cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
SST
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Initialism of Shiva Smart Tunneling.
topics: NASA
aerospace
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
space-science
glosses: Initialism of Spitzer Space Telescope.
NTLM
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Initialism of NT LAN Manager.
echogram
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: echograms
Etymology: From echo + -gram.
Senses: glosses: sonogram
WSRP
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Initialism of Web Services for Remote Portlets.
OASIS
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Acronym of Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards.
botmaster
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: botmasters
Etymology: From bot + master.
Senses: examples: text: Tracking the botmaster to her true physical location is a complex problem that is described in detail in the next section.
ref: 2010, John R. Vacca, Network and System Security, →ISBN, page 207:
text: [The worm] had spread silently for six days before it began regularly trying to connect with its botmaster, who could have been hiding behind any of the 250 domain names the worm generated afresh each day.
ref: 2012 February 19, Mark Bowden, “War of the cyber worm: the most destructive attack on the internet”, in The Guardian:
synonyms: botherder
qualifier: computer security
glosses: A malicious hacker who controls a botnet.
Related terms: botter
botmasters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of botmaster
traceback
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tracebacks
Etymology: From trace + back.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Determination of origin; the process of tracing something back to its source.
examples: text: ... which appears in the top line of the traceback, looking for the point at which the system is likely to have become corrupted . The ability to read and use tracebacks is a skill no MOO administrator should be without .
ref: 2001, Cynthia A. Haynes, Jan Rune Holmevik, High Wired: On the Design, Use, and Theory of Educational MOOs, University of Michigan Press, →ISBN, page 155:
text: In programs where functions can be called from multiple places , the call stack can help you determine which call led to the error . Python displays the traceback whenever a raised exception goes unhandled . But you can also obtain it[…]
ref: 2019 November 12, Al Sweigart, Automate the Boring Stuff with Python, 2nd Edition: Practical Programming for Total Beginners, No Starch Press, →ISBN, page 252:
text: This is a single-stage traceback. It begins by announcing itself as a traceback and then gives a location in line 1 of "<stdin>" (i.e., your typing, or standard input). It also specifies any method that the exception is raised in: in[…]
ref: 2010 March 10, Tim Hall, J-P Stacey, Python 3 for Absolute Beginners, Apress, →ISBN, page 235:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A stack trace (in some programming languages)
tracebacks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of traceback
microinject
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: microinjects
form: microinjecting
form: microinjected
form: microinjected
Etymology: From micro- + inject.
Senses: glosses: To inject with a micropipette.
Related terms: microinjection
microinjects
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of microinject
progradation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: progradations
Etymology: Formed as pro- + gradation, after prograde.
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: The growth of a river delta farther out into the sea over time, as it gains more sediment
Derived terms: progradational
progradations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of progradation
program counters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of program counter
WSIA
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Initialism of Web Services for Interactive Applications.
aucupate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɔː.kjʊ.peɪt/
other: /ˈɔ.kjə.peɪt/
other: /ˈɑ.kjə.peɪt/
rhymes: -ɔːkjʊpeɪt
Forms: form: aucupates
form: aucupating
form: aucupated
form: aucupated
Etymology: From Latin aucupātus.
Senses: examples: text: Now this is the howre, now this the half, now this is the Quarter, the Minute, the second, the third, the fourth, and so Fourth to the Tenth, that I do aucupate, or do gape after the slowe comming of my knave-booting Rascalls to Olympus with their venaisons alive
ref: 1601, William Percy, Mahomet and His Heaven:
text: Some till their throats ake cry alowd and hollo, To aucupate great favors from Apollo.
ref: 1630, John Taylor, Workes:
text: Except for the purpose of vain pageants, designed to aucupate benefices, by cajoling the patrons, the University of Oxford has long ceased to exist.
ref: 1831, The Westminster Review, volume 15, page 62:
glosses: To hunt, to seek with vigilance.
Crowleyans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Crowleyan
HPC
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Initialism of high-performance computing.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Initialism of hardware performance counter.
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Initialism of hydroxypropyl cellulose.
topics: automotive
business
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
energy
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
transport
vehicles
glosses: Initialism of high power charging.
blackstrap
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: blackstraps
Etymology: From black + strap? Possible connection with Dutch stroop (“syrup”).
Senses: examples: text: Smoked over cherry and mesquite wood, and dried in a convection oven, it gets its flavors from organic blackstrap molasses, Jim Beam bourbon, and salt and pepper.
ref: 2007 July 25, David Hochman, “For Epicures, a New Take on Jerky”, in New York Times:
glosses: The dark, viscous molasses remaining after maximum extraction of sugar from raw sugar cane, used in manufacturing and cattle feed.
examples: text: No blackstrap to-night; switchel, or ginger pop.
ref: 1845, Sylvester Judd, Margaret: A Tale of the Real and the Ideal, Blight and Bloom; Including Sketches of a Place Not Before Described, Called Mons Christi:
glosses: A mixture of spirituous liquor (usually rum) and molasses.
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: Bad port wine; any common wine of the Mediterranean.
floorplate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: floorplates
form: floor plate
Etymology: From floor + plate.
Senses: glosses: A (usually metal) plate used as industrial flooring.
glosses: A horizontal, structural, load-bearing member in platform framing (wooden building framing). Also called bottom plate, sill plate, sole plate or (lower) wall plate.
examples: text: In that new building, which has large 40,000-square-foot floorplates, some of the large tenants may want to be assured of an option to grow.
ref: 2007 July 25, Alison Gregor, “Serving Small Tenants With Offices Cut Down to Size”, in New York Times:
glosses: The structural base plate of the floors (storeys) of a building, usually made up of bottom panels, floor panels, floor slabs, paving slabs, hollow core slabs or beams or joists in timber constructions.
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: A specialized glial structure integral to the developing nervous system of vertebrate organisms.
floorplates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of floorplate
prebuilding
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of prebuild
prebuilds
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of prebuild
primocane
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: primocanes
Senses: examples: text: But Courtney Weber, a breeder at Cornell University, is working with Mr. Clark’s primocane selections to develop varieties that could be mown down before winter and fruit the next year.
ref: 2007 July 25, David Karp, “At Last, Sweet Blackberries Stay the Course”, in New York Times:
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: A fruit cane in its first year of growth, especially that of a bramble.
Related terms: floricane
primocanes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of primocane
scaloppines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of scaloppine
antireformist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: antireformists
Etymology: From anti- + reformist or antireform + -ist.
Senses: examples: text: Mr. Abe had described himself as the heir to political and economic reforms undertaken by his predecessor, Junichiro Koizumi, but he quickly readmitted antireformist lawmakers whom Mr. Koizumi had expelled from the party.
ref: 2007 July 26, Norimitsu Onishi, “Japan’s Leader Attacked by His Own Party”, in New York Times:
topics: government
politics
glosses: An opponent of reform.
antireformists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of antireformist
antireformism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From antireform + -ism.
Senses: topics: government
politics
glosses: Opposition to reform.
bangless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From bang + -less.
Senses: examples: text: Scientists are working on a bangless bomb.
glosses: Without a bang (noise or explosion).
examples: text: Whether they conjure painful visions of husband-stealers or happy memories of Betty and Veronica, bangs are an appealing option in the summer, when the weather forces the bangless to march around with hair greased back with sweat, like so many W.N.B.A. players or Romanian gymnasts.
ref: 2007 July 26, Anna Jane Grossman, “Bangs Return, and With Them, Naysayers and Chopaholics”, in New York Times:
glosses: Without bangs (hairstyle).
dishdashas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dishdasha
multilayering
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: multilayerings
Etymology: From multi- + layering.
Senses: examples: text: Often it seems (as recently occurred to me with the wonderful Noche Flamenca performance at Theater 80, and as strikes anyone who listens to some opera) that the music is suggesting something quite unlike its words; and this multilayering only enriches the experience.
ref: 2007 July 26, Alastair Macaulay, “From Mongolia, Layered Voices and Intimations of the Eternal”, in New York Times:
glosses: The layering of several things or concepts.
nonserialized
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + serialized.
Senses: examples: text: “I’ve never been in such good company!” said Ms. Park, 60, who before creating the impish heroine wrote nonserialized books for slightly older children.
ref: 2007 July 26, Anna Jane Grossman, “Is Junie B. Jones Talking Trash?”, in New York Times:
glosses: Not serialized.
supertiny
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌsuːpəˈɹˈtaɪni/
Forms: form: more supertiny
form: most supertiny
Etymology: From super- + tiny.
Senses: examples: text: "Couldn't a virus be merely a supertiny bacterium that can make it through a filter?"
ref: 1986, Barry E. Zimmerman, Contemporary Books, Contemporary Books, →ISBN, page 113:
text: But as the twentieth century dawned, scientists had hardly passed the point of asking, "Couldn't a virus be merely a supertiny bacterium that can make it through a filter?"
ref: 2003, Barry E. Zimmerman, David J. Zimmerman, Killer germs: microbes and diseases that threaten humanity, page 103:
text: Those were all fictional, but that’s not to say that supertiny spylike gadgetry doesn’t exist.
ref: 2007 July 26, David Pogue, “Here Is Your Pen Scanner, Mr. Bond”, in New York Times:
glosses: Extremely tiny.
swoe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: swoes
Etymology: Blend of sword + hoe; originated as a trademark of Wilkinson Sword.
Senses: examples: text: I approached the new light hoes, swoes and other garden tools with some degree of scepticism, feeling that weight aided the cutting down operation. After two summers I am quite converted, especially as I am two years older.
ref: 1966, The Rose Annual:
text: (She told me I must buy a swoe, a long-handled weeder sold by Fiskars, that changed her life.)
ref: 2007 July 26, Anne Raver, “Recognizing Those Who Keep Brooklyn in Bloom”, in New York Times:
glosses: A kind of cutting hoe with sharp edges.
wikipedia: Wilkinson Sword
swoes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of swoe
unbanged
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + banged.
Senses: examples: text: Twenty minutes later, she was suffocating on top of him in the heat of her unair-conditioned bedroom, the ancient box springs squeaking under them like a bad accordion, and her head was unbanged because the sex was lousy.
ref: 2010, Jennifer Crusie, Welcome to Temptation, page 141:
glosses: Not banged; not struck suddenly.
examples: text: That is why, in spite of shabby dresses, unbanged hair, tremendous mouths, and large noses, some persons are purely delightful.
ref: 2007, Annie H. Ryder, Hold Up Your Heads, Girls!, page 13:
text: “To me, they scream: ‘I’m cooler than you, I have a lot of sex, and if you leave your husband with me I’ll devour him,’ ” said Meredith Hays, a literary agent in Manhattan with an unbanged brow.
ref: 2007 July 26, Anna Jane Grossman, “Bangs Return, and With Them, Naysayers and Chopaholics”, in New York Times:
glosses: Without bangs (the hairstyle).
bangdas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bangda
bomblike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more bomblike
form: most bomblike
Etymology: From bomb + -like.
Senses: examples: text: The dance carries on undisturbed by this possible news footage, until, after a while, the dancers line up on one of three arching bridges (the main items of Ms. Hadid’s décor, variously shunted around the stage) to look, calmly, at this bomblike view, as if to say “Oh la la!”
ref: 2007 July 27, Alastair Macaulay, “I May Be Writhing on the Floor, but on Screen I’m Soaring Like Superman”, in New York Times:
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a bomb.
dirtball
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dirtballs
Etymology: From dirt + ball.
Senses: examples: text: He is Fidel Castro, Cuba’s supreme leader, but still known to some Dolorinos by his school nickname, Bola de Churde, or dirtball.
ref: 2007 July 27, William Grimes, “The Boys From Dolores”, in New York Times:
glosses: A dirty or sleazy person.
glosses: Synonym of dorodango: a ball of dirt, especially one that is polished in a popular outdoor activity done by Japanese schoolchildren.
synonyms: word: dorodango
extra: a ball of dirt, especially one that is polished in a popular outdoor activity done by Japanese schoolchildren
dirtballs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dirtball
feudist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: feudists
Etymology: From feud + -ist.
Senses: examples: text: After two years away, Rosie O’Donnell — actress, Broadway booster, consummate feudist — is returning to the stage.
ref: 2007 July 27, Campbell Robertson, “Encores! Season to Feature Some Well-Known Names”, in New York Times:
glosses: One who takes part in feuds.
examples: text: […]our great feudist Sir Thomas Craig
ref: 1751, Andrew MacDowall Bankton, An Institute of the Laws of Scotland in Civil Rights:
glosses: A writer about feuds; a person versed in feudal law.
feudists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of feudist
feudings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of feuding
kavals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kaval
mortarman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mortarmen
Etymology: From mortar + -man.
Senses: examples: text: “We have seen in the last three months a significant improvement in the capability of mortarmen and rocketeers to provide accurate fire into the Green Zone and other places,” he said in Baghdad.
ref: 2007 July 27, Stephen Farrell, “Bomb Kills 25 in Baghdad After U.S. Cites Security Success”, in New York Times:
glosses: A man who operates a mortar (weapon).
mortarmen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mortarman
nonradar
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + radar.
Senses: examples: text: The controllers said staffing had been cut to a single controller, who was responsible for radar and nonradar duties, a violation of Federal Aviation Administration rules.
ref: 2007 July 27, Matthew L. Wald, “Citing Pilot Error in ’06 Crash, Panel Says Details Are Elusive”, in New York Times:
glosses: Not of or pertaining to radar.
reenergize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: reenergizes
form: reenergizing
form: reenergized
form: reenergized
Etymology: From re- + energize.
Senses: examples: text: Robert Fisher, the interim chief executive, said that “when Glenn met with the board, we were immediately impressed with his insights into leading and reenergizing retail brands and we knew we had found our next leader.”
ref: 2007 July 27, Michael Barbaro, “Gap Picks a Canadian Retailer as Its New Chief”, in New York Times:
glosses: To energize again or anew.
reenergizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of reenergize
reenergizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of reenergize
reenergized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of reenergize
reencounters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of reencounter
reencounters
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of reencounter
reencountering
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of reencounter
OOA
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: OOAs
Senses: topics: arts
computing
design
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
hypernyms: OOAD
glosses: Initialism of object-oriented analysis.
topics: arts
computing
design
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Initialism of object-oriented application.
topics: biology
genetics
history
human-sciences
medicine
natural-sciences
paleontology
sciences
glosses: Initialism of Out of Africa (hypothesis).
Related terms: OOD
roadshowed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past of roadshow
roadshown
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: past participle of roadshow
roadshowing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of roadshow
stagewide
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From stage + -wide.
Senses: examples: text: Let’s take this piffling sitting-down dance and turn it into a stagewide multicolored illusion!
ref: 2007 July 27, Alastair Macaulay, “I May Be Writhing on the Floor, but on Screen I’m Soaring Like Superman”, in New York Times:
glosses: All across a stage.
OOD
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: OODs
Senses: topics: arts
computing
design
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Initialism of object-oriented design.
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: Initialism of Officer of the Deck.
Hypernyms: OOAD
Related terms: OOA
vallenatos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of vallenato
writhings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: The party and the Krikkit warship looked, in their writhings, a little like two ducks […]
ref: 1995, Douglas Adams, The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy: a Trilogy in Five Parts, →ISBN, page 413:
glosses: plural of writhing
gleeless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From glee + -less.
Senses: examples: text: The blonde whispered something into the ear of her almost transfixed companion, and they rose—he none too steadily, she with a faintly triumphant but gleeless smile.
ref: 2002, Frank Robert Vivelo, Michael Deal, page 73:
glosses: Devoid of glee.
unsleepy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unsleepy
form: most unsleepy
Etymology: From un- + sleepy, perhaps continuing Middle English *unslepy, from Old English unslǣpiġ (“sleepless”). Compare Dutch onslaperig (“unsleepy”), German unschläfrig (“unsleepy”).
Senses: examples: text: My seemingly endless medical school days of gleelessly skipping lectures and spending far too many hours on crosswords, of obsessive toast eating and long hostile runs after which I’d get into bed unsleepy at 8 p.m. simply hoping to bring the day to a close a little bit earlier — that would all be over soon, for a year at least.
ref: 2007 July 28, Rivka Galchen, “My Mother, Myself”, in New York Times:
glosses: Not sleepy; wakeful.
Derived terms: unsleepily
unsleepiness
antiempirical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more antiempirical
form: most antiempirical
Etymology: From anti- + empirical.
Senses: examples: text: In regard to life in general ... and to capitalism in particular, objectivism is just about as unrealistic and antiempirical as it can be.
ref: 2007 July 29, Mary Jo Murphy, “Sex, Love and the Scolding Psychotherapist”, in New York Times:
glosses: Going against what is empirically true.
antiendotoxins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of antiendotoxin
continuingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From continuing + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: The result was “Eloise,” published in 1955 and a best seller the next year, and its continuingly popular sequels.
ref: 2007 July 29, Douglas Martin, “D. D. Ryan, Fashionable Godmother to ‘Eloise,’ Dies at 79”, in New York Times:
glosses: In a manner that is ongoing.
dormmate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dormmates
Etymology: From dorm + -mate.
Senses: examples: text: In other letters, she would convey a mounting exasperation with her rigid conservative father and disdain for both “debutante” dormmates and an acid-dropping friend.
ref: 2007 July 29, Mark Leibovich, “In the ’60s, a Future Candidate Poured Her Heart Out in Letters”, in New York Times:
glosses: One who shares the same dorm.
dormmates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dormmate
lullingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more lullingly
form: most lullingly
Etymology: From lulling + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: It becomes as lullingly familiar as a weekly drive to a relative’s house: opening prayers like quick turns though local streets, long freeway stretches of readings, homily and Eucharistic prayers, the quietude of communion and then — thanks be to God — the final blessing, a song and home to pancakes and the Sunday comics.
ref: 2007 July 29, Lawrence Downes, “The Pope Reopens a Portal to Eternity, via the 1950s”, in New York Times:
glosses: In a way that lulls; soothingly.
overgeneralizer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: overgeneralizers
Etymology: From overgeneralize + -er.
Senses: examples: text: I could also see that he was an overgeneralizer and a dogmatist, and therefore a poor scientist.
ref: 2007 July 29, Mary Jo Murphy, “Sex, Love and the Scolding Psychotherapist”, in New York Times:
glosses: One who overgeneralizes.
overgeneralizers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of overgeneralizer
nitpickiness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From nitpicky + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: Putting aside the nitpickiness of the complaint — “plenitude” originates in Latin, “fullness” doesn’t — “plenitude” also has philosophical associations running from Aristotle to St. Thomas Aquinas to David Lewis.
ref: 2007 July 29, David Orr, “Translating Zbigniew Herbert”, in New York Times:
glosses: The quality of being nitpicky; pedantry over trivia.
pewmate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pewmates
Etymology: From pew + -mate.
Senses: examples: text: We’ll have to prod our snoozing pewmates when to sit and stand; they’ll have to rein in their zealots.
ref: 2007 July 29, Lawrence Downes, “The Pope Reopens a Portal to Eternity, via the 1950s”, in New York Times:
glosses: One who shares the same pew.
pewmates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pewmate
Old World flycatcher
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Old World flycatchers
Senses: glosses: Any of various small birds of the passerine family Muscicapidae, of Africa and Eurasia; a muscicapid.
Hyponyms: sense: passerine bird in Muscicapidae
taxonomic: Ficedula speculigera
word: Atlas pied flycatcher
Coordinate terms: sense: passerine bird in Muscicapidae
english: Tyrannidae
translation: Tyrannidae
word: New World flycatcher
satirizer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: satirizers
Etymology: From satirize + -er.
Senses: examples: text: It is a drive-by satirizer of Christians, Jews, old people, police chiefs, groundskeepers, schoolteachers, doctors and the nuclear power industry.
ref: 2007 July 29, Anthony Ramirez, “Buzz Cola and Sprinklicious Doughnuts: A Mecca for ‘Simpsons’ Fans”, in New York Times:
glosses: One who satirizes.
Synonyms: satirist
satirizers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of satirizer
scapulars
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of scapular
screamfest
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: screamfests
Etymology: From scream + -fest.
Senses: examples: text: If you are a parent in New York, you dread the screamfest known as the lead test.
ref: 2007 July 29, “Symptom of Neglect in New Orleans (4 Letters)”, in New York Times:
text: Since he formed Nine Inch Nails nearly 20 years ago, Mr. Reznor’s brooding, sinister songs (which range from thick industrial screamfests to hazy electronic ballads) have (rightly) seduced millions of like-minded fans.
ref: 2009 June 5, The New York Times, “Pop and Rock Listings”, in New York Times:
glosses: An event, recording, etc. involving a lot of screaming.
screamfests
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of screamfest
spearguns
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of speargun
sporking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of spork
sporked
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of spork
upsetness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From upset + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: These Irrational Beliefs will keep your original upsetness vividly alive — instead of letting it die a natural death, as disturbance gradually does if you don’t dwell on it and reinforce it by continual crooked thinking.
ref: 2007 July 29, Mary Jo Murphy, “Sex, Love and the Scolding Psychotherapist”, in New York Times:
glosses: The quality or degree of being emotionally upset.
woonerfs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of woonerf
counterrhythm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: counterrhythms
Etymology: From counter- + rhythm.
Senses: examples: text: Sometimes he amplifies the bass line by doubling it; sometimes he adds scabrous counterrhythms and countermelodies; sometimes he just makes cool noises.
ref: 2007 July 30, Kelefa Sanneh, “This Hip-Hop Future Looks Like Yesterday”, in New York Times:
glosses: A rhythm that complements another rhythm.
Related terms: counterrhythmic
counterrhythms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of counterrhythm
counterrhythmic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more counterrhythmic
form: most counterrhythmic
Etymology: From counter- + rhythmic.
Senses: glosses: Exhibiting or pertaining to counterrhythm.
lightstick
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lightsticks
Etymology: From light + stick.
Senses: examples: text: When he woke, he became frightened, fired tracer bullets into the air and waved a fluorescent lightstick to identify himself.
ref: 2007 July 30, Steven Erlanger, “Israeli Soldier Is Briefly Left Behind in Gaza”, in New York Times:
glosses: A portable rod used for illumination.
lightsticks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lightstick
nonstandards
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nonstandard
pianophile
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pianophiles
Etymology: From piano + -phile.
Senses: examples: text: To the ardent pianophiles who flock to the International Keyboard Institute & Festival at Mannes College the New School for Music every summer, the Canadian virtuoso Marc-André Hamelin is royalty.
ref: 2007 July 30, Steve Smith, “Festival’s King of Keys Kicks Off With Haydn”, in New York Times:
glosses: A lover of piano music.
pianophiles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pianophile
preblog
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pre- + blog.
Senses: examples: text: In a preblog world it is unlikely that Jack's story would have spread much further than his family and circle of friends. However, Jack's blog provided other people a window into his life...
ref: 2007, Mark Tremayne, Blogging, citizenship, and the future of media:
text: “A killed story used to be pretty much dead unless it got leaked to another newspaper,” Mr. Roderick said of the preblog era of print-based newspapers.
ref: 2007 July 30, Andrew Adam Newman, “New Life on the Web for a Killed Newspaper Column”, in New York Times:
glosses: Before the advent of blogs.
oricha
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: orichas
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of orisha.
orichas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of oricha
puya
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: puyas
Etymology: From Manipuri ꯄꯨꯌꯥ (puyā).
Senses: glosses: Any of a group of books written in the Old Manipuri language, mostly sacred to Sanamahism.
puya
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: puyas
Etymology: From Spanish puya, from Mapudungun puüya.
Senses: examples: text: The puya is a strange form of bromeliad, and the giant species grows ever so slowly for between 30 and 100 years and then sends a flower spike covered in 8000 florets about 9 metres (30 feet) up into the air, like a floral telegraph pole.
ref: 2000, Michael Bright, Wild South America, BBC Worldwide, published 2000, page 45:
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: A member of the genus Puya of bromeliad plants.
puyas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of puya
hyperconsumerist
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more hyperconsumerist
form: most hyperconsumerist
Etymology: From hyper- + consumerist.
Senses: glosses: Extremely consumerist.
superconsumerist
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more superconsumerist
form: most superconsumerist
Etymology: From super- + consumerist.
Senses: examples: text: It’s apparent in the obesity of our dogs and cats, and in our increasing spending on veterinary care and gourmet pet food and dietary supplements and everything else that helps us treat them as our superconsumerist equals.
ref: 2007 July 30, Verlyn Klinkenborg, “Should Most Pet Owners Be Required to Neuter Their Animals?”, in New York Times:
glosses: Extremely consumerist.
teletimer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: teletimers
Etymology: From a trademark of American Teletimer Corp: tele- + timer.
Senses: examples: text: “We are reviewing it,” the New York Racing Association spokesman John Lee said. “So far, every test we’ve put it through, the time came out to be accurate — they correspond to the teletimer.
ref: 2007 July 30, Bill Finley, “Street Sense Marks Return With a Victory”, in New York Times:
glosses: An electronic device, equipped with sensors, that accurately measures the finish times in a horse race.
teletimers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of teletimer
insubordinately
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more insubordinately
form: most insubordinately
Etymology: From insubordinate + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: This is a task dispatched to one of three assistants, from whom he demands formal, written apologies when they behave insubordinately.
ref: 2007 July 31, Ginia Bellafante, “A Los Angeles Speculator Sold on Himself”, in New York Times:
glosses: In an insubordinate manner.
nightclublike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more nightclublike
form: most nightclublike
Etymology: From nightclub + -like.
Senses: examples: text: The Conrad in Miami has closed its Noir Bar, which had a South Beach, nightclublike atmosphere, and is replacing it with a brighter, lighter bar.
ref: 2007 July 31, Jane L. Levere, “Once Stodgy, Hotel Bars Revitalize Image”, in New York Times:
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a nightclub.
precredit
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pre- + credit.
Senses: topics: business
finance
glosses: Before credit is taken into account.
examples: text: There is no precredit compassion expressed in “Side Street”: In place of Ray’s protective, implied narrator there is the professionally gruff voice of Paul Kelly, an actor who specialized in coldly professional New York City police detectives.
ref: 2007 July 31, Dave Kehr, “New DVDs”, in New York Times:
glosses: Before the credits (of a television programme, etc.).
refluxers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of refluxer
supermall
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: supermalls
Etymology: From super- + mall.
Senses: examples: text: Companies controlled by Robert Congel, a Syracuse developer, also figured prominently in the records, which showed they were falling short of their investment goals by hundreds of millions of dollars. Mr. Congel, who has long had plans to build an upstate supermall, has been a high-profile political donor, most recently to Gov. Eliot Spitzer .
ref: 2007 July 31, Nicholas Confessore, “State Warns Companies in Tax Deals”, in New York Times:
glosses: A very large shopping mall.
supermalls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of supermall
OOAD
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Initialism of object-oriented analysis and design.
Hyponyms: OOA
OOD
glucomannan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: glucomannans
Senses: examples: text: The bulbs contain a mucilaginous carbohydrate called glucomannan, which the orchids use to retain water during dry periods.
ref: 2007 August 1, Harold Mcgee, “Ice Cream That’s a Stretch”, in New York Times:
glosses: A water-soluble polysaccharide used as an emulsifier and thickener.
Derived terms: acetylglucomannan
nonmucilaginous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + mucilaginous.
Senses: glosses: Not mucilaginous.
glucomannans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of glucomannan
hypereroticized
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more hypereroticized
form: most hypereroticized
Etymology: From hyper- + eroticized.
Senses: examples: text: He was a visionary whose portrayal of the failure of Eros in a hypereroticized climate addressed the modern world and its discontents in a new, intensely poetic cinematic language.
ref: 2007 August 1, Stephen Holden, “A Chronicler of Alienated Europeans in a Flimsy New World”, in New York Times:
glosses: Very highly eroticized.
nondigestible
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + digestible.
Senses: examples: text: Will probiotics be supplemented by prebiotics (nondigestible ingredients that promote the growth of healthy bacteria in the intestine)?
ref: 2007 August 1, Andrew Martin, “I’ll Have the Fish Paste Sushi With the Green Tea Rice”, in New York Times:
glosses: Not digestible.
powderkeg
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: powderkegs
Senses: examples: text: Now Mr. Bush plans to pour more arms into this unstable region and add fuel to the volatile powderkeg he has foolishly created.
ref: 2007 August 1, “Unwise Arms Deal With Saudi Arabia (2 Letters)”, in New York Times:
glosses: Alternative form of powder keg.
powderkegs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of powderkeg
superantioxidant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: superantioxidants
Etymology: From super- + antioxidant.
Senses: examples: text: American Fruit Processors of California championed the goji berry, açaí and mangosteen as superantioxidants.
ref: 2007 August 1, Andrew Martin, “I’ll Have the Fish Paste Sushi With the Green Tea Rice”, in New York Times:
glosses: A highly effective antioxidant.
superantioxidants
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of superantioxidant
vitaminlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more vitaminlike
form: most vitaminlike
Etymology: From vitamin + -like.
Senses: examples: text: Or will it be coenzyme Q10, known as CoQ10 (a vitaminlike substance that is said to enhance stamina)?
ref: 2007 August 1, Andrew Martin, “I’ll Have the Fish Paste Sushi With the Green Tea Rice”, in New York Times:
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a vitamin.
vitamisers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of vitamiser
nonadvisory
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + advisory.
Senses: examples: text: Beyond growing its nonadvisory businesses, Lazard is seeking to expand into other markets.
ref: 2007 August 2, Michael J. De La Merced, “Lazard Posts 2.2% Profit Decline”, in New York Times:
glosses: Not advisory.
brasswares
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of brassware
godfathering
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of godfather
godfathered
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of godfather
millefleur
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: millefleurs
form: mille-fleur
Etymology: French, meaning "thousand flowers".
Senses: glosses: A background of many small flowers and plants, popular in tapestry of the Middle Ages in Europe.
millefleurs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of millefleur
paisleylike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more paisleylike
form: most paisleylike
Etymology: From paisley + -like.
Senses: examples: text: Finally, in “#30,” of 1968, a loose paisleylike scheme emerges in richly off-key yet regimented tones: two contrasting shades each of earth red, brown and green with constant input from lavender and light blue.
ref: 2007 August 3, Roberta Smith, “Kandy-Colored Dot-Flake Streamline Maverick”, in New York Times:
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of paisley.
plenny
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɛni
Senses: glosses: Pronunciation spelling of plenty.
plenny
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: -ɛni
Senses: examples: text: Folks plenny mad.
ref: 2007 August 3, Lawrence Downes, “Comforting Words for a Nerve-Wracked Nation: ‘McGarrett. Five-0.’”, in New York Times:
glosses: Pronunciation spelling of plenty.
wonderest
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: wonder + -est
Senses: glosses: second-person singular simple present indicative of wonder
postponer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: postponers
Etymology: From postpone + -er.
Senses: examples: text: Rock’s shaggy dog story is Guns N’ Roses’ endlessly postponed “Chinese Democracy”; in hip-hop-soul, the great postponer is Lauryn Hill, the former Fugee who has not made a proper studio album in nine years.
ref: 2007 August 3, The New York Times, “Pop and Rock Listings”, in New York Times:
glosses: One who postpones.
presnap
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pre- + snap.
Senses: topics: American-football
ball-games
football
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: Before the snap (passing of the football from the center to a back).
postsnap
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From post- + snap.
Senses: topics: American-football
ball-games
football
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: After the snap (passing of the football from the center to a back).
postponers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of postponer
reappreciation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: reappreciations
Etymology: From re- + appreciation.
Senses: examples: text: "We were calling for an orderly and smooth reappreciation of risks, and we asked markets and investors to be as keen as possible to avoid sharp and abrupt corrections," Mr. Trichet said.
ref: 2007 August 3, Carter Dougherty, “European Bank Signals September Rate Rise”, in New York Times:
glosses: Appreciation again or anew.
reappreciations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of reappreciation
Winni
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Shortening.
Senses: glosses: Winnipesaukee
timpanis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of timpani
teenagery
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more teenagery
form: most teenagery
Etymology: From teenager + -y.
Senses: examples: text: That can confuse people, so we’re trying to focus the point of view so that it’s not so teenagery, but nor is it meant to be old and frumpy.”
ref: 2007 August 3, Claire Atkinson, “Gap Tries a Somewhat Old-Fashioned Campaign”, in New York Times:
text: 2018 Molly Su, Next Gen, 27 minutes 45 seconds, to daughter
Are you at least going to look at me while you're being all teenagery?
glosses: Characteristic of teenagers.
Winnipesaukee
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A large lake in New Hampshire, United States.
Synonyms: Winni
Winnipeggers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Winnipegger
directionlessness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dʌɪˈɹɛkʃənləsnəs/
Etymology: From directionless + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: But with unstructured improvisation, the risk that directionlessness will give way to pointlessness is high.
ref: 2007 August 4, Allan Kozinn, “The Generation of ’38, Still Kicking”, in New York Times:
text: The sector is booming and dullness and directionlessness are a plus.
ref: 2013, Jenny Turner, “A Girl and a Gun”, in London Review of Books, volume 35, number 19:
glosses: Absence of direction.
directionlessly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From directionless + -ly.
Senses: glosses: Without (fixed) direction; aimlessly.
postreligious
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From post- + religious.
Senses: examples: text: For the postreligious culture of modern humanity, art is the last religion.
ref: 1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 103:
text: His world is severely postreligious, a circumstance that made reflective believers intensely interested in his work, too.
ref: 2007 August 4, Peter Steinfels, “Bergman, Antonioni and the Religiously Inclined”, in New York Times:
glosses: After the decline of religion.
prereligious
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pre- + religious.
Senses: examples: text: Here, they will naturally say, are tribes of men who have no religion because their forefathers never had any. They represent a prereligious stage of the human race, above which, in the course of ages, religious stages have risen[…]
ref: 1870, E. B. Tylor, “The Philosophy of Religion”, in Journal of the Ethnological Society of London, volume 2, page 370:
glosses: Before the existence of religion.
reanswer
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /ɹiːˈænsə(ɹ)/
/ɹiːˈɑːnsə(ɹ)/
Forms: form: reanswers
form: reanswering
form: reanswered
form: reanswered
Etymology: From re- + answer.
Senses: examples: text: It mingles thoughts on pitching, producing and getting an agent with more light-hearted bits, like reanswering questions sent to the regular Walter Scott column in Parade magazine (in which momentous topics, like the most popular celebrity features demanded by plastic surgery patients in Beverly Hills, are tackled).
ref: 2007 August 4, Michael Cieply, “The Screenwriter as God, Examining His Creations”, in New York Times:
glosses: To answer again or anew.
examples: text: Which in weight to reanswer, his pettiness would bow under.
ref: 1599 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Life of Henry the Fift”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene vi]:
glosses: To repay, compensate, or make amends for.
reanswering
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of reanswer
reanswered
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of reanswer
reanswers
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of reanswer
stonefall
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stonefalls
Etymology: From stone + fall.
Senses: examples: text: The North Face of the Eiger is notoriously fickle, frequently rebuffing the world’s most experienced climbers with stonefall, storms and avalanches.
ref: 2007 August 4, Stephen Venables, “In the Alps, a Conquest Takes Two Generations”, in New York Times:
glosses: The fall of loose stones from a natural surface.
stonefalls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stonefall
stonedness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From stoned + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: I felt Lent move next to me and became aware of her consciousness — then Tang's — I felt Lent's stonedness, her emotions were coming toward me.
ref: 1981, Alesia Kunz, Shangrila and Linda, page 6:
glosses: The quality of being stoned (high on drugs).
unembed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: unembeds
form: unembedding
form: unembedded
form: unembedded
Etymology: From un- + embed.
Senses: examples: text: It goes on and gets rather graphic as Jimmy, under the impression that he’s speaking to someone at The Herald, pleads to be unembedded.
ref: 2007 August 4, Christopher Buckley, “Our Man in Iraq, Embedded Unhappily”, in New York Times:
glosses: To remove (something embedded) from what it is fixed in.
unembedding
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of unembed
unembedded
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of unembed
unembedded
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Not embedded.
viewspaper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: viewspapers
Etymology: Blend of views + newspaper
Senses: examples: text: Q. Before stepping down as Britain’s prime minister, Tony Blair made a speech criticizing the British media, during which he singled out The Independent as a “metaphor” for what has happened to the news over his tenure, saying it is “well-edited and lively” but “is avowedly a viewspaper not merely a newspaper.”
ref: 2007 August 4, Richard Siklos, “Press Baron Champions ‘Viewspaper’”, in New York Times:
glosses: A newspaper that includes many opinion pieces.
viewspapers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of viewspaper