nandhakumarms/qualc-wiktionary-en huggingface dataset:
Word: clopen Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English closed Proto-Indo-European *upó Proto-Germanic *ub Proto-Germanic *upp Proto-Germanic *upanaz Proto-West Germanic *opan Old English open Middle English open English open blend English clopen Blend of closed + open. Pronunciation: /ˈkləʊ̯.pən/, /ˈkloʊ̯.pən/, /ˈklɐʉ̯.pən/, /ˈkləʉ̯.pən/, /ˈklo.pən/ 1. A pair of work shifts in which a worker works a closing shift one day and then works an opening shift the following day. Example: James is on vacation, so I've got to do a clopen this weekend to cover his shifts.
Word: clutter Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English cloteren (“to form clots; coagulate; heap on”), from clot (“clot”), equivalent to clot + -er (frequentative suffix). Compare Welsh cludair (“heap, pile”), cludeirio (“to heap”). Pronunciation: /ˈklʌtə(ɹ)/, /ˈklʌtɚ/, [ˈklʌɾɚ] 1. A confused disordered jumble of things. Labels: uncountable Example: He saw what a Clutter there was with Huge, Over-grown Pots, Pans, and Spits. Example: Earless ghost swift moths become “invisible” to echolocating bats by forming mating clusters close (less than half a meter) above vegetation and effectively blending into the clutter of echoes that the bat receives from the leaves and stems around them. 2. Background echoes, from clouds etc., on a radar or sonar screen. Labels: uncountable 3. Alternative form of clowder (“collective noun for cats”). Labels: alt-of, alternative, countable Example: Organizing ghost stories is like herding a clutter of cats: the phenomenon resists organization and classification. 4. Clatter; confused noise. Labels: countable, obsolete, uncountable Example: October 14 1718, John Arbuthnot, letter to Jonathan Swift I hardly heard a word of news or politicks, except a little clutter about sending some impertinent presidents du parliament to prison Example: It was then you might have heard a clutter: pots, pans and pitchers, mugs, jugs and jordens, all put themselves in motion at once[…] 5. A Sperner family. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: clutter Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English cloteren (“to form clots; coagulate; heap on”), from clot (“clot”), equivalent to clot + -er (frequentative suffix). Compare Welsh cludair (“heap, pile”), cludeirio (“to heap”). Pronunciation: /ˈklʌtə(ɹ)/, /ˈklʌtɚ/, [ˈklʌɾɚ] 1. To fill something with clutter. Labels: transitive Example: That means about $165 billion was spent not on drumming up business, but on annoying people, creating landfill and cluttering spam filters. 2. To clot or coagulate, like blood. Labels: intransitive, obsolete Example: It battereth and cluttereth into knots and balls 3. To make a confused noise; to bustle. Labels: intransitive Example: It [the goose] clutter'd here, it chuckled there; / It stirr'd the old wife's mettle: / She shifted in her elbow-chair, / And hurl'd the pan and kettle. 4. To utter words hurriedly, especially (but not exclusively) as a speech disorder (compare cluttering). Labels: intransitive, transitive
Word: subset Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *upó Proto-Italic *supo Latin sub Latin sub-der. English sub- English set English subset From sub- + set. Pronunciation: /ˈsʌbˌsɛt/ 1. A set A such that every element of A is also an element of S. Example: The set of integers is a subset of the set of real numbers. Example: The set #92;lbracea,b#92;rbrace is a both a subset and a proper subset of #92;lbracea,b,c#92;rbrace while the set #92;lbracea,b,c#92;rbrace is a subset of #92;lbracea,b,c#92;rbrace but not a proper subset of #92;lbracea,b,c#92;rbrace. 2. A group of things or people, all of which are in a specified larger group. Example: We asked a subset of the population of the town for their opinion. Example: Interestingly, this [the core lexicon] is not all of the words of the language: It turns out that most of the words in a language from an industrialized culture come from narrow semantic domains, such that only a subset of speakers know them.
Word: subset Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *upó Proto-Italic *supo Latin sub Latin sub-der. English sub- English set English subset From sub- + set. Pronunciation: /ˈsʌbˌsɛt/ 1. To take a subset of. Labels: transitive 2. To extract only the portions of (a font) that are needed to display a particular document. Labels: transitive
Word: chemin de fer Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from French chemin de fer (literally “railway”), from being a faster variant of baccarat. Pronunciation: /ʃəˌmæ̃ də ˈfɛə/ 1. A card game, a variation of baccarat. Labels: uncountable Example: Bond had spent the last two afternoons and most of the nights at the Casino, playing complicated progression systems on the even chances at roulette. He made a high banco at chemin-de-fer whenever he heard one offered. Example: The person who left at 1:00 is either Alice or the woman who played chemin de fer (9), so in either case she is a woman.
Word: floating-point number Part of Speech: noun 1. A number written in the form a × bᶜ, e.g. 3.75 × 10³ (a being the mantissa, b, the base and c, the exponent). 2. A real number held as a pair of integers, one representing the mantissa and the other representing the exponent. The base is normally 10, 16 or 256 depending on the computing system.
Word: healer Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English helere, the agent noun of heal; analysed as heal + -er. Cognate with Dutch heler (“healer”), German Heiler (“healer”), Icelandic heilari (“healer”). Pronunciation: /ˈhiːlə(ɹ)/, /ˈhilɚ/ 1. One who heals, especially through faith. Example: faith healer Example: gifted healer 2. Anything that heals; a medicine that heals some wound, injury, ailment, or disease.
Word: coffle Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Arabic قَافِلَة (qāfila, “caravan”). Doublet of cafila. Pronunciation: /ˈkɒfl̩/, /ˈkɔfl̩/, /ˈkɑfl̩/ 1. A line of people or animals fastened together, especially a chain of prisoners or slaves. Example: The people of the coffle spent the day in drying such articles as were wet, and in cleaning ten pairs of ornamented pistols with shea-butter. Example: I hear the wheeze of the slave-coffle, as the slaves march on, as the husky gangs pass on by twos and threes, fastened together with wrist-chains and ankle-chains,
Word: coffle Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Arabic قَافِلَة (qāfila, “caravan”). Doublet of cafila. Pronunciation: /ˈkɒfl̩/, /ˈkɔfl̩/, /ˈkɑfl̩/ 1. To fasten (a line of people or animals) together. Labels: transitive
Word: summa Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Latin summa. 1. A comprehensive summary of, or treatise on a subject, especially theology or philosophy. 2. A culmination or archetypal example. Labels: figuratively Example: In size, scope, and graphic ambition [the map] is a summa of the mapping art of the day, represented in paint by Vermeer. Example: The painting is a “summa” of the various trends that intertwined and developed during those crucial years of the early sixteenth century in Florence.
Word: Upper Sorbian Part of Speech: name 1. a Slavic language spoken in part of Saxony
Word: Lower Sorbian Part of Speech: name 1. a highly endangered West Slavic language spoken in parts of southern Brandenburg
Word: Chaucer Part of Speech: name Etymology: From Middle English Chaucer, from Old French chaucier (“hose-maker, hosier”), from chauces (“clothing for the legs, breeches, pantaloons, hose”). Compare the modern loanword chausse. Pronunciation: /ˈt͡ʃɔːsə/, /ˈt͡ʃɔsɚ/, /ˈt͡ʃɑsɚ/, /ˈt͡ʃɒsɚ/, /ˈt͡ʃoːsə/ 1. A rare medieval English surname from Old French. 2. A rare medieval English surname from Old French. Example: After all, the English hostel owes much of its charms to Chaucer; our associations are of his haunting pictures—his delicate Lady Prioress, his comely young squire, with their pleasant interchange of tale and legend, rise upon the mind's eye in all the fascination of his vivid delineations.
Word: s- Part of Speech: prefix Etymology: Abbreviation of scalar (“particle with spin 0”). Pronunciation: /s/ 1. Subatomic particles with a spin (quantum angular momentum) of 0, predicted by supersymmetry; the bosonic equivalent of known fermions. Labels: morpheme
Word: s- Part of Speech: prefix Etymology: Abbreviation of sec- (“secondary”). Pronunciation: /ɛs/ 1. secondary form Labels: morpheme
Word: s- Part of Speech: prefix Etymology: Abbreviation of super. Pronunciation: /s/ 1. Super. Labels: morpheme
Word: Macaulay Part of Speech: name Etymology: From Scotland, an anglicisation of the Scottish Gaelic Gaelic Mac Amhalghaidh ("son of Amhalghaidh"). From Ireland, an anglicisation of the Gaelic Mac Amhlaoibh ("son of Amhlaoibh") or Mac Amhlaidh ("son of Amhlaidh"). These Gaelic names are derived from the Old Norse personal name Áleifr and Óláfr. Pronunciation: /məˈkɔːli/ 1. A surname from Scottish Gaelic of Gaelic origin. 2. A male given name transferred from the surname
Word: Addison Part of Speech: name Etymology: A patronymic surname from a medieval diminutive form of Adam + -son. Pronunciation: /ˈædɪsən/, [ˈæɾɪsən] 1. A surname transferred from the given name. Labels: countable, uncountable 2. A male given name transferred from the surname. Labels: countable, uncountable 3. A female given name transferred from the surname popular in the 2000s, following Alison and Madison. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: My name is Addison Jane Dawson, but you can call me Addy; everyone else does. I was named after my great grandfather, Addison Jay Dawson, - - - 4. A place name, including: Labels: countable, uncountable 5. A place name, including: Labels: countable, uncountable 6. A place name, including: Labels: countable, uncountable 7. A place name, including: Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: reflect Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Old French reflecter (“to bend back, turn back”), from Latin reflectō (“to reflect”), from re- (“again”) + flectō (“to bend, to curve”). Compare English reflex. Pronunciation: /ɹɪˈflɛkt/ 1. To bend back (light, etc.) from a surface. Labels: transitive Example: A mirror reflects the light that shines on it. 2. To be bent back (light, etc.) from a surface. Labels: intransitive Example: The moonlight reflected from the surface of water. 3. To mirror, or show the image of something. Labels: transitive Example: The shop window reflected his image as he walked past. 4. To be mirrored. Labels: intransitive Example: His image reflected from the shop window as he walked past. 5. To agree with; to closely follow. Labels: transitive Example: Entries in English dictionaries aim to reflect common usage. 6. To give evidence of someone's or something's character etc. Labels: transitive Example: The team's victory reflects the Captain's abilities. Example: The teacher's ability reflects well on the school. 7. To think seriously; to ponder or consider. Labels: intransitive Example: People do that sort of thing every day, without ever stopping to reflect on the consequences. Example: Standing on the mountain above Caerphilly, one may reflect upon the gap where once stood Llanbradach Viaduct, and look near at hand upon the restored ruins of Caerphilly Castle; man labours to rebuild the mediaeval whilst he ruthlessly scraps the modern.
Word: audience Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English audience, from Middle French audience, from Old French audience, from Latin audientia, from present participle audiēns (“hearing”), from verb audiō (“to hear”). Doublet of audiencia. Pronunciation: /ˈɔːdi.əns/, /ˈoːdɪjəns/, /ˈɔ.di.əns/, [ˈɔ.ɾi.əns], /ˈɑ.di.əns/ 1. A group of people within hearing; specifically, a large gathering of people listening to or watching a performance, speech, etc. Example: We joined the audience just as the lights went down. Example: One saint's day in mid-term a certain newly appointed suffragan-bishop came to the school chapel, and there preached on “The Inner Life.” He at once secured attention by his informal method, and when presently the coughing of Jarvis […] interrupted the sermon, he altogether captivated his audience with a remark about cough lozenges being cheap and easily procurable. 2. Hearing; the condition or state of hearing or listening. Labels: archaic Example: WHen he had ended all his ſayingꝭ in the audience of the people / he entred ĩto Capernaum. Example: ... groans and roarings full of plaintive anger, the force of which can only be realized by actual audience. When solicited by the jerking of their noses, they condescend to kneel down and tuck their legs under them;[…] 3. A widespread or nationwide viewing or listening public, as of a TV or radio network or program. 4. A formal meeting with a state or religious dignitary. Example: She managed to get an audience with the Pope. Example: Captain Anderson: Sounds like you convinced the Council to give us an audience. Ambassador Udina: They were not happy about it. Saren's their top agent. They don't like him being accused of treason. 5. The readership of a book or other written publication. Example: "Private Eye" has a small but faithful audience. 6. A following. Example: The opera singer expanded his audience by singing songs from the shows. 7. An audiencia (judicial court of the Spanish empire), or the territory administered by it. Labels: historical
Word: precautious Part of Speech: adj 1. Taking precautions.
Word: neo-Luddite Part of Speech: adj 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 Luddite English neo-Luddite From neo- + Luddite. Pronunciation: /niːɒˈlʌdaɪt/ 1. Opposed to technology, in the fashion of the Luddites. Labels: derogatory, sometimes Example: One is a neo-Luddite revolt, aiming to destroy machines and machine systems […] Example: Last along the spectrum comes a diverse set of social critics, activists and intellectuals for the most part, who accept the neo-Luddite label without demur and are consciously working to adapt certain of the Luddite fundamentals to contemporary politics.
Word: neo-Luddite 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 Luddite English neo-Luddite From neo- + Luddite. Pronunciation: /niːɒˈlʌdaɪt/ 1. One who opposes technology or scientific progress, in the fashion of the Luddites. Labels: derogatory, sometimes Example: "Neo-Luddite," I said to myself. A filthy accusation. Example: Yet the neo-Luddite resistance is remarkably disparate. Some flee to the woods; others, taking a less courageous stand, are content to dis the microwave oven and cellular phone. But on one major point, neo-Luddites agree: They would loathe computerization even if hordes of unwitting neo-Luddites hadn't suddenly made technophobia so trendy.
Word: scrutinise Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From scrutiny + -ise. Pronunciation: /ˈskɹuːtɪnaɪz/ 1. To examine something with great care. Labels: UK, transitive Example: Because his opinions are all over the place, they find it easy to scrutinise them and lay them out; Example: Economics is a messy discipline: too fluid to be a science, too rigorous to be an art. Perhaps it is fitting that economists’ most-used metric, gross domestic product (GDP), is a tangle too. GDP measures the total value of output in an economic territory. Its apparent simplicity explains why it is scrutinised down to tenths of a percentage point every month. 2. To audit accounts etc in order to verify them. Labels: UK, transitive
Word: dejection Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Old French dejection, from Latin dejectio (“a casting down”). By surface analysis, deject + -ion. Pronunciation: /dɪˈdʒɛkʃən/, /dəˈd͡ʒɛkʃən/ 1. A state of melancholy or depression; low spirits, the blues. Labels: countable, uncountable 2. The act of humbling or abasing oneself. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Adoration implies submission and dejection, so that while we worship we cast down ourselves; there must be therefore some great eminence in the object worshipped, or else we should dishonor our own nature in the worship of it. 3. A low condition; weakness; inability. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Meat remaining in the stomach undigested, dejection of appetite, wind coming upwards, are signs of a phlegmatick constitution. 4. Defecation or feces. Labels: archaic, countable, uncountable Example: No dejection since his entrance, nor has he passed urine. Example: His dejections were frequent, loose, changing in character from hour to hour, made up of undigested food, of mucus and watery fluid, varying in color, mostly green, and never healthy in consistence, color, or odor.
Word: prisoner Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English prisoner, from Old French prisonier (compare Medieval Latin prisōnārius), equivalent to prison + -er. Pronunciation: /ˈpɹɪzənə/, /ˈpɹɪznə/, /ˈpɹɪzənɚ/, /ˈpɹɪznɚ/ 1. A person incarcerated in a prison, while on trial or serving a sentence. Example: Two other prisoners were staying in the same cell as him. Example: The evidence disclosed that the three prisoners were in a public-house together with the prosecutor, Abraham Rhodes, and that in concert with the other two prisoners, the prisoner John Dewhirst placed a pencase on the table in the room where they were assembled, and left the room to get writing-paper. 2. Any person held against their will. Example: And gainſt the General we will lift our ſwords / And either lanch his greedie thirſting throat, / Or take him priſoner, and his chaine ſhall ſerue / For Manackles, till he be ranſom’d home. Example: Captain Edward Carlisle, soldier as he was, martinet as he was, felt a curious sensation of helplessness seize upon him as he met her steady gaze, her alluring smile ; he could not tell what this prisoner might do. 3. A person who is or feels confined or trapped by a situation or a set of circumstances. Example: I am no longer a prisoner to fear, for I am a child of God. Example: I'm a prisoner of your love.
Word: rake-and-scrape Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative spelling of rake and scrape. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: Wolof Part of Speech: name Etymology: From Wolof Wolof. Pronunciation: /ˈwɒlɒf/, /ˈwəʊlɒf/ 1. A West African people, mostly in Senegal. 2. The language traditionally spoken by those people. Example: ‘But come on: haven’t you learnt even a little bit of Wolof yet?’ 3. The former realm of the Wolof, maintained from the 14th to the 19th centuries. Labels: historical
Word: Wolof Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Wolof Wolof. Pronunciation: /ˈwɒlɒf/, /ˈwəʊlɒf/ 1. An individual member of the Wolof people.
Word: capable Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French capable, from Late Latin capābilis. Pronunciation: /ˈkeɪ.pə.bəl/, [ˈkʰeɪ̯.pə.bɫ̩], /ˈkeɪ.bə.bəl/ 1. Able and efficient; having the ability needed for a specific task; having the disposition to do something; permitting or being susceptible to something. Example: She is capable and efficient. Example: He does not need help; he is capable of eating on his own. 2. Of sufficient capacity or size for holding, containing, receiving or taking in; accessible to. Construed with of, for or an infinitive. Labels: obsolete Example: The place chosen was the cathedral church, capable of about 400 persons. Example: [...] deſignation only to thoſe things, which have parts, and are capable of increaſe or diminution [...]
Word: scholar Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English scolar, scolare, scoler, scolere (also scholer), from Old English scōlere (“scholar, learner”), from Late Latin scholāris, from schola (“school”), from Ancient Greek σχολή (skholḗ, “spare time, leisure", later, "conversations and the knowledge gained through them during free time; the places where these conversations took place”), equivalent to school + -ar. Doublet of schooler, Schuyler, and escolar. Compare Saterland Frisian Sköiler, Middle Low German schö̂lære, schö̂lere, schö̂ler (> modern German Low German Schöler), Dutch scholier, German Schüler. Pronunciation: /ˈskɒlə/, /ˈskɑlɚ/ 1. A student; one who studies at school or college, typically having a scholarship. 2. A specialist in a particular branch of knowledge. 3. A learned person; a bookman. Example: The ability of a segment of a glass sphere to magnify whatever is placed before it was known around the year 1000, when the spherical segment was called a reading stone,[…]. Scribes, illuminators, and scholars held such stones directly over manuscript pages as an aid in seeing what was being written, drawn, or read. 4. Someone who received a prestigious scholarship. Labels: Singapore
Word: chill pill Part of Speech: noun 1. An imaginary medicine taken when excessively anxious or upset about a trivial matter. Labels: informal Example: Take a chill pill, and calm down. Example: Will you two just take a chill pill already!? Our routines are secret!!
Word: poseur Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from French poseur. Pronunciation: /pəʊˈzʊə(ɹ)/, /pəʊˈzɜː(ɹ)/ 1. One who affects some behaviour, style, attitude or other condition, often to impress or influence others. Example: He pretends he's an artist, but he's just a poseur. Example: She only dresses like that because she thinks she is getting the boys' attention; she's such a poseur.
Word: fox terrier Part of Speech: noun 1. Either of two breeds of dog (the smooth fox terrier and the wire fox terrier) bred for fox hunting. Example: One morning I had been driven to the precarious refuge afforded by the steps of the inn, after rejecting offers from the Celebrity to join him in a variety of amusements. But even here I was not free from interruption, for he was seated on a horse-block below me, playing with a fox terrier. Example: After our fox-terrier had killed several of the Stationmaster's chickens and a peace offering had been made by my father in the form of cigars, I found that the way had been made clear for me to visit the junction box, and what a thrill it was.
Word: Reynard Part of Speech: name Etymology: Inherited from Middle English Renard, from Old French Renart (Modern renard (“fox”)), influenced by Middle Dutch Reynaerd, both ultimately from Proto-Germanic *Raginaharduz, from *raginą (“decision, advice, counsel”) + *harduz (“hard, strong”). Compare German Reinhard, Old High German Reginhart (“strong in counsel”). Pronunciation: /ˈɹɛnə(ɹ)d/, /ˈɹɛnɑː(ɹ)d/ 1. A male given name. 2. A surname originating as a patronymic. 3. A name in European folklore for the red fox. Labels: literary, poetic Example: Reynard, in his thieving rambles, one night the summer before last visited the pleasure-gardens in Cornbury Park, and there he found and carried off a hen pheasant while sitting on her nest. The same evening a barn-door hen, with a nide of pheasants also disappeared. 4. A locality in the Shire of Wellington and the Shire of Mansfield, south eastern Victoria, Australia.
Word: folklore Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From folk + lore, coined by British writer William Thoms in 1846 to replace terms such as "popular antiquities". Thoms imitated German terms such as Volklehre (“people's customs”) and Volksüberlieferung (“popular tradition”). Compare also Old English folclar (“popular instruction; homily”) and West Frisian folkloare (“folklore”). Pronunciation: /ˈfəʊk.lɔː/, /ˈfoʊk.lɔːɹ/ 1. The tales, legends, superstitions, and traditions of a particular ethnic population. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: [T]here is no true American music but the wild sweet melodies of the Negro slave; the American fairy tales and folk-lore are Indian and African; and, all in all, we black men seem the sole oasis of simple faith and reverence in a dusty desert of dollars and smartness. Example: Why has not England a great mythology? Our folklore has never advanced beyond daintiness, and the greater melodies about our country-side have all issued through the pipes of Greece. 2. The tales, superstitions etc. of any particular group or community. Labels: broadly, countable, uncountable Example: A selection of longer items of hacker folklore and humor is included in Appendix A, Hacker Folklore. Example: Foxes boss Rodgers had a smile that illuminated Wembley as he joined Leicester's players in joyous scenes of celebration after the manager and his players had written their name into the club's folklore. 3. The collective of proofs or techniques which are widely known among mathematicians, but have never been formally published. Labels: countable, slang, uncountable
Word: superstition Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle French superstition, from Latin superstitio (“superstition”), from superstāre (“to stand above, to stand upon, to survive”) + -tiō (“-tion: forming nouns”), from super- (“above, over, upon”) + stāre (“to stand”). Pronunciation: /ˌs(j)uː.pə(ɹ)ˈstɪ.ʃən/, /ˌs(j)u.pə(ɹ)ˈstɪ.ʃn̩/, /ˌs(j)u.pɚˈstɪ.ʃən/, /ˌs(j)u.pɚˈstɪ.ʃn̩/ 1. A belief considered to be irrational, unfounded, or based solely on fear and ignorance, particularly credulous reverence towards and belief in supernatural forces. Labels: countable, derogatory, uncountable Example: What children we are in trifles! what slight things exercise an influence over us! to how much that our reason would be ashamed to acknowledge! nevertheless does it submit. Our whole nature must change; we must be less susceptible, less dependent on "blind accident," before we can shake off hopes and fears, which are almost superstitions. Example: The world is not merely the sum of all its atoms... There are no atoms in themselves. Atoms regarded as things in themselves are a scientific superstition. 2. Excessive nicety; overscrupulousness. Labels: archaic, countable, uncountable
Word: leapfrog Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From leap + frog. Pronunciation: /ˈliːpfɹɒɡ/, /ˈliːpfɹɑɡ/, /-fɹɔɡ/ 1. A game, often played by children, in which a player leaps like a frog over the back of another person who has stooped over. One variation of the game involves a number of people lining up in a row and bending over. The last person in the line then vaults forward over each of the others until they reach the front of the line, whereupon they also bend over. The process is then repeated. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: La Poſte (jeu d'Enfant) Skip-frog, or Leap-frog, a Boyiſh Play. Example: Are they [female students] not, indeed, generally wanting in that power of healthy stimulation which, exerted at proper intervals and sustained for proper periods, at once develops the mental powers, and sends forth the young boy-student from his Greek construing and his Latin hexameters to his leap-frog and cricket, with a zeal and an energy which he will never feel again when the school-room door has finally closed on him? 2. The process by which a case is appealed or allowed to be appealed directly to a supreme court, bypassing an intermediate appellate court. Labels: UK, attributive, countable, uncountable, usually Example: The Supreme Court can hear appeals direct from the High Court under the ‘leapfrog’ procedure. This procedure is reserved for matters certified by the Supreme Court to be of general public importance—the type of issue which would ultimately be appealed from the Court of Appeal in any event. There are normally a few of these direct appeals from the High Court each year. Example: An appeal to the Court of Cassation can be filed against judgments issued on (first) appeal, which means judgments issued in general by a court of appeals, even though the Code provides for judgments issued by courts of first instance that can be reviewed by the Court of Cassation through a sort of ‘leapfrog’ appeal; […]
Word: leapfrog Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From leap + frog. Pronunciation: /ˈliːpfɹɒɡ/, /ˈliːpfɹɑɡ/, /-fɹɔɡ/ 1. To jump over some obstacle, as in the game of leapfrog. Labels: transitive Example: Zachary Black jumps out from behind a bush. My heart leapfrogs up my throat, climbs out of my mouth and scarpers down the street. 2. To overtake. Labels: transitive Example: This new product will leapfrog the competition. Example: If the following bus has no passengers who wish to get off, it may leapfrog the leader but will face the same delay at the next stop. 3. To progress. Labels: intransitive Example: [W]hen we emerged refueled from an air-conditioned café about forty-five minutes later, the temperature had leapfrogged at least ten degrees. 4. To appeal or allow to be appealed (a case) directly to a supreme court, bypassing an intermediate appellate court. Labels: UK, transitive Example: In Jones v Kaney [2010] EWHC 61 (Q.B.) at first instance, the issue was whether the claimant's psychologist in a personal injury claim was negligent because in a joint written statement with the other side's expert, she had resiled from her diagnosis of PTSD without comment or amendment of her report, greatly damaging the claimant's case. The claimant sued in negligence, the judge was constrained by the authorities, but granted a certificate under s. 12 of the Administration of Justice Act 1960 to leapfrog the case to the Supreme Court. 5. To advance by engaging the enemy with one unit while another moves further forward. Labels: transitive Example: In late November and early December, General [William] Rosecrans juggled his units in preparation for the upcoming drive against [Braxton] Bragg. Among the changes, Sill's brigade relinquished its position in the advance of the army as other units leap-frogged south to the head of the army.
Word: anatine Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Latin anatīnus, from anas, anatis (“a duck”) + -inus (“-ine”). By surface analysis, Latin anat- + -ine. Pronunciation: /ˈa.nə.tʌɪn/, /ˈæ.nə.taɪn/ 1. Being of the family Anatinae. 2. Pertaining to or resembling a duck; ducklike.
Word: athletic Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₂weh₁-der. Proto-Indo-European *-tḗr Proto-Indo-European *-tromder. Ancient Greek ἆθλον (âthlon) Ancient Greek ᾱ̓θλέω (āthléō) Proto-Hellenic *-tās Ancient Greek -τής (-tḗs) Ancient Greek ἀθλητής (athlētḗs) Proto-Indo-European *-kos Proto-Hellenic *-kos Ancient Greek -κός (-kós) Ancient Greek -ικός (-ikós) Ancient Greek ᾱ̓θλητῐκός (āthlētĭkós)bor. Latin āthlēticuslbor. Middle French athletiquebor. English athletic Borrowed from Middle French athletique and Latin āthlēticus, from Ancient Greek ἀθλητικός (athlētikós, “relating to an athlete”), from ἀθλητής (athlētḗs, “athlete”): equivalent to athlete + -ic. For more, see athlete. The Super Mario sense is effectively a reborrowing of Japanese アスレチック (asurechikku, “obstacle course”), originally borrowed from English athletic; this sense was itself originally a clipping of the genericized wasei eigo trademark フィールドアスレチック (fīrudo asurechikku, “Field Athletic”). Pronunciation: /æθˈlɛt.ɪk/ 1. Having to do with athletes. Labels: not-comparable Example: Are you a member of the American Athletic Association? 2. Physically active. Example: Since you're such an athletic person, you may wish to consider joining. Example: An athletic kid from New Jersey, Fischer was known as a bold risk taker — they called him “the fallingest man in climbing” — until an old-school cragger taught him the Zen of controlled ascent. 3. Having a muscular, well developed body, being in shape. Example: You have such an athletic build—you must work out regularly. 4. An attribute of a motion or play which requires fine physical ability. Example: The center fielder made an athletic play to snatch the ball from over the fence. 5. Of a level in a Super Mario game: with an emphasis on platforming challenge, often involving precise jumps between floating platforms above a bottomless pit, and having upbeat background music. Example: An athletic course in which Mario must traverse rotating lifts and stretch blocks. Example: Mario levels are usually indicated to belong to one of five types (overworld, underground, athletic, castle, underwater)². The type determines the aesthetic style of the level, but also affects the challenges that are posed. For example, athletic levels usually contain platforms that are spaced far apart, as well as moving platforms. They thus require precise and timed jumps to traverse.
Word: athletic Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₂weh₁-der. Proto-Indo-European *-tḗr Proto-Indo-European *-tromder. Ancient Greek ἆθλον (âthlon) Ancient Greek ᾱ̓θλέω (āthléō) Proto-Hellenic *-tās Ancient Greek -τής (-tḗs) Ancient Greek ἀθλητής (athlētḗs) Proto-Indo-European *-kos Proto-Hellenic *-kos Ancient Greek -κός (-kós) Ancient Greek -ικός (-ikós) Ancient Greek ᾱ̓θλητῐκός (āthlētĭkós)bor. Latin āthlēticuslbor. Middle French athletiquebor. English athletic Borrowed from Middle French athletique and Latin āthlēticus, from Ancient Greek ἀθλητικός (athlētikós, “relating to an athlete”), from ἀθλητής (athlētḗs, “athlete”): equivalent to athlete + -ic. For more, see athlete. The Super Mario sense is effectively a reborrowing of Japanese アスレチック (asurechikku, “obstacle course”), originally borrowed from English athletic; this sense was itself originally a clipping of the genericized wasei eigo trademark フィールドアスレチック (fīrudo asurechikku, “Field Athletic”). Pronunciation: /æθˈlɛt.ɪk/ 1. A muscular, large–boned person, in the typology of Ernst Kretschmer.
Word: decillion Part of Speech: num Etymology: From dec- (“ten”) + -illion. First attested in 1709 in a translation of Johann Sturm’s Mathesis juvenilis by George Vaux, translating Latin mille myriades octavorum numerorum. Pronunciation: /dəˈsɪl.i.ən/ 1. 10³³. Labels: US Example: Google has racked up some 2 undecillion rubles ($2.5 decillion) worth of fines in Russia after years of refusing to restore the accounts of pro-Kremlin and state-run media outlets, the RBC news website reported Tuesday, citing an anonymous source familiar with court rulings against the tech company. 2. 10⁶⁰.
Word: mutant Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Latin mūtāns, present participle of mūtō. By surface analysis, muta- + -ant. Pronunciation: /ˈmjuːtənt/, /ˈmju(t)n̩(t)/ 1. That which has mutated, with one or more new characteristics from a mutation. Example: Furthermore, it is possible that there occasionally arises what may be called a mutant of very desirable character from a eugenic point of view. Example: There does seem to have been some mutation among plants[…]but in animal life where are the mutants? When or where has a new species originated in this way? 2. Someone or something that seems strange, abnormal, or bizarre. Labels: informal Example: Your neighbor seems to be a mutant; he’s so cringy! Example: She could really get to like this relationship with Raven, if it weren't for the fact that he's a homicidal mutant. 3. Synonym of mutex. 4. A changed version of a program, developed as part of mutation testing.
Word: mutant Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Latin mūtāns, present participle of mūtō. By surface analysis, muta- + -ant. Pronunciation: /ˈmjuːtənt/, /ˈmju(t)n̩(t)/ 1. Of, relating to, undergoing (i.e. mutating), or resulting from change or mutation; that has undergone mutation. Labels: not-comparable Example: mutant DNA Example: Scientists have created a mutant enzyme that breaks down plastic drinks bottles—by accident. 2. Strange, abnormal, or bizarre. Labels: informal, not-comparable Example: Your mutant brother just growled at me again! Example: Boris Johnson got an angry response after telling school pupils that the exam results crisis was caused by a “mutant algorithm” and he was glad it had been “sorted out”.
Word: wtf Part of Speech: phrase 1. Alternative letter-case form of WTF. Labels: Internet, alt-of, slang, vulgar
Word: vacant Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Old French vacant, from Latin vacāns. Pronunciation: /ˈveɪkənt/ 1. Not occupied; empty. Example: a vacant room Example: a vacant consulate 2. Not present; absent. Labels: rare Example: And Pierre felt that never, never would he be able to embrace Isabel with the mere brotherly embrace; while the thought of any other caress, which took hold of any domesticness, was entirely vacant from his uncontaminated soul, for it had never consciously intruded there. 3. Blank. Example: a vacant page 4. Showing no intelligence or interest. Example: a vacant stare Example: a vacant look in her eyes
Word: vacancy Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Late Latin vacantia. Doublet of vacance. Pronunciation: /ˈveɪkənsi/, /ˈvæɪkənsi/ 1. An unoccupied position or job. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Whenever there is a vacancy in the office of the Vice President, the President shall nominate a Vice President who shall take office upon confirmation by a majority vote of both Houses of Congress. 2. An available room in a hotel; guest house, etc. Labels: countable, uncountable 3. Empty space. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: The following account of Cavendish is from one of our most accomplished chemists, who communicated it orally to Mr. Tomlinson, from whom I received it. “When I was a very young man—a new Fellow of the Royal Society—I always looked upon it as a great honour to be noticed by Cavendish, and so did the other young members of the society. We used to dine at the Crown and Anchor, and Cavendish often dined with us. He came slouching in, one hand behind his back, and taking off his hat (which by the bye he always hung up on one particular peg), he sat down without taking notice of anybody. If you attempted to draw him into conversation he always fought shy. Dr. Wollaston’s directions I found to succeed best. He said, ‘the way to talk to Cavendish is never to look at him, but to talk as it were into vacancy, and then it is not unlikely but you may set him going!’” Example: Sky was set above earth, land ringed with sea, / Chaos retired to its own vacancy …. 4. A blank mind, unoccupied with thought. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: ...—who has not looked back to the past with that passion of hopelessness, which deems that life can never more be what it has been,—with a consciousness that the dearer emotions are exhausted, while in their place have arisen but vacancy and weariness? 5. Lack of intelligence or understanding. Labels: countable, uncountable 6. A defect in a crystal caused by the absence of an atom in a lattice Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: vacate Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Originally used in the legal sense "to annul", a denominal from Early Modern English vacat (“legal annulment”), a development from Middle English vacat (“absence or cancellation noted in a register”), from Latin vacat, third-person singular present active indicative of vacō (“to be idle; to be unoccupied”, literally “to be empty”). The primary modern sense "to move out" likely developed under the influence of older borrowing vacant (“unoccupied”), in combination with the Early Modern use of vacate to refer to the termination of official appointments to office, which would leave those position vacant. Pronunciation: /veɪˈkeɪt/, /ˈveɪ.keɪt/, /vəˈkeɪt/ 1. To move out of a dwelling or other property, either by choice or by eviction. Example: I have to vacate my house by midday, as the new owner is moving in. Example: You are hereby ordered to vacate the premises within 14 days. 2. To leave an office or position. Example: He vacated his coaching position because of the corruption scandal. 3. To have a court judgement set aside; to annul. Labels: transitive Example: The judge vacated the earlier decision when new evidence was presented. Example: On Thursday, the New York court of appeals vacated his conviction after concluding that a trial judge permitted jurors to see and hear too much evidence not directly related to the charges he faced. It also erased his 23-year prison sentence and ordered a retrial. 4. To leave an area, usually as a result of orders from public authorities in the event of a riot or natural disaster. Example: If you do not immediately vacate the area, we will make you leave with tear gas!
Word: diligent Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English diligent, from Old French diligent, from Latin dīligēns (“careful, attentive, diligent”), present participle of dīligō (“to love, esteem much”, literally “to choose, select”), from dī-, dis- (“apart”) + legō (“to choose”); see elect and select. Pronunciation: /ˈdɪlɪdʒənt/ 1. Performing with industrious concentration; hard-working and focused. Example: Scientists are very diligent in their work.
Word: mens Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of men (“plural of man”). Labels: alt-of, alternative, nonstandard 2. Obsolete form of men's. Labels: alt-of, obsolete Example: Mens hearts failing them for feare, and for looking after those things which are comming on the earth; For the powers of heauen shall be shaken. Example: A thousand fantasies Begin to throng into my memory Of calling shapes, and beckning shadows dire, And airy tongues, that syllable mens names On Sands, and Shoars, and desert Wildernesses. 3. Misspelling of men's. Labels: alt-of, misspelling
Word: mens Part of Speech: noun 1. Clipping of menstruation. Labels: Philippines, abbreviation, alt-of, clipping, colloquial
Word: flyer Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From fly + -er (agent noun suffix). With regard to the sense "female kangaroo": because of the high speed at which they move. Pronunciation: /ˈflaɪə(ɹ)/ 1. That which flies, as a bird or insect. 2. A machine that flies. 3. An airplane pilot. Labels: dated 4. A person who travels by airplane. 5. A leaflet, often for advertising. 6. The part of a spinning machine that twists the thread as it takes it to and winds it on the bobbin 7. An arch that connects a flying buttress into the structure it supports. 8. A person who is lifted and/or thrown by another person or persons. 9. A stray shot away from the group on a target. 10. A standard rectangular step of a staircase (as opposed to a winder). 11. A female kangaroo; a roo; a doe; a jill. 12. A leap or jump. 13. A risky investment or other venture. Example: It was a great day for the pair of Fosters. They were speechless for joy. Also speechless for another reason: after much watching of the market, Aleck had lately, with fear and trembling, made her first flyer on a “margin,” using the remaining twenty thousand of the bequest in this risk. 14. A fast-moving person or thing. Labels: informal Example: An amusing incident on the first of these journeys was the checking by signal of the flyer about 3 miles out of Paris, with the result that it was overhauled by the 6.25 p.m. semi-fast from Paris to Montargis, to the unconcealed delight of passengers in the latter. Example: The new Waterloo–Exeter times of the S.R. flyer are 2hr 58min down and 1min more up, in less than 3hr, that is to say, in both directions, with the help of four runs timed at over a mile a minute. 15. A false start. 16. Synonym of flying cymbal.
Word: flyer Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From fly + -er (agent noun suffix). With regard to the sense "female kangaroo": because of the high speed at which they move. Pronunciation: /ˈflaɪə(ɹ)/ 1. To distribute flyers (leaflets). Labels: intransitive Example: Neil McKinnon, the Fringe's head of external affairs, asks: Are you flyering in the right place at the right time? How are you flyering? Good flyering is about more than standing there handing out flyers to as many people as you can. 2. To distribute flyers in (a location) or to (recipients). Labels: transitive
Word: flyer Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *plew- Proto-Indo-European *plewk- Proto-Indo-European *-eti Proto-Indo-European *pléwketi Proto-Germanic *fleuganą Proto-West Germanic *fleugan Old English flēogan Middle English fliender. English fly Proto-Indo-European *-yōs Proto-Germanic *-izô Proto-West Germanic *-iʀō Proto-Germanic *-ōzô Proto-West Germanic *-ōʀō Old English -ra Middle English -ere English -er English flyer From fly + -er (comparative suffix). Pronunciation: /ˈflaɪə(ɹ)/ 1. comparative form of fly: more fly Labels: comparative, form-of
Word: flier Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *plew- Proto-Indo-European *plewk- Proto-Indo-European *-eti Proto-Indo-European *pléwketi Proto-Germanic *fleuganą Proto-West Germanic *fleugan Old English flēogan Middle English fliender. English fly Proto-Indo-European *-yōs Proto-Germanic *-izô Proto-West Germanic *-iʀō Proto-Germanic *-ōzô Proto-West Germanic *-ōʀō Old English -ra Middle English -ere English -er English flier From fly + -er (comparative suffix). 1. comparative form of fly: more fly Labels: comparative, form-of
Word: flier Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *plew- Proto-Indo-European *plewk- Proto-Indo-European *-eti Proto-Indo-European *pléwketi Proto-Germanic *fleuganą Proto-West Germanic *fleugan Old English flēogan Middle English fliender. English fly 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 flier From fly + -er (agent noun suffix). 1. Alternative form of flyer (more common in US, except in the sense of "leaflet") Labels: alt-of, alternative Example: Most graphiums have a speckled pattern, and they are fast fliers. Example: Just a few days before McNamara died, Politico uncovered a particularly graphic example involving The Post: an invitation to lobbyists to shell out $25,000 to $250,000 to sponsor off-the-record, nonconfrontational "salons" where they could mix with what a promotional flier called "the right people" and "alter the debate."
Word: flier Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *plew- Proto-Indo-European *plewk- Proto-Indo-European *-eti Proto-Indo-European *pléwketi Proto-Germanic *fleuganą Proto-West Germanic *fleugan Old English flēogan Middle English fliender. English fly 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 flier From fly + -er (agent noun suffix). 1. Alternative form of flyer. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: pectus Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Latin pectus. 1. The breast, especially of a bird.
Word: forum Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Latin forum (“public market place, forum”). Doublet of fuero and door. Pronunciation: /ˈfɔːɹəm/, /ˈfɔɹəm/, /ˈfoːɹəm/ 1. A place for discussion. 2. A gathering for the purpose of discussion; a symposium. 3. A form of discussion involving a panel of presenters and often participation by members of the audience. 4. An Internet message board where users can post messages regarding one or more topics of discussion. Labels: Internet Example: Trish was an admin on three forums, and had no trouble at all when it came to moderating them. 5. A square or marketplace in a Roman town, used for public business and commerce. Labels: historical
Word: admin Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Clipping of administrator or administration. Pronunciation: /ˈædˌmɪn/, /ədˈmɪn/, /ˈəɖ.mɪn/ 1. Administration, or administrative work. Labels: informal, uncountable Example: There's a lot of admin involved in the birth of a child. 2. An administration (a body that administers; the executive part of government). Labels: countable, informal Example: Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer (D-N.Y.) tweeted after the announcement, “I will not stop fighting to protect the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and stop the Trump admin’s plan for drilling.” Example: “I had word from The Trump admin that theyre^([sic]) on top of things,” Mr. Tate wrote to someone close to him, in a message reviewed by The New York Times. 3. The administrative or managerial body of a company or other organization. Labels: informal, uncountable Example: Barren dirt plots behind knee-high metal fences indicated admin must have cut the flower budget. 4. An administrator (one who administers affairs). Labels: countable, informal Example: Georgia’s election administrators are fighting bizarre conspiracy theories, ballooning costs and coronavirus-related staffing problems as they prepare for the state’s contentious, nationally watched Senate runoffs next week. 5. A systems administrator (one who maintains a computer system or network). Labels: countable, informal Example: Our admin has upgraded the server in our office, so we can exchange files faster. 6. A user of a discussion forum, website, etc. with privileges allowing them to control or restrict the activity of other users. Labels: Internet, countable, informal Example: The admin changed the forum settings to enable the use of emoticons.