nandhakumarms/qualc-wiktionary-en huggingface dataset:
Word: residual Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Recorded since 1570. From residue, itself borrowed during the Middle English period from Old French residu (Modern French résidu), from Latin residuum (“a remainder”), the neuter inflection of residuus (“remaining, left over”), perfect participle of resideō (“to remain behind”), from re- (“back, again”) + sedeō (“to sit, to reside”). Pronunciation: /ɹɪˈzɪd͡ʒ.ʊəl/, /ɹɪˈzɪd͡ʒ.əl/, /ɹɪˈzɪd.jʊəl/, /ɹɪˈzɪd.jəl/, /ɹɪˈzɪd͡ʒ.u.əl/ 1. A remainder left over at the end of some process. 2. Payments made to performers, writers and directors when a recorded broadcast is repeated. Labels: in-plural Example: The tentative deal announced this week by the Writers Guild of America includes many industry-specific aspects, such as the size of writers’ rooms and improved residuals for streaming. Example: Because, despite his very small role as shark victim Alex Kintner when he was 12, Voorhees is still being paid residuals – royalties – 50 years later. Every time Jaws is on TV, he earns money. […] “It pays to die,” is how he put it in a recent interview with Syfy. 3. The difference between the observed value and the estimated value of the quantity of interest. 4. A spiritual presence left behind in a place as a result of a person's death or some other significant event.
Word: smellies Part of Speech: noun 1. Pleasant-smelling toiletries. Labels: UK, informal, plural, plural-only Example: I bought my mother some smellies for her birthday. 2. Cinema enhanced with odours. Labels: UK, informal, plural, plural-only
Word: smellies Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of smelly Labels: form-of, plural 2. plural of smellie Labels: form-of, plural
Word: wellies Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Clipping of Wellingtons. Pronunciation: /ˈwɛliz/ 1. Wellington boots Labels: New-Zealand, UK, informal, plural, plural-normally
Word: welly whanging Part of Speech: noun 1. A humorous sport in which the aim is to throw a Wellington boot as far as possible. Labels: UK, uncountable
Word: brockle Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Inherited from Middle English brokel. Pronunciation: /bɹɑːkəl/ 1. Broken pieces of a structure; rubble, ruins. Labels: dialectal, obsolete, uncountable
Word: descriptivism Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From descriptive + -ism. * Audio (Southern England): (file) 1. The practice of describing realistic forms, as opposed to prescribing idealistic norms, of linguistic usage. Labels: uncountable, usually
Word: spacetravel Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative spelling of space travel. Labels: alt-of, alternative, uncountable
Word: falsifiable Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree English falsify Proto-Indo-European *-tḗr Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlom Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlis Proto-Italic *-ðlis Latin -bilis Latin -ābilis Old French -ablebor. Middle English -able English -able English falsifiable From falsify + -able. Pronunciation: /ˈfɒl.sɪˌfaɪ.ə.bəl/ 1. Logically capable of being proven false. Example: The sentence "It will rain tomorrow" is falsifiable, while the sentence "It is what it is" is not. 2. Capable of being faked or forged. Example: A digital signature algorithm must be not falsifiable. 3. The demarcation criterion between scientific and non-scientific statements proposed by Karl Popper. In order to be ranked as scientific, statements or systems of statements must be contradicted by an intersubjective singular existential statement, also called a basic statement, and not be contradicted by another, that is, they must also be logically possible. Example: The statement It rains every day, everywhere is falsifiable, because it is contradicted by the basic statement On the third of August, in New York city it was not raining and it is not contradicted by the basic statement On the second of August, in New York city it was raining, while the statement It will rain someday is not falsifiable.
Word: falsifiability Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English falsify Proto-Indo-European *-tḗr Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlom Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlis Proto-Italic *-ðlis Latin -bilis Latin -ābilis Old French -ablebor. Middle English -able English -able English falsifiable Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-ts Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂ts Latin -itāsder. Old French -itebor. Middle English -ite English -ity English falsifiability From falsifiable + -ity. 1. The quality of being falsifiable. Labels: uncountable, usually Example: These ideas have many virtues, but falsifiability is not one of them. Example: The degree of their testability is of significance for the selection of theories. In this chapter, I shall compare the various degrees of testability or falsifiability of theories through comparing the classes of their potential falsifiers.
Word: ait Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English eyt, eit, from Old English īġeoþ, īgoþ, iggaþ, iggoþ (“ait, eyot, islet, small island”), diminutive of īġ, ēġ, īeġ (“island”). More at eyot. Pronunciation: /eɪt/ 1. An island in a river, especially the River Thames in England. Example: The ait where the osiers grew. Example: ‘[H]e the said seigneur, in quality of Lord Paramount, is to all intents and purposes invested with the sole right and property of the river running through his fief, together with […] all the islands and aits within it.’
Word: ait Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Scots ait, ate, from Middle English ate, from Old English āte. More at oat. Pronunciation: /eɪt/ 1. An oat. Labels: Scotland Example: Let husky wheat the haughs adorn, An' aits set up their awnie horn,
Word: ait Part of Speech: intj Pronunciation: /eɪt/ 1. Alternative form of aight. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: semester hours Part of Speech: noun 1. The number of credit hours a student takes in a semester, usually for a college or university to count towards a degree. Labels: plural, plural-only
Word: bit part Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From bit + part. 1. A minor role, generally not assigned a name. Example: 2005, Most of her work, however, consisted of bit parts. She often was cast in movies credited only as "flower vendor," "warden" or "suntan lady," — 'Five Easy Pieces' waitress dead at 85, CNN online.
Word: homeopathy Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From German Homöopathie, equivalent to English homeo- + -pathy. Pronunciation: /ˌhəʊmɪˈɒpəθi/, /ˌhɒmɪˈɒpəθi/, /ˌhoʊmiˈɑpəθi/, /ˌhɑmiˈɑpəθi/, /hom(ɪ)jo.pət̪ʰi/ 1. A system of treating diseases with small amounts of substances which, in larger amounts, would produce the observed symptoms. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: I am sure that if doctors (for instance) were first taught how to use some of the other methods of homeopathy effectively, particularly the therapeutics and organ-based methods, they would be much more able to incorporate these into their practices […]
Word: escalate Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Back-formation from escalator. Pronunciation: /ˈɛs.kə.leɪt/, /ˈɛs.kjə.leɪt/ 1. To increase (something) in extent or intensity; to intensify or step up. Labels: ambitransitive Example: Violence escalated during the election. Example: The shooting escalated the existing hostility. 2. In technical support, to transfer a customer, a problem, etc. to the next higher level of authority Labels: transitive Example: The tech 1 escalated the caller to a tech 2. 3. To climb. Labels: uncommon Example: Thus, actually a prior uncounselled misdemeanor conviction may often prove to be a boon to one escalating the ladder of crime to the point where he has been convicted of a major aggravated offense. Example: They escalated upstairs to the Mall coffee tables. 4. To move by escalator. Labels: rare Example: Escalator after escalator flowed up to the heights above, […] Dov escalated up beside me, scowling. Example: There were people just about everywhere, packing the garish fluorescent-lit corridors, riding in humming golf carts, escalating up and down escalators, floating along on those George Jetson moving sidewalk thingies.
Word: vitiligo Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin vitilīgō. Pronunciation: /ˌvɪtɪˈlaɪɡəʊ/ 1. The patchy loss of skin pigmentation. Labels: uncountable, usually Example: In the weeks that followed, I began to notice other people with vitiligo. On the streets, in the stores, in their cars. My God, they were everywhere! 2. Alphos, a form of leprosy. Labels: obsolete, uncountable, usually
Word: corrosive sublimate Part of Speech: noun 1. mercuric chloride Labels: obsolete, uncountable Example: Various substances act by entering into combination, and the divellent tendencies of the affinities of the constituents of those substances are overcome, among those are corrosive sublimate, copperas, tannin, wood, vinegar and creosotte.
Word: heather Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English hather, hathir, from Old English *hǣddre and hǣþ (“heather”), cognate with Scots hedder, hadder, heddir (“heather”), Saterland Frisian Heede (“heather”), West Frisian heide (“heather”), Dutch heide (“heather”), German Low German Heide, Heid (“heather”), German Heide (“heather”). Pronunciation: /ˈhɛðə/, /ˈhɛðɚ/, /ˈheðə/, /ˈhɛðəɾ/, /ˈhiːðəɹ/ 1. An evergreen plant, Calluna vulgaris, with spiky leaves and small purple, pink, or white flowers. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: The cutting sides were gay with heather in bloom, and masses of dainty Scots bluebells, while patches of clear sky overhead were bringing life and colour to the sea. 2. A plant in the family Ericaceae. Labels: countable, uncountable 3. Various species of the genus Erica. Labels: countable, uncountable 4. Various species of the genus Cassiope. Labels: countable, uncountable 5. A purple colour with a tint of pink and blue. Labels: countable, uncountable 6. The use of interwoven yarns of mixed colours to produce flecks. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: heather Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English hather, hathir, from Old English *hǣddre and hǣþ (“heather”), cognate with Scots hedder, hadder, heddir (“heather”), Saterland Frisian Heede (“heather”), West Frisian heide (“heather”), Dutch heide (“heather”), German Low German Heide, Heid (“heather”), German Heide (“heather”). Pronunciation: /ˈhɛðə/, /ˈhɛðɚ/, /ˈheðə/, /ˈhɛðəɾ/, /ˈhiːðəɹ/ 1. Of a purple colour with a tint of pink and blue. Labels: not-comparable
Word: betty Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Betty (nickname for “Elizabeth”). In thieves’ cant a tool for wrenching locked doors is also called a Bess (from “Elizabeth”) or a Jenny. The “attractive woman” sense may relate to the character Betty Rubble in the cartoon The Flintstones. Pronunciation: /ˈbɛti/ 1. A short bar used by thieves to wrench doors open; a jimmy. Labels: slang Example: No modern Lycæum vvill ever equal thy Glory, […] deſcribing the povverful Betty, or the artful Picklock, […] 2. A picklock, skeleton key; a tool for opening locks. Labels: slang Example: After a quick meal at a tea shop, we found ourselves in the hallway at the Midland Hotel, where he removed a skeleton key, or “betty” as he called it, from his pocket and inserted it in the keyhole. […] Once they were out of sight, I fumbled about with the betty for a few moments before the lock finally clicked open. 3. A man who performs tasks that traditionally belong to a woman; (originally) an effeminate or gay man. Labels: archaic, derogatory 4. A pear-shaped bottle covered with straw, in which olive oil is sometimes brought from Italy; a Florence flask. Labels: US, archaic Example: On olive oil in casks, twenty cents per gallon; olive salad oil in bottles or betties, thirty per centum ad valorem 5. A baked dessert made with alternating layers of sweetened fruit and buttered bread crumbs. Example: A pie-size betty is traditional, but if you like, assemble the recipe in individual ovenproof ramekins. 6. An attractive woman; a babe. Labels: slang Example: Isn't my house classic? The columns date all the way back to 1972. Wasn't my Mom a betty? She died when I was just a baby. A fluke accident during a routine liposuction. I don't remember her, but I like to pretend she still watches over me.
Word: betty Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Betty (nickname for “Elizabeth”). In thieves’ cant a tool for wrenching locked doors is also called a Bess (from “Elizabeth”) or a Jenny. The “attractive woman” sense may relate to the character Betty Rubble in the cartoon The Flintstones. Pronunciation: /ˈbɛti/ 1. To pick a lock, to open with a betty. Example: “Well then,” he said. “Let’s say you can betty the lock, hang on a rope, and break the drum, and then lock up again with nobody the wiser. How do I get on in the first place, past the Scots jack, with his sharp cool?” Example: The forty quid! Gone! ’Ow could she ’ave gotten in there? The peter ain’t broke, no sign of it bein’ bettied, and I the only one w’ the key. 2. To be overly attentive to someone or something. Labels: archaic Example: “I’m perfectly well, thank you, Miss Hester,” she said, coldly. “I detest being bettied.” Example: If anything on earth is reprehensible in a man and disgusting to a woman, it is to have said man hen-hussying and bettying about the kitchen
Word: collector Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Inherited from Middle English collectour, from Anglo-Norman collectour, from Late Latin collēctor, from Latin colligō (“to gather together”). Pronunciation: /kəˈlɛk.tɚ/, /kəˈlɛk.tə(ɹ)/ 1. A person who or thing that collects, or which creates or manages a collection. Example: She is an avid collector of nineteenth-century postage stamps. Example: That old piano is just a big dust collector. 2. A person who is employed to collect payments. Example: She works for the government as a tax collector. Example: Andrew Houſtoun and Adam Muſhet, being Tackſmen of the Excize, did Imploy Thomas Rue to be their Collector, and gave him a Sallary of 30. pound Sterling for a year. 3. A person who is employed to collect payments. 4. The amplified terminal on a bipolar junction transistor. 5. A compiler of books; one who collects scattered passages and puts them together in one book. Example: Volumes[…] without any of tthe collector's own reflections. 6. One holding a Bachelor of Arts in Oxford, formerly appointed to superintend some scholastic proceedings in Lent. Labels: historical Example: Whereupon he soon after appointed A. W. his collector in Austins; which office he kept till he was admitted Mr. of arts 7. A major sewer which collects sewerage from a number of smaller branch sewers.
Word: dicey Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *de Proto-Indo-European *-h₁ Proto-Indo-European *déh₁ Proto-Italic *dē Latin dē Old French de Latin -os Proto-Indo-European *h₁ey- Latin -es Old French -s Old French desbor. Middle English dys English dice Proto-Indo-European *-kos Proto-Germanic *-gaz Proto-West Germanic *-g Old English -iġ Middle English -y English -y English dicey From dice + -y. Pronunciation: /ˈdaɪsi/, /ˈdʌɪ̯si/ 1. Fraught with danger. 2. Of uncertain, risky outcome. Example: This was a dicey stratagem because all too often the support Britain rendered played into Zanu-PF's anti-colonial constructions. Example: Devouring the flesh of animals killed on roadways can be a bit dicey. 3. Of doubtful or uncertain efficacy, provenance, etc.; dodgy. Example: As if I'm not a bit past that, Clem thought, as if with his dicey ticker and all he shouldn′t be taking life pretty quietly, instead of waking with the old memoroes disturbing him. Example: If you were in the business of selling dicey meat, the invention of the telephone rocked your world.
Word: hoar Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English hor, hore, from Old English hār (“hoar, hoary, grey, old”), from Proto-West Germanic *hair, from Proto-Germanic *hairaz (“grey”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ḱeh₃- (“grey, dark”). Cognate with German hehr (“noble, sublime”), Herr (“sir, gentleman”), Scottish Gaelic ciar (“dusky”), and Russian се́рый (séryj, “grey”). Pronunciation: /hɔː/, /hoɹ/, /ho(ː)ɹ/, /hoə/ 1. A white or greyish-white colour. 2. Hoariness; antiquity. Example: His grants are engrafted on the public law of Europe, covered with the awful hoar of innumerable ages.
Word: hoar Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English hor, hore, from Old English hār (“hoar, hoary, grey, old”), from Proto-West Germanic *hair, from Proto-Germanic *hairaz (“grey”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ḱeh₃- (“grey, dark”). Cognate with German hehr (“noble, sublime”), Herr (“sir, gentleman”), Scottish Gaelic ciar (“dusky”), and Russian се́рый (séryj, “grey”). Pronunciation: /hɔː/, /hoɹ/, /ho(ː)ɹ/, /hoə/ 1. Of a white or greyish-white colour. Labels: not-comparable Example: So forth they rowèd; and that ferryman / With his stiff oars did brush the sea so strong, / That the hoar waters from his frigate ran, / And the light bubbles danced all along. / Whiles the salt brine out of the billows sprong. Example: old trees with trunks all hoar 2. Hoarily bearded. Labels: not-comparable, poetic Example: And lo, where rapt in beauty's heavenly dream Hoar Plato walks his olived Academe. Example: This is the forest primeval. The murmuring pines and the hemlocks, Bearded with moss, and in garments green, indistinct in the twilight, Stand like Druids of eld, with voices sad and prophetic, Stand like harpers hoar, with beards that rest on their bosoms. 3. Musty; mouldy; stale. Labels: not-comparable, obsolete Example: But a hare that is hoar Is too much for a score When it hoars ere it be spent. 4. Figuratively, grey or grey-haired with age; ancient, venerable. Labels: archaic, not-comparable Example: Oft list'ning how the hounds and horn Cheerly rouse the slumb'ring morn, From the side of some hoar hill, Through the high wood echoing shrill. Example: Be Thou with me until Old-age, and even to hoar hairs do Thou carrie me. P. Isa. 46.4.
Word: hoar Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English hor, hore, from Old English hār (“hoar, hoary, grey, old”), from Proto-West Germanic *hair, from Proto-Germanic *hairaz (“grey”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ḱeh₃- (“grey, dark”). Cognate with German hehr (“noble, sublime”), Herr (“sir, gentleman”), Scottish Gaelic ciar (“dusky”), and Russian се́рый (séryj, “grey”). Pronunciation: /hɔː/, /hoɹ/, /ho(ː)ɹ/, /hoə/ 1. To become mouldy or musty. Labels: intransitive, obsolete Example: But a hare that is hoar / Is too much for a score / When it hoars ere it be spent.
Word: catch up Part of Speech: verb 1. To pick up suddenly. Labels: transitive Example: Oscar stopped the horses and waved to Carl, who caught up his hat and ran through the melon patch to join them. 2. To entangle (something). Labels: transitive Example: The speaker wires have got caught up with the wires from the lights. 3. To involve in (something); to embroil. Labels: broadly, transitive Example: That's why she got caught up in addiction. 4. To be brought up to date with news. Labels: intransitive Example: I hadn't seen her for so long. It was great to catch up. 5. To bring (someone) up to date with the news. Labels: transitive Example: After Alice's vacation, her boss caught her up on policy changes. Example: I have to miss the end of the meeting, but you can catch me up later. 6. To reach something that had been ahead. Labels: ambitransitive Example: Rose was three seconds behind, but managed to catch up with the race leader and eventually won. Example: I'll go ahead and you can catch up with me later. 7. To compensate for or make up a deficiency. Labels: intransitive Example: After a slow start, they've been catching up lately. Example: The sales quarter ends soon and we've got to try to catch up. 8. To finally overtake (someone or something) after a long period of approaching (them or it). Labels: intransitive Example: His years of drinking were catching up with him. Example: You are reminded that old age is catching up with you each time you read in the newspaper that another athlete whom you idolized when you were young just passed away.
Word: catch up Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative spelling of catch-up. Labels: alt-of, alternative, countable, uncountable
Word: hypersurface Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *úp Proto-Indo-European *-er Proto-Indo-European *upér Proto-Hellenic *hupér Ancient Greek ῠ̔πέρ (hŭpér) Ancient Greek ῠ̔περ- (hŭper-)der. English hyper- Middle French surfacebor. English surface English hypersurface From hyper- + surface. 1. A n-dimensional surface in a space (often a Euclidean space) of dimension n+1
Word: catch-up Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Deverbal from catch up. Pronunciation: /ˈkæt͡ʃ.ʌp/, /ˈkɛt͡ʃ.ʌp/, /ˈkæt͡ʃ.ɐp/, /ˈkɛt͡ʃ.ɐp/ 1. An act of catching up or attempting to catch up. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Rapid expansion of Britain's transport network during the 'railway mania' of the 19th century meant that the testing of engineering principles often played catch-up to the ambitions of progress. 2. An amount, a thing, or a receipt or repetition of information that enables one to catch up. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Catch-up is also available on the TV set using Digitial^([sic]) TV Services: BT Vision offers BBC, ITV, 40D and Demand 5 via the TV Replay service. Example: They have shown their staying power before and it would be daft to write them off but it must be disturbing, nonetheless, for Mourinho that his team are five points behind already and locked in a game of catch-up against the side that has just subjected them to a rare, old-fashioned beating.
Word: ninefold Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English *nynefold, *niȝenfald, from Old English niġonfeald. Equivalent to nine + -fold. 1. Having nine times as much or as many. Labels: not-comparable 2. Having nine parts. Labels: not-comparable Example: If so, where is your ninefold thread?
Word: ninefold Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From Middle English *nynefold, *niȝenfald, from Old English niġonfeald. Equivalent to nine + -fold. 1. By a factor of nine. Labels: not-comparable
Word: unavailing Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From un- + availing. 1. Fruitless, futile, useless. Example: The Begums' ministers, on the contrary, to extort from them the disclosure of the place which concealed the treasures, were, […] after being fettered and imprisoned, led out on to a scaffold, and this array of terrours proving unavailing, the meek tempered Middleton, as a dernier resort, menaced them with a confinement in the fortress of Chunargar. Thus, my lords, was a British garrison made the climax of cruelties! Example: During the next ten years, efforts to secure support for extending the railway south of Hawick were unavailing.
Word: ashen Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English asshen, aisshen, esscen, from Old English æsċen (“made of ashwood”), equivalent to ash + -en (“made or consisting of”). Cognate with Scots aschin, eschin (“ashen”). Pronunciation: /ˈæʃ.ən/, [ˈæʃ.ən] ~ [ˈæʃ.n̩] 1. Made from the wood of the ash-tree. Example: An ashen bow and quiver of arrows beside.
Word: ashen Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English asshen, axen (“ash-colored; pale; lifeless”). By surface analysis, ash + -en (“made or consisting of”). Pronunciation: /ˈæʃ.ən/, [ˈæʃ.ən] ~ [ˈæʃ.n̩] 1. Of or resembling ashes. Example: A fine, ashen dust hung in the air. 2. Ash-colored; pale; anemic Example: His ashen face belied his claims of good health. 3. Appalled; upset.
Word: ashen Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₂eHs-der.? Proto-Germanic *askǭ Proto-West Germanic *askā Old English æsce Middle English asshe English ash English -en English ashen From ash + -en (verbal suffix). Pronunciation: /ˈæʃ.ən/, [ˈæʃ.ən] ~ [ˈæʃ.n̩] 1. To turn into ash; make or become ashy Labels: ambitransitive 2. To make or become pale Labels: ambitransitive
Word: stability Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English stabletee, stabilite, from Old French stabilité, from Latin root of stabilitas (“firmness, steadfastness”), from stabilis (“steadfast, firm”). Displaced native Old English staþolfæstnes. Pronunciation: /stəˈbɪlɪti/, [stəˈbɪlɪɾi] 1. The condition of being stable or in equilibrium, and thus resistant to change. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: This platform offers good stability 2. The tendency to recover from perturbations. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: emotional stability Example: Globalization has re-ordered the global economy in ways that are destructive to civic stability, as decentralized, localized producers cannot compete with globalized, commoditized crops, capital, labor and goods.
Word: fissure Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *bʰeyd- Proto-Indo-European *-né- Proto-Indo-European *-ti Proto-Indo-European *bʰinédti Proto-Italic *findō Latin findō Proto-Indo-European *-tew-? Proto-Indo-European *-r-eh₂? Latin -tūra Latin fissūrader. Old French fissurebor. Middle English fissure English fissure From Middle English fissure, from Old French fissure, from Latin fissūra (“a cleft, chink”), from findō (“to cleave, split, divide”) + -tūra (nominal suffix). Pronunciation: /ˈfɪʃ.ə/, /ˈfɪʃ.ɚ/, /ˈfɪʒ.ɚ/ 1. A long, narrow crack or opening made by breaking or splitting, especially in rock or earth. Example: After Miller's Dale Junction, the main Derby-Manchester line crosses the Wye for the last time and turns north-west up Great Rocks Dale, a natural fissure several miles long. 2. A groove, deep furrow, elongated cleft or tear between body parts or in the substance of an organ. 3. A break or slit in tissue usually at the junction of skin and mucous membrane. 4. A state of incompatibility or disagreement.
Word: fissure Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *bʰeyd- Proto-Indo-European *-né- Proto-Indo-European *-ti Proto-Indo-European *bʰinédti Proto-Italic *findō Latin findō Proto-Indo-European *-tew-? Proto-Indo-European *-r-eh₂? Latin -tūra Latin fissūrader. Old French fissurebor. Middle English fissure English fissure From Middle English fissure, from Old French fissure, from Latin fissūra (“a cleft, chink”), from findō (“to cleave, split, divide”) + -tūra (nominal suffix). Pronunciation: /ˈfɪʃ.ə/, /ˈfɪʃ.ɚ/, /ˈfɪʒ.ɚ/ 1. To split, forming fissures.
Word: predilection Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Medieval Latin praedīlēctiō. Pronunciation: /ˌpɹiː.dəˈlɛk.ʃn̩/, /ˌpɹɛ.dəˈlɛk.ʃn̩/ 1. A condition of favoring or liking; a tendency towards; proclivity; predisposition. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: The young King looked tenderly at Mademoiselle Mancini, who gave him a glance quite as tender in return—not, however, unobserved. His mother had been for some time past a displeased spectator of a predilection which might become dangerous. Example: American operating practice aims at the minimum wastage of time by locomotives at water columns and coal stages, and this predilection for shunters with high capacity tenders is thereby explained.
Word: rhapsodic Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Latinized form of Ancient Greek ῥαψῳδῐκός (rhapsōidĭkós). 1. highly emotional; rapturous Example: I love all that romantic stuff and I'm tired of seeing it given over entirely to straights when we experience the same stupid, fabulous, rhapsodic feelings in our own relationships. Example: Charles Darwin once described his own brain as a machine for churning out hypotheses. Cavendish’s was an engine for generating finely calibrated distinctions: this, but not that. His analysis of a single substance could yield volumes of rhapsodic description. 2. Of or relating to rhapsody; consisting of rhapsody 3. confused, unconnected Labels: broadly
Word: rapturous Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree English rapture Proto-Indo-European *h₃ed- Proto-Indo-European *-os Proto-Indo-European *h₃édosder.? Proto-Italic *-ŏ̄dsos? Old Latin -ōssus Latin -ōsus Old French -usbor. Middle English -ous English -ous English rapturous From rapture + -ous. Pronunciation: /ˈɹæp.t͡ʃəɹ.əs/ 1. Full of rapture. Example: the rapturous applause Example: the rapturous emotions on the pulpit
Word: repudiation Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Latin repudiātiōnem, equivalent to repudiate + -ion. Pronunciation: /ɹɪˌpjuːdɪˈeɪ̯ʃ(ə)n/, /ɹəˌpjudiˈeɪ̯ʃən/ 1. The act of refusing to accept; the act of repudiating. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: The young man's repudiation of the church's doctrines caused a conflict with his religious parents. Example: Santorum, in a comment regarding Senator John McCain's repudiation of torture, stated, "He doesn't understand how enhanced interrogation works. I mean, you break somebody, and after they've broken they become cooperative" (Summers 2011).
Word: analemma Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Ancient Greek ἀνάλημμα (análēmma, “pedestal of a sundial”). Pronunciation: /ˌæn.əˈlɛm.ə/ 1. A figure-eight curve that results when the Sun's position in the sky is plotted out over the year at the same hour of mean solar time every day. Example: People commonly encounter the equation of time in a strangely distorted figure 8, the analemma (Figure 6.5), frequently seen on terrestrial globes. The analemma is the equation of time plotted against the Sun's declination. Example: The analemma also records the difference between local solar time and local mean time for each day of the year.
Word: anandrous Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Ancient Greek ἄνανδρος (ánandros). Equivalent to an- + -androus. 1. Lacking stamens; devoid of the male part. Labels: not-comparable Example: Anandrous flowers eight or nine; their ligular portion white, hardly exceeding one line in length, undivided and acute […] 2. Without a man or a husband. Labels: figuratively, not-comparable, rare Example: anandrous aunts
Word: apprise Part of Speech: verb Etymology: PIE word *h₂éd Borrowed from French appris, apprise, the past participle form of apprendre (“to learn; to teach”), from Middle French apprendre, aprendre (“to learn”), from Old French aprendre, aprandre (“to learn; to educate, teach”), from Latin apprēndere, a variant of apprehendere, adprehendere, the present active infinitives of apprehendō, adprehendō (“to lay hold upon, grab, grasp, seize, take; to apprehend, arrest; to grasp with the mind, comprehend, understand; (Medieval Latin) to learn; to inform; to teach”), from ad- (prefix meaning ‘to; towards’) + prehendō (“to lay hold of, grab, grasp, seize, take; (figuratively, rare) of the mind: to apprehend, comprehend, grasp, seize”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *gʰed- (“to find; to hold; to seize, take”)). Doublet of apprehend. Pronunciation: /əˈpɹaɪz/ 1. To make (someone or oneself) aware of some information; to inform, to notify. Labels: reflexive, transitive Example: The ears apprise the brain of sound. Example: [I]n general, he reſolve to Govern vvell: And […] Throughly and rightly to appriſe himſelf of that Principle that is the Soul of the Government; […] 2. To formally impart (information) to someone; to advise, to notify. Labels: rare, reflexive, transitive Example: P.S. Morlands have not yet written to my bankers apprizing the payment of your balances; pray desire them to do so.
Word: apprise Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English aprisen, apprisen (“to determine or estimate the value of (something), to appraise, evaluate; to regard (something) as important, valuable, or worthy, to esteem, prize; to praise or worship (God)”), and then either: * from Old French apriser, aprisier (“to appraise, evaluate”), from à (“to”) + prisier, preisier (“to attribute a value to, to appraise, value”) (from Latin pretiāre, the present active infinitive of pretiō (“(Late Latin) to consider valuable, hold in high regard, to esteem, prize, value; (Medieval Latin) to estimate the worth of, appraise, assess, value”), from pretium + -ō (suffix forming regular first-conjugation verbs)); or * from Old French à pris (“to (put a) price (on)”) (pris (“price; esteem, (positive) reputation”) is derived from Latin pretium). Pretium (“cost, price; value, worth”) is ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *per- (“before, in front; first”). The English word is a doublet of appraise, appreciate, praise, price, and prize. Pronunciation: /əˈpɹaɪz/ 1. Synonym of appraise (“to determine the value or worth of (something)”). Labels: archaic, reflexive, transitive Example: Theſe [people] muſt remember, hovv highly God apprizeth good purpoſes, and deſires, accepting, and revvarding them, vvhen they come to him, as if they came accompanied vvith the deeds themſelues. Example: [W]hosoever, at the proper worth, / Apprises worldly honour and repute, / Esteems it nobler to die honoured man / Beneath Mannaia, than live centuries / Disgraced in the eye o' the world. 2. To put a price on (something) for the purpose of sale; to appraise. Labels: archaic, reflexive, specifically, transitive Example: Infeftments are alſo extinct, vvhen the Superior adjudgeth or appriſeth from his Vaſſal; for thereby it vvas found, that the Property vvas Conſolidat vvith the Superiority, Example: [T]he infeftment of annualrent, being jus sed ignobilius, becomes extinct, if the annualrenter thereupon do apprise the property, and be infeft: and therefore, whoever appriseth for any years of the annualrent, the infeftment thereof, unless it be taken away by satisfaction or redemption, extinguisheth the infeftment of annualrent, without distinction whether the apprising be led for any years belonging to the fiar, liferenter, or any other.
Word: apert Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English apert, from Old French apert, from Latin apertus, past participle of aperire. Doublet of ouvert and overt. Pronunciation: /əˈpɜː(ɹ)t/ 1. open; uncovered; revealed Labels: archaic Example: apert Confessions
Word: aplomb Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from French aplomb (“plumb line”). Pronunciation: /əˈplʌm/, /əˈplɒm/, /æ-/ 1. Self-confidence; poise; composure. Labels: uncountable, usually Example: His nonchalance and aplomb during hard times have always been his best character trait. Example: “Oh, Wooster,” he said, “I was talking to my mother a night or two ago.” “Oh, yes?” I said, with a slight wave of the hand intended to indicate that if he liked to talk to his mother anywhere, all over the house, he had my approval. “She tells me you are interested in mice.” I didn't like the trend the conversation was taking, but I preserved my aplomb. “Why, yes, fairly interested.” “She says she found you trying to catch one in my bedroom!” 2. The apparent elegance and precision exhibited by a confident, accomplished dancer. Labels: uncountable, usually 3. The perpendicular; perpendicularity. Labels: uncountable, usually
Word: apidictor Part of Speech: noun 1. An instrument which measures and records the sounds in a beehive.
Word: dolina Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of doline. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: cravat Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From French cravate, an appellative use of Cravate (“Croat”), from Dutch Krawaat, from German Krawatte, from Serbo-Croatian Hr̀vāt/Хр̀ва̄т (“Croat”). The cravat is regarded as originating from a linen scarf worn by Croatian mercenaries which was adopted into French fashion in the 17th century. Doublet of Croat. Pronunciation: /kɹəˈvat/, /kɹəˈvæt/ 1. A wide fabric band worn as a necktie by men having long ends hanging in front. Example: It was April 22, 1831, and a young man was walking down Whitehall in the direction of Parliament Street. He wore shepherd's plaid trousers and the swallow-tail coat of the day, with a figured muslin cravat wound about his wide-spread collar. Example: I'm not like, a fashion person, so maybe I just don't get it, but I don't even understand how you're going to match. What, are you going to get like... a cravat that's the same color as her dress? / I would rock a dope cravat. 2. A decorative fabric band or scarf worn around the neck by women. Labels: historical 3. A bandage resembling a cravat, particularly a triangular bandage folded into a strip.
Word: cravat Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From French cravate, an appellative use of Cravate (“Croat”), from Dutch Krawaat, from German Krawatte, from Serbo-Croatian Hr̀vāt/Хр̀ва̄т (“Croat”). The cravat is regarded as originating from a linen scarf worn by Croatian mercenaries which was adopted into French fashion in the 17th century. Doublet of Croat. Pronunciation: /kɹəˈvat/, /kɹəˈvæt/ 1. To adorn with a cravat; to tie a cravat, or something resembling a cravat, around the neck. Labels: rare, transitive
Word: black art Part of Speech: noun 1. A practice such as witchcraft, sorcery, necromancy, or black magic. Labels: in-plural, often Example: dabbling in the black arts Example: In 1690s Salem, anyone was at mortal risk of being accused of practicing the black arts. 2. A process that is esoteric or difficult to master. Labels: broadly, figuratively Example: Operating a hand card punch was something of a black art. Example: Traincrew management has always been a bit of a black art, rather than a science. The present traincrew difficulties that beset the UK rail industry are neither new nor were they unforeseeable.
Word: tumid Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *tum-der. Latin tumeō Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁-der. Proto-Italic *-iðos Latin -idus Latin tumidusbor. English tumid Borrowed from Latin tumidus (“swollen”). Pronunciation: /ˈtjuːmɪd/, /ˈtuːmɪd/ 1. Swollen, enlarged, bulging. 2. Cancerous, unhealthy. 3. Pompous, bombastic. Example: Tumid blustering, with more or less of sincerity, which need not be entirely sincere, yet the sincerer the better, is like to go far.
Word: severity Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English severity, from Middle French severite (modern French sévérité), from Latin sevēritās. By surface analysis, severe + -ity. Pronunciation: /sɪˈvɛɹ.ɪ.ti/, /səˈvɛɹ.ə.ti/ 1. The state of being severe. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: […] the fear of God whereof ' tis written Keeper : But not the fear of punishment for sin And I can see that the uncertainty In which we act is a severity , A cruelty , amounting to injustice That nothing but God's mercy can assuage . […] 2. The degree of something undesirable; badness or seriousness. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: The severity of the offence merits a long prison sentence.
Word: specified Part of Speech: adj Pronunciation: /ˈspɛsɪfaɪd/ 1. Thoroughly explained. Example: In the process of production, human beings work not only upon nature, but also upon one another. They produce only by working together in a specified manner and reciprocally exchanging their activities.
Word: specified Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /ˈspɛsɪfaɪd/ 1. simple past and past participle of specify Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: mugu Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative spelling of moegoe. Labels: South-Africa, alt-of, alternative Example: They sent emails asking mugus to wire funds in order to claim nonexistent prizes. 2. A fool. Labels: Africa, West, derogatory Example: It is people like you who make my hustlers in Europe call Americans mugu. 3. A victim of an online scam. Labels: Internet, Nigeria, derogatory
Word: subterranean Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Latin subterrāneus + -an. Compare subterrane and subterraneous. Pronunciation: /ˌsʌbtəˈɹeɪniən/ 1. Below ground, under the earth, underground. Labels: not-comparable Example: Again the bearers took up the coffin, and cold and damp the subterranean air came from the opened vault. The tapers were lowered, and shed a ghastly light on the rows of piled coffins, and the moisture glittering on the walls. Example: And you were in the parking lot / Subterranean by your own design 2. Secret, concealed. Labels: broadly, not-comparable Example: The subterranean tool of buying rigged opinion polling and media coverage is outlined in remarkable detail in chat exchanges recovered from the cellphone of one of Mr. Kurz’s closest allies and friends, Thomas Schmid.
Word: subterranean Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Latin subterrāneus + -an. Compare subterrane and subterraneous. Pronunciation: /ˌsʌbtəˈɹeɪniən/ 1. Someone or something that is subterranean. Example: [H]e continues Lean like a Hawke or Heron, notwith ſtanding his devouring Appetite: yet it would ſeem that they convey that ſubſtance elſewhere, for theſe Subterraneans eat but little in their Dwellings; […] Example: Whatever elſe the Tauric Cimmerium have been right or wrong called, it is no leſs ſurely a capital of darkneſs, than, near the famous Baths of Baiae, in Campania, the Cimmerium, where the inhabitants were truly Cimmerian; as miners, or other ſubterraneans; who, for good or evil purpoſe, never faced the ſun.
Word: International Monetary Fund Part of Speech: name 1. The international organization entrusted with overseeing the global financial system by monitoring foreign exchange rates and balance of payments, as well as offering technical and financial assistance when requested.
Word: postmodern Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *pós Proto-Indo-European *-ti Proto-Indo-European *pósti Proto-Italic *posti Old Latin poste Latin post English post- English modern English postmodern From post- + modern. 1. Relating to what follows the modern era. Labels: literally Example: The nearer is a fact to the temporary limits of knowledge, the more implicated becomes this regression and the more blurred ought to be statement of fact. [Percy W.] Bridgman of Harvard recently has emphasized this conclusion, but his postmodern position has as yet made small impression. Example: A new book by Peter Drucker, author of “The New Society” and “America's Next Twenty Years,” will be published next Wednesday by Harper. In “Landmarks of Tomorrow,” Mr. Drucker discusses the postmodern world and how it differs from the old “modern” world that began with Descartes and the empiricists. 2. Of, relating to, or having the characteristics of postmodernism, especially as represented in art, architecture, literature, science, or philosophy that reacts against an earlier modernism. Example: What I am objecting to is that aspect of postmodern thought that rejects the idea of any objective reality. Example: For an illustration of the differences between the traditional, positivist curriculum and the more postmodern reconceptualized curriculum, see Hanley and Montgomery.
Word: postmodern Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *pós Proto-Indo-European *-ti Proto-Indo-European *pósti Proto-Italic *posti Old Latin poste Latin post English post- English modern English postmodern From post- + modern. 1. A postmodernist. Example: Trajal Harrell frames his program notes for “Twenty Looks or Paris Is Burning at the Judson Church (S)” with the potentially academic question, “What would have happened in 1963 if someone from the ball scene in Harlem had come downtown to perform alongside the early postmoderns at Judson Church?”
Word: moder Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Clipping of moderate. Pronunciation: /ˈmɒd.ə/, /ˈmɔːd.ə/, /ˈmɒd.ɐ/, /ˈmɒd.a/, /ˈmɔd.əɹ/ 1. To moderate. Labels: obsolete
Word: all right Part of Speech: adj Pronunciation: /ˌɔːlˈɹaɪt/, /ˌaː(l)ˈɹiːt/, /ˌɔlˈɹaɪt/, /ˌɑlˈɹaɪt/ 1. Good; in acceptable, if not excellent condition. Labels: not-comparable Example: The car is all right. It gets me there, anyway. 2. In good health, unharmed. Labels: not-comparable Example: I had a headache earlier, but now I'm all right. Example: The dread of most etherizers is a quiet breather who may stop breathing without his notice, and requires the almost constant presence of his ear at the patient's mouth to be sure he or she is all right.
Word: all right Part of Speech: adv Pronunciation: /ˌɔːlˈɹaɪt/, /ˌaː(l)ˈɹiːt/, /ˌɔlˈɹaɪt/, /ˌɑlˈɹaɪt/ 1. Fairly well. Labels: not-comparable Example: It went all right because my old drill still works all right. Example: Its Chairman stated last December: "We believe that if we establish a sensible, coherent system, try to be as efficient as possible, get new equipment as fast as we're able and show our passengers we like them, we'll do all right." 2. Most certainly; for sure. Labels: informal, not-comparable Example: You taught them a lesson all right! They won't be back.
Word: all right Part of Speech: intj Pronunciation: /ˌɔːlˈɹaɪt/, /ˌaː(l)ˈɹiːt/, /ˌɔlˈɹaɪt/, /ˌɑlˈɹaɪt/ 1. Used to affirm, indicate agreement, or consent. Example: All right, let's go then. Example: Presently there came a loud ring, then a decided voice, asking for 'Mr. Laurie', and a surprised-looking servant came running up to announce a young lady. "All right, show her up, it's Miss Jo," said Laurie, going to the door of his little parlor to meet Jo, who appeared, looking rosy and quite at her ease, with a covered dish in one hand and Beth's three kittens in the other. 2. Used to indicate support, favor or encouragement. Example: All right! They scored! 3. Used to fill space or pauses. Example: All right, so what you suggest we do next? 4. Used as a general lead-in or beginning. Example: All right, let's get started. 5. Used to express exasperation or frustration, often reduplicated or with already. Example: All right, already! Let me finish what I was doing first, and then we can talk. Example: Jasdeep: Why don’t you command yourself to buy us new clothes, cheapskate? Sultan: What? Who said that? Speak up! Anbumani: And while you’re at it, I wouldn’t mind a better place to live. Six people in one room at the Route 16 Motel, stinks. Sultan: All right! That was you, Sultana! I know that voice! 6. Term of greeting, equivalent to how are you or hello. Labels: UK, informal Example: All right, mate, how are things with you and the missus?
Word: safecracking Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From safe + cracking. 1. The act of defeating the security mechanisms of a safe or vault to gain access to its contents.
Word: convoy Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English, from Old French convoier, another form of conveier, from Vulgar Latin *convio (compare Medieval Latin convio (“to accompany on the way”)), from Latin con- (“together”) + via (“way”). Pronunciation: /ˈkɒn.vɔɪ/ 1. One or more merchant ships sailing in company to the same general destination under the protection of naval vessels. 2. A group of vehicles travelling together for safety, especially one with an escort. Example: 'Cause we got a great big convoy Rockin' through the night. Yeah, we got a great big convoy Ain't she a beautiful sight? Come on and join our convoy Ain't nothin' gonna get in our way. We gonna roll this truckin' convoy 'Cross the USA. 3. The act of convoying; protection.
Word: convoy Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English, from Old French convoier, another form of conveier, from Vulgar Latin *convio (compare Medieval Latin convio (“to accompany on the way”)), from Latin con- (“together”) + via (“way”). Pronunciation: /ˈkɒn.vɔɪ/ 1. To escort a group of vehicles, and provide protection. Labels: transitive Example: A frigate convoys a merchantman. Example: I know ye skilful to convoy / The total freight of hope and joy / Into rude and homely nooks, / Shed mocking lustres on shelf of books, […] 2. To travel under convoy. Labels: intransitive
Word: attentive Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English attentif, attentijf, from Old French attentif. Pronunciation: /əˈtɛntɪv/, [əˈtʰɛntʰɪv], /əˈtɪntɪv/, [əˈtʰɪ̟ntʰɪv], /əˈtentɪv/ 1. Paying attention; noticing, watching, listening, or attending closely. Example: She is an attentive listener, but does not like to talk much. Example: King-of-the-Sky was sitting alone in the Leeward Village meeting-house, gesticulating to the attentive shades of night, roaring out the genealogy of his ancestors, telling the sleeping world of his greatness. 2. Courteous; mindful. Example: a husband attentive to his wife’s needs
Word: ff. Part of Speech: phrase Etymology: Abbreviation of Latin foliō (“on the (next) page”), ablative of folium (“leaf, page”). 1. and the following (pages, paragraphs etc.)
Word: Venezia Part of Speech: name Etymology: From Italian Venezia. Doublet of Venetia and Venice. 1. Synonym of Venice (“the capital city of Veneto, Italy”). Example: But it would have been so nice to have a private income, and to be able sometimes to go to Venezia, Firenze, Roma, those places with the beautiful names. Example: When you plan your first visit to Italy, you will likely put Roma, Firenze, and Venezia at the top of your list, perhaps adding Milano and Napoli as well. These destinations make sense because they are all world-class cities with great history, art, architecture, culture, and food.