cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
transconjunctivally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From transconjunctival + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: PPV was performed transconjunctivally with either a 23 or a 25 gauge instrument and caused no major intraoperative and postoperative complications.
ref: 2015 August 15, “Long-Term Outcomes and Prognostic Factors of Trabeculectomy following Intraocular Bevacizumab Injection for Neovascular Glaucoma”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Across or through a conjunctiva
transpupillary
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From trans- + pupillary.
Senses: examples: text: Trabeculectomy was combined with PPV, cataract surgery, or both when completion of transpupillary PRP was not expected to be possible after surgery.
ref: 2015 August 15, “Long-Term Outcomes and Prognostic Factors of Trabeculectomy following Intraocular Bevacizumab Injection for Neovascular Glaucoma”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Through a pupil (of the eye)
Kaybeck
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Pronunciation spelling of Quebec.
serely
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more serely
form: most serely
form: seerly
Etymology: From Middle English serly, serelych, serelyche, equivalent to sere (“separate, different, distinct”) + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Under the Heaven and also above The waters serely shall be seen, And so I will my posty prove By creatures of kinds clean.
ref: 2012, Christina M. Fitzgerald, John T. Sebastian, The Broadview Anthology of Medieval Drama - Page 87:
glosses: separately; differently; severally; distinctly.
heathenship
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: heathenships
Etymology: From Middle English hæðene-scipe, from Old English hǣþensċipe; equivalent to heathen + -ship. Compare Middle Dutch heidijnscap, Middle Low German heidenschop, German Heidenschaft, Danish hedenskab.
Senses: glosses: Heathendom.
yue qin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: yue qin
form: yue qins
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of yueqin.
yue qins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of yue qin
efficients
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of efficient
zhuihu
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: zhuihu
Etymology: Borrowed from the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of Mandarin 墜胡 /坠胡 (zhuìhú).
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A two-stringed chordophone (string instrument) with a fretless fingerboard, played with a bow, of Chinese origin and especially associated with Henan and Shandong.
Synonyms: zhuiqin
zhuizixian
zhuiqin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: zhuiqin
Etymology: Borrowed from the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of Mandarin 墜琴 /坠琴.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of zhuihu.
synonyms: word: zhuihu
adblocker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: adblockers
Etymology: From ad (“short for advert or advertisement”) + blocker.
Senses: glosses: A piece of software that removes advertising elements from a web page.
adblockers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: If adblockers do continue to prove popular with users, they could also be a major weapon in Apple’s arsenal against its key competitor, Google.
ref: 2015 September 17, Alex Hern, “Adblockers shoot up iOS 9 app charts on day one”, in The Guardian:
glosses: plural of adblocker
adblocking
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From ad + blocking.
Senses: examples: text: Peace isn’t his first entry into adblocking: a side-effect of Instapaper, the first of a class of apps which download content to read off-line, was stripping the adverts from saved content, in order to make them cleaner and easier to read.
ref: 2015 September 17, Alex Hern, “Adblockers shoot up iOS 9 app charts on day one”, in The Guardian:
glosses: The use of an adblocker to remove advertising from the display of a webpage
zhong hu
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: zhong hu
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of zhonghu.
zhong-hu
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: zhong-hu
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of zhonghu.
microborers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of microborer
starchless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From starch + -less.
Senses: glosses: Without starch.
hierarchise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: hierarchises
form: hierarchising
form: hierarchised
form: hierarchised
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of hierarchize.
hierarchised
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of hierarchise
hierarchises
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of hierarchise
hierarchising
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of hierarchise
desertifies
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of desertify
colonisable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more colonisable
form: most colonisable
Etymology: From colonise + -able.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of colonizable.
keyed fiddle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: keyed fiddles
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: Synonym of nyckelharpa.
synonyms: word: nyckelharpa
keyed fiddles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of keyed fiddle
coharbour
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: coharbours
form: coharbouring
form: coharboured
form: coharboured
Etymology: From co- + harbour.
Senses: glosses: To harbour along with another
coharboured
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: Ho et al. found fosA3 and bla CTX-M genes were coharboured on conjugative plasmids with F2:A-:B- (n = 2), N (n = 1), F-:A-:B1 and N (n = 1) and untypable (n = 2) replicons in Hong Kong [8 ].
ref: 2015 August 18, “Characterization of Fosfomycin Resistant Extended-Spectrum β-Lactamase-Producing Escherichia coli Isolates from Human and Pig in Taiwan”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: simple past and past participle of coharbour
drug-dealer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: drug-dealers
Etymology: From drug + dealer.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of drug dealer.
drug-dealers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of drug-dealer
heterosubtypic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From hetero- + subtypic.
Senses: examples: text: NA-specific immunity has been shown to limit the spread of influenza virus, thus reducing disease symptoms and providing cross-protection against heterosubtypic viruses in mouse challenge experiments.
ref: 2015 August 18, “Expression and Characterization of Recombinant, Tetrameric and Enzymatically Active Influenza Neuraminidase for the Setup of an Enzyme-Linked Lectin-Based Assay”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Relating to a subtype (serotype) of a virus other than the one responsible for the primary infection
Related terms: heterosubtype
homosubtypic
double dealer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: double dealers
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of double-dealer.
double dealers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of double dealer
immunoblockade
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From immuno- + blockade.
Senses: examples: text: In the pulmonary microvasculature, immunoblockade of MIP-1, ICAM and sVCAM-1 blunts the I/R-induced permeability response, whereas RANTES and MCP-1 antibodies do not afford protection [21 ].
ref: 2015 August 18, “Combined Salvianolic Acid B and Ginsenoside Rg1 Exerts Cardioprotection against Ischemia/Reperfusion Injury in Rats”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: blockade of a biochemical or immunological reaction by an antibody
microprecipitation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: microprecipitations
Etymology: From micro- + precipitation.
Senses: examples: text: Most nanosizing approaches to obtain nanosuspensions involve bottom-up methods (such as microprecipitation and supercritical fluid methods) or top-down methods (such as wet-milling and high pressure homogenization) [19 –23 ].
ref: 2015 August 18, “Evaluation of Stability and Biological Activity of Solid Nanodispersion of Lambda-Cyhalothrin”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: precipitation of very small particles
monoprotonated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From mono- + protonated.
Senses: examples: text: H297 is monoprotonated at the Nε atom.
ref: 2015 August 18, “Structural Determinants for the Binding of Morphinan Agonists to the μ-Opioid Receptor”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: protonated with a single proton (hydrogen ion)
nanosizing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From nano- + sizing.
Senses: examples: text: Most nanosizing approaches to obtain nanosuspensions involve bottom-up methods (such as microprecipitation and supercritical fluid methods) or top-down methods (such as wet-milling and high pressure homogenization) [19 –23 ].
ref: 2015 August 18, “Evaluation of Stability and Biological Activity of Solid Nanodispersion of Lambda-Cyhalothrin”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: The sizing (sorting by size) of nanoparticles
nanosuspensions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Most nanosizing approaches to obtain nanosuspensions involve bottom-up methods (such as microprecipitation and supercritical fluid methods) or top-down methods (such as wet-milling and high pressure homogenization) [19 –23 ].
ref: 2015 August 18, “Evaluation of Stability and Biological Activity of Solid Nanodispersion of Lambda-Cyhalothrin”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: plural of nanosuspension
novaluron
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: EC is widely regarded as an effective pesticide formulation, and its pest mortality could resemble that of nano-formulation in novaluron system [35 ,57 ].
ref: 2015 August 18, “Evaluation of Stability and Biological Activity of Solid Nanodispersion of Lambda-Cyhalothrin”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: The pesticide 1-[3-chloro-4-(1,1,2-trifluoro-2-trifluoro- methoxyethoxy)phenyl]-3-(2,6-difluorobenzoyl)urea
pharyngoplasty
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pharyngoplasties
Etymology: From pharyngo- + -plasty.
Senses: examples: text: Interestingly, positive results have been reported in patients undergoing the combination of transoral robotic surgery for tongue base resection and expansion sphincter pharyngoplasty, which may indicate the importance of palatal surgeries that augment tension and resect the base of the tongue [32 ].
ref: 2015 August 18, “Tongue Volume Influences Lowest Oxygen Saturation but Not Apnea-Hypopnea Index in Obstructive Sleep Apnea”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
topics: medicine
sciences
surgery
glosses: repair or reshaping of the pharynx
Derived terms: velopharyngoplasty
pseudoatrophy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From pseudo- + atrophy.
Senses: examples: text: Thus the observed differences in GM atrophy rates in this study were most likely not caused by pseudoatrophy, but by true differences in volume loss.
ref: 2015 August 18, “A Longitudinal Study of Disability, Cognition and Gray Matter Atrophy in Early Multiple Sclerosis Patients According to Evidence of Disease Activity”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Apparent atrophy
salvianolic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Salvia.
Senses: examples: text: The aim of this study was to evaluate the cardioprotection of combined salvianolic acid B (SalB) and ginsenoside Rg1 (Rg1) against myocardial I/R injury and further investigate the underlying mechanism.
ref: 2015 August 18, “Combined Salvianolic Acid B and Ginsenoside Rg1 Exerts Cardioprotection against Ischemia/Reperfusion Injury in Rats”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Relating to a salvianolic acid or a derivative
Related terms: salvianolate
tetrabrachion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tetrabrachions
Senses: examples: text: The cytoplasmic (CD), tetramerization (TM) and stalk domains of the WT NA were replaced by an Ig-k secretion sequence, a 6xHis-tag, and a tetrabrachion domain for protein tetramerization.
ref: 2015 August 18, “Expression and Characterization of Recombinant, Tetrameric and Enzymatically Active Influenza Neuraminidase for the Setup of an Enzyme-Linked Lectin-Based Assay”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A highly thermostable surface protein, of unusual structure, isolated from an archaebacterium.
tetramerize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: tetramerizes
form: tetramerizing
form: tetramerized
form: tetramerized
Etymology: From tetramer + -ize.
Senses: examples: text: A major challenge in producing recombinant rNA is the inability of the head domain to fold and tetramerize as an independent unit.
ref: 2015 August 18, “Expression and Characterization of Recombinant, Tetrameric and Enzymatically Active Influenza Neuraminidase for the Setup of an Enzyme-Linked Lectin-Based Assay”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: To form a tetramer.
fourfolded
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of fourfold
fourfolding
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of fourfold
tetramerizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of tetramerize
tetramerized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of tetramerize
tetramerizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of tetramerize
thermostabilizing
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From thermo- + stabilizing.
Senses: examples: text: The thermostabilizing effect of Ca 2+ binding to avian rNA was investigated by incubating the purified protein with increasing concentrations of Ca 2+ .
ref: 2015 August 18, “Expression and Characterization of Recombinant, Tetrameric and Enzymatically Active Influenza Neuraminidase for the Setup of an Enzyme-Linked Lectin-Based Assay”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: That makes something thermostable.
media-savvy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more media-savvy
form: most media-savvy
Etymology: From media + savvy.
Senses: glosses: Having the ability to purposely attract media attention or to manipulate it to one's own advantage.
teenzine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: teenzines
Etymology: From teen + zine.
Senses: glosses: A magazine aimed at a teenage audience.
teenzines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of teenzine
death rattles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of death rattle
death-rattles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of death-rattle
thare
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of there.
glosses: Alternative spelling of thar.
ivery
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of every.
flie
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of fly.
sarve
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: sarves
form: sarving
form: sarved
form: sarved
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of serve.
gooid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Pronunciation spelling of good.
shoare
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shoares
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of shore.
layd
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of laid.
shold
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of should.
driuen
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of driven.
juyce
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: juyces
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of juice.
sundrie
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of sundry.
deuise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: deuises
form: deuising
form: deuised
form: deuised
Senses: glosses: Obsolete typography of devise.
peple
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of people.
aduise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: aduises
form: aduising
form: aduised
form: aduised
Senses: glosses: Obsolete typography of advise.
councell
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: councells
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of council.
bekase
Language: English
Part of speech: conj
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of because.
haid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: haids
Senses: glosses: Pronunciation spelling of head.
Derived terms: tetched in the haid
touched in the haid
beyng
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of being.
awaie
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of away.
busie
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of busy.
zamorin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: zamorins
Etymology: Borrowed from Malayalam സാമൂതിരി (sāmūtiri).
Senses: glosses: Leader of the medieval kingdom of Kozhikode
fery
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: Pronunciation spelling of very.
aole
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From Hawaiian ʻaʻole.
Senses: glosses: no, not
barke
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of bark.
befoir
Language: English
Part of speech: prep
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of before.
iust
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more iust
form: most iust
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of just.
vppon
Language: English
Part of speech: prep
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of upon.
onct
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of oncet.
twelue
Language: English
Part of speech: num
Senses: examples: text: […] the twelue cubited man (as Iacobus à Voragine measureth his length) or the twelue-footed man (as he is measured by Petrus de Natalibus) […]
ref: 1616, Richard Sheldon, A Survey of the Miracles of the Church of Rome, page 303:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of twelve.
vith
Language: English
Part of speech: prep
Senses: glosses: Pronunciation spelling of with.
Rori
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Sangu (“ethnic group”).
synonyms: word: Sangu
extra: ethnic group
Rori
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Variant of Rory.
Senses: glosses: A male given name
Rori
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A diminutive of the female given name Aurora
euill
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more euill
form: most euill
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of evil.
neknomination
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈnɛk nɔmɪˈneɪʃən/
Forms: form: Neknomination
form: NekNomination
Etymology: From neck (“to drink very quickly”) + nomination. Originated in Australia and gained popularity on social media.
Senses: examples: text: The controversial Neknomination craze has reportedly led to the death of another young British man, after a rugby player mixed two pints of gin with teabags and said to the camera: “This is how you drink.”
ref: 2014 February 16, Adam Withnall, “Neknomination: Craze 'claims fifth victim' as young man found dead after downing two pints of gin”, in Belfast Telegraph:
text: Ontario Provincial Police laid charges against two young men on Thursday after a ‘neknomination’ video surfaced on social media.
ref: 2014 February 27, Paul Clarke, “OPP charge two youth after neknomination video surfaces”, in Toronto Star:
text: She has lipstick on her chin, a ladder in her tights and looks as though she's spent the afternoon creating Neknomination videos.
ref: 2015, Jane Costello, The Love Shack, Simon & Schuster (2015), unnumbered pages, published 23 April 2015
glosses: An online drinking game, typically involving a person uploading a video of themselves drinking a pint of an alcoholic beverage (most commonly beer) in one gulp, then nominating two or more others to do the same.
Neknomination
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of neknomination.
cyberaggression
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From cyber- + aggression.
Senses: examples: text: Using the labeled data, we further design and evaluate the performance of classifiers to automatically detect and predict incidents of cyberbullying and cyberaggression.
ref: 2015, Homa Hosseinmardi, Sabrina Arredondo Mattson, Rahat Ibn Rafiq, Richard Han, Qin Lv, Shivakant Mishr, “Prediction of Cyberbullying Incidents on the Instagram Social Network”, in arXiv:
glosses: aggression in interpersonal interactions taking place on the Internet or in cyberspace
Related terms: cyberaggressor
NekNomination
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of neknomination.
transrace
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From trans- + race.
Senses: examples: text: There is considerable evidence supporting a biological explanation for whites. Much less data exist for African-Americans. We need more data related to African-American adoption studies and transrace adoption studies.
ref: 1998, Enhancing Learning in Training and Adult Education, →ISBN, page 149:
text: A Bitter Herb dramatizes, with acute insight, what have again become contemporary debates around the proposed re-introduction of transrace adoption.
ref: 2012, Hidden Gems Volume Two: Contemporary Black British Plays, →ISBN:
text: This includes domestic cross-race adoption (also called transrace adoption) as well as international adoption (also called intercountry or transnational adoption).
ref: 2015, Janet M. Bennett, The SAGE Encyclopedia of Intercultural Competence, →ISBN:
glosses: Synonym of transracial (“interracial”).
synonyms: word: transracial
extra: interracial
raw_tags: of adoption
unpoled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + poled.
Senses: glosses: Not poled.
panus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Latin panus.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A lymphatic gland that is inflamed but not suppurating.
Related terms: panus faucium
panus inguinalis
sextates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of sextate
sextated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of sextate
neknominate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of neknomination.
synonyms: word: neknomination
unmad
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: unmadder
form: unmaddest
Etymology: From un- + mad.
Senses: glosses: Not mad; sane.
unmadder
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of unmad: more unmad
unmaddest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of unmad: most unmad
finger in the dyke
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fingers in the dyke
form: finger in a dike
form: finger in a dyke
form: finger in the dike
Senses: glosses: An attempt to delay a worse consequence from occurring.
made for each other
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: made for one another
form: MFEO
Senses: examples: text: "I half-believe matches are made in Heaven—ours will be Heaven-made, if any are. You think human beings are made for each other, as the saying is, do you not?"
ref: 1856, T. S. Arthur, “Elma's Mission”, in The Wedding Guest:
text: They were a pair that seemed made for each other, and Martina delighted in match-making.
ref: 1886, Georg Ebers, chapter 7, in The Bride of the Nile:
text: But the deeper affinity was unmistakable: the two had the same prejudices and ideals. . . . [T]hey had a force of negation which eliminated everything beyond their own range of perception. Gryce and Miss Van Osburgh were, in short, made for each other by every law of moral and physical correspondence.
ref: 1905, Edith Wharton, chapter 4, in The House of Mirth:
text: "We're made for each other and we love each other and we don't care who knows it."
ref: 2004 March 21, Steve Bloomfield, “Gay weddings on increase as 1,000 couples 'tie the knot'”, in Independent, UK, retrieved 17 Sep 2015:
glosses: Well suited to be in a relationship with one another, especially as romantic or marital partners.
raw_tags: of two persons
examples: text: Sir Georg Solti and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra may have been made for each other, but they were also made to play Beethoven.
ref: 1975 December 29, “Music: The Year's Best IPs”, in Time, retrieved 17 Sep 2015:
text: "Photography and the Web were made for each other," said Mr. Mattison.
ref: 2002 May 23, Pamela LiCalzi O'Connell, “Photographic Homes and Joke Captions”, in New York Times, retrieved 17 Sep 2015:
text: Turkey and cranberries were made for each other.
ref: 2014 November 19, Laura Nichols, “Thanksgiving sides make meal unique”, in Rochester Democrat and Chronicle, retrieved 17 Sep 2015:
glosses: Compatible; interacting effectively; in a complementary relationship.
Related terms: match made in heaven
made for one another
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of made for each other.
Herdwick
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Herdwicks
Etymology: Derived from Old Norse herdvyck, "sheep pasture".
Senses: glosses: A sheep of a Cumbrian breed prized for their robust health and durable wool.
Herdwicks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Herdwick
dextramers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dextramer
up the ass
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: up the arse
Senses: qualifier: literal
glosses: Through receptive anal intercourse.
examples: text: They've got you manning the checkpoint by yourself with seventeen ships due in port today? You're going to be taking it up the ass out there.
glosses: Suffering pain, loss of control, or overwhelm, which in the sufferer's mind is comparable to forced anal intercourse.
examples: text: We've got pinecones up the ass this season since it was so wet last spring.
synonyms: out the ass
glosses: Everywhere.
Synonyms: english: most often literal
translation: most often literal
word: up the seat
Related terms: up yours
mouthwashy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more mouthwashy
form: most mouthwashy
Etymology: From mouthwash + -y.
Senses: examples: text: The Cedre had a mouthwashy top note.
ref: 2008 April 3, Cintra Wilson, “Secrets From the Temple of Scent”, in New York Times:
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of mouthwash.
nonteams
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nonteam
hukou
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈhuːˌkoʊ/
/ˌhuːˈkoʊ/
Forms: form: hukous
form: hukou
Etymology: From Mandarin 戶口／户口 (hùkǒu).
Senses: examples: text: But now, a new awareness of the issue is raising questions about the status of women in China, as well as other rights issues like the hukou, or residency permit, a central tool of population control passed down from the Maoist era that restricts movement by linking people to the towns of their birth.
ref: 2008 April 6, Howard W. French, “Single Mothers in China Forge a Difficult Path”, in New York Times:
hypernyms: internal passport
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record#Noun
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document#Noun
glosses: A household registration record that identifies a person as a local resident.
hukous
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hukou
opilios
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of opilio
snow crab
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: snow crabs
Senses: glosses: Any crab of the species Chionoecetes opilio
glosses: Any crab of the genus Chionoecetes of spider crabs.
snow crabs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of snow crab
bathroomgoer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bathroomgoers
Etymology: From bathroom + goer.
Senses: examples: text: The exhibition lasted only from 6 to 6:26 p.m., the artists said, because a security guard, alerted by concerned bathroomgoers, showed up and tapped on Mr. Hartshorn’s shower curtain.
ref: 2008 April 11, Randy Kennedy, “At the Modern, Art in a New York Minute”, in New York Times:
text: We were not about to be accused of peeping through a hole in the wall—every bathroomgoer was now in charge of their own peeping. Lots of cool pictures came out of that.
ref: 2010, Daniel Lanois, Soul Mining: A Musical Life:
glosses: One who goes to use the toilet.
bathroomgoers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bathroomgoer
megamillionairess
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: megamillionairesses
Etymology: From megamillionaire + -ess or mega- + millionairess.
Senses: examples: text: Chita Rivera, celebrated for her long career as a Broadway dancer-actress, plays Claire Zachanassian, the much-married megamillionairess who returns to her hometown with more on her mind than happy reunions.
ref: 2008 May 31, Charles Isherwood, “Vengeance Revisited, With Singing”, in New York Times:
glosses: A female megamillionaire.
megamillionairesses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of megamillionairess
splay-legged
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more splay-legged
form: most splay-legged
Senses: glosses: Synonym of spraddle-legged.
synonyms: word: spraddle-legged
demicharacter
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From demi- + character, as a calque of French demi-caractère.
Senses: examples: text: But other passages of “Concerto DSCH” have strong elements of what ballet folk define as both demicharacter and character dance.
ref: 2008 May 31, Alastair Macaulay, “Riding the Emotions of a Ratmansky Ballet”, in New York Times:
topics: dance
dancing
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: Synonym of demi-caractère.
synonyms: word: demi-caractère
thwonked
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of thwonk
thwonks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of thwonk
thwonks
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of thwonk
thwonking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of thwonk
masgouf
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: masquf
form: mazquf
form: mazgouf
Etymology: From Arabic مسگوف.
Senses: examples: text: Strangers sat next to one another at two communal tables while waiters set down platters of quzi (lamb shank with almonds and raisins) and masgouf (a whole freshwater fish split open and roasted); friends shared hookahs; and a live band, improbably squeezed into a corner, kept conversation at a playful shout.
ref: 2008 April 23, Oliver Schwaner-Albright, “A Bit of Old Baghdad With a Western Twist”, in New York Times:
glosses: A traditional Mesopotamian dish of seasoned grilled carp, considered the national dish of Iraq.
lactoglycerides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lactoglyceride
diplolingo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Blend of diplomat + lingo
Senses: examples: text: Another McCain linguistic thrust: in diplolingo, realist was a word adopted a few years ago by foreign-policy wonks tired of being called accommodationist by Kissingerian exponents of tough-minded realpolitik.
ref: 2008 April 13, William Safire, “Revanche Is Sweet”, in New York Times:
glosses: The jargon used by diplomats.
Synonyms: diplomatese
kneipping
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Kneipp + -ing, after Sebastian Kneipp (1821-1897), German priest.
Senses: examples: text: The hot-and-cold-water treatment Sweetie referred to is called kneipping: you put your feet or your wrists or your shins in water to force your circulation to speed up.
ref: 2009 March 13, Janine Di Giovanni, “The Road to Wellville”, in New York Times:
glosses: Synonym of Kneippism.
synonyms: word: Kneippism
reshampoo
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: reshampoos
form: reshampooing
form: reshampooed
form: reshampooed
Etymology: From re- + shampoo.
Senses: examples: text: “Most people know me as a comedic actress, and that’s a part of me,” she said while being reshampooed.
ref: 2008 April 13, Jesse Green, “Broadway’s Cookie, Un-Sugarcoated”, in New York Times:
glosses: To shampoo again.
reshampooed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of reshampoo
reshampoos
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of reshampoo
reshampooing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of reshampoo
sencha
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsɛn.t͡ʃə/
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese 煎茶 (sencha, literally “infused tea”).
Senses: examples: text: And as a 20-something tea-ist opined over a pot of sencha: “When you want to meet friends, coffee is so clichéd and bar booze is so expensive.
ref: 2009 March 13, S.S. Fair, “Take Tea and See”, in New York Times:
glosses: A form of Japanese green tea made by infusing the processed whole tea leaves in hot water.
Coordinate terms: bancha
matcha
Brunellos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Brunello
confited
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of confit
confiting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of confit
nontrucker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nontruckers
Etymology: From non- + trucker.
Senses: examples: text: Four-wheelers, as the nontruckers are called, bring their worries to Mr. Rust, too.
ref: 2008 June 18, Ian Urbina, “In Hard Times, the Truck Stop Offers a Place to Pray”, in New York Times:
glosses: One who is not a trucker.
nontruckers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nontrucker
posily
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more posily
form: most posily
Etymology: From posey + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: The waiter posily slops a bit of wine into my glass, and I go through the cringe-making ritual of snorting into it and tasting a bit and saying fine, fine.
ref: 2003, Kate Cann, Hard Cash, page 140:
text: The men keep staring posily out at the audience like disaffected male models; the male-female partner work is jarringly manipulative; the recurrent emphasis on multiple turns, multiple jumps, balances on point, is mere flash.
ref: 2008 June 13, Alastair Macaulay, “The Cross-Country Currents in American Ballet”, in New York Times:
glosses: In an ostentatious and pretentious manner.
semilegitimately
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From semilegitimate + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: With 2 minutes 56 seconds left, the referees missed an easily seen reach-in by Webber, which sent him and Horry sprawling, but whistled Divac (semilegitimately) for his sixth foul.
ref: 2008 June 13, Richard Sandomir, “On Further Review, That Game Was Badly Officiated”, in New York Times:
glosses: In a semilegitimate manner.
unmoblike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unmoblike
form: most unmoblike
Etymology: From un- + moblike.
Senses: examples: text: Altogether, the immense crowd, the variety and brightness of the costume, the valuable ornaments and beauty of the children, the cheerfulness and unmoblike demeanour of the people as they shower down flowers and chaplets […]
ref: 1828, The Asiatic Journal and Monthly Miscellany, volume 25, page 614:
text: And the session included some very unmoblike moments: he broke down several times when asked about his separation from his family, providing a view into the tattered life of a man whose fall was as rapid as his rise.
ref: 2008 June 4, John Eligon, “Emotion-Tinged Testimony Against Union Officials”, in New York Times:
glosses: Unlike a mob.
kukicha
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Japanese 茎茶 (kukicha).
Senses: examples: text: The current flavors, are, left to right, ginger and kaffir lime; hibiscus and rhubarb; cola with a base of kukicha, a kind of Japanese tea made from twigs and stalks; and Concord grape and thyme.
ref: 2008 June 4, Florence Fabricant, “Homemade Sodas Dressed for a Night Out”, in New York Times:
synonyms: bōcha
glosses: A Japanese tea blend made from stems, stalks, and twigs.
moronga
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: morongas
Etymology: From Spanish moronga.
Senses: examples: text: Diana Kennedy, in her recipe for the Mexican sausage moronga, calls for two quarts of pig’s blood.
ref: 2008 June 4, Kim Severson, “Recipe Deal Breakers: When Step 2 Is ‘Corral Pig’”, in New York Times:
glosses: A Central American sausage made from pigs' blood.
morongas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of moronga
nonseason
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + season.
Senses: examples: a nonseason ticket
glosses: Not of or relating to a season.
jeesh
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: -iːʃ
Senses: glosses: Synonym of sheesh.
synonyms: word: sheesh
Related terms: jeez
pouffiness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From pouffy + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: TOUT À FAIT The designer famous for rich colors and pouffiness sets a new boutique ablaze with a riot of richly pouffed colorfulness.
ref: 2008 May 15, Cintra Wilson, “Advanced Stages of Regression”, in New York Times:
glosses: Alternative form of poufiness.
poufiness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From poufy + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being poufy.
Siyan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Sian
form: Syan
Etymology: From Central Kurdish سیان (syan).
Senses: glosses: A Kurdish tribe who live in southern Arbil, as well as Mekhmur, Deshti-Qeraj, and Girdesor villages in Iraq.
Syan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Siyan.
crozzled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more crozzled
form: most crozzled
Senses: examples: text: The roads are littered with corpses either charred or melted, their dreams, Mr. McCarthy writes, “ensepulchred within their crozzled hearts.”
ref: 2008 May 27, Charles Mcgrath, “At World’s End, Honing a Father-Son Dynamic”, in New York Times:
glosses: Shrunken or shrivelled from exposure to heat.
crozzled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of crozzle
landmarkable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more landmarkable
form: most landmarkable
Etymology: From landmark + -able.
Senses: examples: text: Ms. Kellerman’s survey made the case that much had been left out of the original district, Ms. Woodruff said, “the part of the village that had not been seen as landmarkable, where the houses were built for the working class and were not as grand as the town houses of the central village.”
ref: 2008 May 20, Bruce Weber, “Regina Kellerman, 84, Locator of New York’s First City Hall, Dies”, in New York Times:
glosses: Worthy of being a landmark.
side pucks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of side puck
broodingest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: brooding + -est
Senses: examples: text: Two of the broodingest singers in alternative rock, Greg Dulli (of the Afghan Whigs) and Mark Lanegan (of Screaming Trees) are the Gutter Twins, groaning through their debut album, “Saturnalia” (Sub Pop), as if answering a dare to the make the most aimlessly depressive record ever.
ref: 2008 June 27, The New York Times, “Pop and Rock Listings”, in New York Times:
glosses: superlative form of brooding: most brooding
ultrapermanent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more ultrapermanent
form: most ultrapermanent
Etymology: From ultra- + permanent.
Senses: examples: text: PVC, the hard plastic polymer polyvinyl chloride, “is not a long-term, ultrapermanent material,” he said.
ref: 2008 June 27, Billie Cohen, “Water, Soap and Open Air”, in New York Times:
glosses: Of great permanence; very long-lasting.
magnetoquasistatic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From magneto- + quasistatic.
Senses: glosses: Being or relating to a class of electromagnetic field in which a very slowly oscillating magnetic field is dominant
Related terms: electroquasistatic
nonrat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nonrats
Etymology: From non- + rat.
Senses: examples: text: One day, we nonrats might be able to edit what we remember by taking a drug.
ref: 2009 April 8, Jim Dwyer, “Memories: Good, Bad and Erasable”, in New York Times:
glosses: That which is not a rat.
nonrats
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nonrat
postfactory
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From post- + factory.
Senses: examples: text: She had some additional safety recommendations: keep your feet flat on the cart floor, avoid sudden turns, use the hand grip above your head for stability and don’t make any postfactory changes to the cart, like disabling the speed governor.
ref: 2009 April 27, Bill Pennington, “Golfers Test Limits of Good Sense in Golf Carts”, in New York Times:
glosses: After a product leaves the factory.
unattentively
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more unattentively
form: most unattentively
Etymology: From unattentive + -ly.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of inattentively.
synonyms: word: inattentively
vynegre
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of vinegar.
wynge
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wynges
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of wing.
wynges
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wynge
pailas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of paila
veloured
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From velour + -ed.
Senses: glosses: Covered in velour.
hodgepodging
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of hodgepodge
hodgepodged
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of hodgepodge
fressers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fresser
beshagged
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more beshagged
form: most beshagged
Etymology: From be- + shag + -ed.
Senses: examples: September 9, 1838, Nathaniel Hawthorne, American Note-Books
On the right, facing southward, rises Graylock, all beshagged with forest, and with headlong precipices of rock appearing among the black pines.
glosses: Made shaggy.
bourgeoising
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of bourgeois
bourgeoised
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of bourgeois
prerolling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of preroll
prerolled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of preroll
microdotted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: True, LiveScribe has priced the pads fairly reasonably ($20 for four 100-sheet perforated notebooks), and says that in June, you’ll be able to laser-print your own microdotted paper from a downloadable PDF template.
ref: 2008 May 8, David Pogue, “Gadget Fanatics, Take Note”, in New York Times:
glosses: Marked with one or more microdots.
Indira
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Sanskrit इन्दिरा (indirā).
Senses: glosses: Name of Hindu goddess Lakshmi.
glosses: A female given name from Sanskrit commonly used in India.
fapiao
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /fɑːˈpjaʊ/
/fɑːpiˈaʊ/
Forms: form: fapiao
form: fapiaos
Etymology: From Mandarin 發票／发票 (fāpiào).
Senses: examples: text: If I spent all my income to generate fapiao to avoid paying taxes on my income, I’d never actually save any money.
ref: 2015 September 11, George Ding, “How to Cheat on Taxes in China”, in New York Times:
glosses: A kind of receipt that serves as a tax document and sometimes also as a lottery ticket, used in China and Taiwan.
Synonyms: word: invoice
fapiaos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fapiao
dancerliness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From dancerly + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: Abi Stafford danced the lead in “Symphony in Three Movements” with more understanding and sheer dancerliness than I have seen her show before, but the role remains larger than anything she brings to it.
ref: 2009 April 30, Alastair Macaulay, “New Season, With Mr. B as Greeter”, in New York Times:
glosses: The quality of being dancerly.
superdepressing
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more superdepressing
form: most superdepressing
Etymology: From super- + depressing.
Senses: examples: text: It was a superdepressing message to Steele’s fellow party members north of the Mason-Dixon line: Good for you in saddling yourself with a toxic political affiliation out of principle.
ref: 2009 April 30, Gail Collins, “The Amtrak Connection”, in New York Times:
glosses: Very depressing.
planal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From plane + -al.
Senses: examples: text: “Silicon does work well, but it’s always been the limitation that you make silicon devices on hard, rigid, planal surfaces,” Dr. Whitesides said.
ref: 2009 April 30, Anne Eisenberg, “Solar Tech: Not Just on the Roof Anymore”, in New York Times:
glosses: Of or relating to a geometric plane.
Derived terms: biplanal
reliquarylike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more reliquarylike
form: most reliquarylike
Etymology: From reliquary + -like.
Senses: examples: text: Even armies at war recognized her importance and opened frontiers to allow these reliquarylike dolls to pass.
ref: 1989, Charles Otto Zieseniss, Katell Le Bourhis, The Age of Napoleon, page 26:
text: The sculptures that Mr. Outterbridge called his “Containment Series” from the late 1960s were reliquarylike boxes hammered from cut and flattened tin cans with charred wood and rusted nails sealed inside but visible behind sheets of glass.
ref: 2009 May 13, Holland Cotter, “A Life, From a Southern Farm Town to Watts, in Castoff Objects”, in New York Times:
glosses: Resembling a reliquary.
needle-shaped
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more needle-shaped
form: most needle-shaped
Etymology: From needle + shaped.
Senses: glosses: shaped like a needle
term-limits
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of term-limit
term-limiting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of term-limit
dadburn
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: dadburned
Senses: examples: text: Can you believe the nerve of that dadburn whippersnapper at the press dinner, saying your memoir would be called ‘How to Shoot Friends and Interrogate People?’
ref: 2009 May 20, Maureen Dowd, “Cheney Grabs a Third Term”, in New York Times:
text: (Santa) This dadburn G.P.S. is zigzagging me all over the planet!!! I never should have fired Rudolph!!
ref: 2010 December 24, Tom Armstrong, Marvin (comic):
glosses: goddamned
mezzolike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more mezzolike
form: most mezzolike
Etymology: From mezzo + -like.
Senses: examples: text: But she quickly countered that impression with the warm, almost mezzolike sound she brought to Peter Kelsh’s appealing, neo-Romantic “When Shall We Set Sail for Happiness?”
ref: 2009 May 20, Allan Kozinn, “Infusing a Sober Repertory With Energy and Humor”, in New York Times:
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a mezzo part in music.
cotree
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cotrees
Etymology: From co- + tree.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: A tree that defines a cograph, its leaves corresponding to the nodes of the cograph.
cotrees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cotree