cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
nonsmart
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + smart.
Senses: examples: text: Fixed beams are quite easy to form and may be viewed as an extension of older nonsmart antenna systems (where directional selectivity was achieved by the design of propagation patterns from single antenna elements).
ref: 2003, George M. Calhoun, Third Generation Wireless Systems: Post-Shannon signal architectures, page 360:
text: Only a few nonsmart models, primarily newer Razr models and a few Nokia phones, can run Yahoo Go. And once again, no Verizon phones need apply.
ref: 2007 May 24, David Pogue, “How to Make Your Cellphone Act Like a BlackBerry”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 25 Feb 2021:
topics: business
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
electronics
energy
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
technology
glosses: Not smart.
goes hand in hand
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of go hand in hand
going hand in hand
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of go hand in hand
went hand in hand
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past of go hand in hand
gone hand in hand
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: past participle of go hand in hand
prefossilized
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pre- + fossilized.
Senses: examples: text: The kind of fantasy that doesn’t care that human beings and these prefossilized thunder-lizards are usually thought to have been separated by millions of years?
ref: 2007 May 24, Edward Rothstein, “Adam and Eve in the Land of the Dinosaurs”, in New York Times:
glosses: Fossilized earlier than surrounding material.
Related terms: prefossilization
Takayasu's arteritis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: First described in 1908 by Japanese ophthalmologist Mikito Takayasu.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: An inflammatory disease of unknown cause, affecting the aorta and most common in young Asian women.
Synonyms: aortic arch syndrome
pulseless disease
pulseless disease
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Takayasu's arteritis
aortic arch syndrome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: Takayasu's arteritis
takadiastase
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Blend of Takamine (surname) + diastase. Named after Jokichi Takamine, who developed the method used for its extraction.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A form of diastase resulting from the growth, development, and nutrition of koji.
wikipedia: Jokichi Takamine
go together
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: goes together
form: going together
form: went together
form: gone together
Etymology: See go and together
Senses: examples: text: 1977-1980, Lou Sullivan, personal diary, quoted in 2019, Ellis Martin, Zach Ozma (editors), We Both Laughed In Pleasure
The nurse says "A very good friend of yours just called to see how you were & his name was J." […] Told her it was amazing he called, that I haven't seen him in 2 years & we had gone together for 10 years.
text: Everybody knows now that Richard and Betsy are going together.
glosses: To be in a relationship.
raw_tags: of two people
examples: text: Should we go separate, or should we go together?
glosses: To accompany each other (e.g. to an event).
raw_tags: of two people
examples: text: Purple and blue are two colors that go together well.
glosses: To correspond or fit well.
raw_tags: of two or more things
examples: text: Exercise and sweat often go together.
glosses: To be inseparable; to go hand in hand.
Related terms: go with
goes together
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of go together
going together
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of go together
went together
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past of go together
gone together
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: past participle of go together
tabi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tabis
form: tabi
Etymology: From Japanese 足袋 (tabi, “foot pouch”).
Senses: glosses: Traditional Japanese ankle socks with a separate section for the big toe.
flites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of flite
flites
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of flite
fliting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of flite
fliting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: flitings
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of flyting.
emender
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɛndə(ɹ)
Forms: form: emenders
Etymology: From emend + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who emends.
emendator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: emendators
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin ēmendātor.
Senses: synonyms: emender
glosses: Someone who emends.
flited
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of flite
prenasalize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: prenasalizes
form: prenasalizing
form: prenasalized
form: prenasalized
Etymology: From prenasal + -ize.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
phonology
sciences
glosses: To convert to, or render as, a prenasal.
Related terms: prenasalization
prenasalizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of prenasalize
prenasalizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of prenasalize
prenasalized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of prenasalize
unlovability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: unloveability
Etymology: From unlovable + -ity.
Senses: examples: text: “Project Greenlight,” however, bore down on the soft underbelly of the movie business, focusing on the delusions and colossal blunders of first-time directors, seemingly selected as much for their unlovability as their talent.
ref: 2007 May 24, Alessandra Stanley, “A Rose-Colored Reality Where Everyone Wins”, in The New York Times:
synonyms: unlovableness
glosses: The quality of being unlovable.
chiaroscuroed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more chiaroscuroed
form: most chiaroscuroed
Etymology: From chiaroscuro + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: Several paintings hung side by side demonstrate the overlap in the brothers’ taste, including two similar Cézanne still lifes, two deeply chiaroscuroed Degas self-portraits and two Corots.
ref: 2007 May 25, Martha Schwendener, “Brotherly Art: The Clarks Who Collected”, in New York Times:
glosses: Patterned with chiaroscuro.
counterpressure
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: counterpressures
Etymology: From counter- + pressure.
Senses: examples: text: Gradually, as the furor over Cape Wind gained national attention (in part because of an article in The New York Times Magazine), environmental groups like Greenpeace and powerful politicians in favor of alternative energy projects began to apply effective counterpressure. Mr. Cronkite, after sitting down and talking over the project with Mr. Gordon, withdrew his opposition.
ref: 2007 May 25, William Grimes, “Gone With the Windmill Farms, or, a Cape Cod Cautionary Tale”, in New York Times:
glosses: Pressure applied in one direction to counterbalance pressure from another.
counterpressure
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: counterpressures
form: counterpressuring
form: counterpressured
form: counterpressured
Etymology: From counter- + pressure.
Senses: glosses: To apply pressure to (something) in one direction to counterbalance pressure from another.
counterpressured
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of counterpressure
counterpressuring
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of counterpressure
counterpressures
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of counterpressure
counterpressures
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of counterpressure
counterpaned
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From counterpane + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: We were led upstairs to old-fashioned rooms with floral-counterpaned beds.
glosses: Fitted with a counterpane.
expositorily
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more expositorily
form: most expositorily
Etymology: From expository + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: And anyway, he expositorily tells us that he cares about American Indians and even sympathizes, somewhat, with the Sioux insurgency at Little Bighorn — or is that their “resistance”?
ref: 2007 May 25, Virginia Heffernan, “There’s an Allegory in Those Hills”, in New York Times:
glosses: In an expository fashion.
firsties
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of firstie
angarias
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of angaria
hypermarketed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more hypermarketed
form: most hypermarketed
Etymology: From hyper- + marketed.
Senses: examples: text: Its success, usually viewed through the prism of the hypermarketed Ultimate Fighting Championship, has been building for years.
ref: 2007 May 25, Richard Sandomir, “From the Edge of Madness to Fighting’s Mainstream”, in New York Times:
glosses: Very widely and aggressively marketed.
angaries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of angary
lawyerless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From lawyer + -less.
Senses: examples: text: His pal, Mr. Bruce, wound up firing them, went lawyerless, and botched his appeal.
ref: 2007 May 25, Robin Finn, “A Defender of the Controversial, and Now of Imus”, in New York Times:
glosses: Without a lawyer.
multichapter
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From multi- + chapter.
Senses: examples: text: All this appears to be the multichapter prologue to tomorrow night’s Liddell-Quinton Jackson light heavyweight championship match in Las Vegas at the MGM Grand Garden Arena, where a capacity crowd of 13,318 was announced yesterday, with gate receipts of $4.4 million anticipated.
ref: 2007 May 25, Richard Sandomir, “From the Edge of Madness to Fighting’s Mainstream”, in New York Times:
glosses: Of or pertaining to more than one chapter.
noncarb
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + carb.
Senses: examples: text: “It would fill a major gap in it’s^([sic]) noncarb portfolio,” Mr. Pecoriello said last week in a note to investors.
ref: 2007 May 25, Andrew Ross Sorkin, “Coca-Cola Is Said to Buy Vitaminwater”, in New York Times:
glosses: noncarbonated
examples: text: Even in my most stringent noncarb dieting phase I was weakened and powerless in their presence.
ref: 2004, Jennifer Basye Sander, The Martini Diet: The Self-Indulgent Way to a Thinner, More Fabulous You!, page 116:
glosses: noncarbohydrate
noncarb
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: noncarbs
Etymology: From non- + carb.
Senses: examples: text: “In the more mature market of today, there is a need to be more nimble given the increasing role of noncarbs, retailer consolidation and the changing competitive landscape,” Indra K. Nooyi, PepsiCo’s chief executive, said in a call with investors.
ref: 2009 April 21, Michael J. De La Merced, “Pepsi Offers to Buy All Shares of 2 Main Bottlers”, in New York Times:
glosses: A noncarbonated drink.
parachuters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of parachuter
propellered
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From propeller + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: The wind farm, consisting of 130 propellered turbines installed over an area of about 26 square miles, would generate up to 500 megawatts of clean energy.
ref: 2007 May 25, William Grimes, “Gone With the Windmill Farms, or, a Cape Cod Cautionary Tale”, in New York Times:
glosses: Fitted with a propeller or propellers.
Shirley sauce
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A type of tomato relish.
phloxlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more phloxlike
form: most phloxlike
Etymology: From phlox + -like.
Senses: glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a phlox.
post hocs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of post hoc
CIM
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: CIMs
Senses: examples: text: The CIM is drafted by the seller's M&A advisory firm or investment banker and used in a sell-side engagement to market a business to prospective buyers.
ref: 2016, Jim Gilreath, Skin in the Game: No Longer Just a C-Level Employee, Made For Success Publishing, →ISBN:
topics: business
glosses: Initialism of confidential information memorandum.
CIM
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: examples: text: […]PSE (porn star experience) means you up the ante a bit in the bedroom with a bit of COF, Spanish, Tromboning, CIM, maybe even CIMWS (never my thing)—and for the really adventurous, Greek[…]
ref: 2017, Samantha X, Back on Top: Confessions of a High-Class Escort, Hachette, →ISBN:
topics: lifestyle
prostitution
sexuality
glosses: Initialism of cum in mouth; indicates that the client ejaculates in their mouth.
BER
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: BERs
Senses: glosses: Initialism of building energy rating.
fustigator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fustigators
Etymology: From fustigate + -or.
Senses: examples: text: There is, however, at any time much more to be advanced in favour of the operations of the Royal Academy of Arts than clumsy fustigators like Mr. George Moore imagine.
ref: 1903, Byron Webber, James Orrock, R. I., Painter, Connoisseur, Collector:
glosses: A person who fustigates.
onera
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of onus
fractile
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fractiles
Etymology: From fraction + -ile.
Senses: examples: The q-quantile is the same as the (1/q)-fractile.
The median is the .5-fractile.
topics: mathematics
sciences
statistics
glosses: The value of a distribution for which some fraction of the sample lies below.
Related terms: quantile
fractile
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more fractile
form: most fractile
Etymology: From fracture + -ile.
Senses: examples: text: A stone with a low fractile strength lacks tensile strength and will crack or crumble under stress or pressure.
glosses: Describing the quality of a sedimentary stone as it relates to the sediments to cohesively bond without fracturing.
relinquent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more relinquent
form: most relinquent
Etymology: Latin relinquens.
Senses: glosses: relinquishing
relinquent
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: relinquents
Etymology: Latin relinquens.
Senses: glosses: One who relinquishes.
babysitter test
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: The babysitter, presumably between the ages of ten and 15, is quite explicitly expected to function in a way usually expected of mature individuals.
ref: 1993, Gideon Koren et al., “Maturity of Children to Consent to Medical Research: The Babysitter Test,”, in Journal of Medical Ethics, volume 19, number 3, page 146:
text: To highlight the inadequacy of such evidence, we propose what we call “the babysitter test” for future prosecution witnesses in death penalty cases. We suggest that, to send someone to the gurney or the electric chair on the word of one witness, the prosecutor must agree to hire that witness as a babysitter for her or his kids for one evening.
ref: 2001, Michael L. Radelet, Hugo Bedau, “Erroneous Convictions and the Death Penalty,”, in Wrongly Convicted: Perspectives on Failed Justice, Saundra Westervelt and John A. Humphrey eds., →ISBN, page 274:
text: I use a babysitter test when it comes to Israel, Indyk said. Do I trust this man or woman with my child? Will he or she be in the trenches when it really counts? Obama would.
ref: 2008 October 25, Emily Baltz, “U.S. Ambassador Calls On Jewish Voters To Drop Republican Support, Back Obama”, in cbsnews.com, retrieved 25 Aug 2010:
topics: human-sciences
law
sciences
social-science
social-sciences
qualifier: public policy
glosses: An informal method for assessing the maturity, reliability, or probity of a person, inviting one to judge whether one would entrust this person with the care of one's own children.
examples: text: "We set out to create a remote that passes the babysitter test," says Klarke, director of marketing and development for Harmony remotes.
ref: 2006 June 29, “At last, new remotes that are 'universal'”, in Baltimore Sun, retrieved 25 Aug 2010, page 5D:
text: I call it the babysitter test. Can I give a remote control to a 15-year-old, gum-snapping Valley Girl and explain, clearly and succinctly in less than 3 minutes, how she can watch TV? Without getting a panicked call when American Idol begins? TiVo passes the test.
ref: 2006 November 1, Jim Louderback, “Does the PC Belong in the Living Room?”, in PC Magazine, retrieved 25 Aug 2010:
text: At the devices’ launch, the company claimed this ease of use would pass “the babysitter test” of making TVs and DVD players intuitive to use.
ref: 2010 May 25, Matt Warman, “Bose bids to simplify home cinema”, in telegraph.co.uk, retrieved 25 Aug 2010:
topics: business
manufacturing
marketing
glosses: A test for the ease of use of household appliances.
vanquishment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vanquishments
Etymology: From vanquish + -ment.
Senses: glosses: The state of being vanquished
tangor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tangors
Etymology: From tangerine and orange.
Senses: synonyms: temple orange
glosses: A citrus fruit that is a hybrid of the tangerine (Citrus reticulata) and the sweet orange (Citrus sinensis).
tangar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of tincal (“borax”).
minos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mino
Ender
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Enders
Etymology: Borrowed from German Ender.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
Ender
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A male given name from ?.
Banu
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Banus
Etymology: * As an Islamic surname (Indian subcontinent), from Urdu بانو (bāno), from Persian بانو (“lady”).
* Borrowed from Bengali বানু (banu), a surname predominantly found in Bangladesh and West Bengal, probably related to the above.
* Borrowed from Romanian Banu, from the medieval title ban; see Ban.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
irrecognizable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪˈɹɛkə(ɡ)naɪzəbəl/
ipa: /ɪˈɹɛkəɡnaɪzəbəl/
ipa: /ɪˈɹɛkənaɪzəbəl/
ipa: /ɪɹɪˈkɒɡnɪzəbəl/
Forms: form: more irrecognizable
form: most irrecognizable
form: irrecognisable
Etymology: From ir- + recognizable.
Senses: examples: text: The immortal gods are there (quite irrecognizable under these disguises), and also the lowest broken valets.
ref: 1850, Thomas Carlyle, “The Stump Orator”, in Latter Day Pamphlets:
text: [T]here remains no trace of their having ever existed—outside of course of the family names which are now preserved, though some of them in an almost irrecognizable form.
ref: 1902 March 15, “Judge Endlich on Early Life in Berks”, in Reading Eagle, USA, retrieved 26 Aug 2010, page 11:
text: The loamy ground on which I lay, the scattered fragments of the cairn beside me, and the rocks and junipers, were irrecognizable as if they had belonged to some other planet than ours.
ref: c. 1933, Clark Ashton Smith, “The Light from Beyond”, in The White Sybil and Other Stories, 2005 edition, page 142:
glosses: Unable to be recognized.
Synonyms: unrecognizable
Derived terms: irrecognizability
irrecognizably
irrecognisable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more irrecognisable
form: most irrecognisable
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of irrecognizable.
bahada
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bahadas
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of bajada.
glomera
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of glomus
impetrator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: impetrators
Senses: glosses: One who impetrates.
viduate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: lifestyle
religion
glosses: A special ecclesiastical class of widows in the early Christian church.
Related terms: viduated
viduation
vacat
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Forms: form: vac.
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from Latin vacat (“it is empty”).
Senses: topics: biology
epigraphy
geography
history
human-sciences
literature
media
natural-sciences
palaeography
paleogeography
paleography
paleontology
publishing
sciences
glosses: Indicates a willingly empty portion of an inscription.
vacator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vacators
Etymology: From vacate + -or.
Senses: examples: text: The vacator of the dwelling is responsible for any damage before the next tenant moves in.
glosses: One who vacates.
calceate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /kælˈsiɪt/
ipa: /kælˈsijɪt/
ipa: /kælˈsiət/
ipa: /kælˈsijət/
ipa: /kælsiˈeɪt/
Etymology: From Latin calceātus, participle of calceāre (“to shoe, to provide with shoes”), from calceus (“calceus, shoe”) + -ō (verb-forming suffix), from calx (“heel”) + -eus (“-y”, adjective-forming suffix). Equivalent to Latin calceus + -ate (adjective-forming suffix).
Senses: glosses: Synonym of shod: wearing shoes, particularly (Christianity) as opposed to the barefoot mendicant orders.
synonyms: word: shod
extra: wearing shoes, particularly (Christianity) as opposed to the barefoot mendicant orders
Derived terms: Fathers Calceate
calceate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /kælˈsiɪt/
ipa: /kælˈsijɪt/
ipa: /kælˈsiət/
ipa: /kælˈsijət/
ipa: /kælsiˈeɪt/
Forms: form: calceates
form: calceating
form: calceated
form: calceated
Etymology: Equivalent to calceus (“calceus, shoe”) + -ate (verb-forming suffix). Doublet of calcate.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of shoe: to put on shoes.
synonyms: word: shoe
extra: to put on shoes
pampinate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: pampinates
form: pampinating
form: pampinated
form: pampinated
Senses: topics: agriculture
business
horticulture
lifestyle
glosses: To strike off the superfluous shoots and twigs of vines, to aid the growth of the fruit.
love doll
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: love dolls
Senses: glosses: A sex toy in the size and shape of a human sexual partner for aid in masturbation.
Synonyms: blow-up doll
sex doll
truncator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: truncators
Senses: glosses: One who, or that which, truncates.
circumambulator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: circumambulators
Etymology: Latin
Senses: examples: text: Still he was determined to obtain the palm of being the first circumambulator of the earth.
ref: 1786, Thomas Jefferson, Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson:
text: TUAPHOLL. A term used by the Druids to designate an unhallowed circumambulation around the sacred cairn, or altar, the movement being against the sun, that is, from west to east by the north, the cairn being on the left hand of the circumambulator.
ref: 1882, Albert G. Mackey, The Symbolism of Freemasonry:
glosses: Someone who walks around something.
Related terms: circumambulate
perambulant
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more perambulant
form: most perambulant
Senses: glosses: That perambulates; walking around.
clusterlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more clusterlike
form: most clusterlike
Etymology: From cluster + -like.
Senses: glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a cluster.
Kennedyesque
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Kennedyesque
form: most Kennedyesque
Etymology: From Kennedy + -esque.
Senses: examples: text: With little subtlety, candidates aped selected Kennedyesque features. Johnson hobnobbed with intellectuals; Nixon walked by the water; Carter rolled up his shirt-sleeves; Hart jabbed his index finger into the air; and Clinton played touch football.
ref: 1995, Paul R. Henggeler, The Kennedy persuasion: the politics of style since JFK:
glosses: Reminiscent of John F. Kennedy (1917-1963), former president of the United States.
howe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: howes
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of how (a tumulus, a bowl barrow).
howes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of howe
bowl barrow
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bowl barrows
Senses: glosses: A tumulus shaped like an inverted bowl.
driegh
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /dɹix/
/dɹik/
Forms: form: more driegh
form: most driegh
Senses: examples: text: “Step in by, the both of ye, gentlemen,” says Cluny. “[…] My life is a bit driegh,” says he, pouring out the brandy; “I see little company, and sit and twirl my thumbs, and mind upon a great day that is gone by, and weary for another great day that we all hope will be upon the road. And so here’s a toast to ye: The Restoration!”
ref: 1886 May 1 – July 31, Robert Louis Stevenson, Kidnapped, being Memoirs of the Adventures of David Balfour in the Year 1751: […], London; Paris: Cassell & Company, published 1886, →OCLC:
glosses: Drear, dreary; dree.
antiherbivore
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From anti- + herbivore.
Senses: examples: text: We therefore propose that both the resin and the phenoloxidase of Larrea exhibit antiherbivore properties.
ref: 1977, Tom J. Mabry, Creosote bush: biology and chemistry of Larrea in New World deserts, page 155:
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Serving to repel herbivores.
Synonyms: antiherbivorous
sculpturist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sculpturists
Etymology: From sculpture + -ist.
Senses: glosses: A maker of sculptures.
Synonyms: sculptor
sculpturists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sculpturist
adament
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of adamant.
installability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From install + -ability.
Senses: glosses: The capability of being installed.
powercut
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: powercuts
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of power cut.
powercuts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of powercut
tizzes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tizz
tiswas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tizwas
form: tizwoz
Etymology: Possibly coined by the Royal Air Force. Possibly a blend of it + is + was. Compare tizzy.
Senses: examples: text: It was her first ever visit to the capital and she was all of a tiswas.
ref: 2002, James Riordan, War Song, page 88:
glosses: A state of nervous excitement or confusion.
Derived terms: all of a tiswas
shentleman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shentlemen
Senses: glosses: gentleman
shentlemen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shentleman
drolling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: drollings
Senses: glosses: A joke or jest; drollery.
drolling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of droll
drolled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of droll
clothest
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: clothe + -est
Senses: glosses: second-person singular simple present indicative of clothe
comprehensor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: comprehensors
Senses: examples: text: When I shall have dispatched this weary pilgrimage, and from a traveller shall come to be a comprehensor, farewell faith and welcome vision.
ref: 1647, Joseph Hall, Satan's Fiery Darts Quenched; or, Temptations Repelled:
glosses: Someone who comprehends.
Synonyms: comprehender
avolate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: avolates
form: avolating
form: avolated
form: avolated
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin āvolō (“to fly away”).
Senses: glosses: To escape; to dissipate into the air.
glosses: To fly by; to pass quickly.
raw_tags: of time
Derived terms: avolation
rogitate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: rogitates
form: rogitating
form: rogitated
form: rogitated
Etymology: From Latin rogitātus (“inquired”), past participle of rogitō (“inquire”).
Senses: glosses: To ask a question repeatedly.
brevier
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɪə(ɹ)
Etymology: Probably from Old French or Anglo-Norman *brevier, from Latin breviārium (“breviary”), presumably from its use in printing them, hence a doublet of breviary and brimborion. Most breviaries were not, however, printed with such small type, leading some to conjecture that it instead derived from cognates of brief and has a meaning similar to French petit and German Petit.
Senses: topics: media
printing
publishing
typography
glosses: The size of type between minion and bourgeois, standardized as 8-point.
Synonyms: sense: French contexts
word: small text
sense: French and German contexts
word: petit
Derived terms: two-line brevier
Related terms: breviary
adminiculate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: adminiculates
form: adminiculating
form: adminiculated
form: adminiculated
Senses: qualifier: Scots law
glosses: To prove; to corroborate.
Related terms: adminicle
supererogant
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more supererogant
form: most supererogant
Etymology: Latin
Senses: glosses: supererogatory
supererogator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: supererogators
Etymology: From supererogate + -or.
Senses: glosses: One who supererogates.
centuriator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: centuriators
Etymology: Compare French centuriateur.
Senses: glosses: A writer of the Magdeburg Centuries.
Synonyms: centurist
alligant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: alligants
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of alicant.
tricounty
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From tri- + county.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to three counties.
alligate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /ˈælɪɡeɪt/
Forms: form: alligates
form: alligating
form: alligated
form: alligated
Etymology: From Latin alligatus (“tied, bound”), past participle of alligo (“I bind”), from ad + ligo (“I bind”). Doublet of alloy.
Senses: examples: text: Instincts alligated to their nature.
ref: a. 1677 (date written), Matthew Hale, The Primitive Origination of Mankind, Considered and Examined According to the Light of Nature, London: […] William Godbid, for William Shrowsbery, […], published 1677, →OCLC:
text: Poor Blind Tom, the very tail end of the long decadency, has a gift that alligates him to the angels.
ref: 1887, S. F. Walker, The Ruins Revisited, and the World-story Retold, page 38:
glosses: To bind or tie; to unite.
examples: text: Link or alligate the branches, so as one greater and another less than the root may be linked or yoked together.
ref: 1859, J. Smith Homans, A Cyclopedia of Commerce and Commercial Navigation, page 27:
glosses: To solve an arithmetic problem concerning proportions by means of alligation; to associate as having the same ratio.
alligate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈælɪɡeɪt/
Etymology: From Latin alligatus (“tied, bound”), past participle of alligo (“I bind”), from ad + ligo (“I bind”). Doublet of alloy.
Senses: examples: text: The proportional parts are then found by reducing the alligate parts to the same denominator , dropping the denominators and writing the numerators .
ref: 1938, Joseph A. Zappa, Civil Service Manual: Mental Tests for Federal Examinations, page 94:
glosses: Having the same proportion or ratio.
beratings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of berating
berays
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of beray
beraying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of beray
berayed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of beray
pseudorelational
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pseudo- + relational.
Senses: topics: computing
databases
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Having certain elements of a relational database.
Krishnology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Krishna + -ology. As a nonce word (attested 1929) used for illustrating the parallels between Christology and the theology of Krishnaism. Since the late 2000s also used by ISKCON authors in a more general sense.
Senses: examples: Whether it be questions of Science or Philosophy, or of Christology or Krishnology (1929)http://books.google.com/books?id=HwgaAAAAMAAJ&q=Krishnology+-%22Webster%27s+Quotations%22&dq=Krishnology+-%22Webster%27s+Quotations%22&hl=en&ei=W5x3TJfMAp-g4Qbdm5zSBg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=2&ved=0CCkQ6AEwATgK
Christology and Krishnology: a critical study of the concept of Avatora from the Christian standpoint (1952, title)http://books.google.com/books?id=YsEcHAAACAAJ&dq=Krishnology+-%22Webster%27s+Quotations%22&hl=en&ei=rJx3TJCeHpuP4gafyJy7Bg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CCUQ6AEwAA
glosses: The position of Krishna in Krishnaism viewed as a parallel of that of Christ in Christianity.
examples: ISKCON has recently brought the academic study of Krishna into western academia as Krishnology. (2009)http://books.google.com/books?id=J7AIg5bVFCYC&pg=PA162&dq=Krishnology+-%22Webster%27s+Quotations%22+-Christology&hl=en&ei=Hp13TKGvC4_14AbxqrDgBQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=4&ved=0CDMQ6AEwAw#v=onepage&q=Krishnology%20-%22Webster%27s%20Quotations%22%20-Christology&f=false
glosses: The academic study of the Vishnu theology of Krishna in general.
misguidedness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: misguidednesses
Etymology: From misguided + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or condition of being misguided.
mishandler
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mishandlers
Etymology: From mishandle + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who mishandles.
mishandlers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mishandler
ethnoreligious
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɛθnəʊɹɪˈlɪd͡ʒəs/
rhymes: -ɪdʒəs
Etymology: From ethno- + religious.
Senses: examples: text: The Jews are an ethnoreligious group.
text: I will do this no matter how brutal the ethnoreligious persecution could become.
text: Not only are all religions welcome at the Voice Community Kitchen, but experts also say such initiatives could be key to improving ethnoreligious engagement and lead to better conflict mediation in the future.
ref: 2023 January 6, Munza Mushtaq, “In Sri Lanka, Pastor Moses shows the power of a free lunch”, in The Christian Science Monitor:
glosses: Of or pertaining to ethnicity and religion.
Derived terms: ethnoreligiously
Related terms: ethnoreligion
multitenant
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From multi- + tenant.
Senses: examples: text: “We’re mainly focusing this new law at multitenant buildings; only 25 percent of those building owners provide recycling for renters.”
ref: 2009 June 11, Malia Wollan, “San Francisco to Toughen a Strict Recycling Law”, in New York Times:
glosses: Of or pertaining to more than one tenant.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Relating to multitenancy.
screenprint
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈskɹinˌpɹɪnt/
Forms: form: screenprints
Etymology: From screen + print.
Senses: glosses: An artwork produced by means of screen printing.
screenprint
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈskɹinˌpɹɪnt/
Forms: form: screenprints
form: screenprinting
form: screenprinted
form: screenprinted
Etymology: From screen + print.
Senses: glosses: To produce by screen printing.
screenprints
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of screenprint
collectivities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of collectivity
muezzinlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more muezzinlike
form: most muezzinlike
Etymology: From muezzin + -like.
Senses: examples: text: Collectivism is a major point of the piece, but there’s ample space for individual statements, both notated and improvised. Mr. Marsalis played a muezzinlike trumpet part early on, in “Call to Prayer.”
ref: 2007 May 26, Nate Chinen, “Say Amen, Everybody, 15 Years Down the Line”, in New York Times:
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a muezzin.
underleveraged
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more underleveraged
form: most underleveraged
Etymology: From under- + leveraged.
Senses: examples: text: His argument is that Americans are underleveraged.
ref: 2007 May 26, Paul B. Brown, “Activists at the Boardroom Door”, in New York Times:
glosses: Not adequately leveraged.
videogenic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more videogenic
form: most videogenic
Etymology: From video + -genic, after photogenic.
Senses: examples: text: Like a similar service, Rocketboom, which is devoted to technology news, Wallstrip features a videogenic young woman (Lindsay Campbell), minimalist production values and plenty of attitude […]
ref: 2007 May 26, Dan Mitchell, “CBS Has a Crush on Wallstrip”, in New York Times:
glosses: Looking good on video.
anticonquest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more anticonquest
form: most anticonquest
Etymology: From anti- + conquest.
Senses: glosses: Opposing a conquest; regarding the indigenous inhabitants of a colonised country as victims rather than foes of the colonisers.
choppering
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of chopper
choppered
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of chopper
countermanifesto
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: countermanifestos
Etymology: From counter- + manifesto.
Senses: examples: text: In 1970, he wrote “Dare to Discipline,” a countermanifesto to the child-rearing techniques espoused by Benjamin Spock; it defended, among other things, spanking with a belt or a switch.
ref: 2007 May 27, Jacob Heilbrunn, “The Gospel of Dobson”, in New York Times:
glosses: A manifesto opposing another manifesto.
countermanifestos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of countermanifesto
covenantal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From covenant + -al.
Senses: examples: text: Rather, the revolutionary message of the Ten Commandments is that this moral order is tied both to the order of the cosmos and to a direct relationship of covenantal love and responsibility between God and a community of human beings.
ref: 2007 May 27, “Are You There, God?”, in New York Times:
glosses: Of or pertaining to a covenant.
Derived terms: bicovenantal
covenantalism
covenantalist
covenantally
cropduster
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cropdusters
form: crop duster
Etymology: From crop + duster.
Senses: examples: text: If Cary Grant ran by, chased by a malevolent cropduster, you might not be surprised.
ref: 2007 May 27, John Anderson, “Blood and Crashes? Sounds Like Lynch”, in New York Times:
glosses: An aircraft that carries out crop-dusting.
glosses: A species of cicada, Diemeniana frenchi, of south-east mainland Australia.
cropdusters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cropduster
flappable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From flap + -able.
Senses: examples: text: a flappable wing
glosses: Able to be moved by flapping.
flappable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more flappable
form: most flappable
Etymology: Back-formation from unflappable.
Senses: examples: text: ‘Yes. Not as much as Ruth, but I read some myself afterward. You sound better aloud. Good deal of authentic mania, there, black and blue wit, pain—the fellow going on to fresh defeats, flappable, flappable. Surviving however. I bought a lot of the little I could understand. Do you write when you're drunk?’
ref: 1973, John Berryman, Recovery, Macmillan, →ISBN:
glosses: Capable of becoming flustered or upset.
gloatingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more gloatingly
form: most gloatingly
Etymology: From gloating + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Ancestry, he thought gloatingly - but instinctively he kept this knowledge jealously.
ref: 1907, Barbara Baynton, edited by Sally Krimmer and Alan Lawson, Human Toll (Portable Australian Authors: Barbara Baynton), St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, published 1980, page 235:
text: “See, I told you,” he said to me, gloatingly.
ref: 2007 May 27, Fran Giuffre, “The Curtains, the Dog, the Remark”, in The New York Times:
glosses: In a gloating manner.
handcycle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: handcycles
Etymology: From hand + cycle.
Senses: examples: text: Metzdorf finished the New York City Marathon and an Army Ten-Miler at Fort Bragg using a handcycle.
ref: 2007 May 27, The Associated Press, “Marathons Put Military in a Different Light”, in New York Times:
glosses: A land vehicle resembling a bicycle or tricycle but powered by the arms rather than the legs.
glosses: A mechanical exercise equipment similar to an exercise bicycle but with hand-operated pedals, used especially by seniors or people with disabilities for upper-body exercise.
Synonyms: handbike
Derived terms: handcycling
handcyclist
handcycle
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: handcycles
form: handcycling
form: handcycled
form: handcycled
Etymology: From hand + cycle.
Senses: glosses: To travel or traverse on a handcycle.
handcycles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of handcycle
handcycles
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of handcycle
accommodat
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: accommodated
handbike
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: handbikes
Etymology: From hand + bike (despite the fact that most handcycles resemble tricycles, not bicycles).
Senses: glosses: A handcycle.
handbikes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of handbike
tailhead
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tailheads
Etymology: From tail + head.
Senses: glosses: The root of the tail, where it joins the rump, in cattle.
tailheads
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tailhead
haunched
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From haunch + -ed.
Senses: glosses: Fitted with haunches (squat vertical support structures).
humdrumness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From humdrum + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: Most striking about their relationship is not Mrs. Pugach’s lingering resentment, not her husband’s less-than-evident remorse, and not even their mutual dependence, but the marriage’s frank descent into humdrumness.
ref: 2007 May 27, Ruth La Ferla, “What’s Love Got to Do With It?”, in New York Times:
glosses: The quality of being humdrum; mundanity.
minifilms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of minifilm
muckland
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mucklands
Etymology: From muck + land.
Senses: examples: text: Abundant and of universal distribution in all kinds of situations except muckland.
ref: 1889, Samuel N. Rhoads, “Annotated list of land and fresh-water shells recently collected in the vicinity of Miami, Florida”, in Pamphlets on Biology: Kofoid collection:
text: Pump-drained mucklands (organic soils) to produce crops like cabbage, lettuce, onions, and carrots are likely to still retain wetland hydrology.
ref: 1999, Ralph W. Tiner, Wetland Indicators: A Guide to Wetland Identification, Delineation, Classification, and Mapping:
text: Basilio’s picaresque journey began on an onion farm in Canastota in central New York’s muckland, one of 10 children of Italian immigrants.
ref: 2007 May 27, The Associated Press, “A Champion at 80: Basilio’s Only Fight Now Is With Age”, in New York Times:
glosses: Land whose soil is primarily composed of humus from drained swampland, used for growing certain crops such as onions and carrots.
mucklands
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of muckland
multilink
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From multi- + link.
Senses: topics: communications
electrical-engineering
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
telecommunications
glosses: Of or pertaining to more than one telecommunications link.
examples: text: Its fully independent suspension, with struts and coil springs up front and a multilink rear setup, loves to caress the road.
ref: 2007 May 27, Jerry Garrett, “Altima Coupe: Fewer Doors, More Drama”, in New York Times:
topics: automotive
transport
vehicles
glosses: Being or pertaining to a kind of vehicle suspension using three or more lateral arms and one or more longitudinal arms.
nondeployable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + deployable.
Senses: examples: text: Because the National Guard will continue to be needed overseas, President Bush and the governors should establish in each state an adequately trained, nondeployable Home Guard.
ref: 2007 May 27, Lawrence J. Korb, “Over Here”, in New York Times:
glosses: That cannot be deployed.
nondeployable
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nondeployables
Etymology: From non- + deployable.
Senses: glosses: A military unit that cannot be deployed.
undeployable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + deployable.
Senses: glosses: That cannot be deployed.
nondeployment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From non- + deployment.
Senses: examples: text: The nondeployment of troops left the villagers helpless.
glosses: Failure to deploy.
whang
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: whangs
form: whanging
form: whanged
form: whanged
Etymology: Imitative. Compare wang.
Senses: examples: text: The holder of the torch grunted, and (after pausing a second at B.'s bed to inspect a picture of perfect innocence) banged out through the door which whanged to behind him...
ref: 1922, E. E. Cummings, The Enormous room:
glosses: To make a noise like something moving quickly through the air.
raw_tags: of an object
examples: text: I don't know how long it might have gone on if Grandfather hadn't lost his temper. He swung the bridle up over his head and whanged it down across the buckskin's rump.
ref: 1993, Ralph Moody, Edward Shenton (illustrator), The Fields of Home, page 31
synonyms: word: fling
word: hurl
word: bung
word: cast
word: chuck
word: chunk
word: cook
word: dash
word: dump
word: feck
word: fling
word: jerk
word: heave
word: hield
word: hoy
word: huck
word: hurl
word: hurtle
word: launch
word: lob
word: peck
word: peg
word: pick
word: pitch
word: precipitate
word: project
word: quoit
word: shy
word: slight
word: skew
word: sling
word: thrill
word: throw
word: toss
word: traject
word: warp
word: whang
word: whip
word: whop
word: wing
glosses: To throw with a rapid slamming motion.
examples: text: I ought to have whanged him one in the eye.
glosses: To whack or beat.
glosses: To slice, especially into large pieces; to chop.
whang
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: whangs
Etymology: Imitative. Compare wang.
Senses: glosses: A blow; a whack.
glosses: A large piece or slice; a chunk.
glosses: A house-cleaning party.
whang
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: whangs
form: wang
Etymology: Debuccalized (/θw/ > /hw/) from Scots thwang, cognate to thong.
Senses: glosses: A leather thong.
glosses: The penis.
Derived terms: welly whanging
whangdoodle
whang leather
Related terms: whangee