cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
syllabicity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: note: weak vowel distinction
ipa: /ˌsɪləˈbɪsɪti/
note: weak vowel merger
ipa: /ˌsɪləˈbɪsəti/
Etymology: From syllabic + -ity.
Senses: examples: text: The syllabicity of Proto-Indo-European syllabic sonorants *y and *w can easily be determined by a rule.
glosses: The property or status (of a syllabic, generally a vowel) of being syllabic, i.e. able to be positioned in the syllable nuclei.
Derived terms: ambisyllabicity
doctorly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more doctorly
form: most doctorly
Etymology: From doctor + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In the manner of a doctor.
doctorly
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more doctorly
form: most doctorly
Etymology: From doctor + -ly.
Senses: glosses: doctorlike
Derived terms: undoctorly
black coffees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of black coffee
behind its time
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: glosses: Showing characteristics of the past; present in one's work after later advances in the field; coming later than could be generally accepted.
cotton wool bud
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cotton wool buds
form: cotton-wool bud
form: cottonwool bud
Senses: glosses: A short, thin and flexible rod with a small wad of cotton wool at each end.
Synonyms: word: cotton bud
word: cotton swab
word: Q-tip
eager beavers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of eager beaver
Utopia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Utopias
Senses: examples: text: Women ought, perhaps, always to make the best critics—at once more quicksighted, more tasteful, more sympathetic than ourselves, whose proper business is creation. Perhaps in Utopia they will take the reviewer’s business entirely off our hands, as they are said to be doing already, by the by, in one leading periodical.
ref: 1849 March, Charles Kingsley, “The Poetry of Sacred and Legendary Art”, in Sir Walter Raleigh and His Time, with Other Papers, author’s edition, Boston, Mass.: Ticknor and Fields, published 1859, →OCLC, page 206:
text: For a long time to come, at least, it is too dangerous an experiment to base on hope. Again they may say that it never could succeed unless in a uchronian Utopia 'above these ruinable skies'.
ref: 1945, John Laird, The Device of Government: An Essay on Civil Polity, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: Cambridge University Press, page 115:
text: As everyone knows, almost all booked passenger and freight trains are diagrammed into rosters for engines and men, and in an operating Utopia everything would work out daily according to plan.
ref: 1962 August, G. Freeman Allen, “Traffic control on the Great Northern Line”, in Modern Railways, page 131:
text: Whether produced as a Utopia or as a Nineteen Eighty-Four, a condition of changelessness would make man something less than human.
ref: 1969, Bryce F. Ryan, Social and cultural change, page 3:
text: An examless, gradeless school would have a better social climate; perhaps some would benefit academically. But it is a pure act of faith to believe such educational Utopia is possible.
ref: 1972, W. G. Fleming, Ontario's Educative Society, volume 3, page 558:
text: Orwell had correctly seen that the achievement of Wells’s ideas would be far from the frivolity of ‘Utopiae full of nude women’ and visions of ‘super garden cities’.
ref: 1974, Kenneth Young, H. G. Wells, Longman Group Ltd, →ISBN, page 44:
text: But the bleakest Utopia of all, the very first of the Unutopias, had come from Wells long before that.
ref: 1978, The Spectator, volume 240, number 1, page 25:
glosses: Alternative letter-case form of utopia.
demonstrative pronouns
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of demonstrative pronoun
wanten
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From Middle English wanten, equivalent to want + -en.
Senses: examples: text: […]Odsfleſh give me my awd Cloths againe; would I were a whome in my Frock, dreſſing of my Geldings; poore Tuts, they wanten me dearly, I warrant a.
ref: 1688, Thomas Shadwell, “The Expoſtulation”, in The Squire of Alſatia. A Comedy, […] , London: James Knapton […] , page 22:
text: Yo'd'n better nod get up o' that giglin stool, athout yo' wanten' yore bwunz broke.
ref: 1879, Georgina F. Jackson, “GIGGLING, adj.”, in Shropshire Word-book: A Glossary of Archaic and Provincial Words, Etc., Used in the County, London: Trübner & Company, page 507:
text: We say'n beg when we wanten someb'dy to tak no notice of what we'n said.
ref: 1881, Benjamin Brierly, “Fain”, in Ab-o'th'-yate's Dictionary: Or Walmsley Fowt Skoomester, Manchester: Abel Heywood & Son, page 22:
glosses: plural simple present of want
shopping carts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shopping cart
johnnies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of johnny
glosses: plural of johnnie
metalinguistic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From meta- + linguistic.
Senses: examples: text: Mary is still one of the most popular girl's names. This represents a metalinguistic use of Mary: the case where we cite a linguistic expression in order to say something about it qua linguistic expression.
ref: 2002, Rodney Huddleston, Geoffrey K. Pullum, The Cambridge Grammar of the English Language:
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: Treating words as words, rather than interacting with their meaning.
glosses: Pertaining to metalinguistics.
Derived terms: metalinguistically
metametalinguistic
Related terms: metalanguage
metalinguistics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From meta- + linguistics.
Senses: glosses: The branch of linguistics that studies language and its relationship to culture and society.
Related terms: metalanguage
score sheet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: score sheets
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of scoresheet.
score sheets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of score sheet
ternarily
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From ternary + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a ternary fashion; in three directions, digits, etc.
ternary operator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ternary operators
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
glosses: An operator taking three operands, specifically the operator ?: used in many programming languages to select one of two values depending on a third value.
ternary operators
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ternary operator
snarge
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /snɑː(ɹ)dʒ/
Etymology: Blend of snot + garbage.
Senses: examples: text: Arriving mostly in sealed plastic bags, these included birds’ feet, whole feathers or tiny bits of down, and pulverized bird guts, known as snarge.
ref: 2009 January 25, Matthew L. Wald, “Identifying the Bird After a Strike, When Not Much Bird Is Left”, in New York Times:
text: Snarge can be a wad of a Canada goose lodged inside an airplane engine. Or it can be a broken and burned gull feather littered along the runway. Snarge can even be as small as a rusty-red smear on the nose of an airliner. But no matter what form it takes, every bit of snarge is different — and all snarge is important.
ref: 2022 April 14, Jason Bittel, “‘Snarge’ Happens, and Studying It Makes Your Flight Safer”, in New York Times, archived from the original on 14 Apr 2022:
topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
government
military
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
politics
war
glosses: The remains of a bird after it has collided with an airplane (in a bird strike), especially a turbine engine.
duobinary
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From duo- + binary.
Senses: topics: communications
electrical-engineering
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
telecommunications
glosses: Being, or pertaining to, a bipolar encoding in which the ones are represented alternately by positive and negative voltages.
decontextualize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /diːkənˈtɛkstʃəlaɪ̯z/
Forms: form: decontextualizes
form: decontextualizing
form: decontextualized
form: decontextualized
Etymology: From de- + contextualize.
Senses: examples: text: Quantification (or statisticalization) is a set of scientific practices that transforms text statements into numerical ones, depersonalizing and decontextualizing them[…]
ref: 2008, Susan Greenhalgh, Just One Child: Science and Policy in Deng's China, page 109:
text: In the early years of the Islamic Revolution, the Iranian government tried to control publishers through punitive policies, and then, as they were sure of having purged the publishing sector, gradually left it to its own devices. At first, fearing the repressive state apparatus, the author, the publisher and the audience turned to uncritical, mass-market books. Gradually, there was born an audience that preferred simple, ahistorical, and decontextualized narratives to socio-historical complexities and contradictions. Later, as the political atmosphere gradually opened up, the audiences raised in that historical timeframe remained the audience of the same uncritical works.
ref: 2019 June 27, Rasoul Mohsenzadeh, Mohammad Mostafavi Rad, “Dynamic History of Iranian Book Publishing in Political and Social Settings”, in Publishing Research Quarterly, volume 35, →DOI, page 514 of 500–516:
synonyms: take out of context
antonyms: contextualize
glosses: To divest of context.
Derived terms: decontextualizable
Related terms: contextomy
decontextualizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of decontextualize
decontextualizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of decontextualize
decontextualized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of decontextualize
xiphihumeralis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: xiphihumeralises
Senses: examples: text: The tendon of the xiphihumeralis is also connected with its inner surface near its insertion.
ref: 1901, Jacob Ellsworth Reighard, Herbert Spencer Jennings, Anatomy of the cat (2nd edition), H. Holt and Company, page 147:
text: The xiphihumeralis muscle (M. xiphihumeralis) is the fourth muscle the pectoralis group ^([sic]). It originates from the xiphoid process of the sternum and inserts on the humerus (hence the name xiphihumeralis).
ref: 2003, Phillip E. Cochran, Laboratory manual for comparative veterinary anatomy and physiology, Cengage Learning, →ISBN, page 144:
glosses: A long, flat strip of pectoral muscle comprising a band of parallel fibres, found in felines.
xiphihumeralises
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of xiphihumeralis
bluetit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bluetits
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of blue tit.
bluetits
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bluetit
archetypally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more archetypally
form: most archetypally
Etymology: From archetypal + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an archetypal way.
partial to
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more partial to
form: most partial to
Senses: examples: text: I am quite partial to chocolate.
glosses: Having a liking or preference for; favorably disposed toward; fond of.
antiapartheid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more antiapartheid
form: most antiapartheid
Etymology: From anti- + apartheid.
Senses: examples: text: Mr. Cameron read Mr. Biko’s writings, which were banned in South Africa, and got involved in the antiapartheid movement.
ref: 2009 January 24, Celia W. Dugger, “In South Africa, a Justice Delayed Is No Longer Denied”, in New York Times:
glosses: Acting against or opposing apartheid.
glassings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of glassing
conquerer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: conquerers
form: conqueror
Etymology: From conquer + -er.
Senses: examples: text: 4.25pm update SPANIARD Fernando Verdasco has reeled off an astonishing 15 games straight to blow past his AAMI Classic final conquerer Radek Stepanek.
ref: 2009 January 24, Adrian Ballantyne, Michael Howard, “Australian Open coverage - Day 6”, in Herald Sun:
glosses: One who conquers
ponied up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of pony up
xynisteri
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: xynistery
form: xinisteri
Etymology: Greek ξυνιστέρι (xynistéri).
Senses: examples: text: This crisp, lemony white is made using xynisteri grapes, imported centuries before from the Greek mainland.
ref: 2009 January 24, Gord Stimmell, “Greece, France, Australia shine in this release”, in Toronto Star:
glosses: A white grape indigenous to the island of Cyprus.
Synonyms: xynisteri grape
xynistery
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of xynisteri.
xinisteri
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of xynisteri.
ponied
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of pony
florally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more florally
form: most florally
Etymology: From floral + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: We have not much to export, florally speaking, and the only advantage they can look for are increased sales that Canada will share in and profit by.
ref: 1909, Society of American Florists, Ornamental Horticulturists, Proceedings of the Annual Convention, volumes 25-27, page 49:
text: Brook Manor, Buckfastleigh, with its florally decorated chamber fireplaces, probably of 1656, is a substantial country house on three floors which also has some outstanding woodwork.
ref: 2015, John Allan, Nathaniel Warren Alcock, David Dawson, West Country Households, 1500-1700, page 181:
glosses: In a floral way; with flowers or something that suggests them.
flowerily
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more flowerily
form: most flowerily
Etymology: From flowery + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: The Victorians were inclined to write flowerily.
glosses: In a flowery way.
Related terms: floriferously
quaveringly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more quaveringly
form: most quaveringly
Etymology: From quavering + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a quavering manner; tremulously.
sizably
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more sizably
form: most sizably
form: sizeably
Etymology: From sizable + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a sizeable way.
sizeably
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more sizeably
form: most sizeably
Etymology: From sizeable + -ly.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of sizably.
liberalisms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of liberalism
uncompetitiveness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From uncompetitive + -ness.
Senses: examples: The uncompetitiveness of small businesses
glosses: The state or condition of being uncompetitive.
underclasses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of underclass
airconditioning
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of air conditioning.
allrounder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: allrounders
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of all-rounder.
allrounders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of allrounder
geosequestration
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From geo- + sequestration; also, by surface analysis, geosequester + -ation.
Senses: coordinate_terms: biosequestration
hypernyms: sequestration#Noun
glosses: Geological sequestration (of any material), causing it to be sequestered underground.
examples: text: Perennial hopes for mitigation of climate change severity have often looked to geosequestration, which complements carbon emission reductions although it cannot wholly substitute for them under any realistically projected arc of development.
coordinate_terms: biosequestration
biosequestration
hypernyms: sequestration#Noun
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sequestration#Noun
glosses: Geological sequestration (of any material), causing it to be sequestered underground.
Removal and storage of carbon from the atmosphere by transfer into underground geological formations.
Related terms: biosequester
geosequester
misperceive
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: misperceives
form: misperceiving
form: misperceived
form: misperceived
Etymology: From mis- + perceive.
Senses: examples: text: The second reason so many people initially misperceived George W.
ref: 2009 January 25, James Mann, “At the White House, What’s Old May Be New”, in New York Times:
glosses: To perceive erroneously.
Derived terms: misperceiver
Related terms: misperception
compatriate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of compatriot.
misperceived
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of misperceive
compatriates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of compatriate
conquerers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of conquerer
prizemoney
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of prize money.
stablemate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stablemates
Etymology: From stable + -mate.
Senses: glosses: One (such as a racehorse) from the same stable.
examples: text: That is why we are stepping in to fill the gap, partnering with the homeless charity Centrepoint, its patron the Duke of Cambridge (rather helpful in getting things done), various tech partners and our former stablemates, The Independent and the London Evening Standard.
ref: 2016 November 21, Oliver Duff, Letter from the Editor, in the i, № 1,869, page 3/5:
glosses: One from the same organization or background.
stablemates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stablemate
quinellaing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of quinella
quinellaed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of quinella
unraced
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + raced.
Senses: glosses: Not having taken part in a horserace.
raw_tags: of a racehorse
misperceives
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of misperceive
misperceiving
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of misperceive
misperceiver
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: misperceivers
Etymology: From misperceive + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who misperceives.
misperceivers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of misperceiver
hyperpolarization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hyperpolarizations
Etymology: From hyper- + polarization.
Senses: glosses: The act or process of hyperpolarizing.
Derived terms: afterhyperpolarization
photohyperpolarization
Related terms: prepolarization
repolarization
hyperpolarizations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hyperpolarization
hyperpolarise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: hyperpolarises
form: hyperpolarising
form: hyperpolarised
form: hyperpolarised
Etymology: From hyper- + polarise.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of hyperpolarize.
fumblings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fumbling
hyperpolarisation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hyperpolarisations
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of hyperpolarization.
hyperpolarisations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hyperpolarisation
hyperpolarises
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of hyperpolarise
hyperpolarising
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of hyperpolarise
hyperpolarised
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of hyperpolarise
sausage fests
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sausage fest
sausage parties
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sausage party
actionfest
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: actionfests
Etymology: From action + -fest.
Senses: examples: text: Exploding oil fields, trains bursting through tunnels in the midst of an avalanche, plane collisions, fights and leaps of all sorts punctuate the non-stop actionfest [=King of the Texas Rangers].
ref: 1976, Jon Tuska, Vicki Piekarski, Karl Thiede, editors, Close Up: The Contract Director, Scarecrow Press, →ISBN, page 205:
text: I'm especially worried at the rumors that the [X-Files television] show and movie will be totally seperate from each other. Is this going to be an actionfest for non-fans?
ref: 1997 July 2, Megadee406 (username), "Re: Cathy's Top Ten Good (and Bad) Things From Season Four (LONG, like this s...", in alt.tv.x-files, Usenet
text: […] to decide on an approach that most effectively tells the story. Perhaps the story is crying out to be an actionfest. Maybe it doesn’t need action at all, but suspense and mood.
ref: 2004, Christopher Hart, Manhwa Mania: How to Draw Korean Comics, Watson-Guptill, →ISBN, page 112:
text: 2 great films. KB1 [=Kill Bill, Volume 1] is an actionfest, KB2 is more dramatic.
ref: 2004 August 23, Ian Galbraith, “Re: Kill Bill”, in aus.dvd (Usenet):
text: In this mature-rated actionfest [=Crysis], players modify and upgrade an armored suit for cloaking, extreme strength, and other abilities.
ref: 2007 Winter, "Dads Game Too!" (video game review) Windows Vista: The Official Magazine, Future US, Inc., ISSN 1933-6608, page 51
glosses: A film, video game, or other such story that is full of action.
actionfests
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of actionfest
cerebrations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cerebration
inkers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of inker
cosmograms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cosmogram
meltingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more meltingly
form: most meltingly
Etymology: From melting + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: The steak was meltingly tender.
glosses: So as to melt, or seem to melt.
Related terms: brain-meltingly
misdate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɪsdeɪt/
ipa: /mɪsˈdeɪt/
rhymes: -eɪt
Forms: form: misdates
Etymology: From mis- + date.
Senses: glosses: A wrong date.
misdate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɪsdeɪt/
ipa: /mɪsˈdeɪt/
rhymes: -eɪt
Forms: form: misdates
form: misdating
form: misdated
form: misdated
Etymology: From mis- + date.
Senses: glosses: To date incorrectly; to mark with the wrong date.
Synonyms: word: misdate
Hypernyms: word: misclassify
word: misidentify
Hyponyms: word: backdate
word: overdate
misdates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of misdate
misdating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of misdate
misdated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /mɪsˈdeɪtɪd/
rhymes: -eɪtɪd
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of misdate
counterpunching
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of counterpunch
sundresses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sundress
transfat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: transfats
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of trans fat.
transfats
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of transfat
unfiled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + filed.
Senses: examples: an unfiled affidavit
glosses: That has not been filed.
glosses: Not rubbed with a file.
lairiness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From lairy + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: The old songs spool out, reaffirming once again everything that is great about the Streets. "Brace yourself, 'cause this goes deep," runs a line from Turn the Page, pointing up [Mike] Skinner's ability to grapple with existential dread as well as the cinematic, blow-by-blow accounts of everyday lairiness.
ref: 2019 January 26, Kitty Empire [pseudonym], “The Streets review – the agony and ecstasy of a great everyman”, in Katharine Viner, editor, The Guardian, London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 08 Apr 2019:
glosses: The property of being lairy (“grumpy or touchy”).
punkish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈpʌnkɪʃ/
Forms: form: more punkish
form: most punkish
Etymology: From punk + -ish.
Senses: examples: text: It certainly had merit as a punkish shouter with its machine-gun-spatter underbeat.
ref: 2013, James Arena, First Ladies of Disco, page 53:
glosses: Reminiscent of the punk subculture; slightly punk.
Synonyms: punklike
punky
punkishly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more punkishly
form: most punkishly
Etymology: From punkish + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a punkish manner.
swamplands
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of swampland
string theories
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of string theory
unfairnesses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of unfairness
weatherbeaten
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more weatherbeaten
form: most weatherbeaten
Senses: examples: text: Two of the coaches are still on the site of the line; one, a first class observation coach carrying the S.R. number 6991, is at Snapper Halt, where it still stands, in fair condition but somewhat weatherbeaten [...].
ref: 1942 September and October, “Notes and News: Lynton & Barnstaple Stock”, in Railway Magazine, page 309:
text: The captain, Cecil, is almost as wide as he is tall, his blond hair lighter than his weatherbeaten face.
ref: 1997, Mark Kurlansky, Cod, page 226:
glosses: Alternative spelling of weather-beaten.
abstractify
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: abstractifies
form: abstractifying
form: abstractified
form: abstractified
Etymology: From abstract + -ify.
Senses: synonyms: abstractize
glosses: To make abstract.
Related terms: abstractification
abstractifies
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of abstractify
abstractifying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of abstractify
abstractified
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of abstractify
aggrievement
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: aggrievements
Etymology: From aggrieve + -ment.
Senses: glosses: The state of being aggrieved.
aggrievements
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of aggrievement
circusy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more circusy
form: most circusy
form: circussy
Etymology: From circus + -y.
Senses: glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a circus.
Synonyms: circuslike
consciousnesses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of consciousness
counterpunched
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of counterpunch
counterpunches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of counterpunch
counterpunches
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of counterpunch
cyberloafing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From cyber- + loafing.
Senses: glosses: The use of computers by employees for purposes unrelated to work.
cybersavvy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more cybersavvy
form: most cybersavvy
Etymology: From cyber- + savvy.
Senses: examples: text: We may be in store for a new era of cybersavvy candidates who campaign well online, limiting the pool of potential leaders.
ref: 1998, Richard Davis, Diana Marie Owen, New Media and American Politics:
text: Want to know more about where your cybersavvy teenagers are spending their time on the Web?
ref: 2000, PC Mag, volume 19, number 20, page 13:
text: In cybersavvy Dublin, public-access terminals are in shopping malls, hotels, and hostels throughout the city center.
ref: 2006, Suzanne Rowan Kelleher, Frommer's Ireland from $90 a Day:
glosses: Savvy with regard to computers or the Internet; technologically knowledgeable.
pomœrium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pomœria
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of pomerium.
eventuates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of eventuate
eventuating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of eventuate
eventuated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of eventuate
friendlessness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈfɹɛndləsnəs/
Etymology: From friendless + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or condition of being friendless; lack of friends.
gubernatorially
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From gubernatorial + -ally.
Senses: glosses: In a gubernatorial fashion.
microtargeting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: micro-targeting
Etymology: From micro- + targeting.
Senses: examples: text: Microtargeting involves obtaining an extensive amount of information—much more than was possible before the use of high-speed computers and relatively cheap databases—about potential groups of voters. The leading Republican microtargeting firm is called TargetPoint Consulting, Inc.
ref: 2008, Barbara Bardes, Mack Shelley, Steffen Schmidt, American Government and Politics Today: The Essentials 2008, Cengage Learning, →ISBN, page 198:
text: Against these macro forces that structure presidential and congressional campaigns (among other races), campaign managers must find the best tools and make the best use of data to target their core voters with campaign messages. Nowadays, campaign managers are debating the impact of microtargeting and various other targeting tools. Some managers argue that technological advances empower them to send specific and highly personalized messages to particular segments of the electorate in more efficient ways than ever.
ref: 2016, William J. Feltus, Kenneth M. Goldstein, Matthew Dallek, Inside Campaigns: Elections through the Eyes of Political Professionals, CQ Press, →ISBN:
text: The increased prevalence and importance of data-driven microtargeting have had consequences for the character of Canadian political parties and the party system. In this era of electoral-professional parties, data-driven microtargeting, strategic political communication, and message control now dominate to the point that they determine even the most mundane of party activities (Flanagan 2014).
ref: 2017, Alex Marland, Thierry Giasson, Anna Lennox Esselment, Permanent Campaigning in Canada, Vancouver: UBC Press, →ISBN, page 61:
text: Microtargeting has also enabled advertisers to discriminate in ways that are hard for regulators to catch.
ref: 2023 April 6, Julia Angwin, “If It’s Advertised to You Online, You Probably Shouldn’t Buy It. Here’s Why.”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
topics: business
government
marketing
politics
glosses: The targeting of small, specific demographics on a person-by-person basis.
Related terms: microtarget
micromarketing
multidisciplinarian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɛəɹiən
Etymology: From multi- + disciplinarian.
Senses: glosses: Multidisciplinary.
multidisciplinarian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɛəɹiən
Forms: form: multidisciplinarians
Etymology: From multi- + disciplinarian.
Senses: glosses: A person familiar with many disciplines.
Synonyms: polymath
multidisciplinarians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of multidisciplinarian
multidisciplinarianism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From multidisciplinarian + -ism, or, by surface analysis, multi- + discipline + -arian + ism.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of multidisciplinarity.
synonyms: word: multidisciplinarity
noncussing
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + cussing.
Senses: glosses: Who does not cuss (use bad language).
paintballer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: paintballers
Etymology: From paintball + -er.
Senses: glosses: A participant in paintball.
paintballers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of paintballer
pimpish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more pimpish
form: most pimpish
Etymology: From pimp + -ish.
Senses: glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a pimp.
Synonyms: pimplike
filovirus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: filoviruses
Senses: glosses: Any virus of the Filoviridae family.
Synonyms: filovirid
filoviruses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of filovirus
supermax
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: supermaxes
Etymology: From super- + max (as in maximum security prison).
Senses: examples: text: As he sits today in Supermax, Powers had amputated his fingers, a testicle, his scrotum and his earlobes, has cut his Achilles tendon, and had tried several times to kill himself.
ref: 2012 June 18, Andrew Cohen, “An American Gulag: Descending into Madness at Supermax”, in The Atlantic, retrieved 11 Jun 2023:
glosses: A prison with the highest possible level of security.
supermax
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From super- + max (as in maximum security prison).
Senses: examples: text: Kaczynski had been held in the federal supermax prison in Florence, Colorado, since May 1998, when he was sentenced to four life sentences plus 30 years for a campaign of terror that set universities nationwide on edge.
ref: 2023 June 11, “‘Unabomber’ Ted Kaczynski died by suicide in prison – report”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
synonyms: ADX
glosses: Being, or pertaining to, such a prison.
supermaxes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of supermax
fakeries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fakery
fetterless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From fetter + -less.
Senses: synonyms: unfettered#Adjective
unshackled#Adjective
shackleless#Adjective
unchained#Adjective
unbound#Adjective
hypernyms: free#Adjective
liberated#Adjective
glosses: Without fetters.
Derived terms: fetterlessness
provincialize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: provincializes
form: provincializing
form: provincialized
form: provincialized
Etymology: From provincial + -ize.
Senses: glosses: To render provincial; to reduce or allot to provinces.
provincializes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of provincialize
provincializing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of provincialize
provincialized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of provincialize
zeugmatically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more zeugmatically
form: most zeugmatically
Etymology: From zeugmatic + -ally.
Senses: examples: text: […] ("Pluto Picked as the Name for New Planet X Because He Was God of Dark Distant Regions," as the New York Times zeugmatically titled its 5/26/1930 article on the announcement).
ref: 2006 August 27, Geoff Nunberg, “Another Plutonian casualty?”, in Language Log:
glosses: In a zeugmatic manner.
modally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more modally
form: most modally
Etymology: From modal + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a modal manner.
Derived terms: amodally
pedagogically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more pedagogically
form: most pedagogically
form: paedagogically
form: pædagogically
Etymology: From pedagogical + -ly.
Senses: glosses: From a pedagogical point of view.
glosses: In a pedagogical manner, like a pedagogue.
proglottic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to a proglottid.
lexicalize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlɛksɪkəlaɪz/
Forms: form: lexicalizes
form: lexicalizing
form: lexicalized
form: lexicalized
form: lexicalise
Etymology: From lexical + -ize.
Senses: glosses: To become part of the vocabulary of a language as a single lexical unit with a distinct meaning.
raw_tags: of a term
examples: text: In fact, the child will lexicalize one, two, or three elements of the semantic representation according to his lexicalization span.
ref: 1975, Eric H. Lenneberg, Elizabeth Lenneberg, Foundations of Language Development: A Multidisciplinary Approach, volume 1, page 192:
glosses: To accept a term into one's own vocabulary as a distinct lexical unit.
Derived terms: lexicalizable
lexicalizer
mislexicalize
nonlexicalized
relexicalize
unlexicalized
Related terms: lexeme
lexicalisation
lexical item
lexicalization
lexical unit
lexicography
lexicology
lexicon
lexis
lexicalizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of lexicalize
lexicalizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of lexicalize
lexicalized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of lexicalize
dipodic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From dipody + -ic.
Senses: topics: communications
journalism
literature
media
poetry
publishing
writing
glosses: Consisting of two metrical feet.
Derived terms: dipodically
pedagog
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pedagogs
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of pedagogue.
pedagog
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: pedagogs
form: pedagoging
form: pedagoged
form: pedagoged
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of pedagogue.
unidirectionality
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˌjuː.ni.də.ɹɛk.ʃənˈæl.ɪt.i/
Forms: form: unidirectionalities
form: uni-directionality
Etymology: From unidirectional + -ity.
Senses: glosses: The state or condition of being unidirectional.
heigh-ho
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌhaɪˈhoʊ/
ipa: /ˈheɪˌhəʊ/
ipa: /ˌhaɪˈhoʊ/
ipa: /ˈheɪˈhoʊ/
homophone: hey ho
homophone: hi-ho
Forms: form: heigh-hos
Senses: glosses: Colaptes auratus, northern flicker.
heigh-ho
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌhaɪˈhoʊ/
ipa: /ˈheɪˌhəʊ/
ipa: /ˌhaɪˈhoʊ/
ipa: /ˈheɪˈhoʊ/
homophone: hey ho
homophone: hi-ho
Forms: form: heigh-hos
form: heigh-hoing
form: heigh-hoed
form: heigh-hoed
Senses: examples: 1927, Porterfield, William M., Bamboo and its uses in China, Chinese Government Bureau of Economic Information, Booklet Series 2, p.40. Cited in David Farrelly, The Book of Bamboo, p.25; Sierra Club Books, 1984.
Big bamboo poles are used for carrying heavy loads in China. In the cities one hears the familiar antiphonal “heigh-ho'ing”, indicating that a heavy load is being moved somewhere. The heavier the load, the louder and more agonized the chant.
glosses: To chant "heigh-ho".
heigh-ho
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌhaɪˈhoʊ/
ipa: /ˈheɪˌhəʊ/
ipa: /ˌhaɪˈhoʊ/
ipa: /ˈheɪˈhoʊ/
homophone: hey ho
homophone: hi-ho
Senses: examples: text: Heigh-ho, heigh-ho, it's off to work we go, ...
ref: 1937, Larry Morey (lyricist), Heigh-Ho, song in Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937 film)
text: Heigh-ho the dairy-o, the farmer in the dell...
glosses: Used as a cadence-count used for synchronized walking, marching, pulling, lifting, etc.
glosses: Alternative spelling of hey ho.
loughs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lough
felicific
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more felicific
form: most felicific
Senses: examples: text: Has conduct worth in and for itself, or only as its consequences are felicific as regards the social welfare?
ref: 1895, John Grier Hibben, “Automatism in Morality”, in International Journal of Ethics, volume 5, number 4, page 467:
text: It is plain that for Jane Austen the settled habit of moral behavior was of far more importance than spontaneity of moral response, though that in turn was preferable to a calculated weighing of advantages, a point well illustrated when Elizabeth ironically advises Jane that if she is in doubt about whether she ought to accept Bingley she should decide the matter by striking a felicific balance.
ref: 1980, Philip Drew, “Jane Austen and Bishop Butler”, in Nineteenth-Century Fiction, volume 35, number 2, pages 141–142:
text: The Langham is proof of the felicific power of good architecture, the power to promote, both in its inhabitants and in passers-by, happiness.
ref: 2005 February 7, James Gardner, “Remembering a Great Institution”, in New York Sun, retrieved 25 Jan 2009:
topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
glosses: Of, pertaining to, or producing pleasure or happiness.
Derived terms: felicifically
felicific calculus
infelicific
Related terms: felicity
felicific calculus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Widely attributed to British philosopher Jeremy Bentham (1748-1832), but apparently used only by his successors.
Senses: examples: text: Bentham's way of becoming the Newton of the moral world was to develop the "felicific calculus."
ref: 1918, Wesley C. Mitchell, “Bentham's Felicific Calculus”, in Political Science Quarterly, volume 33, number 2, page 164:
topics: economics
human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
glosses: A quasi-mathematical technique proposed by 19th-century utilitarian ethical theorists for determining the net amount of happiness, pleasure, or utility resulting from an action, sometimes regarded as a precursor of cost-benefit analysis.
Synonyms: hedonic calculus
hedonistic calculus
moral arithmetic
utility calculus
hedonic calculus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of felicific calculus.
synonyms: word: felicific calculus
hedonistic calculus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of felicific calculus.
synonyms: word: felicific calculus
utility calculus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of felicific calculus.
synonyms: word: felicific calculus
moral arithmetic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of felicific calculus.
synonyms: word: felicific calculus
volumetry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From volume + -metry.
Senses: glosses: volumetric analysis
contemperate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: contemperates
form: contemperating
form: contemperated
form: contemperated
Etymology: See contemper.
Senses: examples: text: Moisten and contemperate the air.
ref: 1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC:
text: Saint Peter[…]after some experience of humane Frailty, becometh[…]A Rock of Christianity; both as it were, Contemperating the gladness and sadness of each other.
ref: 1652, E. Sparke, Scintillula Altaris:
text: Either part being ready for charity sake to contemperate and accommodate themselves to other.
ref: 1656, R. Sanderson, 20 Sermons:
text: To contemperate the Acrimony of the Blood.
ref: 1705, F. Fuller, Medicina Gymnastica:
glosses: To temper; to moderate.
Related terms: contemperation
turbanned
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: turbaned
Etymology: From turban + -ed.
Senses: glosses: Wearing a turban.
Synonyms: beturbaned
porose
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more porose
form: most porose
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of porous.
Derived terms: biporose
on the alert
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: examples: text: Wild animals have to be constantly on the alert for predators.
synonyms: on one's guard
on one's toes
glosses: Very attentive, or vigilant
borstal training
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: The court could sentence them to 'Borstal training', which meant that they were detained in a Borstal institution for an indeterminate period of between six months and two years.
ref: 1989, Richard Meredith Jackson, J. R. Spencer, Jackson's Machinery of Justice, page 277:
topics: law
glosses: The sentencing of young offenders to a special prison.
congresses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of congress
ovocyte
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ovocytes
Senses: glosses: oocyte
boosterish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more boosterish
form: most boosterish
Etymology: From booster + -ish.
Senses: examples: text: With their very first issue, those opinionated slobs declared their independence from the norms of Jewish journalism, whether sober journals like Commentary and Dissent or the boosterish newspapers sponsored by local Jewish federations.
ref: 2009 January 24, Samuel G. Freedman, “Long Afterlife for a Short-Lived Jewish Monthly”, in New York Times:
glosses: Promotional; acting as or like a booster for a particular community or group
calypsolike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more calypsolike
form: most calypsolike
Etymology: From calypso + -like.
Senses: examples: text: The band is called Let Freedom Swing, and in Thursday night’s early set it played […] a calypsolike “We Shall Overcome”; and a version of Herbie Hancock ’s strange bossa nova “I Have a Dream.”
ref: 2009 January 24, Ben Ratliff, “Jazz With a Mission, and a Groove”, in New York Times:
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: Resembling calypso music.
condemnable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /kənˈdɛm.nə.bəl/
Forms: form: more condemnable
form: most condemnable
Etymology: From condemn + -able.
Senses: examples: text: It is not the fault of any creed, but of the complicated nature of human affairs, […] that hardly any kind of action can safely be laid down as either always obligatory or always condemnable.
ref: 1861, John Stuart Mill, Utilitarianism:
text: He’s got the one issue that’s utterly condemnable, but he was really quite open.
ref: 2009 January 24, Charles Mcgrath, “Surveying the Outer Reaches of Lust”, in New York Times:
glosses: Deserving of condemnation.
Derived terms: condemnably
uncondemnable
divertissements
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of divertissement
azanes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of azane
canoed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of canoe
capsicums
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of capsicum
cockling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From cockle + -ing.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of cockle
cockling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cocklings
Etymology: From cock + -ling.
Senses: examples: text: These cocklings cocker'd we bewail too late, When that we see our off-spring gaily bent, Women manwood, and men effeminate.
ref: 1725, Sir Philip Sidney, The works of the Honourable Sir Philip Sidney:
text: Take warning in time, cocklings; look sharp — but not in this direction, if you please.'
ref: 1858, The Knickerbocker: or, New-York monthly magazine, volume 54, page 521:
text: 'That ere our pretty Cocklings learn to crow, To pamper Lust they must to Market go?
ref: 1920, The Pennsylvania magazine of history and biography, volume 44, page 74:
glosses: A young, small, or immature cock.
cockled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of cockle
cockled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: Love's feeling is more soft and sensible
Than are the tender horns of cockl’d snails;
ref: c. 1595–1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, “Loues Labour’s Lost”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene iii]:
glosses: Enclosed in a shell.