nandhakumarms/qualc-wiktionary-en huggingface dataset:
Word: heliolithic Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *sóh₂wl̥ Proto-Indo-European *sh₂wél(i)yos Proto-Hellenic *hāwélios Ancient Greek ἥλῐος (hḗlĭos) English helio- English lithic English heliolithic From helio- + lithic. 1. of a civilization characterized by megaliths and sun-worship
Word: heliometer Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From helio- + -meter, from Ancient Greek Ἥλιος (Hḗlios), from ἥλιος (hḗlios, “sun”), and French mètre, from Ancient Greek μέτρον (métron, “measure”). 1. An astronomical instrument, based on a telescope, for measuring the diameter of the sun; now used to measure the angular distance between stars and other celestial bodies.
Word: bodies Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ˈbɒd.iz/, /ˈbɑ.diz/, [ˈbɑ.ɾiz] 1. plural of body. Labels: form-of, plural Example: As we age, the major arteries of our bodies frequently become thickened with plaque, a fatty material with an oatmeal-like consistency that builds up along the inner lining of blood vessels.
Word: bodies Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /ˈbɒd.iz/, /ˈbɑ.diz/, [ˈbɑ.ɾiz] 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of body Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: helion Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From helium + -on. 1. Any helium ion, the nucleus of any helium atom. Labels: sometimes 2. Any helium ion, the nucleus of any helium atom. Labels: sometimes, usually
Word: helion Part of Speech: noun 1. A meteoroid that arrives from the approximate direction of the Sun.
Word: heliopore Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From the genus name Heliopora, from Ancient Greek ἥλιος (hḗlios, “sun”) + πόρος (póros, “filament; pore”). Pronunciation: /ˈhiːliəpɔː(ɹ)/, /ˈhiːljəpɔː(ɹ)/ 1. A coral of the genus Heliopora, the sun coral or blue coral. Example: The Heliolites are closely related to the Helioporæ, but the interstices are irregularly cellular[…] The cells contain twelve short rays or striations, and around the aperture twelve granules may generally be distinguished, situated like those of the Heliopores. Example: The coral-reef species of corals are the following.— 1. In the Astræa tribe (Astræacea), all the many known species. […] 6. Among Hydroids, the Millepores and Heliopores.
Word: Mabel Part of Speech: name Etymology: Clipping of Amabel, from Latin amābilis (“lovable”). Pronunciation: /ˈmeɪbl̩/ 1. A female given name from Latin. Example: Her name was Mabel Hortense, and the children were very proud of having a cousin who lived in the city and was named Mabel Hortense. At Damsonfield Four Corners, where they lived, all the little girls were name Mary Jane or Sarah Ann or Lucy Maria, or, at the best, Hattie and Carrie; they had scarcely even heard so fine a name as Mabel Hortense. Example: The red stitching across the breast pocket read Mabel, a name Maggie had not heard since her childhood. What had become of all the Mabels? She tried to picture giving a new little baby that name.
Word: helioscope Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From helio- + -scope. 1. An apparatus for viewing the Sun without harming the eye, by means of an optical filter that attenuates most of the sunlight while allowing only a small amount of the solar radiation.
Word: viewing Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /ˈvjuːɪŋ/ 1. present participle and gerund of view Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: viewing Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ˈvjuːɪŋ/ 1. An instance of viewing something. Example: The agent took them to the property for a viewing. Example: I hated the film at first, but with subsequent viewings it has grown on me. 2. A wake.
Word: viewing Part of Speech: adj Pronunciation: /ˈvjuːɪŋ/ 1. Related to or for viewing.
Word: heliosis Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Ancient Greek ἡλίωσις (hēlíōsis, “exposure to the sun”). By surface analysis, helio- + -osis. 1. Sunstroke. Labels: uncountable, usually 2. Sunburn. Labels: uncountable, usually 3. Exposure to the sun. Labels: uncountable, usually 4. Scorching of plants by the sun. Labels: uncountable, usually 5. A sunroom or solarium of the Ancient Greeks. Labels: historical, uncountable, usually Example: The Greeks had their helioses and the Romans their solaria; yet heliotherapy has as yet scarcely emerged from the most empiric of performances into the dignity of a scientifically justified or rationalized procedure. Example: The Greeks and Romans constructed in their homes special sun parlors (called helioses or thermae).
Word: vogue Part of Speech: noun Etymology: First attested in 1565. Borrowed from Middle French vogue (“wave, course of success”), from Old French vogue, from voguer (“to row, sway, set sail”), from Old Saxon wogōn (“to sway, rock”), var. of wagōn (“to float, fluctuate”), from Proto-Germanic *wagōną (“to sway, fluctuate”) and Proto-Germanic *wēgaz (“water in motion”), from Proto-Germanic *weganą (“to move, carry, weigh”), from Proto-Indo-European *weǵʰ- (“to move, go, transport”) (compare way). Akin to Old Saxon wegan (“to move”), Old High German wegan (“to move”), Old English wegan (“to move, carry, weigh”), Old Norse vaga (“to sway, fluctuate”), Old English wagian (“to sway, totter”), German Woge (“wave”), Swedish våg (“wave”). More at wag. The dance derives its name from Vogue magazine. Pronunciation: /vəʊɡ/ 1. The prevailing fashion or style. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Miniskirts were the vogue in the '60s. 2. Popularity or a current craze. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Hula hoops are no longer in vogue. Example: The rotation of nine years with two fallowings, which was formerly so much in vogue, is now seldom or never to be met with; it was, however, productive of very fine crops of corn on tenacious soils which require a great deal of tillage. 3. A highly stylized modern dance that evolved out of the Harlem ballroom scene in the 1960s. Labels: countable, uncountable 4. A cigarette. Labels: Polari, countable, uncountable Example: Will you take a varder at the cartz on the feely-omi in the naf strides: the one with the bona blue ogles polarying the omi-palone with a vogue on and a cod sheitel.
Word: vogue Part of Speech: verb Etymology: First attested in 1565. Borrowed from Middle French vogue (“wave, course of success”), from Old French vogue, from voguer (“to row, sway, set sail”), from Old Saxon wogōn (“to sway, rock”), var. of wagōn (“to float, fluctuate”), from Proto-Germanic *wagōną (“to sway, fluctuate”) and Proto-Germanic *wēgaz (“water in motion”), from Proto-Germanic *weganą (“to move, carry, weigh”), from Proto-Indo-European *weǵʰ- (“to move, go, transport”) (compare way). Akin to Old Saxon wegan (“to move”), Old High German wegan (“to move”), Old English wegan (“to move, carry, weigh”), Old Norse vaga (“to sway, fluctuate”), Old English wagian (“to sway, totter”), German Woge (“wave”), Swedish våg (“wave”). More at wag. The dance derives its name from Vogue magazine. Pronunciation: /vəʊɡ/ 1. To dance in the vogue dance style. Labels: intransitive Example: Tonight’s sumptuous two-hour gig butts up hard against the curfew. Minutes often go by during which Murphy dispenses entirely with the business of singing pop songs. She’ll vogue, or reanimate some acid house moves, letting the beat take over. Example: “Come on, this is boring!” “Okay... little man, bring your best.” (crowd cheering, clamoring) “Okay, looks like the little guy's voguing now. Whoa!” 2. To light a cigarette for (someone). Labels: Polari Example: Vogue me up.
Word: scorch Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English scorchen, scorcnen (“to make dry; parch”), perhaps an alteration of earlier *scorpnen, from Old Norse skorpna (“to shrivel up”). Pronunciation: /skɔːtʃ/, /skɔɹt͡ʃ/ 1. A slight or surface burn. Labels: countable, uncountable 2. A discolouration caused by heat. Labels: countable, uncountable 3. Brown discoloration on the leaves of plants caused by heat, lack of water or by fungi. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: scorch Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English scorchen, scorcnen (“to make dry; parch”), perhaps an alteration of earlier *scorpnen, from Old Norse skorpna (“to shrivel up”). Pronunciation: /skɔːtʃ/, /skɔɹt͡ʃ/ 1. To burn the surface of something so as to discolour it Labels: transitive 2. To wither, parch or destroy something by heat or fire, especially to make land or buildings unusable to an enemy Labels: transitive Example: Lashed by mad rage, and scorched by brutal fires. 3. (To cause) to become scorched or singed Labels: ergative 4. To move at high speed (so as to leave scorch marks on the ground, physically or figuratively). Labels: intransitive Example: Men on cycles, lean-faced, unkempt, scorched along every country lane, shouting of unhoped deliverance, shouting to gaunt, staring figures of despair. Example: England delivered an impressive statement of intent in the Rugby World Cup opener by scorching to a 69-7 victory against the United States in front of a record crowd of 42,723 in Sunderland. 5. To burn; to destroy by, or as by, fire. Example: Power was given unto him to scorch men with fire. Example: the fire that scorches me to death 6. To attack with bitter sarcasm or virulence. Labels: transitive 7. To ride a bicycle furiously on a public highway. Labels: colloquial, dated, intransitive Example: I may not scorch on thee again—thou'rt pinched, my silent steed!
Word: heliostat Part of Speech: noun Etymology: First use appear c. 1747, from New Latin heliostata, from Ancient Greek ἥλιος (hḗlios, “sun”) + Latin status (“stationary”). By surface analysis, helio- + -stat. 1. A device that includes a plane mirror which turns so as to keep reflecting sunlight toward a predetermined target, compensating for the sun's apparent motions in the sky. The target may be a physical object, distant from the heliostat, or a direction in space, and is almost always stationary relative to the heliostat, so the light is reflected in a fixed direction. Example: Each heliostat can be directed to bathe a particular park bench or tree in a beam of light. […] The three heliostats cost $355,000 together, not apiece. Example: In reply, the clockwork heliostats that had tracked the sun to reflect light into the indoor areas during the day now swivelled towards the street lamp to do the same for the night.
Word: Noel Part of Speech: name Etymology: From Middle English Nowel, borrowed from Old French Noel (“Christmas”), from Latin nātālis [diēs Dominī] (“birth[day of the Lord]”). Doublet of nada, natal, Natal, and née. Pronunciation: /nəʊˈɛl/ 1. Christmas. Labels: dated, literary
Word: Noel Part of Speech: name Etymology: * (names): From Noel in the sense of Christmas; given since Middle Ages to children born at Christmastide. * (city in Missouri): Named for brothers Clark Wallace and William Jasper Noel, stockmen and owners of a sawmill. * (community of Nova Scotia, Canada): Named after its most prominent resident, Noël Doiron. Pronunciation: /ˈnəʊ(ə)l/ 1. A male given name from French. Example: When Noel came, noisily bursting through the back door with buckets of cleansers and sponges, I introduced myself. "Just call me Noelle," he said of himself. "When I was little they used to call me Noel, Noel, the toilet bowl. Although now I have thought of painting that on the side of my van. It might be good for business? I don't know." Example: Former Harvard professor and communist Noel Ignatiev, who co-founded the New Abolitionist Society and founded a journal called Race Traitor, named after a book he coauthored in the mid-1990s, famously advocated for the complete abolition of the white race […] Note a certain coyness about whether this destruction refers to only a white race category or to all white-skinned people. 2. A female given name from French. 3. A surname originating as a patronymic. 4. A city in McDonald County, Missouri, United States. 5. A community in East Hants municipality, Hants County, Nova Scotia, Canada.
Word: heliothid Part of Speech: noun 1. A moth of what used to be considered the family Heliothidae, but is now the considered the subfamily Heliothinae within the family Noctuidae.
Word: heliotropic Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree English heliotrope Proto-Indo-European *-ikos Proto-Italic *-ikos Latin -icuslbor. Old French -iquebor. Middle English -ik English -ic English heliotropic From heliotrope + -ic. 1. exhibiting heliotropism Labels: not-comparable
Word: heliotropin Part of Speech: noun 1. piperonal Labels: uncountable
Word: animus Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin animus (“the mind, in a great variety of meanings: the rational soul in man, intellect, consciousness, will, intention, courage, spirit, sensibility, feeling, passion, pride, vehemence, wrath, etc., the breath, life, soul”), from Proto-Italic *anamos, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂enh₁mos, from *h₂enh₁- (“to breathe”). Closely related to Latin anima, which is a feminine form. Pronunciation: /ˈæ.nɪ.məs/ 1. The basic impulses and instincts which govern one's actions. Labels: uncountable, usually 2. A feeling of enmity, animosity or ill will. Labels: uncountable, usually Example: The current row arose swiftly, sparked both by historical animus and jockeying over future power and place in Asia - and it surprised many observers in the depth of antipathy on both sides. Example: However, the Republican party's anti-ESG animus has undoubtedly played a role, according to Bloy. 3. Intention, motivation (of a legal person). Labels: uncountable, usually 4. The masculine aspect of the feminine psyche or personality. Labels: uncountable, usually Example: In the Jungian model of the psyche, the male has an internalized female counterpart, the anima; while the female has an internalized masculine counterpart, the animus.
Word: piperonal Part of Speech: noun 1. The methylene ether of 3,4 dihydroxy benzaldehyde; used in perfume to give a floral note Labels: uncountable
Word: heliotropism Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *sóh₂wl̥ Proto-Indo-European *sh₂wél(i)yos Proto-Hellenic *hāwélios Ancient Greek ἥλῐος (hḗlĭos) English helio- English -tropism English heliotropism From helio- + -tropism. 1. The property of some plants of turning under the influence of light; either positively (towards the light) or negatively (away from the light). Labels: countable, uncountable Example: As soon as the faintest ray of light reaches a seedling, heliotropism will guide it through any crack in the soil, or through an entangled mass of overlying vegetation; […] Example: A field of young sunflowers will slowly rotate from east to west during the course of a sunny day, each leaf seeking out as much sunlight as possible as the sun moves across the sky through an adaptation called heliotropism.
Word: turning Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English turnyng, turnynge, from Old English tyrning, turnung, equivalent to turn + -ing. Pronunciation: /ˈtɜː.nɪŋ/, /ˈtɝ.nɪŋ/, /ˈtɔːn.ɪn/ 1. A turn or deviation from a straight course. Labels: Ireland, UK Example: Take the second turning on the left. Example: Except for turnings with a deflated rear tire as an outerside tire, difference in the performance is small between fixed control and manual control. 2. At hockey, a foul committed by a player attempting to hit the ball who interposes their body between the ball and an opposing player trying to do the same. 3. The cutting of wood or metal on a lathe to shape it as needed. 4. The act of one who turns (rotates or twists). Example: Still talking—more to herself than to the children—she swam into a majestical dance of the stateliest balancings, the haughtiest wheelings and turnings aside, the most dignified sinkings, the gravest risings, all joined together by the elaboratest interlacing steps and circles. Example: A doorknob of whatever roundish shape is effectively a continuum of levers, with the axis of the latching mechanism—known as the spindle—being the fulcrum about which the turning takes place. 5. One of the four eras, each lasting for about 21 years, that make up a saeculum according to the Strauss-Howe generational theory. Example: Howe and Strauss predicted that in the Fourth Turning, Millennials would unite behind their president. 6. Shavings produced by turning something on a lathe. Labels: plural, plural-only Example: The turnings get into your trouser turnups!
Word: turning Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English turninge, turnynge, turninde, turnand, turnende, from Old English tyrnende, turniende, present participle of Old English tyrnan, turnian (“to turn”). Equivalent to turn + -ing. Pronunciation: /ˈtɜː.nɪŋ/, /ˈtɝ.nɪŋ/, /ˈtɔːn.ɪn/ 1. present participle and gerund of turn Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present Example: The Earth is turning about its axis as we speak. Example: He made wooden soldiers by turning them on a hand lathe.
Word: aortal Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From aorta + -al. Pronunciation: /eɪˈɔːtəl/, /eɪˈɔɹtəl/, [eɪˈɔɹ.ɾɫ̩] 1. Of or relating to the aorta. Labels: not-comparable Example: Constance leans over him [...] and he has that drop kick in the aortal region as blood rushes to a hard-on.
Word: beag Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Learned borrowing from Old English bēag (“circular jewelry worn on the body: ring, armlet, crown, collar”), from Proto-West Germanic *baug, from Proto-Germanic *baugaz, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰewgʰ- (“to bend”). Cognate with dialectal German Baug (“ring, collar”), Icelandic baugur (“ring, circle”). Doublet of bee (“ring”). Related to bagel. 1. A ring. Labels: historical Example: It was a mark of nobility among the German races — by some considered the origin of our coronets — and had even about it a quasi-religious character in memory of the "holy beag" (holy ring), the oath upon which was tantamount to the oath upon Thorr's hammer. Example: [...] and the description of that monarch in his anonymous Vita as coronatus lauro probably indicates a beag which was lighter than the formal diadema.
Word: Geoffrey Part of Speech: name Etymology: From Middle English Geffrey, from an Old French aristocratic name, Geoffroi [dʒɔfreʲ] (> West Middle French Geoffrey, East Middle French Geoffroy), itself from Proto-French forms (latinized in -us) Jotfredus, Jozsfredus, Josfredus (10th century) and Jof[f]redus, Jofridus, Jaufredus, Geffredus (11th century), and ultimately of Proto-Germanic origin. The second element is *friþuz (“peace, sanctuary”). The first element may be *gautaz (“a Geat, a Goth”) [making the Proto-Germanic term *Gautafriþu, as opposed to *gōdaz (“good”) or *gudą (“god”) in Godfrey; this would also make it related to Jocelyn]. The name was introduced to England by the Normans in the 11th century. Partially displaced Old English Ceolfriþ. Pronunciation: /ˈd͡ʒɛfɹi/ 1. A male given name from the Germanic languages, popular in the U.K. in the 20th century. Example: "Were you not aware mamma had a son as well as three daughters?" "Yes, but I didn't know his name. I like Geoffrey; there's some sound in it." Example: Geoff grimaced, then smiled back, reminding himself that when his mother wasn't riding this horse, she was a very interesting woman who had taught medieval literature at Drew University for twenty years. In fact, he had been named Geoffrey because of her great admiration for Chaucer. 2. A surname.
Word: Jeffrey Part of Speech: name Etymology: Variant of Geoffrey. Pronunciation: /ˈd͡ʒɛfɹi/ 1. A male given name from the Germanic languages, the usual U.S. spelling of Geoffrey. Popular in the latter half of the 20th century. Example: - - - you should also be able to sue your association's attorney when they step over the line as Attorney Jeffrey Ewalt did. Oh, my gosh! Even as I say his name Jeffrey, Jeffrey. Jeffrey is a name assigned to little boys with small toys. A cute innocent little boy that would do no harm to anyone. I recommend a name change for Jeffrey Ewalt from Jeffrey to Lucifer. Example: A woman who testified Tuesday in the sex trafficking trial of Ghislaine Maxwell said she met the close confidante of Jeffrey Epstein and the billionaire businessman when she was 14 and eating ice cream with friends at a camp where he was a benefactor. 2. A surname originating as a patronymic derived from Geoffrey. Example: Health to great [Francis] Jeffrey! Heaven preserve his life To flourish on the fertile shores of Fife And guard it sacred in the future wars Since authors sometimes seek the field of Mars!
Word: Godfrey Part of Speech: name Etymology: From Old French Godefrei, from Old High German Godafrid (“peace of God”), from Proto-Germanic *Gudafriþuz. Equivalent to god + frith. Doublet of Gottfried and Geoffrey. Pronunciation: /ˈɡɑdfɹi/, /ˈɡɒdfɹi/ 1. A male given name from the Germanic languages. Labels: countable, uncountable 2. A surname originating as a patronymic. Labels: countable, uncountable 3. A placename Labels: countable, uncountable 4. A placename Labels: countable, uncountable 5. A placename Labels: countable, uncountable 6. A placename Labels: countable, uncountable 7. A placename Labels: countable, uncountable 8. A placename Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: trawler Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From trawl + -er. 1. A fishing boat that uses a trawl net or dragnet to catch fish. 2. A fisherman who uses a trawl net.
Word: preggers Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Shortening of pregnant + -ers. Pronunciation: /ˈpɹɛ.ɡəs/, /ˈpɹɛ.ɡəɹs/ 1. Pregnant; carrying developing offspring within one's body. Labels: informal, not-comparable Example: Michael's troubles may be over soon, except that Christal claims to be preggers with triplets.
Word: chryselephantine Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Ancient Greek χρυσελεφάντινος (khruselephántinos), from χρυσός (khrusós, “gold”) + ἐλεφάντινος (elephántinos, “of ivory”). Pronunciation: /kɹɪsɛlɪˈfæntɪn/ 1. Made of gold and ivory. Labels: not-comparable Example: I drew near and perceived that the light came from a precious stone as big as an ostrich egg, set at the upper end of the alcove upon a little chryselephantine couch of ivory and gold; and this jewel, blazing like the sun, cast its rays wide and side.
Word: fortune cookie Part of Speech: noun Etymology: First attested in 1942 (see quotations below). The slang sense is from the canine vulva resembling the cleft shape of the snack. 1. A type of hollow snack, common in westernized Chinese cuisine: a crisp sugary wafer containing a message on a narrow strip of paper, generally with a wise or vaguely prophetic message or random numbers usable in a lottery printed on the paper. Example: […]the Chinese atmosphere of the afternoon was pleasantly deepened with real Chinese tea, fortune cookies and honest to goodness ginger which Mrs. Palmtag managed to find some place (in Monterey)[…] Example: For dessert, a dish of preserved fruits—perhaps Chinese kumquats, each speared with its individual toothpick, and a plate of Chinese fortune cookies (Mai Ping), crisp, thin, folded rice cakes, each containing a little slip of paper with a lucky proverb or fortune. 2. A quote-of-the-day feature (especially on *nix systems.) 3. The vulva of canine species. Labels: slang Example: that's why I love wearing a skirt with no underwear! plus if you see someone cute you can flash them your plump juicy fortune cookie and tease them when they get an obvious bulge with a wet spot :3
Word: taps Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From tap (noun) + -s. Noun 1 sense 1 (“signal for extinguishing all lights in soldiers’ quarters and retiring to bed”) is from the fact that the signal was originally made using a drum. Pronunciation: /tæps/ 1. A signal, by drum or trumpet, for extinguishing all lights in soldiers' quarters and retiring to bed, usually given about a quarter of an hour after tattoo; the signal is sometimes also given during the funeral of a soldier. Labels: plural, plural-only
Word: taps Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From tap (noun) + -s. Noun 1 sense 1 (“signal for extinguishing all lights in soldiers’ quarters and retiring to bed”) is from the fact that the signal was originally made using a drum. Pronunciation: /tæps/ 1. plural of tap Labels: form-of, plural
Word: taps Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From tap (noun) + -s. Noun 1 sense 1 (“signal for extinguishing all lights in soldiers’ quarters and retiring to bed”) is from the fact that the signal was originally made using a drum. Pronunciation: /tæps/ 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of tap Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: ciborium Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Medieval Latin cibōrium (“drinking-cup”), from Ancient Greek κιβώριον (kibṓrion, “the Egyptian water-lily’s cupulate seed pod”, or “a drinking-cup fashioned therefrom”). Doublet of cimborio. Pronunciation: /sɪˈbɔəɹɪəm/ 1. A fixed vaulted canopy over a Christian altar, supported on four columns. 2. A covered receptacle for holding the consecrated wafers of the Eucharist. Example: Michael came after her, solemnly bearing the teapot like a ciborium.
Word: holding Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ˈhəʊldɪŋ/, [ˈhəʉɫdɪŋ], [ˈhəʊɫdɪŋ], [ˈhoʊɫdɪŋ] 1. Something that one owns, especially stocks and bonds. Example: Although this survey lists only a small number of representative materials in the Hoover Library's Baltic Collection, a comprehensive view of the library's holdings can be gained from the Hoover Institution's card catalog or its printed equivalent Example: Italy's right-wing prime minister was about to cure his biggest headache by selling the state's holding in a troubled airline, Alitalia. 2. A determination of law made by a court. 3. A tenure; a farm or other estate held of another. Example: Take again From this my hand, as holding of the Pope Your sovereign greatness and authority. 4. Logic; consistency. Labels: obsolete Example: This has no holding, To swear by him whom I protest to love That I will work against him. 5. A foul consisting of impermissibly restricting the movement of an opposing player with the hands or stick. 6. The burden or chorus of a song. Labels: obsolete Example: Make battery to our ears with the loud music; The while I'll place you; then the boy shall sing. The holding every man shall beat as loud As his strong sides can volley. 7. That which holds, binds, or influences; hold; influence; power. Labels: obsolete, rare Example: This is one of the principal holdings of that destructive system, which has endeavoured to unhinge all the virtuous, honourable, and useful connexions in the kingdom. 8. A holding company, or other kind of company (by back-translation from Russian холдинг (xolding)). Labels: nonstandard
Word: holding Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /ˈhəʊldɪŋ/, [ˈhəʉɫdɪŋ], [ˈhəʊɫdɪŋ], [ˈhoʊɫdɪŋ] 1. present participle and gerund of hold Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present Example: They were caught holding hands in the dark. Example: Then came a maid with hand-bag and shawls, and after her a tall young lady. She stood for a moment holding her skirt above the grimy steps,[…], and the light of the reflector fell full upon her.
Word: message in a bottle Part of Speech: noun 1. A message written on a scrap of paper, rolled up and put in an empty bottle and set adrift on the ocean; traditionally, a method used by castaways to advertise their distress to the outside world. Example: I'll send an SOS to the world / I hope that someone gets my / Message in a bottle 2. An analogous message sent off into the world or universe without knowledge of who the recipient will be: plaques on craft launched into outer space, interstellar radio messages, stationary time capsules, balloon mail, and so on. Labels: figuratively Example: 'Cause you could be the one that I love, oh, oh, oh / I could be the one that you dream of, of, of / A message in a bottle is all I can do-oo / Standin' here, hopin' it gets to you
Word: traditionally Part of Speech: adv Etymology: Etymology tree English traditional Middle English -ly English -ly English traditionally From traditional + -ly. Pronunciation: /tɹəˈdɪʃ.ə.nə.li/, /tɹəˈdɪʃ.nə.li/, /tɹəˈdɪʃ.ən.li/, [tɹəˈdɪʃ.n̩.li] 1. In a traditional manner. 2. From the beginning. Example: The dirty secret of the internet is that all this distraction and interruption is immensely profitable. Web companies like to boast about[…]and so on. But the real way to build a successful online business is to be better than your rivals at undermining people's control of their own attention. Partly, this is a result of how online advertising has traditionally worked: advertisers pay for clicks, and a click is a click, however it's obtained. Example: Skilled foreign farm workers are the backbone of US agriculture and are traditionally in the US on H-2A seasonal visas, which saw its highest ever utilization rate this year, according to the Farm Bureau.
Word: crackle Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English crakelen, equivalent to crack + -le (frequentative suffix). The physics sense is part of a facetious sequence "snap, crackle, pop", after the mascots of Rice Krispies cereal. Pronunciation: /ˈkɹækəl/ 1. A prolonged, frequent cracking sound; a fizzing, popping sound. Example: I heard a crackle from the frying pan as I was frying bacon. Example: There was an annoying crackle during the phone call, due to poor connection. 2. A style of glaze giving the impression of many small cracks. Example: The Chinese attach great value to their crackle, which, though it looks like damaged glaze, is produced by art; […]. 3. The fifth derivative of the position vector with respect to time (after velocity, acceleration, jerk, and jounce), i.e. the rate of change of jounce. 4. Synonym of crackling (“crispy rind of roast pork”). Example: By the look on my face I must have anticipated the joy of the crackle, apparently having come to look forward to the roast pig that appeared only at gatherings such as this. I bet I asked for another piece once I was done.
Word: crackle Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English crakelen, equivalent to crack + -le (frequentative suffix). The physics sense is part of a facetious sequence "snap, crackle, pop", after the mascots of Rice Krispies cereal. Pronunciation: /ˈkɹækəl/ 1. To make a prolonged, frequent cracking sound which sounds like fizzing or popping. Labels: intransitive Example: a crackling fire Example: the unknown ice that crackles underneath them 2. To be full of tension or emotion. Labels: figuratively, intransitive Example: The last scenes of the film crackle with repressed sexual energy.
Word: castaway Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Deverbal from cast away. Pronunciation: /ˈkæs.tə.weɪ/, /ˈkɑːstəweɪ/, /ˈkæstəweɪ/ 1. Cast adrift or ashore; marooned. Labels: not-comparable Example: After the mutiny, the castaway ship's officers suffered a month at sea in the lifeboat. 2. Shipwrecked. Labels: not-comparable Example: The storm left them castaway on an uninhabited island. 3. Cast out; rejected or excluded from a group. Labels: not-comparable
Word: castaway Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Deverbal from cast away. Pronunciation: /ˈkæs.tə.weɪ/, /ˈkɑːstəweɪ/, /ˈkæstəweɪ/ 1. A shipwrecked sailor. Example: Robinson Crusoe was a famous fictional castaway. 2. A discarded person or thing. Example: This old coat was a castaway in someone's trash. 3. An outcast; someone cast out of a group or society. Example: These homeless people are society's castaways.
Word: outside world Part of Speech: noun 1. The rest of the world outside of some closed, restricted, or remote environment. Labels: idiomatic Example: The people of Tibet represent a separate case. Conquered by the Chinese in 1950, occupied brutally by troops who killed thousands, desecrated local cultural and religious sites, and denied reasonable demands for autonomy, Tibetans have elicited much sympathy but little support from the outside world. 2. The world external to the human mind.
Word: homophobe Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Back-formation from homophobia, equivalent to homo- + -phobe (notice in Greek it would refer to a self-hater). Pronunciation: /ˈhəʊ.məˌfəʊb/, /ˈhɒ.mə-/, /ˈhoʊ.məˌfoʊb/ 1. One who is prejudiced against homosexual people, or LGBTQ people in general; one who exhibits homophobia. Example: That one can love another of the same gender, that is what the homophobe really cannot stand. Example: If you're against gay marriage, just be honest, put a scarlet 'H' on your shirt, and say, "I am a homophobe!"
Word: homophobe Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From homo- (“man; same”) + -phobe. Pronunciation: /ˈhəʊ.məˌfəʊb/, /ˈhɒ.mə-/, /ˈhoʊ.məˌfoʊb/ 1. A person who fears sameness. 2. A person who fears men.
Word: majolica Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Italian maiolica, named after the Island of Mallorca (formerly known as Maiòlica), which was once a commerce center for work produced in Valencia, Spain. Doublet of Mallorca and Majorca. Pronunciation: /məˈd͡ʒɒlɪkə/, /maɪˈɒlɪkə/ 1. Earthenware decorated with coloured lead silicate glazes applied directly to an unglazed body, a process invented in Victorian England. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: The Italian Vase [top, left, p.8] is Majolica, […] The Ewer [bottom, middle, p.8] is a Palissy vase. Example: Majolica was produced for the first time by Messrs. Minton, in 1850, and they have been for many years the only producers of this article. The name of majolica is now applied indiscriminately to all fancy articles of coloured pottery. When, however, it is decorated by means of coloured glazes, if these are transparent, it ought to be called Palissy ware […]. 2. Earthenware coated with opaque white tin-glaze, decorated with coloured metal oxide enamel, first created in Renaissance Europe. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: The Italian pottery, generally known under the names of Majolica, Raffaelle ware, and sometimes by the term of "Umbrian ware," through the production of the fifteenth century […]. Example: Enamel - A vitrifiable substance; opaque, generally Stanniferous majolica […]
Word: high altar Part of Speech: noun 1. The main altar in a church, situated on the main axis at the east of the chancel or choir. Example: In the same year as the Furness objection, sadder tidings befell St Pancras Priory at Lewes, in East Sussex. Despite it having the distinction of being the earliest Cluniac monastery in Great Britain, petitions to prevent the Brighton Lewes & Hastings Railway from imposing on its site with its Lewes line failed. The line was approved and, as if as an act of deliberate desecration and assertion of the railways' power, passed over the site of the high altar.
Word: ultrametamorphosis Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From ultra- + metamorphosis. 1. A form of metamorphosis that occurs at a temperature and pressure just below the fusion point of the rock Labels: uncountable
Word: homophobic Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree English homo- Proto-Indo-European *bʰegʷ- Ancient Greek φόβος (phóbos) Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-i-eh₂ Proto-Hellenic *-íā Ancient Greek -ῐ́ᾱ (-ĭ́ā) Ancient Greek -φοβία (-phobía)der. Latin New Latinbor. English -phobia Proto-Indo-European *-ikos Proto-Italic *-ikos Latin -icuslbor. Old French -iquebor. Middle English -ik English -ic English -phobic English homophobic From homo- (“homosexual”) + -phobic. Pronunciation: /ˈhəʊ.məˌfəʊ.bɪk/, /ˈhɒ.mə-/, /ˈhoʊ.məˌfoʊ.bɪk/ 1. Exhibiting homophobia; characteristic of homophobes. Example: homophobic abuse Example: The nail bomber who killed three people and injured dozens of others in a terrifying campaign last spring told police he was a homophobic Nazi, and that he hoped the explosions would "set fire to the country and stir up a racial war", the Old Bailey heard yesterday. 2. Inconvenient, annoying, irritating. Labels: excessive, humorous Example: My bus left right as I got to the station. It's so homophobic of the driver to not wait for me! Example: It's homophobic that I'm not cuddling my girlfriend right now. 3. Having different colored eyes. Deliberate misspelling of heterochromic. Labels: Internet, humorous Example: both our algorithms are blessed with homophobic beauty 🥰😍
Word: homophobic Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English homo- Proto-Indo-European *bʰegʷ- Ancient Greek φόβος (phóbos) Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-i-eh₂ Proto-Hellenic *-íā Ancient Greek -ῐ́ᾱ (-ĭ́ā) Ancient Greek -φοβία (-phobía)der. Latin New Latinbor. English -phobia Proto-Indo-European *-ikos Proto-Italic *-ikos Latin -icuslbor. Old French -iquebor. Middle English -ik English -ic English -phobic English homophobic From homo- (“homosexual”) + -phobic. Pronunciation: /ˈhəʊ.məˌfəʊ.bɪk/, /ˈhɒ.mə-/, /ˈhoʊ.məˌfoʊ.bɪk/ 1. A homophobe. Example: Painful as skid row life is for everyone, it becomes doubly so for the gay segment of the population. If you can for a moment visualize yourself living in a house with hundreds of homophobics you have the idea; and there are few closets where one can hide. Example: If you say something negative about homosexuals, you will be labelled an intolerant "homophobic."
Word: alt Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₂el- Proto-Indo-European *h₂eltós Proto-Italic *altos Latin altusbor. English alt From Latin altus (“high”). Doublet of old and alto. Pronunciation: /ɔːlt/, /ɒlt/, /ɑlt/, /ælt/ 1. Of a voice or instrument, high pitch; especially, the octave above the top line of the treble stave. Labels: uncountable Example: Sop[hy] Moderato! moderato! Madam. Your Ladyship's absolutely in alt. / L[ady] Scr[ape] In alt! Madam? / Sop[hy] Yes, in alt- Give me leave to tell your Ladyship, that you have raised your voice a full octave higher since you came into the room. Example: The duet was in alt; one stormed, the other half crying, half scolding, made up in volubility what her aunt possessed in authority, and it was not 'till Lady Meredith had twice raised her mild voice, either party could be silenced. 2. A state of excitement, a heightened emotional condition. Labels: archaic, uncountable Example: I was, however, glad at my heart, that Mrs. Moore came up so seasonably with notice, that dinner was ready. The fair fugitive was all in alt. She had the game in her own hands; and by giving me so good an excuse for withdrawing, I had time to strengthen myself; the Captain had time to come; and the Lady to cool. Example: "Not," added she, as her eyes glittered with anger, and she sidled near the door for an exit—" not but, in the estimation of others, you may be quite an Adonis—a young gentleman of wit and fashion —a beau of the first water; I have no doubt Mary Jane thinks so— you old wretch!" This, in alt, and a bang of the door that brought down an oil picture that hung over it, closed the scene.
Word: alt Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Abbreviations. Pronunciation: /ɔːlt/, /ɒlt/, /ɑlt/, /ælt/ 1. Clipping of alternate. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, clipping, not-comparable Example: alt key Example: […]Adele, Chris Martin of Coldplay, Frank Ocean, Drake, and Ed Sheeran are among many artists who don't appear to spend a lot of time online (or if they do, it's using alt accounts). 2. Clipping of alternative, especially as a cultural phenomenon seen as being outside the mainstream of its genre. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, clipping, not-comparable Example: alt medicine Example: alt text
Word: alt Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Abbreviations. Pronunciation: /ɔːlt/, /ɒlt/, /ɑlt/, /ælt/ 1. Clipping of altitude. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, clipping 2. An alternate or secondary account. Labels: Internet Example: Of these alts, how many of them are a gender other than your own? Example: Yes, I have many alts, and no, none of the others have any unusual capitalisation. 3. An alternate account. Labels: Internet Example: You've been here four days and you already know about the incident from last year? You're such an obvious alt. 4. An alternative investment or alternative fund. Example: liquid alts 5. An alternate version of a piece of art, especially without much changes beyond a specific thing. Labels: Internet 6. Ellipsis of alt text. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis
Word: alt Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Abbreviations. Pronunciation: /ɔːlt/, /ɒlt/, /ɑlt/, /ælt/ 1. To use an alternate or secondary account. Labels: Internet, intransitive Example: I got banned so I'm alting.
Word: alt Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from German Alt. Pronunciation: /ɔːlt/, /ɒlt/, /ɑlt/, /ælt/ 1. Synonym of altbier. Example: Top-fermenting ales are still brewed, notably the alts of Düsseldorf and kölsches of Cologne. Example: On average, the mash temperatures used in the NHC second-round alts and kölschs were higher, at 153 °F (67 °C) and 151 °F (66 °C) respectively.
Word: ultramundane Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Latin ultrāmundānus. 1. extraordinary; abnormal Labels: not-comparable 2. extraterrestrial; outside of earth or the universe Labels: not-comparable Example: We have received the following letter, purporting to come from an ultramundane correspondent:
Word: Afro- Part of Speech: prefix Etymology: Etymology tree Latin Āfrī Ancient Greek -ο- (-o-)der. Latin -o-bor. English -o- English Afro- Derived from Latin Āfrī, Āfer + -o-. Abstracted from Afro-American (attested 1902) and becoming generally popular from the 1960s. Pronunciation: /ˈæfɹoʊ-/ 1. African Labels: morpheme
Word: coolbox Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From cool + box. 1. A box used to keep provisions cool.
Word: open sesame Part of Speech: phrase Etymology: From its use in Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves, translating French Sésame, ouvre-toi in Antoine Galland's version of the Ali Baba story in the One Thousand and One Nights, possibly based on an oral Arabic source. Not, as some have purported, a corruption of Open, says me!. 1. open up (especially referring to doors)
Word: open sesame Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From its use in Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves, translating French Sésame, ouvre-toi in Antoine Galland's version of the Ali Baba story in the One Thousand and One Nights, possibly based on an oral Arabic source. Not, as some have purported, a corruption of Open, says me!. 1. Any successful means of achieving a result, especially means that are magical or technical, or otherwise beyond the understanding of most people. Example: "The blue topaz was bought by me, from the chieftain of the tribe to which Quacal belongs. It is an ‘open sesame’ to his favor." Example: He who can read a true book aright has an open sesame to audiences with the great and wise of all time.
Word: sesame Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From late Middle English sisamie, from Latin sīsamum, sēsamum, from Ancient Greek σήσαμον (sḗsamon), from Aramaic שושמא (šūššmā), shortening of שומשומא (šumššumā), from Akkadian 𒊭𒈦𒌑𒈬 (šamaššammū, “oil plant”), compound of 𒉌𒄑 (šaman, “oil”) and 𒌑 (šammum, “plant”). The modern pronunciation is perhaps influenced by (transliterations of) Greek σησάμη (sisámi). Doublet of sesamum. Pronunciation: /ˈsɛsəmi/, /ˈsɛzəmi/, /ˈsɛsəm/, /ˈsiːsəm/ 1. A tropical Asian plant (Sesamum indicum) bearing small flat seeds used as food and as a source of oil. Labels: countable, uncountable 2. The seed of this plant. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: First, marinate the tofu. In a bowl, whisk the kecap manis, chilli sauce, and sesame oil together. Cut the tofu into strips about 1cm thick, mix gently (so it doesn't break) with the marinade and leave in the fridge for half an hour.
Word: trombone Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Italian trombone, from tromba (“trumpet”) + -one (augmentative), literally “large trumpet”. The telecommunications sense alludes to the shape of the musical instrument. Pronunciation: /ˌtɹɒmˈbəʊn/, /tɹəmˈbəʊn/, /ˌtɹɑmˈboʊn/, /tɹəmˈboʊn/ 1. A musical instrument in the brass family, having a cylindrical bore, and usually a sliding tube (but sometimes piston valves, and rarely both). Most often refers to the tenor trombone, which is the most common type of trombone and has a fundamental tone of B♭ˌ (contra B♭). Example: Jim plays the trombone very well. Example: This trombone is very expensive. 2. The common European bittern. 3. A kind of extendable support for attaching lighting elements to a set. Example: The trombone […] permits an instrument to be positioned over a studio set wall, enabling the set wall to support the weight of the instrument. Example: The two secondary controls are the trombone handle and the focus knob.
Word: trombone Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Borrowed from Italian trombone, from tromba (“trumpet”) + -one (augmentative), literally “large trumpet”. The telecommunications sense alludes to the shape of the musical instrument. Pronunciation: /ˌtɹɒmˈbəʊn/, /tɹəmˈbəʊn/, /ˌtɹɑmˈboʊn/, /tɹəmˈboʊn/ 1. To transmit a signal or data back to a central switching point before sending it out to its destination. 2. To extend and retract (the zoom lens); to use it too enthusiastically. Labels: slang, transitive Example: […] do things wrong (like rotating the lens turret while shooting or backwinding and doing multiple passes on the same strip of film or doing in-camera fades with the variable shutter or tromboning a zoom lens like a teenager on acid, etc., etc., etc.) […] Example: He recalls (email to editor, 2 December 2012) that Durgnat 'shouted out' in response to his 'tromboning' the zoom-lens at the film's 1967 London Film Festival screening: […]
Word: missile Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Latin missile (“thrown weapon, projectile”), neuter of missilis (“throwable, capable of being thrown”), from mittere (“to send”). From 1611. Compare Middle French missile (“projectile”), from 1636. Pronunciation: /ˈmɪs.aɪl/, /ˈmɪs.(ə)l/, /-aɪl/ 1. Any object used as a weapon by being thrown or fired through the air, such as stone, arrow or bullet. Example: The Rhodians, who used leaden bullets, were able to project their missiles twice as far as the Persian slingers, who used large stones. Example: And I saw askant the armies, / I saw as in noiseless dreams hundreds of battle-flags, / Borne through the smoke of the battles and pierc’d with missiles I saw them, / And carried hither and yon through the smoke, and torn and bloody, / And at last but a few shreds left on the staffs, (and all in silence,) / And the staffs all splinter’d and broken. 2. A self-propelled projectile whose trajectory can be adjusted after it is launched. Example: That missile is explosive enough to kill hundreds.
Word: contribution Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English contribucioun, contribucion, from Old French contribution, from Latin contribūtiōnem, contribūtiō, from Latin contribuēre. By surface analysis, contribute + -ion. Pronunciation: /ˌkɒntɹɪˈbjuːʃən/, /ˌkɑntɹɪˈbjuʃən/ 1. Something given or offered that adds to a larger whole. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Whether we believe in the power of our daily rituals or hold a powerful world-shifting viewpoint, acknowledging and respecting the perspectives of others is the tool that fuels the depth, value, and meaning of our contribution to and relationships with them. Example: North Korea had not publicly confirmed its contribution until Monday, when it said: “The operations for liberating the Kursk area to repel the adventurous invasion of the Russian Federation by the Ukrainian authorities were victoriously concluded,” according to state-run news agency KCNA. 2. An amount of money given toward something. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: He made a contribution of $100 for the victims of the flood. 3. The act of contributing. Labels: countable, uncountable 4. The taking part, often with the idea that it has led to (scientific etc.) progress. Labels: countable, uncountable