cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
zipless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From zip + -less, the figurative sense coined (as “zipless fuck”) by Erica Jong in her novel Fear of Flying (1973), see quotations.
Senses: examples: text: "The patient was almost certainly saved by his zipless zoot suit," said a genial surgeon.
ref: 1994, Jeff Torrington, Swing hammer swing!:
text: No longer in muddy, zipless, trousers, Sylvain wore blue denims […]
ref: 2006, Anthony McDonald, Adam:
glosses: Without a zip fastener.
examples: text: For the true, ultimate zipless A-1 fuck, it was necessary that you never get to know the man very well.
ref: 1973, Erica Jong, Fear of Flying, Holt, Rinehart and Winston, →ISBN, page 12:
text: Erica Jong's words regarding the zipless encounter applied completely to my white classmates' actions on that school bus […]
ref: 2002, Francisco Valdes, Jerome M Culp, Angela P Harris, Crossroads, Directions, and a New Critical Race Theory:
text: […] wedding planners who would check out venues, prices, caterers and all that stuff and then put it together for us, so it would be a zipless wedding.
ref: 2004, Jane Isenberg, Hot on the Trail:
text: And yet this screen presence, going well beyond the literary, is the illusion that the world is like that, that sex is indeed zipless […]
ref: 2007, James Day, Queer sexualities in French and Francophone literature and film:
synonyms: no strings attached
glosses: Without complications and hindrances.
Derived terms: ziplessness
Related terms: zipper sex
unfamiliars
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of unfamiliar
unfamiliarly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more unfamiliarly
form: most unfamiliarly
Etymology: From unfamiliar + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an unfamiliar manner.
Synonyms: alienly
strangely
arrogances
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: His writings reflect many of the arrogances and anxieties of mid-Victorian British imperialism and anglican evangelicalism
ref: 2009 Patrick Maume, "McCausland, Dominick" in Dictionary of Irish Biography (Royal Irish Academy / Cambridge University Press)
glosses: plural of arrogance
micromanipulations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of micromanipulation
minimansion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: minimansions
Etymology: From mini- + mansion.
Senses: examples: text: But since the storm, modular houses, which range from simple shotgun-style cottages to fancy minimansions, are starting to appear across the Gulf Coast, as public officials and private citizens search for ways to speed the slow pace of recovery and begin experimenting with new forms of shelter.
ref: 2007 January 6, Leslie Eaton, “Katrina Victims Find a Solution: Modular House”, in New York Times:
glosses: A small mansion; a mansionette.
minimansions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of minimansion
overpessimistic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more overpessimistic
form: most overpessimistic
Etymology: From over- + pessimistic.
Senses: examples: text: In the past few years people were overpessimistic.
ref: 2007 January 6, David Barboza, “China Moves to Tighten the Money Supply”, in New York Times:
glosses: More pessimistic than is warranted.
rulebound
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more rulebound
form: most rulebound
Etymology: From rule + bound.
Senses: examples: text: Reality television is pretty rulebound, and it works by upsets.
ref: 2007 January 6, Virginia Heffernan, “Hey, Young Writers, That’s Mr. Rolling Stone to You”, in New York Times:
glosses: Bound by rules; rigidly uncompromising.
shambly
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more shambly
form: most shambly
Etymology: From shamble + -y.
Senses: examples: text: For now it’s a shambly, spooked quartet, not quite folk and not quite rock, and as such it played with the bassist Brad Truax and the drummer Jim White on Thursday night at the Mercury Lounge.
ref: 2007 January 6, Ben Ratliff, “A Little Folk, a Little Rock and a Lot of Minimalism”, in New York Times:
glosses: Shambling; not coordinated or graceful; clumsy.
unsyncopated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + syncopated.
Senses: examples: text: And so a White Magic song is built on hardly anything: an unsyncopated vocal pattern, uncertain keyboard technique, shorthand lyrics (“who we are/how we live/all that has to do with innocence/has grown apart”) and very, very few piano notes.
ref: 2007 January 6, Ben Ratliff, “A Little Folk, a Little Rock and a Lot of Minimalism”, in New York Times:
glosses: Not syncopated.
bandsaw
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bandsaws
form: band saw
form: band-saw
Etymology: From band + saw.
Senses: examples: text: Their work is more cerebral than the careful placement of an engine block — or an entire car — on a bandsaw.
ref: 2007 January 7, Tim Moran, “Sliced, Diced and Polished to Perfection, Cutaway Displays Reveal All”, in New York Times:
glosses: A powered saw whose blade is a continuous band of metal with teeth along one edge.
bandsaw
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: bandsaws
form: bandsawing
form: bandsawed
form: bandsawn
form: band saw
form: band-saw
Etymology: From band + saw.
Senses: glosses: To cut with a bandsaw.
bandsaws
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bandsaw
bombil
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bombils
Etymology: From Marathi बोंबील (bombīl).
Senses: examples: text: Those who plunge into the novel soon find themselves thrashing in a sea of words and sentences (“On Maganchand Road the thela-wallahs already had their fruit piled high, and the fishsellers were laying out bangda and bombil and paaplet on their slabs”) unencumbered by italics or explication.
ref: 2007 January 7, Paul Gray, “Gangsta Raj”, in New York Times:
glosses: The lizardfish (Harpadon nehereus), the Bombay duck, or bummalo, native to the Arabian Sea.
bombils
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bombil
lizardfish
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlɪzədfɪʃ/
Forms: form: lizardfishes
form: lizardfish
Etymology: From lizard + fish.
Senses: glosses: Any member of the family Synodontidae of aulopiform fish.
Derived terms: taxonomic: Synodus saurus
word: Atlantic lizardfish
taxonomic: Synodus saurus
word: blue-striped lizardfish
alt: Bathysaurus ferox: Bathysauridae
word: deepsea lizardfish
taxonomic: Saurida tumbil
word: greater lizardfish
taxonomic: Synodus indicus
word: Indian lizardfish
taxonomic: Synodus foetens
word: inshore lizardfish
taxonomic: Synodus scituliceps
word: lance lizardfish
taxonomic: Synodus mundyi
word: Mundy's arrowtooth lizardfish
taxonomic: Synodus poeyi
word: offshore lizardfish
taxonomic: Saurida flamma
word: orangemouth lizardfish
taxonomic: Synodus saurus
word: redmarbled lizardfish
taxonomic: Synodus dermatogenys
word: sand lizardfish
taxonomic: Synodus scituliceps
word: shorthead lizardfish
taxonomic: Saurida caribbaea
word: shortjaw lizardfish
taxonomic: Saurida elongata
word: slender lizardfish
taxonomic: Saurida caribbaea
word: smallscale lizardfish
taxonomic: Synodus variegatus
word: variegated lizardfish
taxonomic: Saurida wanieso
word: Wanieso lizardfish
lizardfishes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lizardfish
aulopiforms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of aulopiform
buzzless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From buzz + -less.
Senses: glosses: Without a buzzing noise.
castrator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -eɪtə(ɹ)
Forms: form: castrators
Etymology: From castrate + -or.
Senses: examples: text: “I remind myself,” McCleary says, unconvincingly, “that in medieval times, surgeons and dentists were classified under the sign of Mars along with butchers, barbers, tinkers, castrators of animals, murderers and hangmen.”
ref: 2007 January 7, Lauren Collins, “Faces of War”, in New York Times:
glosses: One who castrates (gelds or neuters).
Synonyms: gelder
castrators
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of castrator
unconvincedly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more unconvincedly
form: most unconvincedly
Etymology: From unconvinced + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an unconvinced way.
meta-analyses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of meta-analysis
cepe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cepes
Senses: examples: text: The current menu includes sugar cane and coffee marinated pork chop with cepes and white sweet potato purée; and fingerling-potato-crusted striped bass with broccoli purée and maple red wine sauce.
ref: 2007 January 7, “On the Mild Side”, in New York Times:
glosses: Alternative form of cep.
cepes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cepe
coupelike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more coupelike
form: most coupelike
Etymology: From coupe + -like.
Senses: examples: text: The Chrysler Nassau concept car, a less costly take on the Mercedes CLS, a sedan with coupelike styling.
ref: 2007 January 7, Lawrence Ulrich, “Detroit Puts on a Show, and It’s Playing for Keeps”, in New York Times:
glosses: Resembling a coupe (car with two doors).
dominionist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dominionists
Etymology: From dominion + -ist.
Senses: examples: text: But unless I speak too soon, one notable thing about today’s Christian dominionists is how little recent violence they have unleashed.
ref: 2007 January 7, Rick Perlstein, “Christian Empire”, in New York Times:
glosses: A supporter of dominionism.
dominionists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dominionist
dominionism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From dominion + -ism.
Senses: synonyms: Christian sharia
glosses: A tendency among some conservative Christians, especially in the USA, to seek influence or control over secular civil government through political action.
glosses: The belief that human beings should be free to dominate and exploit nature, including plants and animals.
Derived terms: dominionist
dominionistic
dormlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more dormlike
form: most dormlike
Etymology: From dorm + -like.
Senses: examples: text: From left: a one-bedroom apartment at Windsor Court in Murray Hill had a dormlike feel; a house on East 27th Street had tiny rooms and a very low ceiling in the kitchen; the one-bedroom at Windsor Park has no view, but is just a block from Central Park; Christoffer Eriksson and Muge Tuncel Eriksson with Barkley.
ref: 2007 January 7, Joyce Cohen, “Where the Grass Is Greener”, in New York Times:
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a dormitory.
fishseller
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fishsellers
Etymology: From Middle English fysch sellare; equivalent to fish + seller.
Senses: glosses: A person who sells fish.
Synonyms: fishmonger
fishsellers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fishseller
forest plot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: forest plots
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
statistics
glosses: A graphical display used in meta-analysis designed to illustrate the relative strength of treatment effects in multiple quantitative scientific studies addressing the same question.
glosses: wood lot
hearteningly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more hearteningly
form: most hearteningly
Etymology: From heartening + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Most hearteningly, Abraham is someone we come to care about: “At least an old man can reward himself with a tepid beer after enduring a long morning alone in his apartment.
ref: 2007 January 7, Sarah Saffian, “Seas of Emotion”, in New York Times:
text: With this shift in both what shows are being made, and in what viewers desire, the genre hearteningly appears to be reverting to its roots of being an entertainment spectacular, giving the space for novelty and mad-cap amusement that's presented in a warm and humorous way. After a discordant patch, it's in tune again – even if some auditionees, as ever, are not.
ref: 2021 September 15, Laura Martin, “How talent shows became TV's most bizarre programmes”, in BBC:
glosses: In a heartening way; cheeringly.
forest plots
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of forest plot
cheeringly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more cheeringly
form: most cheeringly
Etymology: From cheering + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a way that cheers; hearteningly, encouragingly.
examples: text: The crowd cheeringly carried the hero along the streets.
glosses: With cheering.
roseta
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rosetum
go halfsies
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡəʊ ˈhæfsiz/
ipa: /ɡəʊ ˈhɑːfsiz/
Forms: form: goes halfsies
form: going halfsies
form: went halfsies
form: gone halfsies
form: go halvesies
Etymology: go, and diminutive form of half.
Senses: examples: text: He’s like, ‘I’ll go halfsies with you.’
ref: 2007 January 7, Alex Mindlin, “In the Middle of Broadway, Sickness, and a Sturdy Legacy”, in New York Times:
glosses: To share something by splitting it in half.
Synonyms: go halves
picoplankton
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From pico- + plankton.
Senses: examples: text: He and P. W. Johnson confirmed the recent discovery of a species of photosynthetic picoplankton, using electron microscopes to perceive fluorescence produced by the chlorophyll of the organisms.
ref: 2007 January 9, Douglas Martin, “John Sieburth, 79, Who Studied Various Types of Marine Life, Dies”, in New York Times:
glosses: The plankton composed of cells between 0.2 and 2 micrometers.
Coordinate terms: alt: >20cm
word: megaplankton
word: macroplankton (2-20 cm)
word: mesoplankton (0.2-20mm)
word: microplankton (20-200μm)
word: nanoplankton (2-20μm)
word: picoplankton (0.2-2μm)
alt: <0.2μm
word: femtoplankton
type I error
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: type I errors
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
statistics
glosses: Rejecting the null hypothesis when the null hypothesis is true.
Synonyms: topics: statistics
mathematics
sciences
word: α error
topics: statistics
mathematics
sciences
word: alpha error
topics: statistics
mathematics
sciences
word: false positive
topics: statistics
mathematics
sciences
word: error of the first kind
Coordinate terms: type II error
false positives
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of false positive
type II error
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: type II errors
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
statistics
synonyms: β error
beta error
error of the second kind
false negative
glosses: Accepting the null hypothesis when the null hypothesis is false.
Coordinate terms: type I error
type II errors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of type II error
beta error
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: beta errors
form: β error
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
statistics
glosses: type II error
Coordinate terms: alpha error
beta errors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of beta error
β error
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: β errors
form: beta error
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
statistics
glosses: type II error
Coordinate terms: α error
β errors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of β error
α error
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: α errors
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
statistics
glosses: type I error
Coordinate terms: β error
α errors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of α error
type I errors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of type I error
alpha error
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: alpha errors
form: α error
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
statistics
glosses: type I error
Coordinate terms: beta error
alpha errors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of alpha error
error of the second kind
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: errors of the second kind
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
statistics
glosses: A type II error.
Coordinate terms: error of the first kind
errors of the second kind
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of error of the second kind
error of the first kind
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: errors of the first kind
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
statistics
glosses: A type I error.
Coordinate terms: error of the second kind
errors of the first kind
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of error of the first kind
false negatives
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of false negative
toxo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: Toxoplasmosis.
complicacy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: complicacies
Senses: glosses: The state of being complex; entanglement.
glosses: That which is and renders complex; intricacy; complication.
Synonyms: complexity
GRU
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: GRUs
Senses: qualifier: artificial intelligence
glosses: Initialism of gated recurrent unit.
GRU
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Russian ГРУ (GRU), through phonetic transliteration of Гла́вное Разве́дывательное Управле́ние (Glávnoje Razvédyvatelʹnoje Upravlénije) and acronymizing.
Senses: examples: text: Apparently nobody ever expects the GRU, Russian Military Intelligence.
ref: 2020, Ben Aaronovitch, False Value, Gollancz, page 115:
text: A team of investigators claim to have unmasked a deep-cover spy from Russia’s military intelligence agency, the GRU, who spent a decade posing as a Latin American jewellery designer and partied with Nato staff based in Naples.
ref: 2022 August 26, Shaun Walker, “Socialite who charmed Nato staff in Naples was Russian spy, say investigators”, in The Guardian:
glosses: The Main Intelligence Directorate — the Soviet and then the Russian military intelligence agency.
Related terms: FSB
KGB
NKVD
SVR
nasofacial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -eɪʃəl
Etymology: From naso- + facial.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to the nose and the surrounding parts of the face
Derived terms: blepharonasofacial
necrolysis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /nɛˈkɹɔlɪsɪs/
ipa: /nɛˈkɹɔləsɪs/
ipa: /nəˈkɹɔləsɪs/
ipa: /nəˈkɹɔləsəs/
Forms: form: necrolyses
Etymology: From necro- + -lysis.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: The disintegration and exfoliation of necrotic tissue.
Related terms: necrolytic
necrosis
necrotic
neovascularisation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: neovascularisations
Etymology: From neo- + vascularisation.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of neovascularization.
vascularisation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vascularisations
Etymology: From vascular + -isation.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of vascularization.
Derived terms: microvascularisation
neuraxial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From neuraxis + -al. By surface analysis, neur- + axial.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Of or pertaining to the neuraxis, as:
Of or pertaining to the central nervous system.
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Of or pertaining to the neuraxis, as:
Of or pertaining to a certain embryologic subset of the central nervous system.
Synonyms: sense: of the central nervous system
alt: in adjunctive position, as for example in CNS neuropathy or CNS dysfunction
word: CNS
Hyponyms: spinal
spondylo-
vertebro-
Dakka
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdækə/
Senses: glosses: Dated spelling of Dhaka.
Pfizer riser
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Pfizer risers
form: Pfizer-riser
form: Pfizer Riser
Etymology: Named after its manufacturer Pfizer, and its use to treat erectile dysfunction. Chosen for the rhyme.
Senses: glosses: The drug sildenafil citrate marketed as Viagra.
grit one's teeth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: grits one's teeth
form: gritting one's teeth
form: gritted one's teeth
form: gritted one's teeth
form: grit one's teeth
form: grit one's teeth
Senses: examples: text: [Shield Knight] LOOKED WITH DREAD THROUGH THE EYES OF THE ENCHANTRESS. SHE WAS TRAPPED AGAIN! SHIELD KNIGHT GRIT HER TEETH. SHOVEL KNIGHT WOULDN'T GIVE UP, AND NEITHER WOULD SHE.
ref: 2019 December 10, Yacht Club Games, "Story" (Shield Knight), in Shovel Knight Showdown (version 4.1), Nintendo Switch, scene: ending
glosses: To clench one's teeth together tightly because of pain, anger, frustration, or self-assurance.
examples: text: There's a storm coming, so I grit my teeth and start rowing with all my might.
text: Japan's revolutionary New Tokaido Line, the 310-mile, 150 m.p.h. route between Tokyo and Osaka that is due to open for passenger traffic in October, has run into the same kind of budgetary trouble that held up our own LMR electrification, though the Japanese Government, unlike our own, has apparently gritted its teeth and allowed the project to go ahead to planned completion.
ref: 1964 July, “Tokaido line trouble”, in Modern Railways, page 52:
synonyms: face up to
bite the bullet
grin and bear it
suck it up
glosses: To face up to a difficult or disagreeable situation and deal with it.
Related terms: bit between one's teeth
grin and bear it
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: grins and bears it
form: grinning and bearing it
form: grinned and bore it
form: grinned and borne it
Senses: examples: text: They made me work the Saturday of our wedding anniversary; what could I say? I just had to grin and bear it.
glosses: To endure a difficult or disagreeable situation with good humor.
Related terms: put a brave face on it
grit one's teeth
make the best of a bad job
take it like a man
green wave
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: green waves
Senses: glosses: A purposefully designed timing of a series of traffic lights to produce a green light for cars travelling at the correct speed as they arrive at the lights.
green waves
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of green wave
diabologues
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of diabologue
silent film
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: silent films
Senses: examples: text: Set against the background of the American civil war, with Keaton a cunning but unskilled driver, unaided, of the ponderous giant of a locomotive, it remains not only probably the funniest film about railways ever made, but one of the funniest silent films to retain its comic power over today's more sophisticated audiences.
ref: 1958 February 24, David Gunston, “Railways on the Screen”, in Railway Magazine, page 88:
text: Lewis Stone as the Marquis gives one of the greatest performances in silent film I have ever seen.
ref: 2009, Neil McDonald, Quadrant, November 2009, No. 461 (Volume LIII, Number 11), Quadrant Magazine Limited, page 104
topics: broadcasting
cinematography
film
media
television
synonyms: silent picture
photoplay
glosses: A film with no synchronized recorded sound, especially spoken dialogue.
squeezing out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of squeeze out
squeezed out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of squeeze out
squeezes out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of squeeze out
vitrail
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vitrails
form: vitraux
Etymology: Borrowed from French vitrail.
Senses: glosses: A stained glass window.
licecide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: licecides
Etymology: From lice + -cide.
Senses: glosses: A lousicide: a substance that kills lice.
licecides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of licecide
lousicide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lousicides
Etymology: From louse + -icide.
Senses: glosses: A substance that kills lice.
Synonyms: sense: substance
word: licecide
lousicides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lousicide
matriculators
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of matriculator
warm down
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: warms down
form: warming down
form: warmed down
form: warmed down
Senses: examples: text: 5.Warm down with 15 minutes of gentle spinning.
ref: 2009 April 10, Tim Don, Hollie Avil, Glenn Cook, “Secret triathlon training shortcuts to improve your race speed”, in The Guardian:
glosses: To perform gentle exercise at the end of a training session before cooling off.
Related terms: warm-down
warm up
neuroarthropathy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: neuroarthropathies
Etymology: From neuro- + arthropathy.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Any disease of a joint that is associated with a disease of the nervous system
matsuri
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: măt-so͞oʹrē
ipa: /mætˈsuːɹi/
enpr: măt-so͝orʹē
ipa: /mætˈsʊɹi/
Forms: form: matsuris
form: matsuri
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese 祭 (matsuri).
Senses: examples: text: In the great matsuris or religious festivals of the Jewish race the Samurais' wives and families may be seen holding these festivals at the miyas where the harlots worship and mixing freely in the crowd amongst them.
ref: 1878, N. McLeod, Epitome of the Ancient History of Japan, page 52:
glosses: A Japanese festival.
Related terms: dohyo matsuri
Sirionó
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Spanish.
Senses: glosses: A Tupian language of eastern Bolivia.
mattamore
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mattamores
Etymology: From French matamore, from Arabic مَطْمُورَة (maṭmūra). Doublet of massymore.
Senses: glosses: An underground storage place for grain.
Matterhorn
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from German Matterhorn.
Senses: glosses: An iconic pyramidal mountain on the border of Switzerland and Italy.
examples: text: A second feature is the Matterhorn of inflation that dominates the scene. The average postwar recession showed a 1.4 per cent decline in industrial wholesale prices.
ref: 1970 August 14, Henry J. Taylor, “Where Do We Stand Now?”, in Prescott Evening Courier:
text: Meanwhile, soaring oil prices and plummeting real energy yields from liquid fuels have already left economic carnage in their wake, as a fragile global financial system perched on a Matterhorn of debt has been dealt blow after blow by the failure of the real economy to expand as expected.
ref: 2012, Richard Heinberg, Hedge your Bets in the Peak Oil Debate:
glosses: Something difficult to achieve or to surmount.
matterless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Middle English materles, equivalent to matter + -less.
Senses: glosses: Without matter, void of matter
examples: text: It's propped against a jug, but all that is matterless now.
ref: 2009, John McGahern, That They May Face the Rising Sun:
glosses: unimportant, irrelevant.
Derived terms: matterlessness
mattery
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more mattery
form: most mattery
Etymology: From matter + -y.
Senses: glosses: pussy, purulent (containing or secreting pus)
examples: text: Away with your mattery sentences, Momus; they are too grave and wise for this meeting
ref: 1601, Ben Jonson, Poetaster or The Arraignment: […], London: […] [R. Bradock] for M[atthew] L[ownes] […], published 1602, →OCLC, (please specify the page), (please specify the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):
glosses: Full of substance or matter; important.
mattressed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From mattress + -ed.
Senses: glosses: Having a mattress or mattresses.
mattressed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From mattress + -ed.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of mattress
matty
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more matty
form: most matty
Etymology: From mat + -y.
Senses: examples: a cat with matty fur
glosses: matted
gnatty
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: gnattier
form: gnattiest
Etymology: From gnat + -y.
Senses: glosses: Containing gnats.
flatty
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: flatties
Etymology: From flat + -y.
(policeman): From flatfoot.
Senses: glosses: A flatfish.
glosses: A flathead (fish).
glosses: A flat tire/tyre.
glosses: A policeman.
glosses: A flathead V8 engine.
glosses: A hot rod fitted with a flathead V8 engine.
glosses: Alternative form of flattie (“operator of crooking gambling operation”).
Derived terms: flatty-ken
Related terms: flattie
hatty
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hatties
Senses: examples: text: […] the credit of it, if any there be, must be given to old Purdey, the maker of your rifle; for never do I think that grooved bore threw lead so true, and I now do not wonder at your luck in bringing down the hatties (elephants) right and left.
ref: 1860, Henry Astbury Leveson, The Hunting Grounds of the Old World, page 245:
text: Several herds of wild buffaloes were met on our way , but as our hatties, as well as the drivers, were too done up, we allowed them to pass unmolested.
ref: 1870, The Oriental Sporting Magazine, volume 3, page 1197:
glosses: Alternative form of hathi (“an elephant”).
outbreed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: outbreeds
form: outbreeding
form: outbred
form: outbred
Etymology: From out- + breed.
Senses: glosses: To breed from parents not closely related.
examples: text: Showy peacocks attract more predators, but they outbreed drabber rivals just because peahens adore flashy tails.
ref: 2009 February 22, Lynn Phillips, “Survival of the Hippest”, in New York Times:
text: It was common for conservatives to gloat that they were going to outbreed the left.
ref: 2021 July 9, Michelle Goldberg, “The Christian Right Is in Decline, and It’s Taking America With It”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
glosses: To breed more successfully than.
outbreed
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: outbreeds
Etymology: From out- + breed.
Senses: glosses: An organism bred by parents not closely related.
hattier
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of hatty: more hatty
hattiest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of hatty: most hatty
maturish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From mature + -ish.
Senses: glosses: Quite mature, reasonably mature.
hereish
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From here + -ish.
Senses: glosses: Near here, near this place.
vagueish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From vague + -ish.
Senses: glosses: Quite vague.
stupidish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From stupid + -ish.
Senses: glosses: Quite stupid, somewhat stupid.
cleverish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From clever + -ish.
Senses: glosses: Somewhat clever.
glosses: Quite clever.
Derived terms: clerocracy
lateish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈleɪtɪʃ/
Etymology: From late + -ish.
Senses: glosses: Quite late
lateish
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: /ˈleɪtɪʃ/
Etymology: From late + -ish.
Senses: glosses: Quite late
funnish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From fun + -ish.
Senses: glosses: Quite fun.
dumbish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From dumb + -ish.
Senses: glosses: Somewhat stupid.
Derived terms: dumbishly
coolish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈkuːlɪʃ/
Etymology: From cool + -ish.
Senses: glosses: Quite cool.
hardish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From hard + -ish.
Senses: glosses: Quite hard; somewhat hard.
easyish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From easy + -ish.
Senses: glosses: Quite easy
myocloni
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of myoclonus
waggly
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: wagglier
form: waggliest
Etymology: From waggle + -y.
Senses: examples: text: How much is that doggie in the window?
The one with the waggly tail
How much is that doggie in the window?
I do hope that doggie's for sale.
ref: 1952, Bob Merrill, (How Much Is) That Doggie in the Window?:
glosses: Frequently waggling.
meatheads
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of meathead
old bag
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: old bags
Senses: synonyms: old hag
coordinate_terms: old lady
ragbag
bag lady
glosses: A nasty, troublesome old woman.
Related terms: old man
oldster
turnboy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: turnboys
Etymology: From turn + boy?
Senses: glosses: An assistant to the driver of public transport or a truck.
turnboys
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of turnboy
incross
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: incrosses
Etymology: From in + cross.
Senses: glosses: An organism formed by close inbreeding.
incross
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: incrosses
form: incrossing
form: incrossed
form: incrossed
Etymology: From in + cross.
Senses: glosses: To breed incrosses.
intertrons
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɪn.təˌtɹɒnz/
ipa: /ˈɪn.tɚˌtɹɑnz/
Forms: form: the intertrons
Etymology: From inter- + -tron + -s.
Senses: glosses: The Internet.
narrow down
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: narrows down
form: narrowing down
form: narrowed down
form: narrowed down
Senses: examples: text: All the food on the menu looked delicious, so I tried to narrow down my choices to only healthy foods.
text: After consulting with witnesses, the police narrowed down the suspects to those who had facial hair.
glosses: To make more specific.
petajoule
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -uːl
Forms: form: petajoules
Etymology: From peta- + joule.
Senses: topics: metrology
glosses: An SI unit of energy equal to 10¹⁵ joules. Symbol: PJ
petajoules
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of petajoule
justs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of just
justs
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of just
justing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of just
justing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: justings
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of jousting.
justed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of just
terraformation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: terraformations
Senses: glosses: terraforming
value judgement
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: value judgements
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of value judgment.
lateralisation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lateralisations
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of lateralization.
rockfishes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rockfish
scorpionfish
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: scorpionfish
form: scorpionfishes
Etymology: From scorpion + fish.
Senses: glosses: Any of the family Scorpaenidae of mostly marine fish, including many of the world's most venomous species, the "sting" taking the form of sharp spines coated with venomous mucus.
wikipedia: Bedok Jetty
Derived terms: false scorpionfish
scorpionfishes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of scorpionfish
myofilament
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /maɪ.oʊˈfɪləmənt/
Forms: form: myofilaments
Etymology: From myo- + filament.
Senses: glosses: A filament within a myofibril, constructed from proteins
Related terms: myofilamentous
myofilaments
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of myofilament
myoelectric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From myo- + electric.
Senses: examples: text: A myoelectric prosthesis uses EMG signals or potentials from voluntarily contracted muscles within a person's residual limb on the surface of the skin to control the movements of the prosthesis.
glosses: Using, or pertaining to, myoelectricity
Derived terms: myoelectrically
myographic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From myography + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Pertaining to myography.
Derived terms: mechanomyographic
myologist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: myologists
Etymology: From myology + -ist.
Senses: glosses: A person who works in myology.
myologists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of myologist
myopathic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From myo- + -pathic.
Senses: glosses: Pertaining to myopathy
Derived terms: amyopathic
hypomyopathic
neuromyopathic
nonmyopathic
myotomic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From myotome + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Pertaining to myotomes.
A-shirt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: A-shirts
Senses: examples: text: 1981-1982, Lou Sullivan, personal diary, quoted in 2019, Ellis Martin, Zach Ozma (editors), We Both Laughed In Pleasure
T sits up & pulls a sleeveless A-shirt on--one of the sexiest garments I know.
text: Sonny had removed his jacket and collared shirt and sat in his A-shirt and trousers with a Lucky Strike behind his ear.
ref: 2019, Dan Cushman, Brian Townsley, Frederick Nebel, Black Mass (Spring 2018):
glosses: An athletic shirt or a similarly cut undershirt.
Synonyms: sense: athletic shirt
word: beater
sense: athletic shirt
word: wife beater
sense: athletic shirt
word: Guinea tee
sense: athletic shirt
word: diego tee
sense: athletic shirt
word: dago tee
sense: athletic shirt
word: vest
sense: athletic shirt
word: string vest
sense: athletic shirt
english: Scots
translation: Scots
word: semmit
sense: athletic shirt
word: singlet
glycocalyces
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of glycocalyx
barrista
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of barista.
hedgelike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more hedgelike
form: most hedgelike
Etymology: From hedge + -like.
Senses: examples: text: Except for the lanterns at the serving tables, dimly to be seen through a dense hedgelike growth of Kalmia latifolia, there were no other lights...
ref: 1912, Gouverneur Morris, It, and Other Stories:
text: And suddenly he found himself pushing head foremost into a hedgelike thicket of brush and stopped weakly. "One of those damn islands," mumbled Higgins.
ref: 1920, Henry Oyen, The Plunderer:
text: Among the most intriguing textures is the ethereal Skimmia, which is arranged in a hedgelike mass.
ref: 2005, Shelley Urban, 101 Silk and Dried Designs:
glosses: Resembling a hedge.
A-shirts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of A-shirt
industrializer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: industrializers
form: industrialiser
Etymology: From industrialize + -er.
Senses: examples: text: In 19th-century Japan, as well as in Germany, industrializers sought to avert the socialist inclinations of working classes by resorting to extreme repression or paternalism.
ref: 2007 January 7, Stephen Kotkin, “Japan’s Retooling Is Distinctly Japanese”, in New York Times:
text: [High-tariff Republican presidents of the 19th and early 20th centuries] oversaw America’s dramatic growth as an early industrializer and magnet for immigrants.
ref: 2025 January 23, Laurent Belsie, “Globalization is over. Will Trump tariffs reset US-China rivalry?”, in The Christian Science Monitor:
glosses: One who industrializes.
industrialiser
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: industrialisers
Etymology: From industrialise + -er.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of industrializer.
industrializers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of industrializer
industrialisers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of industrialiser
Kazak
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Kazaks
Etymology: Borrowed from Kazakh Ⱪazaⱪ (official Latin orthography in Xinjiang diring 1964–1984).
Senses: glosses: Official term for the local Kazakh nationality in the People’s Republic of China.
Kazak
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Kazaks
Senses: glosses: A kind of ornamental rug from the town of Kazak in Azerbaijan.
wineless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Middle English wynelesse; equivalent to wine + -less.
Senses: examples: text: Jesus meets the felt needs of the poor such as turning water into wine as a service to the wineless...
ref: 1982, Brojendra Nath Banerjee, Religious conversions in India:
text: After the stolidity of my childhood—the affluent Midwest of new Cadillacs, Negro maids, and wineless six-o’clock dinners […]
ref: 1988, Edmund White, chapter 1, in The Beautiful Room is Empty, New York: Vintage International, published 1994:
text: Polemon in his work Against Timaios says that there are wineless sacrifices...
ref: 2008, Phillip Harding, The story of Athens: the fragments of the local chronicles of Attika:
antonyms: wineful
wined up
glosses: Without wine.
Related terms: vineless
mathematicize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: mathematicizes
form: mathematicizing
form: mathematicized
form: mathematicized
Etymology: From mathematic + -ize.
Senses: examples: text: But that’s Dyson: as resistant to categorization as the universe his colleagues are trying to mathematicize. “
ref: 2007 January 7, George Johnson, “Dancing With the Stars”, in New York Times:
synonyms: mathematize
glosses: To render mathematical.
mathematicizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of mathematicize
mathematicizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of mathematicize
mathematicized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of mathematicize
mathematise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: mathematises
form: mathematising
form: mathematised
form: mathematised
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of mathematize.
Derived terms: mathematisable
mathematicise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: mathematicises
form: mathematicising
form: mathematicised
form: mathematicised
Etymology: From mathematic + -ise.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of mathematicize.
mathematises
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of mathematise
mathematising
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of mathematise
mathematised
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of mathematise
mathematicises
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of mathematicise
mathematicising
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of mathematicise
mathematicised
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of mathematicise
excretable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From excrete + -able.
Senses: glosses: That can be excreted.
Derived terms: bioexcretable
megatrend
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: megatrends
Etymology: From mega- + trend.
Senses: examples: text: To pick the fund’s 85 stocks, Mr. Coll aims to identify megatrends in the economy, then looks for industries and companies that might benefit from them.
ref: 2007 January 7, Carole Gould, “Three Philosophies, Three Big Gains”, in New York Times:
text: According to the participant's estimate, how well prepared is the organization for the occurrence of a megatrend or disruptor?
ref: 2022, André de Waal, Julie Linthorst, Futurize! Dealing with Megatrends and Disruptors […] , Taylor & Francis, →ISBN:
glosses: A major trend; a very large-scale trend
Related terms: gigatrend
megatrends
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of megatrend
autoreply
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: autoreplies
Etymology: From auto- + reply.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of auto-reply.
multilevered
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From multi- + levered.
Senses: examples: text: Natalie is game, and she takes the ball and puts it down the right hole of a multilevered contraption.
ref: 2007 January 7, Tom Roston, “Natalie's Triumph”, in New York Times:
glosses: Equipped with more than one lever.
basophile
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: basophiles
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of basophil.
neopopulists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of neopopulist
neopopulist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: neopopulists
Etymology: From neo- + populist.
Senses: examples: text: But only if one forgets that Mr. Tester is 50 years old, he’s seasoned in state politics, he ran a canny, gloves-off campaign, and he’s the kind of charismatic, hard-to-peg, Western neopopulist (like his friend, Gov. Brian Schweitzer of Montana) who might be, even now, redefining in certain far-reaching ways what it means to be a Democrat.
ref: 2007 January 7, Deirdre Mcnamer, “They Came From Montana”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 26 Jan 2021:
glosses: A supporter of neopopulism.
leverless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From lever + -less.
Senses: glosses: Without a lever.
nonaversive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɜː(ɹ)sɪv
Forms: form: more nonaversive
form: most nonaversive
Etymology: From non- + aversive.
Senses: examples: text: According to the New York Department of Education, the state will be able to educate troubled children by 2009 with nonaversive measures.
ref: 2007 January 7, Maia Szalavitz, “Shocks From the System”, in New York Times:
glosses: Not aversive.
nondiscussion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nondiscussions
Etymology: From non- + discussion.
Senses: examples: text: So their discussion is tantamount to nondiscussion. This is the first reason why there is no use (in having a parliament)...
ref: 1967, Franz Schurmann, David Milton, Orville Schell, The China reader:
text: Without recognition of the importance of balancing, discussions quickly deteriorate into nondiscussions; they become instead assertions by each side...
ref: 1998, Peter Horn, Clinical ethics casebook:
text: Farther up his rear end, the nondiscussion turned to environmentalism: Save the Earth!
ref: 2007 January 7, Shalom Auslander, “Love Child”, in New York Times:
glosses: Discussion that is so fruitless as to be equivalent to having had no discussion.
nondiscussions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nondiscussion
nonimperialistic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + imperialistic.
Senses: examples: text: Having passed Green Subaru, I floored it, but since I was already 20 minutes late anyway, I decided to stop a mile farther up the road at the local roadside organic pesticide-free grass-fed nonimperialistic fruit market to grab a quick cup of coffee.
ref: 2007 January 7, Shalom Auslander, “Love Child”, in New York Times:
glosses: Not imperialistic.
nonwavering
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more nonwavering
form: most nonwavering
Etymology: From non- + wavering.
Senses: examples: text: Those adhering to this position also tend to assert that the therapist's nonwavering empathic interest allows the patient to express feelings...
ref: 2006, Barry Alan Farber, Self-disclosure in psychotherapy:
text: In matters of transportation, however, I am a lifelong, nonwavering, dyed-in-the-wool Move-Your-Butt-ocrat.
ref: 2007 January 7, Shalom Auslander, “Love Child”, in New York Times:
text: A nonwavering tone should be heard at each frequency in each earphone. If this does not occur, the audiometer needs to be checked for frequency accuracy.
ref: 2007, Ross J Roeser, Michael Valente, Holly Hosford-Dunn, Audiology:
glosses: Not wavering; unwavering, staunch or continuous.