cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
dayshift
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dayshifts
Senses: examples: text: In a reflective and conversational tone, she blended the experiences of everywoman, from “all these mothers who take whatever life throws at us,” and the mother who “gets up every morning, gets the kids ready for school, does the laundry, buys the groceries, cooks the dinners, helps on the homework and maybe works the dayshift, a nightshift or a double shift” to those who “dare to compete in the boardroom and the backroom.”
ref: 2008 May 12, Katharine Q. Seelye, “As Rivals Rest on Mother’s Day, Clinton Pushes On”, in New York Times:
glosses: Alternative spelling of day shift.
dayshifts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dayshift
pseudoaneurysm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pseudoaneurysms
Etymology: From pseudo- + aneurysm.
Senses: examples: text: One nurse aggressively stanched the arterial pseudoaneurysm with a copious number of four-inch gauze pads, but Williams’s ordeal is hardly over.
ref: 2008 May 12, George Vecsey, “Accepting the Costs of a Life in Football”, in New York Times:
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A so-called "false aneurysm", a hematoma that forms as the result of a leaking hole in an artery.
pseudoaneurysms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pseudoaneurysm
seminarrative
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From semi- + narrative.
Senses: glosses: Having a partially narrative style.
breede
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: breedes
Senses: glosses: Archaic spelling of breed.
breede
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: breedes
form: breeding
form: breeded
form: breeded
form: bredde
form: bredde
Senses: glosses: Archaic spelling of breed.
cabdriving
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From cab + driving.
Senses: glosses: The trade of a cabdriver.
cuds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /kʌdz/
Senses: glosses: plural of cud
cuds
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /kʌdz/
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of cud
breedes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of breede
breedes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of breede
diskectomies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of diskectomy
duckbilled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: duck-billed
Etymology: From duck + billed.
Senses: examples: text: The third group of mammals, the monotremes, claims a measly three distinct animals, and all are indigenous to Australia and New Guinea: the duckbilled platypus and the long-beaked and short-beaked echidnas, also known as spiny anteaters.
ref: 2008 May 13, Natalie Angier, “A Gene Map for the Cute Side of the Family”, in New York Times:
text: The duckbilled dinosaurs (hadrosaurs) had broad, ducklike beaks. They walked or ran on their hind legs, and leaned down on their shorter front legs to graze on vegetation.
ref: 2005, Carson Creagh, Simone Ende, Angela Milner, Dinosaurs:
glosses: Having a bill like that of a duck.
hæmatoma
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hæmatomas
form: hæmatomata
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of hematoma.
entwinings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of entwining
grublike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more grublike
form: most grublike
Etymology: From grub + -like.
Senses: examples: text: Placental mammals that gestate their young internally, as do we and most of the pelts we know, account for 95 percent of the world’s 5,600 species of mammals, and marsupials like the kangaroo, koala and our very own opossum, whose young are born at a grublike stage and do most of their developing externally, often in a pouch, constitute nearly all the rest.
ref: 2008 May 13, Natalie Angier, “A Gene Map for the Cute Side of the Family”, in New York Times:
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a grub.
interictally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From interictal + -ly.
Senses: glosses: Between epileptic seizures.
hæmatomata
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Another group, the circumscribed hæmatomata, being more sharply defined than the diffuse ones, and representing a circle or an oval in outline, and a lens in shape (as being of greater thickness in the centre than at the margin) may be subdivided according to location.
ref: 1886, Kroenlein, in Annals of Surgery, J. H. Chambers & Co.; Volume IV., page #233
glosses: plural of hæmatoma
hyperreligiosity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From hyper- + religiosity.
Senses: examples: text: If they suffer from temporal lobe epilepsy, they will show signs of hyperreligiosity, an overexcitement of the brain tissue that leads sufferers to believe they are conversing with God.
ref: 2008 May 13, David Brooks, “The Neural Buddhists”, in New York Times:
glosses: An extreme religious mania sometimes associated with mental conditions.
levalbuterol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From levo- + albuterol.
Senses: glosses: levosalbutamol
levosalbutamol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From levo- + salbutamol.
Senses: topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: A bronchodilator used to treat asthma and COPD.
Synonyms: levalbuterol
neuromata
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of neuroma
deso
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: desos
Etymology: From des(ignated driver) + -o.
Senses: glosses: A designated driver.
pastiched
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of pastiche
pastiching
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of pastiche
politiquera
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: politiqueras
Etymology: From Spanish politiquera.
Senses: examples: text: “I’ve been a politiquera for 20 years,” Ms. Espinoza said in an interview last week outside her trailer in the town of Pharr.
ref: 2008 May 13, Michael Luo, “A Usually Legal Practice That Wears Black Eyes”, in New York Times:
topics: government
politics
glosses: One who is paid by an election campaign to issue fliers to householders and encourage them to go and vote for a particular candidate.
politiqueras
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of politiquera
premammalian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pre- + mammalian.
Senses: examples: text: At the same time, the monotremes still pay homage to their premammalian forebears.
ref: 2008 May 13, Natalie Angier, “A Gene Map for the Cute Side of the Family”, in New York Times:
glosses: Before the evolution of mammals.
rodenty
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more rodenty
form: most rodenty
Etymology: From rodent + -y.
Senses: examples: text: They are not our direct ancestors, but rather split off from the rodenty line that gave rise to us and marsupials some 180 million years ago, with marsupials breaking away maybe 40 million years later.
ref: 2008 May 13, Natalie Angier, “A Gene Map for the Cute Side of the Family”, in New York Times:
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of rodents.
tripmate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tripmates
Etymology: From trip + mate.
Senses: examples: text: Though neither I nor my tripmates could tolerate full-body attire during Cambodia’s humid, 90-plus-degree days, we all doused ourselves daily with repellent.
ref: 2008 May 13, Jane E. Brody, “Mosquito Thrives; So Does Dengue Fever”, in New York Times:
glosses: A companion on a trip.
spearlet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spearlets
Etymology: From spear + -let.
Senses: examples: text: While the poisonous spearlets are now directed largely against rival males, the trait could well have served among ancestral monotremes as the equivalent of a bee’s sting, to ward off the Bigfeet that ever threatened to crush them.
ref: 2008 May 13, Natalie Angier, “A Gene Map for the Cute Side of the Family”, in New York Times:
glosses: A small spear.
tripmates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tripmate
spearlets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of spearlet
unfrenetic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unfrenetic
form: most unfrenetic
Etymology: From un- + frenetic.
Senses: examples: text: Despite the needs, many residents say they love the town for its intimate and unfrenetic feel.
ref: 2008 May 13, Erik Eckholm, “A Tax Quirk Holds Out Promise for a Hard-Pressed Town”, in New York Times:
glosses: Not frenetic.
unradical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unradical
form: most unradical
Etymology: From un- + radical.
Senses: examples: text: Mr. DuBois has, however, approached the work in a radically unradical way, bringing a softening sheen of naturalism to its rumpled texture.
ref: 2008 May 13, Charles Isherwood, “Shepard’s Debtors of 1978, Sounding Like Today’s Poor”, in New York Times:
glosses: Not radical.
unnippled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + nippled.
Senses: examples: text: But the platypus trumps its plush-toy costars by adding a kind of Dada prankishness to the equation, what with its bill that looks like a Charlie Chaplin shoe, the leathery, thumb-sized eggs it insists on laying, the Daffy Duck webfeet outfitted with venomous spurs and the milk that dribbles down its unnippled chest.
ref: 2008 May 13, Natalie Angier, “A Gene Map for the Cute Side of the Family”, in New York Times:
glosses: Without nipples.
kline
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: klines
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of k-line.
kline
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: klines
form: klining
form: klined
form: klined
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of k-line.
interracialism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: interracialisms
Etymology: From interracial + -ism.
Senses: examples: text: But Central Point, which had been a visibly mixed-race community since the 19th century, was home to a secret but paradoxically open interracialism.
ref: 2008 May 14, Brent Staples, “Loving v. Virginia and the Secret History of Race”, in New York Times:
glosses: The mixing of races or ethnicities.
noncable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + cable.
Senses: examples: text: But she used a word seldom heard on the noncable air, and then only by accident — a word that is not publishable in the newspaper.
ref: 2008 May 14, James Barron, “When an Anchor Curses on the Air, She Becomes the Night’s Top Story”, in New York Times:
glosses: Not of or pertaining to cable television.
substantivisation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: substantivisations
form: substantivization
Etymology: From substantive + -isation or substantivise + -ation.
Senses: synonyms: nominalisation
glosses: The process of substantivising (converting into a substantive).
prædator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: prædators
Senses: examples: text: A temple of four columns, ascending the steps of which is a veiled and togated Roman, bearing a trophy : this evidently alludes to Marcellus’s having slain the King of the Gauls, Britomart ( Viridomarus? ), with his own hand, and thereupon he vowed to dedicate the spolia opima to Jupiter Feretrius—the prædator.
ref: 1856, William Henry Smyth, Descriptive Catalogue of a Cabinet of Roman Family Coins, page 41:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of predator.
prædators
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: They are able to support this greedy host of prædators and parasites because they are extremely prolific, hardy, or eurythermic, and of a very industrious and peaceable disposition.
ref: 1911, William Morton Wheeler, The Journal of Animal Behavior, volume III, Henry Holt & Company, page 386:
glosses: plural of prædator
klining
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of kline
klined
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of kline
antiallergy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From anti- + allergy.
Senses: examples: text: The building will be named for Gavin S. Herbert, founder and former chairman of Allergan, the large pharmaceutical products company that first developed antiallergy eye drops 60 years ago in Los Angeles.
ref: 2008 May 15, James Flanigan, “If It’s Eye Care Technology, This Must Be Orange County”, in New York Times:
glosses: Countering an allergy.
megatower
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: megatowers
Etymology: From mega- + tower.
Senses: examples: text: One is a story of betrayal, how almost two decades of hard work and advocacy that produced a visionary plan for a low-rise arts district that preserved the area’s past was shunted aside in favor of plans for megatowers and cookie-cutter urban development.
ref: 2008 May 15, Peter Applebome, “Adjusting Vision of Waterfront Arts District to Include High Rises”, in New York Times:
glosses: A very tall tower.
megatowers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of megatower
multilegged
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more multilegged
form: most multilegged
Etymology: From multi- + legged.
Senses: examples: text: One particular gown stood out: a sleeveless white silk sheath with an elaborate print ($3,400) that said, “I am Basquiat in hell, forced to endure a Sisyphean nursery school where I trace my hand and paint multilegged monster turkeys and get an F, forever.
ref: 2008 May 15, Cintra Wilson, “Advanced Stages of Regression”, in New York Times:
glosses: Having more than one leg.
overpronator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: overpronators
Etymology: From overpronate + -or.
Senses: examples: text: This model is for triathletes with a neutral stride (there’s a comparable stability shoe for overpronators).
ref: 2008 May 15, Sarah Bowen Shea, “Physical Culture”, in New York Times:
glosses: One who overpronates.
overpronators
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of overpronator
reconstructors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of reconstructor
stuntlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more stuntlike
form: most stuntlike
Etymology: From stunt + -like.
Senses: examples: text: But in “Passion” Momix stays pop, lightweight: an array of stuntlike short-term sketches, few of which go far beyond the initial wow factor.
ref: 2008 May 15, Alastair Macaulay, “Leaping Puffballs, Floating Demons and Lots of Gyrating Whatsits”, in New York Times:
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a stunt.
chlorfenapyr
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: They are vulnerable to some pest control poisons — Mr. Rasberry uses products containing the chemicals fipronil and chlorfenapyr — but given the ants’ staggering proliferation and environmental restrictions on the products, not enough of the chemicals can be put down to make a difference, Mr. Meyers said.
ref: 2008 May 16, Ralph Blumenthal, “A Pest Without a Name, Becoming Known to Ever More”, in The New York Times:
text: Diagnostic doses of six acaricides (fenothiocarb, endosulfan, chlorfenapyr, tebufenpyrad, cyenopyrafen and cyflumetofen) resulted in a 68.0~71.8% mortality rate (on average) in the test mite populations, whereas the remaining six acaricides (monocrotophos, omethoate, bifenthrin, abamectin, etoxazole and bifenazate) caused slightly reduced mortality rates (on average 36.5~59.3%).
ref: 2015 November 7, “Phenotypic- and Genotypic-Resistance Detection for Adaptive Resistance Management in Tetranychus urticae Koch”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: A pesticide derived from the halogenated pyrroles.
preapocalyptic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pre- + apocalyptic.
Senses: examples: text: Rachel’s decision is partly based on her fear of another attack on New York: they were trying to understand, Hans recalls, “whether we were in a preapocalyptic situation, like the European Jews in the ’30s or the last citizens of Pompeii, or whether our situation was merely near apocalyptic, like that of the cold war inhabitants of New York, London, Washington and, for that matter, Moscow.”
ref: 2008 May 16, Michiko Kakutani, “Post 9/11, a New York of Gatsby-Size Dreams and Loss”, in New York Times:
glosses: Before an apocalypse.
sauceboat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sauceboats
form: sauce boat
Etymology: From sauce + boat.
Senses: examples: text: In Gallery 286 are displayed 19 pieces of tableware (pickle dishes, sauceboats and small baskets) made in blue and white soft-paste porcelain.
ref: 2008 May 16, Wendy Moonan, “Tending to the Legacy of a Deco Master”, in New York Times:
glosses: Synonym of gravy boat.
synonyms: word: gravy boat
sauceboats
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sauceboat
unabetted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + abetted.
Senses: examples: text: As it turned out, he wasn’t waging his war against the elements unabetted.
ref: 2008 May 16, Ginia Bellafante, “What Wine Goes With Beetle Larvae?”, in New York Times:
glosses: Not abetted.
malling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From mall + -ing.
Senses: examples: text: The malling of Siberia is transforming the drab gray landscape on the outskirts of these cities into a tableau of Day-Glo green and purple outlets, and providing a slim ray of hope to retailers whose business is lagging elsewhere.
ref: 2008 May 17, Andrew E. Kramer, “In Siberia, Shopping Malls Are Sprouting All Over”, in New York Times:
glosses: the transformation of a district by building shopping malls
glosses: shopping or window-shopping in a shopping mall
æsteems
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: He dares Countenance Rebellion and Sacriledge both with his tongue and Purſe; but æſteems it dangerous,and therefore (without all doubt) Imprudence, to Contribute ſo much as a Good look to the Encouragement of the truly Religious and vertuous, leſt he ſhould be ſuſpected by the proſperous ſinner, an Enemy to Treaſon, and Wickedneſſe.
ref: 1660, Clement Ellis, The Gentile Sinner, pages 65–66:
glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of æsteem
midcampaign
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From mid- + campaign.
Senses: examples: text: The midcampaign staff review underscores the difficulties Mr. McCain is having in trying to build his Republican presidential campaign around his crusades for tighter ethics rules and pledges to avoid even the appearance of conflicts of interest.
ref: 2008 May 17, David D. Kirkpatrick, “In Effort to Avoid Conflicts, McCain Issues New Rules for Staff”, in New York Times:
glosses: During a political campaign.
surveylike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more surveylike
form: most surveylike
Etymology: From survey + -like.
Senses: examples: text: The miscellaneous effect and the surveylike approach also reflect the ambitions of many local museums in the early 21st century: honoring a region’s eclectic communities and welcoming their visitors.
ref: 2008 May 17, Edward Rothstein, “Rethinking Locally: New Jersey Opens Big Museum Doors Again”, in New York Times:
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a survey.
backtest
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: backtests
Etymology: From back + test.
Senses: glosses: A test of a strategy, model, etc. using data from a previous time.
backtest
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: backtests
form: backtesting
form: backtested
form: backtested
Etymology: From back + test.
Senses: examples: text: (Mr. Fosback has also backtested this indicator to the late 1940s, the earliest period for which data on the coincident economic indicators were available, and it performed just as well from then until the late ’70s as it did in more recent decades.)
ref: 2008 May 18, Mark Hulbert, “An Alarm Is Blaring: Time to Buy”, in New York Times:
glosses: To test a strategy, model, etc. using data from a previous time.
backtested
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of backtest
backtests
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of backtest
backtests
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of backtest
biofueled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: biofuelled
Senses: examples: text: To the Editor: The May 4 Green Traveler column (“Trying to Lighten that Carbon Footprint ”) cites Friends of the Earth’s negative comments regarding Richard Branson’s biofueled flight and the drawbacks of producing biofuels for air travel.
ref: 2008 May 18, “Letters: Biofuels for Jet Travel”, in New York Times:
glosses: Powered by biofuel.
biofuelled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of biofueled.
unblindfold
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: unblindfolds
form: unblindfolding
form: unblindfolded
form: unblindfolded
Etymology: From un- + blindfold.
Senses: glosses: To remove a blindfold from.
unblindfolds
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of unblindfold
unblindfolding
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of unblindfold
unblindfolded
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of unblindfold
unblindfolded
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: The leader announces that at a given signal the unblindfolded players will each take one of the empty seats next to those who are blindfolded, and when requested to sing the unblindfolded must do so, disguising their voices...
ref: 1899, Mary White, The book of games with directions how to play them:
glosses: Not having been blindfolded.
brandings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of branding
glosses: A children's game in which one player tosses a tennis ball at other players who vigorously try to avoid being hit, the person being hit then becoming the person with the ball.
counterpetition
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: counterpetitions
Etymology: From counter- + petition.
Senses: examples: text: He also noted that there are counterpetitions urging him to keep making films.
ref: 2008 May 18, John Schwartz, “Call Him the Worst Director (Then Duck)”, in New York Times:
glosses: An opposing petition set up in response to another petition.
counterpetition
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: counterpetitions
form: counterpetitioning
form: counterpetitioned
form: counterpetitioned
Etymology: From counter- + petition.
Senses: glosses: To petition in opposition to another petition.
counterpetitions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of counterpetition
counterboycott
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: counterboycotts
Etymology: From counter- + boycott.
Senses: glosses: An opposing boycott set up in response to another boycott.
counterboycotts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of counterboycott
fritzing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of fritz
fritzed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of fritz
gompa
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gompas
Etymology: Borrowed from Tibetan དགོན་པ (dgon pa).
Senses: examples: text: And when finally I got to the end of the five-hour drive over the highest motorable pass in the world, it was to learn that the gompa in Hunder was closed.
ref: 2009 March 13, Pico Iyer, “Heaven’s Gate”, in New York Times:
topics: Buddhism
lifestyle
religion
glosses: A Buddhist ecclesiastical fortification of learning, lineage and sadhana in Tibet, India, Nepal, or Bhutan.
gompas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gompa
instructionals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of instructional
kalarippayattu
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈkɑ.ləɹ.iˈpaɪ.ə.tu/
Etymology: Borrowed from Malayalam കളരിപ്പയറ്റ് (kaḷarippayaṟṟŭ).
Senses: examples: text: Like karate, for instance, which would appear to derive from the ancient Indian martial art kalarippayattu.
ref: 2009 March 13, Phoebe Eaton, “Liquid Assets”, in New York Times:
glosses: A Dravidian martial art from the Indian state of Kerala.
kefalotiri
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: “Now, these are what we’d call tasty cheeses,” she said as I speared cubes of creamy kefalotiri and manchego, nodding in agreement: tasty!
ref: 2009 March 13, Jaime Gross, “Captain Kangaroo”, in New York Times:
glosses: Alternative form of kefalotyri.
kerosenelike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more kerosenelike
form: most kerosenelike
form: kerosene-like
Etymology: From kerosene + -like.
Senses: examples: text: But the kerosenelike fuel and the engines that burn it were dirty, noisy, dawdling and even deadly, linked to increased risk of cancer and respiratory disease.
ref: 2008 May 18, Lawrence Ulrich, “Diesel Automobiles Clean Up for an Encore”, in New York Times:
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of kerosene.
leatherwoods
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of leatherwood
leatherware
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: leatherwares
Etymology: From leather + -ware.
Senses: examples: text: The Story of Anvil” implies, Anvil takes itself less seriously than Metallica, Iron Maiden, Anthrax or any of the other heavy metal bands for whom blinding guitar speed, studded leatherware and general bombast proved a route to success.
ref: 2008 May 18, John Anderson, “Heavy Metal, Light on the Success”, in New York Times:
glosses: Items made from leather.
leatherwares
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of leatherware
manchego
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: manchegos
Senses: examples: text: “Now, these are what we’d call tasty cheeses,” she said as I speared cubes of creamy kefalotiri and manchego, nodding in agreement: tasty!
ref: 2009 March 13, Jaime Gross, “Captain Kangaroo”, in New York Times:
glosses: Alternative form of Manchego.
mancessions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mancession
maximalize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: maximalizes
form: maximalizing
form: maximalized
form: maximalized
Etymology: From maximal + -ize.
Senses: glosses: To make maximal; maximize.
Related terms: maximalization
maximalizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of maximalize
maximalizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of maximalize
maximalized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of maximalize
maximalisms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of maximalism
maximalities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of maximality
minimisations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of minimisation
meltwaters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of meltwater
microhydraulic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From micro- + hydraulic.
Senses: examples: text: Yet too much concern is certainly better than too little, and the people who support Norberg-Hodge have helped bring solar heaters and microhydraulic power plants and low-cost greenhouses to Ladakh.
ref: 2009 March 13, Pico Iyer, “Heaven’s Gate”, in New York Times:
glosses: Of or pertaining to microhydraulics.
midtempos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of midtempo
mothbally
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more mothbally
form: most mothbally
Etymology: From mothball + -y.
Senses: examples: text: A skinny blotter paper suffused with the rosy chemical geraniol and layered with a second blotter dipped in mothbally indole yields lily of the valley, which otherwise would require bales of tender white buds for just a few grams of essential oil.
ref: 2009 March 13, Phoebe Eaton, “Liquid Assets”, in New York Times:
glosses: Resembling or suggesting mothballs, especially their distinctive odour.
nonqualifier
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nonqualifiers
Etymology: From non- + qualifier.
Senses: examples: text: And he came up short in the Sprint Showdown race for nonqualifiers earlier in the night, failing to finish high enough to advance to the main event.
ref: 2008 May 18, Viv Bernstein, “Kahne Proves Fans’ Faith Was Well Placed”, in New York Times:
glosses: One who fails to qualify.
nonqualifiers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nonqualifier
palinka
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Hungarian pálinka.
Senses: examples: text: An apricot palinka made with honey, apricot juice and lime — every bit as captivating as the new food in town.
ref: 2009 March 13, John Hyland, “Hungarian Rhapsody”, in New York Times:
text: Better yet, there were no cover charges, and we didn’t bother to order drinks in half the spots. So, despite having a Slovak beer and shots of both the traditional Hungarian fruit spirit palinka and the bittersweet digestif Unicum, the entire evening cost 2,000 forints, under $10.
ref: 2014 January 30, Seth Kugel, “Wintertime Bargains in Budapest”, in The New York Times:
glosses: A traditional Hungarian fruit brandy.
petrodiesel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: petrodiesels
Etymology: From petro- + diesel.
Senses: examples: text: Biodiesel is a technologically feasible alternative to petrodiesel, but nowadays biodiesel costs 1.5 to 3 times more than fossil diesel in developed countries.
ref: 2007, Ayhan Demirbas, Biodiesel: A Realistic Fuel Alternative for Diesel Engines, Springer Science & Business Media, →ISBN, page 197:
text: Biodiesel these days is selling at about the same prices as petrodiesel, or even a little more in many places.
ref: 2008 May 18, Jim Norman, “Fuel From Plants, Not Oil Wells”, in New York Times:
glosses: Diesel derived from petroleum (contrasted with biodiesel).
semireality
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From semi- + reality.
Senses: examples: text: The series, along with such like-minded shows as the MTV semireality show “The Hills” and a cautionary senior edition, “The Real Housewives of New York City,” are focused on friends, and most of all on frenemies.
ref: 2008 May 18, Alessandra Stanley, “What Are Friends For? Power and Pain”, in New York Times:
glosses: Something not quite real, having a partial resemblance to reality.
semisatirical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From semi- + satirical.
Senses: examples: text: That is the essence of “Gossip Girl,” a semisatirical portrait of power and privilege in the private schools and penthouses of New York’s ultra rich.
ref: 2008 May 18, Alessandra Stanley, “What Are Friends For? Power and Pain”, in New York Times:
glosses: Partially satirical.
shamblingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more shamblingly
form: most shamblingly
Etymology: From shambling + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: The band developed its sound, shamblingly at first, on the road, in an era before thousands of blog or YouTube users could form an opinion of a band based on some MySpace demos and a duff early gig in Tacoma.
ref: 2008 May 18, R J Smith, “Death Cab Is Up for the Long Haul”, in New York Times:
glosses: With a shambling motion.
tastewise
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From taste + -wise.
Senses: examples: text: Cocktail geeks might want to stop reading — tastewise, this is kids’ stuff, all sweetness and light. Ms. Lo combines green tea-infused simple syrup with milk and a shot of vodka, yielding a familiar flavor — think of a green tea frappuccino at Starbucks and you’re in the right neighborhood — edged with the keenness of the vodka.
ref: 2008 May 18, Jonathan Miles, “A Drink Puts on the Kid Gloves”, in New York Times:
glosses: In terms of taste.
turbodiesels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of turbodiesel
unbustling
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unbustling
form: most unbustling
Etymology: From un- + bustling.
Senses: examples: text: This Puget Sound island is refreshingly unbustling.
ref: 2009 March 13, Charles Runnette, “The Buck Starts Here”, in New York Times:
glosses: Not bustling.
unfallen
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + fallen.
Senses: examples: text: The unfallen world beyond time remains as a background to the figured beats of the heart in our world of serial progression.
ref: 1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light:Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, page 10:
text: For me, in any case, Ladakh seemed a beautifully unfallen place next to the blue-glass shopping malls of modern Lhasa, the global village of pizza joints and guesthouses that is urban Nepal, or long-isolated Bhutan with its chic new hotels.
ref: 2009 March 13, Pico Iyer, “Heaven’s Gate”, in New York Times:
glosses: Not having fallen; that has not experienced or suffered a fall.
undeflectable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more undeflectable
form: most undeflectable
Etymology: From un- + deflectable.
Senses: examples: text: What continues to impress, however, is the woman’s sheer undeflectable force.
ref: 2008 May 18, Ben Downing, “Locomotive in Petticoats”, in New York Times:
glosses: Not deflectable.
unnavigability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From un- + navigability.
Senses: examples: text: “Gossip Girl,” which has its season finale on Monday, explores the unnavigability of friendship.
ref: 2008 May 18, Alessandra Stanley, “What Are Friends For? Power and Pain”, in New York Times:
glosses: The quality of being unnavigable.
diwaniya
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: diwaniyas
form: dewaniya
Etymology: From Gulf Arabic ديوانية (dīwānīya).
Senses: examples: text: Diwaniyas are a place to network where people from different facets of society gather to discuss topics of interest, form alliances, close business deals or introduce people to associates. Historically, Diwaniyas have consisted of only men but now have evolved into mixed gender or only women.
ref: 2022 July 2, Capt. Melissa Heintz, US Air Force:
text: Al Salem presented a snapshot of the architecture of diwaniyas in Kuwait, and stressed on how rooted it is in the local culture of hospitality. A Kuwaiti diwaniya is a traditional reception area where business colleagues and guests are received and is a tangible representation of the importance of hospitality in Kuwait’s culture and traditions.
ref: 2008 December 17, Cinatra Fernandes, “Kuwaiti diwaniya rooted in hospitality culture”, in Arab Times:
glosses: In Kuwait, a guest room where men gather to chat, eat and drink.
examples: text: In the past, candidates depended mostly on personal ties with voters at diwaniyas, traditional evening social gatherings.
ref: 2008 May 19, Robert F. Worth, “Islamists Win 24 of 50 Seats in Parliament of Kuwait”, in New York Times:
glosses: A traditional Kuwaiti social gathering in such a room.
Related terms: divan
diwaniyas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of diwaniya
landgrab
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: landgrabs
form: land grab
Etymology: From land + grab. Compare Old Norse landnám (“the taking of land”).
Senses: examples: text: Of course, every big media company is buying digital properties — in a landgrab either for audience or bragging rights.
ref: 2008 May 19, David Carr, “Geeks Crash a House of Fashion”, in New York Times:
text: One politician present called the US land grab “inevitable”, adding: “AI is the next big thing, and no one is going to roll over and play dead and say, ‘You take over.’ China's not going to let that happen and certainly the US won't”.
ref: 2023 November 4, Madhumita Murgia, Anna Gross, Cristina Criddle, “Summit exposes tensions over AI development despite emollient Chinese tone”, in FT Weekend, page 12:
related: word: land grab
glosses: A landrush.
landgrab
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: landgrabs
form: landgrabbing
form: landgrabbed
form: landgrabbed
form: land grab
Etymology: From land + grab. Compare Old Norse landnám (“the taking of land”).
Senses: examples: text: American, Japanese and European multinational corporations continue to landgrab tens of thousands of hectares of land for their agribusiness and plunder Mindanao's natural resources.
ref: 1986, IDOC Internazionale - Volume 17, page 27:
text: I am sure this man is not out here to landgrab, but—and one's judgment is suspended—why find him on the plains near Glorieta, with no money and with an inflamed arm caused by two missing fingers on the left hand?
ref: 2015, Sister Blandina Segale, At the End of the Santa Fe Trail:
text: Bevcic had landgrabbed territory from the other existing gangs, coming from seemingly nowhere, and had soon been the dominant player in the East Portland area.
ref: 2017, Ty Patterson, Trigger Break:
glosses: To acquire land that one does not have a right to possess.
landgrabs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of landgrab
landgrabs
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of landgrab
sunsetting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From Middle English sonne settynge.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of sunset
sunsetting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sunsettings
Etymology: From Middle English sonne settynge.
Senses: glosses: An instance of the sun setting; a sunset.
sunsetted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of sunset
sunscalding
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of sunscald
sunscalded
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of sunscald
sunscalds
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of sunscald
reaccustoming
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of reaccustom
reaccustoms
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of reaccustom
reaccustomed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of reaccustom
skimmable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more skimmable
form: most skimmable
Etymology: From skim + -able.
Senses: examples: text: Nearly all documentation of business processes should be skimmable, with the summaries clearly differentiated from the detailed expositions.
glosses: Capable of, or (especially) optimized for, being skimmed (read through quickly).
raw_tags: of writing
examples: text: Though it’s a short book, “The Downhill Lie” becomes skimmable at such moments.
ref: 2008 May 19, Janet Maslin, “Fore! A Writer Tees Off and a Turtle Is Airborne”, in New York Times:
glosses: Worthy only of being skimmed rather than closely read; that is, not worthy of close reading.
raw_tags: of writing
Derived terms: skimmability
watsan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Shortening.
Senses: examples: text: While different management options exist for managing water and sanitation services in large towns and cities and also in rural areas, there is limited knowledge on how best to manage watsan services in small towns.
ref: 2003, Brian Reed, Sustainable environmental sanitation and water services:
text: Most developing countries spend less than 0.5 percent of their gross domestic product on watsan, and only 12 percent to 15 percent of that in Asia and sub-Saharan Africa goes to sanitation, according to the 2006 United Nations Human Development Report.
ref: 2008 May 19, Rose George, “Send in the Latrines”, in New York Times:
glosses: water and sanitation
waths
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wath
expressionistically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more expressionistically
form: most expressionistically
Etymology: From expressionistic + -ally.
Senses: examples: text: The film’s psychological journey leads to a shootout in an abandoned mining town, staged by Mann in multi-leveled, expressionistically distorted space that seems a universe away from the open plains and sharp horizon lines of Ford’s classical vision.
ref: 2008 May 20, Dave Kehr, “New DVDs: Westerns”, in New York Times:
glosses: In an expressionistic manner.
giganticism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From gigantic + -ism.
Senses: examples: text: “The giganticism of the proposed developments on the yards and the speed with which the M.T.A. and the city seem to be rushing to adopt a plan are a great concern,” said Andrew Berman, a member of the Hudson Yards Community Advisory Committee.
ref: 2008 May 20, Charles V. Bagli, “New Developer Signs $1 Billion Deal to Transform West Side Railyards”, in New York Times:
glosses: hugeness
unprospected
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + prospected.
Senses: examples: text: In February, for example, the Interior Department awarded Royal Dutch Shell the right to drill for oil in the Chukchi Sea off the northwestern shore of Alaska, a heretofore unprospected patch of marine habitat and prime walrus fishing ground.
ref: 2008 May 20, Natalie Angier, “Ice Dwellers Are Finding Less Ice to Dwell On”, in New York Times:
glosses: Not having been prospected.
nonpyritic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + pyritic.
Senses: glosses: Not pyritic.
chronophotography
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɒɡɹəfi
Etymology: From chrono- + photography.
Senses: examples: text: And since he studies 19th-century chronophotography — sometimes called precinema or pre-cinematography — for his day job as a professor of animation at London Metropolitan University, he knew where (and when) to begin looking for model machinery.
ref: 2008 May 21, Melena Ryzik, “Telescope Takes a Long View, to London”, in New York Times:
topics: arts
hobbies
lifestyle
photography
glosses: An antique photographic technique from the Victorian era which captures movement in several frames of print.
ecofriendliness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: In the early 1990s, she worked in the New York State attorney general’s office policing bogus claims of ecofriendliness during Green I.
ref: 2008 May 21, Paul Sullivan, “The Goal Is to Do the Right Thing”, in New York Times:
glosses: Alternative form of eco-friendliness.
Blair
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /blɛɚ/
Forms: form: Blairs
form: Blaire
form: Blayre
Etymology: From Scottish Gaelic blàr (“field, plain”).
Senses: glosses: A surname.
glosses: A unisex given name.
A male given name.
glosses: A unisex given name.
A female given name.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A township in Clay County, Illinois.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Doniphan County, Kansas.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A township in Grand Traverse County, Michigan.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A city, the county seat of Washington County, Nebraska, United States.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A ghost town in Esmeralda County, Nevada.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A town in Jackson County, Oklahoma.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A township in Blair County, Pennsylvania.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Roane County, Tennessee.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Jefferson County, West Virginia.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Logan County, West Virginia.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A city in Trempealeau County, Wisconsin.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
Ellipsis of Blair County.
glosses: A village in the city of Cambridge, Regional Municipality of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada.
Derived terms: Blair County
Blairian
Blairism
Blairist
Blairite
Blairsville
Port Blair
Related terms: Blair Atholl
overdilute
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: overdilutes
form: overdiluting
form: overdiluted
form: overdiluted
Etymology: From over- + dilute.
Senses: examples: text: “We just wanted to be disciplined in our growth and not overdilute our valuation,” Mr. Liu said.
ref: 2008 May 21, Dan Fost, “A Movement and a Market Converge at a Bank”, in New York Times:
glosses: To dilute excessively.
Related terms: overdilution
overdiluted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of overdilute
overdiluting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of overdilute
overdilutes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of overdilute
precinema
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pre- + cinema.
Senses: glosses: Before the development of cinema.
softbox
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: softboxes
Etymology: From soft + box.
Senses: examples: text: Mr. Tamindzic, a lanky 6 feet 3 inches tall, all legs and elbows, was purposeful and obvious, with a hefty Canon EOS 5D camera in one hand and a LumiQuest softbox flash in the other (to throw up a noirish, crime-scene photographer’s burst of intense light).
ref: 2008 May 21, Eric Konigsberg, “A Chronicler of Night-Life Melancholy, Looking for Contradictory Layers”, in New York Times:
topics: arts
hobbies
lifestyle
photography
glosses: A photographic lighting device consisting of a bulb with reflective back and side walls and a diffusing material at the front.
softboxes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of softbox
banate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɑːnət/
homophone: bonnet (General American)
Forms: form: banates
Etymology: From ban + -ate.
Senses: examples: text: The establishment of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia in 1929, however, brought the redrawing of administrative regions into banates that purposely avoided all historical and ethnic lines.
glosses: Synonym of banat.
synonyms: word: banat
Derived terms: Banat
baras
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bara
unhorrified
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unhorrified
form: most unhorrified
Etymology: From un- + horrified.
Senses: examples: text: “It looked like she had definitely been wearing nail polish for two weeks,” Ms. Diamond said, sounding distinctly unhorrified.
ref: 2008 May 22, Melena Ryzik, “I Love What You Didn’t Do to Your Chipped Nails”, in New York Times:
glosses: Not horrified.