cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
foldover
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From fold + over.
Senses: examples: text: Or the Timeless Bracelet, designed by Ina Seifart: a link-style watchband with a traditional foldover clasp, it has no face at all, just an open spot where you would expect to see one.
ref: 2007 October 28, Rob Walker, “Timeless Object”, in New York Times:
glosses: Having one component that folds over the top of another.
Derived terms: foldover clip
foldover
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: foldovers
Etymology: From fold + over.
Senses: examples: text: Assemble the foldovers and arrange them on a foil-lined cookie sheet; freeze until firm.
ref: 2007, Pillsbury Holiday Baking, page 68:
glosses: Any food prepared by folding, such as a calzone or apple turnover.
foldovers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of foldover
hearingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more hearingly
form: most hearingly
Etymology: From hearing + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Ross enables us to listen more hearingly.
ref: 2007 October 28, Geoff Dyer, “Centurys Playlist”, in New York Times:
glosses: In such a manner as to hear.
oriental plane
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: oriental planes
Senses: examples: text: The former species is known as the Oriental Plane (Platanus Orientalis), and the latter as the Occidental Plane (Platanus Occidentalis). The Oriental Plane was introduced into England about the middle of the sixteenth century.
ref: 1842, Charles Knight, “The Plane Tree”, in Knight's Penny Magazine, volume 11, page 97:
text: Although Platanus orientalis L., the true oriental plane, is stated on excellent authority to be hardy as far north as Massachusetts, the records of its being planted in our vicinity are surprisingly few.
ref: 1937, Journal of the New York Botanical Garden, volume 38, page 62:
text: The oriental plane, Platanus orientalis, grew in gardens and around tombs in ancient Egypt, Greece, and Persia.
ref: 2010, Diana Wells, Lives of the Trees: An Uncommon History, page 312:
glosses: Platanus orientalis, a deciduous tree known for its longevity and spreading crown.
Synonyms: chinar
hypercorrecting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of hypercorrect
hypercorrected
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of hypercorrect
hypercorrects
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of hypercorrect
immatured
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From im- + matured.
Senses: glosses: not having matured
lipogenic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From lipo- + -genic.
Senses: examples: text: As James Rosenzweig, director of the office of disease management at the Joslin Diabetes Center in Boston, phrased it, using the technical terminology, weight gain on insulin therapy can result from the direct lipogenic effects of insulin on adipose tissue, independent of food intake.
ref: 2007 October 28, “Eat, Drink and Be Wary”, in New York Times:
glosses: Relating to lipogenesis
Derived terms: antilipogenic
nonlipogenic
prolipogenic
mediascape
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mediascapes
Etymology: From media + -scape.
Senses: examples: text: Southland Tales simulates the oversaturation of the 21st-century mediascape and delights in, even as it mocks, the vulgar absurdities of celebrity culture. Ms. Gellar's character, for example, is a multitasking, politically minded sex-film star Jenna Jameson meets Arianna Huffington, Mr. Kelly said with a View-like talk show and a hit song called Teen Horniness Is Not a Crime (co-written by Mr. Kelly and to be released as a single).
ref: 2007 October 28, Dennis Lim, “Booed at Cannes, but Now the Real Test”, in New York Times:
glosses: The metaphorical landscape of trends, tastes, etc. promoted by the media.
mediascapes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mediascape
overrehearsed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more overrehearsed
form: most overrehearsed
Etymology: From over- + rehearsed.
Senses: examples: text: In a long digression, he hilariously but needlessly indulges his hatred of the Eagles: soulless, overrehearsed, antiseptic, schematic, insincere, sentimental ... the most consistently contemptible stadium band in rock.
ref: 2007 October 28, Gregory Cowles, “Grievous Angel”, in New York Times:
glosses: Rehearsed too many times; made formulaic by repetition.
ridgeside
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From ridge + -side.
Senses: examples: text: Families like the Delongs whose ridgeside house looking toward the Pacific Ocean from Poway, in San Diego County, is now nothing but a charred lot with a few pieces of random walls still standing are eligible for up to $28,800 in federal grants.
ref: 2007 October 28, Solomon Moore, “Fires Provide Chance to Evaluate Changes in Disaster Response Since 05 Storms”, in New York Times:
glosses: Beside a ridge.
ridgeside
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ridgesides
Etymology: From ridge + -side.
Senses: glosses: A piece of land adjacent to a ridge.
ridgesides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ridgeside
seniorhood
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From senior + -hood.
Senses: examples: text: Like other rockers easing into middle age or seniorhood, Mr. McKagan is also experimenting with new partnerships in response to a music business in flux.
ref: 2007 October 28, Janet Morrissey, “If Its Retail, Is It Still Rock?”, in New York Times:
glosses: The state or period of being a senior; old age.
smally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more smally
form: most smally
Etymology: From small + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: The name of Worstead, a village some ten miles distant from the city, was, indeed, as its name may testify, the birthplace of an important branch of the trade in England; now it is a smally populated, little known spot...
ref: 1890, HM Factory Inspectorate, Annual report of the chief inspector of factories and workshops:
text: Substituting something that's trivial-but-noisily-immediate for something that's virtuous — even smally virtuous, like a game we play or ponder — breeds an ugly cynicism about virtue itself.
ref: 2007 October 28, Richard Ford, “The Noise Is Killing Me”, in New York Times:
glosses: In a small way.
sophora
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sophoras
Etymology: From translingual Sophora.
Senses: examples: text: Then Dr. Day allowed herself to become distracted by a tree on the other side of 83rd Street, a sophora tree.
ref: 2007 October 28, Ellen Pall, “Meet the Neighbors”, in New York Times:
glosses: Any of the genus Sophora of small trees and shrubs related to the pea.
sophoras
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sophora
trimba
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: trimbas
Etymology: Coined by its inventor, the American composer and poet Moondog (born Louis Thomas Hardin, 1916–1999).
Senses: examples: text: Working in Braille, often composing under his cloak on the sidewalk, he wrote in an impressively wide range of styles: percussion-driven exotica (he made his own triangular drum-and-cymbal instrument, the trimba), avant-garde jazz, folkish madrigals, Bach-like neo-Baroque rounds and canons for chamber orchestra, symphonies for full orchestra, and a layered minimalism that influenced his young collaborators Steve Reich and Philip Glass .
ref: 2007 October 28, John Strausbaugh, “Sidewalk Hero, on the Horns of a Revival”, in New York Times:
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A sort of triangular drum.
wikipedia: Moondog
trimbas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of trimba
unfluent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unfluent
form: most unfluent
Etymology: From un- + fluent.
Senses: examples: text: If you were to transcribe what he says, its very unfluent, its very: ah, um, uh, he said.
ref: 2007 October 28, Caryn James, “The Sound of Personalities Clashing”, in New York Times:
glosses: Not fluent.
unfoldings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of unfolding
farspeaker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: fär′spē′kər
ipa: /ˈfɑːˌspiː.kə/
ipa: /ˌfɑːˈspiː.kə/
ipa: /ˈfɑɹˌspi.kəɹ/
ipa: /ˌfɑɹˈspi.kəɹ/
ipa: /ˈfɐːˌspiː.kə/
ipa: /ˈfaːˌspiː.kə/
ipa: /ˌfɐːˈspiː.kə/
ipa: /ˌfaːˈspiː.kə/
ipa: /ˈfɐːˌspiː.kɐ/
ipa: /ˈfaːˌspiː.kɐ/
ipa: /ˌfɐːˈspiː.kɐ/
ipa: /ˌfaːˈspiː.kɐ/
ipa: /ˈfaɹˌspi.kəɹ/
ipa: /ˌfaɹˈspi.kəɹ/
ipa: /ˈfaːʳˌspiː.kɜʳ/
ipa: /ˌfaːʳˈspiː.kɜʳ/
rhymes: -ɑːspiːkə
rhymes: -iːkə
Forms: form: farspeakers
Etymology: From farspeak + -er (agent noun). Compare German Fernsprecher (“telephone”).
Senses: glosses: Telephone.
examples: text: "I wish I wasn't so messed up; I wish I was bigger and stronger. Or a Farspeaker like Kyril,” she replied in a very small voice. “You can't help what happened. As for being a Farspeaker, I don't think both of us together could reach someone with the Gift to hear us, and if we could, I don't know that it would do any good," he sighed.
ref: 1987, Mercedes Lackey, Arrow's flight:
topics: fantasy
literature
media
publishing
science-fiction
glosses: One who farspeaks.
examples: text: Ecgbert picked up the farspeaker eagerly. "Frideswide darling! I have been wating to hear from you all the morning.[…]"
ref: 1948, New Statesman: the week-end review:
text: "Let's find out whether I do or not," said Yull imperturbably, and activated the farspeaker to maximum volume. At one a voice rang out, impersonal, repetitive: the sound of a recordimal.
ref: 1984, John Brunner, The Crucible of Time:
text: “Sir, we found him in the farspeaker room,” said one of the guards. “He was tampering with the equipment."
ref: 2009, Nick Gevers, Jay Lake, Other Earths:
text: She held it out toward him. It was the size of a chicken egg, only broken in half. The other half of the crystal—carried by another—would vibrate in tune with its twin, allowing communication, like a walkie-talkie. “A farspeaker! Pindor gasped out. "Why didn't you tell us you had one!" "I did. Back when I first ran into you all," she reminded them. "I had been calling Papa on my farspeaker when I was snatched here."
ref: 2011, James Rollins, Jake Ransom and the Howling Sphinx:
topics: literature
media
publishing
science-fiction
glosses: A device or apparatus used to farspeak or communicate over long distances.
unruffle
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: unruffles
form: unruffling
form: unruffled
form: unruffled
Etymology: From un- + ruffle.
Senses: glosses: To remove ruffles from; to make smooth.
glosses: To calm or soothe (a person).
examples: text: [The old man] stood grinning like a gnome, obviously delighted to watch me flush and ruffle and then gradually unflush and unruffle.
ref: 2000, Robert Grant, The Gift of Lack: Short Stories and Other Writings, page 73:
glosses: To calm down.
unruffles
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of unruffle
unruffling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of unruffle
unruffling
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unruffling
form: most unruffling
Senses: examples: text: The fire escapes had been transformed into 108-square-foot terraces, and there was a general feeling of understatement and an unusual sense of being in a civilized, unruffling place.
ref: 2007 October 28, Suzanne Slesin, “Where Understatement Is the Watchword”, in New York Times:
glosses: Not creating ruffles or stress.
farspeakers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of farspeaker
chronofiles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chronofile
chronofile
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chronofiles
Etymology: From chrono- + file, coined by Buckminster Fuller for his own Dymaxion Chronofile.
Senses: examples: text: Designated scholars kept journals or diaries of their participation in the project as well as chronofiles — depositories of the notes, announcements, and other memorabilia relevant to a scholar's life.
ref: 1984, The Journal of Negro education: Volume 53:
text: An impish, balding man, he mimicked the inventor Buckminster Fuller, who documented his life in what he called a chronofile by pasting letters, bills and all manner of pieces of paper in a huge scrapbook for 68 years.
ref: 2007 October 29, Douglas Martin, “Robert Shields, Wordy Diarist, Dies at 89”, in New York Times:
glosses: A historical record made up of everyday papers and documents from many stages of the owner's life.
wikipedia: Buckminster Fuller
Dymaxion Chronofile
clinchers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of clincher
geekerati
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Blend of geek + literati
Senses: examples: text: It took until 1993 and the advent of Mosaic (a forerunner of Netscape) to move the Web out of the hands of solely the geekerati and into the realm of technological early adapters^([sic]).
ref: 2007, Hank Bordowitz, Dirty Little Secrets of the Record Business, page 165:
text: He was overwhelmed by an immediate onrush of hospitality as the geekerati lined up to get a word with him.
ref: 2007 October 29, David Carr, “Murdoch, a Folk Hero in Silicon”, in New York Times:
glosses: An elite community of computer geeks.
postviewing
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From post- + viewing.
Senses: examples: text: Bah. Though to delve further into its postviewing meanings may be food for cleverness, C. to C. is at no point remarkably interesting as movement.
ref: 2007 October 29, Alastair Macaulay, “An Ephemeral Portrait of an Artist in a Hall of Mirrors”, in New York Times:
glosses: After a viewing.
overexamined
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more overexamined
form: most overexamined
Etymology: From over- + examined.
Senses: glosses: Subjected to too much examination, or too many academic or medical examinations.
ripplings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rippling
traversos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of traverso
ultracompetitiveness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From ultracompetitive + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: When the backup quarterback Matt Cassel scored and spiked the ball in the end zone with 5 minutes 53 seconds left to give New England a 52-0 lead, I wondered whether Bill Belichick s Patriots machine had crossed the line from ultracompetitiveness to cruelty.
ref: 2007 October 29, William C. Rhoden, “This Season, Moss Is in the Mood to Play”, in New York Times:
glosses: The quality of being ultracompetitive.
amniotomy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: amniotomies
Etymology: From amnio- + -tomy.
Senses: examples: text: The procedure, sometimes called amniotomy, involves rupturing the amniotic membranes to speed contractions.
ref: 2007 October 30, Nicholas Bakalar, “Childbirth: Purposely Breaking Water Does Not Speed Delivery”, in New York Times:
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: An artificial rupture of membranes to induce or accelerate labour.
amniotomies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of amniotomy
fingercot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fingercots
form: finger cot
Etymology: From finger + cot.
Senses: examples: text: Fingercots may be used in amniotomies.
text: For […] anal or vaginal penetration with fingers or hands, use latex gloves or finger cots.
ref: 1989 February 12, “Safer Sex and Drug Use Guidelines”, in Gay Community News, volume 16, number 30, page 12:
synonyms: word: pinky cheater
glosses: A type of surgical glove that covers just one finger.
fingercots
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fingercot
loose lips
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of loose lip
upheap
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: upheaps
form: upheaping
form: upheaped
form: upheaped
Etymology: From Middle English uphepen, equivalent to up- + heap.
Senses: glosses: To pile or heap up; accumulate.
Synonyms: amass
pile up
Derived terms: upheaping
amnihook
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: amnihooks
Etymology: From a trademark. Blend of amniotic + hook.
Senses: examples: text: The physician/nurse midwife inserts an amnihook through the cervix and perforates the amniotic membranes. Labor contractions may begin within a few hours.
ref: 2005, Roberta Pavy Ramont, Dolores Maldonado Niedringhaus, Mary Ann Towle, Comprehensive nursing care:
text: The conclusions suggest that every delivery suite should have, alongside the sundry ampoules of oxytocin and packs of disposable amnihooks, birthing pools available.
ref: 2007, Denis Walsh, Evidence-based care for normal labour and birth: a guide for midwives, page 41:
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A baton with a slightly hooked end, used to perform amniotomy.
amnihooks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of amnihook
chromometry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From chromo- + -metry.
Senses: glosses: The measurement of colour.
Related terms: chromometer
chromometric
flotational
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From flotation + -al.
Senses: examples: text: 1) You fall into a swiftly moving river and are in need of a flotational device.
ref: 2007 October 30, Natalie Angier, “In Science Classrooms, a Blast of Fresh O 2”, in New York Times:
glosses: Pertaining to flotation.
irrealistic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more irrealistic
form: most irrealistic
Senses: examples: text: The scenes are connected more visually than causally, through repeated motifs and — the greatest weapon in Mr. Bava's stylistic arsenal — a resolutely irrealistic use of color.
ref: 2007 October 30, Dave Kehr, “New DVDs”, in New York Times:
glosses: In the style of irrealism.
irrealism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: irrealisms
Etymology: From irreal + -ism.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
glosses: The belief that phenomenalism and physicalism are alternative "world-versions", both useful in some circumstances, but neither capable of fully capturing the other.
topics: art
arts
glosses: A style that features an estrangement from our generally accepted sense of reality.
Related terms: irrealist
irrealistic
irrealisms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of irrealism
upheaping
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: upheapings
Etymology: From Middle English upheping (“abundance”), equivalent to up- + heaping.
Senses: glosses: Ascension; addition to full measure, accumulation.
Related terms: heap up
upheap
minipretzel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: minipretzels
Etymology: From mini- + pretzel.
Senses: examples: text: I popped a minipretzel into my mouth and tried to move my legs. Wishful thinking. With my tray table down, they were wedged in from every angle.
ref: 2005, James Patterson, Howard Roughan, Honeymoon:
text: And I keep quite a lot of it around, especially chocolate-covered almonds and Trader Joes minipretzels smothered in dark chocolate.
ref: 2007 October 30, Jane E. Brody, “My Diet Strategy? Controlled Indulgence”, in New York Times:
glosses: A small pretzel.
minipretzels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of minipretzel
nonparticularistic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + particularistic.
Senses: glosses: Not particularistic.
redheadedness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From redheaded + -ness; also, by surface analysis, red + headedness.
Senses: examples: text: The finding also suggests that redheadedness would have evolved separately in Neanderthals and humans, at different times and through different genetic variations.
ref: 2007 October 30, Henry Fountain, “Neanderthal Bones Make a Case for Redheads”, in New York Times:
synonyms: gingerness
glosses: The trait of having red hair on the head (in humans) or red feathers on the head (in birds).
Related terms: at redheaded
ginger
redhorses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of redhorse
rediagonalizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of rediagonalize
rediae
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of redia
sigmatism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsɪɡməˌtɪzəm/
Forms: form: sigmatisms
Etymology: From sigma + -ism. sigmat- is the stem form of sigma, as seen in sigmatic.
Senses: glosses: A lisp.
examples: text: The flaw in pronouncing a sibilant S, which speech therapists call sigmatism, can follow even minor changes to the way the tongue aligns with the teeth.
ref: 2007 October 30, C. Claiborne Ray, “Whence the Whistle?”, in New York Times:
glosses: A defective pronunciation of sibilant sounds.
sigmatisms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sigmatism
uphurl
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: uphurls
form: uphurling
form: uphurled
form: uphurled
Etymology: From up- + hurl.
Senses: glosses: To hurl or cast up.
grillade
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ɡɹɪˈlɑːd/
/ˈɡɹi.jɑːd/
Forms: form: grillades
Etymology: From French grillade.
Senses: examples: text: A recipe for pork grillades and grits with an article last Wednesday about the New Orleans chef John Besh omitted the amount of butter that should be folded into the grits.
ref: 2007 October 31, “Recipe: Pork Grillades and Grits”, in New York Times:
glosses: A piece of slow-cooked meat (usually beef, veal, or pork) traditionally served with grits in New Orleans cuisine.
glosses: Any grilled food.
grillades
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of grillade
uphurled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of uphurl
uphurling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of uphurl
taphouse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: taphouses
Etymology: From tap + house.
Senses: glosses: A tavern.
taphouses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of taphouse
homestyle
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From home + style.
Senses: examples: text: Dish out lots of homecooked foods like pot roast, meat loaf, Maine beans and franks, homestyle fries, fish chowder and fresh-baked breads[…]
ref: 1994, Vermont Life, volumes 49-50, page 7:
text: LUNETTA The Manhattan outpost of the Smith Street, Brooklyn, restaurant, opened Monday in the former Mayrose space, with homestyle Italian cooking by Adam Shepard, who is also a partner: 920 Broadway (21st Street), (212) 533-3663.
ref: 2007 October 31, Florence Fabricant, “Off the Menu”, in New York Times:
glosses: Cooked or prepared in a traditional manner as would be done at home.
Related terms: house style
previs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: previz
Etymology: Shortening.
Senses: topics: broadcasting
film
media
television
glosses: previsualization
previz
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: previs
Etymology: Shortening.
Senses: topics: broadcasting
film
media
television
glosses: previsualization
previsualization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: previsualizations
Etymology: From pre- + visualization.
Senses: examples: text: What became Imageworks began at Sony Pictures in 1992 with five people using computers to help plan complicated live-action scenes — a practice that has since become known as previsualization.
ref: 2007 October 31, David M. Halbfinger, “Sony Said to Be Pondering Partial Sale of Movie Units”, in New York Times:
topics: broadcasting
film
media
television
glosses: Any technique that attempts to visualize a scene before the filming begins.
Synonyms: previs
previz
Related terms: previsualize
previsualizations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of previsualization
unjarred
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + jarred.
Senses: examples: text: There, far removed from the strife of the streets, undisheartened by scenes of worldly weakness, inhumanity, and corruption, unjarred by sounds of individual discord and popular tumult […]
ref: 1855, The Ladies' Repository, volume 15, page 612:
glosses: Not jarred or shaken; calm, tranquil.
supersenior
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsupɚˌsinjɚ/
Forms: form: superseniors
Etymology: From super- + senior.
Senses: topics: business
finance
glosses: Having high-quality financial paper with very low risk exposure.
topics: education
glosses: A university student who is in their fifth year of postsecondary education without having graduated.
supersenior
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsupɚˌsinjɚ/
Etymology: From super- + senior.
Senses: examples: text: UBS reported that it had $16.8 billion invested directly in residential mortgage-backed securities and $20.2 billion worth of supersenior securities, which are paid back ahead of other similarly rated securities in the case of a default.
ref: 2007 October 31, Nick Cumming-Bruce, “Mortgage Woes Push UBS to Its First Loss in 5 Years”, in New York Times:
topics: business
finance
glosses: Of a status higher than that of a senior lender.
churchhouse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: churchhouses
Etymology: From church + house.
Senses: examples: text: As a result, compassion is left at the churchhouse door, and the truly needy must look elsewhere for help.
ref: 2007 November 1, “Missing Compassion”, in New York Times:
glosses: A Quaker building used as a church and meeting-place.
churchhouses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of churchhouse
devaluate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪˈvæl.juː.eɪt/
ipa: /dɪˈvæl.ju.eɪt/
ipa: /dɪˈvæl.jʉː.æɪt/
Forms: form: devaluates
form: devaluating
form: devaluated
form: devaluated
Senses: examples: text: Discomfort was built into the evening, as central to it as the Pirandello script, written in 1917, and which, as one critic noted, toys with how the social role built up by one character for himself is continually destroyed by another, devaluated into a sick sham existence that outsiders accept as real only out of pity.
ref: 2007 November 1, Guy Trebay, “Where Art Meets Fashion Meets Celebrity Meets Hype”, in New York Times:
glosses: To devalue, reduce in value.
Derived terms: devaluator
devaluated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of devaluate
devaluates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of devaluate
devaluating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of devaluate
fanfold
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From fan + fold.
Senses: examples: text: The problem appears to have started when a guide wire became hung up on one of the long hinges that join the fanfold panels of the array.
ref: 2007 November 1, John Schwartz, “Repairing Solar Array Is New Focus of Spacewalk”, in New York Times:
glosses: Having the shape of fan or concertina, with a row of sheets alternately folded backwards and forwards.
fanfold
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: fanfolds
form: fanfolding
form: fanfolded
form: fanfolded
Etymology: From fan + fold.
Senses: examples: text: When the top sheet, blanket, and bedspread of a closed bed are turned back, or fanfolded, the closed bed becomes an open bed, or a bed ready to receive a patient or resident.
ref: 2005, Pamela J. Carter, Susan Lewsen, Lippincott's Textbook for Nursing Assistants, page 277:
glosses: To fold in this manner.
fanfold
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fanfolds
Etymology: From fan + fold.
Senses: glosses: A document folded in this manner.
farmwork
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: farmworks
form: farm work
Etymology: From farm + work.
Senses: examples: text: Ms. Hayes, 33, also writes cookbooks (in the predawn hours before her farmwork begins), agitates and advocates for local causes, lectures national organizations about sustainable cuisine and advises those closer to home, like the staff members of Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton.
ref: 2007 November 1, Penelope Green, “On the Farm, a Rat Race in Sheep’s Clothing”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 21 Nov 2011:
glosses: The agricultural work done on a farm.
fireplay
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From fire + play.
Senses: examples: text: At least one study suggests that if you take a population of boys between kindergarten and fourth grade, 60 percent of them have committed unsupervised fireplay, which is to say that fireplay is a common and absolutely normal part of human development.
ref: 2007 November 1, Michael Parrish, “10-Year-Old With Matches Started a California Wildfire”, in New York Times:
glosses: Experimental play with fire, as by lighting matches.
examples: text: Many years I attended a BDSM conference where a well-known and respected BDSM master presented a demonstration of fireplay as part of the planned programme.
ref: 2009, Peter Masters, This Curious Human Phenomenon:
topics: BDSM
lifestyle
sexuality
glosses: Any of various sexual practices involving fire, such as setting fire to alcohol against the skin.
sweat equity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sweat equities
Senses: examples: text: My wife and I have put a lot of sweat equity into our home: I did the renovations and she did the redecorating.
text: Mr. TALLE: His time and his wife's time in that article is called the "sweat equity".
Mr. GRIGGS: Look at the fun they had doing it.
ref: 1949, U.S. House of Representatives, Housing amendments of 1949: Hearing before the Committee on Banking and Currency, U.S. Govt. Printing Office, page 203:
topics: business
real-estate
glosses: An investment of labour, typically by the owner and often his or her family, usually in a small business or personal residence that increases the value of the business or residence.
papercut
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: papercuts
Senses: examples: text: It includes carvings, carousel animals, historic photographs of arks and carvings from synagogues in Eastern Europe and ornately painted papercuts.
ref: 2007 November 1, “Home & Garden Calendar”, in New York Times:
glosses: Alternative form of paper cut.
papercuts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of papercut
mapiko
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Now, after a protracted civil war and the establishment of multiparty democracy, the mapiko tradition is thriving in freestyle mode.
ref: 2007 November 2, Holland Cotter, “Art in Review”, in New York Times:
glosses: A traditional masked dance of the Makonde, associated with coming-of-age rituals.
stuffies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stuffy
glosses: plural of stuffie
telaprevir
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From [Term?] + -previr (“hepatitis C virus protease inhibitor”).
Senses: examples: text: While Vertex has previously shown that telaprevir can sharply reduce virus levels in patients blood, the new data, to be presented at the meeting, an annual gathering of the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases in Boston, is the first strong signal of how many patients could be cured.
ref: 2007 November 2, Andrew Pollack, “2 Winning Drug Tests, One Expected and One a Surprise”, in New York Times:
topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: A protease inhibitor intended to treat hepatitis C.
wali
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈwɑːliː/
Forms: form: walis
form: wāli
form: vali
Etymology: Borrowed from Arabic وَالٍ (wālin).
Senses: examples: text: For much of the last century, the mountainous region of Swat was ruled as a princely kingdom where a benign autocrat, the wali, bestowed schools for girls, health care for everyone and the chance to get a degree abroad for the talented.
ref: 2007 November 2, Jane Perlez, “Militants Draw New Front Line Inside Pakistan”, in New York Times:
glosses: A provincial governor in certain Muslim contexts.
Coordinate terms: sanjakbey
mutasarrif
kaymakam
mudir
wali
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈwɑːliː/
Forms: form: walis
Etymology: From Arabic وَلِيّ (waliyy).
Senses: examples: text: You see the shrine was founded in memory of a great Wali, seer, holy man – but apparently a Mohammedan.
ref: 1974, Lawrence Durrell, Monsieur, Faber & Faber, published 1992, page 130:
topics: Islam
lifestyle
religion
glosses: A saint or prophet.
walis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wali
unadjudicated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + adjudicated.
Senses: examples: text: The Tankleff lawyers sent the allegations to the Suffolk County Court in Riverhead in a motion seeking another appeal, and also forwarded the unadjudicated material to the four-judge panel in Brooklyn that is reviewing the appeal already pending on earlier new evidence.
ref: 2007 November 2, Bruce Lambert, “Convict Charges Cover-Up of New Evidence in 88 Death of Parents”, in The New York Times:
glosses: Not adjudicated.
antinomic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more antinomic
form: most antinomic
form: antinomical
Etymology: From antinomy + -ic.
Senses: examples: text: Their reasoning, the judge wrote, was that it would be antinomic for the F.B.I., charged with fighting crime, to employ as an informer a murderer as vicious and prolific as Greg Scarpa.
ref: 2007 November 3, Jim Dwyer, “A Prosecution Goes Bad, and a Judge Lets Loose”, in New York Times:
glosses: Exhibiting or pertaining to antinomy; contradictory.
Derived terms: antinomically
midtrial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From mid- + trial.
Senses: examples: text: Mr. DeVecchio and his lawyers said they were not worried that Justice Reichbach would be unfair; ultimately, the judge did not have to give a verdict because of the midtrial revelations that brought the case to an end.
ref: 2007 November 3, Jim Dwyer, “A Prosecution Goes Bad, and a Judge Lets Loose”, in New York Times:
glosses: During a trial.
partscore
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: partscores
form: part-score
Etymology: From part + score.
Senses: examples: text: At the other tables, Lady Billingham made five diamonds exactly, but both Commons pairs cautiously stopped in partscores.
ref: 2007 November 3, Phillip Alder, “The Lords Take the Lead in a Long-Running Battle”, in New York Times:
topics: bridge
games
glosses: A trick score less than 100, obtained by making a contract.
partscores
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of partscore
unhumorous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unhumorous
form: most unhumorous
form: unhumourous
Etymology: From un- + humorous.
Senses: examples: text: Mr. Williams is not an unhumorous newsman, though he usually plays one on TV. As an anchor, he has steadfastly submerged his inner comic.
ref: 2007 November 3, Bill Carter, “Live From New York, Its Not Quite the News!”, in New York Times:
synonyms: word: laughless
word: nonhumorous
word: funny as a dose of the clap
word: jokeless
word: humorless
word: irrisible
word: laughless
word: mirthless
word: nonhumorous
word: unhilarious
word: unhumorous
word: unhysterical
word: unjocose
word: unjocular
word: unlaughable
word: unmirthful
glosses: Not humorous.
Derived terms: unhumorously
myrmecologist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: myrmecologists
Etymology: From myrmecology + -ist.
Senses: glosses: One who studies ants.
Derived terms: paleomyrmecologist
Related terms: myrmecological
myrmecology
myrmecologists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of myrmecologist
biopoetics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From bio- + poetics.
Senses: examples: text: There is a literary-scientific movement called biopoetics, led by the Harvard professor E. O. Wilson, that wants the humanities, as he wrote in his 1999 book Consilience, rationalized.
ref: 2007 November 4, D. T. Max, “Swanns Hypothesis”, in New York Times:
glosses: A form of literary criticism that takes into account biopsychological processes.
checkoffs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of checkoff
bushfoods
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bushfood
corporatists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of corporatist
corporatizations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of corporatization
countercoalition
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: countercoalitions
Etymology: From counter- + coalition.
Senses: examples: text: If Facebook chooses to remain a holdout, it will not be as the head of a countercoalition but as a cranky recluse.
ref: 2007 November 4, Randall Stross, “Why Google Turned Into a Social Butterfly”, in New York Times:
glosses: A coalition founded in order to oppose another coalition.
countercoalitions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of countercoalition
datacentric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more datacentric
form: most datacentric
Etymology: From data + -centric.
Senses: examples: text: Nokia, Palm, Research in Motion and a number of other hand-set makers are fashioning ever more datacentric phones.
ref: 2007 November 4, John Markoff, “I, Robot: The Man Behind the Google Phone”, in New York Times:
glosses: Having a focus on data.
Synonyms: infocentric
glamfest
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: glamfests
Etymology: From glam + -fest.
Senses: examples: text: The conference — sort of a public version of Allen & Company's annual media glamfest in Sun Valley, Idaho — is scheduled to feature speakers including Jeffrey L. Bewkes, president and chief operating officer of Time Warner; Susan Lyne, president and chief executive of Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia; and Michael D. Eisner, the former Walt Disney chief executive who now runs an investment company called Tornante.
ref: 2007 November 4, Eric Sylvers, “Its Not a Popemobile but It Comes in Handy”, in New York Times:
glosses: A highly glamorous event.
metallicize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: metallicizes
form: metallicizing
form: metallicized
form: metallicized
Etymology: From metallic + -ize.
Senses: examples: text: Designers tend to get noticed when they make big things: theres an enthusiastic but ultimately limited market for, say, his Mirror Ball, S-Chair or the new Slab Table (an oak table, metallicized to a mirror finish, which he showed at the Milan Furniture Fair last spring).
ref: 2007 November 4, Edward Helmore, “Re-Arranging the Furniture”, in New York Times:
glosses: To make metallic.
metallicizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of metallicize
metallicized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of metallicize
microcivilization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: microcivilizations
Etymology: From micro- + civilization.
Senses: examples: text: Yet according to Robb, who has written biographies of Victor Hugo, Honor de Balzac and Arthur Rimbaud, these microcivilizations were not formless planetoids waiting to be swallowed by a giant state, and their inhabitants didnt constitute a shapeless mass of human raw material, waiting to be processed by the huge, mutating machine of political interference and turned into the people conveniently known as the French.
ref: 2007 November 4, Caroline Weber, “Tour de France”, in New York Times:
glosses: A tiny civilization.
microcivilizations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of microcivilization
micromosaic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: micromosaics
Etymology: From micro- + mosaic.
Senses: examples: text: In 2001 Mr. Wilson received a MacArthur Foundation genius award for his array of curious and awe-inducing exhibitions, which include dioramas and special effects that bring old wives tales and folk remedies to life; letters written in the early 20th century to astronomers at the nearby Mount Wilson Observatory; a homage to three ethnologists who documented cats cradles; and a collection of decaying dice donated by the magician Ricky Jay. There are all manner of miniatures, among them micromosaics of flowers made by Henry Dalton from butterfly wing scales and human hair sculptures fashioned within the eyes of needles by Hagop Sandaljian.
ref: 2007 November 4, Carol Kino, “Boldly, Where No Dog Had Gone Before”, in New York Times:
glosses: A mosaic made from tiny pieces of glass
Related terms: macromosaic
micromosaics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of micromosaic
mislocate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: mislocates
form: mislocating
form: mislocated
form: mislocated
Etymology: From mis- + locate.
Senses: examples: text: The first time the wall was poured, the seams in the form (which produced corresponding lines in the concrete) were mislocated.
ref: 2007 November 4, Fred A. Bernstein, “Lifting a High Ranch to New Heights”, in New York Times:
glosses: To locate incorrectly.
mislocating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of mislocate
mislocated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of mislocate
mislocates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of mislocate
muttnik
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: muttniks
Etymology: Blend of mutt + sputnik
Senses: examples: text: If they can get a muttnik up, I don't see why we can't put up a burro-nik.
ref: 1958 June, Boys' Life, volume 48, number 6, page 4:
text: The advent of sputniks and muttniks has aroused apprehension as to whether we are training the best brains we have in sufficient numbers to keep up with developments in other countries.
ref: 1958, House of Commons debates, official report (Canadian Parliament)
text: Sputniks and muttniks, flying through the air.
ref: 1958, Ray Anderson and the Home Folks – Sputniks and Mutniks [sic] (Starday Records 45-342, 1958)
text: But a quieter celebration of Laika and her colleagues can be found here at the Museum of Jurassic Technology, where glowing oil portraits of five of the most lauded muttniks (as they were nicknamed by the American press) have been displayed for close to two years.
ref: 2007 November 4, Carol Kino, “Boldly, Where No Dog Had Gone Before”, in New York Times:
glosses: A dog that is launched into space.
muttniks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of muttnik
pundette
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pundettes
Etymology: From pundit + -ette.
Senses: examples: text: I joke all the time that the reason for my success as a television pundette is not that I have run campaigns or taught law for twenty years, and thus might actually know what I am talking about, but that I have blonde hair and legs almost as good as those of the twenty- and thirty-something blondes […]
ref: 2000, Susan Estrich, Sex and power:
text: When pundettes tut-tut that playing the victim is not what a feminist should do, they forget that Hillary is not a feminist.
ref: 2007 November 4, Maureen Dowd, “Gift of Gall”, in New York Times:
glosses: A female pundit.
pundettes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pundette
ragu
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ragus
Senses: examples: text: His menu features steaks, lamb and seafood, all served on hot rocks and in sizzling skillets, and homemade pasta dishes like pappardelle with lamb and artichoke ragu, and spaghetti vongole served with a touch of pantelleria red pepper sauce.
ref: 2007 November 4, “T-Bones and Tea”, in New York Times:
glosses: Alternative spelling of ragù.
ragus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ragu
rechanged
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of rechange
rechanging
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of rechange
rechanges
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rechange
rechanges
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of rechange
ruddies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ruddy
superbad
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more superbad
form: most superbad
Etymology: From super- + bad.
Senses: examples: text: Whose^([sic]) gonna remember a black man unless he was a superstar athlete or a superbad criminal? Black men in America die like flies everyday,^([sic]) and no one cares. Hell, I doubt that I will live to 21.
ref: 2005, Kenneth V. Hardy, Tracey A. Laszloffy, Teens who hurt, page 90:
synonyms: evil
villainous
antonyms: good
nonbad
saintly
glosses: Very bad.
examples: text: Brian became my little brother; he was a superbad bluesman.
ref: 2003, Etta James, David Ritz, Rage to survive: the Etta James story, page 218:
glosses: Fine, excellent.
superprimary
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: superprimaries
Etymology: From super- + primary.
Senses: examples: text: There is much debate and speculation about how the southern superprimary will actually work. Some observers argue that one unintended consequence of the regional primary will be to make it more difficult for long-shot candidacies...
ref: 1988, Herbert B. Asher, Presidential elections and American politics:
text: The remainder could have a superprimary after the first 25 states vote.
ref: 2007 November 4, “Voting? Forget the Who. It’s the How.”, in New York Times:
glosses: A primary election for president that takes place on the same day across a wide geographic area covering many voters.
Synonyms: megaprimary
superprimaries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of superprimary
ukelin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ukelins
Etymology: Originally a trademark. Blend of ukelele + violin.
Senses: examples: text: Thats a ukelin on his lap and another next to it.
ref: 2007 November 4, Zo Wolff, “But Can He Hum?”, in New York Times:
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A musical instrument resembling a ukelele and violin.
ukelins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ukelin
understyled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more understyled
form: most understyled
Etymology: From under- + styled.
Senses: examples: text: The 190 was underpowered, undersized and certainly understyled, and the ones still on the road look more like used-up Toyota Corollas than Mercedes-Benzes.
ref: 2007 November 4, Keith Martin, “An Associate Makes Full Partner”, in New York Times:
glosses: Not made sufficiently stylish.
unvacillating
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unvacillating
form: most unvacillating
Etymology: From un- + vacillating.
Senses: examples: text: Even some of Mr. McCains supporters say such moves, meant to bolster his support with religious conservatives who have viewed him with suspicion, hurt his unvacillating, maverick brand and contributed to his stumble last spring.
ref: 2007 November 4, Jim Rutenberg, “Said That vs. Meant This, a Hot Matchup for 08”, in New York Times:
glosses: Not vacillating; firm, decided.
wunderkammer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wunderkammers
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of Wunderkammer.
wunderkammers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wunderkammer