cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
antigenocide
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From anti- + genocide.
Senses: examples: text: John Prendergast, a former Clinton administration official and antigenocide activist who has worked in Chad and Sudan for 20 years, said Sudan had been trying to overthrow Mr. Déby because of his support for Darfur rebel groups and his willingness to allow a European peacekeeping force to deploy in Chad to protect Darfur refugees living on the country’s eastern border with Sudan.
ref: 2008 February 7, Lydia Polgreen, “Fighting in Chad’s Capital Ebbs, but Problems Loom”, in New York Times:
glosses: Acting against or opposing genocide.
Vizsla
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈviːʃlə/
/ˈviːʒlə/
Forms: form: Vizslas
form: Vizslak
form: Vizslák
Etymology: From Hungarian vizsla, itself probably a borrowing from a Slavic language; compare Serbo-Croatian vižao/вижао, Czech vyžle, Polish wyżeł, wyga (“old dog”), Russian выжла (vyžla).
Senses: examples: text: A bird dog, according to David Smith of the National Bird Dog Museum, can include such breeds as the English pointer and setter, the American Brittany, the German short-haired pointer and the vizsla.
ref: 2008 February 24, William Safire, “Bird-Dog Minute”, in New York Times:
glosses: A dog breed originating in Hungary.
Synonyms: Hungarian Vizsla
Hungarian Pointer
Magyar Vizsla
Derived terms: Wirehaired Vizsla
Related terms: Wire-haired Vizsla
PIO
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: PIOs
Senses: topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Initialism of pilot-induced oscillation.
topics: business
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
electronics
energy
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Initialism of programmed input/output.
topics: government
glosses: Initialism of public information officer.
topics: law
glosses: Initialism of person of Indian origin.
Related terms: topics: aviation
aeronautics
aerospace
engineering
business
physical-sciences
natural-sciences
word: CFIT
supranormal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌsuːpɹəˈnɔːməl/
Forms: form: more supranormal
form: most supranormal
Etymology: From supra- + normal.
Senses: glosses: Exceeding what is normal; exceptional.
shamateurism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈʃamət(j)əɹɪzm/
Etymology: From shamateur + -ism.
Senses: glosses: The fact or practice of being a shamateur; making money out of sports despite professing to be an amateur.
shamateur
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈʃamət(j)ə/
Forms: form: shamateurs
Etymology: From sham + amateur.
Senses: glosses: A sportsman or athlete who is officially an amateur but who makes money from playing, or who otherwise behaves as a professional.
wikipedia: shamateur
Derived terms: shamateurism
shamateurish
shamateurishness
shamateurs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shamateur
grice
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡɹʌɪs/
rhymes: -ʌɪs
Forms: form: gricen
form: grices
form: grise
Etymology: From Middle English gris, from Old Norse gríss (“male pig; pigling”). Compare Old Dutch gristo, gristio (“boar, wild boar”).
Senses: examples: text: This fine Smooth bawson cub, the young grice of a gray
ref: 1641, Ben Jonson, The Sad Shepherd:
text: Further, there was of meats wheat bread, main-bread and ginge-bread with fleshes, beef, mutton, lamb, veal, venison, goose, grice, capon, coney, cran, swan, partridge, plover, duck, drake, brissel-cock and pawnies, black-cock and muir-fowl, cappercaillies;
ref: 1728, Robert Lindsay, The history of Scotland, from 21 February, 1436. to March, 1565: in which are contained accounts of many remarkable passages altogether differing from our other historians, and many facts are related, either concealed by some, or omitted by others, Mr. Baskett and Company, page 146:
text: Through a door to one of the galleries, left half open on purpose I was attracted to a dainty hot supper, consisting of stewed mushrooms and the fat paps and ears of very young pigs, or, as they call them, gricen.
ref: 1789, William Thomson, Mammuth: or, human nature displayed on a grand scale: in a tour with the tinkers, into the inland parts of Africa. By the man in the moon. In two volumes. publ. G. and T. Wilkie, pg.105
text: A model of the grice - which was the size of a large dog and had tusks - has been created after work by researchers and a taxidermist.
ref: 2006 November 17, “Extinct island pig spotted again”, in BBC News:
glosses: A pig, especially a young pig, or its meat; sometimes specifically, a breed of pig or boar native to north Britain, now extinct.
Derived terms: griskin
grice
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡɹʌɪs/
rhymes: -ʌɪs
Forms: form: grices
form: gricing
form: griced
form: griced
Etymology: Unknown, possibly from Richard Grice, the first champion trainspotterhttp://books.google.co.uk/books?id=rdU1xtIWJz0C&q=grice+trainspotter&dq=grice+trainspotter&hl=en&sa=X&ei=afhsT5ChFe-R0QWF8K3HBg&redir_esc=y, alternatively perhaps a humorous representation of an upper-class pronunciation of grouser (“grouse-shooter”)https://web.archive.org/web/20120313071637/http://oxforddictionaries.com/definition/gricer. In either case the derivation could be direct or a back-formation from gricer.
Senses: examples: text: Many people joined the railways because the 'carrot' of a staff pass was a considerable attraction, whether for family travel or to grice at extremely low cost.
ref: 1999 March 29, Tony Polson, “Re: Do all UK rail staff get free unlimited Eurostar travel?”, in uk.railway (Usenet):
text: We can also roganise photo charters, large group footplate courses and gricing holidays [...]
ref: 2005 August, The Railway Magazine, volume 151, number 1252, IPC Business Press, page 55:
text: Trainspotters may be mocked by the outside world, but they don't take criticism lying down: the language of gricing is notable for its acidic descriptions of outsiders.
ref: 2010, Adam Jacot de Boinod, “Gricer's Daughter”, in I Never Knew There Was a Word For It, →ISBN:
topics: rail-transport
railways
transport
glosses: to act as a trainspotter; to partake in the activity or hobby of trainspotting.
Related terms: gricer
grice
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡɹʌɪs/
rhymes: -ʌɪs
Forms: form: grices
Senses: examples: text: he stood under the grices
ref: 1612, Ben Jonson, Love Restored:
glosses: A step or stair.
compatibles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of compatible
matanzas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of matanza
bug juice
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: An artificially fruit-flavored beverage, made from a powdered concentrate and water, that is often served at American residential camps; Kool-Aid or a generic equivalent.
glosses: Insect repellent.
glosses: Moonshine (an illicitly distilled alcoholic beverage).
daylight overdrafts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of daylight overdraft
promyelinating
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pro- + myelinating.
Senses: glosses: That fosters promyelination.
promyelination
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From pro- + myelination.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: The process that switches on myelination.
pronephric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more pronephric
form: most pronephric
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to the pronephros
pronephros
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pronephroi
form: pronephroses
Etymology: From pro- + nephros.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: A primitive kidney in the lamprey and similar animals, and in other vertebrate embryos
Synonyms: pronephron
protonephros
pronotal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more pronotal
form: most pronotal
Senses: examples: text: The anterior pronotal angles are produced forward, the metaventrite is very short and the hind wings are absent.
ref: 2013, Adam Slipinski, Australian Beetles Volume 1: Morphology, Classification and Keys:
glosses: Of or pertaining to the pronotum.
propylammonium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: propylammoniums
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The cation formed by protonation of propylamine; any of its derivatives
chamas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chama
comandantes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of comandante
preferred stock
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: preferred stocks
Senses: topics: business
finance
glosses: Stock with a dividend, usually fixed, that is paid out of profits before any dividend can be paid on common stock and that has priority to common stock in liquidation.
Synonyms: preference share
preference stock
Related terms: adjustable rate
auction rate
cumulative
convertible
exchangeable
noncumulative
putable
puttable
redeemable
voting
proteinopathies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of proteinopathy
puttable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: putable
Etymology: From put + -able.
Senses: topics: business
finance
coordinate_terms: callable
glosses: Having the right to be sold at a predetermined price.
examples: quoted in 2024, Evelyn Underhill, Carol Poston, The Making of a Mystic: New and Selected Letters of Evelyn Underhill
Syl's description of the various sensations of the first few days of matrimony are very instructive also amusing but scarcely puttable on paper […]
glosses: Able to be put or placed somewhere.
puttable
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: puttables
form: putable
Etymology: From put + -able.
Senses: topics: business
finance
glosses: A puttable bond.
proteinopathy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: proteinopathies
Etymology: From protein + -o- + -pathy.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Any disease (especially a neurodegenerative disease) caused by a malformed protein.
putable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: business
finance
glosses: Alternative form of puttable.
putable
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: putables
Senses: topics: business
finance
glosses: Alternative form of puttable.
proteinurea
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of proteinuria.
proteotoxicity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: proteotoxicities
Etymology: From proteo- + toxicity.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: Any impairment of cell function caused by misfolding of a protein.
Derived terms: proteotoxic
proteotoxin
prothrombotic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more prothrombotic
form: most prothrombotic
Etymology: From pro- + thrombotic.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Describing any agent or condition that leads to thrombosis
Related terms: thrombotic
protobacterial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From proto- + bacterial.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to a protobacterium
protochlorophyllide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: protochlorophyllides
Etymology: From proto- + chlorophyll + -ide.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of several fluorescent pigments that are converted to chlorophyll by photoconversion.
protomeric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Describing a form of tautomerism in which the isomers differ only in the position of a hydrogen atom (proton).
prototrophic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more prototrophic
form: most prototrophic
Etymology: From prototroph + -ic.
Senses: examples: text: The first two, fast-growing species, were found to be more prototrophic than the last two, slowly growing species.
ref: 1969, Nuclear Science Abstracts, Volume 23, Issues 13-15, United States Atomic Energy Commission, page 2526:
text: Intrastrain fusions resulted in fully prototrophic progeny that were very similar in appearance and growth rate to the original prototrophic parental strain (Stasz et al., 1988a, 1989).
ref: 1998, G. E. Harman, C. K. Hayes, K. L. Ondik, “11: Asexual genetics in Trichoderma and Gliocladium: Mechanisms and implications”, in Gary E. Harman, C. P. Kubicek, editors, Trichoderma And Gliocladium: Volume 1, Taylor & Francis, page 255:
text: 2021, Amaia Zúñiga-Ripa, et al., The fast-growing Brucella suis Biovar 5..., Axel Cloeckaert, Michel Stanislas Zygmunt, Nieves Vizcaino, Adrian Whatmore, Holger C. Scholz (editors), Pathogenomics of the Genus Brucella and Beyond, Frontiers Media (Frontiers Open Access E-books), page 177,
These differences suggested that B. suis 513 is more prototrophic than B. abortus 2308W (see section “Discussion”), and thus we examined the vitamin requirements of B. suis 513.
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Of or pertaining to a prototroph or to prototrophy.
Related terms: auxotrophic
aliferous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈlɪfəɹəs/
rhymes: -ɪfəɹəs
Forms: form: more aliferous
form: most aliferous
Etymology: From Latin ala (“wing”) + -iferous.
Senses: glosses: Having wings; winged
Related terms: aliform
aligerous
proventriculus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɪkjʊləs
Forms: form: proventriculi
Etymology: From New Latin proventriculus (19th century), from pro- + ventriculus.
Senses: examples: text: In fulmars, the proventriculus is very baggy, and has thick wrinkled walls lined with glands that excrete the waxy oil which courting birds pass to one another in small amounts, perhaps as a way of scent-marking their mate.
ref: 2020, Tim Ecott, The Land of Maybe, Short Books, published 2021, page 201:
topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: The part of the avian stomach, between the crop and the gizzard, that secretes digestive enzymes.
topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: A similar part of the digestive system in insects and myriapods.
Related terms: proventriculitis
proximodistal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From proximo- + distal.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Running from the center of the body out towards the distal ends of appendages.
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Running from the center of a local structure out towards the distal ends of that structure.
pseudobranchial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more pseudobranchial
form: most pseudobranchial
Etymology: From pseudo- + branchial or pseudobranchia + -al.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to the pseudobranchia
pseudocoloured
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: pseudocolored
Etymology: From pseudocolour + -ed.
Senses: glosses: coloured using pseudocolours; rendered in false colours
pseudogapped
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more pseudogapped
form: most pseudogapped
Etymology: From pseudogap + -ed.
Senses: glosses: Having a pseudogap
pseudokinase
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pseudokinases
Etymology: From pseudo- + kinase.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A protein containing a catalytically inactive kinase domain.
yelek
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: yeleks
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of jelick.
pseudopotential
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pseudopotentials
Etymology: From pseudo- + potential.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A simplified approximation of the effective potential of electrons in a complex system such as a crystal lattice
pseudopregnant
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more pseudopregnant
form: most pseudopregnant
Etymology: From pseudo- + pregnant.
Senses: glosses: Of, pertaining to, or undergoing pseudopregnancy.
pseudopregnancy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pseudopregnancies
Etymology: From pseudo- + pregnancy.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of pseudocyesis.
synonyms: word: pseudocyesis
glosses: Synonym of pseudocyesis.
The persistence of the corpus luteum following infertile copulation in some mammals.
pseudosubstrate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pseudosubstrates
Etymology: From pseudo- + substrate.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any substance that mimics the substrate of an enzyme and thus inhibits its activity
Synonyms: decoy substrate
pseudotyped
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more pseudotyped
form: most pseudotyped
Etymology: From pseudo- + typed.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Describing a chimeric virus formed with an alphaviral envelope and a retroviral capsid
psychogenesis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: psychogeneses
Etymology: From psycho- + -genesis.
Senses: glosses: The origin and development of psychological processes such as personality and behaviour
glosses: The development of a physical disorder from a psychological factor
Related terms: psychosomatic
psychogenic
ptyctodont
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ptyctodonts
Senses: glosses: Any placoderm of the order Ptyctodontida
ptyctodontid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ptyctodontids
Senses: glosses: Any placoderm of the order Ptyctodontida.
ptyctodontids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ptyctodontid
ptyctodonts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ptyctodont
punctuational
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more punctuational
form: most punctuational
Etymology: From punctuation + -al.
Senses: glosses: Pertaining to punctuation.
examples: text: So how could such a critical thing as language evolve in humans, and was its evolution gradual or punctuational?
ref: 2011, Chris Stringer, The Origin of Our Species, Penguin, published 2012, page 156:
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Pertaining to punctuationism; taking place very rapidly, especially within a single generation or in a series of rapid steps.
pupillometric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pupil + -o- + -metric.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to a pupillometer or to pupillometry.
pupillometer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pupillometers
Etymology: From pupil + -o- + -meter.
Senses: glosses: A device used to measure the diameter of the pupil of the eye.
pycnogonids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pycnogonid
pycnogonid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pycnogonids
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Any sea spider of the class Pycnogonida.
pyrin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From pyro- + -in.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A protein that regulates the body's inflammatory response to trauma.
pyroglutamic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pyro- + glutamic.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to pyroglutamic acid or its derivatives
pyroglutamic acid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pyroglutamic acids
Etymology: From pyro- + glutamic acid.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
synonyms: oxoproline
glosses: A lactam form of the amino acid glutamic acid.
Coordinate terms: english: coordinate as a base versus an acid, but synonymous in the practical sense that the conjugate base and conjugate acid coexist in solution
translation: coordinate as a base versus an acid, but synonymous in the practical sense that the conjugate base and conjugate acid coexist in solution
word: pyroglutamate
Related terms: pyroglutamination
pyroglutamyl
pyroglutamylation
pyrolysates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pyrolysate
pyrolysate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pyrolysates
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any product of pyrolysis
grapplings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of grappling
Penza
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Russian Пе́нза (Pénza).
Senses: glosses: An oblast of Russia.
glosses: A city, the administrative center of Penza Oblast, Russia.
Penza
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Penzas
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian Penza.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Italian.
gumline
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gumlines
Etymology: From gum + line.
Senses: examples: text: Leaving plaque along the gumline leaves gums swollen and inflamed and apt to bleed.
ref: 2007 December 20, Martha Schindler Connors, “Pearly Wisdom”, in New York Times:
glosses: The line along the top of the gums, where they meet the surface of the teeth
gunbattle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gunbattles
Etymology: From gun + battle.
Senses: examples: text: Up to 12 gunmen attacked the team's convoy near the Gaddafi Stadium with rockets, hand grenades and automatic weapons, triggering a 25-minute gunbattle with security forces, said Lahore police chief chief Habib-ur Rehman.
ref: 2009 March 3, Staff writers with wires, “Australian Test captain Ricky Ponting condemns Lahore attack”, in Herald Sun:
glosses: A gunfight; a battle involving gunfire
gunbattles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gunbattle
flavanols
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of flavanol
gribenes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈɡɹɪbənəs/
Etymology: Borrowed from Yiddish גריבענעס (gribenes), from Middle High German griebe (“piece of fat, crackling”). Compare modern German Griebe.
Senses: examples: text: Oy, it was such a shanda. I should never buy gribenes from a mohel. It's so chewy.
ref: 1993, Randi Mayem Singer, Leslie Dixon, Mrs. Doubtfire, spoken by Daniel (Robin Williams):
text: But the only gribenes I ate growing up came from my grandmother’s South Beach kitchen.
ref: 2008 February 20, “Letters”, in New York Times:
glosses: A snack food in Eastern European Jewish cuisine, combining cracklings of chicken or goose skin with fried onions.
Related terms: list in greaves
Tyumen
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Russian Тюме́нь (Tjuménʹ).
Senses: glosses: A city, the administrative center of Tyumen Oblast, Russia.
glosses: An oblast of Russia.
Derived terms: Tyumen Oblast
gamelanlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more gamelanlike
form: most gamelanlike
Etymology: From gamelan + -like.
Senses: examples: text: Anther track, Clouds Collapse, is the albums brief textural diversion; it pings a gamelanlike melody amid feedback and distortion.
ref: 2007 December 31, The New York Times, “New CDs”, in New York Times:
glosses: Resembling a gamelan or the sound of gamelan music
governmentwide
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From government + -wide.
Senses: examples: text: […] it is unclear whether the beatings of potential political opponents are a governmentwide strategy or a narrower effort by Mr. Mugabe’s backers to shore up his remaining power.
ref: 2007 March 29, Michael Wines, “Zimbabwean Leaders Accused of Abducting Opponents”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 26 Nov 2022:
glosses: Extending throughout a government.
froggish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more froggish
form: most froggish
Etymology: From frog + -ish.
Senses: examples: text: The fairy queen of the freak-folk movement, Ms. Newsom uses a harp and her froggish little voice to spin elaborate, beguiling fantasies.
ref: 2008 February 1, “Pop and rock listings”, in The New York Times:
synonyms: froggy
froglike
frogly
ranine
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a frog (amphibian).
examples: text: Fuck with me now, bitch; let's see you freestyle!
Talk is cheap, motherfucker, if you really feelin' froggish, leap.
ref: 2002, “When the Music Stops”, performed by Eminem:
glosses: Inclined to fight.
examples: text: Well if you feel froggish
And you wanna hop my gal
Please don't be no fool
'Cause I took you for my pal.
ref: 1954, Ike Turner, Brother Bell, If You Feel Froggish:
glosses: Aggressive.
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a French person.
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of the French language.
Related terms: anuran
batrachian
salientian
toadish
toadlike
toadly
toady
flavanol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: flavanols
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of a class of flavonoids that use the 2-phenyl-3,4-dihydro-2H-chromen-3-ol molecular skeleton
Derived terms: bioflavanol
bisflavanol
flavanolic
Related terms: flavandiol
flavonol
freeskiing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From free + skiing.
Senses: examples: text: The same is true in freeskiing, in which skiers pull tricks on some of the same terrain as snowboarders.
ref: 2008 January 25, Matt Higgins, “At X Games, One-Upmanship Is a Trend in High Places”, in New York Times:
glosses: A form of relatively extreme skiing, often occurring away from traditional marked courses
Hypernyms: skiing
Related terms: freeski
freestyle skiing
freeskiing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From free + skiing.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of freeski
fashiony
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more fashiony
form: most fashiony
Etymology: From fashion + -y.
Senses: examples: text: The store has its own music label — compilations of fashiony dance bands, French-Arabic tunes and other obscurities.
ref: 2007 September 6, Mike Albo, “The Department of Just Right”, in New York Times:
glosses: Characteristic of the fashion industry.
falsecarded
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of falsecard
expressivist
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From expressive + -ist.
Senses: examples: text: Since cognitivism is already a commitment of SEN, I see no harm in assuming it so long as we keep in mind that one possible lesson of MTE is that the content of moral predicates is [primarily] non-cognitive or expressivist.
ref: 2007 May 26, Michael Rubin, “Sound intuitions on Moral Twin Earth”, in Philosophical Studies, volume 139, number 3, →DOI:
topics: ethics
human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
glosses: Pertaining to or advocating expressivism, the doctrine that the primary function of moral sentences and sensation sentences (like "I am in pain") is to express an evaluative attitude, rather than stating a fact
Related terms: expressivistic
expressivist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: expressivists
Etymology: From expressive + -ist.
Senses: topics: ethics
human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
glosses: An advocate of expressivism
factorylike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more factorylike
form: most factorylike
Etymology: From factory + -like.
Senses: examples: text: As China modernizes at breakneck speed, emphasizing the factorylike production of contemporary artists, the tradition of Shaanxi shadow theater is on the wane.
ref: 2008 February 8, Karen Rosenberg, “Shadow Journey to the East on Rawhide Wings”, in New York Times:
glosses: Resembling a factory in any of various respects
expressivists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of expressivist
embryoniclike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more embryoniclike
form: most embryoniclike
Etymology: From embryonic + -like.
Senses: examples: text: It “raises no serious moral problem, because it creates embryoniclike stem cells without creating, harming or destroying human lives at any stage,” said Richard Doerflinger, the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops ’ spokesman on stem cell issues.
ref: 2007 June 7, Nicholas Wade, “Biologists Make Skin Cells Work Like Stem Cells”, in New York Times:
glosses: Resembling embryonic cells
eruv
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈɛɹʊv/
/ˈeɪ.ɹʊv/
Forms: form: eruvs
form: eruvim
form: eruvin
form: erub
form: eiruv
Etymology: Borrowed from Hebrew עירוב / עֵרוּב (eirúv, “mixture”).
Senses: examples: text: Sam is sad that people don't visit him at home on Shabbos because he lives outside the eruv.
text: That, she said, is the kind of problem that an eruv can solve. The city is home to other eruvs — a large one in Manhattan was extended this year from Midtown to Houston Street — and many are in predominantly Jewish areas. […] “We live in a day and age,” he continued, “where if you don’t have an eruv, you’re taking yourself off of many people’s lists.”
ref: 2007 August 12, Jake Mooney, “A Slender Thread to Knit a Neighborhood”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 30 Jun 2013:
text: ‘Fat’ is the word you hear shouted in the playground, or on the street – it's never allowed over the threshold of the house. My mum won't have that filth in her house. At home, together, we are safe. It's like an eruv for the slow and soft.
ref: 2011, Caitlin Moran, How to be a Woman:
text: The eruv makes it easier for Orthodox Jews to move around, but it reinforces the idea that this community is our home.
ref: 2018 October 29, Kristin Kanthak, “Hate can’t diminish ‘Mr. Rogers’ Neighborhood’”, in CNN:
topics: law
qualifier: most commonly
glosses: An eruv chatzerot; ritual aggregation of properties that allows Jews observing traditional Shabbat rules to carry burdens across property lines.
topics: law
glosses: One of the other types of eruv; an eruv tavshilin or eruv techumin.
Related terms: eruv chatzerot
eruv tavshilin
eruv techumin
falsecard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: falsecards
Etymology: From false + card.
Senses: topics: bridge
games
glosses: A card played in order to deceive an opponent as to one's true holding
falsecard
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: falsecards
form: falsecarding
form: falsecarded
form: falsecarded
Etymology: From false + card.
Senses: examples: text: East returned the diamond eight, the higher of his two remaining cards, on which declarer falsecarded with his ten.
ref: 2008 March 31, Phillip Alder, “In Amsterdam, Overtime on the Way to a Title”, in New York Times:
topics: bridge
games
glosses: To play a falsecard
effortfully
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more effortfully
form: most effortfully
Etymology: From effortful + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: When Mr. Wheeldon quotes Balanchine, it is those lifts in which the ballerina has her hands placed, effortfully, on her partner’s[…].
ref: 2008 March 21, Alastair Macaulay, “New to the Glossary: A Pas de Multimedia”, in New York Times:
text: They made their way effortfully towards the Carthaginians[…]”
ref: 1953, Kingsley Amis, chapter 12, in Lucky Jim:
glosses: In an effortful manner: with effort.
elderliness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From elderly + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: Saul Bellow wrote his last novel, “Ravelstein,” at age 84, and the book is a masterpiece, marred only by the fact that Bellow, in his elderliness, did keep on repeating himself[…].
ref: 2007 September 23, Paul Berman, “Velvet Revolutionary”, in New York Times:
glosses: The quality or state of being elderly
Synonyms: agedness
oldness
senectitude
old age
drummerless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From drummer + -less.
Senses: examples: text: Just over a decade ago, the bassist Charlie Haden played a drummerless New York nightclub engagement with the pianist Kenny Barron.
ref: 2007 August 3, The New York Times, “Jazz Listings”, in New York Times:
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: Lacking a drummer
dodecaphonic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: duodecaphonic
Etymology: From dodecaphony + -ic.
Senses: examples: text: In 1952 Pierre Boulez wrote that “any musician who has not felt ... the necessity of the dodecaphonic language is of no use.”
ref: 2008 January 19, Vivien Schweitzer, “Revisiting the Works of a Former Firebrand to See if They’re Still Warm to the Touch”, in New York Times:
glosses: Of or pertaining to dodecaphony.
Derived terms: dodecaphonically
documentarylike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more documentarylike
form: most documentarylike
Etymology: From documentary + -like.
Senses: examples: text: The book is a collage of sorts, a series of short, documentarylike moments from August 1892 to Dec. 31, 1941.
ref: 2008 March 4, Charles Mcgrath, “A Debunker on the Road to World War II”, in New York Times:
glosses: Resembling a documentary.
Related terms: docudrama
docufiction
mockumentary
disjuncts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of disjunct
diffusers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of diffuser
doorknock
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: doorknocks
Etymology: From door + knock.
Senses: examples: text: Sometimes they were raffles, mostly they were doorknocks. I went on one of the doorknocks after Wendy talked me into it.
ref: 1981, Graham Jackson, Square Crib, page 98:
text: To run a doorknock you need volunteer collectors — lots of them. But because there are so many doorknocks each year, collectors are overloaded and it is difficult to recruit new ones.
So what is the answer?
ref: 1995, John Montague Gurney, N. E. Renton, Successful Clubs, page 53:
text: […] mobile phone providers have sent text messages to Victorian customers warning them of the conditions, in what has been described as an "electronic doorknock".
ref: 2009 March 2, Holly Ife with AAP, “CFA and DSE warn of fires threatening Victoria, deny exaggeration”, in Herald Sun, archived from the original on 06 Mar 2009:
glosses: A campaign of going from house to house knocking on doors, such as for a charity appeal.
doorknock
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: doorknocks
form: doorknocking
form: doorknocked
form: doorknocked
Etymology: From door + knock.
Senses: examples: text: 1979, Fatma Dharamsi, et al., Harlesden Community Project, Community Work And Caring For Children: A Community Project In An Inner City Local Authority, page 440,
During the doorknocking local residents had talked about other issues.
text: With some exceptions, doorknocking is likely to elicit a large number of small donations but relatively few large donations.
ref: 2007, Philip Hughes, Alan Black, Peter Kaldor, Building Stronger Communities, page 156:
text: ‘He doorknocked thirty-two thousand houses,’ Thérèse says. ‘I doorknocked with him at weekends. That′s one way to get fit, especially when every house that I doorknocked was high-set, but I took the formal period of the campaign off.’
ref: 2007, Robert Macklin, Kevin Rudd: The Biography, unnumbered page:
glosses: To participate in a campaign of going from house to house knocking on doors; to knock on the door (of a house) during such a campaign.
doorknocks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of doorknock
doorknocks
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of doorknock
detectible
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From detect + -ible.
Senses: examples: text: The other crucial finding of the report was that there was a detectible “optimism bias” among Google employees.
ref: 2008 January 7, Noam Cohen, “Google’s Lunchtime Betting Game”, in New York Times:
glosses: Able to be detected.
Derived terms: detectibly
indetectible
depthless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From depth + -less.
Senses: examples: text: The result is not an image of the natural world in a tapestry but a depiction of nature as a tapestry: a splendid, impenetrable, depthless screen of shivering pixels.
ref: 2007 October 19, Holland Cotter, “King-Size Stories, Woven for the Ages”, in New York Times:
glosses: Having no depth, or having a depth that is impossible to determine; immeasurably deep.
Synonyms: deep
Derived terms: depthlessly
depthlessness
depressionlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more depressionlike
form: most depressionlike
Etymology: From depression + -like.
Senses: examples: text: El Centro has the highest unemployment rate in the nation, a depressionlike 22.6 percent.
ref: 2009 March 4, David Leonhardt, “Job Losses Show Breadth of a Recession”, in New York Times:
topics: economics
sciences
glosses: Resembling a depression
deliberator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: deliberators
Etymology: From deliberate + -or.
Senses: examples: text: But the policy deliberator has no special concerns for this golden nugget.
ref: 2008 December 3, Nancy Cartwright, “Evidence-based policy: what’s to be done about relevance?”, in Philosophical Studies, volume 143, number 1, →DOI, pages 127–136:
glosses: A person who deliberates.
dancegoing
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From dance + going.
Senses: examples: text: Balletomanes can happily exist on a diet of toe shoes and tulle for two months, but the rest of the dancegoing population will want to pick and choose.
ref: 2007 December 28, The New York Times, “Dance Listings”, in New York Times:
glosses: Habitually attending a dance or dance performance.
Related terms: dancegoer
crustless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From crust + -less.
Senses: examples: text: 1 cup crustless country bread, torn into pieces
ref: 2007 June 6, “Recipe: Pork Meatballs With Yogurt Dressing”, in New York Times:
text: This wasn't a new concoction of salt, sugar, and fat whose appeal was well known to these investors. Madison's $18 billion portfolio had contained the largest Burger King franchise in the world, the Ruth's Chris Steak House chain, and a processed food maker called Pierre whose lineup includes a champion of handheld convenience, the Jamwich, a peanut butter and jelly contrivance that comes frozen, crustless, and embedded with four kinds of sugars, from dextrose to corn syrup.
ref: 2013 February 26, Michael Moss, Salt Sugar Fat: How the Food Giants Hooked Us, McClelland & Stewart, →ISBN:
text: From birth, Christian had an innate sense of flair and ceremony: in elementary school, indifferent to mockery, he would cut our peanut butter and jelly into crustless tea sandwiches and include a fluted paper plate in our lunch bags.
ref: 2015, Courtney Hodell, “Babes in the Woods”, in Meghan Daum, editor, Selfish, Shallow, and Self-Absorbed: Sixteen Writers on the Decision Not to Have Kids, New York, N.Y.: Picador, →ISBN, pages 14–15:
topics: cooking
food
lifestyle
glosses: Having no crust
deliberators
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of deliberator
counterinsurgents
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of counterinsurgent
conjurings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of conjuring
counterinsurgent
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: counterinsurgents
Etymology: From counter- + insurgent.
Senses: examples: text: Counterinsurgency is, by definition, a competition between insurgents and counterinsurgents for the control and support of a population.
ref: 2007 August 19, Buddhika Jayamaha, Wesley D. Smith, Jeremy Roebuck, Omar Mora, Edward Sandmeier, Yance T. Gray, Jeremy A. Murphy, “The War as We Saw It”, in New York Times:
glosses: A person combating an insurgency.
Related terms: counterinsurgency
insurgent
cannonlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more cannonlike
form: most cannonlike
Etymology: From cannon + -like.
Senses: examples: text: Two young crew members, a man and woman, climb over the towers in the balconies as though they were monkey bars, stringing cable and then attaching small cannonlike lights that they aim at particular spots on the stage.
ref: 1988 April 29, Dan Swain, “Putting on a Show”, in Chicago Reader:
glosses: Resembling the shape or sound of a cannon
buzzworthy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more buzzworthy
form: most buzzworthy
Etymology: From buzz + -worthy.
Senses: examples: text: The most buzzworthy has to be Glasgow's Optimo, an underground Glimmers, for what should be a sell-out at the Toff, while the following night obscure UK disco stalwart Felix Dickinson plays the club.
ref: 2009 February 12, “Club land”, in Herald Sun:
glosses: Worthy of enthusiastic popular attention, or buzz
size matters
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: Used to assert the opinion that sexual partners prefer men with larger penises, or that penis size has an effect on the quality of an act of intercourse.
Related terms: it's not the size of the ship, it's the motion of the ocean
cipollini
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cipollinis
Senses: examples: text: The cipollinis will brown quickly, so don't walk away while they're cooking.
ref: 2009 January 12, “What's for Dinner?”, in Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
synonyms: cipolline onion
glosses: A specific variety of medium-sized, flat onion.
cipollini
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cipollino
cipollinis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cipollini
bladelike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more bladelike
form: most bladelike
Etymology: From blade + -like.
Senses: examples: text: He had cuts on his fingers from handling the bladelike fighting string.
ref: 2007 December 15, Kirk Semple, “With Color and Panache, Afghans Fight a Different Kind of War”, in New York Times:
glosses: Resembling a blade
bigos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Polish bigos.
Senses: examples: text: I bombarded him with questions about his history with bigos.
ref: 2008 February 27, Alex Witchel, “A Stew With a Past and a Future”, in New York Times:
glosses: A traditional Polish stew containing cabbage and meat
falsecards
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of falsecard
falsecarding
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of falsecard
baptisias
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of baptisia
baptisia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: baptisias
Etymology: Learned borrowing from taxonomic name Baptisia, derived from Ancient Greek βαπτίζω (baptízō, “to immerse”), in reference to the plant's use as a source of dye.
Senses: examples: text: “We’re really excited about the new baptisias out of Chicago Botanic Garden,” said Steven Castorani, a co-owner of North Creek Nurseries, which specializes in native plants, in Landenberg, Pa.
ref: 2008 January 24, Anne Raver, “What the Nurseries Like for Spring”, in New York Times:
topics: agriculture
business
horticulture
lifestyle
synonyms: wild indigo
false indigo
glosses: Any of various ornamental plants of the genus Baptisia.
barrelhouse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: barrelhouses
Etymology: From barrel + house. Originally used to refer specifically to a bar that served whiskey directly from the barrel.
Senses: examples: text: It’s beautiful, but never naïvely so; the pastoral moments were offset by barrelhouse intrusions.
ref: 2008 January 14, Ben Ratliff, “Jazz Showcase Fever Propels a Mini Marathon”, in New York Times:
glosses: A rough-and-tumble drinking establishment.
examples: text: A barrelhouse blues was being shouted over the stamping of feet on a wooden floor. Miss Grace, the good-time woman, had her usual Saturday-night customers.
ref: 1969, Maya Angelou, chapter 18, in I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, New York: Bantam, published 1971, page 111:
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A loud, percussive type of blues piano suitable for noisy bars or taverns.
Synonyms: sense: drinking establishment
word: juke
sense: drinking establishment
word: juke joint
Related terms: honky-tonk
roadhouse
bulletlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more bulletlike
form: most bulletlike
Etymology: From bullet + -like.
Senses: examples: text: […] a journalist, Anita M. Busch, found a note saying “Stop” taped to her car, a fish and a rose in a tin tray on the hood, a bulletlike hole piercing the windshield.
ref: 2008 March 24, David M. Halbfinger, “Journalist in Pellicano Case Will Get Her Day in Court”, in New York Times:
glosses: Resembling a bullet or the path of a bullet.
bridgelike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more bridgelike
form: most bridgelike
Etymology: From bridge + -like.
Senses: examples: text: A sweeping arched roof is held up by a bridgelike cable-stayed suspension system.
ref: 2008 February 29, David W. Dunlap, “Modern Pool for Public Is Opening in Flushing”, in New York Times:
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a bridge.
glosses: Similar to the card game of bridge.
bombmaker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bombmakers
Etymology: From bomb + maker.
Senses: examples: text: If Bush only gives money to his bombmaker friends, and none to the people, he should be deposed or step down.
ref: 1990 February 11, S. Kelly, “How To Spell Respect”, in Gay Community News, volume 17, number 30, page 5:
text: He was also an accomplice of notorious JI bombmaker Azahari Husin, who was shot dead by police in November 2005.
ref: 2009 January 13, From correspondents in Jakarta, “Terror suspects on trial in Indonesia”, in Herald-Sun:
glosses: A person or company that manufactures bombs
blockheaded
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more blockheaded
form: most blockheaded
Etymology: From block + headed.
Senses: examples: text: Sullivan again proves himself a master at evoking diverse musical styles, as in “This Helmet, I Suppose,” a song for Arac, one of King Gama’s blockheaded warrior sons.
ref: 2008 January 7, Anthony Tommasini, “That Gilbert and Sullivan Maiden With Mission and Erudition”, in New York Times:
glosses: Resembling a blockhead; stupid
Derived terms: blockheadedly
blockheadedness
blockheaded
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of blockhead
bloblike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more bloblike
form: most bloblike
form: blob-like
Etymology: From blob + -like.
Senses: examples: text: “He is one of the main reasons I decided to dedicate my life to design,” said Mr. Rashid, known for his bloblike furniture and housewares.
ref: 2007 March 4, Phil Patton, “Colani’s Concepts Make Concept Cars Look Tame”, in New York Times:
synonyms: blobby
blobular
glosses: Resembling a blob.
baserunning
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From base + running.
Senses: examples: text: Zimmer's comment on Martinez's baserunning was that he was "timid" and wouldn't run on the green light.
ref: 1988 July 22, Ted Cox, “The Sports Section”, in Chicago Reader:
topics: ball-games
baseball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: The act of running bases, or a player's skill in doing so
bombmakers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bombmaker