cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
majimboism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Swahili majimbo (“regions”) + -ism.
Senses: examples: text: Mr. Odinga campaigned on a policy of federal decentralization known as majimboism.
ref: 2008 January 11, Aidan Hartley, “Democracy by Other Means”, in New York Times:
glosses: The political devolution of power to the regions of a country.
minuetlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more minuetlike
form: most minuetlike
Etymology: From minuet + -like.
Senses: examples: text: But in this case he has used a combination of sound and movement to strip a minuetlike dance down to a tribal, almost animalistic ritual while still leaving its mannered veneer intact.
ref: 2008 January 11, Roberta Smith, “Face Time: Masks, Animal to Video”, in New York Times:
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a minuet.
quasireligious
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more quasireligious
form: most quasireligious
Etymology: From quasi- + religious.
Senses: examples: text: The inside look at the workings of the medical internship system is fascinating, but it cannot compete with Dr. Jauhar’s own psychological adventure, a quasireligious journey from agnosticism to robust faith, with occasional dips into outright atheism.
ref: 2008 January 11, William Grimes, “A Physician Caught Trying to Heal Himself”, in New York Times:
glosses: Almost, or as if, religious.
subsalt
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From sub- + salt.
Senses: examples: text: The subsalt basin that contains Tupi, the new deepwater field estimated to hold the equivalent of five billion to eight billion barrels of light crude oil, is creating a buzz among the world’s largest oil companies.
ref: 2008 January 11, Alexei Barrionuevo, “Hot Prospect for Oil’s Big League”, in New York Times:
glosses: Lying beneath a layer of salt.
subsalt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: subsalts
Etymology: From sub- + salt.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A basic salt.
Related terms: supersalt
ultracompetent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more ultracompetent
form: most ultracompetent
Etymology: From ultra- + competent.
Senses: examples: text: Breezy, confident and ultracompetent, Rajiv serves as a maddening counterfoil to his struggling younger brother, whose waffling and zigzag career path infuriates their father.
ref: 2008 January 11, William Grimes, “A Physician Caught Trying to Heal Himself”, in New York Times:
glosses: Very highly competent.
newbuilt
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From new + built.
Senses: glosses: Newly built.
Related terms: newbuild
woolwork
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From wool + -work.
Senses: examples: text: Leatherwood Antiques will show Vienna bronzes, sailors’ woolwork pictures and a large cane stand from Switzerland with a carved wooden eagle on top.
ref: 2008 January 11, Wendy Moonan, “Americana Dealer Cleans House”, in New York Times:
glosses: Needlework made from wool, imitating tapestry.
Related terms: woolworks
neuroendocrinologist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: neuroendocrinologists
Senses: examples: text: Dr. Ganong, a neuroendocrinologist, was chairman of the physiology department at the University of California, San Francisco, from 1970 to 1987.
ref: 2008 January 12, Dennis Hevesi, “W. F. Ganong, 83, Expert in Brain’s Control of Body, Dies”, in New York Times:
glosses: One who works in the field of neuroendocrinology.
neuroendocrinologists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of neuroendocrinologist
nonplanner
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nonplanners
Etymology: From non- + planner.
Senses: examples: text: So with 2008 stretching out before us, I recently asked my dear nonplanner: If you could have the best possible financial year, what would it look like?
ref: 2008 January 12, M. P. Dunleavy, “Putting Price on Flights of Fantasy”, in New York Times:
glosses: One who fails to plan for the future.
nonplanners
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nonplanner
dholki
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dholkis
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of dholak.
dholkis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dholki
disagreeability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: For the limp movie, Matthau and Jack Lemmon did little to enliven their respective disagreeability.
ref: 2008 January 13, Thomas Vinciguerra, “A Pig and a Priss in Their Prime (Time)”, in New York Times:
glosses: The quality of being disagreeable.
Tabassarans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Tabassaran
subtab
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: subtabs
Etymology: From sub- + tab.
Senses: examples: text: The appearance of the various subtabs is quite similar to the previous tabs within the Regression node. The difference is that the various configuration settings that are displayed in the following subtabs cannot be changed.
ref: 2007, Randall Matignon, Data mining using SAS Enterprise miner, page 307:
topics: computing
engineering
graphical-user-interface
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A tab that is part of another tab or section.
subtabs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of subtab
ropewalker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ropewalkers
Etymology: From rope + walker.
Senses: glosses: An acrobat who performs a tightrope dance; a ropedancer.
ropewalkers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ropewalker
tricontinental
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From tri- + continental.
Senses: glosses: Spanning or pertaining to three continents (typically either Europe and the Americas, or Latin America, Europe and Africa)
Derived terms: tricontinentalism
bicontinental
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From bi- + continental.
Senses: examples: text: After a long courtship over the telephone, Asma Ahmed, a painter in Karachi, Pakistan, married her fiancé, Rafi-uddin Shikoh, a business consultant in New York, in a bicontinental wedding by Webcam.
ref: 2009 June 7, Deborah Sontag, “The Intersection of Islam, America and Identity”, in New York Times:
glosses: Spanning or pertaining to two continents.
multiterm
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From multi- + term.
Senses: examples: algorithms and data structures for multiterm indexing
glosses: Of or pertaining to more than one term.
frameable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: framable
Etymology: From frame + -able.
Senses: examples: text: Sites like TheFamilyHistoryStore.com, GeneaLinks.com and RootsWeb.com, with their menus of recondite offerings (frameable certificates, migration maps, the patented Color Track System), make up a deluxe spa for the ego.
ref: 2008 January 13, Virginia Heffernan, “Ancestral Allure”, in New York Times:
glosses: Suitable for framing.
examples: a fairy tale frameable as a feminist liberation narrative
glosses: Able to be framed or presented in a certain way.
Derived terms: unframeable
framable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From frame + -able.
Senses: examples: text: With the lifting of his “depression,” he’d developed a new interest, hobbylike in its intensity, in framable and collectible railroad memorabilia, and he could happily have spent the whole day—the whole week!—pursuing it. . .
ref: 2001, Jonathan Franzen, The Corrections:
glosses: Alternative form of frameable.
Derived terms: unframable
handsoap
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: handsoaps
form: hand soap
form: hand-soap
Etymology: From hand + soap.
Senses: examples: text: In its modest way, Gardeski’s handsoaps — and things that look like other things — play to both of these tendencies at once through the double take that comes with spotting a familiar thing that turns out to be wholly unfamiliar.
ref: 2008 January 13, Rob Walker, “Imitation of Life”, in New York Times:
glosses: A (bar or liquid) soap for the hands.
handsoaps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of handsoap
interunion
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From inter- + union.
Senses: examples: text: Mr. McElroy said this interunion battle showed the vibrancy and importance of organized labor.
ref: 2008 January 13, Steven Greenhouse, “Unions Pouring Resources Into Nevada Caucus Fight”, in New York Times:
glosses: Between unions.
interunion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: interunions
Etymology: From inter- + union.
Senses: glosses: A union between members of different groups or sets.
Related terms: interunite
jabbery
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more jabbery
form: most jabbery
Etymology: From jabber + -y.
Senses: examples: text: The English band Crass sounded like a bag of rocks: scrabbly drum rolls, clanky guitars, no bass end, the words a jabbery Cockney caterwaul through endless stanzas of common meter.
ref: 2008 January 13, Ben Ratliff, “Easy Slogans, Twinkly Funk and One Busy String”, in New York Times:
glosses: Characterised by jabbering.
kinetoscope
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kinetoscopes
Etymology: From kineto- + -scope.
Senses: examples: text: A paper-over-board book based on a new technology that its inventor, the author, calls “scanimation”: mimicking the effect of a kinetoscope, the pictures of animals, birds and fish seem to move with extraordinary naturalism.
ref: 2008 January 13, Julie Just, “Bookshelf”, in New York Times:
glosses: An early device for exhibiting motion pictures, creating the illusion of movement from a strip of perforated film bearing sequential images that is conveyed over a light source with a high-speed shutter.
glosses: An instrument for illustrating the production of kinematic curves by the combination of circular movements of different radii.
Derived terms: kinetoscopic
kinetoscopes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kinetoscope
lehenga
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lehengas
Senses: examples: text: The bride wore an ivory and pink silk lehenga skirt, a blouse adorned with Swarovski crystals and an 18-foot-long chiffon veil.
ref: 2008 January 13, Joann Biondi, “Sabeen Ali and Hashim Mian”, in New York Times:
glosses: Alternative form of lehnga.
lehengas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lehenga
medspa
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: medspas
Senses: examples: text: She started out requesting microdermabrasion facial treatments and has since added Botox shots and Restylane filler injections to her medspa repertoire.
ref: 2008 January 13, Janet Morrissey, “Having a Little Work Done (at the Mall)”, in New York Times:
glosses: Alternative form of medispa.
medspas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of medspa
multirack
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From multi- + rack.
Senses: examples: text: Baking reflects the evenness of cookies and cakes in multirack baking tests.
ref: 2006, Consumer Reports magazine's Buying Guide 2007
text: The multirack boxes are costly, running the 34th Street Partnership $10,000 apiece, but Mr. Janoff judges the war against the single boxes worth it.
ref: 2008 January 13, Gregory Beyer, “News Boxes: All for One, or One for All?”, in New York Times:
glosses: Having or pertaining to more than one rack.
newsbox
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: newsboxes
form: news box
Etymology: From news + box.
Senses: glosses: A vending machine selling newspapers.
newsboxes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of newsbox
nonbaking
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + baking.
Senses: examples: text: At that remark I thought I heard the cheering of nonbaking working women everywhere, but apparently I was wrong, and quickly we the people were favored with Mrs. Clinton’s own contrite cookie recipe, which I have not yet had time to try.
ref: 2008 January 13, Lorrie Moore, “Last Year’s Role Model”, in New York Times:
glosses: Not baking.
glosses: Not pertaining to baking.
nonmachinable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + machinable.
Senses: glosses: Not machinable.
nonfelony
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nonfelonies
Etymology: From non- + felony.
Senses: examples: text: The student-athlete code of conduct says punishment for all nonfelony crimes is left to the discretion of the coach.
ref: 2008 January 13, The Associated Press, “N.C.A.A. Clears Pope to Play”, in New York Times:
glosses: A crime that is not a felony.
nonfelonies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nonfelony
oralistic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more oralistic
form: most oralistic
Etymology: From oral + -istic.
Senses: examples: text: So lose the inserted of, which adds no meaning or emphasis and clutters up the page (and while you’re at it, drop the oralistic so at the beginning of this sentence; if you want to drive home a conclusion, write therefore or thus or in desperation here’s my point.
ref: 2008 January 13, William Safire, “Of the Migrating Of”, in New York Times:
glosses: Of or pertaining to oralism.
peatiness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From peaty + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: While the root beer-y sweetness of the Lillet Rouge and caramel blunt the rugged, smoky edges of the Scotch, the peatiness still comes rumbling through.
ref: 2008 January 13, Jonathan Miles, “Scotch Purists Beware”, in New York Times:
glosses: The quality of being peaty.
pseudoconsensus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From pseudo- + consensus.
Senses: examples: text: Today, however, the pseudoconsensus of “leave as soon as we are able, stay as long as we must” rests not on a strategy but on its very opposite: a dodge.
ref: 2008 January 13, Noah Feldman, “Vanishing Act”, in New York Times:
glosses: Apparent consensus that is not in fact genuine.
shoepeg
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shoepegs
Etymology: From shoe + peg.
Senses: glosses: A wooden peg formerly used to attach soles to the upper part of shoes.
Derived terms: shoepeg corn
Related terms: pegger
shoepegs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shoepeg
shoepeg corn
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From a fancied resemblance of this corn's kernels to shoepegs.
Senses: glosses: A cultivar of sweetcorn with small, narrow kernels, valued for its sweetness.
shrooming
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of shroom
shroomed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of shroom
slickster
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: slicksters
Etymology: From slick + -ster.
Senses: examples: text: Alice and Neil’s wide-eyed, blushing, chaste relationship is pure puppy love, and when that slickster Apollo is pierced by the arrows of Eros (Aphrodite’s son, who inexplicably became a bit of a Jesus freak somewhere along the way) and takes a fancy to Alice — well, all hell breaks loose.
ref: 2008 January 13, Alexandra Jacobs, “The House of Myth”, in New York Times:
glosses: A slick person.
slicksters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of slickster
steamily
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more steamily
form: most steamily
Etymology: From steamy + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Behind him, through a wall of plate glass, gray Manhattan sulked steamily under a drifting pall of April rain.
ref: 2008 January 13, Benjamin Black, “The Lemur”, in New York Times:
glosses: In a steamy manner.
superpsyched
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more superpsyched
form: most superpsyched
Etymology: From super- + psyched.
Senses: examples: text: I knew I had to throw the hammer down to move up in the second run, and I’m superpsyched that I moved up to third place.”
ref: 2008 January 13, The Associated Press, “Grange Earns Second World Cup Victory in Two Days”, in New York Times:
glosses: Very thrilled or excited.
uhh
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: ipa: [əː]
ipa: [ɐː]
note: sometimes nasalized
ipa: [ə̃ː]
Senses: examples: text: “He said, ‘You’re that tennis player,’ and I’m like: ‘Uhh, uhh, yeah. It’s me.’ ” She laughed.
ref: 2008 January 13, Karen Crouse, “Searching for Sharapova, and Finding a Dichotomy”, in New York Times:
glosses: Alternative form of uh.
ultraorthodox
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more ultraorthodox
form: most ultraorthodox
Etymology: From ultra- + orthodox.
Senses: examples: text: But the Schapens do provide much black humor by breeding the “perfect red heifer” referred to in the Old Testament, creating an international storm that ensnares both fundamentalist Christians and ultraorthodox Jews.
ref: 2008 January 13, Marilyn Stasio, “Loathe Thy Neighbor”, in New York Times:
glosses: Very orthodox, chiefly among Jewish sects.
uncouplings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of uncoupling
multitracking
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From multi- + tracking or multitrack + -ing.
Senses: examples: text: The production on “Liverpool 8” has the heft and definition of modern multitracking, resembling Mr. Starr’s early-1970s hits rather than the Beatles themselves.
ref: 2008 January 14, Jon Pareles, “New CDs”, in New York Times:
glosses: multitrack recording
prematernity
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pre- + maternity.
Senses: examples: text: Feeling inspired and healthier than she did for long stretches of her prematernity tennis life, she has won three tournaments and quickly turned the postvictory photo opportunity with Jagger into a family tradition.
ref: 2008 January 14, Christopher Clarey, “With Son Nearby, Davenport Seeks Grand Slam Title”, in New York Times:
glosses: Prior to maternity.
debloat
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /diːˈbləʊt/
ipa: /diˈbloʊt/
Forms: form: debloats
form: debloating
form: debloated
form: debloated
Etymology: From de- + bloat.
Senses: glosses: To reduce from a bloated state.
debloating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of debloat
debloated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of debloat
deblurs
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of deblur
deblurred
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of deblur
deblocks
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of deblock
deblocking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of deblock
deblocking
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: deblockings
Senses: glosses: The removal of a block or blockage.
deblended
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of deblend
deblends
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of deblend
recontour
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: recontours
form: recontouring
form: recontoured
form: recontoured
Etymology: From re- + contour.
Senses: examples: text: The Dorit Baxter New York Day Spa in Manhattan features a postnatal rescue treatment that, according to online ads, “debloats, detoxes, recontours the body and brings the new mom to a weight-losing mode.”
ref: 2008 January 14, Tina Kelley, “Getaways to Coddle New Mothers (or Just Inspire Some)”, in New York Times:
glosses: To contour again or anew.
recontours
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of recontour
recontouring
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of recontour
recontouring
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: recontourings
Senses: examples: Near-synonym: reshaping
hypernyms: remodeling#Noun
glosses: The process of changing a contour.
recontoured
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of recontour
snowswept
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more snowswept
form: most snowswept
Etymology: From snow + swept.
Senses: examples: text: In the late stages of the Green Bay Packers’ snowswept 42-20 playoff victory over Seattle on Saturday, Brett Favre and Donald Driver playfully engaged in a snowball fight.
ref: 2008 January 14, Pat Borzi, “Youth and Age Blend Well for Packers in Playoffs”, in New York Times:
glosses: Swept by snow; snowy.
unspotless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + spotless.
Senses: examples: text: Here now an unlikely Baedeker of the unspotless city.
ref: 2008 January 14, Anthony Ramirez, “Less Hype, but at Least These Restrooms Are Free”, in New York Times:
glosses: Not spotless; slightly dirty or stained.
airfreights
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of airfreight
airfreighted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of airfreight
airfreighting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of airfreight
bearhugging
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of bearhug
bearhugged
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of bearhug
quadfurcations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of quadfurcation
braggadoccio
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: The machoness and braggadoccio, that’s always been a part of hip-hop.
ref: 2008 January 15, Ben Sisario, “Jeepers, Rappers, Where’d You Get Those Arms and Torsos?”, in New York Times:
glosses: Misspelling of braggadocio.
doctorfish
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: doctorfishes
form: doctorfish
Etymology: From doctor + fish.
Senses: examples: text: Walking at the Brixton market among the parrotfish, doctorfish and butterfish, Effa Edusie is surrounded by pieces of her childhood in Ghana.
ref: 2008 January 15, Elisabeth Rosenthal, “Europe’s Appetite for Seafood Propels Illegal Trade”, in New York Times:
hyponyms: nibble fish
red garra
glosses: Either of the fish Garra rufa and Cyprinion macrostomus, which feed on dead skin while leaving the healthy skin intact.
Related terms: fish pedicure
doctorfishes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of doctorfish
intercave
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From inter- + cave.
Senses: examples: text: “When you make an intercave hybrid, the strong characteristics of one population complement the weak characteristics of the other,” Dr. Borowsky said, with a result that some of the hybrids can see.
ref: 2008 January 15, Henry Fountain, “Sightless Parent Fish Don’t Produce Just Sightless Hybrids”, in New York Times:
glosses: Between caves.
kotolike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more kotolike
form: most kotolike
Etymology: From koto + -like.
Senses: examples: text: The group played huge drums placed overhead, along with flutes and a kotolike zither.
ref: 2008 January 15, Jon Pareles, “To See (and Hear) the World in Five Hours: Unique Sounds Ripe for Import”, in New York Times:
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a koto (musical instrument).
machoness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɑ.tʃəʊˌnəs/
ipa: /ˈmɑ.t͡ʃoʊˌnəs/
Etymology: From macho + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: The machoness and braggadoccio^([sic]), that’s always been a part of hip-hop.
ref: 2008 January 15, Ben Sisario, “Jeepers, Rappers, Where’d You Get Those Arms and Torsos?”, in New York Times:
glosses: The quality of being macho; machismo.
maracatu
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Borrowed from Brazilian Portuguese maracatu, from Old Tupi maraká (“rattle, maraca”) + katu (“good”).
Senses: examples: text: Nation Beat, from exotic Brooklyn, uses the maracatu beat and rabeca fiddle of northeastern Brazil, and it has a Brazilian singer, Liliana Araújo.
ref: 2008 January 15, Jon Pareles, “To See (and Hear) the World in Five Hours: Unique Sounds Ripe for Import”, in New York Times:
glosses: A Brazilian performance genre from Pernambuco involving parades and music.
nonvenereal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + venereal.
Senses: examples: text: Leaders of the new study said the most telling results were that the bacterium causing sexually transmitted syphilis arose relatively recently in humans and was closely related to a strain responsible for the nonvenereal infection known as yaws.
ref: 2008 January 15, John Noble Wilford, “Genetic Study Bolsters Columbus Link to Syphilis”, in New York Times:
glosses: Not venereal.
anglesites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of anglesite
paleopathologist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: paleopathologists
form: palaeopathologist
Etymology: From paleo- + pathologist, after paleopathology.
Senses: examples: text: Della Collins Cook, a paleopathologist at Indiana University who did not participate in the study but specializes in treponemal diseases, praised the research as a “very, very interesting step” advancing understanding of syphilis.
ref: 2008 January 15, John Noble Wilford, “Genetic Study Bolsters Columbus Link to Syphilis”, in New York Times:
text: In other cases, paleopathologists have not found the actual tumors, but rather signs left by the tumors in the body.
ref: 2011, Siddhartha Mukherjee, The Emperor of all Maladies, Fourth Estate, page 43:
glosses: One who works in paleopathology.
paleopathologists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of paleopathologist
palaeopathologist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: palaeopathologists
Etymology: From palaeo- + pathologist.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of paleopathologist.
palaeopathologists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of palaeopathologist
palaeopathology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: palaeopathologies
Etymology: From palaeo- + pathology.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of paleopathology.
Related terms: palaeopathological
paleopathology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: paleopathologies
form: palaeopathology
Etymology: From paleo- + pathology.
Senses: glosses: The study of ancient diseases.
glosses: Any ancient disease itself.
postmovement
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From post- + movement.
Senses: examples: text: Tsujimoto and Sawaguchi (2005) concluded that each neuron's postmovement activity was significantly modulated by the directional preference, the reward outcome, and the specific task category.
topics: medicine
physiology
sciences
glosses: After a physical movement.
examples: text: Let the art historical record show, in the postmovement future, the continuing debt we owe it for that.
ref: 2008 January 15, Holland Cotter, “Scaling a Minimalist Wall With Bright, Shiny Colors”, in New York Times:
glosses: After an art movement or other ideological movement.
overbeat
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: overbeats
form: overbeating
form: overbeat
form: overbeaten
Etymology: From over- + beat.
Senses: examples: text: Beat egg whites with an electric mixer or a whisk until stiff peaks form, but do not overbeat.
ref: 2008 January 16, “Recipe: Whole-Grain Pancakes”, in New York Times:
glosses: To beat (eggs, cream, etc.) for too long, impairing the texture.
overbeaten
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: past participle of overbeat
overbeating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of overbeat
overbeats
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of overbeat
preassembly
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: preassemblies
Etymology: From pre- + assembly.
Senses: examples: text: Boeing sent its own workers out to suppliers around the world, hoping to speed things up, then bypassed some of the preassembly process and simply had suppliers ship their work in pieces to Boeing.
ref: 2008 January 16, Jeff Bailey, “More Delays Expected for Boeing’s Dreamliner”, in New York Times:
glosses: Assembly of a product in advance
unhurriedness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From unhurried + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: Many, though not all, the finales Schubert wrote for his piano sonatas prefer to roam and amble rather than explode with excitement. Mr. Lupu was very good at catching the patient unhurriedness of this particular example and seemed deeply touched by its quiet goodbye.
ref: 2008 January 16, Bernard Holland, “A Pianist Plays Middleman for Two Composers Who Spoke in Different Voices”, in New York Times:
glosses: The quality of being unhurried.
chronography
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɒɡɹəfi
Forms: form: chronographies
Etymology: From chrono- + -graphy.
Senses: glosses: A description or record of past time; history.
glosses: Measurement with a chronograph.
Derived terms: chronographer
photochronography
chronographies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chronography
desalivate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: desalivates
form: desalivating
form: desalivated
form: desalivated
Etymology: From de- + salivate.
Senses: examples: text: The microdermabrasion is performed with a suction tube like dentists use to desalivate your mouth.
ref: 2008 January 17, Cintra Wilson, “A Transformation Is a Bit of a Stretch”, in New York Times:
glosses: To remove the saliva from.
Related terms: desalivation
desalivated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of desalivate
ostentations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ostentation
postapproval
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: post-approval
Etymology: From post- + approval.
Senses: examples: text: In those cases, the postapproval trials confirmed that the drugs reduce heart attacks and strokes, adding to confidence about the link between cholesterol and heart disease.
ref: 2008 January 17, Alex Berenson, “New Questions on Treating Cholesterol”, in New York Times:
text: Pfizer said if the drug were approved, the company would conduct a post-approval study of real-world use of the vaccine, monitoring health records for the incidence of preterm birth and other possible problems.
ref: 2023 May 18, Christina Jewett, “F.D.A. Panel Recommends R.S.V. Vaccine to Protect Young Infants”, in The New York Times:
glosses: After approval, especially of a pharmaceutical drug.
booklover
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: booklovers
Senses: examples: text: (For the record, paperbacks are recyclable; the city requires the covers to be removed from hardcovers before they can be recycled, a request that for booklovers is tantamount to asking 10-year-old girls to rip Barbie’s head off before discarding her in the trash.)
ref: 2008 January 18, Susan Dominus, “Their House to Yours, via the Trash”, in New York Times:
glosses: Alternative form of book lover.
booklovers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of booklover
calicos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of calico
calicoes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of calico
chromatrope
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chromatropes
Etymology: From chromo- + -trope.
Senses: glosses: An instrument for exhibiting certain chromatic effects of light by means of rapidly rotating disks of various colours.
chromatropes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chromatrope
cuddle up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: cuddles up
form: cuddling up
form: cuddled up
form: cuddled up
Senses: examples: text: Cuddle up baby, move in tight. We'll go dancing tomorrow night.
ref: 1984, Wham!, Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go:
glosses: To lie or sit in a comfortable, relaxed position, especially holding someone else.
Synonyms: ensconce
snuggle up
snuggle up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: snuggles up
form: snuggling up
form: snuggled up
form: snuggled up
Senses: examples: text: I was snuggling up in bed with my blanket.
text: She snuggled up with her boyfriend.
text: Gingernut was small and ginger too, though of course he didn’t wear braces. That smallness and gingerness was probably, deep down, why Zoe chose him out of the dozens of little balls of fluff snuggled up together behind the glass at the pet shop.
ref: 2012, David Walliams [pseudonym; David Edward Williams], Ratburger, London: HarperCollins Children’s Books, →ISBN:
glosses: To lie or sit in a comfortable, relaxed position, holding someone or something else.
Synonyms: sense: lie or sit holding
word: cuddle up
sense: lie or sit holding
word: ensconce
beslimes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of beslime
besliming
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of beslime
beslimed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of beslime
beslavered
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of beslaver
beslavers
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of beslaver
beslavering
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of beslaver
beslaves
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of beslave
beslaving
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of beslave
beslaved
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of beslave
beskirting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of beskirt
beskirts
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of beskirt
beslabbering
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of beslabber
beslabbered
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of beslabber
miscommunicate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: miscommunicates
form: miscommunicating
form: miscommunicated
form: miscommunicated
Etymology: From mis- + communicate.
Senses: examples: text: Global problems arise from how humans have undervalued each other and miscommunicated with each other.
ref: 2008 January 18, Harriet Rubin, “Google Offers a Map for Its Philanthropy”, in New York Times:
glosses: To communicate incorrectly.
Derived terms: miscommunicado
Related terms: miscommunication
miscommunicates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of miscommunicate
miscommunicating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of miscommunicate
miscommunicated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of miscommunicate
panicum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: panicums
Etymology: From translingual Panicum (genus name), from New Latin panicum (“panicgrass”).
Senses: examples: text: And his property might remind someone of the dunes of the East End of Long Island: nine acres of artfully placed native grasses like panicum and schizachyrium and meadow plants like rudbeckia and asters.
ref: 2008 January 18, Steve Bailey, “A Weekend Home That’s Straight Out of a Dream”, in New York Times:
glosses: Any of the genus Panicum of tropical grasses.
Related terms: urls: http://plants.sc.egov.usda.gov/plant-profile/PANIC
word: panicum at USDA Plants database
panicums
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of panicum
phenakistiscope
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: phenakistiscopes
Senses: examples: text: Here are the intricately colored discs and paper strips of images that needed only devices like a zoetrope or phenakistiscope to become animated spectacles: a horse will jump through a hoop; a sailor will blow a bubble that becomes the moon.
ref: 2008 January 18, The New York Times, “Movie Guide and Film Series”, in New York Times:
glosses: Alternative form of phenakistoscope.
phenakistiscopes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of phenakistiscope
pouncer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pouncers
Etymology: From pounce + -er.
Senses: examples: text: Leopards, like their smaller domestic counterparts, are pouncers, and their jumping helps them stay in shape.
ref: 2008 January 18, Laurel Graeber, “Children’s Events”, in New York Times:
glosses: One who pounces.
pouncers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pouncer
semitheatrical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From semi- + theatrical.
Senses: examples: text: American Express, Merrill Lynch and Brookfield Properties sponsor an extensive series at the World Financial Center, and one afternoon last month in the cavernous Winter Garden there the avant-garde string quartet Ethel presented a semitheatrical concert with a solstice theme.
ref: 2008 January 18, Ben Sisario, “A Joyful Noise: Midday Music”, in New York Times:
glosses: Having some elements of theatre.
interchurch
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From inter- + church.
Senses: examples: text: That work has been carried on by Catholic, Protestant and Orthodox ecumenical officers and theologians engaged in interchurch dialogue.
ref: 2008 January 19, Peter Steinfels, “Praying for Christian Unity, When Diversity Has Been the Answer”, in New York Times:
glosses: Between churches.
reargument
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rearguments
Etymology: From re- + argument.
Senses: examples: text: Voeller asserted that the National Gay Task Force, which initiated the Virginia case, planned to take the case back to the Supreme Court for re-argument.
ref: 1976 April 10, Neil Miller, “U.S. Supreme Court Upholds State Sodomy Laws”, in Gay Community News, page 6:
text: They could set the entire appeal down for reargument, with or without a substitute justice.
ref: 2008 January 19, Adam Liptak, “West Virginia Judge Steps Out of Case Involving a Travel Companion”, in New York Times:
topics: law
hypernyms: argument
glosses: The arguing of a legal case again.
rearguments
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of reargument
rigaudon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rigaudons
Senses: examples: text: Though each section of Ravel’s music honors the memory of a friend who died in World War I, and though each is also a Neo-Classical study in a different Baroque dance form (forlane, rigaudon, minuet and others), what’s striking about the music is its freshness and fragrance.
ref: 2008 January 19, Alastair Macaulay, “Four Distinct Dream Worlds, Sharing the Same Language of Classical Ballet”, in New York Times:
glosses: Alternative form of rigadoon.
rigaudons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rigaudon
catch breath
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: catch breaths
Senses: examples: text: However, you can remain believable as your character if you fill your catch breath with a reinforcement of the impulse that initially inspired the phrase.
ref: 2005, David F. Ostwald, Acting for Singers: Creating Believable Singing Characters, page 16:
text: A full breath would take enough time for a deep intake of air, while a half breath would be more like a short catch breath.
ref: 2006, Martha Elliott, Singing in Style: A Guide to Vocal Performance Practices, page 131:
glosses: Alternative form of catch-breath.
semipowerful
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From semi- + powerful.
Senses: examples: text: Then, in deference to Nevada’s Harry Reid, the semipowerful Senate majority leader, the caucuses were moved to January, creating a sense of excitement and New Hampshire-like entitlement on the part of the local population.
ref: 2008 January 19, Gail Collins, “Fear and Voting in Las Vegas”, in New York Times:
glosses: Somewhat powerful.
catch-breaths
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of catch-breath
superbull
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: superbulls
Etymology: From super- + bull.
Senses: examples: text: But Abby Joseph Cohen, the superbull at Goldman Sachs, maintained that the Dow would roar back to finish 2008 at a level 22 percent higher — 14,750 is the number — as the economy perks up later in the year.
ref: 2008 January 19, Julie Creswell, “Seeking Tools to Calm a Market”, in New York Times:
topics: business
finance
glosses: A very bullish investor.
Coordinate terms: superbear
superbulls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of superbull
unconventionals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of unconventional
deglorification
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /diːˌɡlɔːɹɪfɪˈkeɪʃən/
Etymology: From de- + glorification.
Senses: examples: text: Debunking military myths and the deglorification of war is nothing new in Israeli culture.
ref: 2008 January 20, Isabel Kershner, “Dark Fissures of an Israeli Soldier’s Soul”, in New York Times:
text: Obviously the satirists' deglorification of war and Kant's practical ideas on how to reduce it did not catch on widely enough to spare Western civilization the catastrophes of the next century and a half.
ref: 2011, Steven Pinker, The Better Angels of Our Nature, Penguin, published 2012, page 201:
glosses: The process of deglorifying; making something less glorious.
you win some, you lose some
Language: English
Part of speech: proverb
Senses: glosses: Everybody experiences some successes and some failures.
Related terms: win or lose
sometimes you eat the bear and sometimes the bear eats you
elations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of elation
flickerings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of flickering
grungily
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more grungily
form: most grungily
Etymology: From grungy + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Mr. Jia is part of the sixth generation of Chinese filmmakers, which emerged in the 1990s with grungily realistic portrayals of contemporary China that stood apart from the historical epics that came before.
ref: 2008 January 20, Dennis Lim, “Blurring Reality’s Edge in Fluid China”, in New York Times:
glosses: In a grungy manner.
grungers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of grunger
hypnotizer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hypnotizers
Etymology: From hypnotize + -er.
Senses: examples: text: We also encounter Jean-Martin Charcot, Freud’s first mentor in Paris, who charted the stages of hysteria and proposed that the power of hypnosis depended upon the abnormal nervous condition of the hypnotized, not the magus-like potency of the hypnotizer.
ref: 2008 January 20, George Prochnik, “Freud’s Family Tree”, in New York Times:
glosses: One who, or that which, hypnotizes.
Synonyms: hypnotist
hypnotizers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hypnotizer
hypnotizingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more hypnotizingly
form: most hypnotizingly
form: hypnotisingly
Etymology: From hypnotizing + -ly.
Senses: glosses: So as to hypnotize or entrance; mesmeric.
hypnotisingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more hypnotisingly
form: most hypnotisingly
Etymology: From hypnotising + -ly.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of hypnotizingly.
ignorers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ignorer
megahome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: megahomes
Etymology: From mega- + home.
Senses: examples: text: But as Mr. McGinn notes, “Unlike the robber baron-era mansions, modern-day megahomes don’t feature dozens of bedrooms or entirely new kinds of rooms — they mostly just take the rooms you’d find in a normal house and make them really, really big.”
ref: 2008 January 20, Harry Hurt Iii, “Who Needs a 401(k)? I’d Rather Have a Castle”, in New York Times:
glosses: A very large and luxurious home.
megahomes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of megahome
multithemed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From multi- + themed.
Senses: examples: text: Live out your Rhodes Scholar fantasy this spring with Insider’s Oxford, a new program offered by the Department of Continuing Education at Oxford University, which is based on the popular, multithemed summer program Oxford Experience.
ref: 2008 January 20, Hilary Howard, “Not a Rhodes Scholar? Oxford Is Still in Reach”, in New York Times:
glosses: Having more than one theme.
fucktard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfʌktɑɹd/
Forms: form: fucktards
form: fuck-tard
form: phucktard
form: phuktard
form: fuktard
Etymology: Blend of fuck(ing) + retard, or fuck + -tard.
Senses: examples: text: That fucktard spilled soda all over my keyboard!
text: No it's not, fucktard. There are different types and degrees of deceptive advertising.
ref: 1999 August 8, "Nick" (username), WELCOME to reality, FUCKTARD (Was Re: WELCOME to rec.arts.movies.blair-witch), [ultimately] in rec.arts.movies.current-films, Usenet
text: It really is just shameful that a father's grief is being put under a microscope and examined by paranoid delusional fucktards with an agenda.
ref: 2013 January 18, TheAmazingAtheist, 5:06, in SANDY HOOK TROOF?!, via YouTube:
glosses: An extraordinarily stupid person.
Derived terms: fucktardery
postliterate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From post- + literate.
Senses: examples: text: Those who bemoan the self-absorption of the postliterate generation will be happy to know that before the self-indulgent, amateurish blog there was the self-indulgent, amateurish log.
ref: 2008 January 20, David Kirby, “Pas de Deux”, in New York Times:
glosses: After the decline of literacy.
statemate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: statemates
Etymology: From state + -mate.
Senses: examples: text: We in southern Colorado have little in common with our northern statemates. Nobody who hasn't been there can appreciate Kansas.
ref: 1998, Frances Weaver, I'm Not As Old As I Used to Be:
text: Tauscher is his lone statemate on the Packers.
ref: 2008 January 20, Harvey Araton, “The Giants’ Country Boy in Short Sleeves”, in New York Times:
glosses: One who comes from the same state.
statemates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of statemate
postbattle
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From post- + battle.
Senses: examples: text: They can be noisy and turbulent, as in “That Man I Shot,” a soldier’s postbattle reactions set to a feedback-drenched Crazy Horse stomp, or steadfast and long-suffering, as in the album’s other Iraq war song, “The Home Front,” Mr. Hood’s sketch of a soldier’s family.
ref: 2008 January 21, The New York Times, “New CDs”, in New York Times:
glosses: After a battle.
telegraphese
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From telegraph + -ese.
Senses: examples: text: Vythilingam said: "Injection every day. Perhaps all right then." Anstruther had not been long in Malaya. He attributed this wog's clipped telegraphese to the shyness of one who meets socially a racial superior.
ref: 1959, Anthony Burgess, Beds in the East (The Malayan Trilogy), published 2000, page 575:
text: Despite the new gadgetry, these journalists are actually rediscovering telegraphese — the clipped (ideally witty) style that flourished because of word limits imposed by an earlier technology, the telegraph.
ref: 2008 January 21, Noam Cohen, “Campaign Reporting in Under 140 Taps”, in New York Times:
glosses: The terse, abbreviated writing style used in or as used in telegraph messages; speech that resembles this.