nandhakumarms/qualc-wiktionary-en huggingface dataset:
Word: planetary Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English planet Proto-Indo-European *-yósder. Proto-Italic *-āzios Latin -āriusder. Middle English -arie English -ary English planetary From planet + -ary. Pronunciation: /ˈplænɪtəri/, /ˈplænɪtri/, /ˈplænɪˌtɛəri/, /ˈplænəˌtɛri/ 1. A planetary nebula.
Word: epicyclic Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree English epicycle Proto-Indo-European *-ikos Proto-Italic *-ikos Latin -icuslbor. Old French -iquebor. Middle English -ik English -ic English epicyclic From epicycle + -ic. 1. Of or relating to epicycles. Labels: not-comparable 2. Of a gearbox, having two gears mounted so that the center of one gear revolves around the center of the other. Labels: not-comparable Example: Power is derived from a British United Traction Limited "A"-type 150-h.p. six-cylinder horizontal diesel engine; this drives through a fluid flywheel, and thence through a free wheel unit to a four-speed epicyclic gearbox. Example: The gearbox is of the self-changing compound epicyclic SE.4 type, with Sinclair fluid coupling, having a maximum torque of 750 lb./ft.
Word: pantechnicon Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Pantechnicon, a 19th-century firm which owned a building with a Greek-style facade of Doric columns in Motcomb Street, Belgrave Square, London, UK, with a picture gallery, a furniture shop, a shop selling carriages, and a warehouse for storing customers’ furniture and other items. The firm used large horse-drawn vans to collect and deliver their customers' property, which came to be known as Pantechnicon vans. The word was coined by the firm from pan- (“all”) (from Ancient Greek πᾶν (pân), neuter form of πᾶς (pâs, “all, every”)) + τεχνικόν (tekhnikón), neuter singular of τεχνικός (tekhnikós, “technical”). Pronunciation: /pænˈtɛknɪkən/, /pænˈtɛknək(ə)n/, /-nəˌkɑn/ 1. A building or place housing shops or stalls where all sorts of (especially exotic) manufactured articles are collected for sale. Labels: UK Example: It is plain, that such writers do not rise to the very idea of a University. They consider it a sort of bazaar, or pantechnicon, in which wares of all kinds are heaped together for sale in stalls independent of each other; and that, to save the purchasers the trouble of running about from shop to shop; or an hotel or lodging house, where all professions and classes are at liberty to congregate, varying, however, according to the season, each of them strange to each, and about its own work or pleasure; […] Example: To-day will the mighty cobweb-dome receive its last survey, previous to the contractors for the building handing it over to the painters and decorators. When these have accomplished their task, then will the walls and counters begin to receive their varied and valuable stores of natural and artificial productions. Waggon-loads upon waggon-loads must, we know, be exhausted, and pantechnica emptied, before the vast area, so delicately covered, shall cry “Enough, enough;” […] 2. Originally pantechnicon van: a van, especially a large moving or removal van. Labels: UK Example: For we do not employ battleships as convoys, nor even as pantechnica conveying landing parties. Example: The pantechnicon was running away. It had perceived the wrath to come and was fleeing. Its guardians had evidently left it imperfectly scotched or braked, and it had got loose. […] [T]he onrush of the pantechnicon constituted a clear crisis. Lower down the gradient of Brougham Street was more dangerous, and it was within the possibilities that people inhabiting the depths of the street might find themselves pitched out of bed by the sharp corner of a pantechnicon that was determined to be a pantechnicon.
Word: epicycle Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Latin epicyclus, from Ancient Greek ἐπίκυκλος (epíkuklos), from ἐπί (epí, “upon”) + κύκλος (kúklos, “circle”). The ad hoc complication sense is a generalization from the archetype supplied by the Ptolemaic astronomy sense. Pronunciation: /ˈɛpɪˌsaɪkəl/ 1. A small circle whose centre is on the circumference of a larger circle; in Ptolemaic astronomy it was seen as the basis of revolution of the "seven planets", given a fixed central Earth. Example: Is it not [Philosophie], that […] teacheth miserie, famine and sicknesse to laugh? Not by reason of some imaginarie Epicicles, but by naturall and palpable reasons. 2. Any circle whose circumference rolls around that of another circle, thus creating a hypocycloid or epicycloid. 3. A ring of atoms joining parts of an already cyclic compound 4. An ad hoc complication added to a model to make it fit the known data Labels: figuratively Example: If two chronicles seemed contradictory, instead of trying to choose between them, a rationalization (epicycle) was devised to cover both. Example: Rather than solve the theoretical problem of how to produce a method of political ethics, the contractarian device introduces an unnecessary theoretical epicycle into what is otherwise a coherent account of social justice in particular and political morality in general.
Word: epicyclic gear Part of Speech: noun 1. A system of gears that has a central gear wheel around which others rotate, often within an outer ring.
Word: planetary gear Part of Speech: noun 1. A system of gears that has a central gear wheel (sun gear) around which others (planet gears) rotate, often within an outer ring. Example: Meronyms: sun gear, planet gear
Word: gear wheel Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From gear + wheel. Pronunciation: /ɡɪə(ɹ)ʍiːl/, /ɡɪɚ ʍil/ 1. A wheel with a toothed rim, intended to engage with others, or similar equipment, to form a gear. Example: Holonym: gearset Example: Near-synonyms: cog, gear
Word: gearwheel Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *ḱe? Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm Proto-Germanic *ga- Proto-Indo-European *h₂er-der. Proto-Indo-European *h₃er-der. Proto-Germanic *arwaz Proto-Germanic *garwaz Proto-Indo-European *-yeti Proto-Indo-European *-éyeti Proto-Germanic *-janą Proto-Germanic *garwijanąder. Old Norse gervibor. Middle English gere English gear Proto-Indo-European *kʷel- Proto-Indo-European *kʷekʷléh₂ Proto-Germanic *hweulō Old English hwēol Middle English whel English wheel English gearwheel From gear + wheel. 1. Alternative spelling of gear wheel. Labels: alt-of, alternative Example: Gearwheels and pinions can be removed by the oil injection method, a provision which speeds and simplifies the work of replacement.
Word: cog wheel Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative spelling of cogwheel. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: cogwheel Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *gēw- Proto-Indo-European *gugāder. Proto-Germanic *kuggōder. Old Norse *koggrbor. Middle English cogge English cog Proto-Indo-European *kʷel- Proto-Indo-European *kʷekʷléh₂ Proto-Germanic *hweulō Old English hwēol Middle English whel English wheel English cogwheel From cog + wheel. 1. A gear wheel. Example: Near-synonyms: cog, gear (often synonymous) 2. Something behaving in a jerky manner similar to a cogwheel, e.g. cogwheel respiration as a side effect of hyperbaric medicine. Labels: attributive
Word: solar time Part of Speech: noun 1. A calculation of the passage of time based on the apparent position of the Sun in the sky. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: solar day Part of Speech: noun 1. One day of solar time; the time in which a planet such as Earth apparently rotates once around its axis relative to the Sun; the time taken for the Sun to seem to be in the same place in the sky twice (on Earth about 24 hours as an average - the length of solar day is not constant throughout the year)
Word: mean solar day Part of Speech: noun 1. the average length of a solar day, used for practical timekeeping
Word: timekeeping Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From time + keeping. 1. The measurement of time, or determining what the local time is: the act or process of keeping the time. Labels: uncountable, usually 2. The measurement of time, or determining what the local time is: the act or process of keeping the time. Labels: uncountable, usually 3. The quality of being punctual, keeping to a set time. Labels: uncountable, usually Example: Timekeeping is better than on many Irish main lines; indeed, such delays as do occur are often attributable to late running of the Dublin-Sligo trains. Example: As already indicated, timekeeping is very poor. Point-to-point times are not kept, even with a clear road, and whilst fast running has never been a feature of the route because of the large number of junctions and speed restrictions, this Sunday night lethargy is hard to explain.
Word: timekeeping Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From time + keeping. 1. present participle and gerund of timekeep Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: talas Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of tala Labels: form-of, plural
Word: timekeeper Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From time + keeper. 1. A device that shows the time; a timepiece. Example: The sailors sail by chronometers that do not lose two or three seconds in a year, ever since [Isaac] Newton explained to Parliament that the way to improve navigation was to get good watches, and to offer public premiums for a better time-keeper than any then in use. 2. A person who keeps records of the hours of attendance of employees. 3. A person who records the time elapsed in a sporting event. 4. The group member who controls the rhythm of the music when a group of musicians play together. Example: There was no consensus among jazz musicians about who was the primary timekeeper in a jazz band; some said the drummers and others said the bassist. 5. A person (or something controlled by a person) that is punctual. Labels: usually Example: As it happens, the Leicester–Beeston train is quite a good timekeeper—it sometimes runs a few minutes early— […]
Word: apsis Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Latin apsis, hapsis, from Ancient Greek ἁψίς (hapsís, “arch, vault”). See also apse. Pronunciation: /ˈæpsɪs/ 1. A recess or projection, with a dome or vault, at the east end of a church. Example: Like Henry's collegiate church […] the cathedral is a cruciform basilica of the double bay system with four square bays in the central nave, western transoms, a quadrum for the choir, an apsis, and a transept with auxiliary apses. 2. Either of the points in the elliptical orbit of a planet, comet, or moon where it is closest or furthest from the body it orbits; examples are perihelion, aphelion, perigee, and apogee.
Word: furthest Part of Speech: adj Pronunciation: /ˈfɜː(ɹ)ðɪst/ 1. superlative form of far: most far Labels: form-of, superlative 2. superlative form of far: most far Example: The furthest known galaxy is about 13 billion light years from Earth. Example: Sitting on the dockside at Oban, watching the to-ing and fro-ing in the harbour on a perfect summer's eve, I reflect on a trip which has taken me through our busiest cities to traverse the country's main lines, as well as explore some of the furthest extremities that were literally out on a limb.
Word: furthest Part of Speech: adv Pronunciation: /ˈfɜː(ɹ)ðɪst/ 1. superlative form of far: most far Example: Of all the children in our school, I can run furthest. Example: He lives furthest from the office, so his commute is the longest. 2. superlative form of far: most far Example: This civilisation was the furthest advanced.
Word: farthest Part of Speech: adj Pronunciation: /ˈfɑːðɪst/, /ˈfɑɹðɪst/ 1. Alternative form of furthest. (See also usage notes at further.) Labels: alt-of, alternative Example: Away on the farthest cape or headland of the long islet, on a strip of turf beyond the last rank of roses, the duellists had already crossed swords. Example: They gathered soberly in the farthest recess of the ward and gossiped about him in malicious, offended undertones, rebelling against his presence as a ghastly imposition and resenting him malevolently for the nauseating truth of which he was bright reminder.
Word: farthest Part of Speech: adv Pronunciation: /ˈfɑːðɪst/, /ˈfɑɹðɪst/ 1. Alternative form of furthest. (See also usage notes at further.) Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: sich Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Ukrainian Січ (Sič), from Ukrainian сікти (sikty, “to chop”), alluding to the clearing of a forest for an encampment, or the building of a fort with trees that have been cut down. Pronunciation: /siːt͡ʃ/ 1. An administrative and military centre for the Zaporozhian and Danube Cossacks. Labels: historical
Word: sich Part of Speech: adj 1. Pronunciation spelling of such. Labels: alt-of, not-comparable, pronunciation-spelling Example: She's human as you are—you treat her as sich, Example: But I'm all in tremor after sich accident,
Word: sich Part of Speech: pron 1. Pronunciation spelling of such. Labels: alt-of, pronunciation-spelling
Word: LOLZ Part of Speech: intj Etymology: LOL (Initialism of laughing out loud.) + -z (Eye dialect spelling variant of the plural suffix -s.) 1. Alternative form of LOL. Labels: Internet, Leet, alt-of, alternative
Word: De Morgan's laws Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of De Morgan's law Labels: form-of, plural
Word: kaboom Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From ka- + boom. Compare kerboom. Consider Italian tapum. Pronunciation: /kəˈbuːm/ 1. The sound of an explosion, typically seen in comic strips or heard in a light-hearted conversation. 2. An explosion itself.
Word: kaboom Part of Speech: intj Etymology: From ka- + boom. Compare kerboom. Consider Italian tapum. Pronunciation: /kəˈbuːm/ 1. An explosion; the word is typically seen in comic strips or heard in a light-hearted conversation.
Word: kaboom Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From ka- + boom. Compare kerboom. Consider Italian tapum. Pronunciation: /kəˈbuːm/ 1. To make such a sound (at something); to explode. Labels: ambitransitive, informal Example: Hearing that magic word, Spivak exploded, “I don’t have to listen to this shit!” and kaboomed the receiver in my ear. Example: The Steel Pier’s Diving Horse kaboomed the water tank.
Word: proboscis Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Latin proboscis, from Ancient Greek προβοσκίς (proboskís, “elephant's trunk”) literally "means for taking food," from προ- (pro-, “before”) + βόσκω (bóskō, “to nourish, feed”), from the Proto-Indo-European root *gʷeh₃- from which also comes βοτάνη (botánē, “grass, fodder”). Pronunciation: /pɹə(ʊ)ˈbɒs(k)ɪs/, /pɹoʊˈbɑs(k)ɪs/, /pɹoʊˈbɒs(k)ɪs/, /pɹəʉˈbɔs(k)ɪs/, /pɹɐʉˈbɒs(k)əs/ 1. An elongated tube from the head or connected to the mouth, of an animal. Example: Don Caldwell, editor-in-chief of the site Know Your Meme, namechecks Brr Brr Patapim, “a proboscis monkey that is also a tree”, as one who made it to YouTube. 2. An elongated tube from the head or connected to the mouth, of an animal. Example: Unlike the proboscides of Lower brachyceran lineages, which are continuous with the head capsule and tend to dangle (Matsuda 1965), the proboscides of most cyclorrhaphan species are suspended by a membranous region and divided into three functional parts: the basiproboscis (rostrum), medioproboscis (haustellum), and distiproboscis (labellum), each of which is defined by internal muscles but also shares muscles with the other regions (Graham-Smith 1930; Lall and Davies 1971). 3. An elongated tube from the head or connected to the mouth, of an animal. 4. A large or lengthy human nose. Labels: humorous, informal, mildly
Word: dinosaurus Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of dinosaur. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: plexus Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Latin plectō Proto-Indo-European *-tus Proto-Italic *-tus Latin -tus Latin plexusbor. English plexus Borrowed from Latin plexus (“a twining, plaiting, braid”). Pronunciation: /ˈplɛk.səs/ 1. A network of anastomosing or interwoven nerves, blood vessels, or lymphatic vessels. 2. An interwoven combination of parts or elements in a structure or system. Example: Sensitive reader, start not at the apparition! Oxford is a plexus of anomalies. These two youths were (odd as it may seem to you) subject to the same Statutes, affiliated to the same College, reading for the same School; aye! and though the one had inherited half a score of noble and castellated roofs, whose mere repairs cost him annually thousands and thousands of pounds, and the other’s people had but one little mean square of lead, from which the fireworks of the Crystal Palace were clearly visible every Thursday evening, in Oxford one roof sheltered both of them. Furthermore, there was even some measure of intimacy between them. It was the Duke’s whim to condescend further in the direction of Noaks than in any other. He saw in Noaks his own foil and antithesis, and made a point of walking up the High with him at least once in every term. Noaks, for his part, regarded the Duke with feelings mingled of idolatry and disapproval. Example: I have the sensation of being immersed in the very plexus of life, focal from whatever place, position or attitude I take my stance. 3. The system of equations required for the complete expression of the relations which exist between a set of quantities. Example: Plexus (Lat.). The system of equations required for the complete expression of the relations which exist between a set of quantities.
Word: suicide bomber Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ˈsuːɪˌsaɪd ˈbɑmər/, /ˈsuːɪˌsaɪd ˈbɒmə/ 1. One who carries explosives on his or her body or in a vehicle and intends to detonate them (dying in the process) to kill people and inflict widespread damage, usually motivated by a political or religious cause.
Word: techie Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From tech + -ie (q.v.). Compare techy and yuppie. Pronunciation: /ˈtɛki/ 1. One who works with, or has an interest in, technology or computers. Labels: informal Example: Cyberflirts are also looking for men and women who are intelligent. The internet is a techie magnet. It's only natural that those drawn to the web are also drawn to people who are quick-witted, perceptive and astute. Example: He began giving parties in a loft on Broadway at Houston Street, with artists, techies and other downtowners. 2. A person who works on the technical side of events. Labels: informal
Word: techie Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Variant of tetchy, of uncertain etymology. Pronunciation: /ˈtɛki/ 1. Alternative form of tetchy. Labels: alt-of, alternative, informal, obsolete
Word: techno Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Clipping of technology. Pronunciation: /ˈtɛknoʊ/ 1. A repetitive style of music originally produced for use in a continuous DJ set. The central rhythmic component is most often in common time (4/4), where time is marked with a bass drum on each quarter note pulse, a backbeat played by snare or clap on the second and fourth pulses of the bar, and an open hi-hat sounding every second eighth note. Labels: uncountable Example: This is a country where nightclubs in Thimbu, the capital, throb with techno music, but where smoking is illegal and television did not arrive until 1999.
Word: techno- Part of Speech: prefix Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *teḱ- Proto-Indo-European *tetḱ- Proto-Indo-European *téḱ-sneh₂der. Ancient Greek τέχνη (tékhnē) Ancient Greek -ο- (-o-) Ancient Greek τεχνο- (tekhno-)der. English techno- Derived from Ancient Greek τεχνο- (tekhno-, “skill”). Pronunciation: /tɛknoʊ/ 1. Relating to technology. Labels: morpheme
Word: Ceres Part of Speech: name Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin Cerēs, goddess of the bounty, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱer- (“to grow, to nourish”). More at create. Pronunciation: /ˈsɪəɹiːz/ 1. The Roman goddess of agriculture; equivalent to the Greek goddess Demeter. Labels: Roman 2. An asteroid orbiting between Mars and Jupiter, the innermost dwarf planet; officially called (1) Ceres. 3. A city in Stanislaus County, California, United States. 4. A village south-east of Cupar, eastern Fife council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NO4011). 5. A locality in the City of Greater Geelong, south western Victoria, Australia
Word: Itokawa Part of Speech: name Etymology: Named for the Japanese rocket scientist Hideo Itokawa. 1. An asteroid; properly 25143 Itokawa
Word: Meridiani Planum Part of Speech: name Etymology: Latin 1. a plain on the surface of Mars; a landing site for several unmanned missions
Word: Acheron Fossae Part of Speech: name 1. an area of intense tectonic activity on the surface of Mars; photographed in detail by Mars Express
Word: Mars Express Part of Speech: name 1. An exploration mission to Mars launched in 2003 by the European Space Agency, consisting of the Mars Express Orbiter and the Beagle 2 lander. Labels: historical
Word: Valles Marineris Part of Speech: name Etymology: From Latin vallēs (“valleys”) + pseudo-Latin genitive of English mariner. Pronunciation: /ˈvælɪs ˌmɛəɹɪˈnɛɹɪs/ 1. a large system of canyons on the surface of Mars; contains channels possibly caused by the flow of water
Word: Great Red Spot Part of Speech: name 1. A persistent, high-pressure region in the atmosphere of Jupiter, producing an anticyclonic storm.
Word: anticyclonic Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₂ent- Proto-Indo-European *-s Proto-Indo-European *h₂énts Proto-Indo-European *-i Proto-Indo-European *h₂énti Ancient Greek ᾰ̓ντῐ́ (ăntĭ́) Ancient Greek ἀντι- (anti-)der. English anti- English cyclone Proto-Indo-European *-ikos Proto-Italic *-ikos Latin -icuslbor. Old French -iquebor. Middle English -ik English -ic English cyclonic English anticyclonic From anti- + cyclonic. 1. Of, relating to, or consisting of an anticyclone. Labels: not-comparable 2. Rotating in the opposite direction from the Earth i.e. clockwise in the Northern Hemisphere and anticlockwise in the Southern Hemisphere. Labels: not-comparable
Word: anticyclone Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From anti- + cyclone. Coined by Sir Francis Galton in the 1860s. 1. A system of winds that spirals out from a center of high pressure.
Word: virement Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from French virement. 1. The transfer of a surplus from one account to cover a deficit in another.
Word: pian Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Portuguese piã, Spanish pian, or French pian, said to be from a Tupi-Guarani word. Pronunciation: /pjɑn/, /piˈɑn/, /piˈæn/ 1. Yaws. Labels: archaic, uncountable
Word: joo Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative letter-case form of Joo. Labels: alt-of
Word: jee Part of Speech: verb 1. Alternative spelling of gee. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: extort Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Borrowed from Latin extortus, past participle of extorquere (“to twist or wrench out, to extort”); from ex (“out”) + -tort, from torqueō (“twist, turn”). Pronunciation: /ɪkˈstɔː(ɹ)t/ 1. To take or seize from an unwilling person by physical force, menace, duress, torture, or any undue or illegal exercise of power or ingenuity. Labels: transitive Example: to extort contributions from the vanquished Example: to extort confessions of guilt 2. To obtain by means of the offense of extortion. Labels: transitive Example: Weirdly, Renton doesn’t look too much older and the same also goes for Sick Boy (Jonny Lee Miller), who has exchanged heroin for cocaine and nowadays runs an escort-and-blackmail business, secretly videoing clients and extorting money, working with his female business partner, Veronika (Anjela Nedyalkova). 3. To twist outwards. Labels: intransitive, transitive
Word: extort Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Borrowed from Latin extortus, past participle of extorquere (“to twist or wrench out, to extort”); from ex (“out”) + -tort, from torqueō (“twist, turn”). Pronunciation: /ɪkˈstɔː(ɹ)t/ 1. extorted; obtained by extortion. Labels: not-comparable, obsolete Example: Hauing great Lordships got and goodly farmes, Through strong oppression of his powre extort.
Word: monogamous Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *men-der. Proto-Hellenic *mónwos Ancient Greek μόνος (mónos) Ancient Greek μονο- (mono-)der. English mono- English -gamous English monogamous From mono- + -gamous. Pronunciation: /məˈnɒɡəməs/, /məˈnɑɡəməs/ 1. Involving marriage to one person at a time. Labels: not-comparable Example: Suppose, for example, that if polygamy were legal, 10 percent of adult men would take an average of three wives apiece and that all remaining marriages would be monogamous. 2. Characterized by mutual sexual and romantic exclusivity. Labels: not-comparable 3. Exclusively engaging in mutually exclusive sexual/romantic partnership. Labels: not-comparable 4. Having only one sexual partner at a time. Labels: not-comparable 5. Monogamic; having a simple flower with united anthers. Labels: not-comparable
Word: torsion Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English torcion, from Middle French torsion, from Late Latin torsiōnem, from Latin tortiō, from torqueō (“twist, turn”). See torture, -tort. Pronunciation: /ˈtɔː.ʃən/, /ˈtor.ʃɪn/, /ˈtor.ʒɪn/, /ˈtor.ʃən/, /ˈtor.ʒən/ 1. The act of turning or twisting, or the state of being twisted; the twisting or wrenching of a body by the exertion of a lateral force tending to turn one end or part of it about a longitudinal axis, while the other is held fast or turned in the opposite direction. Labels: countable, uncountable 2. A finite order element of a group that, when raised to a positive integer power results in the identity element of the group. Labels: countable, uncountable 3. An element of a homology or cohomology group for which there exists a non-zero integer that, when the element is multiplied by that integer, yields zero. Labels: countable, uncountable 4. A type of holistic complimentary medicine that involves balancing theoretical energy fields through energy healing, meditation, and similar practices. Labels: countable, uncountable 5. That force with which a thread, wire, or rod of any material returns, or tends to return, to a state of rest after it has been twisted; torsibility. Labels: countable, uncountable 6. The stopping of arterial haemorrhage in certain cases, by twisting the cut end of the artery. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: torsion Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English torcion, from Middle French torsion, from Late Latin torsiōnem, from Latin tortiō, from torqueō (“twist, turn”). See torture, -tort. Pronunciation: /ˈtɔː.ʃən/, /ˈtor.ʃɪn/, /ˈtor.ʒɪn/, /ˈtor.ʃən/, /ˈtor.ʒən/ 1. To subject to torsion. Labels: transitive
Word: solar plexus Part of Speech: noun 1. A complex network of nerves and ganglia, located within the abdomen behind the stomach.
Word: homeostasis Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Coined from Ancient Greek ὅμοιος (hómoios, “similar, the same”) + -stasis by Walter Bradford Cannon, from Ancient Greek στάσις (stásis, “standing, state”). Pronunciation: /ˌhɒmɪə(ʊ)ˈsteɪsɪs/, /ˌhəʊmɪə(ʊ)ˈsteɪsɪs/, /ˌhoʊ.mi.oʊˈsteɪ.sɪs/ 1. The ability of a system or living organism to adjust its internal environment to maintain a state of dynamic constancy; such as the ability of warm-blooded animals to maintain a stable temperature. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: His most important work concentrated on the complexities of chemical neurotransmission (for which Otto Loewi received a Nobel Prize in 1936) and on “homeostasis” (a term coined by Cannon in 1926), the maintenance of steady states in the body and the physiological processes through which they are regulated. Example: When homeostasis is disrupted by an external stressor - such as injury, lack of nutrients, or invasion by parasites or other organisms - illness may occur. 2. Such a dynamic equilibrium or balance. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: warm-blooded Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From warm + blooded. 1. Maintaining a relatively constant and warm body temperature, regardless of the ambient temperature; endothermic. Example: The cold-blooded animals are all feeble breathers, and the most energetic breathers are the warmest-blooded. A mollusc, a fish, a frog, a quadruped, and a bird, represent the various stages of this correspondence. Example: Moreover, instead of hibernating like our northern reptiles, they [birds] are able to remain active all winter, even in arctic latitudes, so long as sufficient food is available to maintain the body. This retention of heat increases the body temperature, and implies an increase as well of the creature’s activity, so that birds in addition to being the warmest-blooded animals are at the same time the quickest and most active. 2. Passionate. Labels: idiomatic Example: Claire jumped from her chair and smiled the warmest-blooded smile that she could muster. Example: Chasseur said, “Murder is a grisly, nasty business, Jessica. The female species simply doesn’t have the genetic makeup to deal sensibly with it. Murder is a cold-blooded act. Women are, by nature, warmer-blooded than men, which is why they’re so attractive to the male of the species.”
Word: cold-blooded Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From cold blood + -ed. Pronunciation: /ˈkoʊldˈblʌd.ɪd/ 1. Having an unregulated body temperature; ectothermic. Example: “Dead animals radiate heat,” he said. “When you take one down, you can feel it pouring from the wounds. But not this thing.” / “What does that mean?” she asked. / “Cold-blooded maybe, or colder-blooded than we’re used to.” / “Might explain why the heat sensors have trouble picking them up,” Danielle said. 2. Lacking emotion or compunction. Labels: figuratively Example: Here were aſſembled that great philoſopher Mr. Subtile, the coldeſt-blooded metaphyſician of the age. Example: No Spaniard is ever put out, although he maddens in a moment at the slightest personal affront, for blood boils without fire, “la sangre hierve sin fuego.” He takes these things coolly, which more phlegmatic, colder-blooded foreigners seldom do. 3. Of a type of horse: tall and muscular, usually good-natured and suitable for heavy work. 4. Of an engine or vehicle: difficult to start; runs poorly until warmed up.
Word: empty set Part of Speech: noun 1. The unique set that contains no elements, denoted ∅ or {}. Example: Start with the empty set. We define it as “the set of all objects not equal to themselves,” since there are no such objects. All empty sets have the same members—no members at all! Therefore, as sets they're identical, by definition of identity of sets. In other words, there's only one empty set. This unique empty set is our building block. Next comes the set whose only member is—the empty set. This set is not empty. Example: The existence of the empty set is entailed, in the presence of the axiom scheme of separation, by the existence of any set whatever.
Word: home computer Part of Speech: noun 1. A computer intended for use in the home. Labels: dated Example: This last section is meant to draw your attention to a further sphere of potential use for your home computer, namely letting it monitor and control some activity directly, without your own participation […]
Word: cardinality Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Latin cardō Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-der.? Proto-Italic *-ālis Latin -ālis Latin cardinālisder. Middle French cardinalbor. English cardinal Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-ts Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂ts Latin -itāsder. Old French -itebor. Middle English -ite English -ity English cardinality From cardinal + -ity. Pronunciation: /kɑːdɪˈnælɪti/, /kɑɹdɪˈnælɪti/ 1. The number of elements a given set contains. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: The empty set has a cardinality of zero. Example: The cardinality of a set A is the least ordinal α such that there exists a bijection between A and α. We sometimes use the notation #92;alpha#61;#124;A#124; to indicate this. 2. The number of terms that can inhabit a type; the possible values of a type. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: For many types, such as String, the set of possible values is unlimited. Such types have an infinite cardinality. 3. The property of a relationship between a database table and another one, specifying whether it is one-to-one, one-to-many, many-to-one, or many-to-many. Labels: countable, uncountable 4. The status of being cardinalitial Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: peace and quiet Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Perhaps a reformation of the Old English phrase sibb and stilnes (literally “peace and quiet”). 1. Tranquility; freedom from stress or interruptions. Labels: uncountable
Word: cerebrum Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Inherited from Middle English cerebrum, from Latin cerebrum (“a brain; a skull”); see there for more. Pronunciation: /ˈsɛ.ɹɪb.ɹəm/, /səˈɹi.bɹəm/, /ˈsɛɹ.əb.ɹəm/ 1. The principal and most anterior part of the brain in vertebrates, which is located in the front area of the skull and divided into two hemispheres, left and right, separated by a fissure. In humans it is the largest part of the brain and is responsible for the integration of complex sensory functions and the initiation and coordination of voluntary activity, and the higher mental functions such as consciousness, thought, reason, emotion, and memory.
Word: power set Part of Speech: noun 1. The set whose elements comprise all the subsets of S (including the empty set and S itself). Example: The power set of #92;#123;1,2#92;#125; is #92;left#92;#123;#92;empty,#92;#123;1#92;#125;,#92;#123;2#92;#125;,#92;#123;1,2#92;#125;#92;right#92;#125;. Example: Moreover, for notational convenience, we write the cardinality of a denumerable set as #92;aleph#95;0. Cardinality of the power set of a denumerable set is written as #92;aleph#95;1. We may thus extend this notation further by taking cardinality of the power set of the power set of a denumerable set as #92;aleph#95;2, etc. but we do not have the need for it right now.
Word: admissible Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French admissible. Equivalent to admit + -ible Pronunciation: /ədˈmɪsəbəl/ 1. Capable or deserving to be admitted, accepted or allowed; allowable, permissible, acceptable. Example: Moreover, the term [...] is well recorded in British and Australian sources from the 1840s onwards, while the earliest Anglo-Indian evidence only extends as far back as 1865 and so does not hold precedence. Thus, deriving the term from Hindustani is not chronologically admissible on present evidence. 2. Describing a heuristic that never overestimates the cost of reaching a goal.
Word: tilt Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English tilte, from Old English *tyltan, *tieltan (“to be unsteady”), related to the adjective tealt (“unsteady”), from Proto-West Germanic *talt, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *del-, *dul- (“to shake, hesitate”), see also Dutch touteren (“to tremble”), North Frisian talt, tolt (“unstable, shaky”). Cognate with Icelandic tölt (“an ambling pace”). The nominal sense of "a joust" appears around 1510, presumably derived from the barrier which separated the combatants, which suggests connection with tilt "covering". The modern transitive meaning is from 1590; the intransitive use appears 1620. The sense of gaming frustration is said to originate with pinball. Pronunciation: /tɪlt/ 1. To slope or incline (something); to slant. Labels: transitive Example: Tilt the barrel to pour out its contents. 2. To be at an angle. Labels: intransitive Example: For as the Trunk of the Body, is kept from tilting forvvard by the Muſcules of the Back: So, from falling backvvard, by theſe of the Belly. Example: “Marge Gets A Job” opens with the foundation of the Simpson house tilting perilously to one side, making the family homestead look like the suburban equivalent of the Leaning Tower Of Pisa. 3. To charge (at someone) with a lance. Labels: intransitive Example: Auster and Aquilon with winged Steeds / All ſweating, tilt about the watery heauens, / With ſhiuering ſpeares enforcing thunderclaps, / And from their ſhields ſtrike flames of lightening Example: He tilts / With piercing steel at bold Mercutio's breast. 4. To point or thrust a weapon at. Labels: transitive Example: And he should tilt her? Example: I say I quarrel’d with you; / We did not tilt each other – that’s a blessing, – / Good gods! no innocent blood upon my head! 5. To point or thrust (a weapon). Labels: transitive Example: Sons against fathers tilt the fatal lance. 6. To forge (something) with a tilt hammer. Example: to tilt steel in order to render it more ductile 7. To intentionally let the ball fall down to the drain by disabling flippers and most targets, done as a punishment to the player when the machine is nudged too violently or frequently. 8. To enter a state of frustration and worsened performance resulting from a series of losses. Labels: slang Example: The D.F.S. industry is still inextricably tied up in those poker roots. Players talk about "tilting" because of "variance," especially when a "fish" puts in a "donkey" lineup that ends up going crazy. (In regular American English, this translates roughly to "I am really mad because some idiot punched in some random lineup that ended up catching every conceivable break and beating me.") Example: Even the best players can tilt which can cause their performance to drop significantly. Players often tilt when they're on a losing spree or frustrated with the game. 9. To modify one's approach. Labels: figuratively Example: While self-checkout machines are often used alongside cashiers, labor unions say that tilting toward fully cashierless operations threatens the French way of life by encouraging American-style consumerism and automation, putting thousands of jobs at risk.
Word: tilt Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English tilte, from Old English *tyltan, *tieltan (“to be unsteady”), related to the adjective tealt (“unsteady”), from Proto-West Germanic *talt, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *del-, *dul- (“to shake, hesitate”), see also Dutch touteren (“to tremble”), North Frisian talt, tolt (“unstable, shaky”). Cognate with Icelandic tölt (“an ambling pace”). The nominal sense of "a joust" appears around 1510, presumably derived from the barrier which separated the combatants, which suggests connection with tilt "covering". The modern transitive meaning is from 1590; the intransitive use appears 1620. The sense of gaming frustration is said to originate with pinball. Pronunciation: /tɪlt/ 1. A slope or inclination. Labels: countable, uncountable 2. The inclination of part of the body, such as backbone, pelvis, head, etc. Labels: countable, uncountable 3. The controlled vertical movement of a camera, or a device to achieve this. Labels: countable, uncountable 4. A jousting contest. (countable) Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Justs and tilts were held here weekly, while the great tourneys that occurred less often were given upon a field outside the castle wall upon the floor of the valley. 5. An attempt at something, such as a tilt at public office. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: City will now make the Premier League an even bigger priority, while regrouping and planning again for what they hope will be another tilt at the Champions League next season. 6. A thrust, as with a lance. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: His Majesty[…]entertain'd him with the Slaughter of two or three of his Liege Subjects, whom he very dexterously put to Death with the Tilt of his Lance. 7. A tilt hammer. Labels: countable, uncountable 8. A state of frustration and worsened performance resulting from a series of losses. Labels: slang, uncountable Example: to go on tilt Example: In his landmark book, The Mental Game of Poker, sports psychologist Jared Tendler defines "tilt" as "anger + bad play". In short, you lose your mental equilibrium and start playing below your best, often making big mistakes. Tilt is caused by many different factors and Tendler defines seven types of tilt.
Word: tilt Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English telte, tield, teld, from Old English teld (“tent”), from Proto-West Germanic *teld, from Proto-Germanic *teldą (“tent”). Perhaps influenced by Middle Low German telt, or Danish telt. Cognates include German Zelt (“tent”), Old Norse tjald (“tent”) (whence also archaic Danish tjæld (“tent”)). More at teld. Pronunciation: /tɪlt/ 1. A canvas covering for carts, boats, etc. Example: The tilt hooding the spring-cart was insecure - even the jolt from the down-and-up curving river bend near the house had brought it down twice. 2. Any covering overhead; especially, a tent. Example: But the rain made an ass Of tilt and canvas
Word: tilt Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English telte, tield, teld, from Old English teld (“tent”), from Proto-West Germanic *teld, from Proto-Germanic *teldą (“tent”). Perhaps influenced by Middle Low German telt, or Danish telt. Cognates include German Zelt (“tent”), Old Norse tjald (“tent”) (whence also archaic Danish tjæld (“tent”)). More at teld. Pronunciation: /tɪlt/ 1. To cover with a tilt, or awning. Labels: transitive
Word: at full tilt Part of Speech: prep_phrase Etymology: Recorded c. 1600, perhaps from the interpretation of tilt (“a joust”) as derived from "leaning" into an attack, presumably a folk etymology, as tilt in late Middle English meant “a covering of coarse cloth, an awning” and referred to the barrier separating the combatants in a joust. 1. At full speed; very quickly. Labels: idiomatic Example: Don't go racing around corners at full tilt or you'll hit someone.
Word: nit-picky Part of Speech: adj 1. Alternative spelling of nitpicky. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: hylic Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Medieval Latin hylicus, from Ancient Greek ὑλικός (hulikós, “wooden, material”), from ῡ̔́λη (hū́lē, “wood, matter”) + -ικός (-ikós, “-ic, forming adjectives”). As a noun, a clipped calque of homo hylicus (“hylic man”). Pronunciation: /ˈhaɪlɪk/, /ˈhʌɪlɪk/ 1. Synonym of physical, material, or base. Labels: not-comparable Example: ...a part of mankind were by original constitution altogether hylic or material... Example: The Enthymesis or Achamoth, which was born of the Sophia, the last of the æones, and had fallen from the Pleroma, animated all matter, and produced three orders of beings,—the spiritual, the physical [sic, intending psychical], and hylic natures. The natural Demiurgos formed, in imperfect representations of the Pleroma, a new world, of which he is the ruler, while Satan, the king of the hylic natures, governs here upon earth.
Word: hylic Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Medieval Latin hylicus, from Ancient Greek ὑλικός (hulikós, “wooden, material”), from ῡ̔́λη (hū́lē, “wood, matter”) + -ικός (-ikós, “-ic, forming adjectives”). As a noun, a clipped calque of homo hylicus (“hylic man”). Pronunciation: /ˈhaɪlɪk/, /ˈhʌɪlɪk/ 1. A base man, a person of merely physical concerns without mindfulness of either intellectual or spiritual matters.
Word: encrimson Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₁én Proto-Italic *en Proto-Italic *en- Latin in- Old French en-bor. Middle English en- English en- English crimson English encrimson From en- + crimson. 1. To make crimson or redden. Labels: transitive
Word: countrify Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *ḱe? Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm Proto-Italic *kom Proto-Italic *kom- Proto-Indo-European *-teros Proto-Italic *-teros Proto-Italic *komterosder. Proto-Italic *komterād Latin contrā Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-tós Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂tos Proto-Italic *-ātos Latin -ātus Latin -āta Vulgar Latin *(terra) contrāta Old French contreebor. Middle English contre English country English -fy English countrify From country + -fy. Pronunciation: /ˈkʌn.tɹɪ.fʌɪ/, /ˈkən.tɹəˌfaɪ/, /-tɹi-/ 1. To make rural or rustic. Labels: transitive Example: LOVEL. When I am properly habited, you ſhall get me introduced to Philip as one of your Tenant's Sons, who wants to be made a good Servant of. / FREEMAN. They will certainly diſcover you. / LOVEL. Never fear, I'll be ſo countrify'd that you ſhall not know me. Example: This tendency to move away from crowded centers of population, with their congested apartment life, to the country and small towns where the laborer and his family may have cheap breathing space—in other words, this countrifying of industries—is growing more and more evident. 2. To make more like country music. Labels: especially, transitive
Word: friseur Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From French friseur, from friser (“to curl, frizz”). 1. A hairdresser. Labels: archaic Example: As for poor Owen, could the bob-wig which he then wore have uncurled itself, and stood on end with horror, I am convinced the morning's labour of the friseur would have been undone, merely by the excess of his astonishment at this enormity.
Word: Cde Part of Speech: noun 1. Abbreviation of comrade A title used before a person's name, e.g. Cde Robert Mugabe. Labels: South-Africa, Zimbabwe, abbreviation, alt-of
Word: looker-on Part of Speech: noun 1. A spectator, onlooker. Example: After dancing with each other at a proper number of balls, the young people justified these opinions, and an engagement, with a due reference to the absent Sir Thomas, was entered into, much to the satisfaction of their respective families, and of the general lookers-on of the neighbourhood, who had, for many weeks past, felt the expediency of Mr. Rushworth’s marrying Miss Bertram.
Word: fribble Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Perhaps related to frivol. Pronunciation: /ˈfɹɪbəl/ 1. To waste or fritter. 2. To behave in a frivolous way. Example: The parish districts--and especially their lady visitors--declared that they were neglected; the rector never got a quiet cup of tea in his own house, nor even a quiet placid moment; for the sounds of young people laughing and, as Mrs. Fretchett called it, "fribbling" upstairs would float down to him working in his study, and then he would pish and pshaw, and move his chair impatiently. Example: We dried in the sun on a boulder as warm as a dying stove, and fribbled and monkeyed with each other, priming for later. 3. To totter.
Word: fribble Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Perhaps related to frivol. Pronunciation: /ˈfɹɪbəl/ 1. Of little or no importance, frivolous.
Word: fribble Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Perhaps related to frivol. Pronunciation: /ˈfɹɪbəl/ 1. A trifling action. 2. A trifler. 3. A frivolous, contemptible fellow; a fop. Example: The plot of the piece was quite a new one. A young woman was repreſented with a great number of ſuitors, ſelecting a pert fribble of a peer, in place of the hero; […]
Word: rampageous Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From rampage + -ous. Originally Scottish. Pronunciation: /ɹamˈpeɪdʒəs/ 1. Violent and boisterous; unruly.
Word: taxicab geometry Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From the distance travelled by a taxicab in a grid of streets that cross at right angles to each other. 1. A non-Euclidean geometry in which the distance between two points is the sum of the absolute differences between their corresponding coordinates. Labels: uncountable
Word: en passant Part of Speech: adj Etymology: An unadapted borrowing from French en passant. Pronunciation: /ˌɒ̃ pæˈsɒ̃/, /ˌɑn pəˈsɑnt/, /ˌɑn pæˈsɑnt/ 1. Of a capture, performed by a pawn on an enemy pawn that has just passed over its attack zone. Labels: not-comparable
Word: en passant Part of Speech: adv Etymology: An unadapted borrowing from French en passant. Pronunciation: /ˌɒ̃ pæˈsɒ̃/, /ˌɑn pəˈsɑnt/, /ˌɑn pæˈsɑnt/ 1. In passing, by the way, incidentally. Labels: not-comparable Example: Turtle doves have long been celebrated for their fidelity; and this turtle dove, though he flirts, en paſſant, with a ſky-lark, a jay, and a quail, does not materially diſcredit the famed conſtancy of his ſpecies, theſe birds being all coquettes: but when he meets (as he fortunately does) with an amiable dove-mate, he is as faithful as any turtle, of any grove. Example: Mr. William Poole called in, and examined […] I spoke to sheriff Thorpe, en passant, one day in Sackville-street, saying, "I should wish to be on the next commission jury;" and he said, it should be so. 2. Of a capture of an enemy pawn, by moving one's pawn to the square that the enemy pawn has just passed over. Labels: not-comparable Example: [I]f the opponent chooses to make this capture, he must do it immediately on his next move – if he makes any other move on his next move, he forever loses the chance to capture that pawn en passant, though he still retains the right to capture another pawn en passant should a similar situation arise elsewhere.