cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
coplanarity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: coplanarities
form: co-planarity
Etymology: From coplanar + -ity.
Senses: topics: geometry
mathematics
sciences
qualifier: usually lines
glosses: The state or characteristic of being within the same plane.
raw_tags: of at least two things
examples: text: Gliese 876 affords us by far our most detailed and accurate map of any extrasolar planetary system in the solar neighborhood, and […] it is reassuring to see a kinship in the most fundamental property of system coplanarity.
ref: 2009 January 9, Robert Naeye, “Exoplanets' Dance Reveals They're Coplanar”, in skyandtelescope.com, retrieved 09 Jan 2009:
topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: The state or characteristic of orbiting a central celestial object within the same orbital plane.
raw_tags: of multiple planets or other orbiting bodies
Derived terms: noncoplanarity
co-planarity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of coplanarity.
house-call
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: house-calls
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of house call.
imprevisible
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more imprevisible
form: most imprevisible
Senses: examples: text: And the name or the phrase once started on its career is beyond control or recall ; and what it may grow into is imprevisible.
ref: 1901, J. Herbert Williams, “Development”, in W. Spooner, editor, The Dublin Review, volume 128, London: The Westminster Press, page 292:
text: […] there intervene periods of rest or repose, during which no food is taken, unless it be every now and then from time to time an occasional snack, quick drink or light collation, rendered if not indispensable at least welcome by an unforeseen acceleration of the metabolic exchanges due to circumstances of an imprevisible kind, […]
ref: 1953, Samuel Beckett, Watt, [Paris]: Olympia Press, →OCLC:
text: From these two points there emerges a third: The free act, considered in its human cause is imprevisible.
ref: 1966, Gerard Smith, Freedom in Molina, Loyola University Press, page 66:
antonyms: foreseeable
previsible
glosses: unforeseeable
Derived terms: imprevisibility
helados
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of helado
stargate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈstɑɹˌɡeɪt/
Forms: form: stargates
form: star-gate
form: star gate
Etymology: From star + gate. A science fiction film of this title, Stargate, was released in 1994.
Senses: examples: text: Find examples of stargates and wormholes in the ancient world […]
ref: 2000, David Hatcher Childress, Technology of the Gods:
text: Perhaps the first clear depiction of a stargate is to be found in Robert Heinlein's classic novel Tunnel in the Sky […]
ref: 2001, William R Alschuler, Howard Zimmerman, The Science of UFOs:
text: A stargate takes you to that star or constellation. […] The opening of a stargate requires the participation of the Archangel Michael […]
ref: 2002, Richard Leviton, The Galaxy on Earth: A Traveler's Guide to the Planet's Visionary Geography:
text: At some point it might be possible to devise a "stargate" such as depicted in the movies 2001: A Space Odyssey and Stargate […]
ref: 2003, Albert A Harrison, After Contact: The Human Response to Extraterrestrial Life:
text: With a stargate, travel is instantaneous. It is quite possible that the secret government either has a stargate or is trying to get one.
ref: 2004, Stephanie Relfe, The Mars Force Book 2:
topics: literature
media
publishing
science-fiction
glosses: A hypothetical device consisting of a traversable portal (typically a wormhole) that can send one to another location light years away nearly instantaneously.
wikipedia: Stargate (film)
Hypernyms: sense: teleportation transport portal device
word: teleporter
Coordinate terms: sense: teleporting conveyance portal device
word: dimensional portal
sense: teleporting conveyance portal device
word: interdimensional portal
sense: teleporting conveyance portal device
word: space portal
sense: teleporting conveyance portal device
word: spacetime portal
sense: teleporting conveyance portal device
word: spacetime tunnel
sense: teleporting conveyance portal device
word: space tunnel
sense: teleporting conveyance portal device
word: teleport
sense: teleporting conveyance portal device
word: teleportal
sense: teleporting conveyance portal device
word: teleporter
sense: teleporting conveyance portal device
word: time portal
sense: teleporting conveyance portal device
word: time tunnel
sense: teleporting conveyance portal device
word: transdimensional portal
sense: teleporting conveyance portal device
word: transmat
sense: teleporting conveyance portal device
word: transporter
sense: teleporting conveyance portal device
word: wormhole
traversable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more traversable
form: most traversable
Etymology: From traverse + -able.
Senses: glosses: Able to be traversed.
examples: text: Presentment of a felo de se before justices of peace, or oyer and terminer, traversable by the executor.
ref: 1736, Sir Matthew Hale, Historia Placitorum Coronæ:
topics: law
glosses: Deniable; liable to legal objection.
traversable
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: traversables
Etymology: From traverse + -able.
Senses: examples: text: Additions: Methods that append two traversables together.
ref: 2018, Vikash Sharma, Learning Scala Programming, page 93:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
glosses: Any object that can be navigated by traversal.
Schwarzschild black hole
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Schwarzschild black holes
Etymology: Named after German physicist and astronomer Karl Schwarzschild (1873–1916).
Senses: glosses: An uncharged (q = 0), nonrotating (L = 0) black hole.
Related terms: Schwarzschild circumference
Schwarzschild metric
Schwarzschild radius
coëxist
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: coëxists
form: coëxisting
form: coëxisted
form: coëxisted
Senses: examples: text: Bowne, Metaphysics, 106 —“ In the system, the complete ground of an event never lies in any one thing, but only in a complex of things. If a single thing were the sufficient ground of an effect, the effect would coëxist with the thing, and all effects would be instantaneously given. Hence all events in the system must be viewed as the result of the interaction of two or more things.”
ref: 1886, Augustus Hopkins Strong, Systematic Theology: A Compendium and Commonplace-book Designed for the Use of Theological Students, page 437 (Press of E.R. Andrews)
text: Location of coëxisting coacervates and equilibrium liquid in the cells.
ref: 1942, Proceedings of the section of sciences / Koninklĳke Akademie van Wetenschappen, te Amsterdam, volume 45 : 2, page 781:
text: Is there really a difference in practice between enchantment and magic, between the production of an artistic “Secondary World” and a work whose purpose is also “alteration in the Primary World”? It would seem that in reality these two can coëxist in a single work.
ref: 2001, Richard Caron, Joscelyn Godwin, and Wouter J Hanegraaff, Esotérisme, gnoses & imaginaire symbolique: mélanges offerts à Antoine Faivre, page 714 (Peeters Publishers; ISBN 978‒90‒6831‒918‒7)
glosses: Dated spelling of coexist.
coëxists
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: co-exists
form: coexists
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of coëxist
coëxisting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: co-existing
form: coexisting
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of coëxist
coëxisted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: co-existed
form: coexisted
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of coëxist
Kerr black hole
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Kerr black holes
Etymology: Named after New Zealander physicist Roy Kerr.
Senses: examples: text: At the center of the Heleus Cluster is a black hole, a huge star that has collapsed into a region of space-time with gravitational effects so powerful that even light cannot escape. This example is believed to be a Kerr black hole approximately 12 stellar masses in size, and appears to have absorbed additional mass from nearby systems.
ref: 2017, BioWare, Mass Effect: Andromeda (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →OCLC, PC, scene: Black Hole: H-012 "Ketos" Codex entry:
glosses: An uncharged (q = 0), rotating (L ≠ 0) black hole.
Related terms: Kerr metric
Kerr-Newman black hole
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Kerr-Newman black holes
Etymology: Named after Roy Kerr and Ezra T. Newman.
Senses: glosses: A charged (q ≠ 0), rotating (L ≠ 0) black hole.
Related terms: Kerr-Newman metric
Reissner-Nordström black hole
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Reissner-Nordstrom black hole
form: Reissner-Nordström black holes
Senses: glosses: A charged (q ≠ 0), nonrotating (L = 0) black hole.
Related terms: Reissner-Nordström metric
catastrophë
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: catastrophes
form: catastrophës
Senses: examples: text: Homer adverts in two lines, strongly marked by that power, which he singularly possessed, of expressing the deepest pathetic in the simplest terms, to the catastrophë of the family of Œneus, king of the country, as to a story well known among his contemporaries.
ref: 1823, William Mitford, The History of Greece, pages 42 and 315
roman: While then the Athenian arms pressed upon the Syracusans and their allies, the Egestans were relieved; but, with the catastrophë of the Athenian forces, followed by the downfal of the influence of Hermocrates, their situation became even more perilous than before; inasmuch as the exasperation of their enemies was increased, the hope and liberality from Syracuse was lessened, and all prospect of a protecting power anywhere among the Grecian states was done away.
glosses: Alternative spelling of catastrophe.
Alcubierre metric
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Alcubierre metrics
Etymology: Named after Mexican physicist Miguel Alcubierre.
Senses: qualifier: relativity
glosses: A type of spacetime metric. See warp bubble.
Related terms: Alcubierre drive
Schwarzschild black holes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Schwarzschild black hole
electoral fraud
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: The taking such measures, in order to secure their fair right of voting to the electors in a particular interest, must be considered rather as an act of official favouritism, than as an electoral fraud.
ref: 1839, Charles Buller, Edward Gibbon Wakefield, The Report and Despatches of the Earl of Durham:
text: He has saddled the finances of the Principality with the costs of a huge electoral fraud.
ref: 1882, M. Valentine Chirol, “Bulgaria”, in The Fortnightly Review, volume 36, page 293:
text: In addition to the strength of the Social Democratic candidates, I also examined the relationship between other political factors and the incidence of electoral fraud.
ref: 2015, Isabela Mares, From Open Secrets to Secret Voting:
topics: government
politics
glosses: Illegal interference with the process of an election, especially with the intent to stage a desired election outcome.
Minkowski spacetime
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Minkowski spacetimes
Etymology: Named after German mathematician Hermann Minkowski (1864–1909).
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
qualifier: relativity
glosses: A geometrically flat spacetime, i.e. one with zero curvature.
Related terms: light cone
hendigo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: henndigo
form: hennindigo
Etymology: Blend of henna + indigo
Senses: glosses: A combination of henna and indigo, used as a hair dye.
glosses: An event of dyeing with henna and indigo.
scarfie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: scarfies
Etymology: From scarf + -ie, from the signature blue-and-yellow scarf such a person wears to show their support for their home rugby team (especially the Otago Rugby Football Union).
Senses: glosses: A university student, especially one from the University of Otago.
Wigner's friend
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Named after Hungarian-American physicist Eugene Wigner, who described the experiment in an article published in 1961.
Senses: examples: text: 2001, David Lewis, How Many Lives Has Schrödinger's Cat?, Lecture, republished in 2004, Frank Jackson, Graham Priest (editors), Lewisian Themes: The Philosophy of David K. Lewis, page 13,
There is no collapse until Wigner comes along, yet because different branches of the previous superposition have acted differently to bring about different branches of Wigner's friend, each branch of Wigner's friend is under the illusion of seeing a sharp state, and thus under an illusion of collapse.
text: 2009, Henry Stapp, Wigner's Friend, Daniel Greenberger, Klaus Hentsche, Compendium of Quantum Physics: Concepts, Experiments, History and Philosophy, Springer, page 857,
The second step is to treat Wigner's friend as an unobserved inanimate measuring device that has two states: either it registers the photon, χ₁ or it does not χ₂.
text: In 1962 Eugene Wigner elaborated on the knowledge issue with his Wigner's Friend paradox, an expansion of the Schrödinger's Cat problem [11]. Wigner replaced the cat with a “friend”, i.e., an intelligent observer and at the same time replaced the hydrocyanic acid mechanism with a less lethal piece of apparatus, e.g., a light bulb that is switched on when a count is recorded.
ref: 2016, John G. Cramer, The Quantum Handshake: Entanglement, Nonlocality and Transactions, Springer, page 82:
topics: human-sciences
natural-sciences
philosophy
physical-sciences
physics
sciences
glosses: The hypothetical observer in a thought experiment in which Wigner, absent when his friend observes the state of a particle (in some versions, Schrödinger's cat) as it collapses from quantum superposition, concludes that both the particle and his friend remain in quantum superposition until Wigner himself learns the result of the observation.
præfer
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: præfers
form: præferring
form: præferred
form: præferred
Senses: examples: text: I præfer Tulli before Cæsar in writing Latin; do I therefore disable or disalow Cæsar? And yit I do not so præfer Tulli nether but that Cæsar in sum on point, as in lepore, brevitate or the like mai pas and excel Tulli.
ref: 1573–1580, Gabriel Harvey; quoted in 1965 by Edward John Long Scott, in Letter-book of Gabriel Harvey, A.D. 1573–1580 (Johnson Reprint Corporation), page 7
text: This day the Earle of Rothes, Chancellor, (Sir Wᵐ Bruce’s name is in the gift of non-entrie,) gain’d his action againſt my Lord Melvill and his 2ᵈ ſone; the Lords found Melvill’s ſone could not be ſerved air of tailzie to the laſt Countes of Leven during the poſſibility of a 2ᵈ ſone of my Lord Chancelor’s body, (for the devill moſt byde his day,) and præfers Sir Wᵐ Bruce’s gift.
ref: 1677 February 20, John Lauder of Fountainhall, Manuscript 548; quoted in 1848 by David Laing, in Historical Notices of Scotish Affairs (T. Constable), page 140
text: One discendit of a noble father and mother is euer to be præferred to him quho is onlie procreat of one noble parent, of wich of the two so euer it be. Cod. de Silentiariis lib. 12. L. 1. Menochius Consill. 126. Nobilis, Num. 12. lib. 2.
ref: 1837, James Balfour, James Maidment, Ancient Heraldic and Antiquarian Tracts, page 14, § 57:
text: Clytia (as Perottus witneſſeth) was a glorious Nimph, and thereof had her name : for κλέος in greeke ſignifieth glorie : and therfore ſhe aſpired to be the loue of Sol him ſelfe, who præferring Leucothoe before her, ſhe was in ſhort ſpace ouergonne with ſuch extreemitie of care, that by compaſſion of the Gods ſhee was tranſformed into a Marigolde; which is ſignificantlie called Heliotropium, becauſe euen nowe after change of forme ſhee ſtill obſerueth the riſing and going downe of hir beloued the ſunne, as Ouid mentioneth,
Illa ſuum, quamuis radice tenetur,
ref: 1869, a publication of the Spenser Society, reprinted in 1967 by Thomas Corser (editor), in Zepheria (Ayer Publishing), page IX
roman: Veritur ad Solem, mutataque ſeruat amorem.
glosses: Archaic spelling of prefer.
præfers
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of præfer
præferring
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of præfer
præferred
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more præferred
form: most præferred
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of preferred.
præferred
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of præfer
Kaluza-Klein theory
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Kaluza-Klein theories
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A model (not believed to be literally true) developed by physicists Theodor Kaluza and Oskar Klein that attempted to combine gravity and electromagnetism by adding a fifth dimension to our four-dimensional spacetime.
topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Any of a number of theories that try to explain forces by adding extra dimensions to our spacetime.
Kaluza-Klein theories
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Kaluza-Klein theory
strong force
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: strong forces
Senses: qualifier: nuclear physics
glosses: The color force, a fundamental force that is associated with the strong bonds, created by the associated bosons known as gluons, between quarks and other subatomic particles.
qualifier: nuclear physics
glosses: The nuclear force, a residual force responsible for the interactions between nucleons, deriving from the color force
Synonyms: topics: color
word: strong nuclear force
topics: color
word: color force
topics: color
word: colour force
sense: nucleon
word: nuclear force
sense: nucleon
word: residiual strong force
Related terms: quantum chromodynamics
strong interaction
strong electroweak theory
colour charge
color charge
manicate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more manicate
form: most manicate
Etymology: From Latin mānicātus (“sleeved”), from mānicae (“sleeves”), see -ate (adjective-forming suffix).
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Covered with hairs or pubescence so interwoven as to form a mass easily removed.
colour charge
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: colour charges
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Alternative spelling of color charge.
colour force
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: colour forces
Senses: qualifier: nuclear physics
glosses: A fundamental force that is associated with the strong nuclear force, created by the associated bosons known as gluons, between quarks and other subatomic particles, by way of the colour charge
Synonyms: topics: color
word: strong force
topics: color
word: strong nuclear force
sense: nucleon
word: nuclear force
sense: nucleon
word: residual strong force
Related terms: quantum chromodynamics
strong interaction
strong electroweak theory
color interaction
colour interaction
color force
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: color forces
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Alternative spelling of colour force.
muster roll
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: muster rolls
Senses: glosses: An official list of the officers and men in a military (or naval) unit
Related terms: muster out
muster up
pass muster
abecedarius
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌeɪ.biˌsiˈdæɹ.i.əs/
Forms: form: abecedariuses
form: abecedarii
Etymology: Borrowed from New Latin abecedārius, from Late Latin. Doublet of abecedary.
Senses: examples: text: Michele Clise has adapted the Shaker abecedarius, changed a few words, and used black, white, and gray sketches for illustrations to create her alphabet .
ref: 1995, Cathie Hilterbran Cooper, ABC Books and Activities, page 15:
glosses: An acrostic poem in which the lines begin with the letters of the alphabet in sequence.
adress
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of address.
light years
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of light year
stargates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stargate
Hennen
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: Lead study author Derek Hennen is a self-proclaimed Swiftie and wanted to honor the singer. He was a doctoral candidate at Virginia Tech in Blacksburg at the time of the research.
ref: 2022 April 20, Megan Marples, “Taylor Swift inspired an entomologist to name a new millipede species after the megastar”, in CNN:
glosses: A surname from Irish.
munis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of muni
antisemitic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more antisemitic
form: most antisemitic
Senses: examples: text: Musk’s Israel tour was transparently transactional and frankly insulting. The antisemitic sentiment Musk endorsed had nothing to do with Israel; “replacement theory” is generally an unsupported allegation that Jews and other immigrants in the US and Europe are destroying Western civilization.
ref: 2023 November 28, Jill Filipovic, “Opinion: Elon Musk’s Israel tour was transparently transactional and insulting”, in CNN:
glosses: Alternative form of anti-Semitic.
dishwaters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dishwater
doubleton
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: doubletons
Etymology: From double + -ton.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: A set containing precisely two elements.
examples: text: If she had had the doubleton ace of diamonds and a low club, she would have made a four-club splinter bid, showing four-card spade support, the values for game and a singleton or void in clubs.
ref: 2009 January 8, Phillip Alder, “Part 1 of an Experiment, Ending in a Trump Coup”, Bridge, in New York Times:
topics: bridge
games
glosses: A pair of cards of the same suit, which are the only cards of that suit in a player's hand
Coordinate terms: singleton
crafter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɑːftə(ɹ)
-æftə(ɹ)
Forms: form: crafters
Etymology: From craft + -er.
Senses: examples: text: There are a number of crafters around here who make quilts.
glosses: Someone who participates in a particular handicraft, either as a hobby or as a small business
examples: text: Alternatively, take a look at all the game’s Armor Trims or learn how to make a crafter so you can autocraft.
ref: 2024 September 26, Jessica Filby, “Minecraft The Creaking is leaking so here’s everything we know”, in Dexerto:
glosses: Someone or something that crafts.
Derived terms: handcrafter
leathercrafter
webcrafter
woodcrafter
crossruff
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: crossruffs
Etymology: From cross- + ruff.
Senses: examples: text: When West discarded a club, South could have won with dummy's ace and played on crossruff lines.
ref: 2009 January 8, Phillip Alder, “Part 1 of an Experiment, Ending in a Trump Coup”, Bridge, in New York Times:
topics: bridge
games
glosses: A play in which tricks are taken by taking alternate ruffs in each hand
Related terms: overruff
ruff
underruff
crossruff
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: crossruffs
form: crossruffing
form: crossruffed
form: crossruffed
Etymology: From cross- + ruff.
Senses: topics: bridge
games
glosses: To execute a play of this kind.
crossruffed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of crossruff
crossruffing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of crossruff
crossruffs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of crossruff
crossruffs
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of crossruff
managements
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Most managements are going to be saying, "We can't give you any guidance."
ref: 2009 January 8, Jack Healy, “Stocks Drop on Earnings Gloom; S.&.P. Falls 3%”, in New York Times:
glosses: plural of management
bilevel
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: bi-level
Etymology: From bi- + level.
Senses: examples: text: We developed a bilevel approach to the problem.
synonyms: two-level
glosses: Having two levels
bilevel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bilevels
form: bi-level
Etymology: From bi- + level.
Senses: examples: text: They live in a little bilevel on the edge of town.
topics: architecture
synonyms: split-level
glosses: A house with two adjacent levels that are less than a story apart.
topics: computer-graphics
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A binary image, one that has only two possible values for each pixel (usually black and white).
examples: text: MULLET / Now this is what we call “business in the front, party in the back”! A male haircut derived from the 1980s female-oriented bi-level […]
ref: 2005, David Mansour, From Abba to Zoom, page 326:
glosses: A women's hairstyle similar to the mullet.
crafters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of crafter
familylike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more familylike
form: most familylike
Etymology: From family + -like.
Senses: examples: text: Print and online ads, posters and signs in stores present images of attractive models -- men, women, children -- as singles and pairs or in familylike groups.
ref: 2009 January 8, Stuart Elliott, “As Consumers Try to Cut Back, Tropicana Promotes Quality and Value”, in New York Times:
glosses: Resembling a family
Related terms: familial
homebuilding
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From home + building.
Senses: examples: text: The forced sale of one of the city's most expensive homes, owned by someone who made his fortune in homebuilding, makes clear the widespread nature of the real estate collapse.
ref: 2009 January 8, Robbie Brown, “Hard Times Find Replica of White House for Sale”, in New York Times:
synonyms: housebuilding
glosses: The part of the construction industry concerned with building individual homes.
Related terms: homebuilder
stipa
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stipas
Senses: glosses: Any grass of the genus Stipa.
stipate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈstʌɪpət/
Forms: form: more stipate
form: most stipate
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin stīpātus.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Pressed together; crowded.
galvanizingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more galvanizingly
form: most galvanizingly
Etymology: From galvanizing + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: His speech was galvanizingly powerful.
glosses: In a way that galvanizes, or has a galvanizing effect
bilevels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bilevel
thermovoltaic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more thermovoltaic
form: most thermovoltaic
Etymology: From thermo- + voltaic.
Senses: glosses: thermoelectric
gavaging
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of gavage
gavages
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of gavage
gavaged
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of gavage
multitentacled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From multi- + tentacle + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: Sellers maintain that sex trinkets have not been affected by the recession that has hurt other segments of the multitentacled sex entertainment industry.
ref: 2009 January 8, Ruth La Ferla, “Toy Story, the Adult Version”, in New York Times:
glosses: Having many tentacles, either physical or metaphoric
quirkinesses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of quirkiness
overzealousness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From overzealous + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: Many Gazans scorn Fatah as corrupt and incompetent, and they dislike Hamas's overzealousness and repression.
ref: 2009 January 8, Nicholas D. Kristof, “The Gaza Boomerang”, in New York Times:
glosses: The quality of being too zealous
Related terms: overzealously
zealousness
overpluck
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: overplucks
form: overplucking
form: overplucked
form: overplucked
Etymology: From over- + pluck.
Senses: examples: text: Brows should be sculpted, but not severe (no overplucking), with a high arch.
ref: 2009 January 8, Laura Holson, “Working Toward Veronica Lake”, in New York Times:
glosses: To pluck something too much, usually one's eyebrows
pretournament
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: pre-tournament
Etymology: From pre- + tournament.
Senses: examples: text: "I think there's a lot of things I can learn from him," said Kim, who already has modeled his pretournament routine after Woods's.
ref: 2009 January 8, Larry Dorman, “With Woods Absent, Youthful Newcomers Prepare to Challenge”, in New York Times:
glosses: Occurring before, or in preparation for, a tournament
Coordinate terms: posttournament
pretournament
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pretournaments
form: pre-tournament
Etymology: From pre- + tournament.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of pre-tournament.
overplucks
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of overpluck
overplucking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of overpluck
overplucked
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of overpluck
nonmovie
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + movie.
Senses: examples: text: Most people in Hollywood actually have nonmovie jobs.
text: You're also losing the nonmovie stuff on HBO, the dramatic series and so on; then again, why not get those on Netflix DVDs?
ref: 2009 January 8, David Pogue, “Many Ways to Plug in to Tech Savings”, in New York Times:
glosses: Not a movie, or unrelated to the movie industry
rewatchable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more rewatchable
form: most rewatchable
Etymology: From rewatch + -able.
Senses: examples: text: No ballets are more rewatchable than Balanchine's: to return to them, even after decades of acquaintance, is usually to recognize new points that you'd previously looked at without really seeing.
ref: 2009 January 8, Alastair Macaulay, “The Twirling Kaleidoscope That Is Balanchine”, in New York Times:
glosses: Pleasant to watch more than once.
Related terms: watchable
rewatchability
yesss
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: examples: text: "Oh, yesss," he muttered in a mousy Germanic accent, hunching over and twiddling his fingers anxiously.
ref: 2009 January 8, Ben Sisario, “Addicted to Peter Lorre (That Voice, Those Eyes)”, in New York Times:
glosses: Elongated form of yes.
sporters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sporter
semiliteracy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From semi- + literacy.
Senses: examples: text: Despite his high-school education, he is still stuck in semiliteracy.
synonyms: subliteracy
coordinate_terms: illiteracy
literacy
glosses: The state of not being fully literate, or having an imperfect grasp of the written language.
Related terms: word: semiliterate
slackerly
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more slackerly
form: most slackerly
Etymology: From slacker + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: The unkempt young man had a certain slackerly charm.
glosses: Characteristic of a slacker
slicked
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of slick
roisterous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more roisterous
form: most roisterous
Etymology: From roister + -ous.
Senses: examples: text: The New Year's Eve crowd was wild and roisterous.
glosses: Loud and disorderly; carousing
Synonyms: roistering
Derived terms: roisterously
roisterousness
Related terms: boisterous
songspiel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: songspiels
Etymology: From German Songspiel, from Singspiel. First used by Kurt Weill in the title Mahagonny, ein Songspiel.
Senses: glosses: An operatic musical drama in which spoken dialogue is interspersed with song.
wikipedia: Kurt Weill
Mahagonny-Songspiel
Related terms: singspiel
subrule
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: subrules
Etymology: From sub- + rule.
Senses: examples: text: This led to a set of rules (play cannot begin before crossing East Blithedale Avenue), then subrules ("crossing" means reaching the always arguable halfway point of the avenue) […
ref: 2009 January 8, Michelle Slatalla, “Two Can Play That Game”, in New York Times:
glosses: A narrow rule which defines the specific meaning of a broader rule
Related terms: corollary
subcorollary
songspiels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of songspiel
pastina
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pastinas
form: pastine
Etymology: From Italian pastina.
Senses: glosses: A small piece of pasta used in soups etc.
slicking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of slick
slicking
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: slickings
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A narrow vein of ore.
glosses: A whipping with a hickory switch.
subrules
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of subrule
pastorali
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pastorale
blue water
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: blue waters
form: blue-water
Senses: examples: text: After clearing the cape, they still had an hour's sailing to reach blue water.
glosses: The open ocean; deep seas. (Also used attributively, as blue water, blue-water or bluewater.)
Derived terms: clear blue water
blue water thesis
blue-water
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more blue-water
form: most blue-water
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of blue water (attributive use of noun).
longleaf
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: longleafs
form: longleaves
Etymology: From long + leaf.
Senses: examples: text: The best timber was longleaf, and it grew in the piney woods.
ref: 1994, Joe C. Truett, Daniel W. Lay, Land of Bears and Honey, →ISBN, page 12:
glosses: A longleaf pine, Pinus palustris, or the wood of this tree
Kamassian
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: An extinct Samoyedic language that was spoken by Kamasins in Siberia.
Synonyms: Kamas
Kamasin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Kamasins
Senses: glosses: A member of an extinct Samoyedic tribe that lived in Siberia.
Related terms: Kamassian
lean on
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: leans on
form: leaning on
form: leaned on
form: leaned on
form: leant on
form: leant on
Senses: glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see lean, on.
examples: text: I wish to acknowledge my supervisors (including my unofficial supervisors) who I have leaned on greatly to create a thesis (hopefully) worth reading.
ref: 2020, Angus Charles Lindsay, "Swallowing the Black Pill: A Qualitative Exploration of Incel Antifeminism within Digital Society", thesis submitted to Victoria University of Wellington, https://researcharchive.vuw.ac.nz/xmlui/bitstream/handle/10063/8915/thesis_access.pdf?sequence=1
glosses: To depend upon for support; to require assistance from.
examples: text: He didn't make a donation until some of his customers leaned on him.
text: [ Scott Gottlieb ] argues that putting dairy and nondairy milks under the same umbrella dupes consumers into thinking the two are nutritional equals, which, according to him, could have potentially dire consequences such as rickets in toddlers. […] Of course, a more cynical read of the situation posits that Big Dairy is leaning on the FDA to discredit plant milks, the industry’s biggest competition, as a viable substitute for cow’s milk.
ref: 2018 August 15, Benjamin Kemper, “Nut Milks Are Milk, Says Almost Every Culture Across the Globe”, in Smithsonian Magazine:
glosses: To put pressure on; to attempt to compel a person to do something; to exert influence on.
glosses: To criticize or reprimand for the purpose of changing behavior.
longleafs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of longleaf
blue waters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of blue water
omasums
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of omasum
cyberwarfare
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From cyber- + warfare.
Senses: examples: text: The geth models collectively dubbed "hoppers" by Alliance forces are electronic warfare platforms. They can project electromagnetic radiation across a broad spectrum as an offensive weapon. They can also perform cyber warfare attacks against the onboard computers of body armor hardsuits and weapons, adversely affecting their performance.
ref: 2008, BioWare, Mass Effect, Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →ISBN, →OCLC, PC, scene: Geth: Hoppers Codex entry:
text: Many [computer attacks of Chinese origin] are believed to be linked to cyberwarfare units of the People's Liberation Army acting on behalf of state-owned, or state-affiliated, Chinese companies.
ref: 2014 April 6, David E. Sanger, “U.S. tries candor to assure China on cyberattacks”, in The New York Times:
glosses: Warfare taking place on the Internet, as by disrupting critical online services.
Synonyms: clickskrieg
cyberwar
Related terms: cyberattack
cyberdefense
cyberextortion
cyberpower
cybersafety
cybersecurity
cyberspace
cyberwar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cyberwars
Etymology: From cyber- + war.
Senses: antonyms: cybersafety
cybersecurity
glosses: Cyberwarfare.
coordinate_terms: cold war
hot war
shooting war
glosses: A cyberwarfare war.
Related terms: cyberattack
cybercrime
cyberthreat
war crime
boiling frog
information warfare
infowar
psychological warfare
psyops
fruitloop
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fruitloops
form: fruit loop
Etymology: Perhaps from fruity and loopy, possibly influenced by the Froot Loops brand of breakfast cereal.
Senses: examples: text: I don't want Jimmy's attorney to rip you up and down in front of a jury and make you out to be, frankly, a vicious and insane fruitloop […]
ref: 1983, John Gassner, Best American Plays:
text: Can't have no fruitloop with his finger on the button. Cokeheads maybe, but not a fruitloop. This country has high standards.
ref: 2003, Ralph Lopez, American Dream:
text: That poor guy is already busting his hump, learning his job, working sixteen or eighteen hours a day for some fruitloop who throws pens when he gets mad.
ref: 2005, Jacey Eckhart, The Homefront Club:
text: Representing the fruitloop fringe of the New Age, she claimed she was an "Arcturian ambassador," receiving transmissions from an Arcturian mothership […]
ref: 2006, Daniel Pinchbeck, 2012: The Return of Quetzalcoatl:
glosses: A crazy person; a lunatic.
Derived terms: fruitloopery
Related terms: fruit loops
fruitloops
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Dr. Ulrich: “You mean like some people we both know who expect their checks at the end of every month?” / Teacher: “Dr. Ulrich, you’re impossible! We could still give him reinforcement after he does what we want without using things. Why does it have to be money, tokens, fruitloops, and things like that? Why can’t we just use a smile or something like that? Why can’t that work?”
ref: 1970, Roger Ulrich, Thomas Stachnik, John Mabry, Control of Human Behavior, volume 2 (From Cure to Prevention), Glenview, Ill.: Scott, Foresman and Company, →LCCN, pages 338–339:
text: [image depicting Kermit the Frog vomiting] I should never have had fruitloops for breakfast.
ref: 1980 April 14, “Spermit the Frog Gets Laid Drunk”, in Toike Oike, volume [73], Toronto, Ont.: University of Toronto Faculty of Applied Science and Engineering, →ISSN, page 4:
text: Matt, don’t forget your fruitloops and B.K.’s soggy cookies.
ref: 1981, Elizabeth Goldrick, “Seniors”, in Goldenrod, Quincy, Mass.: Quincy High School, →OCLC, page 96:
text: At home, I changed my clothes, set out my fresh ones for the next day, and fixed myself a bowl of fruitloops.
ref: 1984, Gyanne Thomas, “A Day in the Life of Our Head Girl”, in Warwick Academy Yearbook, Bermuda, page 43, column 2:
text: bashes, I eat fruitloops for brek, It’s that big chunk of fudge!
ref: 1986, Samantha Mason, “Samantha Mason ’80-’86”, in The Study Trillium Yearbook, Westmount, Que., page 9:
text: Finally to all the people who think I’m crazy, you wouldn’t know what crazy was if Charles Manson was eating fruitloops on your front porch.
ref: 1997, Robert J. Sarro, “Robert J. Sarro ‘Rob Chavez’ 297 River Road”, in The Echo, Winthrop, Mass.: Winthrop High School, →OCLC, page 15:
text: Women are challenged to create and wear innovative bra designs; one made of fruitloops and licorice whips was photographed for the National Post in October.
ref: 2000 May, Kristy Harcourt, “Politicize This!”, in womonspace, Edmonton, Alta.: Womonspace Social and Recreational Society of Edmonton, →OCLC, page 6, column 2:
text: Dietary Preferences: if they eat like they dress then cheezwhiz, fruitloops and deep fried twinkies.
ref: 2009 September, The Jaded Reviews Guide to Hippie Watching in North America (The Jaded Review; 2), page 16:
glosses: Alternative form of fruit loops.
fruitloops
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fruitloop
antiscientific
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more antiscientific
form: most antiscientific
Etymology: From anti- + scientific.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to antiscience
glosses: Contrary to the tenets of the scientific method
Derived terms: antiscientifically
unserious
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unserious
form: most unserious
Etymology: From un- + serious.
Senses: examples: text: The band's songs, which can be deliciously unserious, are as memorable as they are charming.
ref: 2009 January 9, The New York Times, “Pop and Rock Listings”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 09 Sep 2018:
text: Her tone shift involved former Presidents Barack Obama and Bill Clinton lampooning their fellow ex-president as a figure of ridicule. Then Harris closed the trap with a line in her convention speech: “Trump is an unserious man. But the consequences … of putting Donald Trump back in the White House are extremely serious.”
ref: 2024 August 26, Stephen Collinson, “Trump’s personal attacks aren’t just who he is. They’re his strategy”, in CNN:
glosses: Not serious.
Characterized by a lack of seriousness (e.g., earnestness, commitment).
synonyms: nonserious
facetious
flippant
frivolous
qualifier: approach; style; etc; approach; style; etc
raw_tags: of attitude
glosses: Not serious.
Not severe; not grave.
synonyms: nonserious
nonsevere
qualifier: other types of problems; etc; other types of problems; etc
raw_tags: of injuries
Derived terms: unseriousness
viselike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more viselike
form: most viselike
form: vicelike
Etymology: From vise + -like.
Senses: examples: text: What they share, apart from their Texas roots, is a viselike grasp of hard-bop fundamentals and an easy affinity for funk.
ref: 2009 January 9, Nate Chinen, “Jazz Listings”, in New York Times:
glosses: Extremely strong or tight, like the grip of a vise.
hanukkiah
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: note: Ashkenazi
ipa: /ˌxɑːnʊˈkiːə/
note: Ashkenazi
ipa: /h-/
note: Ashkenazi
ipa: /-əˈ-/
ipa: /xɑːnuːkiːˈ(j)ɑː/
ipa: /h-/
ipa: /xə-/
Forms: form: hanukkiahs
form: hanukkiot
form: hanukkioth
Etymology: Borrowed from Hebrew חֲנֻכִּיָּה (khanukiyá).
Senses: examples: text: Some might say that the hanukkiah is decorations, but it isn't; the hanukkiah is a ceremonial object, with specific, non-decorative purposes. Perhaps the Stars of David that many string about are appropriate Jewish decoration?
ref: 2005 December 23, Jonathan Safran Foer, “A Beginner's Guide to Hanukkah”, in The New York Times:
text: As a child of Holocaust survivors, there was nothing, no family relics. The celebration was very modest, with a very small hanukkiah, and my mother was a great maker of latkes. I now luckily have many different kinds of hanukkiahs.
ref: 2010 November 17, Rima Suqi, quoting Daniel Libeskind, “Daniel Libeskind on a New Show of Menorahs”, in The New York Times:
text: The candelabras lit on Hanukkah are technically called hanukkiahs. They have eight candles plus one more, a shamash, that is used for lighting the others.
ref: [2023 December 7, Jacey Fortin, “For Some, the Symbols of Hanukkah Bring Extra Concern This Year”, in The New York Times:
glosses: A nine-branched menorah used during Hanukkah.
Related terms: shamash
Bible bashers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Bible basher
unreadiness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: unreadinesses
Etymology: From unready + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: Your agency's unreadiness is very disturbing.
glosses: A lack of readiness, or state of being unready
hanukkiahs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hanukkiah
unposed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + posed.
Senses: examples: text: Her pictures were casual, mostly unposed snapshots; any pathos feels less intended.
ref: 2009 January 9, Karen Rosenberg, “Portraits Taken by the Writer as a Young Woman (in Hard Times)”, in New York Times:
glosses: Not posed; without deliberate posing
unposed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of unpose
uninsulated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + insulated.
Senses: examples: text: These people are buying stoves that their grandparents depended on to keep them warm in cold winters in an uninsulated house.
ref: 2009 January 9, Billie Cohen, “More Than a Warm Memory”, in The New York Times:
glosses: Lacking insulation; not insulated
biotechs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of biotech
shitehawk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shitehawks
Etymology: From shite + hawk.
Senses: examples: text: Possibly one of the most highly protected birds today is the kite, known by the British Army throughout the world as a shite-hawk.
ref: 1999 April 28, Lord Burton, “Capercaillie”, in parliamentary debates (House of Lords), column 423:
text: Shite-hawks..are more properly known as black kites,..gaining their unlovely nickname from British troops who used to get the meat stolen from their plates by these bold and skilful birds.
ref: 2006 March 11, Simon Barnes, “At deep mid-wicket I can see a face like a gargoyle – but wings like an angel”, in The Times, page 23:
glosses: A large scavenging or predatory bird; especially (originally in military use in South Asia) the black kite.
glosses: The European herring gull.
examples: text: "Watch yer language, ye shitehawk." His da had heard the din from the kitchen and had decided to have his say in the matter.
ref: 1997, Valerie Maher, Sarah's Gate: Tales from Ballyhornet:
text: What must it be like, to be such a fucking gimp, and see perfection, and know you're too much of a shitehawk to ever have it?
ref: 2001, Gary Owen, Crazy Gary's Mobile Disco:
text: When I win, Liam still suggests on the eighteenth green that I'm a nine-fingered shitehawk.
ref: 2005, Andrew M Greeley, The Priestly Sins:
text: ...any analyst who puts out a book with the word "ethics" in the title is invariably an incorrigible shitehawk.
ref: 2007, Chris Oakley, Football Delirium:
glosses: An objectionable person; a twat or wanker.
shitehawks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shitehawk
tradewinds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tradewind