cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
shitbum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shitbums
Etymology: From shit + bum.
Senses: examples: text: "I ought to break your head, you asshole! You're a shitbum! You're scum! Do you understand that, boy? I wouldn't buy a fuckin' thing from you, you asshole!" I shouted, out of control.
ref: 2005, Paul E. Doyle, Hot Shots and Heavy Hits: Tales of an Undercover Drug Agent:
glosses: An unclean, or otherwise undesirable person.
Synonyms: bum
shitbums
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shitbum
aircraftlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more aircraftlike
form: most aircraftlike
Etymology: From aircraft + -like.
Senses: examples: text: But the most aircraftlike thing about the Davis was its place of assembly, an airplane hangar in Van Nuys, Calif.
ref: 2009 September 27, Phil Patton, “A Dreamer’s Machine, More Promise Than Reality”, in New York Times:
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of aircraft.
encapsulant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: encapsulants
Senses: examples: text: "The cells are held in place and sealed from moisture by a clear plastic protective layer made by DuPont," said Stephen L. Cluff, DuPont’s global business director for photovoltaic encapsulants.
ref: 2009 September 27, Anne Eisenberg, “Solar Power, Without All Those Panels”, in New York Times:
glosses: Any substance used to encapsulate
Derived terms: coencapsulant
encapsulants
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of encapsulant
exterminationist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: exterminationists
Etymology: From extermination + -ist.
Senses: examples: text: Until Israel’s critics figure out how to acknowledge the pain and suffering resulting from Palestinian terrorism and exterminationist rhetoric, by pointing the Palestinians and the Arabs toward real change, they will fail to sway those Israelis and Jews that are ready to take a shot at reconciliation.
ref: 2009 September 27, “The New Israel Lobby”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 13 Feb 2021:
glosses: A supporter of exterminationism.
exterminationists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of exterminationist
exterminationism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From extermination + -ism.
Senses: glosses: A policy of exterminating an ethnic group.
Related terms: exterminationist
hypercorrective
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more hypercorrective
form: most hypercorrective
form: hyper-corrective
Etymology: From hyper- + corrective.
Senses: examples: text: You need not be a hypercorrective schoolmarm to lament such tolerance.
ref: 2009 September 27, Jack Rosenthal, “Phantonym”, in New York Times:
glosses: Tending to hypercorrect; pertaining to hypercorrection.
Derived terms: hypercorrectively
indoorsy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more indoorsy
form: most indoorsy
Etymology: From indoors + -y.
Senses: examples: text: Once “indoorsy,” she now spends more time outdoors, though she still calls any walk in the woods “mountain climbing.”
ref: 2009 September 27, Lois Smith Brady, “Jolie Coursen and Jeff Kass”, in New York Times:
glosses: Favouring, or pertaining to, indoor life.
multibuttoned
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From multi- + buttoned.
Senses: examples: text: He’s wearing a suit and a multibuttoned vest that scrunches the top of his tie, making it poke out of his shirt like an old-fashioned cravat.
ref: 2009 September 27, Arthur Krystal, “When Writers Speak”, in New York Times:
glosses: Having more than one button.
nonmonopolistic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + monopolistic.
Senses: examples: text: Would a nonmonopolistic system be an incentive for a leaner process, and lead to affordable prices?
ref: 2009 September 27, “Letters: The Rich, the Poor and Health Insurance”, in New York Times:
glosses: Not monopolistic.
unpreachy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unpreachy
form: most unpreachy
Etymology: From un- + preachy.
Senses: glosses: Not preachy.
nonpreachy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + preachy.
Senses: glosses: Not preachy.
pincered
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pincer + -ed.
Senses: glosses: Having pincers.
pucklike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more pucklike
form: most pucklike
Etymology: From puck + -like.
Senses: examples: text: On both visits, the ubiquitous fried green plantain rounds (tostones) were heavy and almost too thick when hot, then became pucklike when cool.
ref: 2009 September 27, Karla Cook, “Robust Flavors and Happy Music”, in New York Times:
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a puck.
roommateship
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From roommate + -ship.
Senses: examples: text: “I am surprised by how well the two other girls were able to meet my outrageous needs,” Ms. Schussel said, “especially by Sam’s ability to keep our friendship out of our roommateship most of the time.”
ref: 2009 September 27, Joyce Cohen, “Roommates, Not B.F.F.’s”, in New York Times:
glosses: The state or relationship of being roommates.
semicovered
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From semi- + covered.
Senses: examples: text: Let them cook, semicovered, for 5 minutes, then uncovered for a couple minutes more, until nicely browned.
ref: 2009 September 27, “A Potato Dish for Julia”, in New York Times:
glosses: Partially covered.
emergency medicine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
related: word: EM
glosses: The branch of medicine that deals with the diagnosis and treatment of trauma, injuries and other sudden illnesses.
Related terms: ED
ER
emergency department
emergency room
unpleasable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unpleasable
form: most unpleasable
Etymology: From un- + pleasable.
Senses: examples: text: A perusal of “Little Girl Lost” reveals John Drew Barrymore (who died in 2004) as one of those looming, unpleasable fathers, subject to disappearing acts, alcoholic binges, irrational rages.
ref: 2009 September 27, Michael Almereyda, “Stepping Into the Skates of the Director”, in New York Times:
glosses: That cannot be pleased; implacable.
unshareable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + shareable.
Senses: examples: text: Every happy relationship is unshareable, but heartbreak is universal.
ref: 2009 September 27, Liesl Schillinger, “Probing the Charred Ruins of Romance”, in New York Times:
glosses: Impossible to share.
consumerdom
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From consumer + -dom.
Senses: examples: text: This year, to capitalize on that interest, the announcement took place in the crossroads of consumerdom, Times Square.
ref: 2009 September 28, Stuart Elliott, “At an Industry Event, a Sense That the Gloom Is Lifting”, in New York Times:
glosses: The realm or sphere of consumers or consumerism.
instrumentlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more instrumentlike
form: most instrumentlike
Etymology: From instrument + -like.
Senses: examples: text: For nonmusicians, it’s a way to coax sounds — often programmed to stay on key no matter what note one actually plays — out of what may be the only instrumentlike device they ever pick up.
ref: 2009 October 1, Jason Turbow, “Tapping Your Inner Clapton”, in New York Times:
glosses: Like an instrument.
instrumentations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of instrumentation
moisturization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -eɪʃən
Forms: form: moisturizations
form: moisturisation
Etymology: From moisturize + -ation or moisture + -ization.
Senses: examples: text: Mr. Hammer agreed that stearic acid in a body wash should be “helpful for moisturization and lipid replacement.”
ref: 2009 October 1, Hilary Howard, “New Ways to Moisturize for Less”, in New York Times:
glosses: The act or process of moisturizing.
nitinol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nitinols
Senses: examples: text: There are also concerns about the durability of nitinol, an alloy made from nickel and titanium.
ref: 2009 October 1, Barry Meier, “Two Medical Devices, Two Different Methods”, in New York Times:
glosses: Alternative form of Nitinol.
salesboy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: salesboys
Etymology: From sales + boy.
Senses: examples: text: I said hello to the skinny, sweet-faced salesboys and did a preliminary tour of the room trying on jackets and blazers.
ref: 2009 October 1, Mike Albo, “Neighborhood Preservation”, in New York Times:
glosses: A boy who sells goods in a retail establishment; a young salesman.
salesboys
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of salesboy
salesforces
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of salesforce
schmoozy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈʃmuːzi/
rhymes: -uːzi
Forms: form: schmoozier
form: schmooziest
Etymology: From schmooze + -y.
Senses: examples: text: They are in the neighborhood to go on romantic dates and to have schmoozy drinks with entertainment execs, and they need the right outfits so they can kiss and kiss up in style.
ref: 2009 October 1, Mike Albo, “Neighborhood Preservation”, in New York Times:
glosses: Tending to schmooze; sucking up for the sake of social advancement.
sealifting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of sealift
sealifted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of sealift
unbudgeable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unbudgeable
form: most unbudgeable
Etymology: From un- + budgeable.
Senses: examples: text: For it would surely improve the domestic standing of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, an unbudgeable hawk, and thereby indefinitely delay peace on that Middle Eastern front.
ref: 2009 October 1, “Answering Iran’s Nuclear Challenge”, in The New York Times:
glosses: That cannot be made to budge; immovable, fixed.
Derived terms: unbudgeably
hallmate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hallmates
Etymology: From hall + mate.
Senses: examples: text: As she wrote on her blog, a hallmate once told her that “M.I.T. is the closest you can get to living in the Internet,”
ref: 2009 October 2, Tamar Lewin, “M.I.T. Taking Student Blogs to Nth Degree”, in New York Times:
glosses: One who lives in the same hall of residence.
hallmates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hallmate
prearrival
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pre- + arrival.
Senses: examples: text: Underground parking, private storage and daily housekeeping are offered as well, and the club’s concierge can assist with prearrival grocery shopping, spa reservations, dinner plans and golf tee times.
ref: 2009 October 2, Nick Kaye, “The Residence Club on Mission Beach”, in New York Times:
glosses: Before arrival.
neuroblocking
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From neuro- + blocking.
Senses: examples: text: The trial, called Empower, was designed to evaluate the safety and effectiveness of the Maestro system, which uses neuroblocking technology to stem hunger.
ref: 2009 October 3, Bloomberg News, “An Obesity Treatment Fails in a Trial”, in New York Times:
glosses: The blocking of a nerve.
neuroblastomata
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of neuroblastoma
postmoderns
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of postmodern
tertiary butylhydroquinone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tertiary butylhydroquinones
form: tertiary butyl hydroquinone
Etymology: From tertiary butyl + hydroquinone.
Senses: examples: text: With the fries and McNuggets, we enter the polysyllabic realm of ingredients I don’t keep in my kitchen: mono- and diglycerides, tertiary butylhydroquinone, a number of phosphates, dimethylpolysiloxane.
ref: 2009 October 4, Pete Wells, “COOKING WITH DEXTER”, in New York Times:
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: An aromatic organic compound that is a type of phenol. It is a derivative of hydroquinone, substituted with a tert-butyl group.
Synonyms: TBHQ
tert-butylhydroquinone
t-butylhydroquinone
tertiary butylhydroquinones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tertiary butylhydroquinone
croony
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -uːni
Forms: form: more croony
form: most croony
Etymology: From croon + -y.
Senses: examples: text: But he is sternly instructed by Charlie to discard this, his only ace, and indeed if Emily even mentions “that croony nostalgia music” to pretend that he knows nothing of the subject.
ref: 2009 October 4, Christopher Hitchens, “Fade to Black”, in New York Times:
glosses: Characterized by crooning.
Related terms: crony
depreciations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of depreciation
microbroadcast
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: microbroadcasts
Etymology: From micro- + broadcast.
Senses: examples: text: He started the channel — one of dozens of tiny mom-and-pop-style microbroadcast operations in the West Bank — in part so that he would have a venue, however small, from which to broadcast “Shara’a Simsim.”
ref: 2009 October 4, Samantha M. Shapiro, “Can the Muppets Make Friends in Ramallah?”, in New York Times:
glosses: A very small-scale broadcast.
Related terms: microbroadcasting
microbroadcaster
microstation
microradio
microbroadcasts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of microbroadcast
microbridges
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of microbridge
mythopoeticize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: mythopoeticizes
form: mythopoeticizing
form: mythopoeticized
form: mythopoeticized
Etymology: From mythopoetic + -ize.
Senses: examples: text: I lay around my Barnard dorm room listening to Nina Simone records and reading his first novel, “Forgetting Elena,” which takes place in a highly mythopoeticized version of Fire Island and nominally concerns a man with amnesia.
ref: 2009 October 4, Stacey D’Erasmo, “Glory Days”, in New York Times:
glosses: To make mythopoetic; to express in mythic poetry.
mythopoeticized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of mythopoeticize
mythopoeticizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of mythopoeticize
mythopoeticizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of mythopoeticize
inscriptionists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of inscriptionist
stereographer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stereographers
Etymology: From stereography + -er.
Senses: examples: text: One person charged with that task was Bob Whitehill, the lead stereographer.
ref: 2009 October 4, Mekado Murphy, “Buzz and Woody Add a Dimension”, in New York Times:
glosses: One who produces works in the medium of stereography.
stereographers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stereographer
superauthentic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more superauthentic
form: most superauthentic
Etymology: From super- + authentic.
Senses: examples: text: The outfit there, led by a man named Angelino who insisted on drinking wine while training, is superauthentic and super-romantic.
ref: 2009 October 4, Liam Daniel Pierce, “Oh, How Romantic (Until the Pirate Attack)”, in New York Times:
glosses: Very authentic.
unresponding
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unresponding
form: most unresponding
Etymology: From un- + responding.
Senses: examples: text: You could read this collection as a critique — of our celebrity culture, of the uses we make of unresponding creatures — and Millet is sufficiently thorough to layer these resonances in a satisfying way.
ref: 2009 October 4, Willing Davidson, “Animal Magnetism”, in New York Times:
glosses: Not responding; unresponsive.
macrostatistics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From macro- + statistics.
Senses: examples: text: Africa’s pockets of wealth also are often buried in gloomy macrostatistics.
ref: 2009 October 5, Robb Young, “African Wealth and African Style at a Glamorous Juncture”, in New York Times:
glosses: macroscale statistics
Related terms: macrostatistical
microstatistics
nonfoul
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + foul.
Senses: examples: text: Although there was not much more bickering with officials than at a game with a regular officiating crew, Lee collected the game’s only technical for arguing a nonfoul call in the fourth quarter.
ref: 2009 October 5, Jonathan Abrams, “Gallinari’s Effort Is Reassuring to the Knicks”, in New York Times:
glosses: Not foul (in various senses).
preseries
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: pre-series
Etymology: From pre- + series.
Senses: examples: text: The Yankees’ preseries workout will be over by then.
ref: 2009 October 5, Tyler Kepner, “A Postseason Field Rich in Experience”, in New York Times:
glosses: Before a series.
antinicotine
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From anti- + nicotine.
Senses: examples: text: Fortunately, an antinicotine posture on the part of peers and family members, which acts as a powerful form of antinicotine advertising, can also influence and prevent nicotine use and can guide nicotine addicts into recovery.
ref: 1991, James Cocores, The clinical management of nicotine dependence:
text: The trial’s success is significant because some of the same principles are being used by other scientists in trying to create an antinicotine vaccine, which could have even broader appeal.
ref: 2009 October 6, Roni Caryn Rabin, “Cocaine Vaccine Is Developed, but It Does Not Keep Users From Wanting the Drug”, in New York Times:
glosses: Opposing or countering nicotine.
hindfoot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hindfeet
form: hind foot
Etymology: From Middle English hint fot; equivalent to hind + foot.
Senses: glosses: A rear foot.
hindfeet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hindfoot
innumerates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of innumerate
cærimonys
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cærimony
posteverything
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From post- + everything.
Senses: examples: text: One of the conveniences of living in the posteverything age is that we have some agency to take care of every phase of human living; more importantly, we have someone to blame for failure in any phase.
ref: 1982, Cliff Schimmels, How to help your child survive and thrive in public school:
text: However, formalism is not the flavor of the month in these posteverything times.
ref: 1997, Judith Butler, Excitable speech: a politics of the performative, page 222:
text: Then he went off into his own updated, posteverything style, full of explicit dissonance, repetition and strange dynamics.
ref: 2009 October 6, Ben Ratliff, “Raising Roof and Headstone for Pioneering Pianist”, in New York Times:
glosses: After every style, belief, or attitude; thoroughly modern.
shroudlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more shroudlike
form: most shroudlike
Etymology: From shroud + -like.
Senses: examples: text: To devour a mitochondrion, a cell first swaddles it in a shroudlike membrane, which is then transported to a lysosome.
ref: 2009 October 6, Carl Zimmer, “Self-Destructive Behavior in Cells May Hold Key to a Longer Life”, in New York Times:
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a shroud.
sublayers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sublayer
unclinched
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + clinch + -ed.
Senses: glosses: Not clinched.
divaesque
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more divaesque
form: most divaesque
Etymology: From diva + -esque.
Senses: examples: text: (“Tell Me Who You Are”), about a wealthy Malian family in crisis, has some fascinating Almodóvarian overtones, and it is enlivened by the extravagant, divaesque dignity of Sokona Gakou in the role of a woman on the verge of a marital breakdown.
ref: 2009 October 7, A. O. Scott, “Wallowing in Misery for Art’s Sake”, in New York Times:
glosses: Reminiscent of a diva.
divagating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of divagate
divagates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of divagate
divagated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of divagate
fryings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of frying
hyperinteger
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hyperintegers
Etymology: From hyper- + integer.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
qualifier: non-standard analysis
glosses: A hyperreal number equal to its own integer part.
hyperintegers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hyperinteger
hyperintelligence
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hyperintelligences
Etymology: From hyper- + intelligence.
Senses: glosses: remarkable intelligence
hypernatural
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From hyper- + natural; see natural number.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: Being or pertaining to a positive hyperinteger.
vitreoretinal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɛtɪnəl
Etymology: From vitreo- + retinal.
Senses: examples: text: Until today, in my practice as a vitreoretinal surgeon, I offered patients a choice of Avastin or Lucentis, sometimes remarking that Avastin is the socially responsible way to treat wet age-related macular degeneration.
ref: 2009 October 7, “A Nation at Odds Over Health Care”, in New York Times:
glosses: Of or pertaining to the vitreous humour and the retina.
plusquam-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Pronunciation: enpr: plŭsʹkwăm
ipa: /ˈplʌskwam/
enpr: pləsʹkwăm'
ipa: /ˈpləsˌkwæm/
Etymology: From Classical Latin plūs (“more”) + quam (“than”); compare plusquamperfect and plusquamperfection.
Senses: examples: plusquam-clerical, plusquam-Lovecraft, plusquam-plebeian, plusquam-thucydidëan
qualifier: chiefly forming nonce words
glosses: more than; beyond (in degree)
bigtooth
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From big + tooth.
Senses: examples: the bigtooth cardinalfish
the bigtooth river stingray
glosses: Applied to various creatures characterized by large teeth.
examples: the bigtooth aspen
the bigtooth maple
glosses: Applied to certain plants whose leaves have large points.
nondinosaurian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + dinosaurian.
Senses: examples: text: The bone growth rate, the scientists determined, was unbirdlike but reflected metabolic rates greater than those in nondinosaurian reptiles; that is, they were more warmblooded than coldblooded.
ref: 2009 October 9, John Noble Wilford, “Paper Challenges Ideas About ‘Early Bird’ Dinosaur”, in New York Times:
glosses: Not dinosaurian.
pseudogovernment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pseudogovernments
Etymology: From pseudo- + government.
Senses: examples: text: The nearly $8 billion acquisition by a company affiliated with the elite force has amplified concerns in Iran over what some call the rise of a pseudogovernment, prompting members of Parliament to begin an investigation into the deal.
ref: 2009 October 9, Michael Slackman, “Elite Guard in Iran Tightens Its Grip With Telecom Move”, in New York Times:
glosses: An apparent or false government.
pseudogovernments
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pseudogovernment
subclimate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: subclimates
Etymology: From sub- + climate.
Senses: examples: text: Being one of the most southerly parts of the UK, the Isle of Wight has a milder subclimate than most other areas.
glosses: A local climate that makes up part of a larger climate.
subclimates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of subclimate
tramstop
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tramstops
Etymology: From tram + stop.
Senses: examples: text: Young men with yellowish teeth standing guard at the entrances of big buildings, outside shops, on squares, at tramstops, in the scruffy park, in front of the dormitories, in bodegas, outside the station.
ref: 2009 October 9, Blake Wilson, “Excerpts From the Writings of Herta Müller”, in New York Times:
text: [...] the line through to Rochdale railway station would be extended by half a mile into Rochdale town centre to a new tramstop constructed alongside the site of a planned new bus station for the town. This would provide two tram stops in the town that offered interchange facilities with rail and bus services.
ref: 2019 October 23, Andy Coward, “New acclaim for Oldham Loop”, in Rail, page 60:
glosses: A designated point where trams stop to allow passengers to leave or board.
tramstops
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tramstop
bondholding
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From bond + holding.
Senses: examples: text: That’s good money lying unclaimed in these fresh hard times and the states, looking for a cut, argue that they have the means to track down bondholding taxpayers and ease their pain.
ref: 2009 October 10, “Any Bonds Today?”, in New York Times:
topics: business
finance
glosses: Holding bonds.
unslender
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unslender
form: most unslender
Etymology: From un- + slender.
Senses: examples: text: Like the time Mitt Romney ran against Ted Kennedy for the Senate during one of Kennedy’s particularly unslender periods.
ref: 2009 October 10, Gail Collins, “The Eye of the Beholder”, in New York Times:
glosses: Not slender.
buycotted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of buycott
buycotting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of buycott
chemicalize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: chemicalizes
form: chemicalizing
form: chemicalized
form: chemicalized
Etymology: From chemical + -ize.
Senses: glosses: To make chemical; to impregnate with chemicals.
Derived terms: unchemicalized
Related terms: chemicalization
chemicalizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of chemicalize
chemicalized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of chemicalize
Derived terms: unchemicalized
chemicalizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of chemicalize
morningmares
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of morningmare
midcaps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of midcap
overcut
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -ʌt
Forms: form: overcuts
form: overcutting
form: overcut
form: overcut
form: over-cut
Etymology: From over- + cut.
Senses: glosses: To cut excessively.
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
motor-racing
racing
sports
glosses: To employ the overcut strategy.
overcut
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ʌt
Forms: form: more overcut
form: most overcut
form: over-cut
Etymology: From over- + cut.
Senses: glosses: Excessively cut.
overcut
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ʌt
Forms: form: overcuts
form: over-cut
Etymology: From over- + cut.
Senses: examples: text: It is better to make a sale a little under this limit, to allow for a possible excess cutting. Where through poor estimating there is an overcut, the excess should be charged to the original sale in Class B as in Class C sales.
ref: 1907, United States Forest Services, Field Program, Government Printing Office, page 15:
text: (3) Forest of Mont Glore. An example of errors in early yield calculation which resulted in an overcut.
ref: 1920, Theodore Salisbury Woolsey, William Buckhout Greeley, Where No Wood Is, Wiley, page 500:
text: Such an overcut would be serious since French forests have not recovered from the last war.
ref: 1944, Ovid Butler, American Forests 1944-03: Volume 50, Issue 3, American Forests, page 112:
text: Such an overcut would be serious since French forests have not recovered from the last war.
ref: 2003, Reginald Byron, Retrenchment and Regeneration in Rural Newfoundland, University of Toronto Press, →ISBN, page 111:
text: The evidence which residents offered for the existence of an overcut included the following: (1) forestry documents themselves, stating that overcuts were done and warning of a coming shortfall in sawlogs; (2) oral reports from foresters at public meetings; (3) oral reports from loggers and other forest workers; (4) direct observation of cutovers, logging, and logging trucks; and (5) direct observation of sawmill activity and biomass collection. Residents attributed the alleged overcut to several factors.
ref: 2005, Complete Decks, Meredith Books, page 209:
text: (i) Bottle gourd shall be (f) clean, free of any visible foreign matter; (g) free from bruising or extensive healed overcuts;
ref: 2012, Directorate of Printing, Government of India, Extraordinary Gazette of India, 2012, No. 492, Wiley, page 40:
glosses: The act or result of excessive cutting.
glosses: An opening resulting from such cutting; an extreme incision or wound.
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
motor-racing
racing
sports
antonyms: undercut
glosses: A pit stop strategy in which a driver seeks to gain an advantage over someone else by pitting after them and running in clean air to make up time.
overcuts
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of overcut
overcutting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From over- + cutting.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of overcut
overcutting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: overcuttings
Etymology: From over- + cutting.
Senses: examples: text: The first recorded export of timber was in the thirteenth century when cargoes were sent via Liibeck to England and the Low Countries. Although relatively easy to exploit, the forests were in no danger of overcutting until the industrial revolution and the decade 1860-70, when the wood converting industry expanded fivefold and government controls were removed.
ref: 1862, Andrew C. O'dell, The Scandinavian World, Longmans, page 86:
text: The technical people I asked about this said it was due to the overcutting they showed me on the records: the cutting needle of the recording apparatus had swung too far laterally. This would not happen, they said, if the companies recorded at a low volume level and depended on amplification by the phonograph to step the volume up.
ref: 1940, The Nation, J.H. Richards, page 691:
text: In the latter, “undercutting” is replaced by what we might aptly designate “overcutting" and operations precisely similar in principle, though different in detail to those employed in the winning of coal, are commenced at the roof instead of at the floor of the mine. The accompanying sketches will help to render our explanations more intelligible.
ref: 1963, The Nation, J.H. Richards, page 691:
glosses: Excessive cutting.
overqualification
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: overqualifications
Etymology: From over- + qualification.
Senses: examples: text: That’s because many employers fear that “along with overqualification comes arrogance,” he said.
ref: 2009 October 11, Phyllis Korkki, “How a Good Candidate Clears the H.R. Hurdles”, in New York Times:
glosses: The quality of being overqualified.
prohibitionistic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more prohibitionistic
form: most prohibitionistic
Etymology: From prohibition + -istic.
Senses: examples: text: But by then I’d settled into a pattern of weird, wrecked eating in which I maintained a bizarre prohibitionistic list of foods I was never to touch.
ref: 2009 October 11, Zz Packer, “No Polenta, No Cry”, in New York Times:
glosses: Of or pertaining to a prohibition.
returnability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From return + -ability.
Senses: examples: text: Also, some vehicles may have what Chrysler called poor steering wheel returnability.
ref: 2009 October 11, Scott Sturgis, “Manic Locks and Toasty Seats”, in New York Times:
glosses: The quality of being returnable.
sheetless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From sheet + -less.
Senses: examples: text: A stick of deodorant stood on his otherwise empty bookshelf, and his girlfriend from back home, Jenni Maple, sat with her laptop on his sheetless mattress, which touched the room’s walls on either end.
ref: 2009 October 11, Allen Salkin, “Anybody Here From Astoria?”, in New York Times:
glosses: Without sheets.
sheetlets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sheetlet
sheetlines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sheetline
sheetfuls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sheetful
sheetsful
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sheetful
unblooded
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + blooded.
Senses: examples: text: Recalling his anxiety as an unblooded lieutenant on the eve of the Mexican War, Ulysses S. Grant confessed, “I felt sorry that I had enlisted.”
ref: 2009 October 11, Elizabeth D. Samet, “Marine Dreams”, in New York Times:
glosses: Not yet blooded; untried in battle; still to take part in combat.
underreact
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌʌnd.əɹ.ɹiˈækt/
ipa: /ˌʌndəɹiˈækt/
Forms: form: underreacts
form: underreacting
form: underreacted
form: underreacted
Etymology: From under- + react.
Senses: examples: text: “Investors tend to underreact to positive fundamental change,” said Horacio Valeiras, chief investment officer of Nicholas-Applegate Capital Management.
ref: 2009 October 11, Conrad De Aenlle, “When Emotions Move the Markets”, in New York Times:
glosses: To react inadequately.
Related terms: underreaction
underreacting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of underreact
underreacts
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of underreact
underreacted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of underreact
uninvent
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: uninvents
form: uninventing
form: uninvented
form: uninvented
Etymology: From un- + invent.
Senses: examples: text: It’s easier to ban bake sales than to get rid of half the cars in the city, or uninvent video games, or design broccoli that tastes like homemade chocolate chip cookies.
ref: 2009 October 11, Roz Chast, Tucker Nichols, Jillian Tamaki, Joseph Hart, Karen Barbour, Bella Foster, Jason Polan And Seth, “My Bake Sale Memory”, in New York Times:
glosses: To undo the invention of; to unmake.
uninvents
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of uninvent
uninventing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of uninvent
unlaureled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: unlaurelled
Etymology: From un- + laureled.
Senses: examples: text: In the eyes of the marooned Colonel Wilhoite, who, having missed out on the war, commands the East River island prison that is the setting for “Blankenship,” can be discerned “specters of battles unseen and medals unwon and the slow final ooze of unlaureled retirement.”
ref: 2009 October 11, Elizabeth D. Samet, “Marine Dreams”, in New York Times:
glosses: Not crowned with laurel.
unlaurelled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: Her poetry was about the grind. A treadmill recalling unlaurelled bravery. Notes for those dead at sea.
ref: 2013, Alexis Wright, The Swan Book, Constable (2016), page 34:
glosses: Alternative form of unlaureled.
prerequires
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of prerequire
prerequiring
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of prerequire
prerequired
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of prerequire
preresolved
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of preresolve
preresolving
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of preresolve
preresolves
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of preresolve
unbloody
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + bloody.
Senses: examples: unbloody sacrifice
glosses: Not bloody.
unauspicious
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unauspicious
form: most unauspicious
Etymology: From un- + auspicious.
Senses: glosses: inauspicious
unaudienced
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + audience + -ed.
Senses: glosses: Not given an audience; not received or heard.
uncase
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: uncases
form: uncasing
form: uncased
form: uncased
Etymology: From un- + case.
Senses: glosses: To skin or flay.
examples: text: Sancho Panza seeing the fryar on the ground, leaped from his ass with great agility, and beginning to uncase him [translating quitar los habitos] with the utmost dexterity, two of their servants came up, and asked for what reason he stripped their master?
ref: 1755, Miguel de Cervantes, translated by Tobias Smollett, Don Quixote, Volume 1, I.8:
glosses: To strip (someone); to undress.
glosses: To take out of a case or covering; to uncover.
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: To display, or spread to view, as a flag, or the colors of a military body.
uncases
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of uncase
uncasing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of uncase
untithed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + tithed.
Senses: glosses: Against which no tithe is charged.
untiringness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From untiring + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being untiring.
unsister
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: unsisters
form: unsistering
form: unsistered
form: unsistered
Etymology: From un- + sister.
Senses: glosses: To separate, as sisters; to disjoin.
unsistered
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of unsister
unsistered
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Without a sister.
examples: text: Therefore, forever unsistered for him by the stroke of Fate, […] Isabel wholly soared out of the realms of mortalness, and for him became transfigured in the highest heaven of uncorrupted Love.
ref: 1852, Herman Melville, Pierre; or The Ambiguities:
glosses: Made to be no longer a sister.
unsew
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: unsews
form: unsewing
form: unsewed
form: unsewn
Etymology: From un- + sew.
Senses: glosses: To undo something sewn or enclosed by sewing; to rip apart; to take out the stitches of.
unsewed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past of unsew
unsews
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of unsew
unsewing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of unsew
unsoldiered
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + soldiered.
Senses: glosses: Not equipped like a soldier; unsoldierlike.
unshell
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: unshells
form: unshelling
form: unshelled
form: unshelled
Etymology: From un- + shell.
Senses: glosses: To strip the shell from; to take out of the shell; to hatch.
unshells
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of unshell
unshelling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of unshell
unseldom
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʌnˈsɛldəm/
rhymes: -ɛldəm
Forms: form: more unseldom
form: most unseldom
Etymology: From un- (prefix meaning ‘not’) + seldom.
Senses: examples: text: When Mr. Collins said any thing of which his wife might reasonably be ashamed, which certainly was not unseldom, she involuntarily turned her eye on Charlotte.
ref: 1813 January 27, [Jane Austen], chapter V, in Pride and Prejudice: […], volume II, London: […] [George Sidney] for T[homas] Egerton, […], →OCLC, page 52:
text: For as was the land, such was the art of it while folk yet troubled themselves about such things; it strove little to impress people either by pomp or ingenuity: not unseldom it fell into commonplace, rarely it rose into majesty; yet was it never oppressive, never a slave’s nightmare or an insolent boast: and at its best it had an inventiveness, an individuality, that grander styles have never overpassed: […]
ref: [1878], William Morris, The Decorative Arts: Their Relation to Modern Life and Progress […], London: Ellis and White, […], →OCLC, page 21:
text: Mulai Abdul Aziz was, at the time of his succession (1894), about twelve or thirteen years of age. He was a younger son of the late Sultan, for Islamic thrones do not necessarily descend by primogeniture. It is not unseldom a brother who succeeds, and at times even more distant relations.
ref: 1921, Walter B[urton] Harris, “The Moorish Court. I. The Accession of Mulai Abdul Aziz.”, in Morocco That Was, Edinburgh; London: Wiliam Blackwood and Sons, →OCLC, page 17:
synonyms: word: unoften
english: literary except India
translation: literary except India
word: a lot
word: feelefold
word: frequently
word: manifold
word: manyfold
word: oft
word: often
word: oftenly
word: oftentimes
word: ofttimes
word: repeatedly
word: unseldom
glosses: Not seldom; frequently, regularly.
unsoft
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ʌnˈsɒft/
Forms: form: more unsoft
form: most unsoft
Etymology: From un- + soft.
Senses: glosses: Not soft; hard; coarse; rough.
unsoft
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: /ʌnˈsɒft/
Forms: form: more unsoft
form: most unsoft
Etymology: From un- + soft.
Senses: examples: text: Great climbers fall unsoft.
ref: 1579, Immeritô [pseudonym; Edmund Spenser], “Iuly. Ægloga Septima.”, in The Shepheardes Calender: […], London: […] Iohn Wolfe for Iohn Harrison the yonger, […], →OCLC:
glosses: Not softly.
unspell
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʌnˈspɛl/
Forms: form: unspells
form: unspelling
form: unspelled
form: unspelled
Etymology: From un- + spell.
Senses: examples: text: Such practices as Theſe, too groſs to lye / Long unobſerv'd by each diſcerning Eye, / The more judicious Iſraelites Unſpell'd, / Though ſtill the Charm the giddy Rabble held, [...]
ref: 1682, [Nahum Tate; John Dryden], The Second Part of Absalom and Achitophel. A Poem. […], 2nd edition, London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC, page 5:
glosses: To break the power of (a spell); to release (a person) from the influence of a spell; to disenchant.
unspelled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: No doubt but He that had ſo raſhly ſought / Our Shore vvith the fierce Bulls unſpell'd had fought, / And fondly too th' Arms-bearing Seed had ſovvn, / 'Till by the Crop the Tiller vvere orethrovvn.
ref: 1680, Nahum Tate, “Medea to Jason”, in Ovid, Ovid’s Epistles, […], London: […] Jacob Tonson […], →OCLC, page 191:
glosses: Not spelled.
unspelled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of unspell
unspells
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of unspell
unspelling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of unspell
unseparable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unseparable
form: most unseparable
Etymology: From Middle English unseperable, equivalent to un- + separable.
Senses: glosses: Not separable; inseparable
uniconic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more uniconic
form: most uniconic
Etymology: From un- + iconic.
Senses: examples: text: The supposedly uniconic cult of the public hearth was (and was regarded by the Romans) as archaic.
ref: 2010, Nathan Rosenstein, Robert Morstein-Marx, editors, A Companion to the Roman Republic, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 231:
glosses: Not iconic.
Related terms: aniconic
unsocket
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: unsockets
form: unsocketing
form: unsocketed
form: unsocketed
Etymology: From un- + socket.
Senses: examples: text: It racks his Joints, unsockets all his Bones.
ref: a. 1711, Thomas Ken, On the Passion:
glosses: To loosen or remove from a socket.
præcept
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: præcepts
Senses: examples: text: And Christ tooke an order that these and all other holy things should be kept from prophanation in that Evangelicall præcept deliver’d in the same sermon, Nolite dare Sanctum Canibus, give not things holy to dogs, that is to prophane persons, keepe holy things from unholy men, dogs must not come into Churches.
ref: 1848, Jeremy Taylor, The Whole Works of the Right Rev. Jeremy Taylor, volume V, page 324:
glosses: Archaic form of precept.
cælestiall
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: Rev : 22. It was spoken of the cælestiall temple, of which ours are adumbrations, or rather ours are the gates of that.
ref: 1848, Jeremy Taylor, “On the Reverence Due to the Altar”, in The Whole Works of the Right Rev. Jeremy Taylor, volume V, page 324:
glosses: Obsolete form of celestial.
fœderall
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: Though Baptism doth not make me a Christian soul, (for by vertue of paternal covenant, and fœderall holines the seed of believers are within the covenant, holy, and members of the church) yet by Baptism I am solemnly entred and entertained amongst believers, and written among the living in Jerusalem, in that sacred Register […]
ref: 1702, Oliver Heywood quoted in The Rev. Oliver Heywood, Volume III., page #241
glosses: Obsolete form of federal.
præcepts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of præcept
prædominates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of prædominate
prædominating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of prædominate
prædominated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of prædominate
prælusive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more prælusive
form: most prælusive
Senses: examples: text: “ Ah! welcome merry hour of dawn!
The freſh breeze ruſtling thro’ the corn,
The riſing ſun’s præluſive beams
That dance in gold on glaſſy ſtreams,
The goſſamour’s fine ſilvery thread
That lightly float o’er field‐flower’s head,
The dew‐drops left by weeping night,
That crown green leaves with beads of light,
Now ſweetly ſwell the peaſant’s lay
And greet the blue‐ey’d bluſhing day!
ref: 1806, The British Critic, volume XXIX, page 431:
glosses: Obsolete form of prelusive.
prævision
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: prævisions
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of prevision.
præcursors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of præcursor
aquatic centre
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: aquatic centres
form: aquatic center
form: aquatics center
form: aquatics centre
Senses: glosses: A community facility consisting of one or more swimming pools and other recreational amenities.