cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
Baghdad by the Bay
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Baghdad-by-the-Bay
Etymology: Coined by American columnist Herb Caen in the late 1940s, likely reflecting the multiculturalism and exotic character of the city, while also identifying the city with a great historical cultural and intellectual center, as well as possibly implying a moral association with Babylon.
Senses: glosses: San Francisco (a city in California).
Synonyms: word: San Fran
word: Frisco
word: The City
word: The City by the Bay
word: The City That Knows How
wheatmeal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wheatmeals
Etymology: From wheat + meal.
Senses: examples: text: 1586, Raphael Holinshed and William Harrison, Holinshed's Chronicles, Volume I, Book II, Chapter VI, "Of the Food and Diet of the English" http://www.gutenberg.org/files/42506/42506-h/42506-h.htm
Bruing of beere. Hauing therefore groond eight bushels of good malt vpon our querne, where the toll is saued, she addeth vnto it halfe a bushell of wheat meale, and so much of otes small groond, and so tempereth or mixeth them with the malt, that you cannot easilie discerne the one from the other, otherwise these later would clunter, fall into lumps, and thereby become vnprofitable.
text: The bran of wheat-meal steeped in sharp vinegar, and then bound in a linen cloth, and rubbed on those places that have the scurf, morphew, scabs, or leprosy, will take them away, the body being first well purged and prepared.
ref: 1653, Nicholas Culpeper, The Complete Herbal in Culpeper's English Physician; and Complete Herbal, London: C. Stalker, 1790, p. 385, https://archive.org/details/mobot31753000789682
text: No, he would take up land as near this homestead as possible, and build a brick house on it. And he would have a number of fine horses, better than anyone else's, and some sheep that would pay, and a few cows. Always milk and butter with the wheat-meal damper.
ref: 1924, D. H. Lawrence, Mollie Skinner, chapter 9, in The Boy in the Bush, New York: Viking, page 142:
text: Their exquisitely moulded faces were the colour of wheatmeal porridge slightly browned, with numerous freckles as the bran.
ref: 1938, Xavier Herbert, chapter XIII, in Capricornia, New York: D. Appleton-Century, published 1943, page 209:
hypernyms: meal
flour
coordinate_terms: wheat flour[Appendix:Glossary#broadly|broadly]] synonymous>
;
cornmeal
cornflour
oatmeal
maizemeal
ricemeal
rice flour
barleymeal
glosses: Meal (flour or flourlike product) derived from whole grains of wheat, often not finely ground.
wellie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wellies
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of welly.
equative
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: ēkwāʹtĭv
enpr: ĕkʹwətĭv
ipa: /i(ː)ˈkweɪtɪv/
ipa: /ˈɛkwətɪv/
rhymes: -eɪtɪv
rhymes: -ɛkwətɪv
Etymology: From equate + -ive.
Senses: glosses: Having the power to equate (make equal) two things.
Derived terms: equative case
equative degree
equatively
equative sentence
equative
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: ēkwāʹtĭv
enpr: ĕkʹwətĭv
ipa: /i(ː)ˈkweɪtɪv/
ipa: /ˈɛkwətɪv/
rhymes: -eɪtɪv
rhymes: -ɛkwətɪv
Forms: form: equatives
head_nr: 1
Etymology: From equate + -ive.
Senses: topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
head_nr: 2
glosses: A grammatical construction using an adjective or an adverb in the comparative of equality (also called "equative degree").
topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
head_nr: 2
glosses: An adjective or adverb in the equative form.
topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
head_nr: 2
glosses: The equative case.
equatives
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of equative
NAFAIK
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: Initialism of not as far as I know.
Related terms: AFAIK
pathography
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɒɡɹəfi
Forms: form: pathographies
Etymology: From patho- + -graphy.
Senses: examples: text: Though this has been an era of magisterial biographies by such writers as Leon Edel, Richard Ellmann, Joseph Frank, Judith Thurman and Justin Kaplan, among others, it has also evolved a new subspecies of the genre to which the name "pathography" might usefully be given: hagiography's diminished and often prurient twin.
ref: [1988 August 28, Joyce Carol Oates, “Adventures in Abandonment”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
text: One would think there is little to be added, if only because of the avalanche of books — biographies, meta-biographies, pathographies (to borrow Joyce Carol Oates’s term), memoirs, critical studies, letters, journals, novels — that have been published about Plath since her suicide (which, for some people, is the only thing they know about her).
ref: 2020 October 27, Daphne Merkin, “Shifting the Focus From Sylvia Plath’s Tragic Death to Her Brilliant Life”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
glosses: A biography that highlights the negative aspects of its subject's life.
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A biography that explores the effects of a disease on its subject's life.
Derived terms: autopathography
pathographic
psychopathography
re-let
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: re-lets
form: re-letting
form: re-let
form: re-let
Etymology: From re- + let.
Senses: examples: text: The EMR HST fleet should by now have been replaced by electric multiple units that would have been ordered had the East Midlands franchise been re-let in 2014 as planned, rather than being the subject of a succession of Direct Awards.
ref: 2020 August 12, Richard Clinnick, “Network News: Dispensation extension for EMR HSTs and Welsh Pacers”, in Rail, page 16:
glosses: To let anew (as a house).
demobilisations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of demobilisation
hogsucker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hogsuckers
Etymology: From hog + sucker.
Senses: synonyms: hogmolly
northern hogsucker
glosses: Hypentelium nigricans, a species of fish found throughout the Mississippi river basin, growing up to two feet in length.
redhorse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: redhorses
Etymology: From red + horse. So named because of the red fins on many species, although the animal's similarity to a horse is unclear.
Senses: examples: text: Another thing: most native Ozarkers actually prefer suckers to either bass or trout, and will regularly pass up game fish in order to strike at a big redhorse or hogmolly!
ref: 2017, Vance Randolph, Robert Cochran, The Ozarks: An American Survival of Primitive Society, page 235:
glosses: Any of various ray-finned fish in the genus Moxostoma.
Hyponyms: bigeye jumprock
blackfin sucker
black redhorse
blacktail redhorse
blacktip jumprock
copper redhorse
golden redhorse
gray redhorse
greater jumprock
harelip sucker
longlip jumprock
mascota jumprock
Mexican redhorse
notchlip redhorse
pealip redhorse
river redhorse
rustyside sucker
shorthead redhorse
silver redhorse
smallfin redhorse
smallmouth redhorse
V-lip redhorse
sesamoiditis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From sesamoid + -itis.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: Inflammation of a sesamoid bone, usually in the foot.
arenophile
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: arenophiles
Etymology: From areno- + -phile.
Senses: glosses: One who collects sand samples as a hobby.
examples: text: It seems to be a characteristic arenophile. Not common in Holderness except on the morainic gravels, being the chief plant on Coneygarth Hill, near Brandesburton.
ref: 1902, James Fraser Robinson, The Flora of the East Riding of Yorkshire, page 161:
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: A plant that thrives in or requires a sandy environment to grow.
Synonyms: psammophile
Related terms: arenophilic
psammophile
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsæməfaɪl/
Forms: form: psammophiles
Etymology: From psammo- (“sand-”) + -phile.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: An arenophile, a sand-loving organism.
Related terms: psammophilous
psammophiles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of psammophile
inaugurals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of inaugural
noncardiac
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + cardiac.
Senses: examples: text: There has been a decline in noncardiac deaths this year.
glosses: Not cardiac; not related to the heart.
free software
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: [Richard Stallman's] work inspired many others to contribute free software under the GPL.
ref: 1999, Chris DiBona, Sam Ockman, Mark Stone, editors, Open Sources: Voices from the Open Source Revolution, O'Reilly Media, page 173:
text: Simply put, Free Software is software that you can use, modify, and share with virtually no restrictions. Although it's often distributed free of charge—occasionally referred to as “free as in beer”—Free Software is not to be confused with “freeware.”
ref: 2010, Jason van Gumster, Robert Shimonski, GIMP Bible, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 4:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
software
synonyms: libre software
libreware
freedomware
antonyms: proprietary software
non-free software
glosses: Software that can be freely copied, redistributed and modified, including source code; software that is libre.
examples: text: At the very least, good free software can reduce the total cost of entering the microworld. But it may also enable you to equip your system with more memory, more power, and more peripherals than you could afford if you had to sink hundreds of dollars into commercial programs.
ref: 1984, Alfred Glossbrenner, How to Get Free Software […] , St. Martin's Press, →ISBN, page xvi:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
software
synonyms: freeware
glosses: Any software that is free of charge, such as freeware.
Related terms: open content
open source
tropicbirds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tropicbird
tropicbird
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈtɹɒ.pɪkˌbɜɹd/
Forms: form: tropicbirds
Etymology: From tropic + bird.
Senses: glosses: Any of the various seabirds of the order Phaethontiformes, typically found in the open ocean in the tropics
Derived terms: red-tailed tropicbird
moneymen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of moneyman
noddies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of noddy
noddies
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of noddy
moneyman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: moneymen
form: money man
Etymology: From money + man.
Senses: examples: text: No moneyman can win my love / It's sweetness that I'm thinking of
ref: 1988, “Buffalo Stance”, performed by Neneh Cherry:
text: Most of the attention lately has gone to the scoundrels, scam artists and supposedly genius moneymen who have dragged us into the worst economic debacle ever experienced by any American under the age of 70.
ref: 2009 January 6, Clyde Haberman, “We Know About the Mess. Please, Clean Up Carefully.”, in New York Times:
glosses: Someone tasked with handling money, often specifically a financier.
gender blind
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more gender blind
form: most gender blind
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of gender-blind.
bit intervals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bit interval
bit rates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bit rate
parcellations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of parcellation
cattle stations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cattle station
photoengraves
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of photoengrave
photoengravings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of photoengraving
photoengraved
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of photoengrave
pinealocytes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pinealocyte
placations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of placation
precompresses
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of precompress
precompressing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of precompress
precompressed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of precompress
precompression
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: precompressions
Etymology: From pre- + compression.
Senses: examples: text: In an engine, precompression is necessary before ignition.
glosses: Compression applied prior to something.
precompressions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of precompression
previsioning
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of prevision
previsioned
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of prevision
philologer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: philologers
Etymology: Either from Latin philologus or Ancient Greek φιλόλογος (philólogos) + -er.
Senses: examples: text: Philologers of future ages,
How will they pore upon thy pages!
ref: c. 1721, “George-Nim-Dan-Dean's Answer”, in The Poems of Jonathan Swift, D.D., Vol. II, Jonathan Swift:
text: The lexicographer Suidas enumerates the works of Horapollo, the philologer and commentator on Greek poetry.
ref: 1887, Georg Ebers, The Bride of the Nile, Preface:
text: In his articles Schultz specifically criticized "philologer-poets" and their loose, poetic, literary approach to studying and translating Oriental texts.
ref: 2003, Douglas T. McGetchin, “Wilting Florists: The Turbulent Early Decades of the Societe Asiatique, 1822-1860”, in Journal of the History of Ideas, volume 64, number 4, page 570:
glosses: A philologist.
international airport
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: international airports
Senses: glosses: An airport that accepts international flights.
systemwide
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: system-wide
Etymology: From system + -wide.
Senses: examples: text: With the changes to federal and state public health guidance and the end of the federal Public Health Emergency on May 11, 2023, UC is moving to a systemwide COVID-19 vaccination opt-out program for UC students and employees.
ref: 2023 May 25, “UC updating COVID-19 vaccination policy to systemwide opt-out program”, in UCNet:
glosses: Throughout a system.
systemwide
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: system-wide
Etymology: From system + -wide.
Senses: glosses: Throughout a system.
idempotently
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From idempotent + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an idempotent way.
Sevan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /seˈvɑːn/
Etymology: From Armenian Սեւան (Sewan).
Senses: glosses: large freshwater mountain lake in Armenia
glosses: formerly an island in the northwestern part of Lake Sevan in Armenia, which was transformed into a peninsula after the artificial draining during the Soviet era
Derived terms: Sevan trout
idempotency
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Latin roots, idem (“same”) + potency (“power”).
Senses: examples: text: The electron number constraint unlike the idempotency constraint can be represented by a single equation. For this reason, one can properly incorporate this constraint using a Lagrange multiplier and defining an effective chemical potential
ref: 1997, Christopher Alan White, The Development of Ab Initio Methods for the Treatment of Large Molecules:
glosses: Idempotence.
preparers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of preparer
regionwide
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: region-wide
Etymology: From region + -wide.
Senses: glosses: Throughout a region.
regionwide
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: region-wide
Etymology: From region + -wide.
Senses: glosses: Throughout a region.
cracklingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more cracklingly
form: most cracklingly
Etymology: From crackling + -ly.
Senses: glosses: With a crackling sound.
bluesier
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of bluesy: more bluesy
bluesiest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of bluesy: most bluesy
bluesiness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From bluesy + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or condition of being bluesy.
directionless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more directionless
form: most directionless
Etymology: From direction + -less.
Senses: examples: text: “Rolling Stone” is spacious and ethereal but not directionless — it is R&B that privileges mood over structure, soft daubs of feeling over authoritative belting.
ref: 2022 July 20, Jon Caramanica, “R&B That Sweats, Emotionally and Physically”, in The New York Times:
glosses: Lacking direction; aimless.
Derived terms: directionlessly
directionlessness
funkily
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more funkily
form: most funkily
Etymology: From funky + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a funky manner.
groovily
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more groovily
form: most groovily
Etymology: From groovy + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a groovy manner.
whackily
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more whackily
form: most whackily
Etymology: From whacky + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a whacky manner.
jobcentre
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: jobcentres
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Jobcentre.
jobcentres
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of jobcentre
musicales
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of musicale
neuroscientific
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From neuro- + scientific.
Senses: examples: text: Gall's science of “bump reading” would ultimately be abandoned as much for its fixation on social categories as for an inability within the scientific community to replicate its findings. These scientific failings would be exposed by anatomists like Paul Broca (1861) and Carl Wernicke (1874) who pioneered the alternative neuroscientific method of lesion–symptom mapping.
ref: 2018 September, O. Parker Jones, F. Alfaro-Almagro, S. Jbabdi, “An empirical, 21st century evaluation of phrenology”, in Cortex, volume 106, pages 26–35:
glosses: Pertaining to neuroscience.
Derived terms: neuroscientifically
neuroscientifically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From neuroscientific + -ally.
Senses: glosses: In a neuroscientific manner or context.
affogatos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of affogato
over-eggs
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of over-egg
over-egging
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of over-egg
over-egged
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: overegged
Etymology: From the phrase over-egg the pudding; over- + egged.
Senses: examples: text: He talks a mile a minute in wildly over-egged adjectives and mainly looks after the business side of BrewDog: money, marketing, strategy.
ref: 2016 March 24, Jon Henley, “The aggressive, outrageous, infuriating (and ingenious) rise of BrewDog”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
glosses: Overly embellished or exaggerated.
over-egged
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: overegged
Etymology: From over-egg + -ed.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of over-egg
overeggs
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of overegg
overegging
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of overegg
overegged
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of over-egged.
overegged
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of overegg
quirkily
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more quirkily
form: most quirkily
Etymology: From quirky + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a quirky manner.
triumphalists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of triumphalist
arboviruses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of arbovirus
barites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of barite
salinities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of salinity
zeptoliters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of zeptoliter
zeptolitre
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: zeptolitres
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of zeptoliter.
zeptolitres
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of zeptolitre
zotepine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈzoʊ.təˌpiːn/
Forms: form: zotepines
Etymology: From short of (diben)zoth(i)epine.
Senses: topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: An antipsychotic drug used to treat acute and chronic schizophrenia.
front-running
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of front running.
front-running
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle of front-run
sunchokes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sunchoke
chilies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chili
centre forward
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: centre forwards
Senses: topics: ball-games
games
hobbies
lifestyle
soccer
sports
synonyms: number nine
target man
hypernyms: forward
attacker
striker
front man
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person#Noun
glosses: The most central of the strikers; traditionally the player who makes the kick-off.
umbre
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more umbre
form: most umbre
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of umber.
umbre
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: umbres
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of umber.
neurochemist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: neurochemists
Etymology: Back-formation from neurochemistry.
Senses: glosses: A researcher or other professional in the field of neurochemistry
Related terms: neurochemistry
neurochemical
neurochemically
neurochemists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of neurochemist
industrywide
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From industry + -wide.
Senses: examples: text: an industrywide crisis
text: For digital transformation, Murphy says she'd like to see the adoption of industrywide standards and expectations for data capture and sharing.
ref: 2022 November 30, Cara Murphy, “A new mindset for GBR”, in RAIL, number 971, page 45:
glosses: Extending throughout a particular industry.
industrywide
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From industry + -wide.
Senses: glosses: Extending throughout a particular industry.
charmfest
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: charmfests
Etymology: From charm + -fest.
Senses: examples: text: Despite its gritty socialistic romanticism, it's also an unabashed charmfest.
ref: 2003 August 15, Desson Howe, “Bardem's Time to Shine”, in Washington Post, archived from the original on 09 Apr 2016:
glosses: A film or other entertainment which is or attempts to be extremely charming.
antismoking
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: anti-smoking
Etymology: From anti- + smoking.
Senses: examples: an antismoking ordinance
glosses: Opposing or prohibiting smoking, particularly the smoking of tobacco
archvillain
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɑːtʃˈvɪlən/
ipa: /ˌɑɹt͡ʃˈvɪlən/
rhymes: -ɪlən
Forms: form: archvillains
form: arch-villain
Etymology: From arch- (“chief, most extreme”) + villain.
Senses: examples: text: Madoff is the season's archvillain, accused of having run a Ponzi scheme so vast that future generations may well describe similar swindles as Madoff schemes.
ref: 2009 January 6, Clyde Haberman, “We Know About the Mess. Please, Clean Up Carefully.”, in New York Times:
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
narratology
sciences
glosses: A supreme villain; the most evil or powerful villain.
Related terms: supervillain
charmfests
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of charmfest
archvillains
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of archvillain
antitobacco
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From anti- + tobacco.
Senses: examples: text: The court held that “proportional airtime” had to be given to protobacco and antitobacco advertising.
ref: 2010, Siddhartha Mukherjee, The Emperor of All Maladies, Fourth Estate (2011), page 266:
text: the antitobacco lobby
glosses: Opposed to tobacco, often specifically to either the tobacco industry or public smoking.
Related terms: antismoking
antistate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From anti- + state.
Senses: examples: text: Nobody doubts there are individuals and groups that are advocating the use of antistate violence, although these people seem to be very low in number and don't constitute major threats to China's state security.
ref: 2009 January 6, Edward Wong, quoting Nicholas Bequelin, “Arrests Increased in Chinese Region”, in New York Times:
topics: government
politics
glosses: Opposed to or combating a particular state or government
Dolomite
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of the Dolomites
stovetop
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stovetops
form: stove-top
Etymology: From stove + top.
Senses: examples: text: You make this on the stovetop, not in the oven.
topics: cooking
food
lifestyle
glosses: The top of a stove; usually specifically the burners.
Synonyms: word: cooktop
word: hob
word: range
stovetops
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stovetop
undrugged
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + drugged.
Senses: examples: text: The undrugged subjects performed significantly better in tests.
glosses: Not having been drugged or tranquilized
uncoachable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more uncoachable
form: most uncoachable
Etymology: From un- + coachable.
Senses: examples: text: These new players are just uncoachable; they don't listen to anything I say.
glosses: Impossible or very difficult to coach
Derived terms: uncoachability
Related terms: unteachable
incorrigible
shopkeeping
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From shop + keeping.
Senses: examples: text: He grew up as a farmer and later turned to shopkeeping.
glosses: The business of operating a shop
Related terms: shopkeeper
presurgical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pre- + surgical.
Senses: examples: text: An abnormal reading on a presurgical EKG led to another angiogram, which indicated that the original narrowing had worsened.
ref: 2009 January 6, Jane E. Brody, “More Isn’t Always Better in Coronary Care”, in New York Times:
glosses: Occurring before, or in preparation for, surgery.
Related terms: presurgically
postsurgical
prerace
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pre- + race.
Senses: examples: text: That includes relying on her husband, Thomas, for help with everything from prerace visualization to training regimens.
ref: 2009 January 6, Nate Peterson, “Vonn Diversifies Skills for This World Cup Season”, in New York Times:
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: Occurring before, or in preparation for, a race
preattached
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pre- + attached.
Senses: examples: text: Their excuses come preattached: I never went to class.
ref: 2009 January 6, Benedict Carey, “Some Protect the Ego by Working on Their Excuses Early”, in New York Times:
glosses: Already attached
Related terms: reattach
reprofessionalize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: reprofessionalizes
form: reprofessionalizing
form: reprofessionalized
form: reprofessionalized
Etymology: From re- + professionalize.
Senses: examples: text: We need to reprofessionalize childcare.
glosses: To return to the status of a profession
Related terms: deprofessionalize
professionalize
politicize
reprofessionalizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of reprofessionalize
reprofessionalizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of reprofessionalize
reprofessionalized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of reprofessionalize
unreflective
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɛktɪv
Etymology: From un- + reflective.
Senses: examples: text: Is it not enough, at any rate, to strike the thing called ‘Fame’ into total silence for a wise man? For fools and unreflective persons, she is and will be very noisy, this ‘Fame’, and talks of her ‘immortals’ and so forth: but if you will consider it, what is she?
ref: 1843 April, Thomas Carlyle, “ch. XVII, The beginnings”, in Past and Present, American edition, Boston, Mass.: Charles C[offin] Little and James Brown, published 1843, →OCLC, book II (The Ancient Monk):
text: But perhaps, too, it is worth recalling where hasty, unreflective action has taken us in recent years.
ref: 2009 January 6, Clyde Haberman, “We Know About the Mess. Please, Clean Up Carefully.”, in New York Times:
glosses: Not reflective; thoughtless
Derived terms: unreflectively
unreflectiveness
Related terms: nonreflective
clams up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈklæmˈzʌp/
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of clam up
clamming up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /klæ.mɪŋɡ.ʌp/
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of clam up
D&C
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: D&Cs
form: D and C
Etymology: Initialism of dilation and curettage.
Senses: glosses: A procedure comprising dilation of the cervix and curettage of the uterus.
Synonyms: dilation and curettage
dilatation and curettage
D&C
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: D and C
Etymology: Initialism
Senses: glosses: Doctrine and Covenants: part of the open scriptural canon of several denominations of the Latter Day Saint movement.
D&C
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: D&Cs
form: D and C
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Drugs & Cosmetics.
hegemonize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: hegemonizes
form: hegemonizing
form: hegemonized
form: hegemonized
Etymology: From hegemony + -ize.
Senses: examples: text: Europe hegemonizes the human experience of forty-five hundred years of political, economic, technological, cultural relations within the Asian-African-Mediterranean interregional system.
ref: 1995, Enrique D. Dussel, The Invention of the Americas: Eclipse of "The Other" and the Myth of Modernity:
glosses: To subject to hegemony.
Derived terms: dehegemonize
hegemonizer
Related terms: hegemonization
terbuthylazine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A selective herbicide, N-tert-butyl-6-chloro-N'-ethyl-1,3,5-triazine-2,4-diamine
essentiality
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: essentialities
Etymology: From essential + -ity.
Senses: glosses: The condition of being essential; a basic set of essential traits; being
glosses: An essential thing.
Derived terms: nonessentiality
unessentiality
extrasectorial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more extrasectorial
form: most extrasectorial
Etymology: From extra- + sectorial.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to a different sector
postbubble
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From post- + bubble.
Senses: examples: text: He said that he feared Silicon Valley would return "to the postbubble period where we saw a lot of acquisitions, but most of them were fire sales."
ref: 2009 January 6, Claire Cain Miller, “Investors Strain to Sell Start-Up Companies”, in New York Times:
glosses: Occurring after the collapse of an economic bubble
overreliant
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From over- + reliant.
Senses: examples: text: His other works tend to be large-spirited but overreliant on a limited vocabulary […]
ref: 2009 January 6, Alastair Macaulay, “Ailey Wraps Up Season With Sampler of Classics and Newcomers”, in New York Times:
glosses: Relying on something to an excessive degree.
Synonyms: overdependent
Related terms: overreliance
overrely
nonsports
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + sports.
Senses: examples: text: ABC was third as "Desperate Housewives" (14.3 million) was the night's highest rated nonsports show.
ref: 2009 January 6, Benjamin Toff, Compiled By Dave Itzkoff, “Football Tramples ‘Superstars of Dance’”, in New York Times:
glosses: Not related to or concerned with sports
caatinga
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /kɑːˈtɪŋɡə/
Forms: form: caatingas
Etymology: Borrowed from Brazilian Portuguese caatinga, borrowed from Old Tupi ka'atinga, from ka'a + ting + -a.
Senses: examples: text: He then goes on his way at a steady pace that does not tire him, climbing up slopes or down ravines, traversing scrubland caatinga or stony ground.
ref: 1984, Helen R. Lane, The War of the End of the World, Folio Society, translation of La guerra del fin del mundo by Mario Vargas Llosa, published 2012, page 187:
text: The geological substrate of the caatinga is severely eroded crystalline bedrock of the Precambrian Brazilian Shield and Paleozoic and Mesozoic sedimentary basins.
ref: 2000, David Lewis Lentz, Imperfect Balance: Landscape Transformations in the Precolumbian Americas, page 426:
glosses: A sparse, thorny wooded biome of northeastern Brazil containing drought-resistant trees.
interventional
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From intervention + -al.
Senses: examples: text: We conducted an interventional study.
glosses: Incorporating, or characterized by, intervention
examples: text: Even some interventional cardiologists have expressed concern about the many patients without symptoms who are treated surgically.
ref: 2009 January 6, Jane E. Brody, “More Isn’t Always Better in Coronary Care”, in New York Times:
topics: cardiology
medicine
sciences
glosses: Specializing in coronary intervention
Derived terms: interventionalist
interventionally
intrainterventional
neurointerventional
noninterventional
periinterventional
postinterventional
preinterventional
iconological
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more iconological
form: most iconological
Etymology: From iconology + -ical.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to iconology.
Derived terms: iconologically
metalmark
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: metalmarks
Etymology: From metal + mark, from the metallic spots on the wing.
Senses: examples: text: You have flies that resemble wasps and metalmark moths that mimic jumping spiders […]
ref: 2009 January 6, Natalie Angier, “A Large-Size Focus on Life Lived Small”, in New York Times:
glosses: Any butterfly of the family Riodinidae.
Synonyms: riodinid
nonobscene
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + obscene.
Senses: examples: text: We must distinguish between obscene and nonobscene pornography.
glosses: Not obscene
misallocation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: misallocations
Etymology: From mis- + allocation.
Senses: examples: text: When the bulk of a bank's assets can be traded, relying on historical acquisition costs distorts reality and leads to capital misallocation.
ref: 2009 January 6, Jeffrey Goldfarb, Martin Hutchinson, “Rebuilding the S.E.C.”, in New York Times:
coordinate_terms: misdistribution
maldistribution
;
malapportionment
glosses: An improper or unwise allocation, especially of money.
misallocations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of misallocation
microsite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: microsites
Etymology: From micro- + site.
Senses: examples: text: Meronyms: pagelet; applet
text: The movie site has a microsite where fans can speculate about the ending.
text: I set up a microsite where people could create T-shirts using a library of official brand assets (including our official logos, fonts, and colors), plus pictures of gold chains, pink faux fur, and eXe-themed versions of contemporary memes.
ref: 2020, Emily Segal, Mercury Retrograde, New York: Deluge Books, →ISBN:
synonyms: minisite
weblet
coordinate_terms: website
site
glosses: A self-contained page or group of pages meant to supplement a larger website.
examples: text: Near-synonyms: microhabitat, microenvironment
text: This species was found only in the microsite at the foot of the bluff.
topics: biology
ecology
natural-sciences
glosses: A small area with distinctive ecological characteristics.
Related terms: megasite
metalmarks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of metalmark
overambition
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From over- + ambition.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being overambitious.
Rubix cube
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of Rubik's cube.
nephrosclerosis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nephroscleroses
Etymology: From nephro- (“kidney”) + sclerosis (“hard”).
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: arteriosclerosis of the renal arteries
Derived terms: arteriolonephrosclerosis
Related terms: nephrosclerotic
Montagovian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˌmɒntəˈɡəʊvɪən/
Etymology: From Montague + -v- + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Related to a person named Montague, in particular the American mathematician and philosopher Richard Montague.
isoniazide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Variant of isoniazid.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of isoniazid
macroregional
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more macroregional
form: most macroregional
form: macro-regional
Etymology: From macro- + regional.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to a macroregion.
Derived terms: macroregionally
macroregion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: macroregions
Etymology: From macro- + region.
Senses: glosses: Any of several geopolitical subdivisions that encompass several others.
fall in line
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: falls in line
form: falling in line
form: fell in line
form: fallen in line
Senses: examples: text: It will be to your interest to accept my suggestions and fall in line with my plans.
ref: 1901, Anna Maynard Barbour, chapter 18, in That Mainwaring Affair:
text: If I had your life I'd put my throat to a knife,
Fill your days with emptiness, but I don't have the time;
I won't grow up, I won't fall in line.
ref: c. 2004, Career Soldiers, Won't Waste My Life:
synonyms: knuckle under
glosses: To submit to the rules of a higher authority; obey; conform.
glosses: To line up.
Related terms: toe the line
tintinnabulate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: tintinnabulates
form: tintinnabulating
form: tintinnabulated
form: tintinnabulated
Etymology: From Latin tintinnabulatus (“furnished with a bell or bells”), from tintinnabulum ("a bell"). Akin to tinnitus.
Senses: glosses: To ring, tinkle, toll, or otherwise sound like bells.
Related terms: tintinnabulation
tintinnabulum
Tirol
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Tyrol:
A state in western Austria
glosses: Alternative spelling of Tyrol:
A geographic region in Central Europe including the state of Tyrol in Austria and the regions of South Tyrol and Trentino in Italy
Derived terms: Tirolean
Hall in Tirol
friendly match
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: friendly matches
Senses: topics: ball-games
games
hobbies
lifestyle
soccer
sports
glosses: A game that has no competitive value; an exhibition match
Damas
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Damases
Etymology: Borrowed from Portuguese and Spanish Damas.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
WDS
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: WDSs
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Wireless Distribution System.
glosses: Initialism of wet dog shakes.
career breaks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of career break
trench mouth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Probably coined during World War I when the disease was common among soldiers in the trenches during trench warfare.
Senses: examples: text: "Trench mouth" is one of the war diseases which is engaging the attention of British army doctors.
ref: 1918 June 17, “Discover New War Disease: British and French Soldiers Suffering from ‘Trench Mouth’”, in New York Times, retrieved 07 Jan 2009, page 7:
text: Vincent's angina (or trench mouth) is a distinct form of ulcerative gingivitis.
ref: 2002, Itzhak Brook MD, “Anaerobic Bacteria in Upper Respiratory Tract and other Head and Neck Infections”, in Annals of Otology, Rhinology & Laryngology, volume 111, number 5, page 433:
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Acute necrotizing ulcerative gingivitis, a severe bacterial infection of the gums, typically characterized by inflammation, bleeding, deep ulceration, necrotized tissue, pain, fever, enlarged lymph nodes, fatigue, and halitosis.
Synonyms: acute membranous gingivitis
acute ulcerative gingivitis
fusospirillosis
fusospirochetal gingivitis
phagedenic gingivitis
ulcerative gingivitis
Plaut-Vincent angina
Vincent's angina
Vincent's infection
Vincent's stomatitis
Related terms: trench foot
acute necrotizing ulcerative gingivitis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Medical name of the form of severe gum infection popularly called trench mouth.
Synonyms: acute membranous gingivitis
acute ulcerative gingivitis
fusospirillosis
fusospirochetal gingivitis
phagedenic gingivitis
ulcerative gingivitis
Plaut-Vincent angina
Vincent's angina
Vincent's infection
Vincent's stomatitis
acute membranous gingivitis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Synonym of acute necrotizing ulcerative gingivitis.
synonyms: word: acute necrotizing ulcerative gingivitis
acute ulcerative gingivitis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Synonym of acute necrotizing ulcerative gingivitis.
synonyms: word: acute necrotizing ulcerative gingivitis
fusospirillosis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Synonym of acute necrotizing ulcerative gingivitis.
synonyms: word: acute necrotizing ulcerative gingivitis
fusospirochetal gingivitis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Synonym of acute necrotizing ulcerative gingivitis.
synonyms: word: acute necrotizing ulcerative gingivitis
phagedenic gingivitis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Synonym of acute necrotizing ulcerative gingivitis.
synonyms: word: acute necrotizing ulcerative gingivitis
ulcerative gingivitis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Synonym of acute necrotizing ulcerative gingivitis.
synonyms: word: acute necrotizing ulcerative gingivitis
Plaut-Vincent angina
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Synonym of acute necrotizing ulcerative gingivitis.
synonyms: word: acute necrotizing ulcerative gingivitis
Vincent's angina
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Synonym of acute necrotizing ulcerative gingivitis.
synonyms: word: acute necrotizing ulcerative gingivitis
Vincent's infection
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Named after Jean Hyacinthe Vincent, a French physician.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Synonym of acute necrotizing ulcerative gingivitis.
synonyms: word: acute necrotizing ulcerative gingivitis
Vincent's stomatitis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Synonym of acute necrotizing ulcerative gingivitis.
synonyms: word: acute necrotizing ulcerative gingivitis
greffier
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈɡɹɛfiə(ɹ)/
Forms: form: greffiers
Etymology: From French greffier, from Late Latin grafārius, graphiārius.
Senses: examples: text: c. 1610, Joseph Hall, epistle to Sir Thomas Challoner
One thing I may not omit, without sinful oversight; a short, but memorable story, which the Greffier of that town, though of different religion, reported to more ears than ours.
text: These bedels or greffiers were jolly robustious souls, bending beneath the weight of their ponderous silver maces, and attired in gowns of black, blue, violet, or dark red, each colour denoting the Faculty to which the wearer pertained.
ref: 1837, William Harrison Ainsworth, “The Rector”, in Crichton, volume I, London: Richard Bentley, page 59:
glosses: A registrar or recorder; a notary.
hypertonia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hypertonias
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: An abnormal increase in tightness of muscle tone, common in cerebral palsy.
scrimy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: scrimier
form: scrimiest
Senses: glosses: Unreasonably cheap in expending funds or in spending money.
glosses: Dirty or filthy.
Synonyms: sense: unreasonably cheap
word: niggardly
opuntia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /əˈpʌntiə/
/oʊˈpʌntiə/
Forms: form: opuntias
Etymology: Borrowed from translingual Opuntia.
Senses: glosses: Opuntia, a genus of cactus that includes such cacti as the prickly pear and xoconostle.
trundles along
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of trundle along
trundled along
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of trundle along
trundling along
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of trundle along
archeoastronomy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of archaeastronomy.
autographic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more autographic
form: most autographic
Etymology: From autograph + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Containing or relating to an autograph.
Derived terms: bioautographic
death caps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of death cap
Rousseauesque
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Rousseauesque
form: most Rousseauesque
Etymology: From Rousseau + -esque.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
glosses: Rousseauian.
saintpaulia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: saintpaulias
Etymology: From the genus name.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Any of the perennial flowering plants of the genus Saintpaulia, the African violets, especially Saintpaulia ionantha.
suggestopedia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From suggestion and pedagogy.
Senses: examples: text: I've just said that suggestopedia "stacks up well" against a list of individual features, each of which seems to me to be desirable in an approach.
ref: 1998, Earl W. Stevick, Working with Teaching Methods: What's at Stake?, page 160:
glosses: A teaching method, mainly for foreign languages, that uses songs and games and focuses more on experimenting with the language than on formal acquisition of its rules.
Synonyms: desuggestopedia
suggestopedy
Derived terms: suggestopedic
WEP
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Wired Equivalent Privacy (formerly known as Wireless Encryption Protocol).
Related terms: WPA
WEP
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: Initialism of war emergency power.
WMM
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Wi-Fi Multimedia.
glosses: Initialism of World Marathon Majors.