cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
nostalgiac
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nostalgiacs
Senses: examples: text: It is quite amazing how many nostalgiacs are in their twenties, thirties, even their teens, and cannot possibly have any first-hand memories of what went on in the inter-war years when dance bands were at their most popular.
ref: 1974, Brian A. L. Rust, The dance bands:
text: In olden times (back in the day when nostalgiacs would say “time was”) your answer would be campaign manager.
ref: 2007 August 5, William Safire, “Strategist, Rising”, in New York Times:
glosses: A nostalgic person.
nostalgiacs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nostalgiac
overidealize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: overidealizes
form: overidealizing
form: overidealized
form: overidealized
Etymology: From over- + idealize.
Senses: examples: text: “He’s an American who overidealizes Paris as a sort of idyllic political and cultural mecca,” Mr. Goldberg said by phone.
ref: 2007 August 5, Kristin Hohenadel, “A French Actress’s Life on Screen. Kind Of.”, in New York Times:
glosses: To idealize to too great an extent.
overidealizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of overidealize
overidealized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of overidealize
overidealizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of overidealize
peryton
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: perytons
Etymology: Coined by the translator Norman Thomas di Giovanni translating Jorge Luis Borges' Book of Imaginary Beings, from Borges' invented Spanish peritio. Astrophysical use began with a paper by S. Burke-Spolaor et al. (see quotations).
Senses: examples: text: Then, quite unexpectedly, when I had been staring at them for a long time, the shape of a peryton seemed to spring out as distinctly as if the bird's whole body had been powdered with the dust ground from diamonds.
ref: 1982, Gene Wolfe, chapter XII, in The Sword of the Lictor (The Book of the New Sun; 3), New York: Timescape, →ISBN, pages 88–89:
text: The peryton also makes an appearance, in a nod to its inventor, Borges — who compiled his own bestiary, “The Book of Imaginary Beings,” itself supposedly based on a long-lost medieval text.
ref: 2007 August 5, Ligaya Mishan, “Lost Pets”, in New York Times:
glosses: A fictional creature having the head and forelegs of a stag and the wings and hindquarters of a bird.
examples: text: Despite a trend mimicking that expected from dispersion, such deviations decisively distinguish the pulses’ frequency-dependence from a delay induced by interstellar propagation. Hereafter we distinguish these detections with the name “Perytons,” representing the non-dispersive, highly swept, terrestrial signals exhibited by the pulses. (The name is chosen from mythology to be unassociated with an exact physical phenomenon, due to the ambiguous origin of the detections; Perytons are winged elk that cast the shadow of a man.)
ref: 2011 January 20, S. Burke-Spolaor et al., “Radio Bursts with Extragalactic Spectral Characteristics Show Terrestrial Origins”, in The Astrophysical Journal, volume 727, number 1:
text: Three of these FRBs are factors of >3 narrower than any documented peryton.
ref: 2013 July 5, D. Thornton et al., “A Population of Fast Radio Bursts at Cosmological Distances”, in Science, volume 341, number 6141, pages 53–56:
text: In this model, the Lorimer burst, which was detected in three adjacent beams of the multibeam receiver, occupies a place between traditional FRB events and traditional peryton events and is believed to have occurred at some distance from the detector close to the Fresnel scale for Parkes, 20 km.
ref: 2014 June 10, E. Petrov et al., “An Absence of Fast Radio Bursts at Intermediate Galactic Latitudes”, in Astrophysics Journal Letters, volume 789, number 2:
topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: A radio signal which appears to come from outside the galaxy but is actually produced by terrestrial sources.
perytons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of peryton
viniferous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɪfəɹəs
Forms: form: more viniferous
form: most viniferous
Etymology: From Latin vīnum (“wine”) + -i- + -ferous.
Senses: examples: text: But last week, when the maker, NFI Consumer Products of Fayetteville, N.C., sent out media kits promoting the product’s nationwide rollout, the marketers mixed their viniferous metaphors.
ref: 2007 August 5, Tim Race, “Vitamin for the Heart or a Fruity Cabernet?”, in New York Times:
glosses: Yielding wine.
gonnabe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡənəbi/
ipa: /ˈɡʌn-/
ipa: /ˈɡɒn-/
ipa: /ˈɡʌnəbi/
ipa: /ˈɡɔn-/
ipa: /ˈɡən-/
Forms: form: gonnabes
Etymology: From gonna (“contraction of going to”) + be, modelled after wannabe.
Senses: examples: text: I attribute any success I have to the following educators in my life: New York agent Jim Cypher […] early on taught me that the difference between “wannabes” and “gonnabes” is persistence; […]
ref: 2006, Linda Alice Dewey, “Acknowledgements”, in Aaron’s Crossing: An Inspiring True Ghost Story, Charlottesville, Va.: Hampton Roads Publishing Company, →ISBN, page 206:
text: Alkaline Trio, New Found Glory, Coheed and Cambria, the Starting Line: all have struggled to meet high expectations, and maybe some of them were relieved to be playing this summer’s Warped Tour, nestled among the wannabes and gonnabes.
ref: 2007 August 6, Kelefa Sanneh, “Punk on parade, with flexible marching orders”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 26 Nov 2022:
text: It is doubtful you could instruct Babe Ruth into being a home run king or Usain Bolt into world’s fastest human. They just have something. You can throw money at a wannabe but that won’t make him a gonnabe.
ref: 2014, Tom Pease, “Touring Entrepreneurship Land and Meriting Citizenship: You Can’t Give What You Don’t Have”, in Small Business Survival 101: Principles for Fail Proofing Your Business, New York, N.Y.: Morgan James Publishing, →ISBN, page 22:
text: 'So you're a wannabe?' / 'Hopefully, a gonnabe.'
ref: 2022, Polly Hamilton Hilsabeck, American Blues […], Berkeley, Calif.: She Writes Press, →ISBN:
glosses: One who is on the path to becoming famous or important.
Related terms: up-and-comer
wannabe
gonnabes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gonnabe
minitheme
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: minithemes
Etymology: From mini- + theme.
Senses: examples: text: Linda: When doing a minitheme on the Winter Olympics with kindergarten children, I reviewed with children the television schedule each day to find events that would be on during the early evening.
ref: 2001, Dorothy M. Campbell, Linda S. Harris, Collaborative theme building: how teachers write integrated curriculum:
text: The set was full of minithemes: bee references (as in B for Beyoncé), homages to predecessors like James Brown and Donna Summer, reminders about Beyoncé’s celebrity and her fashion tie-ins.
ref: 2007 August 6, Jon Pareles, “Romance as a Struggle That She Will Win”, in New York Times:
glosses: A minor theme.
minithemes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of minitheme
nollie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈnɒli/
ipa: /ˈnɑli/
Forms: form: nollies
Etymology: Blend of nose + ollie
Senses: examples: text: Gagnon’s final run might have been better, but he fell on his last trick, a nollie heelflip 360.
ref: 2007 August 6, Matt Higgins, “No Snow, but White Still Provides the Sizzle”, in New York Times:
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
skateboarding
snowboarding
sports
glosses: A variation of the ollie where the rider uses the front foot to pop the nose down and the back foot to scrape backwards to achieve lift off of the ground.
nollies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nollie
zeppoles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of zeppole
doggess
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: doggesses
form: dogess
Etymology: From dog + -ess.
Senses: examples: text: The sound even called back the departing senses of the dying doggess. She drew me to her with her paws, and made an effort to lick me. The action quite melted me.
ref: 1856, Pictures of Comical People, with Stories about Them, page 158:
glosses: A female dog.
examples: text: Ten rappers were cited in the legislation, along with an excerpt from an 1811 dictionary that defined the word as “A she dog, or doggess; the most offensive appellation that can be given to an English woman.”
ref: 2007 August 7, Michael M. Grynbaum, “It’s a Female Dog, or Worse. Or Endearing. And Illegal?”, in New York Times:
text: She snatched up the spellbook, tucked it into her reticule, and turned back to-ward the house. “I shall leave you to find your own way home.” “Mar-all!” The demon shouted at her back. “Doggess! You'll not be rid of me so easy!”
ref: 2011, Sense and Sensuality: Erotic Fantasies in the World of Jane Austen, page 13:
glosses: A woman.
Synonyms: sense: a female dog
word: bitch
sense: (insulting term for) a woman
word: bitch
doggesses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of doggess
mainspan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mainspans
Etymology: From main + span.
Senses: examples: text: The bridge has a cable-stayed mainspan.
ref: 2007 August 7, William J. Broad, “From Fresh Ideas and Better Steel, Safer Bridges”, in New York Times:
glosses: The length of suspended roadway between the towers of a bridge.
mainspans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mainspan
prolotherapy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Blend of proliferation + therapy
Senses: examples: text: A state-by-state listing of prolotherapy practitioners can be found at www.getprolo.com .
ref: 2007 August 7, Jane E. Brody, “Injections to Kick-Start Tissue Repair”, in New York Times:
synonyms: proliferation therapy
glosses: The injection of an otherwise non-pharmacological and non-active irritant solution into the body, generally in the region of tendons or ligaments for the purpose of strengthening weakened connective tissue and alleviating musculoskeletal pain.
Related terms: prolotherapist
prolotherapist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: prolotherapists
Etymology: From prolotherapy + -ist.
Senses: glosses: A practitioner of prolotherapy.
prolongments
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of prolongment
prolotherapists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of prolotherapist
biobased
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From bio- + based.
Senses: examples: text: Ed Lehrburger, PureVision’s founder and chief executive, said he thought his lignin could sell for $300 a ton or more. Mr. Lehrburger said his company was collaborating with a wood and paper products manufacturer that is interested in using the lignin for a biobased glue for its laminates, plywoods and other products.
ref: 2007 August 8, Hillary Rosner, “Cooking Up More Uses for the Leftovers of Biofuel Production”, in New York Times:
glosses: Based on biological material.
cilostazol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /sɪˈlɒstəzɒl/
Senses: examples: text: Mr. Cola, 82, a retired hairdresser and makeup artist who earned an Emmy for his work in daytime television, recently paid only $9 for a 90-day supply of cilostazol, a substitute for the branded drug Pletal for leg pains.
ref: 2007 August 8, Stephanie Saul, “More Generics Slow Rise in Drug Prices”, in New York Times:
glosses: A phosphodiesterase inhibitor used to alleviate symptoms of intermittent claudication in individuals with peripheral vascular disease.
PVD
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Initialism of peripheral vascular disease.
glosses: Initialism of posterior vitreous detachment.
glosses: Initialism of physical vapor deposition.
gyotaku
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese 魚拓 (gyotaku, ぎょたく), from Middle Chinese 魚 (ngjo, “fish”) + 拓 (tʰak, “rubbing”).
Senses: examples: text: In Japan the tradition of fish printing, or gyotaku, goes back to the 1800s, when fishermen began using ink and paper to record their catch. Ms. Sessler, who studied design in college, began making her fish prints two winters ago, when her husband got home from a long fishing excursion.
ref: 2007 August 8, Brett Martin, “First a Hook, Then Ink: An Artist’s Catch”, in New York Times:
glosses: A traditional form of Japanese fish printing.
podlet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: podlets
Etymology: From pod + -let.
Senses: examples: text: Now, next to the greenhouses, a walk-in cooler is filling up with little cotton sacks and plastic bags, each containing thousands of seeds in every possible shape and shade of earth tone — olive-green pellets, reddish-brown shields, fluffy tan podlets with little wings.
ref: 2007 August 8, Andy Newman, “In Case of Apocalypse Later, a Plan to Ensure America’s Regreening”, in New York Times:
glosses: A small pod.
podlets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of podlet
scup
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ʌp
Forms: form: scup
form: scups
Etymology: Shortened form of Narragansett mishcùp (“porgy”) or its plural mishcùppaûog. The singular was also borrowed as mishcup, while another shortening of the plural yields the synonym paugie. The word was also borrowed as scuppaug.
Senses: examples: text: When I was 12 years old, my father got me a boat and I went fishing off of Cape Cod. I hooked a scup and as I was reeling it in, I hooked a 4.5 foot baby thresher shark who proceeded to eat my boat.
ref: 1975, Peter Benchley, Carl Gottlieb, Jaws, spoken by Hooper (Richard Dreyfuss):
text: 1995, “sheepshead”, entry in Percy Russell, Anita Williams, The Nutrition and Health Dictionary, page 391,
A saltwater fish, a cousin of porgies and scups. The sheepshead has large, broad incisor teeth, much like a sheep.
text: Scup, in the Bay also called porgy, maiden, and fairmaid, are rather plain-looking fish — dull silver with 12 to 15 indistinct vertical stripes, flecked with light blue on their sides.
ref: 2006, Alice Jane Lippson, Robert L. Lippson, Life in the Chesapeake Bay, page 276:
text: On a lark, he took a small scup, or porgy, and a stamp pad and demonstrated how to make a print.
ref: 2007 August 8, Brett Martin, “First a Hook, Then Ink: An Artist’s Catch”, in New York Times:
glosses: A common sparoid food fish, Stenotomus chrysops, of temperate regions of the Atlantic coast of North America; the porgy.
scup
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ʌp
Forms: form: scups
Etymology: From Dutch schop.
Senses: glosses: A swing.
scups
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of scup
steeplebush
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: steeplebushes
Etymology: From steeple + bush.
Senses: examples: text: They passed many species they had already collected for the Millennium project — maple-leaved vibernum, steeplebush with spiky stalks of tiny pink flowers, black birch — as well as a particularly impressive specimen of that quintessential Staten Island forest dweller, Automobilius burnedouticus.
ref: 2007 August 8, Andy Newman, “In Case of Apocalypse Later, a Plan to Ensure America’s Regreening”, in New York Times:
glosses: A plant with narrow pyramidal clusters of flowers and a dense woolly tomentum.
glosses: A plant with narrow pyramidal clusters of flowers and a dense woolly tomentum.
Spiraea tomentosa, of eastern North American
synonyms: hardhack
glosses: A plant with narrow pyramidal clusters of flowers and a dense woolly tomentum.
Spiraea douglasii, of western North America
synonyms: rose spirea
Douglas spirea
Menzies' spirea
hardhack
hardhack steeplebush
Synonyms: hardhack
tomenta
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tomentum
steeplebushes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of steeplebush
hardhack
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hardhacks
Senses: glosses: A plant, the steeplebush, of either species Spiraea tomentosa, of eastern North American, or Spiraea douglasii, of western North America.
hardhacks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hardhack
hardbacked
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From hard + backed.
Senses: glosses: Having a solid binding; hardback.
raw_tags: of a book
examples: a hardbacked chair
glosses: Having a hard back.
sunsuit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sunsuits
Etymology: From sun + suit.
Senses: examples: text: The scale of the printed fabrics is just right: the yellow calico of a blond girl’s sunsuit, the tiny picturesque country scenes in red, blue and green on a gathered skirt.
ref: 2007 August 8, Roberta Smith, “Doll, You Oughta Be in Pictures”, in New York Times:
glosses: A costume designed to protect a child from the sun.
sunsuits
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sunsuit
upswell
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: upswells
Etymology: From up- + swell.
Senses: examples: text: Lenovo, one of a handful of Chinese companies trying to forge a global brand by investing abroad, dropped to fourth globally in the first three months of 2007, but reclaimed the No. 3 spot from Acer a quarter later by riding an upswell of corporate demand.
ref: 2007 August 8, Reuters, “Lenovo Shares Soar on Word of Talks to Buy Packard Bell”, in New York Times:
glosses: A rising swell.
upswell
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: upswells
form: upswelling
form: upswelled
form: upswelled
form: upswollen
Etymology: From up- + swell.
Senses: glosses: To swell upward.
upswells
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of upswell
upswells
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of upswell
upswelled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of upswell
megadeveloper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: megadevelopers
Etymology: From mega- + developer.
Senses: examples: text: Second Life offers all kinds of regions from which to chose, including the A’ksha Caves sim, a stark desert area with luxury housing owned by the megadeveloper Anshe Chung (the avatar of Ailin Graef, a Chinese-born businesswoman celebrated for making $1 million in real-life money from Second Life deals) and the Venice sim, based loosely on the real city, where a quick escape to rural Tuscany is just one geographically inaccurate sim away.
ref: 2007 August 9, Seth Kugel, “A House That’s Just Unreal”, in New York Times:
glosses: A very large developer.
megadevelopers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of megadeveloper
neuronitis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From neuron + -itis.
Senses: examples: text: Untreated Lyme disease can lead to nerve damage, often involving the eighth cranial nerve, the same one affected by vestibular neuronitis.
ref: 2007 August 9, Lawrence K. Altman, “Annual Exam Gives Bush Good Marks for Health”, in New York Times:
glosses: Inflammation of a nerve.
schmancy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈʃmænsi/
ipa: [ˈʃmeənsi]
note: see /æ/ raising
ipa: [ˈʃmɛənsi]
Forms: form: schmancier
form: schmanciest
form: shmancy
Etymology: From schm- + fancy.
Senses: examples: text: But thanks to the charmless chunk of schmancy condos now going up on Brooklyn’s Fourth Avenue (the Champs Élysées of auto parts stores), the rooftop sunsets we savored in summers past were, it turns out, our last.
ref: 2007 August 10, Lynn Harris, “On the Roof, a Weaning From Weeding”, in The New York Times:
text: Rack up your arm candy with this schmancy bangle, watch, and bracelet set from Anne Klein.
ref: 2024 October 8, Megan Uy, Tarah-Lynn Saint-Elien, “65+ Fall Prime Day Fashion Deals Your Closet Is Begging You to Shop”, in Cosmopolitan:
synonyms: fancy-schmancy
glosses: Fancy, especially in a contrived or pretentious fashion.
swaddlings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of swaddling
travoises
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of travois
travoises
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of travois
cradleboard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cradleboards
Etymology: From cradle + board.
Senses: hyponyms: tikinagan
glosses: A board of the kind traditionally used by Native Americans for carrying a baby.
cradleboards
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cradleboard
thermochromatic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ætɪk
Etymology: From thermo- + chromatic.
Senses: examples: text: Technology is also driving the changes — like the thermochromatic ink in the Coors label that changes the color of the label’s mountains with the temperature of the beer bottle.
ref: 2007 August 10, Louise Story, “Product Packages Now Shout to Get Your Attention”, in New York Times:
glosses: Alternative form of thermochromic.
unpinched
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + pinched.
Senses: examples: text: No spent bloom was left unpinched; every pot had a slot on my customized feeding timetable.
ref: 2007 August 10, Lynn Harris, “On the Roof, a Weaning From Weeding”, in New York Times:
glosses: Not pinched.
unpinched
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of unpinch
pronic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈpɹɒnɪk/
Etymology: Apparently from New Latin pronicus, a misspelling of Latin promicus, from Ancient Greek προμήκης (promḗkēs, “elongated, oblong”), but the spelling has been pronic from its earliest known occurrence in English (Leonhard Euler, Opera Omnia, series 1, volume 15).
Senses: examples: text: 1478 - Pierpaolo Muscharello, Algorismus p.163.
Pronic root is as if you say, 9 times 9 makes 81. And now take the root of 9, which is 3, and this 3 is added above 81: it makes 84, so that the pronic root of 84 is said to be 3.
text: 1794 - David Wilkie, Theory of interest, p.6, Edinburgh: Peter Hill, 1794.
When a = 2, and d = 2 also, in this case, in equation 1st, s=n² + n = a pronic number, which is produced by the addition of even numbers in an arithmetic progression beginning at 2; and the pronic root scriptstyle n=(√4s+1-1)/2.
text: 1804 - Paul Deighan, "Recommendatory letters", A complete treatise on arithmetic, rational and practical, vol.1, p.viii, Dublin: J. Jones, 1804.
As I admire each proposition fair,
the pronic number and the perfect square,
the puzzling intricate equation solv'd,
as Grecia's chief the Gordian knot dissolv'd;
- John Bartley
text: A pronic number is that which is equal to the sum of a square number and its root. Thus, 6, 12, 20, 30, &c. are pronic numbers.
ref: 1814 - Charles Butler, Easy Introduction to Mathematics, p.96, Barlett & Newman, 1814
text: It may be noted that if Lₙ is a pronic number, then Lₙ is two times a triangular number.
ref: 1998, Wayne L. McDaniel, “Pronic Lucas Numbers”, in The Fibonacci Quarterly, pages 60–62:
text: 2005 - G. K. Panda1 and P. K. Ray, "Cobalancing numbers and cobalancers", International Journal of Mathematics and Mathematical Sciences, vol.2005, iss.8, pp.1189-1200.
Thus, our search for cobalancing number is confined to the pronic triangular numbers, that is, triangular numbers that are also pronic numbers.
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: Being the product of two consecutive integers.
Synonyms: heteromecic
Related terms: rectangular number
oblong number
underventilated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more underventilated
form: most underventilated
Etymology: From under- + ventilated.
Senses: examples: text: But when the Beastie Boys played Central Park SummerStage on Wednesday night, Mike D (a k a Michael Diamond) made a point of complaining, or bragging, about his slow ride uptown on an underventilated A train.
ref: 2007 August 10, Nate Chinen, “Giving the Hometown Fans a Dose of Classic Hometown Hip-Hop”, in New York Times:
coordinate_terms: underperfused
glosses: Insufficiently ventilated.
Related terms: hypoventilate
hypoventilation
undervests
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of undervest
glinty
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: rhymes: -ɪnti
Forms: form: more glinty
form: glintier
form: most glinty
form: glintiest
Etymology: From glint + -y.
Senses: examples: text: What followers really need to know is that John Jeffrey Martin, who plays Troy, the captain of the basketball team who discovers his inner drama geek, sings well and is very cute, with a nice smile and glinty blue eyes.
ref: 2007 August 11, Charles Isherwood, “A Prayerful Three-Pointer From the Orchestra Pit”, in New York Times:
glosses: Tending to glint.
indecisions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of indecision
indecipherably
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more indecipherably
form: most indecipherably
Etymology: From indecipherable + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: All of the charts, graphs and design elements are intact, but everything — including the text — is indecipherably small without zooming in.
ref: 2009 September 6, Randall Stross, “Texting? No, Just Trying to Read Chapter 6”, in New York Times:
glosses: In an indecipherable fashion.
massive compact halo objects
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of massive compact halo object
massive compact halo object
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: massive compact halo objects
form: massive astronomical compact halo object
form: massive astrophysical compact halo object
form: massive and compact halo object
Etymology: Perhaps coined with the acronym, MACHO, in mind. See also WIMP, which represents a competing hypothesis.
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Any kind of astronomical body comprising normal baryonic matter that in sufficient numbers might explain the apparent presence of dark matter in galaxy halos.
Synonyms: word: MACHO
Hypernyms: english: non-luminous matter needed to balance the orbital speeds observed in stars in galaxies with the observed luminous mass of the galaxy in question
translation: non-luminous matter needed to balance the orbital speeds observed in stars in galaxies with the observed luminous mass of the galaxy in question
word: dark matter
Coordinate terms: english: WIMP
translation: WIMP
word: weakly interacting massive particle
alt: SIMP
word: strongly interacting massive particle
alt: RAMBO
word: robust associations of massive baryonic objects
Derived terms: word: MACHO
tweenage
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From between and teenage.
Senses: examples: text: What began as a mere made-for-television movie (on the Disney Channel, yet) has grown quickly into an international phenomenon both commercial and spiritual, at least for tweenage youngsters (mostly girls).
ref: 2007 August 11, Charles Isherwood, “A Prayerful Three-Pointer From the Orchestra Pit”, in New York Times:
glosses: Not yet a teenager (being less than thirteen years old), but starting to act like one.
Related terms: teenage
tweenager
counterintuitiveness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From counterintuitive + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: But John Latham, a senior research associate at the National Center for Atmospheric Research, said that there was simply no money for geoengineering, possibly because there’s a certain counterintuitiveness to shooting particles into the atmosphere.
ref: 2007 August 12, Michael Fitzgerald, “It Takes Deep Pockets to Fight Global Warming”, in New York Times:
glosses: The property of being counterintuitive.
exploitationer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: exploitationers
Etymology: From exploitation + -er.
Senses: examples: text: Somewhat crude occult exploitationer about a little girl who is possessed by a devil.
ref: 2007 August 12, Dwight Garner, “Inside the List”, in New York Times:
glosses: An exploitation film.
exploitationers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of exploitationer
rowen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈɹaʊən/
Forms: form: rowens
form: roughings
form: rowet
form: rowett
form: rowings
Etymology: From Middle English rewayn, from Anglo-Norman rewain, from an Old Northern French variant of Old French regain (“an increase”), from re- + gaigner (“to till, win”).
The alternative forms represent replacement of unanalysable final /ən/ with the more tractable suffixes -et, -ing; roughing presumably relies on a lost pronunciation of rough as /ˈɹaʊ/.
Senses: glosses: A second crop of hay; aftermath.
examples: text: For the wintering of cattle, about September you must turn them out that you design to keep up for a winter or a spring market, and your cows, that give milk into your rowens, till snow or a hard frost comes, and they will need no fodder.
ref: 1707, J[ohn] Mortimer, The Whole Art of Husbandry; or, The Way of Managing and Improving of Land. […], London: […] J[ohn] H[umphreys] for H[enry] Mortlock […], and J[onathan] Robinson […], →OCLC:
glosses: A stubble field left unploughed until late in the autumn, so that it can be cropped by cattle.
rowen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈɹaʊən/
Forms: form: rowens
form: roughings
form: rowet
form: rowett
form: rowings
Senses: glosses: Dated form of roving (“an elongate bundle of fiber”).
fleetfooted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more fleetfooted
form: most fleetfooted
form: fleet-footed
form: fleet footed
Etymology: From fleet + footed.
Senses: examples: text: It would take a few more beers, but when the liquid courage kicked in, his wobbly legs were unable to keep pace with the fleetfooted waitress, who rolled her eyes, smiling, and finally twirled away.
ref: 2007 August 12, Andrew Gensler, “Dancing Away the Heartache, Tacos Included”, in New York Times:
text: But the volume is also an introspective self-portrait, set down in the same fluent, fleet-footed prose that made his 1995 book “Dreams From My Father” such a haunting family memoir.”
ref: 2020 December 8, Michiko Kakutani, “Obama, the Best-Selling Author, on Reading, Writing and Radical Empathy”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
synonyms: fleet of foot
fleet
glosses: Swift on one's feet.
Derived terms: fleetfootedness
greenhead
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: greenheads
form: green head
Etymology: From green + head.
Senses: examples: text: Fascinated with the island’s bugs that cause Lyme disease and other illnesses, he traps greenhead flies, and plucks ticks off deer that hunters shoot, shipping bottled bugs to mainland researchers.
ref: 2007 August 12, Pam Belluck, “Nantucket’s Medical Mr. Fix-It for Whatever Happens to Ail You”, in New York Times:
glosses: Tabanus nigrovittatus, a biting horsefly.
glosses: The mallard.
glosses: A fish, the striped bass.
Derived terms: greenhead ant
greenhead bream
greenhead shiner
greenhead tilapia
perennial greenhead sedge
greenheads
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of greenhead
rattiness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From ratty + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being ratty.
hagwons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hagwon
hagwon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hagwons
form: hakwon
Etymology: Borrowed from Korean 학원(學院) (hagwon).
Senses: examples: text: Geneho, whose bedroom faces the street, is attending a hagwon, a Korean tutoring program.
ref: 2007 August 12, Fred A. Bernstein, “A House to Grow Into”, in New York Times:
glosses: A profit-making private school, common in South Korea.
midlives
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of midlife
exploitation film
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: exploitation films
Senses: glosses: A film that relies on lurid subject matter for its appeal.
Synonyms: exploitationer
Related terms: blaxploitation
blacksploitation
Bruceploitation
sexploitation
exploitation films
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of exploitation film
exploitativeness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From exploitative + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being exploitative.
exploitatively
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more exploitatively
form: most exploitatively
Etymology: From exploitative + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an exploitative manner.
Derived terms: nonexploitatively
multistop
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From multi- + stop.
Senses: examples: text: But he still likes to take the wheel for occasional multistop spins around town, for hundred-mile drives to a vacation home on Long Island and for business trips when he’s in California.
ref: 2007 August 12, Barry Rehfeld, “Now, Even Those Temporary Wheels Can Be Greener”, in New York Times:
glosses: Involving more than one stop.
nonluxury
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + luxury.
Senses: examples: text: Still, for consumers who cannot afford a luxury vehicle, the good news is that the gap between luxury and nonluxury brands has been narrowing and will continue to diminish, Mr. Ivers said.
ref: 2007 August 12, Cheryl Jensen, “Lexus-Level Dependability, Now Available at Lower Prices”, in New York Times:
glosses: Not luxury.
nonpatronizing
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + patronizing.
Senses: examples: text: More recently, as Mr. Jacobs and his creative partner, Scott Schultz, 35, crossed over into that decidedly uncool full-time occupation known as parenthood, they were disappointed with the children’s programming they watched, which seemed to lack the freewheeling spirit and nonpatronizing voice of shows they grew up with, like “Sesame Street” and “The Electric Company.”
ref: 2007 August 12, Dave Itzkoff, “Charm the Children, Tickle the Parents”, in New York Times:
glosses: Not patronizing.
psychosexually
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more psychosexually
form: most psychosexually
Etymology: From psychosexual + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Mr. Ferrara’s stylized, psychosexually charged film provides a hopeful ending but otherwise takes huge liberties with the Finney template.
ref: 2007 August 12, Dennis Lim, “Same Old Aliens, but New Neuroses”, in New York Times:
glosses: In a psychosexual manner or context.
ragtimey
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more ragtimey
form: most ragtimey
form: ragtimy
Etymology: From ragtime + -y.
Senses: examples: text: It’s a tribute to the ragtimey gospel of the Rev. Gary Davis.
ref: 2007 August 12, Jon Pareles, “Cheerful New Zealand Pop and Spooky Louisiana Rock”, in New York Times:
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: Resembling ragtime music.
Synonyms: ragtimelike
recalk
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: recalks
form: recalking
form: recalked
form: recalked
Etymology: From re- + calk.
Senses: glosses: To calk again or anew.
recaulk
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: recaulks
form: recaulking
form: recaulked
form: recaulked
Etymology: From re- + caulk.
Senses: glosses: To caulk again or anew.
recaulked
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of recaulk
recalks
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of recalk
recalking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of recalk
recalked
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of recalk
recaulks
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of recaulk
recaulking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of recaulk
recaulking
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: recaulkings
Senses: glosses: The process of caulking something again.
uncalked
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + calked.
Senses: glosses: Not having been calked.
uncaulked
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + caulked.
Senses: glosses: Not having been caulked.
deckheads
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of deckhead
deckings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of decking
redeck
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: redecks
form: redecking
form: redecked
form: redecked
Etymology: From re- + deck.
Senses: examples: text: The $270 million redecking project is set to end in 2009.
ref: 2007 August 12, Anthony Ramirez, “Road Worker Dies in a Fall From a Bridge in New Jersey”, in New York Times:
glosses: To fit (a bridge) with new platforms.
redecking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of redeck
redecked
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of redeck
reswear
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: reswears
form: reswearing
form: reswore
form: resworn
form: re-swear
Etymology: From re- + swear.
Senses: examples: text: “I don’t think it’s credible to state that the city should reswear officers who were already sworn in,” Mr. Wright said.
ref: 2007 August 12, “For Want of a Swearing In, an Arrest Is Lost in Indiana”, in New York Times:
glosses: To swear again or anew.
reswearing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of reswear
reswears
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of reswear
resworn
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: past participle of reswear
reswore
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past of reswear
unfundable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + fundable.
Senses: examples: text: But he called it unfundable; it’s barely past the idea phase, and venture capitalists invest in projects that will be commercially viable in three to five years.
ref: 2007 August 12, Michael Fitzgerald, “It Takes Deep Pockets to Fight Global Warming”, in New York Times:
glosses: Impossible to fund or to find funding for.
unpriceable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + priceable.
Senses: examples: text: The owners are willing to sell, but the property seems almost unpriceable at the moment, as its market value depends on so many volatile factors: the proposed rezoning, the impending merger of the largest local employer, the outcome of the highway redevelopment proposal, and more.
text: The plutocratic-looking balloon with the puddle of unpriceable brandy was mine.
ref: 1951, John Wyndham, The Day of the Triffids:
text: News last Thursday that a small amount of unpriceable subprime mortgages was in a BNP Paribas fund in France sent the markets in Europe and the United States sharply lower.
ref: 2007 August 12, Ben Stein, “Chicken Little’s Brethren, on the Trading Floor”, in New York Times:
glosses: Not priceable.
Related terms: incalculable
inestimable
unmarketable
unsalable
vampiredom
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From vampire + -dom.
Senses: examples: text: Frozen at the age he was when vampiredom was thrust upon him (in the great influenza epidemic of 1918), Edward is now eternally a younger man, while Jake’s 16 and holding.
ref: 2007 August 12, Liesl Schillinger, “Children’s Books / Young Adult”, in New York Times:
synonyms: fangdom
vampdom
vampirehood
glosses: The state of being a vampire.
containerful
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: containerfuls
form: containersful
Etymology: From container + -ful.
Senses: coordinate_terms: containerload
;
bowlful
capful
cupful
spoonful
glosses: As much as a container can hold. (Often with reference to packaged-food containers.)
containerfuls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of containerful
containersful
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of containerful
containerload
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: containerloads
Etymology: From container + load.
Senses: examples: text: “But we never wanted to be competing with our retailers, and we didn’t want to get involved with selling to one consumer at a time because we’re used to selling containerloads of product and we don’t have a huge staff for that.”
ref: 2007 August 13, Bob Tedeschi, “Manufacturers Find Ways to Navigate Web Retailing”, in New York Times:
coordinate_terms: containerful
;
boatload
carload
shipload
trailerload
truckload
wagonload
glosses: An amount of goods shipped in a container, especially a shipping container.
Related terms: containerization
container ship
containerloads
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of containerload
coupley
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more coupley
form: most coupley
Etymology: From couple + -y.
Senses: examples: text: It's also one of the most coupley of Abba's videos — they're actually interacting with each other instead of posing in geometric shots and gazing into existential abysses.
ref: 2004, Elisabeth Vincentelli, ABBA Gold, page 70:
text: For the single girl — that’s Lauren here — high dudgeon about disloyalty is one (annoying) way to keep more coupley friends on the hook.
ref: 2007 August 13, Virginia Heffernan, “It’s Lauren vs. Heidi in Battle of the Ex-BFFs”, in New York Times:
glosses: Pertaining to romantic couples.
uncalm
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more uncalm
form: most uncalm
Etymology: From un- + calm.
Senses: examples: text: The ship rocked on the uncalm sea.
glosses: Not calm.
uncalm
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: uncalms
form: uncalming
form: uncalmed
form: uncalmed
Etymology: From un- + calm.
Senses: examples: text: What strange disquiet has uncalm'd your breast
ref: 1665, John Dryden, The Indian Emperour:
glosses: To disturb from a state of calm.
girlfriendhood
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From girlfriend + -hood.
Senses: examples: text: But by the season’s end a Machiavellian figure named Spencer had decided to indenture Heidi to girlfriendhood.
ref: 2007 August 13, Virginia Heffernan, “It’s Lauren vs. Heidi in Battle of the Ex-BFFs”, in New York Times:
text: What I missed in girlfriendhood, I made up in adventures.
ref: 2007, Mary Matalin, Letters to My Daughters - Page 103:
glosses: The state of being a girlfriend.
Related terms: boyfriendhood
untyred
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -aɪə(ɹ)d
Etymology: From un- + tyred.
Senses: glosses: Not fitted with tyres.
intersong
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From inter- + song.
Senses: examples: text: Cadence involves not only length of the song itself, but also the regular pattern of silence between songs (intersong intervals).
ref: 2003, Clive K. Catchpole, Peter J. B. Slater, Bird Song: Biological Themes and Variations, page 112:
glosses: Between songs.
intertrack
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From inter- + track.
Senses: glosses: Between tracks (of a railway, album of music, etc.).
examples: text: Among them was Teleview Racing Patrol, which he built into the leading source of closed-circuit broadcasts of horse racing to off-track betting and intertrack wagering sites in the country.
ref: 2007 August 13, Edward Wyatt, “Merv Griffin, Television Innovator, Dies at 82”, in New York Times:
topics: gambling
games
glosses: Having contenders entered by different racecourses.
raw_tags: of a race
microlitter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From micro- + litter.
Senses: examples: text: All three species became terminally constipated from ingesting this man-made microlitter.
ref: 2007 August 13, Janet Maslin, “A World Without Humans? It All Falls Apart”, in New York Times:
glosses: Microscale debris.
packlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more packlike
form: most packlike
Etymology: From pack + -like.
Senses: examples: text: Moreover, bankers and investors say, the strategies employed tend to be not only duplicable but broadly followed — the result being a packlike tendency that has helped increase market volatility and, for some hedge funds, has led to losses in the last month.
ref: 2007 August 13, Landon Thomas Jr., “Pack Mentality Among Hedge Funds Fuels Market Volatility”, in New York Times:
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a pack (in various senses).
recomplicate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: recomplicates
form: recomplicating
form: recomplicated
form: recomplicated
Etymology: From re- + complicate.
Senses: examples: text: Both tendencies enabled her to be one of a small group of painters — including Philip Guston, Frank Stella and Brice Marden — who during the 1970s rebuilt the medium from scratch, recomplicating and expanding its parameters and proving that it was still ripe for innovation, in part because of its rich history.
ref: 2007 August 13, Roberta Smith, “Elizabeth Murray, 66, Artist of Vivid Forms, Dies”, in New York Times:
glosses: To complicate again or anew.
Related terms: recomplication
recomplicating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of recomplicate
recomplicates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of recomplicate
recomplicated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of recomplicate
underdeck
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: underdecks
Etymology: From under- + deck.
Senses: examples: text: During my nearly 20 years as an engineer with the New York City Department of Transportation, I witnessed numerous bridge failures, including the collapse of the West Side Highway in 1973, the fatal snap of a Brooklyn Bridge cable in 1981, and the 1989 fall of a concrete slab from the underdeck of Franklin D. Roosevelt Drive, which crushed a Brooklyn dentist in his car.
ref: 2007 August 13, Samuel I. Schwartz, “Catch Me, I’m Falling”, in New York Times:
glosses: The part of a bridge that lies beneath the deck, or surface.
underdecks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of underdeck
anticompetition
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From anti- + competition.
Senses: examples: text: Overseas, it continues to face anticompetition complaints from the European Commission and Korea, industry analysts said.
ref: 2007 August 14, Matt Richtel, “Lawyer Quits Qualcomm Job as Legal Caseload Mounts”, in New York Times:
topics: business
economics
sciences
glosses: Anticompetitive behaviour.
halorhodopsins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of halorhodopsin
channelrhodopsin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: channelrhodopsins
Etymology: From channel + rhodopsin.
Senses: examples: text: The channelrhodopsin switch is “really going to blow the lid off the whole analysis of brain function,” said George Augustine, a neurobiologist at Duke University in Durham, N.C.
ref: 2007 August 14, Ingfei Chen, “The Beam of Light That Flips a Switch That Turns on the Brain”, in New York Times:
text: The key is a light-activated protein called channelrhodopsin, the DNA-encoded gene for producing which can be delivered across species into brain cells.
ref: 2021 July, Anthony David, “Knowing Me Knowing You”, in The Literary Review:
glosses: An opsin protein that controls phototaxis in unicellular green algae.
channelrhodopsins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of channelrhodopsin
chatterings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chattering