cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
overallocation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From over- + allocation.
Senses: examples: text: The carbon-trading pact “has struggled with credibility from Day 1, given the starting overallocation of emissions allowances,” Alex Rau, of the carbon-trading firm Climate Wedge, said in an e-mail message.
ref: 2009 March 7, Kate Galbraith, “Little Impact Is Foreseen Over Change for Emissions”, in New York Times:
glosses: Excess allocation
rose oil
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rose oils
Senses: glosses: An essential oil extracted from the petals of various types of roses, used mainly for flavouring and perfumes.
extrait
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: extraits
Etymology: French extrait
Senses: qualifier: perfumery
glosses: Synonym of parfum (“solvent containing around 15% to 40% aromatic compounds”).
synonyms: word: parfum
extra: solvent containing around 15% to 40% aromatic compounds
approximatives
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of approximative
grand C
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: grand Cs
Senses: examples: Grand C is the highest C on a 76-key keyboard.
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: the C note exactly one octave above high C
Related terms: middle C
pranic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more pranic
form: most pranic
Etymology: From prana + -ic.
Senses: examples: text: In yoga, we do not look at foods in terms of vitamins, minerals or proteins. We categorize food in the three following ways – positive pranic food, negative pranic food, and zero pranic food. Positive substances are those which, when consumed, add prana to the system. The pranic energy, the vital energy in the body, will increase.
text: [I] have personally seen and heard nothing that may not be attributed to the subconscious mind and the strange magnetic force called Pranic Energy.
ref: 1936, Rollo Ahmed, The Black Art, London: Long, page 275:
qualifier: yoga
glosses: Of or relating to prana.
partitioner
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: partitioners
Etymology: From partition + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who applies, executes or imposes a partition, division or separation.
Related terms: partitionist
antinausea
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From anti- + nausea.
Senses: examples: text: She took an antinausea drug before the flight.
topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: Intended to prevent or combat nausea
pictorialism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pictorialisms
Etymology: From pictorial + -ism.
Senses: topics: arts
hobbies
lifestyle
photography
glosses: A school of artistic photography that emphasized using photography to mimic certain styles of contemporary painting, that flourished in the late 19th and early 20th centuries
examples: text: The black-and-white portraits and landscapes […] fall somewhere between photojournalism and pictorialism.
ref: 2007 December 21, Karen Rosenberg, “In Bhutan, Sacred Sights Amid the Clouds”, in New York Times:
glosses: Any artistic use of photography to imitate painting, especially using pictorial conventions.
coordinate_terms: descriptionalism
glosses: The theory that mental imagery is visual rather than based on language-like description.
Related terms: pictorialist
overscale
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From over- + scale.
Senses: examples: text: A wildly overscale concrete canopy juts over the main entry plaza.
ref: 2007 October 28, Nicolai Ouroussoff, “Where Gods Yearn for Long-Lost Treasures”, in New York Times:
glosses: Out of scale; much too large for the context in which it exists
Synonyms: overscaled
Related terms: overscaling
overmix
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: overmixes
form: overmixing
form: overmixed
form: overmixed
Etymology: From over- + mix.
Senses: examples: text: Don’t overmix; it’s O.K. if a few lumps remain.
ref: 2007 April 22, Aleksandra Crapanzano, “Paris Match”, in New York Times:
glosses: To mix too thoroughly
overmedicate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: overmedicates
form: overmedicating
form: overmedicated
form: overmedicated
Etymology: From over- + medicate.
Senses: examples: text: "I thought the people we'd be arguing with are the people who believe psychiatric illness doesn't exist" or those who believe children are being overmedicated, he said.
ref: 2007 December 14, Joanne Kaufman, “Campaign on Childhood Mental Illness Succeeds at Being Provocative”, in New York Times:
glosses: To medicate excessively
Related terms: overdiagnose
overprescribe
overtreat
overhunting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From over- + hunting.
Senses: examples: text: When the mighty elk herds of the West were facing the possibility of extinction from overhunting, settlement and neglect a century ago, people here stepped forward and began what has turned out to be a profound biological experiment.
ref: 2009 February 18, Kirk Johnson, “Debate Rages Over Elk Feeding Program”, in New York Times:
glosses: Hunting at unsustainable levels.
Related terms: overfishing
overexploitation
overhunting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From over- + hunting.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of overhunt
semipublic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From semi- + public.
Senses: examples: text: These semipublic, philanthropic organizations later came to regard the so-called Lancasterian system as ideal, since it offered mass education at low cost.
ref: 2004, Paul Seattler, The Evolution of American Educational Technology, page 33:
text: THERE are three things people think they know about Jessica Seinfeld, the semipublic wife of the popular comedian:
ref: 2007 November 4, Allen Salkin, “How I Met Jerry Seinfeld, Scene 1, Take 2”, in New York Times:
glosses: Somewhat, but not entirely, public.
Related terms: semiprivate
unsworn
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + sworn.
Senses: examples: text: In her court documents, Prince said […] that his diagnosis was derived from comments made by 10 skaters in unsworn affidavits.
ref: 2007 December 27, Richard Sandomir, “Garden Settles a Lawsuit Filed by a Former Rangers Cheerleader”, in New York Times:
topics: law
glosses: Not sworn
overmixes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of overmix
counterpuncher
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: counterpunchers
Etymology: From counterpunch + -er.
Senses: examples: text: Serena will play the third-seeded Jankovic, the counterpuncher who looked vulnerable after digging too deeply into her physical reserves last season […].
ref: 2008 January 21, Christopher Clarey, “Even in Singles, Williams Sisters Are Double Trouble”, in New York Times:
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
tennis
glosses: A player who returns every ball and relies on the opponent making mistakes
topics: boxing
government
hobbies
lifestyle
martial-arts
military
politics
sports
war
glosses: A boxer who commonly counterpunches.
Synonyms: defensive baseliner
retriever
overmixing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of overmix
overmixed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of overmix
overmedicates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of overmedicate
overmedicating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of overmedicate
overmedicated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of overmedicate
pushpin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈpʊʃˌpɪn/
Forms: form: pushpins
form: push-pin
form: push pin
Etymology: From push + pin.
Senses: examples: text: My invention relates to improvements in what are termed “push-pins,” said pins being adapted to support one article upon another and being particularly employed for holding photographic films stretched upon a surface, such as a board, for drying and the like.
ref: [1900 July 24, Edwin Moore, Push-Pin, US Patent 654319:
text: An illustration showed a pair of scissors slicing off the leg of a doll […] stuck with pushpins.
ref: 2009 January 28, “Mexicans turning to black magic in hopes of defeating U.S.”, in Toronto Star:
coordinate_terms: drawing pin
thumbtack
glosses: A small pin with a head made for gripping with the fingers, to be pushed into a bulletin board so as to pin papers to it; especially, such a pin with a cylindrical head.
glosses: An old children's game where pins are placed on a table and each player tries to push his pin so as to cross the other's.
pushpin
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /ˈpʊʃˌpɪn/
Forms: form: pushpins
form: pushpinning
form: pushpinned
form: pushpinned
form: push-pin
form: push pin
Etymology: From push + pin.
Senses: glosses: To fasten with a thumbtack.
chantlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more chantlike
form: most chantlike
Etymology: From chant + -like.
Senses: examples: text: In this context the chantlike elements of his “Psalom” came across with a ritualistic, almost Hebraic quality.
ref: 2007 October 25, Anthony Tommasini, “The Sonatasization of Philip Roth’s ‘Everyman’”, in New York Times:
glosses: Resembling a chant.
unorthodoxy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: unorthodoxies
Etymology: From un- + orthodoxy.
Senses: examples: text: Where Ms. Rosler’s works exert a fervent but predictable didacticism, Ms. Wilding’s environment conveys an infectious unorthodoxy, a relief from the hierarchical rule of modernist aesthetics over previous decades.
ref: 2008 February 15, Ken Johnson, “Striking When the Spirit Was Hot”, in New York Times:
text: It was indeed Aubrey's principal hobby, and allowed him to air his unorthodoxies.
ref: 2009 January 13, Geoffrey Goodman, “Aubrey Morris”, in The Guardian:
glosses: Lack of orthodoxy; the quality or state of being unorthodox
Synonyms: heterodoxy [inexact?]
counterpunchers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of counterpuncher
pushpins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pushpin
pushpins
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of pushpin
gangsterism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gangsterisms
Etymology: From gangster + -ism.
Senses: examples: text: In a city known once as a centre of gangsterism and of beggars and prostitutes, it is claimed that now not a single night club exists. About 10,000 prostitutes were put into reformatories for labour reform and rehabilitation to Communist society.
ref: 1968, “SHANGHAI (SHANG-HAI)”, in Encyclopedia Britannica, volume 20, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 346, column 2:
text: Charges to be laid include gangsterism, drug trafficking, weapons possession and conspiracy to commit murder.
ref: 2009 February 13, Peter Rakobowchuk, “Police hit bikers, gangs”, in Toronto Star:
glosses: The behavior of a gangster; organized crime.
gazar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gazars
Senses: examples: text: Against a projected background of collages by Timotheus Paulus Roeloffs, a Berlin artist, Ms. Versace sent out minimalist day clothes: tailored dark trousers, navy wool and silk gazar dresses with asymmetrical draping at the neckline, and raised-collar minicoats with a Cardin influence.
ref: 2008 February 23, Cathy Horyn, “Much to Applaud, With Footnotes”, in New York Times:
topics: business
manufacturing
sewing
textiles
glosses: A silk organza, a lightweight fabric with a plain weave.
nubbly
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: nubblier
form: nubbliest
Etymology: From nubble + -y.
Senses: examples: text: She was a little woman, in a bonnet and a black costume. Her bonnet was in its third year; it was a great grievance to Annie. “Mother!” the girl implored, “don’t wear that nubbly little bonnet.”
ref: 1913, D[avid] H[erbert] Lawrence, Sons and Lovers, London: Duckworth & Co. […], →OCLC:
text: Though Clifford paid preliminary homage to them both, she was the one he finally made love to, rather quickly on the nubbly hooked rug.
ref: 1978, Alice Munro, “Mischief”, in The Beggar Maid: Stories of Flo and Rose:
text: When that crust is nubbly and evenly browned, and the chicken meat is cooked through, the chicken is sublime.
ref: 2007 February 7, Julia Moskin, “Koreans Share Their Secret for Chicken With a Crunch”, in New York Times:
text: My description thus far makes this sound like a clash-of-civilizations novel, or a techno nail-biter, something out of Neal Stephenson or Stephen King, but it doesn’t read that way: It’s more nubbly.
ref: 2022 March 29, Dwight Garner, “In Jennifer Egan’s New Novel, Our Memories Are Available for All to See”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
glosses: Rough or lumpy.
nonsecurity
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + security.
Senses: examples: text: “Today it becomes completely clear that the route was determined by nonsecurity considerations with the goal of expanding the settlement of Modiin Illit as much as possible,” Mr. Sfard told Israel Radio.
ref: 2007 September 5, Isabel Kershner, “Israeli Court Orders Barrier Rerouted”, in New York Times:
glosses: Not security, or not directly related to security
nonreservation
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + reservation.
Senses: examples: text: nonreservation land
text: Mr. Kempthorne, who has long opposed Indian casinos on nonreservation land, said in his letters that the casinos would be too far away to offer jobs to tribal residents and that forcing residents to relocate would hurt the reservations.
ref: 2008 January 5, Anahad O’Connor, “Interior Secretary Rejects Catskill Casino Plans”, in New York Times:
glosses: Not a reservation, or not part of a reservation.
raw_tags: of land
examples: text: Near-synonym: first come, first served
text: nonreservation seating
qualifier: hotel rooms; etc; hotel rooms; etc
glosses: Not subject to being reserved.
raw_tags: of restaurant seating
Related terms: go off the reservation
off the reservation
nonreserved
unreserved
multiuse
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From multi- + use.
Senses: examples: text: The new stadium and park would be lined on three sides with multiuse row house buildings containing commercial, office, and loft residential space.
ref: 1988 June 3, Paul Botts, “A New Old Ballpark”, in Chicago Reader:
text: A computer is a programmable, multiuse machine that accepts data — raw facts and figures — and processes, or manipulates, it into information we can use […]
ref: 2010, Dr. Mukesh Dhunna, J. B. Dixit, Information Technology in Business Management, page 168:
topics: architecture
synonyms: multipurpose
glosses: Able to accommodate multiple uses.
Related terms: multitool
multiuse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From multi- + use.
Senses: examples: text: Normally a visitor does not participate in one activity to the exclusion of others. One main activity, such as swimming, will be supplemented by other activities and use of other facilities, such as picnicking, hiking, stopping at an overlook, and so forth. Such multiuse is usually expressed in activity days.
ref: 1980, Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area (N.R.A.), General Management Plan:
glosses: The use of something for more than one purpose.
moviedom
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From movie + -dom.
Senses: examples: text: Despite a modest increase in 2007 box office receipts, moviedom is trudging into January with a droop in its shoulders.
ref: 2008 January 2, Brooks Barnes, “A Film Year Full of Escapism, Flat in Attendance”, in New York Times:
glosses: The world of movies and movie production
Synonyms: film industry
cinema
milelong
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From mile + -long.
Senses: examples: text: It’s in the process of being transformed into a milelong 4.8-acre park[…].
ref: 2008 January 6, C. J. Hughes, “Galleries and High-Line Views”, in New York Times:
glosses: A mile, or roughly a mile, in length
midtour
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From mid- + tour.
Senses: glosses: Occurring or existing in the middle of a tour
midtour
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From mid- + tour.
Senses: examples: text: But for these soldiers, it is all the more so because of the length of their deployment, which was extended midtour from one year to 15 months.
ref: 2007 November 3, Lisa W. Foderaro, “For Soldiers Families, Battles Are Not Far Off”, in New York Times:
glosses: In the middle of a tour
overbroad
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɔːd
Forms: form: more overbroad
form: most overbroad
Etymology: From over- + broad.
Senses: examples: text: Schmidt is arguing that the outright ban on selling and distributing raw milk is "overbroad legislation."
ref: 2009 January 31, Megan Ogilvie, “Raw milk poses risk, court told”, in Toronto Star:
glosses: Too broad.
Derived terms: overbroadly
overbroadness
midcalf
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: mid-calf
Etymology: From mid- + calf.
Senses: examples: text: She wore midcalf boots.
synonyms: midi
glosses: Extending to the middle of the calf of the leg.
midcalf
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: mid-calf
Etymology: From mid- + calf.
Senses: examples: text: I wear what is called a waiter apron; it’s white and comes midcalf.
ref: 2008 February 17, “Midwest Mex”, in New York Times:
glosses: At or to the middle of the calf.
midcalf
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: midcalves
form: mid-calf
Etymology: From mid- + calf.
Senses: examples: text: The skirt extended to the midcalf.
glosses: The middle of the calf.
Related terms: midi
midlist
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From mid- + list.
Senses: examples: text: He scoffs at the lesser-known, midlist and emerging authors […].
ref: 2007 June 4, Celia Mcgee, “A Way to Give Authors a Lucrative Second Platform”, in New York Times:
topics: media
publishing
glosses: Unlikely to be more than modestly successful.
raw_tags: of a book or author
examples: text: The celebrity tell-all has been proposed as a frontlist title, whereas the cookbook has been proposed as a backlist title and the food history book as a midlist title.
topics: media
publishing
coordinate_terms: frontlist
backlist
glosses: Expected to achieve sales performance that blends frontlist performance with backlist performance, being neither a bestseller when new nor a perennial backlist performer but strong enough in each of those categories to be successful overall.
raw_tags: of books being planned
Related terms: A-list
backlist
B-list
C-list
frontlist
middling
mid-level
mid-tier
Z-list
semifinished
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: semi-finished
Etymology: From semi- + finished.
Senses: examples: text: The […] duties on semifinished steel products and pig iron will be increased to 25 percent, from 15 percent, the ministry's statement said.
ref: 2007 December 27, Bloomberg News, “China to Levy Tariffs on Some Exported Steel Products”, in New York Times:
glosses: Partially finished.
superlobbyist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: superlobbyists
Etymology: From super- + lobbyist.
Senses: examples: text: It sat by mutely while Jack Abramoff, the superlobbyist, spun schemes that eroded public trust, until prosecutors had to move in.
ref: 2008 February 22, “Now a Reminder From Mr. Cunningham”, in New York Times:
topics: government
politics
glosses: An extremely skilled or powerful lobbyist
superlobbyists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of superlobbyist
superheavyweight
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From super- + heavyweight.
Senses: examples: Near-synonym: superheavy
topics: boxing
government
hobbies
lifestyle
martial-arts
military
politics
sports
war
related: word: super heavyweight
coordinate_terms: superweight
heavyweight
middleweight
welter-weight
super middleweight
cruiserweight
lightweight
superlightweight
glosses: Of or pertaining to the weight class for boxers exceeding 91 kilograms in body weight.
superheavyweight
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: superheavyweights
Etymology: From super- + heavyweight.
Senses: related: word: super heavyweight
coordinate_terms: superweight
heavyweight
middleweight
welter-weight
super middleweight
cruiserweight
lightweight
superlightweight
glosses: A boxer of the superheavyweight class.
examples: text: All around him was a human traffic jam, but this superheavyweight, so massive (get a load of that head!) and so easy to adore, was surrounded by a bunch of smitten fans reaching out to pet him, to touch his enormous paws and to receive his sloppy licks.
ref: 2008 February 13, Richard Sandomir, “Beagle, a Breed Long Unsung, Wins Best in Show”, in New York Times:
related: word: super heavyweight
synonyms: superheavy#Noun
coordinate_terms: superweight
heavyweight
lightweight
superlightweight
glosses: Someone or something that is extremely heavy or hefty.
polystylistic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From poly- + stylistic.
Senses: examples: text: The more involving of the jazz sets included […] a group of shorter, polystylistic pieces by Jonathan Batiste; and a few standards dazzlingly played by Lee Musiker.
ref: 2008 January 23, Allan Kozinn, “Mystical to Muscular: Many Styles in Play at a Keyboard Marathon”, in New York Times:
topics: art
arts
glosses: Partaking of multiple styles
Synonyms: multistylistic
Related terms: polystylism
polystylist
sensualism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sensualisms
Etymology: From sensual + -ism.
Senses: glosses: Addiction to or obsession with sensual pleasures or affairs.
topics: ethics
human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
glosses: The doctrine that gratification of the senses is the highest good.
examples: text: 1858, The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 2, No. 1, Gottfried Wilhem von Leibnitz,
He [Locke] repudiated any supposed dowry of original truths or innate or connate ideas, and endeavored to show how, by acting on the report of the senses and personal experience, the understanding arrives at all the ideas of which it is conscious. The mode of procedure in this case is empiricism; the result with Locke was sensualism,--more fully developed by Condillac, [18] in the next century.
text: For Sensualism the only source of human knowledge is sensation: everything reduces to transformed sensations.
ref: 1913, “Philosophy”, in Catholic Encyclopedia:
topics: epistemology
human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
glosses: The doctrine that all knowledge not only originates in sensation, but are transformed sensations, copies or relics of sensations; sensationalism.
topics: architecture
art
arts
glosses: A sensual style or aesthetic.
Synonyms: sensationalism
Related terms: sensualist
sensually
sensuality
hiddenness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hiddennesses
Etymology: From Middle English hyddenesse; equivalent to hidden + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: I sat down, grateful for the shade and my hiddenness from the path below.
ref: 2024, Scott Alexander Howard, The Other Valley, Atlantic Books (2025), page 19:
glosses: The state, property or quality of being hidden.
glosses: The result or product of being hidden.
Synonyms: invisibility
latency
hiddennesses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hiddenness
nonincorporated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + incorporated.
Senses: glosses: Not incorporated.
nontribal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + tribal.
Senses: glosses: Not tribal.
unidentifed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of unidentified.
numinousness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From numinous + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being numinous.
numerousness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: numerousnesses
Etymology: From numerous + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being numerous.
Synonyms: manyhood
multipleness
manyness
numericalness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From numerical + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being numerical.
externalness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From external + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being external.
electrifyingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more electrifyingly
form: most electrifyingly
Etymology: From electrifying + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an electrifying manner.
horseriding
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: horse riding
form: horse-riding
Etymology: From horse + riding.
Senses: glosses: The practice of riding horses for sport or pleasure; equestrianism
Synonyms: sense: the practice of riding horses for sport or pleasure
word: horseback riding
poppish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more poppish
form: most poppish
Etymology: From pop + -ish.
Senses: glosses: Pertaining to pop.
moneyspinners
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of moneyspinner
mumsy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: mumsier
form: mumsiest
form: momsy
form: momsey
form: momsie
form: mumsey
form: mumsie
Etymology: From mum + -sy. Attested from 1876.
Senses: examples: text: There is a fine line between being the perfect, considerate hostess and being mumsy – warning signs are making marmalade, bottling fruit, even baking cakes.
ref: 2009, Penny Isaacs, Sarah Lockett, The Dish, Troubador Publishing, page xix:
text: Linda lives next door and is dead mumsy, even though she's no one's mum, 'cos she cooks my tea sometimes and lets me watch EastEnders on her massive plasma TV, even though she says I should 'stay true to my Northern Roots' and watch Corrie.
ref: 2012, Ellie Irving, Billie Templar's War, Random House (The Bodley Head), page 44:
text: Kim Il Sung is Kim the First, but in the regime's iconography he comes across as an über-effeminate God-the-Mother, all mumsy and 1950s, a celestial Doris Day.
ref: 2013, John Sweeney, North Korea Undercover, Random House (Corgi Books), page 14:
glosses: Characteristic of a mum; motherly.
Derived terms: mumsiness
mumsy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mumsies
form: momsy
form: momsey
form: momsie
form: mumsey
form: mumsie
Etymology: From mum + -sy. Attested from 1876.
Senses: examples: text: 1923 October 2, Flora Belle Jan, Going To The Dogs, in The Collegian, Republished in 2008, Fleur Yano (editor), Collected Writings of Flora Belle Jan, Xlibris, page 36,
Such are the captions in newspapers, such compose the subjects for sermons from the pulpit, and such are the problems that are annihilating poor daddies and mumsies, not merely inch by inch, but millimeter by millimeter.
text: Mumsy had come over to discuss the family party, which she was giving in the form of a Christmas luncheon so the children could come to it.
ref: 1938, Margaret Ayer Barnes, Wisdom's Gate, Houghton Mifflin, page 238:
text: "Is this good to eat, Mumsy?" she asked. Startled at the term "Mumsy" instead of the usual "Mam," Mary Joy cringed a little inside. My child is already losing her Welshness, she mourned inwardly.
ref: 2009, Lillian M. Henry, In Bristol Fashion, AuthorHouse, page 202:
glosses: Mum, mother.
Related terms: daddy
mummy
nanna
popsy
reselected
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: re-selected
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of reselect
reselected
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more reselected
form: most reselected
form: re-selected
Senses: glosses: selected again
reselect
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: reselects
form: reselecting
form: reselected
form: reselected
form: re-select
Etymology: From re- + select.
Senses: glosses: To select again
Related terms: reselection
scrappage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: scrappages
Etymology: From scrap + -age.
Senses: glosses: The practice of scrapping something.
examples: text: Motorists will receive £2,000 if they sell their old car and buy a new model, after the chancellor bowed to pressure from the automotive sector and announced a car scrappage scheme this afternoon.
ref: 2009 April 22, Dan Milmo, Tim Webb, “Budget 2009: car industry welcomes scrappage scheme”, in The Guardian:
text: A London-wide Ultra Low Emissions Zone will be in operation from August 29 2023, supported by new bus services and a £110m car scrappage scheme for Londoners who are disabled and/or on low incomes.
ref: 2022 December 14, Paul Stephen, “Network News: New DLR trains part of £8.1bn TfL transport plans”, in RAIL, number 972, page 21:
glosses: An amount of money paid by the government to a person trading in an old car (to be scrapped) for a more environmentally-friendly new one.
resedimented
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of resediment
resedimented
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more resedimented
form: most resedimented
Senses: glosses: sedimented again
resediment
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: resediments
form: resedimenting
form: resedimented
form: resedimented
Etymology: From re- + sediment.
Senses: glosses: To redeposit a sediment
resensitize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: resensitizes
form: resensitizing
form: resensitized
form: resensitized
Etymology: From re- + sensitize.
Senses: glosses: To sensitize again (especially following desensitization)
adriamycin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˌeɪdɹɪəˈmaɪsɪn/
Etymology: Blend of Adriatic + hydroxydaunomycin.
Senses: examples: text: Also, the therapy is clearly dangerous for some patients, including those with a collapsed lung and those receiving chemotherapy with cisplatinum or adriamycin.
ref: 2009 March 10, Jane E. Brody, “Oxygen Therapy Is Valuable, Sometimes”, in New York Times:
glosses: An anthracycline antibiotic drug used in cancer chemotherapy.
Synonyms: doxorubicin
hydroxydaunorubicin
responsitivity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: responsitivities
Etymology: From responsitive + -ity.
Senses: glosses: The condition of being responsive.
glosses: A measure of the degree to which something is responsive.
Synonyms: responsivity
proctitis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: proctitides
Etymology: From proct- + -itis.
Senses: examples: text: A study published last September in the International Journal of Radiation Oncology, Biology, Physics found hyperbaric oxygen helpful for patients with radiation proctitis, which can cause bleeding, rectal ulcers and loss of bowel control .
ref: 2009 March 10, Jane E. Brody, “Oxygen Therapy Is Valuable, Sometimes”, in New York Times:
topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: An inflammation of the anus and the lining of the rectum.
Related terms: proctology
proctologist
erhus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of erhu
attoliter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: attoliters
Etymology: From atto- + liter.
Senses: glosses: (metrology) An SI unit of fluid measure equal to 10⁻¹⁸ liters; alternative spelling of attolitre.
Derived terms: word: aL
attolitre
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: attolitres
Etymology: From atto- + litre.
Senses: topics: metrology
glosses: An SI unit of fluid measure equal to 10⁻¹⁸ litres; alternative spelling of attoliter.
Derived terms: word: aL
attolitres
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of attolitre
attoliters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of attoliter
quintillionths
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of quintillionth
languors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of languor
antideficit
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From anti- + deficit.
Senses: examples: text: Mr. Spratt, chairman of the House Budget Committee, is an antideficit crusader who said he would like to see federal red ink reduced beyond the projections in Mr. Obama’s budget.
ref: 2009 March 10, “John M. Spratt Jr.”, in New York Times:
qualifier: economy
glosses: Acting against or opposing a deficit.
expressibility
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The quality of being expressible.
Gödel number
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Gödel numbers
Etymology: Named after Austrian mathematician and logician Kurt Gödel
Senses: topics: human-sciences
logic
mathematics
philosophy
sciences
glosses: A number uniquely assigned to each symbol, and to each well-formed formula of some formal language.
Derived terms: Gödel numbering
parthood
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From part + -hood.
Senses: examples: text: For describing changes in parthood relations over time some sort of temporal apparatus needs to be incorporated into the mereology.
ref: 2008 February 1, Maureen Donnelly, Thomas Bittner, “Summation relations and portions of stuff”, in Philosophical Studies, volume 143, number 2, →DOI, pages 167–185:
topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
glosses: The relational quality of being a part.
Related terms: mereology
resynthesized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of resynthesize
resynthesized
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: synthesized anew (especially after being metabolized)
retinocollicular
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From retino- + collicular.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Of, pertaining to, or connecting the retina and the midbrain colliculus
retinogeniculate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɪkjʊlɪt
Etymology: From retino- + geniculate.
Senses: examples: text: Severe disruptions in the visual cortex was^([sic]) also observed when disrupting cholinergic retinal waves in ephrin double knockout (ephrin-A2/A5) mice, thus highlighting the importance of neural activity and ephrin-As acting together to control retinogeniculate and retinocortical patterning in normal development.
ref: 2015 October 10, “Rapid Changes in Cortical and Subcortical Brain Regions after Early Bilateral Enucleation in the Mouse”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Of, pertaining to, or connecting the retina and the geniculate ganglion.
retroorbitally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of retro-orbitally.
retro-orbitally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: retroorbitally
Etymology: From retro-orbital + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a retro-orbital direction.
autosexuals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of autosexual
retro-orbital
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From retro- + orbital.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Situated behind the orbit or the eye.
retrovirally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From retroviral + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: We demonstrated that B cells retrovirally transduced with GPE-MND-p21gp75 in vitro, were able to prevent and suppress a specific humoral immune response against p21-35 in vivo.
ref: 2004, Wim Janssens, Induction of Tolerance by Genetically-Engineered B Cells and Cytotoxic T Cells in Allergic Diseases, page 82:
glosses: In a retroviral manner.
glosses: With regard to retroviruses.
rewetting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rewettings
Etymology: From re- + wetting.
Senses: glosses: A second or subsequent wetting
rewetting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From re- + wetting.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of rewet
rhabdomeric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From rhabdomere + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to the rhabdomere
Derived terms: subrhabdomeric
truthness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From truth + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality or state of a statement being true.
Related terms: trueness
truth
verity
rhabdomere
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rhabdomeres
Senses: glosses: Any of the small, rodlike parts of a rhabdom.
rhabdom
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rhabdoms
Senses: glosses: Any of the rods that support each ommatidium in the compound eye of arthropods
Related terms: rhabdome
walled gardens
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of walled garden
rheometry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From rheo- + -metry.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: The measurement of electrical current.
topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: The measurement of rheological properties of materials, especially by the use of a rheometer.
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: The calculus.
rhabdoms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rhabdom
aeromancer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: aeromancers
Etymology: From Middle English ayeromauncer, equivalent to aeromancy + -er.
Senses: glosses: A practitioner of aeromancy.
rhynchocephalian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rhynchocephalians
Etymology: Rhynchocephalia + -an
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Any of a group of reptiles of the order Rhynchocephalia; a tuatara.
rhythmite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rhythmites
Etymology: From rhythm + -ite.
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: Any of a rhythmic series of sedimentary beds; a varve
ribityl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ribityls
Etymology: From ribitol + -yl.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The univalent radical derived from ribitol.
ribonucleolytic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: That cuts the internucleotide link in RNA.
Derived terms: desoxyribonucleolytic
Related terms: ribonucleolysis
nucleolytic
internucleotide
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From inter- + nucleotide.
Senses: glosses: Between nucleotides
ribonucleoside
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ribonucleosides
Etymology: From ribo- + nucleoside.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any nucleoside component of RNA.
riboprobe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: riboprobes
Etymology: From ribo- + probe.
Senses: topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: A segment of RNA that is used to probe for a complementary sequence of nucleotides in a DNA or mRNA.
riboprobes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of riboprobe
rottlerin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A protein kinase inhibitor derived from the kamala tree (Mallotus philippinensis, syn. Rottlera tinctoria).
Synonyms: mallotoxin
Derived terms: isorottlerin
rylenes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rylene
rylene
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rylenes
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of a family of compounds, typically dyes, related to perylene
scaRNAs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of scaRNA
untruncated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + truncated.
Senses: glosses: Not truncated.
scaRNA
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: scaRNAs
Senses: topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: Abbreviation of small Cajal body-specific RNA.
shouty
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: shoutier
form: shoutiest
Etymology: From shout + -y.
Senses: examples: text: In A League of Their Own (1992), as the shouty baseball coach to an all-girls team, he's once again a curmudgeonly but lovable mentor figure.
ref: 2021 February 9, Christina Newland, “Is Tom Hanks part of a dying breed of genuine movie stars?”, in BBC:
text: That is the key - understanding the issues and saying things that accurately reflect the passengers' insight, rather than being just another of the shouty voices from the sidelines.
ref: 2023 June 28, Anthony Smith talks to Paul Clifton, “The industry has to go back to basics”, in RAIL, number 986, pages 39–40:
glosses: Characterized by shouting; prone to shouting.
glosses: Harsh and strident.
Derived terms: shoutily
peplums
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of peplum
strainmeter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: strainmeters
Etymology: From strain + -meter.
Senses: glosses: A scientific instrument used by geophysicists to measure the deformation of the Earth.
strainmeters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of strainmeter
nondaily
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: non-daily
Etymology: From non- + daily.
Senses: glosses: Not daily.
nondaily
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nondailies
form: non-daily
Etymology: From non- + daily.
Senses: examples: text: Journal Register owns 22 daily newspapers and 310 nondailies, mostly clustered in to six areas: Greater Philadelphia, Michigan, Connecticut, Greater Cleveland and the mid-Hudson region of New York.
ref: 2008 April 5, Tim Arango, “Newspaper Chain Hires Adviser as It Weighs Restructuring”, in New York Times:
glosses: A publication that is not published every day.
narcocorridos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of narcocorrido
abbreviately
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more abbreviately
form: most abbreviately
Etymology: From abbreviate + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an abbreviate way.
narcocorrido
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: narcocorridos
Etymology: From Spanish narcocorrido, from narco- (“drug”) + corrido (“ballad”).
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A genre of Mexican music based on the polka, depicting drug smugglers, cartels, and other criminal activities.
examples: text: They were nonjudgmental first-person stories, including the notorious narcocorrido “Pacas de a Kilo,” (“One-Kilo Packets”) told from the point of view of a proud marijuana grower.
ref: 2007 February 19, Ben Ratliff, “Singing Stories From Lives Lived Far Away From Home”, in New York Times:
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: Any song in this genre.
man-children
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of man-child
man children
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of man child
cleft stick
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cleft sticks
Senses: glosses: A stick with a split at one end, once used by runners to carry written messages
Derived terms: in a cleft stick
in a cleft stick
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Etymology: From the metaphor of being caught in a tight position, unable to move.
Senses: examples: text: Ha! I see. You have got me in a cleft stick.
ref: 1901–1903, [George] Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman. A Comedy and a Philosophy, Westminster [London]: Archibald Constable & Co., published 1903, →OCLC, Act I, page 11:
text: Such a solution only puts the humanist in a cleft stick by trading the problem of malnutrition for that of over-population.
ref: 1964 September 3, H. Fullerton, Letters: Survival of the wild, New Scientist, Volume 23, No. 407, page 579
text: But considerations in drafting Sonia Gandhi apart, the Congress leadership is clearly caught in a cleft stick, with or without the services of Rajiv Gandhi′s widow.
ref: 1991, Attar Chand, Rajiv Gandhi: His Mind and Ideology, page 214:
synonyms: word: on the horns of a dilemma
word: between a rock and a hard place
word: between Scylla and Charybdis
word: between the devil and the deep blue sea
word: between the hammer and the anvil
word: between two fires
word: damned if one does and damned if one doesn't
word: doomed if you do
word: doomed if you don't
word: in a cleft stick
word: in bad bread
word: on the horns of a dilemma
glosses: In a difficult situation, unable to choose between unfavourable options; in a dilemma.
examples: text: Hence when a Huichol woman is about to weave or embroider, her husband catches a large serpent and holds it in a cleft stick, while the woman strokes the reptile with one hand down the whole length of its back; …
ref: 1922, James George Frazer, The Golden Bough, Forgotten Books, Easy Reading Series, page 31
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see in, cleft, stick.
emmetrope
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: emmetropes
Senses: glosses: A person with emmetropia, perfect vision.
emmetropes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of emmetrope
mainboards
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mainboard
neuroactivity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: neuroactivities
Etymology: From neuro- + activity.
Senses: glosses: Activity in the central nervous system.
neuroactivities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of neuroactivity
charrier
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of charry: more charry
charriest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of charry: most charry
ombrotrophic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From ombro- + -trophic.
Senses: glosses: Pertaining to ombrotrophy.
Coordinate terms: minerotrophic
ombrotrophy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From ombro- + -trophy.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: The state or condition of receiving water and nutrients only from precipitation rather than streams or springs.
Coordinate terms: minerotrophy
Related terms: ombrotrophic
reusably
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more reusably
form: most reusably
Etymology: From reusable + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a reusable way.
reentrancy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: reentrancies
form: re-entrancy
Etymology: From reentrant + -cy.
Senses: examples: text: The mikroC compiler supports only a limited function reentrancy. Functions that have no arguments and local variables can be called both from the interrupt service routines and from the main program.
ref: 2011, Dogan Ibrahim, Advanced PIC Microcontroller Projects in C, Newnes, →ISBN, page 184:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: The state or condition of being reentrant.
reentrancies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of reentrancy
browsability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From browse + -ability.
Senses: glosses: The quality or state of being browsable.
reincise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: reincises
form: reincising
form: reincised
form: reincised
Etymology: From re- + incise.
Senses: glosses: To make another incision.
encoring
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of encore
encored
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of encore
memorizable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more memorizable
form: most memorizable
Etymology: From memorize + -able.
Senses: glosses: That may be memorized.
Derived terms: memorizability
unmemorizable
Related terms: memorable
floodlighting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of floodlight
floodlighted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From floodlight + -ed.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of floodlight
floodlighted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From floodlight + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: At the flood-lighted end of the Great Hall, under high gilt beams, the Sultan sat on his throne[.]
ref: 1958, Anthony Burgess, The Enemy in the Blanket (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 292:
glosses: Lit by floodlights; floodlit.