cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
Chongjin
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: chǔngʹjēnʹ
Etymology: From Korean 청진(淸津) (Cheongjin).
Senses: examples: text: There were times and places in North Korea in the mid-1990s, as a great famine wiped out perhaps 10 percent of the population, that children feared to sleep in the open. Some of them had wandered in from the countryside to places like Chongjin, an industrial town on the coast, where they lived on streets and in railroad stations.
ref: 2013 February 5, Max Fisher, “The Cannibals of North Korea”, in The Washington Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 24 Feb 2017, WorldViews:
text: "The North Hamgyong Provincial E-Library has 301 computers," translates Suh Byung Kim, the wiry 34-year-old guide, as the head librarian speaks Korean. "It is open every day at 10 a.m. Every person in the provincial capital Chongjin can use them," he says to a group of Westerners visiting the location.
ref: 2013 July 26, Benjamin Mack, “Behind the curtain”, in DW News, archived from the original on 13 Sep 2015:
text: Mr Fowle said he left the Bible with his name in it in a bathroom under a bin at a nightclub in the northern port city of Chongjin and hoped a Christian would find it.
ref: 2014 November 1, Tony Bonnici, “US tourist held in North Korea felt ‘compelled to leave Bible’”, in The Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 27 Aug 2023:
text: “When I lived in North Korea, I never had the freedom to wear what I wanted, but I never questioned it because I didn’t know this freedom existed,” said Jihyun Kang, 31, who grew up in Chongjin, the third-largest city in North Korea.
ref: 2021 August 4, Hahna Yoon, “Tracing Freedom to a Pair of Jeans”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 04 Aug 2021:
glosses: A city in North Hamgyong Province, North Korea, the third largest city in North Korea.
Synonyms: sense: from Japanese
word: Seishin
sense: from Mandarin Chinese
word: Qingjin
exuviæ
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of exuvia
unguilt
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -ɪlt
Forms: form: unguilts
form: unguilting
form: unguilted
form: unguilted
Etymology: From un- + guilt.
Senses: examples: text: [...] admits his guilt and then finds relatives who want to "unguilt" him, [...]
ref: 1986, Edward Haymes, Stephanie Cain Van D'Elden, Midwest Modern Language Association, The Dark figure in medieval German and Germanic literature:
text: But I felt unguilted as soon as I did it. It made the whole incident feel normal, run-of-the-mill.
ref: 2006, Libby Sternberg, Finding the Forger:
text: No sin goes unpunished here, no joy unguilted.
ref: 2009, David Janssen, Edward Whitelock, Apocalypse Jukebox: The End of the World in American Popular Music - Page 72:
glosses: To remove the sin or guilt from; pardon; excuse.
Derived terms: unguilting
unguilt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɪlt
Etymology: From un- + guilt.
Senses: examples: text: The guilt, the crime strikes first, and from it are abstracted the negations unguilt, innocence.
ref: 1853, Francis Lieber, On civil liberty and self-government - Page 21:
text: ("I love you for the unguilt of your madness . . .")
ref: 1976, Rochelle Heller Stone, Bolesław Leśmian: The Poet and His Poetry:
text: When he looks at her she wears a secretive smile, the knowledge of their act between them like a thauma'd thing, laced with the unguilt of defiant exploration.
ref: 2015, Micah Blacklight, Chapter Twenty-One: Songhai:
glosses: Guiltlessness; innocence.
unguilt
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɪlt
Etymology: From un- + guilt (“gilt”).
Senses: examples: text: Two silver monteths, two large fflaggons, two large tankards, two silver salvers, a voyder and a knyfe, two silver salts, two guilt bolls of the like size, one other boll, three silver bolls, in all 24 pieces guilt and unguilt.
ref: 1696, The Connoisseur, volume 5, published 1903, page 204:
glosses: Obsolete form of ungilt (“not gilded”)
high country
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Near-synonyms: highlands, upcountry, upland; plateau, tableland, mesa
text: We had topped the high country, too, and had started down the other side of the mountains that ran out on the promontory.
ref: 1907, Stewart Edward White, chapter 13, in Arizona Nights:
text: While Lookout Mountain was the loftiest summit, some of the other ridges rose almost as high. . . . September had now come and the winds were growing crisper in the high country.
ref: 1915, Joseph A. Altsheler, chapter 13, in The Rock of Chickamauga:
text: I grew up in Washington State, and have hiked the high country since I was a boy scout in the '60s.
ref: 2001 August 6, Curt Eidem, “Letters: The War over the West”, in Time:
glosses: Terrain that is at a relatively high elevation — generally, higher than foothills but not above the timberline — consisting of mountainous areas or elevated expanses of plain.
Related terms: north country
guilt-sick
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more guilt-sick
form: most guilt-sick
Etymology: From guilt + sick.
Senses: glosses: Sickened by consciousness of guilt.
genus name
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: genus names
Senses: examples: Holonyms: species name (the binomial unit), binominal name, binomial name
topics: biology
natural-sciences
taxonomy
synonyms: generic name
generic epithet
;
genus
coordinate_terms: specific name
specific epithet
species epithet
;
subspecific name
subspecific epithet
glosses: The scientific name of a genus, which is always capitalized and italicized.
defense mechanism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: defense mechanisms
form: defence mechanism
Etymology: Calque of German Abwehrmechanismus, a concept in the Freudian model.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
psychology
sciences
glosses: A psychological strategy used unconsciously by people to cope with harmful or stressful situations.
qualifier: evolutionary theory
glosses: An automatic reaction of the body against foreign antibodies.
remissnesses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of remissness
pinnipede
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pinnipedes
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of pinniped.
nonvirtualizable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + virtualizable.
Senses: examples: text: For example, differences in the execution of some nonvirtualizable instructions, such as SIDT, SGDT, and SLDT, allow inspection of the privileged state from the user-level.
ref: 2007, Niels Provos, Thorsten Holz, Virtual Honeypots: From Botnet Tracking to Intrusion Detection:
glosses: Not virtualizable.
territorialization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: territorializations
form: territorialisation
Etymology: From territorial + -ization.
Senses: glosses: The process of territorializing.
territorializations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of territorialization
prefetchable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From prefetch + -able.
Senses: examples: text: When prefetchable memory is not supported by the PCI/PCI bridge, the register is reserved, read-only, and must return a value of zero when read.
ref: 2005, Edward Solari, George Willse, PCI and PCI-X Hardware and Software: Architecture and Design:
glosses: Capable of being prefetched.
foki
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /fɔki/
Forms: form: fokis
Etymology: From Cantonese 夥記 /伙记 (fo² gei³). Compare Chinese Pidgin English foki or fookee.
Senses: examples: text: One of them took him by the queue and tied him to his fokis, while the other pointed a revolver at him and told him to keep quiet.
ref: 1894 November 28, “The Winglok Street Outrage”, in Hongkong Telegraph, page 2:
text: FOR impersonating an emigrant before the Harbour Master, a foki in an immigration boarding-house at 291 Des Vœux Road, West, was to-day fined $100 and the accountant, and another foki for aiding and abetting, $50 and $25 respectively.
ref: 1905 January 30, Hongkong Telegraph, page 4:
text: Something resembling a free fight occurred in Wing Lok Street last evening between the fokis employed at Nos 156 and 160.
ref: 1905 August 30, “Fokis Fight”, in China Mail, page 4:
text: Fokis from his farm go out to the neighbouring villages and buy eggs and take them back to his farm twice a week; and these eggs together with those produced on his own farm are brought to Hong Kong by launch.
ref: 1934, Report of the Committee Regarding the Marketing of New Territories Produce in Hong Kong and Kowloon:
text: A CHINESE man who had left a note at the scene of his crime pleaded guilty to stealing a quantity of clothing from five fokis. He was caught after he left a note, signed by himself, with his victims. He was sentenced to six weeks in prison.
ref: 1918, South China Morning Post:
text: Cheung said that Gore, apparently under the influence of liquor, went to the Sun Sung Oot Cafe, Hennessy Road, and insisted on buying a piece of raw beef hung in the shop. Cheung, a foki, told him raw meat could not be sold and Gore threw the meat in his face.
ref: 1946 June 9, Hongkong Telegraph:
text: The company's representative pleaded the offence was unintentional as owing to holidays and busy hours the fokis was not informed of the ceiling price of that brand.
ref: 1946 September 5, Hongkong Telegraph:
text: Police charged this morning that a shop foki had spent $28,000 he told them had been stolen from him
ref: 1961 December 21, “Foki charged with giving false information”, in China Mail, page 12:
glosses: staff
ethanes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ethane
metastudy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: metastudies
Etymology: From meta- + study.
Senses: examples: text: This metastudy is designed to find out whether most studies are misleadingly inaccurate.
glosses: A study on the topic of studies.
Related terms: meta-analysis
metastudies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of metastudy
moments of force
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of moment of force
smooth out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: smooths out
form: smoothing out
form: smoothed out
form: smoothed out
Senses: glosses: To make smooth.
glosses: To become smooth.
glosses: To remove irregularities or imperfections from.
hydrolize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: Why would it hydrolize faster?
ref: 2009 July 26, Matthew Scult, “Chemistry for Non-Dummies”, in New York Times:
glosses: Misspelling of hydrolyze.
nonengagement
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nonengagements
form: non-engagement
Etymology: From non- + engagement.
Senses: examples: text: Ichi will not live by arcane rules of nonengagement.
ref: 2009 July 26, Matt Bai, “The Other 0.1%”, in New York Times:
glosses: Failure to engage; detachment.
repocket
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: repockets
form: repocketing
form: repocketed
form: repocketed
Etymology: From re- + pocket.
Senses: examples: text: Buyers at the Rushmore and at other new condominiums began struggling to get out of their contracts and to repocket their deposits — at the Rushmore, 15 percent of the purchase price.
ref: 2009 July 26, Josh Barbanel, “Attack of the Fine Print”, in New York Times:
glosses: To pocket again; to return to one's pocket.
repockets
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of repocket
repocketing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of repocket
repocketed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of repocket
upholdable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From uphold + -able.
Senses: examples: text: Is this contract upholdable in a court of law?
glosses: Capable of being upheld.
restrategize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: restrategizes
form: restrategizing
form: restrategized
form: restrategized
form: restrategise
Etymology: From re- + strategize.
Senses: examples: text: Developers of 55-and-over housing are also restrategizing.
ref: 2009 July 26, Elsa Brenner, “Developers in the Age of Caution”, in New York Times:
glosses: To form a new strategy.
restrategizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of restrategize
restrategizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of restrategize
restrategized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of restrategize
restreaks
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of restreak
restreaks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of restreak
restreaking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of restreak
restreaked
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of restreak
retorquing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of retorque
retorqued
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of retorque
slenderizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of slenderize
slenderizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of slenderize
slenderized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of slenderize
somnambulistically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more somnambulistically
form: most somnambulistically
Etymology: From somnambulistic + -ally.
Senses: examples: text: Robert Loo sat and listened behind his counter, his heart aching, his eyes staring at nothing, while his brothers cheerfully clopped around, occasionally calling to the kitchen, as customers drifted somnambulistically in.
ref: 1959, Anthony Burgess, Beds in the East (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 569:
text: When she isn’t tending to the corpselike patrons of the fashionable beauty parlor that employs her, she’s dodging the advances of a perfectly nice young man (John Fraser), arguing with her older sister and roommate, Helen (Yvonne Furneaux), about the unwelcome overnight presence of Helen’s lover (Ian Hendry) or walking somnambulistically through the streets.
ref: 2009 July 26, Dave Kehr, “A Woman Repulsed, a Man Convulsed”, in New York Times:
glosses: In somnambulistic fashion; as if sleepwalking.
superintelligences
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of superintelligence
superintellect
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: superintellects
Etymology: From super- + intellect.
Senses: glosses: A remarkable intellect.
superintellects
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of superintellect
teacuplike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more teacuplike
form: most teacuplike
Etymology: From teacup + -like.
Senses: examples: text: The little teacuplike cavity in the end of the hair fits over the papilla, whereby nourishment from the blood readily reaches the hair (Fig. 117).
ref: 1908, Alvin Davison, The human body and health: volume 3:
text: Perhaps it’s the oversize teacuplike chairs at the cozy bar, or the lights twinkling off the 18-karat gold-leaf ceiling vault and gold floor tiles, or the glimpse of the golden skulls lining the walls in the back room of the lounge.
ref: 2009 July 26, Leanne Shear, “Get Your Fix of Gold and Dancing”, in New York Times:
glosses: Resembling a teacup.
unsolicitous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unsolicitous
form: most unsolicitous
Etymology: From un- + solicitous.
Senses: examples: text: Gates told me Crowley was so “gruff” and unsolicitous “the hair on my neck stood up.”
ref: 2009 July 26, Maureen Dowd, “Bite Your Tongue”, in New York Times:
glosses: Not solicitous.
antisettlement
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more antisettlement
form: most antisettlement
Etymology: From anti- + settlement.
Senses: examples: text: Dror Etkes of Yesh Din, an antisettlement group in Israel, noted that half of all construction in West Bank settlements was taking place in these two ultra-Orthodox communities, adding that given their location next to the boundary, it was highly likely they would be in Israel in a future deal through a redrawn border.
ref: 2009 July 27, Ethan Bronner, “In 2 West Bank Settlements, a Sign of Hope for a Deal”, in New York Times:
glosses: Opposing a settlement.
prerolls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of preroll
prerolls
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of preroll
coater
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: coaters
Etymology: From coat + -er.
Senses: examples: text: The curtain coater broke down and the factory had to close temporarily.
glosses: A machine that coats material with a fluid.
Related terms: white-coater
coaters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of coater
fireable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: Clearly, as the Mets’ in-house human resources people investigated Bernazard’s eminently fireable behavior, the front office had done its due diligence on Bernazard’s chief accuser, Rubin.
ref: 2009 July 28, George Vecsey, “Mets’ Latest Error Comes From Front Office”, in The New York Times:
glosses: Alternative form of firable.
lumberjacking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of lumberjack
lumberjacked
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of lumberjack
melodicas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of melodica
Romanization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɹəʊmənaɪˈzeɪʃən/
ipa: /ˌɹəʊmənɪˈzeɪʃən/
rhymes: -eɪʃən
Forms: form: Romanizations
form: romanization
form: Romanisation
form: romanisation
Etymology: From romanize + -ation.
Senses: glosses: The act or process of putting text into the Latin (Roman) alphabet, by means such as transliteration and transcription.
examples: text: As an alternate name for Sakyamuni, Kircher gave "Omyto", which is a romanization of A-mi-to-fu, whom Kircher stated was commonly called "Amida", i.e., the Japanese pronunciation.
ref: 1989, David E. Mungello, Curious Land: Jesuit Accommodation and the Origins of Sinology, →ISBN, page 160:
text: Furthermore, certain places and people are already internationally well known by particular romanizations of their names, and these romanizations may not conform to any of the official systems detailed above.
ref: 2005, Chris Berry, Feii Lu, Island on the Edge: Taiwan New Cinema and After, →ISBN, page 11:
glosses: An instance (a string) of text transliterated or transcribed from another alphabet into the Latin alphabet.
Related terms: transliteration
transcription
Latinization
pleatless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pleat + -less.
Senses: examples: text: The standard conductor’s uniform is a conservative affair: a single-breasted navy jacket, two logoed brass buttons, and straight-leg, pleatless pants.
ref: 2009 July 28, Michael M. Grynbaum, “Offering Alterations and Fittings, Before the Next Train”, in New York Times:
glosses: Without pleats.
Derived terms: pleatlessness
Ramm
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Ramms
Etymology: * As a German and English surname, from ram (“male sheep”).
* As a Jewish surname, spelling variant of Ram, from Hebrew רָם.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
rhamphotheca
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rhamphothecae
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ῥάμφος (rhámphos, “beak”) + theca.
Senses: glosses: A thin horny sheath of keratin on the outer surface of a bird's beak
Related terms: rhinotheca
gnathotheca
rhamphothecal
suitmaking
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From suit + making.
Senses: examples: text: The son of a shoemaker, Mr. Cirillo began his tailoring career in Brescia, an Italian town about an hour outside Milan, where his uncles owned a suitmaking shop.
ref: 2009 July 28, Michael M. Grynbaum, “Offering Alterations and Fittings, Before the Next Train”, in New York Times:
glosses: The manufacture of suits.
gnathotheca
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From gnatho- + theca.
Senses: glosses: The horny covering of the lower part of a bird's beak.
Coordinate terms: rhinotheca
eyebrowless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From eyebrow + -less.
Senses: examples: text: But being eyebrowless has its advantages, he discovered more recently, while experimenting with cross-dressing to research a novel he’s now writing about the transgendered.
ref: 2009 July 29, Charles Mcgrath, “An Author Without Borders”, in New York Times:
glosses: Without eyebrows.
Derived terms: eyebrowlessness
postcollapse
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From post- + collapse.
Senses: examples: text: The absence of modern planes now is not, in fact, a reflection of the current state of the industry but of the postcollapse crisis of the 1990s — the lead time is long on new plane designs.
ref: 2009 July 29, Andrew E. Kramer, “Aeroflot Sheds Its Soviet Legacy and Turns to a Western Fleet”, in New York Times:
glosses: After a collapse.
provisionary
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more provisionary
form: most provisionary
Etymology: From provision + -ary.
Senses: examples: text: The good news in the Case-Shiller index, the most widely watched source of price information about the housing market, is equally provisionary.
ref: 2009 July 29, David Streitfeld, “Recovery Signs in Housing Market Stir Some Hope”, in New York Times:
glosses: provisional
stepstool
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stepstools
Etymology: From step + stool.
Senses: examples: text: His bibliography so far includes nine novels, including “Europe Central,” which won the National Book Award in 2005; three collections of stories; a seven-volume, 3,000-page history of violence; a book-length essay on poverty; and a travel book about hopping freight trains, a hobby of his even though his balance is so bad that he has to use a plastic bucket as a stepstool.
ref: 2009 July 29, Charles Mcgrath, “An Author Without Borders”, in New York Times:
glosses: A stool with built-in steps for climbing onto it, used for reaching high objects.
Related terms: footstool
stepchair
step chair
step ladder
stepladder
stepstools
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stepstool
steroidlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more steroidlike
form: most steroidlike
Etymology: From steroid + -like.
Senses: examples: text: Federal regulators warned consumers on Tuesday not to use body-building products that are sold as nutritional supplements but may contain steroids or steroidlike substances, citing reports of acute liver injury and kidney failure.
ref: 2009 July 29, Michael S. Schmidt, “Supplements for Athletes Draw Alert From F.D.A.”, in New York Times:
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of steroids.
steroidogenetic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From steroid + -o- + genetic.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to steroidogenesis.
supersociable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more supersociable
form: most supersociable
Etymology: From super- + sociable.
Senses: examples: text: Mr. Marshall’s vision was always tailor-made for a somewhat rare species in New York, the supersociable idealist.
ref: 2009 July 29, Susan Dominus, “Cockeyed Optimists and a Visionary Co-op”, in New York Times:
glosses: Very highly sociable.
centerfielder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: centerfielders
Etymology: From centerfield + -er.
Senses: examples: text: Mets centerfielder Carlos Beltran has been out since June 22 with a bone bruise on his right knee.
ref: 2009 July 30, Joe Lapointe, “A Personal Twin Bill for Mets’ Castillo”, in New York Times:
topics: ball-games
baseball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A player in the centerfield position.
centerfielders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of centerfielder
estratetraenol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: oestratetraenol
Senses: examples: text: For women, a commonly used compound is estratetraenol, a derivative of the sex hormone estradiol.
ref: 2009 July 30, Camille Sweeney, “Banking on a Chemical Reaction”, in New York Times:
topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A derivative of the sex hormone estradiol.
oestratetraenol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of estratetraenol.
postpay
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From post- + pay.
Senses: examples: text: Churn for postpay accounts was 2.05 percent, down from 2.25 percent.
ref: 2009 July 30, Saul Hansell, “Sprint Nextel Loss Widens as Subscribers Decline”, in New York Times:
glosses: Being paid for afterwards.
snortable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From snort + -able.
Senses: examples: text: Paco began arriving in 2003 as a cheaper alternative to snortable cocaine once Argentina became a destination for the final processing of cocaine flowing in from Bolivia and Peru.
ref: 2009 July 30, Alexei Barrionuevo, “Lost in an Abyss of Drugs, and Entangled by Poverty”, in New York Times:
glosses: Capable of being snorted.
raw_tags: of drugs
caveated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: caveatted
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of caveat.
caveating
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Caveating is so necessary a motion in fencing, that without it there could be scarcely any offensive part, or pursuit.
ref: a. 1820, Abraham Rees, The Cyclopaedia:
topics: fencing
government
hobbies
lifestyle
martial-arts
military
politics
sports
war
glosses: Shifting the sword from one side of an adversary's sword to the other.
caveating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: caveatting
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of caveat.
unguilting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: un-guilting
Etymology: From unguilt, equivalent to unguilt + -ing.
Senses: examples: text: Real religion is always a process of unguilting; false religions are always a process of guilting.
ref: 1977, Osho, Yoga Sudha (Ma.), Deva Bhasha (Ma.), The beloved: songs of the Baul mystics
text: It was felt that this behaviour could be considered 'typically' Russian, and it was decided that it would be useful to collect and analyse other examples of 'unguilting'.
ref: 2001, Margaret Mead, John Rickman, Geoffrey Gorer, Russian culture:
text: [...] the ego does not find secret outlet for aggression by turning the aggression against itself in an orgy of self-punishment, nor does it allow an orgy of misdeeds to be followed by a severe process of "un-guilting" by penitences [...]
ref: 2003, John Rickman, Pearl King, No ordinary psychoanalyst:
glosses: The process or act of removing one's guilt; pardoning.
unguilting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: un-guilting
Etymology: From unguilt, equivalent to unguilt + -ing.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of unguilt
passes up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of pass up
passes gas
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of pass gas
passing up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of pass up
passing gas
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of pass gas
passed up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of pass up
passed gas
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of pass gas
Ramsay
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈɹæmzi/
Etymology: Variant spelling of Ramsey.
Senses: glosses: Any of a number of places in the English-speaking world.
glosses: A surname from Old English.
examples: text: "Ramsay!" Adrian repeated to himself. He sighed again―or no, this time he was laughing. "I bet you live in Roland Park," he told Delia. "Well, yes, I do." "I knew it! Everybody in Roland Park has a last name for a first name." "So?" she said, stung. "What's wrong with that?"
ref: 1995, Anne Tyler, Ladder of Years, Knopf, →ISBN, pages 10–11:
glosses: A male given name transferred from the surname.
multiperformance
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From multi- + performance.
Senses: examples: text: For more than 30 years, I have seen so many dances using chairs that I have often imagined a multiperformance Chair Dance Festival, but the chair duet in “Love Stories” is too cliché-ridden to deserve inclusion.
ref: 2009 August 1, Alastair Macaulay, “Soap Bubbles and Snow in Frothy Concoctions”, in New York Times:
glosses: Of or pertaining to more than one performance.
semicelebrity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: semicelebrities
Etymology: From semi- + celebrity.
Senses: examples: text: “Felix is one tough man who lived a life that people could only imagine going through,” said Richard Dietl, known as Bo, a private investigator, former police detective and a semicelebrity himself, who said he had been friends with Mr. Brinkmann since 1971.
ref: 2009 August 1, Al Baker, “A Murder Victim Found in His Bed Had a Colorful Past”, in New York Times:
glosses: One who is almost a celebrity.
semirealistic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From semi- + realistic.
Senses: examples: text: On returning to Chicago, he approached Archipenko, who was living in Chicago at the time, and arranged to receive lessons in exchange for casting some of Archipenko’s terra-cotta figures. Mr. Rosenthal, who worked in a semirealistic figurative style, did his first commission, “A Nubian Slave,” for the Elgin Watch Company building at the 1939 World’s Fair.
ref: 2009 August 1, William Grimes, “Tony Rosenthal, Sculptor of Public Art, Dies at 94”, in New York Times:
glosses: Partly realistic.
semicelebrities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of semicelebrity
sixgill
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From six + gill.
Senses: examples: text: “Shark After Dark” features scientists swimming with their subjects as they investigate their nocturnal feeding habits; residents of the Seattle area will be interested to know that well inside Puget Sound, quite large sixgill sharks come to the surface for dinner within 150 feet of shore.
ref: 2009 August 1, Mike Hale, “Ah, That Jersey Shore: The Fish Are Really Biting”, in New York Times:
glosses: Having six pairs of gill slits, as some sharks do.
sixgill
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sixgills
Etymology: From six + gill.
Senses: glosses: Ellipsis of sixgill shark (“Any deepwater shark in the genus Hexanchus”)
sixgills
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sixgill
tachs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tach
superspeedy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more superspeedy
form: most superspeedy
Etymology: From super- + speedy.
Senses: examples: text: Japan, Spain, China and Germany are among those with superspeedy trains that rival air travel and easily eclipse the irritations of a car trip.
ref: 2009 August 1, “America’s Not-So-Fast Trains”, in New York Times:
glosses: Very speedy.
biocentrism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From bio- + -centrism. The cosmological view was proposed in 2007 by American scientist Robert Lanza.
Senses: glosses: An ethical viewpoint that extends inherent value to all non-human life, regardless of its sentience.
glosses: A cosmological theory viewing life and biology as central to being, reality, and the cosmos such that life creates the universe rather than the other way around.
biocentric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more biocentric
form: most biocentric
Etymology: From bio- + -centric.
Senses: examples: text: For a book with such a strongly biocentric worldview, “The Wauchula Woods Accord” is strangely Siebert-centric.
ref: 2009 August 2, Elizabeth Royte, “Roger and Me”, in New York Times:
glosses: Supporting or pertaining to biocentrism.
cyberlibertarian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cyberlibertarians
Etymology: From cyber- + libertarian.
Senses: examples: text: Whether it springs from the fear of government or hope for the wisdom of humankind, the cyberlibertarian ideology seeks a revolution.
ref: 1997, Berkeley Technology Law Journal, volume 12, page 217:
text: Geographically, the cyberlibertarian position had the advantage of being rooted in US political culture, where US institutions were the key vector for wide deployment of Internet innovation.
ref: 2002, Marc Raboy, Global media policy in the new millennium, page 237:
text: For the Grateful Dead lyricist John Perry Barlow, cyberlibertarian and a founder of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, freewheeling file-sharing and community-building seemed like an anticorporate be-in.
ref: 2009 August 2, Virginia Heffernan, “Hop on, Pop”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 07 Jan 2021:
glosses: A proponent of cyberlibertarianism.
cyberlibertarians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cyberlibertarian
cyberwarrior
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cyberwarriors
Etymology: From cyber- + warrior.
Senses: examples: text: “The cyberwarriors are held back by extremely restrictive rules of engagement.”
ref: 2009 August 2, John Markoff, “Halted ’03 Iraq Plan Illustrates U.S. Fear of Cyberwar Risk”, in New York Times:
text: The idea was to allay Chinese concerns about plans to more than triple the number of American cyberwarriors to 6,000 by the end of 2016, a force that will include new teams the Pentagon plans to deploy to each military combatant command around the world.
ref: 2014 April 6, David E. Sanger, “U.S. tries candor to assure China on cyberattacks”, in The New York Times:
glosses: A participant in cyberwarfare.
cyberwarriors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cyberwarrior
droplike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more droplike
form: most droplike
Etymology: From drop + -like.
Senses: examples: text: In their form, their liquid, droplike appearance, they distill the essence of this appalling summer.
ref: 2009 August 2, Verlyn Klinkenborg, “In From the Rain”, in New York Times:
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a drop of liquid.
ecolinguist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ecolinguists
Etymology: Back-formation from ecolinguistics, equivalent to eco- + linguist.
Senses: glosses: One who studies ecolinguistics.
ecolinguistic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From eco- + linguistic.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to ecolinguistics.
ecolinguists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ecolinguist
cyberlibertarianism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From cyber- + libertarianism.
Senses: examples: text: In the Western states, the new cyberlibertarianism melds comfortably with traditional leave-me-alone-ism.
ref: 1996 December 9, Michael Kinsley, “America Tiptoes to the Left”, in Time, page 42:
text: Cyberlibertarianism refers to a perspective (some would say philosophy) which claims that cyberspace and the Internet should be regarded as uncontrolled and unregulated electronic spaces where anyone is free to be whatever they wish and express themselves however they like.
ref: 2004, David Bell, Cyberculture: The Key Concepts, page 43:
text: Unabashed cyber-libertarianism, combined with an avaricious and wholly unconflicted brand of consumerism, permeates America's digital elite.
ref: 2015, Jacob Silverman, Terms of Service: Social Media and the Price of Constant Connection:
glosses: A form of libertarianism that views the Internet or cyberspace as a means of attaining individual existence without central governments.
Related terms: cyberlibertarian
Tecumseh
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Shawnee Tekámthi.
Senses: examples: text: Elizabeth first met a presentable young lieutenant stationed at Fort Moultrie by the name of William Tecumseh Sherman. - - - My poor brother Tee, who grew up mortified by his given name, Tecumseh, was christened in honor of the soldier, not the great chieftain.
ref: 1995, Pat Conroy, Beach Music, Bantam Books, published 1996, →ISBN, page 271:
glosses: A male given name.
glosses: A placename:
A town in Essex County, Ontario, Canada.
glosses: A placename:
A rural municipality in Saskatchewan, Canada; in full, the Rural Municipality of Tecumseh No. 65.
glosses: A placename:
An unincorporated census-designated place in eastern Fayette Township, Vigo County, Indiana, United States.
glosses: A placename:
An unincorporated community in Fairfield Township, Tippecanoe County, Indiana, United States.
glosses: A placename:
An unincorporated community in Shawnee County, Kansas, United States.
glosses: A placename:
A city and township in Lenawee County, Michigan, United States.
glosses: A placename:
An unincorporated community in Ozark County, Missouri, United States.
glosses: A placename:
A city, the county seat of Johnson County, Nebraska, United States.
glosses: A placename:
A city in Pottawatomie County, Oklahoma, United States.
Derived terms: Mount Tecumseh
Teck
Tecumseh step test
econometrical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: No single lens — sociological, econometrical, liberal or conservative — seems an adequate one through which to view crime.
ref: 2009 August 2, Shaila Dewan, “The Real Murder Mystery? It’s the Low Crime Rate”, in New York Times:
glosses: econometric
enforcements
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of enforcement
eraserlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more eraserlike
form: most eraserlike
Etymology: From eraser + -like.
Senses: examples: text: (Only otters can eat it straight from the shell: fresh abalone requires tenderizing to transform its eraserlike consistency.)
ref: 2009 August 2, Christine Muhlke, “Kelp Wanted”, in New York Times:
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of an eraser.
fungally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From fungal + -ly.
Senses: examples: fungally-infected corn
fungally-treated wood
glosses: By, or in terms of, fungus.
golabki
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: galumpki
form: galumpkis
form: gołąbki
form: golabkis
form: golombki
form: golompki
form: golompkies
form: golumpki
form: golumpkies
form: gwumpki
Etymology: From Polish gołąbki. Doublet of holubky.
Senses: examples: text: The highlights include cheese blintzes, pirogi, golabki (cabbage stuffed with ground meat and rice, covered in tomato sauce) and bigos (sauerkraut sautéed with bits of meat and kielbasa).
ref: 2009 August 2, Christopher Brooks, “Strong on Polish Classics”, in New York Times:
glosses: Traditional Polish cabbage rolls made with minced meat and tomato sauce.
hierarchicalism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From hierarchical + -ism.
Senses: examples: text: As we have explored the organizational development of the church, it has become evident that the organization that God wanted for His church was the antithesis of hierarchicalism.
ref: 2000, Colin D. Standish, Organizational Structure and Apostasy, page 18:
text: “Beneath that quick-smiling or watchful Catholicism lurks another far more elaborate hierarchicalism which in turn subdivides all supposed ‘Mexicans’ into myriads of local spiritualities whose half-secret survival through all the long torments of the Spanish conquest promises their own continuance in bright-colored globules of coherence irrelevant to, hence safe from, the scrutiny of American capitalists.”
ref: 2009 August 2, Lawrence Downes, “Desert Odyssey”, in New York Times:
glosses: The process or policy of organising as a hierarchy.
misrecall
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: misrecalls
form: misrecalling
form: misrecalled
form: misrecalled
Etymology: From mis- + recall.
Senses: examples: text: That was the same slogan that Vice President Dan Quayle famously misrecalled in 1989 when he said, “What a waste it is to lose one’s mind.”
ref: 2009 August 2, Jack Rosenthal, “A Terrible Thing to Waste”, in New York Times:
glosses: To recall incorrectly.
misrecalling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of misrecall
misrecalls
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of misrecall
misrecalled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of misrecall
plankway
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: plankways
Etymology: From plank + way.
Senses: examples: text: Unlike other farms, theirs exists in a dim, tidal underworld: barnacle- and starfish-covered pilings hold up a few narrow wooden plankways for the abalone harvesters.
ref: 2009 August 2, Christine Muhlke, “Kelp Wanted”, in New York Times:
glosses: A walkway consisting of a series of planks.
plankways
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of plankway
plankways
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of plankwise.
planktological
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From planktology + -ical.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to planktology.
Derived terms: ichthyoplanktological
planktologist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: planktologists
Etymology: From planktology + -ist.
Senses: glosses: One who studies planktology.
Derived terms: ichthyoplanktologist
planktologists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of planktologist
prework
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pre- + work.
Senses: glosses: Prior to starting work.
prework
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From pre- + work.
Senses: examples: text: We do prework on the clay for the next day, then it’s a beer at the tavern, and back on the subway.
ref: 2009 August 2, Robin Finn, “When Batter Up Means Up at 4:30”, in New York Times:
glosses: Work done in preparation.
prewiring
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of prewire
prewires
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of prewire
prewired
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of prewire
quartinos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of quartino
rephrasings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rephrasing
resentable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more resentable
form: most resentable
Etymology: From resent + -able.
Senses: examples: text: A privileged killing, on the other hand, is not seen as resentable and is never a case where revenge should be taken.
ref: 1971, Behavioral science: Volume 16, University of Michigan:
text: The team’s wealth, the team’s hubris, the team’s blustery ownership, the team’s corporate facade  these are all resentable qualities; I get it.
ref: 2009 August 2, Bruce Weber, “Reflections of a Yankee Fan”, in New York Times:
glosses: Deserving resentment.
winddown
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: winddowns
Etymology: Deverbal from wind down.
Senses: examples: text: Keeping this power apart from the Fed also prevents it from being drawn into the political maelstrom of whether to lend funds to a weakened institution or to seize it for an orderly winddown.
ref: 2009 August 2, “Letters: Risk and Regulation”, in New York Times:
glosses: The process of winding something down.
winddowns
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of winddown
discomfitingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more discomfitingly
form: most discomfitingly
Etymology: From discomfiting + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Jae Millz was limber, Gudda Gudda monotone and T-Streets discomfitingly raw.
ref: 2009 August 3, Jon Caramanica, “Pop Phenomenon, and Chairman of His Board”, in New York Times:
glosses: In a manner that discomfits.
fizziness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From fizzy + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: With coveted writers commanding $5 for every typed word into magazines that were stuffed to the brim with advertising, there was a fizziness, some would say recklessness, in the air.
ref: 2009 August 3, David Carr, “10 Years Ago, an Omen No One Saw”, in New York Times:
glosses: The quality of being fizzy.
Horn clause
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Horn clauses
Etymology: Named after American logician Alfred Horn (1918–2001).
Senses: topics: human-sciences
logic
mathematics
philosophy
sciences
glosses: A clause (disjunction of literals) with at most one positive literal.
Horn clauses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Horn clause
neuronuclear
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From neuro- + nuclear.
Senses: examples: text: Dr. Silverman heads the neuronuclear imaging section at the University of California, Los Angeles, Medical Center.
ref: 2009 August 4, Jane E. Brody, “The Fog That Follows Chemotherapy”, in New York Times:
glosses: Pertaining to the branch of nuclear medicine that is concerned with the brain and nervous system.
noncapillary
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + capillary.
Senses: examples: text: The spleen, by contrast, has a so-called noncapillary circulatory system: as the blood flows in, it is dumped into puddle-like sinusoids, and to get back out it must squeeze between cells.
ref: 2009 August 4, Natalie Angier, “Finally, the Spleen Gets Some Respect”, in New York Times:
glosses: Not capillary.
plumbingless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From plumbing + -less.
Senses: examples: text: The EP, which Mr. James is releasing under the moniker Yim Yames (“I just wanted to make my existing name funny sounding,” he said), was recorded at the Gallrein Farms in Shelbyville, in a plumbingless bathroom that is part of the same studio where My Morning Jacket recorded its first albums.
ref: 2009 August 4, Fernanda Santos, “After Chance Meeting, Singer’s Tribute Will Benefit an Animal Sanctuary”, in New York Times:
glosses: Without plumbing.
superbuoyant
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more superbuoyant
form: most superbuoyant
Etymology: From super- + buoyant.
Senses: examples: text: Mark Schubert, the general manager of the United States team, quipped that these world championships would be remembered as the Plastic Games, a reference to the superbuoyant polyurethane suits worn by all but three of the swimmers here who set world records in Olympic events.
ref: 2009 August 4, Karen Crouse, “Redefining Fast at the ‘Plastic Games’”, in New York Times:
glosses: Extremely buoyant.
cakewomen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cakewoman
gulaglike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more gulaglike
form: most gulaglike
Etymology: From gulag + -like.
Senses: examples: text: They faced years of imprisonment in the gulaglike confines of a North Korean prison camp.
ref: 2009 August 5, Mark Landler, “In Release of Journalists, Both Clintons Had Key Roles”, in New York Times:
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a gulag.
noncompulsive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + compulsive.
Senses: examples: text: So if you dry the squid compulsively, at least by my noncompulsive standards, and you cook it in small batches, you solve the problem.
ref: 2009 August 5, Mark Bittman, “Solving Squid Spatter (and No, Not the Ink)”, in New York Times:
glosses: Not compulsive.