nandhakumarms/qualc-wiktionary-en huggingface dataset:
Word: sociobehavioural Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From socio- + behavioural. 1. Describing the sociological study of behaviour. Labels: not-comparable
Word: sparsifier Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From sparsify + -er. 1. A graph that is a sparse version of another.
Word: sungrazing Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From sun + grazing. 1. Whose path or orbit passes very close to the sun Labels: not-comparable
Word: supertraces Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of supertrace Labels: form-of, plural
Word: supertrace Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From super- + trace. 1. A specific form of a trace in a superalgebra
Word: trinucleon Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From tri- + nucleon. 1. A bound state of three nucleons
Word: valleytronics Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From valley + -tronics. 1. A proposed equivalent of electronics using valleys in the valence band or conduction band structure of some semiconductors or insulators that possess multiple valleys, such as graphene, carbon nanotubes, bismuth, dichalcogenides, diamond or silicon. Labels: uncountable
Word: trinucleons Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of trinucleon Labels: form-of, plural
Word: gassings Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of gassing Labels: form-of, plural
Word: steel magnolia Part of Speech: noun Etymology: * Combining the contrasting images of steel, a hard metal, and magnolia, a flower. 1. A woman, unashamed, who exemplifies both traditional femininity and an uncommon fortitude. Labels: Southern-US Example: Reporters called Nancy Reagan an iron butterfly and Rosalind^([sic]) Carter a steel magnolia. Example: Ms. Deen is an irresistible example of that extraordinary phenomenon of Southern womanhood, the steel magnolia. She is always appealing and gracious but possessed of an unfailing survival instinct — a necessary character trait for a Southern cook to make it.
Word: abstractionistic Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From abstraction + -istic. 1. abstract 2. Of or pertaining to abstractionism or abstractionists
Word: aduncate Part of Speech: adj 1. curved inwards; hooked Labels: rare
Word: aduncous Part of Speech: adj 1. curved inwards; hooked
Word: adustiosis Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From adust + -osis. 1. A reddish discolouration of the skin of a citrus fruit. Labels: rare, uncountable
Word: aerotrain Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From aero- + train. 1. A train that is supported on a cushion of air, in the manner of a hovercraft.
Word: antiprotectionist Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From anti- + protectionist. 1. Opposing or disliking protectionism.
Word: antiprotectionist Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From anti- + protectionist. 1. One who opposes protectionism.
Word: antivenereal Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From anti- + venereal. 1. That is used to treat or cure venereal disease
Word: antrorse Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Latin antrorsum, contracted form of *anteroversum, from anterior (“before”) + versum (“turned”), corresponding to English antero- + -verse. 1. Curved or pointed forward or upward.
Word: attainor Part of Speech: noun 1. A juror guilty of attaint Labels: obsolete
Word: attently Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From attent + -ly. 1. attentively Labels: obsolete
Word: avalvular Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From a- + valvular. 1. Having no valves Labels: not-comparable
Word: kaif Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative spelling of kif. Labels: alt-of, alternative, uncountable
Word: keef Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative spelling of kif. Labels: alt-of, alternative, uncountable
Word: avower Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From avow + -er. 1. A person who avows
Word: avowry Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Inherited from Middle English avowry, avowrie, from Old French avoerie, avouerie (“protection, patronage”), equivalent to avoer or avouer (“to avow”) + -ie. Pronunciation: /əˈvaʊɹi/, /əˈvaʊəɹi/ 1. The act of avowing and justifying in one's own right the distraining of goods. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Every avowant, and other person, that makes avowry or conusance, or justifies as baily, in replevin or second deliverance, for rent, custom or service, if the plaintiff be barred, shall recover damages and costs. 2. A form of medieval patronage in which colonial tenants, often from criminal backgrounds, were guaranteed protection by an English lord in exchange for the payment of a tax. Labels: countable, historical, uncountable Example: It would not be accurate to assume that the whole of the income from the avowries represented sums of 4d., though that seems to have been the standard annual payment, for there were, we know, other fees and income arising from avowry. Example: The system of “avowries”, probably intended originally as a means first and foremost of colonizing a sparsely-populated land, created “a useful military reserve” composed in part at least of hardened criminals; […] 3. Advowson, the right to appoint to a benefice or office. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: But it is as plain that before those Statuts, if the Rectors of two Churches of severall Auowries, had controuerted the right of a fourth part (or of the value of either of their Churches more) in Tithes, by suit commenced in the spirituall Court, the Patron of the Rector-defendant might haue had an Indicauit, to prohibit the prosecution and holding of the Plea. […] [Bracton] mentions no Writ of right of Aduowson of Tithes that should follow. Example: […] there is a reference to the Charter, and an enactment again, that as to those ecclesiastical dignities, which were of the avowry of the Crown, that the elections should be free, saving the rights of the Crown as the patron and founder of those benefices. 4. Avowal (open affirmation or admission). Labels: countable, obsolete, uncountable Example: In the avowry of my Assumption, I will proue three things. Example: To this I answer, To will is of our own power, but to will what we should and do it, is of God […] But my last avowry prefers a quere to be discust, and tels us, even man in the state of grace, who hath a will to do good, findes no means to finish the work, he hath willed. 5. A protector, especially a patron saint. Labels: countable, obsolete, uncountable Example: All the said table, Crucifixe, Mary and John, and other Ymages of our advouries and xii Apostellis, to be of tymbre, covered and wrought with plate of fyne golde. Example: And first I bequeth my soule to the infynite mercy of oʳ. savioʳ. Ihū Crist, and to the prayers and tuycion of his moost blissed moder our Lady seynt Mary, blissed seynt Cristoffer myn advowry, and to all the glorious company of heven […]
Word: capillose Part of Speech: adj 1. hairy
Word: capitatim Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Latin capitatim, from caput + -atim. 1. per head Labels: not-comparable
Word: capitative Part of Speech: adj 1. per head; capitatim Labels: not-comparable 2. Of or pertaining to capitation Labels: not-comparable
Word: capitulary Part of Speech: noun 1. A member of an ecclesiastical chapter 2. A set of decrees, especially those made by the Frankish kings
Word: capitulary Part of Speech: adj 1. Of or related to a chapter, in its various senses. 2. Of or related to the Capitoulate of Toulouse. Example: In mid-sixteenth century, the Conseil Général assembled almost eighty men and was, in fact, a remnant of the general assemblies held during the period of the medieval commune; but its functions were mostly limited to a ceremonial hearing of the municipal deliberations and the supervision of the capitulary election.
Word: capitulationism Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From capitulation + -ism. 1. The advocacy of capitulation. Labels: uncountable
Word: capitulationist Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From capitulation + -ist. 1. An advocate of capitulation Example: (Sun Chang-hsiang), chairman of the revolutionary committee of (Shihwu) brigade in Linyi County, said: "We shall persist in launching serious comment and discussion on 'Water Margin' so that everyone will see clearly the true colors of the capitulationists. In the future, whatever we do, we must proceed from the viewpoint of class and from class analysis. We must not follow without seeing the line." We must absorb the historical lesson of Li Kuei.
Word: capitulationist Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From capitulation + -ist. 1. Of or pertaining to capitulationism
Word: capitulator Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From capitulate + -or. 1. A person who capitulates. Example: John Kerry, who at one time had been an outspoken voice for peace but, who as soon as fighting broke out in the Gulf, became a shamefully silent capitulator in the escalation of senseless destruction and loss of life.
Word: caprification Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Latin caprifīcātiōnem, ultimately from Latin caprifīcus (“wild fig tree”). 1. A process for ripening, or pollinating, figs by means of their being punctured artificially, in a manner designed to replicate the way they are pierced by certain insects, which was once thought to aid in their reproduction. Labels: uncountable, usually Example: I should conjecture […] that the caprification is either an antient process of imaginary use, and blindly followed in some countries, or that it may contribute to ripen the fig by decreasing its vigour […].
Word: capriform Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Latin capra (“she-goat”) + -form. 1. Having the form of a goat
Word: caprigenous Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Latin capra or caper (“goat”), + -genous. 1. Resembling or originating from goats. Labels: not-comparable
Word: TROWAL Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of trowal. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: clubwear Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From club + -wear. 1. Clothing intended to be worn to nightclubs. Labels: uncountable
Word: datacubes Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of datacube Labels: form-of, plural
Word: multipixel Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From multi- + pixel. 1. Of or pertaining to more than one pixel. Labels: not-comparable
Word: yuory Part of Speech: noun 1. Obsolete spelling of ivory. Labels: alt-of, countable, obsolete, uncountable
Word: strick Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From a variant of strike. Compare strickle. Pronunciation: /strɪk/ 1. A flat piece of wood used for levelling off grain in a measure; a strickle. 2. A bushel measure. 3. A bunch of hackled flax prepared for drawing into slivers.
Word: burstier Part of Speech: adj 1. comparative form of bursty: more bursty Labels: comparative, form-of
Word: burstiest Part of Speech: adj 1. superlative form of bursty: most bursty Labels: form-of, superlative
Word: antilinear Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From anti- + linear. 1. Describing a particular mapping of a complex vector space. Labels: not-comparable
Word: remappings Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of remapping Labels: form-of, plural
Word: coalitional Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From coalition + -al. 1. Of or pertaining to a coalition. Example: They launched that revolution within a major political institution and as part of a coalitional effort.
Word: subterahertz Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From sub- + terahertz. 1. Below one terahertz. Labels: not-comparable
Word: subhertz Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From sub- + hertz. 1. Below one hertz. Labels: not-comparable
Word: holomorphicity Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From holomorphic + -ity. 1. The condition of being holomorphic Labels: uncountable
Word: noncoalitional Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From non- + coalitional. 1. Not coalitional. Labels: not-comparable
Word: nonreconstituted Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From non- + reconstituted. 1. Not reconstituted. Labels: not-comparable
Word: involutory Part of Speech: adj 1. Of a mapping or transformation: being its own inverse; being an involution. Labels: not-comparable
Word: involutory Part of Speech: noun 1. A linear transformation that is its own inverse, i.e., that has period two.
Word: lognormal Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From log + normal. 1. Describing a logarithmic function that has a normal distribution. Labels: not-comparable
Word: lognormal Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From log + normal. 1. A logarithmic function that has a normal distribution. Example: The mgf of the low and high amplitude regions of a single lognormal variable and the derivatives is examined and attention is drawn to the effect of variance. The problem of inversion of the mgf/chf of a sum of lognormals to obtain the CDF/pdf is considered with special reference to methods related to Post Widder technique, Gaussian quadrature and the Fourier series method.
Word: octonionic Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From octonion + -ic. 1. Of or pertaining to octonions. Labels: not-comparable
Word: megaflare Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From mega- + flare. 1. A very large solar flare
Word: microbunches Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of microbunch Labels: form-of, plural
Word: salesmanlike Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From salesman + -like. 1. Resembling or characteristic of a salesman.
Word: mimelike Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From mime + -like. 1. Resembling or characteristic of the art of mime. Example: Then ponderously, with its whole body rocking from side to side, it lifted one flipper into the air in an exaggerated mimelike movement.
Word: microbunch Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From micro- + bunch. 1. A short cluster of photons (or electrons) produced by a laser etc.
Word: backmasking Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From back + masking. 1. A recording technique in which a sound or message is deliberately recorded backwards in a track that is meant to be played forwards. Labels: uncountable
Word: backmasked Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From back + masked. 1. Deliberately recorded backwards in a track that is meant to be played forwards. Labels: not-comparable
Word: pseudolinguistic Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From pseudo- + linguistic. 1. Of or pertaining to pseudo-linguistics; falling short of linguistic standards. Labels: not-comparable Example: representatives of previous pseudolinguistic science, the philologists 2. Having some qualities similar to language, but not quite amounting to language in the narrow sense; quasilinguistic. Labels: not-comparable 3. Relating to pseudolanguage. Labels: not-comparable
Word: in sort Part of Speech: prep_phrase 1. In company (with). Labels: obsolete 2. In a way; to some extent. Labels: obsolete 3. In such a way (as). Labels: obsolete Example: Vnto that Elfin knight he bad him fly, / Where he slept soundly void of euill thought, / And with false shewes abuse his fantasy, / In sort as he him schooled priuily […]
Word: pseudomythological Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From pseudo- + mythological. 1. Having certain aspects of myth; apparently, but not actually, mythological. Labels: not-comparable
Word: Bethesda Part of Speech: name Etymology: From Aramaic בֵּית חַסְדָּא (bēṯ ḥasdā, “House of Grace”). Pronunciation: /bəˈθɛz.də/ 1. A pool in Jerusalem mentioned in the New Testament. 2. A number of places in the United States: 3. A number of places in the United States: 4. A number of places in the United States: 5. A number of places in the United States: 6. A number of places in the United States: Example: The Bethesda Declaration, signed by 484 NIH staff, directly accused NIH director Jay Bhattacharya of “a failure of your legal duty to use congressionally appropriated funds for critical NIH research. Each day that the NIH continues to disrupt research, your ability to deliver on this duty narrows.” 7. A number of places in the United States: 8. A number of places in the United States: 9. A number of places in the United States: 10. A number of places in the United States: 11. A number of places in the United States: 12. A number of places in the United States: 13. A number of places in the United States: 14. A place in Canada: 15. A place in Canada: 16. A village in Saint Paul parish, Antigua, Antigua and Barbuda. 17. A place in Wales: 18. A place in Wales:
Word: Bethesda Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Aramaic בֵּית חַסְדָּא (bēṯ ḥasdā, “House of Grace”). Pronunciation: /bəˈθɛz.də/ 1. Any location whose waters are supposed to have curative properties. Labels: poetic Example: ...those who are afflicted with rheumatic, neuralgic, and splenetic diseases, go, and are cured by the thousands. These Bethesdas are scattered all up and down our country, blessed be God! Example: Time was when this Bethesda too was curative, a sweet oasis in a parched and driven city. The day we went we found the fountain had been shut off.
Word: Bethesdas Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of Bethesda Labels: form-of, plural
Word: octonionics Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From octonion + -ics. 1. The application of the mathematics of octonions in various branches of physics Labels: uncountable
Word: overrelaxation Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From over- + relaxation. 1. A technique which, when applied iteratively, can solve certain types of matrix equation
Word: pebblings Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of pebbling Labels: form-of, plural
Word: preexponent Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From pre- + exponent. 1. Any factor that multiplies an exponential function
Word: selfabsorption Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative spelling of self-absorption. Labels: alt-of, alternative, uncountable
Word: submonolayers Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of submonolayer Labels: form-of, plural
Word: unijunction Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From uni- + junction. 1. (often attributive) A transistor that has a single junction.
Word: water rocket Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From water + rocket. Pronunciation: /ˈwɔːtə(ɹ)ˌɹɒkɪt/ 1. A rocket that uses water as a propellant, which is forced out of the rocket by compressed air or other gas. Example: We built a water rocket in science class today.
Word: chemical rocket Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From chemical + rocket. 1. a rocket that uses a chemical reaction of its propellants to generate its gaseous exhaust
Word: liquid rocket Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From liquid (“fuel”) + rocket. 1. A rocket that uses liquid propellants. 2. A rocket engine that uses liquid propellants.
Word: thermal rocket Part of Speech: noun 1. a rocket that is powered by a thermal source, such as a nuclear-thermal rocket or a solar-thermal rocket or a rocket powered by an energy beam such as a laser or microwave beam
Word: rocket car Part of Speech: noun 1. A rocket-propelled car
Word: rocket stage Part of Speech: noun 1. A single rocket that may be attached to other similar rockets to increase the delta-v of the aggregated rocket vehicle
Word: preëxponential Part of Speech: adj 1. Alternative spelling of preexponential. Labels: alt-of, alternative, not-comparable Example: In the equation s = W / A, where W = collision frequency per molecule, and A is taken as the Arrhenius preëxponential factor; s is the effective number of oscillators contributing to dissociation in the Kassel theory. Example: They also gave the activation energies and preëxponential factors for the pigments which they studied.
Word: pre-exponential Part of Speech: adj 1. Alternative spelling of preexponential. Labels: alt-of, alternative, not-comparable
Word: pre-exponent Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative spelling of preexponent. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: mansard roofs Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of mansard roof Labels: form-of, plural
Word: Beëlzebub Part of Speech: name 1. Dated spelling of Beelzebub.
Word: cuckoo sign Part of Speech: noun 1. A gesture, consisting of a twirling motion of a finger near the temple, used to suggest that another person is crazy.
Word: capsheaf Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From cap + sheaf. First attested in 1782. 1. The top sheaf of a stook of wheat, etc. Labels: rare 2. A crowning point; culmination. Labels: broadly, rare
Word: capsulation Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From capsule + -ation. 1. The enclosing of (typically) a drug in a capsule
Word: punk-ass Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From punk + -ass. 1. Obnoxious, stupid or otherwise unworthy of respect. Labels: US, derogatory, slang Example: I hate when guys address women as bitches, I be wanting to give his punk-ass stitches. Example: Snitches get stitches for being punk-ass bitches,
Word: pale in comparison Part of Speech: verb 1. To appear small or unimportant in relation to something else. Labels: idiomatic Example: Before Minecraft released The Nether Update in 2020, diamonds were the strongest material in the game. Leather, iron, and gold paled in comparison to the strength, durability, and protection diamond gear provided.
Word: pale in comparison Part of Speech: adj 1. Synonym of pale in comparison. Labels: nonstandard Example: This is pale in comparison to that.
Word: pumpkin head Part of Speech: noun 1. A severe head injury resulting from a beating. Labels: US, idiomatic, slang 2. An Asian, from being reputed to have large round heads. Labels: ethnic, slang, slur 3. A New Englander. Labels: US, archaic, slang
Word: parole board Part of Speech: noun 1. A panel of people who decide whether a prisoner should be released on parole.
Word: marching bands Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of marching band Labels: form-of, plural
Word: wheel dog Part of Speech: noun 1. One of the dogs positioned directly in front of the sled that absorbs most of the force during the sled's movement.
Word: swing dog Part of Speech: noun 1. One of the dogs directly behind the lead dogs, who help set the pace.
Word: lead dog Part of Speech: noun 1. one of the dogs at the front of the team, who set the pace.
Word: Stateside Part of Speech: adj 1. Alternative letter-case form of stateside. Labels: alt-of, not-comparable
Word: Stateside Part of Speech: adv 1. Alternative letter-case form of stateside. Labels: alt-of, not-comparable
Word: bell out Part of Speech: verb 1. To open out into a bell shape. Labels: idiomatic Example: Her dress belled out at the bottom.
Word: bend down Part of Speech: verb 1. To bend one's legs while upright to get to a lower position. Example: 1975, Bob Dylan, Tangled Up in Blue I muttered somethin' underneath my breath She studied the lines on my face I must admit I felt a little uneasy When she bent down to tie the laces of my shoe Tangled up in blue.
Word: bet up Part of Speech: verb 1. To make one's bet
Word: ouche Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English ouche, from nouche, which in phrases like a nouche was re-analyzed as an ouche (rebracketing). From Anglo-Norman nusche and Old French nusche (with metanalysis), from a Germanic source; compare German Nusche, Proto-Germanic *hnuts. Pronunciation: /aʊtʃ/ 1. A brooch or clasp for fastening a piece of clothing together, especially when set with jewels or valuable. Labels: historical, poetic Example: My huſbonde had a legende of his lyfe^([sic – meaning wyfe?]) / Eriphilem that for an ouche of golde / Hath preuely vnto the grekes tolde / Where that hir huſbonde hyd him in a place / For which he had at Thebes ſory grace. Example: [A]nd the hors trapped in the ſame wyſe doune to the helys wyth many owchys y ſette with ſtones and perlys in gold to the nombre of a thowſand […]
Word: ouches Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of ouche Labels: form-of, plural
Word: bind up Part of Speech: verb 1. To wrap, as with bandages. Labels: transitive 2. To tie together. Labels: transitive 3. To wear a chest binder or begin chestbinding. Labels: intransitive
Word: blast away Part of Speech: verb 1. To destroy by blasting with explosives. Labels: transitive 2. To continue shooting rapidly. Labels: intransitive, usually Example: They were blasting away at each other for 10 minutes before the shooting died down. Example: Three more heavy cruisers from further down the Japanese line begin to blast away at the now-disabled Gambier Bay.
Word: reascent Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From re- + ascent. 1. A second or subsequent ascent; the act or process of reascending.
Word: blaze up Part of Speech: verb 1. To burn more brightly Labels: intransitive 2. to burst into flames from a seemingly non-burning state Labels: intransitive 3. To begin smoking cannabis; to light up cannabis; to get high. Labels: intransitive, slang, transitive
Word: glaze up Part of Speech: verb 1. To become glazed Labels: intransitive 2. to light up, to become more open, as if in expectation. Labels: intransitive
Word: bloody up Part of Speech: verb 1. To make bloody; to cover in blood Labels: transitive
Word: blow down Part of Speech: verb 1. To knock over with an air current, most often wind. Labels: transitive Example: I'll huff and I'll puff and I'll blow your house down. Example: Part of the shed was recently blown down in a gale and has been removed, leaving rather inadequate accommodation. 2. To clean off from top to bottom with an air current from a compressed air hose. Labels: transitive Example: Blow down this enclosure and do some chip handling before you run this machine any further. 3. Synonym of dirty down. 4. To kill (someone) with a gun. Labels: US, dated, slang, transitive 5. To signal to someone by blowing into a whistle. Labels: US, dated, slang, transitive
Word: bottom out Part of Speech: verb 1. To reach the bottom; to reach the nadir or lowest point. Labels: intransitive 2. Of a vehicle, to touch or drag along the ground or other surface. Labels: idiomatic Example: Going over that speed bump, my car bottomed out. 3. Of a vessel, to touch the bottom of a water body. Labels: idiomatic 4. Of a suspension or similar device, to strike the lower mechanical stop and lose the ability to buffer further downward motion. Example: The hard landing caused the oleos to bottom out and the gear struts collapsed. 5. To fully anally penetrate. Labels: intransitive, slang 6. To be, at a basic level. Labels: idiomatic, intransitive Example: The problem bottoms out into a management issue.
Word: box up Part of Speech: verb 1. To pack into boxes. Labels: transitive 2. To confine. Labels: transitive Example: to be boxed up in narrow quarters Example: “What! cried Julia. Go box’d up three in a post-chaise in this weather, when we may have seats in a barouche! No, my dear Edmund, that will not quite do.” 3. To shuffle (dice) so that the gamblers can choose from among them. Labels: transitive Example: The book gets behind the money, the mechanic picks up the crap stick and starts boxing up the dice. Example: He made no attempt to rip the die back out again, but simply left it in the game and when the dice were boxed up it went into the bowl and was lost […]
Word: bunch up Part of Speech: verb 1. To come or gather together. Labels: intransitive
Word: -ergy Part of Speech: suffix Etymology: From Ancient Greek -εργία (-ergía), from ἔργον (érgon, “work”). 1. work Labels: morpheme Example: synergy
Word: walking carpet Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From a scene in the film Star Wars (later retitled Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope, 1977), in which Princess Leia insults Chewbacca, a member of a race of hairy bipeds called Wookiees, by referring to him as a “walking carpet”. Pronunciation: /ˈwɔːkɪŋ ˈkɑːpɪt/, /ˈwɔkɪŋ ˈkɑɹpɪt/ 1. An exceptionally hairy person. Labels: derogatory, humorous, slang Example: “Really.” Mac arched a thick eyebrow. “You didn't say anything about my body hair when we were going out together.” / Peter kept his eyes on the espresso and away from Mac's hairy wrist. “You're not like...that guy. You're not a walking carpet. And my God, you've got muscle definition.” Example: But then my true hair problems began. […] It was all the other hairs rearing their ugly heads—between my eyebrows, above my upper lip, around my jawline, down my neck, around my new breasts, down my front to my navel, over my arms and knuckles, right down my legs to my toes. I didn't recall ever seeing a woman shaving her face and "taking it all off' on that Noxema commercial. None of the other girls at school appeared to be walking carpets.
Word: threap Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English threp (“a rebuke”), from the verb (see below). Alternative etymology derives Middle English threp, from Old English *þrēap (“contention, strife”) (attested only as Old English þrēap, in the sense of "troop, band"), ultimately from the same Germanic origin below. Pronunciation: /θɹiːp/ 1. An altercation, quarrel, argument. Labels: Scotland 2. An accusation or serious charge. Labels: Scotland Example: And let us see what is to be done, and hear patiently all Assertions and Threaps; let this Rain fall to the Ground, and then fall thou to Exercise. 3. Stubborn insistence. Labels: Scotland 4. A superstition or freet. Labels: Scotland Example: Then, (since my soul disowns the impious threap, That death is only an eternal sleep;) Then with an aching heart, I long to know, How we, my Henry, in the shades below, Shall bear the sceptre and the iron rod Of the grim Tyrant of the dark abode.
Word: threap Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English threpen (“to scold”), from Old English þrēapian (“to reprove, reprehend, punish, blame”), from Proto-West Germanic *þraupōn, from Proto-Germanic *þraupōną (“to punish”), from Proto-Germanic *þrawō (“torment, punishment”), from Proto-Germanic *þrawjaną (“to torment, injure, exhaust”), from Proto-Indo-European *trōw- (“to beat, wound, kill, torment”). Akin to Old English þrēagan (“to rebuke, punish, chastise”), þrēa (“correction, punishment”), þrōwian (“to suffer”). More at throe. Pronunciation: /θɹiːp/ 1. To contradict. Labels: Scotland, transitive Example: I told them I went to seek him, but they threaped me and said I did not. 2. To denounce. Labels: Scotland Example: O he is attended vpon moſt Babilonically, and Xerxes ſo ouercloyd not the Helleſpont with his foyſtes, gallies, and brigandines, as he mantleth the narrow ſeas with his retinue, being not much behinde in the checkroule of his Ianiſſaries and contributories, with Eagle-ſoaring Bullingbrooke, that at his remouing of houſhold into baniſhment (as father Froyſard threapes vs downe) was accompanied with 40000, men wemen and children weeping, from London to the landes end at Douer. 3. To cry out; complain; contend. Labels: Scotland 4. To argue; bicker; scold; rebuke Labels: Scotland Example: It's not for a man with a woman to threap. 5. To affirm; to express with conviction. Labels: Scotland Example: Come then, threap kindnesse yet apon thy King, Tell him that in the prison thou wilt sing His praises Example: Take faith with you, and the stronger it is, it will be the more agreeable present to Christ; put a firm trust and confidence in his blood and bowels, bode and threap kindness on him 6. To cozen or cheat. Labels: Scotland Example: Thus are men threaped out of their own persuasions. 7. To maintain obstinately against denial or contradiction; to insist (on). Labels: Scotland Example: He threaped me down that it was so. Example: I eat some of it so prepared in an English Man's House in this City, and who would threap me down, that it was Sampire, and so named in his Country of Lincolnshire.
Word: algidity Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From algid + -ity. 1. The state of being algid. Labels: uncountable, usually
Word: Paddy's Day Part of Speech: name 1. St. Patrick's Day. Labels: informal
Word: Old Father Thames Part of Speech: name 1. A personification of the river Thames
Word: capsuliferous Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From capsule + -i- + -ferous. 1. Bearing capsules
Word: capsuliform Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From capsule + -iform. 1. Having the form of a capsule
Word: capsuligenous Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From capsule + -genous. 1. That gives rise to capsules
Word: capsulotomy Part of Speech: noun Etymology: By surface analysis, capsulo- + -tomy, or, by surface analysis, capsule + -otomy. 1. An incision into a capsule, especially into the lens of the eye when removing cataracts.
Word: carbo Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Clipping of carbohydrate. 1. carbohydrate Labels: informal Example: Instead of a head of mats, give yourself one of chili peppers or green beans or other snackable, filamentous source of quick carbos.
Word: khachapuri Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Georgian ხაჭაპური (xač̣aṗuri). Pronunciation: /hɑːtʃəˈpuːɹi/, /hɑːt͡ʃəˈpuɹi/ 1. A cheese pastry from the country of Georgia in the Caucasus region of Eurasia. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: On the breakfast table I can see the remains of: sturgeon, caviare (pink and black), blinies, cottage cheese and two other cheeses, buckwheat, hatchapuri—a bread cheese—and sour cream, hashi (stew), radishes and spring onions […] Example: After Varadzia had served Svobodova with sturgeon and the local delicacy, a hatchapuri—a sort of paratha stuffed with cheese—washed down with a glass of the Lomnja red wine, he sat down and took a pipe with the stranger.
Word: khachapuris Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of khachapuri. Labels: form-of, plural
Word: carbonification Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From carbon + -ification. 1. The conversion of organic plant matter into coal over time in the absence of air. Labels: uncountable
Word: criminal records Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of criminal record Labels: form-of, plural
Word: watchlisting Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of watchlist Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: beheaders Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of beheader Labels: form-of, plural
Word: vasopressor Part of Speech: adj Etymology: To international scientific vocabulary from New Latin as a classical compound: vaso- + press + -or; the word is attested in its adjectival sense in a 1913 article of the Journal of the American Medical Association (1913;60[1]:47-48). The cognate word vasopressin seems to have arisen circa 1927; it is clearly inspired by its earlier cognate (surface analysis, vaso- + press + -in), and there are indications that it was coined in a certain pharmaceutical company's research laboratory, possibly with the plan to use it as the trade name for a preparation, but it became the common noun for the endogenous hormone (that is, antidiuretic hormone) immediately in the medical literature, and that company then used another name as its trade name. Compare also the morphologic parallels of angiotensin. 1. Of or relating to the constriction of blood vessels, which usually causes a rise in blood pressure. Labels: not-comparable
Word: vasopressor Part of Speech: noun Etymology: To international scientific vocabulary from New Latin as a classical compound: vaso- + press + -or; the word is attested in its adjectival sense in a 1913 article of the Journal of the American Medical Association (1913;60[1]:47-48). The cognate word vasopressin seems to have arisen circa 1927; it is clearly inspired by its earlier cognate (surface analysis, vaso- + press + -in), and there are indications that it was coined in a certain pharmaceutical company's research laboratory, possibly with the plan to use it as the trade name for a preparation, but it became the common noun for the endogenous hormone (that is, antidiuretic hormone) immediately in the medical literature, and that company then used another name as its trade name. Compare also the morphologic parallels of angiotensin. 1. An agent that causes such constriction; especially, a medication that tends to increase blood pressure.
Word: watchlisted Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of watchlist Labels: form-of, participle, past Example: I just watchlisted the "Word of the day" page. Example: I have the "Word of the day" page watchlisted.
Word: vasopressors Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of vasopressor Labels: form-of, plural
Word: dialytically Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From dialytic + -ally. 1. Done in a dialytic manner or way.
Word: MSS. Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of MS. Labels: form-of, plural Example: 1848: Taliesin Williams, Iolo Morganwg, Thomas Price, and Owen Jones [eds.], Iolo Manuscripts, preface, pages v⁽¹⁾ and vi⁽²⁾ ⁽¹⁾ The Collection from which the MSS. contained in this Volume were selected, was made about the beginning of the present century, by Edward Williams the Bard, better known as Iolo Morganwg, with the intention of forming a continuation of the Myfyrian Archaiology, and subsequently proposed as materials for a History of Wales. ⁽²⁾ The Fac Similes (at pp. 90, 288,) shew the character of the hand-writing of two of the oldest MSS. contained in this Volume. Example: [...] if, at my death, my executors, or more properly my creditors, find any precious MSS. in my desk, then here I prospectively ascribe all the honor and the glory to whaling;
Word: MS. Part of Speech: noun 1. Abbreviation of manuscript. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of
Word: threpe Part of Speech: verb 1. Alternative form of threap. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: marginal seas Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of marginal sea Labels: form-of, plural
Word: draw a line in the sand Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Unknown. In the US, it is commonly accepted as a reference to the action of William B. Travis, who, in 1836, while commanding the defenders of the Alamo and contemplating a demand for surrender, drew a line in the sand and asked those willing to remain and defend the Alamo to their deaths to step across. 1. To lay down a challenge; to provide a test of commitment (often one which carries a high risk) to a cause. Labels: intransitive Example: "Well," Judd said, "what's the deal. You in or out?" "I have to decide right now?" "We have a meeting with Bruce tonight and church tomorrow morning. You go with us tonight and you promise to go tomorrow, or you move out this afternoon." "The man's drawing a line in the sand for you," Lionel said. "Lionel!" Vicki scolded. "I'm just sayin', the line has been drawn. You crossing the line, Ryan? Or are you with us?" Example: 2007, Daniel Pyne, Glenn Gers (scriptwriters), Fracture, WILLY: It doesn't have to stick: we just need to get a court order for now - to keep Crawford from pulling the plug! With all the brain-power here, I'm sure somebody can come up with a pretext or call in a favor. Then we can tie this up in court while we arrange a state-appointed conservatorship - so we can protect her while we fight him on - NIKKI: What's the point, Willy? WILLY: The point?! [Willy stares.] Because she's drawn a line in the sand. One he already crossed, without truly understanding... and now he's standing out there alone. 2. To create a real or artificial boundary or distinction between (two places, people or things). Example: At some point you ask, "Where do we draw a line in the sand between deconstruction as desertification of God and as desertion of God?" There is no line. Example: Could it be, that way back, early in this relationship, consciously in my mind, I chose to set a boundary or to draw a line in the sand between this person and myself? This line meant that I would not allow the person to come any closer to me, or my seeming secrets, than that line in my mind. 3. To indicate the threshold or level above which something will become unacceptable or will provoke a response; to create a boundary and imply or declare that its crossing will provoke a (negative) response. Example: “A line has been drawn in the sand” against any Iraqi invasion of Saudi Arabia, Mr. Bush said. Example: 2003 March 5, Robert Byrd, speech, North Korea: The Rising Peril, Even so, the current crisis might well have been defused weeks ago, before the two leaders started exchanging threats of war, had the United States agreed to talk directly to North Korea, as our allies in the region have been pleading with us to do. Instead, the Administration drew a line in the sand, insisting that the United States would not be blackmailed into one-on-one talks with North Korea.
Word: do the rounds Part of Speech: verb 1. Alternative form of make the rounds. Labels: alt-of, alternative Example: One bit of political speculation doing the rounds just before Christmas was that having lost the battle last year to kill off HS2 in its entirety, frustrated No. 10 advisers are now determined to settle the score by lopping off the eastern arm.
Word: make the rounds Part of Speech: verb 1. To circulate from one place to another. Example: The naked photos of that celebrity have been making the rounds in the tabloids. 2. To go from one place to another for a particular reason. Example: The doctors at the hospital check on the patients when they make the rounds at nine o'clock.
Word: Casablanca Part of Speech: name Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish Casablanca, a calque of Portuguese Casa Branca, itself calqued from Arabic الدَّار الْبَيْضَاء (ad-dār al-bayḍāʔ, “the white home”). Pronunciation: /kæsəˈblæŋkə/ 1. The capital city of the region of Casablanca-Settat, Morocco. Example: My dear Mademoiselle, perhaps you have already observed that in Casablanca, human life is cheap. Good night, Mademoiselle. Example: We see documentary footage (the trudging homeless) and an animated map—an inky line movies from Paris to Marseilles, from there to Oran, and finally to Casablanca, where the lucky ones escape via Lisbon and the rest “wait…and wait…and wait.”
Word: hastely Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From haste + -ly. 1. Hastily. Labels: obsolete Example: But this good knight soone as he them can spie, / For the coole shade him thither hastly got […]
Word: embar Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle French embarrer, from barre (“bar”). Pronunciation: /ɪmˈbɑː/ 1. To enclose (as though behind bars); to imprison. Labels: archaic, transitive 2. To prohibit, debar (someone from doing something). Labels: obsolete, transitive
Word: wasteness Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English wastnesse; equivalent to waste + -ness. Cognate with West Frisian woestens (“wildness, savagery, fierceness”), Dutch woestenis (“wasteland”), German Wüstnis (“desert, wasteland”). Pronunciation: /ˈweɪstnəs/ 1. The state of being laid waste; desolation. Labels: countable, obsolete, uncountable Example: That day is a day of wrath, a day of trouble and distress, a day of wasteness and desolation, a day of darkness and gloominess, a day of clouds and thick darkness, 2. The state of being uncultivated; wild, barren. Labels: archaic, countable, uncountable Example: Under her rays, the ground over which we passed assumed a more interesting appearance than during the broad day-light, which discovered the extent of its wasteness. Example: […] I cannot find words to express the intense pleasure I have always in first finding myself, after some prolonged stay in England, at the foot of the old tower of Calais church. The large neglect, the noble unsightliness of it; the record of its years written so visibly, yet without sign of weakness or decay; its stern wasteness and gloom, eaten away by the Channel winds, and overgrown with the bitter sea grasses […] 3. A wilderness. Labels: countable, obsolete, uncountable Example: She of nought affrayd, / Through woods and wastnesse wide him daily sought
Word: wastenesses Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of wasteness Labels: form-of, plural
Word: system pull Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Literally meaning “pulled from an already assembled system”. 1. A new computer part that has been removed from an unused, previously assembled system. Labels: countable, uncountable 2. A new computer part that has not been unpacked, but is excess inventory from an end-of-lifed system configuration. Labels: countable, uncountable 3. A used computer part. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: exhaler Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From exhale + -er. 1. One who exhales.
Word: carburization Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From carburize + -ation. 1. Impregnation or reaction with carbon, especially in the manufacture or heat treatment of steel. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: caricaturable Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From caricature + -able. 1. Suitable for being caricatured. Example: Yet as with the American South, there is a distinctly caricaturable quality to rural Afrikanerdom, and the sophisticated Afrikaners of Johannesburg and Cape Town enjoy making fun of them.
Word: carination Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From carina + -ation or carinate + -ion. 1. A ridge, or similar formation, in the form of a keel.
Word: caroche Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From French caroche, from Italian carroccio. Pronunciation: /kəˈɹəʊtʃ/ 1. A form of stately carriage or chariot Labels: obsolete
Word: castellate Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Medieval Latin castellātus (“fortified” “made into a castle”), from castellum (“little fortification, castle”) + -ātus (forming participial adjectives). By surface analysis, Latin castellum + -ate (adjective-forming suffix) or castle + -ate. Pronunciation: /ˈkastələt/ 1. castle-like: built or shaped like a castle. Labels: rare Example: ...The living porphyry, in towers around Grotesquely castellate... 2. Castled: having or furnished with castles. Labels: rare Example: ...Heights castellate... 3. Housed or kept in a castle. Labels: rare
Word: castellate Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Medieval Latin castellō (“fortify”) + -ate (verb-forming suffix). Pronunciation: /ˈkastəleɪt/ 1. To make into a castle: to build in the form of a castle or to add battlements to an existing building. Labels: transitive Example: The citizen who castellates a Villa at Richmond... 2. To take the form of a castle. Labels: intransitive, rare Example: ...Clouds slowly castellating in a calm...
Word: castellate Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Medieval Latin castellātus. By surface analysis, castle + -ate (forming nouns denoting a rank or office, the concrete charge of this office). Pronunciation: /ˈkastələt/ 1. The district of a castle. Labels: historical, obsolete, rare Example: In the Castellate of Roger of Poictou...
Word: up with the lark Part of Speech: adj 1. Awake and out of bed early in the morning. Labels: idiomatic Example: "Yes, of course, if it’s fine tomorrow," said Mrs Ramsay. "But you'll have to be up with the lark," she added.
Word: castrative Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From castrate + -ive. Pronunciation: /kaˈstɹeɪtɪv/ 1. Causing (the effects of) castration.
Word: catchpenny Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Latin captus Proto-Indo-European *-yetider. Latin -io Vulgar Latin *captiāre Old French chacierbor. Anglo-Norman cachierbor. Middle English cacchen English catch Pre-Greekder.? Ancient Greek πατάνη (patánē)bor. Latin patina Latin panna? Latin pannus? Proto-Indo-European *-n̥kʷo-der.? Proto-Indo-European *-nós Proto-Indo-European *-iHnos Proto-Germanic *-īnaz Proto-Indo-European *-kos Proto-Germanic *-gaz ? Proto-Germanic *-ingaz Proto-Germanic *panningaz Proto-West Germanic *panning Old English peniġ Middle English peny English penny English catchpenny From catch + penny. 1. A cheap item designed to attract purchasers of other goods. Example: Near-synonym: loss leader 2. A publication, etc. intended to make money, with no particular merit otherwise. Example: CURIOSITIES OF STREET LITERATURE: COMPRISING "COCKS," OR "CATCHPENNIES," A Large and Curious Assortment of STREET DROLLERIES, SQUIBS, HISTORIES, COMIC STORIES IN PROSE AND VERSE, […]
Word: catenulate Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Latin catenula (“small chain”) + -ate. 1. In the form of a chain of linked parts Labels: not-comparable
Word: catenulate Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Latin catenula (“small chain”) + -ate. 1. To form into a chain
Word: get up with the chickens Part of Speech: verb 1. to wake up early Labels: idiomatic
Word: caudiform Part of Speech: adj 1. Resembling a tail. Labels: not-comparable
Word: caulicle Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Latin cauliculus (“little stalk”). Doublet of cauliculus. 1. A small stalk or stem, especially the rudimentary stalk of a seed embryo
Word: caulicolous Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From caul(is) + -i- + -colous. 1. That grows parasitically on the stems of other plants Labels: not-comparable 2. Relating to a caulicole Labels: not-comparable
Word: cauliferous Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From caul(is) + -i- + -ferous. 1. Giving rise to a stalk or stem Labels: not-comparable
Word: cauliflorous Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From caul(is) + -i- + -florous. 1. Having flowers on the stem. Labels: not-comparable
Word: caulocarpous Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From caulo- + -carpous. 1. Bearing flowers and fruit on the stem or branches from year to year (as ordinary shrubs and trees)
Word: causable Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From cause + -able. 1. That may be caused Labels: rare
Word: cavicorn Part of Speech: adj 1. Having hollow horns
Word: cavicorn Part of Speech: noun 1. Any animal having hollow horns 2. A hollow-horned ruminant, one of a group formerly treated taxonomically as Cavicornia. Labels: obsolete