nandhakumarms/qualc-wiktionary-en huggingface dataset:
Word: twerk Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Blend of twitch + jerk. The "sexually-provocative dance" sense was particularly popularized since c. 2000 by hip-hop from the United States of America, and again in 2013 by singer Miley Cyrus. Pronunciation: /twɜɹk/, [tʰw̥ɝk], /twɜːk/, [tw̥ɜːk] 1. To dance in a sexually-provocative way using hip thrusts in a low squatting stance while shaking the buttocks; to take part in twerking. Example: Gaea then stood up over me and turned so that her butt was facing me. She then had the nerve to start twerking. Example: "Shortie really knows how to twerk it don't she?" Marcus boasted, while still recording. 2. To twitch or jerk. Labels: dated Example: […] in the language of the unsophisticated Port Melbourne suburbanite a bed was still something primarily intended for love-making – all the eyebrow-raising and moustache-twerking in Jo'burg couldn't alter that. Example: He twerked an eyebrow at his wife.
Word: twerk Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Blend of twerp + jerk, found primarily in the 1930s-era works of Walter Dumaux Edmonds. Pronunciation: /twɜɹk/, [tʰw̥ɝk], /twɜːk/, [tw̥ɜːk] 1. A puny or insignificant person, generally male; a twerp. Labels: US, dated, slang Example: "'...but when they load a pack onto you, what'll you do? A little twerk like you?'" Example: "But even then the poor twerk's whiskers and little eyes looked kind of wistful as if the clothes had got him and was taking him somewhere..."
Word: twerk Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Onomatopoeic, possibly coined by Roger Tory Peterson. Pronunciation: /twɜɹk/, [tʰw̥ɝk], /twɜːk/, [tw̥ɜːk] 1. An abrupt call, such as that made by the California quail. Example: Note of male on territory, a loud kurr or twerk.
Word: Biak Part of Speech: name Etymology: From Indonesian (bahasa) Biak (“Biak language”), from Biak wós Vyak. Also known in Biak as wós kovedi (“our language”). Pronunciation: /ˈbi.ək/, /ˈbi.ɑk/ 1. A small island north of New Guinea. 2. A language spoken on this island and others near it.
Word: ball bearings Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of ball bearing Labels: form-of, plural
Word: nonvoters Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of nonvoter Labels: form-of, plural
Word: selfisms Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of selfism Labels: form-of, plural
Word: waitrons Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of waitron Labels: form-of, plural
Word: poo poo Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /puːpu/ 1. (A piece of) excrement. Labels: childish, countable, uncountable 2. Defecation. Labels: childish, countable, uncountable Example: Daddy, I need to take a poo poo.
Word: poo poo Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /puːpu/ 1. Alternative spelling of pooh-pooh. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: allosaurus Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Ancient Greek ἄλλος (állos, “other, different”) + σαῦρος (saûros, “lizard”). 1. A large, carnivorous dinosaur, of genus Allosaurus, that lived in the Jurassic period.
Word: beldames Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of beldame Labels: form-of, plural
Word: abdominoplasties Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of abdominoplasty Labels: form-of, plural
Word: xeriscaping Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From xeriscape + -ing. 1. Landscaping in ways that do not require supplemental irrigation. Labels: uncountable, usually Example: I visited him in mid-September. He had recently moved to a cul-de-sac where every house has stucco walls, a ceramic tile roof, and bland xeriscaping.
Word: xeriscaping Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From xeriscape + -ing. 1. present participle and gerund of xeriscape Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: akharas Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of akhara Labels: form-of, plural
Word: semantogram Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From semanto- + -gram, thus literally "meaning-drawing." Pronunciation: /sɪˈmæn.tə.ɡɹæm/, /səˈmæn.tə.ɡɹæm/ 1. A symbol used solely for meaning, as when logographic Chinese symbols are used to represent the meaning of native Japanese words. Example: "the majority of Jurchen signs, which included both semantograms and phonograms, were inventions." Example: One could write OJ namyi ‘wave’ with the sinograph for a Chinese morpheme of similar meaning: 波 EMC *pa ‘wave.’ 波 *pa ‘wave’ would then be a semantogram for OJ namyi, serving as a translation of OJ namyi without representing its sound.
Word: semantograms Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of semantogram Labels: form-of, plural
Word: chimichangas Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of chimichanga Labels: form-of, plural
Word: clooties Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of clootie Labels: form-of, plural
Word: crank angle Part of Speech: noun 1. The angle of rotation of a crankshaft measured from the position in which the piston is at its highest point known as top dead center (TDC).
Word: brass band Part of Speech: noun 1. A group of musicians who play brass instruments (sometimes accompanied by percussion).
Word: bull dykes Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of bull dyke Labels: form-of, plural
Word: glowworms Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of glowworm Labels: form-of, plural
Word: tamponade Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From tampon + -ade. Pronunciation: /tæmpəˈneɪd/ 1. The use of a tampon. 2. A stoppage in the flow of blood in a vessel, caused either by the insertion of a tampon or by outside constriction. Example: If a large fibrohemorrhagic complex had to be removed via a large retinectomy, a silicon oil tamponade is preferable.
Word: tamponade Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From tampon + -ade. Pronunciation: /tæmpəˈneɪd/ 1. To plug or stop with a tampon.
Word: Collins glass Part of Speech: noun 1. A particular kind of tumbler, typically holding fourteen fluid ounces and used for Tom Collinses and other long mixed drinks.
Word: apothecaries' Part of Speech: adj 1. In or relating to the apothecaries' system of measures. Labels: not-comparable Example: apothecaries' ounce
Word: apothecaries' system Part of Speech: noun 1. A particular system of measuring mass and volume. Labels: historical
Word: prentice Part of Speech: noun Etymology: An old (Middle English) apheretic form of apprentice. 1. An apprentice. Labels: obsolete Example: Faith, bind him prentice to a lord; by the same rule he'll be a lord when he's out of his time.
Word: prentice Part of Speech: verb Etymology: An old (Middle English) apheretic form of apprentice. 1. To apprentice. Labels: obsolete, transitive
Word: 'prentice Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From prentice, an old (Middle English) apheretic form of apprentice, with the apostrophe added to indicate the lost letters. 1. Apheretic form of apprentice. Labels: obsolete Example: "You're going to be made a 'prentice of, Oliver."
Word: 'prentice Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From prentice, an old (Middle English) apheretic form of apprentice, with the apostrophe added to indicate the lost letters. 1. Apheretic form of apprentice. Labels: obsolete
Word: nonrenewable Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From non- + renewable. 1. Not able to be renewed; incapable of renewal. Labels: not-comparable 2. unsustainable; not able to be regrown or renewed; not having an ongoing or continuous source of supply Labels: not-comparable Example: Coal is nonrenewable.
Word: nonrenewable Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From non- + renewable. 1. A resource that is not renewable.
Word: -aire Part of Speech: suffix Etymology: Rebracketing of millionaire, which was, in turn, borrowed from French millionnaire. 1. One whose wealth exceeds a specific number of units in the local currency. Labels: excessive, morpheme, sometimes
Word: bedded Part of Speech: adj Pronunciation: /ˈbɛdɪd/ 1. Furnished with one or more beds; Having (a particular number or type of) beds Labels: not-comparable, often Example: three-bedded room Example: S.L.M., Ward 20, sleeps in a two-bedded room with D.L.M., over the laundry. 2. Having gone to bed. Labels: not-comparable Example: All silent the bedded house, Silent as the tread of mouse, Save where House-maid Bridget keeps Snoring Orgies as she sleeps , And the Cricket's tender throat , Gives a shrill, unvaried note; Example: His bedded children dumb as death, Nor dared to speak aboon their breath; 3. Having lots of sexual experience; not a virgin. Labels: not-comparable Example: the Queene, as being (I speake in the language of Canaan) the wedded and bedded wife to the king of glory . Example: Margaret, his "spouse" accuses John of impotency, having been his bedded wife for upwards of two years. 4. Lying flat. Labels: not-comparable Example: And, as the sleeping soldiers in the alarm, Your bedded hair, like life in excrements, Start up and stand an end. Example: A second companion report presents a method for designing systems of vertical bolts to reinforce bedded roof. 5. Forming or containing a bed or beds (a horizontal deposit of a mineral or ore). Labels: not-comparable Example: This is largely because of their use in coal mines, although roof bolts are used in mining bedded deposits of all kinds potash (New Mexico) , trona (Wyoming), and ores of iron (Alabama), lead (Missouri) , uranium (Utah), lead-zinc (Utah), and copper (Michigan and Arizona). Example: The acceptance of bedded salt as a viable nuclear waste repository will in part be dependent upon demonstration of the ability to effectively isolate those man-made penetrations, i.e. shafts, boreholds, and tunnels common to the repository site. 6. Growing or arranged in a bed or beds (garden plot or area in which a large number of plants, seaweed, or shellfish are found together.) Labels: not-comparable Example: Who lovest to see the hamadryads dress Their ruffled locks where meeting hazels darken And through whole solemn hours dost sit and hearken The dreary melody of bedded reeds In desolate places, where dark moisture breeds Example: The cover crops mentioned are superior to a constant use of inorganic fertilizers were a continuous cropping of bedded vegetables are grown. 7. With a bedding of straw, sand, woodchips, or similar covering the floor. Labels: not-comparable, often Example: Hogs in the non-bedded house had significantly longer carcasses ( P < .01 ) than hogs in the bedded house. Example: Loose housing with a bedded area overcomes the problem of mobility and allows physical contact between animals, but the animals are still housed in a restricted space and may not be able to escape completely from an aggressive dominant cow.
Word: bedded Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /ˈbɛdɪd/ 1. simple past and past participle of bed Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: jotted Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of jot Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: cajoled Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of cajole Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: foreshadowed Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of foreshadow Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: taimen Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Russian тайме́нь (tajménʹ, “Hucho taimen”), from Middle Russian таймень (tajmenʹ), from Old Novgorodian таимень (taimenĭ), from Finnish taimen (“Salmo trutta”). 1. A species of salmon (Hucho taimen), living in Siberia. Example: One of his planned angling adventures is a float trip of nearly 100 miles down a wild stretch of the Zhang River in quest of various little-known trout and a salmonoid called the taimen, which can reach well over 100 pounds and live for more than a century.
Word: equalism Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English equal 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 equalism From equal + -ism. 1. Synonym of egalitarianism. Labels: uncountable 2. The policy or practice of treating all things equally. Labels: uncountable Example: Yet in repeated experiments, subjects have cast aside equalism in favor of proportional treatment of defendants. 3. The idea that emerging technologies will put an end to social stratification. Labels: uncountable Example: Indeed, the ultimate goal of equalism is to regain paradise on Earth. Physical immortality on the polluted planet, where poverty still exists, is meaningless. Eternal life makes sense only if we rebuild paradise.
Word: seemliest Part of Speech: adj 1. superlative form of seemly: most seemly Labels: form-of, superlative
Word: braving Part of Speech: adj Pronunciation: /ˈbɹeɪvɪŋ/ 1. Daring; defiant. Labels: archaic Example: agree[…] in a most braving manner
Word: braving Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /ˈbɹeɪvɪŋ/ 1. present participle and gerund of brave Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: braving Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ˈbɹeɪvɪŋ/ 1. A bravado; a boast. Example: With so proud a strain / Of threats and bravings.
Word: lunching Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /ˈlʌnt͡ʃɪŋ/ 1. present participle and gerund of lunch Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: lunching Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ˈlʌnt͡ʃɪŋ/ 1. The act of eating lunch. Example: They knew ways to get what they wanted, and always had some in a side place for captains and their friends at lunchings.
Word: lawson Part of Speech: noun 1. a chemical and dye found in henna (Lawsonia inermis)
Word: discarding Part of Speech: noun 1. The act by which something is discarded; a throwing away. 2. Discarded material. Labels: in-plural Example: the usual discardings of country folk
Word: discarding Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of discard Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: mopped Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of mop Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: mopped Part of Speech: adj 1. Haired. Labels: humorous, in-compounds, not-comparable Example: There was more in the same vein before an anti-climactic conclusion: “This horror is obviously a satire of today’s long-mopped singing groups, but it has failed. It is in a class by itself – if it can be classified.” Example: So when JD Emmenthaler lit from Dallas with ginger hair, black boots, tan Stetson, and wads of long green money, no one on either side of the village took much notice of him, his blonde-mopped wife Narcissa with her red Corvette she sashayed all over La Mancha in, or his small son Travis, except to note that the latter was a snotty little ass.
Word: piloted Part of Speech: adj Pronunciation: /ˈpaɪlətɪd/ Labels: no-gloss
Word: piloted Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /ˈpaɪlətɪd/ 1. simple past and past participle of pilot Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: retracing Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of retrace Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: retracing Part of Speech: noun 1. Act of tracing again.
Word: retraces Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of retrace Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: retraces Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of retrace Labels: form-of, plural
Word: impelling Part of Speech: adj Pronunciation: /ɪmˈpɛlɪŋ/ 1. Causing forward motion or action. Example: The extraordinary spectacle was a good many years ago, in school days, when theology is less impelling than curiosity ... […]
Word: impelling Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /ɪmˈpɛlɪŋ/ 1. present participle and gerund of impel Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: hurtling Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of hurtle Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: hurtling Part of Speech: noun 1. The act of something being hurtled or thrown. Example: He clasped his hands over the breast of the brave young Irish volunteer, who had come so willingly with him from the same State, who had stood so gallantly by his side in the deadly hurtlings of battle […] Example: Thenceforth no flying fires inflamed the gray, / No hurtlings shook the dewdrop from the thorn, / No moan perplexed the mute bird on the spray; […]
Word: hurtles Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of hurtle Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: hurtled Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of hurtle Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: punctuated Part of Speech: adj 1. Having punctuation
Word: punctuated Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of punctuate Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: noised Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of noise Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: noised Part of Speech: adj 1. Having noise or perturbations that distort data values; noisy. Labels: not-comparable Example: Now the program calculates the coordinates of the point along the unnoised exit beam vector which has the noised range from the sensor; this is the point the sensor's software believes it has detected. Example: The first variant consists in alternating noised phases with unnoised descents. More precisely, in order to stay closer to the original function f, we may apply a given number v of elementary transformations with respect to the noised function f_(noised), then a descent with respect to f until a local minimum is reached, then again v noised trials, then a descent with respect to f, and so on.
Word: deluged Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of deluge Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: deluging Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of deluge Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: deluging Part of Speech: noun 1. A deluge or flood. Example: Our ground, again, being naturally moist, did not improve in liveliness, nor help our batsmen under the delugings of rain that it received.
Word: statutory declarations Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of statutory declaration Labels: form-of, plural
Word: misreads Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of misread Labels: form-of, plural
Word: misreads Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of misread Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: pieds-à-terre Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of pied-à-terre Labels: form-of, plural
Word: trooping Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of troop Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: trooping Part of Speech: noun 1. The act of marching in a troop. Example: This is then followed by the Olympic movement's own quasi-traditional rituals, such as torches, flag changes and flag troopings, anthems, team parades, opening declarations, the taking of oaths […]
Word: trooped Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of troop Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: Catalunya Part of Speech: name 1. Alternative form of Catalonia: An autonomous community in northeast Spain. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: Catalans Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of Catalan Labels: form-of, plural
Word: but for the grace of God Part of Speech: phrase Etymology: An ellipsis for there but for the grace of God go I. 1. Were it not for God's help.
Word: there but for the grace of God go I Part of Speech: proverb Etymology: There are several variants of this phrase, but all make reference to the same concept: an admission of humility that were it not for the work of God's grace (and perhaps also one's upbringing among those also formed in God's grace), any number of trials or tribulations could have befallen a person. The original is most often attributed to St. Francis of Assisi, who may well have been quoting or paraphrasing the words of the Apostle Paul in 1 Corinthians 15:8–10, which states, "Last of all, as to one born abnormally, he appeared to me. For I am the least of the apostles, not fit to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the church of God. But by the grace of God I am what I am..." It has also been attributed to a mid-16th-century statement by a Protestant, John Bradford: "There but for the grace of God, goes John Bradford", in reference to a group of prisoners being led to execution. 1. A recognition that others' misfortune could be one's own, if it weren't for the blessing of the Divine, or for fortune or fate. Example: I been turned out of places all over town My smile is a frown turned upside down There but for the grace of God go I
Word: bunya Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Yagara bunya bunya, Gabi bunyi, Wakawaka bunyi. Pronunciation: /ˈbʌnjə/ 1. The bunya pine, Araucaria bidwillii, native to Queensland. Example: The palm takes the place of the eucalyptus to a certain extent, and the woods teem with the bunya-bunya, — a very desirable and ornamental tree, which belongs to the pine family. Example: Her three favourite bunyah-bunyah nut trees were destroyed last year to make way for more grazing land for sheep and other animals whose cloven hooves destroyed the delicate topsoil and laid bare the earth.
Word: bunya Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ˈbʌnjə/ 1. A banyan, a member of a specific Hindu caste. Labels: India, dated
Word: bunya Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ˈbʌnjə/ 1. A traditional Kanak and Ni-Vanuatu dish
Word: warmthness Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Apparently from warmth and -ness, or, a blend of warmth and warmness. 1. Warmth. Labels: nonstandard, uncountable
Word: spurring Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of spur Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: spurring Part of Speech: noun 1. An application of the spurs to a horse. Example: On arriving at a sand plain, my friend's joy burst forth in sundry useless checks and spurrings of his steed, impatient of which the horse dashed forward, heedless of the cries and struggles of his awkward rider to bring him to a halt!
Word: gurgled Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of gurgle Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: dislocated Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of dislocate Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: dislocated Part of Speech: adj 1. Out of place; in a place other than is usual. Example: At this point, other ships in the U.S. formation began to spot the incoming Japanese column. Duncan, one of the racing trio of destroyers, and Boise independently spotted the contacts, and both Boise and Helena now reported their sightings to Scott, a few minutes later. But with San Francisco still not seeing anything, and Scott confirming that the three dislocated destroyers were coming up fast past the column to starboard, he convinced himself that the contacts that were being spotted were actually these three escort ships, and, thus, he discarded the reports. 2. Disconnected. Example: Every day the stock market is pushed higher by the Fed, it becomes more dislocated from reality. The homebuilder stocks are more dislocated from fundamental reality now than they were at the peak of the bubble.
Word: lagged Part of Speech: adj Labels: no-gloss
Word: lagged Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of lag Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: cudgels Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of cudgel Labels: form-of, plural
Word: cudgels Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of cudgel Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: flicked Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /flɪkt/ 1. simple past and past participle of flick Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: croaked Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of croak Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: oozed Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of ooze Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: gazers Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of gazer Labels: form-of, plural
Word: endearments Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of endearment Labels: form-of, plural
Word: chron Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Apparently from chrono-, perhaps for resonance with eon. Pronunciation: /kɹɒn/ 1. A period of time between two geomagnetic reversals.
Word: abapical Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From ab- + apical. Pronunciation: /aˈbapɪkl/, /æˈbæpɪk(ə)l/, [æˈbæpɪkɫ̩] 1. Of or pertaining to something at its lowest point; designating the part opposite to the apex. Labels: not-comparable Example: 1946—Cushman, Joseph A. (1946). Upper Cretaceous Framinifera of the Gulf Coastal Region of the United States and Adjacent Areas. Professional Paper 206. Washington, D. C.: U. S. Department of the Interior, Geological Survey. p. 70 – via Google Books. The deck, which is not far below the aperture, has a narrow indentation on the abapical side and a wider indentation on the adapical side. Example: 1973—Henderson, R A (March 1973). "Clarence and Raukumara Series (Albian—?Santonian) Ammonoidea from New Zealand". Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand 3 (1): 86. Retrieved 3 February 2016 – via Google Books. The two abapical rows of tubercles of available specimens show a complete range of variation from completely separated to almost completely coalesced.
Word: abatjour Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative spelling of abat-jour. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: acanaceous Part of Speech: adj 1. Bearing prickles or thistles; prickly. Labels: not-comparable, rare Example: But in addition, Johnathan, as the mocked parent, intended to see that the bed was as hard, knotty and acanaceous as the father knew how to make it.
Word: boongary Part of Speech: noun 1. A tree kangaroo of northern Queensland. Example: The boongary sleeps during the day, nestled in a fork in the branches high among the tree-tops.
Word: pattering Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of patter Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: pattering Part of Speech: noun 1. Groupings of frequent irregularly repeated sounds of moderate magnitude and lower-than-average pitch. Example: Travellers over the London & North Western main line in bygone days will need no reminder of the pattering of cinders on the carriage roofs, the fountains of sparks from the chimneys at night and the distance from which the exhaust of approaching locomotives could be heard, due to the fierceness of their blast in such conditions.
Word: splintered Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of splinter Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: fusillading Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of fusillade Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: fusilladed Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of fusillade Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: showrooms Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of showroom Labels: form-of, plural
Word: transmuted Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of transmute Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: unoffending Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *né Proto-Indo-European *n̥- Proto-Germanic *un- Proto-West Germanic *un- Old English un- Middle English un- English un- English offending English unoffending From un- + offending. 1. Not offending.
Word: riddling Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English redel, redels, from Old English rǣdels, rǣdelse (“counsel, opinion, imagination, riddle”). More at riddle. 1. present participle and gerund of riddle (“to speak ambiguously or answer a question”) Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present Example: Track work had to be confined largely to the vital aspects of alignment and level, and the finer points of track maintenance, as well as such matters as the riddling and cleaning of ballast, proper care of drainage and formation, cuttings, and embankments, suffered considerable neglect.
Word: riddling Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English redel, redels, from Old English rǣdels, rǣdelse (“counsel, opinion, imagination, riddle”). More at riddle. 1. The posing or solving of a riddle. Example: Hence the laughter of ridicule, whether spontaneous or incited by words, and hence too the laughter of wit, which has an intermediate ancestry in such mental tussles or riddlings as may at one time have taken the place of more savage physical strife.
Word: riddling Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English riddil, ridelle (“sieve”). More at riddle. 1. present participle and gerund of riddle (“to sieve or fill with holes”) Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: riddling Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English riddil, ridelle (“sieve”). More at riddle. 1. Material removed by riddling, or sieving. Example: The good grain is riddled by hand into a heap at a convenient part of the barn, and the riddlings are thrown among the stuff which descends to the floor through the other spout.
Word: riddling Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English riddil, ridelle (“sieve”). More at riddle. 1. Enfilled with or spread throughout; permeating; pervading. Example: O perplex'd diſcompoſition, O ridling diſtemper, O miſerable condition of Man.
Word: riddling Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English ridlen. More at riddle. 1. present participle and gerund of riddle (“to plait”) Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: foulest Part of Speech: adj 1. superlative form of foul: most foul Labels: form-of, superlative
Word: snugs Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of snug Labels: form-of, plural
Word: snugs Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of snug Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: snugging Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of snug Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: defuses Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of defuse Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: commandos Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of commando Labels: form-of, plural
Word: death squads Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of death squad Labels: form-of, plural
Word: looters Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of looter Labels: form-of, plural
Word: go commando Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Cited since 1974, as university slang; explanations as to original meanings differ. 1. To not wear underwear (chiefly underpants) under one's outer clothing. Labels: idiomatic, intransitive Example: Ross: … why do you have to wear underwear tonight? Joey: It's a rented tux, 'kay? I'm not gonna go commando in another man's fatigues. Example: A little girl in pink exited one of the stalls with her mother behind her. “I wear big girl underpants now!” she proclaimed. She looked up at my sister. “Do you wear big girl underpants?” Nicki stared down at her. “No, I generally go commando.” 2. To forgo standard protections. Labels: broadly Example: I was one of the only soldiers out there wearing hearing protection; all the rest just went commando. Example: Does this mean you shouldn’t bother setting a password on your network? Absolutely not — WPA/WPA2 are still much better options than WEP or going commando, but it's important to realize that these “protected” setups aren't bulletproof. 3. To forgo something usually considered standard equipment. Labels: rare Example: When you want to learn how to use a specific piece of gear, such as a new lens, or master a specific technique, I advise that you go commando. When you go commando, you take just enough gear to master the technique you want to learn or only the lens with which you want to become more familiar. Example: Coding Horror author Jeff Atwood believes, “One of the quickest ways to increase your productivity on the computer is to go commando: stop using the mouse.”
Word: politology Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From polit(ics) + -ology, compare German Politologie. 1. The branch of social science concerned with theory, description, analysis and prediction of political behavior, political systems and politics broadly-construed. Labels: rare, uncountable
Word: belt of the crozier Part of Speech: noun 1. An admonishment or a condemnation from the clergy. Labels: Ireland, colloquial, uncountable
Word: throw in Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of throw-in. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: throw in Part of Speech: verb 1. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see throw, in. 2. To add something extra free of charge. Labels: informal, transitive Example: If you take the large size, we'll throw in a set of tea towels. 3. To include in a calculation. Labels: informal, transitive Example: Throw in Mr Trump's promise of a "great, great wall along our southern border" - with estimates starting at $12bn - and "massive tax relief for the middle class", and the price tag for his speech proposals is on an express elevator to astronomical. Example: There's something special about tidal estuaries, due to the abundance of wildlife and the ever-changing scenes as the water ebbs or rises. Throw in some moody skies and filtered sunlight, and the views can resemble a painting by Turner - only you don't have to go to the National Gallery to see this, it's brought to your seat on a train. 4. To quit, to fold. Labels: idiomatic 5. To inject, as a fluid. Labels: archaic, transitive
Word: sandbagged Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of sandbag Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: zemstvo Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Russian зе́мство (zémstvo), from земля́ (zemljá, “land, country”). Pronunciation: /ˈzɛmstvəʊ/ 1. A Russian district or provincial council, or elective local-governmental administrative division, founded in 1864 by Tsar Alexander the Liberator. Labels: historical Example: Two of Alexander III's counter-reforms, in 1890 and 1892, greatly increased the governors' powers over the zemstvos and municipal bodies.
Word: ethnoscape Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From ethno- + -scape. 1. A transnational distribution of correlated people. Example: The landscapes of group identity — the ethnoscapes — around the world are no longer familiar anthropological objects, insofar as groups are no longer tightly territorialized, spatially bounded, historically unselfconscious, or culturally homogeneous. Example: Is an ethnoscape preserved as a tourist attraction still an ethnoscape? In the English case, David Lowenthal suspects it is not: “The heritage landscape is less and less England, more and more 'England-land,' Europe's offshore theme park. […]
Word: ethnoscapes Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of ethnoscape Labels: form-of, plural
Word: methylations Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ˌmɛθɪˈleɪʃənz/ 1. plural of methylation Labels: form-of, plural
Word: boosts Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of boost Labels: form-of, plural
Word: boosts Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of boost Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: tonnes Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of tonne Labels: form-of, plural
Word: warblers Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of warbler Labels: form-of, plural
Word: forebrain Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English fore- Proto-Indo-European *mregʰ- Proto-Indo-European *-n̥ Proto-Indo-European *mrógʰ-n̥ ~ *mrégʰ-n̥-s Proto-Germanic *bragną Proto-West Germanic *bragn Old English bræġn Middle English brayn English brain English forebrain From fore- + brain. 1. The anterior part of the brain, including the cerebrum, thalamus, and hypothalamus. Example: The medial forebrain bundle (MFB), a key structure of reward-seeking circuitry, remains inadequately characterized in humans despite its vast importance for emotional processing and development of addictions and depression.
Word: cryptochromes Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of cryptochrome Labels: form-of, plural
Word: cess Part of Speech: noun Etymology: For the first meaning below, the writings of Edmund Spenser, published 1633, point to a borrowing from Irish cís (“tax, tribute, cess, rent”), likely from Latin census. Other senses: Uncertain. Occurs in print at least as early as 1831, when Samuel Lover used the expression as one already long-established. He unambiguously stated the derivation of cess in the malediction bad cess to be an abbreviation of success. The OED speculated that it either was from success or from assessment meaning a military or governmental exaction. The verb is attested in Middle English (cessen). Pronunciation: /sɛs/ 1. An assessed tax, duty, or levy; billeting. Labels: India, Ireland, UK Example: EUDOX[US] But what is that which you call Cess? it is a Word sure unused amongst us here; therefore (I pray you) expound the same. IREN[EUS] Cess is none other than that which you yourself called Imposition, but is in a kind unacquainted perhaps unto you; for there are Cesses of sundry sorts: one is the Cessing of Soldiers upon the Countrey; [...] Another kind of Cess is, the imposing of Provisions for the Governours Housekeeping, [...] Example: The act provides for a levy of a cess on all coal and coke despatched from collieries in India, at such rate, not less than twenty-five paise and not more than fifty paise per ton, as may be fixed by the Central Government. 2. Usually preceded by good or (more commonly) bad: luck or success. Labels: Ireland, UK, informal Example: "Bad cess may attend you, where are you scampering to, you rambunctious"—but she could go no farther; the tears burst from her, and she gave way, without farther resistance, to an explosion of grief. Example: Midland has had good cess with using minute commercials eight television stations, cited as one example of modernizing its advertising. 3. Bound; measure. Labels: obsolete Example: The poor jade is wrung in the withers out of all cess.
Word: cess Part of Speech: verb Etymology: For the first meaning below, the writings of Edmund Spenser, published 1633, point to a borrowing from Irish cís (“tax, tribute, cess, rent”), likely from Latin census. Other senses: Uncertain. Occurs in print at least as early as 1831, when Samuel Lover used the expression as one already long-established. He unambiguously stated the derivation of cess in the malediction bad cess to be an abbreviation of success. The OED speculated that it either was from success or from assessment meaning a military or governmental exaction. The verb is attested in Middle English (cessen). Pronunciation: /sɛs/ 1. To levy a cess. Labels: Ireland, UK Example: ...according to the quantity thereof, we may cess the said rent and allowance issuing thereout.
Word: cess Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Possibly from an archaic dialect word meaning “bog”. According to the OED, from earlier suspiral (“water pipe, setting tank”). Pronunciation: /sɛs/ 1. The area along either side of a railroad track which is kept at a lower level than the sleeper bottom, in order to provide drainage. Example: In April 1923, he was working with a gang of five others in Glasgow on the London, Midland and Scottish Railway (LMS). They were told to walk in the cess. But as it wasn't clear, they walked on the sleepers, each carrying a 70lb lifting screw on his shoulder. McGuinness was struck by a train and killed for want of a safe path. 2. A bog, in particular a peat bog. Labels: dialectal, obsolete 3. A piece of peat, or a turf, particularly when dried for use as fuel. Labels: dialectal, obsolete
Word: cess Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle French cesser. See cease. Pronunciation: /sɛs/ 1. To cease; to neglect. Labels: obsolete Example: And therefore, if there be lord, mesne, and tenant, and the tenant doth cess, and the mesne takes a wife and dies, his wife shall not have dower of the tenancy...
Word: cryptochrome Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Ancient Greek κρῠ́πτω (krŭ́ptō) Ancient Greek κρῠπτός (krŭptós)der. English crypto- English -chrome English cryptochrome From crypto- + -chrome. 1. Any of several light-sensitive flavoproteins, involved in the circadian rhythms of plants and animals, and possibly also in the sensing of magnetic fields.
Word: protoreceptor Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *per-der.? Proto-Indo-European *per-der.? Proto-Indo-European *pér Proto-Indo-European *-o Proto-Indo-European *próder. Ancient Greek πρό (pró) Ancient Greek -ᾰτος (-ătos) Ancient Greek πρῶτος (prôtos) Ancient Greek πρωτο- (prōto-)lbor. English proto- English receptor English protoreceptor From proto- + receptor. 1. A nerve ending or similar group of specialist cells that are sensitive to light.
Word: nerve ending Part of Speech: noun 1. The termination of a nerve, at the distal end of an axon
Word: spurting Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of spurt Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: spurting Part of Speech: noun 1. The act of something that spurts. Example: The seeds are apt to spurt in the formation; and these spurtings are rarely for the better […]
Word: teamed Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of team Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: teamed Part of Speech: adj 1. Associated with others in a team Labels: not-comparable
Word: Pelasgian Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Ancient Greek Πελασγός (Pelasgós) + -ian, presumably based on a Pre-Greek ethnonym. Compare Egyptian pwrꜣsꜣtj, an ethnonym listed as one of the Sea Peoples attacking Egypt around 1190 BCE. 1. An inhabitant of pre-Hellenic Greece. Example: It seems evident that the Hellenes much excelled the Pelasgians in the spirit of enterprise and in military accomplishments. Example: In Homer the Pelasgians¹ are of little importance. They are inhabitants of Asia Minor, where they possess a Larissa, and fight in the ranks of the Trojan army. We also hear of Pelasgi among the inhabitants of Crete.
Word: Pelasgian Part of Speech: name Etymology: From Ancient Greek Πελασγός (Pelasgós) + -ian, presumably based on a Pre-Greek ethnonym. Compare Egyptian pwrꜣsꜣtj, an ethnonym listed as one of the Sea Peoples attacking Egypt around 1190 BCE. 1. The language spoken by the Pelasgians. Example: 1869, Journal of the Ethnological Society of London, New Series, Volume 1, Ethnological Society of London, Trübner and Co. page 324, Pelasgian, therefore, is regarded by him as convertible with Illyrian, and that with Gueg, subject to modifications of Tosk and relations therewith. Example: […]Malte-Brun described Pelasgian as a primitive version of Greek, and distinguished it from Illyrian, which he regarded as a branch of the Thracian language.
Word: Pelasgian Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Ancient Greek Πελασγός (Pelasgós) + -ian, presumably based on a Pre-Greek ethnonym. Compare Egyptian pwrꜣsꜣtj, an ethnonym listed as one of the Sea Peoples attacking Egypt around 1190 BCE. 1. Of or pertaining to the Pelasgians, their culture, etc. Example: The very solemn and ancient observance of her^([Demeter's]) worship in Attica, which was so eminently a Pelasgian state in the time of Homer, entirely accords with the indications of the Homeric text. Example: Croesus learns that of the Spartans and the Athenians, the one ethnos, the Spartans, was Dorian, the other, the Athenians, was Ionian; the one (obviously Athenians) were Pelasgian of old, the other (the Dorians) were Greek (Hellenikon).
Word: cesses Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of cess Labels: form-of, plural
Word: cesses Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of cess Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: jawns Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of jawn Labels: form-of, plural
Word: manjak Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of manjack (“form of asphalt”). Labels: alt-of, alternative, uncountable
Word: hyte Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From archaic Scots [Term?]. 1. insane or mad. Labels: Scotland, obsolete
Word: Tuskegee Part of Speech: name Etymology: From Spanish Tasquiqui, which itself came from Creek Taskeke (“warriors”), the name of a Creek settlement. Pronunciation: /tʌsˈkiːɡiː/ 1. A Creek settlement that the modern city of Tuskegee, Alabama is located on. 2. A city, the county seat of Macon County, in southwestern Alabama, United States. 3. A former town of the Overhill Cherokee people, located along the Little Tennessee River in what is now Monroe County, Tennessee, United States. 4. The notorious Tuskegee syphilis experiment, a landmark event in medical research ethics and law. Example: Responding with some heat to Angell's criticisms—they described comparisons to Tuskegee as "inflammatory and wrong"—the writers explained that cultural differences were at the heart of the problem. 5. Tuskegee National Forest. 6. Tuskegee University.
Word: Tuskegee Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Spanish Tasquiqui, which itself came from Creek Taskeke (“warriors”), the name of a Creek settlement. Pronunciation: /tʌsˈkiːɡiː/ 1. An unethical experiment on humans. Example: You couldn't have a Tuskegee with a community consultation requirement, or even with public notification, because people would say, 'No, this stinks.' 2. One of the Tuskegee Airmen. Labels: historical, rare
Word: pui Part of Speech: intj Etymology: From Hokkien 呸 (phùi, “to spit”), itself onomatopoeic. Pronunciation: [ˈpʰu̯i˦˨] 1. Interjection expressing strong disdain. Labels: Singapore, Singlish
Word: flannel cake Part of Speech: noun 1. a thin batter cake fried on both sides. Labels: Appalachia
Word: weather gauge Part of Speech: noun 1. An advantageous position of one sailing vessel with respect to another, because of the direction of the prevailing wind, that allows it to maneuver for an attack etc. Labels: obsolete, uncountable
Word: radiatori Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from Italian radiatori (“radiators”). Doublet of radiator. 1. A type of pasta in the shape of a radiator. Labels: plural, plural-only
Word: antenati Part of Speech: noun 1. Those born before a certain event, such as the Union of England and Scotland Act 1603 or the United States Declaration of Independence. Labels: plural, plural-only
Word: net earnings Part of Speech: noun 1. Earnings of a person after deduction of all taxes, social security charges and other obligatory payments; the take-home pay. Labels: plural, plural-only 2. Earnings of a company after all expenses, depreciation and taxes have been deducted from the gross income. Labels: plural, plural-only
Word: take-home pay Part of Speech: noun 1. The net earnings of a salary or wage earner. Labels: uncountable Example: Their take-home pay was half their gross, but fifteen percent was for retirement. Example: A new book called When Nothing Works shows which groups have enjoyed the biggest rise in take-home pay since the turn of the millennium. From Tony Blair to Boris Johnson, the authors discover one golden rule: the richer you are, the more money you’re given.
Word: bead breaker Part of Speech: noun 1. A tool or device used to separate the bead from a tire rim. Example: Lost in the middle of nowhere, he started to fix it by using his car-jack as a bead breaker, using the weight of the car to "gently" separate the bead from the rim.
Word: cyclizations Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of cyclization Labels: form-of, plural
Word: live weight Part of Speech: noun 1. The weight of a living animal before it is slaughtered for meat; used for example as a pricing basis in selling cattle for meat. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: The alternative to live-weight pricing is dressed-weight or carcass-weight pricing.
Word: cyclize Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *kʷel- Proto-Indo-European *kʷékʷlos Ancient Greek κῠ́κλος (kŭ́klos)der. Late Latin cyclusbor. Middle English cicle English cycle Proto-Indo-European *-id- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)bor. Late Latin -izōder. Middle French -iserbor. Middle English -isen English -ize English cyclize From cycle + -ize. 1. To undergo, or cause to undergo, a reaction resulting in the formation of an aromatic or ring structure. Labels: ambitransitive Example: Thus, at 135°C, 223 cyclizes with loss of propene to the borinene 229, which then rearranges to other products.
Word: kyphoses Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of kyphosis Labels: form-of, plural
Word: nonuple Part of Speech: noun 1. A ninefold amount or number. Example: The beginning of the measure is always at I; and in the nonuple of crotchets, each single pulse repesents a quaver, and the single pair a crotchet; and here the measure has three motions, like slow triple time.