cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
antiviolent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more antiviolent
form: most antiviolent
Etymology: From anti- + violent.
Senses: topics: government
human-sciences
law-enforcement
sciences
social-science
sociology
glosses: Acting against or opposing violence.
proviolence
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more proviolence
form: most proviolence
Etymology: From pro- + violence.
Senses: glosses: In favour of violence.
proviolent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more proviolent
form: most proviolent
Etymology: From pro- + violent.
Senses: glosses: In favour of violence.
geodimeters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of geodimeter
cimicifuga
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cimicifugas
Etymology: From the genus name.
Senses: examples: text: You can also have a long bloom season by including fall-flowering plants like chrysanthemums, anemones, cimicifugas, fall-blooming crocuses and false crocuses (colchicums).
ref: 2007 July 12, Leslie Land, “Garden Q.&A.”, in New York Times:
glosses: Any member of the former genus Cimicifuga, now Actaea sect. Cimicifuga, of flowering plants: bugbane or cohosh.
cimicifugas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cimicifuga
colchicums
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of colchicum
guaranine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈɡwɑːɹəniːn/
Etymology: From guaran(a) + -ine.
Senses: examples: text: V-tonic Bath Spheres by Fresh contains a cola-nut extract that the company promises will energize the skin, and Kiss My Face’s Wake Up toothpaste has guaranine, a form of caffeine found in guarana seeds.
ref: 2007 July 12, Anna Jane Grossman, “Black for Me, Light for My Hips”, in New York Times:
coordinate_terms: caffeine
mateine
theine
glosses: Caffeine extracted from guarana.
RBAC
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: qualifier: computer security
glosses: Initialism of role-based access control.
Hypernyms: AC
jumbotron
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈd͡ʒʌm.bəʊˌtɹɒn/
ipa: /ˈd͡ʒʌm.boʊˌtɹɑn/
Forms: form: jumbotrons
Etymology: From a Sony trademark, JumboTron, introduced in the 1980s and retired in 2001. From jumbo + -tron.
Senses: examples: text: This aesthetic included covering the buildings facing the urban square 'with coloured lights, jumbotrons, and flashing advertising images.'
ref: 2006, Evelyn Sharon Ruppert, The moral economy of cities: shaping good citizens, page 139:
text: “To go from seeing him on a jumbotron to touching his shoulder pad, how many people can say that?” said Ms. Jackson, a 29-year-old mother and baby-T-shirt designer.
ref: 2007 July 12, Mireya Navarro, “Star Turns, Close Enough to Touch”, in New York Times:
glosses: A very large video screen, typically used in a stadium or concert venue to show close-up shots.
wikipedia: Sony
meshugeneh
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: meshugenehs
Senses: examples: text: He became a self-described meshugeneh, Yiddish for “crazy person,” fascinated with all things Jewish.
ref: 2007 July 12, Craig S. Smith, “In Poland, a Jewish Revival Thrives  Minus Jews”, in New York Times:
glosses: Alternative form of mashugana.
meshugenehs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of meshugeneh
jumbotrons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of jumbotron
midrun
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From mid- + run.
Senses: examples: text: If you're a salty sweater and prone to cramps, eating a salty snack before your run and ingesting salt midrun can help.
ref: 2006 November, Runner's World, volume 41, number 11, page 60:
text: “Sometimes my chest aches” midrun, she said.
ref: 2007 July 12, Gretchen Reynolds, “For Athletes, an Invisible Traffic Hazard”, in New York Times:
glosses: During a run.
pepperminty
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more pepperminty
form: most pepperminty
Etymology: From peppermint + -y.
Senses: examples: text: It looks like any other clear glycerin soap and acts like it, too, except that it smells very pepperminty and left my skin smelling sort of sharp.
ref: 2007 July 12, Anna Jane Grossman, “Ahh, Minty Clean, but Lacking a Jolt”, in New York Times:
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of peppermint.
præparation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: præparations
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of preparation.
reblooming
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of rebloom
rebloomer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rebloomers
Etymology: From rebloom + -er.
Senses: examples: text: A. There are almost as many places as plants, but most rebloomers are not cut back flower by flower.
ref: 2007 July 12, Leslie Land, “Garden Q.&A.”, in New York Times:
glosses: A flower that blooms more than once in a year.
rebloomed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of rebloom
reblooms
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of rebloom
rebloomers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rebloomer
beachcast
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From beach + cast.
Senses: examples: beachcast fish
glosses: Cast up onto a beach.
surfcast
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: surfcasts
form: surfcasting
form: surfcast
form: surfcast
form: surfcasted
form: surfcasted
form: surf cast
form: surf-cast
Etymology: From surf + cast.
Senses: examples: text: "From the beach? You surfcasted?” She sighed. “You think I can't surfcast because I'm a crip? For your information, I've hauled in 50-pound stripers from my wheelchair!”
ref: 2006, Richard Rosenthal, The Dandelion War, →ISBN, page 50:
glosses: To fish by casting into the surf near the shoreline.
surfcast
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: surfcasts
form: surf cast
form: surf-cast
Etymology: From surf + cast.
Senses: examples: text: Night fishing is the best time to fish here, and you'll see lots of surfcasts tossing Danny Plugs.
ref: 2010, Tom Keer, Flyfisher's Guide to the New England Coast, →ISBN, page 178:
glosses: An instance of surfcasting.
surfcasting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of surfcast
surfcasting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Instead of doing some surfcasting with a small rod and reel, he continued to lie in the warm sun.
ref: 2000, Luther Butler, Shark Bait, →ISBN, page 66:
text: More than anything, it sets the tone of motivation for the upcoming year, to prove to yourself you won't let anything get in the way of you and your surfcasting.
ref: 2014, Nick Honachefsky, The Jersey Surf Diaries, →ISBN:
glosses: The practice of fishing by casting a line into the sea from the shore.
griefwork
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From grief + work.
Senses: glosses: Counseling intended to help somebody overcome grief.
postpatriarchal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From post- + patriarchal.
Senses: glosses: After patriarchy.
headly
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more headly
form: most headly
Etymology: From Middle English hedly, havedlich, from Old English hēafodlīċ (“at the top, principal, capital, deadly”), equivalent to head + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: O'er blows the filthy and contagious clouds / Of headly murther, spoil, and villainy.
ref: 1623, Shakespeare, King Henry V.:
glosses: Chief; principal; capital; (of sins) deadly.
glosses: Heady; violent; impetuous.
electronic sport
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: electronic sports
Senses: synonyms: cybersport
e-sport
glosses: The competitive playing of video games as a sport.
electronic sports
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of electronic sport
extremitys
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: The Fort on the Mount St. Catherine after a Month's Siege was reduc'd to ſuch Extremitys, that they who defended it were forc'd to treat about a Surrender: and Aug. 29. 'twas agreed between the Engliſh Commiſſioners, Edward Earl of Mortaigne, Thomas Earl of Salisbury, and Fitz-Hugh, and the French Commiſſioners, the Sieur Nobles Lieutenant of Guy de Bouteil, which the Sieurs De Buſſon and de Graville, in the Name of the Gariſon, that they would deliver up the Abby and Fortreſs of St. Catherine on the Thurſday following, on condition of having only their Lives ſpar'd.
ref: 1704, [Thomas Goodwin the younger], The History of the Reign of Henry the Fifth, King of England, &c. In Nine Books, London: Printed by J. D. for S. and J. Sprint, J. Robinson, J. Taylor, Andr[ew] Bell, T. Ballard, and B. Lintott, →OCLC, book V, page 191:
glosses: plural of extremity (alternative spelling of extremities).
superstrated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: ...the fabrick of them consists in several membranes superstrated one over another...
ref: 1734, William Stukeley, Of the Gout, page 57:
glosses: simple past and past participle of superstrate
headwark
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: headwarks
form: head-wark
form: headwerk
Etymology: From Middle English heedwarke, hedewarke, from Old English hēafodwærc (“pain in the head, headache”), equivalent to head + wark. Cognate with Danish hovedvark (“headache”), Swedish huvudvärk (“headache”), Icelandic höfuðverkur (“headache”).
Senses: glosses: A headache.
ostreaphile
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ostreaphiles
Etymology: From Latin ostrea (“oyster”), + -phile.
Senses: glosses: An lover or aficionado of oysters as food.
linkt
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: To whom our knight, by fast instinct / Of wit and temper, was so linkt,
ref: 1859, Samuel Butler, Hudibras, page 14:
glosses: simple past and past participle of link
hyperphysical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more hyperphysical
form: most hyperphysical
Etymology: From hyper- + physical.
Senses: examples: text: Yet what becomes quickly discernible is that violence and hyperphysical activity often result in the same kinds of address as the hypercomplex frames of meta-reference.
ref: 2008 March, Christian McCrea, “Explosive, Expulsive, Extraordinary: The Dimensional Excess of Animated Bodies”, in Animation, volume 3, →DOI, archived from the original on 30 Apr 2011:
glosses: Supernatural, beyond the physical realm, immaterial, metaphysical
examples: text: In the post-pandemic present, the key to success is undoubtedly the "hyperphysical" shops, the macro trend, identified by The Future Laboratory and reported by Vogue Business, which describes retail spaces so spectacular that visiting them is an emotional experience. From Balenciaga's pink fur-clad pop-ups to Jacquemus' bag vending machines: at a time when many consumers have yet to abandon e-commerce as their preferred mode of purchase, hyperphysical retailing is catalysing the attention of younger consumers.
ref: 2022 May 5, Lucy Shaw, “The future of retail is "hyperphysical"”, in Nss magazine:
text: Additionally, the store can lead to an immersive brand activation environment, with the digital and physical environment converging more and more. Some of this discussion involves concepts such as hyperphysical stores (where the tangible aspects are highly visible and sensorial) and other leans more toward the ‘store of the future’, with increased technology integration.
ref: 2024, Ana Roncha, “Fashion brand management”, in Rosemary Varley, Ana Roncha, Natascha Radclyffe-Thomas, Liz Gee, editors, Fashion Management: A Strategic Approach, London: Bloomsbury, →ISBN, page 104:
topics: business
commerce
fashion
lifestyle
marketing
retail
glosses: Highly stimulating, offering intense or abundant visual, tactile, or other physical stimulation.
Derived terms: hyperphysically
IAMMS
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Acronym of Ibn Sina Academy of Medieval Medicine and Sciences.
walk off with
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: walks off with
form: walking off with
form: walked off with
form: walked off with
Senses: examples: text: While Mike Donovan was engaged in his contest with Paul, his companion had quietly walked off with the shirt.
ref: 1871, Horatio Alger, chapter 12, in Paul the Peddler:
text: I went looking for Red Denny, the head canvas-man, who had walked off with my pocket-knife.
ref: 1903, Jack London, The Leopard Man's Story:
text: Hotel guests may want to think twice now before walking off with that bathrobe.
ref: 2011 April 11, Sara J. Welch, “Gee, How Did That Towel End Up in My Suitcase?”, in New York Times, retrieved 15 May 2011:
glosses: To steal, especially by surreptitiously removing an unguarded item.
examples: text: Last week in Cleveland, Harry Hopman's Aussies walked off with tennis' top trophy, the Davis Cup.
ref: 1964 October 9, “Tennis: A 12th for Harry”, in Time:
glosses: To win, as in a contest and especially without significant effort.
examples: text: But kindliness does not prevent elegant Actor Woolley from walking off with the picture against the trying competition of six scene-stealing children.
ref: 1942, "Cinema: New Picture" (film review of The Pied Piper), Time, 10 Aug.
text: But in "La Cenerentola," Rossini's version of the fairy tale, which returned to the Metropolitan Opera on Saturday night, Juan Diego Flórez, the 29-year-old Peruvian tenor, walked off with the show.
ref: 2002 October 1, Anne Midgette, “Met Opera Review: A Prince Charming More Than Charming”, in New York Times, retrieved 15 May 2011:
qualifier: performing arts
glosses: To make the strongest favorable impression in a theatrical or similar performance, in comparison to other performers.
raw_tags: of a performer
Synonyms: sense: steal
word: abscond with
sense: steal
word: pilfer
sense: steal
word: thieve
sense: performing arts
word: steal the show
whole kit and kaboodle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of kit and caboodle.
bellywark
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bellywarks
form: belly-wark
form: bellywaak
form: belly-waak
form: bellywahk
form: belly-wahk
form: bellywarch
form: belly-warch
form: bally-warche
form: bellywartch
form: bally-wartch
form: belly-wartch
form: bellywerch
form: belly-werch
form: bellywork
form: belly-work
Etymology: From belly + wark (“pain”).
Senses: examples: text: "Nay, nay," replied Charley, "I'm noen soea weel this morning, I've had th' bellywark vary bad, an' I'm feared it 'ell start again if I knock abaet, I'd rather ne quiet."
ref: 1869, A. Lodge, Forty Years Ago, page 22:
text: wish I could eat the darn stuff - gives me bellywarks !!
ref: 2011 December 7, Richard, “Re: Cafe Giardino”, in Hastings Forum:
text: "Cuddy's getten bellywark. Green imbers, he's etten."
ref: 2013, Greer Gilman, Cloud & Ashes, →ISBN, page 173:
glosses: A pain in the stomach; bellyache; colic; gripe.
topics: games
glosses: A shot in marbles made with the taw held against the belly.
belly-wark
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: belly-warks
Senses: examples: text: Sick of the idle crick, and the belly-wark in the heel.
ref: 1670, John Ray, “Proverbial Phrases”, in A Compleat Collection of English Proverbs, 3rd edition, J. Hughs, Lincoln's-Inn-Field, published 1737, page 198:
glosses: Alternative spelling of bellywark.
swipeable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more swipeable
form: most swipeable
Etymology: From swipe + -able.
Senses: examples: text: The new public transport card is swipeable at local train and bus stations.
glosses: Capable of being swiped.
headling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: headlings
Etymology: From Middle English hedling, hevedling, from Old English hēafodling (“an equal, fellow-servant”), equivalent to head + -ling. Cognate with German Häuptling (“chief, chieftain”).
Senses: glosses: An equal; a fellow; mate.
glosses: A chieftain.
headling
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: headlings
Etymology: From Middle English hedling, heedling, hevedlynge (“headlong”), equivalent to head + -ling. Cognate with Scots heidlingis (“headlong”), Middle High German houbetlingen (“headlong”).
Senses: glosses: Headlong; precipitately.
Derived terms: headlong
partable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more partable
form: most partable
Etymology: From part + -able.
Senses: glosses: Capable of being parted.
Derived terms: unpartable
WCF
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Initialism of Windows Communication Foundation, a runtime and a set of APIs in the .NET Framework used to build connected, service-oriented applications.
glosses: Abbreviation of a social norm of saving women and children first in shipwrecks.
WCF
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of weak coin flip.
muteable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: mutable
Forms: form: more muteable
form: most muteable
Etymology: From mute + -able.
Senses: glosses: Capable of being muted.
headish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more headish
form: most headish
Etymology: From head + -ish.
Senses: glosses: Headstrong.
glosses: Testy.
glosses: Flighty.
RIAs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of RIA
ISAPI
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Internet Server Application Programming Interface.
games of gotcha
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of game of gotcha
gianduia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gianduias
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of gianduja.
down the track
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: examples: text: I would like to support your proposal, but I can't guarantee how I'll feel down the track.
glosses: Further along, in terms of time or progress.
Synonyms: down the line
down the road
nicky-tam
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nicky-tams
Etymology: From knickerbockers (due to the shape that the trouser legs adopt) + taum (a cord).
Senses: examples: Use for ditching.
A Pair of Nicky-Tams Folk song.
glosses: A pair of straps or pieces of string tied around the leg below the knee to raise trousers above the level of farmyard dirt.
examples: Keeping rats out.
glosses: The same to prevent the ingress of dust and vermin up the trouser leg.
examples: Interview with Sir Nicky Tam in the Aberdeen Voice.
See also "A Pair of Nicky-Tams".
glosses: A simpleton or country yokel.
midways
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of midway
glosses: midway briefs.
skip town
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: skips town
form: skipping town
form: skipped town
form: skipped town
Senses: examples: text: The suspect skipped town when he found out the police were going to raid his apartment.
text: We have just seen a feckless House of Representatives pass a ludicrous impeachment of a Cabinet secretary by one vote—and then skip town while avoiding a vote on aid to Ukraine.
ref: 2024 February 20, Eliot A. Cohen, “Solzhenitsyn’s Warning”, in The Atlantic:
glosses: To abscond from one's place of residence suddenly, without warning.
Related terms: blow town
nicky-tams
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nicky-tam
prepatriarchal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pre- + patriarchal.
Senses: glosses: Before patriarchy.
countersurge
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: countersurges
Etymology: From counter- + surge.
Senses: examples: text: Across the centuries the fortunes of the two religions have risen and fallen in a sequence of momentous surges, pauses, and countersurges.
ref: 1997, Samuel P. Huntington, The clash of civilizations and the remaking of world order:
text: With the Shiite militias having taken a lower profile since the troop increase began, and with Al Qaeda in Mesopotamia embarking on its own sort of countersurge, a main focus of the American military operation is to deprive the group of its strongholds in the areas surrounding Baghdad — and thus curtail its ability to carry out spectacular casualty-inducing attacks in the Iraqi capital.
ref: 2007 July 13, Michael R. Gordon, “Bush Distorts Qaeda Links, Critics Assert”, in New York Times:
glosses: A surge opposing an earlier surge.
countersurges
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of countersurge
decadeslong
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From decades + -long.
Senses: examples: text: From the start of its operations in Colombia, the company was on guard against the decadeslong civil strife in the country between left-wing guerrilla and right-wing paramilitary groups, witnesses have testified.
ref: 2007 July 13, Kyle Whitmire, “Suit in U.S. Over Murders in Colombia”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 26 Jan 2021:
glosses: Lasting for decades.
Synonyms: multidecade
Coordinate terms: word: decade-long
english: only 1 decade
translation: only 1 decade
word: decadelong
word: yearslong
heartstopper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: heartstoppers
Etymology: From heart + stopper.
Senses: examples: text: One, “I Just Don’t Think I’ll Ever Get Over You,” was a heartstopper in the film “Garden State.”
ref: 2007 July 13, The New York Times, “Pop and Rock Listings”, in New York Times:
glosses: Something highly exciting.
heartstoppers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of heartstopper
inveterately
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more inveterately
form: most inveterately
Etymology: From inveterate + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: In this case, I was driven to reflect deeply and inveterately on that hard law of life, which lies at the root of religion and is one of the most plentiful springs of distress.
ref: 1886, Robert Louis Stevensony, Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde:
text: The result was a succès de scandale that touched a raw feminist nerve, threw inveterately sleazy art-world politics into relief, and caused permanent editorial rifts at Artforum itself.
ref: 2007 July 13, The New York Times, “Art in Review”, in New York Times:
glosses: For a long time.
miniretrospective
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: miniretrospectives
Etymology: From mini- + retrospective.
Senses: examples: text: This cheerful miniretrospective of his die-cut vinyl decals (the gallery’s four walls are covered with them, floor to ceiling) updates Op Art aesthetics in a way that seems in step with the art world’s current cash-and-carry moment.
ref: 2007 July 13, The New York Times, “Art in Review”, in New York Times:
glosses: A small retrospective of an artist's work.
nonactions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nonaction
nonpress
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + press.
Senses: examples: text: Still, there are a lot of press at a nonpress event, and it all takes place in Sun Valley, the kind of toy town where wealth is part of the civic culture.
ref: 2007 July 13, David Carr, “Business Casual”, in New York Times:
glosses: Not of or pertaining to the press (journalism or publishing industry).
tweakings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tweaking
semisubmerged
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From semi- + submerged.
Senses: examples: text: All I could see was a three-ringed ripple, and beyond that, the semisubmerged silhouette of a fellow student.
ref: 2007 July 14, Harry Hurt Iii, “The Incomplete Angler”, in New York Times:
glosses: Partially submerged.
conspirings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of conspiring
contradancing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Though the pastime’s popularity has declined since 1976, when the National Square Dance Convention in Anaheim, Calif., drew a record crowd of 40,000, today New York — like Boston, Chicago, Los Angeles, Miami, Seattle and dozens of other American cities — supports a modest but resilient square-dancing and contradancing scene.
ref: 2007 July 15, Joy Goodwin, “City Folk Who Feel the Call of the Do-Si-Do”, in New York Times:
glosses: contra dance
corporatocracy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɒkɹəsi
Forms: form: corporatocracies
Etymology: From corporate + -o- + -cracy.
Senses: examples: text: He spent most of the 1970s and ’80s helping the evil corporatocracy that runs the Secret American Empire establish suzerainty over the Middle East, Southeast Asia, South America and Africa.
ref: 2007 July 15, Joe Queenan, “Covert Ops”, in New York Times:
text: This chapter examines the politics of America's corporatocracy, a political system in which powerful corporate interest groups dominate the policy agenda. We can see how the corporatocracy arose as the confluence of four big trends.
ref: 2011, Jeffrey Sachs, The Price of Civilization: Economics and Ethics After the Fall, Random House, →ISBN, page 105:
glosses: Rule by corporations.
Related terms: inverted totalitarianism
corporatocracies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of corporatocracy
filmworthy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more filmworthy
form: most filmworthy
Etymology: From film + -worthy.
Senses: examples: text: Still, it is perhaps the most filmworthy stage musical in decades, combining great characters, a strong story and a flawless pop Broadway score.
ref: 2007 July 15, Jesse Green, “Seeking His Inner Her, Size XXXL”, in New York Times:
glosses: Deserving of being filmed.
fingery
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more fingery
form: most fingery
Etymology: From finger + -y.
Senses: examples: text: They are swimming toward some kind of undersea plant (a sea anemone?), itself surrounded by watermelon-size amoeba shapes with long, fingery edges.
ref: 2007 July 15, Christopher Gray, “What the Future Looked Like Yesterday”, in New York Times:
synonyms: fingerlike
digitiform
glosses: Resembling fingers in shape.
topics: climbing
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
coordinate_terms: technical
glosses: Requiring the use of fingers to climb.
intermountain
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From inter- + mountain.
Senses: examples: text: To the Editor: The cover photography for “The Last Wilderness ” contains an S.U.V. As a graduate of the University of Montana, I fully understand the reality of travel in the intermountain West.
ref: 2007 July 15, “Letters to the Editor”, in New York Times:
glosses: Between mountains.
microbank
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: microbanks
Etymology: From micro- + bank.
Senses: examples: text: Our nonprofit institute is developing a microfinance model in which the microbank makes an equity investment (not a loan) and shares in the profit or loss of the microbusiness.
ref: 2007 July 15, “Letters”, in New York Times:
glosses: A bank that offers microfinance.
microbanks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of microbank
midengined
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From mid- + engined.
Senses: examples: text: “Our model was the styling cues that midengined cars have.
ref: 2007 July 15, Phil Patton, “Once Frumpy, Green Cars Start Showing Some Flash”, in New York Times:
glosses: Having the engine between the rear and front axles (in a motor vehicle).
squirrel grip
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: squirrel grips
Etymology: A pun on two senses of nuts: the food hoarded by a squirrel, and testicles.
Senses: examples: text: Their breakaway, Philippe Chamayou, had been grabbing our lineout jumpers in the squirrel grip all match long, while ensuring we couldn't return service by wearing a cricket protector For the uneducated a squirrel grip is where an opponent grabs a player by the testicles, the most vile act in the game after eye gouging.
ref: 2006, Dan Crowley, Larry Writer, Undercover Prop: The Game They Play in Heaven and a Police Career from Hell, page 75:
text: 'Wootton tells me you put the squirrel grip on one of his commissioners, Jack,' Harry said.
ref: 2003, Peter Temple, Bad Debts, page 50:
text: […] Ponting seems to have traded Waugh's ‘mental disintegration’ for what might be called the ‘psychological squirrel grip’. Of England, he gloats: ‘Mentally, we've got them by the balls.’
ref: 2007, Gideon Haigh, The Green & Golden Age: Writings on Australian Cricket Today, page 56:
text: Anything went in that competition - fingers ripping your nostrils, being spat at. The only thing I didn't encounter was a squirrel grip.
ref: 2010, John Elias, Josh Massoud, Sin Bin: The Untold Story of a True Footy Bad Boy, page 82:
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A grip on another player's testicles; an illegal rugby tackle involving such a grip.
nonconstricting
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + constricting.
Senses: examples: text: The baby dress, balloon, the trapeze and the tent all have one thing in common: a looseness that allows for the circulation of air between cloth and body, nonconstricting comfort for hot, humid summer days.
ref: 2007 July 15, Bill Cunningham, “Central Air”, in New York Times:
glosses: That does not constrict.
squirrel grips
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of squirrel grip
outcampaign
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: outcampaigns
form: outcampaigning
form: outcampaigned
form: outcampaigned
Etymology: From out- + campaign.
Senses: examples: text: “But I can outcampaign these guys, and I will, and I can, and we’re going to be doing just fine both here and Iowa and in South Carolina, and I have every confidence.”
ref: 2007 July 15, Michael Cooper, “With a Leaner Campaign, McCain to Focus on 3 States”, in New York Times:
glosses: To campaign better than (as for a political position).
outcampaigning
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of outcampaign
outcampaigned
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of outcampaign
overaggressiveness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From overaggressive + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: The partygoers, in turn, blamed the police for overaggressiveness.
ref: 2007 July 15, Emily Brady, “Bedlam Comes to Visit a Drowsy Neighborhood”, in New York Times:
glosses: Excessive aggression.
overcommercialize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: overcommercializes
form: overcommercializing
form: overcommercialized
form: overcommercialized
Etymology: From over- + commercialize.
Senses: examples: text: It was unwieldy, included a fatal bombing at Centennial Olympic Park and is largely considered the most overcommercialized Olympics in the history of the modern Games.
ref: 2007 July 15, “Chicago Gets Advice on How to Secure and Run a Successful Olympics”, in New York Times:
glosses: To make excessively commercial.
overcommercializes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of overcommercialize
overcommercializing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of overcommercialize
overcommercialized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of overcommercialize
overlight
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌəʊvə(ɹ)ˈlaɪt/
Forms: form: overlights
form: overlighting
form: overlit
form: overlit
form: overlighted
form: overlighted
Etymology: From over- + light.
Senses: examples: text: Dozens of times over the next two years, Officer Yan’s work brought him through the sliding glass doors into the overlit clamor of Kings County’s emergency room, one of the busiest in the city.
ref: 2007 July 15, Andy Newman, “In Hospital Scrubs and Officer’s Blues, a Kinship”, in New York Times:
glosses: To illuminate too brightly.
examples: text: Thus the stereotype is overlighted by the archetype, just as in conventional Egyptian statuary the historical pharoah is often shown standing under the god, the wings of Horus.
ref: 1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 215:
glosses: To illuminate from above.
overlight
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌəʊvə(ɹ)ˈlaɪt/
ipa: /ˈəʊvə(ɹ)ˌlaɪt/
ipa: /ˌəʊvə(ɹ)ˈlaɪt/
Forms: form: overlights
Etymology: From over- + light.
Senses: examples: text: An overlight maketh the eyes dazzle, insomuch as perpetual looking against the fun would cause blindness.
ref: 1755, Samuel Johnson, A Dictionary of the English Language: In Which the Words Are Deduced From Their Originals, and Illustrated in Their Different Significations by Examples from the Best Writers. To Which Are Prefixed, A History of the Language, and an English Grammar, Strahan, J. and P. Knapton, page 3:
text: "The Lecture Hall was very tastefully decorated with palms and evergreens and the platform on which the statue of H. B. Blavatsky is placed had several wreaths of lotus flowers beautifully arrayed and the statue itself was bedecked with a profusion of the choicest lotuses and shone out, to great advantage, under the overlight which shed its subdued lustre amid the foliage round it.
ref: 1906, Mr. Yorick, The Theosophist, Volume 27, Theosophical Publishing House, page 700:
text: Upon entering the dining-room, the painting faced one from the opposite end of the room, receiving light from a large landscape window on the left, and an overlight of electricity by night, the room being otherwise in darkness.
ref: 1909, Eugénie Paul Jefferson, Intimate Recollections of Joseph Jefferson, Dodd, Mead & Company, page 41:
text: "When a few hundred gaily-colored aprons—bright green, changeable to gold, yellow with a silver overlight, pink, blue, cerise—are displayed in one moving picture, it is a very charming scene."
ref: 1921, Mr. Yorick, The National Geographic Magazine, Volume 39, National Geographic Society, page 114:
text: "Cal stood on the neat porch and kept his finger on the bell until the harsh overlight flashed on and the night bolt rasped and Mrs. Bacon looked out.
ref: 1952, John Steinbeck, East of Eden and the Wayward Bus, Viking Press, page 484:
glosses: excessive light
overlight
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌəʊvə(ɹ)ˈlaɪt/
ipa: /ˈəʊvə(ɹ)ˌlaɪt/
Forms: form: more overlight
form: most overlight
Etymology: From Middle English over-lyght, equivalent to over- + light.
Senses: examples: text: Also that they be not overlight and wanton of behaviour.
ref: 1654, Thomas Raynalde, The Birth of Mankind (Fourth Edition) (page 153)
glosses: Too light or frivolous; giddy.
Derived terms: overlightly
overlights
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of overlight
overlighting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of overlight
overlit
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of overlight
overlighted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of overlight
reverse proxy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: reverse proxies
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
networking
physical-sciences
sciences
antonyms: forward proxy
hypernyms: proxy
glosses: A proxy that retrieves information on behalf of a client from possibly multiple servers.
punily
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more punily
form: most punily
Etymology: From puny + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a puny fashion.
quotee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: quotees
Etymology: From quote + -ee.
Senses: examples: text: Or it can summarize the inner thoughts of either the quoter or the quotee (“She’s like, yeah, as if I’d be caught dead in them!
ref: 2007 July 15, Patricia T. O’Conner, “Like”, in New York Times:
glosses: Somebody whose words are being quoted.
quotees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of quotee
sandboarding
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Blend of sand + snowboarding.
Senses: examples: text: It wasn’t until I was 29, and tried sandboarding for the first (and last) time, that I saw the beauty in being merely O.K. at something.
ref: 2007 July 15, Rebecca Zerkin, “Children’s Books”, in New York Times:
glosses: A recreational activity resembling snowboarding but performed on sand instead of snow.
Related terms: volcano boarding
reverse proxies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of reverse proxy
slidey
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈslaɪdi/
rhymes: -aɪdi
Forms: form: more slidey
form: most slidey
form: slidy
Etymology: From slide + -y.
Senses: examples: text: I always prefer playing indoors on a soft, bouncy, slidey wood surface because outdoor asphalt courts release the day's heat slowly and the softened tar sucks at the bottoms of your sneakers.
ref: 1998, Charles Rosen, Barney Polan's game: a novel of the 1951 college basketball scandals, page 58:
text: Tunes with titles like “Mazurka Maracaibo” shimmer with countless plucked strings. Mr. Brozman deploys everything from the small Bolivian charango to a Finnish harp called the kantele, while there’s usually something slidey to carry the melody.
ref: 2007 July 15, Jon Pareles, “Sounds Dire, Droll, Dreamy and on the Edge of Kitsch”, in New York Times:
glosses: Tending to slide or cause sliding; slippery.
gigliato
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gigliatos
Etymology: From Italian gigliato (literally “lilied”).
Senses: glosses: A silver coin established in 1303 by Charles II of Anjou in Naples, and then also in Provence from 1330, and depicting on its reverse side a lily entwined around a cross.
Giottesque
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Giottesque
form: most Giottesque
Etymology: From Giotto + -esque.
Senses: topics: art
arts
glosses: In the manner of Giotto di Bondone
cyberimperialism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From cyber- + imperialism.
Senses: glosses: Imperialism with regard to the Internet or cyberspace.
cybercolonialism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From cyber- + colonialism.
Senses: glosses: Colonialism with regard to the Internet or cyberspace.
cybergang
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cybergangs
Etymology: From cyber- + gang.
Senses: examples: text: ...Knights of Access was one of the world's premiere cybergangs but they never did anything harmful to civilians. They fought hacking battles with other gangs and cracked corporate and government sites.
ref: 2001, Jeffery Deaver, The Blue Nowhere:
text: Cybergangs and some novel types of crime do not neatly fit into the jurisdiction of national or international law (see, for example, Sassen 1998).
ref: 2004, James H. Mittelman, Whither globalization?: the vortex of knowledge and ideology, page 31:
glosses: A criminal gang that operates in cyberspace.
cybergangs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cybergang
paupiettes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of paupiette
truckway
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: truckways
Etymology: From truck + way.
Senses: examples: text: “It would feed a north-south truckway spine along the west side of Manhattan, with short east-west spurs,” he writes.
ref: 2007 July 15, Ted Balaker, Sam Staley, “Think Over the Box”, in New York Times:
glosses: A special road for the exclusive use of trucks.
truckways
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of truckway
unfinicky
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unfinicky
form: most unfinicky
Etymology: From un- + finicky.
Senses: examples: text: And my wife is in the process of moving all her stuff into our house, which is of course a boon and a blessing including more books on food, but I can’t even find my copy of the late Ernest Mickler’s ‘White Trash Cooking,’ which might be my favorite just on grounds of nostalgia and unfinicky exuberance.”
ref: 2007 July 15, The Editors, “Up Front”, in New York Times:
glosses: Not finicky.
underdiversified
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: past participle of underdiversify
underdiversified
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more underdiversified
form: most underdiversified
Senses: examples: text: All other things being equal, underdiversified portfolios tend to be riskier than those with a broader sampling of stocks.
ref: 2007 July 15, Mark Hulbert, “Neighborly Advice, for Good or Ill”, in New York Times:
glosses: Not sufficiently diversified.
vaudevillelike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more vaudevillelike
form: most vaudevillelike
Etymology: From vaudeville + -like.
Senses: examples: text: As Betts had sung it, the song was brassy, vaudevillelike:
ref: 2007 July 15, Mark Oppenheimer, “The Actualizer”, in New York Times:
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of vaudeville.
Synonyms: vaudevillesque
vatrushkas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of vatrushka
whitewashings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of whitewashing
multiclan
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From multi- + clan.
Senses: examples: text: Part of the problem is that the transitional government does not act like the multiclan outfit envisioned by the United Nations.
ref: 2007 July 16, Jeffrey Gettleman, “Somalia Reconciliation Conference Opens, but Soon Stalls”, in New York Times:
glosses: Of or pertaining to more than one clan.
post horns
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of post horn
posthorn
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: posthorns
Senses: examples: text: The brass playing was uneven, but heroics were there when most needed: from the horns in the opening salvos; from the principal trumpeter, Thomas Rolfs, in a glorious account of the extended posthorn solo; and from all hands in the final blast.
ref: 2007 July 16, James R. Oestreich, “With Levine as Tour Guide, a Journey Through Mahler’s Third Symphony”, in New York Times:
glosses: Alternative form of post horn.
posthorns
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of posthorn
unisons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of unison
unenthralling
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unenthralling
form: most unenthralling
Etymology: From un- + enthralling.
Senses: examples: text: Yet in the enjoyable but unenthralling production of “Gypsy” that opened Saturday at City Center and runs through July 29, part of the new Encores!
ref: 2007 July 16, Ben Brantley, “What Ever Happened to Momma Rose?”, in New York Times:
glosses: Not enthralling; dull.
unsensual
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unsensual
form: most unsensual
Etymology: From un- + sensual.
Senses: examples: text: And yet, for all her erotic poses, skimpy outfits and well-oiled limbs, Mrs. Beckham is oddly unsensual on television; she somehow takes the sin out of synergy.
ref: 2007 July 16, Alessandra Stanley, “New Girl in Town Gets Settled With Hubby”, in New York Times:
glosses: Not sensual.
recedingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more recedingly
form: most recedingly
Etymology: From receding + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Evan has fooled around with Rebecca, a senator’s daughter and, thus by virtue of her lineage, one of his girlfriend’s prized pledges at Zeta Beta Zeta, a sorority not for the inadequately shaven or recedingly ambitious.
ref: 2007 July 16, Ginia Bellafante, “Campus Sex Scandal Today for Leaders of Tomorrow”, in New York Times:
glosses: While receding or moving away.
armlong
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From arm + long.
Senses: examples: text: “What is an American sound, what does that even mean?” he said, sitting at his kitchen table in the spacious but cozy SoHo apartment he shares with his wife, the choreographer Lynn Shapiro, and 8-year-old daughter, Ava. Family photos line the walls, and an armlong section of one bookshelf is devoted to his father’s works.
ref: 2007 July 17, Ben Sisario, “An Avant-Gardist’s View of America, as Seen From the Back Seat”, in New York Times:
glosses: As long as a person's arm.
dumbcane
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dumbcanes
form: dumb cane
Etymology: From dumb + cane, due to its poisoning effect on the throat.
Senses: examples: text: I was stunned to realize just how many of these potentially dangerous plants were in my own home and garden, including aloe, elephant’s ear, jade, peace lily (Spathiphyllum), philodendron and dumbcane (Dieffenbacchia), as well as foxglove (Digitalis purpurea), hellebore, vinca, rhododendron and chrysanthemum.
ref: 2007 July 17, Jane E. Brody, “Avoiding the Dangers Down in the Garden”, in New York Times:
glosses: A tropical plant of the genus Dieffenbachia.
dumbcanes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dumbcane
antiprevention
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more antiprevention
form: most antiprevention
Etymology: From anti- + prevention.
Senses: examples: text: She added, to cheers, “I want you to know that when I’m president, I will devote my very first days in office to reversing these ideological, antiscience, antiprevention policies that this administration has put into place.”
ref: 2007 July 18, Robin Toner, “Democrats Attack Bush on Women’s Health Issues”, in New York Times:
glosses: Opposing prevention (of crime, the spread of disease, etc.).
ballhawks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ballhawk
biosurveillance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From bio- + surveillance.
Senses: examples: text: “We need to have uniform biosurveillance capability to prepare not only for a pandemic, but any outbreak of infectious disease.”
ref: 2007 July 18, Gardiner Harris, “Limited Capacity Is Seen in Flu Defenses”, in New York Times:
glosses: The monitoring of the biological environment, as for example to forestall disease.
onsight
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From on + sight.
Senses: examples: text: Reardon made hundreds of free-solo ascents of challenging climbing routes done onsight, meaning without rehearsal or practice.
ref: 2007 July 18, Bill Becher, “Rock Climber Presumed Dead After Accident Off Irish Coast”, in New York Times:
topics: climbing
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: Without having previously seen the terrain.
onsight
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: onsights
form: onsighting
form: onsighted
form: onsighted
Etymology: From on + sight.
Senses: topics: climbing
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: To perform a climb without having previously seen the terrain.
nonresectional
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + resectional.
Senses: glosses: Not resectional.
resectional
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From resection + -al.
Senses: examples: text: A major factor is that a review in 2004 of 15 years’ experience in treating resistant tuberculosis at National Jewish found that “the most important single variable we had associated with favorable outcome was resectional surgery.”
ref: 2007 July 18, Lawrence K. Altman, “TB Patient Has Surgery to Remove Part of Lung”, in New York Times:
glosses: Of or pertaining to resection, the surgical excision of part of a tissue.
stagemanship
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From stage + -manship.
Senses: examples: text: If there’s any sense of justice, relevance, even poetic stagemanship at work, New Orleans should emerge hands down as the site for the debate that will be dedicated to the nation’s domestic problems.
ref: 2007 July 18, “Where to Discuss the Nation’s Ills”, in New York Times:
glosses: Technique of performing well on the stage.