cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
autophile
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: autophiles
Etymology: From auto- + -phile.
Senses: examples: text: The autophiles hang around a big, fluorescent-lighted garage with cars on cinder blocks, ostensibly in competition for a job, and they talk to the camera in between sessions at the sander or other machines.
ref: 2007 July 19, Virginia Heffernan, “A Congregation Gathers to Worship the Shiny Hot Rod”, in The New York Times:
glosses: An automobile enthusiast.
autophiles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of autophile
denlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more denlike
form: most denlike
Etymology: From den + -like.
Senses: examples: text: Inside, the wood-paneled basement-level space, with a connected room for women’s attire, feels denlike and welcoming.
ref: 2007 July 19, Mike Albo, “Colors to Match Every Shade of Credit Card”, in New York Times:
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a den (comfortable room).
jumpmaster
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: jumpmasters
Etymology: From jump + master.
Senses: examples: text: He was certified as an Army Ranger master parachutist and free-fall jumpmaster.
ref: 2007 July 19, Thom Shanker, “Gen. Wayne A. Downing, 67, Special Operations Leader, Dies”, in New York Times:
glosses: One who supervises the jumping of paratroopers or other parachutists from an aeroplane.
jumpmasters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of jumpmaster
nonvoice
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: non-voice
Etymology: From non- + voice.
Senses: examples: text: Dr. Falkenrath said other proposals may include improving nonvoice communication, like video data or maps.
ref: 2007 July 19, Jacqueline Palank, “New York City Expects Federal Funds to Improve Emergency Radio Use”, in New York Times:
glosses: Not of or pertaining to the voice.
nonwizard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nonwizards
Etymology: From non- + wizard.
Senses: examples: text: But the badly behaved pet is neither canine nor feline, and the magic is of the nonwizard kind.
ref: 2007 July 19, Amy Virshup, “Newly Released”, in New York Times:
glosses: One who is not a wizard.
nonwizards
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nonwizard
trackee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: trackees
Etymology: From track + -ee.
Senses: examples: text: People doing the tracking can locate the trackees through a Web or cellphone interface or by calling the company’s toll-free number and providing the operator with a password.
ref: 2007 July 19, Larry Magid, “Global Positioning by Cellphone”, in New York Times:
glosses: One who is tracked.
divertee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: divertees
Etymology: From divert + -ee.
Senses: glosses: One who is diverted from prison.
trackees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of trackee
divertees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of divertee
wandmaker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wandmakers
Etymology: From wand + maker.
Senses: examples: text: Objects and spells from earlier books — like the invisibility cloak, Polyjuice Potion, Dumbledore’s Pensieve and Sirius’s flying motorcycle — play important roles in this volume, and characters encountered before, like the house-elf Dobby and Mr. Ollivander the wandmaker, resurface, too.
ref: 2007 July 19, Michiko Kakutani, “An Epic Showdown as Harry Potter Is Initiated Into Adulthood”, in New York Times:
glosses: A manufacturer of wands.
wandmakers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wandmaker
worldbeater
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: worldbeaters
Senses: examples: text: “A worldbeater is someone who wins many, many majors, and I haven’t.
ref: 2007 July 19, Damon Hack, “Time and Fans Put Pressure on Montgomerie”, in New York Times:
glosses: Alternative form of world-beater.
worldbeaters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of worldbeater
hypercontrolled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From hyper- + controlled.
Senses: examples: text: The paintings are hypercontrolled in one sense and yet pleasantly unpredictable, pitting different notions of trompe l’oeil against abstraction, and idealized modernist flatness against one kind of specificity or another.
ref: 2007 July 20, The New York Times, “Art in Review”, in New York Times:
glosses: Very tightly controlled.
klismos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: klismoi
Etymology: From Ancient Greek κλισμός (klismós).
Senses: examples: text: Stephen Miller Siegel, a Manhattan architect and decorator, created a chic chartreuse-and-blue bedroom, with an immense Ruhlmann 1928 vanity from the Delorenzo Gallery; a pair of 18th-century Chinese trunks, a lacquer screen depicting the Tuileries Gardens and a pair of 18th-century Danish klismos chairs from H. M. Luther; and an embroidered linen screen from Liz O’Brien.
ref: 2007 July 20, Wendy Moonan, “Chinese Porcelain With a French Twist”, in New York Times:
glosses: A light Ancient Greek chair with curved legs.
klismoi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of klismos
megaministry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: megaministries
Etymology: From mega- + ministry.
Senses: examples: text: The loss forced him to resign from his post leading a new megaministry for the environment, transportation and energy in the government of Mr. Sarkozy, although he retains his job as mayor of Bordeaux.
ref: 2007 July 20, Elaine Sciolino, “Chirac Questioned in Scandal From His Time as Paris Mayor”, in New York Times:
glosses: A very large (especially religious) ministry.
megaministries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of megaministry
nonswearing
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + swearing.
Senses: glosses: Not swearing; not making an oath.
examples: text: LIL WAYNE (Sunday) This show at the Beacon Theater is advertised as the first live appearance in New York of Lil Wayne, the New Orleans rap star who made his name as a nonswearing teenage gangsta and is now a veteran hitmaker with a quick, sly (and dirty) tongue.
ref: 2007 July 20, The New York Times, “Pop Listings”, in New York Times:
glosses: Not swearing; not using bad language.
outbuild
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: outbuilds
form: outbuilding
form: outbuilt
form: outbuilt
Etymology: From out- + build.
Senses: examples: text: “Each time they’d build, they’d try to outbuild all the rest of them,” said Dr. Randall F. Hipple, a retired obstetrician who helped establish a seven-block stretch of the street as a National Historic District.
ref: 2007 July 20, Dave Caldwell, “Williamsport, Pa.: Home of True Small Ball”, in The New York Times:
text: That’s what companies like Orion are doing, and that’s how America will win the future: by outinnovating, outeducating, and outbuilding our competitors.
ref: 2011 January 29, “The President's Weekly Address”, in Govinfo:
text: But they also have a broader mission. It's to renew the promise of American manufacturing, to help make sure America remains in this century what we were in the last, a country that makes things, a country that outbuilds and outinnovates the rest of the world.
ref: 2011 June 25, “The President's Weekly Address”, in Govinfo:
text: We are being completely outbuilt in terms of ships, by the Chinese, and yet this Secretary of the Navy has been focused on climate change, not building ships and lethality.
ref: 2025 January 14, Pete Hegseth, quotee, “TO CONDUCT A CONFIRMATION HEARING ON THE EXPECTED NOMINATION OF MR. PETER B. HEGSETH TO BE SECRETARY OF DEFENSE”, in United States Senate:
glosses: To build more or better than.
outbuilds
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of outbuild
outbuilt
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of outbuild
showhouse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: showhouses
Etymology: From show + house.
Senses: examples: text: More than 20 interior designers and decorative artists are participating in this year’s showhouse, a new, 10,000-square-foot shingle-style house built by George Gavalas of Bridgehampton.
ref: 2007 July 20, Wendy Moonan, “Chinese Porcelain With a French Twist”, in New York Times:
glosses: A house open to the public as an exhibition of architecture, furnishing, etc.
showhouses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of showhouse
subministerial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From sub- + ministerial.
Senses: examples: text: Also, the United Nations envoy for Iraq should convene a contact group at the subministerial level that will meet regularly to determine whether specific agreements are being carried out.
ref: 2007 July 20, Zalmay Khalilzad, “Why the United Nations Belongs in Iraq”, in New York Times:
glosses: Below the rank of minister.
subtone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: subtones
Etymology: From sub- + tone.
Senses: examples: text: It had a slight rasp, soft subtones in the low notes and even control through the registers; he scattered stylized shakes of vibrato all through his playing.
ref: 2007 July 20, Ben Ratliff, “Sounds to Quiet a Crowd While Recalling Faded Times”, in New York Times:
glosses: A secondary or lesser tone (in sound or colour).
subtones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of subtone
subtopias
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of subtopia
subtopian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more subtopian
form: most subtopian
Etymology: From subtopia + -an.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to subtopia.
blink-and-you-miss-it
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: blink-and-you'll-miss-it
Senses: examples: text: The famous actor's blink-and-you-miss-it appearance in the short film is little known.
text: The blink-and-you-miss-it town is located between two major highways.
text: Now, driving down the shadowy street, appreciating its early-morning peace and quiet, she reached down to the truck's cup holder and picked up the mug of hot coffee, Utopia was one of those blink-and-you-miss-it towns, on a road that didn't go much of anywhere.
ref: 2015, Susan Wittig Albert, Bittersweet, Penguin, →ISBN, page 40:
glosses: Barely visible because gone too quickly.
Related terms: here today, gone tomorrow
UAT
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: UATs
Senses: glosses: Initialism of User Acceptance Testing.
topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Abbreviation of universal access transceiver.
Coordinate terms: topics: aviation
aeronautics
aerospace
engineering
business
physical-sciences
natural-sciences
word: ADS
topics: aviation
aeronautics
aerospace
engineering
business
physical-sciences
natural-sciences
word: Mode C
topics: aviation
aeronautics
aerospace
engineering
business
physical-sciences
natural-sciences
word: Mode S
topics: aviation
aeronautics
aerospace
engineering
business
physical-sciences
natural-sciences
word: primary radar
topics: aviation
aeronautics
aerospace
engineering
business
physical-sciences
natural-sciences
word: secondary radar
topics: aviation
aeronautics
aerospace
engineering
business
physical-sciences
natural-sciences
word: TIS
topics: aviation
aeronautics
aerospace
engineering
business
physical-sciences
natural-sciences
word: transponder
brattish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more brattish
form: most brattish
Etymology: From brat + -ish.
Senses: synonyms: bratty
glosses: Characteristic of a brat; childishly rude and annoying.
Derived terms: brattishly
brattishness
brattish
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: brattishes
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of brattice.
brattish
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: brattishes
form: brattishing
form: brattished
form: brattished
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of brattice.
cyberheaven
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From cyber- + heaven.
Senses: examples: text: What exactly will cyberheaven be like?
ref: 1994, Esquire, volume 122:
text: Johnny has state-of-the-art access to the Net and I've been in cyberheaven, staring at images of Sarah Bernhardt and imagining her with my greatgran.
ref: 2001, Merrilee Moss, Fedora Walks, page 30:
text: There is even a cyberheaven where one can memorialize one's deceased relative with a picture and brief tribute to that relative. The producers of the site see it as analogous to heaven; hence angels against a background of clouds...
ref: 2009, Abraham Rosman, Paula G. Rubel, Maxine Weisgrau, The Tapestry of Culture: An Introduction to Cultural Anthropology, page 253:
glosses: A heaven on the Internet or in cyberspace.
essentialistic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more essentialistic
form: most essentialistic
Etymology: From essentialist + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to essentialism.
Derived terms: essentialistically
nonessentialistic
essentialize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: essentializes
form: essentializing
form: essentialized
form: essentialized
Etymology: From essential + -ize.
Senses: glosses: To reduce (something) to its essence.
examples: text: “This is an essentializing of Hinduism,” Ms. Narayanan said, “and the diversity of Hinduism in India is lost here.”
ref: 2007 July 21, Neela Banerjee, “Camp Joins Summer Fun With Teaching Hindu Faith”, in New York Times:
glosses: To misrepresent (something) by oversimplifying a summary of its essence.
examples: text: to essentialize race by stereotyping "what Whites do" or "how Blacks think"
glosses: To misrepresent (a characteristic of something) by falsely portraying it as essential to the whole (that is, implying that it defines the whole's essence).
Derived terms: essentialization
essentializer
Related terms: essential
essentialism
essentialist
essentialistic
essentializes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of essentialize
essentializing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of essentialize
essentialized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of essentialize
essentialities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of essentiality
precurtain
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pre- + curtain.
Senses: examples: text: The cast gathered on the back porch for Ms. Barre’s precurtain notes: Think about your first line.
ref: 2007 July 21, Campbell Robertson, “Well West of Broadway, the Stage Is Their World”, in New York Times:
glosses: Before the curtain rises at the start of a play.
glosses: Before the curtain falls at the end of a play.
ironmans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ironman
prenegotiation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: prenegotiations
Etymology: From pre- + negotiation.
Senses: examples: text: The idea of a trust came up during prenegotiations, and the U.A.W. recently agreed to such an arrangement at the Dana Corporation, a bankrupt parts supplier.
ref: 2007 July 21, Nick Bunkley, “U.A.W. Opens Contract Talks With Detroit”, in New York Times:
glosses: Discussion prior to formal negotiations.
prenegotiations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of prenegotiation
refloor
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: refloors
form: reflooring
form: refloored
form: refloored
Etymology: From re- + floor.
Senses: examples: text: The backstage — really just a back porch shielded by curtains — just got that awning; the stage itself was finally refloored.
ref: 2007 July 21, Campbell Robertson, “Well West of Broadway, the Stage Is Their World”, in New York Times:
glosses: To fit with a new floor.
refloored
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of refloor
reflooring
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of refloor
reflooring
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: refloorings
Senses: glosses: The process of fitting with a new floor.
refloorings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of reflooring
ultramarathoning
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From ultramarathon + -ing.
Senses: examples: text: Both men are pursuing one of the most coveted prizes in ultramarathoning: a nickel-plated belt buckle awarded to athletes who finish one of the world’s most severe and demanding footraces, the Badwater Ultramarathon, in less than 48 hours.
ref: 2007 July 21, Aimee Berg, “Far-From-Basic Training for a 135-Mile Footrace”, in New York Times:
glosses: The sport of running ultramarathons.
cymbalon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cymbalons
Senses: examples: text: It has a cymbalon, which is like a piano played like a hammered dulcimer.
ref: 2007 July 22, Jeff Tweedy, “So, Mr. Would-Be Critic With Alt-Rock Leanings ...”, in New York Times:
glosses: Alternative form of cimbalom.
cymbalons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cymbalon
egusi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: egushi
Etymology: From Yoruba ẹ̀gúsí.
Senses: examples: text: Along with soft drinks and toothpaste, bodegas and delis carry items like an African bleaching cream used to lighten the skin, a malted milk beverage called Nestle Milo that is popular in West Africa, and cans of egusi, melon seeds that are the base of a pungent soup laden with vegetables.
ref: 2007 July 22, Nana Kankam, “Uptown, Africa Toujours”, in New York Times:
glosses: Melon seeds that are ground to make soup in West Africa.
gossipier
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of gossipy: more gossipy
gossipiest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of gossipy: most gossipy
homicidally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more homicidally
form: most homicidally
Etymology: From homicidal + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Ismay and Heather share a festering secret that poisons more than one relationship in this London household before seeping out and infecting all the neighbors — including the homicidally inclined Marion and her abominable brother, Fowler, who have made a career of preying on the love-starved.
ref: 2007 July 22, Marilyn Stasio, “Money for Nothing”, in New York Times:
glosses: In a homicidal manner.
examples: text: `[A]senic use was widespread. Not that we have a reliable test for it, it is not much used, homicidally.'
ref: 2016, Kerry Greenwood, Murder and Mendelssohn, Sydney: Allen and Unwin, page 317:
glosses: For the purpose of committing homicide.
merchandisable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more merchandisable
form: most merchandisable
Etymology: From merchandise + -able.
Senses: examples: text: Then again, Domo is a merchandisable star not so much because he has a TV show in the works but because of his track record in what is arguably the most potent entertainment form of our time: clowning around on the Internet.
ref: 2007 July 22, Rob Walker, “Hello, Kitschy”, in New York Times:
glosses: Suitable for merchandising.
midmeeting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From mid- + meeting.
Senses: examples: text: We had to rush outside in midmeeting when the fire alarm went off.
glosses: The middle of (or any time during) a meeting.
midconversation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From mid- + conversation.
Senses: examples: text: Moody, often blurred and set in rooms cast with bohemian clutter, these images capture tenants in their downbeat moments, mouths half-open, eyes half-closed, midstep or midconversation.
ref: 2007 July 22, Caroline H. Dworin, “Love Letters to a Dowager of a Muse”, in New York Times:
glosses: The middle of (or any time during) a conversation.
midgate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: midgates
form: mid-gate
form: mid gate
Etymology: From mid- + gate. From being a door in the middle of a truck, separating the front half from the rear half.
Senses: examples: text: The Avalanche’s raison d’être is theoretically its midgate — the rear wall of the cab, behind the second-row seats — which can be lowered to extend the 63-inch-long bed by another 34 inches inside the cab (displacing back-seat passengers in the process).
ref: 2007 July 22, Jerry Garrett, “Battle of the Beds: Suave S.U.V.’s With Pickup Lines”, in New York Times:
glosses: A panel or door, forming the rear of the cab of a truck, separating it from the truckbed, that can be removed or folded away to expand the length of the truck bed.
Coordinate terms: tailgate
midgates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of midgate
midstep
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From mid- + step.
Senses: examples: text: Moody, often blurred and set in rooms cast with bohemian clutter, these images capture tenants in their downbeat moments, mouths half-open, eyes half-closed, midstep or midconversation.
ref: 2007 July 22, Caroline H. Dworin, “Love Letters to a Dowager of a Muse”, in New York Times:
glosses: During a step.
midleap
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From mid- + leap.
Senses: examples: text: Another time I wondered if she was the naked dancer midleap on the cover of a local calendar.
ref: 2007 July 22, Ada Brunstein, “The House of No Personal Pronouns”, in New York Times:
glosses: During a leap.
midleap
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From mid- + leap.
Senses: examples: frozen in midleap
glosses: The midpoint of a leap.
multimanager
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From multi- + manager.
Senses: examples: text: In the past, she noted, many world stock funds were really multimanager portfolios, with part of the assets handed to a domestically minded manager and the rest going to a foreign-stock team.
ref: 2007 July 22, Paul J. Lim, “Around the World, With Borderless Investing”, in New York Times:
glosses: Having or pertaining to more than one manager.
noirest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: If noir is the great urban style of the movies — and it is — then New York City is surely the noirest place on earth.
ref: 2007 July 22, Terrence Rafferty, “Noir and the City: Dark, Dangerous, Corrupt and Sexy”, in New York Times:
glosses: superlative form of noir: most noir
overidentification
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From over- + identification.
Senses: examples: text: Homosexuality is caused by over-identification with a parent of the opposite sex. This means that a male homosexual relates more to his mother, and the female homosexual relates to her father.
ref: 1974 March 30, Ann Landers, quoted in 1974 April 13, Barbara Piccirilli, "Landerslander", in Gay Community News, page 1
text: As a biographer myself, I know a little something about overidentification with one’s subject, but I wish Ardizzone had picked a more appealing quality to emulate.
ref: 2007 July 22, Caroline Weber, “Long Time Passing”, in New York Times:
glosses: A case of overidentifying with something.
pousada
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pousadas
Etymology: From Portuguese pousada.
Senses: examples: text: This pousada has several rooms that are a short hike from the main building, which is perched above the vineyards.
ref: 2007 July 22, “Letters to the Editor”, in New York Times:
glosses: a Portuguese inn
pousadas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pousada
poussetting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of poussette
poussetting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: poussettings
Senses: glosses: The act of performing a poussette.
poussetted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of poussette
charlestoning
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of charleston
charlestoned
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of charleston
superathlete
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: superathletes
Etymology: From super- + athlete.
Senses: examples: text: It’s funny to see these 20- and 30-year-old superathletes never standing up.
ref: 2007 July 22, Gina Kolata, “Just a Bike Race, You Say? Think Again”, in New York Times:
glosses: A very skilled and successful athlete.
superathletes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of superathlete
superrefined
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more superrefined
form: most superrefined
Etymology: From super- + refined.
Senses: examples: text: They were an indigenous people with a superrefined design sense.
ref: 2007 July 22, Dan Shaw, “When the Everyday Becomes Art”, in New York Times:
glosses: Very highly refined.
trucklet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: trucklets
Etymology: From truck + -let.
Senses: examples: text: It’s hard for me to understand the appeal of these trucklets, whose strength — their Swiss Army knife versatility — is also their weakness.
ref: 2007 July 22, Jerry Garrett, “Battle of the Beds: Suave S.U.V.’s With Pickup Lines”, in New York Times:
glosses: A small, compact truck.
trucklets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of trucklet
vaccinationlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more vaccinationlike
form: most vaccinationlike
Etymology: From vaccination + -like.
Senses: examples: text: Maybe the doomed attempts to manufacture a hit follow-up to “Annie” had a vaccinationlike effect on even the more crass producers.
ref: 2007 July 22, Charles Isherwood, “Playgoers, Beware the ‘Ishtar’ Invasion”, in New York Times:
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a vaccination.
bloomings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of blooming
cytotherapeutic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From cyto- + therapeutic.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to cytotherapy.
cytotherapy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cytotherapies
Etymology: From cyto- + therapy.
Senses: examples: text: Mr. Bass is scheduled for a stem-cell transplant and chemotherapy treatment next month as part of a clinical trial at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center . Dr. Raymond L. Comenzo, the director of the hospital’s cytotherapy laboratory, is one of about 20 doctors in the United States on the cutting edge of amyloidosis research.
ref: 2007 July 23, Claudia La Rocco, “A Maestro Conducting With Heart ... a New One”, in New York Times:
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: The introduction of new cells into a tissue in order to treat a disease.
Synonyms: cell therapy
cellular therapy
gopak
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gopaks
Senses: examples: text: She offered three encores: an elegant Scarlatti Sonata in D minor (K. 9), Rachmaninoff’s flashy transcription of the gopak from Mussorgsky’s “Sorochintsy Fair,” and Moritz Moszkowski’s scintillating étude “Sparks.”
ref: 2007 July 23, Steve Smith, “From Russia With Buzz: A Pianist Inspires Passion”, in New York Times:
glosses: Alternative form of hopak.
gopaks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gopak
multicommittee
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From multi- + committee.
Senses: examples: text: “Staff on the Hill certainly use ‘track changes’ on shared documents from the development of multicommittee talking points to the writing of speeches,” he wrote.
ref: 2007 July 23, Noam Cohen, “Crossing Out, for Emphasis”, in New York Times:
glosses: Of or pertaining to more than one committee.
pitchfest
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pitchfests
Etymology: From pitch + -fest.
Senses: examples: text: Garth Meyer, an advertising copywriter shopping a modern-day Christmas fable, was turned down early in the day, reworked his pitch, then drew a nibble from Paramount before sitting down opposite a producer he had met at a pitchfest in February.
ref: 2007 July 23, David M. Halbfinger, “Hollywood Hopefuls (Dream On) at Pitchfest”, in New York Times:
glosses: An event where writers can pitch ideas for television series.
pitchfests
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pitchfest
unsuave
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unsuave
form: most unsuave
Etymology: From un- + suave.
Senses: examples: text: For “Get on My Level” he borrows the beat from Fabolous’s “Make Me Better,” turning a suave hit into a notably unsuave collection of puns: “If I land somewhere on a^([sic]) island, like the Skipper/The sex on the beach that I’m-a give her is not liquor.”
ref: 2007 July 23, The New York Times, “New CDs”, in New York Times:
glosses: Not suave.
Related terms: unsuavity
fasciotomy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fasciotomies
Etymology: From fascio- + -tomy.
Senses: examples: text: The procedure, called needle aponeurotomy or percutaneous fasciotomy, involves using the bevel of a hypodermic needle to essentially shred the ropes of constricting fascia characteristic of Dupuytren’s disease.
ref: 2007 July 24, Kate Murphy, “Straightening Bent Fingers, No Surgery Required”, in New York Times:
topics: medicine
sciences
surgery
glosses: The cutting of the fascia to relieve tension or pressure (and treat the resulting loss of circulation to an area of tissue or muscle).
Synonyms: fasciectomy
fasciotomies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fasciotomy
nanometallurgy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From nano- + metallurgy.
Senses: examples: text: “I think it’s very original,” said Ralph Spolenak, a professor of nanometallurgy at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology who was not involved in the research.
ref: 2007 July 24, Kenneth Chang, “Design by Gecko, Plus Glue by Mussel, Yields a Powerful Adhesive”, in New York Times:
glosses: Nanoscale metallurgy.
postlunch
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From post- + lunch.
Senses: examples: text: The meeting was held during the postlunch lull at the Gotham Bar and Grill in New York, where Mr. Portale is the owner and executive chef. Mr. Freidanck arrived lugging a box of dishes, like someone moving between apartments in Manhattan.
ref: 2007 July 24, Joe Sharkey, “Somewhere in the Skies, Fish Ceviche Is Being Served”, in New York Times:
glosses: After lunch.
reperform
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: reperforms
form: reperforming
form: reperformed
form: reperformed
Etymology: From re- + perform.
Senses: examples: text: This CD has five of the Book 1 “Préludes,” the “Children’s Corner,” “La Plus Que Lente,” “La Soirée dans Grenade” and “D’un Cahier d’Esquisses,” all reperformed on a restored Feurich Welte piano in Mr. Caswell’s home.
ref: 2007 July 24, Bernard Holland, “Debussy’s Ghost Is Playing, So What Can a Critic Say?”, in New York Times:
glosses: To perform again or anew.
Related terms: reperformance
reperforms
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of reperform
reperforming
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of reperform
reperformed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of reperform
reperfusions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of reperfusion
restick
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: resticks
form: resticking
form: restuck
form: restuck
Etymology: From re- + stick.
Senses: examples: text: Cross a gecko with a mussel and what comes out is a new type of adhesive tape that can repeatedly stick and restick, even underwater.
ref: 2007 July 24, Kenneth Chang, “Design by Gecko, Plus Glue by Mussel, Yields a Powerful Adhesive”, in New York Times:
glosses: To stick (adhere) again or anew.
resticking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of restick
resticks
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of restick
restuck
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of restick
saloniste
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: salonistes
form: salonist
Etymology: French?
Senses: examples: text: Lady Ottoline Morrell, the extravagant saloniste whose lovers included Bertrand Russell, was among those who insisted on preserving a marriage even in the face of disaster: a weak-willed, emotionally fragile politician, Philip Morell had a near-breakdown in his wife’s presence when he “launched into a wild confession that he had not one but two pregnant mistresses.”
ref: 2007 July 24, Michelle Green, “The Bloomsburys and Other Marital Experimenters”, in New York Times:
glosses: One who attends salons (social gatherings).
salonistes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of saloniste
Ostian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Ostian
form: most Ostian
Etymology: From Ostia + -an.
Senses: glosses: Of the ancient Italian town of Ostia.
Ostian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Ostians
Etymology: From Ostia + -an.
Senses: glosses: A native or inhabitant of Ostia.
Ostians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Ostian
inscience
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From in- + science.
Senses: glosses: Ignorance; the lack of knowledge.
saloonkeeping
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From saloon + keeping.
Senses: glosses: The management of a saloon (drinking establishment).
trimuon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: trimuons
Etymology: From tri- + muon.
Senses: examples: text: He heard a rumor, while spending a year at Stanford, that collisions at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory were spitting out weird triplets of particles known as muons, which are sort of fat electrons. Dr. Weinberg canceled reservations at a lodge in Yosemite National Park to spend the weekend with his colleague Benjamin Lee, trying to concoct a theory to explain the trimuons.
ref: 2007 July 24, Dennis Overbye, “At Fermilab, the Race Is on for the ‘God Particle’”, in New York Times:
topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A proposed particle composed of three muons.
trimuons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of trimuon
copræmia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A condition caused by retention of faecal matter and its absorption into the blood.
fæcal matter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Dated spelling of fecal matter.
fæcal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: In man fæcal matter is more or less toxic, and if we add to this the dangers of putrefaction increased dangers are before us.
ref: 1907, Owen Abraham Palmer, Diseases of the Digestive Organs, page 46:
glosses: Dated spelling of faecal.
Derived terms: fæcally
eckle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: eckles
form: eccle
Etymology: From a variation of ickle (“icicle”), from Middle English ikil, ykle, from Old English ġicel (“ice, icicle”), from Proto-West Germanic *jikil, from Proto-Germanic *jekulaz (“piece of ice”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁eyH- (“icefloe, icicle”). More at ickle.
Senses: glosses: An icicle.
glosses: The crest of a cock.
glosses: A woodpecker.
eckle
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: eckles
form: eckling
form: eckled
form: eckled
form: eccle
Etymology: Alteration of ettle.
Senses: glosses: To aim; intend; design.
eccle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: eccles
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of eckle.
multiexchange
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From multi- + exchange.
Senses: topics: chemistry
communications
electrical-engineering
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
telecommunications
glosses: Involving more than one exchange.
multibridge
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From multi- + bridge.
Senses: glosses: Involving more than one bridge.
multipool
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From multi- + pool.
Senses: glosses: involving more than one pool
multidriver
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From multi- + driver.
Senses: glosses: Involving more than one driver.
wanzed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of wanze
wanzing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of wanze
prewritings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of prewriting
freewriting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: freewritings
form: free writing
Etymology: From free + writing.
Senses: glosses: A prewriting technique in which the writer writes continuously for a set period of time without regard to spelling, grammar, or topic.
freewriting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: free writing
Etymology: From free + writing.
Senses: head_nr: 2
glosses: present participle and gerund of freewrite
factfinding
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of fact-finding.
multicase
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From multi- + case.
Senses: examples: a multicase study
glosses: Of or pertaining to more than one case.
merotopic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From merotopy + -ic.
Senses: examples: text: Structures considered include closure spaces, convergence spaces, proximity spaces, A (Terse) Introduction quasi-uniform spaces, merotopic spaces, nearness and filter spaces, semi-uniform convergence spaces, and approach spaces.
ref: 2009 August 21, Notices of the American Mathematical Society:
glosses: Of or pertaining to a merotopy.
pre-Hilbert space
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pre-Hilbert spaces
form: prehilbert space
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: An incomplete metric space with an inner product.
prehilbert space
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: prehilbert spaces
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of pre-Hilbert space.
prehilbert spaces
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of prehilbert space
multiplicativity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From multiplicative + -ity.
Senses: examples: text: Furthermore, the Todd genus has to be multiplicative in a way that reflects the multiplicativity of the arithmetic genus, and so it should be a multiplicative sequence in the sense of [8].
ref: 2009, Notices of the American Mathematical Society, volume 56, number 6:
glosses: The property of being multiplicative.
Derived terms: supermultiplicativity
apriori
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: examples: text: Another form of this kind of scepticism is as follows. Logic is apriori, but inductive "logic" is not, so it is not really logic.
ref: 2001, Mark Sainsbury, chapter 1, in Logical Forms — An Introduction to Philosophical Logic, Second Edition, Blackwell Publishing, →ISBN, page 13:
text: In other words, one can be fallibilist about both claims that are said to be apriori warranted and the a priori warrants for the claims.
ref: 2008 January 30, Lisa Warenski, “Naturalism, fallibilism, and the a priori”, in Philosophical Studies, volume 142, number 3, →DOI:
glosses: Alternative form of a priori.
Derived terms: aprioricity
assertorically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From assertoric + -ally.
Senses: glosses: In an assertoric fashion.
dispositionalism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From dispositional + -ism.
Senses: examples: text: My own use of this fundamental principle will be relatively modest: I am not attempting to argue for physicalism over dispositionalism or other alternatives, but only to show that if one is to be a color physicalist, one should tie colors to events.
ref: 2007 December 14, Robert Pasnau, “The event of color”, in Philosophical Studies, volume 142, number 3, →DOI:
topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
glosses: A tendency to prefer dispositional attribution rather than situational attribution.
dispositionalist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dispositionalists
Etymology: From dispositional + -ist.
Senses: examples: text: If those arguments must be rejected, then it seems that the advocates of enduring color should favor a dispositionalist theory.
ref: 2007 December 14, Robert Pasnau, “The event of color”, in Philosophical Studies, volume 142, number 3, →DOI:
glosses: A subscriber to dispositionalism.
dispositionalists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dispositionalist
externalistic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From external + -istic.
Senses: examples: text: Those who are more attracted by internalistic arguments are no doubt more attracted by the eliminativistic argumentation here than those attracted by externalistic arguments.
ref: 2008 March 14, Tuomas K. Pernu, “Is knowledge a natural kind?”, in Philosophical Studies, volume 142, number 3, →DOI:
glosses: Of or pertaining to externalism.
Derived terms: externalistically
externalistically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From externalistic + -ally.
Senses: examples: text: Those with internalistic intuitions would admit that the elimination of epistemic mental states is a trivial consequence of the rejection of all externalistically individuated mental states.
ref: 2008 March 14, Tuomas K. Pernu, “Is knowledge a natural kind?”, in Philosophical Studies, volume 142, number 3, →DOI:
glosses: In terms of externalism.
inferentialism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From inferential + -ism.
Senses: examples: text: This crude inferentialism about recognition, of course, is not often explicitly defended: it is extremely implausible—just on plain phenomenological grounds—that recognition must be a matter of discursive reasoning.
ref: 2008 January 8, Markos Valaris, “Two-dimensionalism and the epistemology of recognition”, in Philosophical Studies, volume 142, number 3, →DOI:
topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
glosses: Inferential role semantics: an approach to the theory of meaning that identifies the meaning of an expression with its (typically inferential) relationship to other expressions.
inferentialists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of inferentialist
internalistic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From internal + -istic.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to internalism.
Derived terms: internalistically
internalistically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From internalistic + -ally.
Senses: glosses: In terms of internalism.
irrevisability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Nor are the properties of absolute certainty, rational irrevisability, or infallibility attributed to a priori claims.
ref: 2008 January 30, Lisa Warenski, “Naturalism, fallibilism, and the a priori”, in Philosophical Studies, volume 142, number 3, →DOI:
glosses: The property of being irrevisable, impossible to revise or change.
irrevisable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From ir- + revisable.
Senses: glosses: Impossible to revise or change.
ickles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ickle
mentalistic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more mentalistic
form: most mentalistic
Etymology: From mentalist + -ic.
Senses: examples: text: Mentalistic explanations allay curiosity and bring inquiry to a stop.
ref: 1974, B. F. Skinner, About Behaviorism, New York: Alfred A. Knopf, page 15:
text: In this respect, our familiar mentalistic vocabulary (viz. our talk of thoughts, feelings, and expectations) would be similar in important respects to other theoretically embedded vocabularies.
ref: 2021, Daniel D. Hutto, “Folk Psychology as a Theory”, in Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy:
text: Predicate dualism is the theory that psychological or mentalistic predicates are essential for a full description of the world and are not reducible to physicalistic predicates.
ref: 2020, Howard Robinson, “Dualism”, in Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy:
text: The findings … show that syntactic information is a more reliable indicator of mentalistic interpretations than even the most cooperative contextual cues.
ref: 2007, Anna Papafragou, Kimberly Cassidy, Lila Gleitman, “When we think about thinking: The acquisition of belief verbs”, in Cognition, volume 105, number 1, →DOI, pages 125–165:
topics: human-sciences
philosophy
psychology
sciences
glosses: Characterized by appeal to mental states (such as beliefs, desires, intentions, feelings) in describing, explaining, or predicting behaviour or other phenomena; employing or pertaining to vocabulary or predicates about such states (often contrasted with behaviorist or purely physicalist approaches).
glosses: Of or relating to mentalism or mentalists
Derived terms: nonmentalistic
paradoxicality
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: paradoxicalities
Etymology: From paradoxical + -ity.
Senses: examples: text: Since the very same reasons supporting the paradoxicality of Z apply equally to C, it is clear that both Z and C are paradoxical; hence, the Chrysippus intuition is false.
ref: 2007 December 25, Jay Newhard, “The Chrysippus intuition and contextual theories of truth”, in Philosophical Studies, volume 142, number 3, →DOI:
synonyms: paradoxicalness
glosses: The quality of being paradoxical.
paradoxicalities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of paradoxicality
psychologistic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more psychologistic
form: most psychologistic
Senses: examples: text: A second worry is that any naturalistic form of a priori justification would have to be psychologistic and, therefore, that it would fail to establish the objectivity of a target claim.
ref: 2008 January 30, Lisa Warenski, “Naturalism, fallibilism, and the a priori”, in Philosophical Studies, volume 142, number 3, →DOI:
glosses: Of or pertaining to psychologism.
reflectancy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: reflectancies
Senses: examples: text: That is, when a colored surface is illuminated by light, an event takes place on the surface, and that event is characterized by a certain SSR. Since SSRs are defined in terms of percentages of reflectancy, the property holds constant over variations in illumination, so long as there is enough light of the right sort to produce a light-emitting event.
ref: 2007 December 14, Robert Pasnau, “The event of color”, in Philosophical Studies, volume 142, number 3, →DOI:
glosses: Alternative form of reflectance.
reflectancies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of reflectancy
unidentical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unidentical
form: most unidentical
Etymology: From un- + identical.
Senses: examples: text: Two mental states, M 1 and M 2, are thus narrowly (type-) unidentical if and only if M 1 is a mental state about A and M 2 is a mental state about B, when A ≠ B or A = B but there is no mental state about this co-referentiality.
ref: 2008 March 14, Tuomas K. Pernu, “Is knowledge a natural kind?”, in Philosophical Studies, volume 142, number 3, →DOI:
text: It was the Amazing Dennis “Full” Price, another of our licensed operatives. He and his brother, David, known as Half Price, were famous as the most unidentical twins on record. David was tall and thin and would sway in a high wind, while Dennis was short and squat like a giant pink pumpkin.
ref: 2011, Jasper Fforde, Song of the Quarkbeast:
glosses: Not identical.
subjunctively
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From subjunctive + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: So I want my proposed standard to be interpreted subjunctively: An agent’s adaptive preference is rational provided that if she were to examine the preference, then she would endorse it upon reflection.
ref: 2007 November 24, Donald W. Bruckner, “In defense of adaptive preferences”, in Philosophical Studies, volume 142, number 3, →DOI:
glosses: In a subjunctive manner.