nandhakumarms/qualc-wiktionary-en huggingface dataset:
Word: pizzaman Part of Speech: noun 1. A man who delivers pizzas.
Word: marionberry Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Named for Marion County, Oregon, where it was developed, + berry. 1. A member of the blackberry family, a cross between the Chehalem berry and olallieberry blackberries.
Word: dullsville Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From dull + -s- + -ville, evoking a fictional town. 1. A fictional or generic location that is boring or dull. Labels: uncountable, usually 2. A state or condition of boredom or disinterest. Labels: uncountable, usually Example: With his monotonous routine, he lives in dullsville. Example: Before we began our weekend shapeup, the car looked like this: scratches and dents, broken trim, and a finish that was strictly dullsville.
Word: about to Part of Speech: phrase 1. Indicates something that will happen very soon; indicates action that is imminent; ready to; went to Labels: idiomatic, verb, with-infinitive Example: He's standing at the edge, and I think he's about to jump. Example: She seemed about to say something. 2. Indicates that one has no intention of doing the stated thing at any time in the future. Labels: Canada, informal Example: I'm not about to let the lockdown stop me from going to the beach every day. Example: I'm not about to wander around at night to find it. 3. Indicates that one is preparing or planning to do the stated thing at some time in the future, not necessarily imminently. Labels: obsolete
Word: belly-up Part of Speech: adj 1. Alternative spelling of belly up. Labels: alt-of, alternative, not-comparable
Word: belly up Part of Speech: adj 1. Dead or defunct. Labels: idiomatic, not-comparable Example: After several financial failures, the organization went belly up.
Word: belly up Part of Speech: verb 1. To gather close, or approach eagerly or assertively, as a bar for ordering alcoholic drinks. Labels: idiomatic, intransitive Example: He bellied up to the bar as soon as he saw a free stool. Example: Belly-up to the bar boys and have a drink with me, […] 2. To die; to fail or go out of business. Labels: intransitive 3. To lay on the back with its belly up. Labels: intransitive
Word: go belly-up Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From the tendency of fish to float upside down when they die. 1. To die. Labels: informal 2. To fail or fold; especially, to be closed or shut down, or go out of business. Labels: informal Example: I was sorry to hear that my favorite little restaurant went belly-up.
Word: shut down Part of Speech: verb 1. To close, terminate, or end. Labels: transitive Example: They are planning to shut down the entire building at the end of the month. Example: The time is now, the place the grim industrial city of Shaoyang, China, which has just been informed that its No. 2 Space Rocket Factory is going to shut down. 2. To turn off or stop. Labels: ergative Example: It's a good idea to shut down the machine before you leave. Example: My computer is shutting down as we speak. 3. To stop offering a service, such as a bar. Labels: transitive Example: The bar will start shutting down at two o'clock in the morning. Example: On the breakfast buffet, the waffle area shuts down first. 4. To emotionally withdraw into oneself as a defense mechanism; to block out external stressors. Labels: figuratively, intransitive Example: I can't talk to him about the accident; he just shuts down anytime I try. 5. To suppress, block out, or reject (an idea or an aspect of one's personality or identity). Labels: figuratively, transitive Example: She made a proposal to reorganize the department, but management shut her down. Example: And I learned a lot, and, um, some of it seemed a little bit too interesting? It felt a bit like I uncovered a part of myself that I've been purposefully just shutting down for as long as I can remember and never questioned why. 6. To pass (another vehicle), especially quickly. Labels: slang Example: I opened that throttle and shut him down. Example: Tach it up, tach it up / Buddy gonna shut you down
Word: hissyfit Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Clipping of histrionics. 1. Alternative form of hissy fit. Labels: alt-of, alternative Example: I told him I would be late and he had a hissyfit.
Word: speak up Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /ˌspiːk ˈʌp/, /ˌspik ˈʌp/ 1. To talk more loudly or clearly. Labels: idiomatic Example: Could you speak up? I can't hear you. 2. To make oneself or one's opinions known; to advocate or assert oneself. Labels: idiomatic Example: I feel that somebody has to speak up for those oppressed by the system. Example: Speak up if I'm bothering you.
Word: speak out Part of Speech: verb 1. To assert or promote one's opinion; to make one's thoughts known. Labels: idiomatic Example: You should learn to speak out in meetings with your boss.
Word: keep someone on their toes Part of Speech: verb 1. To keep someone attentive, active, busy or alert. Labels: idiomatic Example: Four-year-old twins will certainly keep you on your toes!
Word: on one's toes Part of Speech: prep_phrase 1. Attentive, active, busy or alert. Labels: idiomatic Example: I keep my students on their toes with pop quizzes.
Word: carry on Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Equivalent to carry onward. Pronunciation: /ˈkæɹi ˈɑn/ 1. To continue or proceed as before. Labels: idiomatic, intransitive Example: I’ll be gone for a few days, but I hope you will carry on in my absence. 2. To continue, maintain or pursue (an activity or enterprise). Labels: idiomatic, transitive Example: to carry on commerce in a market Example: Carry on the good work. 3. To persist, persevere. Labels: idiomatic, intransitive Example: Near-synonyms: keep on, hang in, hang on, keep on keeping on Example: keep calm and carry on 4. To talk continuously or prolongedly (about something), often in an excessively excited way. Labels: idiomatic, intransitive Example: Near-synonym: go on Example: He’s always carrying on about his stupid aquarium. 5. To act or behave; especially, to misbehave so as to attract attention; to make a fuss; to behave ostentatiously. Labels: idiomatic, intransitive Example: I really wish you wouldn't carry on like that in public! Example: I could hear some protestors hollering, but I wasn't close enough to make out what was happening. What were they carrying on about? 6. To have an illicit sexual or flirtatious relationship. Labels: idiomatic, intransitive Example: I thought he was my friend, but all the time he was carrying on with my wife!
Word: carry on Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Equivalent to carry onto. Pronunciation: /ˈkæɹi ˈɑn/ 1. To take baggage or luggage onto an airplane, rather than check it. Labels: idiomatic, intransitive, transitive Example: You may only carry on items that are smaller than a certain size. Example: You may carry them on if they fit within the limits.
Word: carry on Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Equivalent to carry onto. Pronunciation: /ˈkæɹi ˈɑn/ 1. alternative spelling of carry-on Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: carry-on Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Deverbal from carry on. 1. Taken onto an airplane (or a ferry, etc.) with a passenger, rather than checked. Labels: not-comparable Example: It's a compact suitcase, but it makes a good carry-on bag.
Word: carry-on Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Deverbal from carry on. 1. That luggage or baggage which is taken onto an airplane (or a ferry, etc.) with a passenger, rather than checked. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Do you think they'll accept my ski poles as carry-on? 2. That luggage or baggage which is taken onto an airplane (or a ferry, etc.) with a passenger, rather than checked. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: "THAT'S NOT MY CARRY-ON, THOSE WOULD NEVER GET THROUGH SECURITY. ALSO YOU'RE GROUNDED" 3. A palaver; a disorderly or absurd situation. Labels: New-Zealand, UK, countable Example: Sometimes all this carry-on about race, religion and sex seems so petty and silly that I cannot take it seriously. Example: "I love salad",she dared when it came to the next course, and then inwardly cringed when it seemed that that was actually a special order and there was such a carry-on about what kind of salad she wanted.
Word: polemology Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Ancient Greek πόλεμος (pólemos, “war; battle”) + -logy (suffix indicating the study of a particular subject). The word is cognate with French polémologie. By surface analysis, polemo- + -log + -y. Pronunciation: /ˌpɒləˈmɒləd͡ʒi/, /ˌpɑləˈmɑləd͡ʒi/ 1. The study of human conflict and war. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: POLEMOLOGY. The Principles of War exhibited in the Practice of the Camp, and as developed in a Series of General Orders of the Duke of Wellington; with parallel Orders of George II. Duke of Marlborough, &c. &c. 8vo. Example: [I]f all the sciences were similarly subdivided, all use in classification would be lost by the multiplicity of the sciences; […] The Destructive, as well as the Industrial, instinct in Man would claim a separate science; and we should have a Polemology or Polemonomy, and about 10,000 other sciences.
Word: placeholder Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English place Proto-Germanic *haldaną Proto-West Germanic *haldan Old English healdan Middle English holden English hold Proto-Indo-European *-yósder. Proto-Italic *-āzios Latin -āriusnom. Latin -āriusbor. Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz Proto-West Germanic *-ārī Old English -ere Middle English -ere English -er English holder English placeholder From place + holder. Pronunciation: /ˈpleɪsˌhoʊldɚ/ 1. Something used or included temporarily or as a substitute for something that is not known or must remain generic; that which holds, denotes or reserves a place for something to come later. Example: This data is a placeholder, so you'll want to include the real numbers as soon as you have them. Example: As the years go by, speech reverts to childhood levels of disfluency, with more pauses, more errors, more repeated words, but even the peak years are not great: up to 8 percent of the average person’s word output consists of meaningless fillers and placeholders like um, uh and er. 2. A non-editable caption initially displayed in a blank text box to indicate its function.
Word: denotes Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /dɪˈnoʊts/, /dɪˈnəʊts/ 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of denote Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: reserves Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ɹɪˈzɝvz/, /ɹɪˈzɜːvz/ 1. plural of reserve Labels: form-of, plural
Word: reserves Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /ɹɪˈzɝvz/, /ɹɪˈzɜːvz/ 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of reserve Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: problem child Part of Speech: noun 1. A child who is particularly difficult to raise or educate, especially due to a lack of self-control and disruptive and antisocial behavior. Labels: euphemistic Example: Of recent times very much has been said regarding the problem child, but as Lady Stradbroke pointed out last week but little is being done to cope with the menace that child is to itself and to the community. Example: Hill was a problem child who was sent to Woodlands because his parents couldn't handle him at home. 2. Someone or something persistently difficult or vexing; a frequent source of trouble or annoyance. Labels: broadly, idiomatic Example: [A]n ambitious supersonic carrier fighter called the F3H Demon . . . proved too heavy for its Navy-specified Westinghouse engine (in itself a problem child), and turned into a $265 million fiasco. Example: Locally and across the nation, middle schools have generally been regarded as the problem child for school systems.
Word: poster child Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From the usage of appealing young people and children in charitable advertisements. 1. One who is a prototypical or quintessential example of something. Labels: Canada, US, idiomatic Example: He's a poster child for militant vegetarianism. Example: I think he smile could have opened the door by itself. It seemed to have a life of it’s^([sic]) own with snow-white teeth below sparkling blue eyes. Its owner could be the poster child for the expression “grinning from ear to ear.”
Word: poster boy Part of Speech: noun 1. A male exemplar of some trait. Labels: idiomatic
Word: poster girl Part of Speech: noun 1. A female exemplar of some trait. Labels: idiomatic
Word: the pits Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Theorized to be a shortened form of armpits, i.e., somewhere or something unpleasant or undesirable. First use appears c. 1953. See cite below. 1. Something miserable or unpleasant. Labels: plural, plural-only, slang Example: This whole experience has been the pits. Example: A bad exam experience would be ‘I'm wasted’ at Howard,..‘It was the pits’ at Vassar.
Word: let slip Part of Speech: verb 1. To divulge a secret, as by accident or mistake. Labels: idiomatic, transitive Example: It was let slip that they were planning to take over the business. Example: The frizzle-headed man-eaters were loath to leave their fleshpots so long as the harvest of human carcases was plentiful. Sometimes, when the harvest was too plentiful, they imposed on the missionaries by letting the word slip out that on such a day there would be a killing and a barbecue. 2. To let fly; to attack or challenge someone. Labels: UK, obsolete, slang Example: I would take it kind of your worship to let me be present at his examination, that if he clear himself of one murder I may let slip at him with the other.
Word: keep one's lips sealed Part of Speech: verb 1. To keep quiet; to keep a secret; to not tell. Labels: idiomatic Example: You can certainly trust me to keep my lips sealed about the matter.
Word: one's lips are sealed Part of Speech: phrase 1. One will not tell anyone else; one is keeping a secret. Labels: idiomatic Example: You're talking a lot / But you're not saying anything / When I have nothing to say / My lips are sealed
Word: air pollution Part of Speech: noun 1. The contamination of the atmosphere by noxious gases and particulates. Labels: uncountable
Word: gases Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ˈɡæsɪz/, /ˈɡæzɪz/ 1. plural of gas Labels: form-of, plural
Word: gases Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /ˈɡæsɪz/, /ˈɡæzɪz/ 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of gas Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: Kuroshio Part of Speech: name Etymology: Borrowed from the romaji transcription of Japanese 黒潮 (Kuroshio, “Black Tide”). Pronunciation: /ˌkʊəɹəʊˈʃiːəʊ/ 1. The oceanic current forming the swift, warm, northward-flowing western quarter of the North Pacific Gyre. Labels: usually Example: Between Fatsisio and Mikura a current to the eastward is marked, called the Kuro Siwo Stream. Example: Still less must we forget the mighty river in the sea—the Kuroshio, or “Black Current”—which, flowing northwards from the direction of Formosa and the Philippine Islands, warms the southern and south-eastern coasts of Japan much as the Gulf Stream warms the coasts of western Europe.
Word: kyanite Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Ancient Greek κυανός (kuanós, “blue”) + -ite. 1. A blue neosilicate mineral, Al₂SiO₅, found in metamorphic rocks. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: neosilicate Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *nu Proto-Indo-European *néwos Proto-Hellenic *néwos Ancient Greek νέος (néos) Ancient Greek νεο- (neo-)der. English neo- English silicate English neosilicate From neo- + silicate. 1. any simple silicate mineral in which the SiO₄ tetrahedra are isolated and have metal ions as neighbours Labels: uncountable
Word: tetrahedra Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of tetrahedron Labels: form-of, plural
Word: crawler Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From crawl (“to move slowly, by dragging the body along the ground”) + -er. 1. A child who is able to creep using its hands and knees but is not able to walk. 2. A crawl swimmer. 3. A tractor crawler, a motorized vehicle that uses caterpillar tracks instead of wheels. 4. A software bot that autonomously follows connected paths such as links between web pages. Labels: Internet Example: Crawler-based search engines have three major elements. The first is the spider, also called the crawler, which visits a web page, reads it, and then follows links to other pages within the site. Example: These serve as an algorithmic way to judge the “mobileness” of a site, and similar algorithms are likely to be used by the search crawlers. 5. A mobile stage in the development of stationary hemipteran insects such as scale insects—generally the first instar. 6. A cab that is driven slowly along while its driver looks out for a fare. Labels: UK, obsolete, slang 7. Synonym of crawler crane.
Word: crawler Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From crawl (“to act in a servile manner”) + -er. From the Australian convict period (1788–1850); a prisoner who was purposely and extensively abused by an overseer (also a convict) and thereby driven to escape but who, finding it impossible to survive in the Australian bush, surrenders to this overseer, who would then have his penal term reduced. The particular crawler was picked for his weak personality and might escape and return a number of times increasing his own penal term each time. According to James Tucker, some convict overseers had their sentences extensively reduced using this odious practice. 1. A person who is abused, physically or verbally, and returns to the abuser a supplicant. Labels: Australia, obsolete 2. A sycophant. Labels: Australia, UK, slang
Word: lactam Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Latin lacder. English lacto- German Ketonbor. English ketone English -one English lac(tone) Egyptian jmnbor. Ancient Greek Ᾰ̓́μμων (Ắmmōn)bor. Latin Ammōn Latin ammoniacusder. English ammonia Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁-der. Proto-Italic *-iðos Latin -idusder. English -ide English am(ide) English lactam From lac(tone) + am(ide). Pronunciation: /ˈlækˌtæm/ 1. Any of a class of cyclic amides that are the nitrogen analogs of lactones, formed by heating amino acids; the tautomeric enol forms are known as lactims.
Word: lactim Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From lactam and imide. 1. Any of a class of cyclic hydroxy-imides (enols) that are tautomeric with the lactams.
Word: tautomeric Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From tautomer + -ic. 1. Of, relating to, formed or characterized by tautomerism.
Word: imide Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Egyptian jmnbor. Ancient Greek Ᾰ̓́μμων (Ắmmōn)bor. Latin Ammōn Latin ammoniacusder. English ammonia Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁-der. Proto-Italic *-iðos Latin -idusder. English -ide English amide English imide Alteration of amide. Pronunciation: /ˈɪmaɪd/ 1. a form of amide in which the nitrogen atom is attached to two carbonyl groups - R₁CONHCOR₂ 2. the anion NH²⁻
Word: lactone Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Latin lacder. English lacto- German Ketonbor. English ketone English -one English lactone From lacto- + -one. Pronunciation: /ˈlæktəʊn/ 1. A cyclic intramolecular ester derived from a hydroxy acid.
Word: hydroxy acid Part of Speech: noun 1. a carboxylic acid that also contains a hydroxy group
Word: alpha-hydroxy acid Part of Speech: noun 1. Any hydroxy acid, of general formula RCH(OH)COOH, used in the cosmetic industry for their supposed property of reducing wrinkles.
Word: glycolic acid Part of Speech: noun 1. the simplest alpha-hydroxy acid, hydroxy-acetic acid, found in sugar cane and unripe grapes; used in cosmetics etc Labels: uncountable
Word: lactide Part of Speech: noun 1. Any of a class of heterocyclic compounds, formally acid anhydrides, formed by heating α-lactones 2. The anhydride of lactic acid
Word: Lagrange's equations Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Joseph Louis Lagrange, French mathematician and astronomer. 1. A set of equations of motion of a mechanical system which relate the kinetic energy of the system to its generalized coordinates. Labels: plural, plural-only
Word: Lagrangian function Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Joseph Louis Lagrange, French mathematician and astronomer. 1. A function of the generalized coordinates and velocities of a dynamic system from which Lagrange's equations may be derived.
Word: Lagrangian Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree English Lagrange Proto-Indo-European *-nós Proto-Italic *-nos Latin -nus Latin -ānus Latin -iānusbor. English -ian English Lagrangian From Lagrange + -ian. Pronunciation: /ləˈɡɹɑ(ː)nd͡ʒi.ən/, /ləˈɡɹeɪnd͡ʒi.ən/, /læˈɡɹɑ̃ʒi.ən/ 1. Of or relating to Joseph Louis Lagrange. Labels: not-comparable Example: After studying a recursive formulation and the associated Bellman equation, in section 5.5 we analyze a Lagrangian formulation that provides useful insights about how Lagrange multipliers on transition laws relate to gradients of value functions. 2. Relating to Lagrangian mechanics. Labels: not-comparable 3. Of or relating to a Lagrange point. Labels: not-comparable
Word: Lagrangian Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English Lagrange Proto-Indo-European *-nós Proto-Italic *-nos Latin -nus Latin -ānus Latin -iānusbor. English -ian English Lagrangian From Lagrange + -ian. Pronunciation: /ləˈɡɹɑ(ː)nd͡ʒi.ən/, /ləˈɡɹeɪnd͡ʒi.ən/, /læˈɡɹɑ̃ʒi.ən/ 1. Ellipsis of Lagrangian function. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis 2. A function summarizing the dynamics of a physical system, typically in non-relativistic contexts amounting to the kinetic energy minus the potential energy, L=T-V. Labels: specifically 3. An object residing in a Lagrange point. 4. Ellipsis of Lagrangian point, a Lagrange point. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis 5. Ellipsis of Lagrangian density. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis
Word: navigable Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle French navigable, from Latin navigabilis. Pronunciation: /ˈnævɪɡəbəl/ 1. Capable of being navigated; deep enough and wide enough to afford passage to vessels. Example: Shanghai is situated on this river, about twelve miles above Woosung; and the river is navigable for steam-boats forty-seven miles higher up—to the point where it issues from the small lake on the south of the canal. Chapoo, the town taken by the British immediately before the attack upon Woosung, is on the north side of the gulf of Che-kiang, about midway between its north cape and its innermost recess. Shanghai is the great emporium of the trade of this district with the tea-provinces on the South, with the province of Shantung and the coast of the Mantchoo Tartars on the North. Example: [...] on July 16, 1790, a public meeting [...] unanimously approved of a scheme for making the River Soar navigable from Leicester to Loughborough, and "a cut or rail-way from Swannington and the neighbourhood to the bason at Loughborough." 2. Seaworthy; in a navigable state; steerable. 3. Steerable, dirigible. 4. Easy to navigate. Example: This Web site isn't very navigable. I can't tell which image links to which page.
Word: laminar flow Part of Speech: noun 1. A smooth, streamline type of viscous flow in which the fluid behaves as a system of orderly layers, with no eddies or irregular fluctuations.
Word: eddies Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of eddy Labels: form-of, plural
Word: eddies Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of eddy Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: turbulent flow Part of Speech: noun 1. A form of irregular viscous flow in which the velocity and pressure of the fluid fluctuates at random in both time and space,
Word: landing gear Part of Speech: noun 1. The wheels, tyres, brakes, shock absorbers etc of an aircraft. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Modern landing gear usually has a tricycle configuration. Example: Boeing had a problem of too much landing gear 2. Any of the assemblies which support an aircraft when it is on the ground. Labels: countable Example: Large modern commercial aircraft have a nose landing gear and two main landing gears. 3. The bipod stand found near the front end underneath a truck trailer, used to keep the trailer level when not attached to a tractor truck. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: Langevin function Part of Speech: noun Etymology: After Paul Langevin, French physicist. 1. a mathematical function that describes the behaviour of paramagnetic materials and the dielectric properties of insulators
Word: dielectric Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From dia- (“through”) + electric. Learned 19th-century formation, coined by William Whewell (died 1866). Pronunciation: /ˌdaɪ.ɪˈlɛk.tɹɪk/, /ˌdaɪ.əˈlɛk.tɹɪk/ 1. An electrically insulating or nonconducting material considered for its electric susceptibility, i.e. its property of polarization when exposed to an external electric field.
Word: dielectric Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From dia- (“through”) + electric. Learned 19th-century formation, coined by William Whewell (died 1866). Pronunciation: /ˌdaɪ.ɪˈlɛk.tɹɪk/, /ˌdaɪ.əˈlɛk.tɹɪk/ 1. insulating
Word: nonconductor Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From non- + conductor. 1. any material that does not conduct electricity; a dielectric Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: Langmuir circulation Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Irving Langmuir, American chemist and physicist. 1. a form of cylindrical motion found in the near-surface waters of lakes and oceans under windy conditions, characterized by lines or streaks of seaweed etc (called windrows) roughly parallel to the wind Labels: uncountable
Word: windrow Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From wind + row. Pronunciation: /ˈwɪnd.ɹəʊ/ 1. A row of cut grain or hay allowed to dry in a field. 2. A line of leaves etc heaped up by the wind. 3. A similar streak of seaweed etc on the surface of the sea formed by Langmuir circulation. 4. A line of gravel left behind by the edge of a grader’s blade. 5. A line of gravel left behind by the edge of a grader’s blade. Labels: broadly 6. A line of snow left behind by the edge of a snowplow’s blade. Labels: Canada 7. A line of snow left behind by the edge of a snowplow’s blade. Labels: Canada, broadly 8. The green border of a field, dug up in order to carry the earth onto other land to improve it. Labels: UK
Word: windrow Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From wind + row. Pronunciation: /ˈwɪnd.ɹəʊ/ 1. To arrange (e.g. new-made hay) in lines or windrows. Labels: transitive Example: This cool spell favored the cane shipped to some extent, for if the weather had remained as warm for three or four days as it was Friday, all the cane that was windrowed after the freeze would have been lost and much of it that was windrowed before the freeze would have met a like fate. Example: Threshing a previously windrowed swath (windrowing) or cutting and threshing the crop in one operation (direct heading) are the common methods of harvesting oilseed rape.
Word: frog legs Part of Speech: noun 1. The hind legs of a frog used as food. Labels: plural, plural-only
Word: lanthanide contraction Part of Speech: noun 1. the progressive decrease in the radii of atoms of the lanthanide elements as the atomic number increases; evident in various physical properties of the elements and their compounds
Word: Larmor precession Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Joseph Larmor, Irish physicist. 1. The precession of the motion of charged particles, or particles having a magnetic moment, in a magnetic field. Labels: uncountable
Word: magnetic moment Part of Speech: noun 1. The torque exerted on a magnet within a magnetic field; a vector, being the product of the strength of the magnet and the distance between its poles.
Word: larnite Part of Speech: noun 1. a polymorph of calcium silicate, Ca₂SiO₄, found in limestone or chalk in contact with semimolten basalts
Word: polymorph Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From poly- + -morph. 1. Any organism that shows polymorphism. 2. Any substance or mineral that forms different types of crystal. 3. The transformation of an item or creature into something different by magic.
Word: polymorph Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From poly- + -morph. 1. To transform; to change into another form. Labels: intransitive 2. To transform into something different by magic. Labels: ambitransitive Example: I got hemmed in by the werewolf again and, in desperation, tried an experimental new wand on it; and polymorphed it into a black pudding.
Word: interactive Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₁én Proto-Indo-European *h₁entér Proto-Italic *n̥ter Latin inter Latin inter-bor. English inter- Proto-Indo-European *h₂eǵ- Proto-Indo-European *-eti Proto-Indo-European *h₂éǵeti Proto-Italic *agō Latin agō Proto-Indo-European *-wós Proto-Indo-European *-iHwósder. Latin -īvus ▲ Ancient Greek ἐνεργητῐκός (energētĭkós)sl. Latin āctīvusbor. Old French actifbor. Middle English actyf English active English interactive From inter- + active. Pronunciation: /ˌɪn.təˈɹæk.tɪv/, /ˌɪn.tɚˈæk.tɪv/ 1. Interacting with or communicating with and reacting to each other; influencing or having an effect on each other; acting or capable of acting on each other or with the other. Example: interactive teaching methods Example: two interactive systems 2. Offering or involving interaction with the user. Example: an interactive digital map with zoom and pan features
Word: interactive Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₁én Proto-Indo-European *h₁entér Proto-Italic *n̥ter Latin inter Latin inter-bor. English inter- Proto-Indo-European *h₂eǵ- Proto-Indo-European *-eti Proto-Indo-European *h₂éǵeti Proto-Italic *agō Latin agō Proto-Indo-European *-wós Proto-Indo-European *-iHwósder. Latin -īvus ▲ Ancient Greek ἐνεργητῐκός (energētĭkós)sl. Latin āctīvusbor. Old French actifbor. Middle English actyf English active English interactive From inter- + active. Pronunciation: /ˌɪn.təˈɹæk.tɪv/, /ˌɪn.tɚˈæk.tɪv/ 1. A feature (as in a museum) that can be interacted with. Example: The show includes computer interactives, animation, models and live parakeets (for an exercise in species identification).
Word: inhumane Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Originally a variant spelling and pronunciation of inhuman, ultimately from Latin inhūmānus; it appears to have died out 17c. but returned c. 1822, probably a reformation as a negative of humane from in- + humane. Pronunciation: /ˌɪnhjuːˈmeɪn/ 1. Alternative form of inhuman: lacking pity or compassion for misery and suffering; cruel, unkind. Labels: alt-of, alternative Example: Herein thou haſt done good ſeruice to thy country: VVere all inhumaine ſlaues ſo ſerued as he, England would be ciuill, and from all ſuch dealings free. Example: But the ruthless cleaning up of those streets and merciless treatment of gang members have triggered outrage and concern among human rights organizations, which have condemned Cecot as inhumane and unacceptable.
Word: importer Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English import Proto-Indo-European *-yósder. Proto-Italic *-āzios Latin -āriusnom. Latin -āriusbor. Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz Proto-West Germanic *-ārī Old English -ere Middle English -ere English -er English importer From import + -er. Pronunciation: /ɪmˈpɔː(ɹ)tə(ɹ)/ 1. One who, or that which, imports: especially a person or company importing goods into a country. Example: India is the world's biggest importer of gold. Example: The data importer has crashed. Did we receive a corrupted file?
Word: laser cooling Part of Speech: noun 1. the process of using the force exerted by a laser to reduce the temperature of a gas, or the spread of velocities of a beam of atoms Labels: uncountable
Word: hyperventilate Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *úp Proto-Indo-European *-er Proto-Indo-European *upér Proto-Hellenic *hupér Ancient Greek ῠ̔πέρ (hŭpér) Ancient Greek ῠ̔περ- (hŭper-)der. English hyper- English ventilate English hyperventilate From hyper- + ventilate. 1. To breathe quickly and deeply, especially at an abnormally rapid rate. Labels: intransitive Example: When I tried it, I hyperventilated. Example: Sometimes her prose hyperventilates ("Once, years ago, his and N.'s love for each other had glowed like phosphorescent fire on the surfaces of their bodies"), and she has a weakness for epiphanies ("There was a man, no longer young, though not yet old, who, traveling alone in northern Europe, began to feel that his soul was being drained slowly, almost secretly from him, drop by drop").
Word: launch complex Part of Speech: noun 1. The facilities and support equipment needed to assemble, test and launch a rocket-powered vehicle
Word: grog Part of Speech: noun Etymology: An allusion to Admiral Edward Vernon (nicknamed “Old Grog” after the grogram coat he habitually wore), who in 1740 ordered his sailors' rum to be watered down. Alternatively, from Old Catalan grog or groch, modern groc, meaning "yellow" (ultimately from Latin crocum (“saffron”); after the name of the resulting color of the watered down rum sold all over the Mediterranean. The ration of rum tot could also come from Catalan tot meaning "full", "whole". Pronunciation: /ɡɹɒɡ/, /ɡɹɑɡ/, /ɡɹɔɡ/ 1. An alcoholic beverage made with rum and water, especially that once issued to sailors of the Royal Navy. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: […] giving him a calebash, and the best part of a bottle of my rum, I desired him to run to the creek, and make me some grog, and this he did; but the poor fellow, never having made grog before, poured in all the spirits and but very little water, doubtless thinking, that the stronger it was the better; which beverage I swallowed to the bottom, without taking time to taste it, and I became instantly so much intoxicated that I could hardly keep my feet. 2. An alcoholic beverage made with rum and water, especially that once issued to sailors of the Royal Navy. Labels: countable, uncountable 3. Any alcoholic beverage. Labels: Australia, New-Zealand, broadly, countable, uncountable Example: I quite understood their drift, and after a stiff glass of grog, or rather more of the same, and with each a sovereign in hand, they made light of the attack, and swore they would encounter a worse madman any day for the pleasure of meeting so 'bloomin' good a bloke' as your correspondent. 4. A glass or serving of an alcoholic beverage. Labels: Australia, New-Zealand, countable Example: 1950, Nevil Shute, A Town Like Alice [The Legacy], New York: William Morrow, Chapter 5, p. 138, Joe […] told them how he had been nailed up to be beaten, and they shouted another grog for him. 5. A type of pre-fired clay that has been ground and screened to a specific particle size. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: grog Part of Speech: verb Etymology: An allusion to Admiral Edward Vernon (nicknamed “Old Grog” after the grogram coat he habitually wore), who in 1740 ordered his sailors' rum to be watered down. Alternatively, from Old Catalan grog or groch, modern groc, meaning "yellow" (ultimately from Latin crocum (“saffron”); after the name of the resulting color of the watered down rum sold all over the Mediterranean. The ration of rum tot could also come from Catalan tot meaning "full", "whole". Pronunciation: /ɡɹɒɡ/, /ɡɹɑɡ/, /ɡɹɔɡ/ 1. To grind and screen (clay) to a specific particle size. Labels: transitive 2. To drink alcohol. Labels: intransitive, slang Example: […] a practice of “equal surrender.” This evocative phrase comes from Basil Sansom's ethnography […] of grogging sessions among Aboriginal communities in Darwin. Sansom argues that this style of communal drinking […]
Word: garçon Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From French garçon m (1788), from Old French garçon, oblique case of gars (“servant”), from Medieval Latin garciō m, from Frankish *wrakkjō (“servant, boy”), from Proto-Germanic *wrakjô (“exile, driven one”), from Proto-Indo-European *wreg- (“to drive”). Cognate with Old High German wrecheo, recko (“exile, warrior, hero”) (Modern German Recke), Old Saxon wrekkio (“a banished person, exile, stranger”), Old English wreċċa (“a wretch, stranger, exile”), and perhaps to Old Norse rekkr (“man, warrior, hero”). More at wretch, wreak. Pronunciation: /ɡɑː(ɹ)ˈsɒn/, /ɡɑː(ɹ)ˈsɒ̃/ 1. A male waiter (especially at a French restaurant).
Word: fattening Part of Speech: adj Pronunciation: /ˈfæt(ə)nɪŋ/, [ˈfæˀ(ə)nɪŋ] 1. That causes weight gain; often of high calorie food with relatively little nutritive value. Example: I'd really love to lose weight, the trouble is, tasty desserts with stuff like whipped cream are so fattening.
Word: fattening Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ˈfæt(ə)nɪŋ/, [ˈfæˀ(ə)nɪŋ] 1. The act of making something fatter, particularly in reference or allusion to livestock. 2. The act of becoming fatter.
Word: fattening Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /ˈfæt(ə)nɪŋ/, [ˈfæˀ(ə)nɪŋ] 1. present participle and gerund of fatten Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present Example: ‘Yer great puddin’ of a son don’ need fattenin’ any more, Dursley, don’ worry.’
Word: enamored Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Inherited from Middle English enamoured, a partial calque of Old French enamore, past participle of enamorer, enamourer; compare amour and enamor, enamour. Pronunciation: /ɪˈnæməɹd/ 1. In love, amorous. Example: She's enamored of [or with] her new boyfriend. Example: During the 1980s, its vivid streetlife became a symbol of the “consumer socialism” that distinguished Hungary from other Eastern Bloc states, but Budapesters today are rather less enamoured of Váci: dressed-to-kill babes and their sugar daddies would rather pose in malls, and teenagers can find McDonald's anywhere, leaving Váci utterly dependent on tourists for its livelihood and bustle.
Word: enamored Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Inherited from Middle English enamoured, a partial calque of Old French enamore, past participle of enamorer, enamourer; compare amour and enamor, enamour. Pronunciation: /ɪˈnæməɹd/ 1. simple past and past participle of enamor Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: profilometry Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English profile Ancient Greek -ο- (-o-)der. Latin -o-bor. English -o- Ancient Greek -μετρία (-metría)der. Latin -metriader. Old French -métrieder. English -metry English profilometry From profile + -o- + -metry. 1. The use of a technique in the measurement and profiling of an object. Labels: countable, uncountable 2. The methodology of performing eddy current profiling of tubing. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: The profilometry of the tubing was conducted directly following the eddy current exam. 3. The technique in which a diamond stylus, in contact with a sample, measures surface variations as a function of position. Labels: countable, uncountable 4. The use of a laser or white-light, computer-generated projections to perform surface measurements of three dimensional objects. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Surface profilometry was used to measure the film thickness.
Word: eeny Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Possibly from teeny weeny. 1. minuscule Labels: informal, not-comparable Example: Can you put an eeny bit of mustard on my hot dog? Example: Then they would go back to the gang house—Woody named it the Eeny House because it was so small [...].
Word: eeny Part of Speech: adj 1. Holey, cellular. Labels: UK, dialectal, not-comparable
Word: eeny Part of Speech: adj 1. Pronunciation spelling of any. Labels: alt-of, not-comparable, pronunciation-spelling
Word: eeny Part of Speech: adv 1. With most, almost Labels: dialectal, not-comparable Example: He eeny most had enough to eat. 2. Only Labels: dialectal, not-comparable Example: He's eeny just come home.
Word: dropout Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Deverbal from drop out. 1. Someone who has left an educational institution without completing the course Labels: countable, uncountable Example: The politicians of the world are mere political university dropouts. 2. Someone who has opted out of conventional society. Labels: countable, uncountable 3. One who suddenly leaves anything, or the act of doing so. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: The pastures are filled with gay political drop-outs, persons of reasonable intent who found the scene personally destructive. Example: To avoid excessive dropouts from the study, we wouldn't employ a single tutored group and a single control group that received no instruction at all. 4. The slot in the frame that accepts the axles of the wheels. Labels: countable, uncountable 5. A damaged portion of a tape or disk, causing a brief omission of audio, video, or data. Labels: countable, uncountable 6. Momentary loss of an electronic signal. Labels: countable, uncountable 7. A technique for regularizing a neural network by discarding a random subset of its units. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: major-domo Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of majordomo: chief servant of a large house; a similar position in other contexts. Labels: alt-of, alternative Example: As the other persons in the Castle, on whom such tasks were delegated, readily imitated the prudential conduct of the major-domo, there was little controul used towards Roland Græme, who, of course, learned no more than what a very active mind, and a total impatience of absolute idleness, led him to acquire upon his own account, and by dint of his own exertions.
Word: major domo Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of majordomo: chief servant of a large house; similar positions in other contexts. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: dialysis Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Latin dialysis, from Ancient Greek διάλυσις (diálusis). By surface analysis, dia- + -lysis. First use appears c. 1550. Pronunciation: /daɪˈælɪsɪs/ 1. A method of separating molecules or particles of different sizes by differential diffusion through a semipermeable membrane. Labels: countable, uncountable 2. The use of this method for the removal of waste products from the blood in the case of kidney failure: hemodialysis or peritoneal dialysis. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: An artificial kidney these days still means a refrigerator-sized dialysis machine. Such devices mimic the way real kidneys cleanse blood and eject impurities and surplus water as urine. 3. The spelling out of alternatives, or presenting of either-or arguments that lead to a conclusion. Labels: countable, rhetoric, uncountable 4. asyndeton. Labels: countable, rhetoric, uncountable
Word: cruddy Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English cruddi, equivalent to crud + -y. Pronunciation: /ˈkɹʌdi/ 1. Full of crud. Labels: slang 2. Crummy, lousy, worthless. Labels: slang Example: Because I didn't study for my test, I feel like I'm gonna make a pretty cruddy grade. 3. Annoying, irritating. Labels: slang Example: Some children's cartoons sure have cruddy theme songs. 4. Coagulated. Labels: obsolete Example: His cruell wounds with cruddy blood congeal'd.
Word: cocksuckers Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of cocksucker Labels: form-of, plural, vulgar
Word: boozing Part of Speech: noun 1. The act of drinking alcohol heavily. Labels: colloquial, countable, uncountable Example: "So kindly keep the vainglorious enumeration of your pots for the benefit of those village idiots who compose your particular set of boozing companions." Example: Men, bearded, hirsute, sat dolefully at the bar, eyes translucent from diurnal boozings.
Word: boozing Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of booze Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: mastic Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English mastik, from Old French mastic, from Latin mastiche, from Ancient Greek μαστίχη (mastíkhē), from μαστιχάω (mastikháō, “to chew”) (note the chewing gum sense). Related to masticate. The broad sense for cements came via extension from predecessor cements made with the tree's resin. Doublet of mastika. Pronunciation: /ˈmæstɪk/ 1. An evergreen shrub or small tree, Pistacia lentiscus (mastic tree), native to the Mediterranean. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: The island of Scio is now called by the Greeks Kio [Χιο], the antient Greek name of it was Chios [Χιος]; it was first called Ætalia in very antient times, and also Mastic, on account of the great number of mastic trees that were in this island. 2. A hard, brittle, aromatic and transparent resin produced by this tree and used to make varnishes and chewing gum, and as a flavouring. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: The mastic, of which the people of Scio gather every year an incredible quantity, is a very rich gum, made use of in medicines, which distils from a shrub called, in Latin, Lentiscus. Example: Having taken upon me to order the repast, and knowing that Lord Byron, for the last two days, had done nothing towards sustenance, beyond eating a few biscuits and (to appease appetite) chewing mastic, I desired that we should have a good supply of, at least, two kinds of fish. 3. An alcoholic liquor flavoured with this resin. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: He took a list from the desk and read aloud Fatima’s offerings:— […] four bottles of rare mastic from Scio. 4. Any of various cements, usually flexible and waterproof, used as an adhesive, sealant, caulk, or filler. Labels: Commonwealth, English, countable, especially, uncountable Example: ‘They have a few holes here and there. A few. Tiny tiny.’ ‘We could fix those up easy. Mastic cement. Not expensive, boss.’
Word: blockage Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English block Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-tós Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂tos Proto-Italic *-ātos Latin -ātus Proto-Indo-European *-ikos Proto-Italic *-ikos Latin -icus Latin -āticus Latin -āticum Old French -agebor. Middle English -age English -age English blockage From block + -age. Pronunciation: /ˈblɒkɪd͡ʒ/, [ˈblɒkɪd͡ʒ], /ˈblɑkɪd͡ʒ/, [ˈblɑkɪd͡ʒ], /ˈblɔkɪd͡ʒ/ 1. The state or condition of being blocked. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Only when one has seen a Control Office at first-hand does one realise the vast amount of unsparing but largely unsung work that is behind the eventual publication, perhaps, of a paragraph in this journal's "Motive Power Miscellany" recording the appearance, within hours of the complete blockage of a main line, of many of its trains, passenger and freight, on routes quite foreign to them; and of effective emergency services either side of the disaster area. 2. The thing that is the cause of such a state, blocking a passage. Labels: countable Example: There was a blockage in the sewer, so we called out the plumber. 3. Occlusion of a lumen (especially that of a blood vessel or intestine), or the thing that is causing it; as: Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Blockage of circulation quickly leads to ischemia. Example: In selected cases, endovascular thrombectomy can quickly remove a blockage that pharmaceutical thrombolysis can't budge. 4. Occlusion of a lumen (especially that of a blood vessel or intestine), or the thing that is causing it; as: Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: barstool Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of bar stool. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: geronimo Part of Speech: intj Etymology: Various theories; see Wikipedia. In any case, likely ultimately from the name of Geronimo the Apache. Originally used by American paratroopers. Pronunciation: /d͡ʒəˈɹɑnɪmoʊ/, /d͡ʒəˈɹɒnɪməʊ/ 1. A cry before jumping out of or into something. Example: Geronimo, motherfucker!
Word: interior angle Part of Speech: noun 1. The inner angle between two sides of a polygon.