cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
untangles
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of untangle
unclearer
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of unclear: more unclear
unclearest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of unclear: most unclear
unwieldier
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of unwieldy: more unwieldy
unwieldiest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of unwieldy: most unwieldy
postapocalyptic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From post- + apocalyptic.
Senses: examples: text: The novel dealt with life in a postapocalyptic France.
text: Now she’s been spending her days hanging out at KMUN, learning about the seemingly outmoded technology of terrestrial radio, which she thinks will gain a kind of “postapocalyptic” usefulness to humanity as the internet is overrun with AI slop.
ref: 2025 May 5, Spencer Kornhaber, “Is This the Worst-Ever Era of American Pop Culture?”, in The Atlantic, →ISSN, archived from the original on 05 May 2025:
glosses: Occurring after an apocalypse or catastrophic event.
upperclassmen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of upperclassman
subbed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of sub
relist
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: relists
form: relisting
form: relisted
form: relisted
Etymology: From re- + list.
Senses: examples: text: We relisted our house after it failed to sell.
glosses: To list again.
relisted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of relist
relists
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of relist
relisting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of relist
relisting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: relistings
Senses: examples: text: Relistings are treated as new listings and will be allocated through the allocation process pursuant to Exchange Rule 103B, Section Ill.
ref: 1957, New York Stock Exchange Guide:
text: Relistings are your indicator that a deal might be in the works.
ref: 1999, Dennis L. Prince, Online Auctions at EBay: Bid with Confidence, Sell with Success, →ISBN:
text: For simplicity, we have omitted the mean correlations below the diagonal since those are simply relistings of mean correlations shown above the diagonals.
ref: 2008, Jinni Harrigan, Robert Rosenthal, Klaus R. Scherer, New Handbook of Methods in Nonverbal Behavior Research, →ISBN, page 224:
glosses: The act of listing something again; a second or subsequent listing.
unionisation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: unionisations
Etymology: From union + -isation or unionise + -ation.
Senses: examples: text: Attempts to merge these unions in recent years have failed when put to the vote of members, but unionisation remains strong in the rail industry - not least because it has proved effective in keeping up wages.
ref: 2025 August 6, Christian Wolmar, “You don't get me, I'm part of the union”, in RAIL, number 1041, page 49:
glosses: Alternative spelling of unionization.
unionisations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of unionisation
unholier
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of unholy: more unholy
unholiest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of unholy: most unholy
cosmopolitans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cosmopolitan
megahit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɛɡəhɪt/
Forms: form: megahits
Etymology: From mega- + hit.
Senses: examples: text: We settle on our target: a group of women riding around on a Manhattan tour bus and visiting sites featured in HBO's '90s megahit Sex and the City.
ref: 2017, David Friend, The Naughty Nineties:
text: [Jean] Twenge […] isn’t necessarily a household name like her sometimes collaborator Jonathan Haidt, a social psychologist and the author of the megahit “The Anxious Generation,” which has spent 75 weeks hovering near the top of the New York Times best-seller list.
ref: 2025 September 6, Catherine Pearson, “She Started the Debate About Kids and Phones. Now She Wants to End It.”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC:
glosses: A large success or hit.
megahits
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of megahit
urbanest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ɜː(ɹ)ˈbeɪnɪst/
Senses: glosses: superlative form of urbane: most urbane
multicity
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From multi- + city.
Senses: examples: text: The multicity competition was a success.
glosses: Taking place between or relating to two or more cities.
wheeler dealer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wheeler dealers
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of wheeler-dealer.
erlang
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: erlangs
Etymology: Named after Danish mathematician and engineer Agner Krarup Erlang (1878–1929).
Senses: examples: text: One erlang (1 Erl) is defined as the amount of traffic generated by the user when he or she uses one traffic channel for one hour (this one hour is usually the busy hour of the network).
ref: 2004, Ajay R. Mishra, Fundamentals of Cellular Network Planning and Optimisation, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 42:
topics: communications
electrical-engineering
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
telecommunications
synonyms: E
Erl
glosses: A dimensionless statistical measure of the volume of telecommunications traffic relative to the capacity of a single channel.
Related terms: Erlang
erlangs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of erlang
ouroboroi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ouroboros
verrucas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of verruca
verrucae
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /vəˈɹuːkiː/
/vəˈɹuːsiː/
Senses: glosses: plural of verruca
caesareans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of caesarean, an alternative capitalization of Caesarean.
whistle-blowers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of whistle-blower
tappee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tappees
Etymology: From tap + -ee.
Senses: examples: text: Maryland law protects individual civil liberties by forbidding wiretapping without the consent of the tappee.
ref: 1999 August 5, “Judge Sends Clinton - And Everyone - a $90,000 Message”, in Seattle Post-Intelligencer:
glosses: A person who is subjected to a wiretap.
vanishings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of vanishing
harrumphed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of harrumph
hot-swap
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: hot-swaps
form: hot-swapping
form: hot-swapped
form: hot-swapped
Senses: glosses: To change a part of something, typically a computer, while it is running.
Hypernyms: swap
Derived terms: hot-swappable
Related terms: hotplug
tappees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tappee
milkily
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more milkily
form: most milkily
Etymology: From milky + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: The fog flowed milkily along the valley.
glosses: In the manner of milk
mythically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more mythically
form: most mythically
Etymology: From mythical + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: The philosophy of ancient times was often expressed mythically.
glosses: In relation to or by means of myth
harrumphs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of harrumph
harrumphs
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of harrumph
harrumphing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of harrumph
gamily
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From gamy + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: The grouse was gamily delicious.
glosses: In a gamy way; while being or tasting gamy
glosses: Alternative spelling of gamely
growingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more growingly
form: most growingly
Etymology: From growing + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: This society is growingly democratic.
glosses: To a growing or increasing degree
Synonyms: increasingly
suffocatingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more suffocatingly
form: most suffocatingly
Etymology: From suffocating + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: The hall was suffocatingly crowded.
text: [...] then, after about ½-mile of level through Pilning the climb is resumed at 1 in 100 for another three miles, including over a mile through a suffocatingly smoky single line tunnel (the down line being on a different and steeper location) to Patchway station.
ref: 1962 April, Cecil J. Allen, “Locomotive Running Past and Present”, in Modern Railways, page 246:
glosses: In a suffocating manner, or to a degree that suffocates
undeath
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From un- + death, on the pattern of undead.
Senses: examples: text: After the vampire bit me, I passed from life to undeath.
glosses: The state of being undead.
examples: text: "That invitation was made before your death. Or undeath. Or whatever you call it." "Rebirth," he whispered. "Begone!"
ref: 2012 March 1, Chelsea Quinn Yarbro, Nina Kiriki Hoffman, The Vampire Megapack: 27 Modern and Classic Vampire Stories, Wildside Press LLC, →ISBN, page 414:
text: No one could decide for certain whether the specimen as a whole were alive or dead, only that some organ function remained and the cells continued to regenerate, albeit at a much slower rate than before their death. Or undeath.
ref: 2021, Hailey Piper, Queen of Teeth:
glosses: The moment of passing into an undead state.
Related terms: unlife
supersweet
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more supersweet
form: most supersweet
Etymology: From super- + sweet.
Senses: examples: text: She dipped her finger in a steaming portable spa and inhaled the heavenly scent of fair food,[…]. Philly cheesesteak sandwiches and funnel cakes, caramel corn and special-recipe baked beans, fresh-picked supersweet corn and homemade boysenberry-apple pies.
ref: 2004, Robert Elmer, chapter 4, in The Duet: A Novel, Colorado Springs, Colo.: WaterBrook Press, →ISBN, page 28:
text: It tasted supersweet and creamy, and had a nice crunch.
ref: 2008 November 26, Kerry McCray, “Just place in a bowl and mix”, in Modesto Bee, archived from the original on 07 Dec 2008:
glosses: Extremely sweet
fall streaks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fall streak
feather wool
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A type of knitting yarn or cotton that is supposed to resemble wool.
swingman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: swingmen
Etymology: From swing + man.
Senses: topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A player who can swing between two different positions, often the small forward and shooting guard positions in basketball.
Synonyms: tweener
trembly
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: tremblier
form: trembliest
Etymology: From tremble + -y.
Senses: examples: text: […] they found they couldn't look at him and went all trembly.
ref: 1950, C.S. Lewis, The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe, page 119:
glosses: In a trembling or shaking state
fire mission
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fire missions
Senses: topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: A communication between the fire direction center (FDC) and an observer to direct artillery on a target.
firepower kill
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: firepower kills
Senses: topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: The damage inflicted by a weapon on a vehicle that destroys its weapon systems, or substantially reduces its ability to deliver weapons accurately, but does not significantly affect its ability to move.
Synonyms: F-kill
Related terms: catastrophic kill
mission kill
mobility kill
ginshop
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ginshops
Etymology: From gin + shop.
Senses: glosses: A place where gin is sold; a modern-day example would be a tavern or barroom.
hangar queen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hangar queens
form: hangar-queen
Senses: examples: text: In the Air Forces, "Hangar Queen" is not a proud title. It refers to any grounded plane which is being systematically "cannibalized" (stripped of its parts) so that other planes may fly.
ref: 1944 January 10, “‘Hangar Queen’”, in Time, retrieved 12 Jul 2008:
topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
government
military
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
politics
war
glosses: A grounded aircraft which is kept so that its parts can be used in other aircraft.
examples: text: [T]he F-35 . . . was not only meant to be an affordable fifth-generation fighter-bomber for the U.S. and her allies, but also to have lower maintenance costs than aircraft now in service. These claims may also turn out to be inaccurate, with the F-35 a potential hanger-queen like the F-22 Raptor.
ref: 2011 October 30, Mark M. Miller, “Second thoughts about the F-35”, in Toronto Star, Canada, retrieved 30 Oct 2011, page A19:
topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: An aircraft which requires a great deal of regular maintenance and has an unfavorable ratio of maintenance time to flight time.
herd path
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: herd paths
Senses: topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A non-official path created by hikers, and usually maintained by the hikers themselves.
high probability trade
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: high probability trades
Senses: topics: business
finance
glosses: In investment banking, any deal or transaction with a high degree of likelihood of success.
Hispanophile
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Hispanophiles
Etymology: From Hispano- + -phile.
Senses: glosses: A person who admires Spain, Spanish-speaking countries and people, or Spanish culture.
Coordinate terms: Hispanophobe
Related terms: Hispanist
Hispano-
hispano-
Hispanophilia
Hispanophilic
Hispanophobia
Hispanophobic
Hispanophone
Hispanophonia
Anglophile
Francophile
Germanophile
Hellenophile
Italophile
Japanophile
Scotophile
Slavophile
xenophile
histiocytic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From histiocyte + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Pertaining to connective tissue containing large white blood cells
Derived terms: lymphohistiocytic
reticulohistiocytic
Related terms: histiocyte
hostage negotiator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hostage negotiators
Etymology: Modern hostage negotiation principles began in 1972 when, then New York Police Detective Harvey Schlossberg, a police officer with a PHD in psychology, recognized the need for trained personnel in the intervention of hostage situations.
Senses: topics: government
law
politics
glosses: A person who negotiates with a person, or groups of persons, for the release of a person, or groups of persons.
swingmen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of swingman
standouts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of standout
in the driver's seat
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Forms: form: in the driving seat
Senses: glosses: Having the most important role in a storyline or recognition. Of primary importance.
examples: text: That can increase efficiency (when the suggestion is indeed what you had in mind) and spark new ideas (when the suggestion isn’t quite what you had in mind), while keeping the human user in the driver’s seat.
ref: 2025 June 24, Tim Wu, “A.I. Doesn’t Have to Mean a ‘White-Collar Blood Bath’ of Job Loss”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, archived from the original on 24 Jun 2025:
glosses: In control of an entity or situation.
Related terms: take a back seat
long arm of the law
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: It is my belief that I could have felt no greater dismay, if the long arm of the Law had laid its hold on me while he was speaking.
ref: 1889, Wilkie Collins, chapter 60, in The Legacy of Cain:
text: The long arm of the law does not protect banks the way it used to.
ref: 1979 September 3, “Pass the Buck”, in Time, archived from the original on 01 Sep 2010:
text: "Repeat violent offenders will hopscotch over state lines to avoid the long arm of the law," said Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley.
ref: 2008 September 12, Lisa Rein, “Jurisdictions Share Data on Ex-Offenders”, in Washington Post:
qualifier: almost always preceded by the
glosses: The influence or effectiveness of law enforcement institutions; law enforcement officers collectively.
bookended
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of bookend
bookending
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of bookend
crappies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of crappie
changeup
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: changeups
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of change-up.
leaguewide
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From league + -wide.
Senses: topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: Throughout a given league
leaguewide
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From league + -wide.
Senses: examples: text: This policy will apply leaguewide.
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: Throughout a given league
Zorro
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: rhymes: -ɒɹəʊ
ipa: /ˈzoɹoʊ/
ipa: /ˈzɑɹoʊ/
Etymology: From Spanish zorro (“fox”).
Senses: glosses: A fictional character, a daring and mysterious avenger, created in 1919 by pulp writer Johnston McCulley.
Zorro
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: rhymes: -ɒɹəʊ
ipa: /ˈzoɹoʊ/
ipa: /ˈzɑɹoʊ/
Forms: form: Zorros
Etymology: From Spanish zorro (“fox”).
Senses: examples: text: I told her about the Z found etched in Hector Peña's blood and my theory that the killer may indeed picture himself or herself as some kind of avenger, a modern-day Zorro with a twist.
ref: 1999, Kate Calloway, 6th sense: a Cassidy James mystery:
text: […] he made himself visible at certain crucial and dramatic moments, like a kind of Zorro of the ecodefense movement.
ref: 2000, T Coraghessan Boyle, A Friend of the Earth:
text: You are a real Zorro. You ride in, rescue the fair damsel (Maartje), start massive fires and vanish — until the next perceived injustice.
ref: 2006, Bob Onan, Taming Storm Surges: When Ecology, Engineering And Faith Meet:
glosses: Any daring and mysterious avenger.
future interest
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: future interests
Senses: topics: law
glosses: In property law and real estate, a legal right to property ownership which will vest in the future, but which does not include the right to present possession or enjoyment of the property.
Related terms: contingent remainder
shifting executory interest
springing executory interest
executory interest
life estate
indefeasibly vested remainder
vested remainder subject to open
vested remainder
future interests
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of future interest
fautor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fautors
form: fautour
Etymology: From Latin fautor.
Senses: examples: text: The laity of England had refused to apostatise; the fautor of his schemes was dead; and then, then, as a last miserable alternative, he dropped from his ambitious height back into the foul slough of avarice, and plied all the arts of threat and of falsehood to reconfiscate the revenues of the see of Canterbury, and figured once more not as head of the Church, not as source of jurisdiction, not as lord of all, but merely as a croned robber.
ref: 1883, Martin Rule, The Life and Times of St. Anselm:
glosses: Patron, protector.
glosses: Admirer, one who favours.
examples: text: The effect of the ſtatute of 16 R. 2 [Statute of Praemunire (16 Ric. II, chapter 5)] is, if any purſue or cauſe to be purſued in the court of Rome, or elſewhere, any thing with toucheth the king, againſt him, his crowne and regality, or his realme, their notaries, procurators, &c. fautors, &c. ſhall be out of the kings protection.
ref: 1644, Edward Coke, The Third Part of the Institutes of the Laws of England: Concerning High Treason, and Other Pleas of the Crown, and Criminall Causes, London: Printed by M[iles] Flesher, for W[illiam] Lee and D[aniel] Pakeman, OCLC 12388731; reprinted as The Third Part of the Institutes of the Laws of England: Concerning High Treason, and other Pleas of the Crown. And Criminal Causes, 15th edition, London: Printed for E. and R. Brooke, Bell-Yard, near Temple-Bar, 1797, OCLC 76956988, pages 119–*120
text: ...Edmund Wyld, Esq., also, then a member of Parliament and a great fautor of ingenious and good men for mere merit's sake...
ref: 1894, Wilson Lloyd Bevan, Sir William Petty : A Study in english Economic Literature. Publications of the American Economic Association, vol. IX, no. 4, p. 17
glosses: Supporter, adherent, partisan.
Derived terms: fautorship
returner
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: returners
Etymology: From return + -er.
Senses: examples: text: Returning to school is fairly simple, but remaining there proves to be a challenge for the returners.
ref: 2002, Nilda Flores-González, School Kids/Street Kids, →ISBN, page 145:
glosses: One who returns from another place.
examples: text: For instance, some merchants suppress the names of “serial returners”; basically, customers who repeatedly buy products that they quickly return after using them once.
ref: 2016, Robert Bly, The Marketing Dictionary for the 21st Century:
glosses: One who returns something, such as defective goods.
topics: American-football
ball-games
football
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A player who runs back a ball which has been punted or kicked
Derived terms: kick returner
kickoff returner
punt returner
returners
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of returner
Derived terms: kickoff returners
punt returners
snobbism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: snobbisms
form: snobism
Etymology: From snob + -ism, where the letter b is doubled in order to clarify the pronunciation of the letter o.
Senses: examples: text: It is no answer to say that "my" programme in art and letters has gradually been forced through, has, to some extent, grabbed its place in the sun. For one thing, I don't care about "minority culture." I have never cared a damn about snobbisms or for writing ultimately for the few.
ref: 1960, Ezra Pound, Impact: essays on ignorance and the decline of American civilization, page 88:
text: This question of the part played by culture in a civilisation prompts the similar question of the role of snobbism.
ref: 1964, John Gassner, Sidney Thomas, The Nature of Art, page 22:
text: Had Zach been something other than a butcher, she would doubtless have found other snobbisms.
ref: 1966, David R. Slavitt, Rochelle: Or, Virtue Rewarded, page 41:
glosses: A snobbish attitude, particularly in relation to art or high culture.
Synonyms: snobbery
Hispanophiles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Hispanophile
ginshops
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ginshop
hostage negotiators
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hostage negotiator
underboss
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: underbosses
Etymology: From under- + boss, calque of the Italian sotto capo
Senses: examples: text: An alleged "underboss" of the Bonanno family, Carmine Galante, has been sentenced to 20 years in prison […]
ref: 1965 January 6, Peter Kihss, “1,500 in 5 Crime 'Families' Identified”, in New York Times:
glosses: An assistant to the boss of a crime family
underbosses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of underboss
slip of the pen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: slips of the pen
Senses: examples: text: Near-synonyms: writo; misprint; miswriting; typo
text: There are one or two slips of the pen—L.S.W.R. trains did not run through Ludgate Hill, for instance—[...].
ref: 1961 December, “New reading on railways: The South Eastern & Chatham Railway. By O. S. Nock”, in Trains Illustrated, page 768:
synonyms: lapsus calami
lapsus plumæ
coordinate_terms: slip of the tongue
lapsus linguae
slip of the keyboard
glosses: A mistake in handwriting; (loosely) any minor error by the writer that made it into print, having not been caught by editors or proofreaders.
Related terms: Freudian slip
meccas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mecca
ungilded
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + gilded.
Senses: examples: an imprint on ungilded silver
glosses: Not gilded
Synonyms: ungilt
ungilded
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From ungild + -ed.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of ungild
crackdowns
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of crackdown
takable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of takeable.
takeable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more takeable
form: most takeable
form: takable
Etymology: From Middle English takable, takeable, equivalent to take + -able.
Senses: examples: a takeable fish
glosses: Capable of being taken.
Derived terms: takeability
enduringly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more enduringly
form: most enduringly
Etymology: From enduring + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: The painter's works were enduringly popular.
text: Originally written in the era of the Cold War, Clavell's enduringly relevant, extraordinary allegory on the impressionability of the human mind is still read in schools around the globe today, and is a call to every person to keep questioning and keep learning.
ref: 1963, James Clavell, The Children's Story, page inside cover:
glosses: In an enduring manner or fashion; so as to endure or last.
Synonyms: abidingly
at length
protractedly
lastingly
kinesthetically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more kinesthetically
form: most kinesthetically
Etymology: From kinesthetic + -ally.
Senses: examples: text: Children can be taught visually, auditorily, or kinesthetically.
glosses: In a kinesthetic way, or in terms of kinesthetics
backbend
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: backbends
form: back bend
form: back-bend
Etymology: From back + bend.
Senses: examples: text: The gal's backbends, the father's hoofology, the boy's fast steps and the mother's taps all won solid mitting.
ref: 1951 June 30, Billboard, page 40:
topics: dance
dancing
gymnastics
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A move in which the performer bends backwards until the hands touch the floor or catches him/herself with the hands.
backbend
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: backbends
form: backbending
form: backbended
form: backbended
form: backbent
form: backbent
form: back bend
form: back-bend
Etymology: From back + bend.
Senses: glosses: To perform such a move.
backbends
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of backbend
fluegelhorn
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fluegelhorns
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of flugelhorn.
unpiloted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + piloted.
Senses: examples: text: The ship was unpiloted and adrift.
text: The trouble has been mainly due to the preceding 6.40 p.m. Sheffield express, which since being demoted from an "XL Limit" to a "Special Limit" schedule had presented unpiloted Class "6" 4-6-0s with loads at times up to 12 bogies. [In railway parlance "unpiloted" means the train had no pilot engine double-heading it.]
ref: 1959 October, Cecil J. Allen, “Locomotive Running Past and Present”, in Trains Illustrated, page 479:
glosses: Lacking a pilot
rubberstamped
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of rubberstamp
boppish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more boppish
form: most boppish
Etymology: From bop + -ish.
Senses: examples: text: The strategy of using two standard tunes and two boppish originals on the first session (23 February 1945) set the pattern for subsequent dates.
ref: 1990, John Chilton, The Song of the Hawk, →ISBN, page 226:
text: With the exception of the leader's boppish title tune, the album is filled with anarchistic jazz reduxes of Nichols, Ellington, Kurt Weill, and Cole Porter.
ref: 2004, Todd S. Jenkins, Free Jazz and Free Improvisation: An Encyclopedia, page 234:
qualifier: jazz
glosses: In the bop style
Derived terms: boppishly
boppishness
rubberstamping
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of rubberstamp
rubberstamps
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of rubberstamp
postpunk
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From post- + punk.
Senses: examples: text: postpunk industrial music
glosses: Alternative form of post-punk.
postpunk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: postpunks
Etymology: From post- + punk.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of post-punk.
flulike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfluːlʌɪk/
Forms: form: more flulike
form: most flulike
form: flu-like
Etymology: From flu + -like.
Senses: examples: text: The patient presented with flulike symptoms.
synonyms: influenzalike
coordinate_terms: coldlike
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of influenza.
depositary
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪˈpɒzɪtɹi/
ipa: /dɪˈpɑzɪtɛɹi/
Etymology: From Late Latin dēpositārius.
Senses: examples: text: The hospital was the depositary institution of our monies.
glosses: Acting as the trusted recipient of a deposit.
Derived terms: depositary receipt
depositary
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪˈpɒzɪtɹi/
ipa: /dɪˈpɑzɪtɛɹi/
Forms: form: depositaries
Etymology: From Late Latin dēpositārius.
Senses: examples: text: She was also depositary of the golden chain, the produce of whose sale was to be devoted to the nurse's support.
ref: 1831, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter VII, in Romance and Reality. […], volume III, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, page 149:
text: The United States is the depositary, or safekeeper, of NATO under the alliance’s 1949 founding treaty.
ref: 2023 April 3, Associated Press, “What are the last steps for Finland’s NATO membership?”, in PBS NewsHour, PBS, retrieved 03 Apr 2023:
glosses: One who receives goods or a deposit in trust.
glosses: A place where deposits are kept
Synonyms: sense: one who receives in trust
word: trustee
sense: place where deposits are kept
word: depository
depositaries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of depositary
Tropicalia
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Tropicália (“the tropicalismo movement in Brazilian art and music”).
telephonelike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more telephonelike
form: most telephonelike
Etymology: From telephone + -like.
Senses: examples: text: So, for instance, a very telephonelike number, 880-1545, is listed next to the three-piece chicken meal combo, […]
ref: 2008 December 19, Jim Dwyer, “Now on the Menu, Full Disclosure, and It’s Not Appetizing”, in The New York Times:
glosses: Resembling a telephone or something associated with a telephone
runbacks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of runback
runback
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: runbacks
Etymology: From run + back.
Senses: examples: text: A fifty yard runback of a punt by Jack Reed in the fourth period gave Bowdoin a 6-0 win over Williams today in a driving rain.
ref: 1936 October 18, “Fifty Yard Runback of Punt Gives Bowdoin 6-0 Win Over Williams”, in Hartford Courant, archived from the original on 30 Jun 2013, page C4:
topics: American-football
ball-games
football
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: The act of returning a kicked ball, such as from a punt or kickoff
glosses: A managed reduction of output in a power plant.
topics: video-games
glosses: The path taken to the location of a boss to fight it again after respawning.
Related terms: run back
running back
plainchant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: plainchants
Etymology: From French plain-chant, from plain + chant, calque of Latin cantus planus.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of plainsong.
synonyms: word: plainsong
philanthropies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of philanthropy
nonexecutive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: non-executive
Senses: examples: text: A nonexecutive director was appointed.
glosses: Not executive; lacking executive authority
nonexecutive
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nonexecutives
form: non-executive
Senses: glosses: One who is not an executive.
nondiet
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: non-diet
Etymology: From non- + diet.
Senses: examples: text: These beverages are nondiet.
glosses: Not designed or intended for use in dieting
raw_tags: of a food or beverage
midseason
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: midseasons
form: mid-season
form: mid season
Etymology: From mid- + season.
Senses: examples: text: Tourism has a high season (summer), a midseason (spring and fall), and a low season (winter).
text: The amount of water needed is about 50% of the water used in the midseason.
text: Underperforming TV programs are often replaced in the midseason of the schedule.
glosses: The middle part of a season, such as a sporting, television, or growing season.
Related terms: high season
low season
midseason
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: mid-season
form: mid season
Etymology: From mid- + season.
Senses: examples: text: This apple is a midseason variety grown best in northern climates.
text: The midseason finale had a great cliffhanger.
glosses: Occurring in the midseason.
Derived terms: mid-season finale
mid-season form
mid-season replacement
midseasons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of midseason
cyberhole
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cyberholes
Etymology: From cyber- + hole.
Senses: examples: text: But Tower did better than HBO, the Boston Business Journal, and some others, where the test messages apparently fell into a cyberhole.
ref: 2001 February 11, “Deep Visions”, in Boston Globe:
text: Consequently, their long-awaited decision letters were waiting unnecessarily in vacant cyberholes somewhere.
ref: 2004, Daniel C. Feldman, “The Devil is in the Details: Converting Good Research into Publishable Articles”, in Journal of Management, volume 16, number 1, →DOI:
text: Although many of you seem to believe your messages drop into a black cyberhole, I do read every one, and often find it surprising to see which columns stir up emotion and which seem to sink with barely a murmur.
ref: 2009 December 19, Alina Tugend, “Shortcuts: Readers Weigh In With Tips on Jobs and Money”, in The New York Times:
glosses: Internet oblivion.
paramorphine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From para- + morphine.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
toxicology
glosses: A poisonous alkaloid, also known as thebaine, obtained from opium; not used in medicine; but used as a precursor for the manufacture of some medicines.
Related terms: morphine
parametrise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: parametrises
form: parametrising
form: parametrised
form: parametrised
form: parametrize
form: parameterise
form: parameterize
Etymology: From parametric + -ise.
Senses: glosses: To describe in terms of parameters.
Derived terms: parametrisable
parallelization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: parallelizations
form: parallelisation
Etymology: From parallel + -ization.
Senses: glosses: The act of making things parallel.
glosses: The act of making operations work in parallel, particularly in, but not limited to, computing.
Related terms: embarrassingly parallel
massively parallel
parallelizability
parallelisation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: parallelisations
Etymology: From parallel + -isation.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of parallelization.
false consciousness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: false consciousnesses
Etymology: Calque of German falsches Bewusstsein, as used by Friedrich Engels in a letter to Franz Mehring (1893).
Senses: examples: text: The author is less inclined than Jung to treat freedom as an ideological illusion or false consciousness.
ref: 2007, Roy E. Allen, Human Ecology Economics, →ISBN, page 187:
text: If the ugliness in American politics is all, or almost all, about the influence of big money, then working-class voters who support the right are victims of false consciousness.
ref: 2016 January 29, Paul Krugman, “Plutocrats and Prejudice”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
qualifier: including its brand of social sciences
glosses: A faulty understanding of the true character of social processes due to ideology.
wikipedia: Franz Mehring
Friedrich Engels
Marxists Internet Archive
false consciousnesses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of false consciousness
dicky bow
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dicky bows
form: dickie bow
Etymology: From dickey (“false”) + bow.
Senses: glosses: A ready tied or elasticated bowtie.
speedskating
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of speed skating.
Derived terms: shorttrack speedskating
squirreled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of squirrel
unindicted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + indicted.
Senses: examples: text: He was named as an unindicted co-conspirator.
glosses: Not having been indicted in a particular case
salvoes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of salvo
shoeboxes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shoebox
pricy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: pricier
form: more pricy
form: priciest
form: most pricy
Etymology: From price + -y.
Senses: examples: text: At $60,000 it was pricy, the high end of our range. But it would give us the best of both worlds.
ref: 2009 July 1, Jim Robbins, “A House in the Woods, After the Woods Are Gone”, in The New York Times:
text: I’ve chosen some pasta dishes that are delicious with or without the addition of Parmesan cheese, which can be pricy.
ref: 2010 March 22, Martha Rose Shulman, “Slim Pickings? You Can Still Eat Well”, in The New York Times:
text: Taxpayers footed the bill for the pricy tortillas, which were bought in early April with a government voucher from the California Women, Infants and Children program, a federally financed nutrition program that is administered by the state.
ref: 2012 April 21, Katharine Mieszkowski, “Gouged by Some Small Groceries, Food Program Cracks Down”, in The New York Times:
glosses: Alternative spelling of pricey.
Derived terms: priciness
glovebox
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gloveboxes
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of glove box.
elegiacs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of elegiac
encyclopedically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more encyclopedically
form: most encyclopedically
form: encyclopaedically
form: encyclopædically
Etymology: From encyclopedic + -ally.
Senses: examples: text: All related topics are encyclopedically addressed.
glosses: In an encyclopedic way; in the manner of an encyclopedia.
gloveboxes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of glovebox
dicky-bird
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dicky-birds
form: dickey-bird
form: dicky bird
form: dickybird
form: dickie bird
Senses: examples: text: The Swan and the Dickey-bird: A Fable.
text: Simple Simon went a hunting, He thought he could not fail, For to catch a Dickie Bird, For he’d got a little salt to put upon his tail.
glosses: A small bird.
examples: text: We've not heard a dicky-bird about anything relating to his birthday.
glosses: A word; a brief chat.
raw_tags: from Cockney rhyming slang
used especially in negative constructions
examples: text: I peeked into the cellar but there was nothing there. Not a dicky-bird.
glosses: A small thing.
coiffed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of coif
coiffing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of coiffe
blueblood
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bluebloods
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of blue blood.
nonstate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈnɒnˌsteɪt/
Forms: form: non-state
Etymology: From non- + state.
Senses: examples: text: The nonstate peoples we are most familiar with are the hunters and gatherers living in small bands like the ǃKung San of the Kalahari Desert and the Inuit of the Arctic.
ref: 2011, Steven Pinker, The Better Angels of Our Nature, Penguin, published 2012, page 49:
text: More than 70 non-state armed groups were recorded as using the weapons, including 12 that fired rockets and mortars from Gaza into Israel.
ref: 2013 April 12, Richard Norton-Taylor, The Guardian:
glosses: Not constituting or belonging to a state; not characterised by the institutional power or authority of an organized government.
Derived terms: nonstate actor
nonstate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈnɒnˌsteɪt/
Forms: form: nonstates
form: non-state
Etymology: From non- + state.
Senses: examples: text: States that fail to sufficiently attend to the "imagined" attributes of statehood required by the international system risk being deemed nonstates by the international community...
ref: 2005, Ann Hironaka, Neverending wars:
glosses: A sociopolitical entity other than a state.
oenological
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more oenological
form: most oenological
form: enological
form: œnological
Etymology: From oenology + -ical.
Senses: examples: text: The gentleman in the toga is our director of oenological research.
glosses: Of or pertaining to oenology, the study of wine.
Derived terms: oenologically
neoliberal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more neoliberal
form: most neoliberal
form: neo-liberal
Etymology: From neo- + liberal.
Senses: examples: text: She showed that homonormativity, within the overarching framework of a heteronormative society, has a class dimension: it reflects the ways that a layer of lesbian/gay people are adapting in order to occupy a secure niche within the neoliberal order.
ref: 2016 August 31, Peter Drucker, “Homonationalism, Heteronationalism and LGBTI Rights in the EU”, in Public Seminar:
text: The masculine discourse of the street workout includes a combination of concepts of strong physicality significant for traditional models of masculinity, alongside neoliberal discourses of individual responsibility for bodily self-production.
ref: 2021, Elena Omelchenko, Youth in Putin's Russia, page 103:
glosses: In accordance with, or subscribing to, neoliberalism.
Derived terms: neoliberally
nonneoliberal
neoliberal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: neoliberals
form: neo-liberal
Etymology: From neo- + liberal.
Senses: examples: text: The neoliberals stand today in somewhat the position neoconservatives occupied a decade ago. Their ambition is to attain the influence in liberal politics that the neoconservatives have attained in conservative politics.
ref: 1984 May 15, Walter Goodman, “AS NEOLIBERALS SEARCH FOR CLOSEST FIT, HART IS OFTEN MENTIONED”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 13 Jul 2019:
text: Neoliberals readily admit that economic liberalization causes some dislocations, but they view such collateral damage as necessary for the longer term gains of increased productivity and efficiency.
ref: 2009, David J. Hess, Localist Movements in a Global Economy, →ISBN, page 25:
glosses: A person who subscribes to neoliberalism.
Related terms: neoconservative
traffic warden
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: traffic wardens
Senses: glosses: A civilian employed by the police to regulate traffic and issue parking tickets.
Synonyms: parking attendant
meter attendant
meter maid
parking enforcement officer
parking inspector
traffic wardens
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of traffic warden
applejohn
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: applejohns
form: apple john
form: apple-john
Etymology: From apple + John, possibly from the fact that it can be eaten on St. John's Day, June 24th, of the year after it was picked.
Senses: examples: text: What the devil hast thou brought there? apple-johns? / thou knowest Sir John cannot endure an apple-john.
ref: a. 1599, William Shakespeare, II Henry IV, act II scene IV:
glosses: A variety of apple which can be kept for a long period, gradually becoming dry and withered; known today as the French crab.
neuroendocrine
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From neuro- + endocrine.
Senses: examples: text: a neuroendocrine cancer
topics: medicine
pathology
physiology
sciences
glosses: pertaining to the nervous system and endocrine system together
Derived terms: adenoneuroendocrine
enteroneuroendocrine
immunoneuroendocrine
photoneuroendocrine
neoliberals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of neoliberal
applejohns
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of applejohn
landrush
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: landrushes
form: land rush
Etymology: From land + rush.
Senses: examples: text: Among other regions which witnessed that land rush were the prairies of Asotin. It is safe to say that the majority of the families that located there (and the same is true of the larger part of Eastern Washington) made their locations in 1876, 1877, 1878 or 1879.
ref: 1918, William Denison Lyman, Lyman's History of old Walla Walla County, volume 1:
text: It never knew a boom and was relatively untouched by the great landrush of the 1850's.
ref: 1967, Roger G Kennedy, Minnesota Houses:
text: The landrush to all intents and purposes made the cowboy defunct.
ref: 2000, Susan Hayward, Cinema Studies:
synonyms: land run
glosses: An event in which previously restricted land of the United States was opened for homesteading on a first-come-first-served basis.
examples: text: In the event that an applicant obtains the domain name in question through the Landrush process described below, the service will be activated[…]
ref: 2001, United States Congress, ICANN, New GTLDS, and the Protection of Intellectual Property:
glosses: Any scramble for limited resources.
Derived terms: Oklahoma land rush
landrushes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of landrush
land rush
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: land rushes
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of landrush.
in parallel
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: examples: text: Near-synonyms: synchronous (adjective), synchronously (adverb), simultaneously (adverb)
text: Translations to all five languages were done in parallel.
antonyms: serially
in series
glosses: At the same time; together, concurrently, cotemporally.
examples: text: The total resistance of two resistors connected in parallel is easily calculated using a simple formula.
antonyms: in series
glosses: Aligned or connected side by side, instead of end to end.
land rushes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of land rush