cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
sandbagger
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sandbaggers
Etymology: From sandbag + -er.
Senses: examples: text: The best seat is in front of players who open freely and raise freely, and behind any sandbaggers (players who pass strong hands and then raise when someone else opens). “Openers to your left, sandbaggers to your right.” This is especially true in a limit game.
ref: 2004 May 1, Albert H. Morehead, The Complete Guide to Winning Poker, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN:
text: Now I don’t wish ill will on any golfer — well, maybe that one sandbagger in my weekly league — but there’s something about watching players with perfect swings and the utmost talent intimidated by an expanse of water just like the rest of us.
ref: 2008 May 5, Bill Pennington, “Where Fear Laps at Your Ankles”, in New York Times:
text: The poker sandbagger would, upon being dealt a fantastic hand, delay upping the ante in order to lull the other players into a false sense of security.
ref: 2011, Patricia Hannigan, Golf Girl's Little Tartan Book:
glosses: One who sandbags (misleads about their ability level in order to win bets); a hustler.
examples: text: The Day-Globe, Waco, Texas, July 5th., 1893, writing on "The Conscienceless Juror," says: […] 'Red Farrel' a notorious sandbagger and robber was on trial in Judge Moise's Court.
ref: 1896, May W. Mount, Some Notables of New Orleans: Biographical and Descriptive Sketches of the Artists of New Orleans, and Their Work, page 103:
text: The American sandbagger, like so many others (including the mugger), evoked the street robber's violent technique. It was from sandbag, to ambush or hit without warning: whether an actual sandbag ever entered the picture was irrelevant.
ref: 2011 June 2, Jonathon Green, Crooked Talk: Five Hundred Years of the Language of Crime, Random House, →ISBN, page 124:
glosses: A robber who sandbags (suddenly strikes, with a sandbag or other object, so as to stun) victims.
sandbaggers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sandbagger
squatty
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈskwɒti/
Forms: form: squattier
form: squattiest
Etymology: From squat + -y.
Senses: examples: text: A squatty guy with a wide-dark face came out of the door of the office building and waved and pointed.
ref: 1953, Raymond Chandler, The Long Goodbye, Penguin, published 2010, page 39:
text: At 6 feet 3 inches tall, he resembles the patrician Carlton Fisk more than the squatty Thurman Munson.
ref: 2008 May 5, George Vecsey, “Have Health, Will Travel and Catch”, in New York Times:
glosses: Somewhat squat.
Related terms: squatty potty
squattiest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of squatty: most squatty
squattier
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of squatty: more squatty
trishaw
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: trishaws
Etymology: Blend of tri- + rickshaw
Senses: examples: text: Hardman ran to the corner and jumped into a trishaw. The driver was maddeningly slow and stupid.
ref: 1958, Anthony Burgess, The Enemy in the Blanket (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 378:
text: “Where are all those uniformed people who are always ready to beat civilians?” asked a trishaw taxi driver, who said he did not want to be identified because he feared retribution.
ref: 2008 May 5, The Associated Press, “Cyclone Kills More Than 350 in Myanmar”, in New York Times:
glosses: A three-wheeled cycle rickshaw.
trishaws
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of trishaw
angiolytic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From angio- + -lytic.
Senses: examples: text: He also speculated that the angiolytic laser might eventually be adapted for treatment of cancers of the esophagus, bladder, cervix, windpipe and parts of the lungs.
ref: 2008 May 6, Lawrence K. Altman, “Lasers May Treat Cancers of the Larynx”, in New York Times:
glosses: Of or pertaining to angiolysis.
Derived terms: photoangiolytic
antilogging
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more antilogging
form: most antilogging
Etymology: From anti- + logging.
Senses: examples: text: In 2002, he was investigated on suspicion of ordering the killing of Digna Ochoa, a human rights lawyer who represented antilogging activists in Guerrero.
ref: 2008 May 6, James C. Mckinley Jr., “16 Are Killed as Gunmen Seek Rancher in Mexico”, in New York Times:
glosses: Opposing the cutting down of trees for wood.
erization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˌɜːɹəˈzeɪʃ(ə)n/
/ˌɜːɹaɪˈzeɪʃ(ə)n/
Forms: form: -erization
form: erisation
form: -erisation
Etymology: From er + -ization, a calque of Chinese 兒化 /儿化 (érhuà).
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
phonetics
phonology
sciences
glosses: Erhua.
Derived terms: erizational
methyltestosterone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌmiː.θʌɪl.tɛˈstɒ.stə.ɹəʊn/
ipa: /ˌmɛθ.ɪl.tɛˈstɒ.stə.ɹəʊn/
ipa: /ˌmɛθ.əl.tɛˈstɑ.stəˌɹoʊn/
Etymology: From methyl- + testosterone.
Senses: examples: text: Tamoxifen, used to treat breast cancer, will be offered for $9 for a 30-day supply, as will combination estrogen/methyltestosterone tablets, prescribed for menopause and hormone deficiency.
ref: 2008 May 6, The Associated Press, “Wal-Mart Expands Program Providing Drug Discounts”, in New York Times:
topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: An anabolic steroid that is a methyl derivative of testosterone C₂₀H₃₀O₂, used to treat testosterone deficiency in men and breast cancer and menopause in women.
Derived terms: fluoxymesterone
mesterolone
oxymesterone
penmesterol
tiomesterone
opioidlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more opioidlike
form: most opioidlike
Etymology: From opioid + -like.
Senses: examples: text: Experts theorize that it may be reinforced by the release in the brain of opioidlike endorphins that result in a natural high and emotional relief.
ref: 2008 May 6, Jane E. Brody, “The Growing Wave of Teenage Self-Injury”, in New York Times:
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of opioids.
strayer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: strayers
Etymology: From stray + -er.
Senses: examples: text: You can’t tell the strayers without a scorecard.
ref: 2008 May 6, Clyde Haberman, “In Politics Today, Bribery Just Seems So Old-School”, in New York Times:
glosses: One who strays.
strayers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of strayer
zipline
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈzɪpˌlaɪn/
Forms: form: ziplines
form: zip-line
form: zip line
Etymology: From zip + line.
Senses: examples: text: Outside the county towns of Lushui, Fugong, and Gongshan, few bridges span the Nu River Gorge, and most villagers cross the river by zipline cables or suspended footbridges to transport their crops or livestock to market. It is not uncommon to see sheep or cattle nervously thrashing about as they ride a zipline from one river bank to the other.
ref: 2014, Bryan Tilt, Dams and Development in China: The Moral Economy of Water and Power, Columbia University Press, →ISBN, page 92:
synonyms: aerial ropeslide
aerial runway
flying fox
Tyrolean runway
zip-wire
coordinate_terms: Tyrolean traverse
glosses: A pulley suspended on a cable mounted on an incline, designed to enable a user to travel from one point to another by means of gravity.
glosses: A trip on a zipline.
Derived terms: zipliner
ziplining
zipline
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈzɪpˌlaɪn/
Forms: form: ziplines
form: ziplining
form: ziplined
form: ziplined
form: zip-line
form: zip line
Etymology: From zip + line.
Senses: examples: text: He shrugs, too, when commandos zipline or jetpack into his line of vision, trading fire across busy intersections.
ref: 2021 August 6, A. A. Dowd, “The Ryan Reynolds action-comedy Free Guy is a Truman Show for the Fortnite age”, in The A.V. Club:
glosses: To move or travel by zipline.
ziplines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of zipline
ziplines
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle of zipline
ziplining
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From zipline + -ing.
Senses: examples: text: The inn also offers adventure packages, including ziplining and a truck safari, where a military vehicle chugs up the side of a muddy mountain.
ref: 2008 May 6, Katie Zezima, “Can M-U-D Really Spell M-O-N-E-Y?”, in New York Times:
glosses: The recreational activity of travelling on ziplines.
ziplining
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From zipline + -ing.
Senses: glosses: present participle of zipline
baggable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more baggable
form: most baggable
Etymology: From bag + -able.
Senses: examples: text: Another major innovation in the past decade was the development of infrastructure for turning food wastes — a major part of the waste stream in a city with thousands of restaurants — into baggable compost that is used in California’s vineyards and the vast farms of the Central Valley.
ref: 2008 May 7, Felicity Barringer, “A City Committed to Recycling Is Ready for More”, in New York Times:
glosses: Capable of being packed into bags.
Derived terms: unbaggable
casseroled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From casserole + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: The partners — Mustafa Ozkaya, the cook, and Seyran Say, the host — put forth a perfect plate of fried calf’s liver cubes, buttery iskender kebabs and an extensive list of grilled, fried and casseroled seafood, none of which tops $20, except for the mixed grill which is $21.95.
ref: 2008 May 7, The New York Times, “Turqua Grill and The JakeWalk”, in New York Times:
glosses: Cooked in a casserole.
casseroled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From casserole + -ed.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of casserole
dismisser
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dismissers
Etymology: From dismiss + -er.
Senses: examples: text: For years after Yeltsin crashed onto the political scene, the Gorbachev-infatuated West was overwhelmingly dismissive. Mr. Colton, a professor of government and director of Russian studies at Harvard and the author of a grand history of the city of Moscow, cops to being one of those early dismissers.
ref: 2008 May 7, Bill Keller, “The Making of Yeltsin, His Boldness and Flaws”, in New York Times:
glosses: One who dismisses.
dismissers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dismisser
dismissest
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: dismiss + -est
Senses: glosses: second-person singular simple present indicative of dismiss
dismisseth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: dismiss + -eth
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of dismiss
enotecas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of enoteca
pizzamaker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pizzamakers
Etymology: From pizza + maker.
Senses: examples: text: Pizzaiolos can be fussy, and Jim McGown, a real estate developer and self-taught pizzamaker, is no different.
ref: 2008 May 7, Florence Fabricant, “Off the Menu”, in New York Times:
text: Popping open a stack of dough proofing containers in their walk-in refrigerator, Mr. Federighi revealed an overlapping stack of pizza skins — what pizzamakers call dough that’s been stretched but not yet topped — that were dry to the touch, with the texture of cured leather.
ref: 2023 March 17, J. Kenji López-Alt, “Kenji López-Alt Spent 5 Months Studying Chicago Thin-Crust Pizza. Here’s What He Learned.”, in The New York Times:
synonyms: pizzaiolo
glosses: One who makes pizza.
pizzamakers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pizzamaker
repricings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of repricing
mud bogging
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: An off-road motorsport in which competitors attempt to drive a vehicle as far as possible through a pit of mud.
cleflike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more cleflike
form: most cleflike
Etymology: From clef + -like.
Senses: examples: text: Early sculptures refer, often explicitly, to musical structure and notation: the torqued staffs of “Sculpture No. 17” (1935) or the cleflike curlicues of “Sculpture 11” (1934).
ref: 2008 May 8, Karen Rosenberg, “Italian Sculptor Attuned to the Harmonic Occupation of Space”, in New York Times:
glosses: Resembling a musical clef.
electrosensory
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɛnsəɹi
Etymology: From electro- + sensory.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to the ability of a biological organism to perceive electrical impulses.
lollipoplike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more lollipoplike
form: most lollipoplike
Etymology: From lollipop + -like.
Senses: examples: text: Melotti’s own “Circus” (1965), a platform holding lollipoplike discs, hoops and a small metal canopy, could be interpreted as a direct homage to Calder.
ref: 2008 May 8, Karen Rosenberg, “Italian Sculptor Attuned to the Harmonic Occupation of Space”, in New York Times:
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a lollipop.
multisponsored
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From multi- + sponsored.
Senses: examples: text: It has also won a $20,000 grand prize in a multisponsored contest to produce videos that challenge stereotypes of Muslims. Mr. Ardekani won the $5,000 first prize in the comedy category for “Muslim While Flying,” a spoof of the way Muslims are treated at American airports.
ref: 2008 May 8, Neil Macfarquhar, “Young Video Makers Try to Alter Islam’s Face”, in New York Times:
glosses: Sponsored by more than one organization.
preauction
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: pre-auction
Etymology: From pre- + auction.
Senses: examples: text: Christie’s held a preauction showing for rich Russian art collectors at Pashkov House last fall, and Boucheron, the French jewelry house, held an exhibition and soirée there in March.
ref: 2008 May 8, Sophia Kishkovsky, “A Treasure Is Restored, With Culture Its Bounty”, in New York Times:
antonyms: postauction
glosses: Before an auction.
postauction
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: post-auction
Etymology: From post- + auction.
Senses: antonyms: preauction
glosses: After an auction.
recraft
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: recrafts
form: recrafting
form: recrafted
form: recrafted
Etymology: From re- + craft.
Senses: examples: text: The exercise involved in recrafting the past, past encounters and memories actually rejuvenates short-term and present memory — remarkably!
ref: 2008 May 8, “For Boomers, It’s Time to Go to the (Brain) Gym”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 26 Sep 2015:
glosses: To craft again or anew.
recrafts
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of recraft
recrafted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of recraft
recrafting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of recraft
superenthused
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more superenthused
form: most superenthused
Etymology: From super- + enthused.
Senses: examples: text: Besides, he added, if restrictions were imposed on the intended contest audience — whom he described as “the filmmaking community, superenthused gadget fans and early adopters” — they “would just backfire, because these people are going to smell any funny business from a mile away.”
ref: 2008 May 8, Stuart Elliott, “Your Chance to Finish a Movie Microsoft Started”, in New York Times:
glosses: Very highly enthused.
clamplike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more clamplike
form: most clamplike
Etymology: From clamp + -like.
Senses: examples: text: There are battery-powered traps that electrocute them and the classic spring-activated wire traps and similar clamplike plastic traps.
ref: 2008 May 9, Steve Bailey, “Your House, Their Nest”, in New York Times:
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a clamp.
thrustlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more thrustlike
form: most thrustlike
Etymology: From thrust + -like.
Senses: examples: a thrustlike motion
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a thrust.
thrutching
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of thrutch
thrutched
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of thrutch
yesterweek
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From yester- + week.
Senses: glosses: On the week preceding the current week.
yesterweek
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From yester- + week.
Senses: glosses: Previous week, the last week before the current one.
plowboys
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of plowboy
revitalizer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: revitalizers
Etymology: From revitalize + -er.
Senses: examples: text: “You’re about to experience 70 acres of my heaven,” said Mr. Abdo, a prominent Washington developer, restorer and revitalizer of down-at-the-heels buildings and neighborhoods.
ref: 2008 May 9, Eugene L. Meyer, “The Dream House at Last”, in New York Times:
glosses: One who, or that which, revitalizes.
revitalizers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of revitalizer
rockwork
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rockworks
Etymology: From rock + work.
Senses: examples: text: Down came the clenched hands to her sides, then up again above her head, and, as I am a living and honourable man, the white flame of the fire leapt up after them, almost to the roof, throwing a fierce and ghastly glare upon She herself, upon the white figure beneath the covering, and every scroll and detail of the rockwork.
ref: 1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC:
text: The wall was some six feet high and when I attempted to clamber it I found I could not lift my feet to the crest. So I went along by the side of it, and came to a corner and a rockwork that enabled me to get to the top and tumble into the garden I coveted.
ref: 1898, H.G. Wells, The War of the Worlds, London: William Heinemann:
text: It comes from two French words: rocaille, meaning the irregular rockwork used to decorate fountains and grottoes, and coquillage, shell motifs.
ref: 2008 May 9, Wendy Moonan, “Rococo Eye-Openers at Two Auction Houses”, in New York Times:
glosses: Ornamental work done with rocks, as for example around a pond.
examples: text: Lord John was an experienced mountaineer, and Summerlee had done some rough climbing at various times, so that I was really the novice at rock-work of the party; but my strength and activity may have made up for my want of experience.
ref: 1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC:
topics: climbing
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: The act of climbing a rock face, cliff, etc.
swooper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -uːpə(ɹ)
Forms: form: swoopers
Etymology: From swoop + -er.
Senses: examples: text: In competition, where swoopers perform freestyle maneuvers, negotiate slalom-style courses and aim for accuracy, the spectacle is often compared to auto racing.
ref: 2008 May 9, Matt Higgins, “New Direction for Skydiving: From Vertical to Horizontal”, in New York Times:
text: Victoria publishes a map of swooping sites, and the website MagpieAlert also allows users to record swoopers near them.
ref: 2021 August 23, “How to avoid getting swooped by a magpie this spring”, in ABC News:
glosses: One who, or that which, swoops.
swoopers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of swooper
waitlist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈweɪtˌlɪst/
Forms: form: waitlists
form: wait-list
Etymology: From wait + list.
Senses: examples: text: We’ve already had kids get off waitlists at N.Y.U., B.U., Fairfield and Quinnipiac.”
ref: 2008 May 9, Tamar Lewin, “Top Colleges Dig Deeper in Wait Lists for Students”, in New York Times:
glosses: A waiting list.
Related terms: waitlister
waitlist
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /ˈweɪtˌlɪst/
Forms: form: waitlists
form: waitlisting
form: waitlisted
form: waitlisted
form: wait-list
Etymology: From wait + list.
Senses: examples: text: I applied to M.I.T. I had an admission interview with Roger Borovoy, an alumnus, and was waitlisted.
ref: 2009 August 30, “A Long Road to Television”, in New York Times:
glosses: To place on a waiting list.
waitlists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of waitlist
correxion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: correxions
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of correction.
cæcity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: The blind man deplores his cæcity in dismal ditties ; the man‐in‐the‐bowl thanks Allah he has arms, and utilises them by beating upon the cymbals ; the tight‐rope dancer bangs the tambourine, the fiddles scream hoarsely, the guitars twang, there is a tootling of flutes—in a word, infinite psaltery.
ref: 1866, George Augustus Sala, chapter XIV, in A Trip to Barbary by a Roundabout Route, Tinsley Brothers, page 249:
glosses: Archaic spelling of cecity.
overdot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: overdots
Etymology: From over- + dot.
Senses: examples: text: a with overdot = ȧ
glosses: A dot placed above a letter, as a diacritical mark.
Hypernyms: dot
overdot
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: overdots
form: overdotting
form: overdotted
form: overdotted
Etymology: From over- + dot.
Senses: examples: to overdot a musical note
glosses: To place a dot over.
underdot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: underdots
Etymology: From under- + dot.
Senses: examples: text: a with underdot = ạ
glosses: A dot placed below a letter, as a diacritical mark.
Hypernyms: dot
overdots
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of overdot
underdots
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of underdot
pædobaptisms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pædobaptism
anthra-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Etymology: Abbreviation of anthracene.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: derivatives of anthracene.
Synonyms: anthraco-
anthrac-
detention centre
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: detention centres
Senses: examples: 2002, Russell Hogg, Chapter 1: Prisoners and the Penal Estate in Australia, David Brown, Meredith Wilkie (editors), Prisoners as Citizens: Human Rights in Australian Prisons, page 3,
All jurisdictions have their own prison systems, although the Australia Capital Territory (ACT) has only one remand centre and one periodic detention centre.
glosses: A facility in which people are detained (held in custody); a jail.
examples: text: New detention centres were opened, all in remote areas — at Woomera in the South Australian desert in November 1999, and the Curtin Detention Centre at Derby in Western Australia in February 2000.
ref: 2004, Brian Galligan, Winsome Roberts, Australian Citizenship, page 69:
text: One of the main features of Australia′s ‘Pacific Solution’ is that it involves the use of the Australian Navy to prevent boat people from landing on mainland Australia. The boat people are then transferred to detention centres on offshore Australian Territories which have been excised from the country′s migration zone where regular immigration rules are in application.⁷⁸ Detention centres for such transfers have also been set up on Nauru and Manus Island (Papua New Guinea).⁷⁹
ref: 2005, Geoff Leane, Barbara Von Tigerstrom, International Law Issues in the South Pacific, page 30:
text: People landing on these islands could also be transferred to detention centres on Nauru or Manus Island and had no access to Australia′s legal system.
ref: 2009, Linda Briskman, Chris Goddard, Susie Latham, Human Rights Overboard: Seeking Asylum in Australia, page 31:
glosses: An immigration detention facility; a facility in which people who have attempted to enter Australia without prior authorisation are detained, pending a decision on whether they are to be accepted as refugees or returned to their country of origin.
glosses: A concentration camp.
Derived terms: juvenile detention centre
youth detention centre
detention centres
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of detention centre
axopetal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more axopetal
form: most axopetal
Etymology: From axon + -petal.
Senses: topics: medicine
physiology
sciences
glosses: Seeking the axon.
Synonyms: axipetal
DSMS
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: DSMSs
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Initialism of data stream management system.
fleet in being
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fleets in being
form: fleet-in-being
Etymology: First used in 1690 by British Admiral Arthur Herbert, 1st Earl of Torrington, in defending his strategy of keeping his fleet in port until reinforcements arrived, rather than engaging with the superior French force.
Senses: examples: text: In point of fact command of the sea and a fleet in being are mutually exclusive terms.
ref: 1895, “The Armada”, in The Quarterly Review, volume 182, number 363, John Murray, page 6:
text: But even for that navy, with its strong tradition of offensive action, there were occasions when the fleet-in-being strategy was prudent and effective.
ref: 1994, Colin S. Gray, The Navy in the Post-Cold War World: The Uses and Value of Strategic Sea Power, page 85:
text: Lines of communication in space, on the other hand, move physical elements, but they are also used to move non-physical elements as well, such as data and information. Consequently, the space equivalent to "fleet in being" should recognize this fundamental difference. […] Whereas the naval fleet in being strategy uses ships to dispute command of the sea, a space strategy employing a force in being may use physical assets as well as non-physical means.
ref: 2006, John J. Klein, Space Warfare: Strategy, Principles, and Policy, page 122:
text: It should instead have been saved as a reserve force, a fleet in being, as long as possible, and then committed in a Riskflotte operation at a key juncture, striking a decisive blow even if it involved its sacrifice.
ref: 2007, James B. Wood, Japanese Military Strategy in the Pacific War: Was Defeat Inevitable?, page 81:
topics: government
military
navy
politics
war
glosses: A naval fleet which exerts an influence while remaining in port.
railway tie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: railway ties
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of railroad tie.
railway sleeper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: railway sleepers
form: railroad sleeper
Senses: examples: text: West's friends were so appalled by the nature of his death that they arranged for a wooden memorial in the churchyard of St Laurence's, constructed aptly from a railway sleeper.
ref: 2021 December 29, Stephen Roberts, “Stories and facts behind railway plaques: Reading (1840)”, in RAIL, number 947, page 56:
topics: rail-transport
railways
transport
glosses: A railroad tie.
fleets in being
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fleet in being
ghe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of ge.
grassie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: grassies
form: grassy
Etymology: From grass + -ie.
Senses: examples: text: The one thing I didn’t want to do was spook ^([sic]) a grassie by hastily walking down the sidewalk.
ref: 2010, Jeff Currier, “Not All Carp Species are Equal”, in JeffCurrier.com, archived from the original on 27 Apr 2014:
text: my pattern is a lot less glamorous, which is also why i think the grassie took it
ref: 2013 December 30, Josh Cohn, Tidal Potomac Fly Rodders (Usenet):
ref: 2023, theloniousbunk, “Picked this grassie out of the canal. 5wt with 9lb leader.”, in Reddit.com, archived from the original on 10 Nov 2023
qualifier: recreational fishing
glosses: A grass carp; a white amur.
Synonyms: grasser
alaska
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: alaskas
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of Alaska (“baked Alaska”).
biotrophy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From bio- + -trophy.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
mycology
natural-sciences
glosses: A parasitic relationship in which the parasite feeds on a living host organism without killing it
Derived terms: hyperbiotrophy
tolt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tolts
Etymology: From Latin tolta, from tollere (“to take away”).
Senses: examples: text: ... for a plea pending in a seignorial court could be removed into the county court by a procedure called tolt, and from the county into the common pleas by a writ of pone.
ref: 1956, Theodore Plucknett, A Concise History of the Common Law, Butterworth & Co, page 104:
topics: law
glosses: A writ by which a cause pending in a court baron was removed into a county court.
tolt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tolts
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of tölt.
tolt
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: tolts
form: tolting
form: tolted
form: tolted
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of tölt.
tolt
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: I done tolt you for the last time.
qualifier: African-American Vernacular
glosses: simple past and past participle of tell
tols
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tol
strepent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more strepent
form: most strepent
Etymology: From Latin strepent, from strepere (“to noise”); compare obstreperous.
Senses: examples: text: Peace to the ſtrepent horn ! / Let no harſh diſſonance diſturb the morn, / No ſounds inelegant and rude / Her ſacred ſolitudes profane !
ref: 1750, William Shenstone, “Rural Elegance: An Ode to the Late Ducheſs of Somerset”, in Robert Dodsley, editor, A Collection of Poems, published 1758, page 13:
text: But since Reaumer could never witness this, I shall not insist upon your believing it, though the relater declares that he had heard it with his ears, and seen it with his eyes, and had called many to witness the vibrating and strepent wings of this trumpeter bumble-bee.
ref: 1817, William Kirby, William Spence, An Introduction to Entomology: or, Elements of the Natural History of Insects, page 384:
glosses: Noisy.
settled up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past of settle up
settles up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of settle up
settling up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of settle up
pretoddler
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pretoddlers
Etymology: From pre- + toddler.
Senses: glosses: A child who is not yet a toddler.
pretoddlers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pretoddler
crossbuck
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: crossbucks
Etymology: From cross- + buck.
Senses: glosses: A sign consisting of two slats on a pole forming a diagonal cross, usually indicating a level crossing.
crossbucks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of crossbuck
cornbreads
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cornbread
cornmeals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cornmeal
beautifuler
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: Even now, with slightly crooked teeth, she is beautifuler than Sue had ever been.
ref: 2010, Jerome Charyn, “Jumbo”, in The Secret Life of Emily Dickinson: A Novel, New York, N.Y.: W. W. Norton & Company, →ISBN, page 298:
glosses: Alternative spelling of beautifuller.
art-historical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: An art-historical interpretation states what an artwork was about for the artist who made it, for contemporary viewers who saw it, and within the context of the culture in which it was produced.
ref: 1993, Stephen Addiss, Mary Erickson, Art history and education, page 127:
glosses: Of or pertaining to art history
Stroop effect
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Stroop effects
Etymology: After John Ridley Stroop, who first published the effect in English in 1935.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
psychology
sciences
glosses: The effect that a subject has a longer reaction time when naming the colours of words if the words describe colours other than their own (such as "red" printed in blue ink).
wikipedia: John Ridley Stroop
Related terms: Stroop test
trainway
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: trainways
Etymology: From train + way.
Senses: glosses: A railway.
trainways
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of trainway
Strangelovian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Strangelovian
form: most Strangelovian
form: Strangelovean
Etymology: From Strangelove + -ian, referring to the title character in Stanley Kubrick's 1964 film Dr. Strangelove, or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb, a black comedy satirizing the nuclear weapons scare.
Senses: examples: text: Paul C. Warnke, President Jimmy Carter's first director of ACDA, came to Reagan's defense by noting the Strangelovian affection of some armchair strategists for nuclear weaponry.
ref: 1987, “INF Agreement in Principle”, in Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, volume 43, number 9, page 5:
text: How many hundreds of millions of dollars have been sunk into Strangelovian bunkers, how many tens of thousands of hours invested in preparing for that apocalyptic vision? Only a handful of senior doomsday officials may ever know...
ref: 1994, Mother Jones Magazine (volume 19, number 1, Jan-Feb 1994)
text: Just today, I read a Strangelovian story in the paper revealing that some of Russia's nuclear missiles, still aimed at the United States, have gone unattended because their guards were denied their bonus rations of four pounds of sausage a month.
ref: 2008, Roger Ebert, Roger Ebert's Four Star Reviews — 1967-2007, page 833:
glosses: Of or pertaining to nuclear apocalypse, especially through incompetence or shortsightedness.
wikipedia: Dr. Strangelove, or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
Stanley Kubrick
pseudospheres
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pseudosphere
pursuee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pursuees
Etymology: From pursue + -ee.
Senses: glosses: One who is pursued.
pursuees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pursuee
antikidnapping
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From anti- + kidnapping.
Senses: examples: text: In the capital on Friday, a city police commander, Esteban Robles Espinosa, 52, who once headed the department’s antikidnapping division, was shot and killed as he left his house at 7:30 a.m.
ref: 2008 May 10, James C. Mckinley Jr., “Caught in a Swirl of Drug Violence, Mexico Vows to Fight Back”, in New York Times:
topics: government
law-enforcement
glosses: Preventing or countering kidnapping.
antikidnap
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From anti- + kidnap.
Senses: examples: text: He was never seen again, and the case remains unsolved today. Its haunting aftermath produced new antikidnap legislation[…]
ref: 2002, Michael Newton, The Encyclopedia of Kidnappings, page 187:
text: A first step in a company's defense against executive kidnapping is to develop a policy and obtain approval of an antikidnap plan.
ref: 2010, John Fay, Contemporary Security Management, page 359:
topics: government
law-enforcement
glosses: Preventing or countering kidnapping.
avocadolike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more avocadolike
form: most avocadolike
Etymology: From avocado + -like.
Senses: examples: text: “The Dud Avocado,” published in 1958, chronicled the Parisian adventures of Sally Jay Gorce, a free-spirited American girl with the avocadolike qualities typical of the breed: “So green — so eternally green,” one of her European admirers gushes.
ref: 2008 May 10, William Grimes, “Elaine Dundy, Author of ‘The Dud Avocado,’ Is Dead at 86”, in New York Times:
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of an avocado (tree or fruit).
minichain
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: minichains
Etymology: From mini- + chain.
Senses: examples: text: Interviews with people in the restaurant business on Friday suggest that it would not be easy or even practical for the Ciprianis to continue to operate as a dry minichain, but that resourcefulness might go a long way.
ref: 2008 May 10, Eric Konigsberg, “Imagining a Cipriani Dining Place Without Those Family-Invented Bellinis”, in New York Times:
glosses: A small chain (in various senses).
minichains
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of minichain
nonconstituency
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + constituency.
Senses: examples: text: Though he did not win, he earned a special nonconstituency seat as “top loser” under election laws.
ref: 2008 May 10, Seth Mydans, “Starting a Party, and Hoping to Crash Singapore’s Parliament Again”, in New York Times:
glosses: Not of or pertaining to a political constituency.
pelvically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From pelvic + -ally.
Senses: examples: text: David's singing method consisted of pelvically controlled breathing with no external body movement, together with voice placement at a point between but above the ears, at the top of the head.
ref: 1997, Gloria Bennett, Breaking through: from rock to opera: the basic technique of voice, page 5:
text: One dance is pelvically sexy, the gyrations now controlled into one fluent, none-too-disturbed mood.
ref: 2008 May 10, Alastair Macaulay, “One Man, Alone Onstage, Displays a Disquieting Family Album”, in New York Times:
glosses: In terms of the pelvis.
wanding
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of wand
wanded
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of wand
antistigma
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more antistigma
form: most antistigma
Etymology: From anti- + stigma.
Senses: examples: text: In recent years, groups have started antistigma campaigns, and even the federal government embraces the message, with an ad campaign aimed at young adults to encourage them to support friends with mental illness.
ref: 2008 May 11, Gabrielle Glaser, “‘Mad Pride’ Fights a Stigma”, in New York Times:
topics: human-sciences
sciences
social-science
sociology
glosses: Opposing or countering a social stigma.
antisterinos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of antisterino
barkless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From bark + -less.
Senses: glosses: Without bark (the tree covering).
examples: text: Pearlie has managed to acquire a phone that purrs, but doesn’t ring; she has found a breed of barkless dog; she censors the newspapers by cutting out upsetting articles.
ref: 2008 May 11, Maggie Scarf, “The Fog of Love”, in New York Times:
glosses: That does not bark.
raw_tags: of a dog
Derived terms: barklessness
confirmedly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more confirmedly
form: most confirmedly
Etymology: From confirmed + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: How could such confirmedly bookish types write an I-love-reading book so fundamentally tone deaf as to why reading can inspire love?
ref: 2008 May 11, Roger Sutton, “Because It’s Good for You”, in New York Times:
glosses: In a manner that is confirmed; definitely, as has been demonstrated.
hyperconfident
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more hyperconfident
form: most hyperconfident
Etymology: From hyper- + confident.
Senses: examples: text: All of which has left investors questioning whether Mr. Miller  a hyperconfident corporate handicapper who is famous for lugging annual reports to Baltimore Orioles games despite being an avid fan — has just hit a long-overdue rough patch or has lost his magic touch, or whether his fund has grown too large to produce the stellar returns it did in earlier years, when he was still relatively unknown.
ref: 2008 May 11, Geraldine Fabrikant, “Humbler, After a Streak of Magic”, in New York Times:
glosses: Extremely confident.
crystalloclast
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: crystalloclasts
Etymology: From crystallo- + -clast.
Senses: glosses: A person who breaks crystals for the purpose of studying them.
examples: text: Virtually all crystalloclasts are strongly fractured, fused, and fragmented, and are often partly dissolved in the ground-mass...
ref: 2002, Geochemistry international: Volume 40, Pages 827-1242:
topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A clast that consists primarily of crystalized mineral.
micrographically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From micrographic + -ally.
Senses: examples: text: The filing demands of business are such that, even while more and more filing will be done electronically and micrographically, the amount of paperwork involved in communications is expected to grow about 14 percent a year...
ref: 1981, Edward M. Gottschall, Graphic communication '80s:
text: The future is here, and the immortal O.E.D., the one that lives in bound pages last published micrographically in 1991, is obsolete — at least according to the folks who publish it.
ref: 2008 May 11, Virginia Heffernan, “Lexicographical Longing”, in New York Times:
glosses: By means of micrographics.
Jugoslavian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Dated form of Yugoslavian.
Jugoslavian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Jugoslavians
Senses: glosses: Dated form of Yugoslavian.
Jugoslavians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Jugoslavian
crystalloclasts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of crystalloclast
yoaks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of yoak
pinpointedly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more pinpointedly
form: most pinpointedly
Etymology: From pinpointed + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Here his improvisations are pinpointedly focused on melody and swing, and he always has a mute in his trumpet; this is quiet jazz with organized locomotive force.
ref: 2008 May 11, Ben Ratliff, “Quiet Jazz, Roaring Noise, Hip-Hop Wizardry”, in New York Times:
glosses: With great precision.
make it do or do without
Language: English
Part of speech: proverb
Forms: form: use it up, wear it out, make it do, or do without
Senses: glosses: If you don't have a lot of money, extend the life of what you have.
makes do
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of make do
making do
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of make do
made do
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of make do
postboxing
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From post- + boxing.
Senses: examples: text: The film, along with a memoir that is still in its early stages — Mr. Tyson is collaborating with the author Larry Sloman, who has ghostwritten autobiographies for Howard Stern and Anthony Kiedis, the lead singer of the Red Hot Chili Peppers — are two parts of an effort that Mr. Tyson’s advisers hope will reintroduce him to the public and propel him to some semblance of a postboxing career.
ref: 2008 May 11, Tim Arango, “Mike Tyson Film Takes a Swing at His Old Image”, in New York Times:
glosses: After a career in the sport of boxing.
reconsolidated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of reconsolidate
reconsolidating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of reconsolidate
reconsolidates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of reconsolidate
reconsolidations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of reconsolidation
stashable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more stashable
form: most stashable
Etymology: From stash + -able.
Senses: examples: text: The compact dictionary, which people like my dad received free from the Book-of-the-Month Club, made showoff etymology accessible, affordable and even stashable for the first time in modest American rec rooms and dens.
ref: 2008 May 11, Virginia Heffernan, “Lexicographical Longing”, in New York Times:
glosses: Capable of being stashed or packed away.
starworts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of starwort
starwards
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From star + -wards.
Senses: glosses: Toward the stars.
stockpickers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stockpicker
tomboyism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From tomboy + -ism.
Senses: examples: text: There is whooping and squirrel-watching and rock-throwing — an au courant tomboyism that remains free of mocking contemporaries for wearing lip gloss.
ref: 2008 May 11, “Something Wild”, in New York Times:
glosses: Traditionally masculine behaviour in a girl.
tribalesque
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more tribalesque
form: most tribalesque
Etymology: From tribal + -esque.
Senses: examples: text: Woodson, with her tale of three pseudo-tough girls in Queens, cares less about plot than does Murphy, with her longer, more traditionally paced novel about two girls who toughen up by painting their faces with tribalesque “war paint” and learning by the end of the novel that part of growing up is living by one’s own axioms, the ones that come from experience: “Sometimes, you gotta believe something crazy,” Sarah says, to explain why she obstinately holds on to the idea that her mother, who left the family when she was 2, has turned into an actual fox.
ref: 2008 May 11, “Something Wild”, in New York Times:
glosses: Suggesting something tribal and primitive.
phantasticall
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more phantasticall
form: most phantasticall
Senses: examples: text: By ſurſetting upon which kinde of phantaſticall Apiſhneſſe in a short time they fall into the diſeaſe of pride : pride is infectious, and breedes prodigalitie : prodigalitie after it has runne a little cloſes up and ſesſters, and then turnes to beggeric.
ref: 1606, T. Dekker, “The ſeven deadly Sinnes of London”, in Illustrations of Old English Literature, volume II, page 46:
glosses: Archaic spelling of fantastical.
undercaffeinated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more undercaffeinated
form: most undercaffeinated
Etymology: From under- + caffeinated.
Senses: examples: text: Barack Obama’s final, undercaffeinated debate performance, not to mention the Rev. Jeremiah Wright’s attempted character assassination, failed to slow his inexorable path to the Democratic nomination.
ref: 2008 May 11, Frank Rich, “Party Like It’s 2008”, in New York Times:
text: Potato and cheese sitting warm and comforting in her stomach, Wren unfolded the newspaper in front of her, to give a reason to stay at the table, took a last sip of her overbrewed and undercaffeinated coffee...
ref: 2009, Laura Anne Gilman, Bring It On:
glosses: Insufficiently caffeinated.