nandhakumarms/qualc-wiktionary-en huggingface dataset:
Word: goofy Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Goofy, the name of a Walt Disney cartoon character in the form of an anthropomorphic dog, from goofy (adjective): see etymology 1. Etymology 2, adjective sense 1 (“having crooked, especially protruding, front teeth”) refers the character’s buckteeth, while etymology 2, adjective sense 2 (“riding with one’s right foot forward”) and the corresponding adverb and noun senses refer to the character being depicted surfing in that manner in the cartoon Hawaiian Holiday (1937). Pronunciation: /ˈɡuːfi/, /ˈɡufi/ 1. Of a person: having crooked, especially protruding, front teeth; buck-toothed. Labels: Canada, US, informal, not-comparable 2. Riding on a skateboard, snowboard, or surfboard with one's right foot forward. Labels: Canada, US, informal, not-comparable Example: Coordinate term: switch Example: [P]ut a skateboard, minus its trucks and wheels, on a carpet and then step back and jump on the board. If you left foot lands at the front, you'll be more comfortable riding regular. But if your right foot lands at the front, goofy is the way to go!
Word: goofy Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From Goofy, the name of a Walt Disney cartoon character in the form of an anthropomorphic dog, from goofy (adjective): see etymology 1. Etymology 2, adjective sense 1 (“having crooked, especially protruding, front teeth”) refers the character’s buckteeth, while etymology 2, adjective sense 2 (“riding with one’s right foot forward”) and the corresponding adverb and noun senses refer to the character being depicted surfing in that manner in the cartoon Hawaiian Holiday (1937). Pronunciation: /ˈɡuːfi/, /ˈɡufi/ 1. Of riding on a skateboard, snowboard, or surfboard: with one's right foot forward. Labels: Canada, US, informal, not-comparable Example: [page 152] Like skateboarders and surfers, riders stand on the board with both feet perpendicular to the board or at an angle across it. […] Riding with the left foot forward is the more common way; the right foot forward stance is called riding goofy. […] [page 155] Before you begin to snowboard, you need to determine whether you ride regular or goofy.
Word: goofy Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Goofy, the name of a Walt Disney cartoon character in the form of an anthropomorphic dog, from goofy (adjective): see etymology 1. Etymology 2, adjective sense 1 (“having crooked, especially protruding, front teeth”) refers the character’s buckteeth, while etymology 2, adjective sense 2 (“riding with one’s right foot forward”) and the corresponding adverb and noun senses refer to the character being depicted surfing in that manner in the cartoon Hawaiian Holiday (1937). Pronunciation: /ˈɡuːfi/, /ˈɡufi/ 1. A skateboarder, snowboarder, or surfer who rides their board with the right foot forward; a goofy-foot. Labels: Canada, US, informal Example: The binding still fits the swivel kit, which is ideal for a rental program where the bindings have to be switched in a jiffy to accommodate goofies and regulars. Example: If you're spinning frontside, you're turning the same way you would for a heelside turn (counterclockwise for regulars, clockwise for goofies). Spinning backside or blindside means you're turning the same way you would for a toeside turn (clockwise for regulars and counterclockwise for goofies).
Word: strewth Part of Speech: intj Etymology: Minced form of God's truth. Compare zounds, blimey. Pronunciation: /stɹuːθ/ 1. A mild oath expressing surprise or generally adding emphasis. Labels: Commonwealth, Ireland, UK Example: “Strewth! Here she is,” said the salesman. Example: “Strewth,” he whistled. “I reckon that’s a complicated fracture of the right tibia.”
Word: disabuse Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From dis- + abuse. Compare French désabuser. Pronunciation: /dɪsəˈbjuːz/ 1. To free (someone) of a misconception or misapprehension; to unveil a falsehood held by (someone). Labels: transitive Example: I had been too profoundly disabused of life's dearest illusions ever again to allow of their sweet engrossment. Example: If we had any hopes or illusions about the National Party before they came into office, we were disabused of them quickly.
Word: jos Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of jo Labels: form-of, plural
Word: speed of light Part of Speech: noun 1. The speed of electromagnetic radiation, which in a perfect vacuum is equivalent to 299,792,458 metres per second. Example: Early physicists developed insightful methods for measuring the speed of light. Example: As the subjective speed of light is raised within the field, objects outside will appear to red-shift, eventually becoming visible only to radio telescope antennae. 2. A very rapid speed. Labels: colloquial, figuratively Example: When her cat figured out that a trip to the vet was in the offing, he took off towards the closet at the speed of light. 3. A rate of travel of a signal equal to one cell per generation, the fastest possible speed in the Moore and von Neumann neighborhoods. Example: In a single generation, a cell can only influence its nearest neighbours, and so the speed of light (by analogy with the speed of light in physics) is the maximum rate at which information can propagate. Example: The translated distance divided by the period is the speed of the spaceship. Since the maximum speed of propagation of a signal in Life is one cell per generation, this speed is known as c (the speed of light). This speed is also the fastest possible growth of any finite object for a finite number of generations (think of a long line of ON cells). However, growth (or even just movement) of a finite object for an infinite time cannot occur at this speed.
Word: expat Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Clipping of expatriate. Pronunciation: /ˈɛksˌpæt/ 1. An expatriate; a person temporarily residing in a foreign nation, often for an occupation, training, or education.
Word: inauspicious Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *né Proto-Indo-European *n̥- Proto-Italic *n̥- Latin in-bor. Middle English in- English in- English auspicious English inauspicious From in- + auspicious. Pronunciation: /ˌɪnɔːˈspɪʃəs/ 1. Not auspicious; ill-omened. Example: And shake the yoke of inauspicious stars. Example: Inauspicious love.
Word: cent- Part of Speech: prefix 1. Alternative form of centi-. Labels: alt-of, alternative, morpheme
Word: around the Horn Part of Speech: prep_phrase 1. Via shipboard communications, formerly metal tubes with earhorn-like ends. Labels: Navy, US, idiomatic 2. Following the extremely hazardous naval route around Cape Horn, the southernmost point in South America.
Word: Hornburg Part of Speech: name Etymology: Borrowed from German Hornburg. 1. A town in Wolfenbüttel district, Lower Saxony, Germany.
Word: speedball Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From speed + ball. 1. A mixture of heroin and cocaine or sometimes other drugs. Labels: countable, slang Example: This being Camden, every passing pisshead and stoner had a theory: bad E, dehydration, alcohol poisoning, probably done a speedball. 2. Coffee with espresso. Labels: countable, slang 3. A fastball. Labels: countable 4. A competitive variant of paintball with an equal playing field, contrasted with woodsball. Labels: uncountable 5. An Egyptian racquet sport. Labels: uncountable 6. An improvised adhoc airdrop resupply pack, composed of ammo, food and water, and other supplies, stuffed into a body bag or duffle bag. Labels: countable, uncountable 7. Synonym of speed bag (“type of punching bag”). Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: speedball Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From speed + ball. 1. To occur fast, as if trying to finish as soon as possible. Labels: intransitive Example: His words start to speedball. “Youneedtobestillwhenyou're inthere.” 2. To take heroin and cocaine at the same time. Labels: intransitive, slang
Word: bong Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Onomatopoeic. Pronunciation: /bɒŋ/, /bɔŋ/, /bɑŋ/ 1. The clang of a large bell. Labels: slang Example: The sound of a bong echoed across the courtyard, signaling the hour. Example: An argument began as to whether the trap door would open on the first bong of eight or the eighth bong of eight. A man said he'd been told on the wireless that it was the first bong of Big Ben in London which told the time, […] 2. Doorbell chimes. Labels: slang 3. Clipping of Britbong Labels: Internet, abbreviation, alt-of, clipping, derogatory
Word: bong Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Onomatopoeic. Pronunciation: /bɒŋ/, /bɔŋ/, /bɑŋ/ 1. To pull a bell. Labels: slang 2. To ring a doorbell. Labels: slang 3. Make a bell-like sound Example: The church bell began to bong at noon, marking the start of the ceremony. Example: He accidentally hit the old pot, making it bong loudly against the table.
Word: bong Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Thai บ้อง (bɔ̂ng, “a marijuana pipe”). First use in English appears c. 1971 in the publication Marijuana Review. Pronunciation: /bɒŋ/, /bɔŋ/, /bɑŋ/ 1. A vessel, usually made of glass or ceramic and filled with water, used in smoking various substances, especially cannabis. 2. An act of smoking one serving of drugs from a bong. Example: Harry had a bong after his swim and then sprawled on the couch watching music videos. 3. A device for rapidly consuming beer, usually consisting of a funnel or reservoir of beer and a length of tubing.
Word: bong Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Thai บ้อง (bɔ̂ng, “a marijuana pipe”). First use in English appears c. 1971 in the publication Marijuana Review. Pronunciation: /bɒŋ/, /bɔŋ/, /bɑŋ/ 1. To smoke a bong. Labels: informal, transitive
Word: bong Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /bɒŋ/, /bɔŋ/, /bɑŋ/ 1. A very wide piton.
Word: bong Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /bɒŋ/, /bɔŋ/, /bɑŋ/ 1. Alternative spelling of bung (“purse”). Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: bong Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /bɒŋ/, /bɔŋ/, /bɑŋ/ 1. An Australian Aboriginal person. Labels: ethnic, slur
Word: adagissimo Part of Speech: adv Etymology: Borrowed from Italian adagissimo, superlative of adagio. 1. Very slowly. Labels: not-comparable
Word: lacrimoso Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From Italian. 1. Sadly, unhappily, grievingly. Labels: not-comparable
Word: affrettando Part of Speech: adv Etymology: Borrowed from Italian affrettando. See also af-. 1. In a rushing or hurrying manner; as if pressing onwards. Labels: not-comparable
Word: lamentoso Part of Speech: adv Etymology: Borrowed from Italian lamentoso. 1. In a mournful, grieving manner.
Word: leggiero Part of Speech: adv 1. Alternative form of leggero. Labels: alt-of, alternative, not-comparable
Word: phunky Part of Speech: adj 1. Alternative spelling of funky. Labels: alt-of, alternative, nonstandard, slang
Word: Jimmy Part of Speech: name Etymology: Etymology tree English Jim Proto-Germanic *-j-, *-ij- Proto-West Germanic *-i, *-ī Old English -iġ Middle English -y English -y English Jimmy From Jim + -y. Pronunciation: /ˈd͡ʒɪmi/ 1. A diminutive of the male given names James or Jim, also used as a formal given name. Example: Heaven only knows why a man with a strong biblical name like James wants to be a president named Jimmy. Example: The other living ex-presidents are Jimmy Carter, who has been in hospice care for over a year, and George W. Bush, who is very friendly with both Obama and Clinton, but as a Republican is unlikely to campaign for Biden even given his disdain for Trump’s contempt for democracy. 2. A colloquial (potentially unfriendly or disparaging) way of addressing any male whose name is unknown to the speaker. Labels: Scotland, informal
Word: Jimmy Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English Jim Proto-Germanic *-j-, *-ij- Proto-West Germanic *-i, *-ī Old English -iġ Middle English -y English -y English Jimmy From Jim + -y. Pronunciation: /ˈd͡ʒɪmi/ 1. Shortened form of Jimmy Riddle, a piddle, a piss. Labels: Cockney, slang 2. Alternative form of jimmy (“a mature male crab”). Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: Jimmy Part of Speech: name Etymology: From the initialism GM (/ˌd͡ʒiˈɛm/), by jocular alteration of sound playing on the diminutive given name. Pronunciation: /ˈd͡ʒɪmi/ 1. A General Motors diesel truck or diesel locomotive, or the diesel engine thereof; (by extension) any GMC truck, even a gasoline-powered pickup or SUV. Example: a Jimmy diesel 2. A General Motors diesel truck or diesel locomotive, or the diesel engine thereof; (by extension) any GMC truck, even a gasoline-powered pickup or SUV. Example: Was the dark of the moon on the sixth of June In a Kenworth pullin' logs. Cab-over Pete with a reefer on And a Jimmy haulin' hogs.
Word: giusto Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Borrowed from Italian giusto (“right, just”). Doublet of just. Pronunciation: /ˈd͡ʒuːstəʊ/, /ˈd͡ʒu.stoʊ/ 1. strict, exact. Labels: not-comparable
Word: giusto Part of Speech: adv Etymology: Borrowed from Italian giusto (“right, just”). Doublet of just. Pronunciation: /ˈd͡ʒuːstəʊ/, /ˈd͡ʒu.stoʊ/ 1. Following a tempo marking strictly or exactly. Labels: not-comparable
Word: possum Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Algonquian *wa·p- Proto-Algonquian *aθemwa Proto-Algonquian *wa·p-aʔθemwa Powhatan aposoumbor. English opossumder. English possum Derived from opossum by apheresis. Pronunciation: /ˈpɒsəm/ 1. A marsupial of several families of the order Diprotodontia, found in Australia and neighboring islands. 2. An opossum, a marsupial of the family Didelphidae of the Americas. Labels: US
Word: possum Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Algonquian *wa·p- Proto-Algonquian *aθemwa Proto-Algonquian *wa·p-aʔθemwa Powhatan aposoumbor. English opossumder. English possum Derived from opossum by apheresis. Pronunciation: /ˈpɒsəm/ 1. To play possum; to feign sleep, illness, or death. Labels: intransitive
Word: firehose Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From fire + hose. Pronunciation: /ˈfaɪ.ərˌhoʊz/ 1. Alternative form of fire hose (in all senses) Labels: alt-of, alternative Example: 2015, Ismail Khalil, Erich Neuhold, A Min Tjoa, Li Da Xu, Ilsun You, Information and Communication Technology: Third IFIP TC 5/8 International Conference The programmer must override the method on_data(), which processes each tweet that is taken from the firehose.
Word: firehose Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From fire + hose. Pronunciation: /ˈfaɪ.ərˌhoʊz/ 1. To wash something down with a firehose; to douse with a large amount of water (or chemical agent) sprayed from a hose, to extinguish a fire.
Word: blab Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English blabben (“to talk foolishly”), perhaps from Middle English blabbe (“idle talk; talebearer”). Compare Middle English blaberen (“to blabber, babble”), Middle High German blabezen (“to stammer, babble”). Pronunciation: /blæb/ 1. To tell tales; to gossip without reserve or discretion. Labels: ambitransitive Example: blab about something Example: And yonder a vile physician blabbing / The case of his patient. 2. to speak carelessly or excessively
Word: blab Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English blabben (“to talk foolishly”), perhaps from Middle English blabbe (“idle talk; talebearer”). Compare Middle English blaberen (“to blabber, babble”), Middle High German blabezen (“to stammer, babble”). Pronunciation: /blæb/ 1. One who blabs; a babbler; a telltale; a gossip or gossiper. Labels: countable Example: "You'd better have shoved your grey snout in a hornets' nest, Badger, than suggest that I am the blab," said Nikabrik. 2. Gossip; prattle. Labels: uncountable Example: Audie never liked him because he was further in with old Craig than he was, bragging and blowing about his work and the things he could do, while Audie sat quiet as a mouse listening to his blab.
Word: blabber Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Inherited from Middle English blaberen. Pronunciation: /ˈblæb.ɚ/ 1. To blather; to talk foolishly or incoherently. Example: He blabbered away about how he knew where some treasure was hidden and he would tell us if only we would swear to save his life. 2. To blab; to reveal a secret. 3. To stick out one's tongue. Labels: UK, obsolete
Word: blabber Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Inherited from Middle English blaberen. Pronunciation: /ˈblæb.ɚ/ 1. A person who blabs; a tattler; a telltale.
Word: blabbermouth Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From blabber + mouth. Pronunciation: /ˈblæb.ə(ɹ)ˌmaʊθ/ 1. A gossip. Labels: derogatory, informal Example: If it weren't for that blabbermouth Sally, the principal would never have known we did it. 2. A person who talks excessively. Labels: derogatory, informal 3. A kind of foam-dispensing nozzle used in firefighting at airports. Example: Two handlines are capable of 240 gpm and an undertruck "blabbermouth" nozzle can sweep the ground ahead at 240 gpm. Example: The monitor is fitted with a blabbermouth (variable nozzle) to enable jet-spray patterns to be obtained at will.
Word: wreck Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English wrek, from Anglo-Norman wrek, from Old Norse *wrek (whence Norwegian rek, Icelandic rek, Swedish vrak, Danish vrag), from Proto-Germanic *wrekaną (“to pursue”, whence Old English wrecan (English wreak), Old Saxon wrekan, Old High German rëhhan, Gothic 𐍅𐍂𐌹𐌺𐌰𐌽 (wrikan)), from Proto-Indo-European *wreg- (“to track; to hunt; to follow”). Pronunciation: /ˈɹɛk/, /ˈɹæk/ 1. Something or someone that has been ruined. Example: He was an emotional wreck after the death of his wife. 2. The remains of something that has been severely damaged or worn down. Example: To the fair haven of my native home, / The vvreck of vvhat I was, fatigued I come, […] Example: In 2006, 18-year-old Nikki Catsouras was killed in a car wreck in Lake Forest. 3. An event in which something is damaged through collision. Example: Hard and obſtinate, / As is a rocke amidſt the raging floods: / gaynſt vvhich a ſhip of ſuccour deſolate, / doth ſuffer vvreck both of her ſelfe and goods. Example: the wrecks of matter and the crush of worlds 4. An event in which something is damaged through collision. Labels: specifically 5. Goods, etc. cast ashore by the sea after a shipwreck. Labels: uncountable Example: 2. ... Wreck includes the cargo, stores and tackle of a vessel and all parts of a vessel separated from the vessel, and the property of persons who belong to, are on board or have quitted a vessel that is wrecked, stranded or in distress at any place in Canada. 6. A large number of birds that have been brought to the ground, injured or dead, by extremely adverse weather. Example: [I]n 1952 more than 7,000 were involved in such a "wreck" in Britain and Ireland.
Word: wreck Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English wrek, from Anglo-Norman wrek, from Old Norse *wrek (whence Norwegian rek, Icelandic rek, Swedish vrak, Danish vrag), from Proto-Germanic *wrekaną (“to pursue”, whence Old English wrecan (English wreak), Old Saxon wrekan, Old High German rëhhan, Gothic 𐍅𐍂𐌹𐌺𐌰𐌽 (wrikan)), from Proto-Indo-European *wreg- (“to track; to hunt; to follow”). Pronunciation: /ˈɹɛk/, /ˈɹæk/ 1. To destroy violently; to cause severe damage to something, to a point where it no longer works, or is useless. Labels: transitive Example: He wrecked the car in a collision. Example: That adulterous hussy wrecked my marriage! 2. To ruin or dilapidate. Labels: transitive 3. To plunder goods from wrecked ships. Labels: obsolete, transitive 4. To dismantle wrecked vehicles or other objects, to reclaim any useful parts. Labels: Australia, transitive 5. To involve in a wreck; hence, to cause to suffer ruin; to balk of success, and bring disaster on. Labels: transitive Example: Weak and envy'd, if they should conspire, / They wreck themselves, and he hath his Desire. 6. To be involved in a wreck; to be damaged or destroyed. Labels: intransitive Example: […] Mrs. Marleen Ketchum was not quite certain if the train wrecked or if the volcano blew its top. It took a moment before she was certain it had to be the passenger train.
Word: havoc Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English havok, havyk, from Old French havok in the phrase crier havok (“cry havoc”) a signal to soldiers to seize plunder, from Old French crier (“cry out, shout”) + havot (“pillaging, looting”), of obscure origin. Probably from a derivative of Old French *haf, hef (“hook”), from Frankish *haf, *habbjā, *happjā (“pruning-hook, scythe”), derived from Proto-Germanic *habjaną (“to take up, lift”), related to Old French havee (“handful”), Old French havet (“pruning-hook”), Old High German habba, heppa (“pruning-hook, scythe”), modern German Hippe (“billhook”). If so, then also related to English heave and doublet of hatchet. Pronunciation: /ˈhævək/, /ˈhævɪk/ 1. Widespread devastation and destruction. Labels: uncountable, usually Example: I [Paul the Apostle] vvas going to Damaſcus vvith Letters from the High Prieſt to make Havock of God's People there, as I had made Havock of them in other places. Theſe bloody Letters vvas not impoſed upon me. I vvent to the High Prieſt and deſired them of him, Acts 9. 1, 2. And yet he [God] ſaved me! Example: Ye Gods, what Havock does Ambition make / Among your Works! 2. Mayhem. Labels: uncountable, usually
Word: havoc Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English havok, havyk, from Old French havok in the phrase crier havok (“cry havoc”) a signal to soldiers to seize plunder, from Old French crier (“cry out, shout”) + havot (“pillaging, looting”), of obscure origin. Probably from a derivative of Old French *haf, hef (“hook”), from Frankish *haf, *habbjā, *happjā (“pruning-hook, scythe”), derived from Proto-Germanic *habjaną (“to take up, lift”), related to Old French havee (“handful”), Old French havet (“pruning-hook”), Old High German habba, heppa (“pruning-hook, scythe”), modern German Hippe (“billhook”). If so, then also related to English heave and doublet of hatchet. Pronunciation: /ˈhævək/, /ˈhævɪk/ 1. To pillage. Example: To tear and havoc more than she can eat. 2. To cause havoc.
Word: havoc Part of Speech: intj Etymology: From Middle English havok, havyk, from Old French havok in the phrase crier havok (“cry havoc”) a signal to soldiers to seize plunder, from Old French crier (“cry out, shout”) + havot (“pillaging, looting”), of obscure origin. Probably from a derivative of Old French *haf, hef (“hook”), from Frankish *haf, *habbjā, *happjā (“pruning-hook, scythe”), derived from Proto-Germanic *habjaną (“to take up, lift”), related to Old French havee (“handful”), Old French havet (“pruning-hook”), Old High German habba, heppa (“pruning-hook, scythe”), modern German Hippe (“billhook”). If so, then also related to English heave and doublet of hatchet. Pronunciation: /ˈhævək/, /ˈhævɪk/ 1. A cry in war as the signal for indiscriminate slaughter. Example: Do not cry havoc, where you should but hunt / With modest warrant. Example: Cry "havoc", and let slip the dogs of war!
Word: firebolt Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From fire + bolt. 1. A missile of fire.
Word: firebolt Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From fire + bolt. 1. To strike with a firebolt. Labels: rare, transitive
Word: fireblast Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From fire + blast. 1. A fiery explosion. 2. A blight affecting plants, giving them a scorched appearance (as if burnt by fire). Example: Among these are reckoned the wire worm; the flea, and the fly; the fen or mould; the mildew ; and what are usually called fire blasts.
Word: fiery Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English fyry, from fyr (“fire”), equivalent to fire + -y. Pronunciation: /ˈfaɪəɹi/, /ˈfaɪɹi/ 1. Of or relating to fire. 2. Burning or glowing. Example: Blast after blast, fiery outbreak after fiery outbreak, like a flaming barrage from within,[…]most of Edison's grounds soon became an inferno. As though on an incendiary rampage, the fires systematically devoured the contents of Edison's headquarters and facilities. 3. Inflammable or easily ignited. 4. Having the colour of fire. 5. Hot or inflamed. Example: The desert storm was riding in its strength; the travellers lay beneath the mastery of the fell simoom.[…]Drifts of yellow vapour, fiery, parching, stinging, filled the air. Example: A couple of vegetables, sambar (spicy and sour lentils and vegetables boiled with masalas and spices), rasam (a hot and fiery lentil soup-like dish) and curds (yoghurt) served with heaps of rice and eaten in that order. A non-vegetarian version of the “meals” can be found in “Military” hotels. 6. Tempestuous or emotionally volatile; sulfurous. Example: a fiery temper 7. Spirited or filled with emotion. Example: A fiery streak penetrates your skull, trying to force your eyes open. It's a sound. A clarion call from hell. 8. Having the capillaries contracted due to stress at time of slaughter, causing blood to not drain properly.
Word: cry havoc Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English, from the Anglo-Norman phrase crier havok (“cry havoc”) (a signal to soldiers to seize plunder), from Old French crier (“cry out, shout”) + havot (“pillaging, looting”). 1. To shout out 'Havoc!'; that is, to give an army the order to plunder. Labels: obsolete Example: Cry 'Havoc,' and let slip the dogs of war Example: Do not cry havoc, where you should but hunt
Word: stemming Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of stem Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: stemming Part of Speech: noun 1. Movement against a current, especially a tidal current. Labels: countable, uncountable 2. A process for removing the inflexional, and sometimes derivational, affixes from words. Labels: countable, uncountable 3. To include a term's inflections as part of a search engine's search. Labels: broadly, countable, uncountable 4. The technique of bridging between two holds with hands and/or feet, applying forces to each in opposing directions in order to brace oneself in position. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: Ogham Part of Speech: name Etymology: Borrowed from Irish ogham, from Middle Irish ogam, from Proto-Celtic *ogmos (“furrow, path”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂óǵmos. The Irish word is frequently folk-etymologized as og-úaim, referring to ogham being supposedly made by the point of a sharp weapon, but this approach faces serious phonological and morphological problems in that: * The name of ogham and the supposed second element (úaimm (“seam”)?) inflected very differently in Early Irish, "ogham" being an o-stem and the second element being a neuter n-stem. * Middle Irish ogmóir (“skilled in ogham”) should have a vowel in between the g and m because vowels lengthened by compensatory lengthening after consonant loss are usually not syncopated in Early Irish. Pronunciation: /ˈoʊ.əm/, /ˈɒɡəm/ 1. An ancient Celtic alphabet historically used to write Primitive Irish. Example: The rectangular sandstone rock that Graham Senior had discovered was inscribed in ogham, an alphabet used in the early medieval period primarily for writing in the Irish language.
Word: Ogham Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Irish ogham, from Middle Irish ogam, from Proto-Celtic *ogmos (“furrow, path”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂óǵmos. The Irish word is frequently folk-etymologized as og-úaim, referring to ogham being supposedly made by the point of a sharp weapon, but this approach faces serious phonological and morphological problems in that: * The name of ogham and the supposed second element (úaimm (“seam”)?) inflected very differently in Early Irish, "ogham" being an o-stem and the second element being a neuter n-stem. * Middle Irish ogmóir (“skilled in ogham”) should have a vowel in between the g and m because vowels lengthened by compensatory lengthening after consonant loss are usually not syncopated in Early Irish. Pronunciation: /ˈoʊ.əm/, /ˈɒɡəm/ 1. A single character in this alphabet.
Word: enact Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English enacten, from en-, from Old French en- (“to cause to be”), from Latin in- (“in”) and Old French acte (“perform, do”), from Latin actum, past participle of ago (“set in motion”). Pronunciation: /ɪˈnækt/ 1. To make (a bill) into law. Labels: transitive Example: The practical effect of the Government's new anti-strike bill on the rail disputes in Great Britain is awaited, after the legislation was enacted. 2. To act the part of; to play. Labels: transitive Example: I did enact Julius Caesar. 3. To do; to effect. Labels: transitive Example: The king enacts more wonders than a man.
Word: round the Horn Part of Speech: prep_phrase 1. Alternative form of around the Horn. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: round the Horn Part of Speech: verb 1. To sail around Cape Horn. Example: The entire crew was nervous as they began to round the Horn.
Word: around the horn Part of Speech: prep_phrase 1. Around the infield. Example: After a strike-out, it's common for the players to throw the ball around the horn (as long as no one's on base). 2. Alternative letter-case form of around the Horn. Labels: alt-of
Word: pathology Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Ancient Greek πάσχω (páskhō)der. Ancient Greek πᾰ́θος (pắthos) Proto-Indo-European *leǵ- Ancient Greek λόγος (lógos) Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-i-eh₂ Proto-Hellenic *-íā Ancient Greek -ῐ́ᾱ (-ĭ́ā) Ancient Greek -λογῐ́ᾱ (-logĭ́ā)bor. Latin -logialbor. French -logie French pathologiebor. English pathology From French pathologie, from Ancient Greek πάθος (páthos, “disease”) and -λογία (-logía, “study of”). By surface analysis, path- + -ology or patho- + -logy. Pronunciation: /pəˈθɒləd͡ʒi/ 1. The study of the nature of disease and its causes, processes, development, and consequences; now usually and especially in the clinical and academic medicine subsenses defined below. Labels: uncountable, usually Example: The surgeon sent a specimen of the cyst to the hospital's pathology department for staining and analysis to determine its histologic subtype. 2. The study of the nature of disease and its causes, processes, development, and consequences; now usually and especially in the clinical and academic medicine subsenses defined below. Labels: literary, uncountable, usually Example: Those three pioneering pathologists went on to become leaders in building the pathology departments at several universities. 3. The study of the nature of disease and its causes, processes, development, and consequences; now usually and especially in the clinical and academic medicine subsenses defined below. Labels: uncountable, usually Example: the plant pathology and vertebrate pathology programs of the university's biology department 4. Pathosis: any deviation from a healthy or normal structure or function; abnormality; illness or malformation. Labels: uncountable, usually Example: Some sort of renal pathology was suspected, but imaging and even biopsy found no discernible pathology, glomerular or otherwise. Example: Some sort of mental and social pathology seemed to sweep over the discourse later that autumn.
Word: plumbum Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin plumbum. 1. Synonym of lead, chiefly in scientific contexts. Labels: uncommon, uncountable Example: He says that “in a tumor which bore a strong resemblance to an osteocele, of a most intractable character,” the pain was soon relieved and the tumefaction disappeared, after the use of two globules of plumbum, and then asks if the infinitesimal dose of plumbum produced its resolution; […] Example: My experience with plumbum has not been extensive, and the results, so far, not very encouraging, but it must be admitted that my employment of this medicine has been in the most hopeless cases. The lack of uniformity of action of plumbum, and the fact that the majority of a city population are daily subjected to its influence in minute doses through the water supply, may also account for an uncertainty of its therapeutic action.
Word: trader Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *dreh₂- Proto-Germanic *tradō Proto-West Germanic *trudo Old Saxon tradader. Middle Low German tradeder. Middle English trade English trade Proto-Indo-European *-yósder. Proto-Italic *-āzios Latin -āriusnom. Latin -āriusbor. Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz Proto-West Germanic *-ārī Old English -ere Middle English -ere English -er English trader From trade + -er. Pronunciation: /ˈtɹeɪdə(ɹ)/, /ˈtɹeɪdɚ/ 1. One who earns a living by trading goods or securities. Example: On November 29 1952, a special train ran from Sunderland to Leeds for Christmas shoppers and those attending a Leeds vs. Brentford match. It caused controversy, with Sunderland traders protesting that their shops were just as good as those in Leeds.
Word: thneed Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Coined in 1972 by Theodor "Dr. Seuss" Geisel in the children's book The Lorax, as a rhyme for English need. Pronunciation: /ˈθniːd/ 1. A useless product which is advertised as being needed by everybody, but which in fact no one needs. Example: Do You Really, I Mean REALLY, Need a Thneed? Example: I needed orange juice, a toothbrush, a blood transfusion, a Bloody Mary, Abigale Ponders, Leslie Cunningham, a Thneed, someone to watch over me, a miracle every day—anything but a moment of truth between myself and Zelmo Swift.
Word: boot camp Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From boot (“US military slang sense of “new recruit””) + camp. 1. An initial, basic indoctrination, physical fitness training and basic instruction in service-related subjects for new recruits in the armed forces (army, Air Force, navy and Marine Corps). Labels: Canada, US, colloquial 2. A short, intensive, quasi-military program generally aimed at young offenders as an alternative to a jail term. Labels: Canada, US 3. Any short, often intensive course of training. Labels: Canada, US, idiomatic Example: We will institute a boot camp for training the sales force in these new products.
Word: practice Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree ▲ Middle English practice, practise, practize, practyseder. Middle English practice, practique, practyse English practice The noun is from Middle English practice, practique, practyse, from the verb; also compare Medieval Latin prāctica. The verb is from Middle English practice, practise, practize, practyse, from Middle French pratiser, practiser, alteration of practiquer, from Medieval Latin prācticāre, from Late Latin prācticus, from Ancient Greek πρακτικός (praktikós). The spelling practice is attested once in Middle English for both the noun and the verb. The noun began to be assimilated in spelling to nouns in -ice; practise (noun) is now obsolete. Pronunciation: /ˈpɹæktɪs/ 1. Repetition of an activity to improve a skill. Labels: uncountable, usually Example: Near-synonyms: (sometimes synonymous) training, rehearsing, rehearsal, dry run, trial, workout Example: He will need lots of practice with the lines before he performs them. 2. An organized event for the purpose of performing such repetition. Labels: uncountable, usually Example: Being on a team is hard: you're always having to go to practice while everyone else is taking it easy. Example: I have choir practice every Sunday after church. 3. The ongoing pursuit of a craft or profession, particularly in medicine or the fine arts. Labels: especially, uncountable, usually Example: Which is the most demanding? I think that my practice as an artist is 'stronger' because it is the practice that best fuels and balances myself and that generates new knowledge for my other work as both arts educator and creative arts therapist. 4. A place where a professional service is provided, such as a general practice. Labels: countable, usually Example: She ran a thriving medical practice. 5. The observance of religious duties that a church requires of its members. Labels: uncountable, usually 6. A customary action, habit, or behaviour; a manner or routine. Labels: uncountable, usually Example: It is the usual practice of employees there to wear neckties only when meeting with customers. Example: It is good practice to check each door and window before leaving. 7. Actual operation or experiment, in contrast to theory. Labels: uncountable, usually Example: That may work in theory, but will it work in practice? 8. The form, manner, and order of conducting and carrying on suits and prosecutions through their various stages, according to the principles of law and the rules laid down by the courts. Labels: uncountable, usually Example: This firm of solicitors is involved in family law practice. 9. Skilful or artful management; dexterity in contrivance or the use of means; stratagem; artifice. Labels: uncountable, usually Example: He sought to have that by practice which he could not by prayer. 10. An easy and concise method of applying the rules of arithmetic to questions which occur in trade and business. Labels: uncountable, usually
Word: practice Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Etymology tree ▲ Middle English practice, practise, practize, practyseder. Middle English practice, practique, practyse English practice The noun is from Middle English practice, practique, practyse, from the verb; also compare Medieval Latin prāctica. The verb is from Middle English practice, practise, practize, practyse, from Middle French pratiser, practiser, alteration of practiquer, from Medieval Latin prācticāre, from Late Latin prācticus, from Ancient Greek πρακτικός (praktikós). The spelling practice is attested once in Middle English for both the noun and the verb. The noun began to be assimilated in spelling to nouns in -ice; practise (noun) is now obsolete. Pronunciation: /ˈpɹæktɪs/ 1. Alternative spelling of practise. Labels: US, alt-of, alternative Example: I have been a liberal housekeeper enough, but I shall not be ashamed to practice economy now. Example: The way Green practices witchcraft defies stereotypes of broomstick-wielding, cauldron-toting, pointy-hatted witches. He doesn’t belong to a coven. He’s not Wiccan or pagan, religions that are rooted in witchcraft. He has a few cats, though they’re better suited for snuggling than serving as helpful familiars.
Word: dance Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Vulgar Latin *dantiāreder. Anglo-Norman dauncerbor. Middle English dauncen English dance From Middle English dauncen, from Anglo-Norman dauncer, from Vulgar Latin *dantiāre, of uncertain origin. Displaced native Old English sealtian, Old English frīcian, and partially displaced Old English hlēapan (“to leap, dance, run”) (whence modern leap). Doublet of danza. Pronunciation: /dɑːns/, /dans/, [däns ~ dans], /dæns/, [dɛəns ~ deəns] 1. A sequence of rhythmic steps or movements usually performed to music, for pleasure or as a form of social interaction. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: I do a dance when she plays the drums! Example: He does the Gangnam Style dance with his friends in school. 2. A social gathering where dancing is the main activity. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: The dance we had in August 2008 is one of the greatest moments of my life! Example: "I ought to arise and go forth with timbrels and with dances; but, do you know, I am not inclined to revels? There has been a little—just a very little bit too much festivity so far …. Not that I don't adore dinners and gossip and dances; not that I do not love to pervade bright and glittering places.[…]" 3. The art, profession, and study of dancing. Labels: uncountable 4. Ellipsis of electronic dance music. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis, uncountable 5. A piece of music with a particular dance rhythm. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: They stayed together during three dances, went out on to the terrace, explored wherever they were permitted to explore, paid two visits to the buffet, and enjoyed themselves much in the same way as if they had been school-children surreptitiously breaking loose from an assembly of grown-ups. 6. A battle of wits, especially one commonly fought between two rivals. Labels: countable, figuratively, uncountable Example: So how much longer are we gonna do this dance? 7. Any strenuous or difficult movement, action, or task. Labels: countable, dated, figuratively, uncountable Example: He that would watch the king's hares must not drag himself along as if he was a lazybones with soles of lead to his boots, or like a fly on a tar-brush, for when the hares began to scamper about on the hill-sides it was quite another dance than lying at home and catching fleas with mittens on. 8. A repetitive movement used in communication between worker honey bees. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: It was seen that the readiness to dance and intensity of the dance are clearly increased when the temperature in the hive remained between 28-36° C.
Word: dance Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Etymology tree Vulgar Latin *dantiāreder. Anglo-Norman dauncerbor. Middle English dauncen English dance From Middle English dauncen, from Anglo-Norman dauncer, from Vulgar Latin *dantiāre, of uncertain origin. Displaced native Old English sealtian, Old English frīcian, and partially displaced Old English hlēapan (“to leap, dance, run”) (whence modern leap). Doublet of danza. Pronunciation: /dɑːns/, /dans/, [däns ~ dans], /dæns/, [dɛəns ~ deəns] 1. To move with rhythmic steps or movements, especially in time to music. Labels: intransitive Example: I danced with her all night long. Example: These drum beats are making me dance! 2. To leap or move lightly and rapidly. Labels: figuratively, intransitive Example: His eyes danced with pleasure as he spoke. She accused her political opponent of dancing around the issue instead of confronting it. Example: And woods along the banks are waving high, / Whose shadows in the glassy waters dance, 3. To perform the steps to. Labels: transitive Example: Have you ever danced the tango? 4. To cause to dance, or move nimbly or merrily about. Labels: transitive Example: Met we on hill, in dale, forest, or mead, By pavèd fountain, or by rushy brook, or in the beachèd margent of the sea, To dance our ringlets to the whistling wind, But with thy brawls thou hast disturbed our sport. Example: Thy grandsire loved thee well; / Many a time he danced thee on his knee. 5. To make love or have sex. Labels: euphemistic, figuratively Example: You make me feel like dancing. 6. To make a repetitive movement in order to communicate to other worker honey bees. Example: It was seen that the readiness to dance and intensity of the dance are clearly increased when the temperature in the hive remained between 28-36° C. 7. To kick and convulse from the effects of being hanged. Labels: euphemistic, figuratively Example: If that veil can be maintained, if the workers can be kept from knowing the perfidy of officials, the criminality of capitalism, the murderous vengeance that is planned by the plutocratic powers of America, then Charles Moyer, William D. Haywood, and George Pettibone will dance on empty air, while the ghouls of capitalism rejoice because they have landed another blow upon the body of resisting labor. Example: Beneath the shoulder blades of the limp form lying there lay the heart that had hated him, that had beat high at the thought of seeing him kick at the end of a hangman's rope, that had exulted in the prospect of him dancing a death dance on air.
Word: dance Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Related to dancy, dancetté, French danché. Pronunciation: /dɑːns/, /dans/, [däns ~ dans], /dæns/, [dɛəns ~ deəns] 1. A normally horizontal stripe called a fess that has been modified to zig-zag across the center of a coat of arms from dexter to sinister. Example: The fact appears to have been that Simon de Montacute bore two coats; the one, Argent, three fusils, which it is most probable was a corruption of a fess dancette, or a dance, Gules; and the other, Azure, a griffin segreant[…] Example: It is as follows - being headed by a shield of arms in colours - gold with a dance gules between three croslets fitchy gules.
Word: receive Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English receyven, from Old French receivre, from Latin recipere (“take back, accept, etc.”), from re- (“back”) + capiō (“to take”); see capacious. Compare conceive, deceive, perceive. Displaced native Middle English terms in -fon/-fangen (e.g. afon, anfon, afangen, underfangen, etc. "to receive" from Old English -fōn), native Middle English thiggen (“to receive”) (from Old English þiċġan), and non-native Middle English aquilen, enquilen (“to receive”) (from Old French aquillir, encueillir). Pronunciation: /ɹɪˈsiːv/ 1. To be given, sent, or paid something. Labels: transitive Example: He received many presents for his birthday. Example: Nothing was too small to receive attention, if a supervising eye could suggest improvements likely to conduce to the common welfare. Mr. Gordon Burnage, for instance, personally visited dust-bins and back premises, accompanied by a sort of village bailiff, going his round like a commanding officer doing billets. 2. To take, as something that is offered; to accept. Labels: dated, transitive Example: He had the offer of employment, but he would not receive it. Example: Our hearts receiue your warnings. 3. To take goods knowing them to be stolen. 4. To act as a host for guests; to give admittance to; to permit to enter, as into one's house, presence, company, etc. Labels: transitive Example: to receive a lodger, visitor, ambassador, messenger, etc. Example: And the barbarous people ſhewed vs no little kindneſſe: for they kindled a fire, and receiued us euery one becauſe of the preſent raine, and becauſe of the cold. 5. To incur (an injury). Labels: transitive Example: I received a bloody nose from the collision. Example: But because this is oftentimes dangerous, and much hurt hath been received thereby through casualty of fire, I advise the sticking four stakes into the earth, at least five feet above the ground [...] 6. To allow (a custom, tradition, etc.); to give credence or acceptance to. Example: For the Phariſes and all the Jewes, except they waſh their hands oft, eate not, holding the tradition of the elders. And when they come from the market, except they waſh, they eate not. And many other things there be, which they have receiued to hold, as the waſhing of cups and pots, braſen veſſels, and of tables. 7. To detect a signal from a transmitter. 8. To be in a position to take possession, or hit back the ball. 9. To be in a position to take possession, or hit back the ball. 10. To accept into the mind; to understand. Labels: intransitive, transitive Example: I cannot receive [translating recevoir] that manner, whereby we establish the continuance of our life.
Word: receive Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English receyven, from Old French receivre, from Latin recipere (“take back, accept, etc.”), from re- (“back”) + capiō (“to take”); see capacious. Compare conceive, deceive, perceive. Displaced native Middle English terms in -fon/-fangen (e.g. afon, anfon, afangen, underfangen, etc. "to receive" from Old English -fōn), native Middle English thiggen (“to receive”) (from Old English þiċġan), and non-native Middle English aquilen, enquilen (“to receive”) (from Old French aquillir, encueillir). Pronunciation: /ɹɪˈsiːv/ 1. An operation in which data is received. Example: In the sonification of the PDE code, notes are scattered throughout a wide pitch range, and sends and receives are relatively balanced; although in the beginning of the application there are bursts of sends […]
Word: prior Part of Speech: adj Etymology: The adjective is a learned borrowing from Latin prior (“earlier, former, previous, prior; in front; (figurative) better, superior”), from Proto-Italic *priōs (“earlier, previous”, literally “more before”), ultimately from *pri (“before”) (from Proto-Indo-European *pró (“leading to, toward”) and its etymon *per- (“before, in front; first”)) + *-jōs (suffix forming comparative adjectives). Doublet of before, fore, and former. The adverb and noun are derived from the adjective. Pronunciation: /ˈpɹaɪ.ə/, /ˈpɹaɪ.(ə)ɹ/, /ˈpɹɑe.ə/, [ˈpɹɑe̯.ə] 1. Coming before in order or time; earlier, former, previous. Labels: not-comparable Example: His prior residence was smaller than his current one. Example: I had no prior knowledge you were coming. 2. More important or significant. Labels: not-comparable 3. Chiefly in prior probability: of the probability of an event: determined without knowledge of the occurrence of other events that bear on it, before additional data is collected. Labels: not-comparable