cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
stabilitate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: stabilitates
form: stabilitating
form: stabilitated
form: stabilitated
Senses: glosses: To establish.
staccatissimo
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more staccatissimo
form: most staccatissimo
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: Extremely staccato.
jammie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: jammies
Senses: examples: text: a jammie party
text: It's also important for a jammie to have easy access during diaper changes, especially if you're trying to change your kid in the middle of the night without waking him up.
ref: 2007, Joanne Kimes et al., Bedtime Sucks, →ISBN, page 15:
glosses: pajama
jammie
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: jammier
form: jammiest
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of jammy (“lucky; especially undeservedly so”).
pooler
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: poolers
Etymology: From pool + -er.
Senses: glosses: A member of a pool, such as a carpool or press pool
glosses: A stick for stirring a tan vat.
Related terms: car-pooler
carpooler
pondlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pond + -like.
Senses: examples: text: Small streams are usually swift; large streams tend to be slower and often have deep, pondlike areas.
ref: 1974, Samuel Eddy, James Campbell Underhill, Northern Fishes, →ISBN, page 49:
text: Lake Nipigon covers nearly 1,900 square miles, but on a map it looks pondlike compared with the body of water it drains into: Lake Superior, the largest of the five Great Lakes, or as the Anishinaabe call it, Anishinaabewi-gichigami—the Anishinaabe’s Great Lake.
ref: December 2020, Tim Folger, “North America’s most valuable resource is at risk”, in National Geographic:
glosses: Resembling a pond
poolers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pooler
Pooler
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
preinauguration
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pre- + inauguration.
Senses: examples: text: On January 12 I attended one of the preinauguration cabinet meetings.
ref: 1974, John S.D. Eisenhower, Strictly Personal, →ISBN, page 153:
glosses: Preceding an inauguration, often specifically the inauguration of a United States president
Synonyms: preinaugural
padel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈpædəl/
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish pádel, from English paddle (tennis).
Senses: examples: ref: 2022 February 11, Lorenzo Tondo, Sam Jones, “‘No sport has had such success in so short a time’: padel takes off in Italy”, in The Guardian, Guardian Media Group, retrieved 11 Feb 2022:
synonyms: padel tennis
glosses: A racquet sport popular in Spain and Latin America, usually played in doubles on a small, closed court.
Derived terms: padelista
padelwear
Related terms: paddle tennis
laydowns
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of laydown
laydown
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: laydowns
Etymology: Deverbal from lay down.
Senses: examples: text: However, significant smoke was observed during laydown of this mixture.
ref: 1992, T.S. Shuler et al., “Design and Construction of Asphalt Concrete Using Polymer Modified Asphalt Binders”, in Polymer Modified Asphalt Binders, →ISBN, page 125:
glosses: The act of laying something down.
examples: text: It was a week's worth of laydowns portraying the full line of athletic clothing for that season […]
ref: 2006, Susan Linnet Cox, Photo Styling, →ISBN, page 114:
topics: media
publishing
glosses: A physical mockup or layout of a page design.
examples: text: The offense could contrive a variety of laydowns to intensify the defense's problems.
ref: 1984, Ashton B. Carter et al., Ballistic Missile Defense, →ISBN, page 141:
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: A pattern of deployment.
examples: text: North-South rested in five spades, with grand slams in spades and clubs laydown.
ref: 2008 December 26, Phillip Alder, “Set the Toys Aside and Listen to What the Cards Are Saying”, in The New York Times:
topics: bridge
games
glosses: A hand which is so strong that the declarer can simply expose it and claim the number of tricks required by his or her contract.
examples: text: The most important thing to consider when fishing laydowns is to perfectly position your boat before making your very first cast
ref: 2007 February 7, Tim Tucker, “10 tips for fishing fallen trees”, in Bassmaster:
topics: fishing
hobbies
lifestyle
glosses: A tree fallen in water, where anglers might target fish.
laydown
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Deverbal from lay down.
Senses: examples: text: Most C-store category managers prefer pegboard to bagged, and many have stopped carrying laydown bags.
ref: 1997, National Petroleum News, volume 89, numbers 7-13, page 52:
glosses: Of packaging: designed to lie flat rather than stand upright.
glosses: Of (usually nuclear) bomb delivery: designed to land the bomb on the ground and wait for some time before detonation.
Related terms: lay down
there isn't any easy way to say this
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Forms: form: there's no easy way to say this
Senses: glosses: Used to introduce bad news.
di ex machina
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Then appeared three di ex machina in the persons of John Denne, D.D., vicar of St Leonard, Shoreditch, rector of Lambeth, and Archdeacon and Canon of Rochester; Robert Drew, rector of St Margaret Pattens, and Prebendary of St Paul’s; and Reuben Clarke, D.D., rector of St Magnus the Martyr, Archdeacon of Essex, and chaplain in ordinary to George II.
ref: 1913: E.H. Pearce, M.A., Sion College and Library, page 102 (Cambridge University Press) · (also reprinted in 2008)
text: It was in these circumstances that the Romans appeared, practically as di ex machina, with a fleet of two hundred ships, in contrast to the Achaeans’ ten, […]
ref: 1975: Christopher Traugott Hermann Rudolph Ehrhardt, Studies in the Reigns of Demetrius II and Antigonus Doson : Text, page 233 (State University of New York at Buffalo)
text: Of the others, I should say here that their various di ex machina include Tarot cards (The Greater Trumps), […]
ref: 2003, May 31ˢᵗ: Jared Lobdell (editor), The Detective Fiction Reviews of Charles Williams, 1930–1935, page 2 (McFarland & Co.; →ISBN, 9780786414543)
glosses: plural of deus ex machina
so crazy it just might work
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Forms: form: so crazy it might just work
Senses: glosses: Possibly feasible though unconventional; plausible and previously unconsidered as a course of action.
prepresidential
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pre- + presidential.
Senses: examples: text: President Nixon made a gift of prepresidential papers to the government just in time for a substantial deduction on his income tax return for 1968.
ref: 1973 December 10, George Lardner, Jr., “Earlier Nixon Deduction for Gift Disclosed”, in Los Angeles Times, archived from the original on 30 Jun 2013:
glosses: Of or pertaining to the period before a person's ascent to the presidency of a country
Related terms: preinauguration
hakapik
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈhɑkəˌpɪk/
Forms: form: hakapiks
form: hakapick
form: hackapik
form: hackapick
Etymology: From Norwegian Nynorsk hakapik, from hake (“hook”) + pik (“spike”).
Senses: topics: engineering
government
military
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
politics
tools
war
weaponry
glosses: A hunting implement, a long pole with a pick and hammer on the end, used by sealers to bludgeon seals and drag their carcasses to the sealing boat.
hakapiks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hakapik
bumpoff
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bumpoffs
form: bump-off
Etymology: From bump + off, from the phrasal verb.
Senses: examples: text: Frank Buttitta, 28, victim of what police termed a "gang bumpoff," was identified today by Eugene J. Donnelly, assistant Federal attorney, as "the chief Buffalo area distributor for a western New York ring which produced counterfeit gasoline coupons."
ref: 1944 July 23, “Slaying at Buffalo Linked to ‘Gas’ Ring”, in New York Times, page 37:
glosses: A murder.
Related terms: bump off
trattorias
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of trattoria
palazzos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of palazzo
glosses: Synonym of palazzo pants.
synonyms: word: palazzo pants
remeet
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: remeets
form: remeeting
form: remet
form: remet
Etymology: From re- + meet.
Senses: examples: text: We remet five years later, at a friend's party.
glosses: To meet again
remeets
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of remeet
remeeting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of remeet
restio
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: restios
Senses: examples: text: Restios can be found in virtually all habitats of the fynbos, from sandy plains to mountain summits and from very dry places to seasonally wet or to permanent marshes.
ref: 2012, Els Dorrat-Haaksma, H. Peter Linder, Restios of the Fynbos, →ISBN, page 14:
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Any member of the family Restionaceae of perennial, evergreen, rush-like flowering plants native to the Southern Hemisphere.
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: In particular, any member of the genus Restio of the family Restionaceae
whirs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of whir
consortiums
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of consortium
growly
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: growlier
form: growliest
Etymology: From growl + -y.
Senses: examples: text: She sang the blues in a tough, growly voice.
text: The chefs are veritable whizzes at arranging food on your plate to look like happy frog faces and growly clown faces.
ref: 1987, Kerry Cue, Hang On To Your Horses Doovers, page 77:
glosses: Resembling the sound of a growl; throaty.
examples: text: a growly old bear
glosses: Tending to growl.
Derived terms: growliness
growlier
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of growly: more growly
growliest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: […] even the growliest people always smiled when she came near.
ref: 1928, Grace Moon, “IX. Chi-Weé of the High Rock”, in The Runaway Papoose:
glosses: superlative form of growly: most growly
hairspray
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hairsprays
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of hair spray.
hairspray
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: hairsprays
form: hairspraying
form: hairsprayed
form: hairsprayed
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of hair spray.
stickball
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stickballs
Etymology: From stick + ball.
Senses: examples: text: Boys were playing stickball in the damp, cold streets; dressed in heavy woollen sweaters and heavy trousers, they danced and shouted, and the ball went crack as the stick struck it and sent it speeding through the air.
ref: 1953, James Baldwin, Go Tell It on the Mountain, Penguin Classics (2001), page 34:
glosses: A street game similar to baseball, played with a stick, a ball and various ad hoc materials; found primarily in large cities in the northeastern United States.
glosses: The ball used in this game.
oenophiles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of oenophile
mantinada
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mantinades
Etymology: Borrowed from Greek μαντινάδα (mantináda), from Venetan matinada (“a song of the morning”).
Senses: glosses: An improvised Cretan rhyming couplet.
lawyerly
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more lawyerly
form: most lawyerly
Etymology: From lawyer + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: She rewrote the letter to make it sound more lawyerly.
text: Norton had made a neat, lawyerly check beside each of the items he and Billy had picked up—half a dozen or so, including the milk and a six-pack of Coke.
ref: 1980, Stephen King, The Mist, Viking Press:
glosses: Characteristic of, or suitable to, a lawyer.
Derived terms: lawyerliness
unlawyerly
reinventions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of reinvention
hotpants
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of hot pants.
remissive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more remissive
form: most remissive
Etymology: From Latin remissivus. See remit.
Senses: examples: text: a most merciful King, who was most remiſſive of Wrongs
ref: 1693, John Hacket, Scrinia Reserata:
glosses: Remitting; forgiving; abating.
earthlings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of earthling
epistomatic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From epi- + stomatic.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Having stomata on the upper surface only
raw_tags: of a leaf
equifacial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -eɪʃəl
Etymology: From equi- + facial.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: Having equal faces.
raw_tags: of a polyhedron
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Having both sides the same.
raw_tags: of a leaf
phyllotaxy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: phyllotaxies
Senses: glosses: phyllotaxis
terdiurnal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From ter- + diurnal.
Senses: glosses: three times per day.
Related terms: tridaily
Terpsichorean
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: dance
dancing
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: Alternative form of terpsichorean; of or relating to dancing.
terraceous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more terraceous
form: most terraceous
Etymology: From Latin terra (“earth”) + -aceous.
Senses: examples: text: The progress that we made through the terraceous compost was necessarily slow, and every step forward was made with the greatest difficulty, nothing but persevering labour carrying our boat gradually through it.
ref: 1863, Frederic John Mouat, Adventures and Researches Among the Andaman Islanders, page 151:
glosses: Resembling earth (soil, dirt).
Synonyms: earthen
earthy
terrorizer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: terrorizers
form: terroriser
Etymology: From terrorize + -er.
Senses: glosses: Someone who terrorizes, who induces terror, a terror.
Related terms: terrorist
tesselation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tesselations
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of tessellation.
tesserae
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tessera
tesseral
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more tesseral
form: most tesseral
Etymology: From tessera + -al.
Senses: glosses: Of, pertaining to, or made up of tesserae.
glosses: isometric.
Synonyms: tesselar
tessular
Derived terms: ditesseral
tesseral
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Blend of tessara + numeral, used in 1983 to describe such systems over various isohedral tilings of the plane.
Senses: examples: text: tesseral arithmetic
text: tesseral mathematics
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: Describing number systems, algebras, and algorithms over labeled hierarchical subdivisions of space.
dizzyingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more dizzyingly
form: most dizzyingly
Etymology: From dizzying + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: The dervish whirled dizzyingly fast.
glosses: To a dizzying degree, or in a dizzying manner
printings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈpɹɪntɪŋz/
Senses: glosses: plural of printing
unnervingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: /ˈʌnˈnɜːvɪŋlɪ/
Forms: form: more unnervingly
form: most unnervingly
Etymology: From unnerving + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Her companion was unnervingly quiet.
glosses: To an unnerving degree
unflatteringly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more unflatteringly
form: most unflatteringly
Etymology: From unflattering + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: The lights shone unflatteringly on his sweaty face.
glosses: In such a manner as to be unflattering
gleamingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more gleamingly
form: most gleamingly
Etymology: From gleaming + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: And Hunt's tender heart's ease looks gleamingly out, […]
ref: 1822, “Epistle to W. W.”, in The Scots Magazine, volumes 89-90, page 314:
text: "Gleamingly the Dead arise
Viewing with their death-calmed eyes
The elemental strategies"
ref: 1838, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, The Seraphim:
text: His horror became a madness ; his eyes ran gleamingly along the shore, to detect the demon hand that had in the very moment of his bliss struck from his heart the living impulse of his soul.
ref: 1852, Pierce Egan, The London Apprentice, and the Goldsmith's Daughter of West Chepe: A Tale in the Time of Bluff King Hal, Book ⅠⅠⅠ, Chapter ⅩⅩⅠⅠⅠ published in London by W. S. Johnson, p. 212
glosses: While gleaming, or so as to gleam.
numerologically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From numerological + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: The superstitious king tried to solve his problems numerologically.
glosses: By means of, or in relation to, numerology
infructescence
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: infructescences
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: The fruiting stage of an inflorescence.
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: A group of fruits arranged on a stem in a characteristic pattern.
quiveringly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more quiveringly
form: most quiveringly
Etymology: From quivering + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: He stepped quiveringly forward.
glosses: While quivering, or as if quivering
Related terms: quaveringly
blinkingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more blinkingly
form: most blinkingly
Etymology: From blinking + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Sir Daniel, brushing the blood out of his eyes, stared blinkingly upon his captive.
ref: 1883, Robert Louis Stevenson, The Black Arrow, Book 4:
glosses: While blinking, or as if blinking
concertolike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more concertolike
form: most concertolike
Etymology: From concerto + -like.
Senses: examples: a concertolike interplay
glosses: Resembling a concerto
fablelike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more fablelike
form: most fablelike
Etymology: From fable + -like.
Senses: examples: text: The story had a fablelike quality.
glosses: Resembling a fable or fairy tale
Synonyms: fabulous
fantastic
prettied
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of pretty
rocketlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more rocketlike
form: most rocketlike
Etymology: From rocket + -like.
Senses: examples: a rocketlike projectile
glosses: Resembling a rocket, especially in shape, speed or energy
petlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more petlike
form: most petlike
Etymology: From pet + -like.
Senses: examples: text: Despite their petlike appearance, miniature horses do more than just look cute.
ref: 1988 August 20, Darlene Sordillo, “Mini Horses are Small Wonders”, in Los Angeles Times, archived from the original on 30 Jun 2013:
glosses: Resembling a housepet
intoxicatedlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more intoxicatedlike
form: most intoxicatedlike
Senses: examples: text: Nitrogen may be used as the diluant for dives to a few hundred feet, but thereafter it leads to the intoxicatedlike state called 'nitrogen narcosis.”
ref: 1974 December, D.R. Thorne, A. Findling, A.J. Bachrach, “Muscle tremors under helium, neon, nitrogen, and nitrous oxide at 1 to 37 atm.”, in Journal of applied Physiology, volume 37, number 6:
text: At home I lay down and sank into a not unpleasant intoxicatedlike condition, characterized by an extremely stimulated imagination.
ref: 1980, Albert Hofmann, LSD, my problem child, page 15:
text: The first of these studies (Henderson and Goldman, 1987) used a limited expectancy challenge procedure that consisted primarily of administration of a placebo alcohol beverage and subsequent disclosure of the placebo nature of this beverage after subjects had engaged in intoxicatedlike behavior.
ref: 1993, Keith S. Dobson, Philip C. Kendall, Psychopathology and Cognition, →ISBN, page 281:
glosses: Alternative form of intoxicated-like.
charmless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more charmless
form: most charmless
Etymology: From charm + -less.
Senses: examples: text: I met him in a crowded room / Where people go to drink away their gloom / He sat me down and so began / The story of a charmless man.
ref: 1996, “Charmless Man”, performed by Blur:
glosses: unpleasant, unappealing, lacking charm
raw_tags: of character
Derived terms: charmlessly
charmlessness
wifehood
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwʌɪfhʊd/
Forms: form: wifehoods
form: wivehood
Etymology: From Middle English wifhode, wifhod, wifhede, from Old English wīfhād (“femininity; the female sex”), equivalent to wife + -hood.
Senses: examples: text: During the week they spent at Windsor all their necessary furniture was sent in; the more ornamental articles it was decided to leave to the choice of the fair mistress, and, as she had no visits to pay or receive, the occupation it gave Louisa saved her from any mortification she might have felt on sinking at once into the state of happy wifehood.
ref: 1838 (date written), L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XVI, in Lady Anne Granard; or, Keeping up Appearances. […], volume I, London: Henry Colburn, […], published 1842, →OCLC, page 199:
glosses: The quality or state of being a wife.
examples: text: That girdle gave the vertue of chast love, / And wivehood true, to all that did it beare […].
ref: 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book IV, Canto V”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
glosses: The character or behaviour that befits a good wife; wifeliness.
Related terms: motherhood
toddlerhood
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɒdl̩əhʊd/
ipa: /ˈtɒdləhʊd/
ipa: /ˈtɑd(ə)lɚˌhʊd/
Forms: form: toddlerhoods
Etymology: From toddler + -hood (suffix forming nouns denoting conditions or states of being).
Senses: examples: text: We’ve been friends ever since toddlerhood.
text: [T]he stage at which mother showed herself to her infant in her true colours was whilst breast feeding was still going on, and any difficulties that belonged to toddlerhood had their roots reaching back to this stage.
ref: 1937, E[leanor] Joyce Partridge et al., The Management of Early Infancy, London: C[harles] W[illiam] Daniel, →OCLC, page 25:
text: And, like most boring mothers, I fret about schools. Where I grew up, everyone went to the nearest village primary school and the local comprehensive. But here, since the earliest days of Isobel’s toddlerhood, my friends and acquaintances have been engaged in an arms race.
ref: 2014 December 20, Rebecca Ley, “City versus country childhoods”, in Alan Rusbridger, editor, The Guardian, London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 28 Apr 2021:
synonyms: toddlerdom
glosses: The period of one's life in which one is a toddler (“a young child who has started walking but not fully mastered it, typically between one and three years old”).
Hypernyms: childhood
Coordinate terms: adolescence
adulthood
babyhood
elderhood
infancy
infanthood
oldhood
teenagehood
teenagerhood
teenhood
tweenhood
cottoning
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of cotton
cottoned
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of cotton
kerchiefed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: kerchieved
Etymology: From kerchief + -ed.
Senses: glosses: Wearing a kerchief.
Derived terms: unkerchiefed
walkability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: walkabilities
Etymology: From walkable + -ity or walk + -ability.
Senses: examples: text: This neighborhood has great walkability.
text: For Darren Roach, 42, a Chicago native, walkability and night life were crucial when it came time to buy a home.
ref: 2019 November 19, Debra Kamin, “North Park, San Diego: The Rewards of ‘Walkability’”, in The New York Times:
glosses: The quality of being walkable.
Related terms: cyclability
unthreatening
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unthreatening
form: most unthreatening
Etymology: From un- + threatening.
Senses: examples: text: He has a very unthreatening manner.
glosses: Not threatening
Synonyms: nonthreatening
non-threatening
toddlerhoods
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of toddlerhood
unsurrendering
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + surrendering.
Senses: examples: text: She had an unsurrendering optimism.
glosses: Not surrendering; indomitable
millionairess
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: millionairesses
Etymology: millionaire + -ess
Senses: glosses: A woman whose wealth is greater than one million dollars, or the local currency; a female millionaire.
Related terms: megamillionairess
multimillionairess
rebaptize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: rebaptizes
form: rebaptizing
form: rebaptized
form: rebaptized
form: rebaptise
Etymology: From re- + baptize.
Senses: examples: text: She's a freako religious number, pushing Christians into any trough of water handy to rebaptize them.
ref: 1976 August 14, Bunny LaRue, “Levitation Anyone?”, in Gay Community News, volume 4, number 7, page 5:
glosses: To baptize again.
examples: text: After the fire destroyed the Bronx pub, it was rebaptized “The Bronx 2”.
glosses: To rename.
Related terms: rebaptism
rebaptizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of rebaptize
hypostomatic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more hypostomatic
form: most hypostomatic
Etymology: From hypo- + stomatic.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Having stomata (mostly) on the underneath (foliar abaxial surface)
raw_tags: of a leaf
rebaptizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of rebaptize
rebaptized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of rebaptize
isolateral
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ætəɹəl
Forms: form: more isolateral
form: most isolateral
Etymology: From iso- + lateral.
Senses: glosses: Having similar upper and lower (or front and back) surfaces
Derived terms: contraisolateral
ololiuhqui
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ololiuqui
Etymology: From Nahuatl.
Senses: glosses: A Latin American morning glory (Ipomoea corymbosa, syns. Turbina corymbosa, Rivea corymbosa) whose seeds are hallucinogenic.
Synonyms: Christmasvine
snakeplant
clubgoer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: clubgoers
form: club-goer
Etymology: From club + goer.
Senses: glosses: Someone who goes to a nightclub for pleasure.
Synonyms: clubber
soundstage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: soundstages
Senses: examples: text: This is the west-coast take on structured freedom, and it's a wonderfully far cry from the film soundstages where too many LA jazzmen grow rich and stiff.
ref: 1988 October 28, Neil Tesser, “Vinny Golia Quintet”, in Chicago Reader:
text: The studio, in the Astoria section of Queens, will break ground this fall on a $20 million building, with an 18,000-square-foot soundstage and 22,000 square feet of support space, on a plot of land diagonally across 36th Street from its current building, which is between 34th and 35th Avenues.
ref: 2008 June 11, Jane L. Levere, “A Big New York City Movie Studio Is Getting Bigger”, in The New York Times:
glosses: Alternative form of sound stage.
telestrator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: telestrators
Etymology: Blend of tele- + demonstrator
Senses: glosses: A device that allows its operator to draw a freehand sketch over a motion picture image.
Related terms: telestration
telestrators
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of telestrator
staticky
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈstætɪki/
Forms: form: more staticky
form: most staticky
Etymology: From static + -y.
Senses: examples: text: The radio signal was staticky and we could barely hear the announcer.
text: In that spirit, some young musicians now are creating music that has been described as “hypnagogic” or “hauntological.” The melodies and rhythms are reminiscent of catchy pop songs of previous decades, but recorded in a way that simulates the effects of age — fuzzy and staticky — as if worn out or heard at a great distance through a grimy haze.
ref: 2011 August 4, Carl Wilson, “‘My So-Called Adulthood’”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
related: word: staticy
glosses: Resembling or containing static.
Derived terms: statickiness
Related terms: antistatic
static cling
clingfilm
superfans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of superfan
superfan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: superfans
Etymology: From super- + fan.
Senses: examples: text: Baseball has its superstars, pro football has created a superbowl, and college football is stuck with the superfans.
ref: 1966 October 30, “Superfans Hurt College Football”, in Washington Post, archived from the original on 30 Jun 2013, page C7:
text: Subscription and fan donations can enable creators with even modest audience sizes to earn substantial amounts. These direct fan payment models facilitate greater monetization of highly-engaged superfans, in contrast with ad-based models that reward scale and reach.
ref: 2020 December 17, Li Jin, “The Creator Economy Needs a Middle Class”, in Harvard Business Review, →ISSN:
glosses: An extremely dedicated fan
Synonyms: megafan
stan
trufan
uberfan
swoopy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: swoopier
form: swoopiest
Etymology: From swoop + -y.
Senses: examples: text: The car has a swoopy roofline.
text: The new version is longer and wider. It has a tighter suspension, dual air bags, available antilock brakes and a swoopier look.
ref: 1994 January 16, Marshall Schuon, “ABOUT CARS; After a 15-Year Run, the Old Mustang Yields to a Fresh Colt”, in The New York Times:
text: “It looked good, in a swoopy kind of way — maybe a little too much like the Batmobile — and it got a lot of interest,” he said. “But it wasn’t running. So we decided to convert it into something that would actually run.”
ref: 2010 March 12, Jerry Garrett, “Leno Engineers a Rerun for the Turbine Car”, in The New York Times:
text: Hand-lettering, swoopy and bold, and the cowboy sign painters who practice it are the subject of “Sign Painters,” published this month by Princeton Architectural Press.
ref: 2012 November 28, Penelope Green, “A Sign Painter’s Collection of Love Letters”, in The New York Times:
text: AROUND six years ago, Hyundai figured a 10-year warranty was not enough to attract shoppers and conjured up daring design for more attention. Sonata was the first to get the Fluidic Sculpture makeover, but the fifth-generation Elantra ended up being the swoopiest of the fleet. Hyundai’s newest gamble? Toning down those curves.
ref: 2016 April 28, Tom Voelk, “Video Review: Hyundai Elantra Offers Fewer Curves, but a Better Ride”, in The New York Times:
glosses: Having a swooping shape or motion.
Derived terms: swoopily
swoopiness
enfants terribles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of enfant terrible
rip-offs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rip-off
postsectarian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more postsectarian
form: most postsectarian
form: post-sectarian
Etymology: From post- + sectarian.
Senses: examples: text: This development is to be seen in the context of the current popularity of describing aspects of the present scene as "post" something—post-Christian, post-Constantinian, post-Protestant, postliberal, postmodern, postsectarian, postcommunist, not to mention the almost sacred posts of the biblical scholars.
ref: 1985, Sidney Earl Mead, The Nation with the Soul of a Church, Mercer University Press, →ISBN, page 11:
text: For if the core members of the Vietnam Lobby stood for anything in the 1950s, it was a vision of a postsectarian world whose embrace of the "culture concept" ensured universal tolerance and human freedom, the veritable free marketplace of ideas for which expansive Americans had so long yearned.
ref: 2000, Christian G. Appy, Cold War Constructions: The Political Culture of United States Imperialism, 1945-1966, Univ of Massachusetts Press, →ISBN, page 233:
text: Indeed, the field reads like postsectarian, postpartisan Australia's collective sigh of relief at having left behind what Robert Alford, in 1963, called our 'politics of class and religion'.
ref: 2001, Marion Maddox, For God and Country: religious dynamics in Australian federal politics, Australia. Dept. of the Parliamentary Library, Information and Research Services, chap. 1
glosses: After or beyond sects or sectarianism, especially as a reaction to sectarianism.
postsectarian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: postsectarians
form: post-sectarian
Etymology: From post- + sectarian.
Senses: examples: ref: 1963, Val Clear, “Reflections of a Postsectarian”, in The Christian Century, 80 (Jan. 16, 1963), 72-75:
glosses: An adherent of postsectarian philosophy.
pacificate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: pacificates
form: pacificating
form: pacificated
form: pacificated
Senses: glosses: To pacify; to make peaceful.
divertissement
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: divertissements
form: divertisement
form: archaic
Etymology: From French.
Senses: glosses: An entertaining diversion.
examples: text: Patricia Delgado, though taller and paler-skinned, strongly resembles Jeanette, and in Miami they often dance together (in the “Emeralds” pas de trois from “Jewels,” for example, or leading successive divertissements in Balanchine’s “Swan Lake”).
ref: 2009 January 24, Alastair Macaulay, “A Young, Lively Crew From Florida Steps Up and Takes Flight”, in New York Times:
qualifier: ballet
glosses: A short ballet within a larger work, usually providing a break from the main plot.
Derived terms: divertissementlike
Schemers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Schemer
testudinal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Latin testūdō + -in- + -al.
Senses: glosses: Of, or relating to, tortoises.
examples: text: ‘Your nightclubs. What do you say?’ He blinked slowly, like a tortoise.
The clubs were worth twice that, at least. Another testudinal blink from Azzopardi.
ref: 2022, Kate Atkinson, Shrines of Gaiety, Doubleday, page 121:
glosses: Resembling a tortoise.
Synonyms: testudinarious
testudinate
tetanal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Of, or relating to, tetanus.
tethydan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tethydans
Senses: glosses: tunicate
tetrachotomous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From tetrachotomy + -ous.
Senses: glosses: Dividing or branching into four equal pieces.
Coordinate terms: dichotomous
trichotomous
tetrachromatic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From tetra- + chromatic.
Senses: glosses: Having four independent channels for conveying color information.
Synonyms: word: quadchromatic
word: quadrichromatic
Related terms: tetrachromacy
tetrachromat
tetrachromacy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˌtɛtɹəˈkɹoʊməsi/
Etymology: From tetra- + chromo- + -acy.
Senses: glosses: The quality of having four independent channels for conveying color information in the eye.
Related terms: tetrachromat
tetrachromatic
penny-wise and pound-foolish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of penny wise and pound foolish.
pentachromacy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From penta- + chromo- + -acy.
Senses: glosses: The quality of having five independent channels for conveying color information in the eye.
Related terms: pentachromat
pentachromatic
trichromacy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: trichromacies
Etymology: tri- + Ancient Greek χρῶμα (khrôma, “color”).
Senses: glosses: The quality of having three independent channels for conveying color information in the eye.
Related terms: trichromat
trichromatic
Tolstoyan
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Tolstoyan
form: most Tolstoyan
form: Tolstoian
Etymology: From Tolstoy + -an.
Senses: examples: 2005, James D. Hunt, An American Looks at Gandhi, Bibliophile South Asia, page 37 http://books.google.com/books?id=kNvTdX52nw8C&pg=PA37&dq=tolstoyan&lr=
This essay will look first at Gandhi's knowledge of Tolstoy and proceed to the persons, organizations, and books that enlarged and enriched Gandhi's knowledge of Tolstoyan values.
glosses: Of or relating to Leo Tolstoy, the Russian writer.
Tolstoyan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Tolstoyans
form: Tolstoian
Etymology: From Tolstoy + -an.
Senses: glosses: A follower of Tolstoy, who advocates and practises manual labor, simplicity of living, non-resistance, etc., holds that possession of wealth and ownership of property are sinful, and rejects all religious teachings not coming directly from Christ.
dichromacy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: di- + Ancient Greek χρῶμα (khrôma, “color”).
Senses: glosses: The quality of having two independent channels for conveying color information in the eye.
Related terms: dichromat
dichromatic
monochromacy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: mono- + Ancient Greek χρῶμα (khrôma, “color”).
Senses: glosses: The quality of having only one independent channel for conveying color information in the eye, i.e. total color blindness.
Related terms: monochromat
monochromatic
tetradactyl
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From tetra- + Ancient Greek δάκτυλος (dáktulos, “finger”).
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Having four digits on a limb.
Derived terms: tetradactyly
tetradactyl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tetradactyls
Etymology: From tetra- + Ancient Greek δάκτυλος (dáktulos, “finger”).
Senses: glosses: Any animal having four digits on a limb.
tridactyl
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From tri- + Ancient Greek δάκτυλος (dáktulos, “finger”).
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Having three digits on a limb.
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Composed of three movable parts attached to a common base.
Derived terms: tridactyly
tridactyl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tridactyls
Etymology: From tri- + Ancient Greek δάκτυλος (dáktulos, “finger”).
Senses: glosses: Any animal having three digits on a limb.
pentadactyl
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From penta- + -dactyl.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Having five digits on a limb.
Synonyms: quinquedigitate
Derived terms: pentadactylism
pentadactyloid
pentadactyly
collagens
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of collagen
tetraglot
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From tetra- + -glot.
Senses: glosses: Able to speak four languages.
tetrapla
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈtɛtrəplə/
Forms: form: tetraplas
Etymology: From Ancient Greek τετραπλᾶ (tetraplâ), neuter plural of τετραπλοῦς (tetraploûs, “fourfold”), from τετρα- (tetra-, “tetra-: four”) + -πλόος (-plóos, “-fold”).
Senses: glosses: A text presented in four parallel versions, especially (historical) the version of the Bible presented in such a fashion by Origen.
Synonyms: tetraples
Hypernyms: quartet
Related terms: hexapla
octapla
tetrapous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Having four feet; four-footed
Related terms: tetrapod
reengineer
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: reengineers
form: reengineering
form: reengineered
form: reengineered
form: re-engineer
Etymology: From re- + engineer.
Senses: glosses: To engineer again, to redesign or extensively modify in design.
reengineers
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of reengineer
reengineered
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of reengineer
Thar
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Hindi थर (thar), from थल (thal, “desert”), from Sanskrit स्थल (sthala, “land”).
Senses: glosses: A desert in India and Pakistan
reclone
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: reclones
form: recloning
form: recloned
form: recloned
Etymology: From re- + clone.
Senses: glosses: To clone again.
reclones
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of reclone
recloning
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of reclone
recloned
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of reclone
recurve
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ɹɪˈkɜː(ɹ)v/
Forms: form: recurves
Etymology: From re- + curve.
Senses: examples: text: not as much recurve as a kukri would have, but plenty enough to make me smile
glosses: A type of knife blade shape that involves several curves including a concave curve on a portion of the edge, resulting in a belly that is lower than the handle bottom.
glosses: A recurve bow.
glosses: A landform consisting of a hook at the tip of a coastal spit.
Derived terms: recurve-billed bushbird
recurve
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /ɹɪˈkɜː(ɹ)v/
Forms: form: recurves
form: recurving
form: recurved
form: recurved
Etymology: From re- + curve.
Senses: glosses: To curve again, to rebend.
glosses: To curve back on itself.
examples: text: Nearly all of the storms which originate in the Cape Verde region first move in a westerly direction over the Atlantic and later recurve in a northerly or northeasterly direction.
ref: 1934, Ivan Ray Tannehill, The Hurricane, page 6:
text: He also developed a methodology for predicting when a hurricane will recurve to the north and for predicting average storm motion based on the latitude and time of year.
ref: 2006, Patrick J. Fitzpatrick, Hurricanes: A Reference Handbook, →ISBN, page 227:
glosses: To change direction.
raw_tags: of a storm
Derived terms: recurve bow
recurves
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of recurve
recurving
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of recurve
recurving
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: recurvings
Senses: glosses: A curving again, or back on itself; a meander.
panty raids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of panty raid
requestor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: requestors
Etymology: From request + -or; compare requester.
Senses: examples: text: The CLASS field allows the requestor to identify the format of data which can be understood by the requestor.
ref: 1983 November, Paul Mockapetris, “Domain Names - Implementation and Specification”, in RFC Editor, →ISSN, RFC 883:
text: Consider for example a scenario in which there are ten memory requestors, each with a separate memory account. Eight of these requestors together use only 1/5 of the system memory but the other two requestors each require 2/3 of the system memory.
ref: 1996, Scott H. Clearwater, Market-based Control: A Paradigm for Distributed Resource Allocation:
text: TURN is a useful command, but it's also a security risk, because the queued mail is sent back to the requestor over the same connection, so anyone can ask for your queued mail and get it!
ref: 1999 July, Paul Robichaux, Managing Microsoft Exchange Server: Hands-on Advice for Planning, Optimization & Growth, O'Reilly, →ISBN, page 259:
text: Based on your representation that the requestor is not within the ambit of section 501.205(b) and our review of the submitted information, we conclude that the submitted information is excepted from public disclosure under section 552.101 […]
ref: 2007, James Ray Hays, Emily G. Sutter, Robert McPherson, Texas Law and the Practice of Psychology: A Sourcebook, page 200:
text: The importance of successfully obtaining the demographics of the requestor is twofold. First, one must be able to identify the appropriate mode of communication in order to effectively respond to the drug information question.
ref: 2015, Michael Gabay, The Clinical Practice of Drug Information, page 13:
synonyms: asker
antonyms: denier
granter
grantor
requestee
supplier
glosses: One who, or that which, makes a request.
requestors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of requestor
relief valve
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: relief valves
Senses: glosses: Synonym of safety valve.
synonyms: word: safety valve
relief valves
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of relief valve
relatedly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more relatedly
form: most relatedly
Etymology: From related + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Dellamora argues that Swinburne's "Anactoria" aims "to free desire" by making sexual difference and orientation "indeterminate" (77). Slightly earlier in Masculine Desire, he argues relatedly that Swinburne "enjoyed imagining such possibilities" as "male-male genital activity" (69).
ref: 1999, Christopher Lane, The Burdens of Intimacy, Chicago, page 263, note 23
text: Voegelin remarks: "I got into these problems of mysticism as a teenager, not because of religious education in school (I went to a Protestant Sunday School), but because Hindus came to give lectures. But one must get it from somewhere." […] Elsewhere he remarked relatedly: "I can quite definitely see that I got the practice of meditation by reading Upanishads […] ."
ref: 2006, Ellis Sandoz, Republicanism, Religion, and the Soul of America, Missouri, page 176, note 41
glosses: In a related manner.
examples: text: While there is now a Department of Constitutional Affairs, there is no formal constitution. Relatedly, there is no fundamental questioning of the exercise of the prerogative powers by the Prime Minister, the position of the monarchy, and the relation between church and state.
ref: a. 2004, Dilys M. Hill, “Constitutional Reform”, in Raymond Plant, Matt Beech, Kevin Hickson, editors, The Struggle for Labour's Soul, Routledge, published 2004, →ISBN, page 224:
text: […] a compulsive need to interpet and mine just about everything for hidden meaning, to see any trivial occurrence as a sign or omen of what might come. There is, relatedly, the drive to produce signs (headties, graffiti, and the like) for one's own community, for other social actors, for larger relevant audiences, and not the least, for the enemy Other.
ref: a. 2006, Patricia Spyer, "Some Notes on Disorder in the Indonesian Postcolony", in, 2006, Jean Comaroff and John L. Comaroff, editors, Law and Disorder in the Postcolony, Chicago, page 206
glosses: Used to indicate that the accompanying statement is related (connected) to a preceding statement or occurrence.
examples: text: As noted earlier, cooperation between the United States and Mexico in police matters mostly revolves around the drug trade and has relatedly been hampered by the influence of corruption.
ref: a. 2001, Mathieu Deflem, "International Police Cooperation in North America", in, 2001, Daniel J. Koenig and Dilip K. Das, editors, International Police Cooperation: A world perspective, Lexington, page 90
glosses: Used to indicate that the accompanying statement may not be true, but has been said to be true.
Synonyms: sense: indicating a statement is merely claimed to be true
word: allegedly
sense: indicating a statement is merely claimed to be true
word: supposedly
Related terms: coincidentally
reknown
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Confusion with known, which is unrelated.
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of renown.