nandhakumarms/qualc-wiktionary-en huggingface dataset:
Word: catch a crab Part of Speech: verb 1. To strike the blade of the oar against the water when moving the oar back between power strokes. Example: I blast off the first few strokes with all the anger and frustration I feel towards Rachel. It works against me. I catch a crab and totally lose it. The boat swings sideways and we have to easy oar or risk slamming into the bank.
Word: coster Part of Speech: noun 1. Clipping of costermonger. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, clipping Example: It was nearly eleven o'clock now, and he strolled out again. In the little fair created by the costers' barrows the evening only seemed beginning; and the naphtha flares made one's eyes ache, the men's voices grated harshly, and the girls' faces saddened one. 2. A costard: a large apple good for cooking; any apple. Labels: obsolete 3. Any of various nymphalid butterflies of the genus Acraea.
Word: dandified Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of dandify Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: dandified Part of Speech: adj 1. Characteristic (in dress and habits) of a dandy
Word: dandify Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From dandy + -fy. 1. To dress as, make into, or to adopt the style of, a dandy. Example: The Major smiled as he saw the boy dandifying himself in the glass: the old gentleman was not displeased with the appearance of the comely lad.
Word: forbad Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /fə(ɹ)ˈbæd/ 1. Archaic spelling of forbade Labels: alt-of, archaic
Word: shakeup Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Deverbal from shake up. Pronunciation: /ˈʃeɪkˌʌp/ 1. A vigorous reorganization, especially of the personnel or procedures of an organization.
Word: sharpie Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From sharp + -ie (“diminutive suffix”). Pronunciation: /ˈʃɑɹpi/, /ˈʃɑːpi/ 1. An alert person. Labels: colloquial Example: Eunice Marshall asked in a bored tone, "Are you, by any chance, selling magazines?" Daisy grinned childishly, enjoying Eunice's mistake. "You're quite a sharpie, aren't you, ma'am? You figured me out a whole lot faster than most people do." Example: You have to beat a lot of real sharpies, guys who have been playing for years. 2. A knowledgeable fisherman. Labels: US, regional Example: 1976 December, Ken Schultz, Field & Stream Fishing Contest Winners: Nothing but the Best, Field & Stream, page 78, Eventually DeBlasio became a sharpie. In New York and New Jersey coastal fishing parlance a “sharpie” is one who fishes seven days a week all summer long, selling his fish to the market to make a living. Sharpies supposedly have fishing down to a science, to such a degree that they only go to particular places, at particular times, using particular fishing methods, and come back with a boatload of fish while everyone else wonders in amazement. 3. A swindler. Labels: US Example: Three booths down a couple of sharpies were selling each other pieces of Twentieth Century Fox, using double arm gestures instead of money. 4. A long, narrow fishing boat used in shallow waters. Labels: US Example: He brought this pair of sharpies, the Lucia and the Ella, to Beaufort by schooner and began to use them for fishing, oyster dredging, and even as a passenger ferry and party boat. The sharpie is a flat-bottomed, shallow-draft vessel of moderate size, comparable to a sloop or schooner. Example: On the other end of the spectrum are the flat-bottomed sharpies. The earliest sharpies were developed in the mid-nineteenth century as the ideal boats for the oyster fishery of the Connecticut shore. 5. Clipping of sharp-shinned hawk. Labels: US, abbreviation, alt-of, clipping Example: It is harder to gauge the shorter tail of sharpies, but on sitting birds the tail shape is a more useful character than it is on flying birds. Sharpies of all ages and sexes almost always show a notched tail when they are sitting. Example: My mother had lost a considerable number of spring chicks to a raiding sharpie. 6. Clipping of sharp-tailed sandpiper. Labels: Australia, New-Zealand, abbreviation, alt-of, clipping Example: The bird looked of a similar character to a knot/pec sandpiper/sharpie, but the exact size was difficult to judge[.] Example: I went back into my photos, and yes, on 13 Nov, I photographed both Sharpie and the Pec. 7. A member of a violent, fashionably dressed youth gang of the 1960s and 1970s. Labels: Australia Example: The Circle Ballroom in High Street Preston was another popular sharpie hang-out.[…]Sharpies were all deep drinkers. 8. A Sharpie or other brand of felt-tipped marker pen.
Word: sheeting Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From sheet + -ing. 1. Fabric used to make sheets (bedding). Labels: countable, uncountable 2. The process of forming material into sheets. Labels: countable, uncountable 3. A lining of planks or boards for protecting an embankment. Labels: countable, uncountable 4. A weathering process in which rock breaks into sheets after compressional stress on it is removed. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: sheeting Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From sheet + -ing. 1. present participle and gerund of sheet Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: sheetlike Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree English sheet Proto-Indo-European *leyg-der. Proto-Germanic *līkąder. Proto-Germanic *-līkaz Proto-West Germanic *-līk Old English -līċ Middle English -like English -like English sheetlike From sheet + -like. 1. Alternative form of sheet-like. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: shilly-shally Part of Speech: verb Etymology: A reduplication of shall I? An older form was Shill-I-shall-I. Pronunciation: /ˈʃɪliˌʃæli/ 1. To procrastinate. Labels: informal Example: "Why, you sees [sic], Captain, your time has come, and you can't shilly-shally any longer. You have had your full swing; your years are up, and you must die like a man!" Example: 1866, Charles Reade, Griffith Gaunt, in The Argosy: Volume 2 - Page 16, published by Strahan and Co. "She would have come a few months ago, and gladly: I'll write to her." "Better talk to her, and persuade her." "I'll do that too, but I must write to her first". "So do then; but whatever you do, don't shilly-shally no longer." 2. To vacillate. Labels: informal Example: The shilly-shallying performance on domestic issues that has marked Bush's first two years in office is not the result of ineptitude. Example: Then Germany lost its halo. It shilly-shallied over Ukraine.
Word: shilly-shally Part of Speech: adj Etymology: A reduplication of shall I? An older form was Shill-I-shall-I. Pronunciation: /ˈʃɪliˌʃæli/ 1. Indecisive; wavering. Labels: informal Example: Irwine would think him a shilly-shally fellow ever after.
Word: shilly-shally Part of Speech: noun Etymology: A reduplication of shall I? An older form was Shill-I-shall-I. Pronunciation: /ˈʃɪliˌʃæli/ 1. Indecision; irresolution. Labels: informal
Word: makes out Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of make out Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: shirr Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Unknown. Pronunciation: /ʃɜː/, /ʃɜɹ/, /ʃɪr/, /ʃøː/, /ʃeː/ 1. To make gathers in textiles by drawing together parallel threads. Labels: US 2. To bake (a raw egg removed from its shell) in a baking dish. Labels: US, transitive Example: 'Breakfast, please,' said Bond. 'Pineapple juice, double. Cornflakes and cream. Shirred eggs with bacon. Double portion of Café Espresso. Toast and marmalade.' Example: The Creole eggs arrived in a ramekin, shirred on a bed of Virginia ham julienne and topped with a robust, spicy tomato sauce of Creole derivation.
Word: shirr Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Unknown. Pronunciation: /ʃɜː/, /ʃɜɹ/, /ʃɪr/, /ʃøː/, /ʃeː/ 1. A shirring.
Word: made out Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of make out Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: shirtfront Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From shirt + front. 1. The front part of a shirt. Example: In the Victorian Era, exposing your shirtfront in public was considered improper, as shirts were viewed as undergarments. Waistcoats concealed this and helped [to] tame oversized, billowy shirts. 2. A detachable insert that simulates the front of a shirt. Example: I liked the man for his own sake, and even had he promised to turn out a celebrity it would have had no weight with me. I look upon notoriety with the same indifference as on the buttons on a man's shirt-front, or the crest on his note-paper. 3. A pitch that is easy to bat on. 4. A head-on charge aimed at bumping an opponent to the ground. 5. An attractive facade applied only to the front of a house. Labels: slang Example: It is explained that a "shirt front" building is one of which only the street elevation is given a finished architectural treatment, the sides and back being of cheaper material, with no attempt at unification with the front. Example: False fronts, frequently called "shirt fronts," are futile attempts to make a small, cheap house pass for something larger and more valuable.
Word: shirtfront Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From shirt + front. 1. To confront in a threatening manner. Labels: Australia, transitive Example: This was a case of a deputy shirtfronting her leader with an ultimatum and forcing a decision that would come close to wrecking the government's environmental credibility. Example: Pravda has described Tony Abbott as “a disturbed mind crying out for therapy”: after his threat to “shirtfront” the Russian president, Vladimir Putin, in Brisbane.
Word: shirting Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From shirt + -ing. 1. Any fabric used to make shirts. Labels: countable, uncountable 2. Shirts collectively. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: lazzaretto Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative spelling of lazaretto. Labels: alt-of, alternative Example: [pages 9–10] Theſe eſtabliſhments of Lazzarettos, under wiſe regulations, would have more than one good effect; for while they remove the great inquietude, which is occaſioned by our continual apprehenſions of the Plague, and ſave a populous kingdom, as well as other ſtates connected with us, (who are likewiſe endangered by the accidents of navigation and the imprudence of plunderers) they will ſecure the property of the trader from invaſion; they will alſo humanely aſſiſt the unfortunate, who may be wrecked upon the Britiſh Coaſt; and likewiſe, by promoting good order in a great trading ſtate, they will tend to civilize the ſavage diſpoſition of the plunderers, whoſe barbarity is a contradiction to that humanity, generoſity and good ſenſe, for which the Engliſh nation loves to be admired and diſtinguiſhed by foreigners. […] [page 20] The trip to Italy can be made in a very ſhort time, and at a ſmall expence; which indeed would not be worth mentioning, when compared with the great advantages that would result to the Britiſh nation, from an eſtabliſhment of a regular and well-governed Lazzaretto. Example: Passengers may perform quarantine on board if they choose, but it is not advisable to do so if they arrive by a merchant ship, as in that case the term is longer than for a person who goes into the lazzaretto; the day he enters the lazzaretto is reckoned as one, and pratique is given at the earliest hour of the day when the period expires. […] The best lazzarettos are those of Malta, Leghorn, Marseilles, Ancona, and Trieste.
Word: genophilia Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Apparently coined by Sir Francis Galton, from geno- + -philia. 1. Love of one's own relations, tribe, kind or race. Labels: rare, uncountable Example: Although cultural Marxists have tried to extirpate it from Western man's memory, there remains the ancient, conservative notion of a nation, one rooted in ancestry, kith and kin, and genophilia. Example: Some critics have maintained that (unlike modern nationalism, which is a creation of the 19th century nation state) authentic nationalism (as the Latin 'natio' would suggest) must be based in some form of genophilia and the sharing of ancestors in which sense The Vatican does not qualify as a nation-state since membership of Catholicism are scattered all over the world with no possible ties of ancestry pedigree. 2. Love of children, or a desire to have children. Labels: rare, uncountable Example: The tragedy was that the narrator, lacking genophilia, or love of children, should have got his wife with child. Example: There is a suggestion that the relationship between the fertility of the women and of their parents is closer in the group practising contraception (where perhaps genetic and nurtural factors for genophilia come into play).
Word: Hailey Part of Speech: name Etymology: From Old English hīeġ (“hay”) + lēah (“clearing”). Pronunciation: /ˈheɪli/ 1. A surname from Old English, a spelling variant of Hayley. 2. A unisex given name transferred from the surname. 3. A placename 4. A placename
Word: Haley Part of Speech: name Etymology: Variant of Hayley, from Old English. Literally, “hay field” 1. A surname from Old English, variant of Hayley, a common spelling variant of Hayley. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Former United Nations ambassador and current GOP presidential hopeful Nikki Haley slammed fellow Republicans former President Donald Trump and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis Monday in a campaign letter highlighting Haley’s first quarter accomplishments. 2. A unisex given name transferred from the surname, variant of Hayley. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: “Their fauxmance?” I asked. “What are you talking about?" “Fake romance,” Lee said. “Haley and Kevin are both Monica's clients. She had them fake-date for publicity. And it worked, their pictures are everywhere.” […] My head was whirling. I'd been set up to take that picture. Haley and Kevin were only fake-dating and I'd broken their fauxmance on Princess of Gossip. And it hit me. Princess of Gossip was based on a lie. 3. A unisex given name transferred from the surname, variant of Hayley. Labels: countable, uncountable 4. A placename; Any of several places in the U.S. and Canada named after persons with the surname. Labels: countable, uncountable 5. A placename; Any of several places in the U.S. and Canada named after persons with the surname. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: Hattie Part of Speech: name Pronunciation: /ˈhæti/ 1. A diminutive of the female given name Harriet. Example: But Harriet Fuller sounds like a school-teacher, doesn't it? And Hattie Fuller makes me think, somehow, of a burlesque actress. You know. 'Hattie Fuller and Her Bouncing Belles'.
Word: pugmark Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From pug (“pawprint or footprint of an animal”) + mark. 1. The print or track of an animal.
Word: Ida Part of Speech: name Etymology: Short form of obsolete names beginning with Germanic īd "work", used for both sexes in medieval England. It was revived in the 19th century, partly mistaken for a Greek name, for the Mount Ida of classical mythology. Pronunciation: /ˈaɪdə/ 1. A female given name from the Germanic languages. Example: "Ida!!!" "It is not a common, but an ancient name in Greece", said the diako,"and was borne by the wife of Lycastus and the mother of the Cretan Minos." Osmyn blushed to have been over-heard, and suffered his heart alone to repeat again the sweet and simple name of "Ida". Example: That's what they called me," she said. "My real name's Ida." The old and vulgarised Grecian name recovered a little dignity
Word: Ida Part of Speech: name Etymology: Two possible origins: * Borrowed from Japanese 井田 (Ida, “rice paddy by the well”). * Matronymic surname from the female given name Ida. 1. A surname.
Word: Ida Part of Speech: name Etymology: From Ancient Greek Ἴδη (Ídē). 1. Either of two sacred mountains situated in present-day Turkey and Crete, also called Mount Ida. Labels: Greek
Word: Ida Part of Speech: name Etymology: Borrowed from Slovak Ida. 1. A river in eastern Slovakia.
Word: Ida Part of Speech: name Etymology: From Sanskrit इडा (iḍā). 1. A female given name from Sanskrit used in India.
Word: Janice Part of Speech: name Etymology: Variant of Jane under apparent influence from Alice, Bernice, Eunice, etc., from French Jeanne, from Middle French Jehanne, from Medieval Latin Johanna, variant of Latin Ioanna under influence from Latin Iōhannēs, from Koine Greek Ἰωάννα (Iōánna), from Hebrew יוֹחָנָה (Yôḥānāh, literally “God is gracious”), the feminized form of יְהוֹחָנָן (Yəhōḥānān) which produced John and its many doublets. As a placeholder name, cf. similar use of John and Jack and earlier use of Joan in the same role. Doublet of Ivana, Jana, Janis, Jean, Jeanne, Jen, Joan, Joanna, Joanne, Johanna, Juana, Shavonne, Sian, Siobhan, Shane, Shaun, Shauna, and Sheena. Pronunciation: /ˈd͡ʒænɪs/ 1. A female given name. Example: "Yes, Mommy," answered Janice. Then she turned to her friend and asked, "Shall I wear my light chintz and kenton kerchief, or my purple and white striped Persian?" "Sufficiently smart for a country lass, Jan," cried her friend. Example: "Now class," she said, "my name is Mrs. Chubbie. I know how most of you would like to pronounce it, but the correct pronunciation is Mrs. Shew-bay." "It's Jan-eece," the goth-girl says. "Pardon me?" Mrs Shew-bay asks very properly. "My name is pronounced Jan-eece. Not Janice." The whole class tries to stop from laughing out loud at this. "I've changed since last year. Janice is the name of some average, boring student. Do I look average to you?"
Word: Janice Part of Speech: name Etymology: Possibly an altered spelling of Jannis; see Janes. 1. A surname.
Word: smarten Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From smart + -en. Pronunciation: /ˈsmɑːt(ə)n/ 1. To make smarter in appearance; to refurbish or spruce up. Labels: transitive Example: The Sorting Ceremony will take place in a few minutes in front of the rest of the school. I suggest you all smarten yourselves up as much as you can while you are waiting. 2. To increase the speed of (one's travel on foot, etc.). Labels: transitive Example: I braced myself and smartened my pace, shouldering my way through the crowd. 3. To augment with computer technology. Labels: transitive Example: How do we achieve this smartening of the grid? The CALM approach in the future will be to use reinforcement learning (RL) controllers as a basis for optimizing the synergy between operators and automation.
Word: smarty Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From smart + -y. Pronunciation: /ˈsmɑːti/, /ˈsmɑɹti/ 1. An obnoxiously clever or quick-witted person. Labels: informal Example: Don't be stupid, be a smarty come and join the Nazi Party!
Word: smartypants Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From smarty + -pants. 1. Alternative form of smarty pants. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: smasher Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From smash + -er. Pronunciation: /smæʃɚ/ 1. Something that, or someone who, smashes. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: With this mighty resolution framed and glassed, and hung over his bed, along with a pleasing representation of a gleaming eye, bearing the legend, "Thou, God, seest me," he managed by bearing himself humbly among his fellows, or rather, by having humility thrust upon him, to avert for a period such calamity as doth befall the Sunday swimmer, the fruit stealer, the school wagger, the root smoker, the Chinaman pelter, and the window smasher. 2. Something that, or someone who, smashes. Labels: countable, historical, uncountable 3. An attractive person (see also smashing). Labels: countable, slang, uncountable Example: You got engaged on the day that I moved out. It's OK / She's a smasher, perfectly suited to the role 4. Anything very large or extraordinary; a whopper. Labels: countable, dated, slang, uncountable 5. One who passes counterfeit money. Labels: UK, countable, obsolete, slang, uncountable Example: The price of a case (five shillings piece bad) from the smasher is about one shilling; an alderman (two and sixpence) about sixpence; a peg (shilling) about threepence; a downer or sprat (sixpence) about twopence. 6. The counterfeit money itself. Labels: UK, countable, obsolete, slang, uncountable
Word: smashup Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Deverbal from smash up. 1. An abrupt, damaging breakdown or failure. Labels: informal 2. A violent collision involving one or more vehicles. Labels: informal 3. An instance or the result of smashing; that which has been smashed into pieces. Example: I discovered that a lot of imported drainage-pipes for the settlement had been tumbled in there. There wasn’t one that was not broken. It was a wanton smash-up.
Word: smeary Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English *smery, *smeri, from Old English smeoruwiġ (“fatty, greasy, unctious, smeary”), from Proto-West Germanic *smerwig, equivalent to smear + -y. Pronunciation: /ˈsmɪəɹi/, /ˈsmɪɹi/, /ˈsmɪɚi/, /ˈsmiɹi/, /ˈsmiɹɪ/ 1. Having or showing smears. Example: Pretending to read a smeary newspaper long out of date, which had nothing half so legible in its local news, as the foreign matter of coffee, pickles, fish sauces, gravy, melted butter, and wine, with which it was sprinkled all over, as if it had taken the measles in a highly irregular form, I sat at my table […] Example: I voice the weary, smeary ones of earth, The helots of the sea and of the soil. 2. Tending to smear or soil. Example: […] stamped again and again in smeary red ink that looked like blood, was one word: CANCEL. 3. Having a consistency like grease; covered with such a substance. Example: And are there not diuerse skauingers of draftye poëtrye in this oure age, that bast theyre papers wyth smearie larde sauoring al too geather of thee frying pan? Example: 1896, W. S. Gilbert, The Grand Duke, Act I, in The Complete Plays of Gilbert and Sullivan, New York: The Modern Library, 1936, p. 675, When your lips are all smeary—like tallow, And your tongue is decidedly yallow, With a pint of warm oil in your swallow, And a pound of tin-tacks in your chest
Word: Morlock Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Coined by British science fiction author H. G. Wells in 1895; possibly influenced by Morlach or Moloch. 1. A member of a troglodyte cannibalistic race described in H. G. Wells' novel The Time Machine (1895). 2. A brutish troglodyte. Labels: broadly Example: Thus civilian morale became a key issue in war preparations, which were undertaken in a spirit so fretfully suspicious that centralised mass shelters were not constructed for fear of encouraging a deep shelter mentality that would turn London's population into a race of modern Morlocks. Example: We need a modern White version of that. They go into niggerhoods that border Human areas and patrol. Protect the Human encampments from the invading Morlocks. Do it legally, and call the police to actually grab the criminal n*gs, but be out there in force watching & filming these things.
Word: Morlocks Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of Morlock Labels: form-of, plural
Word: Mother Superior Part of Speech: noun 1. The head of a convent; an abbess.
Word: Mother Superiors Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of Mother Superior Labels: form-of, plural
Word: Lazarist Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From French lazariste, from Lazare + -iste (“-ist”), from the order's first large headquarters, the Enclos Saint-Lazare (“St Lazarus Enclosure”) in Paris, derived from its former use as a Hospitaller leprosarium. 1. A member of the Congregation of the Priests of the Mission founded by St Vincent de Paul.
Word: Lazarist Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From French lazariste, from Lazare + -iste (“-ist”), from the order's first large headquarters, the Enclos Saint-Lazare (“St Lazarus Enclosure”) in Paris, derived from its former use as a Hospitaller leprosarium. 1. Of or pertaining to this order. Labels: not-comparable
Word: Sturmabteilung Part of Speech: name Etymology: Etymology tree German Sturm German Abteilung German Sturmabteilungbor. English Sturmabteilung Borrowed from German Sturmabteilung. Pronunciation: /ˈʃtʊɹm.æbˌtaɪ.lʊŋ/ 1. A paramilitary division under the German Nazi Party, operating from 1921 until being disbanded in 1934.
Word: all cats are grey in the dark Part of Speech: proverb Etymology: Calque of French la nuit, tous les chats sont gris (“at night, all cats are grey”), sometimes understood with vulgar reference to secondary senses of cat and pussy. 1. Sex is enjoyable regardless of the physical attractiveness or social station of one's partner. Labels: UK, offensive, sometimes, vulgar Example: [Of a widow:] And to make carnall appetite content, To take lacke of beautie but as an eye ſore. The fayre and the foule, by darke are lyke ſtore. When all candels be out, all cats be grey, All thingis are then of one colour, as who ſey. And this prouerbe ſaith, for quenching hot deſyre, Foule water as ſoone as fayre, will quenche hot fyre. Example: ‘When all candles be out all catts be gray:’ This none but careless leachers will say. 2. Under some circumstances, individual distinctions are not relevant. Labels: uncommon Example: In such a darkness, in which all cats are grey, Lucrezia Borgia might well seem as white as a blue-eyed Persian. But the paradox remains that Corvo might not impossibly be right. As, but for superhuman strainings, Dreyfus might have gone down to history as a traitor to France, so may the Borgian Lucrezia have been as blameless as the Tarquinian to whom indeed Ariosto boldly compares her. The woman who protected the Jews during a famine, provided poor girls with dowries, passed evenings over her embroidery frame and held the esteem of the greatest poet and the greatest stylist of her day, may really have lived up to that washing list. Example: No matter how capable and cultivated the mind, how subtle and sensitive the spirit, the individual Negro is still not free. "All cats are grey at night," and it is still long hours to go before dawn, over much of America. They order these things better in France. Double the honor, then, when a Negro succeeds, for half the strength of his genius must be spent in raising himself to the level of his inferiors, in overcoming the handicap of color.
Word: all cats are grey at night Part of Speech: proverb 1. Alternative form of all cats are grey in the dark. Labels: UK, alt-of, alternative Example: No matter how capable and cultivated the mind, how subtle and sensitive the spirit, the individual Negro is still not free. "All cats are grey at night," and it is still long hours to go before dawn, over much of America. They order these things better in France. Double the honor, then, when a Negro succeeds, for half the strength of his genius must be spent in raising himself to the level of his inferiors, in overcoming the handicap of color.
Word: all cats are gray at night Part of Speech: proverb 1. Alternative form of all cats are grey in the dark. Labels: US, alt-of, alternative
Word: all cats are gray in the dark Part of Speech: proverb 1. Standard spelling of all cats are grey in the dark. Labels: US
Word: cingulotomies Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of cingulotomy Labels: form-of, plural
Word: Shambala Part of Speech: name 1. Alternative spelling of Shambhala (“mythical realm”). Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: Shambala Part of Speech: name 1. A Bantu language of Tanzania.
Word: FLC Part of Speech: noun 1. Initialism of full load container. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism 2. Initialism of Front Load Container. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism 3. Initialism of fighting load carrier. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
Word: dreamily Part of Speech: adv Etymology: Etymology tree English dreamy Middle English -ly English -ly English dreamily From dreamy + -ly. Pronunciation: /ˈdɹiːmɪli/ 1. In a dreamy manner. Example: "There are no women like the Arab women," said Haji Zainal Abidin dreamily, lyrically.
Word: dreadfulness Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English dredfulnesse, dredefulnesse, equivalent to dreadful + -ness. 1. The characteristic of being dreadful. Labels: uncountable, usually
Word: drawn-out Part of Speech: adj 1. Protracted, made to take a longer period of time than necessary.
Word: druidism Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English druid Proto-Indo-European *-id- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō) Proto-Indo-European *-mos Proto-Indo-European *-mós Ancient Greek -μός (-mós) Ancient Greek -ισμός (-ismós)der. English -ism English druidism From druid + -ism. 1. The religion, philosophical beliefs, and attendant ritual practices of the druids. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: coenurosis Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From New Latin coenurus + -osis. 1. A parasitic infestation of Taenia tapeworm larvae; most common in ungulates and canids Labels: uncountable, usually 2. The disease caused by such an infestation Labels: uncountable, usually
Word: coenurus Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From New Latin, from Ancient Greek κοινός (koinós, “common”) + οὐρά (ourá, “tail”) + -ος (-os, nominal suffix). Pronunciation: /səˈn(j)ʊɹ.əs/, /siːˈn(j)ʊɹ.əs/ 1. A complex tapeworm larva growing interstitially in vertebrate tissues and consisting of a large fluid-filled sac from the inner wall of which numerous scolices develop.
Word: coesite Part of Speech: noun 1. A high-pressure polymorph of silica found in extreme conditions such as the impact craters of meteorites, with the chemical composition of silicon dioxide, SiO₂. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: cogeneration Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From co- + generation. 1. The production of heat and/or power from the waste energy of an industrial process. Labels: uncountable, usually 2. The simultaneous or serial production of heat and electricity from the same source. Labels: uncountable, usually 3. Joint generation; cocreation. Labels: uncountable, usually Example: The book project is part of a larger effort by Future Earth to build mechanisms for cogeneration of knowledge […]
Word: colemanite Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Coleman + -ite, named after William Tell Coleman (1824-1893) in 1884. 1. A white, grey or colorless mineral form of calcium borate; a principal source of boron. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: ball of the thumb Part of Speech: noun 1. The fleshy portion, opposite the nail, of the first segment (first phalange) of the human thumb. Labels: informal 2. The most fleshy portion of the palm of the human hand, located adjacent to the second joint of the thumb: the thenar eminence.
Word: sciaena Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Latin sciaena, from Ancient Greek σκίαινα (skíaina, “a sea-fish”, perhaps “a kind of grayling” or “ombre”), from σκιά (skiá, “shadow, shade”) and -ινα (-ina, suffix forming related feminine nouns). 1. Any of several nocturnal fish, of the genus Sciaena, from the Eastern Atlantic, Mediterranean Sea and Black Sea; a croaker.
Word: give someone the boot Part of Speech: verb 1. To fire, sack, or eject someone. Labels: UK, idiomatic, informal Example: I am sorry for your husband and children, but I have to give you the boot. Example: They said I couldn't do the job and gave me the boot. So, now I'm looking for work again. 2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see give, the, boot.
Word: hustle and bustle Part of Speech: noun 1. A large amount of activity and work, usually in a noisy surrounding. Labels: idiomatic, uncountable Example: He moved to his parents' farm to have a break from the hustle and bustle of the big city.
Word: break away Part of Speech: verb 1. To leave suddenly. Example: She was brought up in a very religious household, but broke away from the church in her teens. 2. To become separated, literally or figuratively. Example: A chunk of rock broke away from the cliff edge.
Word: hot mess Part of Speech: noun Etymology: hot (“warm”) + mess (“meal; soldiers who eat together”). Pronunciation: /ˌhɑt ˈmɛs/ 1. A warm meal, usually cooked in a large pot, often similar to a stew or porridge; service of such a heated meal to soldiers. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: "Smallbones," said the lieutenant, after trying the hot mess before him, and finding that he was still in danger of burning his mouth, "bring me the red-herring." Example: 1 lb. pemican; ¼ lb. pork; ¾ lb. biscuit; ¼ lb flour or bread dust, to mix with pemican into a hot mess;
Word: hot mess Part of Speech: noun Etymology: hot (“uncomfortable”) or hot (“attractive”) + mess (“disarray”). Pronunciation: /ˌhɑt ˈmɛs/ 1. A situation or object in a state of extreme disarray. Labels: US, informal Example: The politician's in a hot mess since the women got the vote -- his wife threatened not to vote for his candidate unless he wipes the dishes. Example: We’re a hot mess, this bad-tempered country of ours. More than 40 percent of Republicans are slouching toward full-blown autocracy, favorably disposed, in one poll, toward a presidency unfettered by constitutional checks and balances. 2. A disheveled or unbalanced person, particularly one who is nevertheless, or therefore, attractive. Labels: US, informal Example: My hair had two months of roots exposed. My brows were overgrown. I was a hot mess. And I was fat. Example: "Girl, you're a hot mess, but we're cool," she assured her, but her next words were a warning. "But you really need to stop blurting out the first thing that comes to your mind..." 3. Trouble. Labels: Southern-US, informal, obsolete Example: I'm in a hot mess.
Word: see mui Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Cantonese 西梅 (sai1 mui4-2, “prune”), via Hawaii. 1. crack seed
Word: li hing mui Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Cantonese, perhaps 旅行梅 (leoi5 hang4 mui4-2, literally “travelling plum”), via Hawaii. 1. crack seed
Word: salarymen Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of salaryman Labels: form-of, plural
Word: sex act Part of Speech: noun 1. Synonym of sexual act. Example: Moreover, the act which is instinctive at one time or in a certain stage of development may not be instinctive at another time or in another stage. The sex act, although instinctive in animals and in primitive human races, is not instinctive in civilized man.
Word: neophobia Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From neo- + -phobia. Pronunciation: /niːəˈfəʊbɪə/ 1. The fear or hatred of novelty, new things, innovation, or unfamiliar places or situations. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: [T]he murdering of Mormons and the massacring of Armenians, express much rather that aboriginal human neophobia, […] than they express the positive piety of the various perpetrators. Example: In response to the other July/August request, for a word to describe a "fear of inadvertently throwing something valuable out with the garbage," many, many phobias arrived. Evidently the readers who sent them in suffer from neither doxophobia (fear of expressing opinions) nor neophobia (fear of anything new or novel), and some would even seem to be remarkably free of catagelophobia (fear of being ridiculed).
Word: Akhaury Part of Speech: name 1. A surname from Northern India.
Word: Akhoury Part of Speech: name 1. Alternative spelling of Akhaury: a surname from Northern India. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: devacuumization Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From de- + vacuum + -ization. 1. The process of which a vacuum loses its integrity and allows atmosphere to flow into it. For example, a broken cathode ray tube (CRT) will devacuumize and allow air to flow into it. Labels: uncountable
Word: Euronesian Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Blend of European + Polynesian (from 1938 proposal on Pacific Monthly) 1. Of mixed European and Pacific Islander ancestry, regardless of the continent of origin.
Word: Euronesian Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Blend of European + Polynesian (from 1938 proposal on Pacific Monthly) 1. An individual of mixed European and Pacific Islander ancestry, regardless of continent of origin.
Word: Evangeline Part of Speech: name Etymology: Invented by the poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow when he began research on his epic poem Evangeline about Acadian lovers deported from French-Canada. From Ancient Greek εὐαγγέλιον (euangélion, “good news”). Pronunciation: /ɪˌvænd͡ʒəˈliːn/ 1. A female given name originating as a coinage. Example: Half-way down the shore Evangeline waited in silence, Not overcome with grief, but strong in the hour of affliction. Example: "What's the little missy's name?" said Tom, at last, when he thought matters were ripe to push such an inquiry. "Evangeline St. Clare," said the little one, "though papa and everybody else call me Eva."
Word: grupetto Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Italian. 1. A group of notes played together that are added to the melody, also known as the "turn" or grace notes. 2. A small group. 3. The trailing group of riders in a stage race that tries to finish the race stage in which it was formed at a time just under the cut-off time for when they would otherwise be disqualified from continuing on to the next stage of the race.
Word: hibernaculum Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Latin hībernāculum (“winter quarters”). Pronunciation: /haɪ.bəˈnak.juː.ləm/, /ˌhaɪ.bəɹˈnæk.jə.ləm/ 1. The place where a hibernating animal shelters for the winter. Example: Aeolus Cave, which is set into a wooded hillside in Dorset, Vermont, is believed to be the largest bat hibernaculum in New England; it is estimated that before white-nose hit, nearly three hundred thousand bats—some from as far away as Ontario and Rhode Island—came there to spend the winter. Example: In winter, NLEBs use caves and mines as hibernacula.⁹⁴ Suitable habitat for the NLEB is present within the Proposed Route. 2. A bud, case, or protective covering that a plant uses to survive the challenging environmental conditions during a dormancy period.
Word: nightcap Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From night + cap. Pronunciation: /ˈnaɪtˌkæp/ 1. A warm cloth cap worn while sleeping, often with pajamas, being common attire in northern Europe before effective home heating became widespread. Example: Winston wore a nightcap to stave off the cold. 2. A beverage drunk before bed that is usually alcoholic. Example: I'll make myself a nightcap of whisky and lemon before heading to bed. Example: You know the other night, when I had dinner with Afro-Dite? When Jo was in San Francisco? Well we dropped into the Sinners, right, just for a nightcap. 3. Something that a person reads or listens to before bed. Labels: broadly, figuratively Example: "[…] and as a nightcap I happened to pick the copy of Plato […]" 4. The final match of a sporting contest, especially the second game of a baseball doubleheader. Labels: US 5. A cap drawn over the face of the condemned person before they are hanged. Labels: historical
Word: nightcap Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From night + cap. Pronunciation: /ˈnaɪtˌkæp/ 1. To drink an alcoholic beverage shortly before retiring to bed. Labels: intransitive Example: Even better than breakfast, though, is nightcapping at the Waffle House . Nightcapping happens after the bars close, but before the southern sunrise: the hours when their jukeboxes play “Freebird” on a continual loop, […] Example: We nightcapped at the Four Seasons Hotel George V, on the most extravagant cocktails I'd ever purchased in life.
Word: palpebral fissure Part of Speech: noun 1. The separation between the upper and lower eyelids.
Word: polished rice Part of Speech: noun 1. Rice with the husk or outer brown layers removed; white rice. Labels: uncountable, usually
Word: tiniest Part of Speech: adj 1. superlative form of tiny: most tiny Labels: form-of, superlative
Word: scariest Part of Speech: adj 1. superlative form of scary: most scary Labels: form-of, superlative Example: This is one of the scariest books I have ever read!
Word: pachycaul Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From pachy- (“thick”) + Ancient Greek καυλός (kaulós, “stem”). Pronunciation: /ˈpækɪkɔl/, /ˈpækɪkɔːl/ 1. Any of several primitive tropical trees that have a thick stem and few or no branches.
Word: pachycaul Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From pachy- (“thick”) + Ancient Greek καυλός (kaulós, “stem”). Pronunciation: /ˈpækɪkɔl/, /ˈpækɪkɔːl/ 1. Of or relating to such plants; pachycaulous. Labels: not-comparable
Word: Yankee land Part of Speech: name 1. The United States. Labels: UK, informal Example: A mad world this, my friends, a world in its lunes[…] ever since when this rampant androgynous Bloomerism first came over from Yankee land. 2. The northern United States. Labels: Southern-US, derogatory, sometimes 3. New England. Labels: Northern-US
Word: ffrench Part of Speech: name Etymology: A variant of French: in some blackletter typefaces, capital F looked like (and was later taken to be) two lowercase fs. Compare fforde, ffoulkes. 1. An Irish barony, originally from Castle ffrench in Galway. 2. A surname: an English and Irish surname from the same source.
Word: no sweat Part of Speech: adv 1. Without problems or difficulties. Labels: informal, not-comparable
Word: art movie Part of Speech: noun 1. Any cinema movie intended to be an artistic work rather than a commercial movie of mass appeal
Word: art film Part of Speech: noun 1. A cinematic film intended to be an artistic work rather than a commercial film having mass appeal.
Word: asthenozoospermic Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From asthenozoospermia + -ic. By surface analysis, a- (“not”) + sthen- (“strength”) + -o- (“connecting vowel”) + zo- (“animal”) + -o- (“connecting vowel”) + sperm (“seed”) + -ic (“adjective suffix”). 1. Of or pertaining to asthenozoospermia.
Word: hypospermatogenesis Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *upó Ancient Greek ῠ̔πό (hŭpó) Ancient Greek ὑπο- (hupo-)der. English hypo- English spermato- Proto-Indo-European *ǵenh₁- Proto-Indo-European *-tis Proto-Indo-European *ǵénh₁tis Proto-Hellenic *génetis Ancient Greek γένεσῐς (génesĭs)der. Latinbor. English -genesis English hypospermatogenesis From hypo- + spermato- + -genesis. 1. The condition of having decreased sperm production. Labels: uncountable
Word: normozoospermic Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From normo- + zoospermic. 1. Having a normal sperm production Labels: not-comparable
Word: oligozoospermic Part of Speech: adj 1. Of or pertaining to oligozoospermia.
Word: pygostyle Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From English pygo- + Ancient Greek στῦλος (stûlos, “column”). By surface analysis, pygo- + -style. Pronunciation: /ˈpaɪɡəstaɪl/ 1. The plate supporting the tail-feathers in birds, formed from fused vertebrae. Example: Aderyn the Bird Queen sat down; her pygostyle engaged a hard wooden bottom.
Word: ternary Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Late Latin ternārius (“consisting of three things”), from ternī (“three each”). Pronunciation: /ˈtɜː.nə.ɹi/, /ˈtɝ.nə.ɹi/ 1. Made up of three things. Labels: not-comparable 2. Arranged in groups of three. Labels: not-comparable 3. To the base three. Labels: not-comparable Example: Perhaps the prettiest number system of all is the balanced ternary notation 4. Having three variables. Labels: not-comparable 5. Containing, or consisting of, three different parts, as elements, atoms, groups, or radicals, which are regarded as having different functions or relations in the molecule. Labels: not-comparable Example: Sodic hydroxide, NaOH, is a ternary compound. 6. Of an operator taking three operands. Labels: not-comparable Example: An "if…then…else" construction is called a ternary operator when it is combined in one line of a program.
Word: ternary Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Late Latin ternārius (“consisting of three things”), from ternī (“three each”). Pronunciation: /ˈtɜː.nə.ɹi/, /ˈtɝ.nə.ɹi/ 1. A group of three things; a trio, threesome or tierce. 2. The Holy Trinity. Labels: obsolete Example: And albeit these thynges be waighty and truthes of great importance, yet (by the infinite goodnes of the Almighty Ternarie,) Artificiall Methods and easy wayes are made, by which the zelous Philosopher, may wyn nere this Riuerish Ida, this Mountayne of Contemplation […] . 3. The ternary operator. Example: Although this code is technically correct, you should be cautious when using ternaries. Many developers actually don't like using ternaries because it's easy to miss small details or create quirky behaviors.
Word: ternary alloy Part of Speech: noun 1. An alloy containing three metals or other elements
Word: ternary code Part of Speech: noun 1. Any code whose elements may take one of three values
Word: ternary complex Part of Speech: noun 1. Any of several forms in which three different molecules are tightly bound together
Word: ternary compound Part of Speech: noun 1. Any compound containing atoms of three different elements
Word: ternary computer Part of Speech: noun 1. Any computer that uses ternary logic instead of binary
Word: ternary logic Part of Speech: noun 1. A system of mathematical logic in which there are three truth values. Labels: uncountable, usually
Word: drave Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past of drive Labels: archaic, form-of, past Example: His kingly courage quell: but from his short retyre, His reinforced troupes (newe forg’d with sprightly fire) Before them drave the Dane, and made the Britaine runne (Whom he by liberall wage here to his ayde had wonne) Example: I do not know its name, but the Sahib sat in the midst of three silver wheels that made no creaking, and drave them with his legs, prancing like a bean-fed horse—thus.
Word: drawable Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree English draw 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 drawable From draw + -able. 1. Capable of being drawn (represented graphically). 2. Capable of being drawn (pulled or extracted). 3. Capable of being drawn (deduced or inferred). Example: a drawable conclusion
Word: drawbar Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From draw + bar. Pronunciation: /ˈdɹɔ.bɑɹ/ 1. An open-mouthed bar at the end of a car, which receives a coupling link and pin by which the car is drawn. It is usually provided with a spring to give elasticity to the connection between the cars of a train. 2. A bar of iron with an eye at each end, or a heavy link, for coupling a locomotive to a tender or car. Example: With multiple-unit electric trains one cannot quote figures of drawbar horsepower, because there is no drawbar, as such; […]. 3. A device to couple a powered road vehicle to a load to transfer tractive effort to the load, either as a push or as a pull. 4. A sliding bar on a Hammond organ, controlling the volume of a waveform. 5. A device for changing the tools on milling machines.
Word: drawbench Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From draw + bench. 1. A machine in which long pieces of metal are drawn through a drawplate, die, or series of dies, to change the shape, size, cross-sectional area, physical properties, or surface finish of the metal.
Word: drawbolt Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From draw + bolt. 1. A type of bolt with a threaded end that can be tightened to pull connected parts closer together and to increase tension. Example: When changing from one diameter to another, it is necessary to change both the drawbolt and outer sleeve. Example: Then tighten the drawbolt one additional turn to make the punch bite into the metal.
Word: drawbore Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From draw + bore. 1. A hole bored through a tenon nearer to the shoulder than the holes through the cheeks are to the edge or abutment against which the shoulder is to rest, so that a pin or bolt, when driven into it, will draw these parts together. Example: a drawbore pin
Word: drawbore Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From draw + bore. 1. To make a drawbore in. Labels: transitive Example: to drawbore a tenon 2. To enlarge the bore of a gun barrel by drawing, instead of thrusting, a revolving tool through it. Labels: transitive