nandhakumarms/qualc-wiktionary-en huggingface dataset:
Word: groovy Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From the phrase in the groove, originally in reference to the grooves of an early phonograph record. Pronunciation: /ˈɡɹuvi/ 1. Cool, neat, interesting. Labels: dated, slang Example: The hippies do not often try to define the feelings they experience under the influence of psychedelic drugs. Generally they just say, "Oh, groovy, man," or simply, "Wow." Example: Basically Bobby’s just a hard-working, highly creative, friendly, groovy guy who’s got a lot of things he wants to do and is in a hurry to try them all. 2. Reminiscent of the counterculture of the 1960s; hippie, psychedelic. Labels: slang Example: Groovy designs by Cyndi Bright and colorful 1960's-inspired papers and accessories, featuring plenty of mod flower, funky stickers, and new Spring colors. Example: Men In Black 3 lacks the novelty of the first film, and its take on the late ’60s feels an awful lot like a psychedelic dress-up party, all broad caricatures and groovy vibes. 3. Melodious, danceable; particularly of a riff or bassline.
Word: groovy Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From the phrase in the groove, originally in reference to the grooves of an early phonograph record. Pronunciation: /ˈɡɹuvi/ 1. A trendy and fashionable person. Labels: dated, slang Example: He also stole a $100-dollar bill from his father's wallet and gave it to a couple of the other Goth kids. […] Nevertheless, all this didn't give him the social status he coveted from his gloomy groovies.
Word: over- Part of Speech: prefix Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *úp Proto-Indo-European *-er Proto-Indo-European *upér Proto-Germanic *uber Old English ofer- Middle English over- English over- From Middle English over-, from Old English ofer-, from Proto-Germanic *uber, from Proto-Indo-European *upér. Cognate with Dutch over-, German über-, Swedish över-, Welsh gor-, Spanish sobre-, Armenian վեր- (ver-), Persian ابر (abar-). Doublet of super-, sur-, and hyper-. More at over. Pronunciation: /ˈəʊ̯və/, [ˈəʊ̯.və], /ˈoʊ̯vəɹ/, [ˈoʊ.vɚ], /ˈəʉvə/ 1. Above, or higher. Labels: morpheme Example: overbar, overlook 2. Superior. Labels: morpheme Example: overlord 3. Excessive; excessively. Labels: morpheme Example: overkind, overloud, overstate 4. Surrounding or covering. Labels: morpheme Example: overcoat, overpaint 5. Exceptional; extremely or intensely. Labels: augmentative, morpheme
Word: halfback Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From half + back, in reference to position on the field of play; compare fullback. In the sense of someone who moves to Florida and then to a more temperate climate, from moving "half way back" Pronunciation: /ˈhæfˌbæk/ 1. Any of various positions on the field of play between the forwards and the fullbacks. 2. A player who occupies one of these positions. 3. A player who occupies one of these positions. Labels: Canadian 4. A player who occupies one of these positions. 5. A player who occupies one of these positions. 6. A player who occupies one of these positions. 7. A person from the northern United States who moves to Florida, but then due to the heat or other issues, moves again to a more temperate climate, primarily the Carolinas. Example: Four years ago, Diane got a small inheritance and they became what Paul Klein calls “halfbacks” — people who moved to Florida from the North and have progressed partly back. Example: One of my favorite stories of North Carolina’s demographic growth and change is the “halfback.”
Word: halfback Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From half + back, in reference to position on the field of play; compare fullback. In the sense of someone who moves to Florida and then to a more temperate climate, from moving "half way back" Pronunciation: /ˈhæfˌbæk/ 1. To play in the position of halfback.
Word: plagiarhythm Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Latin plagium Proto-Indo-European *-yósder. Proto-Italic *-āzios Latin -āriusnom. Latin -ārius Latin plagiārius English plagiary Proto-Indo-European *-id- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō) Proto-Indo-European *-mos Proto-Indo-European *-mós Ancient Greek -μός (-mós) Ancient Greek -ισμός (-ismós)der. English -ism English plagiarism Proto-Indo-European *ser-? Proto-Indo-European *srew- Proto-Indo-European *sru-dʰ-mo-s Proto-Hellenic *hrutʰmós Ancient Greek ῥῠθμός (rhŭthmós)bor. Latin rhythmusder. English rhythm blend English plagiarhythm Blend of plagiarism + rhythm. 1. The act of taking illegitimately-obtained (typically downloaded) musical content and using it in new works. Labels: neologism, slang, uncountable
Word: friendliness Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English freendlynesse, frendlynes, equivalent to friendly + -ness. Pronunciation: /ˈfɹɛndlinəs/ 1. The quality of being friendly. Labels: uncountable, usually Example: Finding us easy in our ways, he […] told me a cock-and-bull story with the moral of another five francs for the narrator. The thing was palpably absurd; but I paid up, and at once dropped all friendliness of manner, and kept him in his place as an inferior with freezing British dignity. He saw in a moment that he had gone too far, and killed a willing horse; his face fell; I am sure he would have refunded if he could only have thought of a decent pretext. Example: To foreigners we often seem guileless and overchatty, an impression which is dispersed when they find that much of our friendliness is just the ebullition of the moment and does not carry with it any permanence of devotion.
Word: abibliophobia Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From a- + biblio- + -phobia. 1. Fear of running out of things to read. Labels: humorous, uncountable Example: Professor David Latchman, the Master of Birkbeck College, suffers from abibliophobia, a common affliction amongst book collectors that manifests itself as a morbid fear of running out of reading material. Example: Speaking of frightful words, a curious fear I've suffered from on occasion, especially on long airplane flights, is abibliophobia, the fear of not having enough to read.
Word: virtual Friday Part of Speech: noun 1. The final day of something such as work or school prior to a long weekend, typically Thursday. Labels: informal Example: Today's Donut Sponsor, this being a virtual Friday, is Mike P, our Director of Operations.
Word: fly out Part of Speech: verb 1. To travel by airplane to a destination. Labels: intransitive Example: I'm going to fly out to see you. 2. To have someone travel rapidly to a destination on an airplane. Labels: transitive Example: flew him out to New York 3. To take off from an airfield. Example: Near by is the RAF museum at Duxford Airfield, open at weekends, which has a large display of aircraft. Trapped there is the prototype Concorde, which flew in but can never fly out, because the runway was shortened to make way for a motorway immediately after its arrival. 4. To rapidly emerge. Labels: intransitive Example: Pieces flew out in all directions. 5. To become out by hitting a fly ball which is caught. Labels: intransitive Example: Jones flied out to right field. 6. To fly into a rage; to become very angry. Labels: intransitive
Word: fly out Part of Speech: noun 1. An instance of flying out. Example: A fly out was recorded on the scorecard.
Word: field goal Part of Speech: noun 1. A kick of the ball through the uprights and over the crossbar (not after a touchdown). It scores 3 points. Labels: Canadian Example: He kicked a 33 yard field goal just before the half. Example: Sure, Homer and Marge being caught naked in front of the town is funny, but why not make it total humiliation? Why not have Homer dragged ass-first over a church’s glass ceiling and force the pastor to give praise to God’s floors? Why not have Homer’s rear end block a game-winning field goal? 2. A shot that is scored while the ball is in play (i.e. not a free throw). Example: He got six field goals in the first half, two from three-point land. 3. A goal scored where a ball that is in play but on the ground is kicked through the uprights and over the crossbar.
Word: offensive tackle Part of Speech: noun 1. A lineman for the team in possession of the ball located outside one of the guard positions. Example: One of the few surprises saw the New York Giants take offensive tackle Andrew Thomas at number four while the Buccaneers traded up to 13 for offensive tackle Tristian Wirfs to give some protection to their new quarterback Brady.
Word: defensive tackle Part of Speech: noun 1. Any of a few defensive positions in the middle of the defensive line.
Word: indictment Part of Speech: noun Etymology: 18th-century Latinized respelling of Middle English endytement (“action of accusing”), from Anglo-Norman enditement, from enditer, from Late Latin indictāre, from Latin indictus. Pronunciation: /ɪnˈdaɪt.mənt/ 1. An official formal accusation for a criminal offence, or the process by which it is brought to a jury. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: But she accomplished the third task — the one that mattered most to her boss — securing a criminal indictment against Mr. Comey, the former F.B.I. director. 2. The official legal document outlining the charges concerned; bill of indictment. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: […]— the indictment will remain sealed until his expected arraignment on Tuesday, when the charges will be formally revealed. 3. An accusation of wrongdoing; a criticism or condemnation. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Can there be a greater indictment against patriotism than that it will thus brand a man a criminal, throw him into prison, and rob him of the results of fifteen years of faithful service? Example: I must say Humphrey, these facts are a frightening indictment of bureaucratic sloppiness and self-indulgence. 4. Evidence of failure or poor performance. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: an indictment of his ability to lead Example: an indictment of his game
Word: indemnity Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From late Middle English indempnite, from Middle French indemnité, from Late Latin indemnitās (“security from damage”), from Latin indemnis (“undamaged”), from in- (“not”) + damnum (“damage”). Pronunciation: /ɪnˈdɛmnɪti/ 1. Security from damage, loss, or penalty. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Near-synonyms: insurance, assurance Example: And all this, it will be said, the Duke of Orleans might have prevented by an effective treaty, securing an act of indemnity. 2. An obligation or duty upon an individual to incur the losses of another. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Near-synonyms: liability, responsibility 3. Repayment; compensation for loss or injury. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Near-synonyms: reparations, recompense, recompensation; see also Thesaurus:compensation Example: It would have been wise to modify rather than revoke the proclamation. But the Allies went further. Now, for the first time, were heard the words of indemnity for the past, and security for the future. 4. The right of an injured party to shift the loss onto the party responsible for the loss. Labels: countable, uncountable 5. A principle of insurance which provides that when a loss occurs, the insured should be restored to the approximate financial condition occupied before the loss occurred, no better, no worse. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: tight end Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From tight (“of a space, arrangement, etc.: narrow, such that it is difficult for something or someone to pass through it”) + end (“position at the end of either the offensive or defensive line; player playing this position”), from the fact that the player takes up a position close to the tackle. Pronunciation: /ˌtaɪt ˈɛnd/ 1. The position at the end of the offensive line whose primary jobs are to block and serve as a short receiver. Example: Jones played tight end. 2. A player (called an end) playing the position of tight end (sense 1.1). Example: The tight end caught the pass. Example: He has also written about some on the Right’s aversion to the N.F.L., particularly as some concoct convoluted conspiracy theories involving singer Taylor Swift and her boyfriend, the Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce, while others denounce professional sports as a whole. 3. The position at the end of the offensive line whose primary jobs were to block and serve as a short receiver; this position is no longer used. Labels: Canadian, historical 4. A player (called an end) playing the position of tight end (sense 2.1). Labels: Canadian, historical
Word: bench trial Part of Speech: noun 1. A trial by judge as opposed to a trial by jury.
Word: datagram Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *deh₃-redup. Proto-Indo-European *-ti Proto-Indo-European *dédeh₃ti Proto-Italic *didō Latin dō Latin datusnom. Latin datumbor. English data Proto-Indo-European *gerbʰ- Proto-Hellenic *grə́pʰō Ancient Greek γρᾰ́φω (grắphō) Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥ Ancient Greek -μᾰ (-mă) Ancient Greek γράμμα (grámma)lbor. English -gram English datagram From data + -gram. 1. A packet of data passed across a network. Example: The pseudo header conceptually prefixed to the UDP header contains the source address, the destination address, the protocol, and the UDP length. This information gives protection against misrouted datagrams.
Word: datagram Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *deh₃-redup. Proto-Indo-European *-ti Proto-Indo-European *dédeh₃ti Proto-Italic *didō Latin dō Latin datusnom. Latin datumbor. English data Proto-Indo-European *gerbʰ- Proto-Hellenic *grə́pʰō Ancient Greek γρᾰ́φω (grắphō) Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥ Ancient Greek -μᾰ (-mă) Ancient Greek γράμμα (grámma)lbor. English -gram English datagram From data + -gram. Labels: empty-gloss, no-gloss, rare Example: The Modifiable Data Base is a very nice system and is, generally, highly recommended* It is memory dependent and, once formated,^([sic]) (datagrammed) is not changeable. Example: >* How does the dispatch station know where the trains are? Is it >just by the engineer notifying them, or is it done by some computerized >system in the track? Varies. Most common is by track circuits, in which the train indicates occupancy of a "block" by shorting the rails together. This gets "datagrammed" to the CTC center. (short hand, simplified description).
Word: decentralisation Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From French décentralisation, decentralise + -ation or de- + centralisation. 1. Alternative spelling of decentralization. Labels: UK, alt-of, alternative, countable, uncountable Example: Decentralisation of the railways was provided for by the establishment of Area Boards for each Region, which began to function on January 1, 1955, and by the extended delegation of powers to the Boards and their General Managers; […].
Word: magistrate Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English magistrat, maiestrat (“magistrate; magistracy”), borrowed from Latin magistrātus. See also -ate (forms nouns denoting rank or office). Pronunciation: /ˈmæd͡ʒ.ɪˌstɹeɪt/, /ˈmæd͡ʒ.ɪ.stɹɪt/ 1. A judicial officer with limited authority to administer and enforce the law. A magistrate's court may have jurisdiction in civil or criminal cases, or both. Example: In any case, however, I saw that part of her injuries might easily have been redressed, and I urged her often and earnestly to lay her complaint before a magistrate. 2. A high official of the state or a municipality in ancient Greece or Rome. Labels: historical 3. A comparable official in medieval or modern institutions. Labels: broadly Example: Like other civil servants, Ashok Kumar started his career as an Assistant Collector cum Sub-divisional Magistrate. 4. A master's degree. Labels: Quebec
Word: allodial Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle French allodial, and its source, Latin allōdiālis (“held in freehold”), from allōdium. Pronunciation: /əˈləʊ.di.əl/, /əˈloʊ.di.əl/ 1. Pertaining to land owned by someone absolutely, without any feudal obligations; held without acknowledgement of any superior; allodial title. Labels: historical, not-comparable, usually Example: Henry reconciled the Zähringer, whom he had deposed from Carinthia in 1078, by raising their allodial property in the Black Forest to a new duchy 20 years later.
Word: allodial Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle French allodial, and its source, Latin allōdiālis (“held in freehold”), from allōdium. Pronunciation: /əˈləʊ.di.əl/, /əˈloʊ.di.əl/ 1. Anything held allodially. Example: Charles Theodore, elector Palatine, was generally considered as rightful heir to all the Bavarian territories which were not female fiefs or allodials.
Word: encumbrance Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English encombraunce, from Old French encombrance, from encombrer. Pronunciation: /ɪnˈkʌm.bɹəns/, /ɛn-/, /-bɹən(t)s/ 1. Something that encumbers; a burden that must be carried. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Some consideration was necessary to decide whether or not to leave his rifle there. On the return, carrying the girl and a pack, it would be added encumbrance[…] 2. Alternative spelling of incumbrance (“in law: interest attached to a title; dependent”). Labels: alt-of, alternative, countable, uncountable 3. The state or condition of being encumbered. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: encumbrance Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English encombraunce, from Old French encombrance, from encombrer. Pronunciation: /ɪnˈkʌm.bɹəns/, /ɛn-/, /-bɹən(t)s/ 1. To apply an encumbrance to (property, etc.).
Word: laying Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /ˈleɪ.ɪŋ/ 1. present participle and gerund of lay Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: laying Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ˈleɪ.ɪŋ/ 1. The act by which something is laid (in any sense). Example: You may get a larger number of eggs within a given time, but the later layings will not give you average good chickens, when you come to hatch such product.
Word: phreaking Part of Speech: noun Etymology: A blend of phone + freak. Pronunciation: /ˈfɹiːkɪŋ/ 1. The cracking or exploring of a telephone system, e.g., attempting to obtain free calls or to discover special service numbers or other internal technical information. Labels: uncountable
Word: phreaking Part of Speech: verb Etymology: A blend of phone + freak. Pronunciation: /ˈfɹiːkɪŋ/ 1. present participle and gerund of phreak Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: favoured Part of Speech: adj Pronunciation: /ˈfeɪ.vɚd/, /ˈfeɪ.vəd/ 1. Treated or regarded with partiality. 2. Having a certain appearance or physical features. Labels: in-compounds Example: ill-favoured; well-favoured; hard-favoured 3. Wearing a favour. Labels: dated Example: a white-favoured footman
Word: favoured Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /ˈfeɪ.vɚd/, /ˈfeɪ.vəd/ 1. simple past and past participle of favour Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: state capital Part of Speech: noun 1. The capital city of a state (national subdivision). 2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see state, capital. (The capital (“money, wealth”) of a state (“polity”).)
Word: split end Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From split + end. 1. A hair which has split at the end, usually from dryness or poor nutrition. Example: I've got so many split ends – I think I must be working too hard. 2. The condition of having hairs with split ends. Labels: in-plural Example: Help! I've got split ends! 3. The position which lines up wide and on the offensive line of scrimmage, whose primary job is to serve as a wide receiver. Example: Jones played split end. 4. A player playing the position of split end. Example: The split end ran deep.
Word: astigmatism Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From a- (negative prefix) + stem of Ancient Greek στίγμα (stígma, “mark, point”) + -ism. Coined by English polymath William Whewell in 1846. Pronunciation: /əˈstɪɡmətɪzm̩/ 1. A defect of a lens such that light rays coming from a point do not meet at a focal point so that the image is blurred. Labels: countable, uncountable 2. A disorder of the vision, usually due to a misshapen cornea, such that light does not focus correctly on the retina causing a blurred image. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: sniffer plane Part of Speech: noun 1. An airplane that supposedly could detect oil fields underground.
Word: gibbous Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English gibbous, from Latin gibbus (“humped, hunched”), probably cognate with cubō (“bend oneself, lie down”), Italian gobba (“humpback”), Ancient Greek κῡφός (kūphós, “humpback, bent”), κύβος (kúbos, “cube, vertebra”), Spanish giboso (“humped”). Also ultimately compare dialectal Norwegian keiv (“slanted, wrong”), German schief (“crooked, slanting”) and Dutch scheef (“crooked, slanting”). Pronunciation: /ˈɡɪbəs/, /ˈd͡ʒɪbəs/ 1. Curved or bulged outward. Example: In fact, what these gibbous human shapes specially represented was ready money—money insistently ready [...] 2. Having more than half (but not the whole) of its disc illuminated. Example: The moving moon, full, gibbous, or crescent-shaped, shone at last for the navigators of the eighteenth century like a luminous hand on the clock of heaven. Example: On December 7, 1972, the Apollo 17 astronauts took a photograph of a gibbous Earth at a distance of eighteen thousand miles from its surface. 3. Humpbacked. Example: A pointed flinty rock, all bare and black, Grew gibbous from behind the mountain's back;
Word: hyperopia Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From hyper- + -opia. 1. A disorder of the vision where the eye focuses images behind the retina instead of on it, so that distant objects can be seen better than near objects. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: labrador Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Named after Labrador Peninsula in Canada where the breed was developed. Pronunciation: /ˈlæb.ɹə.dɔː(ɹ)/, /ˈlæb.ɹə.dɔɹ/ 1. A Labrador retriever.
Word: emmetropia Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Ancient Greek ἔμμετρος (émmetros, “in measure, proportioned”) + English -opia (“vision”). 1. The condition of perfect vision, where images are correctly brought to a focus on the retina. Labels: uncountable, usually
Word: babygro Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative letter-case form of Babygro. Labels: alt-of
Word: fibre optics Part of Speech: noun 1. The transmission of light through fine flexible glass or plastic fibres, especially as a medium for communications networks. Labels: uncountable
Word: Narnia Part of Speech: name Etymology: Named by C. S. Lewis after the Latin name of the Italian town of Narni. Pronunciation: /ˈnɑː(ɹ).ni.ə/ 1. A land in which a series of seven children's books, The Chronicles of Narnia by C. S. Lewis are set.
Word: garner Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English gerner, from Old French gernier, guernier, variant of grenier, from Latin grānārium (“granary”). Doublet of granary. Pronunciation: /ˈɡɑː.nə/, /ˈɡɑːɹ.nɚ/ 1. A granary; a store of grain. Example: That our garners may be full, affording all manner of store: that our sheep may bring forth thousands and ten thousands in our streets. Example: Whose fan is in his hand, and he will throughly purge his floor, and gather his wheat into the garner; but he will burn up the chaff with unquenchable fire. 2. An accumulation, supply, store, or hoard of something. Example: Master, I bring from many wanderings, The gathered garner of my years to thee; One precious fruit of many rain-blown springs And sun-shod summers, ripened over-sea.
Word: garner Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English gerner, from Old French gernier, guernier, variant of grenier, from Latin grānārium (“granary”). Doublet of granary. Pronunciation: /ˈɡɑː.nə/, /ˈɡɑːɹ.nɚ/ 1. To reap grain, gather it up, and store it in a granary. Labels: transitive Example: The rustic does not know what would happen to him if he garnered his corn on Sunday, nor does the diner-out in polite society know what would happen if he spooned up his food with his knife - but they both are stricken with a sort of paralysis at the very suggestion of infringing these taboos. 2. To gather, amass, hoard, as if harvesting grain. Labels: transitive Example: […] I walked enormous distances[…] garnering thoughts even from the heather. Example: He garnered the fruit of his studies in seven volumes. 3. To earn; to get; to accumulate or acquire (attitudes, reputations, or actions from others) by some effort or due to some fact Labels: figuratively, often, transitive Example: To garner support Example: He garnered a reputation as a language expert. 4. To gather or become gathered; to accumulate or become accumulated; to become stored. Labels: rare, transitive Example: She soothed herself with the belief that the workings of her soul were still known to him,—that her regret and her despondency were but the needful preparation for that other sphere, where now her only remaining hope was garnered. Example: For this alone on Death I wreak / The wrath that garners in my heart;
Word: fibre optic Part of Speech: adj 1. Of, or relating to fibre optics, or to optical fibre. Labels: not-comparable
Word: optical fibre Part of Speech: noun 1. A thin, transparent, flexible fibre, made of glass or plastic, used for transmitting light. Labels: UK, countable, uncountable
Word: optical fiber Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of optical fibre. Labels: US, alt-of, alternative, countable, uncountable
Word: fiber optic Part of Speech: adj 1. Alternative spelling of fibre optic. Labels: alt-of, alternative, not-comparable
Word: fibreoptic Part of Speech: adj 1. Alternative spelling of fibre optic. Labels: alt-of, alternative, not-comparable
Word: fiberoptic Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From fiber + optic. 1. Alternative form of fibre optic. Labels: alt-of, alternative, not-comparable Example: Underground, buried fiberoptic cables can sense movement, capturing data that is also then analyzed by AI.
Word: fibre-optic Part of Speech: adj 1. Alternative spelling of fibre optic. Labels: UK, alt-of, alternative, not-comparable Example: However, HS2 believes it could sell mobile and broadband providers access to spare capacity in the fibre-optic cabling and telecoms masts being built to support the railway's signalling and telecoms.
Word: fiber-optic Part of Speech: adj 1. Alternative spelling of fibre optic. Labels: alt-of, alternative, not-comparable
Word: fibre-optics Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative spelling of fibre optics. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: fibreoptics Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative spelling of fibre optics. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: fiber optics Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of fibre optics. Labels: US, alt-of, alternative
Word: fiber-optics Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative spelling of fibre optics. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: fiberoptics Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative spelling of fibre optics. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: retire hurt Part of Speech: verb 1. To stop batting because of having sustained an injury. Labels: intransitive Example: He retired hurt after sustaining a blow to the finger.
Word: retired hurt Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of retire hurt Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: return crease Part of Speech: noun 1. One of the white lines, perpendicular to the popping crease, within which the bowler's back foot must land.
Word: reverse sweep Part of Speech: noun 1. A batsman's shot made by swinging the bat in a horizontal arc from leg to off, normally whilst kneeling. 2. The act of winning a match after losing every set up to the maximum number where, should you lose one more set, you would instead lose the match.
Word: reverse sweep Part of Speech: verb 1. To play such a shot. Example: Maxwell reverse swept a ball to seal the win. 2. To win such a match.
Word: reverse swing Part of Speech: noun 1. Sideways movement of the old ball through the air in the opposite direction to normal swing. Labels: uncountable
Word: reverse swing Part of Speech: verb 1. To make the ball so behave. 2. To swing in this manner.
Word: ring field Part of Speech: noun 1. An attacking ring of infielders, square and in front of the wicket: point, cover, mid off, mid on, midwicket, square leg.
Word: pussy-cat Part of Speech: noun 1. A pet domestic cat; a pussy. Labels: endearing, informal 2. A gentle or soft-hearted person. Labels: informal Example: He looks stern, but he’s just a big pussy-cat really. 3. The silky catkin of various willows. 4. A sexy woman. Labels: dated
Word: roller Part of Speech: noun Etymology: * From Middle English rollere, equivalent to roll + -er. * (credits in TV or film): These were originally printed on a physical cylinder that was rotated in front of the camera. Pronunciation: /ˈɹəʊlə/, /ˈɹoʊlɚ/ 1. Anything that rolls. 2. Anything that rolls. 3. Anything that rolls. 4. Anything that rolls. 5. Anything that rolls. Example: The deposit of color on the stone is transmitted to the metal by the lithographic roller the same as for paper. 6. Anything that rolls. 7. Anything that rolls. 8. Anything that rolls. 9. Anything that rolls. Example: The cable used for hauling the wagons on the incline may still be seen, but several of the guiding rollers have disappeared. 10. Anything that rolls. 11. Anything that rolls. 12. Anything that rolls. 13. Anything that rolls. 14. Anything that rolls. 15. Anything that rolls. 16. Anything that rolls. Example: He threw a beautiful roller that cut the corner perfectly and stopped just outside the circle. 17. A long wide bandage used in surgery. 18. A large, wide, curling wave that falls back on itself as it breaks on a coast. Example: He and Gerald usually challenged the rollers in a sponson canoe when Gerald was there for the weekend ; or, when Lansing came down, the two took long swims seaward or cruised about in Gerald's dory, clad in their swimming-suits ; and Selwyn's youth became renewed in a manner almost ridiculous,[…]. Example: A road that runs due west from Dale passes the village church and Dale Castle, and a footpath continues to Westdale Bay, a sandy beach used by surfers when the westerlies send great rollers crashing in from the Atlantic. 19. A bird. 20. A bird. Example: In such places I found a good many birds, among which were the fine cream-coloured pigeon, Carpophaga luctuosa, and the rare blue-headed roller, Coracias temmincki, which has a most discordant voice, and generally goes in pairs, flying from tree to tree, and exhibiting while at rest that all-in-a-heap appearance and jerking motion of the head and tail which are so characteristic of the great Fissirostral group to which it belongs. 21. A police patrol car or patrolman (rather than an unmarked police car or a detective) 22. A padded surcingle that is used on horses for training and vaulting. 23. A roll of titles or (especially) credits played over film or video; television or film credits. Example: I learned a lot from watching, but the part that I should have studied harder was the roller. The names of the writers went on for ever. 24. A wheelchair user. Labels: slang 25. A Rolls-Royce motorcar. Labels: informal, slang 26. A type break that consists of drum rolls; a drum and bass track made with such breaks. Labels: slang
Word: roller Part of Speech: verb Etymology: * From Middle English rollere, equivalent to roll + -er. * (credits in TV or film): These were originally printed on a physical cylinder that was rotated in front of the camera. Pronunciation: /ˈɹəʊlə/, /ˈɹoʊlɚ/ 1. To roller skate. Labels: intransitive Example: One day Frankie rollered up our drive and asked me if I fancied a skate.
Word: run chase Part of Speech: noun 1. the situation in which the side batting last need to score a certain number of runs to win; the effort made by such a side to win
Word: run out Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of runout. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: run out Part of Speech: verb 1. To use up or consume all Labels: idiomatic, intransitive, transitive Example: Get some more beer out of the fridge before we run out. Example: If this hot weather continues, we will run out of ice cream. 2. To expire; to come to an end. Labels: intransitive Example: My driving licence runs out next week, so I had better renew it now. Example: The option will run out next week and I can't get it extended. 3. To expire; to come to an end. Labels: intransitive Example: Time is running out. Example: Oh no! The wine has run out! 4. To get a batsman out (dismissed from play) via a runout. Example: Jackson was run out for a duck in the first over. Example: With three runs needed from two balls, Adil Rashid was run out coming back for a second. When Wood suffered the same fate from the final ball, the match was tied. 5. To extend a piece of material, or clothing. Labels: transitive Example: If I run out these curtains, they will fit the windows in the drawing room. 6. To conclude in, to end up. Labels: intransitive Example: Tottenham survived a scare as they fought back from 1-0 down to run out comfortable winners against Shamrock Rovers in the Europa League. 7. To force (someone or something) out of a location or state of being. Example: If the mob thinks you did it, they'll run you out of town. Example: They'll run us out of business doing that! 8. To grow poor over time by spending all of one's money. Labels: archaic 9. To fill a line with quadrats or full points. Labels: obsolete 10. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see run, out. Example: Near-synonyms: see Thesaurus:leave Example: She ran out of the room in tears.
Word: run rate Part of Speech: noun 1. The number of runs scored by a side divided by the number of overs taken to score them. 2. Alternative form of runrate. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: flet Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English flet (“floor of a house; house”), from Old English flet, flett (“the ground; the floor of a house; house; dwelling”), from Proto-West Germanic *flati, from Proto-Germanic *flatją (“a flat or level surface, level ground, floor, hallway”), from Proto-Indo-European *pleth₂- (“flat, broad”). Cognate with Dutch vlet (“flat-bottomed vessel, dory”), Low German Flet (“an upper bedroom”), German Fletz, Flötz (“level ground, threshing floor, hallway, set of rooms or benches”). More at flat. 1. Floor; bottom; lower surface. Labels: dialectal, rare 2. A house; home. Labels: dialectal, rare
Word: run up Part of Speech: verb 1. To run (towards someone or something); to hasten to a destination. Example: As I was walking along the road, a man suddenly ran up to me. Example: The dog ran up under the table to get his food. 2. To approach (an event or point in time). Example: We are putting on lots of special attractions as we run up to Christmas. 3. To take to a destination or before an authority. Labels: transitive Example: […] and I took him along and ran him up to police headquarters. 4. To erect hastily, as a building. Labels: dated Example: we wait until the palace is half-way up, and then we pay some tasty architect to run us up an ornamental mud hovel, right against it 5. To make something, usually an item of clothing, very quickly. Labels: idiomatic, transitive Example: I'll run you up a skirt for tomorrow evening. 6. To bring (a flag) to the top of its flag pole. Labels: idiomatic, transitive Example: Stand quietly while the honor guard runs the flag up. 7. To string up; to hang. Labels: transitive 8. Of a bowler, to run, or walk up to the bowling crease in order to bowl a ball. Example: He runs up... and bowls. Smashed away for four runs! 9. To rise; to swell; to grow; to increase. Labels: intransitive, transitive Example: Accounts of goods credited run up very fast. Example: But these, having been untrimmed for many years, had run up into great bushes, or rather dwarf trees. 10. To accumulate (a debt). Labels: idiomatic Example: He ran up over $5,000 in unpaid bills. 11. To thrust up, as anything long and slender. Example: The fence runs up along the edge of the pasture. 12. To warm up and test an airplane before a flight. Labels: transitive 13. To accumulate money, drugs, etc. Labels: reflexive, slang, sometimes Example: I run me up some big bills. 14. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see run, up. Example: The small boy ran up the hill.
Word: run up Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of run-up. Labels: alt-of, alternative, countable, uncountable
Word: swat Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Alteration of squat. Pronunciation: /swɒt/, /swɑt/, /swɔt/ 1. To beat off, as insects; to bat, strike, or hit. Labels: transitive Example: He swatted the mosquito that was buzzing around in his bedroom. Example: The cat swatted at the feather.
Word: swat Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Alteration of squat. Pronunciation: /swɒt/, /swɑt/, /swɔt/ 1. A hard stroke, hit or blow, e.g., as part of a spanking. 2. Alternative spelling of swot: vigorous study at an educational institution. Labels: alt-of, alternative Example: These seemed to be talking very vehemently about something they called " swat." One of these young gentlemen who had black hair and a pimpled face, seeing Peregrine, turned round and asked him "how far had he gone?" "Where" asked Peregrine, hastily. "In swat!" said the pimple-faced boy. "What's swat?" asked Peregrine Pultuney. "In your studies," said he of the pimples. Example: There is work enough—and too much—without this voluntary labor. The confinement during the bright sunny hours of the day is irksome and dispiriting; and it may be fairly questioned whether less would be learnt, if the study hours were reduced from nine to seven—especially as the greater part of these nine long hours is devoted to Mathematics. The cadets have a shorter word for it; they call it swat—a monosyllable which may puzzle the etimologists; but we believe it to be a corruption of the word sweat, and as signifying that a knowledge of mathematics is only to be acquired with much toil—with much sweat of the brow—a sufficiently expressive, word it must be acknowledged.
Word: swat Part of Speech: verb Etymology: See SWAT. Pronunciation: /swɒt/, /swɑt/, /swɔt/ 1. To illegitimately provoke a SWAT assault upon (someone). Labels: US, slang, transitive Example: The conspiracy, as alleged, began in November 2002, and has resulted in hundreds of harassing and swatting calls being made, both nationally and internationally, with hundreds of thousands of dollars in losses and the disruption hundreds of victims’ lives. Example: “You've just been swatted.” “What?” Sophia asked. “A spoofed call to police, claiming an emergency, to get a SWAT response,” Evelyn said. Realizing why the SWAT officer had noticed the controller, she guessed, […]
Word: nixer Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From nix + -er. 1. A job or income which is in addition to one's normal employment, generally done in the evening or on weekends; originally, work for payment that was not declared for taxation, now any work that is not part of one's regular job. Labels: Ireland, slang Example: 2000, Patricia Scanlan, City Lives, Random House (Bantam Books), page 385, 'Ciara, you were getting very well paid. Over the odds in fact. And doing the odd nixer is a hell of a lot different from defrauding your employers,' Devlin retorted angrily. Example: 2002 [Ashgate Publishing], Ullrich Kockel, Regional Culture and Economic Development, 2017, Taylor & Francis (Routledge), page 51, Although this advice was given with a view to allowing Séamus to continue in farming while maintaining his factory job, the success of this innovation, which was largely financed by savings facilitated through ‘nixers’ and poteen sales – was such that Séamus quit his job, and is now enjoying a higher level of total income than before: His flock productivity has almost doubled, and quality improved considerably as the weaning rate rose.
Word: bitterness Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English bitternesse, biternesse, from Old English biternes (“bitterness; grief”), equivalent to bitter + -ness. Pronunciation: /ˈbɪtənəs/ 1. The quality of having a bitter taste. Labels: countable, uncountable 2. The quality of feeling bitter; acrimony, resentment; the quality of exhibiting such feelings. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: the bitterness of his words Example: She kept her bitterness about her mistreatment for the rest of her life. 3. The quality of eliciting a bitter, humiliating or harsh feeling. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Nothing could assuage the bitterness of their defeat. 4. Harsh cold. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: The bitterness of the winter caught us all by surprise.
Word: Navan Fort Part of Speech: name 1. An ancient monument in County Armagh, Northern Ireland.
Word: ceremonial Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English cerymonial, from Latin caerimōniālis. Morphologically ceremony + -al or -ial. Pronunciation: /ˌsɛɹɪˈməʊnɪ.əl/, /ˌsɛɹɪˈmoʊniəl/, /ˌseɹɪˈməʉniəl/, /ˌseɹɪˈmɐʉniəl/ 1. Of, relating to, consisting of, or used in a ceremony. Example: What mockery will it be / To want the bridegroom when the priest attends / To speak the ceremonial rites of marriage! Example: His merit introduced him to ſplendid tables and elegant acquaintance, but he did not find himſelf alvvays qualified to join in the converſation. He vvas diſtreſſed by civilities, vvhich he knevv not hovv to repay, and entangled in many ceremonial perplexities, from vvhich his books and diagrams could not extricate him. 2. Used only for the purpose of ceremony; symbolic. 3. Synonym of ceremonious (“of a person: fond of ceremony or ritual, or of observing strict etiquette or formality; punctilious”). Labels: obsolete Example: Oh monstrous, superstitious puritan, / Of refin’d manners, yet ceremoniall man, […] Example: [W]ith dumb Pride, and a set formal Face, / He moves, in the dull Ceremonial track, […]
Word: ceremonial Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English cerymonial, from Latin caerimōniālis. Morphologically ceremony + -al or -ial. Pronunciation: /ˌsɛɹɪˈməʊnɪ.əl/, /ˌsɛɹɪˈmoʊniəl/, /ˌseɹɪˈməʉniəl/, /ˌseɹɪˈmɐʉniəl/ 1. A ceremony, or series of ceremonies, prescribed by ritual. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Curt’sies, and the usual Ceremonials between Women who are Strangers to each other being past, Sophia said, ‘I have not the Pleasure to know you, Madam.’ Example: Public ceremonies, such as ordinations, the installation of magistrates, and all that could give majesty to the forms in which a new government manifested itself to the people, were, as a matter of policy, marked by a stately and well-conducted ceremonial, and a sombre, but yet a studied magnificence.
Word: haemophilia Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From haemo- + -philia, from Ancient Greek αἷμα (haîma, “blood”) + φιλία (philía, “friendship”). Originally called haemorrhaphilia, probably from the word haemorrhage. Pronunciation: /ˌhiːməˈfɪliə, -ˈfiːliə/ 1. Any of several hereditary illnesses that impair the body's ability to control bleeding, usually passed from mother to son. Labels: Commonwealth, countable, uncountable
Word: hemophilia Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From international scientific vocabulary, reflecting New Latin combining forms: hemo- + -philia; more at haemophilia. 1. US standard spelling of haemophilia. Labels: US, alt-of, countable, standard, uncountable
Word: dyspepsia Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From dys- + Ancient Greek πέψις (pépsis, “digestion”) + -ia. Pronunciation: /dɪsˈpɛp.si.ə/ 1. Any mild disorder of digestion characterised by stomach pain, discomfort, heartburn, and nausea, often following a meal. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: He divides dyspepsias into accidental, temporary (indigestions) and habitual. Example: It is not my strength of mind (exert it as I may) that will prevent me from experiencing dyspepsia, if such follies as these are exhibited before me. 2. Irritation or disgruntlement. Labels: comparable, countable, figuratively, uncountable
Word: vanishing point Part of Speech: noun 1. The point in a perspective drawing at which parallel lines receding from an observer seem to converge. Example: These formulae . . . give for the vanishing point of a set of parallel lines whose common azimuth is α and declivity δ: η=d tan α, ζ=d tan δ sec α. 2. The situation in which, place where, or point in time when some object or phenomenon is no longer observable or notable. Example: At 8h 35' 4", the least dent possible, quite black, appeared in the sun's limb. And at 8h 35' 6", the limb was restored to its perfect form, there having been a small trembling light, between the narrow watery border of Venus and the vanishing point of contact in the sun's limb for these two seconds of time. Example: It might cut the tuberculosis deathrate to the vanishing point.
Word: sensory Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *sent-der. Proto-Italic *sentiō Latin sentiō Proto-Indo-European *-tus Proto-Italic *-tus Latin -tus Latin sēnsusbor. Proto-Germanic *sinnaz Frankish *sinnbor. Vulgar Latin *sennus Old French sensbor. Middle English sense English sense Proto-Indo-European *-tōr Proto-Italic *-tōr Latin -tor Proto-Indo-European *-(i)yós Proto-Italic *-ijos Proto-Italic *-ios Old Latin -ios Latin -ius Latin -tōriusder. Middle English -orie English -ory English sensory From sense + -ory. Pronunciation: /ˈsɛn.sə.ɹi/, /ˈsen.sə.ɹi/ 1. Of the physical senses or sensation. Labels: not-comparable Example: The Species of things are perceived rather there whereto they are carried. But every ſenſory Nerve each in its place carries the Species to the beginning of the ſpinal Marrow, and therefore each in their place are judged and received by the Soul, in the beginning of the ſpinal Marrow. Example: It is evident that in the ancestor of these two groups the first pair of appendages became early adapted for purely sensory purposes, and were naturally projected far in advance of the mouth, forming the antennæ. 2. Conveying nerve impulses from the sense organs to the nerve centers. Labels: not-comparable Example: sensory neurons
Word: sensory Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *sent-der. Proto-Italic *sentiō Latin sentiō Proto-Indo-European *-tus Proto-Italic *-tus Latin -tus Latin sēnsusbor. Proto-Germanic *sinnaz Frankish *sinnbor. Vulgar Latin *sennus Old French sensbor. Middle English sense English sense Proto-Indo-European *-tōr Proto-Italic *-tōr Latin -tor Proto-Indo-European *-(i)yós Proto-Italic *-ijos Proto-Italic *-ios Old Latin -ios Latin -ius Latin -tōriusder. Middle English -orie English -ory English sensory From sense + -ory. Pronunciation: /ˈsɛn.sə.ɹi/, /ˈsen.sə.ɹi/ 1. The sensorium. Labels: dated Example: Is not the Senſory of Animals that place to which the ſenſitive Subſtance is preſent, and into which the ſenſible Species of Things are carried through the Nerves and Brain, that there they may be perceived by their immediate preſence to that ſubſtance ? 2. An organ or faculty of sense. Labels: obsolete Example: BOth of them ſpread themſelues in Round, and fill a whole Floare or Orbe, vnto certaine Limits : and are carried a great way : And doe languiſh and leſſen by degrees, according to the Diſtance of the Obiects from the Senſories. Example: Dr. Burnet, late Bishop of Sarum, on 4 Heb. v. 13, anatomically describing the texture of the eye[…]so God who made this sensorie, did with the greatest ease and at once see all that was don thro’ the vast universe, even to the very thought as well as action.
Word: extrasensory Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₁éǵʰ Proto-Indo-European *-s Proto-Indo-European *h₁éǵʰs Proto-Indo-European *-teros Proto-Indo-European *h₁eǵʰsteros Proto-Italic *eksteros Latin exter Latin extrā English extra- English sensory English extrasensory From extra- + sensory. Pronunciation: /ˌɛkstɹəˈsɛnsəɹi/ 1. Of or relating to extrasensory perception. Labels: not-comparable
Word: extrasensory perception Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ˌɛkstɹəˈsɛnsəɹi pəˈsɛpʃən/ 1. The supposed ability to obtain information without the use of normal sensory channels. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: retrocognition Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Italic *wre- Latin re- Latin retrōder. English retro- English cognition English retrocognition From retro- + cognition. Pronunciation: /ˌɹɛtɹəʊkɒɡˈnɪʃən/ 1. extrasensory knowledge of past events. Labels: uncountable, usually
Word: extra-sensory Part of Speech: adj 1. Alternative form of extrasensory. Labels: alt-of, alternative, not-comparable