cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
la-la land
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Chloe found the whole subject so dreary and dull that her imagination would float away into la-la land whenever the subject came up.
ref: 2009 October 29, David Walliams [pseudonym; David Edward Williams], Mr Stink, London: HarperCollins Children’s Books, →ISBN:
glosses: Alternative spelling of La-La Land.
mounting block
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mounting blocks
Senses: examples: text: The Sun Inn is an attractive black-and-white building, and has an old mounting block outside as a reminder of the days when horsepower meant four legs and a saddle.
ref: 1980, AA Book of British Villages, Drive Publications Ltd, page 150:
glosses: A small block, often carved with steps, used for mounting or dismounting a horse at a pub, courthouse etc.
Irish flute
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Irish flutes
Senses: glosses: A wooden flute used for playing traditional Irish music.
Obamania
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Blend of Obama + -mania
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Obamamania.
Obama-mania
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Obamamania.
Obama mania
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Obamamania.
lip-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of lipo- (before a vowel)
fascinators
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fascinator
romanos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of romano
bolsas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bolsa
insectlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more insectlike
form: most insectlike
form: insect-like
Etymology: From insect + -like.
Senses: examples: text: The name captured […] the sound of the cars themselves, a high-pitched, insectlike whine — the sound of constant speed.
ref: 2009 January 19, Susan Dominus, “Brooklyn’s Buzz-a-Rama is Heaven for Slot-Car Fans”, in New York Times:
glosses: Resembling an insect in any of various attributes such as form, behavior, or sound
bipod
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbaɪpɒd/
Forms: form: bipods
Etymology: From bi- + -pod.
Senses: glosses: A two-legged stand.
Related terms: biped
tripod
fogless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From fog + -less.
Senses: examples: text: It was a bright, fogless morning.
text: Fans of ionic air cleaners and fogless shaving mirrors rejoice: The Sharper Image is back.
ref: 2009 January 19, Eric Taub, “Sharper Image Stores Are Dead, but the Brand Goes On”, in New York Times:
glosses: Free of fog.
Derived terms: foglessness
extralong
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: extra-long
Etymology: From extra + long.
Senses: examples: text: But the series returned on Sunday after an extralong break.
ref: 2009 January 19, Edward Wyatt, “‘Big Love’ Gets a Big Tie to Real World”, in New York Times:
glosses: Much longer than usual.
contextualizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of contextualize
contextualizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of contextualize
contextualized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of contextualize
challengingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more challengingly
form: most challengingly
Etymology: From challenging + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: […] Mr. Keltner is ready and eager to conduct all manner of experiments, whether they are whoopee-cushion silly or challengingly serious.
ref: 2009 January 19, Janet Maslin, “Smiley Faces in Our Chromosomes”, in New York Times:
glosses: In a way or to an extent that challenges
antirocket
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From anti- + rocket.
Senses: examples: text: Some 200 were killed instantly, shocking Hamas and indeed all of Gaza, especially because Israel’s antirocket attacks in previous years had been more measured.
ref: 2009 January 19, Ethan Bronner, “Parsing Gains of Gaza War”, in New York Times:
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: Designed to prevent, or counterattack against, rocket fire
Related terms: antimissile
annotater
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: One frequent annotater of Library of Congress photographs of New York City on Flickr goes by the name Epicharmus.
ref: 2009 January 19, Noam Cohen, “Historical Photos in Web Archives Gain Vivid New Lives”, in New York Times:
glosses: Misspelling of annotator.
mid-tier
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɪdˌtɪə/
ipa: /ˈmɪdˌtɪɚ/
Forms: form: midtier
Etymology: From mid- + tier (“level, category, rank”).
Senses: examples: text: Our new marketing strategy targets mid-tier businesses.
topics: business
synonyms: mid-level
mid-range
;
middle-end
coordinate_terms: top-tier
bottom-tier
;
top-shelf
bottom-shelf
;
high-end
low-end
glosses: Of medium size and importance.
Related terms: mid
middling
midlist
midheight
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From mid- + height.
Senses: examples: text: Ms. Whelan and Mr. Millepied are, as they were last spring, excellent, heart-catching in the midheight hovering lifts where athleticism becomes feeling.
ref: 2009 January 19, Alastair Macaulay, “In a City Ballet Quartet, Two Choreographic Voices Manage to Stand Out”, in New York Times:
glosses: Of medium height; neither high nor low
microvariation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: microvariations
Etymology: From micro- + variation.
Senses: examples: text: Taking cues from cabaret and Broadway and blues and gospel, his voice is spookily beautiful, but it’s constantly on the move, with microvariations in pitch and tone that keep the ear on edge.
ref: 2009 January 19, Jon Caramanica, Nate Chinen, “New CDs”, in New York Times:
glosses: A very slight variation
Related terms: macrovariation
liberalish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more liberalish
form: most liberalish
Etymology: From liberal + -ish.
Senses: examples: text: “Fox is in a much better position with a liberalish Democrat in the White House than they were with a Republican,” said Eric Alterman, the media columnist for The Nation magazine.
ref: 2009 January 19, Brian Stelter, “Fox News Primes Itself for a Shift”, in New York Times:
topics: government
politics
glosses: Somewhat liberal
microvariations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of microvariation
knockabout
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈnɒk.əˌbaʊt/
ipa: /ˈnɑk.əˌbaʊt/
Etymology: Deverbal from knock about.
Senses: examples: text: I like the way Ana Sophia Scheller — replacing the injured Ashley Bouder — doesn’t exaggerate the ballet’s second lead woman, but Ms. Bouder’s blend of knockabout comedy and physical brilliance is missed.
ref: 2009 January 19, Alastair Macaulay, “In a City Ballet Quartet, Two Choreographic Voices Manage to Stand Out”, in New York Times:
glosses: Boisterous
examples: text: I have a knockabout cello for non-concert gigs.
glosses: Suitable for rough use.
knockabout
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈnɒk.əˌbaʊt/
ipa: /ˈnɑk.əˌbaʊt/
Forms: form: knockabouts
Etymology: Deverbal from knock about.
Senses: glosses: Clothing suitable for rough use.
examples: text: We'd had a couple of knockabouts to help with the cooking and stockyard work. They were paid by the job. They were to stay at the camp for a week, to burn the gunyahs, knock down the yard, and blind the track as much as they could.
ref: 1889, Rolf Boldrewood, Robbery under Arms: A Story of Life and Adventure in the Bush and …, volume 1, page 122:
text: It will prevent these shops from keeping these girls and using them as messengers or "knockabouts" for twelve months, and then discharging them and getting another batch in their place, which is sometimes done
ref: 1896, Mr. Hall, Parliamentary Debates New Zealand. Parliament. House of Representatives, page 585:
text: From what she knew, they were humble people on both sides, farmers and handymen and knockabouts who followed the crops and their best chances state to state. Some worked in the quarries. Some worked in the mills.
ref: 2001, Catherine S. Manegold, In Glory's Shadow: The Citadel, Shannon Faulkner, and a Changing America:
glosses: A worker habitually engaged in casual employment.
examples: text: They denounced the peasant's passions as animal lusts and complained that vagabonds and knockabouts were "generally given to horrible uncleanness. They have not particular w1ves, neither do they range themselves into families, but consort together as beasts.
ref: 1983, Michael MacDonald, Mystical Bedlam: Madness, Anxiety and Healing in Seventeenth Century England, page 91:
text: The guests were mostly reformed drunks and knockabouts who wanted to talk about their troubled trek through life
ref: 2008, Hunter James, Smile Pretty and Say Jesus: The Last Great Days of PTL:
text: The Virginia assembly in 1670 disfranchised most of the landless knockabouts, accusing them of “having little interest in the country” and causing “tumults at the election to the disturbance of his majesty's peace.”
ref: 2009, David M. Kennedy, Lizabeth Cohen, Thomas A. Bailey, The American Pageant, Volume I: A History of the American People, page 70:
glosses: A person living in rough, violent conditions.
topics: arts
circus
hobbies
lifestyle
performing-arts
sports
glosses: A tumbler.
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
glosses: A slapstick comedian or comedy.
examples: text: We sailed our knockabout around Cape Cod.
topics: nautical
sailing
transport
glosses: A small sailboat lacking a bowsprit, of a type found primarily in the Massachusetts area.
examples: text: The kids had a knockabout with a football in the backyard.
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: An act of playing a sport casually or informally.
multisection
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From multi- + section.
Senses: examples: text: “We believe there’s something here worth dying for,” he declares in the album’s 12-minute, multisection title track[…].
ref: 2009 January 19, Jon Caramanica, Nate Chinen, “New CDs”, in New York Times:
glosses: Having multiple sections
multivolume
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From multi- + volume.
Senses: examples: text: […] he found inspiration in “Parting the Waters,” the first installment of Taylor Branch’s multivolume biography of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
ref: 2009 January 19, Michiko Kakutani, “From Books, a New President Found His Voice”, in New York Times:
glosses: Having multiple volumes.
raw_tags: of a written work
examples: multivolume archives
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Of or relating to more than one volume, or storage area.
nonmonetary
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + monetary.
Senses: examples: text: Church members contributed millions to the “Yes on 8” campaign, and the California Fair Political Practices Commission is investigating accusations that the Mormon leadership neglected to report a battery of nonmonetary contributions, including phone banks, a Web site and online commercials on the behalf of Proposition 8.
ref: 2009 January 19, Jesse Mckinley, “Marriage Ban Donors Feel Exposed by List”, in New York Times:
glosses: Not in the form of money
examples: text: The central banks also deal with nonmonetary issues.
glosses: Not directly related to money or monetary policy
numbingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more numbingly
form: most numbingly
Etymology: From numbing + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: While he normally is numbingly dependable, his streak of 155 consecutive extra points ended in the third quarter[…].
ref: 2009 January 19, Karen Crouse, “For Eagles, a Familiar Sense of Dismay”, in New York Times:
glosses: In a way or to an extent that numbs
Related terms: mind-numbingly
knockabouts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of knockabout
Bouddha
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of Buddha.
playings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of playing
nonproof
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nonproofs
Etymology: From non- + proof.
Senses: examples: text: Here is another nonproof of the existence of God.
text: In his 1965 paper about his nonproof of the Poincaré Conjecture[…] Dr. Stallings ended on a musing note:
ref: 2009 January 19, Kenneth Chang, “John R. Stallings Jr., 73, California Mathematician, Is Dead”, in New York Times:
glosses: A failure to prove something; the absence of a proof
nonproofs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nonproof
tangolike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more tangolike
form: most tangolike
Etymology: From tango + -like.
Senses: examples: text: But she flowers in the least tangolike moments.
ref: 2009 January 19, Alastair Macaulay By Alastair Macaulay, “Kick Up Your Heels! Tango for Lady and Macho Tramp”, in New York Times:
glosses: Characteristic of tango music or dance
symphonist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: symphonists
Etymology: From symphony + -ist.
Senses: examples: text: Always more a colorist than a symphonist, Bernstein nevertheless created a powerful statement in the symphony’s three movements: Prophecy, Profanation and Lamentation.
ref: 2009 January 19, James R. Oestreich, “Bernstein Festival Far From the Hudson”, in New York Times:
glosses: A composer of symphonies
salvager
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: salvagers
Etymology: From salvage + -er.
Senses: examples: text: The fuel tank in the right wing has a small leak, and investigators and salvagers decided to empty it before moving the barge […]
ref: 2009 January 19, Matthew L. Wald, Al Baker, “Cockpit Tape Reveals Thumps, Engine Loss and a "Mayday"”, in New York Times:
synonyms: salvor
glosses: A person who engages in salvage work.
Related terms: savior
El Salvador
preinaugural
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pre- + inaugural.
Senses: examples: text: Senior Master Sgt. Bill Hones, a member of the Joint Service Orchestra, rehearsing on a carbon-fiber cello for the preinaugural concert at the Lincoln Memorial on Sunday.
ref: 2009 January 19, Chris Museler, “Cold Case: The Sound of Carbon for Yo-Yo Ma?”, in New York Times:
glosses: Preceding or in preparation for an inauguration
salvagers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of salvager
symphonists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of symphonist
anticlotting
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From anti- + clotting.
Senses: examples: text: A year ago, Baxter International and APP Pharmaceuticals split the domestic market for heparin, an anticlotting drug needed for surgery and dialysis .
ref: 2009 January 20, Gardiner Harris, “Drug Making’s Move Abroad Stirs Concerns”, in New York Times:
topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: Acting to reduce or prevent the formation of blood clots
sheltermate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sheltermates
Etymology: From shelter + mate.
Senses: examples: text: Her sleepless nights there were haunted by the collective grumble of her sheltermates […].
ref: 2009 January 20, Trymaine Lee, “Taking Responsibility for Herself and Her Son”, in New York Times:
glosses: A person with whom one shares a shelter.
sheltermates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sheltermate
dream come true
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dreams come true
Senses: glosses: Something which has long been desired or hoped for and which has finally happened.
paleofantasy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: paleofantasies
Etymology: From paleo- + fantasy, introduced by Marlene Zuk as the title of her book criticising paleodiets.
Senses: examples: text: That’s just a paleofantasy about the future.
ref: 2009 January 20, Marlene Zuk, “The Evolutionary Search for Our Perfect Past”, in New York Times:
glosses: A fantasy about how things were in the distant or geological past.
paleofantasies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of paleofantasy
amlodipine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From am(ino-ch)lo(ro) + di(hydro)p(yrid)ine.
Senses: topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: A long-acting calcium channel blocker used as an anti-hypertensive and in the treatment of angina
buboes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bubo
glosses: plural of buboe
overread
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /əʊvəˈɹiːd/
ipa: /əʊvəˈɹɛd/
Forms: form: overreads
form: overreading
form: overread
form: overread
Etymology: From Middle English overreden, from Old English oferrǣdan (“to read over; read through; consider”), equivalent to over- + read.
Senses: examples: text: Over the dore thus written she did spye, / Bee bold: she oft and oft it over-red, / Yet could not find what sence it figured […].
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto XI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
glosses: To read over, or peruse.
examples: text: To overread Plath's houses is to transform these biographical documents into spatial ones.
ref: 2005, Hilde Heynen, Gulsum Baydar, Negotiating Domesticity:
text: At the same time, we overread. That is, we find in narratives qualities, motives, moods, ideas, judgments, even events for which there is no direct evidence in the discourse.
ref: 2008, H. Porter Abbott, The Cambridge Introduction to Narrative:
text: Did we just overread and overstate our place in the world?
ref: 2009 January 20, Heather Timmons, Jeremy Kahn, “Past Graft Is Tainting New India”, in New York Times:
glosses: To interpret something to a greater degree, or in a more positive way, than appropriate; read in too much depth; overinterpret; overanalyze.
glosses: To read too much or excessively.
Derived terms: overreader
overread
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /əʊvəˈɹiːd/
ipa: /əʊvəˈɹɛd/
Forms: form: more overread
form: most overread
Etymology: From Middle English overreden, from Old English oferrǣdan (“to read over; read through; consider”), equivalent to over- + read.
Senses: glosses: Having read too much.
overreads
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of overread
overreading
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of overread
overreading
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: overreadings
Senses: antonyms: underreading
glosses: An instance of something being overread.
metformin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /mɛtˈfɔː.mɪn/
ipa: /mɛtˈfɔɹ.mɪn/
Forms: form: metformins
Etymology: From meth- + -formin (“phenformin derivative”).
Senses: topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: A biguanide derivative, C₄H₁₁N₅, used, now chiefly as the hydrochloride, as an oral hypoglycemic agent in the treatment of type 2 diabetes mellitus; 1,1-dimethylbiguanide.
Coordinate terms: semaglutide
gorehound
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gorehounds
Etymology: From gore + hound.
Senses: examples: text: Darren Lynn Bousman, the director of “Saw II” through “Saw IV,” offers a musical comedy for gorehounds, set in a future where transplanted organs are subject to repossession.
ref: 2009 January 20, Dave Kehr, “New DVDs: Magnificent Obsession(s)”, in New York Times:
glosses: A person who enjoys gory entertainment.
gorehounds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gorehound
overleverage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From over- + leverage.
Senses: glosses: Excessive leverage.
overleverage
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: overleverages
form: overleveraging
form: overleveraged
form: overleveraged
Etymology: From over- + leverage.
Senses: examples: text: The company was severely overleveraged.
text: “Yes, there was overleveraging in the industry.
ref: 2009 January 20, John Collins Rudolf, “Banks Foreclose on Builders With Perfect Records”, in New York Times:
topics: business
finance
glosses: To leverage excessively.
factionalize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: factionalizes
form: factionalizing
form: factionalized
form: factionalized
form: factionalise
Etymology: From factional + -ize.
Senses: examples: text: He has no official political role, but he is a unifying force and peacemaker in a nation that has become increasingly factionalized and acrimonious.
ref: 2009 January 20, Seth Mydans, Mark Mcdonald, “Novelist Given 3 Years for Insulting Thai King”, in New York Times:
glosses: To split into factions
Derived terms: factionalizer
unfactionalized
overleverages
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of overleverage
overleveraging
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of overleverage
factionalizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of factionalize
factionalizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of factionalize
factionalized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of factionalize
chambira
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Women in this remote Amazon village can weave fibers from the branch of the chambira palm tree into practically anything they need — fishing nets, hammocks, purses, skirts and dental floss.
ref: 2009 January 20, Roxana Popescu, “For Peruvians, Baskets for the U.S. Market Bring a New Way of Life”, in New York Times:
glosses: Astrocaryum chambira, a type of palm native to the Amazon rainforest, or the wood of this tree.
rain forest
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rain forests
Senses: examples: text: In recent years, the problems of the tropical rain forests have become an almost daily topic of conversation.
ref: 1997, Isamu Yamada, Tropical Rain Forests of Southeast Asia: A Forest Ecologist's View, page 292:
text: 2002, Rain Forests of the World, Marshall Cavendish Corporation, page 449,
Tropical rain forests have a greater variety of plants than any other place on Earth.
text: Here's some more left-wing nonsense, this time from the environmentalists, the folks who gave us the rain forest. "Save the rain forest." They decided to call it that because they needed to raise money, and they knew no one would give them money to save a jungle. "Save the jungle" doesn't sound right.
ref: 2004, George Carlin, When Will Jesus Bring the Pork Chops?, New York: Hyperion Books, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 163:
text: A large number of everyday foodstuffs that we enjoy today have their origins in the rain forests of the world.
ref: 2012, Peter Littlewood, Why Are the Rain Forests Being Destroyed?, page 10:
glosses: Alternative form of rainforest.
strander
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stranders
Etymology: From strand + -er.
Senses: glosses: a machine that combines thread (strands) into a cable
glosses: a steelworker whose job is to guide bar stock from one milling machine to the next in a multi-step milling process
faves
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /feɪvz/
rhymes: -eɪvz
Senses: glosses: plural of fave
faves
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /feɪvz/
rhymes: -eɪvz
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of fave
partless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From part + -less.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
glosses: Having no parts.
Derived terms: partlessness
Related terms: individual
atom
megastore
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: megastores
Etymology: From mega- + store.
Senses: glosses: A large supermarket or similar retail outlet; a superstore.
glosses: A big box.
Pressburg
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈpɹɛs.bɚɡ/
Forms: form: Pressborough
form: Pressburgh
Etymology: From German Pressburg.
Senses: glosses: Former name of Bratislava: the capital city of Slovakia.
Related terms: Presburg
Presburger
Pressburger
châtelain
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: châtelains
Senses: examples: text: The edict of the Duchess Iolande, in 1476, enjoining the châtelains of Pignerol, Cavour, and Lucerna, to cause all the Vaudois of the Italian Alps to return within the pale of the Catholic Church, could not but affect in some measure those on the right bank of the Po; […]
ref: 1875, Alexis Muston, translated by John Montgomery, The Israel of the Alps. A Complete History of the Waldenses and Their Colonies; Prepared in Great Part from Unpublished Documents. […], volume I, London: Blackie & Son, […], page 130:
text: The châtelains of the tenth and eleventh centuries were not the same officers as those who are found in the latter part of the eleventh and later.
ref: 1894 April, C. R., “Île de France and Picardy.—IV.”, in The Nation: A Weekly Journal Devoted to Politics, Literature, Science & Art, volume LVIII, number 1510, New York, N.Y.: The Evening Post Publishing Company, published 7 June 1894, page 425, column 1:
text: The Dictionnaire Historique gives a list of the châtelains of Glérolles from 1812 to 1798.
ref: 1922, Frederick Treves, The Lake of Geneva, Cassell and Company, Ltd, page 227:
text: And so, in the autumn of 1456, he proceeded manu militari to expel the men Hunyadi had set in place, except for the châtelains of Făgăraș, firmly entrenched behind their walls.
ref: 2017, Matei Cazacu, translated by Nicole Mordarski, Stephen W. Reinert, Alice Brinton, and Catherine Healey, edited by Stephen W. Reinert, Dracula, Brill, →ISBN, page 102:
glosses: Alternative spelling of chatelain.
unbonded
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + bonded.
Senses: examples: text: “The weak layers are faceted crystals, very smooth and unbonded to each other,” almost like ball bearings, he said.
ref: 2009 January 20, Jim Robbins, “Solving Avalanches’ Mysteries”, in New York Times:
glosses: Not bonded
psychiatrically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From psychiatric + -ally.
Senses: examples: text: The case was treated psychiatrically.
text: He was puzzled about a 24-year-old man whom he viewed as psychiatrically healthy except for intense depression that lasted for several hours after sex.
ref: 2009 January 20, Richard A. Friedman, MD, “Sex and Depression: In the Brain, if Not the Mind”, in New York Times:
glosses: In psychiatric terms, or by means of psychiatry
postcoital
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: post-coital
Etymology: From post- + coital.
Senses: examples: text: The patient suffered from postcoital malaise.
text: Post-coital tristesse, like post-coital jouissance, is known only to the human animal and occurs as orgasm most often signals the end of immediate sexual excitement, if not the end of the pursuit of further sexual pleasure.
ref: 2003, William Simon, Postmodern Sexualities, Routledge, →ISBN, page 82:
text: The most suspenseful Sex Box ever got was when Frostrup rushed up to the couples as they emerged from the box and attempted to interview them with all the peppy urgency of Erin Andrews at the Super Bowl, and you had to wonder whether the poor, blindsided, post-coital people would be able to do anything more than stare at the camera in abject horror.
ref: 2015 February 26, Sophie Gilbert, “Soggy Bottoms and 'Sex Box': The Saucy State of TV's British Imports”, in The Atlantic:
glosses: Occurring after, or as a consequence of, sex.
Derived terms: postcoital dysphoria
postcoitally
postcoital test
postcoital tristesse
Related terms: afterglow
ringgits
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ringgit
troctolite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: troctolites
Etymology: From German Troktolit.
Senses: examples: text: Here, we report a magnetic study of an unshocked ancient rock with a well-constrained thermal history, troctolite 76535.
ref: 2009 January 16, Ian Garrick-Bethell et al., “Early Lunar Magnetism”, in Science, volume 323, number 5912, →DOI:
topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: A rare type of ultramafic intrusive rock, consisting primarily of olivine and calcic plagioclase
Derived terms: troctolitic
troctolites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of troctolite
étape
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /eɪˈtæp/
Forms: form: étapes
Etymology: Borrowed from French étape, from Middle French estappe, from Old French estaple (“warehouse; a place where merchants bring their wares to be sold”), from Middle Dutch stapel (“warehouse; market”), from Old Dutch stapul, from Frankish *stapul. Sense 5 is a semantic loan from Russian эта́п (etáp). More at the doublet staple.
Senses: glosses: A public storehouse.
glosses: Supplies issued to troops on the march.
glosses: The place where troops on the march halt overnight.
glosses: The distance marched during a day.
glosses: In Russia, a rest point for parties of prisoners in transit on foot
topics: cycling
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A stage of a multistage bicycle race.
nacreous cloud
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nacreous clouds
Senses: glosses: polar stratospheric cloud
audio-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Etymology: From the root audi of Latin audiō (“I hear; I listen”) + -o-.
Cognates include Proto-Germanic *awiz (“obvious”), Sanskrit आविस् (āvís, “manifestly, evidently”) and Ancient Greek αἰσθάνομαι (aisthánomai, “perceive, notice”) whence English aesthetic.
Senses: glosses: sound
Derived terms: audio
paven
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /peɪvən/
rhymes: -eɪvən
Forms: form: pavens
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of pavane.
paven
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /peɪvən/
rhymes: -eɪvən
Etymology: From pave + -en (past participle ending).
Senses: examples: text: Firm as a paven road sprang what had seemed a hearse, Meet to uplift the load of a great universe; […]
ref: 1897, F. Harald Williams, Matin Bells and Scarlet and Gold, page 104:
text: A paven road or gathered tax
But partly yield him what he lacks.
ref: 1949, John Masefield, On the hill, page 18:
text: The architecture was bewildering in its multiform complexity: great, sleepy-lidded faces of stone gazed down from the eight-sided towers; fantastic dragon-hybrids writhed entangled coils above portal and arch; many-armed and beast-headed gods thronged the paven ways, lining entire avenues in rank on rank of carven stone idols so innumerable as to suggest pantheons as populous as dynasties.
ref: 1999, Lin Carter, The Quest of Kadji, page 118:
text: After Kelflase a paven road replaced the half-finished horse-track, another sick-bed project, but it was still not fast enough for the king.
ref: 2005, Sylvia Kelso, Everran's Bane, page 73:
glosses: paved
cortinas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cortina
ventas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of venta
unhuman
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unhuman
form: most unhuman
Etymology: From un- + human.
Senses: glosses: Not resembling or having the qualities of a human being.
unhuman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: unhumans
Etymology: From un- + human.
Senses: glosses: One who is not human; nonhuman.
unhuman
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: unhumans
form: unhumaning
form: unhumaned
form: unhumaned
Etymology: From un- + human.
Senses: glosses: To make less human or removing human qualities
Related terms: inhuman
inhumane
NURBS
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Acronym of non-uniform rational B-spline (Non-Uniform Rational Basis Spline) (“a mathematical model used in computer graphics for generating and representing curves and surfaces”).
turbodiesel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: turbodiesels
Etymology: From turbo- + diesel.
Senses: examples: text: The Volkswagen Cross Coupe concept has a turbodiesel direct injection engine and two electric motors resulting in 157 mpg and emissions of 46 g/km CO2.
ref: 2012 March 9, “Green cars at 2012 Geneva motor show – in pictures”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
glosses: A diesel engine fitted with a turbocharger.
Related terms: Turbo Diesel
chain stores
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chain store
chain store
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chain stores
Senses: glosses: A retail outlet that is one of a group of similar establishments having common format, contents, ownership and management.
negator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /nəˈɡeɪtəɹ/
rhymes: -eɪtə(ɹ)
Forms: form: negators
Etymology: From negate + -or, or directly from Latin negātor.
Senses: glosses: One who, or that which, negates.
examples: text: The word "not" is a negator in English.
topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: One who, or that which, negates.
A word (or other structural element) which causes negation.
aestheticians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of aesthetician
appendicectomies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of appendicectomy
screw shoes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of screw shoe
axodendritic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From axo- + dendritic.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to the synapse that connects an axon (of one nerve cell) and a dendrite (of another).
Related terms: axoaxonic
axosomatic
seize up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: sēz′ ŭp′
ipa: /ˈsiːz ˌʌp/
ipa: /ˈsiz ˌʌp/
ipa: /ˈsiːz ˌɐp/
ipa: /ˈsiːz ˌəp/
Forms: form: seizes up
form: seizing up
form: seized up
form: seized up
Etymology: The term originates c. 1870 referring to a machine which jammed up because of excessive heat or friction; it has been used figuratively since c. 1950.
Senses: examples: text: Iceland's foreign currency market has seized up after the three largest banks collapsed.
text: In the 2004 film A Day Without a Mexican, Sergio Arau imagines, in mockumentary style, what would happen to California if its entire Mexican-immigrant population vanished. With so many housekeepers and farmworkers, teachers and gardeners, line cooks and police gone, the state seizes up.
ref: 2021 October 5, Ian Bogost, “A Day Without Facebook”, in The Atlantic, archived from the original on 05 Oct 2021:
text: I love casual fun – but seize up sexually in a serious relationship [title]
ref: 2023 December 5, Pamela Stephenson Connolly, “I love casual fun – but seize up sexually in a serious relationship”, in The Guardian, →ISSN, archived from the original on 12 Dec 2023:
text: All of this has spooked the world’s investors. The bond market seized up after Trump’s “Liberation Day” tariff announcement, as some analysts wondered whether the Fed would have to step in to provide liquidity.
ref: 2025 April 25, Annie Lowrey, “What Would Be Worse Than a Recession?”, in The Atlantic, archived from the original on 28 Apr 2025:
synonyms: freeze
freeze up
grind to a halt
glosses: To stop functioning; to come to a halt.
examples: text: It was hard to write as my fingers had seized up with the cold weather.
text: I have had over six years to think about my future and it does not look good. I … can expect no cure or improvement in my condition as my muscles and joints seize up through lack of use.
ref: 2012 June 19, Amelia Hill, quoting Tony Nicklinson, “Man with locked-in syndrome calls for change to murder law”, in The Guardian, →ISSN, archived from the original on 18 Sep 2019:
glosses: To stiffen or become tight and difficult to move.
raw_tags: of muscles
examples: text: My car seized up this morning. So I had to catch the bus.
glosses: To stop working suddenly, and become impossible to start again.
raw_tags: of a machine
Derived terms: seize-up
Related terms: seize upon
corticocortical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From cortico- + cortical.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: That connects one cortex with another.
argosies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of argosy
corticostriatal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From cortico- + striatal.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Of, pertaining to, or connecting a cortex and a striatum
Derived terms: mesocorticostriatal
thalamocorticostriatal
corticotectal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more corticotectal
form: most corticotectal
Etymology: From cortico- + tectal.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Of, pertaining to, or connecting a cortex and a tectum
falsas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of falsa
disynaptically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From disynaptic + -ally.
Senses: glosses: By means of two synapses
exacta
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: exactas
Etymology: Blend of exact + trifecta?
Blend of exact + perfecta?
Senses: glosses: A bet in which the bettor must correctly pick the two runners who finish first and second, in the correct order.
Derived terms: reverse exacta
exactas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of exacta
monosynaptic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From mono- + synaptic.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
neuroanatomy
neurology
neuroscience
sciences
glosses: Having, or involving a single synapse
glosses: Stupid, lacking in brainpower
Derived terms: monosynaptically
Related terms: monosynapse
dsDNA
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dsDNAs
form: dsdna
Senses: topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: Initialism of double-stranded DNA.
Related terms: ssDNA
rDNA
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rDNAs
Etymology: Initialism of ribosomal / recombinant DNA.
Senses: topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: ribosomal DNA
topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: recombinant DNA
rRNA
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rRNAs
form: rrna
Senses: topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: Initialism of ribosomal RNA.
Synonyms: ribosomal rRNA
ribosomal ribonucleic acid
Coordinate terms: english: messenger RNA
translation: messenger RNA
word: mRNA
english: transfer RNA
translation: transfer RNA
word: tRNA
english: ribonucleic acid
translation: ribonucleic acid
word: RNA
word: ribosome
Related terms: mRNA
ncRNA
RNA
siRNA
sRNA
tRNA
flexographic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more flexographic
form: most flexographic
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to flexography
Derived terms: flexographically
lobos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lobo
intracortical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From intra- + cortical.
Senses: glosses: Within a cortex.
Derived terms: intracortically
blepharoplasties
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of blepharoplasty
pyroptosome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pyroptosomes
Etymology: From pyroptosis + -some.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: A supramolecular assembly of adaptor protein dimers that mediates inflammatory cell death.
pyroptotic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to pyroptosis.
seed grain
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Grain seed saved from one year's harvest for the subsequent year's planting.
Synonyms: seed corn
pyroptosis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From pyro- + ptosis.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: A form of programmed cell death associated with antimicrobial responses during inflammation.
blepharoplastic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From blepharoplasty + -ic.
Senses: glosses: relating to blepharoplasty
seed drill
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: seed drills
form: seed-drill
Senses: examples: text: Most Chinese seed-drills sow not only seed but also manure. The idea was almost as old as the seed-drill itself in Europe, and it was common in India too.
ref: 1984, Joseph Needham, Francesca Bray, Science and Civilisation in China, Volume 6, Part 2, page 270:
text: American farmers began using the seed drill on a limited basis by 1775.
ref: 2002, R. Douglas Hurt, American Agriculture: A Brief History, Revised edition, page 102:
text: Another major advancement in the field of agriculture was the seed drill. The seed drill helped the row farming of the Chinese.[…]The first seed drill was introduced into Europe 1600 years after the Chinese had improved upon their original design.
ref: 2003, Ron Shaw, Great Inventors and Inventions, page 17:
text: Seeding with the Chinese seed drill requires higher than normal soil moisture compared to conventionally tilled wheat.
ref: 2004, D. S. Pathic, R. K. Shrestha, “11: No-Till in the Rice-Wheat System: An Experience from Nepal”, in Rattan Lal, Peter R. Hobbs, Norman Uphoff, editors, Sustainable Agriculture and the International Rice-Wheat System, page 215:
text: In 1701, English inventor Jethro Tull built a prototype seed drill that planted a metered stream of seeds at the right depth and covered them with soil to optimize growth. The fact that the seed drill sowed seeds in regular straight rows also meant that a mechanical horse-drawn hoe (another invention by Tull) could be used to remove weeds from between the rows.
ref: 2005, Rick Kubik, How to Use Implements on Your Small-Scale Farm, page 43:
topics: agriculture
business
lifestyle
glosses: A type of sowing machine.
selfsameness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: self-sameness
Etymology: From selfsame + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: There is no doubt about the selfsameness of the morning Sun with the evening Sun.
text: Now the first condition of the possibility of my guiltiness, or of my becoming a subject for moral imputation, is my self-sameness; I must be throughout one identical person.
ref: 1876, F. H. Bradley, Ethical Studies:
glosses: The property of two or more appearances of being of the selfsame underlying object; sameness as regards self or identity; identity; identicality.
buvette
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: buvettes
Etymology: Borrowed from French buvette.
Senses: glosses: bar (place where beverages are sold), mainly in French contexts
crimebuster
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: crimebusters
form: crime-buster
form: crime buster
Etymology: Etymology tree
English crime
English buster
English crimebuster
From crime + buster.
Senses: examples: text: This corporation law background is less known than his record as a crime-buster.
ref: 1938 April 10, Louther S. Horne, “Loesch Tells How to Beat Crime: A Need is Seen for Fearless Prosecutors”, in New York Times, page 120:
text: Bit by bit, J. Edgar Hoover's image as an incorruptible crimebuster has crumbled since his death in 1972.
ref: 1976 August 2, “Dipping into the Cookie Jar”, in Time:
text: Swayze's ruthless crimebuster never hesitates—and as he plugs street scum full of bullets and pursues his own form of frontier justice with a hard, penetrating squint, we find ourselves rooting for a character who, in lesser hands, could be perceived as downright ugly.
ref: 2009, Joel Rubinoff, "Swayze breathes life into killing" (TV review), Toronto Star, 22 Jan. (retrieved 22 Jan. 2009)
glosses: A person, especially a law enforcement officer, who is particularly effective in thwarting criminal activity and in bringing criminals to justice.
Synonyms: gangbuster
crime-buster
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: crime-busters
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of crimebuster.
crime buster
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: crime busters
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of crimebuster.
eventualist
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more eventualist
form: most eventualist
Etymology: From eventual + -ist.
Senses: glosses: Pertaining to eventualism.
eventualist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: eventualists
Etymology: From eventual + -ist.
Senses: glosses: One who subscribes to eventualism.
eventualists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of eventualist
psychometry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: psychometries
Etymology: From psycho- + -metry.
Senses: examples: text: "Their power and knowledge are as closely limited as ours. But this is not a matter for the spirit people. What I did then was psychometry, which, so far as we know, is a power of the human soul."
ref: 1925 July – 1926 May, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “(please specify the chapter number)”, in The Land of Mist (eBook no. 0601351h.html), Australia: Project Gutenberg Australia, published April 2019:
text: Then there is that queer practice of the whites, psychometry, by which mediumistic people claim they can, by handling any object, tell events that occurred to the owner of it.
ref: 1931, Ion L. Idriess, Lasseter's Last Ride, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, page 60:
topics: parapsychology
pseudoscience
glosses: The paranormal ability to discover information about an object's past, and especially about its past owners, merely by handling it.
examples: text: In psychometry and paedometry his original contributions will be little unless he had equipped himself well with the subjects like mathematics and statistics.
ref: 1960, Indian Journal of Psychology, XXXV-XXXVII, page 25:
text: Again, barring in a few universities psychometry and physiological psychology are not regarded as compulsory papers.
ref: ibidem, page 27
topics: human-sciences
psychology
sciences
glosses: The use of psychological tests to measure intelligence, abilities, attitudes, and personality traits.
Synonyms: sense: the use of psychological tests to measure traits
word: psychometrics
Related terms: psychrometry
kittenishly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more kittenishly
form: most kittenishly
Etymology: From kittenish + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a kittenish manner.
collotype
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: collotypes
Etymology: From Ancient Greek κόλλα (kólla, “glue”) + -type.
Senses: glosses: A dichromate-based photographic process formerly used for large-volume mechanical printing.
glosses: An image produced by this process
Synonyms: lichtdruck
Derived terms: chromocollotype
collotypes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of collotype
Robitussin
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Trademark, from combining Robins (surname of the original maker) and tussive or similar.
Senses: examples: text: A dose of guaifenesin, plain and simple Robitussin / To liquefy the mucous membranes.
ref: 1997, “The Druggist”, Joel Mabus (music):
glosses: Any of various cold and cough medicines.
Derived terms: robotrip
domotics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Contraction of domestic robotics. Alternatively, from the Latin domus (“home”), and robotics.
Senses: glosses: Robotic technology for use in the home.
glosses: The automatic control of home appliances by electronic systems.
calcifications
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of calcification
collateralizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of collateralize
collateralizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of collateralize
nonmusician
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nonmusicians
Etymology: From non- + musician.
Senses: glosses: A person who is not a musician.
nonmusicians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nonmusician