nandhakumarms/qualc-wiktionary-en huggingface dataset:
Word: Jasmin Part of Speech: name Etymology: A variant of Jasmine. 1. A female given name from Persian. Example: He replied, what I mean is not the jasmine that people smell; but a slave girl whose name is Jasmin, whom my father would not buy for me.
Word: Jazmin Part of Speech: name 1. A female given name from Persian, variant of Jasmine.
Word: Jazmine Part of Speech: name 1. A female given name from Persian, variant of Jasmine.
Word: Kiana Part of Speech: name Etymology: Borrowed from Hawaiian Kiana, itself from English Diana. Also used as a modern feminine form of Kian. 1. A female given name from Hawaiian, of 1970s and later American usage.
Word: diaphoretic Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Latin diaphorēticus, from Ancient Greek διαφορητικός (diaphorētikós); by surface analysis, diaphor(esis) + -etic. Pronunciation: /daɪəfəˈɹɛtɪk/ 1. Generating sweat or perspiration.
Word: diaphoretic Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Latin diaphorēticus, from Ancient Greek διαφορητικός (diaphorētikós); by surface analysis, diaphor(esis) + -etic. Pronunciation: /daɪəfəˈɹɛtɪk/ 1. A product or agent which induces or promotes perspiration.
Word: Tiana Part of Speech: name Etymology: Modern contraction of Tatiana and Christiana. In the USA it is also explained as a form of Diana in such unrelated languages as Samoan and Cherokee (but the author Tiana Bighorse is a Navajo). 1. A female given name from Latin. Example: By Cherokee custom he married Tiana Rogers Gentry; within the tribe it was a real marriage, not a casual liaison. To Houston and to other whites his wife was known as Diana.
Word: Gaynor Part of Speech: name 1. A female given name from Welsh, a variant of Welsh Gaenor or Guinevere, popular in Britain in the 1960s and 1970s. 2. A surname. 3. An unincorporated community in Nodaway County, Missouri, United States.
Word: Jalen Part of Speech: name 1. A male given name from a combination of James and Len.
Word: Jaylen Part of Speech: name 1. A male given name originating as a coinage, of modern American usage; variant form Jalen. Example: One week ago, Jaylen Fryberg stood tall as part of his high school’s homecoming court, spurring his fellow students to cheer.
Word: zambo Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ˈzæmboʊ/ 1. Alternative letter-case form of Zambo. Labels: alt-of
Word: chiltepin Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Nahuatl; the first element is chilli (“pepper”), the second is tecpin (“flea”). Pronunciation: /t͡ʃɪlˈtɛpɪn/ 1. A wild chile pepper variety, Capsicum annuum var. glabriusculum, found in Mexico and the southwestern US.
Word: geared Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of gear Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: geared Part of Speech: adj 1. Fitted with (some kind or number of) gears. Labels: in-compounds, not-comparable, often 2. Connected with a motor by gearing. Labels: not-comparable
Word: NSPA Part of Speech: noun 1. Initialism of network service point address. Labels: Internet, abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
Word: NSAP address Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Short for network service access point address. 1. An identifying label for network endpoints, used in OSI networking. Labels: Internet
Word: portamenti Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of portamento Labels: form-of, plural
Word: globi Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of globus Labels: form-of, plural
Word: incorruptibility Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Latin incorruptibilitas. 1. The condition of being incorruptible; honesty. Labels: uncountable Example: In short—which is the strongest proof that can be given of the excellence of her heart, and the incorruptibility of her honour, she, at eighteen, was as spotless a character at Little Hockley, as the most innocent inhabitant of her age and sex could be at Castlewick. Example: Nowadays, with our modern mania for morality, every one has to pose as a paragon of purity, incorruptibility, and all the other seven deadly virtues—and what is the result? You all go over like ninepins—one after the other. 2. The condition of never decaying or decomposing (especially, as ascribed to the bodies of holy people in Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox Christianity). Labels: uncountable Example: 1618, Anonymous translator, A Manuall of Devout Meditations and Exercises by Tomás de Villacastín, Book 3, Meditation 12, Point 1, p. 510, facsimile reprint in D. M. Rogers (editor), English Recusant Literature, 1558-1640, Volume 326, Menston: The Scolar Press, 1976, Gather hence great joy at the Resurrection of the B. Virgin, and the incorruptibility of her body, the rare and speciall priviledge graunted unto her by her most holy Son, who fullfilled the desires of her soule. Example: The Being of a God, and Incorruptibility of the Soul, those great Articles of Religion, are they not proved with the clearest and most immediate Evidence?
Word: uncovering Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of uncover Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: uncovering Part of Speech: noun 1. The act by which something is uncovered. Example: In partial compensation for this narrowed destiny the white world has lavished its politeness on its womankind,—its chivalry and bows, its uncoverings and courtesies—all the accumulated homage disused for courts and kings[…] Example: Although clearly we play a part in particular uncoverings of entities, the discovery of particular truths, we have no control over basic modes of revealing and revealedness, concealing and concealedness.
Word: self-regulating Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *swé? Proto-Indo-European *selbʰ-der. Proto-Germanic *selbaz Old English self Old English self- Middle English self- English self- English regulating English self-regulating From self- + regulating. 1. Able to control itself. Example: The motor was self-regulating, until the governor broke and it suddenly raced out of control. 2. Of an organization, establishing standards for itself rather than having them legislated for it by government. Example: Lawyers are self-regulating through the bar association, which sets standards and imposes penalties.
Word: self-reproach Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *swé? Proto-Indo-European *selbʰ-der. Proto-Germanic *selbaz Old English self Old English self- Middle English self- English self- English reproach English self-reproach From self- + reproach. 1. Blame or condemnation directed at the self, as by the conscience. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Besides the jar of contrast there came to her a chill self-reproach that she had not returned sooner, to help her mother in these domesticities, instead of indulging herself out-of-doors.
Word: self-righteousness Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From self-righteous + -ness or self- + righteousness. 1. Confidence in one's own righteousness, self-assurance, smugness. Example: The book of Job warns us against self-righteousness, since no man can justify himself to God. Example: The heroines of these plays speak out against intraracial biases, stereotyping, lynchmobs, illiteracy, poverty, promiscuity, self-righteousness, verbally abusive men, rape, and miscegenation. […] Without warning the doctor, she chokes the life out of her child in order to keep him safe from white lynchmobs.
Word: self-sacrifice Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *swé? Proto-Indo-European *selbʰ-der. Proto-Germanic *selbaz Old English self Old English self- Middle English self- English self- Proto-Indo-European *seh₂k- Proto-Indo-European *-rós Proto-Indo-European *sh₂krós Proto-Italic *sakros Old Latin sacros Latin sacerder. Latin sacrum Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁- Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁k- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *dʰh₁kyéti Proto-Italic *θakjō Proto-Italic *fakjō Latin faciō Proto-Indo-European *-(i)yós Proto-Italic *-ijos Proto-Italic *-ios Old Latin -ios Latin -ius Latin -ium Latin sacrificiumlbor. Old French sacrifisebor. Middle English sacrifice English sacrifice English self-sacrifice From self- + sacrifice. 1. The giving up of one's own benefit for the good of others. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Caring for a loved one with a chronic illness inevitably involves self-sacrifice. Example: Whatever he was suffering, it was she who had caused it; he had vacated his house on account of her. She was not worth such self-sacrifice; she should not have accepted it of him. 2. The act of making the ultimate sacrifice of giving up one's life for a cause. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: His brave self-sacrifice won him a posthumous medal, but I think he'd have preferred to receive it in person. Example: [Scott’s Last Expedition] had been one of my own favourite books. It seemed curiously dated now, this heroism with only the ice for enemy, self-sacrifice that involved no deaths beyond one’s own.
Word: self-sacrifices Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of self-sacrifice Labels: form-of, plural
Word: self-sacrificing Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *swé? Proto-Indo-European *selbʰ-der. Proto-Germanic *selbaz Old English self Old English self- Middle English self- English self- English sacrificing English self-sacrificing From self- + sacrificing. 1. Making, or willing to make, a self-sacrifice. Example: Mother Teresa's self-sacrificing nature made her world-famous. Example: It [Troutbeck] has religious isolation also, for it is several miles—and very strenuous miles in winter—from the parish church at Mungrisdale, and the introduction of the harmonium to the waiting room was due to the zeal of a vicar of many years ago who, in the absence of any other room in the village, obtained permission to use the premises for services, including Sunday School. Most of his successors have continued this self-sacrificing duty.
Word: self-sacrificing Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *swé? Proto-Indo-European *selbʰ-der. Proto-Germanic *selbaz Old English self Old English self- Middle English self- English self- English sacrificing English self-sacrificing From self- + sacrificing. 1. present participle and gerund of self-sacrifice Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: self-serve Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *swé? Proto-Indo-European *selbʰ-der. Proto-Germanic *selbaz Old English self Old English self- Middle English self- English self- English serve English self-serve From self- + serve. 1. Describing a facility in which the customer performs the work rather than being waited on. Labels: not-comparable Example: Self-serve gas stations are popular with owners because they need fewer attendants.
Word: self-willed Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English selfe-willed, selwillyd, equivalent to self- + willed. Compare Middle English onwille, anewil (“selfwilled, stubborn”), from Old English ānwille (literally “one-willed, one's own-willed, self-willed”). 1. Obstinate; strong-minded; unyielding to the desires, concern or opinions of others. Example: Emma perceived that the nature of his gallantry was a little self-willed, and that he would rather oppose than lose the pleasure of dancing with her; but she took the compliment, and forgave the rest. Had she intended ever to marry him, it might have been worth while to pause and consider, and try to understand the value of his preference, and the character of his temper; but for all the purposes of their acquaintance, he was quite amiable enough. Example: But then Pen was different. Pen was a man. It seemed natural somehow that he should be self-willed and should have his own way. 2. Possessing self-will; determined to pursue one's own desires or adhere to one's own opinion.. Example: The idea of self-willed machines, which could decide to take over the world, scares all the people smart enough to create such devices.
Word: self-consciousness Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From self- + consciousness. Pronunciation: /ˌsɛlfˈkɑnʃəsnəs/ 1. The awareness of the self as an entity. Labels: uncountable Example: [A]nd that one great and all-important occasion and provocative of these beliefs was actually the rise of self-consciousness — that is, the coming of the mind to a more or less distinct awareness of itself and of its own operation, and the consequent development and growth of Individualism, and of the Self-centred attitude in human thought and action. 2. Shyness; a feeling of unease in social situations. Labels: uncountable Example: Adam Gopnik has, by many accounts, including his own, a lovely life. A longtime staff writer for the New Yorker and bestselling author, Gopnik lives in Manhattan with his wife, Martha, a film-maker, and their two children, and he moves in the kind of circles that allow him to drop casual lines into conversation such as: “As John Updike once said to me …”, although he has the nervy Jewish self-consciousness to follow that with “… if you’ll forgive the namedrop.”
Word: self-aggrandizing Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *swé? Proto-Indo-European *selbʰ-der. Proto-Germanic *selbaz Old English self Old English self- Middle English self- English self- English aggrandizing English self-aggrandizing From self- + aggrandizing. 1. Boastful; intended to make oneself seem more important. Example: His self-aggrandizing talk alienated his colleagues, who had done the work he claimed credit for.
Word: hand-me-downs Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of hand-me-down Labels: form-of, plural
Word: malae Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ˈmeɪˌli/ 1. plural of mala Labels: form-of, plural
Word: living dead Part of Speech: noun 1. The undead; zombies, vampires, etc. Labels: plural, plural-only, usually
Word: living dead Part of Speech: adj 1. Existing in stasis, without meaningful activity or development. Labels: not-comparable Example: This “living dead” industry has been written off time and time again, yet it continues to clamber back to its feet and lumber blindly onward. Example: Venture's investment in Black Hawk could turn out to be a complete failure (black hole), barely surviving (living dead), or wildly successful (venture utopia).
Word: meet one's maker Part of Speech: verb Etymology: In various religions, when a person dies, they go to a supernatural place like heaven where they may meet their creator deity. 1. To die or to pass into the afterlife. Labels: euphemistic, idiomatic Example: On the gallows high he has met his Maker...Your victim waits for you to meet your Maker Example: He didn't die for a half-hour after that; nor did he speak again—aloud; but just a few seconds before he went to meet his Maker, his lips moved in a faint whisper.
Word: death penalty Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From death + penalty. 1. A punishment in which the offender is put to death by the state. Example: And if you would like one more fact about this worthy, he was responsible for an Act on the statute book abolishing the death penalty for cattle rustling. Example: Joe Biden deserves the death penalty and Jonald Trump bad.
Word: necrolatry Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From necro- + -latry. 1. The practice of worshipping or revering the dead. Labels: uncountable
Word: necrological Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree English necrology Proto-Indo-European *-ikos Proto-Italic *-ikos Latin -icuslbor. Old French -iquebor. Middle English -ic Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-der.? Proto-Italic *-ālis Latin -ālisbor. Old French -albor. ▲ Latin -ālis Old French -elbor. ▲ Latin -ālisbor. Middle English -al Middle English -ical English -ical English necrological From necrology + -ical. 1. Of or pertaining to a necrology.
Word: necrologist Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From necro- + -logist. 1. A person who compiles a necrology.
Word: necroscopy Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *neḱ-der. Ancient Greek νεκρός (nekrós)der. English necro- Proto-Indo-European *speḱ- Proto-Indo-European *-yeti Proto-Indo-European *spéḱyeti Proto-Hellenic *sképťomai Ancient Greek σκέπτομαι (sképtomai) Proto-Indo-European *-ós Proto-Hellenic *-ós ▲ Ancient Greek -ος (-os)influ. Ancient Greek -ός (-ós) Ancient Greek σκοπός (skopós) Proto-Indo-European *-eti Proto-Indo-European *-eyéti Proto-Indo-European *-esyéti Proto-Indo-European *-éh₁ti Proto-Indo-European *-yeti Proto-Indo-European *-éh₁yeti Proto-Indo-European *-yeti Proto-Indo-European *-éyeti Ancient Greek -έω (-éō) Ancient Greek σκοπέω (skopéō)der. English -scopy English necroscopy From necro- + -scopy. 1. A necropsy.
Word: necrose Part of Speech: verb 1. To become necrotic. Labels: intransitive
Word: necrotomy Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *neḱ-der. Ancient Greek νεκρός (nekrós)der. English necro- Proto-Indo-European *temh₁- Proto-Indo-European *-né- Ancient Greek τέμνω (témnō)der. English -tomy English necrotomy From necro- + -tomy. 1. The dissection of a cadaver. 2. The surgical removal of dead tissue, especially bone.
Word: oscillating Part of Speech: adj 1. Moving in a repeated back-and-forth motion; coming and going. Example: But if he be admitted to have been fixed, as he declares, it admits of proof that he has a species of fixedness belonging to him of a very oscillating kind; which may be best illustrated by that of a ship riding off at sea by a single anchor, which at every turn of the tide swings about, and brings her head round to a point of the compass diametrically opposite to that it stood toward before. Example: In general the experiments proved that in nephritis the secretion of the gastric mucosa is vitiated. This vitiation is exceedingly oscillating. 2. Describing a function or divergent series that moves between multiple values. Example: Highly oscillating sequences converge in the weak topology, i.e., the topology of convergence of integral means.
Word: oscillating Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of oscillate Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: oscillated Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of oscillate Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: auroch Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Back-formation from aurochs. 1. Alternative form of aurochs. Labels: alt-of, alternative Example: The truth is, he says, that the first of these skulls is that of an auroch, with no difference which can reasonably be considered as specific; and the second belongs, he conceives, simply to the species of our domestic ox, of which it has all the characters. Example: Cuvier thus carefully marks the distinctions between the species: “The forehead of the ox is flat and a little concave; —that of the auroch protuberant, although less so than the buffalo's; […]
Word: intervarsity 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- English varsity English intervarsity From inter- + varsity. 1. taking place between universities Labels: UK, not-comparable Example: Oxford stands for intra-varsity in addition to intervarsity sport. Example: Yet, while its Lillie Bridge ground staged the inter-varsity match and the national amateur championships ...
Word: intervarsity 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- English varsity English intervarsity From inter- + varsity. 1. A competition taking place between universities. Example: As a player Craven took part in seven Intervarsities with remarkable success[…]Asked which Intervarsities were special, he said they were all special. Example: I responded by saying that the intervarsity was a student affair and had to be taken up with the students.
Word: residence permit Part of Speech: noun 1. The right to legally reside in a country.
Word: albos Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of albo Labels: form-of, plural
Word: albas Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ˈæl.bəz/ 1. plural of alba Labels: form-of, plural
Word: oil platform Part of Speech: noun 1. A large structure used to house workers and machinery needed to drill and then produce oil and natural gas in the ocean. Example: Near-synonyms: (broadly synonymous) oil rig, drill rig, drilling rig
Word: passenger train Part of Speech: noun 1. A train whose primary function is to carry passengers. Example: The "Scotian" is hardly a passenger train at all: typically, it consists of two 1,750 h.p. diesel units, four fish cars, five parcel cars, two mail cars, a baggage car, two passenger coaches and a sleeper which only goes part of the way. Example: The programme would increase capacity and create space for 736 more passenger trains on the network each day.
Word: passenger ship Part of Speech: noun 1. A ship whose primary function is to carry passengers.
Word: cargo ship Part of Speech: noun 1. A ship that carries cargo. Example: Near-synonym: cargo vessel
Word: campanella Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin campānella, from campāna (“steeple bell”) + -ella (diminutive suffix). 1. A smallish suspended bell used in medieval monastic cloisters. Labels: historical
Word: biphobia Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From bi- + -phobia. Pronunciation: /ˈbaɪˌfəʊbiːə/, /ˈbaɪˌfoʊbi.ə/ 1. Antipathy towards bisexuals. Labels: uncountable
Word: hawt Part of Speech: adj 1. Pronunciation or leetspeak spelling of hot (any sense). Example: 1896, George Wharton Edwards, Break O’ Day, Ayer Publishing (1969), →ISBN, page 46, “[…] Oh, ’t is, eh? Well, I waant to know — kind o’ hawt in here, ain’t it? Phew!” Again the orange silk handkerchief waved clouds of suffocating musk. Example: 2005, Lauren Mechling and Laura Moser, The Rise and Fall of a 10th-Grade Social Climber, Graphia Books, →ISBN, pages 86–87, “Mistah,” I drawled, switching on the Texan twang I perfected not in Houston but as a child in New York watching Dallas reruns with my dad. “Ah’m tahrubly sawhruh, but won’t ya tell us what on er-yuhth we’re a-doin’ wrong?” ¶ […] “We were just having a nice cool refray-yush-munt, Officer—isn’t it so hawt?” 2. Hot (sexually attractive) Example: 2006, Robert Eversz, Zero to the Bone: A Nina Zero Novel, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 24, A few of the comments were marginally pervy, but most were touchingly supportive messages. Ur soooo Hawt!!! One comment read. I can’t believe ur not gonna be a ***.
Word: hawt Part of Speech: adj 1. High; in later use, eye dialect spelling of haut or haute. Example: c'''1560, "Proude Wyues Pater noster", in William Carew Hazlitt (ed.), Remains of the Early Popular Poetry of England, J.R. Smith (1866), pages 157–158, Amen—sayd the other, I pray god it be so, / For ye haue good ynoughe, this I do knowe well, / Of good marchaundise, so mote I the, / As any is here in this countre to sell, / For his degre; but he is a frayde / That he sholde passe his state or loke to hawt, / Than behynde your backes it shulde be sayde, / Yf he fare amyss, that it were all your fawt. Example: a'''1900, Finley Peter Dunne, "High Finance", in Mr. Dooley’s Philosophy, R. H. Russell (1902), page 160, […] ‘Well,’ says I, ‘Cassidy,’ I says, ‘ye’ve been up again th’ pa-apers call hawt finance,’ I says. ‘What th’ divvle’s that?’ says he. ‘Well,’ says I, ‘it ain’t burglary, an’ it ain’t obtaining money be false pretinses, an’ it ain’t manslaughter,’ I says. ‘It’s what ye might call a judicious seliction fr’m th’ best features iv thim ar-rts,’ I says. […]
Word: hawt Part of Speech: noun 1. Pronunciation spelling of heart. Labels: alt-of, pronunciation-spelling Example: 1880, George Washington Cable, The Grandissimes, quoted in William Dean Howells, Heroines of Fiction, Harper and Brothers (1903), page 242, She looked up suddenly and took a quick breath, as if to resume, but her eyes fell before his, and she said, in a tone of half-soliloquy: ‘I ’ave so much troub’ wit dad hawt.’ She lifted one little hand feebly to the cardiac region, and sighed softly, with a dying languor. Example: 1896, Paul Laurence Dunbar, "When Malindy Sings", in Joan R. Sherman, African-American Poetry: An Anthology, 1773–1927, Courier Dover Publications (1997), →ISBN, pages 64–65, […] / But fu’ real melojous music, / Dat jes’ strikes yo’ hawt and clings, / Jes’ you stan’ an’ listen wif me, / When Malindy sings.
Word: hawt Part of Speech: pron 1. Alternative form of aught (“anything”). Labels: alt-of, alternative, obsolete Example: c'''1500, anonymous, "Robin Hood and the Potter", in Francis James Child, English and Scottish Ballads, Sampson Low (1861), page 29, “Her het ys merey to be,” seyde Roben, / “For a man that had hawt to spende; / Be mey horne we schall awet / Yeff Roben Hode be ner hande.”
Word: daughterling Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From daughter + -ling. 1. A daughter, especially a young or precious one. Labels: diminutive, endearing Example: BLOSSOM of the almond-trees, • April's gift to April's bees, Birthday ornament of spring, Flora's fairest daughterling; — [...] Example: Would I have my vanished sight once more I Tell me, daughterling, how looks this promised land towards which we have been journeying these months and years?
Word: spital Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English spitel, an aphetic form, from Medieval Latin hospitāle. 1. A charitable house to receive and care for sick people, later distinguished from a hospital as being especially for those of a low class or meagre financial means. Labels: historical Example: Put up a supplication to him in the name of a thousand orphans, an hospital, a spital, a prison, as he goes by, they cry out to him for aid, ride on, surdo narras, he cares not […]
Word: felt-tip pens Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of felt-tip pen Labels: form-of, plural
Word: smocked Part of Speech: adj 1. Weaaring a smock. Labels: not-comparable
Word: smocked Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of smock Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: mythconceptions Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of mythconception Labels: form-of, plural
Word: crystal ball Part of Speech: noun 1. A globe of glass or crystal that is used to foretell the future. Example: The psychic looked into the crystal ball and saw into the future. Example: "Well, Victor agreed and Madame Rosita sat down with her crystal ball on a black cloth in front of her." 2. A manner or method of seeing into the future. Labels: broadly, figuratively Example: If her past is a crystal ball to her future, she will perhaps never be rich, even though she is a kind, hard-working person. 3. One of the magickal tools of Wicca, used for divination and altar purposes.
Word: catfishes Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of catfish Labels: form-of, plural
Word: catfishes Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of catfish Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: electronystagmography Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree French électro-bor. Latin ēlectrum Latin electro-bor. English electro- English nystagmography English electronystagmography From electro- + nystagmography. 1. A diagnostic test to record involuntary movements of the eye caused by a condition known as nystagmus. It can also be used to diagnose the cause of vertigo, dizziness or balance dysfunction by testing the vestibular system. Labels: uncountable
Word: electroretinography Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree French électro-bor. Ancient Greek ἤλεκτρον (ḗlektron)bor. Latin ēlectrum Latin electro-bor. English electro- English retino- Proto-Indo-European *gerbʰ- Proto-Hellenic *grə́pʰō Ancient Greek γρᾰ́φω (grắphō) Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Ancient Greek -ᾱ (-ā) Ancient Greek -η (-ē) Ancient Greek γραφή (graphḗ) Ancient Greek -γραφίᾱ (-graphíā)bor. French -graphieder. English -graphy English electroretinography From electro- + retino- + -graphy. 1. A diagnostic test to used to measure the electrical responses of various cell types in the retina. Labels: uncountable, usually
Word: rubberneckers Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of rubbernecker Labels: form-of, plural
Word: birotunda Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *dwóh₁ Proto-Indo-European *dwi- Proto-Italic *dwi- Latin bi-bor. English bi- English rotunda English birotunda From bi- + rotunda. 1. A structure made of two adjoined rotundas.
Word: ethnopedology Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Ancient Greek ἔθνος (éthnos)der. English ethno- English pedology English ethnopedology From ethno- + pedology. 1. The study of local (indigenous) knowledge of soils Labels: uncountable
Word: indentor Part of Speech: noun 1. A person who is a representative for a foreign company, product or a person, and who gets commission or royalty on any transaction which takes place in his home country irrespective of whether the transaction has taken place out of his effort or consent.
Word: teasy Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From tease + -y. 1. Inclined to tease; teasing. Example: […] Wallie, who was going on eleven, and such a teasy boy, […]
Word: teasy Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Cornish tesek (“irritable, hot”). 1. Irritable or angry. Labels: Cornwall, UK, colloquial
Word: TLDNR Part of Speech: phrase 1. Alternative form of tl;dr (“too long, did not read”). Labels: Internet, alt-of, alternative, slang
Word: blow a backsight Part of Speech: verb 1. To occupy a point, then enter the wrong point for the backsight, or forget to enter the backsight.
Word: collabo Part of Speech: noun 1. A collaboration with another artist, in urban contemporary music. Labels: slang 2. A collaborator; a traitor. Labels: slang Example: "Look, our doctor's been arrested. And the veterinarian, well, he's a collabo. It's too dangerous for him to stay here. We could all be killed."
Word: collabo Part of Speech: verb 1. To collaborate with another artist, in urban contemporary music. Labels: intransitive, slang Example: The Yohimbe Brothers are DJ Logic (the jazz-influenced turntable wizard who had collaboed with Medeski Martin And Wood and Body Count) and guitarist Vernon Reid (the dreaded fret-monster behind Living Colour and various solo excursions) […]
Word: q-tof Part of Speech: noun 1. A quadrupole time-of-flight mass spectrometer.
Word: black metal Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ˈblæk ˌmɛtəl/ 1. Iron, or similar metals worked by a blacksmith Labels: uncountable 2. A subgenre of heavy metal music employing fast tempos, shrieked vocals, highly distorted guitars, double-kick drumming, raw recording and unconventional song structure, often emphasizing antireligious and misanthropic themes. Labels: uncountable 3. Any form of extreme metal having a Satanic or anti-Christian theme. Labels: dated, uncountable Example: While the motive is still under investigation, authorities said that Matthews’ interest in black metal music may have influenced his behavior.
Word: doom metal Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Perhaps from the 1986 album title Epicus Doomicus Metallicus or maybe from the 1970 Black Sabbath song "Hand of Doom". 1. A subgenre of heavy metal characterised by a slow tempo and low-tuned guitars, often emphasizing despairing lyrics. Labels: uncountable Example: Devotees of doom metal often cite as early instances of the sub-genre mid-1980s albums by Saint Vitus and Candlemass, the title of Candlemass' 1986 Epicus Doomicus Metallicus perhaps inspiring the sub-genre's eventual designation.
Word: pole positions Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of pole position Labels: form-of, plural
Word: ill-advisedly Part of Speech: adv Etymology: Etymology tree English ill-advised Middle English -ly English -ly English ill-advisedly From ill-advised + -ly. 1. In an ill-advised manner. Example: Then somebody told him that much nearer Dublin was a seaport whence he could sooner and cheaplier embark for Italy, and in ill-advisedly trying to reach Queenstown he did indeed go helplessly astray.
Word: illegitimately Part of Speech: adv Etymology: Etymology tree English illegitimate Middle English -ly English -ly English illegitimately From illegitimate + -ly. 1. In an illegitimate manner.
Word: illiberally Part of Speech: adv Etymology: Etymology tree English illiberal Middle English -ly English -ly English illiberally From illiberal + -ly. 1. In an illiberal manner. Example: He took an active part, as chairman, in the meetings which, at the beginning of the contest with France, were assembled to petition for peace, and was illiberally expelled from the Surrey troop of light-horse, on account of his patriotism.
Word: illiterately Part of Speech: adv Etymology: Etymology tree English illiterate Middle English -ly English -ly English illiterately From illiterate + -ly. 1. In an illiterate manner.
Word: ill-naturedly Part of Speech: adv Etymology: Etymology tree English ill-natured Middle English -ly English -ly English ill-naturedly From ill-natured + -ly. 1. In an ill-natured manner. Example: "I've seen it before," he said ill-naturedly.
Word: illuminatingly Part of Speech: adv Etymology: Etymology tree English illuminating Middle English -ly English -ly English illuminatingly From illuminating + -ly. 1. In an illuminating manner.
Word: illustratively Part of Speech: adv Etymology: Etymology tree English illustrative Middle English -ly English -ly English illustratively From illustrative + -ly. 1. In an illustrative manner.
Word: illustriously Part of Speech: adv Etymology: Etymology tree English illustrious Middle English -ly English -ly English illustriously From illustrious + -ly. 1. In an illustrious manner.
Word: imaginably Part of Speech: adv Etymology: Etymology tree English imaginable Middle English -ly English -ly English imaginably From imaginable + -ly. 1. In an imaginable manner. Example: Faced with the opportunities of a new, more open-ended international landscape, Israel now may, imaginably, be able to pursue a different foreign policy and, as part of that, a different relationship with the United States.
Word: imitatively Part of Speech: adv Etymology: Etymology tree English imitative Middle English -ly English -ly English imitatively From imitative + -ly. 1. In an imitative manner.
Word: immaculately Part of Speech: adv Etymology: Etymology tree English immaculate Middle English -ly English -ly English immaculately From immaculate + -ly. 1. In an immaculate manner; in a manner free of stain or blemish; without being defiled. 2. In a manner free of error; in a perfect or flawless manner. Example: He spoke immaculately, his enunciation terribly precise. Example: But winter can also be judged by the prominence of another scourge, one that is especially irksome in a city that places a premium on being well-groomed and immaculately coiffed: hat hair.
Word: immanently Part of Speech: adv Etymology: Etymology tree English immanent Middle English -ly English -ly English immanently From immanent + -ly. 1. In an immanent manner.
Word: immaterially Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From Middle English inmaterialliche, inmaterially; equivalent to immaterial + -ly. 1. In an immaterial manner.
Word: immaturely Part of Speech: adv Etymology: Etymology tree English immature Middle English -ly English -ly English immaturely From immature + -ly. Pronunciation: /ɪməˈtjʊə(ɹ)li/ 1. Giving an appearance of immaturity; childishly. Example: They may be approaching 40, but after three beers they are behaving as immaturely as any teenager. 2. Without having attained maturity. Example: […] birds which are hatched immaturely and fly immediately after leaving the nest.
Word: immemorially Part of Speech: adv Etymology: Etymology tree English immemorial Middle English -ly English -ly English immemorially From immemorial + -ly. 1. In an immemorial manner, from time immemorial. Example: […] by vast odds, the most terrific of all mortal disasters have immemorially and indiscriminately befallen tens and hundreds of thousands of those who have gone upon the waters […] Example: Yet, O reader, the brave woman accepted the lot, and took up the cry which had been its sign immemorially, and which thenceforward was to be her salutation without change—“Unclean, unclean!”
Word: imminently Part of Speech: adv Etymology: Etymology tree English imminent Middle English -ly English -ly English imminently From imminent + -ly. 1. In an imminent manner; liable to happen immediately or very soon. Example: Work to electrify the East Kilbride line in Scotland will begin imminently, with foundations to be installed for the overhead line equipment.
Word: immoderately Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From Middle English immoderatliche, inmoderately; equivalent to immoderate + -ly. 1. In an immoderate manner. Example: 2002, Jeffrey Eugenides, Middlesex, New York: Picador, Book One, “The Silver Spoon,” p. 13, From the tender age of twelve, my mother had been unable to start her day without the aid of at least two cups of immoderately strong, tar-black, unsweetened coffee, a taste for which she had picked up from the tugboat captains and zooty bachelors who filled the boardinghouse where she had grown up. Example: by pursuinge wherof he imagynes he shall reape some glory to himselfe, of which he is immoderately ambitious, so that if the consultation be upon any action to be done, no man more implicitely enters into that debate, or more cheerefully resignes his owne conceptions to a joynt determination[…]
Word: immodestly Part of Speech: adv Etymology: Etymology tree English immodest Middle English -ly English -ly English immodestly From immodest + -ly. 1. In an immodest manner.
Word: immortally Part of Speech: adv Etymology: Etymology tree English immortal Middle English -ly English -ly English immortally From immortal + -ly. 1. In an immortal manner. Example: She was a fat, round little woman, richly apparelled in velvet and lace, […]; and the way she laughed, cackling like a hen, the way she talked to the waiters and the maid,[…]—all these unexpected phenomena impelled one to hysterical mirth, and made one class her with such immortally ludicrous types as Ally Sloper, the Widow Twankey, or Miss Moucher.
Word: immovably Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From Middle English in-moueabily; equivalent to immovable + -ly. 1. In an immovable manner.
Word: immutably Part of Speech: adv Etymology: Etymology tree English immutable Middle English -ly English -ly English immutably From immutable + -ly. Pronunciation: /ɪˈmjuːtəblɪ/ 1. In an immutable manner. In a way that cannot be varied, or changed. Example: My task was a very hard one; but, as I was absolutely resolved - as my cousins saw at length that my mind was really and immutably fixed on making a just division of the property....they yielded at length.
Word: impalpably Part of Speech: adv Etymology: Etymology tree English impalpable Middle English -ly English -ly English impalpably From impalpable + -ly. 1. In an impalpable manner. Example: These books will fill, and well fill, certain stretches of life […] But in old or nervous or solemnest or dying hours, when one needs the impalpably soothing and vitalizing influences of abysmic Nature, or its affinities in literature or human society, and the soul resents the keenest mere intellection, they will not be sought for.
Word: impassably Part of Speech: adv Etymology: Etymology tree English impassable Middle English -ly English -ly English impassably From impassable + -ly. 1. In an impassable manner.
Word: impassibly Part of Speech: adv Etymology: Etymology tree English impassible Middle English -ly English -ly English impassibly From impassible + -ly. 1. In an impassible manner.
Word: impassively Part of Speech: adv Etymology: Etymology tree English impassive Middle English -ly English -ly English impassively From impassive + -ly. 1. In an impassive manner.
Word: impeccably Part of Speech: adv Etymology: Etymology tree English impeccable Middle English -ly English -ly English impeccably From impeccable + -ly. Pronunciation: /ɪmˈpɛk.ə.bli/ 1. In a perfect or flawless manner. Example: Arley's ferry boat has been replaced by a single-span pedestrian bridge. This leads to the old Harbour Inn and the impeccably restored railway station, now part of the privately run steam-operated Severn Valley Railway. Example: The great pianist was a prolific composer, who wrote impeccably for the piano.
Word: impecuniously Part of Speech: adv Etymology: Etymology tree English impecunious Middle English -ly English -ly English impecuniously From impecunious + -ly. 1. In an impecunious manner.
Word: impishly Part of Speech: adv Etymology: Etymology tree English impish Middle English -ly English -ly English impishly From impish + -ly. 1. In an impish manner; mischievously. Example: She was one of those elfin, rather precocious little girls, quick coloured, with dark hair, naturally curling dusky hair that was sometimes astray over her eyes, and eyes that were sometimes impishly dark, and sometimes a clear brown yellow. Example: Most of the crumbs drop on the red plush of the seat, and the woman sighs and tries to brush them away, but they leap up impishly and fall back on the plush.
Word: inadequately Part of Speech: adv Etymology: Etymology tree English inadequate Middle English -ly English -ly English inadequately From inadequate + -ly. 1. In an inadequate manner. Example: Open carriages tend to be draughty and inadequately heated. The passenger in them has no escape from the annoyance of squalling babies, boisterous drunks, and riotous teddy-boys, who may be at the far end of the coach but whose din cannot be shut out.
Word: inalienably Part of Speech: adv Etymology: Etymology tree English inalienable Middle English -ly English -ly English inalienably From inalienable + -ly. 1. In an inalienable manner. Example: This was his intention to persuade their aged grandfather to transfer his own heirship to Arthur, which he considered it a fortunate circumstance was in his power, with the exception of a very small estate, tied inalienably to the heir of that ancient and distinguished family.
Word: inanimately Part of Speech: adv Etymology: Etymology tree English inanimate Middle English -ly English -ly English inanimately From inanimate + -ly. 1. In an inanimate manner.
Word: inanely Part of Speech: adv Etymology: Etymology tree English inane Middle English -ly English -ly English inanely From inane + -ly. 1. In an inane manner.
Word: inappreciably Part of Speech: adv Etymology: Etymology tree English inappreciable Middle English -ly English -ly English inappreciably From inappreciable + -ly. 1. In an inappreciable manner.
Word: inarticulately Part of Speech: adv Etymology: Etymology tree English inarticulate Middle English -ly English -ly English inarticulately From inarticulate + -ly. 1. In an inarticulate manner.
Word: inattentively Part of Speech: adv Etymology: Etymology tree English inattentive Middle English -ly English -ly English inattentively From inattentive + -ly. 1. In an inattentive or careless manner: Of or pertaining to a lack of attention; not paying attention.
Word: incalculably Part of Speech: adv Etymology: Etymology tree English incalculable Middle English -ly English -ly English incalculably From incalculable + -ly. 1. In an incalculable manner. Example: incalculably small
Word: incapably Part of Speech: adv Etymology: Etymology tree English incapable Middle English -ly English -ly English incapably From incapable + -ly. 1. In an incapable manner.
Word: incipiently Part of Speech: adv Etymology: Etymology tree English incipient Middle English -ly English -ly English incipiently From incipient + -ly. 1. In an incipient manner.
Word: incommensurately Part of Speech: adv Etymology: Etymology tree English incommensurate Middle English -ly English -ly English incommensurately From incommensurate + -ly. 1. In an incommensurate manner; in a manner not in proportion with something else.
Word: incomparably Part of Speech: adv Etymology: Etymology tree English incomparable Middle English -ly English -ly English incomparably From incomparable + -ly. 1. In an incomparable manner. Example: […] if in this extatick State of Dreaming (during which the Astral Impulses are incomparably stronger than in common Dreams, or in the ordinary Course of Life) that prophetick Energy more efficaciously exerts itself […] Example: […] the jails were larger and fuller, the number of murders was incomparably greater
Word: incompetently Part of Speech: adv Etymology: Etymology tree English incompetent Middle English -ly English -ly English incompetently From incompetent + -ly. 1. In an incompetent manner. Example: He’s like more successful but equally morally abhorrent right-wing undercover operative James O’Keefe’s non-union Mexican equivalent, a dunce whose one move involves incompetently attempting to frame figures of seemingly unimpeachable moral integrity, like Robert Mueller or good old Mayor Pete, as deviant sex criminals like Wohl’s God Donald Trump by unsuccessfully trying to get people to come forward with bogus sexual assault allegations.
Word: incompletely Part of Speech: adv Etymology: Etymology tree English incomplete Middle English -ly English -ly English incompletely From incomplete + -ly. 1. In an incomplete manner. 2. To an incomplete degree.
Word: incomprehensibly Part of Speech: adv Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *né Proto-Indo-European *n̥- Proto-Italic *n̥- Latin in- Proto-Indo-European *ḱe? Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm Proto-Italic *kom Proto-Italic *kom- Latin con- Proto-Indo-European *per- Proto-Indo-European *preh₂- Proto-Indo-European *-i Proto-Indo-European *préh₂i? Proto-Italic *prai Proto-Italic *prai- Proto-Indo-European *gʰed- Proto-Indo-European *-né- Proto-Indo-European *-ti Proto-Indo-European *gʰnédti Proto-Italic *hendō Proto-Italic *praiɣendō Latin prehendō Latin comprehendō Proto-Indo-European *-tḗr Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlom Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlis Proto-Italic *-ðlis Latin -bilis Latin comprehēnsibilis Latin incomprehēnsibilisbor. Middle French incomprehensibleder. English incomprehensible Proto-Indo-European *leyg-der. Proto-Germanic *līkąder. Proto-Germanic *-līkaz Proto-Germanic *-ê Proto-Germanic *-līkê Proto-West Germanic *-līkē Old English -līċe Middle English -ly English -ly English incomprehensibly From incomprehensible + -ly. 1. In an incomprehensible manner. Example: There [in the new heaven] shall we, indissolubly, with all the choir of heaven pass our eviternity of bliss, in lauding and praising the incomprehensibly-glorious Majesty of our Creator, Redeemer, Sanctifier; in perpetual Hallelujahs to him that sits upon the throne. Example: Nameless and formless the Spirit within shines forth, unconditioned and everlasting. What name is befitting the soul? How shall Infinite Effulgence be manifested? Too great a light blinds the senses. Too great a truth is too exhilarating for the student. The boundless, infinite Sentience, incomprehensibly dimensioned in Being and Intelligence, rests Unseen and Unthinkable in the shore of His Own omnipresent and superomnipresent consciousness.
Word: inconceivably Part of Speech: adv Etymology: Etymology tree English inconceivable Middle English -ly English -ly English inconceivably From inconceivable + -ly. 1. In an inconceivable manner, in a way not believable or understandable. Example: Parents are at the cabin doors, dressing the hair of ragged children; shock-heads of girls peer out from the black circumference of smoke, and children inconceivably filthy, yell wildly and vociferously as the coach passes by. Example: Then he warmed to it, and smoothly set out all his shifts, malices, and treacheries, his extreme boldnesses (he was desperate bold); his retreats, shufflings, and counterfeitings (he was also inconceivably a coward) […]
Word: inconclusively Part of Speech: adv Etymology: Etymology tree English inconclusive Middle English -ly English -ly English inconclusively From inconclusive + -ly. 1. In an inconclusive manner.
Word: incongruously Part of Speech: adv Etymology: Etymology tree English incongruous Middle English -ly English -ly English incongruously From incongruous + -ly. 1. In an incongruous manner. Example: A burly Negro guard opened the door. Single file, past gleaming Cadillacs sitting incongruously in the low-ceilinged squat dusty garage, they followed him to a panel door in the rear. Example: It was a long, long list[of problems], but Mr. Stink listened to everything she said as jolly Christmas songs played incongruously in the background.