cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
conduritols
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of conduritol
Holstein-Lewis fracture
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Holstein-Lewis fractures
Etymology: Named after Arthur Holstein (1913–2000) and Gwylim Lewis (1914−2009), American orthopedic surgeons who described it in 1963.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A fracture of the distal third of the humerus resulting in entrapment of the radial nerve.
Holstein
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From a tribe which inhabited the area, the Holsten / Holtsaten. The name is equivalent to German Holz (“wood”) + Sassen (“inhabitant”), German Low German Holt (“wood”) + Saten (“inhabitant”).
Senses: examples: text: Schleswig refuses to be separated from Holstein.
ref: 1880, Nassau William, senior, Conversations with distinguished persons during the Second Empire, volume 1, page 206
synonyms: Holsatia
glosses: A geographic region and former duchy between the rivers Elbe and Eider, to the south of Schleswig, part of the state of Schleswig-Holstein, Germany.
Derived terms: Holsteiner
Neustadt in Holstein
New Holstein
Schleswig-Holstein
Holstein
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Holsteins
Etymology: From the animals' region of origin: the horses came from Schleswig-Holstein, the cows came from the area of Frisia and Holstein.
Senses: examples: text: At the height of things, Bride Lake Farms had milked a herd of sixty-five registered Holsteins. Every other day, the Hood Dairy truck would pull up, pump nine thousand pounds of raw milk out of the tank, and drive it off for processing.
ref: 2008, Wally Lamb, The Hour I First Believed, Ch.5, at p.117
synonyms: Friesian#English:_breed of dairy cattle
glosses: A breed of dairy cattle, distinctively colored in splotches of black and white.
synonyms: Holsteiner#Noun
glosses: A breed of horse, thought to be the oldest of the warmblood breeds, used in show jumping.
Holstein
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Holsteins
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Derived terms: Holstein-Lewis fracture
Holstein-Primakoff transformation
redrill
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: redrills
form: redrilling
form: redrilled
form: redrilled
Etymology: From re- + drill.
Senses: examples: text: He was so intent on being a good bowler that, unsatisfied with the grip, he had his bowling ball redrilled.
ref: 2009 April 28, Abby Goodnough, “Details, but Little Insight, on Craigslist Killing Suspect”, in New York Times:
glosses: To drill again or anew.
redrilled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of redrill
redrilling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of redrill
redrills
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of redrill
thonged
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From thong + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: It helps that the dozens of veiled and uneducated female laborers who assemble the handmade items — gag balls, lime-green corsets, thonged spanking skirts — have no idea what the items are used for.
ref: 2009 April 28, Adam B. Ellick, “Lacy Threads and Leather Straps Bind a Business”, in New York Times:
glosses: Having a thong or thongs.
crumblingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more crumblingly
form: most crumblingly
Etymology: From crumbling + -ly.
Senses: glosses: So as to crumble; while crumbling.
parking violation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: parking violations
Senses: glosses: The illegal act of parking a motor vehicle in a restricted place or in an unauthorised manner.
iced coffee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: iced coffees
Senses: glosses: Various types of cold beverages made from coffee. (This entry is a translation hub.)
Hyponyms: frappuccino
iced capp
hooks up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of hook up
hooking up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of hook up
iced teas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of iced tea
iced coffees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of iced coffee
imbalsamation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From im- + balsam + -ation.
Senses: glosses: embalming
treasuer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: treasuers
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of treasure.
disastre
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: disastres
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of disaster.
Co.
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: co
form: co.
form: Co
Senses: examples: text: The project was co-created by Shanghai Maglev Transportation Development Co. Ltd., a German Consortium consisting of Siemens AG, Thyssen Transrapid GMBH and Transrapid International GMBH.
ref: 2019 March 4, Maggie Hiufu Wong, “China to introduce new generation of driverless trains in 2020”, in CNN:
glosses: Abbreviation of company (often used as "& Co." (and company))
glosses: Abbreviation of county, alternative form of Co.
Related terms: LLC
PLC
Inc.
Ltd.
LLP
episcopacies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of episcopacy
subcritical mass
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: subcritical masses
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A mass of fissile material that is insufficient to sustain a nuclear chain reaction.
supercritical mass
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: supercritical masses
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A mass of fissile material that is more than sufficient to sustain a nuclear chain reaction.
chevauchées
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chevauchée
beaux sabreurs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of beau sabreur
social conservatives
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of social conservative
social stigmas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of social stigma
heavy lifting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: heavy-lifting
Senses: examples: text: That's what I call the heavy-lifting part of the problem, and that's really where the term genetic caching comes into play.
ref: 2000 June 5, Cache as cache can (continued under the title WorkFire), InfoWorld, Volume 22, Issue 23, page 60F
text: 2003 March 18, John Howard, speech to the Australian Parliament
Alliances are two-way processes and, where we are in agreement, we should not leave it to the United States to do all of the heavy lifting just because they are the world’s superpower.
text: At home, I told Mo I'd packed it in as Velvet's tutor. "Why?" she said.
"Because she's an unappreciative little brat," I said. "I'm sick of her rudeness, and I'm sick of doing all the heavy lifting with this 'buddy' thing."
ref: 2008, Wally Lamb, The Hour I First Believed, Ch.2, at p.49
text: We want our experts to spend their time on this and do the heavy lifting for us.
ref: 2010, The 9 Month Investment: A Passive Investors Guide to Achieving 10 Years Worth of Wealth Accumulation in Only 9 Months, page 23:
text: Richard DeLongpre: Well, that went well. Come here, you. Jeremy DeLongpre: Oh, I'm really exhausted. Richard: That's okay, I'll do the heavy lifting.
ref: 2011 Allen Gregory, "Pilot" (season 1, episode 1)
text: any time there’s emotional heavy lifting to be done, we hear about what happened in passing as opposed to actually seeing how Indy is grappling with his ever-changing world.
ref: 2023 June 28, Lauren Coates, “Indiana Jones And The Dial Of Destiny review: Harrison Ford goes to the whip”, in AV Club:
glosses: The most demanding part of an endeavour; work requiring the most effort, resources, or consideration.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see heavy, lifting.
Synonyms: hard yards
Related terms: carry one's weight
antimasturbation
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more antimasturbation
form: most antimasturbation
Etymology: From anti- + masturbation.
Senses: examples: text: This assortment of euphemisms for masturbation, both in terms of its practice and cure, is scattered throughout antimasturbation literature.
ref: 2001, Russ Castronovo, Necro citizenship:
glosses: Opposing masturbation.
nonleukopenic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + leukopenic.
Senses: glosses: Not leukopenic.
Merovingian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌmɛ.ɹəˈvɪn.dʒɪ.ən/
ipa: /ˌmɛɹ.əˈvɪn.dʒi.ən/
rhymes: -ɪndʒiən
Forms: form: Merovingians
Etymology: From French mérovingien, from Medieval Latin Merovingi (“the descendants of Merovech”), from Meroveus, Latin form of the Germanic name Frankish *Mārīwīg (*mārī (“famous”) + *wīg (“fight”)). Compare Old English Merewīoingas.
Senses: glosses: One of a Salian Frankish dynasty that came to rule the Franks in a region (known as Francia in Latin) largely corresponding to ancient Gaul from the middle of the 5th century, and whose politics involved frequent civil warfare among branches of the family.
Synonyms: Meroving
Merovingian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌmɛ.ɹəˈvɪn.dʒɪ.ən/
ipa: /ˌmɛɹ.əˈvɪn.dʒi.ən/
rhymes: -ɪndʒiən
Etymology: From French mérovingien, from Medieval Latin Merovingi (“the descendants of Merovech”), from Meroveus, Latin form of the Germanic name Frankish *Mārīwīg (*mārī (“famous”) + *wīg (“fight”)). Compare Old English Merewīoingas.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to this dynasty.
Tyrus
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Tyre.
Merovingians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Merovingian
meroterpenes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of meroterpene
merostomes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of merostome
Meroving
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Merovings
Senses: glosses: A Merovingian.
Merovings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Meroving
antimaterialistic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more antimaterialistic
form: most antimaterialistic
Etymology: From anti- + materialistic.
Senses: examples: text: Second, secular socialist Zionism, the dominant ideal of Israeli society in its formative years, experienced difficulties in transmitting its pioneering ethos and its antimaterialistic ideology to an increasingly consumer-oriented society.
ref: 1997, Martin E. Marty, R. Scott Appleby, Fundamentalisms and Society, page 379:
glosses: Opposing materialism.
gnosiology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From gnosis + -logy.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of gnoseology.
gnoseological
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: gnosiological
Senses: synonyms: epistemological
glosses: Of or pertaining to gnoseology, the study of knowledge.
Derived terms: gnoseologically
Related terms: gnoseology
Priestley
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Priestleys
form: Presley
form: Pressly
Etymology: Habitational surname from aby of various minor places in North Yorkshire, from Old English prēost (“priest”) + lēah (“wood clearing, meadow, leigh”). Equivalent to priest + -ley (“lea”).
Senses: glosses: A surname from Old English.
glosses: An unincorporated community in Lincoln County, West Virginia, United States.
Derived terms: Priestleyan
Hauptmannian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Hauptmannian
form: most Hauptmannian
Etymology: From Hauptmann + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to Gerhart Hauptmann (1862–1946), German dramatist and novelist, or his works.
phonometric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From phono- + -metric.
Senses: glosses: Relating to the measurement of sound
Derived terms: telephonometric
gnoseologically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From gnoseological + -ly.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of gnosiologically.
as above, so below
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Etymology: The concept was first laid out in the Emerald Tablet of Hermes Trismegistus: "That which is Below corresponds to that which is Above, and that which is Above, corresponds to that which is Below, to accomplish the miracles of the One Thing."
Senses: topics: lifestyle
occultism
religion
glosses: What happens on a higher level of reality also happens on lower levels; the microcosm and macrocosm behave alike.
wikipedia: Emerald Tablet
Hermes Trismegistus
umuzungu
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: abazungu
form: bazungu
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of mzungu.
xenoreactivity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From xeno- + reactivity.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being xenoreactive.
fibrodysplasias
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fibrodysplasia
wiremen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wireman
agrisystem
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: agrisystems
Etymology: From agri- + system.
Senses: examples: text: “People like the idea of I take care of them, and they take care of me,” she said, explaining that the personal agrisystem of feeding food scraps to chickens that, in turn, produce breakfast, has enormous appeal.
ref: 2009 April 30, Peter Applebome, “Envisioning the End of ‘Don’t Cluck, Don’t Tell’”, in New York Times:
glosses: An agricultural system.
agrisystems
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of agrisystem
spicebushes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of spicebush
feltness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From felt + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being felt.
ghatam
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ghatams
Etymology: From Sanskrit घटं (ghaṭaṃ).
Senses: examples: text: For a stretch, this cohort made additional room for T. H. Vinayakram, an expert on the ghatam, an earthenware pot played with thrummed fingers or open palms.
ref: 2009 May 1, Nate Chinen, “Bringing Along Friends Who Can Add to the Beat”, in New York Times:
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: An earthenware pot used as a percussion instrument in the Carnatic music of South India.
ghatams
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ghatam
nontextile
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + textile.
Senses: examples: text: To prevent overcrowding on the subways, Dr. Copeland mandated shifts for various businesses, so that offices opened at 8:40 a.m. and closed at 4:30 p.m., while wholesalers started their days earlier, and nontextile manufacturers moved their start time to 9:30.
ref: 2009 May 1, Susan Dominus, “In 1918 Flu Outbreak, a Cool Head Prevailed”, in New York Times:
glosses: Not of or pertaining to textiles.
semitalented
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From semi- + talented.
Senses: examples: text: Funny, faux-naïve paintings by this Toronto artist resemble the works of a semitalented high school stoner steeped in heavy metal music, fantasy novels and French Symbolism. Mr. Ethier paints on easel-size panels in oleaginous glazes, creating an oozy, finger-painting-like luminosity.
ref: 2009 May 1, The New York Times, “Museum and Gallery Listings”, in New York Times:
glosses: Having a certain amount of talent.
yurtlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈjɜːtlaɪk/
ipa: /ˈjɝːtlaɪk/
ipa: /ˈjʊɹtlaɪk/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)t
rhymes: -ʊə(ɹ)t
Forms: form: more yurtlike
form: most yurtlike
Etymology: From yurt + -like.
Senses: examples: text: Though I think that the closest I came to actually wearing felt was a yurtlike bathrobe with large red, cut-out and flocked tomatoes on its enormous pockets — a Christmas gift from my mother at the onset of my adolescence.
ref: 2009 May 1, Roberta Smith, “Humble Fabric Takes Center Stage”, in New York Times:
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a yurt.
chosenness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From chosen + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: “How scary is it, in a culture of chosenness, to be the anointed king who’s rejected?”
ref: 2009 May 2, Samuel G. Freedman, “In ‘Kings,’ Television Tackles the Conflicted Saul”, in New York Times:
glosses: The quality of being chosen.
Synonyms: word: selectness
topics: theology
religion
lifestyle
word: election
hairstyled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From hairstyle + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: Most people do not directly associate Arnold Schwarzenegger's stony, punk-hairstyled face […] with humor.
ref: 2003, Caroline Joan Picart, Remaking the Frankenstein Myth on Film, page 141:
text: In the past year the Jonas Brothers, three charming, talented, aggressively hairstyled, purity-ring-wearing brothers from northern New Jersey, transformed from a middling tween-focused band into perhaps the most significant pop juggernaut since ’N Sync.
ref: 2009 May 2, Jon Caramanica, “The Private Lives of Pop Stars, Male Division”, in New York Times:
glosses: Having a hairstyle (of some specified kind).
purity ring
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: purity rings
Senses: topics: Christianity
synonyms: abstinence ring
chastity ring
coordinate_terms: promise ring
glosses: A ring representing a religious vow to abstain from sexual intercourse until marriage.
superlethal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more superlethal
form: most superlethal
Etymology: From super- + lethal.
Senses: examples: text: The flu could suddenly become superlethal.
ref: 2009 May 2, Gail Collins, “Joe Biden, the Flu and You”, in New York Times:
glosses: Extremely lethal.
superworried
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more superworried
form: most superworried
Etymology: From super- + worried.
Senses: examples: text: But Biden, channeling his Average Joe, was superworried — a signal to the White House that it was time to make the flu more boring.
ref: 2009 May 2, Gail Collins, “Joe Biden, the Flu and You”, in New York Times:
glosses: Extremely worried.
undoubled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + doubled.
Senses: examples: text: Assuming at the other table that three no-trump was undoubled, if the contract was making, the redouble would increase the gain to 9 international match points from 4.
ref: 2009 May 2, Phillip Alder, “From the Long Island Regional, Twofold Success in No-Trump”, in New York Times:
glosses: Not doubled.
undoubled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of undouble
unfated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + fated.
Senses: glosses: Not fated.
anticlassical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more anticlassical
form: most anticlassical
Etymology: From anti- + classical.
Senses: examples: text: Nothing in the decorative scheme derives from classical architecture — indeed it could be said to be anticlassical, so thoroughly does it bypass traditional design.
ref: 2009 May 3, Christopher Gray, “Fidel Castro Slept Here”, in New York Times:
topics: art
arts
glosses: Opposing or rejecting what is classical.
antirally
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more antirally
form: most antirally
Etymology: From anti- + rally.
Senses: examples: text: The antirally demonstrators broke windows and forced their way into the building as the terrified audience fled in the opposite direction.
ref: 2001, Ty Cashion, Jesús F. de la Teja, The human tradition in Texas (page 206)
text: After years of complaints from local residents about noise, violence and indecency, the City Council adopted a series of antirally laws last fall in the hope of driving away the 500,000 motorcyclists who roar into this coastal town of 24,000 people every May. Mayor John Rhodes has declared the rally officially and permanently canceled.
ref: 2009 May 3, Robbie Brown, “A Motorcycle Rally Revs Up, Though It’s No Longer Welcome”, in New York Times:
glosses: Opposing a rally.
awarenesses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of awareness
boozehead
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: boozeheads
Etymology: From booze + -head.
Senses: examples: text: Sure, there are a few beaming boozeheads and upbeat probation violators who spoil the mood by, well, mugging for the cameras.
ref: 2009 May 3, “Reading File”, in New York Times:
glosses: An alcoholic.
boozeheads
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of boozehead
booze cruises
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of booze cruise
booze cans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of booze can
dermatopathology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From dermato- + pathology.
Senses: examples: text: Her father is a professor of pathology at Harvard Medical School and the director of dermatopathology at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston.
ref: 2009 May 3, “Emily Murphy, James Beaver”, in New York Times:
glosses: The study of cutaneous diseases at a microscopic level.
Related terms: dermatopathological
dermatopathologist
dermatopathological
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: dermatopathologic
Etymology: From dermato- + pathological.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to dermatopathology.
folkstyle
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From folk + style.
Senses: examples: text: But there are differences in the scoring and technique between the folkstyle wrestling in college, and the freestyle at the Olympics and the world championships.
ref: 2009 May 3, The Associated Press, “A U.S. College Wrestler Sees a World of Possibility”, in New York Times:
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: Being a style of amateur wrestling practised at collegiate and university level in the United States; the ultimate goal is to pin the opponent to the mat, and the legs can be used in offense and defense.
hypercompetitiveness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From hypercompetitive + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: All in the spirit of Yankee hypercompetitiveness.
ref: 2009 May 3, The New York Times, “Letters to the Editor”, in New York Times:
glosses: The quality of being hypercompetitive.
lampoonable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more lampoonable
form: most lampoonable
Etymology: From lampoon + -able.
Senses: examples: text: The system in which I have embedded myself has its faults, some of them lampoonable.
ref: 2009 May 3, Russell Shorto, “Going Dutch”, in New York Times:
glosses: Suitable for being lampooned.
memoiristic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more memoiristic
form: most memoiristic
Etymology: From memoir + -istic.
Senses: examples: text: So it’s a perfect moment for Whitehead’s memoiristic fourth novel, “Sag Harbor,” a coming-of-age story about the Colsonesque 15-year-old Benji, who wishes people would just call him Ben.
ref: 2009 May 3, Touré, “Visible Young Man”, in New York Times:
glosses: In the style of a memoir.
nondigitally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From nondigital + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: This time, the product is more tied to mobile devices like the iPhone and involves “collecting” digital icons by (nondigitally) visiting certain spots in various cities.
ref: 2009 May 3, Rob Walker, “Immaterialism”, in New York Times:
glosses: In a nondigital manner.
nontext
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + text.
Senses: examples: text: Microsoft’s Encarta team concentrated on developing nontext supplements that would make it a multimedia extravaganza.
ref: 2009 May 3, Randall Stross, “Encyclopedic Knowledge, Then vs. Now”, in New York Times:
glosses: Not text.
noteworthies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of noteworthy
overcover
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: overcovers
form: overcovering
form: overcovered
form: overcovered
Etymology: From Middle English overcoveren, equivalent to over- + cover.
Senses: examples: text: The floodwaters soon overcovered the little hill.
glosses: To cover over.
examples: text: You’ll never persuade me that we’ve overcovered the slaughter in Congo — our sin is that we didn’t scream enough, not that we screamed too much.
ref: 2009 May 3, Nicholas Kristof, “Bright Continent”, in New York Times:
glosses: To give too much coverage (as for example on television).
overcovering
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of overcover
overcovers
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of overcover
overcovered
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of overcover
overmanipulate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: overmanipulates
form: overmanipulating
form: overmanipulated
form: overmanipulated
Etymology: From over- + manipulate.
Senses: examples: text: Cooking philosophy: Buy the best you can find or afford and don’t overmanipulate it.
ref: 2009 May 3, “Craft House”, in New York Times:
glosses: To manipulate too much.
Related terms: overmanipulation
overmanipulates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of overmanipulate
overmanipulating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of overmanipulate
overmanipulated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of overmanipulate
sandpaperlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more sandpaperlike
form: most sandpaperlike
Etymology: From sandpaper + -like.
Senses: examples: text: At the third-floor level runs a band of varying ornament, including projecting panels of glazed terra cotta surrounding roughened, sandpaperlike rectangles.
ref: 2009 May 3, Christopher Gray, “Fidel Castro Slept Here”, in New York Times:
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of sandpaper; rough and abrasive.
Synonyms: sandpaperish
sandpapery
sandpaperish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more sandpaperish
form: most sandpaperish
Etymology: From sandpaper + -ish.
Senses: glosses: Resembling or characteristic of sandpaper; rough and abrasive.
Synonyms: sandpaperlike
sandpapery
socioanthropologist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: socioanthropologists
Etymology: From socio- + anthropologist.
Senses: examples: text: Médina Gounass was first settled in the early 1960s by rural people flocking to the city’s outskirts, people who were not “educated in the culture of trash disposal,” said Fatou Sarr, a socioanthropologist at the Cheikh Anta Diop University in Dakar, who has written about the area.
ref: 2009 May 3, Adam Nossiter, “In a Senegalese Slum, a Building Material Both Primitive and Perilous”, in New York Times:
glosses: One who studies socioanthropology.
socioanthropologists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of socioanthropologist
subtextless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From subtext + -less.
Senses: examples: text: You all keep trying to make Rock Hudson -Doris Day -style romantic comedies with the golden guys and gals of the moment, and the results are sexless, subtextless, bland career-girl-in-search-of-Mr.-Right retreads.
ref: 2009 May 3, Manohla Dargis, A. O. Scott, “Memos to Hollywood”, in New York Times:
glosses: Devoid of a subtext.
smearily
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more smearily
form: most smearily
Etymology: From smeary + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Their feeble pamphlets, their smearily printed newspaper, seemed futile against the enormous blare of Corpo propaganda.
ref: 1935, Sinclair Lewis, chapter 29, in It Can’t Happen Here, Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Doran:
text: Here was the pretty Chinese table whose top had been greased smearily by the flat feet of Ariffin doing his little dance.
ref: 1958, Anthony Burgess, The Enemy in the Blanket (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 253:
text: Although her lower lip was thin and she used eyebrow pencil a bit smearily, she had a way with clothes.
ref: 1961, Bernard Malamud, A New Life, Penguin, published 1968, pages 121–122:
glosses: In a smeary fashion.
smeariness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From smeary + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: The smeariness of the marble-topped hall table did not offend her.
ref: 1919, Dorothy Richardson, chapter 1, in The Tunnel,, London: Duckworth, page 1:
text: She wore a limp blouse over blue jeans and had the body lines of a teenager, the crooks and skews and smeariness, and a way of merging with furniture, a kind of draped indecision.
ref: 1991, Don DeLillo, Mao II, New York: Viking, Part 1, Chapter 4, p. 56:
glosses: The quality of being smeary.
superscaled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more superscaled
form: most superscaled
Etymology: From super- + scaled.
Senses: examples: text: This section ends in superscaled square-topped pediments, another Blum trademark.
ref: 2009 May 3, Christopher Gray, “Fidel Castro Slept Here”, in New York Times:
glosses: Built on a very large scale.
technothriller
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: technothrillers
form: techno-thriller
Etymology: From techno- + thriller.
Senses: examples: text: The techno-thriller and its practitioners may be standing athwart. Tom Clancy, for one, made it clear to me that he has no interest in contemporary literature as Literature. He perennially scorns any salon environs.
ref: 1993, William F. Ryan, “The Techno-Thriller”, in The Virginia Quarterly Review:
text: Few filmmakers have his feel for the flux and transience of life as we live it, and his movies are especially eloquent in depicting the passage of time, whether it’s the one-year period of awkward realignments among a constellation of Parisian friends in “Late August, Early September” (1998) or the entire life cycle of a marriage in the period epic “Les Destinées Sentimentales” (2000) or even the jet-lagged permanent-present tense of the technothriller “Demonlover” (2002).
ref: 2009 May 3, Dennis Lim, “In Familial Bric-a-Brac, Finding Himself”, in New York Times:
coordinate_terms: spy-fi
glosses: A genre of thriller combining action, fantasy, and science fiction elements, including detailed technical explanations.
technothrillers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of technothriller
technostructures
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of technostructure
undermotivated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more undermotivated
form: most undermotivated
Etymology: From under- + motivated.
Senses: examples: text: Meanwhile, a bunch of hungry directors with digital cameras, time on their hands and not much money are making free-form studies about tentative hookups and long conversations among actual, overeducated, undermotivated young folks.
ref: 2009 May 3, Manohla Dargis, A. O. Scott, “Memos to Hollywood”, in New York Times:
glosses: Not sufficiently motivated.
unhonored
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: unhonor’d
form: unhonour’d
form: unhonoured
Etymology: From un- + honored.
Senses: examples: text: Laboring slowly, unhonored and unpaid and bound toward an immaterial prize far more meaningful than “success” as New York parlance would have it, these writers have destiny for incentive — and perhaps the exemplars of bygone literary gods for inspiration.
ref: 2009 May 3, “The Fictional Advance”, in New York Times:
glosses: Not honored.
incentiveless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From incentive + -less.
Senses: glosses: Without an incentive; unmotivated.
unhonoured
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unhonoured
form: most unhonoured
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of unhonored.
untrumpeted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more untrumpeted
form: most untrumpeted
Etymology: From un- + trumpeted.
Senses: examples: text: Quietly, faithfully, their late-paid, ill-paid or altogether unpaid works go into the world untrumpeted, unreviewed and unbought, to give the lie to the fallacy denounced by Annie Dillard a quarter-century ago: “that the novelists of whom we have heard are the novelists we have.”
ref: 2009 May 3, “The Fictional Advance”, in New York Times:
glosses: Not having been trumpeted; without fanfare.
archdruidess
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: archdruidesses
Etymology: From arch- + druidess.
Senses: examples: text: Three years ago, Mr. Michell surprised friends and family by marrying Denise Price, the archdruidess of the Glastonbury Order of Druids, after a courtship of less than a month. Mr. Goodwin said that two months later, “she threw him out.”
ref: 2009 May 4, Douglas Martin, “John Michell, Author and Eccentric, Dies at 76”, in New York Times:
qualifier: Celtic paganism
glosses: A chief druidess; a female archdruid.
archdruidesses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of archdruidess
biothreat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: biothreats
Etymology: From bio- + threat.
Senses: examples: text: Before a tour of the biothreat response testing laboratory on Sunday, visitors had to promise not to reveal its location.
ref: 2009 May 4, Anemona Hartocollis, “New York’s Lab (Don’t Ask Where It Is) Readies Its Own Tests for the New Strain”, in New York Times:
glosses: A threat from biological weapons.
biothreats
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of biothreat
falsettoed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From falsetto + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: And even by the Auto-Tuned, falsettoed, post-nightclub conventions of contemporary R&B, this is a colossally strange record: Ciara is taxed like never before.
ref: 2009 May 4, The New York Times, “New CDs”, in New York Times:
glosses: Uttered in a falsetto.
falseworks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of falsework
ritornellos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ritornello
purity rings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of purity ring
decentring
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of decentre
decentring
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: decentrings
Senses: glosses: The process by which something is decentred.
decentres
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of decentre
decentred
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of decentre
decentering
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of decenter
decentering
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: decenterings
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of decentring.
decentered
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of decenter
decenters
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of decenter
decennially
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪˈsɛnɪəli/
Etymology: From decennial + -ly.
Senses: glosses: Every ten years.
decenes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of decene
outwalking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of outwalk
outwalks
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of outwalk
outwalked
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of outwalk
semiformality
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From semi- + formality.
Senses: examples: text: Founded in 1975 and led by the violinist Richard Tognetti since 1989, the orchestra looks youthful and hip onstage, its players clad in varying shades of black semiformality.
ref: 2009 May 5, Steve Smith, “A Group That Doesn’t Sit, Adding Bounce to Haydn”, in New York Times:
glosses: The quality of being semiformal.
crackhouses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of crackhouse
labneh
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: labnehs
form: lebneh
form: labaneh
form: labne
form: lebni
form: labane
form: lebnah
form: lebna
form: labna
form: labana
form: lebeni
form: lebeneh
form: lebenah
form: labnah
Etymology: From South Levantine Arabic لَبْنَة (labna).
Senses: examples: text: And I can assure you, were he to encounter the entire crew of the aircraft carrier Enterprise, he’d serve them eggs sunny-side up, and labneh fresh from the bag.
ref: 2009 May 6, Dwight Garner, “A Merchant of Trinkets and Memories”, in New York Times:
glosses: Yogurt that has been strained to filter or remove the whey and thus has a consistency between that of yoghurt and cheese.
Synonyms: word: strained yoghurt
word: yoghurt cheese
word: Greek yogurt
Hypernyms: word: plain yogurt
word: regular yogurt
word: natural yogurt
english: any yogurt that bar possible fruit has minimal addition in particular of sugar
translation: any yogurt that bar possible fruit has minimal addition in particular of sugar
word: dahi
word: other sweetener: normal yogurt
english: labneh
translation: labneh
word: the same as minus the step of straining
word: yogurt
Related terms: laban
leban
quark
morbilliviral
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to morbillivirus.
morbillivirus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: morbilliviruses
Etymology: From the genus name.
Senses: examples: text: Eighty percent tested positive for morbillivirus, which can cause serious disease in some animals and humans.
ref: 2009 May 6, The Associated Press, “Washington: Threat to Otters”, in New York Times:
glosses: Any of the genus Morbillivirus of viruses.
Related terms: morbilliviral
morbilliviruses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of morbillivirus
narratorly
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more narratorly
form: most narratorly
Etymology: From narrator + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: But it chooses dramatic re-creation to deliver much of its material: actors portraying Stalin, Churchill, Roosevelt and their various lieutenants stride into meetings, have whispered conversations and so on, with a narrator propelling the tale along in that overwrought narratorly voice so popular in such programs.
ref: 2009 May 6, Neil Genzlinger, “A Return to a Bloody Era, With a Cast of Stand-Ins”, in New York Times:
glosses: In the style of a narrator.
rubblestone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From rubble + stone.
Senses: examples: text: Its dormitory cottages were built in 1881 to 1895 and featured rubblestone walls, brownstone quoins and arched windows.
ref: 2009 May 6, Elizabeth Abbott, “A Reform School, Reborn”, in New York Times:
glosses: Rubble; a loose collection of broken stones.
shakeratos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shakerato
shaker-uppers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shaker-upper
superharvest
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: superharvests
Etymology: From super- + harvest.
Senses: examples: text: If you get a last-minute dinner invitation, you might freeze that fish you bought; if you take the kids strawberry picking, get the excess in there as quickly as you can; if you have a superharvest of vegetables (or a good score at the farmer’s market), blanch them and freeze them.
ref: 2009 May 6, Mark Bittman, “Freeze That Thought”, in New York Times:
glosses: An exceptionally abundant harvest.
superharvests
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of superharvest
snow lotus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: snow lotuses
Senses: glosses: Any of various plants in the genus Saussurea that grow at high latitudes in central Asia.
alchemilla
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: alchemillas
Etymology: From the genus name.
Senses: examples: text: Clarins Bright Plus HP Intensive Brightening Botanical System deploys snow lotus, biotin, alchemilla and raspberry, along with vitamin C.
ref: 2009 May 7, Barbara Hey, “Uneven Pigmentation: What Can Be Done?”, in New York Times:
glosses: Any of the genus Alchemilla of herbaceous perennial plants.
Synonyms: sense: any Alchemilla
word: lady's mantle
alchemillas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of alchemilla
aloesin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From aloes + -in?
Senses: examples: text: Among the list of ingredients showing up are niacinamide, soy, licorice extract, paper mulberry, bearberry, vitamin C and aloesin (an aloe vera derivative).
ref: 2009 May 7, Barbara Hey, “Uneven Pigmentation: What Can Be Done?”, in New York Times:
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A derivative of aloe vera.
bribetaking
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From bribe + taking.
Senses: examples: text: My readers will bear in mind, that the “miscreant” has since been convicted and dismissed, for bribetaking and malversation of office, in the cases, which were transmitted by Colonel Outram, and quashed by the said minute!
ref: 1853, Indus, Bombay Briberies; a tale of the present charter, page 45:
text: To look the dishonors straight in the face; to flay bribe-sanctioning at the top, as we flay bribetaking at the bottom; to see that the corrupting of a legislature is a darker and a meaner sin than the slugging of a scab; to ask for "law and order" among the mighty as we ask it among the obscure; to set ourselves grimly and a little sadly — as if with a sense of common frailty — to the great task of national house cleaning, is the solemn beginning to which we are committed in these early days of the twentieth century.
ref: 1909, John Graham Brooks, As Others See Us: A Study of Progress in the United States, page 344:
text: The union representing New York City carpenters, one of the area’s largest construction trades, continues to be roiled by turmoil after years of investigations into corruption and organized-crime influence and, since 2007, the federal convictions of four shop stewards for fraud, conspiracy or bribetaking.
ref: 2009 May 7, Paul Von Zielbauer, “New Fines Pit Carpenters Against Union Leaders”, in New York Times:
glosses: The acceptance of bribes.
Related terms: on the take
beatnikery
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: beatnickery
form: beatnikkery
Etymology: From beatnik + -ery.
Senses: glosses: The behaviour and attitudes of beatniks.
lighteners
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lightener
multicarat
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From multi- + carat.
Senses: examples: text: A tall Colombian woman, 44, with multicarat diamond earrings, she said, “He is a brilliant man who is needed by this community.”
ref: 2009 May 7, Damien Cave, “Priest Known as Padre Oprah Strays in South Florida”, in New York Times:
glosses: Of multiple carats.
orgiastically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more orgiastically
form: most orgiastically
Etymology: From orgiastic + -ally.
Senses: examples: text: Then, for the appalling bacchanal in the last act, a disaster in most productions, Israeli soldiers dance orgiastically with their phallic rifles.
ref: 2009 May 7, Michael Kimmelman, “In Belgium, Samson Gets a Makeover”, in New York Times:
glosses: In an orgiastic fashion.
prefaded
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of prefade
dialler
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: diallers
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of dialer.
diallers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dialler
diallages
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of diallage
presoftened
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pre- + softened.
Senses: examples: text: Alternately, if you prefer chain-store shopping to drugs or peace, there is a presoftened T-shirt that says merely SOHO, in a distressed font.
ref: 2009 May 7, Cintra Wilson, “Is There a Setting for High Strung?”, in New York Times:
glosses: Softened in advance.
presoftened
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From pre- + softened.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of presoften
unprosperously
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more unprosperously
form: most unprosperously
Etymology: From unprosperous + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an unprosperous manner.
uptightly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more uptightly
form: most uptightly
Etymology: From uptight + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Child-women were bowed and baby-dolled up to resemble decorative Easter eggs: newly and uptightly pregnant (a paragon of marital fidelity), half-crippled by feminine weakness and excess luxury, declawed and wholly dominated by the unstoppable twin libidos of war and Wall Street.
ref: 2009 May 7, Cintra Wilson, “Is There a Setting for High Strung?”, in New York Times:
glosses: In an uptight manner.
webheads
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of webhead
amphitheaterlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more amphitheaterlike
form: most amphitheaterlike
Etymology: From amphitheater + -like.
Senses: examples: text: Set in a shallow, amphitheaterlike depression, once a gravel pit supplying material for the Thruway, it covers 11 acres.
ref: 2009 May 8, Holland Cotter, “Where the Ocean Meets the Catskills”, in New York Times:
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of an amphitheater.
lexicometry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From lexico- + -metry.
Senses: examples: text: Various textual analyses are provided by a criminologist, an anthropologist, a researcher in lexicometry and a Talmudic exegete.
ref: 2009 May 8, The New York Times, “Art in Review”, in New York Times:
glosses: The measurement of the frequency with which words occur in text.
Derived terms: lexicometric
lexicometrical
exegeted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of exegete
exegeting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of exegete
parachutelike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more parachutelike
form: most parachutelike
Etymology: From parachute + -like.
Senses: examples: text: The Ice Bag, a parachutelike swell of nylon cloth capped by polyester resin, is an oversized, mechanized version of the classic headache remedy.
ref: 2009 May 8, Karen Rosenberg, “A Low-Cost Show Reinflates a Big Bag”, in New York Times:
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a parachute.
reconcilables
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of reconcilable
irreconcilables
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of irreconcilable
resettler
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: resettlers
Etymology: From resettle + -er.
Senses: examples: text: Cemre Jade, a 29-year-old Turkish-born sociologist working for Abkhazia’s Center for Strategic Studies, a government-financed policy research organization, hopes that Abkhazia can model its repatriation program on Israel’s, which offers resettlers a full package of support systems and benefits.
ref: 2009 May 8, Ellen Barry, “Abkhazia Lures Its Expatriates, Welcoming Them One by One”, in New York Times:
glosses: One who resettles.
resettlers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of resettler
underacknowledged
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more underacknowledged
form: most underacknowledged
Etymology: From under- + acknowledged.
Senses: examples: text: Dedicated to the many women who had been underacknowledged presences at the university since the 19th century, the stone was carved with an open-ended spiral of numbers, each marking the enrollment of women in the university in a given year, with 1969 footnoted: “Yale admitted women into the undergraduate college.”
ref: 2009 May 8, Holland Cotter, “Where the Ocean Meets the Catskills”, in New York Times:
glosses: Having received insufficient acknowledgement.