cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
gested
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdʒɛstɪd/
Forms: form: more gested
form: most gested
Etymology: From gest + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: Bouteillan, the old bald butler who unprofessionally now wore a mustache (dyed a rich gravy brown), met him with gested delight [...].
ref: 1969, Vladimir Nabokov, Ada or Ardor, Penguin, published 2011, page 27:
glosses: Accompanied with gestures; conveyed by gesture.
minilamp
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: minilamps
Etymology: From mini- + lamp.
Senses: examples: text: Jay Monroe, an engineer whose wife’s discontent over the strong light he needed for bedtime reading provoked him to invent a high-intensity, low-voltage minilamp whose use spread to desks, jewelers’ worktables, limousines and far beyond, died on June 12 at his home in Sands Point, N.Y. He was 80.
ref: 2007 July 2, Douglas Martin, “Jay Monroe, 80, Engineer Who Invented Tensor Lamp, Dies”, in New York Times:
glosses: A miniature lamp.
minilamps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of minilamp
nonbillionaire
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nonbillionaires
Etymology: From non- + billionaire.
Senses: examples: text: In the marketing of Hala, which means “Welcome” in Arabic, nonbillionaires need not apply.
ref: 2007 July 2, Kirk Johnson, “A $135 Million Home, but if You Have to Ask ...”, in New York Times:
glosses: One who is not a billionaire.
nonbillionaires
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nonbillionaire
unappreciation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From un- + appreciation.
Senses: examples: text: To delve in an ongoing exploration of this action is to convey unappreciation for a "true expression of gratitude" and may lead the giver to feelings of shame...
ref: 2003, Robert J. Wicks, Richard D. Parsons, Donald Capps, Clinical handbook of pastoral counseling, page 116:
text: Music unappreciation: A new book by Lawrence Kramer laments the dwindling enthusiasm for classical music and examines what could be lost.
ref: 2007 July 2, Edward Rothstein, “Classical Music Imperiled: Can You Hear the Shrug?”, in New York Times:
synonyms: inappreciation
glosses: Lack of appreciation; failure to appreciate; ingratitude.
unbuild
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: unbuilds
form: unbuilding
form: unbuilt
form: unbuilt
Etymology: From un- + build.
Senses: examples: text: Anything you build or plant on your neighbor's land you might have to unbuild or unplant in the future.
ref: 2003, Barbara Damrosch, The Garden Primer, page 5:
text: His building and unbuilding, both, are a slog.
ref: 2007 July 2, Richard Eder, “When People, Culture and Even Time Are Suspect”, in New York Times:
glosses: To dismantle or deconstruct (something previously built).
unbuilds
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of unbuild
unbuilding
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of unbuild
developmentary
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From development + -ary.
Senses: examples: text: We all learned about homeobox genes (and others) in our developmentary biology and molecular genetics classes.
ref: 2007 July 3, “Letters”, in New York Times:
glosses: Pertaining to development; developmental.
facetlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more facetlike
form: most facetlike
Etymology: From facet + -like.
Senses: examples: text: Accordingly, there were silvery coats, hologram ties, jackets with facetlike seams, and lots of sensible if expensive sportswear.
ref: 2007 July 3, Cathy Horyn, “In Paris, Some Push Ideas, Others Just Push Product”, in New York Times:
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a facet (flat surface of a gemstone).
stilbs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stilb
hayracks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hayrack
hayrack
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hayracks
Etymology: From hay + rack.
Senses: examples: text: The books flutter down from the bucket on high onto an old hayrack on the floor of the Dumpster.
ref: 2007 July 3, Verlyn Klinkenborg, “Barn Cleaning”, in New York Times:
glosses: A freestanding vertical drying-rack for animal fodder.
supertechnical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more supertechnical
form: most supertechnical
Etymology: From super- + technical.
Senses: examples: text: Everything had been old for too long, lazy and rusty and now, it wanted, at a single jolt, to become modern, ultramodern, supertechnical.
ref: 1964, Stefan Zweig, The world of yesterday: an autobiography, page 331:
text: Somehow, T. I. delivers supertechnical raps without ever sounding as boring as that last sentence.
ref: 2007 July 3, Kelefa Sanneh, “In Rap, Inner War Can Be a Trap”, in New York Times:
glosses: Highly technical.
tomboylike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more tomboylike
form: most tomboylike
Etymology: From tomboy + -like.
Senses: examples: text: Evelyn spoke of having been her father's favorite as a child, of Father's appreciating her competence, energy, and tomboylike feistiness...
ref: 1993, Kenneth Levin, Unconscious fantasy in psychotherapy:
text: And few singers matched her deadpan comic timing and physical nimbleness in lighter roles like Rosina in Rossini’s “Barbiere di Siviglia,” whom Ms. Sills portrayed as a ditsy yet determined young woman, and Marie, the tomboylike heroine raised by a military regiment in Donizetti’s “Fille du Régiment.”
ref: 2007 July 3, Anthony Tommasini, “Beverly Sills, All-American Diva, Is Dead at 78”, in New York Times:
glosses: Like a tomboy; tomboyish.
ballcarriers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ballcarrier
goldbricker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: goldbrickers
form: gold-bricker
Etymology: From goldbrick + -er.
Senses: examples: text: Before hearing the response from the Department of Education, it is worth making one point. Ms. Rabenau, Mr. Schneider and Mr. Knox offer no sense of being complainers or goldbrickers.
ref: 2007 July 4, Samuel G. Freedman, “So Much Paperwork, So Little Time to Teach”, in New York Times:
glosses: A lazy person; an idler.
Synonyms: goldbrick
goldbrickers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of goldbricker
lechonera
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lechoneras
Etymology: From Spanish lechonera.
Senses: examples: text: According to Mr. Ayala, some of the best lechón is actually a short drive southwest of Guavate, at a lechonera called El Cuñao.
ref: 2007 July 4, Cindy Price, “Party With Pig: In Puerto Rico, a Glorious Feast”, in New York Times:
glosses: A Latin American restaurant selling roasted pork.
lechoneras
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lechonera
tindery
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more tindery
form: most tindery
Etymology: From tinder + -y.
Senses: examples: text: In the browning corn fields here, the light breeze makes a tindery noise as it rustles the dry stalks.
ref: 2007 July 4, Adam Nossiter, “Drought Saps the Southeast, and Its Farmers”, in New York Times:
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of tinder.
glosses: Quick to anger; irascible.
Synonyms: tinderish
preholiday
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pre- + holiday.
Senses: examples: text: Wall Street advanced yesterday in a preholiday session as investors drew confidence from a smaller-than-expected dip in factory orders and new merger-and-acquisition activity.
ref: 2007 July 4, The Associated Press, “Takeover News Gives Shares a Mild Lift”, in New York Times:
glosses: Before a holiday.
bereftness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From bereft + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: Thus began six days of bereftness and uncertainty for Mr. Chiu that ended, on Tuesday night, with the Scarampella returned to him — after taking a curious detour — courtesy of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority with an assist from the person he has come to refer to as “my thief.”
ref: 2007 July 5, Eric Konigsberg, “Violin Taken in Subway Is Reunited With Owner”, in New York Times:
glosses: The quality of being bereft.
clumper
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈklʌmpə/
ipa: /ˈklʌmpɚ/
rhymes: -ʌmpə(ɹ)
Forms: form: clumpers
form: clumpering
form: clumpered
form: clumpered
Etymology: Compare German klumpern (“to clod”). See clump (noun).
Senses: examples: text: Vapours […] clumper'd in balls of clouds.
ref: 1647, Henry More, A Platonick Song of the Soul:
text: An' dere at evemen, I da goo, A-hoppèn auver ghiates an' bars, By twinklen light o' winter stars, When snow da clumper to my shoe;
ref: 1862, William Allingham, Nightingale Valley, page 186:
text: […] then let it cool, and put in the Camphire and four ounces of Venice turpentine drop by drop, lest it clumper, stirring it continually, then make it up into Rolls, and do with it to the pleasure of God , and health of man.
ref: 1891, Elizabeth Robinson, “The Pearl of Practice”, in Popular Science Monthly and World's Advance, volume 39, number 13, page 242:
glosses: To form into clumps or masses.
examples: text: The palms of TV looked especially welcome as the plane clumpered down on a hazy tarmac in a greenish, weedy field.
ref: 1991, Alexander Buzo, Prue Flies North, page 68:
text: As the tired horse clumpered into Dark, I ate the wursttail, arranged bread, butter and milk for pastor, so he not need to go to bed hungry.
ref: 2000, Westerly - Volumes 45-46, page 131:
text: The soft tumbling patter of four-footed steps clumpered up behind the girl and the hobgoblin, and Chester walked up and sat between them, watching the bitter, bouncing boy.
ref: 2005, JT Petty, Clemency Pogue: Fairy Killer, page 73:
glosses: To move heavily; to clomp or clump.
examples: text: The cold, indeed, was now becoming so intense as to congeal and skim over all the pools and still eddies of the river, and make solid ice along the shores of the rapid currents of the stream; while even the ground was fast becoming so frozen as to clumper and sound beneath the hurrying tread of our anxious travellers .
ref: 1890, Daniel Pierce Thompson, Gaut Gurley, Or The Trappers of Umbagog, page 221:
glosses: To make a clumping noise.
clumpers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of clumper
oblongum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: oblonga
Senses: topics: geometry
mathematics
sciences
glosses: A prolate spheroid; a figure described by the revolution of an ellipse about its greater axis.
thirteenfold
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From thirteen + -fold.
Senses: glosses: By a factor of thirteen, tredecuple.
thirteenfold
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From thirteen + -fold.
Senses: glosses: By a factor of thirteen.
sixteenfold
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From sixteen + -fold.
Senses: glosses: By a factor of sixteen.
sixteenfold
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From sixteen + -fold.
Senses: glosses: By a factor of sixteen.
fifteenfold
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From fifteen + -fold.
Senses: examples: text: Rodobens, a provincial firm specializing in the lower-middle income bracket, has plans to build 10,000 homes a year over the next four years, a fifteenfold rise on its previous annual total.
ref: 2007 July 5, Andrew Downie, “Loan Changes in Brazil Motivate New Buyers and Home Building”, in New York Times:
glosses: By a factor of fifteen.
fifteenfold
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From fifteen + -fold.
Senses: glosses: By a factor of fifteen.
fourteenfold
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From fourteen + -fold.
Senses: glosses: By a factor of fourteen.
fourteenfold
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From fourteen + -fold.
Senses: glosses: By a factor of fourteen.
eighteenfold
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From eighteen + -fold.
Senses: glosses: By a factor of eighteen.
eighteenfold
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From eighteen + -fold.
Senses: glosses: By a factor of eighteen.
leakee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: leakees
Etymology: From leak + -ee.
Senses: examples: text: He went so far as to change substantive policy decisions after they had been leaked to the press in order to undermine the leaker and embarrass the leakee.
ref: 2005, Andrew Rudalevige, The new imperial presidency, page 104:
text: The two lobbyists understandably saw no reason to keep their information secret; the law, as everybody understood it, punished leakers, not leakees.
ref: 2008, Dana Milbank, Homo politicus: the strange and barbaric tribes of the beltway:
glosses: One about whom information is leaked.
leakees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of leakee
nonscuff
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + scuff.
Senses: examples: text: And one can only wonder what Paul Sperry (the stalwart New Englander who invented the Sperry Top-Sider in 1935 by joining a novel nonslip, nonscuff white rubber sole to a moccasin upper) would think to hear Tommy Fazio, the men’s fashion director at Bergdorf Goodman, declare on his cellphone from the Milan men’s wear shows last week, “It’s all about a boat shoe.”
ref: 2007 July 5, David Colman, “It’s Safe to Go Back in Top-Siders”, in New York Times:
glosses: Not causing scuffing.
Synonyms: nonscuffing
ZDDP
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ZDDPs
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Initialism of zinc dialkyldithiophosphate.
outserve
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: outserves
form: outserving
form: outserved
form: outserved
Etymology: From out- + serve.
Senses: examples: text: Even the National Provincial Bank, the Company's bankers, believed that he had outserved his time.
ref: 2006, William Roger Louis, Ends of British imperialism, page 763:
text: Because if Venus wants it, you can’t outhit her, you can’t outserve her, and she and Serena, when they return serves, it’s just unbelievable.
ref: 2007 July 5, John Branch, “Venus Ousts Sharapova; Serena Falls to Henin”, in New York Times:
glosses: To serve more or better than.
outserves
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of outserve
outserving
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of outserve
outserved
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of outserve
semihidden
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From semi- + hidden.
Senses: examples: text: The store is semihidden, upstairs from Spring Street, past the busy back doors of a restaurant kitchen.
ref: 2007 July 5, Mike Albo, “International House of Oddities”, in New York Times:
glosses: Partly or almost concealed.
shellfishery
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shellfisheries
Etymology: Blend of shellfish + fishery
Senses: examples: text: It may come as a surprise that there is a shellfishery worth defending in New York City waters.
ref: 2007 July 5, Andy Newman, “Raritan Bay Border War Flares Anew Over Clams”, in New York Times:
glosses: A place where shellfish are caught or processed.
glosses: The catching of shellfish.
shellfisheries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shellfishery
tourers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tourer
dollhouselike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more dollhouselike
form: most dollhouselike
Etymology: From dollhouse + -like.
Senses: examples: text: Crucial to the meaning of this film is the scene in the dollhouselike Nicholai home where Dix theatricalizes his "crime" of killing Mildred Atkinson.
ref: 2005, John David Slocum, Rebel without a cause: approaches to a maverick masterwork, page 64:
text: His dollhouselike sculptures, with a verisimilitude so great that you can read the brand name on the less-than-an-inch-high cans of spray paint, reveal a world inaccessible to the average art lover.
ref: 2007 July 6, Bridget L. Goodbody, “Tiny People Painting: Look In, Look In”, in New York Times:
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a dollhouse.
mesmerisation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mesmerisations
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of mesmerization.
mesmerization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mesmerizations
form: mesmerisation
Etymology: From mesmerize + -ation.
Senses: glosses: The action of being mesmerized; the state produced by this action.
nonmatching
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + matching.
Senses: examples: text: She is attired in a style she deems “eclectic with a professional edge”: metallic beige jacket above nonmatching gauchos above beige fishnet stockings above peep-toe wedge sandals.
ref: 2007 July 6, Robin Finn, “A Twangy Thorn in Bush’s Side”, in New York Times:
glosses: Not matching.
Synonyms: unmatched
nonscandalous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + scandalous.
Senses: glosses: Not scandalous.
nonscandal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nonscandals
Etymology: From non- + scandal.
Senses: examples: text: Little controversy followed, however, and the memory all but disappeared after Ms. Hill’s nonscandal — mouthing an angry “What?!” when a competitor won a prize — at the Country Music Association Awards six months later.
ref: 2007 July 6, The New York Times, “Pop and Rock Listings”, in New York Times:
glosses: An incident that is not a scandal.
nonscandals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nonscandal
in recent memory
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: glosses: In living memory.
nondepot
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + depot.
Senses: examples: nondepot locations
glosses: Not being or pertaining to a depot.
partymeister
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: partymeisters
Etymology: From party + -meister.
Senses: examples: text: The Baltimore partymeister Dan Deacon has become an underground celebrity playing the kind of music Max Headroom might have made, with low-tech synthesizers pumping manic, smarmy melodies at high volume.
ref: 2007 July 6, The New York Times, “Pop and Rock Listings”, in New York Times:
glosses: One who hosts parties.
partymeisters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of partymeister
superconcert
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: superconcerts
Etymology: From super- + concert.
Senses: examples: text: Two years ago, after the Live 8 concerts — held on the 20th anniversary of Live Aid, the granddaddy of the modern worldwide charity superconcert — the leaders of the Group of 8 nations pledged to double their aid to Africa by 2010.
ref: 2007 July 6, Ben Sisario, “Songs for an Overheated Planet”, in New York Times:
glosses: A large, elaborate musical concert.
superconcerts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of superconcert
ultrafashionable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more ultrafashionable
form: most ultrafashionable
Etymology: From ultra- + fashionable.
Senses: examples: text: Despite its confinement to ultrafashionable shoppers, Barneys has remained a crown jewel of clothiers, Barneys has remained a crown jewel of clothiers, its famous red awnings often making appearances in shows like “Sex and the City.”
ref: 2007 July 6, Michael J. De La Merced, “Japanese Retailer Makes Unsolicited Bid for Barneys”, in New York Times:
glosses: Extremely fashionable.
ecthyma
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ecthymas
form: ecthymata
Senses: examples: text: Lucky Lady is in isolation for a couple of weeks, trying to shake a case of contagious ecthyma, or sore mouth, a condition Ms. Coston described as lamb herpes.
ref: 2007 July 7, Kim Severson, “Rounded Up in the City, Then Coddled in Style”, in New York Times:
topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: A contagious ulcerative pyoderma of the skin, caused by bacteria.
Related terms: ecthymatous
ecthymas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ecthyma
pyodermata
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pyoderma
ecthymata
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ecthyma
nonulcerative
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + ulcerative.
Senses: glosses: Not ulcerative.
nontypically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From nontypical + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a manner that is not typical.
mudang
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mudangs
Etymology: Borrowed from Korean 무당(巫堂) (mudang).
Senses: examples: text: Most mudangs are women who say they discovered their ability to serve as a mediator between the human and spirit worlds after emerging from a critical illness.
ref: 2007 July 7, Choe Sang-Hun, “Shamanism Enjoys Revival in Techno-Savvy South Korea”, in New York Times:
glosses: A Korean shaman, usually female, who acts as intercessor between a god or gods and human beings.
Related terms: Muism
mudangs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mudang
porgie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: porgies
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of porgy.
rereadings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rereading
tolevamer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: The study results mean the drug tolevamer, for severe diarrhea in hospital patients, will not reach the market by 2009 as predicted, said Maria Cantor, a spokeswoman for the company, based in Cambridge, Mass.
ref: 2007 July 7, Bloomberg News, “Today in Business”, in New York Times:
glosses: A toxin-binding polymer that was investigated for the treatment of diarrhoea associated with CDAD.
gastro-œsophageal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From gastro- + œsophageal.
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of gastroesophageal.
cadmoselite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A rare hexagonal cadmium selenide mineral, black to grey in colour.
chaoite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From chao- + -ite.
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A supposed allotrope of carbon whose existence is disputed.
Synonyms: white carbon
clausthalite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: clausthalites
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A lead selenide mineral.
clausthalites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of clausthalite
Muybridgean
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Muybridgean
form: most Muybridgean
form: Muybridgian
Etymology: From Muybridge + -an.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to Eadweard Muybridge (1830–1904), English photographer and inventor of the zoopraxiscope.
muxers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of muxer
muxed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of mux
muxing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of mux
calderite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: calderites
Etymology: From Calder + -ite, after geologist James Calder.
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A garnet mineral.
calderites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of calderite
beaconless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From beacon + -less.
Senses: glosses: Without a beacon.
feastless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From feast + -less.
Senses: glosses: Without a feast.
Islamicate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Islamicate
form: most Islamicate
Etymology: From Islamic + -ate (participial adjective-forming suffix).
Senses: glosses: Associated with regions in which Muslims are culturally dominant, but not specifically with the religion of Islam.
glosses: Which has been influenced by Islam (religion).
Derived terms: Islamication
oomphless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From oomph + -less.
Senses: examples: text: Skeletal, round-shouldered and oomphless, the waif, as photographed by David Sims, Paolo Roversi and art-photographers Nan Goldin and Richard Prince, looked too young, druggy and harmless to wield any power.
ref: 2000, Georgina Howell, Vogue women, page 152:
text: Diners will need to sample among the menu: A dry turkey sandwich was a bit lacking, as was an oomphless, rather too-oceanic seaweed salad.
ref: 2009, Jared Koch, Alex Van Buren, Clean Plates N.Y.C., page 125:
glosses: Lacking oomph (vitality or sex appeal).
whoomphs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of whoomph
whoomphs
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of whoomph
bespell
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: bespells
form: bespelling
form: bespelled
form: bespelled
Etymology: From be- (“on, upon, about”) + spell.
Senses: examples: text: Andrei doubted Miss Kincaid was of an easily persuaded nature. “I must?” “You cannot bespell her. The thing must be given freely or misfortune rebounds.” Ah, but Andrei had already bespelled the lass. Or mayhap she had bespelled him.
ref: 2014, Maggie MacKeever, Vampire, Bespelled:
text: Then just before the attack itself, the simbuk bespelled each fighter with the most powerful form of war magic, a leaf of a variety of croton which each warrior had to keep on his tongue until the end of the encounter (it was fatal if swallowed): [...]
ref: 2015, Robert A. Paul, Mixed Messages:
glosses: To cast a spell upon; to enchant, bewitch.
bespells
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of bespell
bespelling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of bespell
bespelled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more bespelled
form: most bespelled
Senses: examples: text: At dawn, once the raiders had made an opening in the stockade and were ready to carry out the attack, the magician would chew some bespelled pieces of ginger and lemon, step into the hamlet and spray the mixture from his mouth.
ref: 1993, Simon Harrison, The Mask of War:
glosses: Endued with magical power; enchanted; charmed
bespelled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of bespell
gmelinite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gmelinites
Etymology: From Gmelin + -ite, after Christian Gottlob Gmelin (1792–1860).
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A rare zeolite mineral related to chabazite.
gmelinites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gmelinite
barbertonite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Barberton + -ite, after Barberton district, Transvaal, South Africa.
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A magnesium chromium carbonate mineral, a hexagonal polymorph of stichtite.
bakhchisaraitsevite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Bakhchisaraitsev + -ite.
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A soft mineral containing hydrogen, magnesium, oxygen, phosphorus, and sodium.
weissite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Weiss + -ite.
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A hexagonal copper telluride mineral.
nonzeolitic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + zeolitic.
Senses: glosses: Not zeolitic.
fire salamander
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fire salamanders
Senses: examples: text: Fire salamanders, which are common on forested hillsides in southern and central Europe, extrude secretions onto their skin containing a neurotoxic alkaloid, Samandarin, when they think they are under attack.
ref: 2012, Caspar Henderson, The Book of Barely Imagined Beings, Granta Books, published 2013, page 6:
glosses: A medium-sized black salamander with yellow spots (Salamandra salamandra), native to Europe, related to the tiger salamander.
fire salamanders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fire salamander
girasols
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of girasol
panellings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of panelling
panelings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of paneling
anæsthesiology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of anaesthesiology.
browsewrap
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: browsewraps
form: browse-wrap
Etymology: From browse + wrap, modelled on clickwrap, itself modelled on shrinkwrap.
Senses: examples: text: Relative to clickwrap, browsewrap is easily ignored by consumers, leaving them more vulnerable to exploitation.
ref: 2004, Louis S. Freeman, Tax strategies for corporate acquisitions, dispositions, spin-offs, joint ventures, financings, reorganizations and restructurings:
topics: law
glosses: A form of clickwrap license where the user must consent to the terms in order to use a website.
browsewraps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of browsewrap
misspeaker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: misspeakers
Etymology: From misspeak + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who misspeaks.
misspeakers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of misspeaker
browzes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of browze
browzing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of browze
browzed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of browze
æsthesia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: æsthesiæ
Senses: examples: text: As the conditions for producing different phenomena required variations of these relations between anæsthesia and hyperæsthesia, or even normal æsthesia for certain parts of the body the manifestations seemed to have adjusted themselves to these needs.
ref: 1911, W. H. Hamilton, J. S. Smyth, James H. Hyslop, chapter III, in Proceedings of the American Society for Psychical Research, volume V, page 126:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of aesthesia.
biparting
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From bi- + parting.
Senses: glosses: Opening away from each other in two opposite directions.
raw_tags: of doors
androgenization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌandɹədʒənʌɪˈzeɪʃn̩/
Forms: form: androgenisation
Etymology: From androgenize + -ation.
Senses: examples: text: The global androgenization hypothesis predicts that neighboring males will masculinize both AGD and 2D:4D and, therefore, that AGD and 2D:4D will correlate within sexes.
ref: 2007 December 14, Peter L. Hurd, Allison A. Bailey, Patricia A. Gongal, Reginia H. Yan, John J. Greer, Silvia Pagliardini, “Intrauterine Position Effects on Anogenital Distance and Digit Ratio in Male and Female Mice”, in Archives of Sexual Behavior, volume 37, number 1, →DOI:
text: Girls exposed in utero to high levels of progestins, which induce prenatal androgenisation, were described as being tomboys as youngsters, but showed ‘stereotypically feminine sexual behaviour’ as adults.
ref: 2011, Hilary Rose, Steven Rose, “Never Mind the Bollocks”, in London Review of Books, section 33.9:
glosses: The development of male sexual characteristics, especially after treatment with androgens.
æsthesiæ
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: In its lowest aspect it is true that the mere physical irritability of certain structures requires to be satisfied, and provided this be done the passion subsides ; but, in its higher and truer sense, it is the desire of the man as such for the woman as such ; and the oft coincidence of the æsthesiæ in these cases leaves but little doubt that there is an interchange of nervous force.
ref: 1883, Edwin Wooton, “Mimosis Inquieta”, in The Journal of Psychological Medicine and Mental Pathology, Spottiswoode and Co., volume VIII, article IV, page 208:
glosses: plural of æsthesia
appetitively
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more appetitively
form: most appetitively
Etymology: From appetitive + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: One explanation for the different results obtained using the two procedures is that the motivation in the Morris water maze is avoidance of an aversive stimulus (water), whereas the radial arm maze is an appetitively motivated task.
ref: 2007 December 4, Mark D. Spritzer, Mandeep Gill, Alex Weinberg, Liisa A. M. Galea, “Castration Differentially Affects Spatial Working and Reference Memory in Male Rats”, in Archives of Sexual Behavior, volume 37, number 1, →DOI:
glosses: In an appetitive manner.
nonappetitive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + appetitive.
Senses: glosses: Not appetitive.
biodemographic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From bio- + demographic.
Senses: examples: text: First, previous biodemographic studies have suggested that homosexual men and women may differ from their heterosexual counterparts in a range of biodemographic features, including adult height and weight (e.g., Blanchard & Bogaert, 1996 ; Bogaert, 1998 ; Bogaert & Blanchard, 1996 ; Perkins, 1981 ).
ref: 2007 December 18, Drew Rendall, Paul L. Vasey, Jared McKenzie, “The Queen’s English: An Alternative, Biosocial Hypothesis for the Distinctive Features of “Gay Speech””, in Archives of Sexual Behavior, volume 37, number 1, →DOI:
glosses: Of or relating to biodemography
biodemography
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɒɡɹəfi
Etymology: From bio- + demography.
Senses: glosses: A branch of human demography concerned with understanding the complementary biological and demographic determinants of, and interactions between, the birth and death processes that shape individuals and populations.
Related terms: biodemographer
biodemographic
circumpubertal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From circum- + pubertal.
Senses: examples: text: Measuring genital response can be embarrassing for participants, possibly biasing both sample recruitment and subsequent reactions to stimuli: individuals willing to undergo such testing procedures may not be representative members of the population at large, and may be more or less inclined to respond to verboten stimuli (such as pre- or circumpubertal children) during testing.
ref: 2007 December 22, Daniel Brian Krupp, “Through Evolution’s Eyes: Extracting Mate Preferences by Linking Visual Attention to Adaptive Design”, in Archives of Sexual Behavior, volume 37, number 1, →DOI:
glosses: Around the time of puberty.
defeminizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of defeminize
defeminizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of defeminize
defeminized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of defeminize
defeminization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /diːˌfɛmɪnaɪˈzeɪʃən/
Forms: form: defeminizations
Etymology: From defeminize + -ation.
Senses: examples: text: In contrast, most of the defeminization and masculinization of the CNS is dependent on conversion of testosterone to estradiol.
ref: 2007 December 11, Evelyn F. Field, Sergio M. Pellis, “The Brain as the Engine of Sex Differences in the Organization of Movement in Rats”, in Archives of Sexual Behavior, volume 37, number 1, →DOI:
glosses: The process of defeminizing.
dichotomizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of dichotomize
dichotomizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of dichotomize
dichotomizations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dichotomization
familiality
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From familial + -ity.
Senses: examples: text: The demonstration of familiality and heritability of homosexuality (e.g., Pillard & Bailey, 1998 ) has led to numerous attempts to provide genetic explanations.
ref: 2007 December 22, Heino F. L. Meyer-Bahlburg, Curtis Dolezal, Susan W. Baker, Maria I. New, “Sexual Orientation in Women with Classical or Non-classical Congenital Adrenal Hyperplasia as a Function of Degree of Prenatal”, in Archives of Sexual Behavior, volume 37, number 1, →DOI:
glosses: The quality of being familial.
gonadally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From gonadal + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Early androgen treatment improves spatial ability in female rats, but impairs it in gonadally intact males (Roof, 1993 ; Roof & Havens, 1992 ).
ref: 2007 December 12, David A. Puts, Michael A. McDaniel, Cynthia L. Jordan, S. Marc Breedlove, “Spatial Ability and Prenatal Androgens: Meta-Analyses of Congenital Adrenal Hyperplasia and Digit Ratio (2D:4D) Studies”, in Archives of Sexual Behavior, volume 37, number 1, →DOI:
glosses: In terms of the gonads.
hypoarticulation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hypoarticulations
Etymology: From hypo- + articulation.
Senses: examples: text: The overall size of the vowel space in homosexual women, however, was not reduced relative to heterosexual women, as would be expected if their vowel production reflected global hypoarticulations similar to that which characterizes men’s speech.
ref: 2007 December 18, Drew Rendall, Paul L. Vasey, Jared McKenzie, “The Queen’s English: An Alternative, Biosocial Hypothesis for the Distinctive Features of “Gay Speech””, in Archives of Sexual Behavior, volume 37, number 1, →DOI:
glosses: Reduced articulation in speech.
intercorrelate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: intercorrelates
form: intercorrelating
form: intercorrelated
form: intercorrelated
Etymology: From inter- + correlate.
Senses: glosses: To correlate mutually.
raw_tags: of multiple things
Related terms: intercorrelation
intercorrelating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of intercorrelate
intercorrelates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of intercorrelate
intercorrelated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of intercorrelate
interrater
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: inter-rater
Etymology: From inter- + rater.
Senses: examples: text: Near-synonyms: interobserver, intertester, intercoder
text: interrater reliability
text: A second rater scored a subsample of copies ( n = 36 copies of both hands) and achieved high interrater reliability on the 2D and 4D measurements as well as the 2D:4D ratio with the initial rater (all intraclass r s > .97).
ref: 2007 December 12, Kyle L. Gobrogge, S. Marc Breedlove, Kelly L. Klump, “Genetic and Environmental Influences on 2D:4D Finger Length Ratios: A Study of Monozygotic and Dizygotic Male and Female Twins”, in Archives of Sexual Behavior, volume 37, number 1, →DOI:
coordinate_terms: intrarater
;
intraobserver
intratester
intracoder
glosses: Between raters.
Related terms: intertest
intratest
test-retest method
ipsatize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: ipsatizes
form: ipsatizing
form: ipsatized
form: ipsatized
Etymology: From ipsative + -ize.
Senses: examples: text: Occupational preference items are often corrected for “elevation response set”—the general tendency for respondents to prefer many or few occupations—by computing ipsatized items (e.g., subtracting from each item the individual’s mean rating on all items) (Lippa, 1998; Prediger, 1982; Tracey & Rounds, 1993).
ref: 2007 December 12, Richard A. Lippa, “Sex Differences and Sexual Orientation Differences in Personality: Findings from the BBC Internet Survey”, in Archives of Sexual Behavior, volume 37, number 1, →DOI:
glosses: To make ipsative.
Related terms: ipsatization
ipsatizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of ipsatize
ipsatized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of ipsatize
ipsatizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of ipsatize
ipsatization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From ipsatize + -ation.
Senses: glosses: The process of ipsatizing.
hypoarticulations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hypoarticulation
leuenkephalin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: leu-enkephalin
Etymology: From Leu + enkephalin.
Senses: examples: text: PRO, an endogenous opioid itself, is also the precursor of the opiate neuropeptides metenkephalin and leuenkephalin.
ref: 2007 December 11, Craig Howard Kinsley, Massimo Bardi, Kate Karelina, Brandi Rima, Lillian Christon, Julia Friedenberg, Garrett Griffin, “Motherhood Induces and Maintains Behavioral and Neural Plasticity across the Lifespan in the Rat”, in Archives of Sexual Behavior, volume 37, number 1, →DOI:
topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: An endogenous opioid peptide neurotransmitter found naturally in the brains of many animals, including humans; one of the two forms of enkephalin (the other being metenkephalin).
maximizers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of maximizer
metenkephalin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: met-enkephalin
Etymology: From Met + enkephalin.
Senses: examples: text: PRO, an endogenous opioid itself, is also the precursor of the opiate neuropeptides metenkephalin and leuenkephalin.
ref: 2007 December 11, Craig Howard Kinsley, Massimo Bardi, Kate Karelina, Brandi Rima, Lillian Christon, Julia Friedenberg, Garrett Griffin, “Motherhood Induces and Maintains Behavioral and Neural Plasticity across the Lifespan in the Rat”, in Archives of Sexual Behavior, volume 37, number 1, →DOI:
topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: An endogenous opioid peptide neurotransmitter found naturally in many parts of the animal and human body; one of the two forms of enkephalin (the other being leuenkephalin)
Synonyms: OGF
opioid growth factor
metempsychotic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to metempsychosis.
Derived terms: metempsychotically
neuroendocrinological
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From neuro- + endocrinological.
Senses: examples: text: However, neuroendocrinological theories are far from veridical.
ref: 2007 December 27, Stacie S. Miller, Heather L. Hoffmann, Brian S. Mustanski, “Fluctuating Asymmetry and Sexual Orientation in Men and Women”, in Archives of Sexual Behavior, volume 37, number 1, →DOI:
glosses: Of or pertaining to neuroendocrinology.
nightdreaming
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From night + dreaming.
Senses: glosses: Dreaming that takes place at night, during sleep, as opposed to daydreaming.
multip
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: multips
Etymology: From multiparous/multipara by clipping.
Senses: glosses: A multiparous woman; one who has given birth twice or more.
multips
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of multip
nulliparity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: In mammals, this transition from nulliparity to motherhood profoundly and fundamentally alters the female’s behavioral and motivational repertoire.
ref: 2007 December 11, Craig Howard Kinsley, Massimo Bardi, Kate Karelina, Brandi Rima, Lillian Christon, Julia Friedenberg, Garrett Griffin, “Motherhood Induces and Maintains Behavioral and Neural Plasticity across the Lifespan in the Rat”, in Archives of Sexual Behavior, volume 37, number 1, →DOI:
glosses: Never having completed a pregnancy beyond 20 weeks.
Related terms: nullipara
nulliparous
ovariectomize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: ovariectomizes
form: ovariectomizing
form: ovariectomized
form: ovariectomized
Etymology: From ovariectomy + -ize.
Senses: examples: text: Males castrated at birth are smaller (Field et al., 1997a ), and females ovariectomized at birth are larger than their intact male and female counterparts (Field et al., 2004 ).
ref: 2007 December 11, Evelyn F. Field, Sergio M. Pellis, “The Brain as the Engine of Sex Differences in the Organization of Movement in Rats”, in Archives of Sexual Behavior, volume 37, number 1, →DOI:
glosses: To remove the ovaries from.
Related terms: ovariectomy
ovariectomized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of ovariectomize
ovariectomizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of ovariectomize
ovariectomizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of ovariectomize
enoughness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From enough + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: Secretary of State Dulles pointed out that the report's aim was not "scaring our people but giving them a realistic picture of the dilemma in which they would find themselves" when the Soviet Union as well as the United States had attained "enoughness."
ref: 2002, Ira Chernus, Eisenhower's Atoms for Peace:
text: But all of us have deep beliefs about our own enoughness, often stemming from childhood...
ref: 2003, Marcia Menter, The office sutras: exercises for your soul at work, page 34:
text: We have tried to convince you that the problem, worry, or puzzle that arises in connection with readiness or enoughness, if there is one, is metaphysical, and not semantic; [...]
ref: 2008, Herman Cappelen, Ernest Lepore, Insensitive Semantics:
text: The fourth and last principle is that of the Sabbath - the feast of enoughness.
ref: 2008, Anable Shilson Thomas, Live simply:
text: Their enjoyment of God's significance was constant, and their experience of his loving enoughness was undiluted. [...] The seamless canopy of God's glory over all his creation now had a tragic, gaping hole in it. The Creator's enoughness had been defiled by his creatures, and for the first time, something now existed on this planet that did not glorify him.
ref: 2014, Matt Heard, Life With A Capital L, pages 140–141:
glosses: The state or condition of being enough; sufficiency; adequacy.
Related terms: good-enoughness
not-enoughness
paraphilics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of paraphilic
parous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɛə̯ɹəs/
ipa: /ˈpɛːɹəs/
note: General American, Mary–marry–merry merger
ipa: /ˈpɛɹəs/
rhymes: -ɛəɹəs
rhymes: -æɹəs
Etymology: Ultimately from Latin pariō (“I give birth”).
Senses: examples: text: Further changes in neurochemistry in pregnant/parous females (e.g., changes in neuropeptides, opioids, neurotransmitters, etc.; Bridges, Felicio, Pellerin, Stuer, & Mann 1993 ; Keverne & Kendrick, 1990 ; Kinsley & Bridges, 1988 ), may render neurons from a pregnant or lactating female substantially different in form and function than those taken from NULL females.
ref: 2007 December 11, Craig Howard Kinsley, Massimo Bardi, Kate Karelina, Brandi Rima, Lillian Christon, Julia Friedenberg, Garrett Griffin, “Motherhood Induces and Maintains Behavioral and Neural Plasticity across the Lifespan in the Rat”, in Archives of Sexual Behavior, volume 37, number 1, →DOI:
glosses: Having given birth.
Related terms: antepartum
imparous
iteroparous
multiparous
nonparous
oviparous
parent
-parous
post-partum
primiparous
semelparous
viviparous