cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
teleoanalysis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: teleoanalyses
Etymology: From teleo- + analysis.
Senses: glosses: An analysis that combines data from different fields.
examples: text: The understanding of goals and the helping of patients to change their goals are so basic to Adlerian psychotherapy that individual psychology has sometimes been called teleoanalysis.
ref: 2009, Robert Jean Campbell, Campbell's Psychiatric Dictionary, Oxford University Press US, page 974:
glosses: An approach to counseling and psychotherapy proposed by Alfred Adler.
thoracoabdominal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From thoraco- + abdominal.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Of or pertaining to the thorax and the abdomen
thromboembolism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: thromboembolisms
Etymology: From thrombo- + embolism.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: An embolism caused by a blood clot carried in the bloodstream from its place of origin.
Related terms: microthromboembolism
thromboembolic
thromboembolus
thrombolytic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more thrombolytic
form: most thrombolytic
Etymology: From thrombolysis + -tic = thrombo- + -lytic.
Senses: glosses: Of, pertaining to, or causing thrombolysis.
thrombolytic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: thrombolytics
Etymology: From thrombolysis + -tic = thrombo- + -lytic.
Senses: glosses: Any drug that causes thrombolysis.
what the Devil
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English what þe devel, what devel.
Senses: examples: text: What the Devil have you done to the horse?
text: What the devyll hast thou on thy fyste? An owle?
ref: c. 1515–1516, John Skelton, Magnyfycence; republished in John Scattergood, editor, John Skelton: The Complete English Poems, 1983, →OCLC, page 166, line 922:
glosses: Used to add emphasis to “what” when beginning a question.
Synonyms: what the dickens
what on earth
what in God's name
transmissibility
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: transmissibilities
Senses: examples: text: Arloing states that human and bovine tuberculosis are of the same nature and intertransmissible, and that the transmissibility of bovine tuberculosis to man is no longer questioned.
ref: 1906, Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons, House of Commons Parliamentary Papers: Bills, volume 137:
text: Then, in January, a creeping tsunami of train cancellations, triggered by major staff absences as a result of the aggressive transmissibility of Omicron, heaped further misery on rail users.
ref: 2022 January 12, Nigel Harris, “Comment: Unhappy start to 2022”, in RAIL, number 948, page 3:
glosses: The condition of being transmissible
glosses: The extent to which something is transmissible
treponemal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From treponema + -al.
Senses: examples: text: Tuberculosis developed, as did pinta and other treponemal infections, including non-venereal syphilis, various diseases caused by intestinal parasites, and Chagas' disease.
ref: 1997, Roy Porter, The Greatest Benefit to Mankind, Folio Society, published 2016, page 159:
topics: biology
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: Pertaining to or caused by treponema
Derived terms: polytreponemal
grillers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of griller
treponema
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -iːmə
Forms: form: treponemas
form: treponemata
Etymology: From the genus name
Senses: glosses: Any of many anaerobic spirochetes, of the genus Treponema, many of which cause infectious diseases.
Derived terms: antitreponemal
treponemal
treponematosis
trimoxazole
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Blend of trimethoprim + sulfamethoxazole
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A combination of trimethoprim and sulfamethoxazole used to treat bacterial infections
Derived terms: co-trimoxazole
underemphasised
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more underemphasised
form: most underemphasised
Etymology: From under- + emphasised.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of underemphasized.
quality assurance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A system in which the delivery of a service or the quality of a product is assessed, and compared with that required.
Synonyms: QA
undernutrition
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From under- + nutrition.
Senses: antonyms: overnutrition
hypernyms: malnutrition
glosses: Inadequate nutrition, either due to a lack of food, or to the inability of the body to absorb its nutrients.
Related terms: malnutrition
reflag
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: reflags
form: reflagging
form: reflagged
form: reflagged
Etymology: From re- + flag.
Senses: examples: text: The Navy assumed responsibility for escorting the reflagged tankers in the Gulf and through the perilous Strait of Hormuz...
ref: 1996, Robert Timberg, The nightingale's song:
glosses: To change the flag on a vessel, etc.
examples: text: In addition, it is only necessary to reflag the cells that lie along the free surface and some of their neighbor cells in each computational step.
ref: 1991, Luiz C Wrobel, C A Brebbia, Computational Modelling of Free and Moving Boundary Problems: Fluid flow:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: To flag (mark with a variable) again or differently.
reflags
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of reflag
reflagging
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of reflag
reflagged
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of reflag
univariable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From uni- + variable.
Senses: glosses: Involving a single variable
univariately
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From univariate + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a univariate manner.
vacuolation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˌvækjʊəˈleɪʃən/
Forms: form: vacuolations
Etymology: From vacuole + -ation.
Senses: topics: biology
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: The formation of vacuoles in a cellular tissue.
vagally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From vagal + -ly.
Senses: glosses: With respect to the vagus nerve
Related terms: vagal
vaginosis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vaginoses
Etymology: From vagina + -osis.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Any disease or infection of the vagina.
ventilatory
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more ventilatory
form: most ventilatory
Etymology: From ventilate + -ory.
Senses: examples: text: Indeed, they possess not only a ventilatory system, composed of two scaphognathites ventilating a domiciliar cavity, but also a cardiovascular system composed of a well-differentiated heart and, in the Cylindroleberid family, 6-8 lamellar gills (Vannier et al., 1996; Horne et al., 2002).
ref: 2005, Journal of Experimental Biology - Volume 208, Issue 3, page 662:
glosses: Of, pertaining to, functioning as, or by means of a ventilator.
Derived terms: cardioventilatory
neuroventilatory
ventriculomegaly
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From ventriculo- + -megaly.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: dilation of the lateral ventricles of the brain
visceroparietal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From viscero- + parietal.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Of or pertaining to the viscera and the wall of the abdomen.
ungrilled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + grilled.
Senses: examples: text: Despite his dislike of trout — at least ungrilled ones — he would come along with me, pausing to smell the flowers and gaze at birds flying across the sky […]
ref: 2007, Ted Kerasote, Merle's door: lessons from a freethinking dog:
glosses: Not cooked on a grill.
examples: text: Yes, there was the tree-shadowed back wall on the alley, with the stout ungrilled door.
ref: 1918, Francis Hill, Once on the Summer Range:
glosses: Not grilled (fitted with a grill or grille).
IAWTP
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: Initialism of I agree with this post.
Synonyms: this
vivax
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Thus, the usefulness of chloroquine or other blood stage prophylaxis in complete prevention of vivax is very limited (it might have some value only in areas where the relapse rate is very low), and it should not be regarded as a vivax prophylaxis.
ref: 2009, Eli Schwartz, Tropical Diseases in Travelers, page 225:
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Malaria caused by the parasite Plasmodium vivax.
Derived terms: vivax malaria
remoting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From remote + -ing.
Senses: examples: text: The remoting infrastructure supports multiple activation models...
ref: 2002, Ben Albahari, Peter Drayton, Brad Merrill, C# essentials:
text: A number of different remoting styles are used in today's middleware systems.
ref: 2004, Markus Völter, Michael Kircher, Uwe Zdun, Remoting patterns:
text: Java provides innate support for a good selection of remoting mechanisms...
ref: 2007, Dave Minter, Steven Devijver, Beginning Spring 2: From Novice to Professional:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
glosses: A technology that allows a program to interact with the internals of another program running on a different machine.
Synonyms: remote procedure call
remote method invocation
remoting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From remote + -ing.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of remote
middlewares
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of middleware
Kuki
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Kukis
form: Kuki
Senses: glosses: A member of any of numerous clans of hillspeople, found in parts of northeastern India, Burma and Bangladesh.
Synonyms: Chin
Zomi
Derived terms: Kuki-Chin
Kukis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Kuki
hillsman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hillsmen
Etymology: From hill + -s- + -man.
Senses: glosses: A man who belongs to a tribe inhabiting the hills.
hillsmen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hillsman
hillspeople
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From hill + -s- + people.
Senses: glosses: The members of a tribe inhabiting the hills.
Synonyms: english: for males only
translation: for males only
word: hillsmen
Ceqli
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /t͡ʃɛŋli/
Senses: glosses: A constructed auxiliary language based on Loglan and influenced by Mandarin.
unwheeled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + wheeled.
Senses: glosses: Without a wheel or wheels.
examples: text: In this case the locomotive, unwheeled but with the boiler still in position, was carefully jacked; […]
ref: 1961 March, C. P. Boocock, “The organisation of Eastleigh Locomotive Works”, in Trains Illustrated, page 161:
glosses: With the wheels not fitted or removed.
Synonyms: wheelless
unwheeled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of unwheel
sensorless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From sensor + -less.
Senses: glosses: Without the use of sensors.
fungistat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fungistats
Senses: glosses: A chemical or biological agent that stops fungi from reproducing.
gastralgia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gastralgias
Etymology: From gastr- + -algia.
Senses: glosses: stomach ache
Derived terms: gastralgic
fungistats
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fungistat
lactoferrin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lactoferrins
Senses: glosses: A globular multifunctional protein with antimicrobial activity, found in milk and many mucosal secretions such as tears and saliva
Synonyms: lactotransferrin
Derived terms: apolactoferrin
lactoferrins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lactoferrin
bacteriostat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bacteriostats
Etymology: From bacterio- + -stat.
Senses: glosses: A biological or chemical agent that causes bacteriostasis.
bacteriostats
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bacteriostat
multidiscipline
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From multi- + discipline.
Senses: examples: text: The owners, Brian Janusiak and Elizabeth Beer, have a multidiscipline company called Various Projects, and the store is their eighth collaboration, hence the name.
ref: 2007 January 11, Horacio Silva, “A Whole Lot of Thinking Going On”, in New York Times:
glosses: Combining several disciplines; multidisciplinary.
businessy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more businessy
form: most businessy
Etymology: From business + -y.
Senses: examples: text: If you’re in D.n. C., which is very businessy, it’s acceptable to be alone,” said Eldar Shafir, a professor of psychology and public affairs whose appointments at Princeton University require travel.
ref: 2007 January 16, Karla Cook, “The Food Connection”, in New York Times:
glosses: Businesslike, or related to business.
chowhound
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chowhounds
Etymology: From chow + hound.
Senses: examples: text: Fortunately for me, I'm one of those people who can be a chowhound and never have to worry about putting on weight.
ref: 1958, Power:
text: There was no danger of a chowhound like Rags starving himself in her absence, but she feared he might pine away and be gone when she returned.
ref: 1988, Marion Meade, Dorothy Parker: what fresh hell is this?:
text: Besides being one of the most dangerous and feared guys on the yard, Roscoe is also a chowhound. He would kill for a can of ham […]
ref: 2001, Donald F Sabo, Terry Allen Kupers, Willie James London, Prison masculinities:
text: One in 10 people is a chowhound, a person who is on a passionate search for quality, he says.
ref: 2007 January 16, Karla Cook, “The Food Connection”, in New York Times:
glosses: A foodie or glutton.
chowhounds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chowhound
containerboard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: containerboards
Etymology: From container + board.
Senses: examples: text: Zhang Yin, who saw a solution to China's thirst for containerboard by importing United States scrap paper, in her Hong Kong office.
ref: 2007 January 16, David Barboza, “Blazing a Paper Trail in China”, in New York Times:
glosses: A form of paperboard especially manufactured for the production of corrugated fiberboard.
containerboards
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of containerboard
kummelweck
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: küʹməlvĕk
ipa: /ˈkuməlvɛk/
other: /ˈkʌm-/
other: /-wɛk/
Forms: form: kimmelweck
form: kümmelweck
form: Kümmelweck
Etymology: From German Kümmel (“caraway”), Weck (“roll”) (in south-western dialects).
Senses: examples: text: This is perfect for a large cocktail party served with small kummelweck rolls.
ref: 1962, The Children's Hospital of Buffalo cook book:
text: Beef on weck, Mr. Stern said, is one of the great roast beef sandwiches in the country — very thinly sliced rare roast beef on a bulky hard roll, also called a kummelweck, topped with big-grained salt and caraway seeds.
ref: 2007 January 16, Karla Cook, “The Food Connection”, in New York Times:
glosses: A bread roll (typically a Kaiser roll) sprinkled with koshering salt and caraway seeds, often served with thinly sliced roast beef, popular in western New York.
Synonyms: weck
nanocomputer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nanocomputers
Etymology: From nano- + computer.
Senses: glosses: A proposed nanoscale computer.
Related terms: nanocomputing
nanocomputers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nanocomputer
nanocomputing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From nano- + computing.
Senses: glosses: The use of nanocomputer technology.
noncompetitively
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more noncompetitively
form: most noncompetitively
Etymology: From noncompetitive + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: According to one recent audit reported in The Washington Post, among 49 privatized contracts, three out of five were awarded noncompetitively, lacked oversight, and raised questions of legality.
ref: 2007 January 16, “Tracking Outsourced Bonanzas”, in New York Times:
glosses: In a noncompetitive way.
ethnomathematics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From ethno- + mathematics, coined in 1977 by Brazilian mathematician Ubiratan D'Ambrosio.
Senses: glosses: The study of the interrelationship between mathematics and culture.
Derived terms: ethnomathematical
ethnomathematical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more ethnomathematical
form: most ethnomathematical
Etymology: From ethno- + mathematical.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to ethnomathematics.
Derived terms: ethnomathematically
nonmineral
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + mineral.
Senses: examples: text: In April 2004, the Food and Drug Administration said it had received 260 reports of deaths associated with herbs and other nonvitamin, nonmineral supplements since 1989.
ref: 2007 January 16, Dan Hurley, “Diet Supplements and Safety: Some Disquieting Data”, in New York Times:
glosses: Not mineral.
nonmineral
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nonminerals
Etymology: From non- + mineral.
Senses: glosses: Any substance that is not a mineral.
nonvitamin
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + vitamin.
Senses: examples: text: In April 2004, the Food and Drug Administration said it had received 260 reports of deaths associated with herbs and other nonvitamin, nonmineral supplements since 1989.
ref: 2007 January 16, Dan Hurley, “Diet Supplements and Safety: Some Disquieting Data”, in New York Times:
glosses: Not a vitamin.
nonvitamin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nonvitamins
Etymology: From non- + vitamin.
Senses: glosses: A substance that is not a vitamin.
nonvitamins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nonvitamin
rototilling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rototillings
Etymology: From rototiller + -ing.
Senses: examples: text: So-called “thundering herds” blanketed much of the Great Plains — rototilling, fertilizing, grazing builders that nurtured vast grasslands and gave home to everything from black-footed ferrets to burrowing owls.
ref: 2007 January 16, “Letters”, in New York Times:
glosses: The use of a rototiller.
rototilling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From rototiller + -ing.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of rototill
rototillings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rototilling
shaheed
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʃəˈhiːd/
Forms: form: shaheeds
form: shahed
form: shahid
Etymology: From Arabic شَهِيد (šahīd, “martyr, witness”).
Senses: examples: text: She has told the child that her father was a shaheed, a martyr, concealing the real story of her brutal conception.
ref: 2007 January 16, Joan Dupont, “For a Director on the Rise, Sarajevo’s War Years Linger”, in New York Times:
glosses: An Islamic or Sikh martyr, one who has died fulfilling a religious commandment and is thus promised a place in Paradise.
Related terms: hero
kamikaze
shaheeds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shaheed
shahid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shahids
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of shaheed.
shahids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shahid
spendthriftness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From spendthrift + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: This gives me hope for a technological cure for spendthriftness: a credit card that would remind you of your outstanding balance every time you started to buy something.
ref: 2007 January 16, John Tierney, “The Voices in My Head Say ‘Buy It!’ Why Argue?”, in New York Times:
glosses: The condition of being a spendthrift; profligacy.
childishnesses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: […] to exaggerate the little childishnesses and tricksinesses, which though charming should not be allowed to obscure the fundamental strength of Shelley's character […]
ref: 1923, E. M. W. Tillyard, Lamb's Criticism:
glosses: plural of childishness
profligacies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of profligacy
voluntariness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: voluntarinesses
Etymology: From voluntary + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The condition of being voluntary.
unelapsed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + elapsed.
Senses: glosses: Not elapsed.
unlapsed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + lapsed.
Senses: glosses: Not lapsed.
Synonyms: topics: Christianity
word: prelapsarian
charro
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: charros
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish charro (“cowboy”).
Senses: examples: text: The star is Jorge Negrete, a tall baritone with a pencil mustache who appeared as a singing charro in a few dozen ranchero musicals.
ref: 2007 August 21, Dave Kehr, “New DVDs”, in New York Times:
text: The show features a revolving roster of "freaks" both born and made: at Ozzfest the former included Jessie the Half-Boy; a "wolf-boy" from Mexico dressed in a charro suit and sombrero; and the aforementioned Punkin Head, aka Scott the Cyclops, who capitalizes on his empty eye socket with various props including, as Harck promises, his own tongue.
ref: 2006 July 28, Susannah J. Felts, “Wanna See Something Really Weird?”, in Chicago Reader:
text: But he's also evolved from the mythic Mexican cowboy of the 19th century, the charro, who even if he had nothing else had balls.
ref: 1994 May 6, Carmela Rago, “Not From Around Here”, in Chicago Reader:
glosses: A type of Mexican horseman.
glosses: Short for charro bean
underknown
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more underknown
form: most underknown
Etymology: From under- + known.
Senses: examples: text: Established in 2001, it offered in its first few years fairly traditional solo and group shows, often of artists either locally underknown (Charles Gaines) or unaffiliated (Rodney McMillian).
ref: 2007 January 16, Holland Cotter, “A Promise That Never Bloomed, a Post-Minimalist You’ve Never Heard Of”, in New York Times:
glosses: Not known widely enough; of inadequate fame.
xenografted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more xenografted
form: most xenografted
Senses: glosses: grafted between different species
Related terms: xenograft
xenografted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of xenograft
astronuclear
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From astro- + nuclear.
Senses: examples: text: In the late 1950s, he organized the company’s astronuclear laboratory, which won the federal government’s first contract to develop a nuclear reactor for rocket propulsion.
ref: 2007 January 17, Dennis Hevesi, “John W. Simpson, 92, Dies; Pioneer of Nuclear Power”, in New York Times:
glosses: Of or pertaining to the applications of nuclear physics to space, as for example in nuclear space propulsion.
crestie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cresties
Etymology: From crest + -ie.
Senses: examples: text: "Cresteds," or "cresties," as they are commonly called, are docile in nature and relatively calm and easy to handle as pets.
ref: [2017 December 12, Kimberly Kay Lucas, “Crested Gecko Care And Information”, in Reptiles Magazine, archived from the original on 30 Nov 2022:
text: More recently, crested geckos have become the "It" reptile pet. […] Corn snakes are popular to this day, and I have no reason to think that cresties will not continue in popular favor.
ref: 2019 March 1, Owen Maercks, “Taking Care of Ball Pythons”, in Pet Business, archived from the original on 20 Oct 2020:
text: A female crestie lays an average of 6 to 10 clutches during the breading season which lasts about 8 months.
ref: 2020 September 12, Kevin N., “How to Breed Crested Geckos?”, in My Crested Gecko, archived from the original on 06 Jul 2022:
text: Cresties grow to be around 8 inches (20 centimeters) long, with their tails accounting for almost half of that body length.
ref: 2021 January 5, Mark Mancini, “The Cute Crested Gecko, Once Thought Extinct, Is Now Bred by the Thousands”, in HowStuffWorks, archived from the original on 29 Jun 2022:
glosses: A crested gecko (Correlophus ciliatus).
glosses: A crested tit (Lophophanes cristatus).
topics: biology
birdwatching
natural-sciences
ornithology
glosses: A great crested grebe (Podiceps cristatus).
counterappeal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: counterappeals
Etymology: From counter- + appeal.
Senses: examples: text: Republican senators said that slow roll calls were not allowed, leading to a flurry of appeals and counterappeals that left the house in a standoff lasting into the evening, just as some Republican lawmakers were eager to get away to fund-raisers that they were holding.
ref: 2007 January 17, Michael Cooper, “Budget Reform Pact Augurs a More Transparent Albany”, in New York Times:
topics: law
glosses: An appeal lodged in response to an earlier appeal.
counterappeals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of counterappeal
jocky
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /dʒɒki/
rhymes: -ɒki
Forms: form: more jocky
form: most jocky
Etymology: From jock + -y.
Senses: examples: text: “Most comedy writers are tall, jocky types,” said Bill Lawrence, the creator of “Scrubs.”
ref: 2007 January 17, Edward Wyatt, “Diagnosis: Acute Case of Broadway Melodium Tremens”, in New York Times:
glosses: Jocklike.
nonaffiliated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + affiliated.
Senses: examples: text: EMI is planning to drop out of an infringement lawsuit brought against Baidu by record companies on claims the Web site violated copyright by offering links to illegally copied music on nonaffiliated sites.
ref: 2007 January 17, Bloomberg News, “China: Music Deal for Emi and Web Site”, in New York Times:
glosses: Unaffiliated.
Southdown
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Southdowns
Etymology: From South Downs.
Senses: examples: text: I saw a Southdown or two among the others in the flock.
glosses: One of a particular English breed of small sheep with short wool and no horns.
gadgetless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From gadget + -less.
Senses: glosses: Devoid of gadgets.
hyperpituitarism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From hyper- + pituitary + -ism.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: The condition caused by excessive secretion of hormones by pituitary tumors.
Southdowns
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Southdown
excellences
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of excellence
ad hominems
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ad hominem
cops and robbers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kɒps ˈænd ˈɹɒb.ə(ɹ)s/
ipa: /kɑps ˈɛnd ˈɹɑ.bɚs/
Senses: qualifier: playground games
glosses: A game played by schoolchildren in which the "robbers" have to steal "gold" and return it to their "base" without being caught by the "cops" and taken to "jail". When in "jail", "prisoners" can be "freed" by other "robbers".
Related terms: police and thief
fraidy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfɹeɪdi/
rhymes: -eɪdi
Forms: form: fraidier
form: fraidiest
Etymology: From afraid + -y.
Senses: glosses: Afraid.
glosses: Cowardly.
Derived terms: fraidy cat
ungerminating
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + germinating.
Senses: glosses: Not germinating.
ungainliest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of ungainly: most ungainly
ungainlier
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of ungainly: more ungainly
preeningly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more preeningly
form: most preeningly
Etymology: From preening + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a preening manner.
unpreened
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + preened.
Senses: glosses: Not preened.
bird table
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bird tables
Senses: glosses: A construction with a tablelike surface, placed outdoors to supply food to birds.
Related terms: bird feeder
bird feeder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bird feeders
form: bird-feeder
form: birdfeeder
Etymology: From bird + feeder.
Senses: examples: text: Although artist-designed urns and other objects are still a tiny fraction of the $11 billion death-care industry, as it is known, the gallery’s opening — along with novelty items like wind chimes with built-in cavities, pencils made from cremated remains (roughly 250 pencils per person), diamonds made from ash carbon and birdfeeders designed to scatter ashes — reflect the shifting demographics of death and disposition.
ref: 2007 January 18, Patricia Leigh Brown, “In Death as in Life, a Personalized Space”, in New York Times:
glosses: A device placed outdoors to supply food to birds.
Related terms: bird table
birdfeeders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of birdfeeder
clouter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: clouters
Etymology: From Middle English clowter; equivalent to clout + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who clouts or strikes.
glosses: A thief.
glosses: One who patches clothes.
Derived terms: clouterly
hyperproductive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From hyper- + productive.
Senses: examples: text: The new desirable employee archetype is a “cracked twenty-two-year-old,” Sun said, using the slang for a hyperproductive, extremely online programmer who might work “nine-nine-six,” a term adopted from workers in China that refers to a schedule of 9 A.M. to 9 P.M., six days a week.
ref: 2025 October 8, Kyle Chayka, “Will A.I. Trap You in the 'Permanent Underclass'?”, in The New Yorker, archived from the original on 08 Oct 2025:
glosses: Exceptionally productive.
paintless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From paint + -less.
Senses: examples: text: In 1919, demobilisation specials from Purfleet, Essex, to the North, usually made up of nondescript, almost paintless or grey stock which had seen long wartime service, chalked with slogans, were worked through by way of Bromley and the North London line […].
ref: 1950 April, R. A. H. Weight, “They Passed by My Window”, in Railway Magazine, pages 258-259:
text: Residences of a development named Hilltop Place mimic wooden farmhouses with barns attached, painted gray to look paintless but remain tidy.
ref: 2000, Donald Hall, Here at Eagle Pond:
glosses: Without paint: unpainted (of an object), not involving paint (of a finishing process), or whose paint has worn off (of an object).
Derived terms: paintlessness
cannas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of canna
counterjab
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: counterjabs
Etymology: From counter- + jab.
Senses: examples: text: And he made a counterjab at the United States, saying that the failure to fully equip Iraqi troops had damaged efforts to bring peace to the country, and if the United States speeded up the process of giving Iraqi troops equipment and weapons, the need for American troops could be significantly reduced within three to six months.
ref: 2007 January 18, Damien Cave, “Iraqis Answer Global Critics by Tackling Troubling Issues”, in New York Times:
glosses: A jab (thrust or insult) delivered in reply to a previous one.
counterjabs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of counterjab
everbearing
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: ever-bearing
Etymology: From ever + bearing.
Senses: examples: text: I’m dreaming of Fresca strawberries, an everbearing variety that will produce fruit all summer, if I start the seeds 16 weeks before my last frost date (kitchengardenseeds.com ; (860) 567-6086).
ref: 2007 January 18, Anne Raver, “Is It Spring? Winter? What’s a Flower to Think?”, in New York Times:
glosses: Bearing several crops of fruit throughout the season.
flyaways
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of flyaway
hatband
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hatbands
Etymology: From hat + band.
Senses: examples: text: Yᵉ cast skin of an Addar is an excellent remedie to draw out a Thorne, out of ones flesh. The Sussexians doe weare them for Hatt-bands, wᶜʰ they say doe preserve them from the gripeing of the Gutts
ref: 1687, John Aubrey, Remaines of Gentilisme and Judaisme, page 38:
text: Popping in crimson, yellow, blue and white and tricked out with crystals, feathers and hatbands made of crocodile or contrasting ribbon, today’s fedoras would look at home on any villain in a ’70s Pam Grier movie — but executed with more finesse, and with a price tag to match — from $300 to $1,500.
ref: 2007 January 18, David Colman, “Old Hat? Not on a Young Head”, in New York Times:
synonyms: puggaree
glosses: A band fastened around a hat.
Derived terms: Dick's hatband
gold hatband
hatbands
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hatband
nonhospital
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + hospital.
Senses: examples: text: They recommended that prospective studies should be based on the mothers' intention to have a nonhospital delivery.
ref: 1982, Research issues in the assessment of birth settings:
text: The Abbott product line would help G.E. add nursing homes and other nonhospital medical settings to its base, analysts said.
ref: 2007 January 18, Andrew Ross Sorkin, “G.E. May Buy Abbott’s Diagnostic Unit”, in New York Times:
glosses: Not in or relating to a hospital.
nonhospital
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nonhospitals
Etymology: From non- + hospital.
Senses: examples: text: Nonhospitals could replace the least utilized hospitals, and the area's strengthened surviving hospital could serve as the provider of secondary care for the communities that develop nonhospitals.
ref: 1988, LaVonne Straub, Norman Walzer, Financing Rural Health Care, page 97:
glosses: An institution that is not a hospital.
postconcussive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: post-concussive
Etymology: From post- + concussive.
Senses: examples: text: Because he was coincidentally situated in Pittsburgh, he had examined the brains of two former Pittsburgh Steelers players who were discovered to have had postconcussive brain dysfunction: Mike Webster, who became homeless and cognitively impaired before dying of heart failure in 2002; and Terry Long, who committed suicide in 2005.
ref: 2007 January 18, Alan Schwarz, “Expert Ties Ex-Player’s Suicide to Brain Damage”, in New York Times:
glosses: Postconcussion.
reorg
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: reorgs
form: re-org
Etymology: Abbreviation of reorganization.
Senses: examples: text: The Ribbon reorg and new document formats are by far the most important changes in Office 2007.
ref: 2007 January 18, David Pogue, “Purging Bloat to Fashion Sleek Software”, in New York Times:
text: The opportunity lies in the fact that a reorg makes an organization very limber.
ref: 2007, Michael Lopp, Managing Humans:
glosses: A reorganization.
reorg
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: reorgs
form: reorging
form: reorged
form: reorged
form: re-org
Etymology: Abbreviation of reorganization.
Senses: examples: text: Apple loves to reorg. It reorgs divisions, it reorgs buildings, it reorgs executives […]
ref: 1993, MacUser, volume 9, numbers 10-12, page 36:
glosses: To reorganize.
reorgs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of reorg
reorgs
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of reorg
sleighful
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -eɪfʊl
Forms: form: sleighfuls
form: sleighsful
Etymology: From sleigh + -ful.
Senses: examples: text: […] Santa (soon driving his sleighful / Of presents and candy dollies and toys / For good little animals, good girls and boys)
ref: 1931, Robert L. May, Rudolph, The Red-Nosed Reindeer, Montgomery Ward (publisher)
text: An autobiography by Mr. Gilbert, who is, in case you’re too old to know, the man responsible for the Erector set, sleighsful of educational toys, and the recently adopted American Flyer model railroad.
ref: 1954 September 11, Whitney Balliett, “Just Published”, in Saturday Review, volume XXXVII, number 37, page 56:
text: By the end of December I was the delighted recipient of a sleighful of iced sugar cookies, bottles of Champagne and tiny Christmas tree ornaments (the one shaped like a bird was a regift, but still adorable).
ref: 2007 January 18, Michelle Slatalla, “Rooting Around Grandma’s Basement in Cyberspace”, in New York Times:
glosses: As much as a sleigh will hold.
sleighfuls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sleighful
unslain
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + slain.
Senses: glosses: Not slain; not killed.
hypersalivation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hypersalivations
Etymology: From hyper- + salivation.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: An excessive flow of saliva
nose bleed
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nose bleeds
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of nosebleed.
sideliner
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sideliners
Etymology: From sideline + -er.
Senses: examples: text: The result is more dissent because successful collective action sustains the involvement of old participants while convincing sideliners of the usefulness of protest and ensuring their future participation […]
ref: 1936, American Sociological Review, volume 61, page 135:
text: It’s a bold statement (not to mention a cliché), but Mr. Cardiello, who created this high-energy workout to bring football to sideliners, isn’t afraid to be bold: he is a private trainer for N.F.L. players and former conditioning coach in the Arena Football League.
ref: 2007 January 18, Abby Ellin, “Hard, Easy or Just Right?”, in New York Times:
glosses: One who stays on the sidelines; a spectator or nonparticipant.
glosses: A beekeeper, neither a hobbyist nor a fully-fledged commercial operator, for whom beekeeping is a secondary source of income.
sideliners
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sideliner
billycan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: billycans
Etymology: From billy + can.
Senses: examples: text: The filling of the billycan, cutting the supports to hang it over the fire, was a public show, but many times he would do this anyway to entertain himself. He unpacked the billycan from his old rucksack and I got out the tea and sugar. He filled the billy, then used his penknife to cut sticks to hang it over the fire.
ref: 1997, Ian Player, Zulu Wilderness: Shadow and Soul, page 69:
text: Galloping a hundred yards, then jumping off and remounting an excited horse while holding a full billycan of water and beating everyone back over the starting line without spilling it sounded easy – until you tried. Billycans were lost, dropped, trampled underfoot.
ref: 2010, Kerry McGinnis, Wildhorse Creek, unnumbered page:
text: 2010, Nontsomi Langa, A Xhosa Story: Mbengu-Sonyanganzu, in Harold Scheub, The Uncoiling Python: South African Storytellers and Resistance, page 162,
When they reached the river, Nqunuse's daughter's billycan began to leak.
text: A good billycan was one that had seen many fires, and was pitch black.
ref: 2011, Colin Graham Smith, Shadows of War, page 43:
glosses: A lightweight pot for cooking or boiling water, used in camping.
topstitch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: topstitches
Etymology: From top + stitch.
Senses: topics: business
manufacturing
sewing
textiles
glosses: A sewing technique, most often used on garment edges such as necklines and hems, where it helps facings to stay in place and gives a crisp edge.
glosses: An individual stitch of this kind.
Derived terms: topstitching
topstitch
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: topstitches
form: topstitching
form: topstitched
form: topstitched
Etymology: From top + stitch.
Senses: glosses: To stitch in this fashion.
topstitches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of topstitch
topstitching
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of topstitch
topstitching
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Like the Luella Bartley and Behnaz Sarafpour collections that have been sold at Target, the Proenza Schouler line could be described as representing the best of their past hits: a palm print skirt for $24.99, a hooded cotton anorak for $39.99, a silk camisole with trapunto topstitching for $49.99.
ref: 2007 January 18, Eric Wilson, “Making Money in Multiples”, in New York Times:
glosses: The use of the topstitch technique.
topstitched
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of topstitch
why on Earth
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: examples: text: Why on Earth are you pouring vinegar in your drink?
glosses: used to add emphasis to "why" when beginning a question.
Synonyms: word: why in the world
word: why the dickens
english: profane
translation: profane
word: why in God's name
word: why the Devil
word: why the fuck
word: whyever
why in God's name
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: examples: text: Why in God's name have you got my pizza?
glosses: used to add emphasis to "why" when beginning question.
Synonyms: why the dickens
why on Earth
why the Devil
orpharion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɔːˈfæɹ.i.ən/
ipa: /ɔɹˈfæɹ.i.ən/
ipa: [ɔɹˈfɛɹiən]
rhymes: -æɹiən
Forms: form: orpharions
form: orpherion
Etymology: Blend of Orpheus + Arion
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A musical instrument of the Renaissance, part of the cittern family, whose metal strings are tuned like a lute's and plucked with the fingers.
uncontacted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + contacted.
Senses: examples: text: This week the federal police and the government’s environmental protection agency are to remove hundreds of illegal settlers who invaded the Uru Eu Wau Wau indigenous territory in Rondonia, where uncontacted groups live.
ref: 2007 January 18, Reuters, “More Isolated Indians Survive in Amazon Rain Forest, but Face Peril”, in The New York Times:
glosses: Not contacted.
examples: text: There have been other encounters with uncontacted tribes in recent years.
ref: 2025 April 4, Lex Harvey and Esha Mitra, “US tourist arrested after allegedly attempting to contact ‘world’s most isolated’ tribe”, in CNN:
topics: anthropology
human-sciences
sciences
glosses: Without regular contact with non-tribal societies.
raw_tags: of a tribal society
wigwamlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more wigwamlike
form: most wigwamlike
Etymology: From wigwam + -like.
Senses: examples: text: About 20 yards off a southeast edge of the pond, there was a dense wigwamlike structure of branches and switches rising three feet above the surface.
ref: 2007 January 18, Corey Kilgannon, “Felled Trees in East Hampton: A Prank’s Toll, or a Beaver’s Lunch?”, in New York Times:
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a wigwam.
Synonyms: teepeelike
tepeelike
tipilike
tentlike
orpharions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of orpharion
carom billiards
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A family of billiards games generally played on cloth-covered, pocketless tables, which often feature heated slate beds, typically having as the objective to score points or "counts" by caroming one's own cue ball off both the opponent's cue ball and the object ball(s) on a single shot.
Synonyms: carambole billiards
carambole
Hypernyms: billiards
cue sport
blue ruin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: ‘Till you're full of rag water and bitters and blue ruin’
ref: 1985, Tom Waits, 9th and Hennepin:
text: ‘tell us who the devil ye all are, and what business ye have here, rigged off like the foul fiends, and swilling the snug blue ruin stowed away for the winter by my honest shipmate, Will Wimble the undertaker!’
ref: 1835, Edgar Allan Poe, King Pest:
text: ‘As soon as this "sentiment" had been duly drunk, and Mr. Bagshot had dried his tears and applied himself to his favourite drink,--which, by the way, was "blue ruin,"--the work of division took place.’
ref: 1830, Edward Bulwer-Lytton, Paul Clifford Ch. XVI
text: SIR DEATH is a grim old fellow ; Yet rather facetious at times, When "blue ruin" makes him mellow, And he chants his Stygian rhymes.
ref: 1841, Thomas Noel, Rymes and roundelayes, page 197:
text: "Blue-ruin!" exclaimed Josiah, in amazement. "It's another name for cold gin," replied Constable Giblet...
ref: 1873, J. Fogerty, Lauterdale, page 17:
text: The fighters joined their admirers in lushing Blue Ruin, which was just another name for Daffy, or gin, and Heavy Wet, which was ale.
ref: 1996, A. J. Liebling et al., A Neutral Corner: Boxing Essays, page 35:
text: Jug bitten was all you were. You had enough blue ruin to make any man stagger.
ref: 2005, Edith Layton, Gypsy Lover, page 133:
glosses: Low-end gin, usually home-made.
examples: text: "It's blue ruin." He laughed for the third time. I notice that people always laugh when they prophesy blue ruin.
ref: 1934, Philip Gibbs, European journey, page 116:
text: For a nation to wait in a market of heavily reduced prices for the still lower prices of blue ruin, even if it could wait, would be economic suicide...
ref: 1921, Elbert E. Stevens, Labor digest, page 21:
text: But, Sir, hon. members of the government, led by that old knight of blue ruin, have done something infinitely worse than cry blue ruin.
ref: 1908, House of Commons of Canada, Debates: Official Report, page 398:
text: I was amused at the hon. Minister of Justice telling the hon. leader of the opposition that he was preaching blue ruin now. A few years ago the hon. minister himself was preaching blue ruin. The people of this country should understand that when one party is in power it is all lovely with them, and the other party is preaching blue ruin. I know that the gentlemen forming the ministry, and their supporters, always preached blue ruin until they got into power...
ref: 1899, Senate of Canada, Debates of the Senate of the Dominion of Canada, page 1161:
glosses: Complete and utter ruin, desolation.
English billiards
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A hybrid form of carom and pocket billiards played on a billiard table, for two players or teams.
Synonyms: billiards
Hypernyms: billiards
cue sport
pocket billiards
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Any of a family of billiards games played on a specific class of billiards table, having six receptacles called pockets along the rails, in which balls are deposited as the main goal of play.
glosses: Synonym of pocket pool
synonyms: word: pocket pool
Synonyms: pool
Hypernyms: cue sport
Coordinate terms: carom billiards