nandhakumarms/qualc-wiktionary-en huggingface dataset:
Word: drink-driver Part of Speech: noun 1. A person who engages in drink-driving. Labels: Australia, UK 2. A person who operates a motor vehicle when legally intoxicated. Labels: Australia, UK Example: A drink driver is anyone who is over the legal alcohol limit for driving.
Word: Scotsman Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Inherited from Middle English Scottisman. By surface analysis, Scots + -man. Pronunciation: /ˈskɑts.mən/ 1. A man from Scotland; a Scot.
Word: previously disadvantaged Part of Speech: adj 1. Belonging or relating to the previously disenfranchised population groups in South Africa, i.e. blacks, coloureds, and Indians. Labels: South-Africa, euphemistic Example: a. 2005, https://web.archive.org/web/20051124000427/http://ings.rucus.net/satnacV7.pdf This project aims to modelInternet connectivity to previously disadvantaged schools in theEastern Cape by investigating known networking technologies in the context of such schools.
Word: wobbegong Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Dharug wabigang. A parallel in Tharawal dhabigang suggests a common Yuin-Kuric origin. Pronunciation: /ˈwɒbɪɡɒŋ/, /ˈwɑbiˌɡɑŋ/ 1. Any of several species of bottom-dwelling carpet sharks in the family Orectolobidae, distinguished by their small vegetation-like flaps of skin around the mouth. Example: The wobbegong is of little use; the liver will make some oil, and which is particularly good for parasites on animals, but the fish is not sought after, and the natives attack it when in their way, but do not meddle with it otherwise. South, as far as Jervis Bay, they call this fish thubbegong. Example: The Shark Attack File lists only one authenticated wobbegong attack, but contains fourteen "unauthoritative" attacks, and given the distinctive appearance of these sharks, it is very likely that at least some of the sharks were wobbegongs.
Word: falleth Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From fall + -eth. 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of fall Labels: archaic, form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person Example: He that hath a froward heart findeth no good: and he that hath a perverse tongue falleth into mischief.
Word: gathereth Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of gather Labels: archaic, form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person Example: He that is not with me is against me: and he that gathereth not with me scattereth.
Word: groweth Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of grow Labels: archaic, form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person Example: We are bound to thank God always for you, brethren, as it is meet, because that your faith groweth exceedingly, and the charity of every one of you all toward each other aboundeth;[…]
Word: hangeth Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English hangeth, hongeth, from Old English hangaþ, hongaþ (“hangeth; hangs”, verb), from Proto-Germanic *hangōþi, equivalent to hang + -eth (archaic third-person singular present tense suffix). 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of hang Labels: archaic, form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person Example: He stretcheth out the north over the empty place, [and] hangeth the earth upon nothing.
Word: hideth Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of hide Labels: archaic, form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person Example: Again, the kingdom of heaven is like unto treasure hid in a field; the which when a man hath found, he hideth, and for joy thereof goeth and selleth all that he hath, and buyeth that field.
Word: holdeth Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From hold + -eth, the archaic third-person singular present tense suffix. 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of hold Labels: archaic, form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person Example: Unto the angel of the church of Ephesus write; These things saith he that holdeth the seven stars in his right hand, who walketh in the midst of the seven golden candlesticks;
Word: honoureth Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From honour + -eth, the archaic third-person singular present tense suffix. 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of honour Labels: archaic, form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person Example: Jesus answered, If I honour myself, my honour is nothing: it is my Father that honoureth me; of whom ye say, that he is your God:
Word: bleachers Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of bleacher Labels: form-of, plural
Word: substitution of attorney Part of Speech: noun 1. A document in which the party to a lawsuit states that his/her attorney of record is being substituted for by another attorney or by the party acting for himself/herself (in propria persona).
Word: brim over Part of Speech: verb 1. To overflow over the brim (of a saucepan etc.) Labels: intransitive 2. To experience a very strong emotion; to be overcome with emotion. Labels: broadly, intransitive Example: When he proposed, my heart brimmed over. 3. To be bustlingly full of something Labels: intransitive Example: Flowers, grass, trees, the sun and moon, even the human body, were to him brimming over with song.
Word: browbone Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From brow + bone. 1. The orbital ridge of the eye.
Word: orbital ridge Part of Speech: noun 1. the bony ridge beneath the eyebrow; the browbone
Word: brûlée Part of Speech: noun 1. Synonym of crème brûlée. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Cook four extra brûlées to allow for casualties when turning them out […] Example: Use a chef's torch to lightly brown the tops of the brûlées, or place them under a hot broiler for just a couple of minutes […]
Word: brûlée Part of Speech: verb 1. To create a sugary crust (on food), using a chef's torch. Labels: transitive
Word: bulk technology Part of Speech: noun 1. Technology that is based upon the manipulation of atoms and molecules in bulk - as distinct from that involving individual atoms or molecules in nanotechnology etc. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: bull shark Part of Speech: noun 1. A shark, Carcharhinus leucas, that is common in both temperate and tropical coastal waters.
Word: burrobrush Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From burro + brush. 1. An allergenic perennial shrub of species Hymenoclea salsola, found in the deserts of Arizona and neighboring states. Labels: uncountable, usually
Word: BVI Part of Speech: name 1. Initialism of British Virgin Islands. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
Word: BVI Part of Speech: adj 1. Initialism of blind or visually impaired. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism, not-comparable
Word: calquing Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of calque Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: calquing Part of Speech: noun 1. Loan translation. Labels: uncountable, usually
Word: air sport Part of Speech: noun 1. Any recreational activity performed in flight or during freefall from a flight through the atmosphere. Example: The World Air Games is the biggest gathering of air sports in the world and over one week brings together the World Champions and top competitors in ten different air sport disciplines.
Word: autoconstruction Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From auto- + construction. 1. The process of building one's own house with little or no professional help. Labels: uncountable
Word: valley fever Part of Speech: noun 1. Coccidioidomycosis, a mammalian fungal disease caused by Coccidioides immitis or Coccidioides posadasii. Labels: uncountable
Word: close protection Part of Speech: noun 1. professionally trained bodyguards. Labels: uncountable
Word: condop Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Blend of condo + co-op. 1. A condominium with at least one unit being controlled by a residential/housing co-op board. 2. A co-op that behaves like a condominium. Labels: proscribed
Word: diamond number Part of Speech: noun 1. A memorable mobile phone number.
Word: doxophobia Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Ancient Greek δόξα (dóxa) Ancient Greek -φοβία (-phobía)der. Latin New Latinbor. English -phobia English doxophobia From Ancient Greek δόξα (dóxa, “opinion”) + English -phobia. 1. A fear of expressing one's opinion. Labels: uncountable Example: In response to the other July/August request, for a word to describe a "fear of inadvertently throwing something valuable out with the garbage," many, many phobias arrived. Evidently the readers who sent them in suffer from neither doxophobia (fear of expressing opinions) nor neophobia (fear of anything new or novel), and some would even seem to be remarkably free of catagelophobia (fear of being ridiculed). 2. A fear of being praised. Labels: uncountable
Word: dry hire Part of Speech: noun 1. The hire of equipment or a venue without any accompanying operators or staff. Labels: uncountable
Word: apatheists Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of apatheist Labels: form-of, plural
Word: sappy Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English sappy, sapy, from Old English sæpiġ (“full of sap, succulent”), equivalent to sap + -y. Cognate with West Frisian sappig (“juicy”), Dutch sappig (“juicy, succulent”), Middle High German saffic, seffec ("juicy, succulent"; > German saftig), Danish saftig (“juicy”), Swedish saftig (“juicy”). Doublet of zaftig. Pronunciation: /ˈsæpi/ 1. Excessively sweet, emotional, nostalgic; cheesy; mushy. (British equivalent: soppy) Labels: US Example: He was a good deal of a character, and much better company than the sappy literature he was selling. Example: To himself, already beginning to resent the new employer as all that morning he had been resenting the old one, Dr. Planish groaned, “He’s getting saintly on me! A careerist in holiness! I'll never be happy till I've got an organization where I’m sole boss—unless it’s one run by a fellow like Colonel Marduc, who has real brains and power—and cash!—and not a lot of sappy sentimentality like Vesper or psychopathic malice like Sneaky Sandy—Oh dear!” 2. Having (a particularly large amount of) sap. Example: ‘Torches are made to light, jewels to wear, Dainties to taste, fresh beauty for the use, Herbs for their smell, and sappy plants to bear: Things growing to themselves are growth’s abuse: Seeds spring from seeds and beauty breedeth beauty; Thou wast begot; to get it is thy duty. Example: But these, tho’ fed with careful dirt, Are neither green nor sappy; Half-conscious of the garden-squirt, The spindlings look unhappy, 3. Juicy. Labels: obsolete Example: 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, Book Two, Canto XII, Stanza 56, edited by Erik Gray, Hackett, 2006, p. 214, In her left hand a Cup of gold she held, And with her right the riper fruit did reach, Whose sappy liquor, that with fulnesse sweld, Into her cup she scruzd, with daintie breach Of her fine fingers, without fowle empeach, That so faire winepresse made the wine more sweet: Example: 1693, François Rabelais, Gargantua and Pantagruel, Book III, (1546), translated by Thomas Urquhart, Chapter 18, The words of the third article are: She will suck me at my best end. Why not? That pleaseth me right well. You know the thing; I need not tell you that it is my intercrural pudding with one end. I swear and promise that, in what I can, I will preserve it sappy, full of juice, and as well victualled for her use as may be. 4. Spongy; Having spaces in which large quantities of sap can flow. Labels: obsolete Example: In flush-framing if is observable, that the failure of all timber in old buildings has commenced much sooner than they otherwise would have done, owing to the sappy wood being at the corners of the principal beams, which soon decays, as its spongy quality attracts the moisture; whereas the heart, espescially of oak, will be as sound as the first day it was used. Example: ...wood is of a soft spungy nature ; sappy, and alluring to the worm.
Word: sappy Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Compare Latin sapere (“to taste”). 1. Musty; tainted; rancid. Labels: obsolete Example: sappie or unsavourie flesh Example: Sapy [denotes] a moisture contracted on the outward surface of meats, which is the first stage of dissolution.
Word: neonate Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From New Latin neonātus (“newborn”). Pronunciation: /ˈniː.əʊ.neɪt/, /ˈni.oʊ.neɪt/, /ˈni.ə.neɪt/ 1. A newborn infant; recently born baby.
Word: failover Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Deverbal from fail over. 1. An automatic switch to a secondary system on failure of the primary system, such as a means for ensuring high availability of some critical resource (such as a computer system), involving a parallel backup system which is kept running at all times, so that, upon detected failure of the primary system, processing can be automatically shifted over to the backup. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Horizontal scaling gives you some failover and flexibility that you normally cannot get with only vertical scaling. Example: while Tungsten is not heavily redundant as these systems, the ability of Lustre to support some failover can be leveraged to eliminate single points of failure.
Word: lunch kettle Part of Speech: noun 1. A lunchbox. Labels: Eastern, Pennsylvania, US, dated
Word: fail over Part of Speech: verb 1. To automatically switch processing from a failed component in a critical system to its live spare or backup component. Example: If the Web server crashes, we can fail over to the spare in less than a second.
Word: fallback Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From the verb fall back. Pronunciation: /ˈfɔːl.bæk/ 1. An act of falling back. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: A failure of one of the rocket's first-stage engines just after liftoff would result in a destructive pad fallback. Example: The black hole formed as a result of fallback of ejecta onto the neutron star initially created by the supernova explosion. 2. A backup plan or contingency strategy; an alternative which can be used if something goes wrong with the main plan; a recourse. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: As a fallback, I suppose we can use typewriters if the word processing system fails. 3. A reduction in bitumen softening point, sometimes called refluxing or overheating, in a relatively closed container. Labels: countable, uncountable 4. Pulverised material that falls back to earth after a nuclear explosion; fallout. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Particle size distributions of fallback and ejecta were determined principally by mechanical sieving and weighing.
Word: fallback Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From the verb fall back. Pronunciation: /ˈfɔːl.bæk/ 1. That can be resorted to as a fallback. Labels: not-comparable Example: a fallback plan
Word: fallback Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From the verb fall back. Pronunciation: /ˈfɔːl.bæk/ 1. Misspelling of fall back. Labels: alt-of, misspelling
Word: optometry Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From opto- + -metry. Pronunciation: /ɒpˈtɒmɪtri/ 1. The art and science of vision and eye care. Labels: uncountable
Word: bullseye Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From bull's + eye. May have come from the practice of English archers shooting an arrow through the eye socket of a bull's skull as a test of skill. The connection to philately comes from the shape of the key plate or vignette. Pronunciation: /ˈbʊlzaɪ/, /ˈbʊlzɑɪ/ 1. The centre of a target, inside the inner and magpie. 2. A shot which hits the centre of a target. 3. The two central rings on a dartboard. 4. A hard striped peppermint-flavoured boiled sweet. 5. Thick glass set into the side of a ship to let in light. Labels: obsolete 6. A hand-cancelled postmark issued by a counter clerk at a post office, typically done on a receipt for proof of mailing. 7. The central part of a crown glass disk, with concentric ripple effect. 8. A convex glass lens which is placed in front of a lamp to concentrate the light so as to make it more conspicuous as a signal; also the lantern itself. Example: [I]nstead of the six pair of feet which should have protruded therefrom, the gleam of the bull's-eye showed but four. Example: He put on his fur coat and hat and went out into the hall. There he paused, hearing the slow heavy tread of the policeman on the pavement outside and seeing the flash of the bull's-eye reflected in the window. 9. A commonly-known reference point used when indicating the location or direction of something. Labels: broadly 10. An oculus. 11. A £50 banknote. Labels: UK, slang 12. Any of the first postage stamps produced in Brazil from 1843. Labels: informal 13. The mark left on a glass piece from its attachment to a punty. 14. An egg in a hole. 15. A crown coin; its value, 5 shillings. Labels: UK, historical, obsolete, slang
Word: bullseye Part of Speech: intj Etymology: From bull's + eye. May have come from the practice of English archers shooting an arrow through the eye socket of a bull's skull as a test of skill. The connection to philately comes from the shape of the key plate or vignette. Pronunciation: /ˈbʊlzaɪ/, /ˈbʊlzɑɪ/ 1. A cry when someone hits the bullseye of a target. 2. A response to a totally accurate statement. Labels: broadly Example: —Did John steal the petty cash? —Bullseye.
Word: kitskonstabel Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Afrikaans kits (“instant”) + konstabel (“constable”). 1. A newly deputized constable in the South African police during the last days of apartheid; they were noted for their zealousness and lack of procedure. Their official name was special policeman. Labels: South-Africa, historical, slang Example: During 1987 sixteen kitskonstabels were sent to Bhongolethu to police the area after their six weeks of training. The kitskonstabels proved to be a law unto themselves - between September 1987 and January 1988 less than six months, at least six activist were injured by kitskonstabels a remarkable series of incidents, involving the kitskonstabels was recorded by the police themselves in the Bhongolethu police station incident book. Example: The activities of the South Africa Police's notorious apartheid-era "kitskonstables" will come under the spotlight at the three-day hearings of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission in Grahamstown next week, from April 7 to 9. The kitskonstables (special constables) were infamous for random beatings and shootings in the Grahamstown area during the 1980s.
Word: caravel Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle French caravelle, from Old French caruelle, carvelle (“caravel”), from Old Galician-Portuguese caravela (“caravel”), a diminutive of caravo, carabo (“type of small vessel”), from Late Latin carabus (“small wicker boat decked with hide”), from Ancient Greek κᾱ́ρᾰβος (kā́răbos, “type of light ship; kind of beetle, probably a longhorn beetle; kind of crustacean, probably a crayfish”). Pronunciation: /ˈkæɹəvɛl/, /ˌkæɹəˈvɛl/, /ˈkɛ-/ 1. A light, usually lateen-rigged sailing ship used by the Portuguese and Spanish for about 300 years from the 15th century, first for trade and later for voyages of exploration. Labels: historical Example: When Gullion di'd (who knows not Gullion?) / And his drie soule arriu'd at Acheron, / He faire besought the feryman of hell, / That he might drink to dead Pantagruel. / […] Yet still he drinkes, nor can the Botemans cries, / Nor crabbed oares, nor prayers make him rise. / So long he drinkes, till the black Carauell / Stands still fast grauel'd on the mud of hell. Example: We also barter'd all the Goods that were in the firſt Spaniſh Caravel, taken at our firſt ſetting out for other Commodities, and left all the Priſoners. A Caravel ſays Oforius lib. 2 is a Veſſel that has no round Top, nor any Timber acroſs the Top of the Maſt, but the Yard is made faſt a little below the Top. The Sails are triangular, and their lower Points are but little above the Deck.
Word: caravels Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of caravel Labels: form-of, plural
Word: nationism Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From nation + -ism, by Joshua Fishman, 1968. Pronunciation: /ˈneɪʃənɪz(ə)m/ 1. The practical concerns of running a nation, especially seen as divorced from emotional beliefs about national identity. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: In determining language policies, Fishman contends that a country needs to balance the concerns of nationalism (the feelings that develop from a sense of group identity) and nationism (the practical concerns of governing). Example: For these nations language was a prior criterion of national identity, in the sense of ‘nationalism’, and only later became and issue at the level of ‘nation’, once these societies had made the transition from nationalism to nationism.
Word: qui vive Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from French qui vive. 1. a state of heightened vigilance, especially prior to battle Labels: uncountable Example: "QUI vive!" The sentry's musket rings, The channelled bayonet gleams; High o'er him, like a raven's wings The broad tri-colored banner flings "QUI vive!" The sentry's musket rings,. The channelled bayonet #:gleams; ... "Qui vive!" How oft the midnight air. That startling cry has borne! ... Example: Qui vive? Who passes by up there? Who moves -- what stirs in the startled air? What whispers, thrills, exults up there? Qui vive?
Word: roup Part of Speech: verb Etymology: A variant of roop. Pronunciation: /ɹuːp/ 1. To cry or shout. Labels: intransitive 2. To sell by auction. Labels: Scotland, transitive Example: During the space of his tack he had plentiful crops of corn upon it, and when his tacks were run ont, the town took it into their own hands, and rouped it annually
Word: roup Part of Speech: noun Etymology: A variant of roop. Pronunciation: /ɹuːp/ 1. An outcry. 2. A sale of goods by auction. Labels: Scotland
Word: roup Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Uncertain. Pronunciation: /ɹuːp/ 1. Bird canker; an infectious disease of poultry caused by Trichomonas gallinae. Labels: uncountable
Word: olpe Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Ancient Greek ὄλπη (ólpē). Pronunciation: /ˈɒlpiː/ 1. Originally, a leather flask or vessel for oils or liquids; afterward, an earthenware vase or pitcher without a spout. Example: Altogether, Amyx attributed fifty-six olpai and oinochoai to the Painter of Vatican 73, thus making his oeuvre rank among the largest recognized in Corinthian ceramics. Example: In later vase-iconography, oinokhoai and olpai appear in sympotic scenes where they are used for ladling wine from the krater and pouring it into cups (Richter & Milne, 1935: 18; Gericke, 1970: 32-35).
Word: redactor Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From redact + -or. Pronunciation: /ɹɪˈdæktə(ɹ)/ 1. A person who redacts: one who edits or compiles texts; one who censors portions of them. Example: Why the redactor created this conflate version, despite its inconsistencies, is a matter of conjecture.
Word: tripeptide Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *tréyes Proto-Indo-European *tri- Proto-Italic *tri- Latin tri-der. English tri- Proto-Indo-European *pekʷ- Proto-Indo-European *pékʷ-ye- Proto-Hellenic *péťťō Ancient Greek πέσσω (péssō)bf. Ancient Greek πέπτω (péptō) Ancient Greek πεπτόν (peptón)der. German Peptonbor. English peptone Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁-der. Proto-Italic *-iðos Latin -idusder. English -ide ▲ German Pepton ▲ Latin -idusder. German -id German Peptidbor. English peptide English tripeptide From tri- + peptide. 1. An organic compound formed from three amino acids joined by peptide bonds.
Word: wolfhound Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Compound of wolf + hound. 1. A dog of various breeds originally developed to hunt wolves.
Word: échappé Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from French. Doublet of escapee. 1. A movement performed in ballet involving a leap from both feet simultaneously. Example: A certain mystique has always been attached to his extraordinary leaps. “Suddenly a tremendous jump straight up, grand échappé, his legs firmly locked,” […]
Word: taping Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of tape Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: taping Part of Speech: noun 1. The act of recording something on tape, or (by extension) on another medium. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: When we were in Los Angeles, we went to the taping of the television show The Price is Right. 2. The act of sticking adhesive tape to something. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: The necessary tapings are then made using the Scotch Magic, taking care to cover the area systematically, and not to overload the tape.
Word: hypertoroid Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *úp Proto-Indo-European *-er Proto-Indo-European *upér Proto-Hellenic *hupér Ancient Greek ῠ̔πέρ (hŭpér) Ancient Greek ῠ̔περ- (hŭper-)der. English hyper- English toroid English hypertoroid From hyper- + toroid. 1. An N-dimensional equivalent to a toroidal, given N being a positive integer greater than 3. 2. A toroid scaled up into the fourth dimension.
Word: boiler suit Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From boiler + suit. 1. A one-piece suit combining trousers and jacket, worn for heavy or hot manual labour. Example: Where Babcock has proprietary technologies, they will be preserved and developed, in so far as they help to give the company an edge over its rivals. But make no mistake, if Parker and Salmon have their way, boiler suits are the workwear of yesteryear at Babcock. Graduates, not grease-monkeys, are the typical employees of the future. Example: The boiler suit was the kind with stud-fasteners rather than a zip.
Word: campused Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of campus Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: Canadiana Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Canadian + -ana or Canada + -iana. 1. Things, ideas, or activities distinctive of Canada or Canadians, especially works of literature and other cultural products. Labels: Canada, plural, plural-only Example: 2007, Derick Chetty, "Made ... in Canada, eh!," Toronto Star, 30 Jun. (retrieved 25 Spe. 2008), Some of the pieces wink slyly at traditional elements of Canadiana. Like up-and-coming designer Stephen Lindsay's coat hanger: two hockey sticks fused together.
Word: canalside Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From canal + -side. 1. The bank of a canal.
Word: canalside Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From canal + -side. 1. Situated near or alongside a canal. Labels: not-comparable
Word: ripsaw Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From rip + saw. 1. A saw that is designed to cut wood along its grain, i.e. to rip, to execute a rip cut. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: A ripsaw will slice smoothly along the grain, but chew up the wood if it goes against the grain. 2. A genre of music played with a ripsaw and other instruments, originally associated mainly with Turks and Caicos Islands. Labels: Caribbean, uncountable
Word: ripsaw Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From rip + saw. 1. To cut with a ripsaw.
Word: Canute Part of Speech: name Etymology: Inherited from Middle English Canut, from Anglo-Norman *Canut, Kenut (compare Medieval Latin Canūtus), from Old Norse Knútr, possibly originally a byname meaning "knot". Pronunciation: /kəˈn(j)uːt/ 1. A male given name from the Germanic languages used in England from the eleventh to the thirteenth century. Labels: historical 2. Canute the Great, king of England, Denmark and Norway. 3. A town in Oklahoma.
Word: carte de visite Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from French carte de visite (“visiting card”). 1. A business card 2. A visiting card Labels: dated 3. A photograph of a famous person, the same size as a visiting card Labels: obsolete
Word: visiting card Part of Speech: noun 1. A written card which identifies the bearer, presented for introduction when attending a business meeting or formal social gathering. Labels: historical Example: On the 19th of May we are a maiden castle no longer. Black coats and hats ring at the bell, and pass in and out of the different apartments. The hall table is sprinkled with letters, visiting-cards, and programmes which seem to have had the alphabet shaken out upon them, for they bear the names of professors, doctors, reverends, and very reverends, and fairly bristle with A. M.'s, M. A.'s, A. B.'s, D. D.'s, and LL. D.'s.
Word: Carthusian Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Medieval Latin Carthusianus, from Cart(h)usia, Latinization of Old French Chartrouse, a region near Grenoble where the order was founded, now Chartreuse; from Late Latin Catorissium, Cantourisa, Caturissium, Chatrousse, probably ultimately from Gaulish *Katurīx (literally “battle-king”). Also see Caturix, Helvetian war god. Pronunciation: /kɑɹˈθuʒən/, /kɑːˈθjuːzi.ən/, /kɑːˈθjuːzɪən/ 1. A member of a Christian contemplative order of monks founded by Bruno of Cologne (St Bruno) in 1084. 2. A pupil of Charterhouse School (founded in a Carthusian monastery)
Word: Carthusian Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Medieval Latin Carthusianus, from Cart(h)usia, Latinization of Old French Chartrouse, a region near Grenoble where the order was founded, now Chartreuse; from Late Latin Catorissium, Cantourisa, Caturissium, Chatrousse, probably ultimately from Gaulish *Katurīx (literally “battle-king”). Also see Caturix, Helvetian war god. Pronunciation: /kɑɹˈθuʒən/, /kɑːˈθjuːzi.ən/, /kɑːˈθjuːzɪən/ 1. Of, or relating to this order.
Word: cased Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /keɪst/ 1. simple past and past participle of case Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: cased Part of Speech: adj Pronunciation: /keɪst/ 1. Having a case or covering; encased or clad. Labels: not-comparable
Word: oologic Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From oo- + -logic, after oology. 1. Of or relating to oology. Labels: not-comparable, rare
Word: tarse Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English tarse, tearse, terce, ters, from Old English teors (“penis”), from Proto-West Germanic *ters (“nail; penis”), from Proto-Indo-European *der- (“to flay; split”). Related to Dutch teers, German Zers, and distantly (via Latin) to try. Pronunciation: /tɑːɹs/ 1. The penis. Labels: archaic Example: For though in her he settles well his tarse, Yet his dull, graceless bollocks hang an arse. Example: "Yea!" Odred screamed, "Take my tarse into thy mouth, and my great balls, too. Suck on my balls, make them hot with your sweet mouth. Then suck my tarse again! Make my cock hard as that of a young ram, or a wild bull!"
Word: tarse Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from French tarse, from Latin tarsus. Pronunciation: /tɑːɹs/ 1. The tarsus (seven bones in the ankle).
Word: tarse Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Compare tassel, tiercel. Pronunciation: /tɑːɹs/ 1. A male falcon.
Word: groat Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English grot, from Old English grot, from Proto-West Germanic *grot, from Proto-Germanic *grutą, related to *greutą. More at grit, grout. Pronunciation: /ɡɹoʊt/, /ɡɹəʊt/, /ɡɹɔːt/ 1. Hulled grain, chiefly hulled oats. Labels: countable, in-plural, uncountable
Word: groat Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Possibly from Middle Dutch groot, the Old French gros Tournois (“a coin of Tours”), gros being from Medieval Latin denarius grossus (“large coin”). Related to German Groschen. Pronunciation: /ɡɹoʊt/, /ɡɹəʊt/, /ɡɹɔːt/ 1. Any of various old coins of England and Scotland. Labels: archaic, historical Example: The Widdow that hath but a pan of braſſe, And ſcarſe a houſe to hide her head, Sometimes no penny to buy her bread, Muſt pay her Landlord many a groat, Or twil be puld out of her throat: 2. Any of various old coins of England and Scotland. Labels: archaic, historical 3. Any of various old coins of England and Scotland. Labels: archaic, historical Example: The needy groom, that never finger'd groat, Would make a miracle of thus much coin … 4. A proverbial small sum; a whit or jot.
Word: colportage Part of Speech: noun Etymology: 1840s, from French colportage, from colporteur (1723). 1. The distribution or selling of publications via carriers, particularly devotional literature. Labels: uncountable, usually
Word: beer pong Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From beer + (ping-)pong. 1. A drinking game in which players attempt to throw a ping pong ball into cups of beer. Labels: uncountable Example: She came up with the idea of renting a pool house where they could play Beer Pong (the object is to land a ping-pong ball in a glass of beer that your opponent has to down) while listening to their favourite robot electronica, Daft Punk, in the sunny downtime between coding sessions and answering emails.
Word: biodiesel Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *gʷeyh₃-der. Ancient Greek βῐ́ος (bĭ́os) Ancient Greek βῐο- (bĭo-)der. English bio- German Dieselbor. English diesel English biodiesel From bio- + diesel. 1. Fuel for diesel engines made from renewable organic raw materials, as opposed to fossil hydrocarbons. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Biodiesel is an increasingly popular alternative fuel because it's made by refining oil. Thinner than vegetable oil, biodiesel can power diesel engines without further conversion. Example: Biodiesel is a technologically feasible alternative to petrodiesel, but nowadays biodiesel costs 1.5 to 3 times more than fossil diesel in developed countries.
Word: casuistical Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree English casuist Proto-Indo-European *-ikos Proto-Italic *-ikos Latin -icuslbor. Old French -iquebor. Middle English -ic Proto-Italic *-ālis Latin -ālisbor. Old French -albor. ▲ Latin -ālis Old French -elbor. ▲ Latin -ālisbor. Middle English -al Middle English -ical English -ical English casuistical From casuist + -ical. 1. Synonym of casuistic.
Word: casuistically Part of Speech: adv Etymology: Etymology tree English casuistic Proto-Italic *-ālis Latin -ālisbor. Old French -albor. ▲ Latin -ālis Old French -elbor. ▲ Latin -ālisbor. Middle English -al Middle English -ly Middle English -ally English -ally English casuistically From casuistic + -ally. 1. Using casuistry or casuistics. Example: He approached the moral dilemma casuistically, not abstractly from first principles. 2. From the perspective of casuistics or casuistry. Example: Those ideals are casuistically the best whose realisations lead to least number of other ideals sacrificed. Example: Rule-utilitarian arguments — arguments that proceed from the consequences of our moral rules rather than of our individual acts — are casuistically very powerful.
Word: Catawba Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From the noun catawba, as the tree was the people's totem. Pronunciation: /kəˈtɔː.bə/, /kəˈtɔ.bə/, /kəˈtɑ.bə/ 1. A member of a Native American people who inhabit the Carolinas: the Iswa. Example: There was a Catawba brave who took some pottery [to another tribe] to trade for bows and arrows. This chief [of the other tribe] had a beautiful daughter, and the Catawba brave fell in love with her, and she likewise fell in love with him. When the Catawba brave left, she asked her father for a bow and arrow. She shot it in the air in the direction the brave went, and then she went to get it. She kept shooting it in the air until she caught up with him. 2. A red American dessert grape variety. Example: The basic material for sherry is a mixture or a blend of dry wines from Niagaras, Delawares, and Catawbas or other white juices, which are sweetened and fortified and then blended with California sherry.
Word: Catawba Part of Speech: name Etymology: From the noun catawba, as the tree was the people's totem. Pronunciation: /kəˈtɔː.bə/, /kəˈtɔ.bə/, /kəˈtɑ.bə/ 1. The language of the Eastern Siouan family spoken in eastern United States. 2. A river in North Carolina and South Carolina, United States. Example: Cornwallis finally moved after Morgan's men. Left behind to cover the fords and delay the British, North Carolina general William Lee Davidson and a few men were killed as the British poured across Cowan's Ford. Once the British crossed the Catawba, the Americans had to get past another river, the Yadkin beyond Salisbury.
Word: dessert grape Part of Speech: noun 1. A grape grown for eating rather than for making wine.
Word: caulescent Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From caulis (“stem”) + -escent. 1. having a well-developed stem above ground; with a trunk
Word: cementitious Part of Speech: adj Etymology: By surface analysis, cement + -itious; compare Latin caementitius (“pertaining to quarry stones”) and compare cement. Pronunciation: /ˌsɛmɛnˈtɪʃəs/, /ˌsɛmənˈtɪʃəs/ 1. Resembling or having some properties of cement; containing cement. Example: This decomposition is owing to the action of the atmosphere , sun , and rain , that alters the cementitious or stiff matter in the different earthy particles . The cementitious matter is chiefly sulphureous or aluminous Example: In the course of (2014 repair) works it was discovered that inappropriate cementitious repairs had been carried out historically on the top of the tower inside the parapet wall at the base of the steeple.
Word: chafing dish Part of Speech: noun 1. Any of several devices, involving a pan and a heater, used to warm food at the table, or to keep it warm.
Word: tiercel Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English tercel, from Old French terçuel, from Late Latin tertiolus, the diminutive of Latin tertius (“third”). Sources disagree whether the connection is that the males of most species of birds of prey favoured in falconry are smaller than the females by about a third, or whether it refers to the supposition that only one egg in three yields a male. Pronunciation: /ˈtɜː(ɹ)səl/ 1. A male hawk or falcon. Example: In this wise, the glossy bright-eyed kestrel, whom tiercels’ training could not reclaim, shook off silver bells, and velvet hood, and broidered jesses; and fled away—to consort, henceforward for evermore, with gleds, and hawks, and such birds of prey as make their nests deep in Bohemian forests, or in the desolate places of the Wilderness that girdles the frontier of the reputable world. Example: He is a tiercel, lean and long and supple-winged, the first of the year.
Word: chain drive Part of Speech: noun 1. transmission system in which power is transferred to the wheels (for example), by means of a chain.
Word: riskless Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree English risk Proto-Indo-European *lewh₁- Proto-Indo-European *lewHs-der. Proto-Germanic *leusaną Proto-Germanic *lausaz Proto-Germanic *-lausaz Proto-West Germanic *-laus Old English -lēas Middle English -les English -less English riskless From risk + -less. 1. Free of risk. Example: Nothing is completely riskless—not even staying at home in bed.
Word: chain pump Part of Speech: noun 1. A water pump consisting of a series of buckets on a chain, wheel or drum. Example: […] when we came out to Sea [the Ship] prov’d so very leaky, that we were oblig’d to keep two Chain-pumps continually at Work:
Word: challis Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ˈʃæ.li/ 1. A light, soft fabric of silk and worsted, having a printed design. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: "Not all, mamma, because you told us we must find our own dresses, and so we did of course; we bought our winter clothing, and then our summer bonnets, and our challis pour demi saison, and our———" 2. Misspelling of chalice. Labels: alt-of, countable, misspelling, uncountable
Word: Challis Part of Speech: name 1. An English surname derived from a Norman habitational name for someone from Eschalle in Pas-de-Calais, France. 2. A small city, the county seat of Custer County, Idaho, United States.
Word: alible Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin alibilis, from alō (“feed, nourish”) + -ibilis (“-ible”). First attested in c. 1650. Pronunciation: /ˈæ.lɪ.bəl/ 1. Nourishing. Example: […] Alible substances, of the most healthy kind, may then generate the same evils as would follow from a deficiency of food. Example: For in the same way as this dew, by ulterior condensation and adhesion, becomes alible gluten and cambium, whence the parts of the body are constituted […]
Word: apprehensible Part of Speech: adj Pronunciation: /ˌæpɹəˈhɛnsəbəl/, /ˌæpɹɪ-/, /-ɪbəl/ 1. Which can be apprehended (usually in the sense of being understood). Labels: literary
Word: forcible Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English forcible, forsable, from Old French forcible, from forcier (“to conquer by force”), equivalent to force + -ible. 1. Done by force, forced. Example: I fled; but he pursued (though more, it seems, / Inflamed with lust than rage), and, swifter far, / Me overtook, his mother, all dismayed, / And, in embraces forcible and foul / Engendering with me, of that rape begot / These yelling monsters, that with ceaseless cry / Surround me, as thou saw'st— Example: The forcible administration of poison is by no means a new thing in criminal annals. 2. Having (physical) force, forceful. Labels: obsolete, rare Example: […] he drew her to him, laid a forcible detaining arm about her waist, and misapprehended her frantic revolt for an exhibition of maidenly reluctance. 3. Having a powerful effect; forceful, telling, strong, convincing, effective. Example: But that which hath been once most sufficient, may wax otherwise by alteration of time and place; that punishment which hath been sometimes forcible to bridle sin, may grow afterwards too weak and feebled. Example: Thou hast frighted the word out of his right sense, so forcible is thy wit. 4. Able to be forced. Example: […] it seems that an entry is not forcible by the bare drawing up a latch, or pulling back the bolt of a door, there being no appearance therein of its being done by strong hand, or multitude of people; […] Example: But an entry may be forcible, not only in respect of a violence actually done to the person of a man, but also in respect of any other kind of violence in the manner of the entry, as by breaking open the doors of a house […]
Word: keywords Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of keyword Labels: form-of, plural
Word: keywords Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of keyword Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: combi Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Clipping of combination. Pronunciation: /ˈkɒmbi/, /ˈkɑmbi/ 1. An aircraft adapted to carry either cargo or passengers, or both at once. 2. Clipping of combination. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, attributive, clipping Example: My old combi boiler broke down. 3. Ellipsis of combi boiler. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis Example: The combi at our last place was just fine for rads and showers. The biggest restriction was the speed of filling the bath... 4. Alternative form of kombi. Labels: South-Africa, alt-of, alternative
Word: combi- Part of Speech: prefix 1. Combination. Labels: morpheme, rare
Word: philter Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle French philtre, from Ancient Greek φίλτρον (phíltron), from φιλέω (philéō, “to love”). Doublet of philtrum. Pronunciation: /ˈfɪltə/, /ˈfɪltɚ/ 1. A kind of potion, charm, or drug; especially a love potion intended to make the drinker fall in love with the giver.
Word: philter Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle French philtre, from Ancient Greek φίλτρον (phíltron), from φιλέω (philéō, “to love”). Doublet of philtrum. Pronunciation: /ˈfɪltə/, /ˈfɪltɚ/ 1. To impregnate or mix with a love potion. Example: to philter a draught 2. To charm to love; to excite to love or sexual desire by a potion. Example: Government of the Tongue Let not those that have repudiated the more inviting sins, shew themselves philtred and bewitched.
Word: philters Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of philter Labels: form-of, plural
Word: chase down Part of Speech: verb 1. to pursue and apprehend someone or something. Example: With Carlos Tevez chasing down every lost cause like his life depended on it, City always had an out ball but Arsenal had such a monopoly on possession that they barely had to give thought even to the Argentine. 2. to investigate the cause of something Labels: broadly
Word: missable Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree English miss Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlom Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlis Proto-Italic *-ðlis Latin -bilis Latin -ābilis Old French -ablebor. Middle English -able English -able English missable From miss + -able. Pronunciation: /ˈmɪsəbl̩/ 1. Able to avoid detection. Example: Sherlock easily located the clue, but Watson considered it missable. 2. Far from unmissable; not worth watching or experiencing. Example: a missable costume drama 3. Capable of being missed. Example: She was missable after a week away from home.
Word: Chicano Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Mexican Spanish chicano, from mechicano, a dialectal variant of mexicano (“Mexican”). Pronunciation: /t͡ʃɪˈkɑːnəʊ/, /t͡ʃɪˈkɑnoʊ/, /t͡ʃi-/ 1. A person of Mexican descent with American citizenship, especially if conscious of one's political identity in the U.S. body politic. Labels: US, not-comparable Example: When Chicanos think about us at all, they perpetuate the stereotypes. Gabacho depiction of us as emotionally unchecked, sultry women lusting after pale bodies is just an extension of the fantasy they have about all women. Such dishonest portrayals are why Chicanas are "breaking the silence," as Rita Sánchez calls it. 2. Identifying with the mixed-raced heritage of Old World and New World. Labels: not-comparable 3. Of or pertaining to Chicano people. Labels: not-comparable
Word: Chicano Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Mexican Spanish chicano, from mechicano, a dialectal variant of mexicano (“Mexican”). Pronunciation: /t͡ʃɪˈkɑːnəʊ/, /t͡ʃɪˈkɑnoʊ/, /t͡ʃi-/ 1. A Chicano person. Labels: US
Word: Chinese overtime Part of Speech: noun 1. Any form of overtime in which increasing the hours worked reduces the hourly rate. Labels: US, idiomatic, uncountable
Word: chi-square Part of Speech: noun 1. A test statistic used in the chi-square test. 2. A journalism educator or researcher focusing on statistical methods and quantitative measurement.
Word: chi-square test Part of Speech: noun 1. any statistical hypothesis test in which the test statistic has a chi-square distribution if the null hypothesis is true
Word: chi-square distribution Part of Speech: noun 1. A probability distribution widely used in inferential statistics. Example: 1992, Harold R. Lindman, Analysis of Variance in Experimental Design, Springer, Softcover Reprint, page 7, The chi-square distribution with ν degrees of freedom is defined to be the distribution of the sum of ν independent squared random variables, each having the standard normal distribution. Example: The family of chi-square distributions, like the "Student's" t distributions, has an infinite number of members, one for each number of degrees of freedom.
Word: Christianisation Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative spelling of Christianization. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: irrepressible Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *né Proto-Indo-European *n̥- Proto-Italic *n̥- Latin in-bor. Middle English in- English ir- Proto-Italic *wre- Latin re-der. Old French re-bor. Middle English re- English re- English press English repress Proto-Indo-European *-tḗr Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlom Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlis Proto-Italic *-ðlis Latin -bilis Latin -ibilis Old French -ibleder. Middle English -ible English -ible English repressible English irrepressible From ir- + repressible. 1. Not containable or controllable. Labels: not-comparable, usually Example: [...] here the two friends burst into a variety of giggles, and glanced from time to time, over the tops of their pocket-handkerchiefs, at Nicholas, who from a state of unmixed astonishment, gradually fell into one of irrepressible laughter [...] 2. Especially high-spirited, outspoken, or insistent. Labels: not-comparable, usually Example: The irrepressible landlady gave the freest expression to her feelings. Example: Schomberg, [...] an irrepressible retailer of all the scandalous gossip of the place, would, with both elbows on the table, impart an adorned version of the story to any guest who cared to imbibe knowledge along with the more costly liquors.
Word: containable Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree Latin contineōder. Latin continērelbor. Old French contenirbor. English contain Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlom Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlis Proto-Italic *-ðlis Latin -bilis Latin -ābilis Old French -ablebor. Middle English -able English -able English containable From contain + -able. 1. Able to be contained, especially applied to viruses and similar diseases.