cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
lunglessness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From lungless + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: No one is certain why lunglessness has evolved, but a popular theory suggests it does so in response to an extreme environment — cold, swift-flowing streams.
ref: 2008 April 15, Henry Fountain, “Frogs in Borneo Added to Ranks of the Lungless”, in New York Times:
glosses: Absence of lungs.
indecorousness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From indecorous + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: But maybe this indecorousness should be standard technique, because the music making was extraordinary. Mr. Vanska began with a Sibelius rarity, “The Dryad” (Op. 45, No. 1), drawing a taut, thoroughly unified performance driven by the dark, wintry string tone so crucial to Sibelius’s music.
ref: 2008 April 15, Allan Kozinn, “Using Sharp, Vehement Gestures to Produce Expansive Sounds”, in New York Times:
glosses: The quality of being indecorous.
midtrack
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mid-track
Etymology: From mid- + track.
Senses: examples: text: Like Mr. Crossman, Brandon A. Collwes, a Cunningham company member, showed strong influences of the master and also used film in his “Intentional Happenstance in Parts,” a trio whose dancers sported mirror-encrusted bathing caps and occasionally changed the unidentified music in midtrack.
ref: 2008 April 15, Roslyn Sulcas, “Gravity, Drollery and Even Economy”, in New York Times:
glosses: A point in time during an audio track.
stuntfest
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stuntfests
Etymology: From stunt + -fest.
Senses: examples: text: The result is an hourlong stuntfest that, hard as it tries, is woefully short on thrills and artistry.
ref: 2008 April 15, Claudia La Rocco, “Choreographers Cross Over, and Gymnasts Take Flight”, in New York Times:
glosses: An event, film, etc. where many stunts are performed.
stuntfests
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stuntfest
superregulator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: superregulators
Etymology: From super- + regulator.
Senses: examples: text: Robert K. Steel leans forward, speaking in a rapid, excitable burst about the powers that a superregulator might wield over Wall Street one day.
ref: 2008 April 15, Landon Thomas Jr., “Wall Streeter Converts to a Fan of Regulation”, in New York Times:
glosses: A major regulatory body.
superregulators
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of superregulator
superrotations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of superrotation
temporoparietal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌtɛmpəɹəʊpəˈɹʌɪətəl/
Etymology: From temporo- + parietal.
Senses: examples: text: When the researchers used functional M.R.I. machines to look at the workings of the brain in Chinese- and English-speaking dyslexics, they found that in the English speakers there was weak reading activity in the temporoparietal and occipitotemporal regions.
ref: 2008 April 15, Eric Nagourney, “Patterns: Dyslexia as Different as Day and Night”, in New York Times:
text: The temperoparietal junction sits at a crossroads for many kinds of information, including the perception of the position of one's own body, and the perception of the bodies and actions of other people.
ref: 2011, Steven Pinker, The Better Angels of Our Nature, Penguin, published 2012, page 611:
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Of or pertaining to the temporal lobe and parietal lobe, or the junction where they meet.
cakiness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From caky + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: So recently, when a ginger muffin craving hit, I decided to see if I could increase the textural contrast without sacrificing the cakiness.
ref: 2008 April 16, Melissa Clark, “Spicy Little Cakes Disguised as Muffins”, in New York Times:
glosses: The quality of being caky.
knuckleballing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of knuckleball
knuckleballed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of knuckleball
labelmate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: labelmates
Etymology: From label + -mate.
Senses: examples: text: She & Him’s album has sold about 26,000 copies so far, according to Nielsen SoundScan, outpacing the debut of the duo’s labelmate Arcade Fire, said Mac McCaughan, a founder of Merge and the singer for the band Superchunk.
ref: 2008 April 16, Melena Ryzik, “On a New Album, Not Merely Acting Like a Singer”, in New York Times:
text: To be fair, he has worked with most of the acts connected with it—his Dirty Hit labelmates Pale Waves and No Rome—and to be even fairer, it should probably be called Hutchencewave for its clear debt to INXS.
ref: 2018 June 6, Ben Beaumont-Thomas, Laura Snapes, “50 great tracks for June from Christine and the Queens, Playboi Carti, the 1975 and more”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
glosses: A musician or musical act signed to the same record label.
labelmates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of labelmate
laberinths
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of laberinth
troubadourism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From troubadour + -ism.
Senses: examples: text: Of course, Ms. Deschanel and Mr. Ward, a musician based in Portland, Ore., whose quiet troubadourism sells out midsize clubs, are not unknown.
ref: 2008 April 16, Melena Ryzik, “On a New Album, Not Merely Acting Like a Singer”, in New York Times:
glosses: The work of a troubadour; itinerant composition and performance of songs.
xenophobics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of xenophobic
batmaker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: batmakers
Etymology: From bat + maker.
Senses: glosses: A maker of small leather shoes for children.
examples: text: Now Holman, the batmaker, is not making bats for Bonds, and Yandle, the batting practice pitcher, is not throwing pitches to Bonds.
ref: 2008 April 17, Jack Curry, “Bats Ready, but Bonds May Not Need Them”, in New York Times:
glosses: A maker of bats, as for baseball.
batmakers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of batmaker
buttercrunch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From butter + crunch.
Senses: examples: text: Or switch to heat-tolerant lettuces, like oak leaf and buttercrunch.
ref: 2008 April 17, Anne Raver, “Meet the Endive Before Eating It”, in New York Times:
glosses: A mild lettuce, Lactuca sativa.
counterwoman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: counterwomen
Etymology: From counter + woman.
Senses: examples: text: Noris, the Central American counterwoman, complimented me on my handbag — a simple black patent thing by an obscure designer.
ref: 2008 April 17, Cintra Wilson, “Little Hedge Fund on the Prairie”, in New York Times:
glosses: A woman who serves at a counter.
counterwomen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of counterwoman
antigirl
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more antigirl
form: most antigirl
Etymology: From anti- + girl.
Senses: examples: text: Grade-school-age boys are more antigirl than girls this age are antiboy. Boys begin to test each other. Who can run the fastest or hold their breath the longest?
ref: 2005, Jean Ann Wright, Animation writing and development: from script development to pitch, page 49:
text: Of course, this would never happen because there isn'ta retailer out there who would run the risk of carrying such a line of antigirl products.
ref: 2006, Vicki Courtney, Your Boy: Raising a Godly Son in an Ungodly World, page 163:
text: Like China, there is an antigirl bias: sons are preferred over daughters as they provide economic security or additional labor, especially in rural areas, while women in Indian society are typically marginalized and their role limited...
ref: 2007, K. Bruce Newbold, Six billion plus: world population in the twenty-first century, page 28:
glosses: Opposing girls.
inartfully
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more inartfully
form: most inartfully
Etymology: From inartful + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Finally, he got a chance to remind her of the time back in 1992 when she dissed the homemakers of America by saying, rather inartfully, that she preferred legal work to baking and serving tea.
ref: 2008 April 17, Gail Collins, “Battle of the Baggage”, in New York Times:
glosses: In an inartful manner.
unartfully
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more unartfully
form: most unartfully
Etymology: From unartful + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an unartful manner.
semidwarf
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: semidwarfs
Etymology: From semi- + dwarf.
Senses: examples: text: Although Miss Kim is often described as semidwarf, this popular late bloomer can become 9 or 10 feet tall.
ref: 2008 April 17, Leslie Land, “Veggies in the Shade”, in New York Times:
glosses: A plant that grows to a lesser height than usual for its kind, but taller than a dwarf variety.
semidwarfs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of semidwarf
unartful
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unartful
form: most unartful
Etymology: From un- + artful.
Senses: glosses: Not artful; lacking craft, artless.
glosses: Lacking skill.
Synonyms: inartful
Derived terms: unartfully
unartfulness
subhistory
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: subhistories
Etymology: From sub- + history.
Senses: topics: computer
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
science
sciences
glosses: A history (sequence of events or actions) making up part of a larger history.
subhistories
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of subhistory
washwoman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: washwomen
Etymology: From wash + woman.
Senses: examples: text: A kimono dress by Derek Lam evoked the washwomen of feudal Japanese warlords ($1,390).
ref: 2008 April 17, Cintra Wilson, “Little Hedge Fund on the Prairie”, in New York Times:
glosses: A washerwoman.
unsedated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + sedated.
Senses: examples: text: Justice Stevens urged states to consider abandoning one of the three chemicals, the paralyzing drug that would leave an unsedated inmate conscious but unable to move, breathe or cry out.
ref: 2008 April 17, Adam Liptak, “Challenges Remain for Lethal Injection”, in New York Times:
glosses: Not sedated.
Synonyms: nonsedated
washwomen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of washwoman
copolyester
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: copolyesters
Etymology: From co- + polyester.
Senses: examples: text: Last month, Nalgene introduced a line of bottles made from a relatively new plastic from the Eastman Chemical Company, Tritan copolyester, that shares most of polycarbonate’s properties, including shatter-resistance, but is made without the chemical.
ref: 2008 April 18, Ian Austen, “Bottle Maker to Stop Using Plastic Linked to Health Concerns”, in New York Times:
glosses: A polyester that has been modified by the addition of other chemicals.
copolyesters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of copolyester
immaterialist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: immaterialists
Etymology: From immaterial + -ist.
Senses: glosses: A supporter of the philosophy of immaterialism.
immaterialists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of immaterialist
immaterialistic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more immaterialistic
form: most immaterialistic
Etymology: From im- + materialistic.
Senses: examples: text: Among these aspects some refer to materialistic values (eg, good pay) and others to immaterialistic values (eg, useful job for society).
ref: 2003, Wilhelmus Antonius Arts, Jacques A. Hagenaars, Loek Halman, The cultural diversity of European unity:
glosses: not concerned with material things
topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
glosses: of or pertaining to the philosophy of immaterialism
longrunning
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more longrunning
form: most longrunning
Senses: examples: text: DEAD CHILD (Wednesday) David Pajo, bassist and guitarist from Slint, Tortoise and other post-rock bands, has had a longrunning metal streak under his cool exterior; now that he’s turning 40, he’s able to exercise it — two and a half decades after the fact — in Dead Child, a fairly sincere (and decently tight) early-’80s metal band.
ref: 2008 April 18, The New York Times, “Pop and Rock Listings”, in New York Times:
glosses: Alternative form of long-running.
rios
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rio
popemobile
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: popemobiles
Senses: examples: text: Even before the pontiff’s arrival in the United States on Tuesday, the Pequeños had gathered outside the Vatican Embassy, singing and dancing with other followers of their exuberant early Christianity movement, the Neocatechumenal Way. They waited for hours on Wednesday in a crush of admirers along Pennsylvania Avenue to catch a glimpse of his passing popemobile.
ref: 2008 April 18, Ralph Blumenthal, “Glimpses of the Pope Fill Pilgrims With Emotion”, in New York Times:
glosses: Alternative form of Popemobile.
popemobiles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of popemobile
PFLP
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: Israeli jets had strafed the main road during the day and PFLP guerrillas on the coast road were stunned to see the five men, all dressed in jackets and ties, hurtling down the highway towards them in the early hours.
ref: 2001 [1990], Robert Fisk, Pity the Nation: Lebanon at War, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 410:
topics: government
politics
glosses: Initialism of Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine.
seminudity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From semi- + nudity.
Senses: examples: text: Ms. Crabapple did a lot of posing in bikinis, and less, to pay her way through F.I.T.; in addition to showing in fine art galleries and drawing comics, she organizes events she calls Dr. Sketchy’s, a life drawing class that’s also a burlesque show with music, costumes and seminudity.
ref: 2008 April 18, Susan Dominus, “Young, Hip and Wild About Comic Books”, in New York Times:
glosses: The state of being seminude, or scantily dressed.
thumber
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: thumbers
Etymology: From thumb + -er.
Senses: examples: text: Dylan Thomas was another thesaurus thumber, and in his work too the words it supplied were not always improvements.
ref: 2008 April 18, Charles Mcgrath, “The Keeper (See: Steward, Caretaker) of Synonyms”, in New York Times:
glosses: One who thumbs (a book, one's nose, etc.).
examples: text: Several months ago every city and many of the towns in which we operate were flooded with a cartoon flyer warning autoists of the legal risks involved in picking up thumbers.
ref: 1932, Bus transportation: Volume 11:
glosses: One who thumbs a lift; a hitchhiker.
thumbers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of thumber
thumbboards
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of thumbboard
autoist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: autoists
Etymology: From auto + -ist.
Senses: examples: text: People contemplating matrimony are like two autoists planning a long journey together, each driving his own car.
ref: 1921, Elsie Lincoln Benedict, Ralph Paine Benedict, How to Analyze People on Sight, page 310:
text: We have become a nation of photoists almost as much as we are a nation of autoists and will be a nation of fliers.
ref: 1943, Willard Detering Morgan, The Complete Photographer, volume 8, page 2768:
glosses: One who drives an automobile.
Synonyms: sense: automobile driver
word: motorist
sense: automobile driver
word: driver
autoists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of autoist
undarkened
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + darkened.
Senses: examples: text: They were functional workaday items, and their office-supply roots come across in Zwirner & Wirth’s undarkened gallery, where the sculptures look exposed and a little shabby.
ref: 2008 April 18, Holland Cotter, “Art in Review”, in New York Times:
glosses: Not darkened.
unfavourability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From un- + favourability.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of unfavorability.
unfavourableness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From unfavourable + -ness.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of unfavorableness.
unfavorability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: unfavourability
Senses: examples: text: And if there were some moments of concern reflected in the debate — the talk of Mrs. Clinton’s high unfavorability ratings, Mr. Obama’s flashes of annoyance — they all doubted that those moments would be deal-breakers, either.
ref: 2008 April 18, Patrick Healy, “Superdelegates Unswayed by Clinton’s Attacks”, in New York Times:
glosses: The quality of being unfavorable.
unfavorableness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: unfavourableness
Etymology: From unfavorable + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being unfavorable.
unfattening
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unfattening
form: most unfattening
Etymology: From un- + fattening.
Senses: glosses: Not fattening.
-erize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: -erizes
form: -erizing
form: -erized
form: -erized
form: -erise
Etymology: From Chinese ér(huà) + -ize.
Senses: examples: For quotations using this term, see Citations:-erize.
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: To add r-coloring; to take on an r-colored vowel; to exhibit or undergo erhua.
Related terms: erhua
erization
-erization
arguability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From argue + -ability.
Senses: examples: text: “The arguability of the claims depends wholly on oral conversations which are not documented,” he said.
ref: 2008 April 19, John F. Burns, “Russian Feud Goes to Court in London”, in New York Times:
glosses: The quality or degree of being arguable.
Derived terms: unarguability
unarguability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From un- + arguability.
Senses: examples: text: During the prevailing stylistic profusion and confusion, this architecture seems to have obtained an authority among both clients and critics through the apparent unarguability of technological logic.
ref: 2009, Patrick Goode, Stanford Anderson, Colin St. John Wilson, The Oxford Companion to Architecture, page 616:
glosses: The quality of being unarguable.
gessoed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From gesso + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: Different physical supports (canvas, fiberboard, heavily gessoed wood) further complicate Mr. Olson’s processes.
ref: 2008 April 19, Roberta Smith, “Is Painting Small the Next Big Thing?”, in New York Times:
glosses: Plastered with gesso.
gradewide
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From grade + -wide.
Senses: examples: text: The children, most 9 or 10, then signaled their preferences for the Democratic nomination in a gradewide straw poll.
ref: 2008 April 19, Jacques Steinberg, “Primary Lures Those Too Young to Vote”, in New York Times:
glosses: Across an entire grade (school year).
multifactional
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more multifactional
form: most multifactional
Etymology: From multi- + factional.
Senses: examples: text: The current situation in Iraq should properly be described as “a multifactional civil war” in which “the government is composed of rival Shia factions” and “they are embattled with an outside Shia group, the Mahdi Army ,” Ira M. Lapidus, a co-author of “Islam, Politics and Social Movements” and a professor of history at the Center for Middle Eastern Studies at the University of California, Berkeley, wrote in an e-mail message.
ref: 2008 April 19, Michael Cooper, “McCain, Iraq War and the Threat of ‘Al Qaeda’”, in New York Times:
glosses: Of or pertaining to more than one faction.
multifaction
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more multifaction
form: most multifaction
Etymology: From multi- + faction.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to more than one faction.
benefitless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From benefit + -less.
Senses: examples: text: In California, my partner and I signed a benefitless domestic partnership registry in 2001, and then, a scant two years later, we were granted a whole lot of separate-but-nearly-equal benefits involving inheritance, medical issues, adoption and state taxation.
ref: 2008 April 20, Torie Osborn, “The Joy of Marriage Was Ours, for a While”, in New York Times:
glosses: Without benefits.
boops
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of boop
boops
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of boop
betulinic acid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A naturally-occurring pentacyclic triterpenoid with antiretroviral, antimalarial and antiinflammatory properties
Derived terms: bevirimat
epibetulinic acid
Related terms: betulate
betulin
betulinyl
dancemaking
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From dance + making.
Senses: examples: text: Others, like Mr. Welch and James Kudelka, are established talents whom Mr. Tomasson helped catapult through commissions early in their dancemaking careers.
ref: 2008 April 20, Rachel Howard, “Step Right Up! 10 Premieres in 3 Days”, in New York Times:
glosses: The creation of dance movements; choreography.
Related terms: dancemaker
haberdashed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more haberdashed
form: most haberdashed
Etymology: Related to haberdashery. See -ed.
Senses: examples: text: When he showed that petulant old warhorse of an artist, Horace Vernet, haberdashed with medals, Nadar had no trouble revealing a seeker of official honors.
ref: 1981, Vicki Goldberg, Photography in print: writings from 1816 to the present, page 135:
text: Toward the end of the masterly “Negro With a Hat” (as the Napoleonically haberdashed Garvey was derided by W. E. B. Du Bois), Garvey is quoted as having said: “We were the first Fascists.
ref: 2008 April 20, Paul Devlin, “Black Star”, in New York Times:
glosses: Decorated with ribbons, trinkets, etc.
midswallow
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From mid- + swallow.
Senses: examples: text: But then Deena blurted out something that stopped me in midswallow.
ref: 2008 April 20, Laura Silver, “The Fire, and the Mystery”, in New York Times:
glosses: A point in time when someone is swallowing.
minicheeseburger
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: minicheeseburgers
Etymology: From mini- + cheeseburger.
Senses: examples: text: Becky Marx was perched at Agnetta's left, delicately sampling from an hors d' ouevres plate that included two Chinese dumplings, a minicheeseburger, several shrimp sauteed in lemon butter, six chicken nachos, and two stuffed mushrooms.
ref: 1996, Tim Kincaid, Today, tomorrow, and always:
text: There's no kids' menu, but the regular menu features chicken strips and minicheeseburgers, among other tot treats.
ref: 2005, Laura Tiebert, Frommer's Chicago with Kids, page 119:
text: They were both too hungry to wait for the yams and rutabagas to bake, so tonight they would have the frozen White Castle minicheeseburgers that Mr. Van Buren had won a year's supply of just before he passed away.
ref: 2007, James Wilcox, Hunk City:
text: Cozy banquettes, low tables and soft lighting define this plush new area behind the bar at Le Cirque, with wines by the glass, cocktails and a menu of informal smallish plates: croque monsieur, salmon tartare, shrimp tempura, minicheeseburgers.
ref: 2008 April 20, “Just In, From Europe”, in New York Times:
glosses: A small cheeseburger.
Related terms: miniburger
minihamburger
minicheeseburgers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of minicheeseburger
cow town
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cow towns
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of cowtown.
minimetropolis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: minimetropolises
Etymology: From mini- + metropolis.
Senses: examples: text: He arrived here 58 years ago and helped transform a onetime cow town into a minimetropolis, a former agricultural college into a prominent university and a football program into a national power.
ref: 2008 April 20, Mark Viera, “Question of Age Is Getting Old for Paterno”, in New York Times:
glosses: A relatively small metropolis.
minimetropolises
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of minimetropolis
mowings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mowing
newshand
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: newshands
Etymology: From news + hand.
Senses: examples: text: The punditocracy, from ankle-biters to bigfeet, suddenly felt itself caught in a one-sided, enamored state and needed to distance itself from charges of rampant dispensing of what cynical old newshands call “big wet kisses” to a charming fresh face.
ref: 2008 April 20, William Safire, “In the Tank”, in New York Times:
glosses: A journalist.
newshands
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of newshand
nonmarketplace
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + marketplace.
Senses: examples: text: But that, in fact, is the point: the nonmarketplace context of hypothetical products frees the designer to leapfrog practical-minded meetings about market share and profit margins and the like and to land at the bigger questions: is this something companies should do — or must do?
ref: 2008 April 20, Rob Walker, “Dreaming in Green”, in New York Times:
glosses: Not of or pertaining to the economic marketplace.
overdecoration
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: overdecorations
Etymology: From over- + decoration.
Senses: examples: text: Cleanliness and light are present: Art Deco streamlining replaces Edwardian overdecoration.
ref: 2008 April 20, Bernard Holland, “Rocketing to Inner Space, Defying Tonality”, in New York Times:
glosses: Excessive decoration.
patinaed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From patina + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: The space has been roughly used and has little actual ornament, but everything is deliciously intact, patinaed like an old oak table.
ref: 2008 April 20, Christopher Gray, “The Vestige of What Might Have Been”, in New York Times:
glosses: Having a patina.
Radcliffe
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹæd.klɪf/
rhymes: -ædklɪf
Senses: glosses: A surname.
glosses: A minor city in Hardin County, Iowa, United States.
glosses: A neighbourhood of Lexington, Fayette County, Kentucky, United States.
glosses: A town and former borough in the Metropolitan Borough of Bury, Greater Manchester, England (OS grid ref SD7807).
glosses: A hamlet (formerly a colliery village, now demolished) in Amble parish and Hauxley parish, Northumberland, England (OS grid ref NU2602).
Derived terms: John Radcliffe
Radcliffean
Radcliffian
Radcliffe Line
Radcliffe on Trent
Radder
Related terms: Redcliffe
wagger-pagger-bagger
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wagger-pagger-baggers
Etymology: Jocular modification of wastepaper basket. See -er.
Senses: examples: text: (Taking flowers from vase) If you don't mind, therefore, I shall deposit them in the wagger-pagger-bagger. (Drops flowers into waste paper basket.)
ref: 1948, John Courtenay Trewin, Plays of the year: Volume 1:
text: If only he hadn't woken himself in the night with ludicrous, fey notions which now thankfully lay at the bottom of the wagger-pagger-bagger—he punched the splintery door of the shed—damn it all to the bloodiest—
ref: 2009, H. S. Cross, Riding: Volume 2, page 364:
qualifier: public schools
glosses: A wastepaper basket.
waggeries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of waggery
exhibitioners
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of exhibitioner
exhibitionistically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more exhibitionistically
form: most exhibitionistically
Etymology: From exhibitionistic + -ally.
Senses: glosses: In an exhibitionistic manner.
postscientific
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From post- + scientific.
Senses: examples: text: In his own pluralistic and idealistic notion of a postscientific world, Feyerabend suggests there can be balance, with different subcultural powers observing a certain amount of fair play in relation to each other.
ref: 2001, Brian Sutton-Smith, The ambiguity of play, page 60:
text: American innovators — with their world-class strengths in product design, marketing and finance — may have a historic opportunity to convert the scientific know-how from abroad into market gains and profits. Mr. Hill views the transition to “the postscientific society” as an unrecognized bonus for American creators of new products and services.
ref: 2008 April 20, G. Pascal Zachary, “How Scientific Gains Abroad Pay Off in the U.S.”, in New York Times:
antonyms: prescientific
protoscientific
coordinate_terms: scientific
;
pseudoscientific
;
nonscientific
unscientific
;
antiscientific
glosses: After the decline of science.
semicompleted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From semi- + completed.
Senses: examples: text: The semicompleted project was later shopped around to a number of cable networks.
ref: 2008 April 20, Elizabeth Jensen, “Life Topside: Six Months on a Flight Deck”, in New York Times:
synonyms: half-finished
half-done
;
semicomplete
coordinate_terms: uncompleted
incomplete
;
completed
complete
finished
done
glosses: Partially completed.
softheadedness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From softheaded + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: Tell me: How did it come to pass that virtue — a quality that for most of history has generally been deemed, well, a virtue — became a mark of liberal softheadedness?
ref: 2008 April 20, Michael Pollan, “Why Bother?”, in New York Times:
glosses: The quality of being softheaded.
squirearchal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From squirearchy + -al.
Senses: examples: text: The film tells the story of Jack’s induction and military training; depicts the Kiplings’ squirearchal lifestyle at Bateman’s, their Jacobean manor house in Sussex; and explores the family tensions over Jack’s brave but foolhardy enlistment.
ref: 2008 April 20, Robert F. Moss, “And You’ll Be a Man, My Son”, in New York Times:
glosses: Of or pertaining to squirearchy.
Wessexian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Wessexian
form: most Wessexian
Etymology: From Wessex + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to the ancient English kingdom of Wessex.
Wessexian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Wessexians
Etymology: From Wessex + -ian.
Senses: glosses: A native or inhabitant of Wessex.
Wessexians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Wessexian
tiremaker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tiremakers
form: tyremaker
Etymology: From tire + maker.
Senses: examples: text: She said the tiremaker would continue to provide replacements and service to consumers who already had the tires.
ref: 2008 April 20, Christopher Jensen, “Michelin Giving Up on PAX Run-Flat Tire”, in New York Times:
glosses: A manufacturer of tires (wheel coverings).
Related terms: tiremaking
tiremakers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tiremaker
tyremaker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tyremakers
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of tiremaker.
tyremakers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tyremaker
toothworts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of toothwort
atonalist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: atonalists
Etymology: From atonal + -ist.
Senses: glosses: A composer of atonal music.
atonalists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of atonalist
tonalist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tonalists
Etymology: From tonal + -ist.
Senses: examples: text: Bradly blinked a moment, the tonalist in him confused at charming presentation of her femininity, which appeared to have forgotten the prudery that refused to undress before her grandmother in the hut.
ref: 1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC, page 115:
glosses: An artist working in the style of tonalism.
tonalists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tonalist
hoverjet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hoverjets
Etymology: From hover + jet.
Senses: topics: literature
media
publishing
science-fiction
glosses: A kind of levitating aeroplane or spacecraft.
hoverjets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hoverjet
tonalism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From tonal + -ism.
Senses: topics: art
arts
glosses: An American artistic style of the nineteenth century, characterised by landscapes with a misty atmosphere and dark, neutral hues.
Related terms: tonalist
backblast
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: backblasts
Etymology: From back + blast.
Senses: examples: text: Two Iraqi soldiers were brought in the morning after being wounded by the backblast of one of their own rocket-propelled grenades.
ref: 2008 April 21, Michael R. Gordon, “Civilians Suffer in Sadr City’s Daily Gun Battles”, in New York Times:
glosses: A dangerous blast of hot gas behind a rocket or missile when it is fired.
backblasts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of backblast
conceptlessness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From conceptless + -ness.
Senses: glosses: Absence of concepts.
identitylessness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From identityless + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: Indeed, if we take 'lack of identity' as the object of further enquiry and search for its true nature, what we find is the identitylessness of identitylessness and so on, going on into infinity
ref: 1999, 14th Dalai Lama, Ancient Wisdom, Modern World, →ISBN, page 45:
glosses: Absence of identity.
idealessness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From idealess + -ness.
Senses: glosses: Absence of ideas.
deaccumulation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌdiːækjuːmjəˈleɪʃən/
Etymology: From de- + accumulation.
Senses: examples: text: “Unless you’ve actually lived through it personally, you don’t fully appreciate some of the nuances of the deaccumulation phase,” said Sheryl Garrett, founder of the Garrett Planning Network, which creates financial plans for middle-income people.
ref: 2008 April 21, Robert Hertzberg, “Making Your Money Last as Long as You Live”, in New York Times:
topics: business
glosses: The reversal of accumulation, as by selling the assets of a business.
conceptless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From concept + -less.
Senses: glosses: Devoid of concepts.
Derived terms: conceptlessness
mamajuana
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Mama Juana
Senses: examples: text: Because some of the roots and herbs found in traditional mamajuana are banned in the United States, according to Mr. Layfield, he spent a year tinkering with substitute ingredients.
ref: 2008 April 21, Brooks Barnes, “Selling Chat on Fox, and a Sex-Enhancing Potion on the Side”, in New York Times:
glosses: A drink from the Dominican Republic, made from rum, red wine, and honey soaked with tree bark and herbs.
ultrapercussive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more ultrapercussive
form: most ultrapercussive
Etymology: From ultra- + percussive.
Senses: examples: text: The Kirov “Rubies” is no longer the ultrapercussive knockout it was a few years ago.
ref: 2008 April 21, Alastair Macaulay, “Radiant Line of Russian Style Energized in a Triplet of Balanchines”, in New York Times:
glosses: Highly percussive.
elevational
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From elevation + -al.
Senses: examples: text: Along with a screen grab from Victoria Secret’s online catalog promoting the bra, Ms. Plew included in her lawsuit a copy of her patent form with a history of previous bras (from the Capparelli to the Zweben) and detailed renderings of her own invention, complete with “diagrammatic rear elevational view.”
ref: 2008 April 22, Alan Feuer, “Saying She Patented Bra, L.I. Woman Goes to Court”, in New York Times:
glosses: Of or pertaining to an elevation.
Derived terms: elevationally
lesbi
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: A gay man who owns a salon in Bandung rents out a front room to a lesbi couple, which they use as a photography studio.
ref: 2005, Tom Boellstorff, The Gay Archipelago: Sexuality and Nation in Indonesia, page 147:
glosses: Lesbian.
lesbi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lesbis
Senses: examples: text: While gay males do occupy some public spaces, such as parks or bus stations, lesbis are mostly invisible, consistent with the Indonesian gender norm that women should not assert themselves in public but remain in the domestic sphere […]
ref: 2014, Serena Nanda, Gender Diversity: Crosscultural Variations, Second Edition, page 100:
glosses: A lesbian.
lesene
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈlɛ.zən/
Forms: form: lesenes
Etymology: From French lisse, from Latin licium (“thread, loop”).
Senses: topics: architecture
glosses: A low-relief, vertical pillar or pilaster in a wall, usually without a base or capital; used in architecture to divide a facade or other wall surface visually.
outmigration
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: outmigrations
form: out-migration
Etymology: From out- + migration.
Senses: examples: text: The outmigration of young people has left the state with the second-highest proportion of people over 65 in the country, after Florida.
ref: 2008 April 22, Katharine Q. Seelye, “In Clinton vs. Obama, Age Is One of the Greatest Predictors”, in New York Times:
text: The rural north-west of Ireland is not favoured economically, with outmigration still a problem.
ref: 2024 December 11, Robin Leleux, “Awards reward restored railway survivors”, in RAIL, number 1024, page 53:
antonyms: inmigration
immigration
hypernyms: migration
glosses: Synonym of emigration.
synonyms: word: emigration
Related terms: word: emigrate
word: immigrate
word: outmigrate
outmigrations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of outmigration
outmodedly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more outmodedly
form: most outmodedly
Etymology: From outmoded + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an outmoded manner.
lesbie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lesbies
form: lesby
Senses: glosses: Diminutive of lesbian.
rationalizer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rationalizers
Etymology: From rationalize + -er.
Senses: examples: text: Another factor that makes it difficult to forecast our future happiness is that most of us are rationalizers.
ref: 2008 April 22, Claudia Dreifus, “The Smiling Professor”, in New York Times:
glosses: One who rationalizes.
rationer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rationers
Etymology: From ration + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who rations.
rationalizers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rationalizer
rationers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rationer
topplings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of toppling
unstereotypical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unstereotypical
form: most unstereotypical
Etymology: From un- + stereotypical.
Senses: examples: text: Two dances by Mr. May drew on the company’s strong underlying humanism, savored most readily in the dancers’ distinctive faces and sometimes refreshingly unstereotypical bodies.
ref: 2008 April 22, Jennifer Dunning, “Works Not New, but Right for the Time”, in New York Times:
glosses: Not stereotypical.
Derived terms: unstereotypically
unstereotypically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more unstereotypically
form: most unstereotypically
Etymology: From unstereotypical + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an unstereotypical manner.
steppelike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more steppelike
form: most steppelike
Etymology: From steppe + -like.
Senses: glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a steppe.
heatherlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more heatherlike
form: most heatherlike
Etymology: From heather + -like.
Senses: glosses: Resembling or characteristic of the plant heather.
outmigrants
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of outmigrant
inmigrants
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of inmigrant
inmigration
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: inmigrations
form: in-migration
Etymology: From in- + migration.
Senses: antonyms: emigration
outmigration
hypernyms: migration
glosses: A migration inwards; especially, synonym of immigration.
inmigrations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of inmigration
gossipfest
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gossipfests
Etymology: From gossip + -fest.
Senses: examples: text: Still, United Artists’ future will depend on reversing a growing perception — fed by an Internet culture that publicizes notions once confined to lunchtime gossipfests — that the studio took a wrong turn shortly after Ms. Wagner joined Mr. Cruise, her longtime producing partner, in agreeing a year and a half ago to reboot it as their own venture with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, which had previously owned the company outright.
ref: 2008 April 23, Michael Cieply, “The Nazi Plot That’s Haunting Tom Cruise and United Artists”, in New York Times:
glosses: A session of enthusiastic gossip.
gossipfests
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gossipfest
kissfests
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kissfest
jailyard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: jailyards
form: gaolyard
Etymology: From jail + yard.
Senses: examples: text: Once the Supreme Court affirmed Utah’s right to eradicate him by rifle, Wilkerson was let into a jailyard where he declined to be blindfolded.
ref: 2008 April 23, Gilbert King, “Cruel and Unusual History”, in New York Times:
glosses: A yard adjoining a prison.
jailyards
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of jailyard
jetfighter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: jetfighters
Senses: examples: text: The push to add surveillance to the war zones may also require a rethinking of how the current crop of jetfighters is outfitted for war, as well as whether to look at low-tech fixes, like using off-the-lot Cessnas outfitted with surveillance gear.
ref: 2008 April 23, Thom Shanker, “Sharpened Tone in Debate Over Culture of Military”, in New York Times:
glosses: Alternative form of jet fighter.
jetfighters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of jetfighter
sedgiest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of sedgy: most sedgy
broad-leaved epiphyllum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: broad-leaved epiphyllums
Senses: glosses: A cactus of species Epiphyllum oxypetalum, whose flowers usually bloom only one night a year.
empty the tank
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: empties the tank
form: emptying the tank
form: emptied the tank
form: emptied the tank
form: leave nothing in the tank
Senses: examples: text: “It's important over the next five games to empty the tank and give all we've got.”
ref: 2006 July 5, Tom Withers, “Cleveland scores nine in fifth inning”, in USA Today, retrieved 19 Jun 2011:
text: “You’ve got to empty the tank,” he said. “You can see the finish line. You know what you have to do.”
ref: 2008 September 1, Joe LaPointe, “Martínez Shows Strength in Mets Win Over Marlins”, in New York Times, retrieved 19 Jun 2011:
text: Stewart referenced Springsteen's work ethic and heart: “He empties the tank, every time. He empties that tank for his family, he empties that tank for his art, he empties that tank for his audience and he empties that tank for his country.”
ref: 2009 December 30, “Bruce Springsteen Honored at Kennedy Center”, in Rolling Stone, retrieved 19 Jun 2011:
glosses: To make the utmost effort; to contribute to the absolute limit of one's energy and abilities.
Synonyms: sense: make the utmost effort
word: give one's all
sense: make the utmost effort
word: go all out
sense: make the utmost effort
word: go for broke
sense: make the utmost effort
word: pull out all the stops
sedgier
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of sedgy: more sedgy
sedilias
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sedilia
neighborhoodlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more neighborhoodlike
form: most neighborhoodlike
Etymology: From neighborhood + -like.
Senses: examples: text: While Mr. Schweitzer hopes to keep the center’s neighborhoodlike feel, his company has already spent $3 million on renovations.
ref: 2008 April 23, Sana Siwolop, “Shops Claim a Once-Gritty Waterfront”, in New York Times:
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a neighborhood.
ultraluxurious
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more ultraluxurious
form: most ultraluxurious
Etymology: From ultra- + luxurious.
Senses: examples: text: If I wanted an American-style pudding that was ultraluxurious, the trick would be to reduce the cornstarch and increase the eggs and chocolate to compensate for the loss of thickening power.
ref: 2008 April 23, Melissa Clark, “You Call That Pudding, Grandma?”, in New York Times:
glosses: Highly luxurious.
daffily
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdæfəli/
Forms: form: more daffily
form: most daffily
Etymology: From daffy + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Both women and men even get to do, daffily, the same little pelvic wiggles.
ref: 2008 April 24, Alastair Macaulay, “What Audiences Haven’t Seen Before”, in New York Times:
glosses: In a daffy manner.
leverageable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more leverageable
form: most leverageable
form: leveragable
Etymology: From leverage + -able.
Senses: examples: text: “But that kind of single-value ownership is not that leverageable anymore,” he added.
ref: 2008 April 24, Stuart Elliott, “Trying to Connect in a Crowd”, in New York Times:
glosses: Capable of being leveraged.
overprime
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: overprimes
form: overpriming
form: overprimed
form: overprimed
Etymology: From over- + prime.
Senses: examples: text: Be careful not to overprime the stove.
glosses: To prime with too much fuel.
overprime
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: overprimes
Etymology: From over- + prime.
Senses: examples: text: Let q be a minimal overprime of S.
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: A prime number larger than some given natural number.
overpriming
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of overprime
overprimed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of overprime
cartonnier
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cartonniers
Etymology: French
Senses: examples: text: Only Charlotte Moss incorporated real antiques: a set of Louis XV chairs, a 19th-century Italian bureau cabinet, a 19th-century French cartonnier to hold documents and an antique rug from Stark.
ref: 2008 April 25, Wendy Moonan, “Making Their Way Back to the Garden”, in New York Times:
glosses: A cupboard for filing.
cartonniers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cartonnier