cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
metachromasia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A characteristic change in the colour of staining carried out in biological tissues, exhibited by certain aniline dyes when they bind to particular substances present in these tissues, called chromotropes.
Synonyms: metachromasy
multigame
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From multi- + game.
Senses: examples: text: If fans want to guarantee a seat, they must buy season tickets or a multigame package.
ref: 2007 February 6, Michael S. Schmidt, “Mets Plan Lottery for Prime Tickets”, in New York Times:
glosses: Pertaining to more than one game.
nondetrimental
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + detrimental.
Senses: examples: text: “The whole purpose of Cites is to allow trade only if there is a nondetrimental finding,” Ms. Roberson added, “and this screams to me it’s detrimental to the fish.”
ref: 2007 February 6, Felicity Barringer, “U.N. Lifts Ban on Beluga Caviar, Overruling Environmentalists”, in New York Times:
glosses: Not detrimental; harmless.
sevruga
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sevrugas
Etymology: From Russian севрю́га (sevrjúga).
Senses: glosses: stellate sturgeon (Acipenser stellatus).
glosses: An expensive caviar made from its eggs.
Synonyms: starry sturgeon
sevrugas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sevruga
cheflike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more cheflike
form: most cheflike
Etymology: From chef + -like.
Senses: examples: text: Mr. Bradsell earned his renown with an exhaustive knowledge of classic cocktails, precision and speed in constructing them, and, especially, a cheflike ability to build on them continually.
ref: 2007 February 7, Kate Sekules, “The Best Town to Make an Upper Lip Stiff”, in New York Times:
glosses: Resembling or befitting a chef; culinary.
kupuna
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: na kupuna
form: kupuna
form: kupunas
Etymology: From Hawaiian kupuna.
Senses: examples: text: That's why, according to my kupunas, the chiefs had these male lovers. They were there to be with the chiefs as a friend and companion.
ref: 2001, Andrew Matzner, O Au No Keia: Voices from Hawaii's Mahu and Transgender Communities:
glosses: A grandparent or elder.
kupunas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kupuna
multirole
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From multi- + role.
Senses: examples: text: As part of its marketing effort, Boeing has brought in two multirole combat F/A-18 Super Hornet aircraft, a Chinook helicopter and the C-17 transport aircraft to show potential buyers.
ref: 2007 February 7, Saritha Rai, “U.S. Military Contractors Seek Deals at Bangalore Air Show”, in New York Times:
glosses: Pertaining to, or serving in, many roles.
Synonyms: multifunctional
Chinesey
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Chinesey
form: most Chinesey
Etymology: From Chinese + -y.
Senses: glosses: Somewhat Chinese; affecting a Chinese style.
pyridines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pyridine
spirelike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more spirelike
form: most spirelike
Etymology: From spire + -like.
Senses: examples: text: To the left, the spirelike tower of Riverside Church.
ref: 2007 February 7, Daniel J. Wakin, “Conservatory Tries to Raise Its Profile”, in New York Times:
glosses: Resembling a spire.
bushwalker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bushwalkers
Etymology: From bush + walker.
Senses: examples: text: In the following years the Kanangra country became the object of a mild form of cult worship as bushwalkers discovered its many delights[…].
ref: 1997, Peter Prineas, Henry Gold, Wild Places: Wilderness in Eastern New South Wales, page 66:
text: There are numerous stories of bushwalkers spending several hours up a tree waiting for a wild pig to go away.
ref: 2007, Claire Smith, Heather Burke, Digging It Up Down Under: A Practical Guide to Doing Archaeology in Australia, page 98:
text: The anthropologist Lisa Palmer has written about an analogous but different situation in her study of non-indigenous bushwalkers in Kakadu. She writes very eloquently about the conflicts that have emerged in Kakadu where the Bininj/Mungguy have attempted to limit bushwalker access to the stone country in particular.
ref: 2008, Chris Healy, Forgetting Aborigines, page 191:
glosses: A hiker or backpacker.
Related terms: bushwalking
bushwhacker
bushwalkers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bushwalker
jibbing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From jib + -ing.
Senses: examples: text: Cousino, 24, competes in a variety of disciplines, but said, “Now, jibbing is huge.”
ref: 2007 February 8, Matt Higgins, “Riding the Rails All Over Union Sq.”, in New York Times:
glosses: The performance of tricks using jibs (objects in a skatepark, etc.).
skate park
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: skate parks
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of skatepark.
megafloral
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From megaflora + -al.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to megaflora.
miofloral
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From mioflora + -al.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to mioflora.
microfloral
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɔːɹəl
-ɒɹəl
Etymology: From microflora + -al.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to microflora.
mouseover
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mouseovers
form: mouse-over
Etymology: From mouse + over.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: The event of an on-screen pointer being over an on-screen shape.
Related terms: hover box
mouse over
mouseovers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mouseover
minidisaster
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: minidisasters
Etymology: From mini- + disaster.
Senses: examples: text: When the Lamp Dude and the Academic decided to go into business together, it had all the makings of a minidisaster.
ref: 2007 February 8, Abby Ellin, “With Oscar and Felix as Co-Founders, Does a Company Have a Chance?”, in New York Times:
glosses: A minor disaster.
minidisasters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of minidisaster
nonsystemic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɛmɪk
Etymology: From non- + systemic.
Senses: examples: text: It’s a nonsystemic drug.
ref: 2007 February 8, Stephanie Saul, “Over-the-Counter Weight-Loss Drug Is Approved”, in New York Times:
glosses: Not systemic.
superorganized
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more superorganized
form: most superorganized
Etymology: From super- + organized.
Senses: examples: text: “A business can thrive when it’s run by people whose styles are vastly different but complement one another,” said Phyllis Ezop, a business strategy and marketing information consultant in La Grange Park, Ill. If one owner is superorganized and the other is a slob, the business needs to give each one responsibilities that fit their own individual nature.”l.
ref: 2007 February 8, Abby Ellin, “With Oscar and Felix as Co-Founders, Does a Company Have a Chance?”, in New York Times:
glosses: Very organized.
ultracooled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From ultra- + cooled.
Senses: examples: text: In 1999, Dr. Hau headed a team of scientists that slowed light, which travels a brisk 186,282 miles a second when unimpeded, to a leisurely 38 miles an hour by shining it into an exotic, ultracooled cloud of sodium atoms.
ref: 2007 February 8, Kenneth Chang, “Wizardry at Harvard: Physicists Move Light”, in New York Times:
glosses: Cooled to a very low temperature.
Jewless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Jew + -less.
Senses: examples: text: It began with his shrugging off of both family and faith and taking the Amtrak Vermonter out of Penn Station to major in minor hedonism and minor in the major modernists at a hippie college in the great Jewless north.
ref: 2020 April 24, Jeremy M. Davies, “No Sleep till Auschwitz”, in The Baffler, archived from the original on 26 Sep 2020:
glosses: Without Jews.
chimneypiece
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chimneypieces
form: chimney piece
form: chimney-piece
Etymology: From chimney + piece.
Senses: examples: text: Partridge Fine Art of London has a carved and gilded rococo chimneypiece festooned with Ho-Ho birds, garlands of flowers, fruit and female masks.
ref: 2007 February 9, Wendy Moonan, “Relics of the 19th Century, in a Sentimental Mood”, in New York Times:
glosses: A mantelpiece.
chimneypieces
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chimneypiece
compartmentlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more compartmentlike
form: most compartmentlike
Etymology: From compartment + -like.
Senses: examples: text: His art and his story are like few others, and MoMA puts both across in an inspired installation: a single long corridor with compartmentlike rooms of paintings on each side, and at the very end, against a sea-green wall, a life-size doll with giant bat wings floating above her.
ref: 2007 February 9, Holland Cotter, “Modernist in Loincloth and Feathers”, in New York Times:
glosses: Resembling a compartment.
cybertrail
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cybertrails
Etymology: From cyber- + trail.
Senses: glosses: A trail (of evidence, etc.) on the Internet or in cyberspace.
cybertrails
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cybertrail
cyberdetective
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cyberdetectives
Etymology: From cyber- + detective.
Senses: glosses: A detective who operates on the Internet or in cyberspace.
Synonyms: cybersleuth
cyberdetectives
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cyberdetective
demilune
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɛmɪluːn/
Forms: form: demi-lune
form: demi lune
Etymology: Borrowed from French demi-lune.
Senses: examples: text: A handsome pair of tall, walnut-veneered Biedermeier bookcases from Austria, circa 1835, can be had from Iliad Antik of New York for $95,000, while Clinton Howell of New York has a rare pair of marquetry inlaid demilune consoles that he attributes to the workshop of John Linnell of England, circa 1755.
ref: 2007 February 9, Wendy Moonan, “Relics of the 19th Century, in a Sentimental Mood”, in New York Times:
topics: architecture
furniture
lifestyle
glosses: In the shape of a half-moon, i.e. semicircular.
demilune
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɛmɪluːn/
Forms: form: demilunes
form: demi-lune
form: demi lune
Etymology: Borrowed from French demi-lune.
Senses: topics: architecture
government
military
politics
war
glosses: A fortification constructed beyond the main ditch of a fortress, and in front of the curtain between two bastions, intended to defend the curtain; a ravelin.
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: A crescentic mass of granular protoplasm present in the salivary glands.
molelike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more molelike
form: most molelike
Etymology: From mole + -like.
Senses: examples: text: Disaster strikes, and in the end goofy Saul Malone is left alone to discover the core world, which is peopled by molelike creatures whom he describes as “cockeyed copulators,” “drunk on fornication and cheap pineapple wine.”
ref: 2007 February 9, Susan Stewart, “Comedy in Lo-Fi and of the Highly Subterranean Variety”, in New York Times:
glosses: Resembling a mole.
mouse-over
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mouse-overs
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of mouseover.
mouse-overs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mouse-over
unfair competition
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: law
glosses: In commercial law and specifically competition law, any of various distinct violations or criminal offenses that may give rise to civil causes of action (being taken to court), usually including antitrust violations such as restraint of trade and predatory pricing, trademark infringement, passing off or palming off, and misappropriation of trade secrets.
Related terms: level playing field
subadnate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more subadnate
form: most subadnate
Etymology: From sub- + adnate.
Senses: topics: biology
mycology
natural-sciences
glosses: Loosely linked or fused to something unlike itself; slightly adnate.
staidest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of staid: most staid
staider
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of staid: more staid
sublageniform
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more sublageniform
form: most sublageniform
Etymology: From sub- + lageniform.
Senses: topics: biology
mycology
natural-sciences
glosses: Slightly lageniform.
subcampanulate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more subcampanulate
form: most subcampanulate
Etymology: From sub- + campanulate.
Senses: topics: biology
mycology
natural-sciences
glosses: Slightly bell-shaped or campanulate.
subellipsoid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From sub- + ellipsoid.
Senses: topics: biology
mycology
natural-sciences
glosses: Somewhat ellipsoid.
subrhomboid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more subrhomboid
form: most subrhomboid
Etymology: From sub- + rhomboid.
Senses: topics: biology
mycology
natural-sciences
glosses: Somewhat rhomboid.
subviscid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more subviscid
form: most subviscid
Etymology: From sub- + viscid.
Senses: topics: biology
mycology
natural-sciences
glosses: Slightly viscid.
subumbonate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more subumbonate
form: most subumbonate
Etymology: From sub- + umbonate.
Senses: topics: biology
mycology
natural-sciences
glosses: Having a slight umbo.
klezmerlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more klezmerlike
form: most klezmerlike
Etymology: From klezmer + -like.
Senses: examples: text: His compositions, mostly bearing Yiddish titles and klezmerlike scales, made ingenious use of them.
ref: 2007 February 10, Nate Chinen, “A Musician Examines His Roots With Ingenuity and Ambivalence”, in New York Times:
glosses: Alternative spelling of klezmer-like.
subsinuate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more subsinuate
form: most subsinuate
Etymology: From sub- + sinuate.
Senses: topics: biology
mycology
natural-sciences
glosses: Somewhat sinuate.
subovoid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more subovoid
form: most subovoid
Etymology: From sub- + ovoid.
Senses: topics: biology
mycology
natural-sciences
glosses: Somewhat ovoid.
xalam
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /kɑˈlɑm/
/xɑ-/
/zɑ-/
Forms: form: xalams
form: khalam
Etymology: From Wolof [Term?].
Senses: glosses: A traditional lutelike string instrument of West Africa.
xalams
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of xalam
subpruinose
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more subpruinose
form: most subpruinose
Etymology: From sub- + pruinose.
Senses: topics: biology
mycology
natural-sciences
glosses: Somewhat pruinose.
codriver
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: codrivers
Etymology: From co- + driver.
Senses: examples: text: According to Roberto Moreno, one of Mr. Haywood’s codrivers at Daytona and a veteran of 41 Formula One and 122 Indy car races, “No team takes better care of its drivers than Brumos.”
ref: 2007 February 11, Don Sherman, “Medical Regimen Keeps Racers Fresh”, in New York Times:
glosses: The navigator in the sport of rally racing, who sits in the front passenger seat and gives directions to the driver.
glosses: A fellow driver; where multiple people take turns driving, a person who is not currently driving.
codrivers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of codriver
pace notes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Detailed notes describing the route to be driven in rally racing, read by the codriver to the driver.
couchbound
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From couch + bound.
Senses: examples: text: He may be truly agoraphobic — he doesn’t venture outside until the sixth episode — but his couchbound apathy masks a ruthless manipulative streak, as when he cons a Meals on Wheels volunteer into delivering his lunches.
ref: 2007 February 11, Dennis Lim, “One Couch Potato, Gently Roasted”, in New York Times:
glosses: Confined to a couch, or refusing to move from it.
webspace
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: webspaces
Etymology: From web + space.
Senses: examples: text: Some Internet providers offer free webspace to subscribers.
glosses: Disk space used to store web pages and other content that can be accessed through the World Wide Web.
webspace
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: webspaces
Etymology: From web + space.
Senses: examples: text: The first webspace flap has been classified into 4 types based on this versatility […]
ref: 2014, Ian A. Trail, Andrew N. M. Fleming, Disorders of the Hand: Volume 1: Hand Injuries, page 159:
text: Digital contractures and webspace contractures of the foot are dealt with using the same principles and techniques as in the digits of the hand.
ref: 2016, David G. Greenhalgh, Burn Care for General Surgeons and General Practitioners, page 163:
text: Injury to the median nerve during CTR commonly involves the nerve to the third webspace, the recurrent motor branch, or the palmar cutaneous branch (seen with more radially placed incisions).
ref: 2017, Scott F. M. Duncan, Ryosuke Kakinoki, Carpal Tunnel Syndrome and Related Median Neuropathies:
text: Usually one will want to open the tip or the pad of the finger and attend to additional trimming about flexion creases and webspaces […]
ref: 2020, Terri M. Skirven, A. Lee Osterman, Jane Fedorczyk, Rehabilitation of the Hand and Upper Extremity, page 1534:
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: One of the spaces between the fingers or toes that contains a web of skin.
incommunicative
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more incommunicative
form: most incommunicative
Etymology: From in- + communicative.
Senses: examples: text: The author tries hard to breathe life into his subject, but it seems there was little vitality left in the octogenarian Djuna. At her best she was vituperative and incommunicative. She says to Mr. Field that he has come too late to write a book about her.
ref: 1983 August 13, John Rosario, “Illustrious Obscurity”, in Gay Community News, volume 11, number 5, page 16:
glosses: Uncommunicative.
Derived terms: incommunicatively
incommunicativeness
incommunicatively
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more incommunicatively
form: most incommunicatively
Etymology: From incommunicative + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an incommunicative way.
incommunicativeness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From incommunicative + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or condition of being incommunicative.
mishegoss
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌmɪʃəˈɡɒs/
ipa: /ˈmɪʃəɡɒs/
Forms: form: mishegaas
form: mishegas
form: mishegass
form: mischegass
form: mischegoss
form: mishegos
form: mishigas
Etymology: Borrowed from Yiddish משוגעת (meshugas), from משוגע (meshuge, “crazy”), from Hebrew משוגע (meshugga`, “crazy”), from שׁוּגַּע (shugga‘, “be driven mad”), שִׁיגַּע (shigga‘, “drive mad”).
Senses: examples: text: On the contrary, the Michigander’s mishegoss is driven by my choice of the on-guard anticipate when he thinks I should have used the more general, all-purpose verb expect.
ref: 2007 February 11, William Safire, “Culpa for Mayor”, in New York Times:
text: You know what? Let's forget all the mishegoss and try to enjoy our lunch, huh? Take the edge off.
ref: 2011 October 30, “Pilot”, in Allen Gregory, season 1, episode 1, spoken by Allen Gregory DeLongpre:
text: Appropriately shamed, Hal agrees to help Oliver in taking down the landlord, which they eventually do after some crime-fighting mishegoss.
ref: 2018 April 17, Abraham Riesman, “Green Lantern No. 76 Was the Moment Superhero Comics Got Woke”, in Vulture:
text: […]new allegations that young Mr. Ellis may have mishandled classified information as part of whatever mishegoss they were trying to pull off there.
ref: 2021 January 21, 24:25 from the start, in The Rachel Maddow Show, spoken by Rachel Maddow:
text: Ullyot warned that under Hegseth “the Pentagon focus is no longer on warfighting, but on endless drama” and said “the president deserves better than the current mishegoss at the Pentagon.”
ref: 2025 April 21, Edward Helmore, quoting John Ullyot, “‘Full-blown meltdown’ at Pentagon after Hegseth’s second Signal chat revealed”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
glosses: Madness; silliness.
nonadmirer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -aɪəɹə(ɹ)
Forms: form: nonadmirers
Etymology: From non- + admirer.
Senses: examples: text: In comes a snail-mail missive from a nonadmirer in Detroit enclosing that column, underlining the word anticipate and scrawling across the ripped-out page “we can expect .”
ref: 2007 February 11, William Safire, “Culpa for Mayor”, in New York Times:
glosses: One who is not an admirer.
nonadmirers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nonadmirer
pistonlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more pistonlike
form: most pistonlike
Etymology: From piston + -like.
Senses: glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a piston.
hammerlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more hammerlike
form: most hammerlike
Etymology: From hammer + -like.
Senses: glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a hammer.
screwlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more screwlike
form: most screwlike
Etymology: From screw + -like.
Senses: glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a screw (mechanical fastener).
noncanine
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + canine.
Senses: examples: text: I predicted that “we can anticipate such a description of noncanine involvement.”
ref: 2007 February 11, William Safire, “Culpa for Mayor”, in New York Times:
glosses: Not canine.
nonsoundtrack
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + soundtrack.
Senses: examples: text: “A Date With John Waters” (New Line Records), his second nonsoundtrack album, is a collection of his favorite twisted love songs.
ref: 2007 February 11, Geoffrey Himes, “John Waters’s Love Songs, Suitably Bizarre”, in New York Times:
glosses: That is not a soundtrack.
overintellectual
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more overintellectual
form: most overintellectual
Etymology: From over- + intellectual.
Senses: glosses: Excessively intellectual.
overseason
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: overseasons
form: overseasoning
form: overseasoned
form: overseasoned
Etymology: From over- + season.
Senses: glosses: To season (flavour) too much.
overseasons
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of overseason
overseasoning
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of overseason
overseasoned
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of overseason
pushbutton
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From push + button.
Senses: examples: text: it is hard to avoid the conclusion that the idea of ethical robotic killing machines is unrealistic, and all too likely to support dangerous fantasies of pushbutton wars and guiltless slaughters.
ref: 2020 October 15, Frank Pasquale, “‘Machines set loose to slaughter’: the dangerous rise of military AI”, in The Guardian:
glosses: Alternative spelling of push-button.
pushbutton
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pushbuttons
Etymology: From push + button.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of push-button.
pushbuttons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pushbutton
antimusic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: antimusics
Etymology: From anti- + music.
Senses: examples: text: […] the current vogue, on the internet, for creating “black midi” files using software to create musical performances with literally millions of notes being played […] is unlikely to appeal to the general listener and we should probably consider it a deviant case of anti-music made for frivolous purposes rather than any kind of polemic.
ref: 2015, Samuel Cameron, Music in the Marketplace: A Social Economics Approach, page 2:
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: Any form of music that defies convention to such a degree that some people would not recognise it as musical.
antimusic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From anti- + music.
Senses: examples: text: In other words, the lack of musical ritual in Canada cannot be understood as yet another case of Muslim antimusic sentiment.
ref: 2011, Karin van Nieuwkerk, Muslim Rap, Halal Soaps, and Revolutionary Theater, page 132:
glosses: Opposing music.
palming off
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: It is sufficient that the complainant is entitled to the custom—the good-will—of a business and that this good-will is injured or is about to be injured, by the palming off of the goods of another as his.
ref: 1917, Harry Dwight Nims, The Law of Unfair Competition and Trade-Marks, page 27:
topics: law
glosses: The act of misrepresenting a counterfeit product as the genuine article.
Derived terms: reverse palming off
palming off
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of palm off
unfadingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more unfadingly
form: most unfadingly
Etymology: From unfading + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an unfading way; eternally, immortally.
unsurmised
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + surmised.
Senses: glosses: Not surmised.
isibongo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: isibongos
form: izibongo
Etymology: Borrowed from Zulu isibongo.
Senses: glosses: A complimentary metonym used to describe members of a Zulu clan.
izibongo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of isibongo
izibongo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A form of Zulu praise poetry that extols somebody's fame.
tautonym
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tautonyms
Etymology: From taut- + -onym or alternatively tauto- + -nym.
Senses: examples: text: And that would mean a species named Leucanthemum leucanthemum, with the genus and species epithet the same (a tautonym), which is a total no-no in botany.
ref: 2013 August 14, “Is oxeye daisy a Leucanthemum or a Chrysanthemum?”, in Botanical Accuracy:
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: A binomial name consisting of the same word twice, such as Bison bison.
examples: text: The chapter on reduplication - "flip-flopping higgledy- piggledy through the riffraff" - differentiates rhyming compounds like bigwig, hotshot, ragtag, sci-fi from repetitions called tautonyms, such as bye-bye, so-so, rah-rah, as well as from ricochet words in which the repeated element is modified: chit-chat, roly-poly, shilly-shally.
ref: 2006 March 11, William Safire, “Language: Nifty gifties: Books full of words - Opinion - International Herald Tribune”, in The New York Times:
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: A word or term made from two identical parts or syllables, such as bonbon or dada.
glosses: An absolute synonym.
Synonyms: reduplicant
Related terms: tautonymy
tautonymous
tautonyms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tautonym
miniconcert
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: miniconcerts
Etymology: From mini- + concert.
Senses: examples: text: It did not take long for Zoundz miniconcerts to start popping up on YouTube.
ref: 2007 February 12, Michel Marriott, “Powered by Toys: The Story Continues”, in New York Times:
glosses: A small or minor concert.
miniconcerts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of miniconcert
nontelevision
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + television.
Senses: examples: text: Before the explosion of Internet news and gossip blogs, People and its competitors would have dominated the nontelevision Anna Nicole coverage.
ref: 2007 February 12, Maria Aspan, “A One-Two Punch at the Old Guard of Gossip”, in New York Times:
glosses: That is not, or does not relate to, television.
quasigovernmental
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From quasi- + governmental.
Senses: glosses: Having a certain degree of funding or influence from the government.
raw_tags: of a private company
Synonyms: quasigovernment
Related terms: quango
tumbao
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tumbaos
Etymology: From Cuban Spanish tumbar (“to knock off, fall”).
Senses: examples: text: After all, its encore introduced some new musical elements, including a pulse faintly suggestive of an Afro-Cuban tumbao.
ref: 2007 February 12, Nate Chinen, “A Flamenco Master Is His Own Ensemble”, in New York Times:
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: The basic rhythm played on the conga drum and the bass in Afro-Cuban music.
tumbaos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tumbao
nonface
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nonfaces
Etymology: From non- + face.
Senses: examples: text: As the computer amassed the information, it was able to discover relationships that were of great significance to almost all faces, but very few nonfaces.
ref: 2007 February 13, Elizabeth Svoboda, “Faces, Faces Everywhere”, in New York Times:
glosses: That which is not a face (especially in computer face-recognition software).
nonfaces
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nonface
prepregnancy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pre- + pregnancy.
Senses: examples: text: After adjusting for prepregnancy weight, smoking status and other variables, the average birth weight of babies in the decaf group was a statistically insignificant one-half ounce higher than that of babies in the coffee-drinking group.
ref: 2007 February 13, Nicholas Bakalar, “Childbirth: Cutting Caffeine Not Found to Affect Birth Weight”, in New York Times:
glosses: Before the onset of pregnancy.
spiderwebbing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of spiderweb
spiderwebbed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of spiderweb
interiorize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: interiorizes
form: interiorizing
form: interiorized
form: interiorized
form: interiorise
Etymology: From interior + -ize.
Senses: glosses: To internalize; to bring inside oneself.
interiorizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of interiorize
interiorizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of interiorize
interiorized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of interiorize
nonengineered
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + engineered.
Senses: examples: text: “An action which potentially eliminates or at least greatly reduces the availability of a particular plant — here, nonengineered alfalfa — has a significant effect on the human environment,” he wrote.
ref: 2007 February 14, Andrew Pollack, “U.S. Agency Violated Law in Seed Case, Judge Rules”, in New York Times:
glosses: Not engineered; traditional, natural, or organic.
forwardable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From forward + -able.
Senses: examples: text: Text is searchable, sortable, copyable, pastable, printable and forwardable.
ref: 2007 February 15, David Pogue, “Freedom for Prisoners of Voice Mail”, in New York Times:
glosses: That can be forwarded.
midthought
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From mid- + thought.
Senses: examples: text: All the segments chewed over their ideas yet tended to end inconclusively, sometimes in midthought, as if they had reached the end of productive interaction with that particular line of inquiry.
ref: 2007 February 15, Anne Midgette, “A New Work for Cello, Played Upon a Veteran”, in New York Times:
glosses: Some time during a thought.
midthought
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From mid- + thought.
Senses: glosses: During a thought; in midthought.
manelessness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From maneless + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: Yet the manelessness of the lioness is one of its most obvious features, and one which is never to my knowledge incorrectly shown by artists in the East where lions were familiar.
ref: 1960, William Llewellyn Brown, The Etruscan Lion, page 166:
text: But are they really tougher? And if so, is there any connection between their manelessness and their ferocity?
ref: 2002 April, Philip Caputo, “Maneless Lions”, in National Geographic:
text: All of these things led them to suspect that manelessness was typical in some parts of Kenya and might have been widespread in Africa many decades ago.
ref: 2002 July 9, Anahad O'Connor, “Shaggy, or Not So Shaggy: A New Look at Lions' Manes”, in The New York Times:
glosses: The state of being maneless.
emblaze
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪmˈbleɪz/
ipa: /ɛmˈbleɪz/
Forms: form: emblazes
form: emblazing
form: emblazed
form: emblazed
form: imblaze
Etymology: From em- + blaze.
Senses: glosses: To kindle; set ablaze.
glosses: To adorn with glittering embellishments; cause to glitter or shine.
examples: text: When a window screen is emblazed with a pretty design, one cannot look into the room beyond because of arrest of vision by the figure upon the screen.
ref: 1915, Robert Tuttle Morris, Doctors Versus Folks:
text: This feeling emblazed inside. / Every nerve like a firefly.
ref: 1997, “Euphoria (Firefly)”, performed by Delirium:
glosses: To illuminate; to etch or display in a bright, fiery way; blazon.
Derived terms: emblazer
Related terms: emblazon
emblazes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of emblaze
emblazing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of emblaze
emblazed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of emblaze
postvictory
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From post- + victory.
Senses: examples: text: He had slept for two hours after winning Best in Show Tuesday night at the Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show, and now was 13 hours into his postvictory news media tour.
ref: 2007 February 15, Richard Sandomir, “James Is Ready for His Close-Up ... Sort Of”, in New York Times:
glosses: Occurring after a victory.
unimpeachability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From unimpeachable + -ity.
Senses: glosses: The state or condition of being unimpeachable; blamelessness.
impeachability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From impeachable + -ity.
Senses: glosses: The state or condition of being impeachable.
baldish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more baldish
form: most baldish
Etymology: From bald + -ish.
Senses: glosses: Somewhat bald; balding.
belovedness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /bɪˈlʌvɪdnɪs/
Etymology: From beloved + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or condition of being beloved.
cabinlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more cabinlike
form: most cabinlike
Etymology: From cabin + -like.
Senses: examples: text: In fact, the production is an all-female affair, from the sound designer, Elise Kermani, to the artist Barbara Kilpatrick, who constructed a cabinlike structure for the set and created costumes from clothing donated by Eileen Fisher.
ref: 2007 February 16, The New York Times, “Dance Listings”, in New York Times:
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a cabin.
Synonyms: hutlike
cabinesque
divadom
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From diva + -dom.
Senses: examples: text: And Carmen Cortés, fast approaching divadom, will offer examples of Gypsy flamenco puro in a program on Thursday with the flamenco guitarist Gerardo Núñez and his quintet.
ref: 2007 February 16, The New York Times, “Dance Listings”, in New York Times:
glosses: The condition of being a diva; the sphere of divas.
lunkish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more lunkish
form: most lunkish
Etymology: From lunk + -ish.
Senses: examples: text: The lunkish Jannik (the enormously affecting Nikolaj Lie Kaas) is the family screw-up just out of prison for robbery.
ref: 2007 February 16, Caryn James, “In Foreign Oscar Entries, the Past Masks the Present”, in New York Times:
glosses: Like a lunk; stupid, foolish.
maqamat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of maqam
nonmale
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + male.
Senses: examples: text: Feminists and others were expanding it by introducing aspects of beading, sewing, quilting, rug-making and more performance, thereby introducing elements of craft, the body and personal identity, and forcefully defining creators as nonmale or nonwhite.
ref: 2007 February 16, Roberta Smith, “Painting in the Heady Days, After It Was Proclaimed Dead”, in New York Times:
glosses: Not male.
nonmale
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nonmales
Etymology: From non- + male.
Senses: glosses: One who is not male.
objectlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more objectlike
form: most objectlike
Etymology: From object + -like.
Senses: examples: text: Some were trying out unusual materials and techniques — cotton balls, fake jewels, pigmented wax, spray guns, squeegees — either to make painting more perversely objectlike or to reopen the spatial illusions shut down by the Judd-Stella-Greenberg juggernaut.
ref: 2007 February 16, Roberta Smith, “Painting in the Heady Days, After It Was Proclaimed Dead”, in New York Times:
glosses: Resembling an object.
Synonyms: thinglike
panleukopenia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: panleukopenias
Etymology: From pan- + leukopenia.
Senses: examples: text: The viruses were Parvovirus, canine distemper and feline panleukopenia; the bacterial infection was a fatal hemorrhagic, or bloody, pneumonia.
ref: 2007 February 16, Steve Friess, “1,000 Dogs and Cats Killed After Outbreak at Shelter”, in New York Times:
glosses: A distemper of cats caused by a strain of Parvovirus.
scumblings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of scumbling
thanka
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: thankas
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of thangka.
glosses: Alternative spelling of tanka.
thankas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of thanka
uncontainably
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more uncontainably
form: most uncontainably
Etymology: From uncontainable + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Here, Mr. Hodgkin has slathered green onto a cheap frame, as he frequently does, incorporating the frames as objects and also making the pictures seem to spill out, uncontainably, beyond their edges.
ref: 2007 February 16, Michael Kimmelman, “Blasts of Color, Evoking Memories”, in New York Times:
glosses: In an uncontainable way.
chacarera
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chacareras
Etymology: From Spanish chacarera.
Senses: examples: text: Along the way, he has built some fascinating bridges between jazz, pop, classical music and the chacareras and tangos of his native Argentina.
ref: 2007 February 17, Nate Chinen, “A Wide World of Sound With an Argentine Beat”, in New York Times:
glosses: A genre of Argentinian and Bolivian folk music, a dance form played by contemporary musicians as soloists or in small ensembles of voice, guitar, violin and bombo drum.
glosses: A dance accompanying this music.
chacareras
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chacarera
insulinlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more insulinlike
form: most insulinlike
Etymology: From insulin + -like.
Senses: examples: text: Both sell drugs that were approved in 2005 to treat extremely short children who are deficient in a hormone called insulinlike growth factor one, or IGF-1.
ref: 2007 February 17, Andrew Pollack, “Growth Drug Is Caught Up in Patent Fight”, in New York Times:
glosses: Resembling insulin or some aspect of it.
restraint of trade
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: restraints of trade
Senses: topics: law
glosses: An agreement that prevents fair competition on the open market, such as an agreement by one party to hire a second party to work within a profession on the condition that the second party will not compete against the first.
missort
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /mɪsˈsɔː(ɹ)t/
ipa: /ˈmɪs.sɔː(ɹ)t/
Forms: form: missorts
form: missorting
form: missorted
form: missorted
Etymology: From mis- + sort.
Senses: examples: text: And if four clubs was to be taken as natural, presumably South had missorted his hand, perhaps originally thinking he had 4-3-3-3 distribution when he was really 7-3-3-0; or, more likely, he had a six-card club suit and was willing to risk ending in four no-trump if North did not have extra values.
ref: 2007 February 17, Phillip Alder, “A Forgetful Bidding Moment, but Lady Luck Comes Calling”, in New York Times:
glosses: To sort incorrectly; to misorder.
missort
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /mɪsˈsɔː(ɹ)t/
ipa: /ˈmɪs.sɔː(ɹ)t/
Forms: form: missorts
Etymology: From mis- + sort.
Senses: glosses: An incorrect sorting.
glosses: Something incorrectly sorted.
missorting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of missort
restraints of trade
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of restraint of trade
missorted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of missort
missorts
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of missort
missorts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of missort
strangulates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of strangulate
strangulating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of strangulate
strangulated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of strangulate
strangulated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: a strangulated hernia
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Having the circulation stopped by compression; attended with arrest or obstruction of circulation, caused by constriction or compression.
examples: text: Robert at once performed the strangulated antics of one arising.
ref: 1930, Norman Lindsay, Redheap, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, →OCLC, page 8:
glosses: Strangled; affected by strangulation.
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Contracted at irregular intervals, if tied with a ligature; constricted.
superbrand
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: superbrands
Etymology: From super- + brand.
Senses: examples: text: But Nascar has become a global superbrand, still undeniably American yet ubiquitous enough for the world’s best — not just auto manufacturers, but racers like Juan Montoya, the Colombian who has dominated Formula 1 — to want to test its drivers and its superspeedways.
ref: 2007 February 17, Michael Yaki, “The Jingoism 500”, in New York Times:
glosses: An extremely popular brand.
Synonyms: megabrand
superbrands
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of superbrand
superconnected
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more superconnected
form: most superconnected
Etymology: From super- + connected.
Senses: examples: text: For a superconnected probe interval graph G, a tree 4-spanner can be constructed easily.
ref: 2003, H. L. Bodlaender, Graph-theoretic concepts in computer science: 29th International Workshop:
topics: graph-theory
mathematics
sciences
glosses: Whose every minimum vertex cut leads to isolated vertices.
raw_tags: of a graph
examples: text: The superconnected may develop a dual-dependency,” Robert Bornstein, a psychologist at Adelphi University, told the author of the article, Carlin Flora.
ref: 2007 February 17, Paul B. Brown, “Wireless Codependency”, in New York Times:
glosses: Being a major user of communication technologies.
unflooded
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + flooded.
Senses: examples: text: These inequities, and the missing geographic counterpoint, do a disservice to those who want to stay in flooded areas, and a disservice to those who still live in unflooded areas.
ref: 2007 February 17, “In New Orleans, Fighting to Stay (3 Letters)”, in New York Times:
glosses: Not flooded.
Synonyms: undeluged
uninundated
uninundated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + inundated.
Senses: glosses: Not inundated.
Synonyms: unflooded
aromatherapeutic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From aroma + therapeutic.
Senses: topics: alternative-medicine
medicine
sciences
glosses: Of or pertaining to aromatherapy
passing off
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: law
glosses: The act of misrepresenting the origin of a product.
passing off
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of pass off
integrity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪnˈtɛɡɹəti/
ipa: /ɪnˈtɛɡɹɪti/
Forms: form: integrities
Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French intégrité, from Latin integritās (“soundness, integrity”), from integer. Doublet of entirety.
Senses: examples: text: Stand up, good Canterbury: Thy truth and thy integrity is rooted […]
ref: 1613 (date written), William Shakespeare, [John Fletcher], “The Famous History of the Life of King Henry the Eight”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene i], lines 2920-2921:
text: Living a lie saps us of integrity and moral cohesion to the point that we can no longer distinguish between the artifice being propped up and the real world.
ref: 2023 June 22, Charles Hugh Smith, 2023-2030: Artifice Vs. Doom-Loops:
glosses: Steadfast adherence to a strict moral or ethical code.
glosses: The state of being wholesome; unimpaired
glosses: The quality or condition of being complete; pure
topics: computing
cryptography
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: With regards to data encryption, ensuring that information is not altered by unauthorized persons in a way that is not detectable by authorized users.
topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The ability of systems to provide timely warnings to users when they should not be used for navigation.
glosses: Trustworthiness; keeping one's word.
Synonyms: decency
goodness
honesty
probity
purity
rectitude
sincerity
unity
uprightness
virtue
wholeness
Derived terms: bit-count integrity
bodily integrity
body integrity identity disorder
data integrity
disintegrity
information integrity
integritous
integrity level
nonintegrity
plea integrity unit
referential integrity
safety integrity level
software integrity level
structural integrity
tensegrity
territorial integrity
Related terms: word: integer
word: integral
word: integrate
word: integrated
word: integrous