cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
underwing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: underwings
Etymology: From under + wing.
Senses: examples: text: The upper wings of the moth which Jacob held were undoubtedly marked with kidney-shaped spots of a fulvous hue. But there was no crescent upon the underwing.
ref: 1922 October 26, Virginia Woolf, chapter 2, in Jacob’s Room, Richmond, London: […] Leonard & Virginia Woolf at the Hogarth Press, →OCLC; republished London: The Hogarth Press, 1960, →OCLC:
glosses: A hind wing on an insect.
glosses: A member of the genus Catocala, a nocturnal moth which usually has brightly coloured underwings.
examples: text: The ‘white-tailed’ kites in the genus Elanus (‘kite’) are small, gull-like, grey-and-white hawks with black forewing patches and varying amounts of black on the underwings.
ref: 2019, Stephen Debus, “Small Kites, Genus Elanus”, in Birds of Prey of Australia: A Field Guide, 3rd edition, Clayton South, Vic.: CSIRO Publishing, →ISBN, part II (Handbook), page 113:
topics: biology
natural-sciences
ornithology
glosses: The underside of a bird's wing.
Derived terms: dark crimson underwing
pink underwing
sleepy underwing
Related terms: take underwing
mash note
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mash notes
Etymology: First recorded 1880, and originally mash letter, from mash, masher, likely from Romani masha (“a fascinator, an enticer”), mashdva (“fascination, enticement”), + note. See mash for details.
Senses: glosses: A love letter
glosses: gushing praise
Synonyms: sense: praise
word: paean
Related terms: mash
masher
hagiography
backpiece
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: backpieces
Etymology: From back + piece.
Senses: glosses: A decorated comb that attaches a veil to the back of a bride's head.
glosses: A large tattoo on a person's back.
synonyms: backplate
glosses: A piece or plate of armour protecting a person's back.
thir
Language: English
Part of speech: det
Etymology: Alternative form of their.
Senses: examples: text: Howbeit the Caledonians with great preparation, and by rumor, as of things unknown much greater, taking Armes, and of thir own accord begining Warr by the aſſault of ſundry Caſtles, ſent back ſome of thir fear to the Romans themſelves: and there were of the Commanders, who cloaking thir fear under ſhew of ſage advice, counſel’d the General to retreat back on this ſide Bodotria.
ref: 1670, John Milton, “The Second Book”, in The History of Britain, that Part Especially now Call’d England. […], London: […] J[ohn] M[acock] for James Allestry, […] , →OCLC, page 72:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of their.
thir
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: See sir.
Senses: examples: text: Do you mean to thay I am no gentleman, thir?
ref: 1903, Burt L. Standish, Frank Merriwell's Bravery:
glosses: Pronunciation spelling of sir, to indicate a speaker with a speech impediment such as a lisp.
thir
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: See sir.
Senses: glosses: Pronunciation spelling of sir, to indicate a speaker with a speech impediment such as a lisp.
laxers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of laxer
Avalogoli
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A Bantu people of Kenya.
Lulogooli
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A Bantu language spoken by the Avalogoli or Maragoli people of Kenya.
Synonyms: sense: a Bantu language
word: Luragooli
sense: a Bantu language
word: Llogoli
sense: a Bantu language
word: Urulogoli
sense: a Bantu language
word: or Maragoli
Hypernyms: Luhya
arachnomorph
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: arachnomorphs
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Any arthropod of the clade Arachnomorpha
aralkyl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: aralkyls
Etymology: Blend of aryl + alkyl
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any univalent radical derived from an alkyl radical by replacing one or more hydrogen atoms by aryl groups
archaeobotanical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From archaeo- + botanical.
Senses: topics: archaeology
history
human-sciences
sciences
glosses: Of or pertaining to archaeobotany
Derived terms: archaeobotanically
artefactually
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From artefactual + -ly.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of artifactually.
astrobiologist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: astrobiologists
Etymology: From astro- + biologist.
Senses: glosses: A biologist whose speciality is astrobiology
autopod
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: autopods
Senses: glosses: autopodium
autopodium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: autopodia
Etymology: From auto- + -podium.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: The distal part of a limb; a hand or foot
bactoprenol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A polyterpenoid alcohol found in lactobacilli
lactobacillus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lactobacilli
Etymology: From the genus name.
lacto- + bacillus
Senses: glosses: Any of many rod-shaped, nonmotile, aerobic bacteria, of the genus Lactobacillus, that ferment sugars to form lactic acid
Derived terms: lactobacillemia
Related terms: lactobacillar
lactobacillary
lactobacillogenic
bioanthropologist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bioanthropologists
Etymology: From bio- + anthropologist.
Senses: glosses: Any anthropologist whose speciality is bioanthropology.
bioanthropology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From bio- + anthropology.
Senses: glosses: biological anthropology
bioanthropologists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bioanthropologist
aurocyanides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of aurocyanide
aurochlorides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of aurochloride
autantonyms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of autantonym
autocrimes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of autocrime
bigamies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈbɪɡəmiːz/
Etymology: bigamy + -ies
Senses: glosses: plural of bigamy
binkies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of binky
biloquists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of biloquist
bioclimates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bioclimate
binmen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of binman
bricolages
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bricolage
cerebralises
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of cerebralise
cerebralising
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of cerebralise
cerebralised
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of cerebralise
cerebralizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of cerebralize
cerebralizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of cerebralize
cerebralized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of cerebralize
chatbots
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chatbot
cyberman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cybermen
form: Cyberman
Etymology: Blend of cybernetic + man, analyzable as cyber- + man. Originally a race of extraterrestrial enemies in the long-running British television series Doctor Who, first appearing in the 1966 serial The Tenth Planet.
Senses: glosses: A human intertwined with electronic components; often implies the result is more electronic than biological.
Synonyms: cyborg
cybermen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cyberman
chlorinises
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of chlorinise
chlorinising
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of chlorinise
chlorinised
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of chlorinise
chocolos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chocolo
circularizations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of circularization
circularizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of circularize
circularizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of circularize
clitoridectomies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of clitoridectomy
clokes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cloke
coalfaces
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of coalface
cocoas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cocoa
collations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of collation
colluvia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of colluvium
counterboring
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of counterbore
counterboring
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: counterborings
Senses: glosses: A counterbore. (cylindrical recess)
counterbored
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of counterbore
countermen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of counterman
criticalities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of criticality
cystectomies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cystectomy
demoticists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of demoticist
demotivates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of demotivate
demotivated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of demotivate
demotivated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more demotivated
form: most demotivated
Senses: examples: text: Near-synonym: unmotivated
text: The apparent futility of trying to counteract the prevailing social forces had left her thoroughly demotivated in her daily life.
antonyms: motivated
remotivated
glosses: Deprived of or showing a decrease in motivation.
demultiplexes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of demultiplex
demultiplexing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of demultiplex
demultiplexed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of demultiplex
denibs
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of denib
leucoxenisation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From leucoxene + -isation.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of leucoxenization.
denibbed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of denib
-tok
Language: English
Part of speech: suffix
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of -Tok.
halvings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of halving
caipirinhas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌkaɪpɪˈɹiːnjəz/
Senses: examples: text: How many hours would it take to reach those beaches in the heat of Brazil, the turquoise sea, the caipirinhas?
ref: 2021, Pedro Mairal, The Woman from Uruguay, Bloomsbury Publishing, →ISBN, page 38:
glosses: plural of caipirinha
bizarreness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɪˈzɑː.nəs/
ipa: /bɪˈzɑɹ.nəs/
Forms: form: bizarrenesses
Etymology: From bizarre + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: The room's bizarreness was underscored by the massive rubber duck serving as a conference table.
text: Here doctors confront diseases that are obscure and vaguely medieval, the triumph over them further romanticized by the sheer bizarreness of the challenge.
ref: 2007 June 18, Ginia Bellafante, “Doctor, Give Me the News, and Sew Me Up Pretty”, in New York Times:
text: Using block data from the 2000 census, Miller and Chambers have computed bizarreness for the congressional districts of Connecticut, Maryland, and New Hampshire.
ref: 2009 February 13, Barry Cipra, “JOINT MATHEMATICS MEETINGS: Can Mathematics Map the Way Toward Less-Bizarre Elections?”, in Science, volume 323, number 5916, →DOI:
glosses: The state or quality of being bizarre.
glosses: The result or product of being bizarre.
Synonyms: bizarrerie
bizarrity
Related terms: bizarre
bizarrely
cabinetlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more cabinetlike
form: most cabinetlike
Etymology: From cabinet + -like.
Senses: examples: text: His art and his story are like few others, and so is the museum’s inspired installation: a single, long corridor with cabinetlike rooms of paintings on either side and, at the very end, against a sea-green wall, a life-size doll with giant bat wings floating overhead.
ref: 2007 February 16, The New York Times, “Museum and Gallery Listings”, in New York Times:
glosses: Resembling a cabinet
casualised
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of casualise
casualise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: casualises
form: casualising
form: casualised
form: casualised
Senses: examples: text: A House of Commons Early Day Motion was submitted by Labour MP Ian Mearns and five other opposition MPs on January 8, praising station staff and condemning what they describe as "an increasing trend by government" to reduce and casualise station staff which they believe is leading to de-staffing of stations and the closure of ticket offices.
ref: 2020 January 29, “Network News: Motion in support of station staff”, in Rail, page 25:
glosses: Alternative form of casualize.
castmates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of castmate
castmate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: castmates
Etymology: From cast + -mate.
Senses: examples: text: A few feet away, her friend and castmate Tara Ross, also 18, was applying makeup; outside their door, a couple of boys were sacked out on a couch, studying notes in binders.
ref: 2007 June 14, Melena Ryzik, “Unwelcome at Home, Student Play Is a Hit in New York”, in The New York Times:
text: “We are all so utterly devastated by the loss of Matthew,” the five actors said. “We were more than just castmates. We are a family.[…]”
ref: 2023 October 30, Sian Cain, “Friends stars release statement after death of Matthew Perry: ‘We were more than just castmates’”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
glosses: Someone with whom one performs together, as a member of a cast.
candylike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more candylike
form: most candylike
Etymology: From candy + -like.
Senses: examples: text: At the New Jersey factory on Thursday, the air was thick with a candylike scent.
ref: 2009 February 6, Michael Barbaro, “In New York City, an Aromatic Mystery Solved”, in New York Times:
glosses: Resembling candy, especially in flavor or appearance
candleholder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: candleholders
form: candle holder
Etymology: From candle + holder.
Senses: examples: text: When officers arrived, the man, whose name was not released, confronted them with a metal candleholder, officials said.
ref: 2007 September 5, “Brooklyn: Man Killed in Fall”, in New York Times:
hyponyms: candelabrum
candlestick
girandole
glosses: A device for holding one or more lit candles
glosses: A person who holds a candle to assist another person who is working in dim light.
glosses: One who renders another slight assistance, or humours them.
smoking jacket
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: smoking jackets
Senses: examples: text: In a desperate attempt to impress Laura, Bart begins bathing and sashaying about in a smoking jacket while sucking thoughtfully on a bubble pipe as part of his new pint-sized Hef persona.
ref: 2012 May 27, Nathan Rabin, “TV: Review: THE SIMPSONS (CLASSIC): “New Kid On The Block” (season 4, episode 8; originally aired 11/12/1992)”, in The Onion AV Club:
text: A tall, thin man with silver hair and black-rimmed glasses stepped into the lobby. His quilted smoking jacket made him look a little like Hugh Hefner's less decrepit brother.
ref: 2014, Jenn Bennett, Banishing the Dark, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 129:
coordinate_terms: dinner jacket
glosses: A men's jacket designed to be worn while smoking tobacco, typically made of soft fabric with a tie belt.
casualize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: casualizes
form: casualizing
form: casualized
form: casualized
form: casualise
Etymology: From casual + -ize.
Senses: examples: text: We are concerned about the spread of casualized racism.
glosses: To become, or cause to become, casual; to become regarded casually
examples: text: Many of the workers have been casualized during the recent downturn.
topics: economics
sciences
glosses: To convert from regular to casual labor
certifiers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of certifier
certifier
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: certifiers
Etymology: From certify + -er.
Senses: examples: text: The federal organic regulations are enforced by third-party certifiers.
ref: 2007 August 30, Andrew Martin, “Organic Dairy Agrees to Alter Some Practices”, in New York Times:
glosses: A person or entity that provides certification
Synonyms: certificator
candleholders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of candleholder
casualizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of casualize
casualizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of casualize
casualized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of casualize
casualized
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more casualized
form: most casualized
Senses: glosses: Having become or been made casual.
chimichurri
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌt͡ʃɪmiˈt͡ʃʊɹi/
Forms: form: chimichurris
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish chimichurri, from Basque tximitxurri (literally “a mixture of several things in no particular order”), from Basque immigrants to Argentina and Uruguay in the 19th century. Many folk etymologies also exist.
Senses: examples: text: There are also platters of flavorful pork ribs glazed with smoky chipotle, chicken wings char-grilled with garlicky chimichurri, and plump mussels in green chili tortilla broth with leeks and oven dried tomatoes.
ref: 2007 September 9, “Pork Bellies to Baguettes”, in New York Times:
glosses: A sauce and marinade for grilled meat originally from Argentina, made from chopped parsley or cilantro, garlic, salt, pepper, onion, and paprika with olive oil.
glosses: A traditional pork sandwich with cabbage and salsa, eaten as a snack in the Dominican Republic
chimichurris
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chimichurri
scotophobia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From scoto- + -phobia.
Senses: examples: text: He also suffered from hypsophobia, a certain fear of elevated places, and the typical scotophobia and phasmophobia associated with churches, graveyards and solitary places in the dark of night.
ref: 2008, E a Bucchianeri, Faust: My Soul Be Damned for the World, volume 2, page 55:
glosses: Fear of darkness.
Synonyms: nyctophobia
Related terms: scotophobe
scotophobic
cimbalom
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈsɪmbələm/
Forms: form: cimbaloms
form: cymbalom
form: cymbalum
form: kymbalon
form: zimbalon
form: zimbaloon
Etymology: From Hungarian cimbalom. Doublet of cymbal.
Senses: examples: text: Either/Or, including Anthony Burr, clarinetist; Jane Rigler, flutist; and Richard Carrick and David Shively, percussionists, also employed the cimbalom, the Hungarian pianolike mutant whose twang remains familiar to boozy evenings in late-night Central European bars.
ref: 2007 September 17, Bernard Holland, “Cryptic Messages or Silence From the ’60s Avant-Garde”, in New York Times:
glosses: A type of concert hammered dulcimer used primarily in the music of Central and Eastern Europe.
cimbaloms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cimbalom
cinderblocks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cinderblock
sesquipedalophobia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From sesquipedalian + -phobia.
Senses: examples: text: But sesquipedalophobia ('hatred or fear of big words,' aptly enough) has prevailed, even among men of learning.
ref: 1983, Verbatim, volume 10, page 25:
text: That hasn't helped my sesquipedalophobia one bit...
ref: 2002 March 6, derm, “Re: Are You Somebody? by O'Faolaint”, in soc.culture.irish (Usenet):
text: Ayesha was like a walking dictionary of phobias. She believed that I had sesquipedalophobia – the fear of long words.
ref: 2008, Abhijit Bhaduri, Married But Available, HarperCollins (2012), →ISBN:
glosses: Fear of long words.
Related terms: hippopotomonstrosesquipedaliophobia
cineastes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cineaste
circumcisers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of circumciser
circumciser
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: circumcisers
Etymology: From circumcise + -er.
Senses: examples: text: The psychoanalyst has to come along, at last, to assert again the tried wisdom of the older, forward-looking teachings of the masked medicine dancers and the witch-doctor-circumcisers; whereupon we find, as in the dream of the serpent bite, that the ageless initiation symbolism is produced spontaneously by the patient himself at the moment of the release.
ref: 1968, Joseph Campbell, The Hero with a Thousand Faces, 2nd edition, London: Fontana Press, published 1993, page 12:
text: He said President Bush’s $15 billion AIDS initiative and the World Health Organization were considering paying for circumcisions in high-risk countries, but must work out what training and equipment they would require circumcisers to have.
ref: 2007 February 23, Donald G. Mcneil Jr., “Circumcision’s Anti-AIDS Effect Found Greater Than First Thought”, in New York Times:
glosses: A person who performs circumcision.
Synonyms: word: posthectomist
word: mohel
clapboards
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of clapboard
clopidogrel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /klə(ʊ)ˈpɪd.əɡ.ɹɛl/
ipa: /kloʊˈpɪd.əˌɡɹɛl/
Etymology: Probably from chlo(ro)- + p(yr)id(ine) + -o- + -grel (“platelet aggregation inhibitor”).
Senses: examples: text: For every 1,000 patients treated with prasugrel instead of clopidogrel, there would be three fewer cardiac-related deaths and 21 fewer nonfatal heart attacks — but there would also be two additional deaths caused by bleeding and three more incidents of serious but nonfatal bleeding, Dr. Unger told the panel.
ref: 2009 February 4, Natasha Singer, “F.D.A. Panel Approves Lilly Drug for Clotting”, in New York Times:
topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: An oral antiplatelet agent used to inhibit blood clots in coronary artery disease, peripheral vascular disease, and cerebrovascular disease, having the chemical formula C₁₆H₁₆ClNO₂S
commutant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: commutants
Etymology: From commute + -ant.
Senses: examples: text: The basic mathematical entity to be used here in elucidating the different senses of superselection rules is a von Neumann algebra #123;#92;mathfrak#123;M
ref: 2008 September 27, John Earman, “Superselection Rules for Philosophers”, in Erkenntnis, volume 69, number 3, →DOI:
topics: algebra
human-sciences
logic
mathematics
philosophy
sciences
glosses: The subset of all elements of a semigroup that commute with the elements of a given subset
Derived terms: bicommutant
commutant lifting theorem
commutants
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of commutant
coherentist
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more coherentist
form: most coherentist
Etymology: From coherent + -ist.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
glosses: Of or supporting coherentism
coherentist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: coherentists
Etymology: From coherent + -ist.
Senses: examples: text: So the foundationalist holds that both experiences and beliefs can justify beliefs, whereas the coherentist holds that only beliefs can justify beliefs.
ref: 2007 July 12, Harold Langsam, “Rationality, Justification, and the Internalism/Externalism Debate”, in Erkenntnis, volume 68, number 1, →DOI:
topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
glosses: One who supports coherentism in terms of truth or justification
coeditor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: coeditors
form: co-editor
Etymology: From co- + editor.
Senses: examples: text: My coeditor on the project is Jim Brooks.
ref: 1988 September 2, Carolyn McGuire, “Department of Neglected Associates”, in Chicago Reader:
glosses: One of two or more people serving together as editors of a work or project.
Derived terms: coeditorial
coeditorship
Related terms: coedit
cobwebbed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more cobwebbed
form: most cobwebbed
Etymology: From cobweb + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: The paint in many rooms is peeling, and in some rooms (closed for repairs) the furniture is dusty and cobwebbed.
ref: 1988 August 12, Ben Joravsky, “Can the Lawson Y be saved as an SRO hotel?”, in Chicago Reader:
glosses: Covered with cobwebs
examples: text: The clear winners in this cynical charade were the Clintonoid Democrats, who (as well as being hardened to switching and shifting between elitism and populism) could supply the most cobwebbed rules-monger on one hand—the aforementioned Senator Byrd—and the most sinuous arguments of the short-term general will on the other.
ref: 2000, Christopher Hitchens, No One Left to Lie to: The Triangulations of William Jefferson Clinton, →ISBN:
glosses: Old or outdated.
Synonyms: sense: covered many cobwebs
word: cobwebby
sense: old
word: aged
word: cobwebby
word: hoary
word: old
word: obsolete
Derived terms: uncobwebbed
coatless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From coat + -less.
Senses: examples: text: He was coatless and his thumbs were hooked negligently in a leather belt, thereby negativing a tendency to balance himself on an inclined plane backwards.
ref: 1950, Norman Lindsay, Dust or Polish?, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, page 62:
text: But since the first family arrived here in March, coatless and stunned to find what appeared to be a cold desert of leafless trees, the city has become a beacon to other Gatumba survivors around the country.
ref: 2007 August 5, Nina Bernstein, “Safe From Persecution, Still Bearing Its Scars”, in New York Times:
glosses: Without a coat; not wearing a coat.
Derived terms: coatlessness
coatdress
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: coatdresses
Etymology: From coat + dress.
Senses: examples: text: There was a striking black coatdress with square gold paillettes streaking down the sides, and a lovely black sleeveless dress with silvery panels.
ref: 2007 July 5, Cathy Horyn, “At Versailles: Let Them Wear Cake”, in New York Times:
glosses: A dress that resembles a coat, usually having a buttoning front
coeditors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of coeditor
coatdresses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of coatdress
clubhead
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: clubheads
Etymology: From club + head.
Senses: examples: text: He […] experimented with drivers that had various weights throughout the clubhead — all with the hope of finding more of the PGA Tour’s fairways and less of its trees.
ref: 2007 February 12, Damon Hack, “A Weakness Corrected, Mickelson Moves Ahead”, in New York Times:
topics: golf
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: The head of a golf club: the part of the club that strikes the ball
clubface
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: clubfaces
Etymology: From club + face.
Senses: examples: text: Mark Sherwood, the caddie for Fredrik Jacobson, led for much of the contest after hitting an 8-iron a little low on the clubface.
ref: 2007 May 10, Damon Hack, “PGA Tour Caddies Finally Take a Load Off Their Shoulders”, in New York Times:
topics: golf
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: The leading face of a golf club; the side of the clubhead that strikes the ball
clubheads
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of clubhead
clubfaces
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of clubface
clothbound
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: cloth-bound
Etymology: From cloth + bound.
Senses: examples: text: a clothbound cheese
glosses: Wrapped in cloth.
examples: text: They also published in clothbound, hardback volumes with full-color paintings mounted on the front.
ref: 2007 May 17, Charles Mcgrath, “Magazine Suspends Its Run in History”, in New York Times:
topics: media
publishing
glosses: Bound with cloth, as opposed to other bindings such as paper or leather.
coachable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more coachable
form: most coachable
Etymology: From coach (“(verb)”) + -able.
Senses: glosses: That can be traversed by a coach.
coachable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more coachable
form: most coachable
Etymology: From coach (“(verb)”) + -able.
Senses: examples: text: “They have such an innocence and eagerness about them that it’s been really a pleasure for all of us to be around them and see how coachable and how good they are,” Donovan said.
ref: 2007 September 16, The Associated Press, “On the Fast Track to the Olympics?”, in New York Times:
glosses: Able to be coached or tutored effectively.
Derived terms: coachability
uncoachable
Related terms: teachable
corrigible
clubmate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: clubmates
Etymology: From club + -mate.
Senses: examples: text: The clubmates have swapped plenty of banter in the lead-up to the qualifier in Yokohama, which will go a long way to deciding which two teams earn automatic qualification from Group 1 for next year's World Cup finals.
ref: 2009 February 10, Guy Hand, “Scott McDonald warns of free-kick threat from Shunsuke Nakamura”, in Herald Sun, archived from the original on 13 Feb 2009:
synonyms: clubfellow
glosses: A person who is in the same club as another person.
underrehearsed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more underrehearsed
form: most underrehearsed
Etymology: From under- + rehearsed.
Senses: examples: text: When two or three of the women were supposed to be dancing in unison, arms and legs were often extended at different angles, making the dancers seem sloppy, underrehearsed.
ref: 1988 May 13, Justin Hayford, “Cicago Dance Medium”, in Chicago Reader:
qualifier: performing arts
glosses: Insufficiently rehearsed
unspontaneous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unspontaneous
form: most unspontaneous
Etymology: From un- + spontaneous.
Senses: examples: text: Like Pullman's tomb, Beckett's dialogue is encased in its own concrete, in a stilted, unspontaneous delivery.
ref: 1988 November 11, Lawrence Bommer, “Labor Relations”, in Chicago Reader:
glosses: Not spontaneous; halting or rehearsed
underequipped
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more underequipped
form: most underequipped
Etymology: From under- + equipped.
Senses: examples: text: […] Live Bait Theater will offer an artistic haven to Chicago performance artists, who have traditionally presented their work in one- or two-night engagements in out-of-the-way, underequipped spaces.
ref: 1988 September 9, Justin Hayford, “Opening Nights: making the world safe for performance art”, in Chicago Reader:
glosses: Lacking sufficient equipment
trackside
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: track-side
Etymology: From track + -side.
Senses: examples: text: This halt is notable for its very pretty trackside garden, which has won prizes in the Western Region station gardens competition.
ref: 1954 November, P. W. Gentry, “The Lambourn Valley Railway”, in Railway Magazine, page 744:
text: Many workers were killed as they squeezed into a trackside niche or the narrow space between tracks to get out of the way of an oncoming train […]
ref: 2007 May 5, William Neuman, “Looking Back at 6 Decades of Subway Worker Deaths”, in New York Times:
text: Over the past two years, particularly in 2018, Network Rail has come under fire about its approaches to trackside tree-felling across its 52,000-hectare estate. Conservationists accused it of wanton destruction.
ref: 2020 June 3, Andrew Mourant, “A safer railway in a greener habitat”, in RAIL, page 58:
glosses: Located to the side of a track, especially a racetrack or set of railroad tracks.
Related terms: sense: racetrack
word: off-track
sense: railroad
word: siding
trackside
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tracksides
form: track-side
Etymology: From track + -side.
Senses: examples: text: Habitat: Growing in shaded places in forests, along pathways and tracksides or along rivers and streams; altitudinal range 1 400-3 250 m.
ref: 1980, Impatiens of Africa, page 122:
text: For another writer, the lack of harm or moral acceptability of painting trains or tracksides flows from the nature of the location itself as 'dead space'.
ref: 2016, Marta Iljadica, Copyright Beyond Law: Regulating Creativity in the Graffiti Subculture:
glosses: The area that borders a track.
superhot
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: super-hot
Etymology: From super- + hot.
Senses: examples: text: The summer has been superhot for Hollywood, as the overall box office reached a record $4 billion, beating the 2004 record of $3.95 billion with one more weekend to go before summer is over.
ref: 2007 August 27, “Arts, Briefly”, in New York Times:
glosses: Extremely hot.
superhot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: superhots
form: super-hot
Etymology: From super- + hot.
Senses: examples: text: I buy a puree of ghost peppers from Dave's Gourmet, the makers of Dave's Insanity Sauce […] I blend it with cayenne and Vietnamese superhots to make a house hot sauce at Woodfire Grill.
ref: 2012, Kevin Gillespie, David Joachim, Fire in My Belly: Real Cooking, page 241:
text: By the end of the season, my pod count finalized at 781 pods, or approximately thirteen pounds of superhots.
ref: 2014, Dave DeWitt, Microfarming for Profit: From Garden to Glory, page 112:
glosses: A very hot chili pepper.
spaetzle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈʃpɛtsəl/
/ˈʃpɛtslə/
/ˈspætsəl/
/ˈspeɪtsəl/
Forms: form: spaetzles
form: spaetzle
form: spatzle
form: spätzle
Etymology: From German Spätzle, from Swabian Spätzle (compare Alemannic German Spätzli).
Senses: examples: text: The results resemble spaetzle with a lovely nutty flavor.
ref: 2007 February 28, Florence Fabricant, “The Latest Woman to Join a Very Exclusive Club”, in New York Times:
text: A backlash may have been inevitable. “There are more spätzle where those came from,” the Free Swabylon site warned, threatening that the entire neighborhood would “disappear under a spätzle layer of Swabian rage.”
ref: 2013 January 18, Nicholas Kulish, “Swabian Separatists Fling Spätzle to Make Their Point”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
glosses: A heavy egg noodle or dumpling used in the cuisine of southern Germany and Austria
Synonyms: word: kniffles
spaetzles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of spaetzle
softcover
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: sc
Etymology: From soft + cover.
Senses: examples: text: It gives more emphasis to the literary novels and short-story collections reviewed so often in our pages (and sometimes published only in softcover).
ref: 2007 September 23, The Editors, “Up Front”, in New York Times:
topics: media
publishing
glosses: Having covers made of paper or thin cardboard; paperback.
raw_tags: of a book
Synonyms: paperbound
softcovered
softcover
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: softcovers
form: sc
Etymology: From soft + cover.
Senses: topics: media
publishing
glosses: A book having such covers.
scrappiness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From scrappy + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: Still, Mr. Pylypchuk has fashioned an intricate crazy quilt from little more than old socks and flannels, picking through the ruins of a troubled American city while paying tribute to the scrappiness of its residents.
ref: 2007 September 21, The New York Times, “Art in Review”, in New York Times:
text: The decisive moment was entirely in keeping with a game that was thrilling in its scrappiness, a mess of a goal to settle a mess of a game. In fairness, it began with the first bit of subtlety Tottenham had shown around the box from Richarlison, who had not until that moment seemed likely to offer the moment of inspiration.
ref: 2025 May 21, Jonathan Wilson, “Spurs prevail with Mourinho blueprint and ultra pragmatism in baffling final”, in The Guardian:
glosses: The state or quality of being scrappy
sarcoidosis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sarcoidoses
Etymology: From sarcoid + -osis.
Senses: examples: text: The report, published this month in Chest, a medical journal, showed that 13 firefighters or emergency service workers developed sarcoidosis in the first year after the attack, a rate five times higher than normal.
ref: 2007 May 25, Anthony Depalma, “A Death Tied to 9/11 Dust Is Not Cause for Alarm to Others, Experts Say”, in New York Times:
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A multisystem disorder characterized by granulomas.
Derived terms: neurosarcoidosis
salvias
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of salvia
bunkerlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more bunkerlike
form: most bunkerlike
Etymology: From bunker + -like.
Senses: examples: text: It also said damage at the plant had only occurred in less critical areas, which had been built to less stringent standards than the reactors, which were housed in bunkerlike concrete buildings.
ref: 2007 July 25, Martin Fackler, “Japan’s Quake-Prone Atomic Plant Prompts Wider Worry”, in New York Times:
glosses: Resembling a military bunker
buildingwide
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From building + -wide.
Senses: examples: text: He said a block of unit owners were also hiring an engineer to make sure that buildingwide systems like heating, cooling and plumbing met the quality standards […].
ref: 2007 August 26, Christine Haughney, “Condos, Brand-New Yet Not So Perfect”, in New York Times:
glosses: Extending throughout a building
ecash
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of e-cash.
bonkersness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From bonkers + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: He's like the Michelle Gomez character in Green Wing (the one who used to stalk Julian Rhind-Tutt along the hospital corridors) - living proof that an unhealthy interest in filth and a bit of bonkersness is actually funnier than jokes.
ref: 2009 February 14, Sam Wollaston, “Last night's TV”, in The Guardian:
glosses: The quality or state of being bonkers
gastrodome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gastrodomes
Etymology: Probably gastro- + Astrodome.
Senses: examples: text: These range from places proposing simply to knock 50% off your bill, to Michelin-starred gastrodomes such as L'atelier de Joël Robuchon or Arbutus with lunches for about £20.
ref: 2009 February 14, Jon Henley, “At last there is such a thing as a free lunch”, in The Guardian:
glosses: A large, impressive restaurant
cimbalon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cimbalons
Senses: examples: text: The work is scored for an unusual lineup of 15 instruments, including two violas, bass flute, two basset horns, contrabass clarinet, the cimbalon and banjo.
ref: 2007 July 25, Vivien Schweitzer, “A Minimalist Pied Piper (Imagine, Please, Those Rats)”, in New York Times:
glosses: Alternative spelling of cimbalom.
gastrodomes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gastrodome
complicitousness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From complicitous + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: Despite the original promise of freedom and toleration, conspiracy or complicitousness are either sought out or thrust upon such people.
ref: 1975, J. S. Lawry, “Green Light or Square of Light in The Great Gatsby,”, in Dalhousie Review, volume 55, number 1, page 118:
text: Instead, "the people" were invited to hate. . . . Life was a lie, complicitousness in self-enslavement.
ref: 1994, Edward Friedman, “Reconstructing China's National Identity,”, in The Journal of Asian Studies, volume 53, number 1, page 75:
text: This book . . . ponders the role, including the complicitousness, of civic audiences in determining and sustaining the authority of political leadership.
ref: 2006, Andrew Bell, Spectacular Power in the Greek and Roman City, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 11:
glosses: Complicity.
biosocial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From bio- + social.
Senses: examples: text: Man’s so-called instinctual needs are actually shaped—and this may include inhibiting, fostering, or even creating “needs”—by the social games prevalent in his milieu. The view of a dual, biosocial determination of behavior has become incorporated into psychoanalytic theory through increasing emphasis on ego psychology and object relationships.
ref: 1974, Thomas S. Szasz, chapter 12, in The Myth of Mental Illness, →ISBN, page 199:
topics: biology
human-sciences
natural-sciences
sciences
social-science
sociology
glosses: Of or pertaining to both biological and social features.
Derived terms: biosocially
psychobiosocial
braconid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: braconids
Etymology: From translingual Braconidae.
Senses: examples: text: Other studies have identified potential examples (7), and, because D. alloeum is just one member of a guild of parasitic braconids attacking R. pomonella, it is possible that sympatric host races of Diachasmimorpha mellea and Utetes canaliculatus wasps are also associated with R. pomonella.
ref: 2009 February 6, Andrew A. Forbes et al., “Sequential Sympatric Speciation Across Trophic Levels”, in Science, volume 323, number 5915, →DOI, pages 776–779:
text: 2015 Setember 26, Wasp uses virus to make GM butterfly, New Scientist, Issue 3040, page 14,
There are now thousands of species of braconid wasp, each of which lays eggs in a specific butterfly or moth species and produces a unique bracovirus.
glosses: Any of the parasitic wasps of the family Braconidae.
Related terms: bracovirus
bufotenine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bufotenin
Etymology: From French bufoténine, from Latin bufo (“toad”) + ten- (uncertain element) + -ine.
Senses: examples: text: In the late 1950s Howard Fabing, a medical doctor, obtained permission to inject bufotenine intravenously into a number of inmates at the Ohio State Penitentiary.
ref: 1985, Wade Davis, The Serpent and the Rainbow, Simon & Schuster, page 115:
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: An alkaloid, found in the skins of some toads, related to serotonin.
carboxylmethyltransferase
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: carboxylmethyltransferases
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of carboxyl methyltransferase.
carboxyl methyltransferase
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: carboxyl methyltransferases
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any enzyme that catalyzes the methylation of a carboxyl group
carboxymethylation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: carboxymethylations
Etymology: From carboxymethyl + -ation.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The introduction of a carboxymethyl group into a compound
Related terms: carboxymethylate
cardiomyocytic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more cardiomyocytic
form: most cardiomyocytic
Etymology: From cardiomyocyte + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to cardiomyocytes
catecholaminergic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From catecholamine + -ergic.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: That is activated by, or that secretes catecholamines.
Derived terms: catecholaminergic polymorphic ventricular tachycardia
chaetognaths
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chaetognath
chaetognath
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chaetognaths
form: chætognath
Etymology: From Ancient Greek χαίτη (khaítē, “flowing hair”) + γνάθος (gnáthos, “jaw”). By surface analysis, chaeto- + -gnath (compare -gnathous).
Senses: glosses: Any of several marine worms of the phylum Chaetognatha.
Synonyms: arrow worm
chelicerae
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chelicera
claudin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: claudins
Etymology: From French clauder + -in.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of a family of proteins that control the flow of molecules through the epithelium
clusteredness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From clustered + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The condition of being clustered
coauthorship
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: coauthorships
form: co-authorship
Etymology: From co- + authorship.
Senses: glosses: Joint authorship by two or more authors.
alatae
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: alataes
Senses: topics: biology
entomology
natural-sciences
glosses: An insect that possesses wings.
coevolving
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of coevolve
coevolving
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more coevolving
form: most coevolving
Senses: glosses: Subject to coevolution
bandish
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -ændɪʃ
Forms: form: bandishes
form: bandishing
form: bandished
form: bandished
Senses: glosses: To tie something.
bandish
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ændɪʃ
Forms: form: bandishes
Etymology: Borrowed from Hindi [Term?], meaning "binding together".
Senses: glosses: A composition in Hindustani classical music.
colliculus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: colliculi
Etymology: From Latin colliculus, diminutive of collis (“hill”).
Senses: examples: Near-synonym: monticulus (geographical or anatomical)
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: A small elevation.
Derived terms: anterior colliculus
collicular
colliculate
facial colliculus
inferior colliculus
posterior colliculus
seminal colliculus
superior colliculus
Related terms: english: geographic
translation: geographic
word: knoll
hypertax
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hypertaxes
Etymology: From hyper- + tax.
Senses: examples: text: In order to highlight the extremity of the New York hypertax, assume a Florida resident decedent dies with a $10 million estate consisting of Florida realty and tangible personal property of $1 million; […]
ref: 2003 October 1, Robert M. Arlen, David Pratt, “The New York (and other states) death tax trap.”, in Florida Bar Journal:
text: It could mainly make sure it doesn’t mess up the economy, nor workers’ future prospects, with hypertaxes, microregulation and a stasis-supporting bailout […]
ref: 2008 December 9, Patrick McIlheran, “Don’t believe the Big Three”, in New York Post:
text: Bring in a hypertax rate of say 90p in the pound on certain incomes.
ref: 2009 February 14, “Letters: Time to sack the bonus culture”, in The Guardian:
glosses: An extremely heavy tax
Related terms: hypertaxation