nandhakumarms/qualc-wiktionary-en huggingface dataset:
Word: combined Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /kəmˈbaɪnd/ 1. simple past and past participle of combine Labels: form-of, participle, past Example: The cook combined equal parts chocolate and vanilla batter in the cake.
Word: combined Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /kəmˈbaɪnd/ 1. Ellipsis of alpine combined. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis Example: The race events are downhill, slalom, giant slalom, Super G, and combineds, with each giving points in the same way. 2. Ellipsis of Nordic combined. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis
Word: brushfire Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From brush + fire. 1. A large fire in a scrubland or prairie, as opposed to a forest fire, which occurs in forests. 2. A war that arises suddenly and is limited in scope or area. Labels: attributive, figuratively Example: It may be a brushfire operation or an operation on the scale of the Korean war; it will certainly not involve the home territories of the United States and Soviet Russia as theaters of hostilities. Example: I grant you it may not be in the actual application of mechanical devices, but if you have the volume to have supremacy in a major war it is obvious you would have the volume to take care of a brushfire war.
Word: challenging Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English chalengynge; equivalent to challenge + -ing. Pronunciation: /ˈt͡ʃæl.ɪn.d͡ʒɪŋ/, /ˈt͡ʃæl.ən.d͡ʒɪŋ/ 1. present participle and gerund of challenge Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: challenging Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English chalengynge; equivalent to challenge + -ing. Pronunciation: /ˈt͡ʃæl.ɪn.d͡ʒɪŋ/, /ˈt͡ʃæl.ən.d͡ʒɪŋ/ 1. Difficult, hard to do.
Word: challenging Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English chalengynge; equivalent to challenge + -ing. Pronunciation: /ˈt͡ʃæl.ɪn.d͡ʒɪŋ/, /ˈt͡ʃæl.ən.d͡ʒɪŋ/ 1. The act of making a challenge. Example: There are always sincere challengings of the findings, always the objections (sincere in another sense) of those whose interests seem threatened.
Word: clothes peg Part of Speech: noun 1. An object (usually made of wood or plastic) used to attach wet laundry to a clothesline so that it (the laundry) can dry. Labels: Australia, Canada, New-Zealand, UK
Word: Kriegie Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From German Kriegsgefangener, + -ie. 1. A prisoner of war in Germany during the Second World War Labels: slang
Word: ruffian Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle French rufian, from Italian ruffiano (“pimp”). Pronunciation: /ˈɹʌfi.ən/ 1. A scoundrel, rascal, or unprincipled, deceitful, brutal and unreliable person. Example: What wilt thou on thy death-bed play the Ruffian? Example: It was at Count Siloszech's. He'd heard her sing in the streets, with a tall, black-bearded ruffian, who accompanied her on a guitar, and a little fiddling gypsy fellow. She was a handsome woman, with hair down to her knees, but stupid as an owl. 2. A pimp; a pander. Labels: obsolete 3. A lover; a paramour. Labels: obsolete Example: He [her husband] is no sooner abroad than she is instantly at home, revelling with her ruffians.
Word: ruffian Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle French rufian, from Italian ruffiano (“pimp”). Pronunciation: /ˈɹʌfi.ən/ 1. To play the ruffian; to rage; to raise tumult. Labels: transitive Example: Methinks the wind does speak aloud at land; A fuller blast ne'er shook our battlements. If it hath ruffianed so upon the sea.
Word: ruffian Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle French rufian, from Italian ruffiano (“pimp”). Pronunciation: /ˈɹʌfi.ən/ 1. Brutal, cruel, ruffianlike. Example: ruffian rage
Word: debatable Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Old French debatable (French débattable), equivalent to debate + -able. Pronunciation: [dɪˈbeɪtəbəɫ] 1. Open to debate; not fully proved or confirmed. Example: Those data are debatable: no one has been able to replicate them. Example: It's debatable whether he is the best candidate for the position. 2. Able to be debated; up for discussion. Example: The lack of bonuses this year is not debatable.
Word: debatable Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Old French debatable (French débattable), equivalent to debate + -able. Pronunciation: [dɪˈbeɪtəbəɫ] 1. A topic that is open to debate. Example: Just how many glaucoma patients there are in the United States and just how prevalent is the disease are two unknowns or at least two debatables.
Word: coiffure Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from French coiffure. Pronunciation: /kwɑˈfjʊɚ/ 1. Hairstyle. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: coiffure Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Borrowed from French coiffure. Pronunciation: /kwɑˈfjʊɚ/ 1. To style or arrange hair. Labels: transitive Example: Perfectly coiffured and seemingly imperturbable, Setsuko approaches madness as her psychological and sexual insecurities are dredged up by confrontations with her past and mind games with the suspected murderer. Example: Her eyes seldom left for long the other end of the table, where Stephanie, at Dominey's left hand, with her crown of exquisitely coiffured red-gold hair, her marvellous jewellery, her languorous grace of manner, seemed more like one of the beauties of an ancient Venetian Court than a modern Hungarian Princess gowned in the Rue de la Paix.
Word: drip Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English drippen, druppen, from Old English drypan, from Proto-Germanic *drupjaną (“to fall in drops, drip”), from Proto-Germanic *drupô (“drop”). Akin to West Frisian drippe (“to drip”), Dutch druipen, druppelen (“to drip”), German Low German drüppen (“to drip”), German tropfen, tröpfeln (“to drip”), Norwegian Bokmål dryppe, Norwegian Nynorsk drypa (“to drip”). Pronunciation: /ˈdɹɪp/, [ˈd̠ɹ̠̈˔ɪp] 1. To fall one drop at a time. Labels: intransitive Example: Listening to the tap next door drip all night drove me mad! 2. To leak slowly. Labels: intransitive Example: Does the sink drip, or have I just spilt water over the floor? 3. To let fall in drops. Labels: transitive Example: After putting oil on the side of the salad, the chef should drip a little vinegar in the oil. Example: My broken pen dripped ink onto the table. 4. To have a superabundance of (something). Labels: intransitive, usually Example: The Old Hall simply drips with masterpieces of the Flemish painters. Example: The duchess was dripping with jewels. 5. To rain lightly; to drizzle. Labels: impersonal Example: The weather isn't so bad. I mean, it's dripping, but you're not going to get so wet. 6. To be wet, to be soaked. Labels: intransitive 7. To whine or complain consistently; to grumble. Labels: UK, intransitive, slang Example: The Women's Royal Naval Service was integrated with the Royal Navy in November 1993. […] Men interviewed by Public Eye (April, 1994) said they should 'stop dripping about it' and that women should learn to 'take it like a man […] Example: The government had been slowly running down the Royal Navy Organisation to save money on various peoples' budgets, so now we had to sub-contract ships to go to war! So stop dripping and "make it so", all those admirals can't be wrong! 8. Be impressive or attractive. Labels: slang, stative Example: I'm sorry for drippin', but drip is what I do. And one of these days, I'm gon' get dressed and drip all over you.
Word: drip Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English drippe, from the verb (see above). Compare West Frisian drip (“drip”), Dutch drup (“drip”), Danish dryp (“drip”). (style, swagger): Compare the verb sense "to have a superabundance of valuable things". Pronunciation: /ˈdɹɪp/, [ˈd̠ɹ̠̈˔ɪp] 1. A drop of a liquid. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: I put a drip of vanilla extract in my hot cocoa. Example: I need a bucket to catch the drips. 2. A falling or letting fall in drops; act of dripping. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: the light drip of the suspended oar 3. An apparatus that slowly releases a liquid, especially one that intravenously releases drugs into a patient's bloodstream. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: He's not doing so well. The doctors have put him on a drip. 4. A limp, ineffectual, or uninteresting person. Labels: colloquial, countable, derogatory, uncountable Example: He couldn't even summon up the courage to ask her name... what a drip! Example: Because most of the blokes I fancy think l'm stupid and pointless—and, so, they just bonk me and then leave me. And the kind of blokes that do fancy me, I think are drips. I can't even be bothered to bonk them. Which does sort of leave me a bit nowhere. 5. That part of a cornice, sill course, or other horizontal member that projects beyond the rest, and has a section designed to throw off rainwater. Labels: countable, uncountable 6. Style; swagger; fashionable and/or expensive clothing. Labels: slang, uncountable Example: His drip is looking fine, especially the Supreme t-shirt. Example: Hailey decided to show off her drip with a soft, white fluff jacket […]
Word: drip Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Acronym. Pronunciation: /ˈdɹɪp/, [ˈd̠ɹ̠̈˔ɪp] 1. Alternative letter-case form of DRIP (“dividend reinvestment plan”) Labels: alt-of
Word: operative Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English operative, operatyfe, from Middle French operatif (modern French opératif) or its etymon Latin operātīvus. By surface analysis, operate + -ive. Pronunciation: /ˈɒpəɹətɪv/, /ˈɒpɹətɪv/, /ˈɑpəɹətɪv/, /ˈɑpɹətɪv/ 1. Effectual or important. Example: He's usually in a good mood — the operative word there being "usually". Today was a disaster. 2. Functional, in working order. 3. Having the power of acting; hence, exerting force, physical or moral; active in the production of effects. Example: an operative motive Example: It holds in all operative principles. 4. Producing the appropriate or designed effect; efficacious. Example: an operative dose, rule, or penalty 5. Based upon, or consisting of, a surgical operation or operations. Example: operative surgery
Word: operative Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English operative, operatyfe, from Middle French operatif (modern French opératif) or its etymon Latin operātīvus. By surface analysis, operate + -ive. Pronunciation: /ˈɒpəɹətɪv/, /ˈɒpɹətɪv/, /ˈɑpəɹətɪv/, /ˈɑpɹətɪv/ 1. An employee or other worker with some particular function or skill. Example: Practically 50 per cent of the female operatives are found in the two groups aged 15 to 19 and 20 to 24 years, while only 18.2 per cent of the female nonoperatives are found in these age groups. 2. A spy, secret agent, or detective. 3. A participant in an operation.
Word: thrift Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English thrift, thryfte, þrift, from Old Norse þrift (“thriving condition, prosperity”). Equivalent to thrive + -t. Pronunciation: /ˈθɹɪft/ 1. The characteristic of using a minimum of something (especially money). Labels: uncountable Example: His thrift can be seen in how little the trashman takes from his house. Example: The rest, […] willing to fall to thrift , as I have seene many souldiers after the service to prove very good husbands 2. A savings bank. Labels: US, countable Example: Usually, home mortgages are obtained from thrifts. 3. Any of various plants of the genus Armeria, particularly Armeria maritima. Labels: countable 4. Success and advance in the acquisition of property; increase of worldly goods; gain; prosperity; profit. Labels: countable, obsolete, uncountable Example: Bassanio: […]And many Jasons come in quest of her. O my Antonio, had I but the means To hold a rival place with one of them, I have a mind presages me such thrift, That I should questionless be fortunate! Example: Hamlet: No, let the candied tongue lick absurd pomp, And crook the pregnant hinges of the knee Where thrift may follow fawning. 5. Vigorous growth, as of a plant. Labels: countable, obsolete, uncountable
Word: thrift Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English thrift, thryfte, þrift, from Old Norse þrift (“thriving condition, prosperity”). Equivalent to thrive + -t. Pronunciation: /ˈθɹɪft/ 1. To shop or browse at a thrift shop; to buy (something) at a thrift shop. Labels: ambitransitive Example: They like to go thrifting on weekends. Example: I thrifted these vintage coffee mugs.
Word: reflective Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree English reflect Proto-Indo-European *-wós Proto-Indo-European *-iHwósder. Latin -īvus Old French -ifbor. Middle English -yf English -ive English reflective From reflect + -ive. Pronunciation: /ɹɪˈflɛktɪv/ 1. That reflects, or redirects back to the source. Example: Mirrors are reflective. Example: The structure's exterior is clad in aluminum-oxidized pine, which gives it a reflective quality that complements the galvanized-steel roof. 2. Pondering, especially thinking back on the past. Example: He always becomes reflective in preparation for the new year. Example: Type 1 processes are effortless recognition of objects or situations as of a type that have been encountered previously. In an osteological context, an example would be recognition of a bone as a femur or a humerus. Type 2 processes are slower, reflective and effortful. The application of specific procedural approaches in order to arrive at conclusions based on evidence, such as hypothesis testing in science, are Type 2 processes. 3. That reveals or shows; revealing; indicative of. Example: Both brides and grooms in native Hawaiian tradition wear flower garlands as a physical manifestation of their love for one another, and to some, the twining of the stems is reflective of two families now becoming one. A more tourist-friendly version established in the past couple of decades involves winding the leis around the couple’s hands to bind them together. Example: In any event, the incident, and the media attention it attracted, highlights the sensitivity of language politics in Singapore and is reflective of the fact that this sensitivity extends to campus life. 4. Involving reflection. 5. By means of reflection. Example: In JIT compilation, the running program is reflectively modified by an embedded compiler, which only uses two reflective operations […] 6. Reciprocal.
Word: reflective Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English reflect Proto-Indo-European *-wós Proto-Indo-European *-iHwósder. Latin -īvus Old French -ifbor. Middle English -yf English -ive English reflective From reflect + -ive. Pronunciation: /ɹɪˈflɛktɪv/ 1. A supposed organ of the brain, dealing with abstract reasoning. Example: Then why not subdivide the reflectives and perceptives into distinct organs having special relations to external objects, as well as divide the intellect into a reflective and a perceptive portion?
Word: subsist Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Latin subsistō (“halt, stop”), from sub (“below”) + sistō (“stand, place”). Compare consist, desist, exist, insist, persist. Pronunciation: /səbˈsɪst/ 1. To survive on a minimum of resources. Example: It cannot be denied it is (if not the moſt of any) a very abſtemious animall, and ſuch as by reaſon of its frigidity, paucity of bloud, and latitancy in the winter (about which time the obſervations are often made) will long ſubſist without a viſible ſuſtentation. Example: Let us, this day, imitate his Example in both theſe Reſpects ; and whilſt we are enjoying the good things of Life, let us remember Thoſe that want even the Neceſſaries and firſt Conveniences of it : And remember them, as We ourſelves ſhould have deſired to be remembred, had it been our ſad Lot, to ſubſiſt on other Mens Charity. 2. To have ontological reality; to exist. Example: Remember Man! "the Univerſal Cauſe / Acts not by partial, but by gen’ral Laws ; / And makes what Happineſs we juſtly call / Subſiſt not in the Good of one, but all. Example: Subject to section 5(1), copyright subsists only by virtue of this Act. 3. To retain a certain state; to continue. Example: Firm we ſubſiſt, yet poſſible to ſwerve / Since Reaſon not impoſſibly may meet / Some ſpecious object by the Foe ſubornd, / And fall into deception unaware, / Not keeping ſtricteſt watch, as ſhe was warnd. Example: It was impoſſible that the queen of France [Marie Antoinette] ſhould not be deeply affected by a conteſt, which ſo cloſely involved her neareſt and deareſt connections, and threatened ſo immediate and perhaps irreparable a breach of the harmony and friendſhip ſubſiſting between them. 4. To supply sustenance or subsistence to or for. Labels: obsolete, transitive Example: With mutual toil, and intuitive dexterity, we built our commodious habitation in the hollow of a mango tree, that the fruit, which was then in bloſſom, might ſubſiſt our young.
Word: supplemental Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From supplement + -al. Pronunciation: /ˌsʌplɪˈmɛntəl/, /ˌsʌpləˈmɛntəl/, /ˌsapləˈmentəl/ 1. Acting to supplement. Example: The supplementary bibliography (in Vol. VI) attests to the comprehensiveness of the effort. 2. Appending. 3. Lacking a regular schedule (as in a supplemental airline).
Word: supplemental Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From supplement + -al. Pronunciation: /ˌsʌplɪˈmɛntəl/, /ˌsʌpləˈmɛntəl/, /ˌsapləˈmentəl/ 1. Something that supplements or adds to. 2. A requisition or article of legislation that provides additional funding for a program.
Word: sensational Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From sensation + -al. Pronunciation: /sɛnˈseɪʃənəl/, /sɛnˈseɪʃnəl/, /sən-/ 1. Of or pertaining to sensation. Example: sensational nerves 2. Piquing or arousing the senses. 3. Provoking a reaction of interest or excitement. Example: The standard ranges from runs that are almost sensational in the speed and brilliance of the work to the ultra-mediocre. 4. Exceptionally great. Example: Young Dutch keeper Tim Krul saw his value rocket up with a sensational display.
Word: forest fire Part of Speech: noun 1. A fire, often large, that consumes a forest or woodland. Example: If the forest fire is not contained soon the town will be at risk!
Word: uncomfortably Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From uncomfortable + -ly or un- + comfortably. 1. In an uncomfortable manner. Example: Everyone else shifted uncomfortably as this guy continued his derisive laughter and proclaimed my quest the most idiotic thing he'd heard in his life. Example: What I deemed a welcoming community when I moved into it (despite its name), feels uncomfortably different to me after someone from my HOA posted on Nextdoor (which groups members into virtual neighborhoods based on their real addresses) about removing “plantation” from Haile Plantation as a consideration toward residents and visitors who are Black, indigenous and people of color (BIPOC).
Word: unhappiness Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From unhappy + -ness or un- + happiness. 1. The feeling of not being happy. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: While there may be some truth in the Anna Karenina principle that all happy families are alike, but every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way, we increasingly have a better understanding of what makes for unhappiness and stress in the workplace.
Word: unfamiliar Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *né Proto-Indo-European *n̥- Proto-Germanic *un- Proto-West Germanic *un- Old English un- Middle English un- English un- English familiar English unfamiliar From un- + familiar. Pronunciation: /ˌʌnfəˈmɪli.ə(ɹ)/ 1. Strange, not familiar. Example: United were second-best for long periods as they struggled to adapt to an unfamiliar line-up and were ultimately fortunate to leave Merseyside with their unbeaten league run still intact.
Word: unfamiliar Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *né Proto-Indo-European *n̥- Proto-Germanic *un- Proto-West Germanic *un- Old English un- Middle English un- English un- English familiar English unfamiliar From un- + familiar. Pronunciation: /ˌʌnfəˈmɪli.ə(ɹ)/ 1. An unfamiliar person; a stranger.
Word: ungracious Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English ungracious; equivalent to un- + gracious. Pronunciation: /ʌnˈɡɹeɪʃəs/ 1. Not gracious; unkind or cold-hearted. Example: One might have hoped for more about the Widened Lines and about the G.C. approach to Marylebone—but it is ungracious to point to omissions when so much is contained within 260 pages.
Word: pothole Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From dialectal pot (“pit, hollow, cavity”) + hole. The "cave" senses, attested since at least 1809 (as pot-hole), may be from Middle English pot, potte (“a deep hole for a mine, or from peat-digging”), of uncertain origin; perhaps related to English pit, pote, or pot. Compare Scots pott, patt (“a pit dug in the ground; coalpit”). 1. A shallow pit or other edged depression in a road's surface, especially when caused by erosion, weather or traffic. Example: I was so tired that potholes, fumes and noise aside, I slept regardless, my head rag-dolling from side to side. Example: The previous Elantra had three problems: The steering hero-worshiped Novocain, occupants grew hoarse from shouting over road noise, and large potholes betrayed a lack of structure. 2. A pit formed in the bed of a turbulent stream. Example: 2002, May-June, Grand River Conservation Authority (Canada) Newsletter The earliest ideas on the creation of potholes are that they were associated with "moulins de glacier" (glacier mills) formed where surface streams on glaciers and ice sheets fall into holes in the ice. Water entering these surficial holes was believed to impact on the bedrock beneath creating a large pothole. The "Moulin Hypothesis", first suggested in 1874, continued to be accepted by many authors until the 1950s. However, commencing in the 1930s, other authors have suggested dissatisfaction with the moulin hypothesis, largely on the grounds that it failed to explain how ice could remain stable long enough for the "giant" potholes to form and why many potholes (like those at Rockwood) were present in large numbers. 3. A vertical cave system, often found in limestone. 4. A pit resulting from unauthorized excavation by treasure-hunters or vandals. 5. A shallow hole dug for the purpose of prospecting for opal or gold. Labels: Australia 6. A hyperlink with text displayed on a page that is different from the title of the page to which the text links; a piped link. Labels: slang
Word: pothole Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From pot + hole. Attested since at least 1811 (also as pot-hole), possibly continuing Middle English *pothol (attested in the plural, potholys). 1. A hole or recess on the top of a stove into which a pot may be placed. Example: Stoves with two or more potholes The normal single-pot stove in which the pot sits on top, rather than being sunk into the pothole, has a major limitation.
Word: fourth wall Part of Speech: noun Etymology: A reference to the three walls of a box set, with the fourth wall being the imaginary wall separating the performers from the audience. Coined by philosopher and art critic Denis Diderot in 1758 and thus a calque of French quatrième mur. 1. The imaginary invisible wall at the front of the stage in a proscenium theatre, through which the audience sees the action in the world of the play. Labels: idiomatic Example: This is a flat, unnecessary, and strangely disturbing denial of the fourth-wall convention, that unwritten agreement between playwright and playgoer whereby you think of yourself at the theatre as a privileged, exonerated, comfortably seated eavesdropper. Example: There's been a convention in the theater world to think of the division between audience and spectacle as a fourth wall, a wall that the playwright tries to eliminate through the force of his drama. 2. The boundary between the fiction and the audience. Labels: broadly Example: Even though you, the author, may be maintaining a fourth wall between your characters and your readers, he, the narrator, is not keeping that fourth wall between himself and the audience he thinks he's telling the story to. Example: The fourth wall is the imaginary barrier between the stage and the audience, and the phrase is a metaphor for the dramatic frame.
Word: multilingualization Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From multilingual + -ization. 1. The act of adapting or localizing something to, into, or for multiple languages Labels: uncountable
Word: Trapp Part of Speech: name 1. An English surname originating as an occupation derived from the occupation of trapper. 2. A surname from German, either from Trappe (bustard) or Treppe (flight of stairs).
Word: bonkers Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Unknown. Perhaps from bonk (a blow or punch on the head, compare whacky); perhaps related to earlier bonce. Pronunciation: /ˈbɒŋkəz/, /ˈbɑŋkɚz/ 1. Mad; crazy. Labels: UK, especially, informal Example: [A]nd we should remind ourselves that it is absolutely bonkers that we elect judges at all; that system is used almost nowhere else on earth[.] Example: "They are turning people off travelling. And the removal of catering on such a long-distance route is just bonkers."
Word: bonkers Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Unknown. Perhaps from bonk (a blow or punch on the head, compare whacky); perhaps related to earlier bonce. Pronunciation: /ˈbɒŋkəz/, /ˈbɑŋkɚz/ 1. plural of bonker Labels: form-of, plural
Word: Common Era Part of Speech: name Etymology: Originally Vulgar Era. The English phrase common Era appears at least as early as 1708, and by 1715 is used synonymously with Christian Era and Vulgar Era. 1. The secular equivalent of anno Domini and the Christian Era, the internationally recognized method of numbering years on the Gregorian calendar. Example: The second Book is divided into eight Chapters, treats of the origin of the Greek Characters, and changes that happen'd in them, to the fourth Century of the common Era. Example: Some say the World was created 3950 Years before the common Æra of Christ
Word: goad stick Part of Speech: noun 1. A stick used as a goad. Example: There was a muleteer to every donkey and a dozen volunteers beside, and they banged the donkeys with their goad-sticks, and pricked them with their spikes, and shouted something that sounded like "Sekki-yah!" and kept up a din and a racket that was worse than Bedlam itself.
Word: slambang Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From slam + bang. 1. With a slam and a bang; with noisy or headlong violence. Labels: not-comparable Example: The car went slambang into a fence.
Word: slambang Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From slam + bang. 1. Violent and noisy; unrestrained. Example: […] the slambang, profane hit play, The Front Page […]
Word: slambang Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From slam + bang. 1. To go with a slam and a bang; go noisily. Labels: intransitive Example: Zooey’s razor, new blade and all slambanged down into the metal wastebasket.
Word: potholing Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From pothole + -ing. 1. A form of caving involving the exploration of potholes. Labels: uncountable
Word: potholer Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From pothole + -er. 1. Someone who explores potholes as a hobby. Labels: British, English
Word: caving Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ˈkeɪvɪŋ/ 1. The recreational sport of exploring caves. Labels: countable, uncountable 2. An act of collapsing or caving in. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Likewise, some Turner Valley wells had to be abandoned because of repeated cavings.
Word: caving Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /ˈkeɪvɪŋ/ 1. present participle and gerund of cave Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: slivovitz Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Serbo-Croatian šljȉvovica, шљи̏вовица (“slivovitz”), from šljȉva, шљи̏ва (“plum”) + -ica, -ица (suffix forming a feminine noun, often a diminutive). Šljȉva may be derived from Proto-Indo-European *sliwo-, the suffixed form of *(s)leh₃y- (“bluish”), describing the colour of the fruit. Pronunciation: /ˈslɪvəvɪts/, /ˈslɪvəˌvɪts/ 1. A type of rakija made mostly in Eastern European countries from distilled, fermented plum juice. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: The spirit called Sirmischer Slivovitz is met with at Trieste. It is distilled from fermented plums, and is made in Sirmia near Belgrade. This kind of spirit is also in use at Vienna and Prague. Example: Four fairs are held at Pest annually; and while they last, it is calculated that 20,000 strangers and 14,000 waggons pass the outer lines. 8000 large barges unload at the quay in the course of the year: the principal trade lies in wines, raw hides, honey, wax, and a vile spirit, called Slivovitz, made from plums. 2. A serving of this alcoholic drink. Labels: countable Example: Jacek turned his back to the streetcar, from the yellow windows of the restaurant the lament of an accordion and near the door the sad figure of his neighbor Mestek in his green windbreaker with a hood sitting over a melancholy plate of kipper and a glass of stale beer, Jacek downed two double slivovitzes, tripe soup, herring and onions, ten ounces of sausage, and three beers, and quietly returned home. Example: They were in Vienna for an evening, and after dinner and a couple of slivovitzes, he watched through the hotel room window as snow began to gather on a statue of Johann Strauss.
Word: hook up Part of Speech: verb 1. To hook something together. Labels: transitive 2. To hook something together. Labels: transitive Example: The suspect was hooked up to a lie detector. Example: An artificial kidney these days still means a refrigerator-sized dialysis machine. Such devices mimic[…]real kidneys[…]. But they are nothing like as efficient, and can cause bleeding, clotting and infection—not to mention inconvenience for patients, who typically need to be hooked up to one three times a week for hours at a time. 3. To associate or socialize with someone. Labels: intransitive, slang Example: The last time Madonna was indisputably on point, she had hooked up with French producer Mirwais for Music (2000) and the sensuous possibilities of club culture. 4. To associate or socialize with someone. Labels: slang, transitive Example: One site, PearPop.com, hooks TikTok or Instagram influencers up with fans to create duetted or stitched videos that fans pay for. This can be an effective way to build followers fast.⁹ Model Leah Svoboda added 120,000 followers after a PearPop duet with megainfluencer Anna Shumate.¹⁰ 5. To associate or socialize with someone. Labels: intransitive, slang Example: You work out so you can increase your chances of hooking up. That means having the kind of physique that looks good in clothes and looks even better naked. Example: Mr. Woo said a Grindr survey of its users found that two-thirds of them were using the application to find new friends, to network or to kill time, as well as to hook up. 6. To sell or supply something. Labels: idiomatic, slang Example: That guy didn't get his ticket; can you hook him up for me? 7. To sell or supply something. Labels: idiomatic, slang Example: Hey man, can you hook me up with some weed? Example: He's been hooking me up for years. 8. To sell or supply something. Labels: idiomatic, slang Example: When you need a new car, come see me, I can hook you up with friend prices.
Word: kool Part of Speech: adj 1. Deliberate misspelling of cool. Labels: alt-of, deliberate, misspelling, slang
Word: kool Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Back slang for look. 1. To look; to pay attention to with one’s eyes. Labels: obsolete Example: Now kool my downy kicksies—the style for me, / Built on a plan werry naughty, Example: We had not been engaged in our reading very long when at the far end of the arch I noticed a twinkling light. "Kool esclop!" shouted one of the boys, at the same moment doucing the glim and bolting with his companion, leaving me in the dark with my upset beer bottle and my douced candle, forming a spectacle which seemed to arouse suspicion on the part of our friend the policeman, whose light it was that had appeared in the distance.
Word: impending Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From impend + -ing. Pronunciation: /ɪmˈpɛndɪŋ/ 1. Approaching; drawing near; about to happen or expected to happen. Labels: not-comparable Example: I have no time right now because of an impending paper submission deadline. Example: "Keep off Conductor Rails" said red-painted notices at the platform ends, for third-rails were laid in many places even where electric trains never normally ran, and there had been many rumours of impending electrification of the Wirral, as a natural extension of the Mersey system, a quarter of a century before the change was actually made.
Word: impending Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From impend + -ing. Pronunciation: /ɪmˈpɛndɪŋ/ 1. present participle and gerund of impend Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present Example: The hurricane is impending.
Word: impending Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From impend + -ing. Pronunciation: /ɪmˈpɛndɪŋ/ 1. Something that impends or threatens; an expected event. Example: Speed of locomotion and staying power in horse and others; the sense of smell in dog and in most other creatures (a far subtler and more analytical faculty than is man's mere perception of odour). Even an uncanny supra-natural sense of natural impendings, catastrophe, earthquake and flood, lacking in man, is found in simpler creatures. Example: Although I do think about death quite regularly, my intense fear of lesser impendings has taught me that the only way I will survive it is to remain objective […]
Word: nebris Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Latin nebris, from Ancient Greek νεβρίς (nebrís), earlier νεβρός (nebrós, “fawn”). Pronunciation: /ˈnɛbɹɪs/ 1. The skin of a fawn, as worn by Dionysus, and as worn in his honor by his male followers and female followers (maenads) and other votaries in Ancient Greece. It has also been shown as a panther or fox skin in different contexts. Labels: Greek
Word: adding Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /ˈæ.dɪŋ/ 1. present participle and gerund of add Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present Example: For quotations using this term, see Citations:adding.
Word: adding Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ˈæ.dɪŋ/ 1. An act of addition. Example: […] she is confronted with the menacing reality of her incompetence. Which is not to say she can't do the addings and subtractings.
Word: adds Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /æ(d)z/ 1. plural of add Labels: form-of, plural
Word: adds Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /æ(d)z/ 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of add Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: raising Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Inherited from Middle English reysynge; equivalent to raise + -ing. Pronunciation: /ˈɹeɪzɪŋ/ 1. present participle and gerund of raise Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: raising Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Inherited from Middle English reysynge; equivalent to raise + -ing. Pronunciation: /ˈɹeɪzɪŋ/ 1. Elevation. Labels: countable, uncountable 2. Nurturing; cultivation; providing sustenance and protection for a living thing from conception to maturity. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: cattle raising 3. Recruitment. Labels: countable, uncountable 4. Collection or gathering, especially of money. Labels: countable, uncountable 5. The operation or work of setting up the frame of a building. Labels: US, countable, uncountable Example: to help at a raising 6. The movement of an argument from an embedded or subordinate clause to a matrix or main clause. Labels: countable, uncountable 7. A sound change in which a vowel or consonant becomes higher or raised, meaning that the tongue becomes more elevated or positioned closer to the roof of the mouth than before. Labels: countable, uncountable 8. The operation of embossing sheet metal, or of forming it into cup-shaped or hollow articles, by hammering, stamping, or spinning. Labels: countable, uncountable 9. The substance used to make bread rise. Labels: countable, uncountable 10. The process of deepening colours in dyeing. Labels: countable, uncountable 11. The action of placing something at a higher level. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Contracts for the raising of 16 other bridges have been let.
Word: pulled Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /pʊld/ 1. simple past and past participle of pull Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: pulled Part of Speech: adj Pronunciation: /pʊld/ 1. Of cooked meat, prepared by being torn into fine pieces. Labels: not-comparable
Word: Tatarstan Part of Speech: name Etymology: Transliteration of Russian Татарста́н (Tatarstán). By surface analysis, Tatar + -stan. 1. A republic and federal subject of south-central Russia. Official name: Republic of Tatarstan. Capital: Kazan.
Word: South Azerbaijan Part of Speech: name 1. Synonym of Azerbaijan (“region in Iran”).
Word: cuspid Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Latin cuspid-, stem of cuspis (“point, apex”). Doublet of cusp and cuspis. Pronunciation: /ˈkʌspɪd/ 1. A pointed tooth between the incisors and premolars in heterodont mammals. Example: Near-synonyms: eyetooth (only in humans); fang, fangtooth (particularly elongated cuspids in certain animals)
Word: premolar Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Clipping of premolar tooth, calque of Latin dens praemolaris. Equivalent to pre- + molar. Pronunciation: /ˈpriːmoʊlɚ/, /ˈpriːməʊlə/, /ˈpriːməʊləɹ/ 1. A tooth located in front of the molars, especially the bicuspid tooth between the cuspids and molars in humans. Example: He opened and let out a hogo of medicinal rum and beer. The bad tooth was a premolar.
Word: premolar Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Clipping of premolar tooth, calque of Latin dens praemolaris. Equivalent to pre- + molar. Pronunciation: /ˈpriːmoʊlɚ/, /ˈpriːməʊlə/, /ˈpriːməʊləɹ/ 1. Before a molar tooth, either in physical position or in its time of development; deciduous. Labels: not-comparable
Word: rhinitis Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From rhin- + -itis. Pronunciation: /ɹaɪˈnaɪtɪs/ 1. Inflammation of the mucous membranes of the nose. Example: Near-synonyms: rhinosinusitis; coryza; catarrh 2. cold; common cold. Labels: broadly, metonymically Example: Near-synonyms: rhinosinusitis; coryza; catarrh
Word: cardiac Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *ḱerd- Proto-Indo-European *ḱḗr Proto-Indo-European *ḱr̥díyeh₂ Proto-Hellenic *kərdíyā Ancient Greek κᾰρδῐ́ᾱ (kărdĭ́ā) Proto-Indo-European *-kos Proto-Hellenic *-kos Ancient Greek -κός (-kós) Ancient Greek -ακός (-akós) Ancient Greek κᾰρδῐᾰκός (kărdĭăkós)bor. Latin cardiacusder. Middle French cardiaqueder. English cardiac From Middle French cardiaque, from Latin cardiacus, from Ancient Greek καρδιακός (kardiakós, “relating to the heart”), from καρδία (kardía, “heart”); by surface analysis, cardi- + -ac. Pronunciation: /ˈkɑːdɪæk/, /ˈkɑɹdiˌæk/ 1. Pertaining to the heart. Labels: not-comparable Example: the cardiac arteries 2. Pertaining to the cardia of the stomach; cardial (cardial is the usual adjective in this sense). Labels: not-comparable 3. Exciting action in the heart, through the medium of the stomach; cordial; stimulant. Labels: archaic, not-comparable
Word: cardiac Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *ḱerd- Proto-Indo-European *ḱḗr Proto-Indo-European *ḱr̥díyeh₂ Proto-Hellenic *kərdíyā Ancient Greek κᾰρδῐ́ᾱ (kărdĭ́ā) Proto-Indo-European *-kos Proto-Hellenic *-kos Ancient Greek -κός (-kós) Ancient Greek -ακός (-akós) Ancient Greek κᾰρδῐᾰκός (kărdĭăkós)bor. Latin cardiacusder. Middle French cardiaqueder. English cardiac From Middle French cardiaque, from Latin cardiacus, from Ancient Greek καρδιακός (kardiakós, “relating to the heart”), from καρδία (kardía, “heart”); by surface analysis, cardi- + -ac. Pronunciation: /ˈkɑːdɪæk/, /ˈkɑɹdiˌæk/ 1. A person with heart disease. 2. Heart disease. Labels: dated
Word: cardiac arrest Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ˈkɑɹdiˌæk əˈɹɛst/ 1. The sudden and complete cessation of the heartbeat resulting in the loss of effective circulation of the blood. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: She went a few months before Sukumar died, a cardiac arrest in the middle of an afternoon nap, her rickety heart beating one moment, and then no more.
Word: heart failure Part of Speech: noun 1. The chronic inability of the heart to pump a sufficient amount of blood throughout the body, leading to a pooling of blood and shortness of breath. Labels: countable, uncountable 2. The cessation of the heartbeat; cardiac arrest. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Such is the vocal power of water bailiffs and farmers that their ‘Ois!’ can be projected at small boys from anything up to five miles away and still induce heart-failure.
Word: cardiopulmonary resuscitation Part of Speech: noun 1. A first aid procedure for cardiac arrest involving compression of the chest wall alternating with artificial respiration. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Near-synonyms: mouth-to-mouth resuscitation, mouth-to-mouth, heart massage Example: A DNR decision determines whether or not patients receive cardiopulmonary resuscitation.
Word: pages Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ˈpeɪd͡ʒɪz/ 1. plural of page Labels: form-of, plural
Word: pages Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /ˈpeɪd͡ʒɪz/ 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of page Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: elected Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /ɪˈlɛktɪd/ 1. simple past and past participle of elect Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: elected Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ɪˈlɛktɪd/ 1. One who is elected. Example: “From the council people to the borough presidents to the citywide electeds, it would have an impact.
Word: creatures Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ˈkɹiːt͡ʃəz/, /ˈkɹit͡ʃɚz/ 1. plural of creature Labels: form-of, plural
Word: creature comfort Part of Speech: noun Etymology: creature + comfort, in the sense of basic comforts enjoyed by non-human creatures. Pronunciation: /ˌkɹiː.t͡ʃə ˈkʌm.fət/, /ˌkɹiː.t͡ʃɚ ˈkʌm.fɚt/ 1. Any small item or detail that makes a person feel comfortable and at home. Labels: idiomatic, often, plural Example: My stereo is a creature comfort. As long as I have it I can relax and be happy. Example: On weekends, she enjoys creature comforts like sleeping in and long baths. 2. Alcoholic drink, especially whisky. Example: An empty glass stood on a table before him, which, with his somnolent condition and a very strong smell of brandy and water, forewarned the visitor that Mr Squeers had been seeking, in creature comforts, a temporary forgetfulness of his unpleasant situation.
Word: creature comforts Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of creature comfort Labels: form-of, plural
Word: secretly Part of Speech: adv Etymology: Etymology tree English secret Middle English -ly English -ly English secretly From secret + -ly. Pronunciation: /ˈsiː.kɹɪt.li/, /ˈsiː.kɹət.li/ 1. In secret, covertly. Labels: not-comparable Example: Mary cheated secretly in the test, and never got caught. Example: Sometimes her prose hyperventilates ("Once, years ago, his and N.'s love for each other had glowed like phosphorescent fire on the surfaces of their bodies"), and she has a weakness for epiphanies ("There was a man, no longer young, though not yet old, who, traveling alone in northern Europe, began to feel that his soul was being drained slowly, almost secretly from him, drop by drop").
Word: covertly Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From Middle English covertli, equivalent to covert + -ly. 1. In a covert manner, secretly. Example: Only a little removed from the predatory oafdom of male adolescence, he is suspicious of Christian and covertly protective of Cher's person and future. Example: Shimon’s interestingly stereotypical role as a conformist, but in reality covertly resistant, dominand […] is accentuated in the second half of the story[.]
Word: refinement Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Italic *wre- Latin re-der. Old French re-bor. Middle English re- English re- English fine English refine Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥ Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥tom Proto-Italic *-mentom Latin -mentum Old French -mentbor. Middle English -ment English -ment English refinement From refine + -ment. Pronunciation: /ɹəˈfaɪnmənt/, /ɹɪˈfaɪnmənt/ 1. The act, or the result of refining; the removal of impurities, or a purified material Labels: countable, uncountable 2. High-class style; cultivation. Labels: countable, uncountable 3. A fine or subtle distinction. Labels: countable, uncountable 4. A luxury. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: There was no bathroom in the cabin. Such refinements don't exist in the woods, apparently. 5. Synonym of grooming (“review and prioritization process”). Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: hush-hush Part of Speech: adj 1. Secret, not spoken of (or spoken of only in hushed whispers between insiders). Example: The spy program was very hush-hush: no-one ever spoke of it. Example: The sex lottery went over big in its first try with number runners selling tickets and making the entire affair a very hush-hush production.
Word: hush-hush Part of Speech: noun 1. secrecy; covert operation Labels: uncountable Example: I find a very definite policy of hush-hush here about what Japan is doing […]
Word: hushed Part of Speech: adj Pronunciation: /hʌʃt/ 1. Very quiet; expressed using soft tones. Example: So awe-inspiring was the sight that we spoke only in hushed whispers.
Word: hushed Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /hʌʃt/ 1. simple past and past participle of hush Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: hush money Part of Speech: noun 1. A bribe to maintain secrecy (to prevent bad publicity or to prevent the discovery of a crime). Labels: uncountable Example: The scandal was even greater when it was announced that hush money had been paid to keep the faulty products unannounced. Example: He holds, I am given to understand, a small official appointment in the colony. If it were known that he had received hush money, he would be ruined.
Word: hush up Part of Speech: verb 1. To become quiet; to cease making sounds. Labels: informal, intransitive Example: Hush up now; you have talked too much. 2. To silence. Labels: informal, transitive Example: Some people say he knew too much and they killed him to hush him up. 3. To keep secret, to prevent from becoming known. Labels: transitive Example: They hushed up the suicide to prevent bad publicity. Example: As he took John Willet's view of the matter in regard to the propriety of not bruiting the tale abroad, unless the spirit should appear to him again, in which case it would be necessary to take immediate counsel with the clergyman, it was solemnly resolved that it should be hushed up and kept quiet.
Word: formally Part of Speech: adv Etymology: Etymology tree English formal Proto-Indo-European *leyg-der. Proto-Germanic *līkąder. Proto-Germanic *-līkaz Proto-Germanic *-ê Proto-Germanic *-līkê Proto-West Germanic *-līkē Old English -līċe Middle English -ly English -ly English formally From formal + -ly. Pronunciation: /ˈfɔː.mə.li/, /ˈfɔːm.li/, /ˈfɔɹ.mə.li/, /ˈfoː.mə.li/ 1. In a formal manner. Example: He was dressed too formally for the occasion. 2. In accordance with official procedure. Example: He formally filed a complaint, which involved much paperwork. Example: Dans told CNN he will formally launch his campaign with a prayer breakfast Wednesday in Charleston. 3. In accordance with rigorous rules. Example: He proved it formally but gave his students no intuitive feel for the matter.
Word: prescribed Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /pɹəˈskɹaɪbd/ 1. simple past and past participle of prescribe Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: prescribed Part of Speech: adj Pronunciation: /pɹəˈskɹaɪbd/ 1. Of a procedure, specified to a great degree of detail; established as following a strict procedure or set of rules. Example: Short-term energy monitoring tuning follows a very prescribed procedure; building shell parameters are adjusted first, then HVAC efficiency.
Word: Anton Piller order Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Named after the 1976 British case of Anton Piller KG v Manufacturing Processes Limited, a leading case on the issuance of such orders (Anton Piller KG, the plaintiff and party requesting the order, was a German manufacturing firm). 1. A court order allowing a plaintiff to go to someone's premises and seize documents (entry must be with that person's permission, but if refused would be a contempt of court). Used in extreme cases when a prospective defendant might destroy documents, especially computer files, if they knew a court case was coming.
Word: contrafactum Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Latin. Piecewise doublet of counterfeit. 1. The substitution of one text for another without substantial change to the music. 2. The use of a secular melody with a religious text.