nandhakumarms/qualc-wiktionary-en huggingface dataset:
Word: mandi Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from Arabic مندي (“a Yemeni dish of spiced meat and rice”), itself from the Arabic word ندى (nada), meaning "dew", reflecting the moist ('dewy') texture of the meat. 1. A traditional Yemeni culinary dish of spiced meat and rice cooked in a pit. Now a popular staple in most areas of the Arabian Peninsula, it originates from Hadhramaut. Labels: East, Middle, Yemen, especially
Word: mandi Part of Speech: noun 1. a Mandaean building that serves as a community center and place of worship.
Word: manis Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of mani Labels: form-of, plural
Word: manis Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ˈmeɪnɪs/ 1. The pangolin. Labels: obsolete
Word: insured Part of Speech: adj Pronunciation: /ɪnˈʃʊəd/, /ɪnˈʃɔːd/, /ɪnˈʃʊɚd/ 1. Covered by an insurance policy. Labels: not-comparable
Word: insured Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ɪnˈʃʊəd/, /ɪnˈʃɔːd/, /ɪnˈʃʊɚd/ 1. The person or persons whose interests are protected by an insurance policy.
Word: insured Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /ɪnˈʃʊəd/, /ɪnˈʃɔːd/, /ɪnˈʃʊɚd/ 1. simple past and past participle of insure Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: condensed milk Part of Speech: noun 1. Milk that has been reduced and sweetened to the consistency of syrup. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: She holds the condensed milk tin over the first mug and watches the pale yellow milk stream down in a thin, viscous line.
Word: evaporated milk Part of Speech: noun 1. Milk that has been concentrated by evaporation, often sold canned. Labels: uncountable, usually
Word: impi Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Zulu impi. Pronunciation: /ˈɪmpi/ 1. A group of Zulu (or other Bantu) warriors; a detachment of armed men. Example: And in the end he, as well as three of his four children, shared Retief's fate in the massacre of Trekkers by the Zulu impis of Dingane. Example: But as grizzled as Chief Joyi often seemed, the decades fell off him when he spoke of the impis, or warriors, in the army of King Ngangelizwe.
Word: muda Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Japanese 無駄 (muda). 1. A form of waste, or deviation from optimal allocation of resources, that occurs when work is performed that does not add value for the customer. Labels: uncountable
Word: mula Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative spelling of moola. Labels: alt-of, alternative, uncountable
Word: milk powder Part of Speech: noun 1. Pulverized milk solids, produced by evaporating all liquid from milk. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: nabi Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Arabic نَبِيّ (nabiyy, “prophet”). 1. A prophet of Islam.
Word: naga Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From an Australian Aboriginal language; cf. Wulna nākā (“dress, covering”) Pronunciation: /ˈnɑːɡə/ 1. A loincloth. Labels: Australia Example: Boys and many of the men wear the naga, akin to bathing trunks […] Example: […] a young lubra wearing nothing but a naga of paper-bark rose and came forward shyly.
Word: naga Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Sanskrit नाग (nāga, “serpent, snake”), probably ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *nogʷós (“naked”) and cognate with naked. Pronunciation: /ˈnɑːɡə/ 1. A member of a class of semi-divine creatures, often taking the form of a very large snake and associated with water. Example: The five-coned towers form a quincunx, and their flanks are scooped into niches in each of which has been placed a smiling buddha shaded by a nine-headed naga like a big palm fan. 2. A fictional creature with the lower body of a snake, and an upper body either of an anthropomorphic version thereof, or of a human or another humanoid creature. The serpentine equivalent of a taur. Labels: slang Example: Coordinate term: lamia
Word: oto Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Clipping of otocinclus. 1. An otocinclus (freshwater fish, genus Otocinclus). Labels: informal Example: All the tetras in my tank (3 species - black neons, Pristellas, and red eyes) died within a 36 hour period. The corys and otos in the same tank are fine. There was no change in water quality, feeding habits, or water temperature. I have no idea why all the tets would die in such a short time span.
Word: oleh Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Hebrew עוֹלֶה (olé). Pronunciation: /oʊˈlɛ/ 1. A Jew who has recently made aliyah to Israel; an immigrant to Israel. 2. Someone who makes an aliyah for a Torah-reading. Example: The benediction recited by the oleh before reading the portion of the Torah.
Word: budgies Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ˈbʌd͡ʒiz/ 1. plural of budgie Labels: form-of, plural
Word: nock Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English nokke, attested since the 14th century, probably from a Scandinavian/North Germanic language (compare Swedish nock (“notch”), but compare Dutch nok, from Middle Dutch nocke (“tip, point”). Both could be related to nook (“corner, recess”). Pronunciation: /nɒk/, /nɑk/ 1. Either of the two grooves in a bow that hold the bowstring. Example: Meanwhile there had been bustle and preparation in all parts of the great vessel. The archers stood in groups about the decks, new-stringing their bows, and testing that they were firm at the nocks. Example: Each drew his string from its waterproof case and bent the huge arc of his war-bow as he fitted it into the nocks. 2. The notch at the rear of an arrow that fits on the bowstring. Example: He took his arrow by the nock. 3. The upper fore corner of a boom sail or trysail.
Word: nock Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English nokke, attested since the 14th century, probably from a Scandinavian/North Germanic language (compare Swedish nock (“notch”), but compare Dutch nok, from Middle Dutch nocke (“tip, point”). Both could be related to nook (“corner, recess”). Pronunciation: /nɒk/, /nɑk/ 1. To fit (an arrow) against the bowstring of a bow or crossbow. Labels: transitive Example: Then taking up his own good stout bow and nocking an arrow with care, he shot with his very greatest skill. 2. To cut a nock in (usually in an arrow's base or the tips of a bow). Labels: transitive Example: It is a Scotch bow, I see, for the upper nock is without and the lower within. By the black rood! it is a good piece of yew, well nocked, well strung, well waxed, and very joyful to the feel.
Word: nock Part of Speech: intj Etymology: From Middle English nokke, attested since the 14th century, probably from a Scandinavian/North Germanic language (compare Swedish nock (“notch”), but compare Dutch nok, from Middle Dutch nocke (“tip, point”). Both could be related to nook (“corner, recess”). Pronunciation: /nɒk/, /nɑk/ 1. Fit the arrow to your bowstring.
Word: nock Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /nɒk/, /nɑk/ 1. Misspelling of knock. Labels: alt-of, misspelling
Word: nock Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /nɒk/, /nɑk/ 1. Misspelling of knock. Labels: alt-of, misspelling Example: I put my hair up, and was just finished, when mother nocked. It was terrable^([sic]).
Word: whispering Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /ˈ(h)wɪspəɹɪŋ/ 1. present participle and gerund of whisper Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: whispering Part of Speech: adj Pronunciation: /ˈ(h)wɪspəɹɪŋ/ 1. That whispers. 2. Associated with whispers.
Word: whispering Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ˈ(h)wɪspəɹɪŋ/ 1. Something that is whispered; gossip; a rumor. 2. The sound of whispers; Example: The tendency of modern science is to close this gate—though it can never stop the search for it—the vague desire after some kind of communication, some kind of poetic identification with the soul that reveals itself through the rolling year, the mysterious presence that is felt to lie behind the outbuddings of spring, the wealth and greenery of summer, with all its whisperings and music and rippling laughter, the blue of autumn, with its fruitage, its expansive horizons, its glory veiling temporary decay. 3. The projection of intention and influence caused by sending thoughts or desires outward through softly-spoken words or subtle mental or energetic means. Example: "Witches feel that anyone who is against them has to be destroyed. The method is to give the victim what we call a whispering. It is similar to the aborigine ceremony in Australia of singing someone to death. The witches gather in a circle and focus their hate on the persons they have in mind. These vibrations from their minds and voices carry whispers to the one who they are working against."
Word: suppedaneum Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Late Latin suppedāneum, neuter of suppedāneus (“under the feet”), composed of sup- (“under”) + ped- (“foot”) + -aneus (“-aneous”). Pronunciation: /sʌpɪˈdeɪnɪəm/ 1. a foot-support for a crucified person, projecting from the base of the cross Example: 2002: At the center of the O, a nimbed Christ is fixed to a cross with a large serpent coiled at its base, his feet on a suppedaneum. — Celia Chazell, Reading Medieval Images, ed. Thelma Thomas & Elizabeth Sears (University of Michigan 2005, p. 27) 2. the platform in front of the altar on which celebrating priest stands
Word: blue flu Part of Speech: noun Etymology: In reference to blue police uniforms. 1. An industrial action taken by members of the police, claiming sickness en masse. Labels: countable, informal, uncountable
Word: streaming Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English stremyng, stremynge, stremande, equivalent to stream + -ing. Pronunciation: /ˈstɹiːmɪŋ/ 1. Flowing or moving in continuous succession, like fluid in a stream.
Word: streaming Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English stremyng, stremynge, stremande, equivalent to stream + -ing. Pronunciation: /ˈstɹiːmɪŋ/ 1. present participle and gerund of stream Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: streaming Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English stremynge, equivalent to stream + -ing. Pronunciation: /ˈstɹiːmɪŋ/ 1. Movement as a stream. Labels: uncountable, usually 2. The transmission of digital audio or video, or the reception or playback of such data without first storing it. Labels: uncountable, usually Example: Streaming has a dirty secret. The carbon footprint produced by fans watching a month of Netflix’s top 10 global TV hits is equivalent to driving a car a hefty distance beyond Saturn. Example: The entertainment industry is trying to figure out the economics of streaming. It’s also facing angst over a tech-powered future and fighting to stay culturally dominant. 3. Synonym of livestreaming. Labels: Internet, uncountable, usually 4. Division of classes into academic streams. Labels: UK, uncountable, usually Example: Imagine a country where children do nothing but play until they start compulsory schooling at age seven. Then, without exception, they attend comprehensives until the age of 16. Charging school fees is illegal, and so is sorting pupils into ability groups by streaming or setting. 5. The working of alluvial deposits to obtain ore. Labels: uncountable, usually
Word: faeder Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Learned borrowing from Old English fæder (“father”). Doublet of ayr, father, padre, pater, and père. 1. A male ruff (bird, Philomachus pugnax, syn. Calidris pugnax) that permanently mimics a female so as to gain access to mating territories and "steal" matings. Example: Here, we describe a rare female-like morph of ruffs: the ‘missing’ third alternative mating strategy, which we have called ‘faeder’. Faeders are slightly larger than females and in late April have testes 2.5 time the size of testes of normal males. Example: Faeders, male ruffs that mimic females in plumage and "sneak" copulations at leks, secrete monoesters like other males.
Word: straightway Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From straight + way. 1. A straight section of a racetrack.
Word: straightway Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From straight + way. First attested in the sense of "directly". 1. Synonym of straightaway or straight away (“at once, immediately”). Labels: dated, not-comparable Example: "Thou now shalt drive her to her mother's straightway." Example: Now, if in a stage coach in the depth of winter, when three passengers are warm and snug, a fourth, all besnowed and frozen, descends from the outside and takes place amongst them, straightway all the three passengers shift their places, uneasily pull up their cloak collars, re-arrange their "comforters," feel indignantly a sensible loss of caloric—the intruder has at least made a sensation. 2. Directly. Labels: nonstandard, not-comparable Example: But like as eyes not strong enough to look upon the sun yet do gladly look upon the objects which are by the sun enlightened, so, souls which have already strength to delight in the beauty of chastity are yet not straightway able to consider in her very self that truth which charity hath her light, insomuch that when it cometh to the doing of somewhat that is adverse to truth, they should so start back in horror as they do start back in horror if aught be proposed to be done that is adverse to chastity. Example: Those who continually prefer to stir up waters find that they create only a whirlpool and are carried around in circles rather than progressing straightway.
Word: slovenly Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree English sloven Proto-Indo-European *leyg-der. Proto-Germanic *līkąder. Proto-Germanic *-līkaz Proto-West Germanic *-līk Old English -līċ Middle English -ly English -ly English slovenly From sloven + -ly. Pronunciation: /ˈslʌv.ən.li/, /ˈslɒv.ən.li/ 1. Having an untidy appearance; unkempt. Example: The same marks of indolence appeared in the care of his person; for every part of his dress was generally in disorder; and, though he was well made and handsome, yet his slovenly appearance made him disgustful to every one. Example: Which would you sooner employ, a boy who was plainly, yet neatly clad, or one who had a slovenly appearance, though dressed in fine clothes? 2. Dirty, unwashed; disorderly. 3. Careless or negligent; sloppy. Example: You say my pamphlet betrays the most slovenly rashness. But where is your proof? Example: British goods have often been despatched in such careless and slovenly fashion that they arrived half broken. The same goods supplied by Germans were packed with such admirable care that they reached their destination quite safely.
Word: slovenly Part of Speech: adv Etymology: Etymology tree English sloven Proto-Indo-European *leyg-der. Proto-Germanic *līkąder. Proto-Germanic *-līkaz Proto-West Germanic *-līk Old English -līċ Middle English -ly English -ly English slovenly From sloven + -ly. Pronunciation: /ˈslʌv.ən.li/, /ˈslɒv.ən.li/ 1. In a slovenly manner.
Word: preserving Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of preserve Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: preserving Part of Speech: noun 1. preservation Example: Some preservings of foods, indeed, can scarcely be done to advantage except on a large scale.
Word: perceiving Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /pɚˈsivɪŋ/, /pəˈsiːvɪŋ/ 1. present participle and gerund of perceive Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: perceiving Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /pɚˈsivɪŋ/, /pəˈsiːvɪŋ/ 1. The act by which something is perceived. Example: To such perceivings we give names like these: seeings, hearings, smellings, chillings and burnings, pleasures and pains, desires […]
Word: granting Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of grant Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: granting Part of Speech: noun 1. The act by which something is granted. Example: […] after grantings, revokings, and re-grantings, of the liberty of Yarmouth […] Example: We want to make it clear that […] the Department of Agriculture has no responsibility and takes no position with regard to the grantings of individual export licenses or to whom such licenses are granted.
Word: flourishing Part of Speech: adj Pronunciation: /ˈflɝɪʃɪŋ/, /ˈflʌɹɪʃɪŋ/ 1. Growing, thriving, prospering. Example: a flourishing economy
Word: flourishing Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /ˈflɝɪʃɪŋ/, /ˈflʌɹɪʃɪŋ/ 1. present participle and gerund of flourish Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: flourishing Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ˈflɝɪʃɪŋ/, /ˈflʌɹɪʃɪŋ/ 1. An act or instance of thriving or flowering. 2. A bold, sweeping movement. Example: Maud took an active part in the drive, and with her cries and flourishings of the broken oar was of considerable assistance. I noticed, though, that whenever one looked tired and lagged, she let it slip past. But I noticed, also, whenever one, with a show of fight, tried to break past, that her eyes glinted and showed bright, and she rapped it smartly with her club. 3. A period of greatest influence. 4. A boasting or bragging. 5. The brandishing of a weapon.
Word: diminishing Part of Speech: adj 1. becoming smaller
Word: diminishing Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of diminish Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: diminishing Part of Speech: noun 1. A diminishment.
Word: degrading Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /dɪˈɡɹeɪdɪŋ(ɡ)/ 1. present participle and gerund of degrade Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: degrading Part of Speech: adj Pronunciation: /dɪˈɡɹeɪdɪŋ(ɡ)/ 1. Causing or likely to cause someone to feel degraded. Example: Retrieving my dropped possessions from the mud was a degrading experience.
Word: degrading Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /dɪˈɡɹeɪdɪŋ(ɡ)/ 1. An act or process of degradation.
Word: country mile Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From country + mile. So named due to the winding, twisting nature of country roads, a country mile appears to take much longer to travel than a mile in the city, where the roads are straighter. First use appears c. 1717, in the publications of M. Dutton. Pronunciation: /ˌkʌntɹi ˈmaɪl/ 1. A long way, a great distance. Labels: idiomatic, informal Example: by a country mile Example: ’Twas long indeed, a country mile;
Word: converting Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of convert Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: alarming Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /əˈlɑːm.ɪŋ/, /əˈlɑɹm.ɪŋ/ 1. present participle and gerund of alarm Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: alarming Part of Speech: adj Pronunciation: /əˈlɑːm.ɪŋ/, /əˈlɑɹm.ɪŋ/ 1. Causing apprehension, fear or alarm; frightening. Example: Another stop at the 731-yard Sharpthorne Tunnel allowed the apprentices to see how a combination of water and a "chemical soup" is destroying the rails at an alarming rate.
Word: spooked Part of Speech: adj 1. A little scared; worried by a feeling or event. Describing the unsettling feeling there being another unknown ghostly presence. 2. Being spied upon by security or intelligence services. 3. Taken off guard; astonished; surprised. Labels: informal 4. Duped into believing a spook.
Word: spooked Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of spook Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: ta ta for now Part of Speech: intj 1. Alternative form of ta-ta for now. Labels: alt-of, alternative Example: 1974: Tigger (voiced by Paul Winchell) in Unbouncing Tigger Well, I gotta go, now! I got a lot of bouncing to do! Hoo-hoo-hoo! TTFN! Ta ta for now!
Word: enslaved Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of enslave Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: joy ride Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of joyride. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: joy ride Part of Speech: verb 1. Alternative form of joyride. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: earned media Part of Speech: noun 1. Publicitiy for political campaigns gained through newspaper articles, TV news stories, web news, letters to the editor, op-ed pieces, and "fast polls" on TV and the Web. Labels: uncountable
Word: ecky-becky Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Bajan ecky-becky. According to Bajan lore, the word ecky-becky is of African origin and can be traced back to a time before Africans came to Barbados. In one Igbo community in West Africa a French man allegedly named Equé Bequé, or something similar, attempted to settle there and colonize the village, but failed, as he had no money or army. From then on, the Igbo people called any poor Caucasian "Ecky-becky." This word would later be taken by these people to Barbados when they were captured along with other African tribes and brought into slavery. 1. A poor white person. Specifically, a lower-class descendant of the whites who worked the land before the arrival of African slaves. Labels: Barbados, derogatory, slang
Word: profundities Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of profundity Labels: form-of, plural
Word: sitrep Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Clipping of situation report. Pronunciation: /ˈsɪtˌɹɛp/ 1. A situation report: a periodic report on the current military situation. Example: Anyone in the barracks, I need a sitrep. Now! 2. An update or report on the status of something or someone. Labels: broadly Example: I didn’t appreciate it yet, but the bike I’d bought was a little too big for me and I wasn’t sitting in the optimal position. One day, a few weeks in, I posted a sitrep: ‘Frustrating day with delays, crazy truck drivers, no room at the inn, comms playing up — but covered over 110km!’
Word: edubba Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Learned borrowing from Sumerian 𒂍𒁾𒁀𒀀 (e₂-dub-ba-a /⁠edubak⁠/, “school”, literally “house of tablets”). 1. A Sumerian 'house of tablets', a place of learning where archives and literature were stored on clay tablets. A school and repository of knowledge.
Word: ejit Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative spelling of eejit (A fool or idiot) Labels: Ireland, alt-of, alternative, colloquial
Word: eloge Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From French éloge, from Latin ēlogium. Doublet of elogy. 1. An expression of praise. Labels: obsolete 2. A statement or disquisition in praise of someone who has died. Example: In a later éloge, Georges Cuvier called it, with pardonable exaggeration, ‘in some respects the last words of a dying Plato’. 3. Specifically, the statement made by a new member of the French Academy about his predecessor.
Word: emotional age Part of Speech: noun 1. The chronological age of individuals of the same maturity as the person in question.
Word: empirical data Part of Speech: noun 1. Data derived from reliable measurement or observation. Labels: uncountable
Word: aggregation number Part of Speech: noun 1. the number of molecules that are associated together to form a micelle Labels: physical
Word: Enobakhare Part of Speech: name Etymology: From Edo, literally "the edict of the king." 1. A male given name in Nigeria. 2. A surname.
Word: degree of ionization Part of Speech: noun 1. the ratio of the number of ions of a solute to the total number of molecules of that solute in a solution Labels: physical
Word: refractive index Part of Speech: noun 1. The ratio of the speed of light in air or vacuum to that in another medium.
Word: escalope Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from French escalope. Doublet of scallop. Pronunciation: /ˈɛskəˌlɒp/, /ˌɛskəˈloʊp/, /ˈɛskəˌloʊp/ 1. A thin slice of meat, especially veal or poultry. Example: Both the escalope de veau Normande and a special of the day, veal Orloff, seemed to be cut from the same veal roast, not thin escalopes at all, but thick chop-like slices. Only the sauces differed. 2. Alternative spelling of escallop. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: ethnophobia Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From ethno- + -phobia. 1. The irrational fear and hatred of one's own nation Labels: countable, uncountable 2. The hatred of any race or ethnicity different to one's own. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: eupepsia Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Ancient Greek εὔπεπτος (eúpeptos, “easy of digestion”). Pronunciation: /juːˈpɛp.si.ə/ 1. Good digestion. Labels: uncountable
Word: evaluand Part of Speech: noun 1. The subject of an evaluation, typically a program or system rather than a person Example: Cultural competence requires an attitude of respect for the evaluand and its diverse consumers, providers, and other stakeholders.
Word: eventer Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From event + -er. 1. A horse or type of horse used in the equestrian sport of eventing. 2. The rider of a horse used in eventing.
Word: exfiltration Part of Speech: noun 1. The process of exiting an area (usually behind enemy lines or in enemy territory). Labels: countable, uncountable 2. A method for managing storm water runoff. Labels: countable, uncountable 3. A filtering out (usually movement of a substance through a barrier). Labels: countable, uncountable 4. A gradual movement of a substance to exterior (as through cell membrane to extracellular fluid or medium). Labels: countable, uncountable 5. The covert extraction of data from a system. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Phishing is sending emails or other electronic communications to fraudulently or unlawfully induce recipients to reveal personal or sensitive information, such as passwords, dates of birth, Social Security numbers, passport numbers, credit card information, financial information, or other sensitive information, or to gain access to accounts or records, exfiltration of documents or other sensitive information, payment and/or financial benefit.
Word: exoterism Part of Speech: noun 1. The outward forms that religion takes; the institutional aspects of faith and religion, such as rituals, moral precepts, and institutions. Example: 1875. Gordon Campbell, Wilson Edward William Morrison, E B Iwan-Müller, Frederick Sanders Pulling, Francis Griffin Stokes, The Shotover Papers, Or, Echoes from Oxford, University of Oxford, page 73, It is not however easy -- perhaps it is impossible -- to reveal a discovery so wonderful by popular exoterism on the point: posterity will amplify and expound in dry but acumonious logic what I have here only to put forth in its great Severity and Profundity. Example: 1919. Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, Isis Unveiled: A Master Key to the Mysteries of Ancient and Modern Science, The Aryan Theosophical Press, page 535, The thought of the present-day commentator and critic as to the ancient learning, is limited to and runs round the exoterism of the temples...
Word: getah Part of Speech: noun 1. A mosquito-borne arboviral disease of horses and pigs. Labels: uncountable
Word: explant Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₁éǵʰ Proto-Indo-European *-s Proto-Indo-European *h₁éǵʰs Proto-Italic *eks Latin ex Latin ex-der. Middle French ex-bor. Middle English ex- English ex- English plant English explant From ex- + plant. 1. Any portion taken from a plant or an animal that will be used to initiate a culture. It can be a portion of the shoot, or of the leaves, or even just some cells.
Word: explant Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₁éǵʰ Proto-Indo-European *-s Proto-Indo-European *h₁éǵʰs Proto-Italic *eks Latin ex Latin ex-der. Middle French ex-bor. Middle English ex- English ex- English plant English explant From ex- + plant. 1. To remove something, such as a medical device, that has been implanted. Example: Fifty chapters are dedicated to this subject and explain complex issues such as managing radiation induced urethral stricture, reconstruction of the neophallus urethra, methods of explanting urethral stents, and salvaging failed slings and artificial urinary sphincters.
Word: bambu Part of Speech: noun 1. Obsolete form of bamboo. Labels: alt-of, obsolete, uncountable
Word: explorista Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₁éǵʰs Proto-Italic *eks Latin ex Latin ex- Latin plōrō Latin explōrōder. Middle French explorerder. English explore English -ista English explorista From explore + -ista. 1. A person with a curious mind who explores the world, encountering different cultures and customs.
Word: kampung Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Malay kampung (“enclosure; quarter of a town occupied by a certain nationality; village”). Doublet of kampang. Cognates * Dutch kampoeng Pronunciation: /ˈkʌmpɒŋ/, /ˈkæm-/, /kæmˈpɒŋ/, /ˈkʌmˌpɔŋ/, /ˈkɑm-/ 1. A traditional village. Labels: Brunei, Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore Example: They came from solitary huts in the wilderness, from populous campongs, from villages by the sea. At the call of an idea they had left their forests, their clearings, the protection of their rulers, their prosperity, their poverty, the surroundings of their youth and the graves of their fathers. Example: Margio seldom saw his mother happy, and often thought of doing things to cheer her up. He would go back to their kampong and look for gifts for her. 2. A district or suburb where a former village once stood. Labels: Singapore Example: Kampung Tanah Merah.
Word: eyass Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of eyas. Labels: alt-of, alternative Example: When Roland Græme was a youth about seventeen years of age, he chanced one summer morning to descend to the mew in which Sir Halbert Glendinning kept his hawks, in order to superintend the training of an eyass, or young hawk, which he himself, at the imminent risk of neck and limbs, had taken from a celebrated eyrie in the neighbourhood, called Gledscraig.
Word: sarung Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of sarong. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: rotan Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Malay rotan (“cane”), doublet of rattan. Pronunciation: /ˈɹotɑn/ 1. A long rattan cane used for corporal punishment. Labels: Malaysia, Singapore Example: Two boys, aged 14 and 11, were each sentenced to three strokes of the light rotan at Kluang for stealing duck eggs from Loh Wee Seng. Example: Zaimi Bin Rassak, 20, was yesterday jailed for two years with two strokes of the rotan after he was found guilty of trafficking in 32 rolls of cannabis in Queens Crescent on June 24 at 1 a.m.
Word: rotan Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Russian рота́н (rotán, “Amur sleeper”). 1. Amur sleeper (Perccottus glenii) Labels: no-plural, uncommon Example: A single individual requires as much as 30 kg of other fish (including its own species) to gain 1 kg of weight. The resilience of the rotan, which requires 20 times less oxygen than other species, is best illustrated by its ability to revive a day after being left in open air. In one such instance, the first individual to rebound in a group ate up the others, according to Itar-Tass news agency.
Word: rattan Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Malay rotan. Pronunciation: /ɹəˈtan/, /ˈɹatan/, /ɹəˈtæn/ 1. Any of several species of climbing palm of the genus Calamus. Labels: countable, uncountable 2. The plant used as a material for making furniture, baskets etc. Labels: uncountable Example: Then, how comparatively sweet was everything on board - no paint, no tar, no new rope, (vilest of smells to the qualmish!) no grease, or oil, or varnish; but instead of these, bamboo and rattan, and coir rope and palm thatch; pure vegetable fibres, which smell pleasantly if they smell at all, and recall quiet scenes in the green and shady forest. Example: It took Elwood an hour to find Mr. Gladwell, who sat in a big rattan chair at the edge of the sweet potato fields. 3. A cane made from this material. Labels: broadly, countable, uncountable Example: He who first acts as striker asks the other how many blows of the rattan he will bear on his forearm without crying out. Example: “My Continental prominence is improving,” I commented dryly. ¶ Von Lindowe cut at a furze bush with his silver-mounted rattan. ¶ “Quite so,” he said as dryly, his hand at his mustache. “I may say if your intentions were known your life would not be worth a curse.”
Word: rattan Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Borrowed from Malay rotan. Pronunciation: /ɹəˈtan/, /ˈɹatan/, /ɹəˈtæn/ 1. To beat with a rattan cane. Labels: transitive Example: Meanwhile Captain Colville rattaned Pearson very severely […]
Word: roti Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Hindi रोटी (roṭī)/Urdu روٹی (roṭī), from Sanskrit रोटिका (roṭikā, “bread”). Pronunciation: /ˈɹoʊti/, [ˈɹɔʊɾɪi̯], /ˈɹəʊti/, /ˈɹəʉtɪi̯/, /ˈɹɔtɪi̯/ 1. A kind of unleavened flatbread commonly consumed in South Asia and the Caribbean. Labels: uncountable, usually Example: Along the sidewalks, hundreds of vendors hawked everything from commemorative T-shirts to rum to roti, the breadlike Caribbean pastry stuffed with pungently barbecued goat or chicken. Example: Nepalis eat sweet fried rice-flour doughnuts called sel roti.
Word: meningocele Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From meningo- + -cele. 1. A form of spina bifida in which a meningeal sac of cerebrospinal fluid protrudes through the skull.
Word: susu Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Possibly from West African Igbo isusu / esusu (“pooling the funds”) or Yoruba esúsú (“revolving loan fund”). 1. An informal money pooling scheme practised in Africa, the Caribbean, and some immigrant communities. Example: The informal credit sector has been very active in Ghana and covers a range of activities known as susu, including individual savings […] Example: Irene empathized with her susu members as immigrants who were earning low wages in New York, but there appeared to be some socioeconomic advantages to being an organizer that she was not acknowledging.
Word: jati Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Sanskrit जाति (jāti). Doublet of gens, genesis, and kind. 1. A clan, tribe, or community in India. 2. A rhythm pattern in Indian music.
Word: marga Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Sanskrit मार्ग (mārga). Doublet of marg. Pronunciation: /ˈmɑːɡə/ 1. The canon of established forms of classical music, dance etc., as opposed to modern or regional developments. Labels: South-Asia, countable, uncountable 2. Any of various paths or courses seen as leading to enlightenment. Labels: Hinduism, countable, uncountable 3. The noble eightfold path. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: marga Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Jamaican Creole mawga, derived from English meagre. Pronunciation: [mɑːɡɐ] 1. Someone of undernourished figure. Labels: Multicultural-London-English, vulgar Example: Bro said he really don't lack to much I reply, can't you see it's a marga Example: Big Russ, not marga I still got a crush on Zara
Word: derma Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Learned borrowing from New Latin derma, from Ancient Greek δέρμα (dérma, “skin, hide”). Doublet of derm. Pronunciation: /ˈdɜː(ɹ)mə/ 1. The inner layer of the skin.
Word: derma Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ˈdɜː(ɹ)mə/ 1. Clipping of dermatologist. Labels: India, Philippines, abbreviation, alt-of, clipping, colloquial
Word: derma Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Yiddish דערמע (derme), plural of דאַרם (darm, “intestine”), from Middle High German [Term?], from Old High German darm, from Proto-West Germanic *þarm, from Proto-Germanic *þarmaz, from Proto-Indo-European *terh₁- (“to bore”). Pronunciation: /ˈdɜː(ɹ)mə/ 1. A Jewish dish of roast or boiled seasoned meat and flour etc. in a casing, especially kishke.
Word: duta Part of Speech: noun 1. Clipping of dutasteride Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, clipping, uncountable
Word: relativism Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English relative Proto-Indo-European *-id- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō) Proto-Indo-European *-mos Proto-Indo-European *-mós Ancient Greek -μός (-mós) Ancient Greek -ισμός (-ismós)der. English -ism English relativism From relative + -ism. 1. The theory, especially in ethics or aesthetics, that conceptions of truth and moral values are not absolute but are relative to the persons or groups holding them. Labels: uncountable 2. A specific such theory, advocated by a particular philosopher or school of thought. Labels: countable Example: Following Gilbert Harman’s lead, my own formulation of relativism about the normative domain was based on the classic examples of thoroughgoing relativisms drawn from physics.
Word: pada Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Sanskrit पद (pada). Pronunciation: /ˈpɑːdə/ 1. The basic metric unit of Vedic poetry, consisting of one line of verse in Sanskrit, typically as part of a four-line stanza. Labels: Sanskrit Example: There were quatrains and broken verses and entire poems. There were padas that she had started and scratched out.
Word: jauhar Part of Speech: noun 1. The mass suicide of Rajput women in order to escape defilement by foreign conquerors. Labels: historical, uncountable
Word: ratu Part of Speech: noun 1. A Fijian chief. Example: For the purposes of this discussion, however, it is sufficient to know that all land is traditionally vested in the ratu, and there are no higher order structures of customary landownership.
Word: bigas Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of biga Labels: form-of, plural
Word: puti Part of Speech: noun 1. The duiker. Example: The puti (a kind of antelope) is the totem of the Bamangwats, another Bechuana clan; and to look on it was a great calamity to the hunter or to women going to the gardens
Word: lytel Part of Speech: adj 1. Pronunciation spelling of little, small. Labels: UK, alt-of, pronunciation-spelling, regional
Word: lytel Part of Speech: adv 1. Pronunciation spelling of little, not much. Labels: UK, alt-of, pronunciation-spelling, regional
Word: lytel Part of Speech: det 1. Pronunciation spelling of little, not much. Labels: UK, alt-of, pronunciation-spelling, regional
Word: lytel Part of Speech: pron 1. Pronunciation spelling of little, not much. Labels: UK, alt-of, pronunciation-spelling, regional
Word: lytel Part of Speech: noun 1. Pronunciation spelling of little, a small amount, a small person, a small thing. Labels: UK, alt-of, pronunciation-spelling, regional
Word: spherical geometry Part of Speech: noun 1. The geometry of the 2-dimensional surface of a sphere; Labels: uncountable, usually Example: The basic concepts of Euclidean geometry of the plane are the point and the (straight) line; in spherical geometry, the corresponding concepts are the point and the great circle. Example: Due to the way the geometry of a sphere's surface differs from that of the plane, spherical geometry has some features of a non-Euclidean geometry and is sometimes described as being one. Historically, however, spherical geometry was not considered a fully fledged (non-Euclidean) geometry capable of resolving the question of whether the parallel postulate is a logical consequence of the rest of Euclid's axioms of plane geometry. 2. The geometry of the 2-dimensional surface of a sphere; (countable) a given geometry of the surface of a sphere; a geometry of the surface of a given sphere, regarded as distinct from that of other spheres. Labels: countable, usually
Word: sexennium Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Latin sexennium, from sexennis (“6-year”) + -ium (suffix forming abstract nouns). Pronunciation: /sɛkˈsɛniəm/, /sɛkˈsɛnɪəm/ 1. A period of six years.
Word: noneuclidean geometry Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of non-Euclidean geometry. Labels: US, alt-of, alternative, countable, uncountable
Word: spherical cap Part of Speech: noun 1. A portion of the surface of a sphere cut off by a plane.
Word: spherical lune Part of Speech: noun 1. A portion of the surface of a sphere cut off by two vertical planes through the centre of the sphere.
Word: spherical wedge Part of Speech: noun 1. A volume of a sphere lying between two vertical planes through the centre of the sphere.
Word: bulliform Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Latin bulla (“any swollen round object”), + -iform 1. Having a blistered appearance; bullate.
Word: bulliform Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Latin bulla (“any swollen round object”), + -iform 1. A bulliform cell
Word: blow a kiss Part of Speech: verb 1. To kiss one's own hand, then blow on it in a direction towards the recipient. Labels: idiomatic Example: We haven't yet kissed, but she blew me a kiss as the train pulled out of the station. That meant a lot to me.
Word: fluorescein Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *bʰel-der. Proto-Indo-European *bʰlewH-der. Proto-Indo-European *bʰluH-yé-ti? Latin fluō Proto-Indo-European *-os Proto-Indo-European *-s Proto-Indo-European *-ōs Proto-Italic *-ōs Latin -or Latin fluorbor. English fluor Proto-Indo-European *-tósder. Ancient Greek -της (-tēs)der. Ancient Greek -ῑ́της (-ī́tēs)der. Latin -ītēsbor. French -iteder. English -ite English fluorite Middle Low German sparder. Old English spærstān Middle English sparston English sparstonebf. English spar blend English fluorspar Proto-Indo-European *-éh₁ti Proto-Indo-European *-sḱéti Proto-Indo-European *-éh₁sḱeti Proto-Italic *-ēskō Latin -ēscō Latin -escensder. English -escence English fluorescencebf. English fluoresce Proto-Indo-European *-nós Proto-Indo-European *-iHnos Proto-Italic *-īnos Latin -īnusder. Old French -inbor. Middle English -in English -ineclip. English -in English fluorescein From fluoresce + -in. 1. Any of a class of yellow xanthene dyes which are visible when highly diluted; used forensically to detect traces of blood, and in analytical chemistry as an indicator in silver nitrate titrations
Word: misapprehension Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *mey-? Proto-Indo-European *meyth₂-der. Proto-Germanic *missaz Proto-Germanic *missa- Proto-West Germanic *missa- Old English mis- Middle English mys- English mis- English apprehension English misapprehension From mis- + apprehension. 1. A failure to understand something; an illusion, misconception or misunderstanding. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: They had thought it obsolete, but, were relieved of this misapprehension by Yule’s friend Major Trotter.
Word: fluorocarbon Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *bʰel-der. Proto-Indo-European *bʰlewH-der. Proto-Indo-European *bʰluH-yé-ti? Latin fluō Proto-Indo-European *-os Proto-Indo-European *-s Proto-Indo-European *-ōs Proto-Italic *-ōs Latin -or Latin fluor Ancient Greek -ο- (-o-)der. Latin -o-bor. English -o- English fluoro- Proto-Indo-European *kerh₃-der.? Latin carbōnemlbor. French carbonebor. English carbon English fluorocarbon From fluoro- + carbon. 1. Any derivative of a hydrocarbon in which every hydrogen atom has been replaced by fluorine.
Word: tie up loose ends Part of Speech: verb 1. To deal with the minor consequences of a previous action; to tidy up, finish, or complete. Labels: idiomatic Example: Removing her name from the mailing list was her way of tying up loose ends. Example: it is rich in detail and ideas, and it comes from a unique, uncompromising talent who likes to leave some loose ends for the viewer to tie up.
Word: formazan Part of Speech: noun 1. the organic nitrogen compound H₂NN=CHN=NH or any of its derivatives
Word: twinkletoes Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of twinkle toes. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: fucolipid Part of Speech: noun 1. any glycolipid
Word: fulgide Part of Speech: noun 1. any of a class of photochromic cyclic acid anhydrides of dialkylidenesuccinic acid.
Word: wide awake Part of Speech: adj 1. Awake and very alert; vigilant, watchful. Labels: idiomatic Example: "They are almost awake, not quite," said Lucy. She knew she herself was wide awake, wider than anyone usually is. Example: Why is marking a book indispensable to reading it? First, it keeps you awake—not merely conscious, but wide awake. 2. Keyed in or aware of things; not oblivious; woke. Labels: figuratively Example: LF 37, F 33, working class backgrounds, left-ish politics, seek wide-awake F 30+ to share friendly, indep apt.
Word: fulvalene Part of Speech: noun 1. the bicyclic hydrocarbon formed from two cyclopentadiene rings linked with a double bond; any derivative of this compound 2. any heterocyclic analogue of these compounds
Word: fulvene Part of Speech: noun 1. the hydrocarbon methylenecyclopentadiene or any of its derivatives 2. any heterocyclic analogue of these compounds
Word: furanocoumarin Part of Speech: noun 1. Any furocoumarin.
Word: furocoumarin Part of Speech: noun 1. Any organic compound composed of a coumarin fused to a furan, but especially any derivative of the psoralen skeleton or its angular isomer angelicin
Word: go for Part of Speech: verb 1. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see go, for. Example: I'll go for some milk. Example: If John goes for three days without sleep, he will be very tired. 2. To try for, to attempt to reach. Labels: transitive Example: I'll go for the world record. Example: Go for it! 3. To undertake (an action); to choose an option. Labels: transitive Example: His phone was off and I couldn't ask his permission, so I decided to just go for it. Example: I'll go for a swim if it's warm enough. 4. To attack. Labels: transitive Example: Careful, he'll go for your throat! 5. To develop a strong interest in, especially in a sudden manner; to be infatuated with. Labels: transitive Example: Douglas: Well done on passing the test, Jen... Yes, all those clumsy attempts at seduction. Don't tell me you couldn't see through them. They were a test to find out whether you really wanted to work for me or whether you just wanted to come up here for my body. Jen: Oh, no, no, no, no, no, not at all. Douglas: All right. Jen: No, physically you're just not the sort of man I go for. Douglas: Yeah, thanks, Jen. Jen: I go for the classically good-looking men: Blond, broad, and generally clean shaven. Douglas: Alright, yeah, enough of the jibber-jabber! Example: Clyde took one look at Bonnie and really went for her. 6. To favor, accept; to have a preference for. Labels: transitive Example: Management won't go for such a risky project now. Example: Do you want to climb the mountain with me? Yeah, I could go for that. 7. To fall for (a trick) Labels: informal, transitive 8. To apply equally to. Labels: transitive Example: Stop taking my food from the fridge! That goes for you too, Nick! Example: What I'm about to say goes for all of you. 9. To suffice to be used for; to serve as. Labels: transitive Example: It's a desk that goes for a dresser too. Example: […] every of them, being gold, whole and weight, shall go and be current in payment throughout this his realm for the sum that they were coined for. 10. To be accepted as. Labels: intransitive Example: The man went among men for an old man in the days of Saul. 11. To cost. Labels: idiomatic, transitive Example: Here in Texas, gas can go for as little as two dollars a gallon.
Word: furanose Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Latin furfur Akkadian 𒎎𒋆𒁉𒍣𒁕 (guḫlum)bor. Aramaic כוחלא (kuḥlā)bor. Arabic كُحْل (kuḥl) Andalusian Arabic اَلْكُحُول (al-kuḥūl)bor. Latin alcoholder. Proto-Indo-European *de Proto-Indo-European *-h₁ Proto-Indo-European *déh₁ Proto-Italic *dē Latin dē Latin de-der. Proto-Indo-European *wed- Proto-Indo-European *-r̥ Proto-Indo-European *wódr̥ Proto-Hellenic *údōr Ancient Greek ῡ̆̔́δωρ (hū̆́dōr) Ancient Greek ῠ̔δρο- (hŭdro-)der. German Aldehydbor. English aldehydeclip. English -al English furfural Proto-Indo-European *-nós Proto-Italic *-nos Latin -nus Latin -ānus Old French -ainder. Middle English -an English -an English furan Ancient Greek γλεῦκος (gleûkos)der. French glucose English glucosebf. English -ose English furanose From furan + -ose. 1. any cyclic hemiacetal form of a monosaccharide having a five-membered ring (the tetrahydrofuran skeleton)
Word: non-stoichiometric compound Part of Speech: noun 1. Any chemical compound in which the number of atoms of each element is not expressible as the ratio of small integers; normally due to missing atoms in a solid state lattice.
Word: rotgut Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From rot + gut. 1. Raw or poor-quality alcoholic liquor. Labels: slang, uncountable, usually Example: Near-synonym: red-eye Example: Then the harpooner carried away a pink flask to be filled in some blind pig, for there were no licensed saloons in that locality. We drank the cheap rotgut out of tumblers.
Word: berthollide Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Named after Claude Louis Berthollet, + -ide. 1. Any non-stoichiometric compound.
Word: daltonide Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Dalton + -ide, after John Dalton. Pronunciation: /ˈdɔːltənaɪd/ 1. Any normal stoichiometric compound, especially one in which atomic ratios are those of small integers
Word: stoichiometric Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Ancient Greek στοιχεῖον (stoikheîon, “element”) + -metric. 1. Of or relating to stoichiometry. Labels: not-comparable 2. Existing in a ratio of small integers. Labels: not-comparable
Word: nuclear battery Part of Speech: noun 1. Any device that converts the energy of particles emitted from atomic nuclei into electrical energy.