cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
gravity assist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈɡɹævɪti əˈsɪst/
Forms: form: gravity assists
form: gravitational assist
form: gravity-assist
Senses: examples: text: After going into orbit around Jupiter with a gravity assist from the volcanic moon Io, Galileo will spend 22 months studying the planet.
ref: 1989 October 10, Warren E. Leary, “Galileo's Itinerary”, in New York Times, retrieved 04 Sep 2011:
text: Cassini is supposed to swing by Earth in 1999 for a gravity assist that would sling it out toward Saturn.
ref: 1997 September 22, Dick Thompson, Michael D. Lemonick, “Nukes in Space”, in Time:
text: MESSENGER successfully flew by Mercury yesterday, gaining a critical gravity assist that will enable it to enter orbit about Mercury in 2011.
ref: 2009 Oct. 2, "MESSENGER Gains Critical Gravity Assist For Mercury Orbital Observations," spacedaily.com (retrieved 4 Sep. 2011)
topics: astrophysics
glosses: The favorable alteration of the speed and trajectory of a spacecraft as a result of its passing near to a celestial body.
Synonyms: gravitational slingshot
gravity slingshot
Derived terms: JGA
gravitational assist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gravitational assists
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of gravity assist.
gravity-assist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gravity-assists
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of gravity assist.
TCK
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: TCKs
Senses: examples: text: If withdrawal becomes severe, with the TCK isolating from everyone and virtually everything, professional help needs to be sought with someone who understands the TCK experience.
ref: 2009, David C. Pollock and Ruth E. Van Reken, culture kids: growing up among worlds, p. 162
glosses: Initialism of third culture kid.
TCK
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: qualifier: Java programming language
glosses: Initialism of Technology Compatibility Kit, a suite of tests that at least nominally checks a particular alleged implementation of a Java Specification Request (JSR) for compliance.
gravitational slingshot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gravitational slingshots
Senses: glosses: Synonym of gravity assist.
synonyms: word: gravity assist
gravity slingshot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gravity slingshots
Senses: glosses: Synonym of gravity assist.
synonyms: word: gravity assist
TCKs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of TCK
adult third culture kid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: adult third culture kids
Senses: synonyms: ATCK
glosses: A third culture kid who has grown into adulthood.
ATCK
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ATCKs
Senses: examples: text: One sad fact: we have yet to meet an outwardly defiant, rebellious TCK or ATCK who, when talked to long enough, doesn't have a place of deep wounding or profound loss within.
ref: 2009, David C. Pollock and Ruth E. Van Reken, culture kids: growing up among worlds, p. 163
glosses: Initialism of adult third culture kid.
ATCKs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ATCK
adult third culture kids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of adult third culture kid Abbreviation: ATCKs.
Russian studies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: synonyms: word: Russistics
qualifier: humanities
glosses: An academic discipline that includes the study of literatures written in the Russian language, Russian linguistics, and Russian sociolinguistics.
spandites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of spandite
scammy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: scammier
form: scammiest
Etymology: From scam + -y.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to a scam; fraudulent.
weighing bottle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: weighing bottles
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A thin-walled glass container, with a ground-glass stopper, used for weighing samples of chemical substances
Related terms: weighing boat
weighing funnel
weighing funnel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: weighing funnels
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: An open container having a wide end into which samples may be placed for weighing and a funnel-shaped end for subsequent transfer
Related terms: weighing boat
weighing bottle
weighing boat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: weighing boats
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: An open container, often disposable, used for weighing samples
Related terms: weighing bottle
weighing funnel
lairier
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of lairy: more lairy
lairiest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of lairy: most lairy
formated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of formate
glosses: Misspelling of formatted.
guaguanco
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: guaguancos
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish guaguancó.
Senses: examples: text: Here, led by the pianist Jorge Gómez, Tiempo Libre revisits that idea, outfitting recognizable pieces from the Bach repertory with son, danzon and guaguanco rhythm.
ref: 2009 June 26, The New York Times, “Jazz Listings”, in New York Times:
glosses: A subgenre of Cuban rumba, a complex rhythmic music and dance style.
guaguancos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of guaguanco
overpromote
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: overpromotes
form: overpromoting
form: overpromoted
form: overpromoted
Etymology: From over- + promote.
Senses: examples: text: NBC, never shy about exploiting a celebrity tragedy, overproduced and overpromoted her film in “Farrah’s Story,” but never made the public service point that, besides abstinence, the HPV vaccine is the most promising form of prevention against this type of cancer, which in most cases is sexually acquired.
ref: 2009 June 26, Alessandra Stanley, “Farrah Fawcett, a Sex Symbol Who Aimed Higher”, in New York Times:
glosses: To promote excessively.
overpromoting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of overpromote
overpromotes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of overpromote
overpromoted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of overpromote
overpromotion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From over- + promotion.
Senses: examples: the relentless overpromotion of consumer goods
glosses: Excessive promotion.
predeal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pre- + deal.
Senses: examples: text: If the predeal purchase probability for a specific type of deal is generally low, relative to that for other deals, then we may conclude that a relatively high proportion of "new triers" are buying this type of deal.
ref: 1967, Patrick J. Robinson, James C. Becknell, Promotional decisions using mathematical models:
text: Last year, K.K.R. hinted at a market cap in its predeal form of up to $15 billion, when about two-thirds that size seemed more reasonable.
ref: 2009 June 26, “K.K.R. Valuation Returns to Earth”, in New York Times:
glosses: Before a deal.
satphones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of satphone
toter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -əʊtə(ɹ)
Forms: form: toters
Etymology: From tote + -er.
Senses: examples: text: His name was Vadian, and a cunning toter
ref: 1633 (first performance), Ben Jonson, “A Tale of a Tub. A Comedy […]”, in The Works of Beniamin Jonson, […] (Third Folio), London: […] Thomas Hodgkin, for H[enry] Herringman, E. Brewster, T. Bassett, R[ichard] Chiswell, M. Wotton, G. Conyers, published 1692, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):
text: Bible toters tend to carry the book around as a symbol of sanctity.
ref: 2004, Steve Ward, Holy Enigma!, page 31:
text: The governor found no safety in provisions that ban the licensed gun toters from drinking alcohol — is it the honor system or will bartenders do a search?
ref: 2009 June 26, “The Fast-Draw-but-Don’t-Drink Law”, in New York Times:
glosses: One who totes or carries something.
Related terms: stone-toter
toters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of toter
totemisms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of totemism
semifarcical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From semi- + farcical.
Senses: examples: text: Two plays he produced — “The Killing of Sister George,” a semifarcical drama by Frank Marcus about an outrageously self-centered and wrathful radio star, which moved from London to Broadway in 1966, and “Lovers,” a two-part 1969 comedy by Mr. Friel that starred Art Carney — were nominated for best-play Tonys.
ref: 2009 June 27, Bruce Weber, “Morton Gottlieb, a Broadway Producer, Dies at 88”, in New York Times:
glosses: Partly farcical.
petitory
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more petitory
form: most petitory
Etymology: From Latin petitorius.
Senses: glosses: petitioning, soliciting, begging, petitionary
credentialization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From credential + -ization.
Senses: examples: text: An aspiring director was expected to jump through carefully placed and managed hoops of training, apprenticeship and credentialization.
ref: 2009 June 28, A. O. Scott, “Living for Cinema, and Through It”, in New York Times:
glosses: The process of credentializing.
deergut
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From deer + gut.
Senses: examples: text: “The tradecraft of the modern-day special operator, parachuting into the Hindu Kush after the Taliban,” echoes “the efforts of men from a preindustrial community struggling through New England winters on hickory and deergut snowshoes,” Ross writes.
ref: 2009 June 28, Marc Tracy, “Nonfiction Chronicle”, in New York Times:
glosses: The gut of a deer, traditionally used as a material.
eggfruit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: eggfruits
form: egg fruit
Etymology: From egg + fruit, referring to the texture of the fruit’s flesh, which has been likened to that of a hard-boiled egg yolk.
Senses: glosses: The fruit of the canistel tree (Pouteria campechiana), native to Central America and cultivated in tropical regions.
examples: text: “I’m pumped!” he exclaimed, having just been told that a new graft will increase the size of his cherimoyas, and that he can easily hand pollinate his underproducing eggfruits.
ref: 2009 June 28, John Anderson, “His Weird Side: That’s Where the Fun Is”, in New York Times:
glosses: The fruit of the lucmo tree (Pouteria lucuma), closely related to the canistel and native to the Andean region of South America.
eggfruits
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of eggfruit
pe-tsai
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of petsai.
litchee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: litchees
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of lychee.
litchees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of litchee
outfished
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of outfish
outfishing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of outfish
outfishes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of outfish
overaccelerate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: overaccelerates
form: overaccelerating
form: overaccelerated
form: overaccelerated
Etymology: From over- + accelerate.
Senses: examples: text: At the same time, all that virtual togetherness may overaccelerate a courtship.
ref: 2009 June 28, Peggy Orenstein, “The Overextended Family”, in New York Times:
glosses: To accelerate too much.
Related terms: overacceleration
overaccelerated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of overaccelerate
overaccelerating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of overaccelerate
overaccelerates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of overaccelerate
pitomba
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pitombas
Etymology: Borrowed from Portuguese pitomba, from Old Tupi pitomba.
Senses: glosses: Talisia esculenta, a South American tree.
examples: text: Lucretia had made it a point not to eat anything she hadn't tasted first in Louisiana, believing she could be poisoned by the unfamiliar milky goiabas, pungent jambos, prickly graviolas, or acidy pitombas.
ref: 1984, Gay Courter, River of Dreams:
glosses: The sweetish-sour brown-skinned fruit of Talisia esculenta.
glosses: Eugenia luschnathiana, an evergreen shrub of Brazil.
glosses: The globose orange-yellow berry of Eugenia luschnathiana.
Related terms: pitombeira
pitombas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pitomba
pretransaction
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pre- + transaction.
Senses: examples: text: Ms. Belling recommends that prospective borrowers pay close attention during pretransaction financial counseling, which is compulsory for anyone seeking a reverse mortgage.
ref: 2009 June 28, Bob Tedeschi, “Reverse Mortgages for Home Purchases”, in New York Times:
antonyms: posttransaction
glosses: Prior to a transaction.
reshapings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of reshaping
sapote
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /səˈpəʊtiː/
ipa: /səˈpəʊteɪ/
ipa: /səˈpoʊti/
ipa: /səˈpoʊteɪ/
Forms: form: sapotes
form: zapote
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish zapote, from a Nahuan language, from Proto-Nahuan *ȼapotl. Doublet of chapote.
Senses: examples: text: Besides, the theater gives him a rush that can only be equaled by, perhaps, the healthy fruiting of a white sapote.
ref: 2009 June 28, John Anderson, “His Weird Side: That’s Where the Fun Is”, in New York Times:
glosses: The soft, edible fruit of various South American trees, including the sapodilla.
glosses: The soft, edible fruit of various South American trees, including the sapodilla.
Sapotaceae species:
Manilkara zapota, sapodilla, naseberry, native to Mexico, Guatemala, Nicaragua, Belize, and possibly El Salvador.
glosses: The soft, edible fruit of various South American trees, including the sapodilla.
Sapotaceae species:
Pouteria campechiana, yellow sapote, native to Mexico and Central America.
glosses: The soft, edible fruit of various South American trees, including the sapodilla.
Sapotaceae species:
Pouteria sapota, mamey sapote, from southern Mexico to northern South America.
glosses: The soft, edible fruit of various South American trees, including the sapodilla.
Sapotaceae species:
Pouteria viridis, green sapote, native to lowland southern Mexico.
glosses: The soft, edible fruit of various South American trees, including the sapodilla.
Ebenaceae species:
Diospyros digyna, black sapote, from eastern Mexico south to Colombia.
glosses: The soft, edible fruit of various South American trees, including the sapodilla.
Ebenaceae species:
Diospyros texana, chapote, is native to the lower Rio Grande valley region in Texas and Mexico.
glosses: The soft, edible fruit of various South American trees, including the sapodilla.
Rutaceae species
glosses: The soft, edible fruit of various South American trees, including the sapodilla.
Rutaceae species:
Casimiroa edulis, white sapote, native to northern and central Mexico, Costa Rica, El Salvador and Guatemala.
sapotes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sapote
sludgelike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more sludgelike
form: most sludgelike
Etymology: From sludge + -like.
Senses: examples: text: Now citrus: orange juice, some pineapple, and let the result cook down, focus the flavor, become sludgelike, glistening, fantastic.
ref: 2009 June 28, Sam Sifton, “Comida Central”, in New York Times:
glosses: Resembling sludge.
sorbetlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more sorbetlike
form: most sorbetlike
Etymology: From sorbet + -like.
Senses: examples: text: He is there seven days a week selling helados, the frozen sorbetlike treat scooped from pushcarts in many of the city’s Latino neighborhoods and sold in Dixie cups for a dollar apiece.
ref: 2009 June 28, Cara Buckley, “Ice Carts in the Bronx Jostle for Corners”, in New York Times:
glosses: Resembling sorbet.
storywise
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From story + -wise.
Senses: examples: text: These charged romances help you storywise because it enables you to not have to get them together so fast.
ref: 2009 June 28, Kathryn Shattuck, “One or Two Things He Knows About Teenagers”, in New York Times:
glosses: In terms of a story or narrative.
subfeature
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: subfeatures
Etymology: From sub- + feature.
Senses: examples: text: The new condensed body font works well, and the concepts for each feature, subfeature, etc. are still reflecting the excellent design ability of the creative team.
ref: 2009 June 28, “The Redesign”, in New York Times:
glosses: A feature that makes up part of a larger feature.
subfeatures
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of subfeature
succubuslike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more succubuslike
form: most succubuslike
Etymology: From succubus + -like.
Senses: examples: text: Unlike jokes and coincidences, the stereotype is an inveterate boundary crosser; it returns, succubuslike, at times of crisis or shifts of perspective, in literary history.
ref: 1995, Marshall Brown, The uses of literary history, page 184:
text: They included “Malice,” “The Serpent and the Rainbow” and ‘The Last Seduction,” in which a succubuslike Linda Fiorentino steals Mr. Pullman’s drug money.
ref: 2009 June 28, John Anderson, “His Weird Side: That’s Where the Fun Is”, in New York Times:
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a succubus; wickedly seductive.
uncarvable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more uncarvable
form: most uncarvable
Etymology: From un- + carvable.
Senses: examples: text: The night smelled of burnt flesh and fecundity; the darkness outside was spacious and uncarvable.
ref: 2009 June 28, David Gates, “The Postmodern Me”, in New York Times:
glosses: Not carvable.
carvable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more carvable
form: most carvable
Etymology: From carve + -able.
Senses: examples: text: Helmeted Hornbill, Rhinoplax vigil (CR): Restricted to the Thai-Malay Peninsula, Sumatra and Borneo, this is the only hornbill species whose casque is solid keratin and therefore carvable.
ref: 2015, James Eaton et al., “Trade-driven extinctions and near-extinctions of avian taxa in Sundaic Indonesia”, in Forktail, page 2, column 2:
glosses: Capable of being carved.
Derived terms: carvability
underproducing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of underproduce
underproduces
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of underproduce
unfurrow
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: unfurrows
form: unfurrowing
form: unfurrowed
form: unfurrowed
Etymology: From un- + furrow.
Senses: glosses: To remove the furrows from.
examples: text: He grunted and murmured, until his face calmed, the eyelids smoothing into slumber, the brows unfurrowing.
ref: 2009 June 28, David Gates, “The Postmodern Me”, in New York Times:
glosses: To clear itself of furrows.
unfurrows
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of unfurrow
unfurrowing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of unfurrow
demonography
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɒɡɹəfi
Forms: form: demonographies
Etymology: From demono- + -graphy.
Senses: glosses: A bestiary dealing with demons.
examples: text: But the BBC’s Persian channel has been cast as the main threat, partly, BBC officials say, because Britain’s colonial past has earned it a special place in Iran’s official demonography.
ref: 2009 June 29, John F. Burns, “Persian Station in Britain Rattles Officials in Iran”, in New York Times:
glosses: A list of people, institutions, etc. regarded as evil.
demonographies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of demonography
minicells
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of minicell
minicell
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: minicells
Etymology: From mini- + cell.
Senses: examples: text: Both Dr. Hoffman’s method and the minicells, in different ways, revisit these old observations.
ref: 2009 June 29, Nicholas Wade, “New Cancer Treatment Shows Promise in Testing”, in New York Times:
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: An achromosomal cell resulting from aberrant cell division, containing RNA and protein but little or no chromosomal DNA.
haemovigilance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From haemo- + vigilance.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of hemovigilance.
hemovigilance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: haemovigilance
Etymology: From hemo- + vigilance.
Senses: coordinate_terms: pharmacovigilance
glosses: The quality assurance of the donor blood and blood product supply, including donor screening methods, blood bank operational practices, and the monitoring of blood transfusions and their complications.
counteradvertising
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From counter- + advertising.
Senses: examples: text: He added, “What we know is that counteradvertising in general works.”
ref: 2009 June 30, Clyde Haberman, “Aiming Wide in City War on Smoking”, in New York Times:
glosses: A form of advertising that aims to dissuade consumers from a product or service.
magicianlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more magicianlike
form: most magicianlike
Etymology: From magician + -like.
Senses: examples: text: He was sort of magicianlike.
ref: 2009 June 30, Tyler Kepner, “Since ’96, Making It Look as Easy as 1-2-3”, in New York Times:
glosses: Like a magician.
magicities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of magicity
neuroimmunologist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: neuroimmunologists
Etymology: From neuro- + immunologist.
Senses: examples: text: Dr. Sternberg, a prominent neuroimmunologist at the National Institute of Mental Health, has given herself a gigantic assignment, incorporating architecture, aesthetics, psychology, neurobiology, physiology and aromatherapy, among many other disciplines.
ref: 2009 June 30, Abigail Zuger, M.D., “The Puzzle of Spaces That Soothe”, in New York Times:
glosses: A scientist who works in the field of neuroimmunology.
neuroimmunologists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of neuroimmunologist
postpurchase
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From post- + purchase.
Senses: examples: text: Some of this may have been because of postpurchase rationalization, but a lot of buyers seemed to be suffering anything but remorse.
ref: 2009 June 30, John Tierney, “Calculating Consumer Happiness at Any Price”, in New York Times:
glosses: After a purchase.
pragmatisms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pragmatism
beergarita
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: beergaritas
Etymology: Blend of beer + margarita
Senses: examples: text: The beergarita — a margarita amplified by Flemish sour ale and framboise — is popular at the Small Bar on Division Street in Chicago.
ref: 2009 July 1, Betsy Andrews, “Cocktails Dance on the Head of a Beer”, in New York Times:
glosses: A margarita cocktail with beer added.
Related terms: lagerita
beergaritas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of beergarita
caramelly
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more caramelly
form: most caramelly
Etymology: From caramel + -y.
Senses: examples: text: Her dessert drink, the Muddy Puddle, marries iced espresso with caramelly bourbon, chocolaty stout and a peanut dust rim for a liquid equivalent of a chocolate turtle.
ref: 2009 July 1, Betsy Andrews, “Cocktails Dance on the Head of a Beer”, in New York Times:
text: When it's good, a tarte tatin is divine: buttery pastry soaked in caramelly appley juices, sweet-tart tender fruit – the whole much greater than the summed parts.
ref: 2013, Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall, River Cottage Fruit Every Day!, page 179:
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of caramel.
examples: text: You might call Celaya, Guanajuato, the candy capital of Mexico. It is famous for cajeta, the soft, brown, caramelly candy that is shipped all over Mexico in traditional round wooden boxes.
ref: 1971, Barbara Joan Hansen, “Cajeta de Celaya”, in Cooking California Style, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company, →LCCN, →OCLC, chapter 7 (The Flavor of Mexico), page 183:
text: I could not resist M. Tingaud’s tarte chaude aux pommes, warm caramelly apples served on a pastry crust.
ref: 1978, Elisabeth Lambert Ortiz, “Environs de Paris”, in Gourmet’s France, New York, N.Y.: Gourmet, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 36, column 2:
text: For the perfect alcoholic beverage for a nutty, chocolatey, caramelly dessert, look no further than the world of beer.
ref: 2008 April, Marnie Old, Sam Calagione, “Beer & other dessert pairings”, in He Said Beer, She Said Wine, New York, N.Y.: DK, →ISBN, “The food debate” section, “Wine, beer & other desserts” subsection, page 202:
synonyms: carameled
glosses: With caramel.
kimchis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kimchi
michelada
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: micheladas
Etymology: Borrowed from Mexican Spanish michelada.
Senses: examples: text: In New York, at PDT and Mayahuel, they’re mixing hot sauce, mezcal and beer to create smoky riffs on the michelada, a classic Mexican cerveza preparada, or prepared beer.
ref: 2009 July 1, Betsy Andrews, “Cocktails Dance on the Head of a Beer”, in New York Times:
glosses: A Mexican cocktail made with beer, tomato juice, lime juice, and various assorted sauces and spices.
micheladas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of michelada
outachieve
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: outachieves
form: outachieving
form: outachieved
form: outachieved
Etymology: From out- + achieve.
Senses: examples: text: It is not an unreasonable argument, but the effective counter is that they have still managed to outachieve and outlast a generation, with ease and without burning out.
ref: 2009 July 1, Harvey Araton, “Venus, Serena and a Group of Ladies-in-Waiting”, in New York Times:
glosses: To surpass in achievement; to achieve more than.
outachieving
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of outachieve
outachieves
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of outachieve
outachieved
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of outachieve
overwinterer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: overwinterers
Etymology: From overwinter + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who overwinters.
overwinterers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of overwinterer
preshape
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: preshapes
form: preshaping
form: preshaped
form: preshaped
Etymology: From pre- + shape.
Senses: examples: text: In “Burger Bar” (Wiley, 2009), Hubert Keller writes that what you do not want is preshaped burgers or meat that is stuffed and compacted into plastic packaging.
ref: 2009 July 1, Jane Sigal, “The Perfect Burger and All Its Parts”, in New York Times:
glosses: To shape in advance.
preshaped
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of preshape
preshaping
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of preshape
preshapes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of preshape
votaress
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈvəʊtəɹɪs/
Forms: form: votaresses
form: votress
Etymology: From votar(y) + -ess.
Senses: examples: text: a votaress of the order
ref: 1794, Ann Radcliffe, Mysteries of Udolpho:
text: His seeming rescue by a votaress of the high priestess of the sun had been but a part of the mimicry of their heathen ceremony—the sun looking down upon him through the opening at the top of the court had claimed him as his own, and the priestess had come from the inner temple to save him from the polluting hands of worldlings—to save him as a human offering to their flaming deity.
ref: 1913, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Return of Tarzan, New York: Ballantine Books, published 1963, page 167:
text: Madness grew in the eyes of the capering votaress and was reflected in the eyes of the watchers.
ref: 1931, Robert E. Howard, The Black Stone:
text: Aminta, of course, falls in love with Sylvia at first sight, and she, chaste votaress of Diana, is outraged.
ref: 2009 July 1, Alastair Macaulay, “Under the Crescent Moon: The Huntress as (Angry) Object of Desire”, in New York Times:
glosses: A female votary.
votaresses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of votaress
tanztheater
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From German Tanztheater (literally “dance theatre”).
Senses: examples: text: This tension between freedom/flow/innovation and control/containment/regulation of patterns lies at the heart of tanztheater in general, and Laban's approach to performance in particular.
ref: 2008, Karen K. Bradley, Rudolf Laban, →ISBN, page 30:
text: “The whole scale of Pina Bausch’s tanztheater no one had ever seen before,” he added.
ref: 2009 July 1, Daniel J. Wakin, quoting Joseph V. Melillo, “Pina Bausch, German Choreographer, Dies at 68”, in New York Times:
glosses: A form of German expressionist dance.
padam
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: pä′dəm′
Forms: form: padams
Etymology: Probably borrowed from Tamil பதம் (patam).
Senses: examples: text: This first delivery of the line of a padam might best be described as a 'pre-acting' of the line. It establishes the general mood.
ref: 2003, Phillip Zarrilli, Kathakali Dance-Drama: Where Gods and Demons Come to Play:
text: The best way to express our indebtedness to the Brinda-Muktha legacy would be to include a padam or javali in concerts
ref: 2007, Sruti:
text: The dance-drama students will have already learned their roles in the padams, without music, in group “sitting classes” in the dance-drama kal·aris; in theory they would have to perform these padams in sitting classes perfectly rehearsing with musicians in the colliyattam studio
ref: 2009, Richard Wolff, Theorizing the Local: Music, Practice, and Experience in South Asia and Beyond:
glosses: In Carnatic music, a type of short song, or the accompanying dance.
antimasque
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: antimasques
form: antemask
form: antimask
form: antemasque
Etymology: From anti- + masque.
Senses: glosses: A comic or grotesque dance presented before or between the acts of a masque.
Derived terms: antimasquer
antimasques
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of antimasque.
antihistorical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more antihistorical
form: most antihistorical
Etymology: From anti- + historical.
Senses: examples: text: The intellectual leader of this era whose work was most influential for the rest of the century was also the most antihistorical.
ref: 2002, Lewis Perry, Boats Against the Current, page 74:
glosses: Opposing or contrary to history.
exploitate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: exploitates
form: exploitating
form: exploitated
form: exploitated
Etymology: Erroneous back-formation from exploitation.
Senses: qualifier: non-native speakers' English
glosses: To exploit.
antitypical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From anti- + typical.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to an antitype.
Derived terms: antitypically
antitypically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From antitypical + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a way that pertains to an antitype.
antisepalous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From anti- + sepal + -ous.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Alternative form of antesepalous.
antiseparatism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From anti- + separatism.
Senses: topics: government
politics
glosses: Opposition to separatism.
antitruster
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: antitrusters
Etymology: From antitrust + -er.
Senses: examples: text: For the first time, the antitrusters will lay out some "safe harbors," defining mergers that will virtually never be questioned. That will be an important weapon for managements that must fight legal challenges from customers[…]
ref: 1982, Business week, numbers 2737-2745:
glosses: A government agent who investigates monopolies.
antitrusters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of antitruster
antipopular
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more antipopular
form: most antipopular
Etymology: From anti- + popular.
Senses: examples: text: the elitist antipopular tactics of the avant-garde
ref: 1993, Laura Kipnis, Ecstasy unlimited: on sex, capital, gender, and aesthetics, page 6:
glosses: Opposing the people.
antifoam
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: antifoams
Etymology: From anti- + foam.
Senses: glosses: Any chemical agent that inhibits the formation of foam.
Related terms: antifoaming
antifoams
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of antifoam
antifluxons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of antifluxon
antifluorites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of antifluorite
elpasolites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of elpasolite
nonlanthanide
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + lanthanide.
Senses: glosses: Not lanthanide.
antibarbarus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: antibarbari
Senses: glosses: A dictionary of linguistic barbarisms; a book describing how not to write in a given language.
antibarbari
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of antibarbarus
antibacchius
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: antibacchii
Etymology: From anti- + bacchius.
Senses: topics: communications
journalism
literature
media
poetry
publishing
writing
glosses: A rare metrical foot consisting of two accented syllables followed by one unaccented syllable.
Derived terms: antibacchic
antibacchial
antibacchii
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of antibacchius
anticapitalisms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of anticapitalism
datings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dating
volvox
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: volvoxes
Etymology: From translingual Volvox, from Latin volvō (“to roll”).
Senses: topics: biology
microbiology
natural-sciences
glosses: Any of the genus Volvox of chlorophytes.
volvoxes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of volvox
vommed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of vom
vomming
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of vom
seal finger
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: An infection of the fingers of sealers and others who handle pinnipeds, potentially causing cellulitis, debilitating joint inflammation, and edema of the bone marrow.
Unixism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Unixisms
Etymology: From Unix + -ism.
Senses: examples: text: Another common Unixism that causes problems on Windows is the use of the select() function.
ref: 2000, Mark J. Hammond, Andy Robinson, Python programming on Win32, page 35:
text: Note the term fork/exec is a Unixism that describes the way many applications first fork a child process and then use the exec system command to start another process.
ref: 2006, Joshua B. Smith, Practical OCaml, page 275:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: An idiom or behaviour that is characteristic of the Unix operating system.
Unixisms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Unixism
jacket potatoes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of jacket potato
underlighting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From under- + lighting.
Senses: glosses: Illumination from underneath.
Related terms: underlit
dasyclad
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dasyclads
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Any of the order Dasycladales of green algae.
dasyclads
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dasyclad
cyclocrinitid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cyclocrinitids
Senses: glosses: A member of an extinct tribe of dasyclads.
cyclocrinitids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cyclocrinitid
antimetaphysical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more antimetaphysical
form: most antimetaphysical
Etymology: From anti- + metaphysical.
Senses: examples: text: There are, I contend, a number of reasons why Goddess feminists may be considered to be antimetaphysical in their attitude to the world[…]
ref: 2007, Paul Reid-Bowen, Goddess as nature: towards a philosophical thealogy, page 42:
topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
glosses: Opposed to the classical Greek or religious metaphysics.
Derived terms: antimetaphysically
permacultural
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From permaculture + -al.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to permaculture.
Derived terms: permaculturalist
thealogical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From thealogy + -ical.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to thealogy.
receptaculitid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: receptaculitids
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: A probably benthic marine calcareous dasyclad known only from fossils.
receptaculitids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of receptaculitid
nonbenthic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + benthic.
Senses: glosses: Not benthic.
schoolmasterly
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more schoolmasterly
form: most schoolmasterly
Etymology: From schoolmaster + -ly.
Senses: glosses: Befitting a schoolmaster.
schoolteacherly
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more schoolteacherly
form: most schoolteacherly
Etymology: From schoolteacher + -ly.
Senses: glosses: Befitting a schoolteacher.
schoolmistressly
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more schoolmistressly
form: most schoolmistressly
form: school-mistressly
Etymology: From schoolmistress + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: "I've told you." Rosemary's voice grew schoolmistressly sharp. "He writes every day."
ref: 1959, Anthony Burgess, Beds in the East (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 503:
glosses: Befitting a schoolmistress; in the manner or style of a schoolmistress.
Synonyms: schoolmistressy
showmanly
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more showmanly
form: most showmanly
Etymology: From showman + -ly.
Senses: glosses: Befitting a showman.
tradesmanly
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more tradesmanly
form: most tradesmanly
Etymology: From tradesman + -ly.
Senses: glosses: Befitting a tradesman.
surgeonly
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more surgeonly
form: most surgeonly
Etymology: From surgeon + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Drawing his own pistol, he leaned to strike John Thomas with surgeonly precision along the temple. John Thomas dropped like a poleaxed steer. Dr. Amos had used exactly the force necessary to knock him out.
ref: 1965, Borden Deal, Theodore Dreiser, Hyman Solomon Kraft, The Tobacco Men:
glosses: Befitting a surgeon.
churchmanly
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more churchmanly
form: most churchmanly
Etymology: From churchman + -ly.
Senses: glosses: Befitting a churchman.
leaderly
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more leaderly
form: most leaderly
Etymology: From leader + -ly.
Senses: glosses: Befitting a leader.
Derived terms: unleaderly
merchantly
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more merchantly
form: most merchantly
Etymology: From merchant + -ly.
Senses: glosses: Befitting a merchant.
ministerly
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more ministerly
form: most ministerly
Etymology: From minister + -ly.
Senses: glosses: Befitting a minister.
patricianly
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more patricianly
form: most patricianly
Etymology: From patrician + -ly.
Senses: glosses: Befitting a patrician.
physicianly
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more physicianly
form: most physicianly
Etymology: From physician + -ly.
Senses: glosses: Befitting a physician.
pastorly
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more pastorly
form: most pastorly
Etymology: From pastor + -ly.
Senses: glosses: Befitting a pastor.
sailorly
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more sailorly
form: most sailorly
Etymology: From sailor + -ly.
Senses: glosses: Befitting a sailor.
patronly
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more patronly
form: most patronly
Etymology: From patron + -ly.
Senses: glosses: Befitting a patron.
handmaidenly
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more handmaidenly
form: most handmaidenly
Etymology: From handmaiden + -ly.
Senses: glosses: Befitting a handmaiden.
farmerly
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more farmerly
form: most farmerly
Etymology: From farmer + -ly.
Senses: glosses: Befitting a farmer.
unshepherdly
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unshepherdly
form: most unshepherdly
Etymology: From un- + shepherdly.
Senses: examples: text: No doubt a good deal could be said about the botany of a single blade of grass, but the flock is starving whilst the green pastures are interdicted by the fluent but most unshepherdly botanist.
ref: 1883, Joseph Parker, The People's Bible: Discourses upon Holy Scripture, volume XXIII, page 313:
text: [Bo Peep] is the tale of one who is originally a merely unfortunate shepherd but who soon becomes a wilful and deliberate loser of sheep, an unshepherdly shepherd.
ref: 1998, David J. A. Clines, “The History of Bo Peep: An Agricultural Employee's Tragedy in Contemporary Literary Perspective”, in On the Way to Postmodernism: Old Testament Essays 1967-1998, volume 2, page 825:
text: Beginning with the opening command to Ezekiel to prophesy to the shepherds of Israel, the message is a tirade against their unshepherdly oppression of sheep who are now scattered without shepherds.
ref: 2009, John W. Olley, Ezekiel: A Commentary based on Iezekiēl in Codex Vaticanus, page 468:
text: The old woman walked behind them waving them on like a shepherd, but cackling in the most unshepherdly manner.
ref: 2015, Robert Denethon, Steam Submarine: Into Ultima Thule, page 153:
glosses: Not shepherdly.
unreaderly
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unreaderly
form: most unreaderly
Etymology: From un- + readerly.
Senses: glosses: Not readerly.
workmanly
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwɜːkmənli/
ipa: /ˈwɝkmənli/
Forms: form: more workmanly
form: most workmanly
Etymology: From workman + -ly.
Senses: glosses: Befitting a workman; skilful; workmanlike.
workmanly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwɜːkmənli/
ipa: /ˈwɝkmənli/
Forms: form: more workmanly
form: most workmanly
Etymology: From Middle English werkmanly, werkmanlike, equivalent to workman + -ly.
Senses: glosses: Befitting a workman; in skilful or workmanlike manner.
workmanships
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of workmanship
clerkly
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: clerklier
form: clerkliest
Etymology: From clerk + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: the clerkly life
text: Therefore, desiring to keep my place in the young Tsar’s regard, I did not speak too highly of Mazeppa, though I allowed him to be a shrewd and capable person, of clerkly rather than military attainments.
ref: 1902, Fred Whishaw, chapter 12, in Mazeppa, London: Chatto & Windus, pages 104–105:
text: Ida Arnold swivelled her eyes round the elegant furnishing of the Pompadour Boudoir. They picked out like a searchlight a cushion, a couch, the thin clerkly mouth of the man opposite her.
ref: 1938, Graham Greene, Brighton Rock, London: Heinemann, published 1962, Part Five, Chapter 4, p. 193:
text: I have promised him that when he is released, early next year, I will find him something to do: a job in a gymnasium, if possible, where his feeling for men and physical exercise can be fulfilled, rather than baulked and denied in some clerkly work.
ref: 1988, Alan Hollinghurst, chapter 11, in The Swimming-Pool Library, paperback edition, London: Penguin Books, →ISBN, page 255:
synonyms: clerkish
clerky
glosses: Of clerks; befitting a clerk.
examples: text: For notwithstanding al your great brags and this your clerkly booke, ye knowe not nor euer shall knowe, but that the Pope is the supreame head of the Churche.
ref: 1567, Thomas Stapleton, chapter 6, in A Counterblast to M. Hornes Vayne Blaste against M. Fekenham, Louvain, page 36:
text: Hath he not tvvit our Soueraigne Lady here / VVith ignominious vvords, though Clarkely coucht? / As if ſhe had ſuborned ſome to ſvveare / Falſe allegations, to o'rethrovv his ſtate.
ref: 1591 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Second Part of Henry the Sixt, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies. […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene i], page 131, column 2:
text: The words are Gratians, that Copula Sacerdotalis vel consanguincorum, The marriage or (as this Clerkly Grammarian translates it) the carnall copulation of Priests, or kinsfolkes is not forbidden by any Legall, Euangelicall, or Apostolicall authoritie, but by Ecclesiasticall Law it is forbidden.
ref: 1620, Joseph Hall, The Honor of the Married Clergie, London: H. Fetherstone, Book 1, Section 22, p. 121:
text: [N]ow Clerks and Clerici have divers acceptations, generally all men literate vvere thus called, and becauſe Church men were moſtly of old ſuch officers, therefore all men that are Bookiſh are ſaid to be Clerkly.
ref: 1663, Edward Waterhous[e], chapter XXV, in Fortescutus Illustratus; or A Commentary on that Nervous Treatise De Laudibus Legum Angliæ, Written by Sir John Fortescue Knight, […], London: […] Tho[mas] Roycroft for Thomas Dicas […], →OCLC, page 340:
glosses: Scholarly.
Derived terms: clerkliness
clerkly script
unclerkly