cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
crummily
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more crummily
form: most crummily
Etymology: From crummy + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a crummy way.
crumbily
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more crumbily
form: most crumbily
Etymology: From crumby + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a crumby way.
estimand
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: estimands
Etymology: Apparently of mid-20th century coinage from Latin aestimandum, gerundive of aestimo (“I value", "I estimate”).
Senses: examples: text: Statistics needs a term like estimand to replace the lengthy phrase independent variable.
ref: 1939, Charles F. Roos with Victor von Szeliski, “The Concept of Demand and Price Elasticity—The Dynamics of Automobile Demand”, in Journal of the American Statistical Association, volume 34, number 208, →DOI, page 656:
text: We speak of the estimator's target as an estimand (as something to be estimated) rather than just as a parameter.
ref: 1968, Frederick Mosteller with John W. Tukey, “Data Analysis--Including Statistics”, in Handbook of Social Psychology, 2nd edition, volume 2: Research Methods, page 106:
text: When doing causal inference in the competing events setting, it is critical to first ascertain the relevant question and the causal estimand that best answers it, with the choice often being between estimands that do and do not eliminate competing events.
ref: 2020 September, Jacqueline E. Rudolph, Catherine R. Lesko, Ashley I. Naimi, “Causal inference in the face of competing events”, in Current Epidemiology Reports, volume 7, number 3:
topics: mathematics
sciences
statistics
glosses: that which is being estimated.
mochilas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mochila
predelle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of predella
combustor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: combustors
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin combustor.
Senses: glosses: A chamber acting as the furnace in a jet engine or turbine engine, where intense combustion is induced.
burgernomics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Blend of burger + economics, equivalent to burger + -nomics, coined in The Economist in 1986 by Pam Woodall with the introduction of the Big Mac Index.
Senses: examples: text: Burgernomics is based upon the theory of purchasing-power parity (PPP)...
ref: 1995, James W Eaton, Frederic S Mishkin, 1995 readings to accompany Mishkin, The economics of money, banking, and financial markets:
text: Both The Economist's and Smart's study move at the intersection between burgernomics and burgerology. But they also move across each other and thereby point to a more general contrast.
ref: 1998, Nick Perry, Hyperreality and global culture:
text: Light-hearted burgernomics has become a matter of increasing academic interest and has spawned many articles and even a whole book by Ong (2003) of the International Monetary Fund.
ref: 2004, Adrian Buckley, Multinational Finance:
text: Burgernomics hints that their currencies are a little overcooked.
ref: 2008, Glen Arnold, Corporate Financial Management:
text: Curiously, however, burgernomics has an impressive record in predicting exchange rates: currencies that show up as overvalued often tend to weaken in later years.
ref: 2009, Theo S Eicher, John H Mutti, Michelle H Turnovsky, Robert M Dunn, International Economics:
glosses: An informal measurement of the purchasing power parity between currencies, based on the price of a Big Mac in various countries.
wikipedia: Big Mac Index
combustors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of combustor
whakapapa
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: fäʹ-kə-pä'-pə
ipa: /ˈfɑːkəˌpɑːpə/
note: using Māori pronunciation
ipa: [ˈfakapapa]
Forms: form: whakapapas
Etymology: Borrowed from Maori whakapapa.
Senses: examples: text: What are you crying for? asks the Kati Kahukunu (he's probably my 23rd cousin but we haven't swapped whakapapa yet).
ref: 1983, Keri Hulme, The Bone People, Penguin, published 1986, page 98:
glosses: Genealogy, as a fundamental principle of Māori culture that is critical in establishing one's identity.
whakapapas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of whakapapa
crumbiness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From crumby + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state of being crumby.
rechart
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -ɑː(ɹ)t
Forms: form: recharts
form: recharting
form: recharted
form: recharted
Etymology: From re- + chart.
Senses: glosses: To chart again, to redraw a chart.
examples: text: The boys would never make the stateside pop/rock 45 listings again, though British fans would later rechart the group name with takes on "My Brother Jake," "Little Bit Of Love," and "Wishing Well."
ref: 1990, Wayne Jancik, The Billboard Book of One-Hit Wonders, →ISBN, page 263:
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: To chart again, to return to the music charts.
midset
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From mid- + set.
Senses: examples: text: And the band appears comfortable with its pop instincts: a pair of new songs, played midset, were even frothier and looser than its album.
ref: 2009 March 17, Jon Caramanica, “Surfing Along a Foamy Wave, Constantly Changing but Ever Cynical”, in New York Times:
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: In the middle of a set, in the middle of a gig.
monkeygland
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From monkey + gland.
Senses: glosses: A spicy sauce made of onions, garlic, tomato and tabasco sauce, often as an accompaniment to steak.
cofibration
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cofibrations
Etymology: From co- + fibration.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: A particular form of mapping. A continuous mapping i:A→X, where A and X are topological spaces, is a cofibration if it satisfies the homotopy extension property with respect to all spaces Y.
Related terms: fibration
have the time
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: has the time
form: having the time
form: had the time
form: had the time
Senses: examples: text: I'll finish my book when I have the time.
text: I can't do it yet: I don't have the time.
text: Do you have the time / To listen to me whine / About nothing and everything all at once?
ref: 1994, Green Day, “Basket Case”, in Dookie:
glosses: To be available; to have time; to have nothing more important to do.
examples: text: Excuse me, sir: do you have the time? I think I'm late for work.
glosses: To know the current time, or be able to consult a device which does.
Related terms: give the time of day
timekeep
timekeeping
Personal Social Health Education
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: The Health Education Program mission is to provide basic information about the Believing that many of the health problems found in American Indian and Why is Personal Social Health Education not compulsory in schools?
ref: 1981, J Cowley, K David, T Williams, Health education in schools:
text: Most primary schools are now doing a great deal to promote social, emotional and behavioural skills (SEBS) either through the whole school environment or specifically through the framework of the National Healthy School Standard or the Personal Social Health Education (PHSE) Citizenship curriculum.
ref: 2006, Tina Rae, Ruth MacConville, Teaching Peer Support for Caring and Co-operation, →ISBN:
text: In most schools, teachers are less and less able to live on small academic islands, and will be likely to be involved in the delivery of programmes such as Personal, Social, Health and Economic Education (PSHE), Citizenship and/or Social & Emotional Aspects of Learning (SEAL) as part of their duties as a form tutor.
ref: 2012, Peter Fleming, Becoming a Secondary School Teacher, →ISBN:
text: Current laws regarding SRE which is taught as part of Personal,Social, Health and Economic Education (PSHE) are somewhat confusing, outdated and open to wide interpretation.
ref: 2013, S. Elley, Understanding Sex and Relationship Education, Youth and Class:, →ISBN:
text: Yet unsurprisingly, the levels of knowledge about the Holocaust held by non-history specialists was significantly lower than those who were history specialists. Only 7 per cent of those teaching Personal Social Health Education (PSHE) thought that the systematic mass murder of the Jewish people began in 1941 with the invasion of the Soviet Union — a fact which was known by 49 per cent of history teachers.
ref: 2014, M. Gray, Contemporary Debates in Holocaust Education, →ISBN:
glosses: A school subject in which students are taught important facts of life not covered in other subjects, such as sexual relationships, drug abuse and so on.
Synonyms: PSHE
PSHE
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Personal Social Health Education.
had another think coming
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of have another think coming
has another think coming
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of have another think coming
having another think coming
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of have another think coming
paraconsistency
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From para- + consistency.
Senses: glosses: The property of being paraconsistent.
sorted oneself out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of sort oneself out
sorts oneself out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of sort oneself out
sorting oneself out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of sort oneself out
whelk stalls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of whelk stall
plumbings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of plumbing
Xanthochroi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Coined by Thomas Henry Huxley, from Ancient Greek ξανθός (xanthós, “fair, yellow, golden, blond”), and either χρώς (khrṓs, “skin”), or ὠχρός (ōkhrós, “pale”).
Senses: examples: text: The furthermost limit of the Xanthochroi north-westward is Iceland and the British Isles
ref: 1865, Thomas H. Huxley, On the Methods and Results of Ethnology:
topics: anthropology
human-sciences
sciences
glosses: A division of the human population having fair skin and wavy blond hair.
spark testing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A method of determining the general classification of ferrous materials that normally requires taking a piece of metal, usually scrap, to a grinding wheel and observing the sparks emitted.
Related terms: english: verbal form
translation: verbal form
word: spark test
spark testing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle of spark test
Frobenius number
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Frobenius numbers
Etymology: After Ferdinand Georg Frobenius.
Senses: examples: text: The Frobenius number of 2 and 5 is 3, since 3 cannot be formed as a sum of twos and fives while every larger integer can.
glosses: For a given set of coprime positive integers, the greatest integer that cannot be expressed as a linear combination (with nonnegative integer coefficients) of its elements.
Frobenius numbers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Frobenius number
log-log paper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Paper with horizontal and vertical rules, both arranged according to a logarithmic scale.
Hypernyms: graph paper
Coordinate terms: semi-log paper
graph papers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of graph paper
probability paper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Are the data really in accord with (a) the assumed distribution and (b) the assumed model? Clues to (a) may be obtained from a plot of the ordered observations against some simple function of their ranks, preferably on probability paper appropriate for the distribution assumed.
ref: 2003, Herbert Aron David, Haikady Navada Nagaraja, Order Statistics, 3rd edition, Wiley Interscience, page 2:
glosses: Graph paper with vertical and horizontal rules, the latter spaced evenly and the former according to a scale that allows a plotted probability curve — usually that of a normal distribution — to appear linear.
Hypernyms: graph paper
pisses off
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of piss off
pissing off
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of piss off
cheeses off
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of cheese off
cheesing off
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of cheese off
pees off
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of pee off
peeing off
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of pee off
torques off
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of torque off
torquing off
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of torque off
omophoria
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of omophorion
Greeker
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Greek + -er (comparative suffix) or + -er (relational suffix).
Senses: glosses: comparative form of Greek: more Greek
Greeker
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Greek + -er (comparative suffix) or + -er (relational suffix).
Senses: glosses: A Greek theatre, in the style of Epidaurus, at Bradfield College, England.
Greekest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of Greek: most Greek
advergame
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈæd.vəˌɡeim/
ipa: /ˈæd.vɚˌɡeim/
Forms: form: advergames
Etymology: Blend of advertisement + game.
Senses: examples: text: Some advertisers have taken casual gaming a step further, creating their own casual games — sometimes called advergames — and posting them on their Web sites.
ref: 2007 January 24, Louise Story, “More Marketers Are Grabbing the Attention of Players During Online Games”, in New York Times:
glosses: A computer game published by an advertiser in order to promote a product or service.
Derived terms: advergaming
advergames
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of advergame
advergaming
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From advergame + -ing.
Senses: glosses: The creation or playing of advergames.
altbier
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈɑltˌbɪɹ/
Forms: form: altbiers
Etymology: From German Altbier (literally “old beer”).
Senses: examples: text: Their own version of brown ale, long the signature beer of the Düsseldorf region in northwestern Germany, is called altbier, literally old beer.
ref: 2007 January 24, Eric Asimov, “Quiet Cover for a Vital Brew”, in New York Times:
glosses: A form of German top-fermenting beer that originated in Westphalia and later spread to parts of the Rhineland.
wikipedia: Diebels
Synonyms: alt
altbiers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of altbier
freakiness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: freakinesses
Etymology: From freaky + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or condition of being freaky.
legendarium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /lɛd͡ʒ.(ə)nˈdɛəɹ.i.əm/
ipa: /lɛd͡ʒ.ənˈdɛɹ.i.əm/
Forms: form: legendaria
Etymology: Neuter form of Medieval Latin legendarius, from Latin legendus.
Senses: examples: text: The same society [the Swedish Old-text Society] has begun a continuation of the Old-Swedish Legendarium (in 2 volumes), edited for the society by Professor Stephens.
ref: 1866 February, George Stephens, “Scandinavian Book-Lore”, in Sylvanus Urban [pseudonym; Edward Cave], editor, The Gentleman's Magazine and Historical Review, volume I (new series; volume CCXX since the commencement), London: Bradbury, Evans, & Co., 11, Bouverie Street, page 183:
synonyms: legendary
glosses: A literary collection of legends, particularly those detailing the life of a saint.
examples: text: “In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit.” So began the legendarium that dominated a genre, changed Western literature and the field of linguistics, created a tapestry of characters and mythology that endured four generations, built an anti-war ethos that endured a World War and a Cold War, and spawned a multibillion-dollar media franchise.
ref: 2017 September 22, Vann R. Newkirk II, “Why 'The Hobbit' Isn't Outdated in the Age of 'Game of Thrones'”, in The Atlantic:
topics: literature
media
publishing
glosses: The collected high fantasy writings of J. R. R. Tolkien relating to the fictional realm of Middle-earth and the universe in which it is set.
raw_tags: in particular
maltiness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From malty + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: If by chance you notice the fine, almost sweet maltiness of the aroma, and the brisk, dry, mineral quality of the flavors, even better.
ref: 2007 January 24, Eric Asimov, “Quiet Cover for a Vital Brew”, in New York Times:
glosses: The state or condition of being malty.
nonfalse
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + false.
Senses: examples: text: There is in each case a literal infinity of nonfalse representations that can be made.
ref: 1967, John R. Seeley, The Americanization of the unconscious, page 140:
text: The instruction "brtrue" branches for any nonfalse value and is thus the preferred way of encoding tests against zero.
ref: 2002, Kevin John Gough, Compiling for the .NET Common Language Runtime (CLR), page 37:
text: Forget about false modesty, not to mention its nonfalse counterpart.
ref: 2007 January 24, Kelefa Sanneh, “It’s a Deal: You Like Me and I Like Me Too”, in New York Times:
glosses: Not false; true.
nonhydrogenated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + hydrogenated.
Senses: examples: text: 1/3 cup nonhydrogenated margarine, such as Earthbalance
ref: 2007 January 24, “Recipe: Devil’s Food Cupcakes With Fluffy White Filling and Chocolate Icing”, in New York Times:
glosses: Not hydrogenated; unhydrogenated.
nonwinter
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + winter.
Senses: examples: text: You use two nonwinter vegetables that are decent in midwinter: arugula and cherry or grape tomatoes.
ref: 2007 January 24, Mark Bittman, “Cheesy Pasta, Redressed”, in New York Times:
glosses: Not of or pertaining to winter.
stationhouse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stationhouses
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of station house.
stationhouses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stationhouse
unblockable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: rhymes: -ɒkəbəl
Etymology: From un- + blockable.
Senses: examples: text: Thus it will be seen that, although its detractors do all they can to discourage the use of oil for fuel, its superiority is so great that in spite of its traducers it is forging to the front with mighty, unblockable strides.
ref: 1902 December 13, American Florist, volume 19, page 725:
text: The unblockable actions consist of evaluating an expression and performing an assignment.
ref: 1982, B. T. Hailpern, Verifying Concurrent Processes Using Temporal Logic, page 45:
text: He had the soft fadeaway jumper that was virtually unblockable and usually on target, and the face-up fifteen-footer, which he used to soften up the inside.
ref: 2007, Peter May, The Big Three, page 208:
glosses: Not blockable; that cannot be blocked.
unblockable
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: rhymes: -ɒkəbəl
Forms: form: unblockables
Etymology: From un- + blockable.
Senses: topics: video-games
glosses: An attacking move that cannot be blocked by an opposing fighter.
unblockable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: rhymes: -ɒkəbəl
Etymology: From unblock + -able.
Senses: glosses: Able to be unblocked.
twothirds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From two + thirds.
Senses: examples: text: Though the Constitution grants Iraq’s only elected body wide powers to pass laws and investigate, sectarian divisions and the need for a twothirds majority in some cases have often led to deadlock.
ref: 2007 January 24, Damien Cave, “Iraq Parliament Finds a Quorum Hard to Come By”, in New York Times:
glosses: Rare spelling of two-thirds.
bridgeless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From bridge + -less.
Senses: examples: text: The breath of God, blowing where it listeth, touches with its mystery of Life the dead souls of men, bears them across the bridgeless gulf between the natural and the spiritual […]
ref: 1883, Henry Drummond, Natural Law in the Spiritual World:
glosses: That cannot be bridged.
topics: graph-theory
mathematics
sciences
synonyms: isthmus-free
glosses: Having no bridges.
glosses: Having no bridges.
raw_tags: of a body of water
Derived terms: bridgelessness
unbeholden
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Middle English unbehealden, equivalent to un- + beholden.
Senses: examples: text: Ever creative and unbeholden to tradition, American craft brewers have made the brown-ale style their own.
ref: 2007 January 24, Eric Asimov, “Quiet Cover for a Vital Brew”, in New York Times:
glosses: Not beholden; not obliged or bound by duty or expectations.
glosses: Unseen.
unsuppressed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + suppressed.
Senses: examples: text: The entire tense, compact play takes place inside a subway car where an exchange between a flamboyantly loose blonde of about 30, Lula (Jennifer Mudge), and a conservatively dressed young black man, Clay (Dulé Hill ), escalates from surreally unsuppressed flirtation to violence and tragedy as all of Clay’s efforts toward assimilation are shown to be for naught.
ref: 2007 January 24, Ginia Bellafante, “’60s Prejudice and Capitalism as a Big Blond Metaphor”, in New York Times:
glosses: Not suppressed.
antinepotism
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From anti- + nepotism.
Senses: examples: text: The package also includes an antinepotism policy; prohibits nonlegislative employees from using their offices to solicit political contributions; requires that agency heads resign before becoming political candidates; bars elected officials or candidates from appearing in taxpayer-financed ads; and places new restrictions on lobbying by public officials who have left office.
ref: 2007 January 25, Danny Hakim, “State Leaders Agree on Plan to Merge 2 Ethics Commissions and Tighten Lobbying Rules”, in New York Times:
topics: business
government
politics
glosses: Opposing or preventing nepotism.
backland
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: backlands
Etymology: From back + land.
Senses: examples: text: He has developed a sophisticated, inventive way to use these modulations that were quite common in the singers we heard there in the backlands of the northeast.”
ref: 2007 January 25, Larry Rohter, “Long-Lost Trove of Music Connects Brazil to Its Roots”, in New York Times:
glosses: Land that lies behind or beyond some primary settlement or development.
backlands
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of backland
carcinoids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of carcinoid
Emory oak
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Emory oaks
Etymology: After a US army surveyor, Lieutenant William Hemsley Emory, who surveyed the area of west Texas where it was discovered in 1846.
Senses: glosses: Quercus emoryi, an oak common in Arizona, New Mexico, and western Texas, typically growing in dry hills at moderate altitudes and retaining its leaves through the winter.
minilecture
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: minilectures
Etymology: From mini- + lecture.
Senses: examples: text: After hearing a minilecture on how plants are converted into sugars, and the sugars then distilled into fuel, Mr. Bush, a former Texas oilman who has proclaimed Americans “addicted to oil,” lifted up a glass beaker of switchgrass, a perennial grass that looks like hay, and stared into a bank of television cameras to drive his point home.
ref: 2007 January 25, Sheryl Gay Stolberg, “Bush Makes Sales Pitch for Proposal on Energy”, in New York Times:
glosses: A short lecture.
minilectures
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of minilecture
momentums
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of momentum
nonlegislator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nonlegislators
Etymology: From non- + legislator.
Senses: examples: text: And for the first time, nonlegislators, appointed by the Legislature, will serve on the legislative commission’s board, where they will hold the majority of votes.
ref: 2007 January 25, Danny Hakim, “State Leaders Agree on Plan to Merge 2 Ethics Commissions and Tighten Lobbying Rules”, in New York Times:
glosses: One who is not a legislator.
nonlegislators
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nonlegislator
nonlobbyist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nonlobbyists
Etymology: From non- + lobbyist.
Senses: examples: text: The measures announced on Wednesday included rules that the governor has already applied to the executive branch, including bans on gifts of more than nominal value from lobbyists to public officials; on gifts from nonlobbyists if they are meant to influence officials; and on virtually all honoraria for statewide elected officials, agency heads and legislators.
ref: 2007 January 25, Danny Hakim, “State Leaders Agree on Plan to Merge 2 Ethics Commissions and Tighten Lobbying Rules”, in New York Times:
glosses: One who is not a lobbyist.
nonlobbyists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nonlobbyist
prehung
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: pre-hung
Etymology: From pre- + hung.
Senses: examples: text: When the prehung steel door was installed, its frame was cemented in place, so there was no way to replace the door, despite the architectural mismatch. Mr. Beauchemin compromised by applying wooden strips along the frame to the top of the transom, to help marry the elements.
ref: 2007 January 25, Craig Kellogg, “Room to Improve”, in New York Times:
glosses: Delivered to the customer as installation-ready unit, already attached to its frame.
raw_tags: of a door or window
profitmaking
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From profit + making.
Senses: examples: text: The foundation stems from a state law that allowed Empire Blue Cross-Blue Shield to become a profitmaking company.
ref: 2007 January 25, Richard Pérez-Peña, “Weight and Diabetes Are Focus of Health Foundation Grants”, in New York Times:
glosses: That makes a profit; profitable.
Derived terms: non-profit-making
renouncer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: renouncers
Etymology: From renounce + -er.
Senses: examples: text: With habitual renouncers like Ms. McMillin in mind, a handful of gym owners and health club managers have devised innovative ways to create brand loyalty as they turn gym dodgers into gym rats.
ref: 2007 January 25, Abby Ellin, “When Resolutions Fail, the Exercise Enforcers Step In”, in New York Times:
glosses: One who renounces.
renouncers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of renouncer
debouncer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /diːˈbaʊnsə(ɹ)/
Forms: form: debouncers
Etymology: From debounce + -er.
Senses: examples: text: a debouncer circuit
glosses: That which debounces.
debouncers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of debouncer
repentista
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: repentistas
Senses: glosses: A Brazilian poet who sings his or her own improvised verses to the sound of the viola or fiddle.
repentistas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of repentista
powerlaw
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: powerlaws
Etymology: From power + law.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of power law.
pinguidity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From pinguid + -ity.
Senses: glosses: The state or condition of being pinguid; fatness, obesity.
chansonnier
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chansonniers
Etymology: Borrowed from French chansonnier.
Senses: glosses: A book which contains a collection of chansons.
examples: text: Not only that, H K Gruber, the Austrian composer, conductor and self-described chansonnier who was to perform the vocal solo of his own work, “Frankenstein!!,” the major work on the program, never made it.
ref: 2009 April 6, Anthony Tommasini, “Is That in Your Job Description, Maestro?”, in New York Times:
glosses: A singer of chansons.
chansonniers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chansonnier
meanderingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more meanderingly
form: most meanderingly
Etymology: From meandering + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: This contrast between the emotional intimations of the movement (at one point a performer chases another around the stage, pulling off his clothes) and the dancers’ affectless manner might be a reason that “Bones” can sometimes feel meanderingly opaque.
ref: 2009 April 6, Roslyn Sulcas, “Deadpan Expresssions but Lively Connections in Acrobatic Tableaus”, in New York Times:
glosses: In a meandering or winding manner.
Related terms: meander
retravel
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: retravels
form: retraveling
form: retravelling
form: retraveled
form: retraveled
form: retravelled
form: retravelled
Etymology: From re- + travel.
Senses: examples: text: The French writer Bernard-Henri Lévy took a more self-serious tour of evangelical Christianity when he retraveled the road taken by Alexis de Tocqueville in his study of the modern American psyche, “American Vertigo.”
ref: 2007 January 25, Alessandra Stanley, “A Culture of Faith, Devoted Yet Complex”, in New York Times:
glosses: To travel again.
retravels
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of retravel
retraveling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of retravel
retraveled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of retravel
retravelling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of retravel
retravelled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of retravel
untravelled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more untravelled
form: most untravelled
Etymology: From un- + travelled.
Senses: examples: text: High in the former category [pleasant experiences], in my case, comes this widening acquaintance with hitherto untravelled sections of the British railways.
ref: 1944 November and December, Talisman, “A Broadening Horizon”, in Railway Magazine, page 340:
glosses: Alternative spelling of untraveled.
unsystematised
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + systematised.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of unsystematized.
unsystematized
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + systematized.
Senses: glosses: Not systematized.
trailless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From trail + -less.
Senses: examples: text: Mr. Whitmore and Mr. Kane attacked the Chiricahua Mountains in southeast Arizona, the Baboquivaris just east of the Tohono O’odham Reservation and the practically trailless Winchesters, west of Benson.
ref: 2007 January 25, Tom Miller, “Hiking Club Spreads a Little Bit of Charlie on Every Peak”, in New York Times:
glosses: Without a trail.
adjustables
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of adjustable
tropicalistas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tropicalista
tropicalista
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tropicalistas
Etymology: From Brazilian Portuguese tropicalista (although apparently first attested later as noun). By surface analysis, tropical + -ista. Piecewise doublet of tropicalist.
Senses: examples: text: As sons of the Portuguese, Caetano and Gil and all the rest of us tropicalistas absorbed this folk influence, transmuted it and then took it to the world.”
ref: 2007 January 25, Larry Rohter, “Long-Lost Trove of Music Connects Brazil to Its Roots”, in New York Times:
synonyms: tropicalist
glosses: A member of a Brazilian art movement, Tropicália or Tropicalismo, of the late 1960s, encompassing theatre, poetry, and especially a mixture of music influenced by bossa nova, rock and roll, and various folk musics.
Related terms: tropicalism
wharfside
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wharfsides
Etymology: From wharf + side.
Senses: examples: text: Rather, on a dreary January afternoon, Dumbo resembles the set of “Blade Runner,” or some futuristic movie in which humans and robots and aliens with tentacles coming out of their foreheads hang out playing chess or shooting one another with purple lasers in a seamy wharfside bar.
ref: 2007 January 25, Alex Kuczynski, “Crochet Undergoes an Upgrade”, in New York Times:
glosses: The side of a wharf, where goods may be loaded and unloaded.
wharfsides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wharfside
buglike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more buglike
form: most buglike
Etymology: From bug + -like.
Senses: examples: text: But the birds and the buglike things the birds ate weren’t the only things out there.
ref: 1980, Stephen King, The Mist, Viking Press:
text: He might orchestrate the curved lines into stepped, hivelike hills punctuated by dark tunnels where ornate trains and buglike cars or buses chug in or out along extravagantly banked roadways or railroad beds defined by further lines.
ref: 2007 January 26, Roberta Smith, “Outside In”, in New York Times:
synonyms: insectlike
insectoid
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a bug (insect).
antiarrhythmics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of antiarrhythmic
guanodines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of guanodine
estiatorio
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: estiatorios
form: estiatoria
Etymology: Borrowed from Greek εστιατόριο (estiatório).
Senses: examples: text: Estiatoria are very similar to tavernas but tend to be simpler and less expensive, perhaps more traditionally Greek.
ref: 2010, John Fisher, Geoff Garvey, The Rough Guide to Crete, →ISBN:
text: Tavernas still serve traditional foods, while estiatorios are where culinary innovation meets time-honored preparations.
ref: 2013, John Szabo, Pairing Food and Wine For Dummies, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 184:
text: That evening, the only places to eat were estiatoria, producing only bread and single-pot meals in the large ovens dominating the back of the owners' houses.
ref: 2015 February 26, Andrew Francis, What in God's Name Are You Eating: How Can Christians Live and Eat Responsibly in Today's Global Village, →ISBN, page 3:
glosses: A Greek restaurant, especially one that is more upmarket and elaborate than a taverna.
fetas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of feta
adminhood
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From admin + -hood.
Senses: glosses: The state or period of being an admin.
Synonyms: adminship
kataifi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kəˈteɪ.fi/
Forms: form: kadaifi
form: kadaif
form: kadayif
form: katayef
form: kataïf
Etymology: Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish قطائف (kadaif), from Arabic قَطَائِف (qaṭāʔif).
Senses: examples: text: I much prefer the five-year-old Agnanti, at the upper end of the neighborhood near Astoria Park, which offers unusual regional dishes like ntaka, a Cretan bread salad, and mustard-dipped shrimp kataifi.
ref: 2007 January 26, William Grimes, “Queens Now Has Less Feta, More Jellyfish”, in New York Times:
text: Work until no lumps are left and the kataifi becomes light and fluffy. Toss the kataifi with 1⁄4 of the melted butter.
ref: 2009 [1985], Ayla Esen Algar, Complete Book Of Turkish Cooking, Routledge, →ISBN, page 300:
glosses: A very fine vermicelli-like pastry used to make desserts in various Mediterranean and Middle Eastern cuisines, particularly Palestinian.
Related terms: qatayef
kanafeh
maculele
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˌmɑːkuleɪˈleɪ/
Senses: examples: text: AFRO-BRAZILIAN MUSIC & DANCE (Tonight) The New York-based Ologunde company celebrates the Afro-Brazilian culture of Salvador, Bahia, in a program that includes the candomble, capoeira, maculele and samba da roda.
ref: 2007 January 26, The New York Times, “Dance Listings”, in New York Times:
glosses: An Afro-Brazilian dance and martial art in which a number of people gather in a circle and rhythmically strike sticks together to accompany singing.
minitrial
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: minitrials
Etymology: From mini- + trial.
Senses: examples: text: Under the federal death penalty law, if a jury finds a defendant guilty, a second minitrial is held to determine whether that defendant will face execution or life in prison without parole.
ref: 2007 January 26, William K. Rashbaum, “Judge Urges U.S. to Drop Plan to Seek Death Penalty in Case”, in New York Times:
glosses: A short or minor legal trial.
minitrials
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of minitrial
noncombative
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + combative.
Senses: examples: text: Not that the noncombative Mr. Tierney ascribes presidential powers to himself.
ref: 2007 January 26, Robin Finn, “Distinguishing the Remarkable From the Merely Old”, in New York Times:
glosses: Not combative.
Derived terms: noncombatively
nonentrepreneurial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + entrepreneurial.
Senses: examples: text: By temperament a collaborator, he was also, in his nonentrepreneurial way, a promoter.
ref: 2007 January 26, Holland Cotter, “A Return Trip to a Faraway Place Called Underground”, in New York Times:
glosses: Not entrepreneurial.
nonperishables
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nonperishable
nonchess
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + chess.
Senses: glosses: That is not chess or does not relate to chess.
reprintings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of reprinting
witchlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more witchlike
form: most witchlike
Etymology: From witch + -like.
Senses: examples: text: Her sharp immovable eyes with irregular pupils, her projecting chin, her broad nose, and her yellow complexion gave Bertha's face a strange, Oriental, almost witchlike appearance; and this was not to be wondered at, because she was considered the first wise woman for a good many miles around.
ref: 1886, Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 120:
text: Catholic polemicist Nicholas Sander's De origine et progressu schismatis Anglicani, first published in 1585, had gone through its sixth European edition in 1610: this work promotes a perception of Anne as witchlike, detailing her prodigious promiscuity as well as her physical disfigurements (Warnicke 247).
ref: 1994, M. Lindsey Kaplan, Katherine Eggert, ““Good queen, my lord, good queen” - Sexual Slander and the Trials of Female Authority in “The Winter's Tale””, in Renaissance Drama, volume 25, →DOI, page 102 of 89–118:
text: The second, Madame Louise (Anjelica Huston in her grifter mode), is a haughty, witchlike peddler in a horse-drawn carriage, hawking an alcoholic cure-all.
ref: 2007 January 26, Stephen Holden, “Once Upon a Time in a Very Familiar West”, in New York Times:
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a witch.
witchily
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more witchily
form: most witchily
Etymology: From witchy + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: As she advanced from the bathroom, her ebony-blue-grey hair falling wild and witchily around her shoulders, clad in her scarlet-daubed painters smock […]
ref: 1980 August 16, Andrea Loewenstein, “Random Lust”, in Gay Community News, volume 8, number 5, page 19:
glosses: In a witchy way.
crudities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of crudity
duckwalk
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: duckwalks
form: duckwalking
form: duckwalked
form: duckwalked
Etymology: From duck + walk, from its resemblance to the awkward waddle of a duck.
Senses: glosses: To jump on one leg while moving the other back and forth, a motion sometimes employed by guitar players in popular music.
examples: text: Kate and Dan duckwalked beneath the props to one side of the clearing as the rotors spun into a blur.
ref: 1997, Dana Stabenow, Breakup, →ISBN, page 40:
glosses: To walk while squatting.
duckwalk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: duckwalks
Etymology: From duck + walk, from its resemblance to the awkward waddle of a duck.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of duck walk.
duckwalks
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of duckwalk
duckwalks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of duckwalk
duckwalking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of duckwalk
duckwalked
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of duckwalk
hechsher
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈhɛkʃəɹ/
Forms: form: hechshers
form: hechsherim
form: hekhsher
Etymology: From Hebrew הכשר (“prior approval”).
Senses: glosses: A certification that a food product or establishment is kosher.
examples: text: I notice Pepsi and other kinds of sodas at the shul and at various frum households. Hey, man, there ain't no hekhshers on that stuff. What gives?
ref: 2004 October 3, Shlomo Chaim, “Simple questions (yah, right)”, in soc.culture.jewish.moderated (Usenet):
glosses: A marking indicating that a food product has such a certification.
hechsher
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /ˈhɛkʃəɹ/
Forms: form: hechshers
form: hechshering
form: hechshered
form: hechshered
form: hekhsher
Etymology: From Hebrew הכשר (“prior approval”).
Senses: examples: text: Kashrut means that you eat ONLY foods that have been supervised and hechshered by a specific organization that is responsible for watching the manufacture and packaging of any particular product. It is NOT just avoiding pigs and shellfish.
ref: 2004 November 17, animzmirot, “Keeping Kosher?”, in alt.tv.amazing-race (Usenet):
glosses: To certify as kosher.
hyperconsumerism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From hyper- + consumerism.
Senses: examples: text: Jean Railla, the author of “Get Crafty: Hip Home Ec” (Broadway Books, 2004) and founder of GetCrafty.com, agreed: “In a world of thousand-dollar ‘it’ bags, and hyperconsumerism, one of the most political things you can do is to make something yourself.”
ref: 2007 January 27, Melena Ryzik, “A New Wave Now Knits for the Rebellion of It”, in New York Times:
glosses: Consumerism taken to an abnormal degree.
oversweet
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more oversweet
form: most oversweet
Etymology: From over- + sweet.
Senses: examples: text: Operetta is tricky: potentially as sparkling and sophisticated as Champagne, it is often produced today as a kind of Kool-Aid punch, overbright and oversweet and with very little appeal to a discriminating audience.
ref: 2007 January 27, Anne Midgette, “Operetta and Weill in Front; Moving Shadows in Back”, in New York Times:
glosses: Too sweet; excessively sweet.
Derived terms: oversweetness
ranibizumab
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From [Term?] + -zumab (“humanized monoclonal antibody”).
Senses: examples: text: Lucentis, also called ranibizumab, is approved to treat age-related macular degeneration, the leading cause of blindness in the elderly.
ref: 2007 January 27, Andrew Pollack, “Eye Drug Might Raise Risk of Stroke, Genentech Says”, in New York Times:
topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: A monoclonal antibody fragment derived from the same parent murine antibody as bevacizumab, used as an antiangiogenic.
skicross
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ski cross
Etymology: From ski + -cross.
Senses: examples: text: Then in 2000, he won the skicross gold at the X Games against professional skiers.
ref: 2007 January 27, Matt Higgins, “X Games Veteran Is More Motivated, Not Mellowed, With Age”, in New York Times:
glosses: The sport of skiercross.
smashingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more smashingly
form: most smashingly
Etymology: From smashing + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: It has been just over a year since their Wellington boots last sloshed about on these shores, and it’s not as though that trip — billed as their first official overseas tour since being married in April 2005 — came off so smashingly that they, or an adoring American public, ought to be crying out for another.
ref: 2007 January 27, Eric Konigsberg, “On Your Toes, Blokes, 2 Highnesses Coming — Charles and Camilla”, in New York Times:
glosses: In a smashing way.
skijorer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: skijorers
Etymology: From skijor + -er.
Senses: examples: text: That figure includes skijorers, who wear skis while being pulled by one, two or three dogs.
ref: 2007 January 27, Harry Hurt Iii, “Sgt. Preston, Where Are You? Dog Sledding Isn’t Easy”, in New York Times:
glosses: One who skijors.
skijorers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of skijorer
superexpressive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: rhymes: -ɛsɪv
Forms: form: more superexpressive
form: most superexpressive
Etymology: From super- + expressive.
Senses: examples: text: He makes small-group music that can be aslant with odd or long meter, and serenely played; it’s not battering or superexpressive, but glows within its own tight structure.
ref: 2007 January 27, Ben Ratliff, “A Saxophonist Known for New Ideas Meets an Organist From the Old School”, in New York Times:
glosses: Especially expressive; very eloquent.
narthices
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of narthex
narthexes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of narthex
undercroft
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: undercrofts
Etymology: From under- + croft (crypt).
Senses: examples: text: The MR [Midland Railway] instead approached its new St Pancras terminus by bridging the canal. This required that the train deck in the Barlow train shed be supported 15ft or so above ground level on more than 800 cast-iron columns (carefully spaced to mirror Burton's beer warehouses), thereby creating the undercroft in which tens of thousands of barrels of beer arriving by rail were stored.
ref: 2021 December 1, Nigel Harris, “St Pancras and King's Cross: 1947”, in RAIL, number 945, page 42:
glosses: A cellar or vaulted storage room.
glosses: A ground-level car park that occupies the base of a building.
undercrofts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of undercroft
circle-jerk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: circle-jerks
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of circle jerk.
circlejerk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: circlejerks
Etymology: Compound of circle (noun) + jerk (verb).
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of circle jerk.
circlejerk
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: circlejerks
form: circlejerking
form: circlejerked
form: circlejerked
Etymology: Compound of circle (noun) + jerk (verb).
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of circle jerk.
Derived terms: rejerk
unjerk
unfrumpy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unfrumpy
form: most unfrumpy
Etymology: From un- + frumpy.
Senses: glosses: Not frumpy.