hellespont, separate lovers.
ref: 1953, Samuel Beckett, Watt, [Paris]: Olympia Press, →OCLC:
text: The agency said that the 67 pesticides were chosen because humans and animals are widely exposed to them, not because they are necessarily the most likely disruptors of endocrinal functions.
ref: 2009 April 16, Matthew L. Wald, “E.P.A. To Order Pesticide Testing”, in New York Times:
glosses: endocrine
Derived terms: neuroendocrinal
eskrima
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Tagalog escrima or eskrima, borrowed from Spanish esgrima, noun form of the verb esgrimir (“to handle a melee weapon whether for offensive or defensive purposes”).
Senses: examples: text: Of all the disciplines covered here, the arts of kali, arnis and eskrima, from the Philippines, are perhaps the most vigorous, employing an almost balletic violence to prepare for rough nights on the town.
ref: 2009 April 16, Mandy Katz, “Choose Your Weapon: Exotic Martial Arts”, in New York Times:
glosses: The traditional martial arts of the Philippines, which emphasize the use of sticks, knives, and various improvised weapons.
Synonyms: arnis
kali
galanthophile
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡəˈlanθə(ʊ)fʌɪl/
Forms: form: galanthophiles
Etymology: Galanthus + -o- + -phile.
Senses: examples: text: Mr. Lyman owns the Temple Nursery, a mail order business little known beyond the world of galanthophiles, or snowdrop lovers.
ref: 2009 April 16, Anne Raver, “Learning to love snowdrops”, in The New York Times:
text: The world of snowdrop fanciers (galanthophiles) is full of headstrong egos. […] However, one gently spoken and quiet Gloucestershire galanthophile, Phil Cornish, sidesteps all that nonsense.
ref: 2015 February 7, Val Bourne, “The quiet man of the world of snowdrops”, in The Daily Telegraph (London), page G8:
glosses: An enthusiastic collector of snowdrops.
galanthophiles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of galanthophile
galantines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of galantine
neckstrap
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: neckstraps
Etymology: From neck + strap.
Senses: examples: text: So we’re stuck with two camera categories: pocket ones that take mediocre pictures and big heavy black ones (S.L.R.’s) that take stunning photos but require a neckstrap or, ideally, a wheelbarrow.
ref: 2009 April 16, David Pogue, “The Quest to Shrink the S.L.R.”, in New York Times:
glosses: A strap worn around the neck for carrying something.
neckstraps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of neckstrap
overcollection
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: overcollections
Etymology: From over- + collection.
Senses: glosses: Excessive collection, as:
Excessive collection of taxes or insurance premiums, necessitating administration of refunds or carryovers.
glosses: Excessive collection, as:
Excessive collection of specimens, such as accidental collection of more than 24 hours' worth of urine for a 24-hour urine test.
overcollections
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of overcollection
rewriter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rewriters
Etymology: From rewrite + -er.
Senses: examples: text: On the threshold of 1984, Communist rewriters of history have scored a significant victory in their longtime effort to erase inconvenient individuals and events from the chronicle of modern times.
ref: 1983 November 20, Haskell Nordon, “ON JAMES MICHENER'S 'POLAND'”, in The New York Times:
text: Part of why both books dragged on so long is that Mr. Talese, who once worked for The New York Times, is a perfectionist, an obsessive tinkerer and rewriter, and also a famously meticulous reporter and researcher who spurns devices like composite characters and faked identities.
ref: 2009 April 16, Charles McGrath, “Sex and Crime, the Updates: Gay Talese Is Back on the Beat”, in The New York Times:
glosses: One who, or that which, rewrites.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Part of a compiler that makes a second pass to fix the generated object code by implementing postconditions, patching in calls or pointers to point to the correct locations, etc.
rewriters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rewriter
audios
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of audio
competingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more competingly
form: most competingly
Etymology: From competing + -ly.
Senses: glosses: So as to compete.
restabilization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: restabilizations
Etymology: From re- + stabilization.
Senses: glosses: The process of restabilizing.
restabilizations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of restabilization
uncurbable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + curbable.
Senses: examples: text: The score is also a reminder of what fueled Morgan’s shopping mania, uncurbable and lifelong.
ref: 2009 April 17, Holland Cotter, “J. P. Morgan’s Shopaholic Approach to Art Collecting Gets an Update”, in New York Times:
glosses: Incapable of being curbed.
Weimaraner
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈvaɪməɹɑːnəɹ/
Forms: form: Weimaraners
Senses: glosses: A breed of gun dog with an athletic build and short coat.
Weimaraners
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Weimaraner
nontransportation
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + transportation.
Senses: examples: text: The tax provision, which originated in the 2005 transportation bill and provides a tax credit of 50 cents a gallon, was extended two years ago to include nontransportation energy sources.
ref: 2009 April 18, Jad Mouawad, “Lawmakers May Limit Paper Mills’ Windfall”, in New York Times:
glosses: Not of or pertaining to transportation.
postmedium
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From post- + medium.
Senses: examples: text: Today many aspects of craft have been absorbed — minus the reverence — by contemporary art, now considered in its postmedium phase.
ref: 2009 April 18, Roberta Smith, “Why Craft Never Was a Four-Letter Word”, in New York Times:
topics: art
arts
glosses: In a time when choice of medium no longer matters.
bleacherlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more bleacherlike
form: most bleacherlike
Etymology: From bleacher + -like.
Senses: examples: text: Children often scrambled up the narrow staircases to play on the bleacherlike seats.
ref: 2009 April 19, Caroline H. Dworin, “Emancipated From the Shadows”, in New York Times:
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of bleachers.
hemangiopericytoma
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hemangiopericytomas
form: hemangiopericytomata
Etymology: From hemangiopericyte + -oma (“neoplastic tumor”), the former from hemangio- + pericyte.
Senses: examples: text: The cause was hemangiopericytoma, a rare vascular cancer, said his wife, Dizzy Cox.
ref: 2009 April 19, Margalit Fox, “Michael Cox, Editor and Author of ‘The Meaning of Night,’ Dies at 60”, in New York Times:
topics: medicine
oncology
sciences
glosses: A sarcoma of the soft tissue that originates in the pericytes in the walls of capillaries.
hemangiopericytomata
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hemangiopericytoma
Derived terms: hemangiopericytomatoid
hemangiopericytomas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hemangiopericytoma
nonporosity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From non- + porosity.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being nonporous.
insectan
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From insect + -an.
Senses: glosses: Of insects.
Derived terms: antiinsectan
megastudio
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: megastudios
Etymology: From mega- + studio.
Senses: examples: text: As the novel begins, he is on his way to Universum Film AG, better known as Ufa, the megastudio on Berlin’s outskirts that has bankrolled a stream of breakthrough movies.
ref: 2009 April 19, Joshua Hammer, “Berlin Noir”, in New York Times:
glosses: A large film studio.
megastudios
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of megastudio
multihyphenated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: multi-hyphenated
Etymology: From multi- + hyphenated.
Senses: glosses: Having more than one hyphen.
Related terms: multihyphenate
don't dip your pen in company ink
Language: English
Part of speech: proverb
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of you don't dip your pen in company ink.
fisheye lens
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fisheye lenses
head_nr: 1
form: fish-eye lens
Senses: topics: arts
hobbies
lifestyle
photography
head_nr: 1
glosses: A wide-angle lens having an extremely wide field of view (approaching or exceeding 180 degrees) and producing images that are circular or distorted by curvature at the edges.
Related terms: normal lens
telephoto lens
fish-eye lens
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fish-eye lenses
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of fisheye lens.
factionalise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: factionalises
form: factionalising
form: factionalised
form: factionalised
Etymology: From factional + -ise.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of factionalize.
Superstitial
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Superstitials
Senses: examples: text: Over 10% of viewers have visited the truth site through one of these Superstitial ads.
ref: 2003 June, K. M. Ribisl, “The Potential of the Internet as a Medium to Encourage and Discourage Youth Tobacco Use”, in Tobacco Control, volume 12, page i55:
text: [T]he value of superstitials, say, or any type of out-of-banner rich media ad, is just as potent as it was two years ago.
ref: 2005 September 19, Gavin O'Malley, “Pace Thyself”, in MediaPost, retrieved 12 Aug 2011:
text: A revolutionary new idea can eventually become a mainstay in our media options. For example, I executed the first Unicast superstitial back in 1998 to promote the Universal Pictures movie “The Mummy.”
ref: 2006 April 24, Pam Stein, “Innovative Media Plans”, in iMEDIA Connection, retrieved 12 Aug 2011:
topics: advertising
business
marketing
glosses: A proprietary standard in online advertising created by Unicast, featuring animation and interactivity; advertising produced under this standard.
superstitial
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: superstitials
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Superstitial.
cosmodicy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cosmodicies
Etymology: From the Ancient Greek κόσμος (kósmos, “world, universe”) + δίκη (díkē, “justice”); influenced by theodicy.
Senses: glosses: A justification of the fundamental goodness of the universe, especially in regard to the existence of evil and suffering in the world; a work or discourse justifying the ways of the universe.
aik
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: aiks
form: aiking
form: aiked
form: aiked
Etymology: From Middle English [Term?], from Old Norse aka (“to drive, sail, navigate”), from Proto-Germanic *akaną.
Senses: examples: text: The herd aiked his neat out to the leas.
glosses: To drive.
aiks
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of aik
steamies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of steamie
simple majorities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of simple majority
circuit boards
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of circuit board
dreap
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: dreaps
form: dreaping
form: dreaped
form: dreaped
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of dreep.
safron
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of saffron.
shrined
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Enshrined.
shrined
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of shrine
flittings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of flitting
livingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more livingly
form: most livingly
Etymology: From living + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Only in the heart of quickest perils; only when within the eddyings of his angry flukes; only on the profound unbounded sea, can the fully invested whale be truly and livingly found out.
ref: 1851 November 14, Herman Melville, “Measurement of the Whale’s Skeleton”, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC:
text: If we believed—if the great mass of people known as the civilized world did actually and livingly believe—that there was really anything beyond or above the physical order of nature, our children's literature, wrongly so called, would not be what it is.
ref: 1887, Julian Hawthorne, “Literature for Children”, in Confessions and Criticisms:
text: A man very rarely has an image of a person with whom he is livingly, vitally connected. He only has dream-images of the persons who, in some way, oppose his life-flow and his soul's freedom, and so become impressed upon his plasm as objects of resistance.
ref: 1922, D[avid] H[erbert] Lawrence, “Sleep and Dreams”, in Fantasia of the Unconscious, New York, N.Y.: Thomas Seltzer, →OCLC, page 104:
glosses: In actual living experience; really, vitally.
examples: text: It was so strange, to have that gay Italian bay, with all its memories, […] and those great old heroes, with their awful deeds for good and evil, all brought so suddenly and livingly before me, […]
ref: 1849 July, Charles Kingsley, “North Devon”, in Prose Idylls, New and Old, London: Macmillan and Co., published 1873, →OCLC, page 248:
text: Take an extreme case. A group of people are photographed by Edison's new process—say Titiens, Trebelli, and Jenny Lind, with any two of the finest men singers the age has known—let them be photographed incessantly for half an hour while they perform a scene in "Lohengrin"; let all be done stereoscopically. Let them be phonographed at the same time so that their minutest shades of intonation are preserved, let the slides be coloured by a competent artist, and then let the scene be called suddenly into sight and sound, say a hundred years hence. Are those people dead or alive? Dead to themselves they are, but while they live so powerfully and so livingly in us, which is the greater paradox—to say that they are alive or that they are dead?
ref: c. 1889, Samuel Butler, “How To Make the Best of Life”, in Essays on Life, Art and Science:
text: You should have heard him speak of what he loved; […] Here was a piece of experience solidly and livingly built up in words, here was a story created, teres atque rotundus.
ref: 1892, Robert Louis Stevenson, “Beggars”, in Across the Plains: With Other Memories and Essays, London: Chatto & Windus, […], →OCLC, page 261:
glosses: Realistically; as if experienced in life or as if alive.
untruss
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: untrusses
form: untrussing
form: untrussed
form: untrussed
Etymology: From un- + truss.
Senses: examples: a. 1701, John Dryden, epistle to Mr Julian
The choleric wight, untrussing all in rage
glosses: To free from a truss; to untie or unfasten
untruss
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: untrusses
Etymology: From un- + truss.
Senses: glosses: an untrusser or public whipper
cuckoldy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more cuckoldy
form: most cuckoldy
Etymology: From cuckold + -y.
Senses: examples: text: Hang him, poor cuckoldy knave! I know him not.
ref: c. 1597 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merry Wiues of Windsor”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene ii]:
glosses: Characteristic of a cuckold.
Synonyms: cuckoldly
dryasdusts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dryasdust
dryasdust
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dryasdusts
Etymology: From the fictitious character Jonas Dryasdust, created by Sir Walter Scott, from dry as dust.
Senses: examples: text: […] how can Dryasdust interpret such things, the dark chaotic dullard, who knows the meaning of nothing cosmic or noble, nor ever will know?
ref: 1858, Thomas Carlyle, History of Friedrich II. of Prussia, Called Frederick the Great, volume I, London: Chapman and Hall, […], →OCLC, book I, page 23:
glosses: A dull, boring or pedantic speaker or writer.
dryasdust
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From the fictitious character Jonas Dryasdust, created by Sir Walter Scott, from dry as dust.
Senses: examples: text: […] Casaubon, the dryasdust scholar in Middlemarch, is said to woo his bride with a “frigid rhetoric . . . as sincere as the bark of a dog, or the cawing of an amorous rook.”
ref: 2006, Paula Marantz Cohen, The American Scholar:
glosses: Boring and pedantic in speech or writing.
snibbed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of snib
snibs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of snib
snibbing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of snib
oose
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /uːs/
ipa: /uːz/
ipa: /uz/
ipa: /us/
Etymology: From Scots oose, an alternative form of oos, the plural form of oo (“wool”).
Senses: examples: text: But I found how I could read in the bedroom and not lie on the bed. It was a wee place down between my bed and the wall where the door was. The bed was pressed against the wall but ye could just squash down and under. My da kept all suitcases under my bed but I shifted them the gether and it was easy to squash in. But when I came out it was all fluff and oose stuff down my pyjamas. My maw was shouting. Oh Kieron it is filfy it is just filfy.
ref: 2008, James Kelman, Kieron Smith, Boy, London: Hamish Hamilton, ISBN 978-0-241-14241-7; 1st US edition, Orlando, Fla.: Harcourt, 2008, ISBN 978-0-15-101348-7; page 100
text: I used to collect oose. If you have an inny bellybutton, this is the linty stuff you find in its crevices at the end of the day when you have nothing better to do than explore useless parts of your body.
ref: 2008, Zanzibar “Buck Buck” McFate, “A Grain of Dried Rat Shit”, in I Battled a Giant Otter: My Gut Bustin', Mutha Lovin' Life of Manly Adventure: A Tale of Mad Catastrophe, Lincoln, Neb.: iUniverse, →ISBN, page 385:
glosses: Fluff, particularly from a textile source such as cotton or wool.