cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
outyell
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: outyells
form: outyelling
form: outyelled
form: outyelled
Etymology: From out- + yell.
Senses: examples: text: The victory more or less justified the American strategy to find places where the men’s soccer teams will not feel like foreigners, outnumbered and outyelled by fanaticos from Latin America.
ref: 2008 March 21, George Vecsey, “U.S. Travel Plans: Heartland to China”, in New York Times:
glosses: To yell more loudly than.
outyells
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of outyell
outyelling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of outyell
outyelled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of outyell
protohumans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of protohuman
souklike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more souklike
form: most souklike
Etymology: From souk + -like.
Senses: examples: text: But for better or worse, the souklike kaleidoscope of objects and cultures has slowed a bit.
ref: 2008 March 21, Roberta Smith, “Monkey Gods to Textiles: Far East on the East Side”, in New York Times:
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a souk (Arabic street market).
splitist
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more splitist
form: most splitist
Senses: examples: text: “But all of his propositions and actions prove that he has never stopped his splitist words and deeds.”
ref: 2008 March 21, Howard W. French, “China Admits to Wounding 4 Tibetan Demonstrators”, in New York Times:
glosses: Alternative form of splittist.
splitist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: splitists
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of splittist.
splitists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of splitist
splitism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of splittism.
whos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: ho͞oz
ipa: /huːz/
rhymes: -uːz
enpr: hwo͞oz
ipa: /ʍuːz/
homophone: whose
homophone: who's
rhymes: -uːz
Senses: examples: text: Closing of Duffy trial takes proceedings from the whos and whats to why and how.
text: The whos and wheres and whens and whats of his expenses were the meat of the weeks of testimony that dragged on far longer than anyone expected
glosses: plural of who; often used along with whats, whys, hows, etc.
antipaparazzi
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From anti- + paparazzi.
Senses: examples: text: The antipaparazzi laws, by focusing only on taking photographs and making sound recordings when done for commercial purposes and on the defendant photographer's profits, clearly target the press.
ref: 2008, Daniel J. Solove, Paul M. Schwartz, Privacy and the Media:
glosses: Opposing or countering paparazzi.
petroholic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: petroholics
Etymology: From petro- + -holic.
Senses: examples: text: We're a nation of petroholics, lurching around the globe like a drunk with a hand grenade staggering through a nursery, yet the cure the President offers is more smart bombs and an energy program that's nothing more than drill, burn...
ref: 1991, David Ross Brower, Work in progress:
text: “We’re a nice little selfish country of petroholics, and that has made us lazy,” said Frederic Hauge, president of Bellona, Norway’s largest nongovernmental environmental organization.
ref: 2008 March 22, Elisabeth Rosenthal, “Lofty Pledge to Cut Emissions Comes With Caveat in Norway”, in New York Times:
glosses: One who uses more petrol than necessary.
petroholics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of petroholic
sleazoid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sleazoids
Etymology: From sleaze + -oid.
Senses: examples: text: But I ultimately discovered how these sleazoids got my number, and got the calls to stop.
ref: 2005, Dan Tynan, Computer privacy annoyances:
text: If Paterson had called a press conference and told the state that he had slept around, been careless about the way he spent the money people had donated to his campaign and, in general, had been too familiar with a sleazoid lifestyle that frequently spills over into patronage jobs, bad legislation and pay-for-play government, we could have had the first good-news sex scandal in American political history.
ref: 2008 March 22, Gail Collins, “A Catered Affair”, in New York Times:
glosses: A sleazy person.
Related terms: creepazoid
dorkazoid
freakazoid
geekazoid
nutzoid
scuzzoid
sleazoids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sleazoid
subindustry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: subindustries
Etymology: From sub- + industry.
Senses: examples: text: Another “Masterpiece” mini-series that season was “Elizabeth R,” starring a fierce and eventually half-bald Glenda Jackson, which could be said to have set into motion an entire Tudor subindustry: films and series about Boleyn’s daughter, among them the two Cate Blanchett “Elizabeth” movies and Helen Mirren ’s 2005 portrayal of the queen who was the namesake of the one she earned an Academy Award for playing a couple of years later, in “The Queen.”
ref: 2008 March 22, Charles Mcgrath, “A British Dynasty for All Seasons”, in New York Times:
glosses: An industry that makes up part of a larger industry.
subindustries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of subindustry
mystery plays
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mystery play
Plough Monday
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: The traditional start of the English agricultural year, generally the first Monday after Epiphany.
Related terms: Plough Sunday
Plough Sunday
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The Sunday that immediately precedes Plough Monday.
indelve
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: indelves
form: indelving
form: indelved
form: indolve
form: indelved
form: indolve
form: indolven
form: in-delve
Etymology: From Middle English indelven (“to bury”), equivalent to in- + delve. Cognate with Dutch indelven (“to dig into”). More at in-, delve.
Senses: glosses: To bury.
examples: text: Although this port brings out that there are known cases where, on interline traffic, the delivering carrier had collected, but failed to remit to the consignor, it did indelve into the liability of the initial carrier to the consignor, […]
ref: 1959, Traffic Service Corporation, Traffic world: Volume 103:
glosses: To dig or delve into.
examples: text: The Vision was in the form of a Book in heaven with small and minute in script and indelved upon Gold of the purest form.
ref: 2006, Robert L. Vincent, Jr.; Consuelo M. Vincent, The Prophecy and Testament:
glosses: To engrave.
Derived terms: indelving
uncivilization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From un- + civilization.
Senses: examples: text: The park is not just a place of lost civilizations, but vanished uncivilization, a Manhattan scarcely marked by human hands.
ref: 2008 March 22, Jim Dwyer, “In a City Park, a Crime Against Nature”, in New York Times:
glosses: The quality of not being civilized.
bloggy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: bloggier
form: bloggiest
Etymology: From blog + -y.
Senses: examples: text: You can still be professional, but let your personality seep in. If you're managing the blog, give your blog writer time to develop a bloggy rhythm and writing voice. Either way, gauge the reaction from readers or other bloggers.
ref: 2006, Debbie Weil, The corporate blogging book:
text: I feel entirely defeated, myself, however, in how we engage in such a practice in the face of the vacuous (and I use the word in response to both your senses of analytical categories like class being “empty” or “evacuated”) sameness of responses to and critiques of the events at Virginia Tech and the excruciating analyses of Cho Seung-Hui which (at my last investigation) were curiously silent about the ethno-political and about racism in its most obvious, bloggiest forms.
ref: 2007, Andrea Fatona, Aruna Srivastava, Rinaldo Walcott, “Bring It Back: Thinking the Ethno-Politics of Identity Again”, in Fuse Magazine, volume 30, Toronto, Ont.: Arton’s Publishing, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 18:
text: It is, dare I say it, too preoccupied with being respectably booky rather than wildly bloggy.
ref: 2008 March 23, David Kamp, “Permalinks”, in The New York Times Book Review, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 10 Dec 2008:
text: In “Question,” Schneider bounces between bloggier, jokier chapters (“Why in God’s Name Did They Make ‘Cartoon All-Stars to the Rescue’?”) and more revealing, still jokey ones, about her gender transition and other formative experiences (“So if You’re Trans, Does That Mean You Like Guys?”).
ref: 2023 October 3, Margaret Lyons, “For This ‘Jeopardy!’ Champ, Winning Came Before the Buzzer”, in The New York Times Book Review, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 03 Oct 2023:
glosses: Having the characteristics of a blog; resembling a blog.
Synonyms: blogish
bloggish
bloglike
dysphemize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: dysphemizes
form: dysphemizing
form: dysphemized
form: dysphemized
Etymology: From dysphem(ism) + -ize.
Senses: examples: text: As applied to the Internet, Portland calls it "open access," while AT&T dysphemizes it as "forced access."
ref: 2005, Elliot D. Cohen, News incorporated:
text: Or will the Democratic convention treat the breathlessly watching nation to a credentials fight — dysphemized as a train wreck?
ref: 2008 March 23, William Safire, “Mulligan Primary”, in New York Times:
glosses: To describe in dysphemisms.
euphemizer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: euphemizers
form: euphemiser
Etymology: From euphemize + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who, or that which, euphemizes.
dysphemizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of dysphemize
dysphemizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of dysphemize
euphemizers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of euphemizer
dysphemized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of dysphemize
groceryman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: grocerymen
Etymology: From grocery + -man.
Senses: examples: text: “It is a form of communication perfect not just for poets but for the Chinese groceryman or Brazilian miner who arrived a few months ago,” he continued.
ref: 2008 March 23, Simon Romero, “In Babel of Tongues, Suriname Seeks Itself”, in New York Times:
text: The cream may be sold at the cream station and butter purchased from the groceryman.
ref: 2009 May 31, Jonathan Miles, “Food Bloggers of 1940”, in New York Times:
glosses: A male grocer.
grocerymen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of groceryman
sabo
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: sabos
form: saboes
form: saboing
form: saboed
form: saboed
Etymology: Clipping of sabotage.
Senses: glosses: To get someone in trouble, to prank, to sabotage another's efforts.
sabo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sabos
Etymology: Clipping of sabotage.
Senses: glosses: A saboteur.
kidhood
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kidhoods
Etymology: From kid + -hood.
Senses: examples: text: O. Henry
I went away back to my kidhood and remembered the hot biscuit sopped in sorghum and bacon gravy with partiality and respect.
text: It suggests how deeply the comics had implanted themselves in kidhood consciousness in only their second decade as a normative pop-cultural universe; how shocking and yet irresistible we found each new and more subversive permutation; and how recklessly indifferent to adult America’s ever hardening hostility were the wild misfit artists who, even as I buckled under Superduperman’s (and Lois’s) seditious antics, were dancing into the flames of self-destruction.
ref: 2008 March 23, Ron Powers, “Penny Dreadfuls”, in New York Times:
glosses: childhood
kidhoods
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kidhood
microsurgical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From micro- + surgical.
Senses: examples: text: He specializes in microsurgical breast reconstruction.
ref: 2008 March 23, “Rachel Schneider, David Greenspun”, in New York Times:
glosses: Of or pertaining to microsurgery.
Derived terms: microsurgically
phonomicrosurgical
supermicrosurgical
supramicrosurgical
microsurgically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From microsurgical + -ly.
Senses: glosses: By means of microsurgery.
microsurges
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of microsurge
microvan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: microvans
Etymology: From micro- + van.
Senses: examples: text: To help spread the word about the Cube, the shoebox-on-wheels it will bring to American showrooms next year, Nissan offered two of the microvans to the Pratt Institute for cosmetic makeovers.
ref: 2008 March 23, Phil Patton, “Thinking Outside the Cube”, in New York Times:
glosses: A small, compact van, smaller than a minivan.
Coordinate terms: K-car
kei car
kei truck
K-truck
microbus
microcar
micro-MPV
minibus
mini-MPV
minivan
MPV
van
microvans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of microvan
hapas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hapa
multiracials
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of multiracial
myopics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of myopic
protominimalist
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more protominimalist
form: most protominimalist
Etymology: From proto- + minimalist.
Senses: examples: text: Visitors to the museum gazed on […] the many-faceted work of the Rio de Janeiro artists Hélio Oiticica and Lygia Clark, close colleagues whose protominimalist and precociously interactive work in the ’60s (like his capes to be danced in and her hinged sculptures to be reconfigured at will) exert a powerful influence today.
ref: 2008 March 23, Arthur Lubow, “After Frida”, in New York Times:
glosses: Belonging or pertaining to an early form of minimalism.
protominimalist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: protominimalists
Etymology: From proto- + minimalist.
Senses: glosses: An artist employing an early form of minimalism.
sectoring
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sectorings
Etymology: From sector + -ing.
Senses: glosses: Division into sectors.
Derived terms: hard sectoring
soft sectoring
sectorings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sectoring
servanthood
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: servanthoods
Etymology: From servant + -hood.
Senses: examples: text: There is such a thing as the Butler Way, a team-first philosophy that stresses humility, passion, unity, servanthood and thankfulness.
ref: 2008 March 23, Ray Glier, “No Matter the Opponent, Stubborn Butler Plays at Its Own Speed”, in New York Times:
glosses: The role of being a servant.
retin
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: retins
form: retinning
form: retinned
form: retinned
Etymology: From re- + tin.
Senses: glosses: To coat with tin again.
retent
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ɹɪˈtɛnt/
Forms: form: retents
Etymology: From Latin retentum, from retentus, perfect passive participle of retineō. See retain.
Senses: examples: text: The retent, when known, stands before us as if reflected and inverted in a mirror, the nearest events in the past being this way the nearest as actually remembered.
ref: 1854, Laurens Perseus Hickok, Empirical Psychology: Or, The Science of Mind from Experience:
glosses: That which is retained.
antibugging
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From anti- + bugging.
Senses: examples: text: Across the table was Rainer Melucci, whose expertise in electronic eavesdropping protection and antibugging services took him into the home of Tom Cruise in Los Angeles and the offices of the Church of Scientology.
ref: 2008 March 24, Lily Koppel, “On the Lam? Don’t Stumble In on This Bunch”, in New York Times:
glosses: Opposing or countering bugging (covert surveillance).
Related terms: antibug
antibugging
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From anti- + bugging.
Senses: examples: text: They were convinced that the error-checking and antibugging that I was suggesting would far exceed the capacity of their machine.
ref: 1975, Edward Yourdon, Techniques of program structure and design:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
glosses: The strategy of writing code so as to minimise the possibility of error.
antibullfighting
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more antibullfighting
form: most antibullfighting
Etymology: From anti- + bullfighting.
Senses: examples: text: Using cloning to produce animals that are doomed to a barbarous death adds insult to injury, said Leonardo Anselmi, president of an antibullfighting organization, Stop Our Shame.
ref: 2008 March 24, Victoria Burnett, “For a Prize Bull, Next Big Test Is in Genetics Lab”, in New York Times:
glosses: Opposing bullfighting.
Synonyms: antibullfight
postadolescence
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From post- + adolescence.
Senses: examples: text: The theme of ambition permeates the new season, although it detracts not at all from the show’s canny sense that there’s no such thing as postadolescence: you’re a teenager until you start having biopsies and paying a mortgage.
ref: 2008 March 24, Ginia Bellafante, “Career Climbing, With Claws Bared”, in New York Times:
glosses: The period of life following adolescence.
postadolescents
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of postadolescent
twistedness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From twisted + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: During its third season, which picks up again on Monday after a three-month hiatus, “The Hills,” set among young aspirants of the Hollywood Hills’ music and fashion industries, has continued to track the emotional warfare between former best friends Lauren and Heidi, while delving more deeply into the twistedness, gaslighting and superficiality of the boyfriends who ensure that the tortured rivals treat each other like Crips and Bloods.
ref: 2008 March 24, Ginia Bellafante, “Career Climbing, With Claws Bared”, in New York Times:
glosses: The quality of being twisted.
prelockout
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pre- + lockout.
Senses: examples: text: His size, however, was considered a barrier, particularly when the prelockout N.H.L. seemed dominated by bigger and bigger players.
ref: 2008 March 24, Lynn Zinser, “A Rangers Rookie’s Stature Grows With Each Shootout Goal”, in New York Times:
text: For the time being the BCC had won, but the unions recovered quickly and prelockout conditions concerning wage rates and craft prerogatives again prevailed.
ref: 2009, Dominic A. Pacyga, Chicago: a biography, page 151:
glosses: Before a lockout.
ultranarrow
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more ultranarrow
form: most ultranarrow
Etymology: From ultra- + narrow.
Senses: examples: text: However, the new approach, which is based on the company’s ability to accurately align chips with high precision making it possible to transmit beams of light across the surface of the chips in ultranarrow channels called wave guides, could have a much bigger impact.
ref: 2008 March 24, John Markoff, “Replacing Wire With Laser, Sun Tries to Speed Up Data”, in New York Times:
glosses: Extremely narrow.
backsies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of backsie
glosses: plural of backsy
chapterplay
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chapterplays
Etymology: From chapter + play.
Senses: examples: text: Very likely the world’s first singing-cowboy science-fiction adventure, this 12-episode chapterplay, directed by Otto Brower and Breezy Easton, features Gene Autry in his first starring role — as “Gene Autry,” the proprietor of Radio Ranch.
ref: 2008 March 25, Dave Kehr, “New DVDs: ‘The Phantom Empire’”, in New York Times:
glosses: A film serial, formerly shown in instalments in theaters in conjunction with a feature film.
chapterplays
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chapterplay
costochondritis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From costo- + chondritis.
Senses: examples: text: For example, many patients with chest pain carry a diagnosis of costochondritis (inflammation of the chest wall bones) or gastroesophageal reflux (regurgitation of stomach acid into the esophagus).
ref: 2008 March 25, Barron H. Lerner, “When the Disease Eludes a Diagnosis”, in New York Times:
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A benign inflammation of the costal cartilage, causing pain between the ribs.
inexpressiveness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From inexpressive + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: His perceived inexpressiveness particularly impressed the critics in France, where the perceptive Louis Delluc wrote about him in almost Bressonian terms:
ref: 2008 March 25, Dave Kehr, “New DVDs: ‘The Phantom Empire’”, in New York Times:
synonyms: inexpressivity
antonyms: expressiveness
glosses: The quality of being inexpressive.
Kiyoshi
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese きよし (Kiyoshi).
Senses: examples: text: Gordon Kiyoshi Hirabayashi, known for his courage to challenge the U.S. government policy to evacuate, relocate, and intern all persons of Japanese ancestry during the Pacific War, was born in Seattle on April 23, 1918.
ref: 1983, Hyung-chan Kim, Distinguished Asian Americans: A Biographical Dictionary, Greenwood Publishing Group, page 113:
glosses: A male given name from Japanese.
Wellesian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Wellesian
form: most Wellesian
Etymology: From Welles + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to George Orson Welles (1915–1985), American director, actor, and screenwriter.
Bressonian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Bressonian
form: most Bressonian
Etymology: From Bresson + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to Robert Bresson (1901–1999), French film director.
megamansion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: megamansions
Etymology: From mega- + mansion.
Senses: examples: text: The threat of some sort of development — ranchettes and megamansions, most likely — remained.
ref: 2008 March 25, “Last Chapter in Yellowstone”, in New York Times:
text: McClean has been described time and time again as LA’s “megamansion king”, and no wonder. He’s famously the architect behind what’s being called “the most expensive house in America”.
ref: 2021 January 30, Tanya Sweeney, “The Irish architect who became the ‘megamansion king’ of LA”, in The Irish Times:
glosses: A very large mansion.
megamansions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of megamansion
hujra
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hujras
Etymology: From Arabic حُجْرَة (ḥujra).
Senses: examples: text: The A.N.P.’s leaders say their strength comes from the Pashtun tribal tradition of the hujra: traditionally, the landowner’s reception room, where guests are received, disputes solved and decisions made by the elders.
ref: 2008 March 26, Carlotta Gall, “Moderates Hold Key in Pakistan”, in New York Times:
glosses: A drawing room where guests are entertained in Pashtun areas of Pakistan.
hujras
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hujra
mayorally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From mayoral + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Rather than retain the mayorally appointed position, he decided to seek to stay on as an adviser.
ref: 2008 March 26, Patrick Mcgeehan, “Ex-Official Cleared to Continue Work on Big City Projects”, in New York Times:
glosses: By a mayor.
taaffeites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of taaffeite
litholatry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From litho- + -latry.
Senses: topics: lifestyle
religion
theology
glosses: The worship of stones.
Derived terms: litholatric
litholatrous
overhandle
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -ændəl
Forms: form: overhandles
form: overhandling
form: overhandled
form: overhandled
Etymology: From over- + handle.
Senses: examples: text: What makes these goodies different, the company says, is that they are formed by robotic machines so that the dough is not toughened by overhandling.
ref: 2008 March 26, Florence Fabricant, “Croissants Made by Robots”, in New York Times:
glosses: To handle excessively.
overhandled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of overhandle
overhandling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of overhandle
overhandles
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of overhandle
reseason
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: reseasons
form: reseasoning
form: reseasoned
form: reseasoned
Etymology: From re- + season.
Senses: examples: text: I could roll the dough longer, reseason the meat.
ref: 2008 March 26, Alex Witchel, “Missing Ingredient, Gone for Good”, in New York Times:
glosses: To season again.
reseasoning
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of reseason
reseasoned
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of reseason
yoshoku
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese 洋食 (yōshoku), from Middle Chinese 洋 (yáng "ocean", by extension "foreign", "Western") + 食 (ʒik "eat", "food").
Senses: examples: text: Shiseido Parlor is a storied yoshoku establishment in the heart of Tokyo’s Ginza district, a restaurant to which many Japanese make a pilgrimage at least once.
ref: 2008 March 26, Norimitsu Onishi, “Spaghetti Stir-Fry and Hambagoo: Japan Looks West”, in New York Times:
glosses: A style of Western-influenced Japanese cuisine.
ballyard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ballyards
Etymology: From ball + yard.
Senses: examples: text: Robert Leo Sheppard has been a highlight of any trip to the big ballyard in the Bronx since opening day, April 17, 1951, when he announced the name of Joe DiMaggio right after the youngster playing right field, Mickey Mantle.
ref: 2008 March 27, George Vecsey, “All Is Well: The Voice Is Coming Back”, in New York Times:
glosses: A baseball field.
ballyards
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ballyard
dollarwise
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From dollar + -wise.
Senses: examples: text: Dollarwise it was the biggest change in years, but percentagewise it was not a record-breaking change.
text: There are far larger budget fights looming, dollarwise.
ref: 2008 March 27, “New Day, Line by Budget Line”, in New York Times:
text: Dollarwise, I probably lost out by at least 100 percent, but it spawned a career.
ref: 2008, Robert Schleicher, The Lionel Legend: An American Icon, page 18:
coordinate_terms: percentagewise
glosses: In terms of dollars (as opposed to percentage, or to another currency); moneywise; monetarily; financially.
overfertilize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: overfertilizes
form: overfertilizing
form: overfertilized
form: overfertilized
Etymology: From over- + fertilize.
Senses: examples: text: But no matter where you are, the trick is acid soil — with a pH between 4.5 and 5.0 — with plenty of drainage. And don’t overfertilize.
ref: 2008 March 27, Anne Raver, “A Sisterly Rivalry Leads Directly to Pies”, in New York Times:
glosses: To treat (plants) with too much fertilizer.
Related terms: overfertilization
overfertilizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of overfertilize
overfertilized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of overfertilize
autopartitioning
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From auto- + partitioning.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: automatic partitioning (of a network, database, etc.)
precivilization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From pre- + civilization.
Senses: examples: text: In “Benguelê” (which refers to slaves’ nostalgic longing for Africa) he makes extensive use of crouching, stooped bodies in a simian, loping walk, arms hanging loosely and head down to suggest tribal dances, rituals, animals, a precivilization.
ref: 2008 March 27, Roslyn Sulcas, “Exotica of Brazil in Motion”, in New York Times:
glosses: The time prior to civilization.
prestrung
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pre- + strung.
Senses: examples: text: Beads can be purchased prestrung on lengths of thread or loose in vials or plastic bags.
ref: 2001, Claire B. Shaeffer, Couture Sewing Techniques, page 206:
text: All of the heads came prestrung (they also come in unstrung versions) and none were acceptable to the 25-year-old Mr. Park; elite players string their own heads.
ref: 2008 March 27, Jack Bell, “A Lacrosse Face-Off”, in New York Times:
glosses: Strung in advance.
rejon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rejones
Etymology: Spanish rejón
Senses: glosses: A lance used in bullfighting.
Related terms: rejoneo
cayuca
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cayucas
Senses: examples: text: Fishermen drop lines from their cayucas, small wooden dugout boats with upturned prows.
ref: 2008 March 28, Louise Tutelian, “Guatemala as Muse and Base for a Writer”, in New York Times:
glosses: A type of dugout canoe of South America.
cayucas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cayuca
Takao
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /tæˈkaʊ/
rhymes: -aʊ
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese 高(たか)雄(お) (Takao), from Min Nan 打狗 (Tá-káu).
Senses: examples: text: Foreign observers who were at Keelung March 8 state that in mid-afternoon the streets of the city were cleared suddenly by machine gun fire directed at no particular objects or persons. After dark ships docked and discharged the troops for which the Governor apparently had been waiting. Fairly reliable sources estimate that about 2,000 police were landed, followed by about 8,000 troops with light equipment including U.S. Army jeeps. Men and equipment were rushed to Taipei. It is reported that about 3,000 men were landed at Takao simultaneously. Troops were reportedly continuing to arrive on March 17.
ref: 1949, United States Relations With China, United States Department of State, page 931:
text: A descendant of Robert Swinhoe, the first British consul in what was then known as Formosa, on Thursday visited the British Consulate at Takow (打狗英國領事館) in Kaohsiung, hoping to deepen his understanding of his ancestor. ¶ Robert Swinhoe was stationed in Taiwan in July 1861 as the first British vice-consul, and he set up the first British Consular Office in Taiwan in Taiwanfu (modern-day Tainan), the Kaohsiung Bureau of Cultural Affairs said. ¶ Three years later, Britain relocated the vice consulate from Taiwanfu to Takao (modern-day Kaohsiung), after the Port of Kaohsiung was opened.
ref: 2019, Huang Chia-lin, Jake Chung, “Descendant of Britain’s first consul visits Taiwan”, in Taipei Times:
text: The Facebook group Takao Good Day (高雄好過日) on Thursday mocked Han's election campaign promise of "10,000 companies gathering" (萬商雲集) as turning out to be "thousands of businesses going bankrupt" (千商倒閉). The Kaohsiung City Government Economic Development Bureau explained that it is following the central government's policy to dissolve companies that are no longer operating.
ref: 2019, Keoni Everington, “1,500 companies go bankrupt in Kaohsiung under Han's rule”, in Taiwan News:
glosses: Synonym of Kaohsiung.
synonyms: word: Kaohsiung
wikipedia: Encyclopædia Britannica
livescanning
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of livescan
dimmings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈdɪmɪŋz/
Senses: glosses: plural of dimming
dimnesses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dimness
megaportal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: megaportals
Etymology: From mega- + portal.
Senses: examples: text: There are potentially dozens of jurisdictions that could claim oversight in such a deal because of the global business interests of the two huge companies and because it could potentially transform the Internet into two megaportals, Google and Microsoft.
ref: 2008 March 28, John Markoff, “China Law Could Impede Microsoft Deal for Yahoo”, in New York Times:
glosses: A very large, successful portal web site.
megaportals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of megaportal
overutilizer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: overutilizers
Etymology: From overutilize + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who overutilizes.
overutilize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: overutilizes
form: overutilizing
form: overutilized
form: overutilized
form: overutilise
Etymology: From over- + utilize.
Senses: examples: text: “In the event of congestion, the half percent of people who are overutilizing an excessive amount of capacity will be slowed down subtly until capacity is restored,” the chief technology officer for Comcast, Tony G. Werner, said.
ref: 2008 March 28, Brad Stone, “Comcast Adjusts Way It Manages Internet Traffic”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 09 Nov 2020:
text: UnitedHealthCare said in a fact sheet that this change is due to colonoscopies being overutilized.
ref: 2023 May 26, Jacqueline Howard and Kyla Russell, “As colorectal cancer rises among younger adults, some seek colonoscopies earlier”, in CNN:
glosses: To utilize excessively
Related terms: overutilization
overutilizer
overutilizers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of overutilizer
overutilized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of overutilize
overutilizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of overutilize
overutilizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of overutilize
overutilization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: overutilizations
Etymology: From over- + utilization.
Senses: glosses: Excessive utilization; overuse.
overutilizations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of overutilization
equivocality
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: equivocalities
Etymology: From equivocal + -ity.
Senses: examples: text: The military lent a new context to Mr. Widmark’s moral equivocality: in films like “Halls of Montezuma,” “The Frogmen,” “Take the High Ground!” and “Destination Gobi” Mr. Widmark played hard-bitten commanders whose apparent coldness and cruelty masked a deeper concern with the safety of their men.
ref: 2008 March 29, Dave Kehr, “A Star Who Mastered a New Moral Ambiguity”, in New York Times:
synonyms: equivocalness
glosses: The quality of being equivocal.
Derived terms: unequivocality
equivocalities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of equivocality
nonunital
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + unital.
Senses: glosses: Not unital.
unitality
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From unital + -ity.
Senses: glosses: The property of being unital.
equivalves
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of equivalve
inequivalves
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of inequivalve
nonguarded
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + guarded.
Senses: glosses: Not guarded.
nonguard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nonguards
Etymology: From non- + guard.
Senses: examples: text: The fights, which broke out about 6:20 a.m., were quelled with the help of 10 nonguards — plumbers, electricians, secretaries and other workers — who happened to be reporting early, said Richard Wechsler, local president of the American Federation of Government Employees, a supervisor and a former guard at the prison.
ref: 2008 March 29, Ralph Blumenthal, “Gang Fights in Prison Injure 22 and Kill One”, in New York Times:
glosses: One who is not a guard.
nonguards
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nonguard
unguaranteeable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + guaranteeable.
Senses: glosses: Not possible to guarantee.
sackt
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of sacked; simple past and past participle of sack.
sportcoat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sportcoats
Etymology: From sport + coat.
Senses: examples: text: They filed in through a side entrance at about 7:45 p.m., dressed in sportcoats or suit jackets, and huddled in front of a 14-foot-high sculpture with hands — men’s, women’s, children’s — intertwined.
ref: 2008 March 29, Ben Shpigel, “A Break From the Game for an Inspiring Lesson”, in New York Times:
glosses: sport jacket
sportcoats
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sportcoat
tearfulness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tearfulnesses
Etymology: From tearful + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: The songs built slowly with anger, ache, tearfulness and fury, with sustained notes and cascading melismas.
ref: 2008 March 29, Jon Pareles, “Hip-Hop Assurance, R&B Suffering”, in New York Times:
text: I confess to tearfulness when Charles, now in a plain linen shirt, knelt before the altar
ref: 6 May 2023, Rachel Cooke, “It was ludicrous but also magnificent: the coronation stirred every emotion”, in The Guardian:
glosses: The quality of being tearful.
tearest
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: tear + -est
Senses: glosses: second-person singular simple present indicative of tear
antifighting
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more antifighting
form: most antifighting
Etymology: From anti- + fighting.
Senses: examples: text: In a news conference Friday, the Quebec minister of leisure and sport, Michelle Courchesne, asked the league’s commissioner, Gilles Courteau, to submit a report to the government and install new antifighting rules in time for next season.
ref: 2008 March 30, Jeff Z. Klein, Lew Serviss, “Happy Birthday to Mr. Hockey as Howe Turns 80”, in New York Times:
glosses: Opposing fighting.
antisprawl
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From anti- + sprawl.
Senses: examples: text: “There is a definite regulatory preference in New Jersey for brownfield and urban infill sites,” said Mr. Manewitz, noting that antisprawl, pro-environmental restrictions put in place over the last decade have ruled out any type of construction in some spots, and strongly discouraged it in others.
ref: 2008 March 30, Antoinette Martin, “Why Dumps Are Gaining in Allure”, in New York Times:
qualifier: urban studies
glosses: Opposing or countering urban sprawl.
divestest
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: divest + -est
Senses: glosses: second-person singular simple present indicative of divest
divesteth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: divest + -eth
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of divest
investest
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: invest + -est
Senses: glosses: second-person singular simple present indicative of invest
investeth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: invest + -eth
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of invest
existest
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: exist + -est
Senses: glosses: second-person singular simple present indicative of exist
existeth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: exist + -eth
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of exist
inventeth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: invent + -eth
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of invent
inventest
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: invent + -est
Senses: glosses: second-person singular simple present indicative of invent
leapingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more leapingly
form: most leapingly
Etymology: From leaping + -ly.
Senses: glosses: With a leaping motion; in bounds.
bioprogram
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bioprograms
form: bioprogramme
Etymology: From bio- + program.
Senses: examples: text: Bickerton swats down all these theories and explains how he arrived at his own solution, the language bioprogram hypothesis, which he elaborated in the book “Roots of Language” (1981).
ref: 2008 March 30, Michael Erard, “Walking the Talk”, in New York Times:
qualifier: cognitive linguistics
glosses: A hypothetical program in the brain, responsible for the construction of a language from words (and thus explaining the structural similarities of unrelated creoles).
bioprograms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bioprogram
bracketlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more bracketlike
form: most bracketlike
Etymology: From bracket + -like.
Senses: examples: text: For the past decade, the politics of the country has been defined by this map — a conservative heartland and two bracketlike liberal coasts.
ref: 2008 March 30, Benjamin Wallace-Wells, “A Case of the Blues”, in New York Times:
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a bracket.
closetful
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: closetfuls
form: closetsful
Etymology: From closet + -ful.
Senses: examples: text: I had been spooked at the time, never imagining that at age 46 I would have a closetful of my dead husband’s clothes, and that it would seem right.
ref: 2008 March 30, Patty Dann, “How We Got From Grief to Pancakes”, in New York Times:
glosses: As much as a closet can hold.
closetfuls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of closetful
closetsful
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of closetful
declutterer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /diːˈklʌtəɹə(ɹ)/
ipa: /diːˈklʊtəɹə/
Forms: form: declutterers
Etymology: From declutter + -er.
Senses: examples: text: But alongside the collectors, who are no doubt greening the world, the ideology of the equally high-minded declutterers is still going strong.
ref: 2008 March 30, Virginia Heffernan, “Lost and Found”, in New York Times:
glosses: One who declutters.
declutterers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of declutterer
decocainizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of decocainize
disenthrall
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: disenthralls
form: disenthralling
form: disenthralled
form: disenthralled
form: disenthral
form: disinthral
Etymology: From dis- + enthrall.
Senses: examples: text: He noted Gandhi’s sense of satyagraha and a statement of Lincoln’s during the depths of the Civil War: “We must disenthrall ourselves, and then we shall save our country.”
ref: 2008 March 30, Peter Applebome, “Applying Gandhi’s Ideas to Climate Change”, in New York Times:
synonyms: emancipate
qualifier: literary or puristic; otherwise archaic; literary or puristic; otherwise archaic
glosses: To free from slavery or captivation (thraldom).
disenthralls
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of disenthrall
gambrelled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From gambrel + -ed.
Senses: glosses: Having a gambrel.
dormered
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From dormer + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: Its prewar co-ops nuzzle town houses with dormered windows jutting from their top floors.
ref: 2008 March 30, C. J. Hughes, “In the Many Enclaves, One Neighborhood”, in New York Times:
glosses: Having a dormer.
everydude
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: everydudes
Etymology: From every + dude, modelled on everyman.
Senses: examples: text: So, alongside a fair hatred of racism, Nevin grew up believing that, often, the establishment is just dead wrong. He was everydude in the late 1960s and early 1970s — a shaggy-haired, liberal, itinerant college student […]
ref: 1995, Jess Walter, Every knee shall bow:
text: But for John Krasinski, the actor who plays Jim, the affable everydude of “The Office,” the news wasn’t all bad.
ref: 2008 March 30, Dave Itzkoff, “Tackling Directing and George Clooney”, in New York Times:
text: Reynolds’ character, called simply Guy, is an unyieldingly chipper everydude who greets each morning with a smile.
ref: 2021 August 6, A. A. Dowd, “The Ryan Reynolds action-comedy Free Guy is a Truman Show for the Fortnite age”, in The A.V. Club:
glosses: A typical dude; an unremarkable laid-back man.
everydudes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of everydude
waspies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of waspie
cacodæmons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cacodæmon
hypercapitalism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hyper-capitalism
Etymology: From hyper- + capitalism.
Senses: examples: text: Perhaps Americans will finally choose to stop living in an economic Wild West and at last reject the boom-and-bust cycle of turbocharged hypercapitalism in favor of a more humane, livable society.
ref: 2008 March 30, “Letters”, in New York Times:
text: CCRU members disavowed the leftist pieties of their peers and fused cybernetics, metallurgy, bacteriology, chaos theory, science-fiction and the occult to explore, often in deliriously opaque language, what it meant to be alive in an age of hypercapitalism.
ref: 2015 November 16, Sukhdev Sandhu, “How dub master Kode9 became the hero of zero”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
text: Under hypercapitalism, the most beautiful things are the surest signs of impending crisis. The nap seems like a luxury, or even a sign of weakness, a regression into infantlike torpor.
ref: 2018 December 1, Stephen Marche, “The $25 Nap Is Worth It”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
text: The collapse of the Soviet Union and Communism at the beginning of the 1990s was very good news, but it had the unfortunate effect of making almost any left critique of America’s new hypercapitalism seem not just quixotic but also kind of corny and quaint.
ref: 2020 August 7, Kurt Andersen, “College-Educated Professionals Are Capitalism’s Useful Idiots”, in The Atlantic:
text: However, the politics are much different. Silicon Valley’s libertarian, technocratic ideals – themselves a curious mutation of the California counterculture – could extend the darker aspects of hyper-capitalism.
ref: 2021 February 5, Matt Shaw, “Billionaire capitalists are designing humanity's future. Don't let them”, in The Guardian:
topics: capitalism
government
human-sciences
ideology
philosophy
politics
sciences
synonyms: supercapitalism
turbocapitalism
coordinate_terms: late capitalism
glosses: Extreme capitalism at the expense of traditional values.
leggily
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more leggily
form: most leggily
Etymology: From leggy + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: MAYBE, just maybe, if Carrie Bradshaw, the dynamo at the center of the phenomenally successful television series “Sex and the City,” were still in her 20s and just starting her ascent into New York life in 2008, maybe, just maybe, she would be like Julia Allison, who this evening is sitting leggily astride a leather ottoman in Houston’s, a bar in the Flatiron District.
ref: 2008 March 30, Leslie Kaufman, “Channeling Carrie”, in New York Times:
glosses: In a leggy manner.