cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
platelayer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: platelayers
Etymology: From plate + layer.
Senses: examples: text: Instead, the Ministry of Transport (MoT) investigation concluded that the gang were reliant upon hearing the approach of trains - "a common practice among platelayers", Assistant Inspecting Officer JPS Main concluded.
ref: 2021 September 22, Dr Mike Esbester, “Trackside safety: a permanent problem”, in RAIL, number 940, page 79:
topics: rail-transport
railways
transport
glosses: A railway employee who inspects and maintains the permanent way of a railway installation.
Synonyms: surfaceman
trackman
platelayers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of platelayer
untroubling
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more untroubling
form: most untroubling
Etymology: From un- + troubling.
Senses: examples: text: Any softening of the statement’s language should help stocks, Mr. Herrmann said, because it would convince traders that the Fed will remain untroubled and untroubling.
ref: 2007 May 6, Conrad De Aenlle, “When Words Speak Louder Than Actions”, in New York Times:
glosses: Not troubling.
untroubling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of untrouble
whens
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of when
ustulate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more ustulate
form: most ustulate
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin ustulatus, past participle of ustulare (“to scorch”), urere (“to burn”).
Senses: glosses: Blackened as if burned.
ustulate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: ustulates
form: ustulating
form: ustulated
form: ustulated
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin ustulatus, past participle of ustulare (“to scorch”), urere (“to burn”).
Senses: glosses: To burn or roast (ores).
magpielike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more magpielike
form: most magpielike
Etymology: From magpie + -like.
Senses: examples: text: Conceived as a live spectacle without a pre-recorded soundtrack, it is also the closest he has come to a pure silent feature, not that purity is a pertinent concept in the case of the magpielike Mr. Maddin and his dense, crossbred melodramas.
ref: 2007 May 7, Dennis Lim, “Newfangled Silent Movie With a Bit of Old Barnum”, in New York Times:
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a magpie, especially in the habit of hoarding objects.
reinventive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more reinventive
form: most reinventive
Etymology: Blend of reinvent + inventive?
Senses: examples: text: The city proved remarkably resilient in the face of the Bethlehem Steel closing, said Bridget George, the festival’s executive director, and “as change comes, we have to be as creative and reinventive in our own response to what Bethlehem is and how passionately we feel about it.”
ref: 2007 May 7, James Oestreich, “Bach’s Captains and Foot Soldiers of Musical Industry”, in New York Times:
glosses: Tending to reinvent.
semifame
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From semi- + fame.
Senses: examples: text: He was most excited about the festival’s obscurities, like the series of Latin American and Spanish films, his latest passions, and the appearance by the Legendary Stardust Cowboy, the Texas wild man whose brief moment of semifame, the 1968 single “Paralyzed,” inspired Mr. Bowie’s glam-era alter ego, Ziggy Stardust.
ref: 2007 May 7, Ben Sisario, “Chosen by David Bowie, Shows That He’d Attend”, in New York Times:
glosses: Minor fame.
supersmall
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more supersmall
form: most supersmall
Etymology: From super- + small.
Senses: examples: text: But while short, multiepisode cellphone series are growing in popularity, the lucrative advertising dollars prevalent in other entertainment segments — and which studios rely on for profit — have been slow to migrate to the supersmall screen.
ref: 2007 May 7, Laura M. Holson, “Hollywood Loves the Tiny Screen. Advertisers Don’t.”, in New York Times:
glosses: Very small; tiny.
inceptisol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: inceptisols
Etymology: From Latin inceptum + -i- + -sol
Senses: qualifier: soil science
glosses: A kind of freely-draining soil that forms quickly through alteration of parent material and has no accumulation of clays, iron oxide, aluminium oxide or organic matter.
Hyponyms: aquept
cryept
gelept
ochrept
udept
ustept
xerept
Derived terms: inceptisolic
putat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: putats
Senses: glosses: The fish poison tree.
initiand
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: initiands
Senses: glosses: The subject of an initiation
inkle
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɪŋkl̩/
rhymes: -ɪŋkəl
Forms: form: inkles
form: inkling
form: inkled
form: inkled
Etymology: From Middle English inklen, inclen (“to give an inkling of, hint at, mention, utter in an undertone”), derived from inke (“apprehension, misgiving”), from Old English inca (“doubt, suspicion”), from Proto-West Germanic *inkō, from Proto-Germanic *inkô (“ache, regret”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁eng- (“illness”). Cognate with Old Frisian jinc (“angered”), Old Norse ekki (“pain, grief”), Norwegian ekkje (“lack, pity”).
Senses: glosses: To hint at; disclose.
glosses: To have a hint or inkling of; divine.
Related terms: inkling
inkle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɪŋkl̩/
rhymes: -ɪŋkəl
Forms: form: inkles
form: incle
Etymology: Apparently from earlier *ingle, perhaps from an incorrect division of lingle, lingel.
Senses: examples: text: COSTARD - '… What's the price of this inkle?'
ref: c. 1595–1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, “Loues Labour’s Lost”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, (please specify the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals)]:
glosses: Narrow linen tape, used for trimmings or to make shoelaces
anything but
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: examples: text: It wasn't cheap. Anything but.
text: It started out as a lively party, now it is anything but.
text: As a matter of fact, the methods of primitive accumulation are anything but idyllic.
ref: 1887, Karl Marx, chapter 26, in Samuel Moore, Edward Aveling, transl., Das Kapital:
text: "They certainly are nice people," I assented to my wife's observation, using the colloquial phrase with a consciousness that it was anything but "nice" English, "and I'll bet that their three children are better brought up than most of----"
ref: 1890, Henry Cuyler Bunner, The Nice People:
text: 1893, Fridtjof Nansen, Otto Sinding (illustrator), William Archer (translator), Eskimo Life, Chapter II: Appearance and Dress,
The pure-bred Eskimo would at first glance seem to most of us Europeans anything but beautiful.
glosses: Not at all; quite the contrary (of).
roges
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of roge
lithotripsy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈlɪθ.əˌtɹɪp.si/
Forms: form: lithotripsies
Etymology: From litho- (“relating to a stone or calculus”) + Ancient Greek τρῖψῐς (trîpsĭs, “rubbing, friction”) + -y.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
surgery
glosses: A treatment, typically using ultrasound shock waves or crushing with a surgical instrument, by which a kidney stone or similar calculus is broken into particles small enough to be voided or washed out.
Derived terms: cholecystolithotripsy
choledocholithotripsy
cholelithotripsy
cystolithotripsy
lithotripter
lithotriptor
lithotriptic
lithotripsic
lithotripsical
lithotriptist
nephrolithotripsy
ureterolithotripsy
roundtrips
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of roundtrip
skywatcher
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: skywatchers
Etymology: From sky + watcher.
Senses: glosses: One who skywatches.
skywatchers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of skywatcher
skywalks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of skywalk
skysurfers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of skysurfer
lorajmine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: 17-monochloroacetylajmaline, an antiarrhythmic drug derived from the roots of Rauvolfia serpentina.
padrão
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: padrões
Etymology: From Portuguese padrão, from pedra (“stone”) + -ão.
Senses: qualifier: Age of Discovery
glosses: stone pillar, usually with a cross, inscribed with the coat of arms of Portugal, placed as a land claim along the coasts of Africa and Asia by numerous Portuguese explorers
wikipedia: Diogo Cão
padrão
sweetmeal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Blend of sweet + wholemeal
Senses: examples: text: The digestive sweetmeal cookie deserves particular mention. A best-selling cookie in the United Kingdom for many years, its popularity must have a lot to do with its versatility.
ref: 2000, D. A. V. Dendy, Bogdan J. Dobraszczyk, Cereals and cereal products: chemistry and technology, page 234:
glosses: Wholemeal and sweet; used to describe digestive biscuits.
pacos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of paco
gachas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gacha
somniate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: somniates
form: somniating
form: somniated
form: somniated
Senses: examples: text: ...but our powers not always in the same state of action, nor equally attentive to or rententive of the hints that were given, or things might be rendered more or less intelligible to us, as the powers of our soul were more or less dozed or somniated with the oppression of vapours from the body, which occasions sleep;
ref: 1719, Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe:
text: So much for the "safety benefit" of those somniating 100/110kph
ref: 2003 October 2, AlexT, “NJ cracks down on sleepy drivers that kill”, in talk.politics.misc (Usenet):
glosses: To drowse.
examples: text: As for Dreams, and the diversity of them, with their significations, we shall be more large in our second part, when we shall treat of somniating Physiognomy; but in the mean time consider these Rules, and their Interpretations, for they are worthy the observation.
ref: 1671, Richard Saunders, Saunders Physiognomie, and Chiromancie, Metoposcopie:
text: The translation, by Malcolm C. Lyons and Ursula Lyons, shines like moonlight and magic mirrors, stimulates and somniates, echoes and recycles like a dream ...
ref: 2010 March/April, Willis G. Regier, “Shahrazad's New Clothes”, in World Literature Today, volume 84, number 2:
glosses: To cause to become drowsy.
quippery
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: quipperies
Etymology: From quip + -ery.
Senses: glosses: The use of quips; smart humour.
quipperies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of quippery
versatilities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of versatility
calcant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: calcants
Senses: glosses: foot-bellows operator (of an organ)
cellarman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cellarmen
Etymology: From cellar + -man.
Senses: examples: text: 1815, William Berry, The History of the Island of Guernsey, London: Longman, Hurst, Bees, Orme and Brown, p. 298, https://books.google.ca/books?id=uD8IAAAAQAAJ&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false
The merchant and wealthy shopkeeper here differ widely from the English character:— Immersed in business from morn till night, they dine at one or two, on plain wholesome fare; abstemious to a degree, drink less wine than their cellarmen, and without relaxing from the cares of business—the want of exercise and retirement makes as little impression on their health as their purses.
text: But on a stool by the counter sat a drunken man with blue, glassy eyes and shiny purplish face, in a round grey-peaked cap topped with a button—the cellarman from the whiskey distillery of Prince Lobanoff.
ref: 1923, Ivan Bunin, translated by Isabel Hapgood, The Village, London: Martin Secker, Part One, Chapter XXI, pp. 118-9:
text: By a rule of the hotel the waiters were not allowed to keep stores of spirits, but had to go to the cellarman for each drink as it was ordered. As the cellarman poured out the drinks he would set aside perhaps a teaspoonful from each glass, and he amassed quantities in this way.
ref: 1933 January 9, George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], chapter XIII, in Down and Out in Paris and London, London: Victor Gollancz […], →OCLC:
glosses: A person in charge of the alcoholic drinks (traditionally the wine cellar) in a tavern etc.
cellarmen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cellarman
beltful
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: beltfuls
form: beltsful
Etymology: From belt + -ful.
Senses: examples: text: The cook has his revolver and a beltful of cartridges. I have a loaded revolver, but I shall leave that with you.
ref: 1926, Oswald Kendall, The Missing Island, page 191:
glosses: As much as a belt will hold.
beltfuls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of beltful
beltsful
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of beltful
whilk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɪlk
Forms: form: whilks
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of whelk.
saluter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: saluters
Etymology: From salute + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who salutes.
loungecore
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From lounge + -core.
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: easy listening music
lyocell
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From a trademark.
Senses: glosses: A semisynthetic fibre (and associated fabric) made from wood pulp
macruran
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: macrurans
Etymology: Macrura + -an
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Any of many decapod crustaceans, such as the lobster and shrimp, that were once included in the subdivision Macrura
macumba
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: mä-kŭɴ(m)′bə
Forms: form: macumbas
Etymology: Borrowed from Portuguese macumba (“macumba; curse”), derived from Kimbundu makôba (or a related Bantu language of western Central Africa).
Senses: examples: text: And later on at the Gantóis macumba, Omolu, bedecked in red, had said that the day of vengeance for the poor would not be long in coming.
ref: 1988, Jorge Amado, translated by Gregory Rabassa, Captains of the Sands, Penguin, published 2013, page 79:
topics: lifestyle
religion
glosses: A type of Afro-Brazilian folk religion combining elements of Roman Catholicism with traditional African religious beliefs and practices; or a specific cult or ceremony of such religion.
pish posh
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: /ˈpɪʃˈpɒʃ/
Forms: form: pishposh
form: pish and posh
form: pish-posh
form: pish tosh
form: pish and tosh
Etymology: Reduplication of pish.
Senses: examples: text: “Oh, pish posh,” Miss Beauregard didn't buy it. “Your home couldn't be that bad.”
ref: 2004, Greg Johnson, The Loony Bin Blues: The Next Generation Flies Over the Cuckoo's Nest, page 264:
text: “You don't believe in angels? Oh, pish-posh, Officer. How do you think we make it through the day without angels?”
ref: 2007, Julie Failla Earhart, Home Sweet Home & Other Dangerous Places, page 48:
glosses: Nonsense; tommyrot.
macrurans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of macruran
marshwort
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: marshworts
Etymology: From marsh + wort.
Senses: glosses: A small, white-flowered plant, of the genus Apium, that grows in marshy habitats.
computator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: computators
Senses: examples: text: But this is an advantage not to be had by the biographer in this planet;—in the planet Mercury (belike) it may be so, if not better still for him;——for there the intense heat of the country, which is proved by computators, from its vicinity to the sun, to be more than equal to that of red-hot iron, […]
ref: 1759, [Laurence Sterne], chapter XXIII, in The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman, 2nd (1st London) edition, volume I, London: […] R[obert] and J[ames] Dodsley […], published 1760, →OCLC:
glosses: A person who performs computations.
glosses: A mechanical device that performs computation.
glosses: Synonym of computer (“electronic device”).
synonyms: word: computer
extra: electronic device
cultureless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more cultureless
form: most cultureless
Etymology: From culture + -less.
Senses: glosses: Devoid of culture.
Derived terms: culturelessly
culturelessness
culturelike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more culturelike
form: most culturelike
Etymology: From culture + -like.
Senses: examples: text: Certainly, learning from elders how to exploit the environment is a culturelike phenomenon.
ref: 1978, Bill Seay, Nathan Gottfried, The development of behavior, page 170:
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of culture.
marshworts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of marshwort
meatworks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: meatworks
Etymology: From meat + works.
Senses: examples: text: A modern abattoir and meatworks, which will supply meat for local consumption and export, will be established at Kadina, in South Australia. The Premier (Mr. Playford) announced recently the project would cost about £500,000.
ref: 1953, Modern Refrigeration, volume 56, page 176:
text: The effluents used for the irrigation schemes included discharges from most sections of the meatworks and from yards and roofs; in the Islington works some separate soakaways in the gravels were used for strong chemical discharges.
ref: 1970 August, N. Wells, J. S. Whitton, “The Influence of Meatworks Effluents on Soil and Plant Composition”, in G. J. Neale, editor, New Zealand Journal of Agricultural Research, volume 13, number 3, page 499:
text: In addition, a rigorous inspection of all meatworks, export or otherwise, continued to be enforced in all States.
ref: 1983, Grolier Society of Australia, The Australian Encyclopaedia, volume 2, page 199:
text: Isolation from the nearest meatworks at Wyndham and Broome was a major impediment to marketing beef. Blythe took up the idea of killing cattle at an abattoir on Glenroy and air-freighting the carcasses to a meatworks, thus eliminating the loss of condition inevitable in droving cattle long distances.
ref: 2007, G. C. Bolton, “Blythe, Lindsay Gordon (1908-1986)”, in Diane Langmore, Darryl Bennet, editors, Australian Dictionary of Biography: Volume 17 1981-1990: A-K, page 116:
glosses: A slaughterhouse or meat processing plant.
noninstallation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From non- + installation.
Senses: examples: text: The landlord had been warned twice about noninstallation of smoke alarms in the properties he rented.
glosses: Absence of installation; failure to install.
meatworker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: meatworkers
Etymology: From meat + worker.
Senses: glosses: A worker in the meat industry.
meatworkers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of meatworker
adaptate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: adaptates
form: adaptating
form: adaptated
form: adaptated
Etymology: When used by native speakers, a back-formation from adaptation; equivalent to adapt + -ate. When used by ESL speakers, a calque of Portuguese and Spanish adaptar; compare, for example, English integrate and Portuguese and Spanish integrar.
Senses: examples: text: Using the formulae included the game moderator determins how much mana is needed to cast the magic. Works very well, but is specific to the game system, would need work to make it generic or useful in any other game. Personally I am thinking of adaptating it to Ars Magica or Witchcraft, both of which are excellent systems, but have shitty, or no, respectively, rules for spell creation.
ref: 1996 December 20, Kataman, “SPELLESS MAGIC????”, in rec.games.frp.misc (Usenet), retrieved 05 Jun 2022:
text: The pre-cultural society was promiscuous, and the change to cultural society meaned^([sic]) a change to monogamy. That might better explain our difficulties in adaptating to monogamy (depending on when we put the origin of 'culture') but not the existence of promiscuous cultures of H. sapiens.
ref: 1997 January 15, ai...@walrus.megabaud.fi, “Social evolution of hominids”, in sci.anthropology.paleo (Usenet), retrieved 05 Jun 2022:
text: I wouldn't say ripping off other songs.. When they do their covers or remixes or sampling or adaptating, they don't destroy the original work. The original song is still out there, so it doesn't matter if you like the remake or not, other people might, so don't be complaining about it.
ref: 2001 April 6, Mr. Legend, “OT Re: If you could slap *one* celebrity...”, in alt.fan.u2 (Usenet), retrieved 05 Jun 2022:
text: I've installed FreeBSD here, I have come from Linux so I am still adaptating.
ref: 2003 May 23, Thiago Silva Conceição, “Doubts”, in mailing.freebsd.newbies (Usenet), retrieved 05 Jun 2022:
text: 1. adaptating novels into screenplays
ref: 2003 December 4, Ovum, “Outer Limits -- Still Works”, in misc.writing.screenplays (Usenet), retrieved 05 Jun 2022:
text: That is usually interpretated as 1) something different coming out along reproduction, 2) the differences are found to be better adaptated to the given life area 3) the ones having a best adaptation have more chance for surviving that the lesser adaptated ones. As simple as this.
ref: 2005 January 22, Betov, “this is the time to pray”, in alt.lang.asm (Usenet), retrieved 05 Jun 2022:
qualifier: nonstandard and non-native speakers' English
glosses: To adapt.
adaptator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: adaptators
Senses: examples: text: Yet it was an improvement on the stage plays of the former age, when tragedies and comedies were imported from France with an avidity not to be exceeded by the minor adaptators of the present time.
ref: 1842 August, Edward Mayhew, “The English Stage, Showing the Cause of Its Excellence, the Reason of Its Decline, and the Source from Which It Will Be Revived”, in The Monthly Magazine, volume XCVI, number DXLVIII, London, page 189:
text: [Gabriel] Faerno was one of the many translator-imitators, or rather adaptators, of Aesop and Phaedrus, antedating [Jean de] La Fontaine by one hundred years.
ref: 1981, Jacques Barchilon, Peter Flinders, “Last Years and Last Works”, in Charles Perrault (Twayne’s World Authors Series; 639), Boston, Mass.: Twayne Publishers, G. K. Hall & Co., →ISBN, page 151:
text: This trend in King Lear revisions is representative of a general tendency when it comes to [William] Shakespeare spin-offs: namely, that adaptators of Shakespeare often see it as their particular mission to give voice to the characters in Shakespeare who are mistreated, misunderstood, or just plain missing.
ref: 2007, Amy Scott-Douglass, “[Theater] Introduction, ‘Dramatic Shakespeare: Stars and Spin-offs’”, in Richard Burt, editor, Shakespeares after Shakespeare: An Encyclopedia of the Bard in Mass Media and Popular Culture, volume 2, Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, →ISBN, page 739, column 2:
glosses: Synonym of adapter.
synonyms: word: adapter
slidder
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more slidder
form: most slidder
form: slider
form: slyder
Etymology: From Middle English slider, from Old English slidor, from Proto-West Germanic *slidr, from Proto-Germanic *slidraz, from Proto-Indo-European *slidʰ-ró-s, from *sleydʰ- (“to slip, glide”). Related to Old English slīdan (“to slide”). More at slide.
Senses: glosses: Slippery.
Derived terms: slidderly
slidderness
sliddery
slidder
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: slidders
form: sliddering
form: sliddered
form: sliddered
form: slider
form: slyder
Etymology: From Middle English slyderen, slidren, from Old English sliderian (“to slip”), from Proto-West Germanic *slidrōn (“to slide”), from Proto-Indo-European *sleydʰ- (“to slip”). Cognate with Middle Dutch slideren (“to drag, train”), German schlittern (“to slip, slide”).
Senses: examples: text: He sliddered down as best as he could.
text: The smoke-pat sliddered over to the French shore, so I knowed Frankie was edgin' the Spanishers toward they Dutch sands where he was master.
ref: 1910, Rudyard Kipling, Simple Simon:
glosses: To slip or slide, especially clumsily, or in a gingerly, timorous way.
mellotron
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɛl.əˌtɹɒn/
ipa: /ˈmɛl.əˌtɹɑn/
Forms: form: mellotrons
form: Mellotron
Etymology: Brand name, based on melo- + -tron?
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: An early electronic keyboard instrument that played back prerecorded sounds.
Canadianise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /kəˈneɪ.di.ə.naɪz/
/kəˈneɪ.djə.naɪz/
Forms: form: Canadianises
form: Canadianising
form: Canadianised
form: Canadianised
Etymology: From Canadian + -ise.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Canadianize.
kosherize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: kosherizes
form: kosherizing
form: kosherized
form: kosherized
Etymology: From kosher + -ize.
Senses: glosses: To make kosher (suitable for a Jewish religious diet).
Synonyms: word: kasher
word: kosher
kosherized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of kosherize
kosherizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of kosherize
kosherizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of kosherize
mellotrons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mellotron
melodize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: melodizes
form: melodizing
form: melodized
form: melodized
form: melodise
Etymology: From melody + -ize.
Senses: glosses: To compose or play melodies.
glosses: To make melodious; to write a melody for (existing text).
Derived terms: melodizer
unmelodized
Related terms: melodization
shiting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of shite
shited
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of shite
melodizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of melodize
melodizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of melodize
melodized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of melodize
eco-kosher
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more eco-kosher
form: most eco-kosher
Etymology: From eco- + kosher, coined by Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi.
Senses: glosses: Acceptable in an ecological sense, supposedly analogous to the Jewish kosher laws for food preparation.
wikipedia: Zalman Schachter-Shalomi
menorrhea
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˌmɛnəˈɹɪə/
Forms: form: menorrhoea
form: menorrhœa
Etymology: From meno- + -rrhea.
Senses: glosses: The flow of blood at menstruation
Derived terms: cryptomenorrhea
epimenorrhea
eumenorrhea
hypermenorrhea
hypomenorrhea
menorrheic
oligomenorrhea
polymenorrhea
Related terms: menorrhagia
Maclean
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Macleans
form: MacLean
form: Mac Lean
form: McLean
form: Mclean
form: Mc Lean
form: Malean
form: MaLean
form: M'Lean
form: Lean
form: McClean
form: Mcclean
form: Mc Clean
form: MacClean
form: Macclean
form: Mac Clean
form: MaClean
form: M'Clean
form: Clean
Etymology: From Scottish Gaelic MacGilleEathain, patronymic form of a personal name meaning "servant of (Saint) John".
Senses: glosses: A Scottish surname from Scottish Gaelic.
glosses: A town in the Northern Rivers region of northern New South Wales, Australia.
antitransglutaminase
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From anti- + transglutaminase.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
immunology
medicine
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Targeting transglutaminase.
besparkled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of besparkle
superlightweight
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more superlightweight
form: most superlightweight
Etymology: From super- + lightweight.
Senses: examples: text: Rather than reinforce rooftops at great expense, Mankiewicz decided that the only way around this problem was to invent a superlightweight soil.
ref: 1998, Steve Lerner, Jonathan Lash, Eco-Pioneers: Practical Visionaries Solving Today's Environmental Problems, page 165:
glosses: Extremely lightweight.
Synonyms: ultralightweight
myenteric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From myenteron + -ic.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Of or pertaining to the myenteron.
superleaks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of superleak
myenteron
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: See myo-, entero-.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: The muscular coat of the intestine.
Related terms: myenteric
nonairbrushed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + airbrushed.
Senses: glosses: Not airbrushed.
schoolwear
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From school + -wear.
Senses: glosses: Clothing designed to be worn at school.
minischools
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of minischool
minischool
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: minischools
Etymology: From mini- + school.
Senses: examples: text: There are 86 ELLs in the four minischools at the Columbus campus, but few if any have been receiving the required level of English-fluency classes because those minischools do not offer them.
ref: 2007 May 9, Samuel G. Freedman, “English Language Learners as Pawns in the School System’s Overhaul”, in New York Times:
glosses: A school with a very small student population.
prehiatus
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pre- + hiatus.
Senses: examples: text: On Monday, CBS’s “CSI: Miami” seized the title as the night’s highest-rated show among adults 18 to 49, while NBC’s “Heroes” continued to falter with ratings below its prehiatus levels.
ref: 2007 May 9, “Arts, Briefly”, in New York Times:
glosses: Before a hiatus.
ultrareligious
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more ultrareligious
form: most ultrareligious
Etymology: From ultra- + religious.
Senses: examples: text: But a lot of people here also say that what they want is something in the middle, not quite Western democracy and not quite the restrictive life forced on them by the ultrareligious.
ref: 2007 May 9, Michael Slackman, “Cultural Collisions in the Slow Lane to Modernity”, in New York Times:
glosses: Extremely religious.
checkback
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈt͡ʃɛkbæk/
Etymology: From check + back.
Senses: examples: text: True, you need some form of checkback, which is an artificial two-club or two-diamond rebid by the responder to ask for more information.
ref: 2007 May 10, Phillip Alder, “From a Nevada Tournament, Defense by the Textbook”, in New York Times:
topics: bridge
games
glosses: A play of a designated card as a prompt to one's partner to respond with a play indicating the kinds of card he/she holds.
armet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɑː.mɛt/
ipa: /ˈɑɹ.mɛt/
Forms: form: armets
Etymology: From French armet, from Middle French armet, heaumet, from Old French helmet, ultimately from Proto-West Germanic *helm (“helmet”). Doublet of helm and helmet.
Senses: glosses: A type of mediaeval helmet which fully enclosed the head and face, first found in the 1420s in Milan.
dissatisfier
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dissatisfiers
Etymology: From dissatisfy + -er.
Senses: examples: text: “It’s the No. 1 dissatisfier that we hear about,” said Bob Gann, Hewlett-Packard ’s digital imaging systems architect.
ref: 2007 May 10, Damon Darlin, “Seizing the Moment”, in New York Times:
glosses: One who, or that which, dissatisfies.
dissatisfiers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dissatisfier
hautest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: French haut + English -est.
Senses: examples: text: The hautest of French haute cuisine is served in this grand basement restaurant. Specialties include roast guinea fowl with shallots, and fillet of smoked pork...
ref: 1989, Great Britain, 1990, Fodor's:
text: Time Out Milan shows you how Italy's powerhouse plays as hard as it works, tipping you off to the hippest aperitivi, the highest fashion and the hautest cuisine […]
ref: 2005, Sylvia Tombesi Walton, Time Out Milan: The Lakes And Lombardy:
text: Unlike the Collyers, Ms. Moss is a hoarder of the hautest kind, but the maximalism of her domestic tableaux, crammed with tasseled cushions, botanical prints, specimen collections and an infinite variety of luxurious tchotchkes, can still feel oppressive.
ref: 2007 May 10, Zarah Crawford, “Accumulate This”, in New York Times:
glosses: Highest or best.
Related terms: hauter
semisatiric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From semi- + satiric.
Senses: examples: text: The crowd appeared to be mostly Spanish, but that may be only for now; with her dark sunglasses and spired peineta (the ornamental comb worn by flamenco singers), she’s created a semisatiric princess-of-darkness persona that isn’t hard for outsiders to understand.
ref: 2007 May 10, Ben Ratliff, “A Spaniard With a Taste for Drama”, in New York Times:
glosses: Partly satirical.
Synonyms: semisatirical
undereffective
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more undereffective
form: most undereffective
Etymology: From under- + effective.
Senses: examples: text: The bullpen, overworked and undereffective in the first month, contributed three scoreless innings as five relief pitchers worked as if they were sprinters handing off a baton in a relay race.
ref: 2007 May 10, Joe Lapointe, “Yanks Work Through Problems to Get Back to .500”, in New York Times:
glosses: Not effective enough.
unsexual
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + sexual.
Senses: examples: text: Certain unrandy Pacific salmon are said never to return back up their birth rivers, but instead prefer to live out their cautious careers in unsexual but less demanding bachelorhood or spinsterhood.
ref: 1970, Herbert Eliot French, Of rivers and the sea, page 189:
text: Other nonballet movements — one man landing out of the blue on another man’s neck and staying there (oddly comic), or a man running backward around the stage in decelerating and decreasing circles (an absorbing minimalist effect) — become peculiar strokes of poetry. Mr. Parker gives his most striking moments to his male dancers, not least in unsexual male duets, as when one guy supports another in ballet adagio.
ref: 2007 May 10, Alastair Macaulay, “Stomp, Sneeze, Grunt, Gasp and All That Body Language”, in New York Times:
glosses: Not sexual.
Derived terms: unsexuality
unsexually
Related terms: nonsexual
unsexiness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From unsexy + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being unsexy.
Kemps
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A card game, played in teams of two, the object being to get four of a kind, then silently communicate the fact to one's partner, who shouts "Kemps!".
canvasboard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: canvasboards
Etymology: From canvas + board.
Senses: examples: text: “Untitled, 1950 (May 20),” oil on canvasboard, by Myron Stout.
ref: 2007 May 11, The New York Times, “Art in Review”, in New York Times:
glosses: A material consisting of canvas laminated onto a board, used for artworks.
canvasboards
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of canvasboard
uncanvassed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + canvassed.
Senses: glosses: Not canvassed.
canvasless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From canvas + -less.
Senses: glosses: Without canvas.
flatfootedly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more flatfootedly
form: most flatfootedly
Etymology: From flatfooted + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Steward, one of De La Hoya’s former trainers, saw him tiring and fighting flatfootedly.
ref: 2007 May 11, Richard Sandomir, “Mayweather Tries Broadcasting, but Ponders His Future”, in New York Times:
glosses: In a flatfooted manner.
unsqueaking
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + squeaking.
Senses: examples: text: And she has a full, even, unsqueaking tone, especially on the clarinet, an instrument that could use another distinctive voice in jazz.
ref: 2007 May 11, Ben Ratliff, “A Musical World Traveler Who Likes to Mix Things Up”, in New York Times:
glosses: Not producing squeaking noises.
unsqueaky
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + squeaky.
Senses: glosses: Not squeaky.
celebret
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: celebrets
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin celebret (“may he celebrate”).
Senses: topics: Catholicism
Christianity
Roman-Catholicism
glosses: A letter signed by a bishop or other higher official stating that a certain priest is allowed to say Mass in a different diocese.
bulldogging
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of bulldog
bulldogged
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of bulldog
developmentals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /dɪˌvɛləpˈmɛntəlz/
Senses: glosses: plural of developmental
symbolisms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of symbolism
unnormal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unnormal
form: most unnormal
Etymology: From un- + normal.
Senses: examples: text: I’ve felt as unnormal as one could feel the last couple of days and lost a lot of sleep.”
ref: 2007 May 12, Viv Bernstein, “Earnhardt Free Agency Echoes Through Nascar”, in New York Times:
glosses: Not normal.
declinism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪˈklaɪnɪzəm/
Etymology: From decline + -ism.
Senses: examples: text: Laudably, he [Cullen Murphy] ends on some optimistic notes, and some prescriptions, rather than wallowing in declinism.
ref: 2007 May 13, Walter Isaacson, “The Empire in the Mirror”, in New York Times:
text: So maybe declinism is just a quirk of human psychology.
ref: 2015 January 16, Pete Etchells, “Declinism: is the world actually getting worse?”, in The Guardian:
text: Instead, declinism ruled—the belief that Britain was in a state of terminal, irreversible decline being widely shared, and—as glam has demonstrated—frequently and forcibly expressed.
ref: 2018, Simon Philo, Glam Rock: Music in Sound and Vision, Rowman & Littlefield, →ISBN, page 104:
text: The chancellor came to Bloomberg’s HQ in the City of London on Friday seeking to raise the country’s spirits, hail the split with Brussels and dispel the “declinism” he says saps Britain’s energy.
ref: 2023 January 27, Phillip Inman, quoting Jeremy Hunt, “Jeremy Hunt overdoes the Es: why his economic plan is a letdown”, in the Guardian:
hypernyms: pessimism
glosses: A pessimistic belief that things are in decline.
Related terms: declinist
deteriorationism
negativity bias
declinest
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: decline + -est
Senses: glosses: second-person singular simple present indicative of decline
confirmor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: confirmors
Senses: examples: text: The confirmor must have such an estate and property in the thing of which the confirmation is made, as may enable him to confirm the estate to the confirmee; Dyer 109.
ref: 1826, S. F. T. Wilde, editor, A Supplement to Mr. Barton’s Precedents in Conveyancing […], volume 2, page 325, note 1:
topics: law
glosses: One who performs the confirmation of an estate; the grantor of a deed of confirmation.
examples: text: Confirmors buy and sell a property before a transaction is completed and they are generally thought to be speculators.
ref: 2004 August 30, “Buy-and-sell home market loses steam as deals fall off”, in South China Morning Post:
text: During the period between the signing of the provisional S&P agreement and the completion of the sale, “A” (the confirmor) sells the property to sub-purchaser “C” for a higher price.
ref: 2008, Chris Dillon, Landed: The Expatriate’s Guide to Buying and Renovating Property in Hong Kong, →ISBN, page 27:
glosses: A purchaser of real estate who resells the property before the transaction is completed.
Related terms: confirmee
confirmer
grantest
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: grant + -est
Senses: glosses: second-person singular simple present indicative of grant
greetest
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: greet + -est
Senses: glosses: second-person singular simple present indicative of greet
greeteth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: greet + -eth
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of greet
confirmator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: confirmators
Etymology: Latin
Senses: examples: text: the definitive confirmator and test of things uncertain
ref: 1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC:
glosses: # Someone or something that confirms; a confirmer.
fruitwood
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fruitwoods
Etymology: From fruit + wood.
Senses: examples: text: At Quince in San Francisco, Michael Tusk, the chef, smokes fresh ricotta over fruitwood and spices until it’s lightly browned and crumbly.
ref: 2007 May 13, Amanda Hesser, “The Cheese Stands Alone”, in New York Times:
glosses: The wood of any fruit tree, particularly hardwood from species such as pear and cherry, that is valued for furniture, woodcuts and other applications.
examples: Cem Akin; Leah Rottke (1 August 2011), The Home Orchard Handbook: A Complete Guide to Growing Your Own Fruit Trees Anywhere, Quarry Books, →ISBN, pages 45–: “...let's talk about the qualities of fruitwood (also known as a scion when grafted onto a rootstock), or the portion of the tree above the graft union.”
glosses: In orchard culture, the woody growth of the scion of any grafted fruit tree above the graft, as opposed to the rootstock, which is the part of the plant below the graft.
examples: Warren C. Micke (1996), Almond Production Manual, UCANR Publications, →ISBN, pages 127–: “In mature trees, water sprouts become replacement fruitwood as old wood is removed.”
glosses: Particular branches or twigs in particular positions, or of particular types or ages, that may be expected to bear fruit in most types of orchard trees, since fruit is not borne randomly all over the tree.
fruitwoods
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fruitwood
godforsakenness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From godforsaken + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: The godforsakenness of the place is something more than a figure of speech.
ref: 2007 May 13, Terrence Rafferty, “Cops and Rabbis”, in New York Times:
glosses: The quality of being godforsaken.
motorplex
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: motorplexes
Etymology: From motor + -plex.
Senses: examples: text: The motorplex, which also has tracks for motocross and all-terrain vehicles, has an overwhelmingly local feel.
ref: 2007 May 13, Austin Considine, “In the Desert Near Dubai, an Oasis for Drag Racing”, in New York Times:
glosses: A venue for motor racing.
motorplexes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of motorplex
multireel
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From multi- + reel.
Senses: examples: text: Since then she has created a variety of multireel stories she calls Vladmasters, which she sells and presents in public performances.
ref: 2007 May 13, Rob Walker, “Toy Story”, in New York Times:
topics: broadcasting
film
media
television
glosses: Comprising more than one reel.
musicke
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: musickes
Senses: examples: text: There is no doubt, no people on the earth more naturally affected to the sound of musicke than these people.
ref: 1623, Richard Jobson, The golden trade, or, A discouery of the Riuer Gambra and the golden trade of the Aethiopians:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of music.
musickes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of musicke
consultor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: consultors
Etymology: From Latin cōnsultor.
Senses: glosses: One who gives counsel; an adviser, especially in the Catholic Church.
Related terms: consulter
outhandle
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -ændəl
Forms: form: outhandles
form: outhandling
form: outhandled
form: outhandled
Etymology: From out- + handle.
Senses: examples: text: As you might expect, the Cadillac outhandles the Lincoln.
ref: 2007 May 13, Lawrence Ulrich, “Lincoln MKX: Beyond the Edge”, in New York Times:
glosses: To surpass in handling.
outhandles
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of outhandle
outhandling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of outhandle
outhandled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of outhandle
prenursing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From pre- + nursing.
Senses: glosses: Any course of study taken in preparation for the study of nursing.
reshingle
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -ɪŋɡəl
Forms: form: reshingles
form: reshingling
form: reshingled
form: reshingled
Etymology: From re- + shingle.
Senses: examples: text: He rebuilt the rotted front porch, restoring some of the Victorian filigree in the process, and reshingled the front facade.
ref: 2007 May 13, Stephen P. Williams, “A Wished-For House With a Hideaway Nook”, in New York Times:
glosses: To shingle again or anew.
reshingles
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of reshingle
reshingling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of reshingle
reshingled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of reshingle
superambitious
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more superambitious
form: most superambitious
Etymology: From super- + ambitious.
Senses: examples: text: The men I met in California who were in their 30s and superambitious never really valued women, but Stephen valued me as a person.”
ref: 2007 May 13, “Natalie Lui, Stephen Duncan”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 26 Nov 2022:
glosses: Very ambitious.
supercomplicated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more supercomplicated
form: most supercomplicated
Etymology: From super- + complicated.
Senses: examples: text: “Life is supercomplicated, and if you’re a Type A person, you want containment, to have, you know, control, whether it’s an illusion or reality.”
ref: 2007 May 13, David Colman, “He Puts Lids on His Excitement”, in New York Times:
glosses: Very complicated.
televisionlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more televisionlike
form: most televisionlike
Etymology: From television + -like.
Senses: examples: text: Our experience with Joost and Babelgum made us think that the services should add more televisionlike content to expand the range of people who might watch.
ref: 2007 May 13, Louise Story, “A Diet, Oddly Bland, of Continuous Images and Chat”, in New York Times:
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of television.
thrustings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of thrusting