cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
culty
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈkʌlti/
Forms: form: more culty
form: most culty
Etymology: From cult + -y.
Senses: examples: text: "They're not real culty. You look in their eyes and there are real people there."
ref: 1988 January 15, C.C. Pyle, “Our Bodies, Their Selves”, in Chicago Reader:
glosses: Resembling a cult.
Synonyms: cultish
cultlike
channeler
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: channelers
form: channeller
Etymology: From channel + -er.
Senses: examples: text: Few channelers call themselves mediums, however, in part because the term conjures up an image of gypsy crones hunched over crystal balls, and in part because spiritualism has a history of fraud.
ref: 1988 January 15, C.C. Pyle, “Our Bodies, Their Selves”, in Chicago Reader:
topics: parapsychology
pseudoscience
glosses: A person who engages in channelling, serving as a medium.
channelers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of channeler
buttonhook
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: buttonhooks
Etymology: From button + hook.
Senses: examples: text: ‘I'm sorry we are so late,’ he was saying. ‘We couldn't find a button-hook, so it took us a long time to button our boots.’
ref: 1920, DH Lawrence, Women in Love, Vintage, published 2008, page 14:
text: Hustlers used to sell shoes like that to the greenhorns fifty years ago with a buttonhook for a bonus.
ref: 1976 September, Saul Bellow, Humboldt’s Gift, New York, N.Y.: Avon Books, →ISBN, page 370:
glosses: A hook for pulling the buttons of gloves and shoes through the buttonholes.
examples: text: Yet the Bears never set up the deep patterns with a turn-in or a buttonhook[…].
ref: 1988 January 15, Ted Cox, “The Sports Section”, in Chicago Reader:
topics: American-football
ball-games
football
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A play in which the receiver runs straight downfield, then turns back toward the line of scrimmage.
topics: business
manufacturing
sewing
textiles
glosses: A hook used to pull thread through the holes of a button.
buttonhook
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: buttonhooks
form: buttonhooking
form: buttonhooked
form: buttonhooked
Etymology: From button + hook.
Senses: topics: American-football
ball-games
football
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: To perform the buttonhook play.
bloodred
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bloodreds
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of blood red.
bloodred
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more bloodred
form: most bloodred
Senses: examples: text: The car doors opened to a bloodred carpet, and the Father of the Nation emerged.
ref: 2022, NoViolet Bulawayo, Glory, Chatto & Windus, page 5:
glosses: Alternative form of blood red.
buttonhooks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of buttonhook
buttonhooks
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of buttonhook
blam
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: [ˈblæm]
ipa: [ˈblam]
rhymes: -æm
Forms: form: blams
Etymology: By onomatopoeia.
Senses: examples: text: He kicked in the door with a blam.
glosses: A sudden, explosive sound, such as is made by a gunshot.
blam
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: ipa: [ˈblæm]
ipa: [ˈblam]
rhymes: -æm
Etymology: By onomatopoeia.
Senses: examples: text: That the last zombie? Here. Let me get that for ya. *BLAM!*
glosses: A sudden, explosive sound, such as is made by a gunshot.
blam
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: [ˈblæm]
ipa: [ˈblam]
rhymes: -æm
Forms: form: blams
form: blamming
form: blammed
form: blammed
Etymology: By onomatopoeia.
Senses: glosses: To fire a gun.
glosses: To shoot; to kill by gunshot.
examples: text: Spin that whip, let me see that dog, Imma blam that goal like Messi, shit gets messy – and I still get him down with my lefty
ref: 2022, “REALIFE”, LF70 (lyrics), 1:29:
glosses: To shoot, to propel by means of sudden impact.
blam
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: [ˈblæm]
ipa: [ˈblam]
rhymes: -æm
Forms: form: blams
form: blamming
form: blammed
form: blammed
Etymology: By onomatopoeia.
Senses: examples: My game got blammed.
glosses: When a user-submitted movie/game gets unpublished (removed from the Portal), due to having a rating below 2 stars.
examples: That animation was a test animation, so I blammed it.
glosses: To rate a user-submitted movie/game below 2 stars.
Derived terms: word: blammo
english: shoot up
translation: shoot up
word: blam up
word: kablam
blam
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: [ˈblæm]
ipa: [ˈblam]
rhymes: -æm
Etymology: Blend of blog + spam
Senses: examples: text: […] we refer to unsolicited and unwanted advertising as spam. The phenomenon is widespread, and has led people to coin terms for it in other information product or service contexts, such as splog or blam (unsolicited advertisements in blog comments), spim (instant messaging), […]
ref: 2012, Martin Peitz, Joel Waldfogel, The Oxford Handbook of the Digital Economy:
text: To counter this effect, spammers attempt to create links to their sites on other people's pages. The most common targets for this kind of spam are weblogs, the spamming then being known as blog spam, or "blam" for short.
ref: 2014, Nicolae Sfetcu, Internet Marketing, SEO & Advertising:
glosses: Spam posted to a blog.
otoplasty
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: otoplasties
Etymology: Formed as oto- + -plasty, after the German Otoplastik; compare the earlier otoplastic and the French otoplastie.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
surgery
glosses: A procedure of plastic surgery used to change the appearance or shape of a person’s ears.
mushier
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of mushy: more mushy
mushiest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of mushy: most mushy
uveitis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: uveitides
Etymology: From uvea + -itis.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: Inflammation of the uvea.
Related terms: uveitogenic
iritis
lakeshore
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈleɪk.ʃɔː/
ipa: /ˈleɪk.ʃɔɹ/
Forms: form: lakeshores
Etymology: From lake + shore.
Senses: examples: text: 1967-1969, Lou Sullivan, personal diary, quoted in 2019, Ellis Martin, Zach Ozma (editors), We Both Laughed In Pleasure
We went to the lakeshore. We went holding hands. We kissed 4 times. The cold winds blew our hair and we sat embracing.
text: While I'm inspecting an affordable studio apartment in the back of a lakeshore apartment building, the manager says, “I also have a lakeview apartment available, but it's considerably more expensive.”
ref: 2007, Laurie Lindeen, Petal Pusher: A Rock and Roll Cinderella Story, page 238:
glosses: The shore of a lake.
Synonyms: lakefront
lakeshores
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lakeshore
dictations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dictation
acanthodian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌæk.n̩ˈθoʊ.di.n̩/
rhymes: -əʊdiən
Forms: form: acanthodians
form: acanthodean
Etymology: From translingual Acanthodii + -ian.
Senses: examples: text: The emerging picture of acanthodian (and perhaps placoderm) paraphyly does not overturn a general consensus about gnathostome interrelationships.
ref: 2009 January 15, Martin D. Brazeau, “The braincase and jaws of a Devonian 'acanthodian' and modern gnathostome origins”, Nature Volume 457 No. 7227, doi:10.1038/nature07436
topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: A member of a group of extinct fish (Acanthodii) that existed from the Silurian to the Permian period.
acanthodian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌæk.n̩ˈθoʊ.di.n̩/
rhymes: -əʊdiən
Forms: form: acanthodean
Etymology: From translingual Acanthodii + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Pertaining to Acanthodii.
acanthodians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of acanthodian
proximities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of proximity
allopolyploidy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Several important crops such as wheat, cotton and canola are of allopolyploidy that contains two or more divergent genomes, and some plants and animals exist as interspecific hybrids.
ref: 2008 November 23, Zhongfu Ni, et al., “Altered circadian rhythms regulate growth vigour in hybrids and allopolyploids”, Nature Volume 457 No. 7227, doi:10.1038/nature07523
topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: A form of polyploidy (having more than the usual number of chromosomes) that results from the interbreeding of different species.
Related terms: allopolyploid
arthrodire
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: arthrodires
Senses: examples: text: The basicranial circulation of Ptomacanthus resembles that in arthrodire placoderms.
ref: 2009 January 15, Martin D. Brazeau, “The braincase and jaws of a Devonian 'acanthodian' and modern gnathostome origins”, Nature Volume 457 No. 7227, doi:10.1038/nature07436
topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Any member of the extinct order Arthrodira, armored jawed fishes that flourished in the Devonian period.
Hypernyms: placoderm
bodyweight
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bodyweights
form: body weight
Etymology: From body + weight.
Senses: examples: text: C57BL/6 mice (postnatal day 45–100) expressing enhanced GFP under the Thy-1 promoter in a small subset of cortical neurons (line GFP-M 18 ) were anaesthetized with an intraperitoneal injection of ketamine (0.14 mg per gram of bodyweight) and xylazine (0.01 mg per gram of bodyweight).
ref: 2008 November 12, Sonja B. Hofer, et el., “Experience leaves a lasting structural trace in cortical circuits”, Nature Volume 457 No. 7227, doi:10.1038/nature07487
glosses: The weight or mass of an organism.
bodyweight
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: body weight
Etymology: From body + weight.
Senses: examples: text: Without access to a gym, Steve focused on bodyweight work.
text: As a warmup, Jennifer did ten bodyweight squats.
glosses: Employing (only) a person's own weight as resistance to movement for the purpose of physical exercise.
bodyweights
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bodyweight
endoskeletal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From endo- + skeletal.
Senses: examples: text: All of these studies have presupposed acanthodian monophyly and stereotyped acanthodian endoskeletal morphology on Acanthodes, the latest-occurring, and a highly apomorphic genus.
ref: 2009 January 15, Martin D. Brazeau, “The braincase and jaws of a Devonian 'acanthodian' and modern gnathostome origins”, Nature Volume 457 No. 7227, doi:10.1038/nature07436
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Of or pertaining to an internal skeleton, usually of bone (an endoskeleton).
Derived terms: endoskeletally
Related terms: endoskeleton
endoskeletons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Their relationships with modern gnathostomes have remained mysterious, partly because their un-mineralized endoskeletons rarely fossilized.
ref: 2009 January 15, Martin D. Brazeau, “The braincase and jaws of a Devonian 'acanthodian' and modern gnathostome origins”, Nature Volume 457 No. 7227, doi:10.1038/nature07436
glosses: plural of endoskeleton
gnathostome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈnæθəstəʊm/
Forms: form: gnathostomes
Etymology: From translingual Gnathostomata.
Senses: examples: text: Current conceptions of gnathostome phylogeny depict a rather simplistic arrangement of nominally monophyletic and, apparently, morphologically disparate groups.
ref: 2009 January 15, Martin D. Brazeau, “The braincase and jaws of a Devonian 'acanthodian' and modern gnathostome origins”, Nature Volume 457 No. 7227, doi:10.1038/nature07436
topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Any vertebrate with jaws, including amphibians, reptiles, mammals, and most modern fish, in contrast with the Agnatha
gnathostomes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gnathostome
ingroup
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ingroups
Etymology: From in- + group.
Senses: examples: text: You will learn a lot about formal and informal Japanese language throughout this book. In Japanese society a distinction is made between the 'in-group' (myself, my family, my work colleagues, my friends) and the 'out-group' (my seniors, people from other families and workplaces). Politeness is an important traditional aspect of Japanese life and this is reflected strongly in the language used when speaking to those in the out-group. More informal language is generally used within the in-group.
ref: 2008, Helen Gilhooly, chapter 1, in Complete Japanese, →ISBN, page 12:
text: And because people derive personal esteem and meaning from their group memberships, they are naturally inclined to evaluate their ingroups positively in comparison to outgroups. When an ingroup’s dominant social position is secure or not contested by lower-status outgroups, intergroup harmony is expected to prevail. But when perceived as illegitimate and/or challenged by other groups, ingroup members can be expected to defend their group’s social position by engaging in pro-ingroup and/or anti-outgroup behaviors.
ref: 2022 May 2, Zachary Goldberg, “Explaining Shifts in White Racial Liberalism: The Role of Collective Moral Emotions and Media Effects”, in Georgia State University, archived from the original on 25 Jan 2025, page 40:
topics: human-sciences
sciences
social-science
sociology
antonyms: outgroup
glosses: The social group that one belongs to.
examples: text: A cladistic analysis of 45 ingroup and two outgroup taxa was performed on the basis of 134 characters.
ref: 2009 January 15, Martin D. Brazeau, “The braincase and jaws of a Devonian 'acanthodian' and modern gnathostome origins”, Nature Volume 457 No. 7227, doi:10.1038/nature07436
antonyms: outgroup
qualifier: systematics
glosses: In cladistics, the monophyletic group that includes all taxa of interest to the current study.
Related terms: camp
clique
coterie
faction
in-joke
inner circle
interest
interest group
tribe
ingroup
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: ingroups
form: ingrouping
form: ingrouped
form: ingrouped
Etymology: From in- + group.
Senses: glosses: To form an ingroup.
outgroup
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: outgroups
Etymology: From out- + group.
Senses: examples: text: This dissertation promises to correct for this theoretical deficit by formulating, elaborating, and ultimately testing a group-based moral emotions account in which white Americans’ moral appraisals of and attitudes towards racial/ethnic outgroups are considerably influenced by those of and towards fellow whites. […] On the basis of the insights from intergroup emotions theory, Chapter 3 derives and presents a series of preliminary hypotheses that are designed to test the relative importance of white shame and guilt for white Americans’ support for equity-oriented pro-black policies (e.g. affirmative action, financial reparations) and expressions of outgroup favoritism.
ref: 2022 May 2, Zachary Goldberg, “Explaining Shifts in White Racial Liberalism: The Role of Collective Moral Emotions and Media Effects”, in Georgia State University, archived from the original on 25 Jan 2025, pages 9, 13:
topics: human-sciences
sciences
social-science
sociology
glosses: The group of people who do not belong to one's own social group.
examples: text: A cladistic analysis of 45 ingroup and two outgroup taxa was performed on the basis of 134 characters.
ref: 2009 January 15, Martin D. Brazeau, “The braincase and jaws of a Devonian 'acanthodian' and modern gnathostome origins”, Nature Volume 457 No. 7227, doi:10.1038/nature07436
text: To study the genetic relationships among diphyllobothroid tapeworms, other members of the Diphyllobothriidae are considered, with T. solium as the outgroup.
ref: 2012, Dongyou Liu, Molecular Detection of Human Parasitic Pathogens, page 293:
qualifier: systematics
glosses: In cladistics, all the taxa included in a study that do not belong to the ingroup that is of immediate interest.
outgroup
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: outgroups
form: outgrouping
form: outgrouped
form: outgrouped
Etymology: From out- + group.
Senses: glosses: To form an outgroup.
outgroups
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of outgroup
ingroups
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ingroup
monophyly
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: All of these studies have presupposed acanthodian monophyly and stereotyped acanthodian endoskeletal morphology on Acanthodes, the latest-occurring, and a highly apomorphic genus.
ref: 2009 January 15, Martin D. Brazeau, “The braincase and jaws of a Devonian 'acanthodian' and modern gnathostome origins”, Nature Volume 457 No. 7227, doi:10.1038/nature07436
qualifier: systematics
glosses: In cladistics, the condition of being monophyletic, of including all descendants from a given ancestral species.
Derived terms: nonmonophyly
Related terms: monophyletic
NCT
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: NCTs
Senses: glosses: Initialism of National Car Test: a roadworthiness test for cars that must be periodically undertaken once the vehicle is more than three-and-a-half years old.
NCT
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of National Capital Territory.
examples: text: We smile at the despairing mother whose children are bouncing off the walls and tell her that she deserves a large glass of wine after the kids have gone to bed, and that we would do the same. Or we “jokingly” bring a bottle of wine to the NCT picnic.
ref: 2018 June 10, Amelia Hill, “The secret shame of being a sober mother”, in The Observer:
glosses: Initialism of National Childbirth Trust.
synapomorphies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of synapomorphy
taphonomic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From taphonomy + -ic.
Senses: examples: text: The differences between the Sao Khua dinosaur assemblage and the roughly coeval assemblages in China, notably those from the Jehol Group of NE China, have already been noted, and several hypotheses have been put forward, including differences in taphonomic conditions, and the existence of geographical or environmental barriers (Buffetaut et al. 2006; Fernandez et al. 2009).
ref: 2009, Eric Buffetaut, Late Palaeozoic and Mesozoic Ecosystems in SE Asia:
glosses: Of or pertaining to taphonomy (factors affecting an organism's remains after death).
Derived terms: microtaphonomic
neotaphonomic
taphonomically
Related terms: taphological
chalupas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chalupa
ladrones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ladrone
entradas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of entrada
gritos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of grito
restos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of resto
motivos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of motivo
unleashable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unleashable
form: most unleashable
Etymology: From unleash + -able or un- + leashable.
Senses: examples: text: […]Waters was falling into the psychological traps he'd been limning so effectively in the establishment figures he railed against: he was arrogant and unleashable[…]
ref: 1988 January 15, Bill Wyman, “The four phases of Pink Floyd”, in Chicago Reader:
glosses: Unable to be leashed, or restrained
examples: text: And when the efficiency or supply of coal, gas, and water came into doubt, the realm below was once again scoured for unleashable energy.
ref: 2001, Darin Barney, Prometheus Wired, →ISBN, page 9:
glosses: Able to be unleashed
uncondescending
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + condescending.
Senses: examples: text: Neighborhood residents did indeed respond to this uncondescending assumption[…]
ref: 1988 January 15, Harold Henderson, “To Feed the World at Our Doorstep...”, in Chicago Reader:
glosses: Not condescending; free of condescension
squatly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more squatly
form: most squatly
Etymology: From squat + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: […]eight had semicircular leading edges and blunt, squatly pointed trailing edges.
ref: 1988 January 15, Frank John Reid, “Further Facts on Flying Saucers”, in Chicago Reader:
glosses: In a squat manner; solidly.
Related terms: squatness
testosteroned
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From testosterone + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: "Dogs of War" is about--surprise!--mercenaries, the fall-back subject of choice for every overly testosteroned rock musician since the Creation.
ref: 1988 January 15, Bill Wyman, “The four phases of Pink Floyd”, in Chicago Reader:
glosses: Having qualities associated with testosterone; macho
toxics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From toxic + -s.
Senses: examples: text: The solids would then be dumped at a federally approved toxics landfill.
ref: 1988 January 15, Paul Botts, “Environment: Waukegan's Toxic Waits”, in Chicago Reader:
qualifier: waste processing
glosses: Toxic waste
semiautobiographical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: semi-autobiographical
Etymology: From semi- + autobiographical.
Senses: examples: text: I guess the story is semiautobiographical.
glosses: Partially, but not entirely, autobiographical
Derived terms: semiautobiographically
hijinx
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hi-jinx
Senses: examples: text: But given the funny hats and juvenile hijinx, it's hard to buy the play's more serious intentions.
ref: 1988 January 15, Tom Boeker, “A Night at Dykes Who Date/Crusaders [theatre review]”, in Chicago Reader, Chicago, Ill.: Chicago Reader, Inc., →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 26 Oct 2022:
glosses: Alternative spelling of high jinks.
iceward
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From ice + -ward.
Senses: examples: text: Billy flashing the blade of the stick back down iceward (slap), and rocketing the hard black puck against the plain pine boards staked up against the wall of Mr. H.'s house (ka-BOOM!).
ref: 1988 January 15, David Allen Jones, “The Boys of Winter”, in Chicago Reader:
glosses: Towards the ice
megafinance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From mega- + finance.
Senses: examples: text: The 1999 merger between Citibank (banking) and Travelers (insurance) created the model for megafinance and confirmed new challenges for supervisors.
ref: 2001, Wendy Dobson, Gary Hufbauer, World Capital Markets, →ISBN, page 103:
glosses: High finance: finance involving very large scales and sums of money
tear one's hair out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: tears one's hair out
form: tearing one's hair out
form: tore one's hair out
form: torn one's hair out
form: pull one's hair out
form: pull out one's hair
Senses: examples: text: My friend's job at a call center is so stressful he could tear his hair out.
text: "It's only a rattle," Alice said, after a careful examination of the little white thing. "Not a rattle-snake, you know," she added hastily, thinking that he was frightened: "only an old rattle — quite old and broken."
"I knew it was!" cried Tweedledum, beginning to stamp about wildly and tear his hair. "It's spoilt, of course!" Here he looked at Tweedledee, who immediately sat down on the ground, and tried to hide himself under the umbrella.
ref: 1871, Lewis Carroll, “Chapter IV”, in Through the Looking-Glass:
glosses: To react with extreme agitation.
Related terms: tear one's hair
relevancies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of relevancy
submandibular
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌsʌb.manˈdɪb.jʊl.ə/
ipa: /ˌsʌb.mænˈdɪb.jəl.ɚ/
rhymes: -ɪbjʊlə(ɹ)
Etymology: From sub- + mandibular.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
synonyms: submaxillary
glosses: Below the mandible.
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Of or relating to the submandibular gland.
Derived terms: submandibular duct
submandibular ganglion
submandibular gland
pertinences
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pertinence
piloter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpaɪlətə(ɹ)/
Forms: form: piloters
Etymology: From pilot + -er.
Senses: examples: text: As piloters of youth through the confused seas of our national problems we must analyze the influence of the movie and the radio upon our clientele and, more particularly, its effect upon reading.
ref: 1937, English Journal, volume 26, page 205:
glosses: One who pilots or steers.
Synonyms: pilot
sardonicism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sardonicisms
Etymology: From sardonic + -ism.
Senses: examples: text: His sardonicism was getting on my nerves.
text: As I have shown, “bad” affective modes such as humor, irony, sardonicism, self-reflexivity, satire, and irreverence allow them to confront enduring legacies around Native American and African American relationships to the environment, especially racialized environmental affect, and to critique readerly and other public expectations.
ref: 2018, Nicole Seymour, Bad Environmentalism, page 187:
glosses: The quality of being sardonic
Related terms: sardonic
sardonically
misproduce
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: misproduces
form: misproducing
form: misproduced
form: misproduced
Etymology: From mis- + produce.
Senses: examples: text: As written, Ghost Watch is a mess; as staged, it was a misproduced mess.
ref: 1988 January 15, John Bliss, “Playing at Theater”, in Chicago Reader:
glosses: To produce something poorly, or in an improper way
Related terms: misproduction
misproduces
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of misproduce
misproducing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of misproduce
misproduced
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of misproduce
outcoach
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: outcoaches
form: outcoaching
form: outcoached
form: outcoached
Etymology: From out- + coach.
Senses: examples: text: Last year, the Bears were outplayed and outcoached and deserved to lose.
ref: 1988 January 15, Ted Cox, “The Sports Section”, in Chicago Reader:
glosses: To provide better coaching than (another person or group).
overdevelops
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of overdevelop
overdeveloping
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of overdevelop
overdeveloped
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of overdevelop
overdeveloped
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: biology
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: Excessively developed, as:
Overgrown.
synonyms: hypertrophied
hyperplastic
topics: business
real-estate
glosses: Excessively developed, as:
Overbuilt.
coordinate_terms: overcrowded
overdense
qualifier: land use
topics: arts
hobbies
lifestyle
photography
glosses: Excessively developed, as:
Left too long in a chemical bath.
coordinate_terms: overexposed
washed out
raw_tags: of film
Derived terms: overdevelopedness
outcoaches
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of outcoach
outcoaching
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of outcoach
outcoached
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of outcoach
noninstitutional
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + institutional.
Senses: examples: text: Addams did her best to run this institution in a noninstitutional way.
ref: 1988 January 15, Harold Henderson, “To Feed the World at Our Doorstep...”, in Chicago Reader:
glosses: Not institutional; not having the usual characteristics of an institution
Derived terms: noninstitutionally
nonbelief
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nonbeliefs
Etymology: From non- + belief. Compare disbelief.
Senses: examples: text: But of course, heresy and nonbelief are hardly comparable crimes.
ref: 1988 January 15, Name withheld, “Movie Politics”, in Chicago Reader:
topics: human-sciences
lifestyle
philosophy
religion
sciences
glosses: Failure to believe; lack of belief.
Synonyms: unbelief
Related terms: nonbeliever
ecchymose
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /ˈɛ.kɪˌməʊz/
Forms: form: ecchymoses
form: ecchymosing
form: ecchymosed
form: ecchymosed
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: To discolour by the production of an ecchymosis, or effusion of blood, beneath the skin.
emotionality
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: emotionalities
Etymology: From emotional + -ity.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being emotional.
topics: human-sciences
psychology
sciences
glosses: The observable component of emotion.
Derived terms: hyperemotionality
hypoemotionality
hypo-emotionality
unemotionality
ghettoization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ghettoizations
form: ghettoisation
Etymology: From ghettoize + -ation.
Senses: examples: text: It's all part of a move toward ghettoization, they charge, an attempt to make the poor feel so shamefully unwanted that they will leave the area.
ref: 1988 January 15, Ben Joravsky, “A strip mall in Edgewater: class warfare, or small-time tiff?”, in Chicago Reader:
glosses: The process of becoming a ghetto, an isolated and underprivileged urban area.
glosses: The process of ghettoizing (a group): the segregation/isolation of a group and placement of that group into a figurative or literal position of little power.
Derived terms: deghettoization
antipornography
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɒɡɹəfi
Forms: form: anti-pornography
Etymology: From anti- + pornography.
Senses: examples: text: We're with an antipornography organization.
text: Such findings may cheer antipornography activists; as feminist writer Andrea Dworkin puts it, "the whole purpose of pornography is to hurt women."
ref: 2001 June 24, Philip Elmer-Dewitt, “On a Screen Near You”, in Time, →ISSN, archived from the original on 09 Nov 2023:
glosses: Opposed to the distribution and consumption of pornography
fastgrowing
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: fast-growing
Etymology: From fast + growing.
Senses: examples: text: So, you want to get in on this fastgrowing opportunity for spiritual enlightenment and quick bucks?
ref: 1988 January 15, C.C. Pyle, “Our Bodies, Their Selves”, in Chicago Reader:
glosses: Growing rapidly
emotionalities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of emotionality
surreally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From surreal + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Bonnie Lucas further anthropomorphizes the flower in her watercolors, combining it surreally with the human female figure[…]
ref: 1988 January 15, Kathryn Hixson, “On Exhibit: a gallery full of flowers”, in Chicago Reader:
glosses: In a way or to an extent that is surreal.
Related terms: surreal
surreality
surrealism
happyness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of happiness.
argument form
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: argument forms
form: argument-form
Senses: topics: human-sciences
logic
mathematics
philosophy
sciences
synonyms: schema
glosses: The result of replacing parts of an argument with letters, leaving only logic words such as "if" and "for all" unreplaced.
Synonyms: word: argument form
Hyponyms: word: modus ponens
word: modus tollens
Meronyms: word: antecedent
word: consequent
Related terms: logical form
bisacodyl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌbɪs.əˈkoʊˌdɪl/
Etymology: From bis- + ac(etate) + -o- + (pyri)dyl.
Senses: topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: A stimulant laxative typically prescribed for relief of constipation and for the management of neurogenic bowel dysfunction.
Braiden
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: A variant spelling of Braden.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Irish.
glosses: A male given name transferred from the surname, of modern usage.
ecosophy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ecosophies
Etymology: Blend of ecology + philosophy, coined by Félix Guattari and by Arne Næss.
Senses: examples: text: […] ecosophy argues that an individual should act in such a way as to “do as little harm as possible.” The “oath” of those committed to ecosophy closely parallels that of medical doctors: Above all else do no harm.
ref: 1996, Donald T. Wells, Environmental Policy: A Global Perspective for the Twenty-first Century, →ISBN:
text: But Tompkins and his wife Kristine (former head of the Patagonia outdoor-clothing brand), claim to be committed to Deep Ecology, a radically conservationist, holistic "ecosophy" first articulated in the 1970s by Norwegian mountaineer-philosopher Arne Naess.
ref: 2002 November 30, Chris Moss, “The ultimate wilderness”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
text: His ideas on ecology and ecosophy were developed in numerous books and articles, notably “Freedom, Emotion and Self-Subsistence” (1975), “Ecology, Community and Lifestyle” (1989) and “Life’s Philosophy: Reason and Feeling in a Deeper World” (2002).
ref: 2009 January 15, William Grimes, “Arne Naess, Norwegian Philosopher, Dies at 96”, in New York Times:
glosses: Ecological philosophy, particularly of the type associated with the deep ecology movement.
Derived terms: ecosopher
ecosophical
earloop
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: earloops
form: ear-loop
Etymology: From ear + loop.
Senses: examples: text: This month Jawbone will release a series of earbud replacements, which are designed to fit so snugly that you will not need an earloop.
ref: 2009 January 15, Bob Tedeschi, “The Web Brings Together Cellphone Users Searching for Signals”, in New York Times:
glosses: A loop that fits around the ear to hold an earphone or similar device in place
earloops
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of earloop
crashingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more crashingly
form: most crashingly
Etymology: From crashing + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: He stumbled crashingly around the apartment.
glosses: While crashing, or as if crashing
examples: text: It is almost 50 years since Western dancers first tried to cure the Russians of this crashingly vulgar habit.
ref: 2009 January 15, Alastair Macaulay, “Tilting at Windmills, but Not at Traditions, in Performance From Maryinsky”, in New York Times:
glosses: Absolutely; terribly
counterstereotypical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more counterstereotypical
form: most counterstereotypical
form: counter-stereotypical
Etymology: From counter- + stereotypical.
Senses: examples: text: “All this exposure to this very counterstereotypical African-American has actually changed — at least temporarily — what is on the tip of the tongue,” said E. Ashby Plant[…]
ref: 2009 January 15, Sarah Kershaw, “Talk About Race? Relax, It’s O.K.”, in New York Times:
glosses: Not in accordance with a stereotype
Related terms: counterstereotypically
coincidently
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From coincident + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: “I don’t really have an explanation for it,” said Jackson, who coincidently believes “the state of the point guard position is at an all-time low,” with few who truly fit the job description and more who think shoot first and pass second.
ref: 2009 January 15, Harvey Araton, “New York City Point Guards Aren’t Passing Muster”, in New York Times:
glosses: Simultaneously; at the same time
Related terms: coincidentally
krige
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: kriges
form: kriging
form: kriged
form: kriged
Etymology: First used by Georges Matheron, from Danie G. Krige's surname.
Senses: glosses: To perform kriging of data.
wikipedia: Danie G. Krige
Georges Matheron
bottleneck guitar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bottleneck guitars
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A technique of playing guitar by sliding a metal tube, or (originally) a glass bottleneck, along the guitar strings to alter the pitch.
Synonyms: slide guitar
slide guitar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: slide guitars
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A technique of playing guitar by sliding a metal tube, or (originally) a glass bottleneck, along the guitar strings to alter the pitch.
Synonyms: bottleneck guitar
stellarly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more stellarly
form: most stellarly
Etymology: From stellar + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: The employee performed stellarly.
glosses: In a stellar manner.
clicky
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: cliquey
Forms: form: clickier
form: clickiest
Etymology: From click + -y.
Senses: examples: text: There’s a slide-out thumb keyboard, and it has a wonderful, rubberized clicky feel[…]
ref: 2009 January 15, David Pogue, “Tech Shows, and Writers, Uninspired”, in New York Times:
glosses: Easily or frequently clicking or being clicked.
examples: text: But you might not immediately think of Dorothy Gale's clicky, glittery red shoes, which though bright, have cast a more subtle shadow over the world of fashion.
ref: 2009, Natalie Long, Click! You're red:
glosses: Emitting a click sound.
Derived terms: clickily
clickiness
blocklike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more blocklike
form: most blocklike
form: block-like
Etymology: From block + -like.
Senses: examples: text: […] the dim, tall, blocklike shadows behind the trees make it start to look, weirdly, as if this were Central Park as painted by Vuillard.
ref: 2009 January 15, Alastair Macaulay, “Tilting at Windmills, but Not at Traditions, in Performance From Maryinsky”, in New York Times:
glosses: Having an oblong shape
brushback
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: brushbacks
Etymology: From brush + back.
Senses: topics: ball-games
baseball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: Synonym of brushback pitch.
synonyms: word: brushback pitch
clickier
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of clicky: more clicky
clickiest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of clicky: most clicky
ballgoer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ballgoers
Etymology: From ball + goer.
Senses: examples: text: In the lobby of the Mandarin Oriental hotel, Ralph Lauren is chasing after ballgoers with a boutique selling cuff links and offering the services of a “Ralph Lauren bow tie butler.”
ref: 2009 January 15, Eric Wilson, “The Capital Plays ‘Hide the Label’”, in New York Times:
glosses: A person attending a ball
ballgoers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ballgoer
brushbacks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of brushback
antipsychotics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of antipsychotic
antiblack
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more antiblack
form: most antiblack
form: anti-black
form: anti-Black
Etymology: From anti- + black.
Senses: examples: text: [It] overlapped significantly with some aspects of antiblack ideologies in the United States, through forms of antiblack racism in Cuba that preceded the U.S. occupation. As de la Fuente notes, calls for de-Africanization […]
ref: 2006, Michael Hanchard, Party/Politics: Horizons in Black Political Thought, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 203:
text: The unpublished study found that the answers revealed little evidence of antiblack bias[…]
ref: 2009 January 15, Sarah Kershaw, “Talk About Race? Relax, It’s O.K.”, in New York Times:
antonyms: pro-black
coordinate_terms: antiwhite
glosses: Hostile to black people, often specifically African Americans.
Derived terms: antiblackism
antiblackness
Related terms: black
blackness
psyop
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈsaɪ.ɒp/
Forms: form: psyops
form: psy-op
Etymology: Back-formation from psyops.
Senses: examples: text: The psyop wing of Disney’s marketing department is now so hair-raisingly effective that we can only wonder what will become of little girls imprinted so deeply with such cultish brand devotion.
ref: 2009 January 15, Cintra Wilson, “All’s Fair in Beauty and War”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 29 Nov 2013:
text: If the Swift/Kelce pairing is a government psyop, as conservatives want to believe, the CIA sure knows how to stage damn good football.
ref: 2024 February 12, Alaina Demopoulos, “Romcom ending: Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce’s big night at the Super Bowl”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
glosses: An instance of psyops: a psychological operation, usually of a clandestine sort.
glosses: A psychological operative; a person who participates in psychological operations.
hair of the dog that bit one
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of hair of the dog.
synonyms: word: hair of the dog
welcomingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more welcomingly
form: most welcomingly
Etymology: From welcoming + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a welcoming manner.
Synonyms: welcomely
CD5
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: CD5s
Etymology: from Compact Disc
Senses: topics: business
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
electronics
energy
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: a 120-mm (5-inch) CD (compact disc)
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: a 5-inch CD single
CD5
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: CD5s
Etymology: from cluster of differentiation
Senses: glosses: protein found on B and especially on activated T cells
Related terms: CD3
CD-DA
CDDA
CD DA
DVD5
DVD9
DVD14
DVD18
MiniCD
Mini CD
Mini-CD
miniCD
mini CD
mini-CD
MiniDVD
Mini DVD
Mini-DVD
miniDVD
mini DVD
mini-DVD
MiniBD
Mini Blu-Ray
Mini Blu-ray Disc
pull the other one
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of pull the other one, it's got bells on.
CD3
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: CD3s
Etymology: From compact disc.
Senses: topics: business
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
electronics
energy
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: an 80-mm (3-inch) CD (compact disc)
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: a 3-inch CD single
CD3
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: CD3s
Etymology: From cluster of differentiation.
Senses: topics: immunology
medicine
sciences
glosses: an antigen, part of the T cell receptor (TCR) complex on mature T lymphocytes
Synonyms: topics: electronics
electricity
electrical-engineering
electromagnetism
energy
business
physics
physical-sciences
natural-sciences
engineering
word: MiniCD
topics: electronics
electricity
electrical-engineering
electromagnetism
energy
business
physics
physical-sciences
natural-sciences
engineering
word: Mini CD
topics: electronics
electricity
electrical-engineering
electromagnetism
energy
business
physics
physical-sciences
natural-sciences
engineering
word: Mini-CD
topics: electronics
electricity
electrical-engineering
electromagnetism
energy
business
physics
physical-sciences
natural-sciences
engineering
word: miniCD
topics: electronics
electricity
electrical-engineering
electromagnetism
energy
business
physics
physical-sciences
natural-sciences
engineering
word: mini CD
topics: electronics
electricity
electrical-engineering
electromagnetism
energy
business
physics
physical-sciences
natural-sciences
engineering
word: mini-CD
Related terms: topics: electronics
electricity
electrical-engineering
electromagnetism
energy
business
physics
physical-sciences
natural-sciences
engineering
word: CD5
topics: electronics
electricity
electrical-engineering
electromagnetism
energy
business
physics
physical-sciences
natural-sciences
engineering
word: CD-DA
topics: electronics
electricity
electrical-engineering
electromagnetism
energy
business
physics
physical-sciences
natural-sciences
engineering
word: CDDA
topics: electronics
electricity
electrical-engineering
electromagnetism
energy
business
physics
physical-sciences
natural-sciences
engineering
word: CD DA
word: DVD5
word: DVD9
word: DVD14
word: DVD18
word: MiniDVD
word: Mini DVD
word: Mini-DVD
word: miniDVD
word: mini DVD
word: mini-DVD
word: MiniBD
word: Mini Blu-Ray
word: Mini Blu-ray Disc
hoveling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of hovelling.
exclusionary
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more exclusionary
form: most exclusionary
Etymology: From exclusion + -ary.
Senses: examples: text: Social groups are often exclusionary.
text: For all the positive experiences that parents with young children have, more often rail travel is challenging, exhausting and exclusionary.
ref: 2023 October 18, Dr David Turner, “Family values...”, in RAIL, number 994, page 46:
glosses: Acting to exclude something
Derived terms: exclusionarily
exclusionary rule
nonexclusionary
trans-exclusionary
Related terms: exclusive
pull the other one, it's got brass bells on
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of pull the other one, it's got bells on.
architectural panel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: architectural panels
Senses: topics: business
construction
manufacturing
roofing
glosses: A metal roof panel, typically a double standing seam or batten seam; usually requires solid decking underneath and relies of slope to shed water
asphalt shingle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: asphalt shingles
Senses: topics: business
construction
manufacturing
roofing
glosses: A shingle manufactured by coating a reinforcing material (felt or fibrous glass mat) with asphalt and having mineral granules on the side exposed to the weather.
remonetization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: remonetizations
form: remonetisation
Etymology: From remonetize + -ation or re- + monetization.
Senses: examples: text: “King, I’m glad to meet you,” declared Senator Key Pittman of Nevada, who was nominally in England to discuss the remonetization of silver.
ref: 2009 January 15, Janet Maslin, “A Monetary Horror Story That Looks Like Today’s”, in New York Times:
topics: economics
sciences
glosses: The act or process of remonetizing, or restoring to the status of legal tender.
updo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: updos
Etymology: From up- + do.
Senses: examples: text: Ruthie Alpern, as she was then known, was a poised and chatty blonde with an updo and a winning smile.
ref: 2009 January 15, David Segal, Alison Leigh Cowan, “Madoffs Shared Much, but How Much?”, in New York Times:
glosses: A woman's hairdo in which most hair is kept above the neck
Synonyms: upsweep
Related terms: do up
updos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of updo
swanning
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of swan
swanned
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of swan
supervirility
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From super- + virility.
Senses: examples: text: Much of the timbre of a voice whose richness in an earlier era was synonymous with an image of supervirility remains intact.
ref: 2009 January 15, Stephen Holden, “A Crooner Returns, With a Swing in His Heart”, in New York Times:
glosses: The quality of being extremely virile or manly
Related terms: supervirile
superlong
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From super- + long.
Senses: examples: text: Hey, boss — sorry for this really superlong e-mail message.
ref: 2009 January 15, David Pogue, “Tech Shows, and Writers, Uninspired”, in New York Times:
glosses: Very long