cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
photoshoot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: photoshoots
form: photo shoot
Etymology: From photo + shoot.
Senses: topics: arts
hobbies
lifestyle
photography
glosses: A session in which a photographer takes a number of photographs of a person or group of people.
menu bars
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of menu bar
photoshoots
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of photoshoot
cabernet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cabernets
Etymology: Borrowed from French cabernet.
Senses: glosses: Cabernet Sauvignon
cabernets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cabernet
campmate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: campmates
Etymology: From camp + -mate.
Senses: examples: text: In the course of his deliberations he refers to a letter he received from a released campmate who had also been a Party member. She wrote, "My generation of communists everywhere accepted the Stalin form of leadership."
ref: 2012, Nanci Adler, Keeping Faith with the Party, →ISBN:
glosses: Someone who is or has been in the same camp as another person; one's fellow camper.
campmates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of campmate
intercompany
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From inter- + company.
Senses: glosses: Between, or involving, different companies
Synonyms: intercorporate
Coordinate terms: intracompany
macaron
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /mækəˈɹɒn/
ipa: /ˈmækəɹɑn/
ipa: /mɑkəˈɹoʊn/
Forms: form: macarons
form: macaroon
Etymology: Borrowed from French macaron. Doublet of macaroon.
Senses: glosses: Any of various confections made with almond and egg white, traditionally made in France.
Derived terms: macaronage
Related terms: macaroon
soffrito
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: soffritos
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of soffritto.
soffritos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of soffrito
pallors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pallor
pancreatectomies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pancreatectomy
panphiliacs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of panphiliac
parallelizations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of parallelization
parallelisations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of parallelisation
parasitising
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of parasitise
parasitised
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of parasitise
parasitised
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of parasitized.
Derived terms: unparasitised
parasitisation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: parasitisations
Etymology: From parasite + -isation.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of parasitization.
Derived terms: pseudoparasitisation
reparasitization
parasitisations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of parasitisation
parhelions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: parhelia
Senses: glosses: plural of parhelion
peachier
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of peachy: more peachy
peachiest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of peachy: most peachy
peats
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of peat
penectomies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of penectomy
zoeae
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /zoʊˈi.i/
Senses: glosses: plural of zoea
pedantocracies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pedantocracy
penstocks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of penstock
periodizations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of periodization
woolly backs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of woolly back
petrifactions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Mr. Delawarr, it must be confessed, took the matter much more coolly. Habits are the petrifactions of the feelings, and his habits were those of business. A resolution is never shaken by a conviction.
ref: 1831, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XX, in Romance and Reality. […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, page 303:
glosses: plural of petrifaction
Landes
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A department of Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France. Capital: Mont-de-Marsan.
glosses: A forest and geographic region in the Landes, Gironde and Lot-et-Garonne departments, Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France; in full, Landes forest.
croche
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: croches
Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French croche, equivalent to English crochet (“hook”), croc (“hook”), from Frankish *krok (“hook”), from Proto-Germanic *krukaz, *krōkaz (“something bent, hook”), from Proto-Indo-European *ger- (“to turn, bend, wind”). Cognate with Old Norse krókr (“hook”).
Senses: glosses: A little bud or knob at the top of a deer's antler, or as the predevelopmental stage of the antler.
phallectomies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of phallectomy
phalloplasties
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of phalloplasty
antiheroism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From antihero + -ism.
Senses: topics: literature
media
publishing
glosses: The quality of being an antihero
eviscerations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of evisceration
phosphoresces
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of phosphoresce
zil
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: zils
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of zill (kind of cymbal)
Related terms: Zil lane
megabrand
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: megabrands
Etymology: From mega- + brand.
Senses: glosses: An extremely popular brand
megabrands
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of megabrand
polyracial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From poly- + racial.
Senses: examples: text: We have a polyracial community.
glosses: Including multiple races
Synonyms: multiracial
Related terms: biracial
monoracial
cafards
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cafard
mysterioso
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: Under all the mysterioso legerdemain, he was the Shakespeare of rhetorical bullying.
ref: 2008 December 25, Richard Corliss, “The Pinter of Our Discontent”, in Time, archived from the original on 02 Jan 2009:
glosses: mysterious
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: Alternative spelling of misterioso.
postbinge
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From post- + binge.
Senses: examples: text: Germans still eat Katerfrühstück, a postbinge breakfast that usually consists of herring, pickles and goulash.
ref: 2009 January 1, Claire Suddath, “Hangovers”, in Time, archived from the original on 02 Jan 2009:
glosses: Following a binge, especially a drinking binge
ratepayers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ratepayer
home is where you hang your hat
Language: English
Part of speech: proverb
Senses: examples: text: One place is like the other let's say
Home is where you hang your hat.
ref: 1948, Ruth L. Yorck, "D.P.—Short for Sorry," Twice a Year: A Semi-annual Journal of Literature, the Arts, and Civil Liberties, 10th anniversary issue, p. 163
text: "Did I ever think that Jamaica would be my home? Never," he says, "but I have been living as a foreigner in someone else's country for most of my life," he says, "and I guess it is true that home is where you hang your hat."
ref: 2007 May 27, Leisha Chen-Young, “Sandals' Armando Pizzuti is . . . Never Satisfied”, in Jamaica Observer, retrieved 04 Jan 2009:
glosses: Rather than feeling nostalgic or sentimental, one should simply accept any place where one happens to reside as one's home.
potmen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of potman
potbellies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of potbelly
preachier
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of preachy: more preachy
preachiest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of preachy: most preachy
predetermining
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of predetermine
preferments
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of preferment
preforming
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of preform
prelatures
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of prelature
presorts
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of presort
presorting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of presort
presidiums
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: presidia
Senses: glosses: plural of presidium
pretrials
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pretrial
hard-code
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: hard-codes
form: hard-coding
form: hard-coded
form: hard-coded
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of hard code.
processionaries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of processionary
promulgations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of promulgation
proposers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of proposer
proselytisers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of proselytiser
startlement
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: startlements
Etymology: From startle + -ment.
Senses: examples: text: There is no pursing up and general startlement—the thing of all others I dread.
ref: 1889, Constance Macewen, A Cavalier's Ladye: A Romance of the Isle of Wight in the Seventeenth Century, page 338:
text: Whether by means large or small, noticed or almost imperceptible, poetry's startlements displace the existing self with a changed one.
ref: 2015, Jane Hirshfield, Ten Windows: How Great Poems Transform the World:
text: I discern three interrelated levels at which startlement is experienced in Hitchcock. First, startlement may take the form of an actual event in the world. The extinguisher's rattle, for instance, is said by the truck driver to “get to you”; and, about the tap-tapping in Marnie, the heroine says that “it means they want in.”
ref: 2016, D. A. Miller, Hidden Hitchcock, page 182:
glosses: An instance of being startled; surprise.
startlements
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of startlement
prostatectomies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of prostatectomy
stringily
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more stringily
form: most stringily
Etymology: From stringy + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Her complexion was of an unhealthy yellowish hue, and a few wisps of the same yellowish-hued hair straggled stringily down her thin temples.
ref: 1903, McClure's Magazine:
glosses: In a stringy way.
pupates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of pupate
ratepayer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ratepayers
Etymology: From rate + payer.
Senses: examples: text: The government is supposed to mediate between ratepayers and the power company.
glosses: Someone who pays for a public utility or service.
Related terms: ratepaying
taxpayer
unadoptable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unadoptable
form: most unadoptable
Etymology: From un- + adoptable.
Senses: examples: text: Even children with minor or correctable handicaps such as harelip, cleft palate, crossed eyes, or clubfoot were classed as "unadoptable".
ref: 1973, Colette Taube Dywasuk, Adoption — Is It for You?:
text: At Columbia-Greene, staffers go for the most unadoptable animals to save them from euthanasia. The youngest, healthiest, cutest pets are waiting for you.
ref: 1998, Elizabeth Hess, Lost and Found:
glosses: That cannot be adopted; unsuitable for adoption.
crystallometry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From crystallo- + -metry.
Senses: glosses: The scientific measurement of crystals.
pupated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of pupate
jumping beans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of jumping bean
Mexican jumping beans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Mexican jumping bean
redefault
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: redefaults
form: re-default
Etymology: From re- + default.
Senses: examples: text: The rate of redefaults has been rising.
topics: business
finance
glosses: A default on a mortgage which has already been modified due to borrower hardship
semisoft
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: semi-soft
Etymology: From semi- + soft.
Senses: examples: semisoft chocolate, semisoft butter
glosses: Partially soft; partially melted.
raw_tags: of food
semisoft
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: semisofts
Etymology: From semi- + soft.
Senses: examples: text: We had a selection of cheeses. From Ontario there was a ten-year-old cheddar made by prizewinning Maple Dale Cheese along with a couple of semisofts, one made from buffalo milk and the other, cow.
ref: 2014, Ian Coutts, The Perfect Keg:
glosses: Any semisoft variety of cheese.
quadplexes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of quadplex
pyrographing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of pyrograph
pencilling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of pencil
pencilling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pencillings
Senses: glosses: A sketch or mark made in pencil.
pyrographed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of pyrograph
redefaults
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of redefault
wildtype
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wildtypes
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of wild type.
wildtypes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wildtype
wild types
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wild type
wild-types
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wild-type
quarrymen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of quarryman
insertable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more insertable
form: most insertable
Etymology: From insert + -able.
Senses: examples: text: The design was modified to be more insertable.
antonyms: uninsertable
;
delible
glosses: Able to be inserted; able to be put into something else.
Related terms: indexable
unindexable
insertable
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: insertables
Etymology: From insert + -able.
Senses: examples: text: Various implantables and insertables are available.
text: Insertables are very similar to glue-ons in that they retrospectively change the syntactic gestalt of the previous unit.
ref: 2011, Peter Auer, Stefan Pfänder, Constructions: Emerging and Emergent:
text: I've had the opportunity to work on mouthwashes and astringents, catheter antimicrobial treatments, and antimicrobial treatments of other implantables and insertables.
ref: 2009, Daryl S. Paulson, Applied Biomedical Microbiology: A Biofilms Approach:
glosses: Something that can be inserted.
unipolar
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -əʊlə(ɹ)
Etymology: From uni- + polar.
Senses: examples: text: All that talk of one superpower -- us -- bestriding a "unipolar" world seems as dated as Seinfeld reruns.
ref: 2031 August 12, Michael Kinsley, “The Bush Presidency, Eight Years Later”, in Time, archived from the original on 04 Jan 2009:
glosses: Having a single pole.
examples: text: Most studies have tended to find somewhat higher suicide rates in unipolar depression than in bipolar disorder
ref: 2007, Frederick K. Goodwin, Kay Redfield Jamison, Manic-Depressive Illness: Bipolar Disorders and Recurrent Depression, Volume 1, →ISBN, page 250:
topics: human-sciences
medicine
psychology
sciences
glosses: Not both depressive and manic; not bipolar.
topics: government
politics
glosses: Of or relating to an international system in which one state wields most of the cultural, economic, and political influence.
Synonyms: monopolar
Derived terms: unipolar depression
unipolar encoding
unipolar motor
unipolar neuron
Related terms: bipolar
multipolar
for reals
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: "No he's not really, is he for reals?" the big-eyed little girl asked her brother.
ref: 1983, John Treadwell Nichols, The Magic Journey:
glosses: For real.
for reals
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: examples: text: MIERCOLES (crossing her fingers behind her back). For reals. Cross my heart.
ref: 1998, José Cruz González, Calabasas Street:
text: "Oh, yeah, like, totally, I mean, you know, whatever," Miranda said, giggling. "For reals, dude."
ref: 2006, Robin Wasserman, Wrath:
glosses: For real.
Synonyms: for realsies
queendoms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of queendom
quicksteps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of quickstep
quicksteps
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of quickstep
leucocytosis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: leucocytoses
form: leukocytosis
Etymology: From leucocyte + -osis.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: A raised WBC (white blood cell) count, above the normal range.
Hyponyms: sense: severe subset: an especially high WBC count
word: hyperleukocytosis
sense: types, by WBC type, in order of prevalence
word: neutrophilia
word: eosinophilia
word: monocytosis
word: lymphocytosis
word: basophilia
Coordinate terms: alt: RBCs
word: erythrocytosis
alt: platelets
word: thrombocytosis
english: apparent but not
translation: apparent but not
word: pseudoleukocytosis
Related terms: leukocyte
leukocytosis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: leukocytoses
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of leucocytosis.
Derived terms: pseudoleukocytosis
ashenly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more ashenly
form: most ashenly
Etymology: From ashen + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: They were ashenly miserable for some time. Then the life began to come back.
ref: 1915, D H Lawrence, The Rainbow:
glosses: In an ashen way.
quickstepping
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of quickstep
quickstepped
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of quickstep
jingoistically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more jingoistically
form: most jingoistically
Etymology: From jingoistic + -ally.
Senses: examples: text: 1976 April 26, Sally Beauman, Henry Reconsidered—Royal and Shakespearean in New York (magazine),
But how will American audiences respond to the play? Will they find it too jingoistically English, too warmongering, or will they find it as complex and perturbing a work as the company believes it to be?
text: Vienna's other important liberal daily, Die Zeit, also supported the invasion of Serbia, although less jingoistically and in a more restrained tone than either the Neue Freie Presse or the Neues Wiener Tagblatt.
ref: 1980, Michigan Academy of Science, Arts, and Letters, Michigan Academician, volume 13:
text: Published in 1919, this anthology was jingoistically titled The Great Tradition: Selections from English and American Prose and Poetry.
ref: 1992, Nancy Armstrong, Leonard Tennenhouse, The Imaginary Puritan: Literature, Intellectual Labor, and the Origins of Personal Life:
topics: manner
glosses: In a jingoistic manner.
hypopnoea
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hypopnoeas
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of hypopnea.
quintuplicating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of quintuplicate
quintuplicated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of quintuplicate
safeword
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: safewords
form: safe word
Etymology: From safe + word.
Senses: examples: text: Likewise, a top's ability to respond to your safeword is what makes her a safe partner.
ref: 2004, Felice Newman, The Whole Lesbian Sex Book, →ISBN, page 201:
text: If you don't like something that's happening or you want the scene to stop right away, simply say your safeword.
ref: 2006, Tristan Taormino, The Ultimate Guide to Anal Sex for Women:
text: My guess is our victims probably used their safewords or protested at some point, but our guy doesn't care about safewords or the BDSM creed...
ref: 2007, Sloan Christopher, Dangerous Obsession:
topics: BDSM
lifestyle
sexuality
glosses: A word used in (especially sadomasochistic) sexual practices to unambiguously indicate that a participant actually desires the activity to cease and is not merely feigning a lack of consent.
safeword
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: safewords
form: safewording
form: safeworded
form: safeworded
form: safe word
Etymology: From safe + word.
Senses: examples: text: Like it's kind of in my head that maybe I could surprise him, like Eddie said, you know, before I flip out and safeword.
ref: 2015, Kris Ripper, Extremes, page 33:
text: I am going to trust you to safeword though. Say red if you need to. Okay?
ref: 2015, Cari Silverwood, Take Me, Break Me, page 177:
text: This can be difficult if your partner is trying to safeword but all that is coming out is a mew or growl.
ref: 2011, Lee Harrington, Spirit of Desire, page 199:
topics: BDSM
lifestyle
sexuality
glosses: To stop a sex act by using a safeword.
Related terms: cry uncle
safewords
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of safeword
safewords
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of safeword
radarmen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of radarman
radiomen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of radioman
radicalizations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of radicalization
racewalks
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of racewalk
racewalked
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of racewalk
raggedier
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of raggedy: more raggedy
raggediest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of raggedy: most raggedy
ravishments
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ravishment
ramrodded
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of ramrod
recollisions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of recollision
recollide
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -aɪd
Forms: form: recollides
form: recolliding
form: recollided
form: recollided
Etymology: From re- + collide.
Senses: glosses: To collide again.
recollides
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of recollide
recolliding
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of recollide
recollided
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of recollide
Abednego
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈbɛd.nɪˌɡoʊ/
Forms: form: Abdenago
form: Abed-nego
form: Abed-Nego
Etymology: From Hebrew עֲבֵד נְגוֹא, itself derived from a reconstructed Aramaic name meaning likely "servant of Nabu" or "servant of Nergal".
Senses: examples: text: And these three men, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, fell down bound into the midst of the burning fiery furnace.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Daniel 3:23:
topics: biblical
lifestyle
religion
synonyms: Azariah
glosses: Azariah, one of the captives in the Bible who came out of the fiery furnace unharmed.
glosses: A male given name from Hebrew.
Coordinate terms: sense: one of the captives who came out of the fiery furnace unharmed
word: Meshach
sense: one of the captives who came out of the fiery furnace unharmed
word: Shadrach
Related terms: Abdia
redesignates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of redesignate
redesignating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of redesignate
recuts
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of recut
recutting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of recut
recutting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: recuttings
Senses: glosses: The process or result of cutting again.
recommissions
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of recommission
recommissioning
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of recommission
redistills
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of redistill
redistilling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of redistill
redries
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of redry
redrying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of redry
redolences
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of redolence
reechoing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of reecho
reechoed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of reecho
reechoes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of reecho
re-echo
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /ɹiːˈɛkəʊ/
Forms: form: re-echoes
form: re-echoing
form: re-echoed
form: re-echoed
Senses: examples: text: I remember the sudden drop in the note of the station bell, as we roar through, perhaps with 16 coaches; sweep up to milepost 9½, and then, with increasing thunder from the exhaust, fairly rush the fells at Milnthorpe at the foot of the climb to Grayrigg, until the steady thunderous beat re-echoes past Mosedale Hall, still at 40 m.p.h.
ref: 1955 April, W. J. Alcock, “Unforgettable Moments”, in Railway Magazine, page 271:
glosses: Alternative spelling of reecho.
re-echo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ɹiːˈɛkəʊ/
Forms: form: re-echos
form: re-echoes
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of reecho.
re-echoing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of re-echo
re-echoed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of re-echo
re-echos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of re-echo
re-echoes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of re-echo
re-echoes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of re-echo
stubborner
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of stubborn: more stubborn
stubbornest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of stubborn: most stubborn
redyed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of redye
jugsful
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of jugful
bowlsful
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bowlful
working girls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of working girl
futureless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From future + -less.
Senses: examples: text: C. forgot the degradation of her return to school. I delighted in writing nothing, not a single word. We were well. We could live forever, futureless, at peace with one another.
ref: 1995, Richard Powers, Galatea 2.2, Vintage (2019), page 244:
glosses: Without a future.
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: That has no future tense.
raw_tags: of a language
Derived terms: futurelessness
futurelessness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From futureless + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: I want to tell them that I envy their upbringings that were so clean, so free of futurelessness.
ref: 1991, Douglas Coupland, “Eat Your Parents”, in Generation X, New York: St. Martin's Press, →OCLC, page 86:
glosses: Lack of a future; the state of being futureless.
dopest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of dope: most dope
fuckwittery
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From fuckwit + -ery.
Senses: examples: text: I've got a degree in total fuckwittery, but why is that a material fact, Richard? Nobody has denied that Lady Draycott was Joseph Pilgrim's mistress.
ref: 2001, Andy McSmith, Innocent in the House:
text: ...the 'sameness argument' — 'challenge this whole fuckwittery about "I treat everybody the same'".
ref: 2002, Adrian Coyle, Celia Kitzinger, Lesbian and Gay Psychology: New Perspectives:
text: ...and 'Three Lions' jingoistic fuckwittery that went on to lay karmic waste to record labels, live venues and rock mag institutions alike.
ref: 2004, Garry Mulholland, This Is Uncool: The 500 Greatest Singles Since Punk and Disco:
text: "How the hell are we supposed to help them when they've got gold medals in fuckwittery — answer that, Sherlock!" She slammed her briefcase down...
ref: 2005, Ian Rankin, Fleshmarket Alley:
text: That claim summed up the utter fuckwittery of horoscopes. It implied that either (i) all horoscopes prior to that were totally wrong...
ref: 2005, Tim Worstall, 2005: Dispatches from the Blogosphere:
glosses: Behaviour of a fuckwit; irksome foolishness.
Synonyms: fucktardery
fuckwaddery
Related terms: fuckwit
fuckwitted
fuckwittedness
scornworthy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more scornworthy
form: most scornworthy
Etymology: From scorn + -worthy.
Senses: examples: text: ...what is curious is that if he could have kept himself, or been kept by his genius, at this high pitch all or any obstacles would have been scornworthy.
ref: 1912, Maurice Henry Hewlett, Mrs. Lancelot:
text: Verschoyle watched the ashen sea, and this reminded him of scorned and scornworthy Ireland.
ref: 2001, Danilo Kiš, Duška Mikić-Mitchell, A Tomb for Boris Davidovich:
glosses: Worthy of scorn.
rediscoveries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rediscovery
blackback
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: blackbacks
Etymology: From black + back.
Senses: examples: text: The author worked with two main study groups of gorilla in that region. Each contained a fully mature male (silverback), who was the obvious leader of the group, and a younger male of around 9 years of age (blackback), who had not yet assumed full adult morphology.
ref: 1979, A. H. Harcourt, “Contrasts between Male Relationships in Wild Gorilla Groups,”, in Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, volume 5, number 1, page 40:
text: The second-ranking silverback is also a possible sire in the sixth case, although three other lower-ranking blackback males were also not excluded.
ref: 2005, B. J. Bradley et al., “Mountain Gorilla Tug-of-War,”, in PNAS, volume 102, number 26, page 9421:
topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: An adolescent male gorilla or chimpanzee.
glosses: The great black-backed gull.
Related terms: silverback
trancey
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more trancey
form: most trancey
Etymology: From trance + -y.
Senses: examples: text: He was really beautiful, like a dark-haired cherub. And he always seemed upbeat and happy, in a trancey world of his own.
ref: 2002, Marian Keyes, Rachel's Holiday:
glosses: Trancelike.
examples: text: Video monitors play the latest clips from Bjork and Peaches while DJs take the dance floor in a trancey direction.
ref: 2004, Chris Baty, Chicago: City Guide:
text: At the foot of the hill, trancey music from a garage party beckoned.
ref: 2005, Matt Rauscher, The Unborn Spouse Situation:
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: Resembling or pertaining to trance music, i.e. immersively melodic with a strong electronic dance beat.
clam shack
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: clam shacks
Senses: glosses: A restaurant that sells cooked seafood, usually featuring fried clams and lobster rolls in particular, and almost always offering beer and wine as well.
conflictional
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more conflictional
form: most conflictional
Etymology: From confliction + -al.
Senses: examples: text: These results are conflictional in that despite the patient's own perception of increase in ability to function socially, they are experiencing a considerable increase in somatic distress.
ref: 1979, B. P. Angle et al., “The Heroin Addict's View of Personal Change During Methadone Maintenance Treatment,”, in Addiction, volume 74, number 2, page 210:
text: This latter leadership reflected and reinforced more the "consensual" as opposed to "conflictional" political and social tendencies.
ref: 1981, David McBride, M. H. Little, “The Afro-American Elite, 1930-1940: A Historical and Statistical Profile,”, in Phylon, volume 42, number 2, page 105:
text: Out of all this emerged a conflicted federalism, not a genuine New Federalism II, that combined cooperative and coercive, collaborative and conflictional, and independent ("fend for yourself") and interdependent (continuing intergovernmental assistance) features.
ref: 2001, David B. Walker, “New Federalism. III. A Reformed System in the Making?”, in International Journal of Public Administration, volume 24, number 1, page 57:
glosses: Of, pertaining to, or characterized by conflict.
Synonyms: conflictful
conflictive
conflictory
conflictual
monovision
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From mono- + vision.
Senses: examples: text: a monovision effect
text: Until recently, there wasn't much more one could do than to succumb to a pair of reading glasses, or try to correct the problem with either monovision contact lenses (one eye is corrected for distance, one for up close) or laser surgery .
ref: 2009 January 1, Camille Sweeney, “To Squint or to See the Light”, in New York Times:
topics: medicine
ophthalmology
sciences
glosses: A treatment for presbyopia in which one eye is treated to improve distance vision and the other eye is treated to improve close-up vision
midprice
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From mid- + price.
Senses: examples: text: "What we're seeing is not necessarily isolated just to the high-end companies or the midprice or mass," he said.
ref: 2009 January 1, Eric Wilson, “Ominous Cutbacks at Chanel”, in New York Times:
topics: business
glosses: At a medium price, between luxury and low-end products
midprice
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: midprices
Etymology: From mid- + price.
Senses: topics: business
finance
glosses: Synonym of midrate.
synonyms: word: midrate
antispending
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɛndɪŋ
Forms: form: more antispending
form: most antispending
Etymology: From anti- + spending.
Senses: examples: text: He ran on an antispending platform.
topics: government
politics
glosses: Opposed to or combating spending, especially government spending
airshaft
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: airshafts
form: air shaft
form: air-shaft
Etymology: From air + shaft.
Senses: examples: text: There was a warren of big cabins instead, many levels opening onto walkways around a common airshaft.
ref: 1987, Gene Wolfe, chapter III, in The Urth of the New Sun, 1st US edition, New York: Tor Books, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 18:
text: Howard turned left and walked to the end of the building. Here was a narrow alleyway, which gave on the airshaft at the rear of the building.
ref: 1990, Stephen King, The Moving Finger:
topics: architecture
synonyms: air well
ventilation shaft
vent shaft
lightwell
glosses: A vertical (or near vertical) opening (shaft) running from a courtyard to the sky, thus allowing air to circulate to high-rise apartments or offices.
topics: business
mining
glosses: A passage supplying ventilation into a mine tunnel or other underground facility.
topics: business
manufacturing
glosses: A device used for handling winding reels in the processing of web-fed materials, such as in continuous-process printing presses.
airshafts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of airshaft
chaqu
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˌt͡ʃɑːˈt͡ʃuː/
Forms: form: chaqu
Etymology: Borrowed from the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 岔曲 (chàqǔ).
Senses: examples: text: The pavilion's tour de force is the private theater, which provided the emperor with a cozy perch to view chaqu, a form of opera invented by a commoner that became all the rage in 18th-century Beijing.
ref: 2009 January 1, Andrew Jacobs, “Dusting Off a Serene Jewel Box”, in New York Times:
glosses: A form of Chinese opera.
chaqu
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˌt͡ʃɑːˈt͡ʃuː/
Forms: form: chaqu
Etymology: Borrowed from the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 插曲 (chāqǔ).
Senses: examples: text: Teo clarifies that chaqu were eventually differentiated from "full-fledged" musicals […]
ref: 2001, Corey K. Creemur, “Picturizing American Cinema”, in Soundtrack Available, →ISBN, page 403:
topics: broadcasting
film
media
television
glosses: An inserted musical sequence in a Chinese movie.
mazurkas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mazurka
unprettily
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more unprettily
form: most unprettily
Etymology: From un- + prettily.
Senses: examples: text: He sang unprettily.
glosses: In a way that is not pretty, often deliberately so
undertip
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: undertips
form: undertipping
form: undertipped
form: undertipped
Etymology: From under- + tip.
Senses: examples: text: It's not a good idea to undertip your waitress.
glosses: To leave (somebody) a tip (gratuity) that is too small.
unnegotiability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From un- + negotiability or unnegotiable + -ity.
Senses: glosses: The quality of not being negotiable
Synonyms: non-negotiability
Related terms: negotiability
unnegotiable
unnegotiably
semiretirement
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: semiretirements
Etymology: From semi- + retirement.
Senses: examples: text: In 1957, tired of traveling on the concert circuit and beginning to experience insecurity about memorization, Reisenberg went into semiretirement.
ref: 2009 January 5, Anthony Tommasini, “Reopening a Pianist's Treasury of Chopin”, in New York Times:
glosses: A state of partial retirement, working only part-time or occasionally
sustainment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sustainments
Etymology: From sustain + -ment.
Senses: examples: text: Mary heard with sorrow, and fear also, of the projected journey; but the altered expression of Isabella's countenance was a great palliative—dreadful as it was that her husband should love another (and of that distressing fact it was impossible to doubt), his confidence was consoling; and her power to prove the firmness of her character, her right to his esteem, and the immolation of her happiness to further his desires, had, in itself, the sustainment which belongs to great sacrifice.
ref: 1842, [anonymous collaborator of Letitia Elizabeth Landon], chapter XXVIII, in Lady Anne Granard; or, Keeping up Appearances. […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 66:
text: Otherwise, the sustainment or creation of jobs is seriously imperiled.
ref: 2009 January 5, “U.S. Labor Looks to Obama for Help”, in New York Times:
glosses: The act of sustaining something.
undertips
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of undertip
undertipping
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of undertip
undertipped
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of undertip
scorchingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From scorching + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: The story was scorchingly intense.
text: The weather was scorchingly hot.
glosses: In a way or to a degree that scorches
pickfest
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pickfests
Etymology: From pick + -fest.
Senses: examples: text: It's an endless pickfest. A symphony of nosh.
ref: 1996 December 12, “Axum's Ethiopian fare a feast for the unhurried”, in Denver Post:
glosses: A period of intense or frequent picking (in various senses).
perennialization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From perennialize + -ation.
Senses: examples: text: In fact, research in Canada, Australia, China and the United States over the last 30 years suggests that perennialization of the major grain crops like wheat, rice, sorghum and sunflowers can be developed in the foreseeable future.
ref: 2009 January 5, Wes Jackson, Wendell Berry, “A 50-Year Farm Bill”, in New York Times:
topics: agriculture
business
lifestyle
glosses: The conversion of a plant from an annual to a perennial
pianism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pianisms
Etymology: From piano + -ism.
Senses: examples: text: There is nothing showy in her pianism, nothing cloying about her expressivity.
ref: 2009 January 5, Anthony Tommasini, “Reopening a Pianist's Treasury of Chopin”, in New York Times:
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: One's way of playing the piano.
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A way of composing or an instance of passagework that is idiomatic, ergonomic, and intrinsically well-suited to the unique capabilities and expressive characteristics of the piano as an instrument.
Related terms: pianist
pianistic
pianistic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more pianistic
form: most pianistic
Etymology: From piano + -istic.
Senses: examples: text: But it offers pianistic thrills as well as a few moments of dreamy introspection, and Mr. Ax played it with the vitality and thoughtfulness listeners expect of him.
ref: 2009 January 5, Allan Kozinn, “A Hefty Sound for Bach and a Piano-Centric Strauss and Szymanowski”, in New York Times:
glosses: Of or pertaining to piano playing.
antonyms: unpianistic
glosses: Suitable for playing on a piano, well-suited to piano playing.
Derived terms: pianistically
jaillike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more jaillike
form: most jaillike
form: gaollike
Etymology: From jail + -like.
Senses: examples: text: The patients were housed in jaillike conditions.
glosses: Resembling, or characteristic of, a jail.
finings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Substances added to wine, beer and certain other beverages to remove organic compounds in order to improve clarity or to adjust the flavour or aroma.
hyperdetailed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more hyperdetailed
form: most hyperdetailed
form: hyper-detailed
Etymology: From hyper- + detailed.
Senses: examples: text: The first "Promenade" and "Gnomus" were hyperdetailed, and "Tuileries" was taken at a pointlessly fast pace.
ref: 2009 January 5, Allan Kozinn, “A Hefty Sound for Bach and a Piano-Centric Strauss and Szymanowski”, in New York Times:
glosses: Extremely detailed
flirty
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈflɜːti/
ipa: /ˈflɜɹti/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)ti
Forms: form: flirtier
form: flirtiest
Etymology: From flirt + -y.
Senses: examples: text: A flirty woman in a straw hat slid through the crowd straight to Snyder.
ref: 2009 January 5, John Branch, “Bull Riders Wait All Day for a Few Seconds of Fury”, in New York Times:
text: This was one flirty dress. Way too sultry for a first date, especially with someone she might have no real interest in.
ref: 2011, Trish Perry, Tea for Two, page 47:
glosses: Flirting, or seeming to flirt.
Synonyms: flirtatious
Derived terms: flirtily
flirtiness
unflirty
dashboarded
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of dashboard
dashboarding
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of dashboard
monthlies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of monthly
microblogging
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From micro- + blogging.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of microblog
microblogging
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From micro- + blogging.
Senses: examples: text: A variety of microblogging sites have sprung up.
glosses: The writing or publishing of a microblog.
microblog
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: microblogs
form: micro-blog
Etymology: From micro- + blog.
Senses: examples: text: For Dorsey, creating this community of linked microblogs has been "endearing, because you know what everyone you know is doing" […]
ref: 2006 December 10, Richard Rushfield, “It's real time at the same time”, in Los Angeles Times, archived from the original on 30 Jun 2013, page E20:
glosses: A blog on which one posts brief, frequent updates on one's activities.
Derived terms: microblogger
microblogging
Related terms: tumblelog
microblog
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: microblogs
form: microblogging
form: microblogged
form: microblogged
form: micro-blog
Etymology: From micro- + blog.
Senses: examples: text: I started microblogging last week.
glosses: To post on a microblog.
antismog
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From anti- + smog.
Senses: glosses: That reduce the production of pollutants that cause smog.
glosses: That counters the effects of smog.
pageantries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pageantry
overinvested
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of overinvest
overinvested
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more overinvested
form: most overinvested
Senses: examples: text: "Pure mobile content is overinvested, but hardware is underhyped," said David Weiden, a partner at Khosla Ventures.
ref: 2009 January 5, Claire Cain Miller, “In Silicon Valley, Venture Capitalists Turn Cautious and Focus on the Short Term”, in New York Times:
glosses: Subject to excess levels of investment
microblogs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of microblog
microblogs
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of microblog
microblogged
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of microblog
molasseslike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more molasseslike
form: most molasseslike
Etymology: From molasses + -like.
Senses: examples: text: The vessel was filled with a thick, molasseslike fluid.
glosses: Resembling molasses in any of various respects, such as consistency, flavor, or color