cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
shakerfuls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shakerful
tide pool
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tide pools
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of tidepool.
tide pools
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tide pool
mispurpose
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mispurposes
Etymology: From mis- + purpose.
Senses: examples: text: Lack of orientation, however, is where a great number of communications to others, and to ourselves, fall dead or go to mispurpose.
ref: 1972, Sol III Magazine, Volume 2, Issue 1:
glosses: An incorrect or inappropriate purpose.
muhammar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A traditional dish from Bahrain, consisting of rice seasoned with spices and date molasses.
glosses: Synonym of musakhan (“roast chicken dish”).
synonyms: word: musakhan
extra: roast chicken dish
mispurposes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mispurpose
Tien Shan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: tē-ěnʹ shänʹ
Senses: examples: text: In Ilí, the tsiángkiun has authority over[...]the Mohammedans of the Eight cities in Ilí south of the Tien Shán, who are under resident ministers of different degrees.
ref: [1851 June, Thomas Francis Wade, “The Army of the Chinese Empire”, in The Chinese Repository, volume XX, number 6, Canton, page 336:
text: We flew over the Tien-Shan mountains on an air route to Chungking opened in 1940.
ref: [1948, Henry A. Wallace, Andrew Jacob Steiger, Soviet Asia Mission, →OCLC, →OL, page 152:
text: Pending the completion of the Sinkiang railroad, the region is served by a number of major land routes that have been transportation links since ancient times. They are the North Road (north of the Tien Shan) passing from Kansu through Urumchi and Wusu, where it bifurcates into two routes going to the Soviet Union.
ref: 1956, Theodore Shabad, China's Changing Map: A Political and Economic Geography of The Chinese People's Republic, Frederick A. Praeger, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 256:
text: Work on the Tien Shan tunnel project at Tapancheng will also be advanced in the beginning of May.
ref: 1958, Survey of China Mainland Press, numbers 1762-1781, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 29:
text: In 1851, the Russians obtained important trade privileges on the Sino-Russian border and the right to establish factories and a Consulate at Kuldja north of the Tien Shan.
ref: 1964, G. J. Alder, British India's Northern Frontier 1865-1895: A Study in Imperial Policy, Longmans, Green & Co. Ltd., →OCLC, page 34:
text: Situated in the Soviet Union and China, the Tien Shan is about 1,500 mi. (2,500 km.) long, trending generally west-southwest to east-northeast.
ref: 1968, Theodore Shabad, “TIEN SHAN”, in Encyclopedia Britannica, volume 21, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 1138, column 2:
text: The first large-scale clash in Sinkiang occurred on January 26 at Shih-ho-tzu, a military outpost of eighty thousand inhabitants lying in the shadow of the massive Tien Shan range that separates China from the Soviet Union.
ref: 1972, Stanley Karnow, Mao and China: Inside China's Cultural Revolution, Penguin Books, published 1984, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 251:
text: Now a survey of the section from Urumchi to the Ala Shan Pass, on the Soviet border, has been finished, and the roadbed has reached the northern side of the T’ien Shan [23].
ref: [1974, D. J. Dwyer, editor, China Now: an Introductory Survey with Readings, Longman, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 222:
text: And if you're more interested in giving Mom an experience she'll never forget, why not give her a sixty-three hundred dollar per person trip to Kyrgyzstan riding horses in the magnificent Tien Shan Mountains with a relative of Leo Tolstoy.
ref: 2021 April 22, Stephen Colbert, 3:31 from the start, in Make Mother's Day Special With A Gift From Covetton House, A Late Show with Stephen Colbert:
glosses: Alternative spelling of Tian Shan.
Derived terms: tienshanite
interconnectible
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From inter- + connect + -ible.
Senses: examples: text: "I have an interconnectible LED light that was $75 that is a foot long but I could get a four-foot T5 fluorescent for $35 or $40," says Clowe.
ref: 2009 August 1, Jennifer Brown, “Lighting sheds bright ideas on space”, in Toronto Star:
glosses: Capable of being interconnected.
recessionitis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From recession + -itis.
Senses: glosses: A state of economic recession, regarded as a disease or ailment.
schoolyardish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more schoolyardish
form: most schoolyardish
Etymology: From schoolyard + -ish.
Senses: glosses: Characteristic of the schoolyard; puerile, bullying, gossipy, etc.
Tiepolesque
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Tiepolesque
form: most Tiepolesque
Etymology: From Tiepolo + -esque.
Senses: glosses: Resembling the work of the Italian painter Tiepolo
go down in flames
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: goes down in flames
form: going down in flames
form: went down in flames
form: gone down in flames
Etymology: Referencing aeroplanes being shot down. Attested since the early 20th century.
Senses: glosses: To fail miserably and with long-term consequences.
Related terms: go up in flames
Tigré
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Tigre.
go up in flames
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: goes up in flames
form: going up in flames
form: went up in flames
form: gone up in flames
Senses: synonyms: word: go up in smoke
word: catch on fire
word: catch fire
word: combust
word: conflagrate
word: fire
word: go up in flames
word: go up in smoke
word: ignite
word: light
word: spunk
word: take fire
qualifier: literal
glosses: To catch fire.
synonyms: burn down
burn up
come to nothing
end in smoke
go up in smoke
glosses: To be cancelled or ruined without any hope of return.
Related terms: go down in flames
nonratification
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From non- + ratification.
Senses: examples: text: And how inconceivable that council's majority would not see nonratification for the black eye it would be.
ref: 2009 July 31, Royson James, “The method in Miller's meltdown”, in Toronto Star:
glosses: Failure to ratify something.
recessionist
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more recessionist
form: most recessionist
Etymology: From recession + -ist.
Senses: examples: text: […] it will result in a slowdown of economic activity and will thus have a recessionist effect (the logical consequence of lower overall consumption and or lower overall investment), accompanied by structural changes.
ref: 2012, Bertrand Chateau, B. Lapillonne, Energy Demand: Facts and Trends: A Comparative Analysis of Industrialized ...:
glosses: Causing or relating to an economic recession.
migratorily
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From migratory + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a migratory manner.
boomerism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From boomer + -ism.
Senses: examples: text: Boomerism, then, was the most recent expression of the westering American spirit.
ref: 2009, Harold Bloom, Huck Finn, →ISBN, page 94:
text: Yet if the boosterism of the “dollar decade” had a sounder basis in reality than did the boomerism of the 1880s, there was ballyhoo in generous measure all the way from the Mason-Dixon Line to Florida's Gold Coast.
ref: 2014, Melissa Walker, James C. Cobb, The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture, →ISBN:
text: The hyper-masculinity, optimism and enthusiastic boomerism of the American frontier moulded the young Briton's character.
ref: 2016, Neil Evans, Huw Pryce, Writing a Small Nation's Past, →ISBN:
text: So I side with the mystics and think that the mechanists are caught in the boomerism of American hypercapitalism and are simply hawking their wares. In this unreflective boomerism of American hypercapitalism, one has to hype one's project to attract venture capital.
ref: 2017, William Irwin Thompson, Self and Society, →ISBN:
glosses: An optimistic form of American capitalism that focuses on one industry.
examples: text: Be warned against the tendency to build your young lives around anti-boomerism. In the end, it will be you that gets hurt, not the boomers.
ref: 1995, Mike Regele, Mark Schulz, Death of the Church, →ISBN, page 227:
text: Examples include: Bob Hope providing a queered alternative to World War II mythologies of maleness (something already addressed by Steven Cohan); Ierry Lewis's manic “femininity” as a reaction to 1950 sexual conservatism (as explored by Frank Krutnik); John Belushi embracing the runaway consumption of 1970 maleness; Bill Murray displaying the evolving cynicism of disillusioned baby boomers; Adam Sandler depicting a childish rage as a rejection of boomerism; and Ferrell often performing lampoons of previous generations of machismo.
ref: 2013, Scott Balcerzak, Buffoon Men: Classic Hollywood Comedians and Queered Masculinity, →ISBN:
text: The moment of rupture between the “hippie” and “yuppie” manifestations of baby boomerism is typically dated to the first presidential term of Ronald Reagan—or, even more specifically, to the moment when Reagan (a bastion of the older “greatest generation”) was shot by John Hinckley (a baby boomer) (Casale and Lerman 2002, 128).
ref: 2014, Brian Cogan, Thom Gencarelli, Baby Boomers and Popular Culture, →ISBN:
glosses: The behaviours and attitudes of baby boomers.
Napa
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈnæpə/
Etymology: From Patwin napo (“homeland”).
Senses: glosses: A city, the county seat of Napa County, California, United States.
glosses: A river in California, United States.
glosses: A surname.
Derived terms: Napa County
Napa Valley
disinfotainment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Blend of disinformation + infotainment
Senses: examples: text: The prospect of CBC Newsworld adopting the style and substance of CNN, and thus joining fully the world of "disinfotainment," is as depressing as it seems inevitable.
ref: 2009 August 7, “Stand up for intelligent news gathering”, in Toronto Star:
glosses: infotainment based on incorrect or misleading information
bushelful
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bushelfuls
form: bushelsful
Etymology: From bushel + -ful.
Senses: examples: text: While the radishes are popping up by the bushelful, the farmers still have to find steady customers.
ref: 2009 August 5, Catherine Porter, “Urban park sprouts a city farm”, in Toronto Star:
glosses: Enough to fill a bushel.
bushelsful
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bushelful
bushelfuls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bushelful
cyberoptimism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From cyber- + optimism.
Senses: examples: Near-synonym: techno-optimism
coordinate_terms: cyberutopianism#Noun
technodeterminism#Noun
techno-futurism#Noun
techno-utopianism#Noun
technophoria#Noun
glosses: The belief that computer technology and the Internet will have positive effects on society.
cyberpessimism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From cyber- + pessimism.
Senses: examples: Near-synonyms: technopessimism; technophobia, cyberphobia, computerphobia, Internetphobia
antonyms: cyberoptimism#Noun
;
techno-optimism#Noun
techno-utopianism#Noun
cyberutopianism#Noun
technophoria#Noun
technophilia#Noun
coordinate_terms: technodeterminism#Noun
techno-futurism#Noun
glosses: The belief that computer technology and the Internet will have negative effects on society.
Soroptimist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Soroptimists
Etymology: From Latin soror (“sister”) and optima (“best”). See also -ist.
Senses: glosses: A member of Soroptimist International (founded 1921), a worldwide volunteer service organization for professional women who work to improve the lives of women and girls.
Related terms: optimist
Soroptimists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Soroptimist
ununderstandably
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more ununderstandably
form: most ununderstandably
Etymology: From ununderstandable + -ly.
Senses: glosses: incomprehensibly
umngqusho
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Borrowed from Xhosa umngqusho.
Senses: examples: text: Research umngqusho, a South African dish and reportedly the favorite food of Nelson Mandela. Discuss the process of preparing umngqusho.
ref: 2004, Wanda Cobb Finnen, Talking Drums: Reading and Writing with African American Stories, Spirituals, and Multimedia Resources, page 146:
text: There are traditional dishes such as Mopani worms, mogodu or unbleached tripe; and umngqusho, which is braised beef shin with maize porridge, billed as former President Nelson Mandela's favourite dish.
ref: 2009 August 13, Celean Jacobson, “Cultural heart of Jo'burg”, in Toronto Star:
text: In many Xhosa households, Wednesday is umngqusho day. It's the way we all grew up. Like Fridays in the Eastern Cape are always dumplings with meat day.
ref: 2011, Xoliswa Ndoyiya, Ukutya Kwasekhaya: Tastes from Nelson Mandela's Kitchen, page 49:
glosses: A Bantu dish of maize and vegetables.
pikeyed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of pikey
pollenless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pollen + -less.
Senses: glosses: Lacking pollen.
mogodu
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: There are traditional dishes such as Mopani worms, mogodu or unbleached tripe; and umngqusho, which is braised beef shin with maize porridge, billed as former President Nelson Mandela's favourite dish.
ref: 2009 August 13, Celean Jacobson, “Cultural heart of Jo'burg”, in Toronto Star:
glosses: An African dish of offal.
pollinivores
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pollinivore
pollinivory
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From pollinivore + -ory.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: The consumption of pollen by animals.
Related terms: palynivore
pollinivore
pollinivorous
pollinivorous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɪvəɹəs
Forms: form: more pollinivorous
form: most pollinivorous
Etymology: From pollen + -i- + -vorous.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Feeding on pollen.
Related terms: palynivore
pollinivore
pollinivory
nectarivorous
kiawe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kiawes
form: keawe
Etymology: From Hawaiian kiawe.
Senses: examples: text: Some kiawes have no thorns but usually the youngest branches of the tree have thorns, which are bad for barefoot Island children.
ref: 1996, Peggy Hickok Hodge, Gardening in Hawaii, page 80:
text: Take time to look around at the dawning light that casts lovely shadows on the rock and the gnarly kiawe (a relative of mesquite) trees that line the dry canyon walls.
ref: 2009 August 20, Jim Byers, “The summit of Hawaiian beauty”, in Toronto Star:
glosses: Prosopis pallida, a species of mesquite tree.
kiawes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kiawe
polycephalic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From poly- + -cephalic.
Senses: glosses: Having more than one head.
Related terms: polycephaly
kumite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kumites
Etymology: From Japanese 組手.
Senses: examples: text: Baghbani won gold in kumite – a karate discipline – at the Pan Am Games and the USA Karate Open in Las Vegas in July.
ref: 2009 August 20, Kevin McGran, “Players tell officials to take radical changes back to the drawing board”, in Toronto Star:
glosses: The aspect of karate in which a person trains against an adversary, using the techniques learned from the kihon and kata.
femocracy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: femocracies
Senses: examples: text: Yet the critics of Hillary and the femocracy cannot let it lie.
ref: 2009 August 16, “Hot topic one issue, seven views”, in Toronto Star:
glosses: A feminist clique that focuses on its own interests rather than those of women in general.
Related terms: femocrat
femocratic
femocracies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of femocracy
maleocracy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: maleocracies
Etymology: From male + -ocracy.
Senses: examples: text: Heidi Hartmann (1981) discusses well the conflicting interests of capital and maleocracy, but describes these as two separate systems, one having classes and the other apparently having none.
ref: 1994, Julia Penelope, Out of the Class Closet: Lesbians Speak:
glosses: System of power dominated by males.
Related terms: femocracy
patriarchy
maleocracies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of maleocracy
femocratic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more femocratic
form: most femocratic
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to femocrats.
unspurious
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unspurious
form: most unspurious
Etymology: From un- + spurious.
Senses: glosses: Not spurious.
underexperienced
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more underexperienced
form: most underexperienced
Etymology: From under- + experienced.
Senses: examples: text: After I finally relent, one friend tells me that a single visit isn't good enough, that my inability to sample enough of the menu will leave me disappointed; overstuffed but underexperienced.
ref: 2009 August 15, Corey Mintz, “Montreal: The capital of heart-stopping cuisine”, in Toronto Star:
coordinate_terms: overexperienced
glosses: Having had insufficient experience.
Related terms: underqualified
backsplit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: backsplits
Etymology: From back + split.
Senses: examples: text: By the 1960s in North America sprawling ranchers and backsplits with attached garages had become common […]
ref: 1987, E. C. Relph, The Modern Urban Landscape: 1880 to the Present, page 174:
text: As for the tornado-struck house, a semi-detached backsplit, it was in need of significant repairs, and the Cammisas said their insurance company told them not to expect a speedy visit from the adjuster.
ref: 2009 August 22, Dave Feschuk, “First a tornado's swirl; then, a whirl of logistics”, in Toronto Star:
coordinate_terms: sidesplit
glosses: A split-level home whose split level is visible only from the side elevation.
backsplits
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of backsplit
Fox-Fordyce disease
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Named for George Henry Fox and John Addison Fordyce.
Senses: glosses: Apocrine miliaria: a chronic blockage of the sweat gland ducts with a secondary, non-bacterial inflammatory response to the secretions and cellular debris in the cysts.
visible Web
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the visible Web
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Synonym of Surface Web.
synonyms: word: Surface Web
visible web
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of visible Web.
surface web
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of surface Web.
braidable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more braidable
form: most braidable
Etymology: From braid + -able.
Senses: examples: text: The "neck" is not soft and braidable, the cloves are big and fat, there's a round basal plate at the root, and the content of allicin (a healthful compound) is five times that of offshore garlic, Rowe boasts.
ref: 2009 August 26, Susan Sampson, “Touring Ontario's West Coast”, in Toronto Star:
glosses: Capable of being braided.
Derived terms: unbraidable
lambda abstraction
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lambda abstractions
Senses: topics: computing
computing-theory
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A lambda term of the form (λx.t) where x is a variable and t another lambda term. Any free instance of x within t (considered by itself) then becomes bound by the λx. prefix. It is meant to represent an anonymous function.
lambda term
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lambda terms
Senses: examples: text: A lambda term can have one of these three forms: (1) a variable by itself, (2) a lambda abstraction, (3) an application of one lambda term to another one.
topics: computing
computing-theory
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A well-formed formula in the language of a lambda calculus.
Synonyms: lambda expression
Hyponyms: lambda abstraction
preplanner
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: preplanners
Senses: examples: text: Typical clients for green funerals are preplanners over 50 who have been environmentally conscious for years, he says.
ref: 2009 August 25, Carola Vyhnak, “Leaving no mark when your time comes”, in Toronto Star:
glosses: One who plans something in advance.
preplanners
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of preplanner
sileage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sileages
Senses: examples: text: "We're doing barley, grain, alfalfa, red clover hay and sileage, and not one drop of hormones or antibiotics."
ref: 2009 September 2, Keith Gordon, “Tender, tasty and expensive”, in Toronto Star:
glosses: Alternative form of silage.
sileages
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sileage
alpha conversion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: alpha conversions
Senses: topics: computing
computing-theory
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: One of the three rewrite rules of lambda calculus, in which a bound variable of a lambda term is replaced by another variable across its entire scope. So if there is a lambda term of the form (λx.t) and it is desired to have x replaced with y, then the rewritten lambda term would have the form (λy.t[y/x]) where t[y/x], "t with y instead of x", has had all free instances of x in t replaced with y.
Coordinate terms: beta reduction
eta conversion
viticulturalist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: viticulturalists
Etymology: From viticultural + -ist.
Senses: examples: text: Winemakers and viticulturalists from Burgundy (Groupe Michel Picard) as well as Argentina and Australia have created new and old world-styled VQA wines at a new winery called Domaine Equifera Estate in Niagara-on-the-Lake.
ref: 2009 September 2, Gord Stimmell, “Niagara winery mixes old and new world styles”, in Toronto Star:
glosses: Synonym of viticulturist.
synonyms: word: viticulturist
viticulturalists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of viticulturalist
vibrable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: vibratable
Etymology: From vibra(te) + -able.
Senses: glosses: Able to be vibrated.
eta conversion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: eta conversions
Senses: topics: computing
computing-theory
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: One of the three rewrite rules of lambda calculus, which expresses a sort of tautology about function application. The rule says that a lambda abstraction of the form (λx.(fx)) may be rewritten as simply f, provided that x does not occur freely in f (considered by itself).
Coordinate terms: alpha conversion
beta reduction
vicarish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more vicarish
form: most vicarish
Etymology: From vicar + -ish.
Senses: glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a vicar.
vicennium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vicennia
form: vicenniums
Etymology: From Latin vicennium, from vīcennis (“20-year”) + -ium, from vīciēs (“20 times”) + annus (“year”) + -is (suffix forming compound adjectives). Equivalent to vicennial + -ium.
Senses: glosses: A period of twenty years.
Derived terms: vicennial
Related terms: vicennalia
k'atun
annum (1 year)
biennium
triennium
quadrennium
quinquennium
sexennium
septennium
octennium
novennium
decennium
tricennium
centennium (100)
quincentennium (500)
millennium (1000)
decamillennium (10,000)
centimillennium (100,000)
millionennium (1,000,000)
vicennia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of vicennium
vich
Language: English
Part of speech: det
Senses: glosses: Pronunciation spelling of which.
hakureis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hakurei
Vietnamization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Vietnamizations
Etymology: From Vietnam + -ization.
Senses: glosses: The process of becoming more Vietnamese.
examples: text: Plans for the Vietnamization of the war effort call for the turnover of only a small fraction of the equipment now being used by United States forces here.
ref: 1969 August 17, James P. Sterba, “Most Materiel in Vietnam To Go With U.S. Forces”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
text: Actually, the President went along with Laird's idea of "Vietnamization." By this was meant the gradual building up and training of South Vietnamese forces until they would be able to carry the combat responsibility without our troop involvement. That made a lot of sense, but it also required us to carry on a strong war effort until the South Vietnamese could take over. Vietnamization should have begun the moment President Kennedy put our first American soldier into Vietnam.
ref: 1980, Spiro Agnew, Go Quietly . . . Or Else, New York: William Morrow and Company, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 28:
glosses: Especially, the U.S. government policy of reducing American involvement in the Vietnam War by replacing American troops with Vietnamese troops.
examples: text: The post-Second World War movies said that villainy would be punished and goodness would triumph; the decencies would be respected. But movies don't say that anymore; the Vietnamization of American movies is nearly complete. Today, movies say that the system is corrupt, that the whole thing stinks, and they've been saying this steadily since the mid-sixties.
ref: 1973, Pauline Kael, The New Yorker:
glosses: A growth of cynicism, disenchantment or belief in corruption such as the American citizenry experienced over the course of the Vietnam War.
Related terms: Afghanization
Iraqification
Vietnamize
Vietnamizations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Vietnamization
vagarous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more vagarous
form: most vagarous
Senses: examples: text: When in its exercise a trustee is not vagarous, his decision is final.
ref: 1912, Henry Clay Brubaker, Charles Israel Landis, George Ross Eshleman, The Lancaster Law Review, Volume 29:
glosses: That is characterized by vagary.
Vietnamisation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Vietnamisations
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Vietnamization.
viewably
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From viewable + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a viewable way.
tweetless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From tweet + -less.
Senses: examples: text: The senator has been tweetless since last weekend […]
ref: 2009 September 10, Gail Collins, “So Much for Civility”, in New York Times:
glosses: Without tweets.
psychopathologize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: psychopathologizes
form: psychopathologizing
form: psychopathologized
form: psychopathologized
Etymology: From psychopathology + -ize.
Senses: examples: text: It's a pity that even satyric Italians are now subscribing to the psychopathologizing of lust, when every act outside the alleged norm is deemed worthy of intervention treatment by the Dr. Phils of the world.
ref: 2009 September 7, Rosie DiManno, “Now Silvio Berlusconi crosses the Vatican”, in Toronto Star:
glosses: To bring into the realm of psychopathology; to treat as a mental disorder.
psychopathologized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of psychopathologize
psychopathologizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of psychopathologize
psychopathologizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of psychopathologize
bookrunner
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bookrunners
Etymology: From book + runner.
Senses: examples: text: Fairfax said it had entered into an agreement with a syndicate of underwriters co-led by CIBC, which will be the sole bookrunner, Bank of America Merrill Lynch and Scotia Capital, for the $1 billion offering.
ref: 2009 September 9, “Fairfax to raise $1B to reacquire Odyssey”, in Toronto Star:
glosses: The main underwriter or manager in equity, debt, or hybrid securities issuances, who syndicates with other investment banks in order to lower the risk.
bookrunners
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bookrunner
bookrunning
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From book + running.
Senses: glosses: The work done by a bookrunner.
sumbich
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sumbiches
Senses: examples: text: That sumbich is too old to still be working down at the station.
ref: 2006, Geralyn Dawson, Give Him the Slip:
glosses: Alternative form of sumbitch.
sumbiches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sumbich
in virtue of which
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: by which
constructionistic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more constructionistic
form: most constructionistic
Etymology: From construction + -istic.
Senses: glosses: Of, or related to constructionism.
cyberpaths
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cyberpath
hogless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From hog + -less.
Senses: examples: text: As she puts it, "The flat green world of my parents' hogless, horseless farm – its dullness, its flies, its quiet ripped open daily by the fumes and whining of machinery – twisted away and left me with a brilliant city life of books and films and witty friends."
ref: 2009 September 6, Barbara Carey, “The trials of mid-America”, in Toronto Star:
glosses: Without hogs.
schlocker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: schlockers
Etymology: From schlock + -er.
Senses: examples: text: Soon she acquired a cult following after appearing in a string of low-budget Roger Corman schlockers.
ref: 2006, SPIN, volume 22, number 4:
text: Lars von Trier calls his horror schlocker about a couple facing ghoulies in the woods his most important film, but he can barely keep a straight face.
ref: 2009 September 6, “TIFF reviews: Coming attractions”, in Toronto Star:
glosses: A schlocky film or other work.
schlockers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of schlocker
wisdumb
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Blend of wisdom + dumb
Senses: examples: text: Upon my glorious ISP homepage is a wonderful piece of wisdumb […]
ref: 2008, Allan A. Zarbock, The Emperor is Naked, page 58:
glosses: foolishness
exurbian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more exurbian
form: most exurbian
Senses: examples: text: The author writes that such huge abandoned stores will “dot the exurbian and rural landscape from coast to coast” when gas reaches $14 a gallon.
ref: 2009 September 6, Devin Leonard, “Visions of an Energy-Starved World”, in New York Times:
glosses: Synonym of exurban.
synonyms: word: exurban
lenshound
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lenshounds
Etymology: From lens + hound.
Senses: examples: text: A tip of the hat to your newspaper's lenshounds and their first-class job in capturing the essence of the CNE air show.
ref: 2009 September 10, “Lenshounds fly high at air show”, in Toronto Star:
glosses: A press photographer.
lenshounds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lenshound
talab
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: talabs
Etymology: Borrowed from Hindi तालाब (tālāb), from Persian تالاب (tâlâb).
Senses: examples: text: Harish, whose foundation provides villages with some of the building costs for tankas and talabs, grins as she relates the story.
ref: 2009 September 13, Rick Westhead, “India: Will the tap run dry?”, in Toronto Star:
glosses: A pond for harvesting rainwater.
talabs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of talab
cardiopulmonologist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cardiopulmonologists
Etymology: From cardiopulmonology + -ist.
Senses: examples: text: She is a daughter of the late Elaine M. Cohen and the late Dr. Burton M. Cohen, who lived in Basking Ridge, N.J. Her father, a cardiopulmonologist, was in private practice in Elizabeth, N.J.
ref: 2009 September 13, “Suzanne Cohen, Janet Chan”, in New York Times:
glosses: One who studies cardiopulmonology.
cardiopulmonologists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cardiopulmonologist
disposophobic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more disposophobic
form: most disposophobic
Senses: examples: text: In 1954, the impetuous writer and critic Marcia Davenport (she titled her autobiography “Too Strong for Fantasy”) mined their biography for melodrama in her novel “My Brother’s Keeper,” in which a passionate opera singer drives two brothers to disposophobic lunacy.
ref: 2009 September 13, Liesl Schillinger, “The Odd Couple”, in New York Times:
glosses: Exhibiting or relating to disposophobia.
kalamarakia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Greek καλαμαράκια (kalamarákia).
Senses: glosses: A Greek dish of deep-fried squid.
loukaniko
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Greek λουκάνικο (loukániko, “pork sausage”). Doublet of lucanica.
Senses: glosses: A Greek sausage flavoured with orange peel, fennel seed, and other seasonings, and sometimes smoked over aromatic wood.
symphonics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: This neo-progressive British band gets better whenever it expands its ambitions, and for its fifth album, “The Resistance,” it is going all out: bombastic rock symphonics, dystopian electronic boogies, Chopin quotations, visions of pan-Eurasian political unification.
ref: 2009 September 13, The New York Times, “Hope and Regret, Recorded and Live”, in New York Times:
glosses: symphonic effects in music
growth hackers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of growth hacker
midclick
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From mid- + click.
Senses: examples: text: Should it come down to the final hole, as two of the three playoff tournaments have, that could very well stop some channel surfers in midclick.
ref: 2009 September 21, Larry Dorman, “This Year, Golf’s FedEx Cup Finale Promises Some Excitement”, in New York Times:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A point in time when the user is clicking something.
midclick
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From mid- + click.
Senses: examples: text: This behavior makes it easy for users to change their minds midclick.
ref: 2003, Eric Eaton, Designing Web Site Interface Elements, page 77:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: While the user is clicking something.
gooniest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of goony: most goony
goonier
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: Today, the Leafs are destined to be one of the NHL's goonier teams, a club dominated by North American talent and muscle, a team that surely has a distinct personality sculpted entirely by Burke.
ref: 2009 September 20, Damien Cox, “Leafs taking shape on and off ice”, in Toronto Star:
glosses: comparative form of goony: more goony
upback
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: upbacks
Etymology: From up + back.
Senses: examples: text: But long snapper Steve Schmidt hit upback Bryan Crawford with the snap and Jason Arakgi recovered for the Lions at the Argo eight.
ref: 2009 September 20, Chris Zelkovich, “Disastrous start too much for Argos”, in Toronto Star:
topics: American-football
ball-games
football
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A blocking back who lines up approximately 1-3 yards behind the line of scrimmage in punting situations.
Synonyms: punt protector
personal protector
upbacks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of upback
ultrafabulous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more ultrafabulous
form: most ultrafabulous
Etymology: From ultra- + fabulous.
Senses: examples: text: For the last several seasons, aspirational television — shows like “Lipstick Jungle,” “Cashmere Mafia,” “Dirty Sexy Money” and “Big Shots” — has pressed audiences to connect with characters who lead ultrafabulous lives.
ref: 2009 September 20, Megan Angelo, “Reinventing TV as Viewers Reinvent Life”, in New York Times:
glosses: Wholly fabulous; wonderful.
outrap
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: outraps
form: outrapping
form: outrapped
form: outrapped
Etymology: From out- + rap.
Senses: examples: text: And on “The Jay Leno Show” his performance of “Run This Town” was swallowed whole by Mr. West, who outrapped him and outemoted him all at once.
ref: 2009 September 17, Jon Caramanica, “The Anxiety of Being Influential”, in New York Times:
glosses: To surpass in rapping (speaking lyrics in rap music); to rap better than.
outrapped
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of outrap
outraps
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of outrap
outrapping
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of outrap
bikeshare
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bikeshares
Etymology: From bike + share.
Senses: examples: text: Much remains to be done, but the bikeshare scheme – impossible with a helmet law – has contributed to a qualitative leap in the number of people commuting to work, school and activities by bicycle, in normal city clothing.
ref: 2009 September 19, “Will licences, helmets make cycling safer?”, in Toronto Star:
glosses: A service by which bicycles are made available for shared use to individuals on a very short-term basis, allowing them to borrow a bicycle at one location and return it at another.
bikeshares
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bikeshare
lobolo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lobolos
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of lobola.
lobolos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lobolo
sit-lie
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: 2011, Jim James Yonazi, Eliamani Sedoyeka, Ezendu Ariwa, e-Technologies and Networks for Development: First International Conference ...
From the slow movement across normal to move quickly, which represented the sit-lie exercise.
glosses: That is related to sitting and lying.
spacewards
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From space + -wards.
Senses: examples: text: There's nothing to do but attempt the Hail Mary pass of shipping vast loads of humanity spacewards in the hope of finding more hospitable climes elsewhere in the galaxy.
ref: 2009 September 25, Peter Howell, “Surrogates and Pandorum: Clones of sci-fi classics”, in Toronto Star:
glosses: towards outer space
megaloud
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more megaloud
form: most megaloud
Etymology: From mega- + loud.
Senses: examples: text: The music of Sunn O))), despite the band’s typographical karate, despite its ability to seduce a large crowd into attending late-night shows of megaloud compositions with static guitar tones and Hungarian battle cries, despite its wall of mystery, is not higher math.
ref: 2009 September 24, Ben Ratliff, “Two Bands, a Million Decibels”, in New York Times:
glosses: Extremely loud.
bloviant
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more bloviant
form: most bloviant
Etymology: From blow + -i- + -ant, by analogy with deviant. See bloviate.
Senses: examples: text: For strained metaphor this has not been equaled since a bloviant congressman began his eulogy upon Senator Vance with the words […]
ref: 1919, Celebration Legal Essays: To Mark the Twenty-fifth Year of Service of John H ...:
glosses: Tending to bloviate.
striploins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of striploin
scrapbooky
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more scrapbooky
form: most scrapbooky
Etymology: From scrapbook + -y.
Senses: examples: text: The scrapbooky style of Hardcore Logo and the memoir-slash-screenplay format of American Whiskey Bar demonstrate his ability to successfully deliver a story in jigsaw increments.
ref: 2009 September 27, Ryan Bigge, “A snapshot carousel delivers in increments”, in Toronto Star:
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a scrapbook.
gopchang
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Borrowed from Korean 곱창 (gopchang), a compound of 곱 (gop; mucous discharge, fat) + 창 (chang; intestines, guts).
Senses: glosses: A Korean dish of grilled intestines of cattle or pork.
gourmania
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Blend of gourmet + mania
Senses: examples: text: Sliced any way, however, gourmania means big business.
ref: 1970, Business Week, numbers 2114-2121, page 284:
text: Writer Judith Moore remembers "gourmania" sweeping her Oregon college town in the 1970s as adventurous gourmets strove to outdo each other with Greek or Provençal menus, complete with home-butchered rabbit.
ref: 2009 October 6, Amy Pataki, “Foodies mourning Gourmet”, in Toronto Star:
glosses: Enthusiasm for preparing and/or eating good food.
strollable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more strollable
form: most strollable
Etymology: From stroll + -able.
Senses: examples: text: All the commissioned artworks were condensed into a very manageable area, so it was possible to visit all the featured works in Zones A and B – downtown, roughly from Dundas St. to the CN Tower – on foot, then bike or bus it to Liberty Village for the equally strollable Zone C.
ref: 2009 October 5, Ariel Teplitsky, “From tower to toilet, another bonne Nuit”, in Toronto Star:
glosses: Suitable for strolling.
unreassurable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unreassurable
form: most unreassurable
Etymology: From un- + reassurable.
Senses: examples: text: Following the suicide of his apparently unreassurable wife, Bunny takes to the road with 9-year-old Bunny Jr., and that road is a one-way expressway to oblivion.
ref: 2009 October 4, Geoff Pevere, “The Death of Bunny Munro presents debauched anti-hero”, in Toronto Star:
glosses: That cannot be reassured.
azadirachtolide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Recently, the tetranortriterpenoid meliacinolin and azadirachtolide isolated from A.
ref: 2015 October 16, “Gedunin and Azadiradione: Human Pancreatic Alpha-Amylase Inhibiting Limonoids from Neem (Azadirachta indica) as Anti-Diabetic Agents”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: A macrolide derived from azadirachtin
tetralingual
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɪŋɡwəl
Etymology: From tetra- + lingual.
Senses: glosses: Able to read or speak four languages.
glosses: Expressed or written in four languages.
Synonyms: quadrilingual
azadiradione
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Of the nine limonoids isolated/semi-synthesized from A.indica and screened for α-amylase inhibition, azadiradione and exhibited potential inhibition with an IC 50 value of 74.17 and 68.38 μM, respectively against HPA under in vitro conditions.
ref: 2015 October 16, “Gedunin and Azadiradione: Human Pancreatic Alpha-Amylase Inhibiting Limonoids from Neem (Azadirachta indica) as Anti-Diabetic Agents”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: The limonoid [17-(furan-3-yl)-4,4,8,10,13-pentamethyl-3,16-dioxo-6,7,9,11,12,17-hexahydro-5H-cyclopenta[a]phenanthren-7-yl] acetate
Derived terms: epoxyazadiradione
bisulfated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: Adapter-linked DNA fragments were bisulfated using the EZ DNA Methylation Kit (Zymo), as per the manufacturer’s protocol.
ref: 2015 October 16, “Genome-Wide Epigenetic Regulation of Gene Transcription in Maize Seeds”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: simple past and past participle of bisulfate
epoxyazadiradione
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From epoxy- + azadiradione.
Senses: examples: text: These compounds were found to be cytotoxic at IC 50 values of 11.1, 13.4 and 4.1 μM for azadiradione, gedunin and epoxyazadiradione, respectively while exhibiting amylase inhibition of 70.1, 69.2 and 53.2%.
ref: 2015 October 16, “Gedunin and Azadiradione: Human Pancreatic Alpha-Amylase Inhibiting Limonoids from Neem (Azadirachta indica) as Anti-Diabetic Agents”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: A limonoid that is an epoxy derivative of azadiradione
eremomycin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: For HPLC separation of the 4a/4b mixture, a hybrid sorbent (silica gel with immobilized eremomycin) was chosen.
ref: 2015 October 16, “Polyanionic Carboxyethyl Peptide Nucleic Acids ( ce -PNAs): Synthesis and DNA Binding”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: An antibiotic related to vancomycin
angelicity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From angel + -icity.
Senses: examples: text: The intellectual realization of his angelicity becomes, consequently, the soul's goal.
ref: 2013, Maria De Cillis, Free Will and Predestination in Islamic Thought: Theoretical Compromises in ...:
glosses: The quality of being an angel, or resembling an angel.
topics: mathematics
sciences
topology
glosses: The quality of a Hausdorff space of being angelic.
angelicality
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From angelical + -ity.
Senses: examples: text: In the case of the prophets, this preparedness is a preparedness to exchange humanity for pure angelicality, which is the highest rank of spiritualia.
ref: 1966, Revue Internationale de Parapsychologie, Volume 8:
glosses: The state or condition of being an angel.
ctors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ctor
unrelatability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From un- + relatability.
Senses: glosses: The quality of not being relatable.
medicolegality
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From medico- + legality.
Senses: examples: text: From the standpoints of efficient use and medicolegality, these samples should be stored where they are safe but accessible, and should be dispensed with proper instructions and identifying data.
ref: 1987, Canadian Family Physician, volume 33:
glosses: The quality of being medicolegal