cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
fleabane
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfliːbeɪn/
Forms: form: fleabanes
Etymology: From flea + bane.
Senses: examples: text: On a sunny September morning, with the trees still green, but the asters and fleabanes already taking over in ditch and dalk, Van set out for Ladoga, N.A.
ref: 1969, Vladimir Nabokov, Ada or Ardor, Penguin, published 2011, page 120:
glosses: Any of various species of flowering plants in certain genera in family Asteraceae, that typically repel insects:
mostly in two tribes of subfamily Asteroideae
glosses: Any of various species of flowering plants in certain genera in family Asteraceae, that typically repel insects:
mostly in two tribes of subfamily Asteroideae
in tribe Astereae
Conyza spp. (butterweeds or horseweed)
glosses: Any of various species of flowering plants in certain genera in family Asteraceae, that typically repel insects:
mostly in two tribes of subfamily Asteroideae
in tribe Astereae
Erigeron spp., especially Erigeron acre (blue fleabane)
glosses: Any of various species of flowering plants in certain genera in family Asteraceae, that typically repel insects:
mostly in two tribes of subfamily Asteroideae
in tribe Inuleae
Inula spp. (yellowheads)
glosses: Any of various species of flowering plants in certain genera in family Asteraceae, that typically repel insects:
mostly in two tribes of subfamily Asteroideae
in tribe Inuleae
Pluchea spp. (camphorweeds)
glosses: Any of various species of flowering plants in certain genera in family Asteraceae, that typically repel insects:
mostly in two tribes of subfamily Asteroideae
in tribe Inuleae
Pulicaria spp. (false fleabane), especially common fleabane (Pulicaria dysenterica subsp. dysenterica, formerly Inula dysenterica)
glosses: Any of various species of flowering plants in certain genera in family Asteraceae, that typically repel insects:
Also, in subfamily Cichorioideae, Vernonia spp. (ironweeds).
Derived terms: daisy fleabane
Philadelphia fleabane
prairie fleabane
fleabanes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fleabane
dalk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dalks
Etymology: From Middle English dalke, dalk, from Old English dalc (“clasp, buckle, brooch, bracelet”), from Proto-Germanic *dalkaz (“clasp, pin”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰelg- (“to stick; needle, pin”). Cognate with Icelandic dálkur (“cloak-pin”), Latin falx (“scythe”). Doublet of falx.
Senses: glosses: A pin; brooch; clasp.
dalk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dalks
form: delk
Etymology: From Middle English dalke; perhaps a diminutive of dale, dell. In that case from Old English *daluc, from Proto-Germanic *dalukaz.
Senses: examples: text: On a sunny September morning, with the trees still green, but the asters and fleabanes already taking over in ditch and dalk, Van set out for Ladoga, N.A.
ref: 1969, Vladimir Nabokov, Ada or Ardor, Penguin, published 2011, page 120:
glosses: A hollow or depression.
dalks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dalk
Bulgary
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Bulgaria
genderlect
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: genderlects
Etymology: From gender + -lect. Coined by American linguist Wayne Dickerson in 1974.
Senses: examples: text: The men who interact with Tenar, including men who speak in the Old Speech, use a genderlect that shows their dominance and superiority.
ref: 2001, Laura B. Comoletti, Michael D. C. Drout, “How They Do Things with Words: Language, Power, Gender, and the Priestly Wizards of Ursula K. Le Guin's Earthsea Books”, in Children's Literature, volume 29, →DOI, page 125:
text: Hiatt has no doubt about the existence of a distinct 'feminine style' or genderlect and even offers a theory of how it arose, which is that the male world of action 'emphasizes events and decisions rather than perceptive observations of people'.
ref: 2002, Harold Love, “Gender and authorship”, in Attributing Authorship: An Introduction, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 119:
text: The purpose of genderlect theory is to understand the language used by men and women. The first study in genderlect theory is exploring how gender-language patterns are always limiting between women and men. Further research begins with a focus on how different gender language patterns are used by women and men in both written and spoken results.
ref: 2017 September, Tatik Irawati, “Analysis of Genderlect Style in Pygmalion”, in Journal of English Education, Lingusitics, and Literature, volume 4, number 1, page 19:
glosses: A dialect associated with a particular gender.
Synonyms: genderspeak
Derived terms: genderlectal
technolect
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: technolects
Etymology: From techno- + lect.
Senses: glosses: The technical language of a subject field; jargon.
glosses: The technical language of a subject a particular technology; jargon.
gamma particle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gamma particles
Senses: glosses: A photon with a wavelength short enough to be considered a gamma ray, usually emitted from radioactivity.
acrostatic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From acro- + static.
Senses: examples: text: The Proto-Indo-European word for ‘night’ was acrostatic: nominative singular *nókʷ-t-s, genitive *nékʷ-t-s.
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: In Proto-Indo-European athematic nominals, having a specific pattern of ablaut in which the accent is placed on the root syllable in all cases.
Synonyms: acrodynamic
Coordinate terms: amphikinetic
hysterokinetic
proterokinetic
settled someone's hash
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of settle someone's hash
settling someone's hash
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of settle someone's hash
settles someone's hash
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of settle someone's hash
pay cheque
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pay cheques
Senses: examples: text: That there was no 'oil boom town' atmosphere at Taching, no bars, brothels or night clubs doing a roaring trade as technicians and oil drillers with fat pay cheques swaggered in from lonely drilling sites for a long week-end, obviously did not surprise us.
ref: 1976, Wilfred Burchett, China: The Quality of Life, Penguin Books, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 114:
glosses: Alternative form of paycheck.
brushland
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: brushlands
Etymology: From brush + land.
Senses: glosses: An area mostly covered with brush growth.
Hypernyms: land
Derived terms: brushland tinamou
otorrhœa
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: oto- + -rrhœa
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of otorrhea.
pick up on
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: picks up on
form: picking up on
form: picked up on
form: picked up on
Senses: examples: text: "Remember, I know more about it than only what you picked up on that morning."
ref: 1882, Charlotte M. Yonge, chapter 18, in Magnum Bonum; or, Mother Carey's Brood:
text: No wonder I didn't pick up on what was happening.
ref: 1980, Norman Spinrad, The Mind Game, page 22:
text: Why didn't the police or the school pick up on the killers' warning signs?
ref: 1999 December 12, Andrew Goldstein, “The Victims: Never Again”, in Time:
text: Patrick: Well, maybe you're just too smart for everybody.
Allen Gregory DeLongpre: Hmm, that's a good point, Pete. You pick up on stuff, don't you?
Patrick: I don't know. It's Patrick, though.
Allen Gregory: I don't care.
ref: 2011 Allen Gregory, "Pilot" (season 1, episode 1)
text: Readers and bloggers alertly picked up on the nuances of language, and what some called the inconsistencies.
ref: 2011 May 11, Arthur S. Brisbane, “The Other Torture Debate”, in New York Times, retrieved 24 May 2011:
text: Making recommendations to GBRf to improve its fatigue management, RAIB notes that GBRf missed an opportunity to pick up on the driver's potential fatigue.
ref: 2023 August 23, “Network News: RAIB cites driver fatigue as factor in 28mph collision”, in RAIL, number 990, page 13:
glosses: To notice, observe, learn, or understand, especially something otherwise overlooked.
examples: text: Andy Murray has landed in Valencia for next week’s ATP tournament to pick up on his interrupted year, six weeks after the Davis Cup tie against Poland when he played three times in successive days and exacerbated the damage to his left wrist.
ref: 2009 October 31, Neil Harman, “Caroline Wozniacki reaches semi-finals”, in Times Online, UK, retrieved 24 May 2011:
glosses: To continue or build upon (for example, a task, analysis, or narrative), beginning from a point at which someone has previously stopped.
examples: text: "What you've got to do is, you've got to study the guy and try to pick up on his techniques, try to pick up what he's real good at."
ref: 2004 September 16, Patrick Saunders, “Eye on the Jaguars”, in Denver Post, page D10:
text: China was slow to pick up on the reality-TV trend.
ref: 2010 June 30, Justin Bergman, “China's TV Dating Shows: For Love or Money?”, in Time:
glosses: To adopt a practice in which others already engage.
Synonyms: sense: notice
word: grasp
sense: notice
word: spot
sense: continue
word: resume
sense: adopt a practice of others
word: imitate
climograph
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈklaɪ.mə.ɡɹæf/
Forms: form: climographs
form: climagraph
Etymology: From climo- + -graph.
Senses: glosses: A chart that summarizes the climate of a place by superimposing a line graph representing average monthly temperature on a bar chart representing average monthly precipitation
Related terms: climographic
vertical ellipsis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vertical ellipses
Senses: examples: text: 18⋮9 means that 18 is divisible by 9.
glosses: The character "⋮". An ellipsis (three dots) vertically aligned. It is sometimes used to communicate the continuation of a list vertically as opposed to horizontally. It is also a mathematic notation which means "is divisible by" or "is a multiple of".
vertical ellipses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of vertical ellipsis
diarrhœæ
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of diarrhœa
volitation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /vɒlɪˈteɪʃən/
ipa: /vɑlɪˈteɪʃən/
Forms: form: volitations
Etymology: From Medieval Latin volitātiō, from Latin volitāre.
Senses: glosses: Flight; flying.
volitations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of volitation
fracked
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of frack
Incan
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: Inkan
Etymology: From Inca + -an.
Senses: examples: text: Gene Savoy, an amateur archaeologist whose success in finding some 40 Incan and pre-Incan ruins in Peru was matched by a flair for self-promotion that drew on his tales of peril in the jungle, his bandito mustache and Stetson hat, and a retinue of would-be explorers who paid to accompany him, died on Sept. 11 at his home in Reno, Nev. He was 80.
ref: 2007 September 19, Douglas Martin, “Gene Savoy, Flamboyant Explorer of Ruins, Dies at 80”, in The New York Times:
glosses: Of or pertaining to the Inca people and culture.
interreflection
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: interreflections
Etymology: From inter- + reflection.
Senses: glosses: The illumination of an object by reflected light from other objects that are not light sources.
interreflections
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of interreflection
numeronym
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈnjuːməɹəʊˌnɪm/
ipa: /ˈnuməɹəˌnɪm/
Forms: form: numeronyms
Etymology: From numero- + -nym.
Senses: examples: text: Given a history of failed and unpopular solutions, the problem of concurrency has even been assigned its own numeronym: "The C10K problem". How should network software confidently serving 10,000 simultaneous clients be designed?
ref: 2013, Sandro Pasquali, Mastering Node.js, Packt Publishing Ltd, →ISBN, page 123:
text: Finally, the E7 countries—a numeronym standing for 'Emerging' market economies—include the BRIC countries, along with Indonesia, Mexico, and Turkey.
ref: 2018, Aurélia Durand, Marketing and Globalization, Routledge, →ISBN:
glosses: A number-based word.
examples: text: Is the numeronym a11y accessible?
glosses: An abbreviation formed by replacing letters within a word by the number of letters replaced, such as "I18n" for "Internationalization".
charoites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of charoite
quirky subject
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: quirky subjects
Senses: topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: A subject in a grammatical case other than the nominative (used with certain verbs in some languages, e.g. Icelandic).
Synonyms: oblique subject
quirky subjects
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of quirky subject
frowny
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfɹaʊni/
rhymes: -aʊni
Forms: form: frownier
form: frowniest
Etymology: From frown + -y.
Senses: examples: text: She made a frowny face.
text: […] the black-and-white splendor of our men, as well as the fur-decked rosiness of our women, is only enhanced by contrast against the frowny murkings of the sky.
ref: 1895, Percival Pollard, chapter V, in The Cape of Storms, page 75:
text: He was always very frowny when the doorbell rang in the middle of Bible reading […]
ref: 1942, Emily Carr, “Sunday”, in The Book of Small, Toronto, Ont.: Oxford University Press, →OCLC:
glosses: Frowning.
Derived terms: frownily
frowniness
frowny face
frowny
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfɹaʊni/
rhymes: -aʊni
Forms: form: frownies
Etymology: From frown + -y.
Senses: glosses: Ellipsis of frowny face.
frownier
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of frowny: more frowny
frowniest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of frowny: most frowny
unstolen
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + stolen.
Senses: glosses: Not having been stolen.
Wollaston prism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Wollaston prisms
Etymology: After its inventor, William Hyde Wollaston.
Senses: glosses: An optical device that separates randomly polarized or unpolarized light into two orthogonal linearly polarized outgoing beams.
wikipedia: William Hyde Wollaston
Related terms: Glan–Foucault prism
Glan–Thompson prism
Nicol prism
Nomarski prism
Rochon prism
Sénarmont prism
workshirt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: workshirts
Etymology: From work + shirt.
Senses: glosses: A shirt designed to be worn to work.
workshirts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of workshirt
archivalism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From archival + -ism.
Senses: examples: text: With its fetishistic shots of jukeboxes that still play 45s, and reverence for road movies like “Vanishing Point,” “Death Proof” is a love letter to pop archivalism as cozy as the roadhouse in which the first half takes place.
ref: 2007 September 9, Charles Taylor, Stephanie Zacharek, “Eerie Lights, Disco and Saucy Jump Cuts”, in New York Times:
glosses: The keeping of archives.
judicialization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From judicial + -ization or judicialize + -ation.
Senses: examples: text: Goldsmith described this threat as “the judicialization of international politics.”
ref: 2007 September 9, Jeffrey Rosen, “Conscience of a Conservative”, in New York Times:
antonyms: dejudicialization
glosses: The process of judicializing.
judicialize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: judicializes
form: judicializing
form: judicialized
form: judicialized
Etymology: From judicial + -ize.
Senses: glosses: To convert or integrate into a judicial system; to bring under the remit of the law.
Derived terms: judicialization
judicializes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of judicialize
judicializing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of judicialize
judicialized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of judicialize
kefalograviera
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Borrowed from Greek κεφαλογραβιέρα (kefalograviéra).
Senses: examples: text: There are also firm, sharp offerings, like kasseri, kefalograviera and graviera, which are just right for a pecorinolike kick in a savory pie or fried up into tzaganaki.
ref: 2007 September 9, Sara Dickerman, “Olympic Dinners”, in New York Times:
glosses: A hard Greek cheese with a salty flavour and rich aroma, made from sheep milk.
kopanisti
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Borrowed from Greek Κοπανιστή (Kopanistí).
Senses: examples: text: A number of Greek cheeses are not exported to the United States, including soft, raw-milk cheeses like the kopanisti of the Cyclades islands, which, according to Kochilas, are naturally fermented in clay jugs, animal skins or baskets.
ref: 2007 September 9, Sara Dickerman, “Olympic Dinners”, in New York Times:
glosses: A traditional cheese made in the Cyclades.
lyriform
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more lyriform
form: most lyriform
Etymology: From lyre + -iform.
Senses: glosses: Having the shape of a lyre.
Derived terms: lyriform organ
manouri
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Borrowed from Ancient Greek μανούρι (manoúri).
Senses: examples: text: My favorite Greek cheese is the creamy, sheepy manouri: delicately scented and almost spreadable, it’s like a softer, pudgier feta.
ref: 2007 September 9, Sara Dickerman, “Olympic Dinners”, in New York Times:
glosses: A Greek semi-soft cheese made from the milk of goats or sheep.
moguldom
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From mogul + -dom.
Senses: examples: text: The Creative Artists Agency championed it and swiftly packaged it with its clients Ms. Streep, Mr. Redford and Mr. Cruise, who was looking for a splashy new movie with which to kick off his new venture into studio moguldom at United Artists.
ref: 2007 September 9, David M. Halbfinger, “Mr. Sundance Goes Back to Washington”, in New York Times:
glosses: The realm or position of moguls.
papahood
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From papa + -hood.
Senses: examples: text: So after “The Rainmaker” in 1997 — another decent, well-acted, sharply directed movie with no evident aspirations to be anything more — he seemed to enter a phase of semi-retirement, devoting himself to winemaking and proud papahood.
ref: 2007 September 9, A. O. Scott, “Francis Ford Coppola, a Kid to Watch”, in New York Times:
glosses: fatherhood
papadums
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of papadum
pseudoradical
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pseudoradicals
Etymology: From pseudo- + radical.
Senses: examples: text: He protests the war in Vietnam, but looks with contempt on the hate-filled pseudoradicals who preach the politics of violence.
ref: 2007 September 9, Karen Durbin, “Breaking Through”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 26 Feb 2021:
glosses: One who only claims or appears to be a political radical.
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: The intersection of the set of nonzero prime ideals of a ring.
examples: text: As suggested by Weinmayr in this example, the reaction proceeds by a different mechanism, not with the formation of free radicals but rather with separation of the C — Hg bond, thus producing pseudoradicals which do not diffuse into the reaction medium.
ref: 1971, Ernest I. Becker, Minoru Tsutsui, Organometallic Reactions, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN:
text: These pseudoradicals are not directly chain carriers in the reduction of peroxydisulfate, but they can further build up oxygen radical ions.
ref: 2002, Willy J. Masschelein, Rip G. Rice, Ultraviolet Light in Water and Wastewater Sanitation, CRC Press, →ISBN, page 53:
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: An atom or group within a molecule which behaves like a free radical due to high valence.
pseudoradical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more pseudoradical
form: most pseudoradical
Etymology: From pseudo- + radical.
Senses: glosses: Claiming or appearing to be politically radical, but not actually so.
pseudoradicals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pseudoradical
zeroid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: zeroids
Etymology: From zero + -oid.
Senses: examples: text: If a semigroup S contains a zeroid, then every left zeroid is also a right zeroid, and vice versa, and the set K of all the zeroids of S is the kernel of S.
ref: 1961, Alfred Hoblitzelle Clifford, G. B. Preston, The Algebraic Theory of Semigroups, page 70:
text: Simplex zeroids seem to provide an alternative framework for discussing the themes broached in this paper, and of course Theorems 1—4 can be reexpressed in terms of simplex zeroids.
ref: 1993, Keith Walker, Surveys in combinatorics, 1993, page 166:
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: A zero identity.
zeroids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of zeroid
redbait
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: redbaits
form: redbaiting
form: redbaited
form: redbaited
form: red-bait
Etymology: From red + bait.
Senses: examples: text: While Jack Kennedy thrived in the 1950s as a sex-crazed, drug-dependent, ailment-ridden party-boy politician, Bobby, the family’s complicated sourpuss, hooked up with the redbaiting Joe McCarthy, then spun off as a crusading and corners-cutting scourge of labor corruption.
ref: 2007 September 9, David Corn, “Collision Course”, in New York Times:
glosses: To attack by denouncing as a Communist.
redbait
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: redbait
Etymology: From red + bait.
Senses: glosses: A fish, Emmelichthys nitidus
glosses: Pyura stolonifera, an ascidian often used as bait by anglers.
redbaits
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of redbait
redbaiting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of redbait
redbaited
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of redbait
redbellies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of redbelly
cunjevoi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cunjevois
form: cunjevoi
form: conjevoi
form: cungevoi
form: cunjeboi
form: conjeboy
Etymology: Unknown; likely from a Pama-Nyungan language. English sources from the 19th century describe it as an Australian word.
Senses: examples: text: All along our coast, cunjevoi are destroyed by fishermen, who use them for bait and, as a result, the other animals and plants that live in association with them are also killed.
ref: 1993, A. J. Underwood, M. G. Chapman, Seashores: A Beachcomber's Guide, page 39:
text: The cunjevoi is an unusual animal, being born as a larvae with a notochord or primitive backbone, before becoming attached to the rocks and growing its brown leathery coat. Cunjevoi grow in colonies and form their own ecosystem around them, from the absolute bottom of the lowest tide to above the half mean tide on exposed rocks.
ref: 2006, Frank Prokop, Australian Fish Guide, page 275:
text: There were three types of natural bait: ugari, worms and cunjevois.
ref: 2011, Graham Smith, “Pre-War Fishing at Point Lookout”, in Shadows of War on the Brisbane Line, Salisbury, Qld.: Boolarong Press, →ISBN, part I (Living at Goombi), page 31:
glosses: A coastal sea squirt (Pyura stolonifera), found in some parts of Australia and South Africa.
Synonyms: sense: Pyura stolonifera
word: red bait
sense: Pyura stolonifera
word: rooi aas
Derived terms: cunji
cunjevoi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cunjevois
form: cunjevoi
form: conjevoi
form: cungevoi
form: cunjeboi
form: conjeboy
Etymology: Uncertain; likely from Bandjalang kanjibuy, or from another Pama-Nyungan language. Attested in English from the 19th century.
Senses: examples: text: It is stated that the pain caused by the sting of this plant will be instantly relieved by the milky juice of the lower part of the stem of Colocasia macorrhiza (“Cunjevoi” of the natives), being rubbed on the affected part.
ref: 1889, Joseph Henry Maiden, The Useful Native Plants of Australia (including Tasmania), page 192:
text: Then we found the name when Tina bought a book about scented plants for Australian gardens. Our green lily is a cunjevoi, botanical name Alocasia macrorrhiza.
ref: 1997, John Griffin, Back Yard: A Gardening Life, page 62:
synonyms: giant taro
giant alocasia
glosses: A large flowering plant, Alocasia macrorrhizos, native to tropical islands from Asia to Australia.
cunjevois
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cunjevoi
rephotographer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rephotographers
Etymology: From re- + photographer.
Senses: glosses: One who takes part in rephotography.
rephotographers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rephotographer
rephotography
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɒɡɹəfi
Etymology: From re- + photography, often attributed to American photographer Mark Klett.
Senses: examples: text: A reinventor of rephotography, Mr. Prince has cannily parlayed his jaundiced view of society, especially its macho subcultures, into an array of market-friendly paintings and sculpture.
ref: 2007 September 9, Roberta Smith, “Solo Museum Shows: Not the Usual Suspects”, in New York Times:
glosses: A form of photography in which the same site is photographed at two separate points in time, “then and now”.
wikipedia: Mark Klett
Related terms: rephotograph
rephotographer
repropagate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: repropagates
form: repropagating
form: repropagated
form: repropagated
Etymology: From re- + propagate.
Senses: examples: text: Here’s the tricky part: some of the garden’s orchids and aroids date back 100 years or more, but they have been divided or repropagated since, Ms. Falk said.
ref: 2007 September 9, Michael Pollak, “Methuselah Plants”, in New York Times:
glosses: To propagate again or anew.
Related terms: repropagation
repropagates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of repropagate
repropagating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of repropagate
repropagated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of repropagate
shorthaired
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more shorthaired
form: most shorthaired
Etymology: From short + haired.
Senses: examples: text: Melissa got her wish to have a lavish living space for Bailey, an 11-year-old German shorthaired pointer.
ref: 2007 September 9, The Associated Press, “Baker Keeps Building for the Future”, in New York Times:
antonyms: long-haired
glosses: Having short hair.
raw_tags: of nonhuman animals
Related terms: longhair
shorthair
splatterfest
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: splatterfests
Etymology: From splatter + -fest.
Senses: examples: text: The upside is that we get more of both Mr. Rodriguez’s gleefully gross zombie splatterfest, “Planet Terror,” and Mr. Tarantino’s miraculous little road movie, “Death Proof,” which increasingly looks like one of the year’s best American films.
ref: 2007 September 9, Charles Taylor, Stephanie Zacharek, “Eerie Lights, Disco and Saucy Jump Cuts”, in New York Times:
glosses: A film, video game, etc. containing violent and gory scenes.
splatterfests
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of splatterfest
spookspeak
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From spook + -speak.
Senses: examples: text: The word is a favorite in spookspeak.
ref: 2007 September 9, William Safire, “Redact This”, in New York Times:
glosses: The jargon of espionage.
sportbike
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sportbikes
form: sport bike
Etymology: From sport + bike.
Senses: examples: text: DUCATI’S new Hypermotard 1100 is described by its envelope-pushing designer, Pierre Terblanche, as “a sportbike with a different attitude.”
ref: 2007 September 9, Jerry Garrett, “A Crossover on Two Wheels”, in New York Times:
glosses: A motorcycle optimized for speed, acceleration, braking, and cornering on paved roads, typically at the expense of comfort and fuel economy.
Related terms: dirtbike
off-road
street bike
sportbikes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sportbike
sportest
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: sport + -est
Senses: glosses: second-person singular simple present indicative of sport
superadvanced
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more superadvanced
form: most superadvanced
Etymology: From super- + advanced.
Senses: examples: text: In one corner, the third installment of the smash Guitar Hero franchise, illustrating that you don’t need superadvanced graphics to make a great game, just an innovative, addictive idea.
ref: 2007 September 9, Seth Schiesel, “Deploying Soon, Shock and Rock”, in New York Times:
glosses: Highly advanced.
supermotos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of supermoto
unwrites
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of unwrite
unwriting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of unwrite
unwriting
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: Take my word for it, — if indeed I can be a fair witness, — the man who has written a book is above the unwriting average, and as such should be ranked mentally above them […]
ref: 1841, Martin Farquhar Tupper, An Author's Mind: The Book of Title-pages:
glosses: Not writing.
unwrote
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past of unwrite
wargaming
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From war + gaming.
Senses: examples: text: DARKON The Darkon Wargaming Club, a “full-contact medieval fantasy wargaming group” based in the Washington-Baltimore area, profiled in a documentary by Luke Meyer and Andrew Neel .
ref: 2007 September 9, Dave Kehr, “September Release Schedule”, in New York Times:
glosses: The playing of war games.
wargaming
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From wargame + -ing.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of wargame
attitudinous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more attitudinous
form: most attitudinous
Etymology: From attitude + -in- + -ous.
Senses: examples: text: As pageants go, this one was short (about four blocks, one hour) and friendly in a fringey, attitudinous way.
ref: 2007 September 10, Holland Cotter, “The Creative Spirit, Strolling Through SoHo With Its Fringe Flying”, in New York Times:
glosses: Having a bold and possibly unfriendly attitude; sassy.
Related terms: attitude-adjuster
'tude
tude
loafered
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of loafer
loafered
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From loafer + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: P. J. stuck an impeccably loafered-and-bobby-socked foot upon the desk and glared at it.
ref: 1944 October, Clariss Ross, “Northwestern for Its Pretty Girls”, in Justine Miller, Charlotte Rogers, editors, Purple Parrot, volume XXIV, number 1, Evanston, Ill.: Student Publishing Company, Northwestern University, →OCLC, page 4, column 2:
text: He leaned back and put his expensively loafered feet on one of my chairs. Apparently he was willing to cough up some change for footwear.
ref: 2006, Karen MacInerney, Murder on the Rocks, page 6:
text: Sam has an angry stalker, the son of the loafered couple who perished in the Dickinson fire.
ref: 2007 September 10, Janet Maslin, “Burn Down a Poet’s House, and the Mail Just Pours In”, in New York Times:
glosses: Wearing a loafer or loafers.
martyrlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more martyrlike
form: most martyrlike
Etymology: From martyr + -like.
Senses: examples: text: Jesus, very noble and martyrlike from the first, repeatedly holds gestures of benediction or crucifixion, sometimes (a particularly artful trick of Limón’s) at the same time; Judas is forever conflicted by inspiration and jealousy.
ref: 2007 September 10, Alastair Macaulay, “Making a Case for Classics Uncovered or Rediscovered”, in New York Times:
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a martyr.
nonpolemic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + polemic.
Senses: examples: text: Jere L. Bacharach, a historian at the University of Washington who presented the awards, said at the time that both books were “nuanced, nonpolemic works on subjects that too often lend themselves to political tirades and polemics.”
ref: 2007 September 10, Karen W. Arenson, “Fracas Erupts Over Book on Mideast by a Barnard Professor Seeking Tenure”, in New York Times:
glosses: Not polemic.
nostalgize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: nostalgizes
form: nostalgizing
form: nostalgized
form: nostalgized
Etymology: From nostalgia + -ize.
Senses: glosses: To treat nostalgically.
examples: text: Appropriately enough for a crowd hung up on the fashions and music of the past, the nostalgizing began almost immediately.
ref: 2007 September 10, Melena Ryzik, “The Last Night of Misshapes: Hip, Post-New-Wave and Through”, in New York Times:
glosses: To revel in nostalgia.
nostalgizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of nostalgize
nostalgizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of nostalgize
nostalgized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of nostalgize
nosologies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nosology
coccidioidomycotic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From coccidioidomycosis + -ic.
Senses: examples: text: In contrast to tuberculosis, coccidioidomycotic cavities may occur in the anterior segment of the upper lobes as well as in the lower lobes, but these cavities, like those of tuberculosis, are more common in the upper lobes.
ref: 2010, James C. Reed, Chest Radiology Plain Film Patterns and Differential Diagnoses, page 376:
glosses: Of or pertaining to the fungal disease coccidioidomycosis.
incastellate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: incastellates
form: incastellating
form: incastellated
form: incastellated
form: encastellate
Etymology: First attested in 1552; borrowed from Medieval Latin incastellātus, perfect passive participle of incastellō (“to fortify, incastle, incastellate”) from in- (“in-: make into”) + castellum (“little fortification, castle; cistern”). Cognate with Italian incastellare.
Senses: glosses: To make into a castle.
examples: text: Sir William Estfild, knight of the Bath, Mayor, 1438. a great benefactor to that church, vnder a fayre monument, hee also builded steeple, changed their old Bels into 5. tunable bels, and gaue one hundred poundes to other workes of that church. Moreouer hee caused the Conduit in Aldermanbury which he had begun, to be performed at his charges and water to be conuayed by pipes of leade from Tyborne to Fleetstreete, as I haue said. And also from high Berie to the parrish of S. Giles without Cripplegate, where the inhabitants of those partes incastellated the same in sufficient cisternes, […]
ref: 1598, John Stow, A Suruay of London, page 233:
synonyms: stean#Verb
glosses: To enclose a well or cistern with masonry.
flushingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more flushingly
form: most flushingly
Etymology: From flushing + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: No schoolgirl passed their observation-posts more flushingly than did Mrs. Dr. Kennicott. In shame she knew they glanced appraisingly at her snowy overshoes, speculating about her legs.
ref: 1920, Sinclair Lewis, Main Street: The Story of Carol Kennicott, New York, N.Y.: Harcourt, Brace and Howe, →OCLC, page 243:
synonyms: blushedly
blushingly
flushedly
glosses: In a flushing manner; while flushing, while blushing (red with embarrassment)
carriwitchet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: carriwitchets
form: carwhichet
form: carwitchet
Etymology: Possibly a humorous alteration of catechism.
Senses: glosses: An absurd question; a quibble; a conundrum; a pun; a piece of jocularity or facetiousness.
Related terms: carritch
nontraveler
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nontravelers
form: nontraveller
Etymology: From non- + traveler.
Senses: glosses: One who is not a traveler.
nontravelers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nontraveler
redbaiter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: redbaiters
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of red-baiter.
prooftexts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of prooftext
Charcotian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Charcotian
form: most Charcotian
Etymology: From Charcot + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to Jean-Martin Charcot (1825-1893), French neurologist.
redbaiters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of redbaiter
lmk
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of LMK (“let me know”).
acromioclavicular joint
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: acromioclavicular joints
Senses: examples: text: He waved them up and down to show that his throwing shoulder still operates despite a sprained acromioclavicular joint, or AC joint.
ref: 2007 September 11, John Branch, “Eli Manning Could Sit Out Against Packers”, in New York Times:
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: A joint at the top of the shoulder, the junction between the acromion and the clavicle.
Synonyms: AC joint
acromioclavicular
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɪkjʊlə(ɹ)
Etymology: From acromio- + clavicular.
Senses: examples: text: Frederick Matsen, the chairman of the department of orthopedics and sports medicine at the University of Washington, who has watched the hit that injured Bradford, said an injured acromioclavicular joint could be a bruise, a clavicle fracture, a mild separation or a severe separation.
ref: 2009 September 7, Thayer Evans, “Uncertainty About Oklahoma and Injury to Its Quarterback”, in New York Times:
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Pertaining to both the acromion and the clavicle.
Related terms: acromioclavicular joint
bleaty
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more bleaty
form: most bleaty
Etymology: From bleat + -y.
Senses: examples: text: The problem is that these two attributes seem to belong to two different voices: the top was altogether less satisfying than the bottom, and at the point at which they meet, his sound was dangerously bleaty.
ref: 2007 September 11, Anne Midgette, “What a Cold Little Hand, but What Warm Tones”, in New York Times:
glosses: Having a bleating sound.
capacocha
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: capacochas
Etymology: From Quechua.
Senses: glosses: A child sacrificed in a religious ritual in some pre-Columbian cultures.
capacochas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of capacocha
carriwitchets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of carriwitchet
carwhichets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of carwhichet
Related terms: carriwitchet
carwhichet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: carwhichets
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of carriwitchet.
groundfire
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ground fire
Etymology: From ground + fire.
Senses: examples: text: Mr. Chaika described the old approach, before Chechnya’s airport was sacked: the plane would circle high over Grozny, and then descend in a harrowing corkscrew, hoping to dodge groundfire.
ref: 2007 September 11, C.J. Chivers, “Nonstop to Chechnya: As War Ebbs, Flights Return”, in New York Times:
glosses: Gunfire directed at aircraft from the ground.
overwatch
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: overwatches
form: overwatching
form: overwatched
form: overwatched
Etymology: From over- + watch. Back-formation from watch over.
Senses: glosses: To watch over.
glosses: To watch excessively.
glosses: To overcome with long lack of rest.
overwatch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From over- + watch. Back-formation from watch over.
Senses: examples: text: At a further and undefined point in the future, the American force would shrink to about seven and later five brigades — all involved in overwatch missions.
ref: 2007 September 11, Michael R. Gordon, “Petraeus Sees Bigger Role in Protecting Iraqi Civilians”, in New York Times:
text: “It’s 21st-century warfare,” says another team member, Doshch. And although some of the overwatch can be conducted remotely in bunkers, most of the drone teams (typically four-strong, they say) have to work about 1km behind the front.
ref: 2023 June 17, Dan Sabbagh, “‘It’s 21st-century warfare’: on Ukraine’s counteroffensive frontline”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: The supervision of one unit or vehicle by another while the supervised unit is firing or moving.
overwatches
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of overwatch
overwatching
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of overwatch
overwatched
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of overwatch
overwatering
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of overwater
overwaters
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of overwater
phoropter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: phoropters
Etymology: From a trademark.
Senses: examples: text: Testing includes using a pen or finger to test for the “near point of convergence,” as well as a phoropter, which uses lenses and prisms to test the eyes’ ability to work together.
ref: 2007 September 11, Laura Novak, “Not Autistic or Hyperactive. Just Seeing Double at Times”, in New York Times:
glosses: An instrument used in eye examinations to determine an individual's prescription, the patient looking through various lenses at a chart on the other side.
phoropters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of phoropter
toothcare
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From tooth + care.
Senses: glosses: The care and treatment of the teeth.
mouthcare
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From mouth + care.
Senses: glosses: The care and treatment of the mouth.
mouthbrooders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mouthbrooder
mouthbrooding
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From mouth + brooding.
Senses: glosses: Oral incubation; the care given by some animals, especially fishes, to their offspring by holding them in the mouth for extended periods of time.
Related terms: mouthbrooder
smitest
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: smite + -est
Senses: glosses: second-person singular simple present indicative of smite
smiteth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: smite + -eth
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of smite
subscience
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: subsciences
Etymology: From sub- + science.
Senses: examples: text: Neurology, after all, is a subscience of anatomy — the symptoms of brain disorders are directly related to the sites of lesions — yet many neurology residencies no longer require brain-cutting time.
ref: 2007 September 11, Elissa Ely, M.D., “In an Age of Images, Teaching Pathology by Hand”, in New York Times:
glosses: A scientific discipline that forms part of a larger science.
subsciences
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of subscience
suitmaker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: suitmakers
Etymology: From suit + maker.
Senses: examples: text: At Z Zegna, a youthful men’s label by the Italian suitmaker, there were papery cotton parkas with oversize backpacks and some handsome striped jackets, but the many baggy shorts lent a weird weight to everything.
ref: 2007 September 11, Cathy Horyn, “Narciso Rodriguez Sets the Pace for a No-Frills Spring”, in New York Times:
glosses: A maker of suits.
Related terms: suitmaking
suitmakers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of suitmaker
sooji
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of suji.
Related terms: sooji-mooji
soogans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of soogan
cyberintruder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cyberintruders
Etymology: From cyber- + intruder.
Senses: examples: text: And even though his department takes the threat of hacking and malicious cyberintruders seriously, he said, “I’ve got a list of 16 things that I try to address in terms of outages — only one of them is cyber- or malicious attacks.”
ref: 2007 September 12, John Schwartz, “Who Needs Hackers?”, in New York Times:
glosses: One who breaks into a computer system; a malicious hacker.
Related terms: cyberintrusion
cyberintruders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cyberintruder
eventlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more eventlike
form: most eventlike
Etymology: From event + -like.
Senses: examples: text: “We wanted to preserve the eventlike feel and the sense that this was something important to attend,” said Mr. McDonell, who converted an 18-city industry road show, called the Automated Test Summit, into a consolidated virtual conference last May.
ref: 2007 September 12, Heather Clancy, “Cyberspace Trade Shows Bring Action to the Desktop”, in New York Times:
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of an event.
microdoses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of microdose
microdoses
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of microdose
nongilled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + gilled.
Senses: examples: text: Rotenone is widely considered safe for mammals and other nongilled animals, though some concerns have been raised about links to Parkinson’s disease and some types of cancer.
ref: 2007 September 12, Jesse Mckinley, “California Officials Tackle a Toothy Lake Predator”, in New York Times:
glosses: Without gills.
prescandal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pre- + scandal.
Senses: examples: text: But the pace, so far, is significantly slower than in the prescandal days of 2005, when Congress financed more than 15,000 pet projects, by some estimates, totaling more than $30 billion.
ref: 2007 September 12, Monica Davey, “Earmark Gone, Indian Project Is One-Winged”, in New York Times:
glosses: Before a scandal.
postscandal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From post- + scandal.
Senses: glosses: Following a scandal.
echinaceas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of echinacea
yaravi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: yaravis
Senses: glosses: A traditional nostalgic love song of Peru.
yaravis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of yaravi
yarcos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of yarco
acclimatizational
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /əˌklaɪmətɪˈzeɪʃənəl/
Forms: form: more acclimatizational
form: most acclimatizational
Etymology: From acclimatization + -al.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to acclimatization.