cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
unbureaucratically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more unbureaucratically
form: most unbureaucratically
Etymology: From unbureaucratic + -ally.
Senses: examples: text: “The aim is to get the payment to the elderly applicants as quickly and as unbureaucratically as possible,” the ministry said.
ref: 2007 September 20, Reuters, “Workers in Nazi Era Ghettos to Be Paid”, in New York Times:
glosses: In an unbureaucratic way.
unbureaucratic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unbureaucratic
form: most unbureaucratic
Etymology: From un- + bureaucratic.
Senses: glosses: Not bureaucratic; without bureaucracy.
Derived terms: unbureaucratically
atoner
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: atoners
Etymology: From atone + -er.
Senses: examples: text: Oh, and the atoner, of whom Thoreau observed in a skeptical essay: “Now, if anything ail a man so that he does not perform his functions ... if he has committed some heinous sin and partially repents, what does he do?
ref: 2007 September 30, Paul Theroux, “Stanley, I Presume”, in New York Times:
glosses: One who atones.
atoners
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of atoner
biodynamics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From bio- + dynamics.
Senses: examples: text: Marc Kreydenweiss, an Alsatian producer, is a champion of biodynamics, an extreme form of organic agriculture based on the planets’ positions.
ref: 2007 September 30, Howard G. Goldberg, “A Red to Pour With Burgers”, in New York Times:
text: I had heard that a cool cosmetic company, Dr. Hauschka, used biodynamically grown botanicals, and something about the teetotaling founder of the Waldorf Schools, philosopher Rudolph Steiner, who had also founded biodynamics and died in the 1920s. But several of the wines I'd already earmarked as winners turned out to be made either purely or in part with biodynamics.
ref: 2009, Alice Feiring, The Battle for Wine and Love: or How I Saved the World from Parkerization, HMH, →ISBN:
topics: agriculture
business
lifestyle
glosses: Biodynamic agricultural practices similar to organic farming.
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: The doctrine of vital forces or energy.
Related terms: biodynamic
counterthesis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: countertheses
Etymology: From counter- + thesis.
Senses: examples: text: Brooks never mentions that the book is a 400-page scientific and historical argument against precisely what he offers as a counterthesis, expressed in this rhetorical question: “Is it possible that substance has something to do with the political fortunes of parties?
ref: 2007 September 30, “Push Buttons; Pull Lever”, in New York Times:
glosses: A thesis that rebuts another.
countertheses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of counterthesis
dybbuks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dybbuk
fourball
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fourballs
Etymology: From four + ball.
Senses: examples: text: The United States pitched a shutout in five alternate-shot matches during a crisp morning, then turned back an International rally with one of its own to split the afternoon fourball matches and build a 14 ½-7 ½ lead going into the 12 singles matches today in Montreal.
ref: 2007 September 30, The Associated Press, “U.S. Widens Lead in Presidents Cup”, in New York Times:
topics: golf
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
synonyms: better ball
best ball
glosses: A match between two teams of two golfers, each playing his or her own ball throughout the round rather than alternating shots, and each hole won by the team whose individual golfer has the lowest score.
Related terms: 4BBB
fourballs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fourball
ganglike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more ganglike
form: most ganglike
Etymology: From gang + -like.
Senses: glosses: Resembling a gang.
leafiness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: leafinesses
Etymology: From leafy + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: “But the whole appeal of being out there was inextricably linked to the idea there were lawns and leafiness, so being in a big building didn’t feel like the right thing,” Mr. Patrick said.
ref: 2007 September 30, Joyce Cohen, “A Recipe for Success”, in New York Times:
glosses: The state or condition of being leafy.
pianolike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more pianolike
form: most pianolike
Etymology: From piano + -like.
Senses: examples: text: A new Samsung printer has a pianolike finish.
ref: 2007 September 30, Anne Eisenberg, “This Printer Is Glossy, Even if the Paper Isn’t”, in New York Times:
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a piano.
sirenlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more sirenlike
form: most sirenlike
Etymology: From siren + -like.
Senses: glosses: Like a siren (mechanical or electronic device).
examples: text: As the show opened with the river, singing sirenlike “oooooohs,” the audience settled in.
ref: 2007 September 15, Georgina Gustin, “A Town’s Darkest Day Is Playing Out on Stage”, in New York Times:
glosses: Like a siren (mythical water maiden).
regild
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: regilds
form: regilding
form: regilded
form: regilded
form: regilt
form: regilt
Etymology: From re- + gild.
Senses: examples: text: In 1999, they regilded the spire of the Shwedagon Pagoda, which now glitters with 53 tons of gold and 4,341 diamonds on the crowning orb.
ref: 2007 September 30, Seth Mydans, “What Makes a Monk Mad”, in New York Times:
glosses: To gild again.
regilds
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of regild
regilding
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of regild
regilding
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: regildings
Senses: glosses: The process of gilding again; replacement of a gilt covering.
regilded
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of regild
unneighbourly
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unneighbourly
form: most unneighbourly
form: unneighborly
Etymology: From un- + neighbourly.
Senses: examples: text: […]purſued his vnneighbourly purpoſe in ſuch ſort: that hee being the ſtronger perſwader, and ſhe (belike) too credulous in beleeuing or elſe ouer-feeble in reſiſting, from priuate imparlance, they fell to action; and continued their cloſe fight a long while together, vnſeene and vvithout ſuſpition, no doubt to their equall ioy and contentment.
ref: 1620, Giovanni Bocaccio, translated by John Florio, The Decameron, Containing an Hundred Pleaſant Nouels: Wittily Diſcourſed, Betweene Seuen Honourable Ladies, and Three Noble Gentlemen, Isaac Iaggard, Nouell 8, The Eighth Day:
text: Mrs Inconſiderate, alſo replyed, ſaying, avvay vvith ſuch Fantaſtical Fools from the Tovvn, a good riddance, for my par[t], I ſay, of her. Should ſhe ſtay vvhere ſhe dvvels, and retain this her mind, vvho could live quietly by her? for ſhe vvill either be dumpiſh or unneighbourly, or talk of ſuch matters as no vviſe body can abide: […]
ref: 1684, John Bunyan, The Pilgrim’s Progress. From This World to That which is to Come: The Second Part. […], London: […] Nathaniel Ponder […], →OCLC, page 17:
glosses: Not neighbourly; antisocial.
unneighbourly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more unneighbourly
form: most unneighbourly
form: unneighborly
Etymology: From un- + neighbourly.
Senses: glosses: In a way that is not neighbourly.
unneighborly
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unneighborly
form: most unneighborly
Etymology: From un- + neighborly.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of unneighbourly.
snowout
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: snowouts
Etymology: From snow + out.
Senses: examples: text: “Having the snowouts created havoc in our schedule throughout the season and provided a potential excuse,” Indians General Manager Mark Shapiro said.
ref: 2007 September 30, Murray Chass, “Traveling Home Show Takes Indians to Playoffs”, in New York Times:
glosses: A cancellation due to interfering snow.
glosses: Nuclear fallout deposited by means of snow.
Related terms: rainout
snowouts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of snowout
themeless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From theme + -less.
Senses: examples: text: Instead, Korda squeezes Eisenhower’s extraordinary two-term presidency — not to mention his stints as president of Columbia University and commander of NATO forces — into 140 themeless pages.
ref: 2007 September 30, Douglas Brinkley, “Overlord’s Overlord”, in New York Times:
glosses: Without a theme.
themeless
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: themelesses
Etymology: From theme + -less.
Senses: qualifier: crosswording
glosses: A type of crossword (or similar) puzzle in which long answers do not conform to an overarching theme.
Synonyms: unthemed
ileocaecal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From ileo- + caecal.
Senses: examples: text: ileocaecal fold
text: The images of food plopping into the stomach, passing through the pyloric sphincter into the small intestine and then squirting through the ileocaecal valve are eerie and astounding; they may not be for everyone, but if you want reality, it doesn’t get any more real than this.
ref: 2007 September 15, Mike Hale, “A Voyage From Head to Toe (Strong Stomachs Needed)”, in New York Times:
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Of or pertaining to the connection between the final segment of the small intestine (ileum) and large intestine (colon).
Derived terms: ileocaecal valve
uncreditworthy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + creditworthy.
Senses: examples: text: Turning a profit by making rotten loans to uncreditworthy borrowers — ruining families and neighborhoods in the process — requires a lot more creativity than selling the Brooklyn Bridge to a gullible immigrant.
ref: 2007 September 30, “Things Go Better With Rules”, in New York Times:
glosses: Not creditworthy.
cogenerate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: cogenerates
form: cogenerating
form: cogenerated
form: cogenerated
Etymology: From co- + generate (backformation from cogeneration).
Senses: examples: text: Instead of producing thrust, they cogenerate electricity and heat, meeting another goal of the sustainability plan.
ref: 2007 September 15, Anthony Depalma, “Building Codes Lag Behind Mayor’s Vision”, in New York Times:
glosses: To generate two forms of energy simultaneously.
cogenerates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of cogenerate
cogenerating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of cogenerate
cogenerated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of cogenerate
unreformable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unreformable
form: most unreformable
Etymology: From un- + reformable.
Senses: examples: text: The circumstances that far too many African-Americans face — the lack of paternal support and discipline; the requirement that single mothers work regardless of the effect on their children’s care; the hypocritical refusal of conservative politicians to put their money where their mouths are on family values; the recourse by male youths to gangs as parental substitutes; the ghetto-fabulous culture of the streets; the lack of skills among black men for the jobs and pay they want; the hypersegregation of blacks into impoverished inner-city neighborhoods — all interact perversely with the prison system that simply makes hardened criminals of nonviolent drug offenders and spits out angry men who are unemployable, unreformable and unmarriageable, closing the vicious circle.
ref: 2007 September 30, Orlando Patterson, “Jena, O. J. and the Jailing of Black America”, in New York Times:
glosses: That cannot be reformed.
Synonyms: irredeemable
apiaristic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: In a review in The Guardian, the author Paul Theroux, himself a beekeeper, called the book a masterwork “for its enormous scope and exhaustiveness, for being an up-to-date treasure house of apiaristic facts.”
ref: 2007 September 16, Douglas Martin, “Eva Crane, English Expert on World’s Bees, Dies at 95”, in New York Times:
glosses: Of or pertaining to beekeeping or beekeepers.
Related terms: apiarist
reformable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more reformable
form: most reformable
Etymology: From reform + -able.
Senses: glosses: That can be reformed.
Synonyms: corrigible
redeemable
unvenerable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unvenerable
form: most unvenerable
Etymology: From un- + venerable.
Senses: examples: text: Sons of God, in opposition to Unjust and Sons of Belial, - which latter indeed are second-oldest, but yet a very unvenerable order.
ref: 1843 April, Thomas Carlyle, “ch. 3, Landlord Edmund”, in Past and Present, American edition, Boston, Mass.: Charles C[offin] Little and James Brown, published 1843, →OCLC, book II (The Ancient Monk):
text: This gift for taking the urgent issues of the day and presenting them as detective stories that race past like footfalls down an alleyway has made Pamuk the best-selling writer in the history of his native Turkey and the deserving winner of last year’s Nobel Prize in Literature, at the unvenerable age of 54.
ref: 2007 September 30, Pico Iyer, “A View of the Bosporus”, in New York Times:
glosses: Not venerable.
fangy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more fangy
form: most fangy
Etymology: From fang + -y.
Senses: examples: text: No one had opened a fangy mouth and chomped me.
ref: 2007 September 16, Maria Dahvana Headley, “How I Turned Into a Stepmonster”, in New York Times:
synonyms: fangful
fangsome
glosses: Containing fangs; full of sharp teeth.
neophobic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: neophobics
Etymology: From neo- + -phobic.
Senses: examples: text: In unpublished work, P. E. Cowan finds Rattus rattus, like R. norvegicus, to be markedly neophobic. These commensal species have been compared with two Australian congeners, R. fuscipes and R. villosissimus, both largely independent of man and neither neophobic in the laboratory conditions in which they have been tested. The typical new object reaction, first clearly described in investigations of rats as pests, is perhaps a product of natural selection in man-made environments. But there is no universal rule: the commensal house mouse, Mus musculus, displays, instead of typical neophobia, a capricious and unpredictable kind of behavior […]
ref: 1963, S. A. Barnett, The Rat: A Study in Behavior, Transaction Publishers, →ISBN, page 48:
text: Similarly, it would be appropriate if acutely poisoned rats became neophobic in general (as distinct from avoid-ing a particular food, that is, poison-shy); they should then become correspondingly paleophilic.
ref: 1963, S. A. Barnett, The Rat: A Study in Behavior, Transaction Publishers, →ISBN, page 68:
topics: human-sciences
psychology
sciences
synonyms: paleophobic
antonyms: paleophilic
neophobic
glosses: A person or animal that fears or dislikes new or novel experiences or food.
neophobic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From neo- + -phobic.
Senses: glosses: Afflicted by neophobia; fearing or disliking what is new
Related terms: neophobe
neophobia
hardpressed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more hardpressed
form: most hardpressed
Etymology: From hard + pressed.
Senses: examples: text: “Wilderness” is that rare young adult novel that can speak to every member of the family: hardpressed moms, perceptive fathers, belligerent girls and risk-taking boys.
ref: 2007 September 16, Jerry Griswold, “Children’s Books / Young Adult”, in New York Times:
glosses: Subject to difficulty in accomplishing or making progress.
nonfans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Spectator rowdiness and movement during matches is considered part of the “modern era of tennis” and good for the game, attracting nonfans interested in the spectacle.
ref: 2007 September 16, “Letters to the Editor”, in New York Times:
glosses: plural of nonfan
pageantlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more pageantlike
form: most pageantlike
Etymology: From pageant + -like.
Senses: examples: text: This impregnable Puccini potboiler, dressed up in Anthony Minghella ’s gorgeous pageantlike production, returned to the house on Monday.
ref: 2007 October 10, Bernard Holland, “Foretelling a Flamboyant Future, but Rooted in Operatic Tradition”, in New York Times:
glosses: Resembling a pageant.
unpatented
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + patented.
Senses: examples: text: Developed with financing from wealthy countries and private foundations, the New Rices for Africa, or Nericas, are unpatented and may be grown by anyone.
ref: 2007 October 10, Celia W. Dugger, “In Africa, Prosperity From Seeds Falls Short”, in New York Times:
synonyms: nonpatented
glosses: Not patented.
Related terms: generic
nonproprietary
unpatented
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of unpatent
nonfan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nonfans
form: non-fan
Etymology: From non- + fan.
Senses: examples: text: Spectator rowdiness and movement during matches is considered part of the “modern era of tennis” and good for the game, attracting nonfans interested in the spectacle.
ref: 2007 September 16, “Letters to the Editor”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 08 Jan 2021:
glosses: A person who is not an admirer or aficionado of a particular event or sport.
unmeritorious
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unmeritorious
form: most unmeritorious
Etymology: From un- + meritorious.
Senses: examples: text: Justice Scalia’s comments echoed the often-heard complaints of the defense bar that shareholder litigation poses such a threat to a public company that it forces the defendant to settle even unmeritorious lawsuits.
ref: 2007 October 10, Linda Greenhouse, “Plaintiffs Face Skeptical Court in Key Fraud Case”, in New York Times:
glosses: Not meritorious; without merit.
otherworldy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more otherworldy
form: most otherworldy
Etymology: From otherworld + -y, or an error for otherworldly.
Senses: examples: text: The place, 22 miles from the nearest road, is apt to become a full-fledged tourist attraction after the opening on Friday of “Into the Wild,” a deeply affecting movie version of the Krakauer book, with cinematography so beautiful it makes the Alaskan landscape seem seductively otherworldy.
ref: 2007 September 16, Charles Mcgrath, “Mother Nature’s Restless Sons”, in New York Times:
glosses: Synonym of otherworldly.
synonyms: word: otherworldly
Related terms: otherworldly
wizardlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more wizardlike
form: most wizardlike
Etymology: From wizard + -like.
Senses: examples: text: In the last 20 years the matching of foods with wines has become an exercise in wizardlike precision.
ref: 2007 October 10, Eric Asimov, “Taking a Closer Look at Wine’s Conventional Wisdom”, in New York Times:
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a wizard.
pagodalike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more pagodalike
form: most pagodalike
form: pagoda-like
Etymology: From pagoda + -like.
Senses: examples: text: Out on the lake small craft with pagodalike canopies ply the waters, transporting tourists.
ref: 2007 September 16, Paula Deitz, “Where Progress Is Just a Walk in the Park”, in New York Times:
glosses: Resembling a pagoda.
strobilate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈstɹəʊbɪleɪt/
Forms: form: strobilates
form: strobilating
form: strobilated
form: strobilated
Etymology: From strobilus or strobila + -ate (adjective-forming suffix).
Senses: examples: text: So that’s what we try to do, make them strobilate faster.
ref: 2007 September 16, “My Family Has High Hopes for Me Because They Know I’m Going to Do Great Things.”, in New York Times:
text: These, in turn, reproduce by cloning; when conditions are right, they ‘strobilate’, elongating and splitting into a stack of discs which develop into larvae, and break away to become medusae.
ref: 2014, Theo Tait, “Water-Borne Zombies”, in London Review of Books, volume 36, number 5:
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: To produce a strobilus or strobila (layered, conelike structure).
Derived terms: strobilation
Related terms: strobile
strobilates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of strobilate
ultrapious
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From ultra- + pious.
Senses: examples: text: (This led the ultrapious Rabbi Eliezer Shach to acidly define Chabad as the sect closest to Judaism.)
ref: 2007 September 16, Zev Chafets, “The Missionary Mogul”, in New York Times:
glosses: Extremely pious, overly devout or reverent.
orthomyxovirus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: orthomyxoviruses
Etymology: From ortho- + myxovirus.
Senses: examples: text: Swine influenza is an example of an orthomyxovirus.
topics: biology
microbiology
natural-sciences
virology
glosses: Any RNA virus of Orthomyxoviridae family characterised by having two long glycoprotein spikes.
Related terms: swine flu
masula
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /məˈsuːlə/
Forms: form: masulas
form: masoola
form: masulah
form: mussoola
form: mussoolah
Etymology: Uncertain.
Senses: examples: text: The catamarans accompany the masulah boats through the surf, and when an accident happens endeavour to pick up the unfortunate passengers.
ref: 1808–1810, William Hickey, Memoirs of a Georgian Rake, Folio Society 1995, p. 90
glosses: A type of boat used on the Coromandel Coast of southeast India, typically for travelling between ships and shore. Also more fully masula boat.
Masuria
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Masovia.
Senses: glosses: An area in northeastern Poland, historically part of East Prussia.
Derived terms: Masurian
masurium
Masurian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Masuria + -an.
Senses: glosses: Of, from, or pertaining to Masuria or its culture, people, or language.
Derived terms: Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship
Masurian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Masurians
Etymology: From Masuria + -an.
Senses: glosses: Someone from Masuria.
Masurian
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Masuria + -an.
Senses: glosses: A dialect (sometimes considered a separate language) related to Polish and spoken by the Masurian people.
Masurians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Masurian
masurium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Masuria + -ium, named by Walter Noddack, whose family was from that area, when he reported its discovery in 1925.
Senses: glosses: The metallic element technetium.
wikipedia: Walter Noddack
in part
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: examples: text: The collision was in part my fault: I was starting to fall asleep at the wheel.
text: Cervicitis was initially described >30 years ago as “the ignored counterpart of urethritis in men”, most likely because the 2 syndromes share known etiologies. However, cervicitis differs from male urethritis in that low-grade signs of infection more often go unnoticed, in part due to the need for a speculum exam to observe these.
ref: 2017 July 15, Harold C Wiesenfeld, Lisa E Manhart, “Mycoplasma genitalium in Women: Current Knowledge and Research Priorities for This Recently Emerged Pathogen”, in The Journal of Infectious Diseases, volume 216, number suppl_2, →DOI, pages S389–S395:
glosses: To an extent; not fully.
to an extent
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: examples: text: I agree with you to a certain extent, but not entirely.
synonyms: to some extent
to a degree
in a measure
coordinate_terms: word: in a way
word: partially
word: ;
word: to the hilt
word: to the nines
word: ;
word: to a fault
word: ;
word: to the point
word: ;
word: partially
word: partly
word: to an extent
word: to some extent
glosses: Partly; in part.
Related terms: partially
extent
Matabeleland
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Matabele + land, named after its inhabitants.
Senses: glosses: A region in western Zimbabwe.
Derived terms: Matabeleland North
Matabeleland South
matadora
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: matadoras
Etymology: From Spanish matadora.
Senses: glosses: A female matador.
matadoras
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of matadora
to some extent
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: synonyms: to an extent
somewhat
to a degree
coordinate_terms: to a lesser extent
glosses: Partly; in part.
Related terms: partially
extent
according to one's understanding
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: synonyms: per one's understanding
as one understands it
by one's lights
according to one's lights
glosses: As far as one can understand with the data and knowledge available at the moment.
Related terms: in one's opinion
myxovirus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: myxoviruses
Etymology: From myxo- + virus, from Ancient Greek μύξα (múxa, “mucus”), because they react with mucin (mucoprotein) on the surface of red blood cells.
Senses: glosses: Any of a group of RNA viruses of the Orthomyxoviridae and Paramyxoviridae families.
Derived terms: orthomyxovirus
paramyxovirus
in one's opinion
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: synonyms: by one's lights
in one's book
to one's mind
to one's way of thinking
coordinate_terms: according to one's understanding
glosses: According to one's subjectively formed thoughts, not necessarily having any formal basis in fact.
orthomyxoviruses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of orthomyxovirus
senet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: senat
Etymology: Borrowed from Egyptian znt — hieroglyphs: z:n-t:N24The full name of the game in Egyptian was znt nt ḥꜥb, which means "game of passing".
Compare with Coptic ⲥⲓⲛⲉ (sine, “passing, afternoon”).
Senses: glosses: An Ancient Egyptian board game, probably played as a strategy game similar to chess or go.
galbi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of kalbi.
tailleurs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tailleur
guimbarde
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: guimbardes
form: guimbard
Etymology: From French guimbarde.
Senses: glosses: A Jew's harp.
guimbardes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of guimbarde
matafunda
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: matafundas
Etymology: See Spanish matar (“to kill”), Latin funda (“a sling”).
Senses: glosses: A type of siege engine similar to a trebuchet, designed to fling rocks over long distances.
matagouri
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: matagory
Etymology: From Maori tūmatakuru, with loss of first syllable. Compare tumatakuru.
Senses: examples: text: Willowglen was surrounded on three sides by paddocks of matagouri, of swamp, and on one side there was the railway line leading south out of Oamaru.
ref: 1984, Janet Frame, An Angel at my Table, Virago, published 2024, page 181:
synonyms: tumatakuru
wild Irishman
glosses: A thorny shrub, Discaria toumatou.
tendances
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tendance
remous
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of remou
matapee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: matapees
form: matapi
Etymology: Borrowed from Kari'na matapi.
Senses: glosses: A yuca strainer or press (sebucan) in the form of a tube of basketry hung from a hook and compressed by stretching the lower end with a pole, used for expressing prussic acid out of yuca pulp.
matapees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of matapee
bangy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bangies
form: banghee
form: banghy
form: bhangee
form: bhangy
Senses: examples: text: The men, to the number of 800, march in single file, and each man occupies a space of six feet, being obliged to carry a bangy containing his provisions, cooking pots, &c. besides his musket, which is tied to the bangy stick.
ref: 1837, Asiatic Society of Bengal, Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal, page 267:
glosses: A type of yoke carried on the shoulders, as a means for people to carry a load.
glosses: A kind of parcel post originally carried by this means.
bangy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: bangier
form: bangiest
Etymology: From bang + -y.
Senses: examples: text: But her performance of Beethoven’s Sonata No. 30 in E (whose finale includes Baroque references, like a fugato) at times sounded bangy, although there were lovely moments in the Andante.
ref: 2009 March 3, The New York Times, “Music in Review”, in New York Times:
glosses: Characterized by banging sounds.
bangier
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of bangy: more bangy
bangiest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of bangy: most bangy
militaires
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of militaire
matatu
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /məˈtætuː/
ipa: /məˈtɑˌtu/
Forms: form: matatus
form: matatu
Etymology: From Swahili matatu, a clipping of mapeni matatu (“thirty cents”, literally “three ten-cent coins”), the flat fare paid for such transportation in the 1960s. The word matatu is from ma- (prefix forming plurals) + -tatu (“three”) (from Proto-Bantu *-tátʊ̀ (“three”)).
Senses: examples: text: A matatu is also more profitable when driven by its owner than by an employed driver, or if the employee-driver pays in all the earnings and the owner meets the operating costs, rather than when the owner demands a fixed sum of money daily, with the operator keeping the surplus.
ref: 1982, United Nations Centre for Human Settlements Habitat News:
text: For now, matatus made lanes along both sides of tarmac main roads and went over, around or through potholes depending on their speed.
ref: 2010, Philo Ikonya, Leading the Night, page 102:
text: Memories of their sense of trepidation, or even the anger, aboard a matatu could still be visceral.
ref: 2017, Kenda Mutongi, Matatu: A History of Popular Transportation in Nairobi, page 98:
text: The roads were jammed with matatu minibuses sporting cartoonish liveries, and trucks billowing black smoke into the dazzling African light.
ref: 2024 January 13, David Pilling, “Revenge of the moderators”, in FT Weekend, Life & Arts, page 15:
synonyms: word: daladala
english: Tanzania
translation: Tanzania
word: mathree
glosses: A minivan used as a shared taxi, especially one operating without a licence.
Hypernyms: shared taxi
gypsy cab
Derived terms: matatu culture
Related terms: makanga
manamba
matatus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of matatu
match play
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: golf
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A scoring system in which points are awarded for each hole won, as opposed to stroke play.
topics: bowling
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A knockout competition between two single bowlers.
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: The playing of a competitive match, as opposed to training and practice.
y/y
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of year-on-year.
Synonyms: YoY
yoy
q/q
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Initialism of quarter-on-quarter (percentage change from same period one quarter earlier).
m/m
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of month-on-month: percentual change from same period one month earlier.
ppts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of percentage points.
mln
Language: English
Part of speech: symbol
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of mn (“million”).
tln
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tln.
form: tn.
form: tn
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of trillion.
Coordinate terms: bln
mln
bln
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: blns
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Brown lunation number.
glosses: Alternative spelling of bn (“billion”).
Related terms: new moon
matchcoat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: matchcoats
Etymology: Anglicized version of an Algonquian word — compare Ojibwe majigoodenh (“dress”) — with the spelling altered under the influence of the English words match and coat.
Senses: glosses: A type of mantle made from fur, worn by some Native Americans.
glosses: A coat made from matchcloth.
Related terms: machicote
matchcoats
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of matchcoat
sportifs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sportif
sportives
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sportive
matchy-matchy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmatʃi ˌmatʃi/
ipa: /ˈmætʃi ˌmætʃi/
Forms: form: more matchy-matchy
form: most matchy-matchy
Etymology: ]
Reduplication of matchy.
Senses: examples: text: We are dressing for a dinner party, I in a black skirt with a porthole over which I have dropped an empire-waisted blue schmatte. Schmatte, along with "merch" for merchandise and "matchy-matchy," as in "That sweater and skirt are too matchy-matchy," is among the words I have picked up at Mlle [Madamoiselle].
ref: [1995, Mary Cantwell, chapter 4, in Manhattan, When I was Young, New York, N.Y.: Houghton Mifflin Company, →ISBN, page 139:
text: "Shall we do it matchy-matchy?" Laura asks, holding up a teal top with teal flowered Bermuda shorts. / "Sooner or later, matching is going to be the new non-matching," Rodney states proudly.
ref: 2006 February 6, Joanna Douglas, “Pronounced Ah-bye-ah-tay: Abaeté Designer Laura Poretzky Let Us Tag Along as She Prepared for Her First Fashion Show at New York’s Bryant Park”, in Christina Kelly, editor, Elle Girl, New York, N.Y.: Hachette Filipacchi Media U.S., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 89:
text: Matchy-Matchy is no longer considered the height of chic. This was a throwback from the 1950's when women seemed to enjoy matching everything, shoes, bags, belts, lipstick, toilet paper, tissues, etc. Now it simply looks time consuming and complicated. Part of looking effortlessly chic is having the ability to look good but not matchy-matchy perfect. Matchy-matchy has been out for ages in the style world.
ref: 2008, Nancy Marie, “Chic and Stylish”, in Style, Beauty, Trimness, [s.l.]: Fabuleux Paris, →ISBN, page 25:
text: I used to really like matchy-matchy everything. If I liked he chair, then I wanted the sofa, end table, coffee table, and settee to match it. I remember hearing that matchy-matchy was bad because then your house would look like a catalog photo for a furniture store. […] Then as I got older, I finally agreed with that sentiment. Catalog rooms look nice, but they don't look like someone lives there. They don't have a soul.
ref: 2015, Anita Joyce, “Decorating Guidelines”, in French Accents: Farmhouse French Style for Today’s Home, Springville, Utah: Plain Sight Publishing, Cedar Fort, Inc., →ISBN:
topics: fashion
lifestyle
glosses: Of clothes or upholstery: excessively color-coordinated.
Synonyms: matchy
Derived terms: matchy-matchiness
Related terms: matchy
matchiness
mixy-matchy
matehood
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From mate + -hood.
Senses: glosses: The state or condition of having a mate (someone to reproduce with).
mateless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From mate + -less.
Senses: examples: text: That he did not glory, however, in his mateless solitude, but rather, like a true knight, longed for the first opportunity pour faire le gallant, vis-à-vis de sa maitresse, is pleasantly testified in the letter that is now subjoined.
ref: 1848, [William] Wilkie Collins, Memoirs of the Life of William Collins, Esq., R. A., volume I, London: Longman, […] , page 227:
glosses: Without a mate.
Derived terms: matelessness
materterine
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more materterine
form: most materterine
Senses: glosses: materteral
Blackbeard
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From black + beard.
Senses: glosses: The archetypal pirate, who lived in the 17th and 18th centuries.
mateyness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From matey + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: Lacking mateyness, he lacks also the true imperiousness which is sometimes an effective substitute for the common touch.
ref: 1952, Harper's Magazine, volume 204, page 38:
text: 1993, D. G. Compton, Nomansland, 2011, Orion Publishing, unnumbered page,
Harriet didn′t answer. Fovas was a po-faced cow. She′d been right to distrust the mateyness.
text: In spite of our arguments, we had much in common, both suburban London boys from unambitious working-class families, and fell easily into a cockney mateyness.
ref: 2000, The London Magazine, page 68:
text: He could not cook, drive a car, or use a typewriter, so he was helpless alone. Greene seemed to require the mateyness of another person — his friend Michael Meyer, who traveled with him through the Pacific, or later in his life the priest Father Duran, who appears in Monsignor Quixote. Greene claimed to be manic depressive, sometimes suicidal, and lonely.
ref: 2011, Paul Theroux, The Tao of Travel: Enlightenments from Lives on the Road, page 100:
glosses: The state of being matey, camaraderie, chumminess.
Related terms: mateship
monandrous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From mono- + -androus.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Having only one stamen in each flower.
glosses: Having only one male sexual partner over a period of time.
bukkehorn
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bukkehorns
Etymology: From Norwegian, from bukk (“buck”) + horn.
Senses: glosses: An ancient Norwegian musical instrument, made from the horn of a ram or goat, traditionally used by cowherds.
slöjd
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: slojd
form: sloyd
Etymology: Borrowed from Swedish slöjd (“sleight of hand, skilled or crafty”), from Old Swedish sløghþ, from Old Norse slœgð, from Proto-Germanic *slōgiþō, from *slōgiz (“cunning”) (whence English sly). Doublet of sleight and sly.
Senses: glosses: A system of handicraft-based education started in Finland in 1865 and later adopted worldwide.
sloyd
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /slɔɪd/
Forms: form: sloyds
form: slojd
form: slöjd
Etymology: Borrowed from Swedish slöjd (“handicraft, handiwork, skills”). Doublet of sleight.
Senses: examples: text: He asked what exactly was the position given to the "sloyds" (handicrafts) in teaching …
ref: 1947, Unesco, International Bureau of Education, Proceedings and Recommendations, Digitized edition, published 2009:
glosses: A Scandinavian system of handicraft-based education that emphasizes the importance of practical, hands-on work to develop cognitive and problem-solving skills. In particular, it is often associated with woodworking and carving, but can include other crafts as well.
examples: text: The sloyd knife, Fig. 84, is a tool likely to be misused in the hands of small children, but when sharp and in strong hands, has many valuable uses.
ref: 1910, William Noyes, Handwork in Wood, HTML edition, The Gutenberg Project, published 2007:
text: … woodcarvers' knives or sloyds, chisels and plane irons, …
ref: 1933 June, W. Clyde Lammey, “Tricks of Sharpening Knives”, in Popular Mechanics, volume 59, number 6, page 951:
glosses: A knife for carving.
slojd
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of slöjd.
unexotic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unexotic
form: most unexotic
Etymology: From un- + exotic.
Senses: glosses: Not exotic; mundane, commonplace.
iunno
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌaɪ.əˈnəʊ/
ipa: /ˌaɪ.əˈnoʊ/
rhymes: -əʊ
Forms: form: iuno
form: ionno
Etymology: Loose pronunciation of I dunno (“I don't know”).
Senses: glosses: I don't know.
unseeably
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more unseeably
form: most unseeably
Etymology: From unseeable + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: The Abbot knew that man was poised between two infinities, the unseeably tiny and the immensities of space […]
ref: 1975, Philip Mason, Kipling: the glass, the shadow and the fire:
text: Van Leeuwenhoek expanded his search for these unseeably small creatures and found them everywhere: on human eyelashes, on fleas, in dust, and on skin.
ref: 2007, Kendall Haven, 100 Greatest Science Discoveries of All Time:
glosses: In an unseeable way; invisibly.
put the boot in
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: puts the boot in
form: putting the boot in
form: put the boot in
form: put the boot in
Senses: glosses: To kick a fallen opponent.
glosses: To kick someone when they are down.
cybermarketing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From cyber- + marketing.
Senses: examples: text: While infrastructural problems need to be taken care of, it is estimated that cybermarketing has a bright future in India...
ref: 2006, Sandhya Rao, Bruce C Klopfenstein, Cyberpath to development in Asia: issues and challenges:
text: If you mastered marketing principles in business school long ago, this chapter connects cybermarketing to your memories of business plans...
ref: 2006, Jan Zimmerman, Web Marketing For Dummies:
glosses: Marketing on the Internet or in cyberspace.
cyberpop
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From cyber- + pop.
Senses: examples: text: […] cyberpop duo the Shamen fashion an archaic futurism from rapped vocals, fizzing synthesizers, hyperactive drum machine...
ref: 1997, Mark Dery, Escape Velocity:
text: In his carefully orchestrated fusion of innocence and menace, Michael Jackson has become a kind of cultural icon of techno-totemism, a true cyberpop villain/hero.
ref: 1998, Bradd Shore, Culture in Mind: Cognition, Culture, and the Problem of Meaning:
text: More than ever they are seen as the originators of modern electronic pop music — somehow the bridge between Stockhausen and cyberpop.
ref: 2004, Pascal Bussy, Mick Fish, Kraftwerk: man, machine and music:
glosses: Pop music evoking cyber themes.
glosses: Elements of cyberpunk fiction and cyberculture brought into the mainstream as pop culture.
king penguins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of king penguin
lese-majesty
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: “[…]I allow neither perduellion nor lese-majesty against my sovereign authority.”
ref: 1818 July 25, Jedediah Cleishbotham [pseudonym; Walter Scott], Tales of My Landlord, Second Series, […] (The Heart of Mid-Lothian), volume I, Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne and Co.] for Archibald Constable and Company, →OCLC, page 332:
text: That is a phrase which was almost lese-majesty in LONDON TRANSPORT before the war, but to-day it is a different story. In fact we take pride in making-do, knowing what a contribution it is to the war effort.
ref: 1943 July and August, “MAKING-DO”, in Railway Magazine, page iii, advertisement by London Transport:
glosses: Alternative spelling of lese majesty.
vertical market
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vertical markets
Senses: examples: text: The market for point-of-sale terminals is a vertical market.
topics: business
marketing
synonyms: vertical
glosses: A market made up of similar businesses and customers with particular specialized needs.
Related terms: horizontal market
horizontal market
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: horizontal markets
Senses: examples: text: The market for wordprocessors is a horizontal market.
topics: business
marketing
glosses: A market that encompasses a wide variety of industries.
Related terms: vertical market
incongruently
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more incongruently
form: most incongruently
Etymology: From incongruent + -ly or in- + congruently.
Senses: examples: text: The originally Teutophilic narrative veers decidedly in a new direction when an entry from a Francophilic 'American correspondent,' whose language is incongruently lush and hyperbolic, depicts Germans using tactics and combat procedures ...
ref: 2005, Charles E. Gannon, Rumors of War and Infernal Machines: Technomilitary Agenda-setting in American and British Speculative Fiction, Rowman & Littlefield, →ISBN, page 30:
glosses: In an incongruent way.
cryptodepressions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cryptodepression
dyings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dying
unshredded
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + shredded.
Senses: examples: text: The remaining unshredded documents suggested fraud had been going on.
glosses: Not shredded.
untattered
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + tattered.
Senses: glosses: Not tattered.
tatteredly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more tatteredly
form: most tatteredly
Etymology: From tattered + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a tattered way; raggedly.
spellcraft
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From spell + craft.
Senses: glosses: Magical practices involving the casting of spells.
Synonyms: spellwork
Related terms: druidcraft
gypsycraft
witchcraft
wizardcraft
wizardries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wizardry
noogying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of noogie
noogied
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of noogie
tayberry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tayberries
Etymology: From Tay + berry, after the River Tay in Scotland.
Senses: glosses: A cultivated shrub of the genus Rubus fruticosus x idaeus, a cross between the blackberry (R. fruiticosus) and raspberry (R. idaeus).
glosses: Its fruit, a large sweet berry.
Related terms: loganberry
tayberries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tayberry
antipregnancy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From anti- + pregnancy.
Senses: glosses: Serving to counteract pregnancy.
Related terms: abortive
contraceptive
unprefixed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + prefixed.
Senses: examples: text: It was the first time I would hear Dotun say his brother’s name just like that, just the name, stripped of the honour due to his older brother, unprefixed with ‘bros’ or ‘brother’.
ref: 2017, Ayọ̀bámi Adébáyọ̀, Stay With Me, Canongate Books, page 174:
glosses: Not prefixed; without a prefix.
Synonyms: prefixless
clone town
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: clone towns
Etymology: Coined in 2004 by the New Economics Foundation.
Senses: glosses: A town whose major shopping areas are dominated by chain stores at the expense of local diversity.
wikipedia: New Economics Foundation
Related terms: Starbucksification
clone towns
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of clone town