nandhakumarms/qualc-wiktionary-en huggingface dataset:
Word: breadboard Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From bread + board. Regarding definition 3: the etymology is either that electric circuits used to be prototyped on actual bread boards (definition 1) populated with nails, or that solder breadboards have lots of holes and are usually brown (they visually resemble a slice of bread), or a merging of the two. The etymology is less obvious today given the popularity of solderless breadboards. 1. A cutting board, especially for cutting bread. 2. A pull-out cutting board underneath a counter, found in many kitchens. Example: One way or the other, it was always back to Mother's breadboard on Monday. 3. A device used to build a (usually temporary) prototype of an electronic circuit and for experimenting with circuit designs. Both solder and solderless versions are available; the solderless type are easily reusable. Example: If you are following a book like Starting Electronics, however, a breadboard is even more useful. […] Differences lie between breadboards in the spacings and the positionings of the holes, and the number of holes in each group.
Word: breadboard Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From bread + board. Regarding definition 3: the etymology is either that electric circuits used to be prototyped on actual bread boards (definition 1) populated with nails, or that solder breadboards have lots of holes and are usually brown (they visually resemble a slice of bread), or a merging of the two. The etymology is less obvious today given the popularity of solderless breadboards. 1. To set up (an electronic device) on a breadboard. Labels: transitive Example: If the breadboarded circuit operates incorrectly or erratically, try relocating some of the components. Example: There are many commercial breadboarding systems, but almost all of them are designed to facilitate the breadboarding of digital systems, where noise immunities are hundreds of millivolts or more.
Word: brewer's yeast Part of Speech: noun 1. Any live yeast used in brewing or yeast obtained as a by-product of brewing, dried and killed, and used as nutritional yeast.
Word: brick wall Part of Speech: noun 1. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see brick, wall. A wall made of bricks. 2. An obstacle. Labels: figuratively Example: The investigators came up against a brick wall in their search for the missing money when they discovered it had been transferred overseas. Example: They all ran up against the brick wall of high cost until the cryogenic option was proven feasible in 1973. 3. A type of anti-aliasing filter with a steep cutoff. Example: One of the first problems with the digital audio process is the use of brick wall filters with very steep slopes for anti-aliasing and anti-imaging purposes. Example: To reconstruct the sampled signal, an ideal brick wall filter is demanded to remove the output of band signal. 4. Someone who is silent or unresponsive. Labels: figuratively Example: When mama says she doesn't talk, she means it. She's a brick wall. Example: "Does he talk much? I mean, does he initiate conversation?" "No. He's a brick wall," I said.
Word: brick wall Part of Speech: verb 1. To build a brick wall around. Example: They forcefully imprisoned her in a decorative room and brick walled it. 2. To filter using a brick wall filter. Example: Audio recorded too quietly means that there is more opportunity for noise, even in today's digital workflow. Audio recorded too loud will distort in the analog world, and will simply "brick wall" in digital terms. 3. To halt or limit abruptly. Example: The driver stopped the cab on the spot, brick-walled it then and there. Example: Baseball's unstoppable force -- the 2017 Los Angeles Dodgers -- ran smack into peak-form Verlander, who brick-walled their six-game winning streak. 4. To be uncooperative and unresponsive. Example: They wanted to know how successful the attack had been. But you brick-walled them. Example: My rapid dial wouldn't work, and when I was finally able to get a Homeland Security office phone number to reach you, the receptionist brick walled me.
Word: brilliantine Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from French brillantine. Pronunciation: /ˈbrɪl.jən.tiːn/ 1. A hair pomade, making the hair shine brilliantly. Labels: countable, dated, uncountable Example: The hairdresser's shop was warm and glittering. It smelled of soap and burnt paper and wallflower brilliantine. Example: "I wouldn't regret it," said Linda, "if I took Eileen by the shoulders and shook her till I shook the rouge off her cheek, and the brilliantine off her hair, and a million mean little subterfuges out of her soul. 2. A smooth shiny, luxurious fabric, often of alpaca or vicuña. Labels: countable, dated, uncountable Example: Bathing Suit of Brilliantine in Navy Blue and Black, trimmed with white mohair braid and buttons (no bloomers). Special 3.95
Word: brilliantine Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Borrowed from French brillantine. Pronunciation: /ˈbrɪl.jən.tiːn/ 1. To apply brilliantine to the hair. Labels: dated Example: And the waiter, of course, dips his fingers into the gravy—his nasty, greasy fingers which he is for ever running through his brilliantined hair.
Word: grayscale Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From gray + scale. Pronunciation: /ˈɡɹeɪˌskeɪl/ 1. A printed strip of graduated tones used to check exposure and development times. Labels: countable, uncountable 2. The use of black and white, representing color with shades of gray. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: You can view your presentation in grayscale or black-and-white and then customize how the various colors are translated to grayscale or black-and-white.
Word: grayscale Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From gray + scale. Pronunciation: /ˈɡɹeɪˌskeɪl/ 1. Black and white, representing color with shades of gray. Labels: not-comparable Example: Tetris’s graphics were simple enough to work on the Game Boy’s small gray-scale screen; its motion was slow enough not to blur; its action was a repetitive, storyless puzzle that could be picked up, with no loss of potency, at any moment, in any situation.
Word: grayscale Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From gray + scale. Pronunciation: /ˈɡɹeɪˌskeɪl/ 1. To convert to grayscale. Labels: transitive
Word: Brown Bess Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From an archaic meaning of brown, meaning plain or ordinary, and Bess, a nickname for Elizabeth associated with the lower class and prostitutes. 1. The British Army's Land Pattern Musket or any of its derivatives, standard-issue weapons for British soldiers in the American Revolution. Labels: informal
Word: brown rat Part of Speech: noun 1. A rat of species Rattus norvegicus, common worldwide.
Word: Ahmad Part of Speech: name Etymology: Borrowed from Arabic أَحْمَد (ʔaḥmad), elative of حَمِيد (ḥamīd, “praiseworthy”); or from Persian اَحْمَد (ahmad). Pronunciation: /ˈɑː.mæd/, /ˈɑː.məd/, /ˈɑːx.mæd/, /əˈmɑːd/ 1. A male given name from Arabic or Persian, meaning “most praiseworthy”; variant forms Aahmed, Achmad, Achmat, Achmed, Achmet, Ahamed, Ahmed, Ahmet. 2. A surname from Arabic or Persian.
Word: Norway rat Part of Speech: noun Etymology: The common name was popularised (and perhaps coined) by English naturalist John Berkenhout, in his Outlines of the Natural History of Great Britain (1769). Berkenhout believed the species migrated to England from Norwegian ships in 1728; he is also responsible for the scientific name. 1. The brown rat (Rattus norvegicus).
Word: wind-break Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of windbreak. Labels: alt-of, alternative Example: Massive timber wind-breaks were erected to protect the railway in particularly exposed locations.
Word: wind-break Part of Speech: verb 1. To break the wind of; to cause to lose breath; to exhaust. Labels: transitive Example: 'Tvvould vvind-breake a moyle, or a ring'd mare, to vie burthens vvith her. Example: It’s not men by some mistake? / No, / There’s not a soul / For a wind-break / Between me and the North Pole— / Except always John-Joe, / My French Indian Esquimaux, […]
Word: canelike Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree Akkadian 𒂵𒉡𒌑𒌝 (qanûm)bor. Ancient Greek κᾰ́ννᾰ (kắnnă)bor. Latin canna Old French canebor. Middle English cane English cane Proto-Indo-European *leyg-der. Proto-Germanic *līkąder. Proto-Germanic *-līkaz Proto-West Germanic *-līk Old English -līċ Middle English -like English -like English canelike From cane + -like. 1. Resembling or characteristic of (a) cane.
Word: bubble wrap Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From the registered trademark of Sealed Air Corporation (US). 1. Cushioning material consisting of small spheres of air trapped in plastic, sold on long rolls for tearing off, and used as packaging for fragile items. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: buckboard Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From buck + board. 1. A simple, distinctively American four-wheeled horse-drawn wagon designed for personal transport as well as for transporting animal fodder and domestic goods, often with a spring-mounted seat for the driver. Example: In a few hours he would actually be at Highwater. Perhaps there would be a real buckboard at the station; perhaps the first man he saw would be some old-timer who would remember that it was McCumber who had first blazed a way through Highwater County. Example: […] he turned to Differ and said in an employer's tone, "Got everything ready?" "On the buckboard," said Differ in the tone of a Capricornian employee.
Word: windbreak Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From wind + break. 1. A hedge, fence or row of trees positioned to reduce wind damage to crops. 2. A sheet or stack of material used to protect people or fire from wind. Example: I built my windbreak on a second-story wooden deck, as you can see above, but it would work just as well at ground level. Example: Although Birdibil was warm in his family wungkurr or windbreak that night, lying next to a crackling fire and covered with some paperbark blankets (kawan), he had little sleep. 3. The act of breaking wind; flatulence. Example: (see title) Example: Another of Roy's room-clearing wind breaks snapped my head back.
Word: bucket seat Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Apparently from French baquet (“cockpit”), from early twentieth-century French aircraft. 1. A form-fitting seat for one passenger in automobiles, aircraft, and other such modes of transport.
Word: buffalo grass Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From buffalo + grass. 1. Bouteloua dactyloides. Labels: countable, uncountable 2. Hierochloe odorata (syn. Anthoxanthum nitens), sweetgrass. Labels: countable, uncountable 3. Anthoxanthum odoratum, sweet vernal grass, vanilla grass. Labels: countable, uncountable 4. Stenotaphrum secundatum, Saint Augustine grass. Labels: countable, uncountable 5. Panicum maximum, Guinea grass. Labels: countable, uncountable 6. Some species of Setaria, bristlegrass. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: buffalo robe Part of Speech: noun 1. A cured bison hide, with the hair left on, used as a blanket or wrap. Labels: US, historical Example: The snow was too thick and the ruts frozen too hard for the motor. They drove out in a clumsy high carriage. Tucked over them was a blue woolen cover, prickly to her wrists, and outside of it a buffalo robe, humble and moth-eaten now, used ever since the bison herds had streaked the prairie a few miles to the west.
Word: raphania Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Raphanus + -ia 1. Poisoning by ingestion of seeds of the wild radish, Raphanus raphanistrum.
Word: glans penises Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From glans penis + -es. 1. plural of glans penis Labels: form-of, plural
Word: ratching Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of ratch Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: ratching Part of Speech: noun 1. The act of that which ratches or stretches. Example: The various ratchings of the torture wheel require what was gleaned before; but it is a descent of asking, not answering. At no stage on the level of torture do we discover what is the fundamental answer.
Word: ratcheting Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of ratchet Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: ratcheting Part of Speech: noun 1. The act by which something is ratcheted. Labels: countable, uncountable 2. A conjurers' trick of bending an object back and forth to induce metal fatigue, so that it can be broken later by rubbing it. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: buffalo soldier Part of Speech: noun 1. An African-American soldier in the US Army, serving in one of a number of segregated units under white officers, in the period after the US Civil War up to the final racial integration of the US military, at the end of the Korean War. Labels: US, historical
Word: readest Part of Speech: verb 1. second-person singular simple present indicative of read Labels: archaic, form-of, indicative, present, second-person, singular 2. second-person singular simple past indicative of read Labels: archaic, form-of, indicative, past, second-person, singular
Word: readeth Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /ˈɹiːdəθ/ 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of read Labels: archaic, form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: readjustment Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Italic *wre- Latin re-der. Old French re-bor. Middle English re- English re- French ajustementbor. English adjustment English readjustment From re- + adjustment. 1. A second or subsequent adjustment. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: issuing Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of issue Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: issuing Part of Speech: noun 1. The act by which something is issued. Example: the issuings and transactions of stocks 2. That which issues from a source. Example: the issuings of nature's springs
Word: anthropomorphology Part of Speech: noun 1. Human morphology. Labels: uncountable 2. The study of human morphology. Labels: uncountable 3. The attribution of human characteristics to God. Labels: uncountable
Word: purples Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of purple Labels: form-of, plural 2. Swine fever or hog cholera. 3. Earcockle. 4. Purpura. 5. An early purple-flowered orchid.
Word: purples Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of purple Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: long purples Part of Speech: noun 1. Synonym of early-purple orchid. Labels: plural, plural-only Example: There with fantastic garlands did she come / Of crowflowers, nettles, daisies, and long purples, / That liberal shepherds give a grosser name, / But our cold maids do dead men's fingers call them.
Word: purple loosestrife Part of Speech: noun 1. A semi-aquatic herbaceous plant, Lythrum salicaria, having long spikes of purple flowers, native to Eurasia, considered invasive in North America and New Zealand. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Purple loosestrife arrived early, shaking luxuriant tangled locks along the edge of the mirror whence its own face laughed back at it. Example: From the crest we could see the crest of the next, and upon it three bowers side by side, decked as my own had been with twined lupine, purple loosestrife, and white meadow rue.
Word: ear cockle Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of earcockle. Labels: alt-of, alternative, uncountable
Word: earcockle Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From ear + cockle. 1. A disease of wheat and rye caused by a nematode of species Anguina tritici, in which the ears blacken and contract. Labels: uncountable
Word: readmission Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Italic *wre- Latin re-der. Old French re-bor. Middle English re- English re- English admission English readmission From re- + admission. Pronunciation: /ɹiːædˈmɪʃən/ 1. A second or subsequent admission. Example: On the Freshwater line, the most outstanding improvement was the readmission of all trains to the main station at Newport, and the introduction of a through service in each direction between Ventnor and Freshwater, via Sandown and Newport, calling only at the principal stations. Example: No, no. They (Germany) went in to cleanse themselves of genocide and apply for readmission to the human race.
Word: realisation Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From French réalisation, from Middle French, as if realise + -ation. 1. Alternative spelling of realization. Labels: UK, alt-of, alternative, countable, uncountable Example: A widening of the M4 had long been mooted, and the Welsh Government had even earmarked most of the required £1.6bn funding for a new 14-mile, six-lane section around Newport. Then, in the face of opposition from environmentalists, came a realisation that similar road schemes across the world tend merely to encourage greater car use and therefore soon prove ineffective in solving the original problem.
Word: recantation Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English recant Proto-Indo-European *-tis Proto-Indo-European *-Hō Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō Proto-Italic *-tiō Latin -tiō Latin -ātiōlbor. Old French -ationbor. Middle English -acioun English -ation English recantation From recant + -ation. 1. The act of recanting or something recanted. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Macron’s full recantation came in his speech on 31 May this year in Bratislava, arguably the most important delivered by a European leader since the war broke out.
Word: reciprocator Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From reciprocate + -or. 1. Something, especially part of a mechanism, that reciprocates.
Word: recission Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative spelling of rescission. Labels: alt-of, alternative, countable, uncountable
Word: recombine Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Italic *wre- Latin re-der. Old French re-bor. Middle English re- English re- English combine English recombine From re- + combine. 1. To combine again, especially to reassemble the parts of something previously taken apart in a different manner. Labels: ambitransitive 2. To undergo recombination. Labels: intransitive
Word: reconsideration Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English reconsider Proto-Indo-European *-tis Proto-Indo-European *-Hō Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō Proto-Italic *-tiō Latin -tiō Latin -ātiōlbor. Old French -ationbor. Middle English -acioun English -ation English reconsideration From reconsider + -ation. 1. The act of reconsidering or something reconsidered. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: reconstructed Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of reconstruct Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: reconstructed Part of Speech: adj 1. Constructed again or anew. Example: There is a broad-gauge transfer shed, lengths of running track with reconstructed stations, and a bit of Brunel's ill-fated atmospheric railway. 2. Constructed again or anew. 3. Constructed again or anew. Example: Near-synonyms: reconciled, repentant
Word: redback Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From red + back. 1. A venomous spider, Latrodectus hasselti, endemic to Australia. Labels: Australia Example: 1988 June 16, Stephanie Pain, Things that go plop in the night, New Scientist, page 78, “If you find a redback, squash it firmly,” advised one guide. Example: Many a red-back, funnel-web, or other spider has found its resting days at the bottom of a vegemite jar shoved into some dark recess of the laundry. 2. A brown and white sandpiper (Calidris alpina), native to the Northern Hemisphere; the dunlin. Labels: US
Word: redback Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Modelled after greenback, the currency of the United States of America, except using Communist Red 1. the yuan (CNY), the currency of the People's Republic of China (Red Chinese money) Labels: slang
Word: redbud Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From red + bud. Pronunciation: /ˈɹɛdˌbʌd/ 1. Any of several small trees, of the genus Cercis, having purple-pink flowers that appear before the leaves; the Judas tree.
Word: Red Sox Nation Part of Speech: name 1. the fanbase of the Boston Red Sox Labels: US
Word: quatorzain Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From French quatorzain. 1. A poem or stanza consisting of fourteen lines.
Word: redia Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Named after Redi, an Italian naturalist. 1. the larva of some trematodes, some of which become cercariae
Word: cercaria Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From New Latin cercāria, from Ancient Greek κέρκος (kérkos, “tail”) + -āria. Pronunciation: /sɜː(ɹ)ˈkɛəɹɪə/ 1. The parasitic larva of trematodes that infect the final host generally.
Word: trematode Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From translingual Trematoda, from Ancient Greek τρημᾰτώδης (trēmătṓdēs, “having a vent to the intestinal canal”), from τρῆμᾰ (trêmă, “perforation, aperture”) + -ώδης (-ṓdēs, “full of, -like”). See also -ode. Pronunciation: /ˈtrɛm.ə.təʊd/, /ˈtrɛm.əˌtoʊd/ 1. a parasitic flatworm of the class Trematoda Example: He passed under the last of the bridges and around the bend in the river, through peaceful farmland, high fields tilted on the slopes and rich turned earth in patches of black corrugation among the greening purlieus and small cultivated orchards like scenes of plenitude from picturebooks suddenly pasted over the waste he was a familiar of, the river like a giant trematode curling down out of the city, welling heavy and septic past these fine homes on the north shore.
Word: trematode worm Part of Speech: noun 1. the trematode
Word: reductionist Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree English reduction Proto-Indo-European *-id- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō) Proto-Hellenic *-tās Ancient Greek -τής (-tḗs) Ancient Greek -ῐστής (-ĭstḗs)bor. Latin -istader. Old French -istebor. Middle English -ist English -ist English reductionist From reduction + -ist. 1. Of, or relating to reductionism.
Word: reductionist Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English reduction Proto-Indo-European *-id- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō) Proto-Hellenic *-tās Ancient Greek -τής (-tḗs) Ancient Greek -ῐστής (-ĭstḗs)bor. Latin -istader. Old French -istebor. Middle English -ist English -ist English reductionist From reduction + -ist. 1. An advocate of reductionism.
Word: pedalboat Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From pedal + boat. 1. a pedalo
Word: reduviid Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Borrowed from translingual Reduviidae, from Reduvius (genus name) + -idae (taxonomic suffix), from Latin reduvia (“a remainder, remnant, fragment”), describing the habit of the nymph of Reduvius personatus camouflaging itself with small pieces of debris. Pronunciation: /ɹɪˈdjuː.vi.ɪd/, /ɹɪˈdu.vi.ɪd/ 1. of, relating to, or characteristic of the family Reduviidae Labels: not-comparable
Word: reduviid Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from translingual Reduviidae, from Reduvius (genus name) + -idae (taxonomic suffix), from Latin reduvia (“a remainder, remnant, fragment”), describing the habit of the nymph of Reduvius personatus camouflaging itself with small pieces of debris. Pronunciation: /ɹɪˈdjuː.vi.ɪd/, /ɹɪˈdu.vi.ɪd/ 1. any member of the Reduviidae family of insects, which comprises predatory and blood-sucking bugs, including the vectors of Chagas disease
Word: reflect upon Part of Speech: verb 1. To consider a weighty topic or idea. Labels: idiomatic, transitive
Word: reflect on Part of Speech: verb 1. To think carefully about (something), and give it due consideration. Labels: transitive Example: She reflected on her country's role in history. Example: The Leicester Daily Mercury reflected on how these concerns were the result of changing ways of getting around: "It might sound a bit crazy or just a little revolting that at Christmas works parties, some should drink themselves into a near-insensible state... This was not serious when they used public transport, but today more men and women use their own cars." 2. To access details of (a data type, etc.) at run-time using reflection. Labels: transitive Example: It is sometimes useful to be able to reflect on class or interface types in native code as well. Example: Load-time MOPs reflect on the bytecode and make use of a modified class loader. 3. To give an impression of (used with an adverb). Example: The recent spate of vandalism by pupils does not reflect well on the school.
Word: regulative Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree English regulate Proto-Indo-European *-wós Proto-Indo-European *-iHwósder. Latin -īvus Old French -ifbor. Middle English -yf English -ive English regulative From regulate + -ive. 1. Of or relating to regulation; having a regulatory function.
Word: reintroduction Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Italic *wre- Latin re-der. Old French re-bor. Middle English re- English re- English introduction English reintroduction From re- + introduction. 1. The act of introducing something again. Example: On the passenger-carrying 1 ft. 11½ in.-gauge Vale of Rheidol branch from Aberystwyth to Devils Bridge, however, the 2-6-2 tank engines are to be named for the reintroduction of the train service for this summer on June 11. 2. The release of animals from captivity into the wild, especially, into an area where they have become extirpated or greatly reduced. Example: Klopfer and Gamble (1966) gave 16 female goats (C. hircus) 5 min of contact with their young at parturition. Nine of the mothers had been temporarily rendered anosmic (could not smell) at parturition by spraying a 10% cocaine hydrogen chloride solution into their nostrils 20–90 min prior to parturition. […] Eight of the nine females who were anosmic at parturition but could smell at reintroduction accepted their own offspring, as well as alien young during reinstatement. Example: The IUCN (International Union for the Conservation of Nature), for example, restricts use of the word ʽreintroductionʼ to species that have become extinct locally or Europe-wide no more than 200 to 300 years ago. 3. An animal so released. Labels: countable
Word: relaid Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /ˌɹiːˈleɪd, ˈɹiːleɪd/ 1. simple past and past participle of relay (“lay again”) Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: remindful Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From remind + -ful. Pronunciation: /ɹɪˈmʌɪndf(ə)l/ 1. That serves to remind one of something; reminiscent. Example: If the Snake has an unmistakeable resemblance to the male organ in its active state, the foliage of the tree or bush is equally remindful of the female. Example: He dashed downstairs – the speed of his descent causing the heat of the banisters to burn the palm of his hand in a merry way remindful of similar occasions in his boyhood.
Word: rending Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of rend Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: rending Part of Speech: noun 1. The act by which something is rent, or torn. Example: rendings of garments
Word: renegation Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Equivalent to renege + -ation. 1. a denial Labels: obsolete
Word: replenished Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /ɹɪˈplɛnɪʃt/ 1. simple past and past participle of replenish Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: replenished Part of Speech: adj Pronunciation: /ɹɪˈplɛnɪʃt/ 1. Imbued, fully infused (with) some quality. Labels: archaic 2. Full, fully stocked (with), containing an abundance (of). Labels: obsolete Example: This river also as the two former, is replenished with fish and foule. 3. That has been refilled; restored to capacity or fullness, full.
Word: reprehension Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Latin reprehensio, reprehensionis. Pronunciation: /ˌɹɛpɹɪˈhɛnʃən/ 1. the act, or an expression, of criticism, censure or condemnation; reprimand Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: Norn Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Old Norse norn. 1. Any of the three goddesses of fate or destiny. Labels: Norse
Word: Norn Part of Speech: name Etymology: Borrowed from Scots Norn, from Middle Scots Norn (“Norn, Norwegian”), from Middle English Norn, Norren (“Norwegian”), from Old English Norren, Norn (“Norwegian”), from Old Norse norrǿnn (“northern, Norwegian”), from Proto-Germanic *nurþrōnijaz (“northern”). Doublet of northern and Northron. 1. An extinct North Germanic language once spoken on the Shetland and Orkney Islands.
Word: polysyndeton Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Medieval Latin polysyndeton, itself from Byzantine Greek πολυσύνδετον (polusúndeton, literally “many connected”). Pronunciation: /pɒlɪˈsɪndɪtɒn/ 1. The use of many conjunctions to achieve an overwhelming effect in a sentence. Labels: countable, rhetoric, uncountable Example: In Polysyndeton conjunctions flow, And every word its copulative will shew. Example: [Hemingway] often employs a variety of polysyndeton—a frequent use of conjunctions, most notably “and”—linking elements in a sentence together in a way that implies all parts are of equal importance, while in fact one unit of the series may be much more significant than the others.
Word: salmeterol Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Probably from sal(butamol)[Term?] + -terol (“phenethylamine derivative”). Pronunciation: /sælˈmɛt.əˌɹɔl/ 1. A bronchodilator administered by oral inhalation in the form of a salt C₂₅H₃₇NO₄·C₁₁H₈O₃ to treat bronchospasm associated especially with asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. It acts as an agonist, binding to beta-receptors that mediate the relaxation of bronchial muscles. Labels: uncountable
Word: LABA Part of Speech: noun 1. Initialism of long-acting beta-adrenoceptor agonist, a drug class used in the treatment of respiratory diseases. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
Word: xinafoate Part of Speech: noun 1. 1-hydroxy-2-naphthoate radical of 1-hydroxy-2-naphthoic acid. Labels: uncountable
Word: salmeterol xinafoate Part of Speech: noun Etymology: salmeterol + xinafoate - 1-hydroxy-2-naphthoic acid salt of salmeterol. 1. a LABA used in the treatment of respiratory diseases. Labels: uncountable
Word: phoetus Part of Speech: noun 1. Obsolete spelling of fetus. Labels: alt-of, hypercorrect, obsolete
Word: phœtus Part of Speech: noun 1. Obsolete spelling of fetus. Labels: alt-of, hypercorrect, obsolete
Word: pair of underwear Part of Speech: noun 1. An item of clothing that is worn under one's trousers or pants. Example: Have you seen my black pair of underwear? I swear I had it yesterday...
Word: baggageman Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From baggage + -man. 1. A railway employee who was in charge of the baggage car, storing and retrieving passenger's baggage and sometimes handling mail. Labels: US
Word: resettle Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Italic *wre- Latin re-der. Old French re-bor. Middle English re- English re- English settle English resettle From re- + settle. 1. To settle in a different place. Labels: intransitive 2. To force someone to settle in a different place. Labels: transitive Example: And for entrepreneurial immigrants, the mayor's office partners with local organizations to offer business loans of between $5,000 and $50,000, said Ruben Chandrasekar, executive director for the International Rescue Committee, a nonprofit that resettles about 1,100 refugees and asylum seekers in Baltimore each year. Example: And so far just two member states, Malta and Finland, are on track to meet their resettling obligations.
Word: REST Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ɹɛst/ 1. Acronym of representational state transfer. Labels: abbreviation, acronym, alt-of, uncountable Example: Coding a REST API has never felt right to me. I believe that REST APIs should be designed and configured, but not coded.
Word: REST Part of Speech: name Pronunciation: /ɹɛst/ 1. Acronym of Revised Extended Standard Theory. Labels: abbreviation, acronym, alt-of
Word: retail theft Part of Speech: noun 1. Shoplifting.
Word: retake Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Italic *wre- Latin re-der. Old French re-bor. Middle English re- English re- English take English retake From re- + take. Pronunciation: /ɹiːˈteɪk/ 1. To take something again. 2. To take something back. 3. To capture or occupy somewhere again. Example: The army tried repeatedly to retake the fort they had been driven from. 4. To photograph or film again.
Word: retake Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Italic *wre- Latin re-der. Old French re-bor. Middle English re- English re- English take English retake From re- + take. Pronunciation: /ˈɹiːteɪk/ 1. a scene that is filmed again, or a picture that is photographed again 2. an instance of resitting an examination
Word: retropulsion Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Italic *wre- Latin re- Latin retrōder. English retro- English pulsion English retropulsion From retro- + pulsion. 1. A tendency to step or walk backwards involuntarily, especially as a symptom of parkinsonism. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Retropulsion most often occurs when you are trying to reach for something higher than sholder level. Example: For patients prone to retropulsion, wearing shoes with high heels may diminish or prevent the backward stepping. 2. The pushing or forcing of something to move backwards or inwards. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Retropulsion of the eye slackens the rectus muscle and, if forced ductions improve with retropulsion, then the restriction is secondary to a tight rectus muscle. Example: Spinal CT or MRI reveals violation of the posterior cortex of the vertebral bodies (burst fracture) with retropulsion of bone into the spinal canal. 3. Transfer of a disease from an external source to an internal organ. Labels: countable, obsolete, uncountable Example: From this account, it will also be evident, that there can be no danger from the retropulsion, or rather the retiring of prickly heat, except what may arise from the cause that checked perspiration. Many absurd notions have been entertained on this subject, which have really proved prejudicial to health. It hs been very generally supposed, that the matter of prickly heat was highly injurious, and therefore, that the retiring of it into the body was extremely dangerous. Example: The arthritic blepharoblenorrhœa and ophthalmoblenorrhœa appear only as a real metastasis of gout, having always followed its retropulsion in the great toe, from the application of cold moisture.
Word: reweighted Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of reweight Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: reweighted Part of Speech: adj 1. (of a series etc) weighted again, especially as part of an iterative process
Word: revenue land Part of Speech: noun 1. agricultural land that may not be used for industrial or residential purposes Labels: India, uncountable
Word: rheumy Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From rheum + -y (suffix forming adjectives meaning ‘having the quality of’). Pronunciation: /ˈɹuːmi/, /ˈɹumi/ 1. Of, relating to, or made of rheum (“thin or watery discharge of mucus or serum”); watery. 2. Producing rheum from the mucous membranes; (also figuratively) especially of the eyes: filled with rheum; watery. Example: So, too-much Cold couers vvith hoary Fleece / The head of Age, his fleſh diminiſhes, / VVithers his face, hollovves his rheumy eyes, / And makes himſelf euen his ovvn ſelf deſpiſe; […] Example: The Northern Breath, that freezes Floods, he binds; / VVith all the race of Cloud-diſpelling VVinds: / […] / From his divided Beard tvvo Streams he pours, / His Head and rhumy Eyes diſtill in Shovvers. 3. Especially of the air: damp, moist. Labels: literary, obsolete, poetic Example: And vvill he ſteale out of his vvholſome bed / To dare the vile contagion of the Night? / And tempt the Rhevvmy, and vnpurged Ayre, / To adde vnto hit^([sic – meaning his]) ſickneſſe? Example: The reumy vault vvill force your eyes to vveepe, / VVhilſt you behold true deſolation: […]
Word: rhombihexahedron Part of Speech: noun 1. Either of two concave polyhedra: the great rhombihexahedron and the small rhombihexahedron.
Word: richesse Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English richesse, from Old French richese, richece. 1. wealth or riches Labels: archaic, uncountable, usually 2. A group of martens; the collective noun for martens. Labels: collective, countable, usually
Word: ricksha Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ˈɹɪk.ʃə/ 1. Alternative form of rickshaw. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: singultus Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From early 15th century. Learned borrowing from Latin singultus, of unknown origin. 1. A fit of gasping or convulsive breathing. Labels: obsolete 2. A sob; a speech broken by sobs. Labels: obsolete 3. The hiccups; diaphragmatic myoclonus. Labels: uncountable
Word: ridgepole Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From ridge + pole. Pronunciation: /ˈɹɪdʒpəʊl/, /ˈɹɪdʒˌpoʊl/ 1. A beam along the ridge of a roof to which the rafters are attached. Example: In the middle of the floor was a pole of tough thornwood, to hold the end of the ridgepole. 2. A horizontal pole that supports the roof of a ridge tent .
Word: ring off Part of Speech: verb 1. To disconnect at the end of a phone call. Labels: Australia, UK, intransitive Example: I thanked him and rang off. 2. Buzz off; go away; shut up. Labels: dated, imperative, slang Example: [S]he's not a Bloomer / But knows when she's got you at her wire's end. / It does no good to fret and fume and scoff, / For she all protests meets with "Oh, ring off!" Example: “Oh! ring off on your rhapsodies!” John interjected.
Word: masturbates Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of masturbate Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: masturbated Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of masturbate Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: ambulance chasers Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of ambulance chaser Labels: form-of, plural
Word: packager Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English package 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 packager From package + -er. 1. A person who packages. 2. A tool or machine used to package objects. 3. A company that hires writers and produces finished books to be sold on to publishers. 4. A comic book studio that produces content for comic book publishers on demand. 5. A program that groups objects or data into a single file.
Word: packagers Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of packager Labels: form-of, plural
Word: paralyzingly Part of Speech: adv Etymology: Etymology tree English paralyzing Middle English -ly English -ly English paralyzingly From paralyzing + -ly. 1. In a paralyzing manner. Labels: not-comparable
Word: yachter Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English yacht 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 yachter From yacht + -er. Pronunciation: /ˈjɒtəɹ/ 1. A person who sails in yachts.
Word: topside Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From top + side. Pronunciation: /ˈtɑp.saɪd/ 1. The side or part of something that is at the top. Example: Yet the topside exerts significant control over the lower ionosphere and hence also has an indirect effect on long-range radio communications. Example: These sounders have produced a wealth of information not only about the distribution of electrons in the topside but also about the response of plasma when the transmitter is embedded in it. 2. The surface of a ship’s hull that is above the water line. Example: We believe that the failure of Sun Ship to submit a bid for topside work had no effect on the price, quality, quantity or time of performance of any contract to be awarded for the combination of drydock and topside work covered in the firm′s bid for Lot III. 3. The structure and assembly of modules above the jacket or gravity base sub structure. Example: Future plans are for tripod designs in up to 90m of water, supporting lightweight topsides and braced mono towers for marginal field developments. 4. The structure and assembly of modules on the deck of any floating installation. 5. The outer side of a round of beef. Labels: Australia, New-Zealand, UK Example: To detach the round bone, the biggest muscle of the round, the topside, must first be removed. This is done by cutting down to the round bone in a layer of connective tissue which separates the topside from the nuggle. Example: Slow roasting is better for lean or not so tender cuts such as topside or whole bolar blade, which are not suitable to be cooked very pink.
Word: topside Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From top + side. Pronunciation: /ˈtɑp.saɪd/ 1. Abovedeck, such as on the weather deck or bridge. Labels: not-comparable
Word: topside Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From top + side. Pronunciation: /ˈtɑp.saɪd/ 1. Abovedeck, such as on the weather deck or bridge. Labels: not-comparable
Word: mother-in-law apartment Part of Speech: noun 1. A small apartment attached to or carved out of a nominally single-family house, ostensibly intended for occupancy by a mother-in-law or other relative, but potentially also rented out to a stranger. Example: Near-synonyms: in-law unit, granny annexe, granny flat, granny room, secondary suite, casita, garden apartment, ADU (“accessory dwelling unit”) Example: "Accessory dwelling units are commonly referred to as mother-in-law apartments. Accessory dwelling units (ADUs) are a second dwelling on a piece of property where a primary residence already exists." —King County (Washington) Online Directory
Word: tail block Part of Speech: noun 1. A block having a rope about it, and on an end hanging several feet from it.
Word: Cameroun Part of Speech: name 1. A former French and British territory in Central Africa, occupying the area of the modern-day country of Cameroon.
Word: sussuration Part of Speech: noun 1. Misspelling of susurration. Labels: alt-of, misspelling
Word: fishery Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *péysks Proto-Germanic *fiskaz Proto-West Germanic *fisk Old English fisċ Middle English fisch English fish Proto-Indo-European *-yósder. Proto-Italic *-āzios Latin -āriusnom. Latin -ārius Old French -ier Proto-Indo-European *-(i)yós Proto-Italic *-ijos Proto-Italic *-ios Old Latin -ios Latin -ius Latin -ia Old French -ie Old French -eriebor. Middle English -erie English -ery English fishery From fish + -ery. Pronunciation: /ˈfɪʃəɹi/ 1. Fishing: the catching, processing and marketing of fish or other seafood. Labels: uncountable 2. A place related to fishing Labels: countable, uncountable Example: the collapse of the fisheries Example: While the present conservation of Maryland fisheries is largely concerned with the oyster, which promises such great future returns, the foodfishes should not be neglected. 3. A place related to fishing Labels: countable, uncountable 4. A place related to fishing Labels: countable, uncountable 5. A right to fish in a particular location, such as territorial fishing waters. Labels: countable 6. A fishing company. Labels: countable
Word: strongback Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From strong + back. 1. The fore-and-aft spar extending from stem to stern on a lifeboat and serving as a raised spreader for a boat cover. (FM 55-501) 2. A strong bar placed across a hatch opening to hold hatch boards or hatch covers. (FM 55-501) 3. A load-bearing post with a T-shaped cross-section, where the short T-tail prevents bowing of the long post. 4. A backing pole used to reinforce and stabilize vertically-oriented sculptures. 5. A vertical structure used to support and stabilize a rocket, often hosting fuel and power umbilical connections. Usually retracted immediately before launch.
Word: l2p Part of Speech: phrase 1. Initialism of learn to play; used in Internet games as a slur against weak or inexperienced players. Labels: Internet, abbreviation, alt-of, derogatory, initialism Example: Tips should always be welcome if given in a constructive way, saying "L2P noob your way of casting sucks" is NOT a tip.
Word: poignard Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of poniard. Labels: alt-of, alternative Example: Within, the palace is rarely still; there is a coming and going of great aristocrats in their brocades, silks and velvets, their chains of gold and silver, their filigree poignards, their ivory farthingales, cloaks and trains rippling behind them, sometimes carried by little boys and girls in such a weight of cloth it seems they can barely walk.
Word: mouchoir Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from French mouchoir. Pronunciation: /muʃˈwɑɹ/, /muːʃˈwɑː/ 1. A handkerchief. Labels: dated Example: Becky came down to him presently; whenever the dear girl expected his lordship, her toilette was prepared, her hair in perfect order, her mouchoirs, aprons, scarfs, little morocco slippers, and other female gimcracks arranged, […].
Word: demandant Part of Speech: noun Etymology: French demandant, present participle of demander. 1. One who demands 2. the plaintiff in a real action 3. any plaintiff.
Word: Elton Part of Speech: name Etymology: From a number of sources, including: # For the places in Cheshire, County Durham, and Derbyshire, England: from Old English ēl (“eel”) + tūn (“farm, village”) since the village is situated above a small stream. Less likely, from Old English personal name Ella + tūn. # For the place in Cambridgeshire, England: from Middle English Adelintune, from Old English æþeling (“prince”) + tūn (“estate”). # For the place in Gloucestershire, England: from Middle English Elwinton, from Old English personal name Ælfwine + tūn (“estate”). # For the place in Herefordshire, England: from Middle English Elintona, from Old English *æling (“eel fishery”) + tūn (“estate”), in reference to nearby Wigmore Lake. # For the place in Nottinghamshire, England, see Elton on the Hill. Pronunciation: /ˈɛltən/ 1. A male given name from Old English. 2. A surname from Old English. 3. A rural municipality of Manitoba, Canada. 4. Several places in England: 5. Several places in England: 6. Several places in England: 7. Several places in England: 8. Several places in England: 9. Several places in England: 10. Several places in the United States: 11. Several places in the United States: 12. Several places in the United States: 13. Several places in the United States: 14. Several places in the United States: 15. Several places in the United States:
Word: Elton Part of Speech: name Etymology: Transliteration of Russian Эльтон (Elʹton) of disputed origin. 1. A lake in Volgograd Oblast, Russia, close to Kazakhstan border
Word: Merthyr Part of Speech: name Pronunciation: /ˈmɜːθə/ 1. Ellipsis of Merthyr Tydfil. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis Example: After petrol rationing ended in 1952, the BTC was aware that more swingeing cuts had to be made, and a sinister message was conveyed by the loss of the meandering 38-mile route from Blisworth to Stratford-upon-Avon in April 1952, and the 25-mile Abergavenny-Merthyr Heads of the Valleys line in January 1958. 2. A small settlement in Newchurch and Merthyr community, Carmarthenshire, Wales (OS grid ref SN3520).
Word: Merthyr Tydfil Part of Speech: name Pronunciation: /ˌmɜːθə ˈtɪdvɪl/ 1. A large town in Merthyr Tydfil borough county borough, Wales (OS grid ref SO0506). 2. A county borough in Glamorgan, south Wales.
Word: Glamorgan Part of Speech: name Etymology: From gwlad (“country”) + Morgan [Morgan's country] after Morgan Hen. 1. A traditional county of Wales, bordered by Monmouthshire, Brecknockshire, and Carmarthenshire. 2. A former municipality in Tasmania, Australia, merged into Glamorgan-Spring Bay. 3. A neighbourhood in south-west Calgary, Alberta, Canada. 4. An unincorporated community and coal town in Wise County, Virginia, United States.
Word: Graeme Part of Speech: name Pronunciation: /ˈɡɹeɪ.əm/, /ɡɹæm/ 1. A surname from Old English, a less common spelling of Graham. 2. A male given name transferred from the surname.