cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
rekidnap
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: rekidnaps
form: rekidnapping
form: rekidnaping
form: rekidnapped
form: rekidnapped
form: rekidnaped
form: rekidnaped
Etymology: From re- + kidnap.
Senses: examples: text: He was rekidnapped in 1990, and never seen again.
ref: 2009 July 15, Joyce Hor-Chung Lau, “Courtroom Circus: A Feng Shui Master and a $4 Billion Estate”, in New York Times:
glosses: To kidnap again.
rekidnapping
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of rekidnap
rekidnaps
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of rekidnap
rekidnapped
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of rekidnap
ungrand
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more ungrand
form: most ungrand
Etymology: From un- + grand.
Senses: examples: text: But at the moment it’s filled with the distinctly ungrand contents of one person’s everyday life.
ref: 2009 July 15, Holland Cotter, “The Collected Ingredients of a Beijing Life”, in New York Times:
glosses: Not grand.
ergonometric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more ergonometric
form: most ergonometric
Senses: examples: text: Other companies are developing shirts with ergonometric seams, taping inspired by physical therapy equipment and compression panels.
ref: 2009 July 16, Eric Wilson, “Men, Breathe in and Hold It”, in New York Times:
glosses: ergonomic
intrafactional
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From intra- + factional.
Senses: examples: text: Even with the nuance, the vote was a momentous step for a church that has been mired in intrafactional warfare over homosexuality for more than a decade.
ref: 2009 July 16, Laurie Goodstein, “Episcopal Bishops Give Ground on Gay Marriage”, in New York Times:
glosses: Within a single faction.
semicontrolled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From semi- + controlled.
Senses: examples: text: The mower leaves the base and maneuvers in a semicontrolled pattern until all the grass is mowed.
ref: 2009 July 16, Stephen Treffinger, “Cut Your Carbon Footprint, Too”, in New York Times:
glosses: Under a certain amount of control.
taxodium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /tækˈsoʊdiəm/
rhymes: -oʊdiəm
Forms: form: taxodiums
Etymology: From the genus name.
Senses: examples: text: It was a bright July morning, and she was showing off her garden, a “Through the Looking Glass” landscape of taxodium, cryptomeria and juniper, alliums, corkscrew grass and ostrich ferns[…]
ref: 2009 July 16, Penelope Green, “Feathering Her Nest”, in New York Times:
glosses: Any of the genus Taxodium of flood-tolerant conifers in the cypress family.
taxodiums
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of taxodium
cataraft
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: catarafts
Etymology: Blend of catamaran + raft
Senses: examples: text: I have a 14-foot raft and a cataraft, which is a raft with two pontoons and a frame that can carry me and two other passengers.
ref: 2009 July 17, “Reading the River”, in New York Times:
glosses: A long raft with two pontoons, capable of carrying more than one person.
catarafts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cataraft
ballache
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ballaches
form: ball ache
form: ballsache
Etymology: From ball + ache. See ball (“testicle”).
Senses: glosses: A nuisance.
financialization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /fʌɪˌnanʃl̩ʌɪˈzeɪʃn̩/
Forms: form: financialisation
Etymology: From financialize + -ation.
Senses: examples: text: Such growth would be fine if financialization really delivered on its promises—if financial firms made money by directing capital to its most productive uses, by developing innovative ways to spread and reduce risk.
ref: 2009 July 17, Paul Krugman, “The Joy of Sachs”, in New York Times:
text: This book is a contribution to efforts to retheorize financialization, a term which refers to the increased power of the financial sector in the economy, in politics, in social life and in culture writ large.
ref: 2014, M. Haiven, Cultures of Financialization: Fictitious Capital in Popular Culture and Everyday Life, Springer, →ISBN, page 1:
text: First, it is necessary to be explicit about what I am not asserting: specifically, that financialization represents an entirely novel phase of capitalism.
ref: 2014, J. Timmons Roberts, Amy Bellone Hite, Nitsan Chorev, The Globalization and Development Reader: Perspectives on Development and Global Change, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 294:
text: The primary complaint leveled against the financialization of economies is that much of this activity is geared towards rent seeking.
ref: 2015, Martin Ford, The Rise of the Robots, Oneworld Publications:
text: The most widely cited definition of the term ‘financialization’ is probably that given by Epstein (2005) in his introduction to his edited book Financialization and the World Economy: ‘here we will cast the net widely and define financialization quite broadly: for us, financialization means the increasing role of financial motives, financial markets, financial actors, and financial institutions in the operation of the domestic and international economies’ (p. 3).
ref: 2015, Sebastiano Fadda, Pasquale Tridico, The Economic Crisis in Social and Institutional Context: Theories, Policies and Exit Strategies, Routledge, →ISBN:
text: In other words, financialisation means more and bigger financial institutions—from banks, to hedge funds, to pension funds—wielding a much greater influence over other economic actors—from consumers, to businesses, to the state. The growth of finance has led to the emergence of a new economic model—financialisation represents a deep, structural change in how the economy works.
ref: 2019, Grace Blakeley, Stolen, →ISBN:
text: In recent decades, America has experienced the financialization of its economy. In 1980, Congress repealed regulations that had been in place since the 1933 Glass-Steagall Act, allowing banks to merge and charge their customers higher interest rates.
ref: 2019 August 14, Matthew Desmond, “In order to understand the brutality of American capitalism, you have to start on the plantation”, in New York Times:
topics: economics
sciences
glosses: Conversion of intangible value into financial instruments.
glosses: The act of making, or treating as, financial; bringing something into the sphere of finance.
Related terms: financialize
intertank
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: intertanks
Etymology: From inter- + tank.
Senses: examples: text: As shown in photographs taken of the external tank after it was jettisoned, most of the missing foam peeled off in strips from the intertank section.
ref: 2009 July 17, Kenneth Chang, “NASA Optimistic That Debris Did Not Damage Shuttle”, in New York Times:
glosses: A structure in between the stacked tanks of a rocket body, where one tank is arranged above/below another, in the vertical body.
intertanks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of intertank
nonvirtuosic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + virtuosic.
Senses: examples: text: Its vibe is so desirable, and so possible: its best records were made with simple arrangements, careful drum-pattern repetition, winnowed-down bass lines, pre-1980s studio-recording techniques and, in plenty of cases, nonvirtuosic singers.
ref: 2009 July 17, Ben Ratliff, “Harking Back to Southern Soul, and Then Reveling in Those Sounds”, in New York Times:
glosses: Not virtuosic.
armguard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: armguards
Etymology: From arm + guard.
Senses: examples: text: Off comes the bright red jacket with built-in armguards.
ref: 2009 July 18, Susan Dominus, “Vroom! Off on a Tour of Brooklyn to Help the Ill”, in New York Times:
glosses: A protective cover for the arm.
armguards
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of armguard
consultors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of consultor
consultest
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: consult + -est
Senses: glosses: second-person singular simple present indicative of consult
descenders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of descender
massings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of massing
ball ache
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ball aches
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of ballache.
debriefer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /diːˈbɹiːfə(ɹ)/
Forms: form: debriefers
Etymology: From debrief + -er.
Senses: examples: text: But literary escorts are not simply chauffeuses; they are coaches, reconnaissance experts, debriefers, psychologists, comrades in arms.
ref: 2009 July 19, Joe Queenan, “Escort Service”, in New York Times:
glosses: One who gives a debriefing.
debriefers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of debriefer
desserty
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more desserty
form: most desserty
Etymology: From dessert + -y.
Senses: examples: text: The cocoa-infused tequila is also the base for a desserty drink called the El Tejate, in which it’s shaken with chipotle-infused tequila and sweetened condensed milk to evoke the classic Mexican marriage of chilies and chocolate.
ref: 2009 July 19, Jonathan Miles, “Tequila, From the Pews”, in New York Times:
glosses: Like a dessert.
genelike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more genelike
form: most genelike
Etymology: From gene + -like.
Senses: examples: text: They studied the genelike building blocks in more than 250 examples of collective intelligence enabled by the Web. The intent, they write, is to provide a systematic framework for thinking about collective intelligence, so “managers can do more than just look at examples and hope for inspiration.”
ref: 2009 July 19, Steve Lohr, “The Crowd Is Wise (When It’s Focused)”, in New York Times:
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of genes.
unlitigated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + litigated.
Senses: glosses: Not litigated.
prelitigation
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pre- + litigation.
Senses: glosses: Prior to litigation.
litigations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of litigation
minitrampoline
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: minitrampolines
Etymology: From mini- + trampoline.
Senses: examples: text: Part of Ligety’s rehabilitation included balancing on his right leg on an unstable platform while tossing a ball against a minitrampoline and catching it.
ref: 2009 July 19, The Associated Press, “Ski Training Site Gets Gold Medal Reviews”, in New York Times:
hyponyms: rebounder
glosses: A small trampoline.
minitrampolines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of minitrampoline
semiobscure
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From semi- + obscure.
Senses: examples: text: It’s a literary tribute album, in effect, on which reliable earners acknowledge the influence of a respectably semiobscure national treasure by covering his songs.
ref: 2009 July 19, Carlo Rotella, “The Genre Artist”, in New York Times:
glosses: Somewhat obscure.
topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Of the wings of insects: deeply tinged with brownish-grey, but semitransparent.
semihard
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: semi-hard
Etymology: From semi- + hard.
Senses: examples: text: semihard cheese
text: There was the cone with vanilla ice cream and a semihard hood of nut-sprinkled chocolate over that.
ref: 2009 July 19, Frank Bruni, “I Was a Baby Bulimic”, in New York Times:
glosses: Somewhat hard.
snakeproof
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more snakeproof
form: most snakeproof
Etymology: From snake + -proof.
Senses: examples: text: This included a squirrel- and snakeproof bluebird house, special tasty food (which entailed keeping mealworms in my refrigerator), available water and other amenities.
ref: 2009 July 19, Randy Cohen, “Nesting Blues”, in New York Times:
glosses: Resistant to snakes.
wormproof
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more wormproof
form: most wormproof
Etymology: From worm + -proof.
Senses: glosses: Resistant to worms.
speedballer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: speedballers
Etymology: From speedball + -er.
Senses: glosses: A drug addict who takes speedballs (cocaine and heroin).
examples: text: The movie was named “Bull Durham,” with Tim Robbins as the speedballer who was all over the place.
ref: 2009 July 19, George Vecsey, “A Hall of Fame for a Legendary Fastball Pitcher”, in New York Times:
topics: ball-games
baseball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: One who pitches speedballs.
speedballers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of speedballer
strategizer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: strategizers
form: strategiser
Etymology: From strategize + -er.
Senses: examples: text: It has long been assumed that Malcolm is based on Alastair Campbell, former Prime Minister Tony Blair’s all-powerful strategizer, spokesman and interference blocker.
ref: 2009 July 19, Sarah Lyall, “What’s So Funny About War?”, in New York Times:
glosses: One who strategizes.
strategizers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of strategizer
superheroism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From superhero + -ism.
Senses: examples: text: But it isn’t her feats of superheroism that give the story its chilly sense of reality; it’s her casual acceptance of the almost universal corruption of everyone who lives in her world.
ref: 2009 July 19, Marilyn Stasio, “Death in the Dust Bowl”, in New York Times:
glosses: The state of being a superhero.
unbellicose
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unbellicose
form: most unbellicose
Etymology: From un- + bellicose.
Senses: examples: text: Small wonder that history has become such a hotly contested battleground, or that otherwise unbellicose professors are so often pressed into front-line service in the culture wars.
ref: 2009 July 19, David M. Kennedy, “What History Is Good For”, in New York Times:
glosses: Not bellicose; unwarlike.
atacicept
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Among the companies that have had setbacks or outright failures in clinical trials are Roche and Biogen Idec with their drug Rituxan; La Jolla Pharmaceutical with Riquent; Bristol-Myers Squibb with Orencia; ZymoGenetics and Merck Serono with atacicept; Genelabs Technologies with Prestara; Teva Pharmaceutical Industries with edratide; and Aspreva Pharmaceuticals and Roche with CellCept.
ref: 2009 July 20, Andrew Pollack, “Trial for New Lupus Treatment Is Called Promising”, in New York Times:
glosses: A recombinant fusion protein designed to inhibit B cells, thereby suppressing autoimmune disease.
layeredness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From layered + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: The town of Bath, where Starbucks-sipping tourists swarm over ancient Roman ruins, is an especially advantageous place to consider time’s layeredness.
ref: 2009 July 20, Ben Brantley, “Time, and the Green and Pleasant Land”, in New York Times:
glosses: The quality of having layers.
meshugenah
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more meshugenah
form: most meshugenah
Senses: examples: text: “We believe it would be meshugenah not to include parents in the education of our children,” said Mr. Monserrate, of Queens.
ref: 2009 July 20, A. G. Sulzberger, “Democrats Lash Out at Mayor Over Control of Public Schools”, in New York Times:
glosses: Alternative form of meshuggener.
meshugenah
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: meshugenahs
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of meshuggener.
meshugenahs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of meshugenah
ultrasentimental
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more ultrasentimental
form: most ultrasentimental
Etymology: From ultra- + sentimental.
Senses: examples: text: But this pinch-yourself week at Turnberry full of crosswind and ultrasentimental plotlines turned out to be different, with a lot of help at the bitter end from Watson and from a tricky 15-foot putt that Cink made for birdie on the 18th.
ref: 2009 July 20, Christopher Clarey, “A Deflating Finale, but a Hard-Earned Title”, in New York Times:
glosses: Highly sentimental.
overinterpretations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of overinterpretation
overinterprets
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of overinterpret
postcatastrophic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From post- + catastrophic.
Senses: examples: text: Technically, the producers say, “The Colony” is a postcatastrophic reality show because it doesn’t claim to portray the last men and women on earth.
ref: 2009 July 21, Brian Stelter, “It’s Doomsday Once Again. Are We Having Fun Yet?”, in New York Times:
glosses: After a catastrophe.
Millen
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
glosses: A village in Belgium.
glosses: A city, the county seat of Jenkins County, Georgia, United States.
glosses: A village in Germany.
glosses: An unincorporated community in West Virginia.
Derived terms: Millen Range
endbuds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of endbud
productivist
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more productivist
form: most productivist
Etymology: From productive + -ist.
Senses: examples: text: He spoke later of May 1968 as a utopia that “understood the faults of our productivist society” and that managed to unsettle “France’s most powerful regime in a century.”
ref: 2009 July 22, Agence France-Presse, “Maurice Grimaud, Police Chief in Paris During the Riots of 1968, Dies at 95”, in New York Times:
glosses: Of or pertaining to productivism.
productivist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: productivists
Etymology: From productive + -ist.
Senses: glosses: A supporter of productivism.
productivists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of productivist
productivism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: productivisms
Etymology: From productive + -ism.
Senses: glosses: The belief that measurable economic productivity is the purpose of human organization.
productivisms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of productivism
unstageable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unstageable
form: most unstageable
Etymology: From un- + stageable.
Senses: examples: text: “And there are these Russian works such as ‘Boris’ that some have called unstageable because they seem so massive in scale.”
ref: 2009 July 22, Patrick Healy, “Lincoln Center Festival Makes Way for the Czar”, in New York Times:
glosses: Impossible to perform on a stage.
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Of a wound or ulcer, covered with slough or eschar, so that it cannot be assigned to any of the stages described in the National Pressure Ulcer Staging System.
undramatizable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more undramatizable
form: most undramatizable
Etymology: From un- + dramatizable.
Senses: examples: text: His last novel was so long and incoherent that it was considered undramatizable.
glosses: Impossible to dramatize.
assholism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: assholisms
form: arseholeism arsehole-ism
form: arseholism
Etymology: From asshole + -ism. Attested in print from 1970 (by Seymour Krim), apparently from Beat Generation slang. Also popularized by the main character named Divine from the John Waters film Pink Flamingos.
Senses: examples: "... I embraced him [ Mark Harris ] because of his vigor and contempt with all his assholism included" (Seymour Krim, Shake It For The World, Smartass, 1970, p. 30)
"I've often observed that assholeism tends to run in families." (J. T. Nichols, A ghost in the music, 1979, p. 18)
"Disputations on Art, Anarchy and Assholism" (book title, Stewart Home, 1997, →ISBN
glosses: Consistently antisocial behavior.
Synonyms: assholedom
assholery
assholic
assholey
autoplay
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From auto- + play.
Senses: examples: text: If you have not enabled autoplay, click on the CD icon that appears on your desktop, then click on 'CAM' to open the application.
ref: 2001, E. Ernst, The desktop guide to complementary and alternative medicine, page 445:
text: You can even combine the features and make a looping autoplay DVD for a kiosk or self-running demo.
ref: 2004, Tony Bove, Cheryl Rhodes, iLife '04 all-in-one desk reference for dummies, page 346:
text: Adding controls, looping, and autoplay to an HTML5 video embed is simple.
ref: 2011, Steve Fulton, Jeff Fulton, HTML5 Canvas, page 265:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Any software feature that plays (a video, a compact disc, etc.) automatically.
topics: gambling
games
glosses: A slot machine feature that automatically performs a number of spins at the same bet amount.
autoplay
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: autoplays
form: autoplaying
form: autoplayed
form: autoplayed
Etymology: From auto- + play.
Senses: examples: text: Users may leave a Web site in frustration if a video autoplays when they visit.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: To play automatically.
meanwhilst
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: meanwhile
meanwhilst
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: meanwhile
nonregularizable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + regularizable.
Senses: glosses: Not regularizable.
simolean
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: simoleans
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of simoleon.
simoleans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of simolean
untwining
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of untwine
untwined
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of untwine
model number
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: model numbers
Senses: topics: business
manufacturing
glosses: A manufacturer's identifier for a particular type or version of a product.
unusuality
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: unusualities
Etymology: From unusual + -ity.
Senses: examples: text: […]his obscurity, his unusuality of expression, and his Laconism[…]
ref: 1846, Edgar Allan Poe, Marginalia 188:
glosses: unusualness
Synonyms: topics: state
word: abnormality
raw_tags: of being unusual
word: remarkableness
word: weirdness
word: strangeness
sense: something unusual
word: deviance
word: oddity
word: outlier
word: anomaly
unusefully
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more unusefully
form: most unusefully
Etymology: From unuseful + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an unuseful manner.
unusefulness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From unuseful + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being unuseful.
unviably
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more unviably
form: most unviably
Etymology: From unviable + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an unviable manner.
unvulnerable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + vulnerable.
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of invulnerable.
unwishes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of unwish
unwishing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of unwish
unvulgar
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unvulgar
form: most unvulgar
Etymology: From un- + vulgar.
Senses: glosses: Not vulgar.
multipliest
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: multiply + -est
Senses: glosses: second-person singular simple present indicative of multiply
unstriated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + striated.
Senses: glosses: Not striated.
unrighting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of unright
Montreal Metropolitan Community
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: government
glosses: the supramunicipal level of government for the Greater Montreal Area formed in 2002 to replace the MUC.
unrein
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: unreins
form: unreining
form: unreined
form: unreined
Etymology: From un- + rein.
Senses: glosses: To loosen the reins of.
glosses: To remove restraint from.
unreining
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of unrein
unreins
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of unrein
unreined
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of unrein
unreined
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: an unreined steed
glosses: Without reins.
examples: an unreined imagination
glosses: Without any restricting or limiting influence.
unproperly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more unproperly
form: most unproperly
Etymology: From unproper + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an unproper manner; not properly.
unpen
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: unpens
form: unpenning
form: unpenned
form: unpenned
Etymology: From un- + pen.
Senses: examples: text: Her supplies, a billy of tea and scraps of salt beef and damper (her dog got the beef), gave out the first day, though that was as nothing to her compared with the bleat of the penned sheep, for it was summer and droughty, and her dog could not unpen them.
ref: 1902, Barbara Baynton, edited by Sally Krimmer and Alan Lawson, Bush Studies (Portable Australian Authors: Barbara Baynton), St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, published 1980, page 16:
glosses: To release from a pen.
unpenning
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of unpen
unpenned
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of unpen
unpenned
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: an unpenned poem
glosses: unwritten
unpens
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of unpen
banker's draft
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: banker's drafts
form: bankers' drafts
form: banker's draught
Senses: glosses: A type of financial instrument, used similarly to a cheque to make a payment or transfer money, but drawn on funds already taken from the payer's account and held by the bank, and hence seen as more certain of being honoured than a personal cheque.
Synonyms: word: cashier's check
banker's draught
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: banker's draughts
form: bankers' draughts
Senses: examples: text: The ſeſſions ended at the Old Bailey, when twelve convicts received ſentence of death, among whom was Samuel Burt, for the forgery of a banker's draught of 100l. who had been recommended to mercy by the jury, his conduct having evinced ſome degree of inſanity.
ref: 1786, The Annual Register, or General Repository of History, Politics, and Literature, page 34:
text: [...] if any clerk or servant, or person employed as such, by any individual or body politic, shall fraudulently embezzle, secrete, or make away with such money, goods, bond, bill, note, banker's draught, or other valuable security, so coming into his possession, he shall be deemed to have feloniously stolen the same from his master, and shall suffer transportation for a term not exceeding fourteen years.
ref: 1814, David Hume, Supplemental Notes to Mr. Hume's Commentaries on the Law of Scotland Respecting Crimes, page 12:
text: [...] accept, draw, or endorse any promissory note, bill of exchange, banker's draught, cheque, dividend warrant, or other such like instrument; and any such instrument shall be signed, accepted, drawn, or endorsed by such person or persons as the board shall from time to time appoint for that purpose.
ref: 1901, Herapath's Railway Journal, page 470:
text: Raising his clipboard as a preacher might raise his bible, he reminded Charlie of his duty to the Crown, and demanded the monies outstanding, in full, in cash, banker's draught, or negotiable securities.
ref: 2009, Aran Lewis, Donkey, page 221:
glosses: Alternative spelling of banker's draft.
Synonyms: word: cashier's check
bankers' drafts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of banker's draft
banker's drafts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of banker's draft
bankers' draughts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of banker's draught
banker's draughts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of banker's draught
herewithin
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From here + within.
Senses: glosses: Within this.
Related terms: —
henceafter
henceforth
henceforward
henceforwards
hencefrom
hereabout
hereabouts
hereabove
hereafter
hereafters
hereagainst
hereamong
hereanent
hereat
hereaway
herebefore
hereby
herefor
herefore
hereforth
hereforward
hereforwards
herefrom
herehence
hereinabove
hereinafter
hereinbefore
hereinbelow
hereinelsewhere
hereinsoever
hereinto
hereinunder
heremid
hereof
hereon
hereout
hereover
herethrough
herethroughout
hereto
heretofore
hereunto
hereupon
herewith
herewithal
herewithout
hitherto
hitherunto
hitherward
hitherwards
howbeit
however
howso
howsoever
howsomedever
howsomever
thataway
thatwise
thenceafter
thenceforth
thenceforward
thenceforwards
thencefrom
thenceout
thereabout
thereabouts
thereabove
thereacross
thereafter
thereafters
thereagain
thereagainst
therealong
thereamong
thereamongst
thereanent
therearound
thereat
thereaway
therebefore
therebeside
therebetween
therebeyond
thereby
therever
therefor
therefore
thereforth
therefrom
therehence
thereinabove
thereinafter
thereinbefore
thereinbelow
thereinto
thereinunder
theremid
thereof
thereon
thereout
thereover
theresoever
therethrough
therethroughout
thereto
theretofore
thereunto
thereup
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therewith
therewithal
therewithin
therewithout
thisaway
thiswise
thitherinsoever
thitherto
thitherward
thitherwards
whatever
whatso
whatsoever
whatsomedever
whatsomever
whatwise
whenabout
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whenas
whenever
whenso
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whenceafter
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wherealong
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wherefore
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whereinbefore
whereinbelow
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whereso
wheresoever
wheresomever
wherethrough
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whysoever
1. Scottish2. from Middle English mid3. old dialectal form
ichthyolatry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From ichthyo- + -latry.
Senses: glosses: The worship of fish, or of fish-shaped idols.
beguilt
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: beguilts
form: beguilting
form: beguilted
form: beguilted
Etymology: From Middle English begilten, equivalent to be- + guilt.
Senses: examples: text: Why should I fear, I know not; since guiltiness I know not. I will not reason what is meant hereby, because I will beguilt less of the meaning.
ref: 1791, Samuel Ayscough, An index to the remarkable passages and words made use of by Shakespeare:
text: "Why mangelest thou a wretched man? O spare me in my tomb! Spare to beguilt thy righteous hand, Æneas! […]"
ref: 1977, Basil Davenport, The portable Roman reader:
glosses: To make guilty; cause to sin.
examples: text: […] for they deemed that he was long-grudging, even in lesser matters than those wherein Kalf had done to beguilt him with the king.
ref: 1895, Eiríkr Magnússon, William Morris, The Saga library:
text: […] and albeit Einar were old, yet he threw himself into this case, and beguilted the sons of Thorgrim to the full at the Thorsness-thing.
ref: 1911, William Morris, May Morris, The Collected Works of William Morris:
glosses: To impute with guilt or fault; blame; accuse.
beguilt
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From begild.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of begilt.
beguilted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of beguilt
ichthyolite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ichthyolites
Etymology: From ichthyo- + -lite.
Senses: topics: biology
history
human-sciences
natural-sciences
paleontology
sciences
glosses: A fossil of a fish.
Derived terms: ichthyolitic
Related terms: ichthyolith
ichthyolites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ichthyolite
Idalian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /aɪˈdeɪliən/
Forms: form: more Idalian
form: most Idalian
Etymology: From Latin Īdalius (“pertaining to Idalium”) (ultimately from Koine Greek Ιδάλιον (Idálion)) + -an.
Senses: examples: text: So moves the Goddess to the Idalian groves,
 And leads her gold-hair'd family of Loves.
ref: 1789, Erasmus Darwin, The Loves of the Plants, J. Johnson, page 142:
glosses: Of or pertaining to Idalium, an ancient city of Cyprus where Aphrodite was worshipped.
idealities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ideality
ideographical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more ideographical
form: most ideographical
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of ideographic.
idiographical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of idiographic.
idiograph
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: idiographs
Etymology: From idio- + -graph.
Senses: glosses: A mark or signature peculiar to an individual.
idiographs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of idiograph
ilicin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Ilex + -in
Senses: examples: text: They have a bitter, somewhat austere taste; their properties depend upon a principle called ilicin.
ref: 1852, John King, The Eclectic Dispensatory of the United States of America, page 220:
text: All Ilex hollies contain the bitter compound ilicin.
ref: 1995, John Eastman, The Book of Swamp and Bog:
text: Ilicin is contained in holly berries (Ilex sp) and causes severe gastroirritation including nausea, vomiting, and diarrhea.
ref: 1996, Peter D Bryson, Comprehensive Reviews in Toxicology: For Emergency Clinicians:
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A bitter alkaloid found in holly.
soupfins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of soupfin
swordpoints
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of swordpoint
soundboxes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of soundbox
imesatin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Blend of imide + isatin
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A dark yellow crystalline substance obtained by the action of ammonia on isatin.
imidodiphosphates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of imidodiphosphate
imprisoner
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: imprisoners
Etymology: From imprison + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who imprisons.
imprisoners
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of imprisoner
imprison'd
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of imprison
spearpoints
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of spearpoint
daggerpoints
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of daggerpoint
forbought
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of forbuy
tarek
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tareks
Etymology: From Armenian տառեխ (taṙex). Doublet of bottarga.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of pearl mullet.
synonyms: word: pearl mullet
diemaker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: diemakers
Etymology: From die + maker.
Senses: hypernyms: maker#Noun
;
tradesman#Noun
tradesperson#Noun
<
worker#Noun
<
person#Noun
coordinate_terms: toolmaker#Noun
mouldmaker#Noun
patternmaker#Noun
modelmaker#Noun
glosses: Someone who makes dies (devices for cutting shapes).
Related terms: die grinder
diemaking
tool and die
toolmaking
diemakers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of diemaker
underkingdom
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: underkingdoms
form: under-kingdom
Etymology: From under- + kingdom and/or underking + -dom.
Senses: glosses: The realm of an underking.
glosses: A subordinate or dependent kingdom.
underkingdoms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of underkingdom
underbrace
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: underbraces
form: underbracing
form: underbraced
form: underbraced
Etymology: From under- + brace.
Senses: glosses: To brace, fasten, or bind underneath.
underbrace
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: underbraces
Etymology: From under- + brace.
Senses: glosses: The symbol ⏟.
underbraces
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of underbrace
underbraces
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of underbrace
underbracing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of underbrace
underbraced
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of underbrace
underbooking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of underbook
underbooks
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of underbook
underbooked
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of underbook
underhanging
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of underhang
underhangs
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of underhang
underhangs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of underhang
infovores
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of infovore
undersailed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more undersailed
form: most undersailed
Etymology: From under- + sailed.
Senses: glosses: Inadequately equipped with sails.
undermasted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more undermasted
form: most undermasted
Etymology: From under- + masted.
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: Having masts smaller than the usual size.
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: Having too few masts.
undersoils
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of undersoil
undersowing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of undersow
undersowed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past of undersow
undersows
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of undersow
undersown
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: past participle of undersow
undershrubs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of undershrub
undersheriffry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: undersheriffries
Etymology: From under- + sheriffry.
Senses: glosses: undershrievalty
undersheriffries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of undersheriffry
undershrievalty
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From under- + shrievalty.
Senses: glosses: The office or position of undersheriff.
amoungst
Language: English
Part of speech: prep
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of amongst.
unsustaining
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unsustaining
form: most unsustaining
Etymology: From un- + sustaining.
Senses: examples: text: unsustaining food
text: It also entailed well-documented disadvantages: a population increase in an unsustaining economy, a battered self-identity, a plague of substance abuse.
ref: 2009 July 24, Holland Cotter, “Postcards From Canada’s ‘New North’”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 06 May 2021:
glosses: That does not sustain.
apartheidlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more apartheidlike
form: most apartheidlike
Etymology: From apartheid + -like.
Senses: examples: text: Mr. Jackson, meanwhile, wrapped up the day with a preview of Mr. Blomkamp’s “District 9,” a science fiction adventure about apartheidlike townships for space aliens.
ref: 2009 July 25, Michael Cieply, “Lord of ‘Rings’ and Anime’s Avatar Hit Comic-Con”, in New York Times:
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of apartheid.
uncaptioned
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + captioned.
Senses: examples: text: (On the same page, Mr. Coplans, one assumes, insinuates the pedigree of Ms. Benglis’s action by including an uncaptioned photograph of the Comtesse de Castiglione, the 19th-century French beauty who may have been the first woman to self-consciously orchestrate images of herself for the camera, from pose to attire to maquillage.)
ref: 2009 July 25, Roberta Smith, “Art or Ad or What? It Caused a Lot of Fuss”, in New York Times:
glosses: Not given a caption.
hospitableness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From hospitable + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: Indeed, astronomers look for similar configurations — a giant outer planet with room for smaller planets in closer to the home stars — in other planetary systems as an indication of their hospitableness to life.
ref: 2009 July 26, Dennis Overbye, “Jupiter: Our Cosmic Protector?”, in New York Times:
glosses: The quality of being hospitable.
pageless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -eɪdʒləs
Etymology: From page + -less.
Senses: examples: text: Aldous Huxley’s very funny first novel, “Crome Yellow” (1921), features not just a varied smattering of invisible books and books-in-progress (Mr. Barbecue-Smith’s “Pipe-Lines to the Infinite,” Henry Wimbush’s history of the town of Crome), but what might be called second-degree invisibles: a bookcase of pageless spines — 10 volumes of “Thom’s Works and Wanderings,” seven of “Tales of Knockespotch” — camouflaging a secret door.
ref: 2009 July 26, Ed Park, “Titles Within a Tale”, in New York Times:
glosses: Without pages.
perihelic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: For his money, the great perihelic Mars opposition of 2003, the comet McNaught of 2007 — perhaps you know it as C/2006 P1 — and the Venus transit of 2004 were all more pulse-quickening.
ref: 2009 July 26, Alex Williams, “The Bruise Heard Round the World”, in New York Times:
glosses: Of or pertaining to a perihelion.
presummer
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pre- + summer.
Senses: examples: text: “This inoffensive if uninspired example of presummer pop diversion will be best appreciated by future audiences flabbergasted by its unabashed revelry in fossil-fuel consumption,” Nathan Lee wrote in The New York Times in April.
ref: 2009 July 26, Dave Kehr, “A Woman Repulsed, a Man Convulsed”, in New York Times:
glosses: Before summer.
raftmate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: raftmates
Etymology: From raft + mate.
Senses: glosses: One who travels on the same raft.
raftmates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of raftmate
pisanki
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pisanka
Dott
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
glosses: An unincorporated community in Bethel Township, Fulton County, Pennsylvania, United States.
glosses: An unincorporated community and coal town in Mercer County, West Virginia, United States.
naked mole rat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: naked mole rats
form: naked mole-rat
Etymology: From naked + mole rat.
Senses: glosses: A burrowing rodent (Heterocephalus glaber), native to parts of East Africa.
Synonyms: sand puppy
desert mole rat
præpuce
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: præpuces
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of prepuce.
præputial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of preputial.
præpuces
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of præpuce
Hamhung
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /hɑmˈhʊŋ/
enpr: hämʹho͝ongʹ
Forms: form: Hamheung
form: Ham-heng
Etymology: From McCune-Reischauer romanization Hamhŭng of Korean 함흥(咸興) (Hamheung).
Senses: examples: text: Author, editor, memoirist, Hyun isn't exactly searching for his roots. Rather, at 70, he's trying to make sense of a life that began in the industrial city of Hamhung, near the east coast of what is now North Korea, and has somehow deposited him in New York and France.
ref: 1998 July 8, Don Kirk, “A Literary Wanderer, Far From North Korea”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 20 May 2024, Style:
text: Hamhung is North Korea’s second city. The birthplace of the founder of Korea’s Ri dynasty and the site of a famous battle during the Korean War, Hamhung has since developed into a spacious industrial city of around 750,000 inhabitants.
ref: 2008, Robert Willoughby, “East Coast to Tanchon”, in North Korea (Bradt Travel Guides), 2nd edition, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 175:
text: It was unusual for a North Korean woman of her status to get a higher education. But my mother was such a good scholar that she was accepted at a college in the nearby city of Hamhung. If given a choice, she would have liked to have become a doctor. But only students from better families are allowed a say in what they will study.
ref: 2015, Yeonmi Park, Maryanne Vollers, In Order to Live: A North Korean Girl's Journey to Freedom (Non-fiction), Penguin Books, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 33:
text: South Korea's Joint Chiefs of Staff said it had detected the launch of what it presumed were two ballistic missiles at about 8 a.m. (2300 GMT) from near Hamhung, on the east coast of North Korea.
ref: 2022 January 26, “North Korea fires two missiles as U.S. condemns flurry of tests”, in Reuters, archived from the original on 28 Jan 2022, China:
glosses: The provincial capital of South Hamgyong Province, North Korea; the country's 2nd-largest city and 3rd-largest port.