cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
guggul
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡuːɡəl/
enpr: go͞o.gəl
Etymology: Borrowed from Hindi गूगल (gūgal), from Sanskrit गुल्गु॒लु॒ (gúlgulu).
Senses: glosses: Commiphora wightii, a flowering plant most common in northern India, with thin papery bark and thorny branches.
examples: text: The Hindu medical system of India has used guggul for centuries to treat many illnesses. Guggul has been described in Indian medical literature as an agent for treating obesity and other eating disorders.
ref: 2003, James B. Lavalle, Cracking the Metabolic Code: The Nine Keys to Peak Health, page 115:
text: In ancient times, guggul was used primarily as treatment for inflammatory conditions, including arthritis.
ref: 2006, Sandeep Kumar, S. S. Suri, K. C. Sonie, K. G. Ramawat, “Development of Biotechnology for Commiphora wightii: A Potent Source of Natural Hypolipidemic and Hypocholesterolemic Drug”, in P. S. Srivastava, Sheela Srivastava, Alka Narula, editors, Plant Biotechnology and Molecular Markers, page 132:
text: Guggul, the sticky gum resin from the Mukul myrrh tree, plays a major role in the traditional herbal medicine of India. The primary chemical constituents of guggul include phytosterols, gugulipids, and guggulsterones.
ref: 2011, Rajarajeswari Sivalenka, Mangathayaru Putrevu, “Chapter 15: Ayurvedic Ingredients in Cosmetics”, in Nava Dayan, Lambros Kromidas, editors, Formulating, Packaging, and Marketing of Natural Cosmetic Products, page 298:
glosses: Resin extracted from the plant, used in traditional medicine.
Derived terms: guggulipid
guggulsterone
gum guggul
Related terms: myrrh
guggulipid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: guggulipids
Etymology: Blend of guggul + lipid?
Senses: glosses: An extract of resinous sap of guggul, whose active ingredient is guggulsterone.
guggulipids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of guggulipid
counterair
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From counter- + air.
Senses: topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: Attacking the air force of an opposing power.
messed-upness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From messed-up + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: Nor does such messed-upness in life outside of novels invariably remain unchanged.
ref: 1976, Paunch: Issues 44-51
text: Some of the messed-upness is caused by our pursuing values other than those God wants for us. In short, some of our problems are caused by our ... Some of our messed-upness is caused by the choices of others or by just plain bad luck.
ref: 1994, Barbara DeGrote-Sorensen, David Allen Sorensen, Six weeks to a simpler lifestyle:
text: Kids were everywhere, in various stages of messed-upness.
ref: 2010, Amy Goldman Koss, Side Effects:
glosses: The state or condition of being messed-up.
Related terms: messed-up
messed-up
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more messed-up
form: most messed-up
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of messed up.
Derived terms: messed-upness
magicienne
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: magiciennes
Etymology: From Middle English magicienne, from Middle French magicienne.
Senses: examples: text: A magicienne, too! That's ever so much better than a male wizard.
ref: 1869, James Payn, Found Dead, page 254:
text: The article, headed "Mistress of Mystery," portrays in colored cartoon fashion Miss O'Dell's entrance Into show business and pictures one of her most thrilling experiences in the role of a magicienne.
ref: 1943 April 10, Bill Sachs, “Magic”, in Billboard, volume 55, number 15:
text: Jania Taylor is a magicienne with extraordinary skills and many tricks up her sleeve.
ref: 1992, Ticket to Read!: 1992 Ohio Summer Reading Program Manual, page 35:
glosses: A female magician.
Synonyms: magicianess
magiciennes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of magicienne
percussion cap
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: percussion caps
Senses: glosses: a metal cap found on muzzleloading firearms that contains chemical substances such as fulminate that explode upon impact
combining character
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: combining characters
Senses: examples: text: You can display c with macron (c̄) by merging the combining character macron with the letter c.
text: Around 500 precomposed Latin letters, for instance, in the Unicode standard are superfluous, in that they can be represented using combining character sequences.
ref: 2009, Ian H. Witten, David Bainbridge, David M. Nichols, How to Build a Digital Library, 2nd edition, Morgan Kaufmann, →ISBN, page 383:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
synonyms: combining mark
glosses: A character that modifies the appearance of other characters (which are called base characters).
Related terms: grapheme cluster
combining characters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of combining character
protosalt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: protosalts
Etymology: From proto- + salt.
Senses: topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The form of a salt of a particular base/acid combination that has the lowest proportion of base.
topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A salt derived from a protoxide.
Related terms: persalt
persalt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: persalts
Etymology: From per- + salt.
Senses: topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The form of a salt of a particular base/acid combination in which the base has the highest valency; i.e. the salt formally derived from a peroxide.
Related terms: protosalt
same old same-old
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: "I, for one, am ready for a culinary change of pace," Kit said. "I am just so weary of the same old same-old."
ref: 1997, Suzanne Freeman, The Cuckoo Child, →ISBN, page 168:
text: “So who's holding 'em and why?” Massoud shrugged. “Same old same-old...."
ref: 2013, Damien Lewis, Morgan Jones, The Siege, →ISBN:
text: Same college, same apartment, same old same-old for the rest of time.
ref: 2017, Rosalie Stanton, Firsts, →ISBN:
glosses: Alternative form of same old same old.
apple mint
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: apple mints
Senses: glosses: Any herb with aroma or taste reminiscent of apple and mint, used for flavoring, herbal teas, and jellies.
Of species Mentha suaveolens
synonyms: apple-scented mint
pineapple mint
round-leaved mint
wooly mint
glosses: Any herb with aroma or taste reminiscent of apple and mint, used for flavoring, herbal teas, and jellies.
Hybrid mints involving M. suaveolens as a parent
Mentha × rotundifolia (M. longifolia × M. suaveolens)
glosses: Any herb with aroma or taste reminiscent of apple and mint, used for flavoring, herbal teas, and jellies.
Hybrid mints involving M. suaveolens as a parent
Mentha × villosa (M. spicata × M. suaveolens)
rmgroup
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rmgroups
Etymology: From rm (“Abbreviation of remove”) + group. Internal name of the message, short for remove group.
Senses: examples: text: The capability somewhat exists in the rmgroup control message now; just define MANUALLY in your defs.h file. This should be extended to the other control messages.
ref: 1982 June 4, Joe Presley, “control messages to administrators (whuxlb.279)”, in net.news.b (Usenet):
text: Every Usenet groups, and all its associated problems, will have been wiped off the face of the Earth forever by the might of the rmgroup.
ref: 1993, "Leader Kibo", IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT: THE FUTURE OF THE NET. (on newsgroups news.admin, news.groups, alt.config, comp.org.eff.talk, alt.religion.kibology, alt.politics.kibo, alt.sex)
glosses: A Usenet control message indicating that a newsgroup should be removed.
rmgroup
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: rmgroups
form: rmgrouping
form: rmgrouped
form: rmgrouped
Etymology: From rm (“Abbreviation of remove”) + group. Internal name of the message, short for remove group.
Senses: examples: text: Who the HELL is net.msg.ctl and why do they keep telling me to 'rmgroup this andthat'. I LIKE SOME OF THOSE NEWSGROUPS. I WANT THEM. I WILL NOT rm THEM!!!!
ref: 1982 December 9, Dave Kratz, “Who the HELL is ...”, in net.general (Usenet):
text: Of course, to prevent any power-crazed maniacs from putting the groups back, the newsgroup `control' will be rmgrouped.
ref: 1993, "Leader Kibo", IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT: THE FUTURE OF THE NET. (on newsgroups news.admin, news.groups, alt.config, comp.org.eff.talk, alt.religion.kibology, alt.politics.kibo, alt.sex)
text: Just rmgrouping news.admin.net-abuse.usenet would get rid of both the kooks, trolls, and flamers as well as the discussions which are appropriate and pertain to Usenet abuse.
ref: 1999, Travis Bemann, “Proposal: news.admin.net-abuse.moderated”, in news.admin.net-abuse.misc (Usenet):
antonyms: newgroup
glosses: To remove (a newsgroup) or attempt to do so by means of such a message.
rmgrouped
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of rmgroup
rmgrouping
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of rmgroup
rmgroups
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rmgroup
rmgroups
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of rmgroup
persalts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of persalt
protosalts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of protosalt
body languages
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of body language
in full gear
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: examples: text: We arrived an hour late and found the event already in full gear.
glosses: Proceeding fully, quickly, or completely; thoroughly begun and in progress.
Synonyms: in full swing
truck in
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: trucks in
form: trucking in
form: trucked in
form: trucked in
Senses: glosses: To have something transported in by truck.
truck out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: trucks out
form: trucking out
form: trucked out
form: trucked out
Senses: glosses: To send something away by truck.
segway
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: segways
form: segwaying
form: segwayed
form: segwayed
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of Segway.
segway
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of segue.
sock-knocking
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more sock-knocking
form: most sock-knocking
Etymology: From the phrase knock someone's socks off.
Senses: examples: text: Hardware or software, if there was one thing Morton did astoundingly well, it was concocting sock-knocking techno gizmo solutions to the most arcane problems.
ref: 2009, Frank Tinsman, Chaos and Rage, page 98:
glosses: stunning, amazing, very impressive.
appropries
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of appropry
consarn it
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Etymology: Derived from the exclamation consarnation, a dialect pronunciation of consternation.
Either from a dialectal variant of concern, or possibly from an alteration of confound it.
Senses: qualifier: minced oath
glosses: A mild oath.
goldang
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: "If I buy the goldang cow," he's thinking to himself, "then I can sell the goldang cow, whenever I goldang please."
ref: 1990, Joe Bob Briggs, The cosmic wisdom of Joe Bob Briggs:
glosses: Goddamned.
goldang
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: examples: text: "If I buy the goldang cow," he's thinking to himself, "then I can sell the goldang cow, whenever I goldang please."
ref: 1990, Joe Bob Briggs, The cosmic wisdom of Joe Bob Briggs:
glosses: Goddamned.
cassingles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cassingle
cassimeres
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cassimere
kerseymeres
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kerseymere
kerria
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kerrias
Etymology: From the genus name.
Senses: glosses: A deciduous shrub with five-petalled yellow flowers, of species Kerria japonica, sole species in the genus Kerria.
kerrias
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kerria
demanufactures
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of demanufacture
demanufacturing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of demanufacture
demanufactured
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of demanufacture
demanufacturer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: demanufacturers
Etymology: From de- + manufacturer.
Senses: glosses: One who, or that which, demanufactures.
demanufacturers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of demanufacturer
demarc
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: demarcs
Etymology: Clipping of demarcation.
Senses: topics: communications
electrical-engineering
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
telecommunications
glosses: The point of demarcation where the provider's network (and responsibility) ends and that of the customer begins.
Derived terms: demarc extension
demarcs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of demarc
petrorevenue
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From petro- + revenue.
Senses: examples: text: Never mind if it takes three weeks to ship oil to China and three days to the United States: Chvez wants to parlay his petrorevenue and pseudorevolution into a global anti-American role.
ref: 2007 December 3, Roger Cohen, “The Limits of 21st-Century Revolution”, in New York Times:
glosses: Revenue from the export of oil.
pseudorevolution
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pseudorevolutions
Etymology: From pseudo- + revolution.
Senses: examples: text: Never mind if it takes three weeks to ship oil to China and three days to the United States: Chávez wants to parlay his petrorevenue and pseudorevolution into a global anti-American role.
ref: 2007 December 3, Roger Cohen, “The Limits of 21st-Century Revolution”, in New York Times:
glosses: A political event resembling, but not actually, a revolution.
Related terms: pseudorevolutionary
pseudorevolutions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pseudorevolution
seafloors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of seafloor
recentralize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: recentralizes
form: recentralizing
form: recentralized
form: recentralized
Etymology: From re- + centralize.
Senses: examples: text: The tendency of the petrostate is to recentralize, petrify and personalize power, said Margarita López Maya, a political scientist who long supported Chávez but is now disillusioned.
ref: 2007 December 3, Roger Cohen, “The Limits of 21st-Century Revolution”, in New York Times:
glosses: To centralize again or anew.
Related terms: recentralization
recentralizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of recentralize
recentralizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of recentralize
recentralized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of recentralize
noncooperating
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + cooperating.
Senses: examples: text: If it arrested noncooperating witnesses in the United States attorneys scandal — and there are more than just Mr. Bolten and Ms. Miers — then they would have the right to challenge their confinement in federal court.
ref: 2007 December 4, Adam Cohen, “Congress Has a Way of Making Witnesses Speak: Its Own Jail”, in New York Times:
glosses: Not cooperating.
nonprofessionally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From non- + professionally.
Senses: examples: text: As a teenager he worked as a cowboy for several summers on a ranch in Arizona, and he continued to ride horses nonprofessionally all his life.
ref: 2007 December 4, Ken Johnson, “Paul Brach, 83, Painter and Teacher, Is Dead”, in New York Times:
glosses: In a manner that is not professional.
nonparalyzed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + paralyzed.
Senses: examples: text: But plumping it up allows the two cords to meet and gives the nonparalyzed one a better surface to vibrate against.
ref: 2007 December 4, Amanda Schaffer, “Quick Fixes to Bring Back Damaged Voices”, in New York Times:
glosses: Not paralyzed.
plethodontid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: plethodontids
Etymology: From scientific Latin Plethodontidae (family name), from Plethodon (genus name), from Ancient Greek πλῆθος (plêthos, “great number”) + ὀδούς (odoús, “tooth”).
Senses: examples: text: The family of salamanders known as plethodontids are unusual in many ways.
ref: 2007 December 4, Henry Fountain, “Inveterate Wanderer: An Intercontinental Salamander Family”, in New York Times:
text: In Mark Twain National Forest in Missouri, for example, they are—if you count them by weight—the dominant form of life, with 1400 tonnes of plethodontids lurking in the leaf litter and wetlands of its 600,000 hectares.
ref: 2018, Tim Flannery, Europe: The First 100 Million Years, Penguin, published 2019, page 127:
topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Any of the Plethodontidae, a family of lungless salamanders.
plethodontids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of plethodontid
prestamped
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pre- + stamped.
Senses: examples: text: She demanded that an unbiased election commission be appointed, and accused the government of downright robbery, saying that it planned to rig the results by transferring thousands of prestamped ballots to stuff ballot boxes in the provinces.
ref: 2007 December 4, Carlotta Gall, “Pakistani Rivals Threaten Boycott of Elections”, in New York Times:
glosses: Having been stamped in advance.
borek
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: boreks
Senses: examples: text: Crowding the table were miniature, hand-formed lamb dumplings called manti; flaky pastries, called boreks, filled with wild greens; and an elaborate paste of chicken, wheat and pistachios called keskek.
ref: 2007 December 5, Melissa Clark, “When It Looks at You, It's Done”, in New York Times:
glosses: Alternative form of burek.
boreks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of borek
polpettine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Italian
Senses: examples: text: Upstarts like the snack menu, with its little offerings of polpettine and deviled eggs, are encroaching from the flank.
ref: 2007 December 5, Kim Severson, “Is the Entree Heading for Extinction?”, in New York Times:
glosses: Small Italian meatballs.
dulcimerlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more dulcimerlike
form: most dulcimerlike
Etymology: From dulcimer + -like.
Senses: examples: text: A gently droning main theme on a dulcimerlike instrument sets the mood as other instruments enter with delicate sliding figurations, speckled bursts of percussion and sustained chords that sound entrancingly off-pitch.
ref: 2007 December 6, Anthony Tommasini, “Dreams (and Instruments) of a Visionary Tinkerer”, in New York Times:
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a dulcimer.
phyllodulcin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A compound found in the leaves of the Asian shrub Hydrangea serrata, which are used in herbal tea.
Related terms: phyllo-
dulcin
sucrol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The sweetener dulcin.
potbound
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more potbound
form: most potbound
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of pot-bound.
superzoom
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: superzooms
Etymology: From super- + zoom.
Senses: examples: text: This camera, like the Kodak, is also shaped like a mini-S.L.R. and has a stabilized superzoom lens (10X).
ref: 2007 December 6, David Pogue, “Looking Beyond Megapixels”, in New York Times:
topics: arts
hobbies
lifestyle
photography
glosses: A very high-magnification zoom feature.
superzooms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of superzoom
creekside
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From creek + -side.
Senses: examples: text: The creekside resort shut in 1964, and most of the bungalows were sold.
ref: 2007 December 7, Jill P. Capuzzo, “Accessorizing a Catskills Farmhouse With a Past”, in New York Times:
glosses: Beside a creek.
creekside
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: creeksides
Etymology: From creek + -side.
Senses: glosses: The land forming the side of a creek.
Related terms: riverbank
riverside
surfside
creeksides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of creekside
factoryworker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: factoryworkers
form: factory worker
Etymology: From factory + worker.
Senses: examples: text: Could it really be the spawn of Henry Spencer (Jack Nance), the sad-sack factoryworker with the finger-in-the-socket shock of hair?
ref: 2007 December 7, Manohla Dargis, “Distorted, Distorting and All-Too Human”, in New York Times:
glosses: One who works in a factory.
factoryworkers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of factoryworker
rerecordings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rerecording
civilianizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of civilianize
civilianizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of civilianize
civilianized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of civilianize
civilianizations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of civilianization
shuddery
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more shuddery
form: most shuddery
Etymology: From shudder + -y.
Senses: examples: text: Four women dance together, shuffling their feet, arching over one another's bodies and running across the stage before stopping dead with shuddery little recoils of the chest.
ref: 2007 December 8, Roslyn Sulcas, “Strings, Hip-Hop and Not a Little Randiness”, in New York Times:
text: The baby breathes in sharply and then lets out a long, shuddery sigh. I've been holding her for nearly half an hour and suddenly she feels unbearably heavy.
ref: 2009, Jacqueline Davies, Lost, page 23:
glosses: Characterized by shuddering motions.
examples: text: It is rather shuddery, however, to speculate on the terrible assortment of cutting, gouging, jabbing and slashing weapons with which the mutineers are able to equip themselves from the carpenter's shop.
ref: 1914, Jack London, The Mutiny of the Elsinore, Chapter XLIV:
glosses: Causing one to shudder; horrifying.
cipherlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more cipherlike
form: most cipherlike
Etymology: From cipher + -like.
Senses: examples: text: This is the only mention of swastikas, and it's as if Nersesian is making up the rules as he goes along — all too possible with a cipherlike narrator whose memory is shot.
ref: 2007 December 9, Maud Casey, “Escape From New York, Nev.”, in New York Times:
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a cipher.
echocardiologist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: echocardiologists
Etymology: From echocardiology + -ist.
Senses: glosses: A person who performs echocardiology.
echocardiologists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of echocardiologist
feuders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of feuder
heterofriendly
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more heterofriendly
form: most heterofriendly
Etymology: From hetero + friendly.
Senses: examples: text: Marketed as the first five-star gay hotel in Latin America (but also heterofriendly), the new Axel Hotel Buenos Aires (www.axelhotels.com) confirmed what many gay travelers already knew: the Argentine capital is becoming South America's next party capital.
ref: 2007 December 9, “The 53 Places to Go in 2008”, in New York Times:
text: They exist within a framework that is heterofriendly and nonthreatening to the majority.
ref: 2008, Susan Driver, Queer youth cultures, page 75:
glosses: Welcoming towards heterosexuals.
hyperluxe
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more hyperluxe
form: most hyperluxe
Etymology: From hyper- + luxe.
Senses: examples: text: Such stores now kit-out apartments and houses with hyperluxe audio and video, including the Odin Supreme Reference cable system, a series of interconnects and cables that makes every note sound more real in and of itself and in the context of all the other notes.
ref: 2007 December 9, Virginia Heffernan, “Stereo Sanctuaries”, in New York Times:
glosses: Extremely luxurious.
megawattage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: megawattages
Etymology: From mega- + wattage.
Senses: examples: text: The megawattage was higher than normal, but the politics sounded familiar when Attorney General Andrew M. Cuomo, with Democratic politicians and antinuclear activists in tow, dropped a rhetorical bomb on the Indian Point nuclear power plant on Monday.
ref: 2007 December 9, Peter Applebome, “The Power Grid Game: Choose a Catastrophe”, in New York Times:
glosses: An amount of power expressed in megawatts.
megawattages
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of megawattage
nontouring
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + touring.
Senses: examples: text: Al Mengert, a nontouring golf pro then at Winged Foot, who finished in a four-way tie for ninth at the 1958 Masters, focused his 16-millimeter camera on the field from between home plate and third base.
ref: 2007 December 9, Richard Sandomir, “Larsen's Feat Lives in Amateur Movies”, in New York Times:
glosses: Not touring.
outsiderdom
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From outsider + -dom.
Senses: examples: text: But this fly-on-the-wall study of teenage outsiderdom gradually takes on darker overtones.
ref: 2007 December 9, Dennis Lim, “It's His World; She Was Just Filming It”, in New York Times:
glosses: The state or condition of being an outsider.
Synonyms: outsiderhood
outsiderness
ozmazome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Meanwhile the English passion for gravy led to the belief in an illusory substance called ozmazome, a kind of El Dorado of juicy nourishment thought to lie at the heart of the meat — a befuddled concept from which the German chemist Justus von Leibig nevertheless made a great deal of money when he invented beef extract.
ref: 2007 December 9, Ian Jack, “Britannia Bites”, in New York Times:
glosses: Alternative form of osmazome.
sedanlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more sedanlike
form: most sedanlike
Etymology: From sedan + -like.
Senses: examples: text: Americans have been increasingly turning to crossovers, looking for sedanlike handling and performance, without having to sacrifice what they loved about S.U.V.s in the first place.
ref: 2007 December 9, James Schembari, “It's a Stretch: Small-Car Specialist Hits the Big Leagues”, in New York Times:
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a sedan.
superempowered
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more superempowered
form: most superempowered
Etymology: From super- + empowered.
Senses: examples: text: Illuminated by high-def kaleidoscopes, flanked by exotic speakers and enfolded in what seem like yottabytes of audiovisual data, other tech-sequestered men must use their superempowered alone time for something more momentous.
ref: 2007 December 9, Virginia Heffernan, “Stereo Sanctuaries”, in New York Times:
glosses: Highly empowered.
Leda
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈliːdə/
Senses: topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
glosses: The wife of Tyndareus and mother of Helen, Clytemnestra and Castor and Pollux hatched from eggs as a result of a seduction by Zeus in the guise of a swan
topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: A moon of Jupiter.
topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: 38 Leda, a main belt asteroid; not to be confused with the Jovian moon.
Synonyms: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
word: 38 Leda
topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
word: ㊳
Zeisel
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Derived terms: Zeisel number
turbinelike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more turbinelike
form: most turbinelike
Etymology: From turbine + -like.
Senses: examples: text: Accelerating onto Interstate 10, though, incites a turbinelike zing — quite pleasant, really, if not as satisfying as the guttural bark of a V-8 — and the Clarity blends effortlessly into traffic.
ref: 2007 December 9, Norman Mayersohn, “Hydrogen Car Is Here, a Bit Ahead of Its Time”, in New York Times:
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a turbine.
ultragreen
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more ultragreen
form: most ultragreen
Etymology: From ultra- + green.
Senses: examples: text: In the front yard of her illustrated home are an ultragreen lawn and a garden filled with sunflowers almost as tall as the house.
ref: 2003, Gene Del Vecchio, The blockbuster toy!: how to invent the next big thing, page 60:
glosses: Of a very vivid green colour.
examples: text: He says the resurgence of nuclear energy around the world — even in ultragreen countries like Finland — reflects the simple fact that nuclear power has more potential to replace and reduce carbon emissions than anything else, and that, leaving out the Model T technology of Chernobyl, its worldwide safety record remains almost impeccable.
ref: 2007 December 9, Peter Applebome, “The Power Grid Game: Choose a Catastrophe”, in New York Times:
glosses: Taking a great deal of responsibility for the natural environment.
ultranationalistic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more ultranationalistic
form: most ultranationalistic
Etymology: From ultra- + nationalistic.
Senses: examples: text: Mr. Zyuganov has also expressed ultranationalistic views — including suggesting that Zionists and Jews have too much influence in Russia and the world — that were anathema to liberals.
ref: 2007 December 9, Clifford J. Levy, “Look Who's Still Standing in Russia”, in New York Times:
glosses: Very radically nationalistic.
unproducible
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + producible.
Senses: glosses: Impossible to produce.
unsell
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: unsells
form: unselling
form: unsold
form: unsold
Etymology: From un- + sell.
Senses: examples: text: Politicians will try to unsell the public on its convinction of rearmament.
text: At the same time, every effort to unsell something may also be viewed as an effort to sell something else. Those who attempt to unsell cigarette smoking are attempting to sell health...
ref: 1983, Thomas C. Kinnear, Kenneth L. Bernhardt, Dynamics of marketing principles: a reader:
text: After the meeting Bob grabbed me by the ear and told me, "Once you make the sale, shut up and don't unsell it."
ref: 2007 December 9, Robert A. Lopes, As Told To Amy Zipkin, “A Sporting Chance”, in New York Times:
glosses: To cause to appear less attractive to consumers or adherents.
unsells
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of unsell
unselling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of unsell
windowscreen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: windowscreens
Senses: examples: text: Another Autumn, for instance, is a series of one-line sketches — a feathering of the ink whereby characters lose definition is followed by overlapping windowscreens, one pattern interfering with another, which is in turn followed by sideways, all the politeness, all that irony, trying for a draw (an echo of a line from A Pillow-Book, a much earlier O'Brien poem).
ref: 2007 December 9, “Words of the World”, in New York Times:
glosses: Alternative form of window screen.
windowscreens
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of windowscreen
antisubversion
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From anti- + subversion.
Senses: examples: text: "President Fujimori will support a two-tiered antisubversion plan," read a secret August 1990 memo from the United States Embassy in Lima, citing a former intelligence officer as its source.
ref: 2007 December 10, Simon Romero, “Ex-President Stands Trial in Edgy Peru”, in New York Times:
glosses: Opposing or countering political subversion.
kafirs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kafir
nectarlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more nectarlike
form: most nectarlike
Etymology: From nectar + -like.
Senses: examples: text: Today, Austria, one of the world's oldest wine regions, is much admired for its peppery grüner veltliners; dry, pure, intensely minerally rieslings; and dense, nectarlike sweet wines enhanced by botrytis, the famous noble rot, which concentrates flavors and sugars.
ref: 2007 December 10, Eric Asimov, “Alois Kracher, Austrian Winemaker and Advocate, Is Dead at 48”, in New York Times:
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of nectar.
cakecrumb
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cakecrumbs
Etymology: From cake + crumb.
Senses: examples: text: Turnball sprayed out a mouthful of cakecrumbs.
ref: 2008, Colin Rock, The Jelly Game, page 89:
glosses: A crumb from a cake.
cakecrumbs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cakecrumb
toastcrumb
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtoʊst.krʌm/
Forms: form: toastcrumbs
Etymology: From toast + crumb.
Senses: glosses: A crumb from toast.
crumbless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From crumb + -less.
Senses: glosses: Not containing crumbs; without crumbs.
glosses: That does not produce crumbs.
recrumple
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: recrumples
form: recrumpling
form: recrumpled
form: recrumpled
Etymology: From re- + crumple.
Senses: glosses: To crumple again.
crumply
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: crumplier
form: more crumply
form: crumpliest
form: most crumply
Etymology: From crumple + -y.
Senses: examples: Near-synonyms: rumply, rumpled
glosses: Crumpled.
semicasual
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From semi- + casual.
Senses: examples: text: GO WEST A small but nicely stocked shop of stylish but subtle men’s clothing opens in the far West Village, helping to keep downtown guys in nice semicasual schmooze-wear and dating duds.
ref: 2009 October 1, Mike Albo, “Neighborhood Preservation”, in New York Times:
glosses: somewhat casual.
recrumpling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of recrumple
recrumpled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of recrumple
crumblable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more crumblable
form: most crumblable
Etymology: From crumble + -able.
Senses: glosses: Able to crumble or be crumbled.
crumpler
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: crumplers
Etymology: From crumple + -er.
Senses: glosses: Someone or something that crumples.
Derived terms: leaf crumpler
crumblet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: crumblets
Etymology: From crumb + -let.
Senses: glosses: A small crumb.
crunkle
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: crunkles
form: crunkling
form: crunkled
form: crunkled
Senses: glosses: To crumple.
crunchable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From crunch + -able.
Senses: glosses: That can be crunched.
haplogy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhæpləd͡ʒi/
Forms: form: haplogies
Etymology: A haplology of haplology.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of haplology.
synonyms: word: haplology
lemure
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lemures
Etymology: Back-formation from lemures.
Senses: glosses: singular of lemures
ASAIC
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: asaic
Senses: glosses: Initialism of as soon as I can.
asaic
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of ASAIC.
loremasters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of loremaster
excited states
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of excited state
crannogs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of crannog
quick-draw
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: quick-draws
form: quickdraw
Senses: topics: climbing
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A runner: a short sling with a karabiner on either end, used to link the climbing rope to a bolt, nut, Friend, or similar.
propelling pencils
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of propelling pencil
feuter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: feuters
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of fewter.
sandbell
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sandbells
Etymology: From sand + bell.
The weight sense is a trademark; see dumbbell.
Senses: examples: text: Mats of low-growing sandbells thrive on otherwise barren strips of roadside.
ref: 1995, Wayne H. McAlister, Martha K. McAlister, Aransas: A Naturalist's Guide, page 317:
glosses: Nama hispida (rough nama), native to the US southwest.
glosses: A free weight for physical exercise.
fiddleleaf
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fiddleleafs
Etymology: From fiddle + leaf.
Senses: glosses: A plant of the Nama genus, especially Nama jamaicense.
glosses: Certain species of plants with leaves thought to be shaped liked like fiddles.
Derived terms: sense: Nama genus
word: leafy fiddleleaf
sense: Nama genus
word: mud fiddleleaf
sense: Nama genus
word: eggleaf fiddleleaf
sense: Nama genus
word: Rothrock's fiddleleaf
sense: Nama genus
word: Lobb's fiddleleaf
sense: Nama genus
word: depressed fiddleleaf
sense: Nama genus
word: Arizona fiddleleaf
sense: Nama genus
word: California fiddleleaf
sense: plants with leaves shaped like fiddles
word: fiddleleaf tobacco
sense: plants with leaves shaped like fiddles
word: fiddleleaf hawksbeard
sense: plants with leaves shaped like fiddles
word: fiddleleaf fig
sense: plants with leaves shaped like fiddles
word: fiddleleaf rubber tree
fiddleleafs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fiddleleaf
sandglass
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sandglasses
Etymology: From sand + glass.
Senses: glosses: An instrument for measuring the passage of time by the passage of sand through a narrow opening.
Hyponyms: hourglass
sand timer
watch glass
sandglasses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sandglass
safe-cracker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: safe-crackers
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of safecracker.
Zabaykalsky Krai
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Russian Забайка́льский край (Zabajkálʹskij kraj, literally “Trans-Baikal Krai”), in reference to its location on the far side of Lake Baikal.
Senses: synonyms: Zabaikalye
Transbaikal
glosses: A krai in southeastern Russia.
Related terms: Chita
Baikal
Jesus Christs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Jesus Christ
fustet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfʌstɪt/
Forms: form: fustets
form: fustic
form: fustoc
Etymology: From French fustet.
Senses: glosses: A smoke tree (Cotinus coggygria).
glosses: Wood of this tree.
glosses: Dye obtained from the wood of this tree.
Synonyms: sense: smoke tree
word: Eurasian smoketree
sense: smoke tree
word: purple smoke bush
sense: smoke tree
word: Venetian sumach
sense: smoke tree
word: wig tree
sense: dye
word: young fustic
rare earth metal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rare earth metals
Senses: glosses: A rare earth element.
Related terms: rare earth
rare earth mineral
earth metal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: earth metals
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of the four metals aluminum, gallium, indium and thallium of the boron group in the periodic table of elements.
GRG
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: GRGs
Senses: glosses: Initialism of giant radio galaxy.
RG
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: RGs
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: Initialism of radio galaxy.
glosses: Initialism of radius of gyration.
Derived terms: BLRG
GRG
HzRG
NLRG
WLRG
exits stage left
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of exit stage left
exits stage left
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of exit stage left
exiting stage left
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of exit stage left
exited stage left
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of exit stage left
caxon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: caxons
Senses: examples: text: The other , an old , discolored , unkempt , angry caxon , denoting frequent and bloody execution . Woe to the school , when he made his morning appearance in his passy , or passionate wig
ref: 1823, Elia [pseudonym; Charles Lamb], Elia. Essays which have Appeared under that Signature in The London Magazine, London: […] [Thomas Davison] for Taylor and Hessey, […], →OCLC:
glosses: A kind of wig.
giant radio galaxy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: giant radio galaxies
Etymology: giant + radio galaxy
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: a very large radio galaxy; a double radio source having an overall projected linear length exceeding 2 megaparsecs (or more specifically, 2×h₅₀⁻¹ Mpc)
Synonyms: word: GRG
Related terms: radio galaxy
giant quasar
psc
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: psc
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: Abbreviation of parsec.
topics: geometry
mathematics
sciences
glosses: Abbreviation of parallax second.
Synonyms: english: the symbol for parsec
translation: the symbol for parsec
word: pc
Derived terms: alt: kiloparsec
word: kpsc
alt: megaparsec
word: Mpsc
alt: gigaparsec
word: Gpsc
location, location, location
Language: English
Part of speech: proverb
Senses: glosses: The most important consideration in buying real estate is its location.
examples: text: One could argue that sports are no different from fast foods—it's all location, location, location. Because the core sport product is a game form, simultaneously produced and consumed, it makes sense that the venue of that game form should maximize exposure.
ref: 2007, Bernard James Mullin, Stephen Hardy, William Anthony Sutton, Sport marketing, Human Kinetics, →ISBN, page 345:
text: Theatre is all about location, location, location. More than most art forms, it is rooted in a specific time and place.
ref: 2011, Aleks Sierz, Rewriting the Nation: British Theatre Today, A&C Black, →ISBN, page 10:
text: Location, location, location. The iPhone makes good use of knowing where you are in the Maps app and several other apps and by geotagging photos taken with its camera.
ref: 2011, Bob LeVitus, iPhone 4S For Dummies, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 255:
text: It's all about location, location, location, and Google's goggles will have a direct bead on you 24 hours a day.
ref: 2013, Wheeler Winston Dixon, Streaming: Movies, Media, and Instant Access, University Press of Kentucky, →ISBN, page 131:
glosses: Locations are important.
scenesterism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From scenester + -ism.
Senses: examples: text: It was an unexpected tip of the fedora from a group of artists who, like Danko Jones, had slogged it out on the late '90s American indie circuit but had since left the insular scenesterism behind to pursue loftier ambitions.
ref: 2012, Stuart Berman, Too Much Trouble: A Very Oral History of Danko Jones, →ISBN:
text: Wasik's motivation, he claimed in 2006 and later, was to spoof the hipsterism and scenesterism that he found rampant in New York City by creating an artificial and allegedly hip new trend.
ref: 2016, Mark Mattern, Anarchism and Art: Democracy in the Cracks and on the Margins, →ISBN:
text: In a personal post on Medium, Laird said he hoped the ouster would help educate others about systemic sexism in hackerdom, exacerbated by a tendency toward rule-breaking, distrust of legal authorities in reporting transgressions, and some excessive scenesterism: “There's been a lot of looking the other way in the hacker community when powerful people overstep the bounds, and that has to stop."
ref: 2019, Joseph Menn, Cult of the Dead Cow, →ISBN:
glosses: The culture of scenesters; involvement in a lifestyle associated with a particular music scene.
giant quasar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: giant quasars
Etymology: giant + quasar
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: a quasar embedded in a double-lobed radio source, similar to a radio galaxy, whereby the quasar replaces a non-quasar galaxy, where the radio source extends over 1Mpc.
Related terms: giant radio galaxy
Angelverse
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Angelverse
Etymology: From Angel + -verse.
Senses: examples: text: This suggests that free will has its place in the Angelverse: the choice to fight matters to the end, even if it cannot stop a prophesied event from occurring.
ref: 2005, Stacey Abbott, Reading Angel: The TV Spin-off with a Soul, page 142:
text: To the degree that my universe intersects with the Angelverse, I view Angel as far more than a creature tormented by blood cravings, past horrors, and mystical forces.
ref: 2007, Joy Davidson, The Psychology of Joss Whedon: An Unauthorized Exploration of Buffy, Angel, and Firefly, page 197:
text: At times Lorne challenges the culture of the Angelverse by bringing together disparate points of view and causing the crew at Angel Investigations to see situations and characters in an unconventional way, demonstrating a unique and significant adaptation of bardic form.
ref: 2010, Jennifer Hamilton, “Pylean Idol: L.A.'s De(con)struction of a Postmodern Bard”, in Amijo Comeford, Tamy Burnett, editors, The Literary Angel: Essays on Influences and Traditions Reflected in the Joss Whedon Series, page 45:
topics: lifestyle
glosses: The fictional world, or universe, which serves as the setting for the television series Angel.
wikipedia: Angel (TV series)
Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Hypernyms: Whedonverse
smutfest
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: smutfests
Etymology: From smut + -fest.
Senses: glosses: Something excessively smutty; something vulgarly sexual or pornographic.
cocktail dresses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cocktail dress
morningly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From morning + -ly.
Senses: glosses: every morning; daily in the morning.
noonly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From noon + -ly.
Senses: glosses: every noon; daily at noon.
Asian Games
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: synonyms: Asiad
glosses: An Asian multi-sport event taking place every fourth year.
fanfaronas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fanfarona
Kanami
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A female given name from Japanese.
XNA
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: journalism
media
glosses: Initialism of Xinhua News Agency (“新华社”); the New China News Agency (新华通讯社); the government news agency of the People's Republic of China.