nandhakumarms/qualc-wiktionary-en huggingface dataset:
Word: weighs down Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of weigh down Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: weighing down Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of weigh down Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: weighed down Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of weigh down Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: punch below one's weight Part of Speech: verb Etymology: An allusion to the sport of boxing, where contenders fight in various weight classes. 1. To achieve or perform at a level lower than should be expected based on one's preparation, attributes, rank, or past accomplishments. Labels: idiomatic Example: But the overall effect is flimsy and insubstantial, a gifted writer punching well below his weight. Example: Under the military-backed governments of the past decade Thailand is widely viewed as having punched below its weight in international affairs, with Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha taking little interest in foreign policy.
Word: hit below one's weight Part of Speech: verb 1. Alternative form of punch below one's weight. Labels: alt-of, alternative, idiomatic
Word: punch above one's weight Part of Speech: verb Etymology: An allusion to a boxer who punches more powerfully than other boxers in the same weight class. Pronunciation: /pʌntʃ əˈbʌv wʌnz weɪt/ 1. To (attempt to) achieve or perform at a higher level than would be expected based on one's preparation, attributes, rank, or past accomplishments. Labels: idiomatic Example: Ireland's current commissioner, Charlie McCreevy, is such a high-profile and outspoken figure who punches above his weight in Brussels in the important role of internal market commissioner. Example: Having spent more than £500,000 on players last summer, Crawley can hardly be classed as minnows but they have still punched way above their weight and this kind of performance means no-one will relish pulling them out of the hat in Sunday's draw.
Word: hit above one's weight Part of Speech: verb 1. Alternative form of punch above one's weight. Labels: alt-of, alternative, idiomatic
Word: Nelken Part of Speech: name Etymology: German Nelken 1. A surname.
Word: overperform Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From over- + perform. 1. To perform better than expected Example: Jesus' finishing has been one of the main concerns - since the start of last season the 23-year-old has underperformed his Premier League expected goals tally by 6.97goals (in short, he has scored seven fewer goals than would be expected from the chances presented to him). In contrast, Haaland is overperforming by 6.83 goals since joining Dortmund, which is almost a 14-goal swing between the pair. 2. Of an investment, to provide a financial result superior to what was expected.
Word: prink Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English prinken (“to wink, signal with the eye”), from prinke, prinche (“a wink, twinkling of the eye, momentary gesture”), from Old English princ (“a wink”). More at pry. Pronunciation: /ˈpɹɪŋk/, [ˈpʰɹʷɪŋk], /ˈpɹiŋk/, [ˈpʰɹʷiŋk] ~ [ˈpʰɹʷɪ̝ŋk] 1. to give a wink; to wink. Labels: dialectal, obsolete
Word: prink Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Perhaps alteration (due to primp) of prank (“to deck, adorn”), from Middle English pranken (“to trim”), or from Middle Dutch prinken (“to deck for show, parade in fine apparel”) (from pronk (“show, display”) or from Middle Low German prunken (from prank (“display”)). Cognate with Middle Dutch pronken (“to flaunt”), German Prunk (“a show, parade, splendour”), Danish and Swedish prunk. Pronunciation: /ˈpɹɪŋk/, [ˈpʰɹʷɪŋk], /ˈpɹiŋk/, [ˈpʰɹʷiŋk] ~ [ˈpʰɹʷɪ̝ŋk] 1. The act of adjusting one's dress or appearance; the act of sprucing oneself up. Example: “Is my sash right; and does my hair look very bad?” said Meg, as she turned from the glass in Mrs. Gardiner’s dressing-room, after a prolonged prink.
Word: prink Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Perhaps alteration (due to primp) of prank (“to deck, adorn”), from Middle English pranken (“to trim”), or from Middle Dutch prinken (“to deck for show, parade in fine apparel”) (from pronk (“show, display”) or from Middle Low German prunken (from prank (“display”)). Cognate with Middle Dutch pronken (“to flaunt”), German Prunk (“a show, parade, splendour”), Danish and Swedish prunk. Pronunciation: /ˈpɹɪŋk/, [ˈpʰɹʷɪŋk], /ˈpɹiŋk/, [ˈpʰɹʷiŋk] ~ [ˈpʰɹʷɪ̝ŋk] 1. To look, gaze. 2. To dress finely, primp, preen, spruce up. Example: […] by the Mass: You’ll make excellent Wives, Cuckold your Husbands immoderately: You mind nothing but prinking your selves up. Example: She put it on, then floated round the room prinking things — the flowers, the ashtrays, Jack's whisky tray — making everything outside herself perfect because nothing inside herself was perfect in the least. 3. To strut, put on pompous airs, be pretentious. 4. To improve; to make stylish. Example: The gardens were spruced and the fountains played again and the two main hotels, the Splendide and the Hermitage, were prinked and furbished and restaffed.
Word: prink Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Contraction of pre-drink. Pronunciation: /ˈpɹɪŋk/, [ˈpʰɹʷɪŋk], /ˈpɹiŋk/, [ˈpʰɹʷiŋk] ~ [ˈpʰɹʷɪ̝ŋk] 1. To pre-drink. Labels: UK, humorous
Word: hold true Part of Speech: verb 1. To be or remain true, valid or applicable; to apply. Labels: intransitive Example: However the case may be with societies under widely different conditions of development, the law of mass and individuality holds true of the social facts known to us.
Word: holds true Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of hold true Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: held true Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of hold true Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: addictology Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From addicto- + -logy. 1. The study of addictions. Labels: uncountable 2. The practice of treating addictions. Labels: uncountable
Word: addictologist Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From addictology + -ist. 1. A person who practises addictology.
Word: addictologists Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of addictologist Labels: form-of, plural
Word: subdelegate Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From sub- + delegate. 1. To delegate (a task already delegated to oneself) to somebody else. Labels: transitive Example: To subdelegate a determinate priest to assist at a specified marriage of those subjects of the Military Vicar who have been placed under your personal charge, excluding entirely, however, the power of again subdelegating. 2. To appoint as a subdelegate or subordinate. Labels: transitive
Word: subdelegate Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From sub- + delegate. 1. A subordinate delegate, or one with inferior powers.
Word: keep a cool head Part of Speech: verb 1. To keep one's cool; to stay calm. Labels: idiomatic
Word: network interface card Part of Speech: noun 1. A computer hardware component designed to allow computers to communicate over a computer network.
Word: network interface cards Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of network interface card Labels: form-of, plural
Word: Normen Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Based on men, plural of man (itself cognate with the -man in Norman); cf. Northmen. 1. plural of Norman Labels: form-of, nonstandard, plural, rare Example: All the low German tribes were early distinguished for maritime enterprize, but the Danes and Scandinavians, who all passed by the name of Northmen, or Normen, were by far the most remarkable for bold adventure in the middle ages. […] Westwards the Feroe, Orkney, Shetland, and Western Islands were often visited, and partly peopled by the Normen; […] If we were to relate all the bold deeds which in pilgrimages, in the service of Constantinople, and in expeditions in almost every land and sea, even to Greenland and America, were achieved by the Normen, the relation would seem a romance. […] The Normen were true to one another, and virtuous men in their own eyes; […] The plundering Normen held murder, in the acquisition of their booty, no crime; […] We doubt if Christianity made the Normen more scrupulous, with regard to the property of others, than it did our Scotch and English borderers, who received absolution one day, and stole cattle the next. The Normen settled the matter with their conscience, on the terms of the following low German adage: […] which means that robbing and devastating were no shame, as they were practised by the best in the land. Example: Musulman. The plural of this word, in respectable writers, is often written musulmen, as if the English word man entered into its composition. The true root, however, is salam, an Arabic word. […] It is remarkable that for the words German, Norman, which are really made up of our word man, the plurals Germen, Normen, are never thought of.
Word: subbie Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From sub + -ie. Pronunciation: /ˈsʌbi/ 1. A subcontractor. Labels: colloquial Example: He worked as a subbie in the construction industry. 2. A subpostmaster. Labels: colloquial 3. A submissive. Labels: slang Example: “This is my subbie, and you get no say in that.” “She's not your subbie, Dominic,” I stated. “You left her hanging in the shibari room last night. […]
Word: suberine Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Latin suber (“cork tree”). 1. A substance obtained by treating cork filings with alcohol, ether, and dilute hydrochloric acid. Labels: archaic, uncountable
Word: plough on Part of Speech: verb 1. To continue with a task despite it being menial, difficult, or boring Example: We could stop for a coffee, or plough on to the hotel. Example: Many feel they cannot take time off as this would only serve to make things financially worse, and so they plough on.
Word: Nissen Part of Speech: name 1. A surname.
Word: ploughs on Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of plough on Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: ploughing on Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of plough on Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: ploughed on Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of plough on Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: plows on Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of plow on Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: plowing on Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of plow on Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: plowed on Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of plow on Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: houka Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative spelling of hookah. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: plough back Part of Speech: verb 1. Alternative form of plow back. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: plow back Part of Speech: verb 1. To reinvest profits into a business. Example: The dividends were small last year because we plowed back most of the money to buy new machinery
Word: plows back Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of plow back Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: plowing back Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of plow back Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: plowed back Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of plow back Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: ploughs back Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of plough back Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: ploughing back Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of plough back Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: ploughed back Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of plough back Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: plough into Part of Speech: verb 1. To crash into something. Example: The lorry ploughed into the line of stationary cars. Example: Tackling the rising grades south of Cropredy with the 3.10 p.m. from Paddington in a blizzard, it ploughed at about 75 m.p.h. into a herd of cows, killing six of the beasts. 2. To engage in some activity with vigor. Example: In a bid to escape the vagaries of consumer electronics, Samsung may be ploughing headlong into the areas most ripe for invasion by a new breed of emerging-market titans. 3. To invest a resource (money, material, energy) into something. Labels: transitive Example: Young start-ups usually have had two financing options: hands-off venture capitalists that are willing to plough money into a company without rolling up their sleeves, or business incubators that are short on funds but wealthy in enthusiasm and knowledge.
Word: plow into Part of Speech: verb 1. To crash into something. Example: The lorry plowed into the line of stationary cars.
Word: plows into Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of plow into Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: plowing into Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of plow into Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: plowed into Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of plow into Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: ploughs into Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of plough into Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: ploughing into Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of plough into Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: ploughed into Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of plough into Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: plough through Part of Speech: verb 1. To persevere with an activity of consuming something, both literally and figuratively. Example: I ploughed through two helpings, but then I didn't have room for any more. Example: If you can plough through the first three chapters, then the plot starts to get interesting. 2. To forcefully make a passage to move through. Example: I managed to plough through the crowds and get to the information desk.
Word: plow through Part of Speech: verb 1. US standard spelling of plough through. Labels: US, alt-of, standard
Word: plows through Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of plow through Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: plowing through Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of plow through Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: gotten on Part of Speech: verb 1. past participle of get on Labels: US, form-of, participle, past
Word: plowed through Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of plow through Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: ploughs through Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of plough through Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: ploughing through Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of plough through Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: ploughed through Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of plough through Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: diathermies Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of diathermy Labels: form-of, plural
Word: wipe the floor with someone Part of Speech: verb 1. To be well ahead of someone, or to win a competition by a considerable margin over someone. Labels: idiomatic, slang Example: The young newcomer is wiping the floor with the more experienced players. Example: A superb passer of the ball, we expected him to wipe the floor with the opposition. 2. To comprehensively beat someone in a fight. Labels: idiomatic, slang Example: "Courage? Blast it all, lad, if I were twenty years younger I'd wipe the floor with you now."
Word: subordinative Part of Speech: adj 1. Tending to subordinate; expressing subordination. 2. Used to introduce a subordinate sentence. Example: a subordinative conjunction
Word: cash-box Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative spelling of cashbox. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: cash-boxes Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of cash-box Labels: form-of, plural
Word: conglutinate Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Inherited from Middle English conglutinaten (“(of a wound, broken bone, etc.) to knit, close up; to fasten; (figurative) to unite”), from conglutinat(e) (used as the past participle of conglutinaten) + -en (verb-forming suffix), borrowed from Latin conglūtinātus, the perfect passive participle of conglūtinō, see -ate (verb-forming suffix). Compare French conglutiner. Pronunciation: /kəŋˈɡluːtɪneɪt/ 1. To stick or glue together. Labels: ambitransitive 2. To join together, to unite. Labels: ambitransitive Example: Bones […] have had their broken parts conglutinated within three or four days.
Word: conglutinate Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Inherited from Middle English conglutinat(e), see Etymology 1 and -ate (adjective-forming suffix) for more. Pronunciation: /kəŋˈɡluːtɪnət/ 1. Glued together; united, as by some adhesive substance. Labels: ambitransitive, not-comparable
Word: conglutinates Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of conglutinate Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: conglutinating Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of conglutinate Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: conglutinated Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of conglutinate Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: Wagadugu Part of Speech: name 1. Alternative form of Ouagadougou. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: superconcentrate Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From super- + concentrate. 1. A superconcentrated drink product. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: We have also learned something of the time-temperature tolerance of frozen juice concentrates and superconcentrates.
Word: Armida Part of Speech: name Etymology: Borrowed from Italian Armida. 1. The enchantress in Torquato Tasso's Jerusalem Delivered, subsequently adapted in numerous operas. 2. A minor planet.
Word: nasute Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Latin nāsūtus. Pronunciation: /neɪˈsuːt/, /neɪˈsjuːt/ 1. Having a long snout. 2. Having a sensitive sense of smell. Labels: obsolete Example: nasute greedy Swine 3. pedantic; captious Labels: obsolete
Word: nasute Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Latin nāsūtus. Pronunciation: /neɪˈsuːt/, /neɪˈsjuːt/ 1. A kind of termite with a nasus.
Word: tores Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of tore Labels: form-of, plural
Word: occidents Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of occident (“versions or conceptions of occidental regions”) Labels: form-of, plural, rare Example: occidents and orients Example: orients and occidents
Word: Sinterklaas Part of Speech: name Etymology: From Dutch Sinterklaas. Doublet of Santa Claus. 1. Saint Nicholas in a folkloric incarnation, who (in the Low Countries and other parts of Europe) gives presents to children on December 5 or 6. Example: Freddie filled his plate with white and chocolate Christmas trees, Sinterklaases, and dogcarts. Example: To many Dutch people, the Anglo-American Santa is a pale imitation of the authentic Sinterklaas.
Word: acid rains Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of acid rain Labels: form-of, plural
Word: lab coats Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of lab coat Labels: form-of, plural
Word: hawkbits Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of hawkbit Labels: form-of, plural
Word: one finger salute Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of one-finger salute. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: one finger salute Part of Speech: verb 1. Alternative form of one-finger salute. Labels: alt-of, alternative, rare
Word: bucchero Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Italian bucchero, from Spanish búcaro, from Portuguese púcaro, from Latin pōculum. Doublet of poculum. 1. A type of dark grey Etruscan terracotta pottery. Labels: uncountable
Word: S & L Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative spelling of S&L. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: S&L Part of Speech: noun 1. A savings and loan association. Labels: US
Word: S & M Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative spelling of S&M. Labels: alt-of, alternative, uncountable
Word: connectively Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From connective + -ly. 1. in a connective manner 2. by union or conjunction 3. jointly
Word: fibrinous Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From fibrin + -ous. 1. Of, pertaining to, characteristic of, resembling or having the nature of fibrin. Labels: not-comparable Example: The ancient Assyrian, Babylonian, Egyptian, Roman, Byzantine, Arabian, Chinese empires, and in modern times the sudden collapse of the French, Russian, German and Austrian empires warn us, by example, of what happens to nations, in spite of all their external splendor and apparent manifestations of greatness, when the private individual becomes restricted in thought and act by narrow, mean specialization, mean formalism, monotony of lines of action due to a legalized mesh of fibrinous tissue in a hypertrophied, cartilagenous, ossified structure of organized, and classified, governmental officialdom.
Word: chaste tree Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Traditionally believed to be an anaphrodisiac. 1. A shrub native to the Mediterranean region (Vitex agnus-castus).
Word: monk's pepper Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From the cultural notion that monks needed to be chaste, and so (at least, as imagined by users of this word) they may have consumed parts of it as an aid to maintain chastity. 1. The chaste tree. 2. The fruit or another medicinal product of this tree; chasteberry Labels: historical
Word: hemp tree Part of Speech: noun 1. The chaste tree.
Word: launch pads Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of launch pad Labels: form-of, plural
Word: latissimus dorsi Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Latin lātissimus (“widest, broadest”) (superlative of lātus (“wide, broad”)) + dorsī (genitive of dorsum (“the back”)). 1. A large, flat, dorsolateral muscle on the trunk, posterior to the arm, and partly covered by the trapezius on its median dorsal region.
Word: way of the world Part of Speech: noun 1. The manner, often unavoidable or displeasing, in which events usually unfold or in which people usually behave. Example: Fain[all]. [...] What's here? Damnation! [Reads] A deed of Conveyance of the whole Eſtate of Arabella Languiſh Widdow in truſt to Edward Mirabell. Confusion! / Mir[abell]. Even ſo Sir, 'tis the way of the World, Sir: of the Widdows of the World. I ſuppose this Deed may bear an Elder Date than what you have obtain'd from your Lady. / Fain[all]. Perfidious Fiend! then thus I'll be reveng'd.— [...] Example: One worships public opinion, and follows after the multitude to do evil, doing what he knows is wrong, simply because others do it, and it is the way of the world.
Word: ways of the world Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of way of the world Labels: form-of, plural
Word: Charlie Brown tree Part of Speech: noun Etymology: A reference to the animated television special A Charlie Brown Christmas (1965) based on the comic strip Peanuts by American cartoonist Charles M. Schulz (1922–2000), in which the title character Charlie Brown picks an unattractive Christmas tree to decorate. The selection of the tree represents a protest against the commercialization of Christmas. Pronunciation: /ˈtʃɑːli bɹaʊn ˈtɹiː/, /ˈtʃɑɹli bɹaʊn ˈtɹi/ 1. A Christmas tree considered unattractive and undesirable by normal standards, often small and sparse. Example: There is a place in our Christmas for a Charlie Brown tree—as the Children's Tree. Example: As Regina put it, "It was the ugliest, skinniest Charlie Brown tree you ever saw."
Word: SPCUM Part of Speech: name 1. the Montreal Urban Community police service (Service de police de la Communauté urbaine de Montréal, SPCUM) — replaced by the SPVM
Word: MUCTC Part of Speech: name 1. the Montreal Urban Community Transit Corporation — the public transit corporation for the Montreal Urban Community; it was replaced by the MTC in 2002, it replaced the Montreal Urban Community Transit Commission in 1985. 2. the Montreal Urban Community Transit Commission — the public transit commission for the Montreal Urban Community; it was replaced by the Montreal Urban Community Transit Corporation in 1985, it replaced the MTC in 1970.
Word: CTM Part of Speech: noun 1. Initialism of community trademark. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable 2. color, temperature, moisture (used to assess skin signs) Labels: countable, uncountable 3. Abbreviation of Canadian Tire Money. Labels: Canada, abbreviation, alt-of, countable, uncountable 4. Initialism of chicken tikka masala. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable
Word: MTC Part of Speech: name 1. Abbreviation of Coordinated Mars Time. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of 2. Initialism of Major Trauma Centre, a specialist unit within the National Health Service of the United Kingdom, set up to provide specialised trauma care and rehabilitation. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism 3. the Montreal Transit Corporation — the public transit corporation for the megacity and Island of Montreal; it replaced the MUCTC in 2002. 4. the Montreal Transit Commission — the public transit commission for the island and City of Montreal; it was replaced by the MUCTC in 1970, it replaced the Montreal Tramways Co. in 1950 when the latter was nationalized. 5. the Montreal Tramways Company (Montreal Tramways Co.) — the public transit company of the island of Montreal; the company was nationalized in 1950 and replaced by the Montreal Transit Commission, it was formed in 1911 by the merger of several previous companies. 6. Initialism of Metropolitan Transportation Commission. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism Example: The audit also seeks analysis of four toll-funded programs overseen by MTC and BATA, which includes analyzing annual toll revenue and expenditures.
Word: CUM Part of Speech: name Etymology: An acronym of Canada, United States, and Mexico; sequenced north to south and humorously made to spell out "cum." 1. Synonym of North American Union. Labels: humorous, vulgar
Word: MUC Part of Speech: name 1. the Montreal Urban Community — the supramunicipal level of government for the island of Montreal and several surrounding islands. It was formed in 1970, and in 2002 it was replaced by the MMC, it area was subsumed into the megacity of Montreal. It was reformed in 2006 as the Montreal Agglomeration Council (Conseil d'agglomération de Montréal). Labels: abbreviation, acronym 2. Meritorious Unit Commendation. Labels: US, abbreviation, acronym
Word: MMC Part of Speech: name Etymology: Initialism. 1. Initialism of Montreal Metropolitan Community. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism 2. Initialism of Mini Magellanic Cloud Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism 3. Initialism of MultiMediaCard, a standard for a family of flash storage devices. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
Word: MMC Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Initialism. 1. Initialism of metal matrix composite. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable 2. Initialism of MultiMediaCard (also rendered multimedia card), a MultiMediaCard storage device. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable 3. Initialism of maximum material condition. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable Example: Coordinate term: LMC 4. Initialism of meningomyelocele. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable 5. Initialism of male main character. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable Example: Twister works on multiple levels and while I can make a sound case it’s a romance (based on the genre definition—the story focuses on the MMC and FMC and their relationship and ends with an HFN) the underlying framework is that of a road trip. Example: The MMC of the current story is with his best friend at the local bar talking about his problems with the current FMC.
Word: CMM Part of Speech: noun 1. Initialism of coordinate-measuring machine. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
Word: CMM Part of Speech: name 1. Initialism of Calvert Marine Museum, USA. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism 2. Initialism of Chhattisgarh Mukti Morcha. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism 3. Initialism of Congregation of the Missionaries of Mariannhill. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism 4. Initialism of Canadian Methodist Mission. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
Word: huds Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of hud Labels: form-of, plural
Word: AMT Part of Speech: name 1. Abbreviation of Airy Mean Time. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of 2. AMT — the former Agence métropolitaine de transport – the Metropolitan Transit Agency; the transit agency for the MMC; now replaced by the RTM - Réseau de transport métropolitain.
Word: AMT Part of Speech: noun 1. Initialism of automated manual transmission. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable 2. Initialism of alphamethyltryptamine. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable 3. Initialism of alternative minimum tax. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable
Word: gay marry Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Back-formation from gay marriage. 1. To marry (a person of the same sex). Labels: nonstandard, transitive Example: Heartache schmartache, I don't want to gay-marry you, oh sizzling Sapphite. 2. To marry a person of the same sex. Labels: intransitive Example: First, sex doesn't hover cutely over the ceremony, because everyone assumes gay-marrying types are the least-sexual gay people. 3. To unite in a gay marriage; to unite in marriage to someone of the same sex. Labels: transitive Example: Schwarzenegger Basically Admits He's A Democrat Clearly the governor is angling for an administration job, which he'll accept once he's finished gay marrying the entire state of California.
Word: gay-marry Part of Speech: verb 1. Alternative spelling of gay marry. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: walks of life Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of walk of life Labels: form-of, plural
Word: antidecuplet Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From anti- + decuplet. 1. A proposed grouping of light pentaquarks
Word: antiresonances Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of antiresonance Labels: form-of, plural
Word: asteroseismic Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From aster- + -o- + seismic. 1. Of or pertaining to asteroseismology.
Word: asterseismology Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of asteroseismology. Labels: alt-of, alternative, uncountable Example: The discovery by Kurtz of phase coherent, rapid oscillations in certain Ap stars holds great promise for the new field of asterseismology. Example: The MOST (Microvariability and Oscillations of STars) was first Canadian space telescope dedicated to asterseismology and it got launched in 2003.
Word: irriguous Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Latin irriguus, from in- + riguus (“watered”), from rigāre (“to wet”). 1. Irrigated, well-watered. Labels: archaic, poetic Example: Betwixt them Lawns, or level Downs, and Flocks / Grasing the tender herb, were interpos'd, / Or palmie hilloc, or the flourie lap / Of som irriguous Valley spred her store […]. Example: See, where the winding Vale its lavish Stores, / Irriguous, spreads.
Word: bispectra Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of bispectrum Labels: form-of, plural
Word: pancratium Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Latin pancratium, from Ancient Greek παγκράτιον (pankrátion, “a complete contest”). Doublet of pankration. 1. Synonym of pankration. Labels: uncountable 2. Any of the genus Pancratium of African and Eurasian perennial, herbaceous and bulbous plants in the Amaryllis family. The flowers are large, white and fragrant. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: bispectrum Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From bi- + spectrum. 1. A statistic used in the study of nonlinear interactions.
Word: braneworld Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From brane + world. Pronunciation: /bɹeɪnwɜːld/, /bɹeɪnwɝld/, /bɹeɪnwɵːld/ 1. A world that is a brane, with its own limited set of dimensions, in any of several brane cosmology theories. Labels: informal
Word: conifold Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Blend of conic + manifold or similar. 1. A certain generalization of a manifold, capable of containing conical singularities.
Word: covariants Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of covariant Labels: form-of, plural
Word: like turkeys voting for Christmas Part of Speech: phrase Etymology: Because turkeys are commonly eaten at Christmas, turkeys voting for (an early) Christmas would be hastening their own death. The phrase is thought to have been coined by the British Liberal Party politician David Penhaligon (1944–1986) who used it to express opposition to the 1977 Lib–Lab pact. It was popularized by the British Prime Minister James Callaghan (1912–2005) who used it in the House of Commons in March 1979 when his Labour Party lost a vote of no confidence: see the 1977 and 1979 quotations. Pronunciation: /laɪk ˌtɜːkiz ˈvəʊtɪŋ fə ˈkɹɪsməs/, /laɪk ˌtɝkiz ˈvoʊtɪŋ fɚ ˈkɹɪsməs/, [-ɾɪŋ-] 1. Self-defeating; serving to bring about a situation detrimental to the performer of the action. Labels: UK, humorous Example: The next morning [14 December 1977] the Liberals held a two-and-a-half meeting at which Steel let them have their head. Only two MPs, Howells and Johnston, said they were willing to continue the Pact. The opponents were delighted. […] ‘Us voting for the Pact is like a turkey voting for Christmas’, said David Penhaligon Example: The minority parties have walked into a trap. If they win, there will be a general election. I am told that the current joke going around the House is that it is the first time in recorded history that turkeys have been known to vote for an early Christmas.
Word: like turkeys voting for an early Christmas Part of Speech: phrase Pronunciation: /laɪk ˌtɜːkiz ˈvəʊtɪŋ fɚ‿n̩ ˌɜːli ˈkɹɪsməs/, /laɪk ˌtɝkiz ˈvoʊtɪŋ fɚ‿n̩ ˌɝli ˈkɹɪsməs/, [-ɾɪŋ-] 1. Synonym of like turkeys voting for Christmas. Labels: UK, humorous
Word: skats Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of skat Labels: form-of, plural
Word: PTHC Part of Speech: noun 1. Abbreviation of percutaneous transhepatic cholangiography Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, uncountable Example: Percutaneous transhepatic cholangiography (PTHC or PTC) is radiography of bile ducts via needle puncture. 2. preteen hardcore Labels: uncountable Example: When a new site appears, it is blazoned through all the related groups with a headline like “msn goood pthc club!!!” — the acronym signifies “preteen hardcore.”
Word: pensums Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of pensum Labels: form-of, plural
Word: cryptoexotic Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From crypto- + exotic. 1. Describing the state of certain systems of particles that have certain characteristics of exotic mesons or exotic baryons.
Word: cryptoexotic Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From crypto- + exotic. 1. A state of this kind.
Word: cycloparaphenylene Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From cyclo- + para- + phenylene. 1. Any of a group of cyclic hydrocarbons, that are polymers of p-phenylene, that constitute the shortest possible segment of a carbon nanotube
Word: darkon Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From dark + -on. 1. A scalar field (or particle) that represents an elementary part of dark matter.
Word: deconfinement Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From de- + confinement. Pronunciation: /diːkənˈfaɪnmənt/ 1. That state of a system of quarks and gluons that are free to move relatively independently Labels: uncountable 2. Discontinuation of confinement Labels: uncountable
Word: degenerately Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From degenerate + -ly. 1. In a degenerate manner
Word: detailly Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From detail + -ly. 1. In detail. Labels: nonstandard, proscribed
Word: sturt Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From the name of Alfred Henry Sturtevant. Pronunciation: /stɜː(ɹ)t/ 1. In an embryo, an angle equal to two gons. If a mosaic forms in the embryo, the line passes between two organs with a probability, in percent, equal to the number of sturts between them.
Word: sturt Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Compare start. Pronunciation: /stɜː(ɹ)t/ 1. disturbance; annoyance; care Labels: Scotland, UK, dialectal, obsolete Example: Lift up your hart and be of gude curage, Sturt in na way your leiknes can asswage 2. A bargain in tribute mining by which the tributor profits.
Word: sturt Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Compare start. Pronunciation: /stɜː(ɹ)t/ 1. To vex; to annoy; to startle. Labels: Scotland, UK, dialectal, obsolete, transitive 2. To start with fear. Labels: Scotland, UK, dialectal, intransitive, obsolete
Word: dijet Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *dwóh₁ Proto-Indo-European *dwi- Proto-Hellenic *dwi- Ancient Greek δῐ- (dĭ-)bor. Latin di-bor. English di- Proto-Indo-European *(H)yeh₁- Proto-Indo-European *-kt Proto-Indo-European *(H)yéh₁kt ~ *(H)ih₁kéntder. Latin iaciō Proto-Indo-European *-tus Proto-Italic *-tus Latin -tus Latin iactus Vulgar Latin *iectus Old French get French jetbor. English jet English dijet From di- + jet. 1. A pair of jets
Word: quatrefoils Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of quatrefoil Labels: form-of, plural
Word: cinquefoil Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Old French cinqfoil, from cinq (“five”) + foil (“leaf”). Pronunciation: /ˈsɪŋk.fɔɪl/, /ˈsɪŋkˌfɔɪl/, /ˈsæŋkˌfɔɪl/ 1. A potentilla (flower). Example: Witches always anointed themselves with ointments before departing up the chimney to their Sabbaths. One such ointment was composed of Aconite, Belladonna, Water Parsley, Cinquefoil and Babies' Fat. 2. A stylized flower or leaf with five lobes. 3. A particular knot of five crossings.
Word: cinquefoils Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of cinquefoil Labels: form-of, plural
Word: sexfoil Part of Speech: noun 1. A stylized flower or leaf with six lobes
Word: sexfoil Part of Speech: adj 1. Having six lobes Labels: not-comparable
Word: sexfoils Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of sexfoil Labels: form-of, plural
Word: cycloparaphenylenes Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of cycloparaphenylene Labels: form-of, plural
Word: echelle Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From French échelle (“ladder”). Doublet of scale. 1. An echelle grating.
Word: echelle grating Part of Speech: noun 1. A form of diffraction grating optimized for high orders of diffraction
Word: echelles Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of echelle Labels: form-of, plural
Word: echelle gratings Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of echelle grating Labels: form-of, plural
Word: eikonal Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Ancient Greek εἰκών (eikṓn, “image”). 1. Describing the properties of a class of partial differential equation encountered in descriptions of wave propagation. Labels: not-comparable
Word: enstrophy Part of Speech: noun 1. A measure of the kinetic energy of a fluid as a result of turbulence. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: frequentist Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From frequent + -ist. 1. An advocate of frequentism.
Word: frequentist Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From frequent + -ist. 1. Of or pertaining to frequentism.
Word: galaxian Part of Speech: adj 1. Of or pertaining to a galaxy Labels: not-comparable
Word: frequentists Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of frequentist Labels: form-of, plural
Word: gentlemans Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of gentleman Labels: form-of, nonstandard, plural Example: A tattered cadie, or errand porter, whom David Deans had jostled in his attempt to extricate himself from the vicinity of the scorners, exclaimed in a strong north-country tone, "Ta de'il ding out her Cameronian een—what gi'es her titles to dunch gentlemans about?" Example: “If he be one gentleman, he may tine wid me: and I vill show to de gentlemans of England, vat de Italian gentlemans are.” 2. genitive of gentleman Labels: form-of, genitive, obsolete Example: No person shall keepe any schoole... except it be in some publike or free Grammer Schoole, or in some such noblemans... or gentlemans... house as are not recusants. Example: VVe may commend / A Gentlemans modeſty, manners, and fine language, / […] / Yet, though he obſerue, and vvaſte his ſtate vpon vs, / If he be ſtanch and bid not for the ſtocke / That vve vvere borne to traffick vvith; the truth is / VVe care not for his company.
Word: ladys Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of lady Labels: form-of, obsolete, plural Example: Yf they ſett men thus to ſcole ⸝ / I trowe they make many a fole ⸝ / Of ladys and gentill wemen. Example: [Nick] Bot[tom]. There are things in this Comedy of Piramus and Thisby, that will neuer pleaſe. Firſt, Piramus muſt draw a ſword to kill himſelfe; which the Ladys cannot abide. How anſwer you that? / [Tom] Snout. Berlaken, a parlous feare. 2. genitive of lady Labels: form-of, genitive, obsolete Example: Our ladys ymage ought to ſtande gylte in a tabernacle apon a baſe of marble. Example: [H]e had ſayd our ladys ſauter euery day wherfoꝛe ſhe gaue hym a lytyll of the oyle. And anone ſe went to another aſkyng hym what he had done foꝛ her ſake which ſayd that he had ſayd .ii ladys ſauters euery day ⸝ wherfoꝛe our lady gaue hym moꝛe of yͤ oytement than ſhe gaue yͤ other.
Word: braneworlds Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of braneworld Labels: form-of, plural
Word: nonmesonic Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From non- + mesonic. 1. Not mesonic. Labels: not-comparable
Word: darkons Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of darkon Labels: form-of, plural
Word: galaxywide Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From galaxy + -wide. Coined by American science fiction author Isaac Asimov in 1940 in the form "galaxy-wide". 1. Throughout a galaxy. Labels: not-comparable Example: I immediately assigned an all-out search, Galaxywide. Example: Critics on both sides of what rapidly became a Galaxywide controversy were forced, however, to acknowledge the magnificent playing of the Student Orchestra and its great technical attainments.
Word: autologin Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From auto- + login. 1. A feature that automatically logs in to a system. Labels: uncountable Example: Use autologin if you don't want to type your password repeatedly.
Word: nonshopping Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From non- + shopping. 1. Not involved in shopping. Labels: not-comparable Example: the nonshopping users of the car park 2. Not of or pertaining to shopping. Labels: not-comparable Example: nonshopping activities
Word: zoosanitary Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From zoo- + sanitary. 1. Pertaining to the cleanliness of animals or animal products. Labels: not-comparable Example: The imported milk was accompanied by a zoosanitary certificate.
Word: Battista Part of Speech: name Etymology: Borrowed from Italian Battista. 1. A surname from Italian.
Word: scolopendra Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Latin scolopendra, from Ancient Greek σκολόπενδρα (skolópendra). 1. A mythical sea-creature, reputed to be able to disgorge its bowels to dislodge any fishing-hook. Labels: obsolete Example: Spring-headed Hydraes, and sea-shouldring Whales, / Great whirlpooles, which all fishes make to flee, / Bright Scolopendraes, arm'd with siluer scales, / Mighty Monoceroses, with immeasured tayles. 2. A centipede of the genus Scolopendra. Example: This led the conversation to the insects of the Crimea and Ukraine, of which I had made a considerable collection, and the Emperor inquired of me if there were scorpions, scolopendras and tarantulas in the Crimea.
Word: nonproletarian Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From non- + proletarian. 1. one who is not a proletarian
Word: nonproletarians Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of nonproletarian Labels: form-of, plural
Word: non-proletarian Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From non- + proletarian. 1. Alternative spelling of nonproletarian. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: non-proletarians Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of non-proletarian Labels: form-of, plural
Word: spitting cobras Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of spitting cobra Labels: form-of, plural
Word: hadrogenesis Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From hadro- + -genesis. 1. hadronization Labels: uncountable 2. The proposed production of other hadrons by mesons or their transmutation into different ones. Labels: uncountable
Word: hypercomplex Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From hyper- + complex. 1. Describing any of several types of higher-dimensional numbers having some characteristics of complex numbers. Labels: not-comparable
Word: hypercomplex Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From hyper- + complex. 1. A hypercomplex number.
Word: hypernuclear Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From hyper- + nuclear. 1. Of or pertaining to a hypernucleus. Labels: not-comparable
Word: kinematical Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From kinematic + -al. 1. kinematic
Word: leptoquark Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From lepto- + quark. 1. Any of a class of hypothetical bosons that would decay into a lepton and a quark.
Word: leptoquarks Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of leptoquark Labels: form-of, plural
Word: bone-idle Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Laziness that penetrates the very bones. Attested 1836. Similar terms (bone-lazy, bone-sore, bone-tired) pre-dated it in The Vocabulary Of East Anglia, 1830, Robert Forby. Compare to the bone. 1. Utterly lazy. Labels: Commonwealth, Ireland, UK, idiomatic, not-comparable Example: For the last three weeks I have been going what you call bone-idle.
Word: S.O.S. Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of SOS. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: red-headed Part of Speech: adj 1. Alternative form of redheaded. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: close ranks Part of Speech: verb 1. To close the spacing between lines (ranks) of troops, as they are deployed across a battlefield, thereby decreasing the depth of the formation as it faces the enemy side. 2. To regroup forces, especially when this involves overlooking differences in order to face a challenge or adverse situation. Often implies making a show of unity, especially to the public. Labels: figuratively 3. To maintain silence and secrecy in the face of some external threat. Labels: figuratively Example: However, the charges that the police closed ranks to protect Godber find a parallel in Wong's hearings. Example: Gendrot describes a “clannish” system that ensures officers close ranks to protect their own, leading to a sense of impunity.
Word: nonstackable Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From non- + stackable. 1. Not stackable Labels: not-comparable
Word: twoheaded Part of Speech: adj 1. Alternative spelling of two-headed. Labels: alt-of, alternative, not-comparable Example: He passed the lofty round tower—the ruined grave of St Senanus, in the centre of the little isle—the mouldering church, on which the eye of the poring antiquary may still discern the sculptured image of the twoheaded monster with which cottage tradition says the Saint sustained so fierce a conflict on landing in the islet... Example: He said that what he found next was that he was dead, and, he did not meet God but a twoheaded devil who condemned him to hell on account of intruding by trampling tractors on the houses of the African villagers.
Word: pretextual Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From pretext + -ual. 1. Having a false, contrived or assumed purpose; characterized by pretense. Example: "If you're accused of profiling or pretextual stops, you can bring your daily logbook to court and document that pulling over motorists for 'stickler' reasons is part of your customary pattern," Remsberg writes, "not a glaring exception conveniently dusted off in the defendant's case."
Word: pretextual Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From pre- + textual. 1. Before the existence of a text. Labels: not-comparable Example: They maintained that while historical critics sought to get behind the text to its pretextual and early textual origins (a “diachronic” approach), literary critics concentrated on the final product, the text as it now stands (a “synchronic” approach).
Word: water meter Part of Speech: noun 1. A device used to measure the volume of water usage. 2. A device used to measure evaporation.
Word: wreck yard Part of Speech: noun 1. The location of a dismantling business where wrecked or decommissioned vehicles are brought, for the recovery of reusable parts and scrap metal.
Word: wrecking yard Part of Speech: noun 1. Synonym of wreck yard.
Word: wrecker's yard Part of Speech: noun 1. Synonym of wreck yard.
Word: salvage yard Part of Speech: noun 1. Synonym of wreck yard.
Word: breaker's yard Part of Speech: noun 1. A place where old or accident-damaged motor vehicles are broken up. 2. A shipyard where shipbreakers break up old ships.