cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
dull as dishwater
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: dull as ditchwater
Etymology: Modified from dull as ditchwater (1700s) in the first half of the 1900s, perhaps through mispronunciation.
Senses: examples: text: ‘My blessed Public must have a pretty girl’s face. Romance isn’t romance, adventure is as dull as dishwater...to my Public...unless, every so often, a face to sink a thousand ships, or is it saps? shows up.’
ref: 1932, Delos W. Lovelace, King Kong, published 1965, page 6:
synonyms: boring as beans
qualifier: simile
glosses: Boring; ordinary; exceedingly dull.
Related terms: watch paint dry
bored to tears
dull as ditchwater
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: qualifier: simile
glosses: Alternative form of dull as dishwater.
break silence
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: breaks silence
form: breaking silence
form: broke silence
form: broken silence
Senses: examples: text: Breaking radio silence risked disclosing our presence.
text: They were ostracized for breaking the blue wall of silence about police misconduct.
glosses: To breach a norm against communication or against communicating a specific type of information.
rubricated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of rubricate
subangular
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From sub- + angular.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
geography
geology
natural-sciences
synonyms: subangled
glosses: Slightly angular; having rather blunt angles.
God slot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: God slots
Senses: glosses: The time in a television schedule set aside for religious broadcasting.
pickled eggs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pickled egg
pilosebaceous units
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pilosebaceous unit
rubricates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of rubricate
rubricating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of rubricate
piss-artists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of piss-artist
pitch counts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pitch count
objective functions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of objective function
oblique arches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of oblique arch
oblique lines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of oblique line
oblique-swimming triplefins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of oblique-swimming triplefin
infrarealism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From infra- + realism.
Senses: glosses: A literary movement of the 1970s, founded in Mexico by poet Mario Santiago Papasquiaro and Chilean novelist Roberto Bolaño.
cleary
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: clearies
form: clearie
Etymology: From clear + -y.
Senses: glosses: A clear marble (sphere used in games), usually colored, but without decoration or design.
clearies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of clearie
glosses: plural of cleary
clearie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: clearies
Etymology: From clear + -ie.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of cleary.
f-holes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of f-hole
medjidite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: ? + -ite
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A mineral that is a double sulfate of lime and uranium.
medjidies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of medjidie
clearskins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of clearskin
zirsilite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: ? + -ite
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A brittle cream-coloured complex mineral.
backtag
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: backtags
Etymology: From back + tag.
Senses: coordinate_terms: collar
dog tag
earmark
ear tag
glosses: An identifying tag affixed to the back of an animal.
backtag
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: backtags
form: backtagging
form: backtagged
form: backtagged
Etymology: From back + tag.
Senses: coordinate_terms: earmark#Verb
ear-tag#Verb
glosses: To fit (an animal) with a tag of this kind.
backtagged
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of backtag
backtagging
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of backtag
backtags
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of backtag
backtags
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of backtag
multilinked
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From multi- + linked.
Senses: examples: text: We shall end this chapter by noting that a doubly linked list is a special case of a structure known as a multilinked list.
ref: 1985, Bhagat Singh, Thomas L. Naps, Introduction to data structures:
glosses: Linked in multiple ways.
intraquery
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From intra- + query.
Senses: examples: intraquery parallelism
topics: computing
databases
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Within a single query.
Related terms: interquery
interquery
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From inter- + query.
Senses: examples: interquery parallelism
topics: computing
databases
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Between more than one query.
Related terms: intraquery
point guards
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of point guard
ellestadite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ellestadites
Etymology: From Ellestad + -ite, after Reuben B. Ellestad, an American chemist.
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A mineral found in metamorphosed limestone.
Derived terms: chlorellestadite
fluorellestadite
hydroxylellestadite
ellestadites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ellestadite
ellagitannins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ellagitannin
chebulic acid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A phenolic acid compound isolated from the ripe fruits of Terminalia chebula.
shebangs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shebang
hashbang
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hashbangs
Etymology: From hash + bang.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A shebang (#! character sequence).
hashbangs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hashbang
unmasting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of unmast
unmasts
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of unmast
unmasted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of unmast
antihomeopathy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: antihomeopathies
Etymology: From anti- + homeopathy.
Senses: glosses: The organized opposition to homeopathy; The antihomeopathy movement.
antihomeopathy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more antihomeopathy
form: most antihomeopathy
Etymology: From anti- + homeopathy.
Senses: examples: text: That attitude outrages antihomeopathy activists like Barrett, who believe that druggists as health professionals have a moral obligation to their customers.
ref: 1995 September 25, Anastasia Toufexis, “Is Homeopathy Good Medicine?”, in Time, volume 146, number 13:
text: Six antihomeopathy lawsuits were filed last year in California, claiming that drugstores that sell these preparations are deceiving the public. They say these medicines are at the very least a waste of money[…]
ref: 1996, Civilization: the magazine of the Library of Congress:
glosses: Opposing homeopathy.
blanky
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: A euphemistic substitution for the expletive bloody.
Senses: examples: text: […] Bill was a wonderful instructor.
"'Mark time on that blanky clutch,' he'd yell, and Spud would put his foot on the brake-pedal.
ref: 1914, Edgar Wallace, Smithy:
text: "Slept last night under a railway bridge. Give you my word I was so blanky tired I hardly heard the blanky trains go over it."
ref: 1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC, page 71:
text: Why, strike me pink, I'd sooner drink / With a cove sent up for arson / Than a rain-beseeching, preaching, teaching, / Blanky, cranky parson.
ref: 1974, Bill Wannan, With Malice Aforethought, page 85:
glosses: A mild intensifier, expressing irritation.
blanky
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: blankies
Etymology: Shortened from blanket + -y.
Senses: examples: text: I have repaired the underarms in the sweater so many times it has the love-punished look of the blanky I slept with until age 9.
ref: 2009 June 18, Cintra Wilson, “A Spirit in a Material World”, in New York Times:
glosses: Alternative form of blankie.
exonumists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of exonumist
cyberbarrier
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cyberbarriers
Etymology: From cyber- + barrier.
Senses: examples: text: I would like to remove this cyberbarrier from my discourse with you, and tell you to your face what a lying, cowardly bastard you are.
ref: 1997, heaudio, “Lets^([sic]) just ignore d'Arny't Krooker”, in rec.audio.opinion (Usenet):
text: A firewall is a cyberbarrier between the company's network and the Internet.
ref: 1997, Mark E. Walker, How to use the Internet:
text: The 21st-century equivalent of the Berlin wall is a cyberbarrier, and we can help puncture it.
ref: 2009 June 18, Nicholas D. Kristof, “Tear Down This Cyberwall!”, in New York Times:
glosses: A barrier in cyberspace.
eurocentric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more eurocentric
form: most eurocentric
Etymology: From euro- + -centric.
Senses: examples: text: The British government has been more diplomatic but no less pointed, arguing that a body led by the European Central Bank is likely to be too eurocentric.
ref: 2009 June 18, Landon Thomas Jr., “In Britain, an Aversion to Rules From Europe”, in New York Times:
glosses: Alternative form of Eurocentric.
substantiae nigrae
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of substantia nigra
minicelebrity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: minicelebrities
Etymology: From mini- + celebrity.
Senses: examples: text: But in this more narcissistic Internet era, people who were once happily anonymous view themselves as online minicelebrities with their own brands to promote.
ref: 2009 June 18, Brad Stone, “Keeping a true identity becomes a battle online”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC:
synonyms: word: C-lister
word: demicelebrity
word: sublebrity
word: minor celebrity
extra: a celebrity of little importance or significance; someone famous for being famous
coordinate_terms: microcelebrity
noncelebrity
pseudocelebrity
semicelebrity
subcelebrity
glosses: Synonym of minor celebrity (“a celebrity of little importance or significance; someone famous for being famous”).
minicelebrities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of minicelebrity
nonretailing
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + retailing.
Senses: glosses: Not engaging in retail activities.
submovement
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: submovements
Etymology: From sub- + movement.
Senses: examples: text: Free-market environmentalism is a submovement of environmentalism.
glosses: A movement making up part of a larger movement.
submovements
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of submovement
unratable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unratable
form: most unratable
form: unrateable
Etymology: From un- + ratable.
Senses: examples: text: “Lacking any significant performance history, rating agencies rated unratable products for regulatory approval and escaped liability for doing so under First Amendment protection,” said Joseph Mason, a finance professor at Louisiana State University.
ref: 2009 June 18, Eric Dash, “Overhaul Leaves Rating Agencies Largely Untouched”, in New York Times:
glosses: That cannot be rated.
unrateable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unrateable
form: most unrateable
Etymology: From un- + rateable.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of unratable.
counternarrative
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: counternarratives
Etymology: From counter- + narrative.
Senses: examples: text: To our great dismay, what we find is that in important sectors of the American press a disturbing counternarrative is emerging: That perhaps this election wasn’t a fraud after all.
ref: 2009 June 19, Shane M., “A Different Iranian Revolution”, in New York Times:
text: One aspect of the effort to cast doubt on ozone depletion was the construction of a counternarrative that depicted ozone depletion as a natural variation that was being cynically exploited by a corrupt, self-interested, and extremist scientific community to get more money for their research.
ref: 2010, Naomi Oreskes, Erik M. Conway, chapter 4, in Merchants of Doubt:
text: This past week[…] Republicans completed their journey through the looking-glass, spinning a new counternarrative of that deadly day. No longer content to absolve Mr. Trump, they concocted a version of events in which those accused of rioting were patriotic political prisoners and Speaker Nancy Pelosi was to blame for the violence.
ref: 2021 July 31, Lisa Lerer, Nicholas Fandos, “Already Distorting Jan. 6, G.O.P. Now Concocts Entire Counternarrative”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
glosses: A narrative that goes against another narrative.
counternarratives
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of counternarrative
substantiæ nigræ
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: The partial degeneration of the substantiæ nigræ is probably dependent on the partial absence of the corpora striata, which as we have above described supply bundles of fibres to them.
ref: 1902, Physiological Society of Great Britain, The Journal of Physiology (Cambridge University Press), volume 27, page 18
text: In this, however, they all agree that the mechanisms are related to the large nuclei at the base of the brain; that the central cortex is related to the thalami, corpora striata and substantiæ nigræ; that the cerebellar lobes are related to the red nuclei and cerebral surfaces; that these systems are related to the eyes and vestibular organs and that the vestibular organs are related to the eyes through the posterior longitudinal fasciculus.
ref: 1929, Edinburgh Medical Journal, page 69:
glosses: plural of substantia nigra
dastgahs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dastgah
dastgah
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dastgahs
form: dastgāh
Etymology: From Persian دستگاه (dastgâh).
Senses: examples: text: Amir ElSaffar, an Iraqi-American trumpeter, collaborates here with Hafez Modirzadeh, an Iranian-American saxophonist, playing an improvised music that incorporates traditional elements of Iraqi maqam and Persian dastgah.
ref: 2009 June 19, The New York Times, “Jazz Listings”, in New York Times:
glosses: One of the basic melody types in traditional Persian music, each consisting of seven base notes and seven further variable notes used for ornamentation and modulation.
deckman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: deckmen
Etymology: From deck + -man.
Senses: examples: text: After he left baseball, Rhodes stayed in New York, living on Staten Island and working as a steerer, a deckman and a cook on tugboats.
ref: 2009 June 19, Bruce Weber, “Dusty Rhodes, Star Pinch-Hitter in ’54 Series, Dies at 82”, in New York Times:
glosses: A man who works on the deck of a ship.
deckmen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of deckman
larkish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more larkish
form: most larkish
Etymology: From lark + -ish.
Senses: examples: text: What kept his devices from feeling larkish was a sly vocal intimation: even at his most weirdly expressive, Mr. Henriksen seemed to be speaking or singing through his horn.
ref: 2009 June 19, Nate Chinen, “Territory of Two Norwegian Trumpeters”, in New York Times:
glosses: Joky; mischievously high-spirited.
Derived terms: larkishly
prefigurations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of prefiguration
configs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of config
presuspension
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pre- + suspension.
Senses: examples: text: NBC recapped the presuspension play, with a sharp focus on Tiger Woods’s morning, interviewed a few golfers, but primarily replayed the back-nine coverage of last year’s final round of the Open.
ref: 2009 June 19, Richard Sandomir, “Recaps, Replays and Weather Reports”, in New York Times:
glosses: Prior to somebody being suspended (as from work or school).
psalters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of psalter
selions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of selion
Seljuqian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Seljuqian
form: most Seljuqian
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Seljukian.
Seljuqian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Seljuqians
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Seljukian.
Seljuqians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Seljuqian
tazzas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tazza
undercrewed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more undercrewed
form: most undercrewed
Etymology: From under- + crewed.
Senses: examples: text: The ship was left undercrewed after the cook and two of the sailors were killed.
glosses: Inadequately crewed.
Synonyms: undermanned
clinkings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of clinking
unrests
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of unrest
bitterroots
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bitterroot
cinemaphotographer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cinemaphotographers
Etymology: From cinema + photographer or cinemaphotography + -er.
Senses: examples: text: Above left, Kathryn Bigelow with the cinemaphotographer Barry Ackroyd on the set of The Hurt Locker.
ref: 2009 June 21, Manohla Dargis, “Action!”, in The New York Times:
glosses: A cinematographer.
cinemaphotography
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɒɡɹəfi
Etymology: From cinema + photography.
Senses: glosses: cinematography
cinemaphotographers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cinemaphotographer
multispoke
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From multi- + spoke.
Senses: examples: text: Outside, to differentiate the Hybrid from other Fusions, there is a small road-and-leaf badge and multispoke 17-inch wheels.
ref: 2009 June 21, Jerry Garrett, “A Detroit Hybrid That Hums”, in New York Times:
glosses: Having multiple spokes.
Synonyms: multispoked
multispoked
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From multi- + spoked.
Senses: glosses: Having multiple spokes.
Synonyms: multispoke
newshole
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: newsholes
Senses: examples: text: But editors say the newshole for the main daily sections has not changed since it was reduced by 5 percent in 2007.
ref: 2009 June 21, Clark Hoyt, “Putting a Price on News”, in New York Times:
glosses: Alternative form of news hole.
newsholes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of newshole
nondripping
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + dripping.
Senses: glosses: Not dripping.
reaccentuation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: reaccentuations
Etymology: From re- + accentuation.
Senses: examples: text: The dance text of “Fille,” as happens with all ballets, underwent a few reaccentuations and adjustments during Ashton’s lifetime.
ref: 2009 June 21, Alastair Macaulay, “The Uncertain Future Life of Ashton Ballets”, in New York Times:
glosses: The process or result of reaccentuating.
reaccentuations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of reaccentuation
reacquaintance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: reacquaintances
Etymology: From re- + acquaintance.
Senses: examples: text: In the last few weeks, after price cuts and the public’s reacquaintance with the Oak Room and other long-closed public spaces at the Plaza, activity has picked up, brokers say, and a handful of deals have been done.
ref: 2009 June 21, Josh Barbanel, “The Plaza Stirs”, in New York Times:
glosses: Acquaintance again or anew.
reacquaintances
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of reacquaintance
ultratender
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more ultratender
form: most ultratender
Etymology: From ultra- + tender.
Senses: examples: text: Homemade gnocchi were ultratender wonders of their kind, and the asparagus, peas and sage that accompanied them provided textural backup.
ref: 2009 June 21, M. H. Reed, “Good Food, and Hopes for Service to Match”, in New York Times:
glosses: Extremely tender.
Related terms: supertender
hypertender
extratender
unmeeting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: unmeetings
Etymology: From un- + meeting.
Senses: examples: text: Our team created and tested three different prototypes with our pilot customers during the innovation unmeeting we held last week.
text: Used in combination with regular face-to-face meetings, the unmeeting allows managers to bring focus to their priorities in a positive and collegial way.
ref: 2013, Robert Farrell, Kenneth Schlesinger, editors, Managing in the Middle: The Librarian's Handbook, American Library Association, →ISBN, page 61:
glosses: An informal type of meeting without the rules, format or constraints of a formal meeting.
unmeeting
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + meeting.
Senses: examples: unmeeting opposites
glosses: Failing to meet or come together.
Related terms: unconference
broodings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈbɹuːdɪŋz/
Senses: glosses: plural of brooding
submeeting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: submeetings
Etymology: From sub- + meeting.
Senses: examples: text: “You’ll have half the participants BlackBerrying each other as a submeeting, with a running commentary on the primary meeting,” Mr. Reines said.
ref: 2009 June 22, Alex Williams, “Mind Your BlackBerry or Mind Your Manners”, in New York Times:
glosses: A secondary or subsidiary meeting.
submeetings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of submeeting
tabloidism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tabloidisms
Etymology: From tabloid + -ism.
Senses: examples: text: Near-synonym: yellow journalism
text: It was a high-water mark of indie-rock tabloidism — or of major-network hipster-slumming.
ref: 2009 June 22, Jon Caramanica, “Once-Dreamy Indie Rockers, Masking Hurt With High-Gloss Sheen”, in New York Times:
glosses: The practices of tabloid journalism; gaudy sensationalism.
Related terms: muckraking
yellow press
bellydancer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bellydancers
Senses: examples: text: Who could not love the way the Lebanese bellydancer, sharing the stage after her solo with four young male hip-hoppers, did a little number with them waiting on her?
ref: 2009 June 23, Alastair Macaulay, “In San Francisco, Thinking Globally, Dancing Locally”, in New York Times:
glosses: Alternative form of belly dancer.
bellydancers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bellydancer
bellycrawling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of bellycrawl
bikutsi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: His slim but agreeable voice is polished in the studio, and onstage he wisely relied on his band’s grooves: reggae, funk, rock, hints of Andean music as well as upbeat bikutsi and makossa from Cameroon, where his father was born.
ref: 2009 June 23, Jon Pareles, “Commanding the Stage at Another French Open”, in New York Times:
glosses: A style of dance music from Cameroon.
deacquisition
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌdiːækwɪˈzɪʃən/
Forms: form: deacquisitions
Etymology: From de- + acquisition.
Senses: examples: text: Although the Board of Regents already has rules governing deacquisition by the cultural institutions it oversees, “these regulations go further,” James C. Dawson, chairman of the Regents’ cultural education committee, said.
ref: 2009 June 23, Robin Pogrebin, “Institutions Try to Slow Bill to Curb Sales of Art”, in New York Times:
antonyms: acquisition
coordinate_terms: deaccession#Noun
;
demerger#Noun
;
deconglomeration#Noun
;
divestment#Noun
;
sell-off#Noun
glosses: Deselection, weeding, getting rid of things previously acquired; often, selling them off.
deacquisition
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌdiːækwɪˈzɪʃən/
Forms: form: deacquisitions
form: deacquisitioning
form: deacquisitioned
form: deacquisitioned
Etymology: From de- + acquisition.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of deaccession.
synonyms: word: deaccession
deacquisitions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of deacquisition
deacquisitions
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of deacquisition
earlid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: earlids
Etymology: From ear + lid.
Senses: examples: text: But wouldn't earlids be useful too? Possibly. But not so useful that without them earlid-less animals would die out[…]
ref: 2008, Glenn Murphy, How Loud Can You Burp?, page 22:
text: There is no such thing as an earlid. The ear is always open, always supplementing its primary materiality, always multiplying the singularity of perception into the plurality of experience.
ref: 2009, Seth Kim-Cohen, In the blink of an ear: toward a non-cochlear sonic art, page xx:
text: But when one neighbor’s leaf blower sets off another neighbor’s car alarm, hey, where are my earlids?
ref: 2009 June 23, Natalie Angier, “When an Ear Witness Decides the Case”, in New York Times:
glosses: An imaginary fold of skin that would allow the ear to be closed as the eye can be.
earlids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of earlid
overregarded
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more overregarded
form: most overregarded
Etymology: From over- + regarded.
Senses: examples: text: He felt that professional sportsmen were overpaid and overregarded.
glosses: Regarded too highly.
pyriproxyfen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: He and his team set up “dissemination stations,” consisting of dark, damp cloths dusted with pyriproxyfen, in the nooks and crannies of aboveground tombs in a cemetery.
ref: 2009 June 23, Henry Fountain, “Getting Mosquitoes to Spread Poison to Their Own Larvae”, in New York Times:
glosses: A pyridine-based pesticide effective against a variety of arthropods.
recreators
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of recreator
uncollateralized
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + collateralized.
Senses: examples: text: Today, a bank can borrow dollars on an uncollateralized basis for a month in the interbank market for about 0.30 percent, which is more attractive than a Fed loan requiring full collateral, even if it is slightly cheaper.
ref: 2009 June 23, Dwight Cass, Christopher Hughes, “Unwinding Fed Support”, in New York Times:
text: The bank [Bank of Japan] kept its policy rate, an uncollateralized overnight call rate, at 0.5% the same day.
ref: 2025 May 1, Jada Nagumo, “BOJ governor keeps rate hike in play but stresses 'high uncertainty'”, in Nikkei:
glosses: Not collateralized.
noncollateralized
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + collateralized.
Senses: glosses: Not collateralized.
Rickeys
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Rickey
unlikeability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of unlikability.
nonexhibition
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From non- + exhibition.
Senses: glosses: Failure to exhibit.
ultrazoom
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ultrazooms
Etymology: From ultra- + zoom.
Senses: examples: text: The ultrazoom species of point-and-shoot digital camera is identified solely by its large optical zoom.
ref: 2009 June 25, John Biggs, “Little Cameras With Big Eyes”, in New York Times:
topics: arts
hobbies
lifestyle
photography
glosses: A very high-magnification zoom feature.
ultrazooms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ultrazoom
medicalese
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From medical + -ese.
Senses: examples: text: Masters and Johnson wanted their work to be taken seriously, and wanted to stay a step ahead of the morality police, so they tended to write in almost comically dense medicalese.
ref: 2009 June 26, Dwight Garner, “Out of the Bedroom, Into the Clinic”, in New York Times:
glosses: The jargon used by medical professionals.
Synonyms: doctorese
doctorspeak
misrender
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: misrenders
form: misrendering
form: misrendered
form: misrendered
Etymology: From mis- + render.
Senses: examples: text: And the F.A.A. database also misrenders names of some Latin Americans, he said, taking a final name — the name of the mother’s family, the use of which is optional — and entering it in the field for what Americans colloquially refer to as the “last name.”
ref: 2009 June 26, Matthew L. Wald, “6 Considered Threats Kept Licenses for Aviation”, in New York Times:
glosses: To render incorrectly.
misrendering
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of misrender
misrendering
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: misrenderings
Senses: glosses: An incorrect rendering.
misrenders
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of misrender
misrendered
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of misrender
mouseburger
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mouseburgers
Etymology: mouse + -burger; compare earlier nothingburger. Coined by Helen Gurley Brown by 1970.
Senses: examples: text: ... mouseburgers — people who are not prepossessing, not pretty, don’t have a particularly high I.Q., a decent education, good family background or other noticeable assets — can come a long way in life if they apply themselves. I am a mouseburger and I have applied.
ref: 1982, Helen Gurley Brown, Having it All: Love, Success, Sex, Money, Even If You're Starting with Nothing, New York: Simon and Schuster / Linden Press, →ISBN, page 10:
text: The female equivalent is quite different: heroines in books and movies more often begin as losers — wallflower, spinster, ugly ducking, bluestocking or mouseburger — and work or will their way to unlikely triumph, be it marriage to Mr. Rochester or the editorship of Cosmopolitan or a seat in the United States Senate.
ref: 2009 June 26, Alessandra Stanley, “Gifted and Talented, in a Grown-Up Way”, in New York Times:
glosses: A woman of no particular intellect or attractiveness.
wikipedia: Helen Gurley Brown
mouseburgers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mouseburger
nonconscientious
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + conscientious.
Senses: examples: text: And nonconscientious eaters have their own set of difficulties, not the least of which is suffering through evangelical tracts from everyone else about the food supply.
ref: 2009 June 26, Anne Mancuso, “Spare Times”, in New York Times:
glosses: Not conscientious.
deets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /diːts/
rhymes: -iːts
Etymology: Clipping of details, respelled to indicate the long vowel.
Senses: examples: text: Please email me the deets about the party.
text: I'm so peak, white collar crime but I do not preach / Feds try stop me, ask for my deets / Don't do fraud so I did not speak / I do music, I make beats
ref: 2013, “Genesis”, in Fire and Smoke, performed by Big H:
text: While deets on her earnings aren't really public, we can def assume that Billie raked in a ton of dough from her Nike deal alone since each pair retails for a decent amount of $$$.
ref: 2024 September 4, Mehera Bonner, Samantha Olson, “Behold, A Breakdown of Billie Eilish's Massive Net Worth”, in Cosmopolitan:
glosses: Details.
glosses: Dox; a person’s personal information, usually published without their consent.
niftyness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: nifty + -ness
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of niftiness.
oceanic trenches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of oceanic trench
ocular micrometers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ocular micrometer
offensive fouls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of offensive foul
offensive lines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of offensive line
oh fors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of oh for
old moons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of old moon
oleanolic acids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of oleanolic acid
oleocystidia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of oleocystidium
ones' complements
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ones' complement
bag of tricks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bags of tricks
Etymology: An allusion to the collection of props and devices used by a magician.
Senses: examples: text: "When the time comes I'll go down in the little bag of tricks and dig up anything you need, from a jig dance to a jimmy and a bottle of soup."
ref: 1909, Rex Ellingwood Beach, chapter 13, in The Silver Horde:
text: I was expecting the tearful ticking off, the girlish recriminations and all the rest of the bag of tricks along those lines.
ref: 1922, P. G. Wodehouse, chapter 14, in Right Ho, Jeeves:
text: Daly went to his bag of tricks and found, what else, a way to win.
ref: 1993 March 25, Mike Freeman, “Pro Basketball: Nets Win as Coleman Does His Superman Act”, in New York Times, retrieved 03 Sep 2011:
text: But investigators have a hefty bag of tricks to expose them—powder, chemicals, lasers and lights.
ref: 2002 October 21, Sora Song, “Body of Evidence”, in Time:
glosses: A set of skills, techniques, items of information, or other resources used to help achieve professional or personal goals.
examples: text: Instead of to the credit side of my account he had put the whole bag of tricks to my debit.
ref: 1908, Jerome K. Jerome, “I Had A Vexing Dream One Night”, in The Angel and the Author; and Others:
text: When it was built fifteen years ago it was considered a model—six bathrooms, its own electric light plant, steam heating, and independent boiler for hot water, the whole bag of tricks.
ref: 1922, John Buchan, chapter 7, in Huntingtower:
qualifier: often preceded by whole
glosses: A collection of items, especially as constituting a very complete set of such items.
Synonyms: sense: very complete collection of items
word: the works
sense: very complete collection of items
word: whole ball of wax
Bambi factor
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Bambi factor
Etymology: Named after Bambi, a young deer in a 1942 animated film produced by Walt Disney.
Senses: glosses: The idea that many anti-hunting arguments are based on the cuteness of the animal being hunted.
Related terms: Bambi effect
Bambi lover
color pop
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: color pops
form: colour pop
Senses: glosses: A digital effect in which part of an image is shown in color, the rest of the image being in grey or a dull monochrome
Related terms: color popping
ight
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /aɪt/
rhymes: -aɪt
Forms: form: eight
form: aught
Etymology: From Middle English iht, eiȝt, eȝte, æihte, from Old English ǣht (“possessions, property, riches”), from Proto-Germanic *aihtiz, from Proto-Indo-European *ēyk- (“to have, own, be able to”).
Senses: glosses: possession
ight
Language: English
Part of speech: contraction
Pronunciation: ipa: /aɪt/
rhymes: -aɪt
Etymology: See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of aight.
atgo
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -əʊ
Forms: form: atgoes
form: atgoing
form: atwent
form: atgone
Etymology: From Middle English atgon, from Old English ætgān (“to go away, disappear”); equivalent to at- + go.
Senses: glosses: To expend; go; pass away; vanish.
constructive memories
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of constructive memory
monumented
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From monument + -ed.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of monument
monumented
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From monument + -ed.
Senses: glosses: marked by the positioning of a monument, often in the form of a small stone or concrete structure
Derived terms: unmonumented
colloguing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of collogue
unhorizoned
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + horizon + -ed.
Senses: glosses: unlimited (having no limit)
rimpled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of rimple
rimpled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more rimpled
form: most rimpled
Senses: glosses: wrinkled
Synonyms: bewrinkled
rugose
wrinkly
wrinkled
rimple
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɪmpəl
Forms: form: rimples
Etymology: From Middle English rimpel, rympyl, from Old English *hrimpele, hrympelle (“wrinkle, rimple”), from Proto-Germanic *hrumpiljǭ, related to Old English ġehrimpan (“to wrinkle, rimple”), from Proto-Germanic *hrimpaną (“to bend, curve, make waves, wrinkle”).
Senses: glosses: A wrinkle.
Related terms: ramp
ripple
rumple
rimple
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -ɪmpəl
Forms: form: rimples
form: rimpling
form: rimpled
form: rimpled
Etymology: From Middle English rimpel, rympyl, from Old English *hrimpele, hrympelle (“wrinkle, rimple”), from Proto-Germanic *hrumpiljǭ, related to Old English ġehrimpan (“to wrinkle, rimple”), from Proto-Germanic *hrimpaną (“to bend, curve, make waves, wrinkle”).
Senses: examples: text: The evening was fine, and the air so still, that it scarcely waved the light leaves of the trees around, or rimpled the broad expanse of the waters below.
ref: 1791, Ann Radcliffe, The Romance of the Forest, Penguin, published 1999, page 261:
text: He smiled vaguely upon his hostess, and she smiled back at him, her face rimpling into a thousand furrows […]
ref: 1975, Georgette Heyer, My Lord John:
glosses: To wrinkle or crease.
turaco
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: turacos
form: turacoes
form: turacou
Etymology: Compare French touraco.
Senses: glosses: Any of the birds of the family Musophagidae in the Musophagiformes order with vivid colouring and prominent crest.
Synonyms: sense: bird of the family Musophagidae
word: lourie
Hyponyms: sense: bird of the family Musophagidae
word: go-away bird
Derived terms: Ross's turaco
violet turaco
Pelagio
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Pelagios
Etymology: Borrowed from Portuguese and Spanish Pelágio.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Premonstratensian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Premonstratensians
Etymology: From Medieval Latin Premonstratensis (“pertaining to Prémontré”), from the Latin form of Prémontré, the town in Île-de-France where the order was founded.
Senses: glosses: A member of a Roman Catholic order of canons regular, founded by St Norbert c. 1120 in the town of Prémontré, France.
Premonstratensian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Premonstratensian
form: most Premonstratensian
Etymology: From Medieval Latin Premonstratensis (“pertaining to Prémontré”), from the Latin form of Prémontré, the town in Île-de-France where the order was founded.
Senses: examples: text: Premonstratensian double communities of monks and nuns ended up being separated, and most of the nunneries withered away for lack of resources or endowments to support even the most ascetic of lives.
ref: 2024, Diarmaid MacCulloch, Lower Than the Angels, Penguin 2025, p. 277
glosses: Pertaining to the Premonstratensians.
Premonstratensians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Premonstratensian
pileipellis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pileipelles
Etymology: From New Latin pileus + pellis.
Senses: topics: biology
mycology
natural-sciences
glosses: The uppermost layer of hyphae in the pileus of a fungal fruit body.
pileipelles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pileipellis
me and mine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: My family or relatives, including myself.
paralinguistics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /pæɹəlɪŋˈɡwɪstɪks/
ipa: /ˌpæɹəlɪŋˈɡwɪstɪks/
rhymes: -ɪstɪks
Etymology: From para- + linguistics.
Senses: glosses: The study of paralanguage.
Related terms: paralinguistic
me generation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: me generations
form: me-me generation
form: me-me-me generation
Senses: glosses: A generation of egotistical, narcissistic people who are concerned solely with themselves.
misbehavers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of misbehaver
phys ed
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /fɪz ˈɛd/
Forms: form: phy ed
form: physed
form: phys. ed.
form: PhysEd
Senses: glosses: Physical education.
Synonyms: PE
gear change
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gear changes
Senses: examples: text: This transmission is so smooth and quiet that you hardly even notice a gear change.
text: The train speeds at which gear changes are made are 15, 27 and 41 m.p.h., and quite an appreciable number of seconds can be economised in running if precisely the correct moment is chosen to change.
ref: 1960 August, Cecil J. Allen, “Locomotive Running Past and Present”, in Trains Illustrated, page 463:
topics: automotive
transport
vehicles
hypernyms: change#Noun
shift#Noun
glosses: An instance of changing gears (shifting gears).
Derived terms: truck driver's gear change
Related terms: gearbox
gear shift
gearshift
low gear
top gear
stick shift
stickshift
phuck
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: phucks
form: phucking
form: phucked
form: phucked
Senses: examples: text: So now it's four days later and the problem, precisely phrased, is how to get the phucking leg up off the phucking bed. Sweating and cursing, try as I will, I cannot lift that phucking limb.
ref: 2003, Edward Abbey, David Petersen, Confessions of a barbarian, page 181:
text: “My Lord, you really phucked him up,” said Winola. “I have never seen anything like that before.”
ref: 2008, Steve Gertsch, A Templar's Vows:
text: He breathed in again and gritted what teeth he had left. When he exhaled, saliva and blood poured out of his mouth, as well as another blood bubble. “Phuck you Natshi!”
ref: 2010, D. B. Moon, Mind Sweeper, page 124:
glosses: Nonstandard spelling of fuck.
glosses: Filter-avoidance spelling of fuck.
phucked
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of phuck
phucking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of phuck
perialpine
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From peri- + Alpine.
Senses: examples: text: The aim of the campaign was to develop methods for radiometric correction of spectrometer data and to develop algorithms for water quality monitoring in perialpine environment.
ref: 2002, José A. Sobrino, Recent advances in quantitative remote sensing, page 116:
glosses: Around the Alps.
nonradiometric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + radiometric.
Senses: glosses: Not radiometric.
plan A
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: plan As
Senses: coordinate_terms: plan B
plan C
glosses: One's original plan or approach.
patwari
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: patwaris
form: patwaries
Etymology: Borrowed from Urdu پَٹْوَاری (paṭvārī) / Hindi पाटवारी (pāṭvārī) or Bengali পাটোয়ারি (paṭōẇari, “rent collector”).
Senses: glosses: An official who visits agricultural lands and maintains records of their ownership and tilling.
Related terms: patwar
patwaris
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of patwari
gel pen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gel pens
Senses: glosses: A pen which uses ink in which pigment is suspended in a water-based gel.
Coordinate terms: dip pen
nib pen
fountain pen
ballpoint pen
stylographic pen
constitutioned
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From constitution + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: In providing the acorns, as I formerly hinted, great care is necessary to see that they are of such a quality as to insure a healthy and strong-constitutioned class of plants.
ref: 1861, James Brown, The Forester, page 352:
glosses: Having a constitution of a specified kind.
composition book
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: composition books
Senses: glosses: A stock-bound notebook, traditionally with a marbled black-and-white cover.
Synonyms: composition notebook
Related terms: exercise book
panadol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From the trademark Panadol.
Senses: examples: text: I decided not to tell him this because I felt there was nothing wrong if I got some panadol or novalgin from the hospital.
ref: 1988, Atabo Oko, The secret of the Sheik:
text: We often have no panadol, no bandages. Only one nurse said she had noticed an improvement in drug supply since mid-1993.
ref: 1995, Peter Gibbon, Structural adjustment and the working poor in Zimbabwe, page 268:
text: When I rang my doctor, he said, "Take some panadol and see me in the morning." When I told him that I had no panadol or any other type of painkillers in the house he was surprised.
ref: 2002, Jane Alison Kaberuka, Has God forgotten me?: the cry of an accident victim, page 6:
text: Sulphadimidine tablets are often taken by people in the same manner as aspirin or panadol.
ref: 2002, Siosiane Fanua Bloomfield, Illness and cure in Tonga: traditional and modern medical practice, page 57:
topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: paracetamol; acetaminophen.
wikipedia: Panadol
pebrine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of pébrine.