cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
polidocanol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A local anaesthetic and antipruritic component of ointments and bath additives, also used as a sclerosant.
shuckery
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From shuck + -ery.
Senses: examples: text: Her grandmother, Alice Merryman, who died two years ago at the age of 100, was a quilter and practitioner of corn shuckery, the art of weaving corn husks into brooms, baskets, benches and other objects, including dolls.
ref: 2009 September 10, Penelope Green, “Home Crafts Get Wired”, in New York Times:
glosses: The art of shucking corn.
whiptails
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of whiptail
gushfest
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gushfests
Etymology: From gush + -fest.
Senses: examples: text: Lizzie watched Kate and Claire continue their gushfest, from table to table, all the way across the cafeteria.
ref: 2004, Alice Alfonsi, Freaked Out:
text: This was ESPN2’s fault; you don’t cut to a celebrity gushfest when the tournament’s darling is close to elimination.
ref: 2009 September 11, Richard Sandomir, “Shriver Wins Sideline Blather Award in a Tie Breaker”, in New York Times:
glosses: An effusive outpouring of words.
interconnective
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From inter- + connective.
Senses: examples: text: His empathy with the sentient world was profound and interconnective:
ref: 2009 September 11, Holland Cotter, “The Palace of Excess Imagination”, in New York Times:
glosses: Having interconnections.
rebutton
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: rebuttons
form: rebuttoning
form: rebuttoned
form: rebuttoned
Etymology: From re- + button.
Senses: examples: text: Ms. Osborne notes that in Edwardian London adulterous affairs tended to be conducted between the hours of five and seven (known as a “cinq à sept”) because it took women lots of time in those days to unbutton and unlace their layers of corsets, chemises and underskirts, let alone relace and rebutton them up afterward, so lovers scheduled their visits for just after tea when “ladies were undressing in order to exchange their afternoon clothes for their evening ones.”
ref: 2009 September 11, Michiko Kakutani, “When a Great-Grandmother Goes Bad”, in New York Times:
glosses: To fasten with buttons again.
rebuttoning
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of rebutton
rebuttons
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of rebutton
rebuttoned
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of rebutton
undamaging
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more undamaging
form: most undamaging
Etymology: From un- + damaging.
Senses: examples: text: If he does, there is a chance for a limited, and relatively undamaging, ruling that hews closely to the facts of this case.
ref: 2009 September 11, “The Court and Campaign Finance”, in New York Times:
glosses: Not causing damage.
Synonyms: innocuous
harmless
contortive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more contortive
form: most contortive
Etymology: From contort + -ive.
Senses: examples: text: (There are accounts of the contortive skills of mime artists in ancient Rome.)
ref: 2009 September 12, Alastair Macaulay, “One Man’s Wordless Battle With Claustrophobia”, in New York Times:
glosses: Showing contortion.
pillarized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of pillarize
pillarizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of pillarize
pillarizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of pillarize
antiworker
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more antiworker
form: most antiworker
form: anti-worker
Etymology: From anti- + worker.
Senses: examples: text: Sitting in his conference room, which looks across Lafayette Park to the White House, he said, “We had eight years of an antiworker administration,” a comment on the years under Mr. Bush.
ref: 2009 September 13, Steven Greenhouse, “Labor Leader Is Stepping Down Both Proud and Frustrated”, in New York Times:
topics: government
politics
glosses: Opposing workers.
Related terms: antiwork
bonelike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more bonelike
form: most bonelike
Etymology: From bone + -like.
Senses: examples: text: To the south, as Halliday followed the winding course of the river, the darkness gave way to the deep indigo tracts of the irrigation project, the lines of canals forming an exquisite bonelike gridwork.”
ref: 2009 September 13, Jonathan Lethem, “Poet of Desolate Landscapes”, in New York Times:
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of bone.
cardiopulmonology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From cardio- + pulmonology.
Senses: glosses: The study of cardiopulmonary disorders.
Derived terms: cardiopulmonologist
cronelike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more cronelike
form: most cronelike
Etymology: From crone + -like.
Senses: examples: text: He had come to town as a child with the old woman who had adopted him, a cronelike granny straight from a storybook.
ref: 2009 September 13, Caryn James, “Ethnic Cleansers”, in New York Times:
glosses: Like a crone; old and withered.
plasticate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: plasticates
form: plasticating
form: plasticated
form: plasticated
Etymology: From plastic + -ate (verb-forming suffix).
Senses: glosses: To transform into a plastic material.
designerati
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Blend of designer + literati
Senses: examples: text: On this evening, members of the city’s designerati dined in the gallery, which featured a monthlong show of work by eight local artists, ranging from $100 to $5,000.
ref: 2009 September 13, Deborah Schoeneman, “A Feast for the Eyes and Ears”, in New York Times:
glosses: Fashion designers collectively.
dogophile
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dogophiles
Etymology: From dog + -phile.
Senses: examples: ref: 2009, Susie Essman, What Would Susie Say?, page I love dogs. I'm dogcentric. A dogophile, some would say.:
text: As a psychologist with a Ph.D. in cognitive science, as well as an ardent dogophile, Horowitz aims “to take an informed imaginative leap inside of a dog — to see what it is like to be a dog; what the world is like from a dog’s point of view.”
ref: 2009 September 13, Cathleen Schine, “Grrr, Sniff, Arf”, in New York Times:
glosses: A lover of dogs; a cynophile.
dogophiles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dogophile
gridwork
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gridworks
Etymology: From grid + work.
Senses: examples: text: To the south, as Halliday followed the winding course of the river, the darkness gave way to the deep indigo tracts of the irrigation project, the lines of canals forming an exquisite bonelike gridwork.
ref: 2009 September 13, Jonathan Lethem, “Poet of Desolate Landscapes”, in New York Times:
glosses: Work in the form of a grid.
gridworks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gridwork
hypercompetent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more hypercompetent
form: most hypercompetent
Etymology: From hyper- + competent.
Senses: examples: text: In doing so, she stood for the writer not as a special case — a neurotic creature always on the verge of a nervous breakdown — but as a hypercompetent Everywoman adroitly running her life.
ref: 2009 September 13, Daphne Merkin, “Dame of the British Interior”, in New York Times:
glosses: Very highly competent.
marriageables
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of marriageable
outpower
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: outpowers
form: outpowering
form: outpowered
form: outpowered
Etymology: From out- + power.
Senses: examples: text: Early on, the New Yorkers clearly outpower their West Coast counterparts.
ref: 2009 September 13, Jori Finkel, “Open the Storeroom: Let’s Put on a Show”, in New York Times:
glosses: To surpass in power.
Bic
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Bics
Etymology: * From French Bic
* From Romanian Bîc
* From Czech Bič and Slovak Bič
Senses: glosses: A surname
A surname from French
glosses: A surname
A surname from Romanian
glosses: A surname
A surname from Czech or Slovak
glosses: A surname
A surname from the Slavic languages, variant of Bich
Bic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Bics
form: bic
Etymology: Genericization of a trademark. From BiC, a company. Named after French businessman Marcel Bich, the founder. From French Bich (“surname”).
Senses: glosses: Synonym of disposable ballpoint pen; a stick pen
synonyms: word: disposable ballpoint pen
extra: a stick pen
glosses: Synonym of disposable lighter.
synonyms: word: disposable lighter
outpowering
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of outpower
outpowers
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of outpower
outpowered
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of outpower
overpreparation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From over- + preparation.
Senses: examples: text: What accounts for Mr. Mortensen’s weariness is partly that he is famous for obsessive overpreparation.
ref: 2009 September 13, Charles Mcgrath, “Big Gun Takes on the Apocalypse”, in New York Times:
glosses: Excessive preparation.
pharmacotherapist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pharmacotherapists
Etymology: From pharmaco- + therapist.
Senses: examples: text: His father, a pharmacotherapist, is the associate dean for academic affairs and a professor of pharmacy practice and science at the University of Maryland School of Pharmacy in Baltimore.
ref: 2009 September 13, “Julie Levison, Joshua Roffman”, in New York Times:
glosses: One who works in the field of pharmacotherapy.
pharmacotherapists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pharmacotherapist
pharmacotherapeutic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pharmaco- + therapeutic.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to pharmacotherapy.
Derived terms: nonpharmacotherapeutic
pickleweed
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pickleweeds
Etymology: From pickle + weed.
Senses: glosses: Any flowering plant of the genus Batis (family Bataceae).
synonyms: picklegrass
glasswort
sea asparagus
glosses: Any flowering plant of the genus Salicornia (family Amaranthaceae).
pickleweeds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pickleweed
punctuative
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more punctuative
form: most punctuative
Etymology: From punctuate + -ive.
Senses: examples: text: After about 20 seconds, he ended his performance with a punctuative smack of the taut drum heads.
ref: 2009 September 13, Kirk Semple, “Giving Ramadan a Drumroll in Brooklyn at 4 A.M.”, in New York Times:
glosses: Suggesting or pertaining to punctuation.
reregistration
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: reregistrations
form: re-registration
Etymology: From re- + registration.
Senses: glosses: A second or subsequent registration.
reregistrations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of reregistration
Bich
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Bich
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Russian Бич (Bič), from бич (bič, “whip, scorge”), from Proto-Slavic *bičь.
Senses: glosses: A transliteration of the Russian surname Бич (Bič).
saltgrass
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: saltgrasses
form: salt grass
Etymology: From salt + grass.
Senses: examples: text: Palmer parted the towering saltgrass and pickleweed downwind of the elk.
ref: 2009 September 13, Michael Brick, “Stalking a Majestic Beast With an Eye on the Record Book”, in New York Times:
glosses: American grass of species Distichlis spicata, that can tolerate alkali and salty conditions.
examples: text: The perennial saltgrass nipa (Distichlis palmeri, Poaceae) is endemic to northern Gulf of California tidal marshes flooded with hypersaline seawater.
ref: 2012, S.L. Pearlsteina, R.S. Felgera, E.P. Glenna, J. Harringtond, K.A. Al-Ghaneme, S.G. Nelson, “Nipa (Distichlis palmeri): A perennial grain crop for saltwater irrigation”, in Journal of Arid Environments, →DOI, page 60:
glosses: Similar salt-tolerant species in the genus Distichlis.
Synonyms: sense: Distichlis spicata
word: seashore saltgrass
sense: Distichlis spicata
word: inland saltgrass
sense: Distichlis spicata
word: desert saltgrass
sense: species in the genus Distichlis
word: Palmer's grass
sense: species in the genus Distichlis
word: nipa grass
sense: species in the genus Distichlis
word: Baja grass
sense: species in the genus Distichlis
word: Australian salt-grass
Related terms: salt hay
saltgrasses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of saltgrass
singlemindedly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more singlemindedly
form: most singlemindedly
Etymology: From singleminded + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: In his songs Jay-Z has singlemindedly flaunted his executive ambitions and how they’ve paid off.
ref: 2009 September 13, Jon Pareles, “An Overdog to Root For”, in The New York Times:
glosses: In a singleminded fashion; with directed dedication.
superdramatic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more superdramatic
form: most superdramatic
Etymology: From super- + dramatic.
Senses: examples: text: Then he waits — and waits — for that superdramatic moment when he can ride to his own rescue with what the press reliably hypes as The Do-or-Die Speech of His Career.
ref: 2009 September 13, Frank Rich, “Obama’s Squandered Summer”, in New York Times:
glosses: Highly dramatic.
superpotent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more superpotent
form: most superpotent
Etymology: From super- + potent.
Senses: examples: text: In addition, if marijuana were decriminalized, it would be possible to regulate its production, thus keeping these superpotent varieties off the market, which is not possible if the drug remains illegal.
ref: 2009 September 13, “Lost Chances”, in New York Times:
glosses: Highly potent.
unrevelatory
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unrevelatory
form: most unrevelatory
Etymology: From un- + revelatory.
Senses: examples: text: The author delivers unrevelatory revelations: “All rappers are poets; whether they are good poets or bad poets is the only question.”
ref: 2009 September 13, Baz Dreisinger, “Def Poetry”, in New York Times:
glosses: Not revelatory.
architeuthid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: architeuthids
Etymology: From Architeuthis + -id.
Senses: glosses: A giant squid, of the family Architeuthidae.
architeuthids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of architeuthid
coyotelike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more coyotelike
form: most coyotelike
Etymology: From coyote + -like.
Senses: examples: text: Just before it faded, a coyotelike howl of approval sounded from a balcony. Ms. Staples gamely acknowledged her admirer with a smile that was surely as incredulous as it was appreciative.
ref: 2009 September 14, Steve Smith, “A Lesson in Jamming for the Philharmonic”, in New York Times:
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a coyote.
dissonantly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more dissonantly
form: most dissonantly
Etymology: From dissonant + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: The graceful, otherworldly sounds on which the first movement was built gave way to sharply articulated, dissonantly blaring woodwind and brass chords, and eventually to a mechanistic passage that combined rumbling low notes and a steady, searing high pitch.
ref: 2009 September 14, Allan Kozinn, “Austrian Avant-Garde: Eerie Textures and Text”, in New York Times:
glosses: In a dissonant manner.
newsie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: newsies
Etymology: From news + -ie.
Senses: examples: text: Sure, being a newsie is a grind, the hours are not great and the public holds us in lower esteem than the women who work the poles at Satin Dolls down the road from the Tick Tock in Lodi, but it beats working by a mile.
ref: 2009 September 14, David Carr, “After Safe Exit, a Journalist Returns”, in New York Times:
glosses: Alternative form of newsy.
unearthings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of unearthing
antimonarchy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From anti- + monarchy.
Senses: topics: government
politics
glosses: A stance against monarchy.
antimonarchy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more antimonarchy
form: most antimonarchy
Etymology: From anti- + monarchy.
Senses: examples: text: The agency, the Charity Commission, has asked the Prince’s Foundation for the Built Environment to explain its relationship with Prince Charles after an antimonarchy group, called Republic, filed a complaint that said the prince was using the foundation to enforce his “personal tastes.”
ref: 2009 September 16, “A Prince’s Charity Is Investigated”, in New York Times:
topics: government
politics
glosses: Opposing a specific monarchical system or monarchy in general.
kilnlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more kilnlike
form: most kilnlike
Etymology: From kiln + -like.
Senses: glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a kiln.
quidditch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: We can disinfect headsets and teach a group of fifth graders how to play library quidditch.
ref: 2001, Virginia A. Walter, Children & Libraries: Getting It Right:
text: The Wizarding World of Harry Potter, the keenly anticipated Florida theme park, will open in the spring and allow visitors to tour Hogwarts, buy quidditch gear and drink butterbeer.
ref: 2009 September 16, Brooks Barnes, “Universal Lifts the Veil on a Harry Potter Park”, in New York Times:
glosses: Alternative letter-case form of Quidditch.
glosses: Muggle quidditch
semicreative
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From semi- + creative.
Senses: examples: text: We’ve tried to be semicreative in what we do, and the things that we give him to do to help us be able to win.
ref: 2009 September 16, The Associated Press, “Versatility Helps Auburn Thrive in Wildcat Offense”, in New York Times:
glosses: Somewhat creative.
examples: a semicreative set
topics: mathematics
sciences
set-theory
glosses: A type of set of natural numbers, related to mathematical logic.
clutterer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: clutterers
Etymology: From clutter + -er.
Senses: examples: text: Fellow clutterers: where do we sign up as the next oppressed group?
ref: 2009 September 17, “Behind the Junk Heap”, in New York Times:
glosses: One who clutters.
clutterers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of clutterer
cocoonish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more cocoonish
form: most cocoonish
Etymology: From cocoon + -ish.
Senses: examples: text: Walking through the space gives you a good idea of what cool kids are wearing: minidresses with very wide necks, hooded caterpillar-like pullovers, cocoonish overcoats with complicated closures, somber shirts that dribble strings from their cuffs.
ref: 2009 September 17, Mike Albo, “New Wave’s Next Generation”, in New York Times:
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a cocoon.
mansarded
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From mansard + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: Ms. Eskenas’s mansarded and colonnaded three-story house on Richmond Terrace, known as the John de Groot House, was awarded landmark status in 2005.
ref: 2009 September 19, Joseph Berger, “On Staten Island, the Fight to Save a Proud Past”, in New York Times:
glosses: Having a mansard roof.
beseechings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of beseeching
decaffeination
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /diːˌkæfiːˈneɪʃən/
Etymology: From de- + caffeine + -ation.
Senses: examples: text: While Karson and I rested under a tree, I thought of all the things I’d tried, without success, to quell my fears: extreme exercise, decaffeination, deep breathing, blue-green algae.
ref: 2009 September 20, Victor Lodato, “Psychic Surgery”, in New York Times:
glosses: The removal of caffeine.
dinnerlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more dinnerlike
form: most dinnerlike
Etymology: From dinner + -like.
Senses: examples: text: The menu is divided into sections: traditional tapas (cold and hot), modern tapas (cold and hot) and large tapas, which are slightly pricier than the others, more dinnerlike (hunks of meat and accompanying starch), but still not dinner-size.
ref: 2009 September 20, Stephanie Lyness, “Lots of Tapas and Wine, and an Air of Excitement”, in New York Times:
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of dinner.
libidinously
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more libidinously
form: most libidinously
Etymology: From libidinous + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: (The depressed and jobless may be inspired by the libidinously inventive party a friend of Rudnick’s organizes when in a similar condition.)
ref: 2009 September 20, Alida Becker, “Jersey Boy”, in New York Times:
glosses: In a libidinous manner.
microbraid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: microbraids
Etymology: From micro- + braid.
Senses: examples: text: English is little heard, and women wrapped in Technicolor fabrics plait microbraids into customers’ hair as their colleagues beckon passers-by.
ref: 2009 September 20, Sarah Maslin Nir, “The Rebirth, and the Beat, Goes On”, in New York Times:
glosses: A very thin braid in hair.
microbraids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of microbraid
oversubsidize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: oversubsidizes
form: oversubsidizing
form: oversubsidized
form: oversubsidized
Etymology: From over- + subsidize.
Senses: examples: text: She and her colleagues still think the rail is oversubsidized, but in terms of predictions of failure, she said, “We don’t dwell.”
ref: 2009 September 20, Jennifer Steinhauer, “In Phoenix, Weekend Users Make Light Rail a Success”, in New York Times:
glosses: To subsidize too much.
oversubsidizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of oversubsidize
oversubsidized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of oversubsidize
oversubsidizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of oversubsidize
prepublic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pre- + public.
Senses: examples: text: They pay sizable sums for tickets to the prepublic showings, which are then applied as credit toward purchases.
ref: 1967, Karlyne Alice Anspach, The why of fashion:
glosses: Prior to availability to the general public.
topics: business
glosses: Before becoming a public company in which anybody can buy shares.
reinvestments
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of reinvestment
reinvestor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: reinvestors
Etymology: From reinvest + -or.
Senses: glosses: One who reinvests.
reinvestors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of reinvestor
singularize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: singularizes
form: singularizing
form: singularized
form: singularized
form: singularise
Etymology: From singular + -ize.
Senses: examples: text: There’s a word that we use in consumer behavior — it singularizes the couple and communicates that this couple is like no other.
ref: 2009 September 20, Joyce Cohen, “Cake Toppers: An End to One Size Fits All”, in New York Times:
glosses: To make singular.
Related terms: singularization
singularizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of singularize
singularizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of singularize
singularized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of singularize
unreformability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From un- + reform + -ability.
Senses: examples: text: The difference is that gangsta rappers often identify themselves as the criminals, and are proud of their unreformability.
ref: 2009 September 20, David Segal, “Call It Ludacris: The Kinship Between Talk Radio and Rap”, in New York Times:
glosses: The quality of being unreformable.
Zabaleen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Zabaleens
form: Zabaleen
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Zabbaleen.
Zabaleens
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Zabaleen
prædicaments
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of prædicament
product variance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: product variances
Senses: examples: text: From a population characterised by variables x,#92;y,#92;z, correlated and normally distributed, with means 0,#92;0,#92;0, variances #92;sigma#95;1²,#92;#92;sigma#95;2²,#92;#92;sigma#95;3² and product variances r#95;#123;12#125;#92;sigma#95;1#92;sigma#95;2,#92;r#95;#123;13#125;#92;sigma#95;1#92;sigma#95;3,#92;r#95;#123;23#125;#92;sigma#95;2#92;sigma#95;3, a sub-population is extracted[…].
ref: 1934, A. C. Aitken, “Note on Selection from a Multivariate Normal Population”, in Proceedings of the Edinburgh Mathematical Society, 4, page 106:
glosses: Covariance.
product variances
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of product variance
you can catch more flies with honey than with vinegar
Language: English
Part of speech: proverb
Senses: glosses: It is easier to persuade others with polite requests and a positive attitude rather than with rude demands and negativity.
Related terms: catch flies
flytrap
honey trap
thirst trap
DCAPBLSTIC
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: emergency-medicine
medicine
sciences
glosses: Initialism of deformities, contusions, abrasions, punctures/penetrations, burns, lacerations, swelling, tenderness, instability, and crepitus.
Related terms: DCAP-BTLS
crepitous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more crepitous
form: most crepitous
Senses: glosses: grating, crackling or popping
Related terms: crepitus
intraosseous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From intra- + osseous.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: within a bone
Coordinate terms: intravenous
IV
Derived terms: word: intraosseous catheterization
word: intraosseous infusion
word: intraosseous line
word: IO line
word: intraosseously
word: intraosseous needle
word: IO
intraosseous needle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: intraosseous needles
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: a solid, boring catheter inserted into bone marrow to supply intravenous fluids osseously.
mourning doves
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mourning dove
Baphomet
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈbæfəmɛt/
Etymology: From Medieval Latin Baphometh, deriving from Occitan Bafometz. Ostensibly a corruption of Andalusian Arabic مَحُمَّدْ (“Maḥummad”), ultimately deriving from Arabic مُحَمَّد (muḥammad) (compare Old Catalan Mafumet and Old Galician-Portuguese Mafomat), which would make it a doublet of mammet and Muhammad. Other sources have been suggested.
Senses: glosses: A deity which medieval Christians mistakenly imagined that the Knights Templar worshipped, and which figures into some modern occultist and Satanic religions.
Derived terms: Baphometic
Baphomet moth
beautiful fruit doves
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of beautiful fruit dove
beautiful armadillos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: beautiful armadilloes
Senses: glosses: plural of beautiful armadillo
bloggish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more bloggish
form: most bloggish
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of blogish.
subterrane
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Latin subterrāneus. Doublet of subterraneous.
Senses: examples: text: By this ſecret ſubterrane vault, Zedechias making his ſtealth, recouered (by the helpe of the darke night) the plaines or deſerts of Iericho: […]
ref: 1614, Walter Ralegh [i.e., Walter Raleigh], “Of the Times from the Death of Manasses to the Destruction of Ierusalem”, in The Historie of the World […], London: […] William Stansby for Walter Burre, […], →OCLC, 2nd book, §. VI (The Oppression of Iudæa, and Destruction of Ierusalem by the Chaldæans), page 650:
text: The waters stir, / Not as with air, but by some subterrane / And rocking power of the internal world.
ref: 1824, Lord Byron, The Deformed Transformed; a Drama, London: […] J[ohn] and H[enry] L[eigh] Hunt, […], →OCLC, part I, scene I, page 13:
text: I watched men in moon suits bury drums of nuclear waste and I thought of the living rocks down there, the subterrane process, the half-life, the atoms that decay to half the original number.
ref: 1997, Don DeLillo, chapter 6, in Underworld, New York, N.Y.: Scribner, →ISBN, page 122:
glosses: Synonym of subterranean.
synonyms: word: subterranean
subterrane
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: subterranes
Etymology: From Latin subterrāneus. Doublet of subterraneous.
Senses: examples: text: While these awful scenes were being enacted in the subterranes of the holy inquisition […]
ref: 1857, George W.M. Reynolds, Wagner, The Wehr-Wolf, London: John Dicks:
glosses: A cave or underground room.
Kandinskian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Kandinskian
form: most Kandinskian
Etymology: From Kandinsky + -an.
Senses: examples: text: By this time Graham's dancers were devoid of glamour and makeup; the faces were masklike, with each mouth a Kandinskian gash of red[…]
ref: 1993, Howard Gardner, Creating minds, page 272:
glosses: Of or pertaining to Wassily Kandinsky (1866-1944), Russian painter.
crosslicense
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: crosslicenses
form: crosslicensing
form: crosslicensed
form: crosslicensed
Etymology: From cross- + license.
Senses: examples: text: It’s an industry with huge companies who crosslicense patents with each other and tell little guys to take a hike,” said Robert Megantz, a former general manager of licensing for Dolby and the consultant who worked with Zoltar in the late 1990s.
ref: 2009 September 21, Steve Lohr, “Now, an Invention Inventors Will Like”, in New York Times:
glosses: To license (intellectual property, etc.) each to the other.
raw_tags: of two parties
Related terms: patent pool
crosslicensing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of crosslicense
crosslicenses
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of crosslicense
crosslicensed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of crosslicense
psychosexualities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of psychosexuality
underpromote
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: underpromotes
form: underpromoting
form: underpromoted
form: underpromoted
Etymology: From under- + promote.
Senses: examples: text: It was a teen party sponsored by the hip-hop radio station Hot 97 (WQHT-FM), and maybe an underpromoted one: much of the room was empty.
ref: 2009 September 21, Jon Caramanica, “Do the Jerk: Skinny Jeans and All That Bouncy, Bawdy Id”, in New York Times:
glosses: To promote inadequately.
topics: board-games
chess
games
glosses: To promote (a pawn that has crossed the board) to a less powerful piece than a queen, which is sometimes strategically useful.
underpromoting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of underpromote
underpromotes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of underpromote
underpromoted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of underpromote
fanaticisms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fanaticism
hysterias
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hysteria
conversion disorders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of conversion disorder
ineptitudes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ineptitude
overexplanatory
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more overexplanatory
form: most overexplanatory
Etymology: From over- + explanatory.
Senses: examples: text: Its look and pace closely resemble those of “Without a Trace”; it puts its dead victims on screen to observe the action, a device borrowed from “Cold Case”; and it has the stilted, overexplanatory dialogue that somehow characterizes every series in the Bruckheimer canon, regardless of show runner or writers.
ref: 2009 September 22, Mike Hale, “Amateur Detectives Meet Unidentified Victims”, in New York Times:
glosses: Excessively explanatory.
unionwide
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From union + -wide.
Senses: examples: text: Mr. Mulgrew needs to win a unionwide election next spring to secure the presidency.
ref: 2009 September 22, Jennifer Medina, “New Leader of City Teachers Is Ready for His Test”, in New York Times:
glosses: Throughout a union.
antiregulation
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more antiregulation
form: most antiregulation
Etymology: From anti- + regulation.
Senses: examples: text: She touched on all those issues on Tuesday in her first speech as a candidate, sounding a strong antitax, antiregulation and antispending message.
ref: 2009 September 23, Jesse Mckinley, “Former eBay Chief Running for Governor of California”, in New York Times:
glosses: Opposing regulation.
pajeon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pajeons
form: pajeon
Etymology: From Korean 파전 (pajeon).
Senses: examples: text: But high-end restaurants in Seoul are now turning away from Western food and toward Korean tradition, drawing on both everyday snacks like pajeon and painstaking arts like the making of tteok, sticky rice pounded into a dizzying array of shapes, colors and flavors.
ref: 2009 September 23, Julia Moskin, “Culinary Diplomacy With a Side of Kimchi”, in New York Times:
glosses: A Korean pancake made with green onions.
Related terms: jeon
completionist
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more completionist
form: most completionist
Etymology: From completion + -ist.
Senses: examples: text: M did not have this completionist fetish regarding other matters—he would happily leave a meal uneaten and a book half read—but in matters of travel it was something of a matter of pride.
ref: 2016, Daniel Polansky, “A Sunday Sojurn” (chapter 19), in A City Dreaming, →ISBN:
text: Visiting the site was part of a completionist project engaged by many Johnny Cash fans, who wanted to see all the places associated with him, but for some, it was enough to glimpse it without leaving the car.
ref: 2020, Michael Hinds, Jonathan Silverman, “The Networker”, in Johnny Cash International: How and Why Fans Love the Man in Black, →ISBN, page 171:
text: When I asked him about what drives our completionist mindset, he said, "I think, as humans, we're obsessed with categorization and patterns. We see them everywhere, and we get a lot of pleasure from 'completing' things, whether it's a set of to-dos for the day or a larger project. […]"
ref: 2023, Amanda Lewis, “Yew Complete Me” (chapter 8), in Tracking Giants: Big Trees, Tiny Triumphs, and Misadventures in the Forest, →ISBN:
glosses: Engaging in completionism.
completionist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: completionists
Etymology: From completion + -ist.
Senses: examples: text: If you are a Halo completionist and need to experience every moment of the Halo story, you have no choice.
ref: 2009 September 24, Seth Schiesel, “Visiting New Mombasa? It’s One Dangerous Burg”, in New York Times:
text: I rarely listen to any of them but I'm a completionist and meticulous fanatic (for better or worse), and wouldn't want to miss any component from his recording career.
ref: 2010, Tom Waters, Slapstick & Superego: essays, rants & scathing social commentary, →ISBN, page 202:
text: To turn the discussion back toward kaiju toys, I argue that, unless I am a completionist with significant cash flow, the toys I seek out will be those from which I will earn the most personal enjoyment.
ref: 2017, Jason Barr, “Collecting kaiju How Nostalgia Influences Toy Collecting”, in Camille D.G. Mustacio, Jason Barr, editors, Giant Creatures in Our World: Essays on Kaiju and American Popular Culture, →ISBN, page 199:
text: I’ll be honest here: I’ve gone the romantic route in every game only because I wanted the achievement to add to my Xbox Gamerscore. I’m a semi-completionist when it comes to achievements, but once I got the achievement, I haven’t gone the romantic route again for the sake of my conscience.[…]
To summarise this topic, if BioWare’s approach to premarital sex really bothers you, don’t go the romantic route. However, if you’re a completionist like I am and want that achievement, by all means, get that achievement and don’t go the romantic route again.
ref: 2019 October 31, Garrick Beckett, “Beckett: How BioWare Approaches Religion & Sexuality”, in The Lutheran Column, archived from the original on 17 Sep 2020, Blog:
glosses: A person who practices completionism.
Related terms: completionism
completionists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of completionist
fanship
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fanships
Etymology: From fan + -ship.
Senses: examples: text: Well, this is a way to create another level of fanship and connectivity.
ref: 2009 September 24, Peter Applebome, “Building a Web-Based Team for a Real-Life Baseball League”, in New York Times:
glosses: fandom
Synonyms: fan base
fanships
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fanship
multisong
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From multi- + song.
Senses: examples: text: The multisong fantasia that began with “Nice Work If You Can Get It” and ended with “I Got Rhythm,” revolved around a solemn, majestic “My Man’s Gone Now.”
ref: 2009 September 24, Stephen Holden, “A Romance With Gershwin That Deepens Every Year”, in New York Times:
glosses: Comprising or pertaining to more than one song.
preordination
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: preordinations
Etymology: From pre- + ordination.
Senses: examples: text: In the years since 9/11, producers have found rich thematic material in the arguments for and against preordination, resulting in series like “The Sarah Connor Chronicles,” “Lost” and now “FlashForward,” which begins in such a spirit of bracing suspense that I am challenged to recall another pilot that lured me so quickly into addiction.
ref: 2009 September 24, Ginia Bellafante, “Fearing a Future They’ve Seen”, in New York Times:
synonyms: word: destiny
word: doom
word: chance
word: destin
word: destiny
word: doom
word: fatality
word: fate
word: foredoom
word: foreordination
word: fortune
word: kismet
word: lot
word: orlay
word: portion
word: predestination
word: predestiny
word: preordination
word: qadar
word: weird
word: wyrd
glosses: The state or process of things being preordained.
preordination
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pre- + ordination.
Senses: glosses: Before ordination.
preordinations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of preordination
unempathetic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unempathetic
form: most unempathetic
Etymology: From un- + empathetic.
Senses: examples: text: But he could be equally exasperating, obsessive, unempathetic and prone to sudden fits of violence that, invariably, filled him with remorse and self-loathing after the fact.
ref: 2009 September 24, Sarah Lyall, “Recalling a Home That Really Is a Castle”, in New York Times:
glosses: Lacking empathy.
underenforce
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: underenforces
form: underenforcing
form: underenforced
form: underenforced
Etymology: From under- + enforce.
Senses: examples: text: But effective laws, already on the books, are pitifully underenforced by the Environmental Protection Agency.
ref: 2009 September 24, “How to Stop Contaminating the Water”, in The New York Times:
text: I don’t know if it’s underenforcing or overenforcing the law. But, at least in the data, we see that Black officers are less likely to make a drug arrest than the others.
ref: 2020 June 12, Kate Waldock and Luigi Zingales, “Should we defund the police?”, in Capitalisn't:
glosses: To enforce inadequately.
Related terms: underenforcement
underenforcing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of underenforce
underenforced
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of underenforce
underenforces
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of underenforce
virtualness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From virtual + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: Its virtualness turned out to be a nice metaphor.
ref: 2009 September 24, Michael Kimmelman, “Searching for Chopin, Finding Poland’s Past”, in New York Times:
glosses: The quality of being virtual; virtuality.
canarypox
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From canary + pox.
Senses: examples: text: Dr. Lawrence Corey, the principal investigator for the HIV Vaccine Trials Network, who was not part of the RV 144 trial, said new work on weakened versions of the smallpox vaccine had produced better pox “spines” that could be substituted for the canarypox.
ref: 2009 September 25, Donald G. Mcneil Jr., “For First Time, AIDS Vaccine Shows Some Success”, in New York Times:
glosses: A viral disease of birds.
kiltmaking
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From kilt + making.
Senses: examples: text: On the Royal Mile, Gordon Nicolson, who owns a kiltmaking shop, said that Mr. MacAskill’s efforts had backfired.
ref: 2009 September 25, Sarah Lyall, “When Doing the Scottish Thing Backfires”, in New York Times:
glosses: The manufacture of kilts.
kiltmaker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kiltmakers
Etymology: From kilt + maker.
Senses: glosses: A manufacturer of kilts.
kiltmakers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kiltmaker
midglide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From mid- + glide.
Senses: examples: text: He dug back in, dragging his knuckles across the keys, and then he held out both arms straight, like a condor in midglide.
ref: 2009 September 25, Nate Chinen, “It Feels Like Home: The Sounds of Coltrane”, in New York Times:
text: Jake headed upriver, fighting gusts that hit him square in the chest and stopped his skis in midglide. He felt like a boxer pummeled by a constant rain of blows, fighting to keep his balance.
ref: 2011, William Durbin, The Darkest Evening, page 195:
glosses: A point in time during a glide.
undimmable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + dimmable.
Senses: examples: text: Consumers rebelled against the bulbs’ shortcomings: the light output from compact fluorescent bulbs was cold and unpleasant, their life was much shorter than claimed, many were large and undimmable, they would not work in cold environments and they contained polluting mercury.
ref: 2009 September 25, Eric A. Taub, “Build a Better Bulb for a $10 Million Prize”, in New York Times:
synonyms: nondimmable
antonyms: dimmable
glosses: Not capable of being dimmed.
Related terms: undimmed
woundlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more woundlike
form: most woundlike
Etymology: From wound + -like.
Senses: examples: text: Kitsch may be the only word for a sculpture consisting of several tall, vertical chrome pylons punctuated with drippy, woundlike gashes that glow with changing LED colors.
ref: 2009 September 25, Roberta Smith, “In Chelsea, a Chapter in Abstract Art and Some Long Verse”, in New York Times:
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a wound.
woundworts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of woundwort
Simonism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: His zeal for the purification of the church urged him forthwith to operate against the prevailing system of Simonism, or the purchasing of spiritual offices with money, and the immoral life led by the clergy.
ref: 1844, Friedrich Kohlrausch, A history of Germany: from the earliest period to the present time, page 190:
text: Here in 1062 the bishop of Florence Mezzabarba was refused admittance by the monks, who accused him of Simonism.
ref: 1899, Elvira Grifi, Saunterings in Florence: a new artistic and practical hand-book, page 456:
topics: lifestyle
religion
glosses: simony
Related terms: Saint Simonism
Saint-Simonism
St Simonism
St. Simonism
Timonism
jointlessly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From jointless + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: How jointlessly, and how jointlessly
The frivolous cake sailed by
On the waves of the ocean that pointlessly
Threw fish to the lilac sky.
ref: 1946, Mervyn Peake, Titus Groan, London: Eyre & Spottiswoode, →OCLC:
text: I see him stand, jointlessly unfolding, pull from the holster on his hip the shingle knife, as easy as you'd pluck the fork beside your plate.
ref: 2006, Jane Gentry, Portrait of the artist as a white pig, page 6:
glosses: Without joints.
Lezgins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Lezgin
conceptualizer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: conceptualizers
Etymology: From conceptualize + -er.
Senses: examples: text: An intense, persevering conceptualizer, Ms. Beckman has even researched what she says are the New World origins of Shakespeare’s play.
ref: 2009 September 26, Joseph Berger, “Bard, Boardwalk and, With Luck, Only a Staged Tempest”, in New York Times:
glosses: One who conceptualizes.
conceptualizers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of conceptualizer
detainable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From detain + -able.
Senses: examples: text: He was sent to Guantánamo in 2002, and Judge Kollar-Kotelly found that from the beginning of his stay, “there is no evidence in the record that anyone directed any allegations toward al-Rabiah nor any indication that interrogators believed al-Rabiah had engaged in any conduct that made him lawfully detainable.”
ref: 2009 September 26, The Associated Press, “Kuwaiti Ordered Released From Guantánamo Bay”, in New York Times:
glosses: Capable of being detained.
Derived terms: undetainable
misdefend
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: misdefends
form: misdefending
form: misdefended
form: misdefended
Etymology: From mis- + defend.
Senses: examples: text: After a flat board, Wbridge5 misdefended to allow a second overtrick in three no-trump.
ref: 2009 September 26, Phillip Alder, “Jack Gets Bragging Rights in Computer Battle”, in New York Times:
topics: bridge
games
glosses: To defend incorrectly.
misdefending
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of misdefend
misdefends
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of misdefend
misdefended
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of misdefend
capillary refill
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: capillary refills
form: cap refill
Senses: glosses: The refilling of empty capillaries by blood
topics: emergency-medicine
medicine
sciences
glosses: An assessment of the rate of refilling of blood capillaries after having applied pressure; used as a diagnostic procedure.
unilateralists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of unilateralist