nandhakumarms/qualc-wiktionary-en huggingface dataset:
Word: ooze Part of Speech: noun Etymology: * (Noun) Middle English wose (“sap”), from Old English wōs (“sap, froth”), from Proto-Germanic *wōsą, from Proto-Indo-European *wóseh₂ (“sap”) (cf. Sanskrit वसा (vásā, “fat”)). Cognate to Middle Low German wose (“scum”), Old High German wasal (“rain”), Old Swedish os, oos, ooss, Swedish os. Compare Old Swedish os, oos, Swedish os, Danish os, Norwegian os (“fumes, vapors, reeking, fug”). * (Verb) Middle English wosen, from Old English wōsan; see above. Compare Swedish osa (“ooze”). Pronunciation: /uːz/, /ʉːz/ 1. Tanning liquor, an aqueous extract of vegetable matter (tanbark, sumac, etc.) in a tanning vat used to tan leather. Labels: countable, uncountable 2. An oozing, gentle flowing, or seepage, as of water through sand or earth. Labels: countable, uncountable 3. Secretion, humour. Labels: countable, obsolete, uncountable 4. Juice, sap. Labels: countable, obsolete, uncountable
Word: ooze Part of Speech: verb Etymology: * (Noun) Middle English wose (“sap”), from Old English wōs (“sap, froth”), from Proto-Germanic *wōsą, from Proto-Indo-European *wóseh₂ (“sap”) (cf. Sanskrit वसा (vásā, “fat”)). Cognate to Middle Low German wose (“scum”), Old High German wasal (“rain”), Old Swedish os, oos, ooss, Swedish os. Compare Old Swedish os, oos, Swedish os, Danish os, Norwegian os (“fumes, vapors, reeking, fug”). * (Verb) Middle English wosen, from Old English wōsan; see above. Compare Swedish osa (“ooze”). Pronunciation: /uːz/, /ʉːz/ 1. To be secreted or slowly leak. Labels: figuratively, intransitive, sometimes Example: I promised him I would keep silence, but the story gradually oozed out, and the Cronsons left the country. Example: She picked up the limp sprout and squeezed her thumb up its tiny stalk. Microscopic grains oozed out. “Why, one sprig of nut grass can ruin a whole yard. Look here. When it comes fall this dries up and the wind blows it all over Maycomb County!” Miss Maudie’s face likened such an occurrence unto an Old Testament pestilence. 2. To give off a strong sense of (something); to exude. Labels: figuratively, transitive Example: […] this room, where misfortune seems to ooze, where speculation lurks in corners, and of which Madame Vauquer inhales the warm, fetid air without being nauseated. Example: "Good servants are so hard to find," Chesna said, oozing arrogance.
Word: ooze Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English wose, from Old English wāse (“mud, mire”), from Proto-West Germanic *waisā, from Proto-Germanic *waisǭ (compare Dutch waas (“haze, mist; bloom”), (obsolete) German Wasen (“turf, sod”), Old Norse veisa (“slime, stagnant pool”)), from Proto-Indo-European *weys- (“to flow”) (compare Sanskrit विष्यति (viṣyati, “flow, let loose”)). Compare also Saterland Frisian öäzje (“to smear”). More at virus. Pronunciation: /uːz/, /ʉːz/ 1. Soft mud, slime, or shells especially in the bed of a river or estuary. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: my son i' th' ooze is bedded. Example: It was May before the skunk cabbage began to push up through the ooze of the swamps, before the rhubarb reddened to the back corner of the garden and the spring peepers finally emerged and began abrading the edges of the night with their lovesick vibrato. 2. A pelagic marine sediment containing a significant amount of the microscopic remains of either calcareous or siliceous planktonic debris organisms. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Seaweed were left on the blackened marble, while the salt ooze defaced the matchless works of art. 3. A piece of soft, wet, pliable ground. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: administrative Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From administrate + -ive. Pronunciation: /ədˈmɪn.ɪ.stɹə.tɪv/, [ədˈmɪn.ɪ.st̠ɹ̠̊˔ʷə.tʰɪv], /ədˈmɪn.əˌstɹeɪ.tɪv/, [ədˈmɪn.əˌstɹeɪ.ɾɪv] 1. Of or relating to administering or administration. Example: administrative costs Example: administrative delays
Word: surf kayaking Part of Speech: noun 1. The sport of riding waves as a surfer, while seated in a kayak. Labels: uncountable
Word: horniness Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English horny Proto-Germanic *-inōną Proto-Indo-European *-dyé- Proto-Germanic *-atjaną Proto-Indo-European *-tus Proto-Germanic *-þuz Proto-Germanic *-assuz Proto-Germanic *-inassuz Proto-West Germanic *-nassī Old English -nes Middle English -nesse English -ness English horniness From horny + -ness. 1. Quality of being horny, of having a texture like horn. Labels: uncountable Example: the horniness of a hoof 2. The state, quality, or extent of being horny or sexually excited. Labels: slang, uncountable, vulgar Example: He was visited on a lunar basis by these great unspecific waves of horniness, whereby all women within a certain age group and figure envelope became immediately and impossibly desirable. Example: Horniness is just a mental state with a physical repercussion.
Word: zone Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Latin zōna, from Ancient Greek ζώνη (zṓnē, “girdle, belt”). Pronunciation: /zoʊn/, /zəʊn/ 1. To divide into or assign to sections or areas. Labels: transitive Example: Please zone off our staging area, a section for each group. Example: The high-level process is to shut down the server, unzone the server from Generation 2, zone the server to Gen3, and then define and activate the data-migration (DM) volumes between the Generation 2 and Gen3. 2. To define the property use classification of (an area). Labels: transitive Example: This area was zoned for industrial use. 3. To enter a daydream state temporarily, for instance as a result of boredom, fatigue, or intoxication; to doze off. Labels: intransitive, slang Example: I must have zoned while he was giving us the directions. Example: Everyone just put their goddamn heads together and zoned. # (transitive, archaic, poetic) To girdle or encircle. 4. To assign to a restricted category. Example: We've zoned each other as friends; we'll never be anything more.
Word: zonal Part of Speech: adj Etymology: First attested 1865–70, from zone + -al. Pronunciation: /ˈzəʊnəl/ 1. Divided into zones. Example: Decisions made at the DfT inevitably reflect a London-centric experience, with a comparison being made with the closure of ticket offices throughout the London Underground network. This is not judged to have been detrimental, but there is a simple zonal fares system that is hardly comparable with the range of ticket types used on the national rail network. 2. Related to, associated with, or similar to zones. 3. roughly longitudinal (east to west, or west to east)
Word: time zone Part of Speech: noun 1. A range of longitudes where a common standard time is used.
Word: upright Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English upright, uppryght, upriht, from Old English upriht (“upright; erect”), from Proto-Germanic *upprehtaz, equivalent to up- + right. Cognate with Saterland Frisian apgjucht (“upright”), West Frisian oprjocht (“upright”), Dutch oprecht (“upright”), German Low German uprecht (“upright”), German aufrecht (“upright”), Swedish upprätt (“upright”), Icelandic uppréttur (“upright”). Pronunciation: /ˈʌpɹaɪt/ 1. Vertical; erect. Example: Fab[ell]: What meanes the tolling of this fatall chime, // O what a trembling horror ſtrikes my hart! // My ſtiffned haire ſtands vpright on my head, // As doe the briſtles of a porcupine. Example: Supported by pillows, ſhe ſat almoſt upright. 2. In its proper orientation; not overturned. Example: My brother didn't get angry when his son knocked over the lamp; he simply called the boy over and helped him set it upright again. 3. Greater in height than breadth. 4. Of good morals; practicing ethical values. Labels: figuratively Example: There was a man in the land of Uz, whose name was Job; and that man was perfect and upright, and one that feared God, and eschewed evil. 5. Of a golf club, having the head approximately at a right angle with the shaft.
Word: upright Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From Middle English upright, uppryght, upriht, from Old English upriht (“upright; erect”), from Proto-Germanic *upprehtaz, equivalent to up- + right. Cognate with Saterland Frisian apgjucht (“upright”), West Frisian oprjocht (“upright”), Dutch oprecht (“upright”), German Low German uprecht (“upright”), German aufrecht (“upright”), Swedish upprätt (“upright”), Icelandic uppréttur (“upright”). Pronunciation: /ˈʌpɹaɪt/ 1. In or into an upright position. Example: I was standing upright, waiting for my orders. Example: Human locomotion had been presumed unique because we walk upright with two legs. When investigators led by Nadia Dominici analyzed the electrical activities produced by walking toddlers, preschoolers, and adults as well as newborns that were held upright and prodded to walk along a surface, however, they saw that we essentially follow the same chain of motor commands as several other animals, including rats, cats, monkeys, and guinea fowl.
Word: upright Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English upright, uppryght, upriht, from Old English upriht (“upright; erect”), from Proto-Germanic *upprehtaz, equivalent to up- + right. Cognate with Saterland Frisian apgjucht (“upright”), West Frisian oprjocht (“upright”), Dutch oprecht (“upright”), German Low German uprecht (“upright”), German aufrecht (“upright”), Swedish upprätt (“upright”), Icelandic uppréttur (“upright”). Pronunciation: /ˈʌpɹaɪt/ 1. Any vertical part of a structure. Example: On the change in architectural forms from the pyramidal to the obeliscar, the fires were transferred from the altars, or cubes, to the summits of the typical uprights, or towers; […] 2. Any vertical part of a structure. Example: Chelsea improved, with Salomon Kalou denied by goalkeeper Wayne Hennessey and Didier Drogba hitting the upright. 3. Any vertical part of a structure. Labels: slang 4. A word clued by the successive initial, middle, or final letters of the cross-lights in a double acrostic or triple acrostic. 5. Short for upright piano Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, informal 6. Short for upright arcade game cabinet Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, informal Example: The video arcade machines are typically in stand up arcade cabinets, although some have been built as tables. The uprights have a monitor and controls in front and players insert coins or tokens into the machines to play the game. 7. Ellipsis of upright vacuum cleaner. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis 8. The tips of the antlers of a young deer. Labels: UK, dialectal, obsolete
Word: upright Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English upright, uppryght, upriht, from Old English upriht (“upright; erect”), from Proto-Germanic *upprehtaz, equivalent to up- + right. Cognate with Saterland Frisian apgjucht (“upright”), West Frisian oprjocht (“upright”), Dutch oprecht (“upright”), German Low German uprecht (“upright”), German aufrecht (“upright”), Swedish upprätt (“upright”), Icelandic uppréttur (“upright”). Pronunciation: /ˈʌpɹaɪt/ 1. To set upright or stand back up (something that has fallen). Labels: transitive
Word: indebtedness Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English indebted Proto-Germanic *-inōną Proto-Indo-European *-dyé- Proto-Germanic *-atjaną Proto-Indo-European *-tus Proto-Germanic *-þuz Proto-Germanic *-assuz Proto-Germanic *-inassuz Proto-West Germanic *-nassī Old English -nes Middle English -nesse English -ness English indebtedness From indebted + -ness. Pronunciation: /ɪnˈdɛtɪdnəs/ 1. State of owing money; being in debt. Labels: uncountable, usually Example: Near-synonym: debtorship Example: Laws regarding indebtedness and indenture. 2. The state of owing something or being under obligation to someone. Labels: uncountable, usually Example: Near-synonym: debtorship Example: Strong on administrative competence, the ministers as a group were united in their indebtedness to Fleury and in a collective mistrust of any putative successor from the court. 3. The amount owed. Labels: uncountable, usually 4. All debts totalled. Labels: uncountable, usually
Word: donna Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Italian donna. Doublet of dame and domina. Pronunciation: /ˈdɒn.ə/, /ˈdɑ.nə/ 1. A lady, especially a noblewoman; the title given to a lady in Italy. Example: What are the songs of Italy, sung as they are by the donnas of the scenic board, but a replication of squalls and quavers, infinitely more annoying than the gibberish of crones[…] Example: In Don Giovannis three female characters, the diverse spectrum of womanhood is rendered complete: the great opera seria character of the avenging Donna Anna, the sentimental and spurned Donna' Elvira, and the crafty but sympathetic peasant girl Zerlina.
Word: erotic Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₁rem-der. Proto-Indo-European *h₁rém-e-tider.? Pre-Greekder.? Ancient Greek ἐράω (eráō) Ancient Greek ἔρως (érōs) Proto-Indo-European *-kos Proto-Hellenic *-kos Ancient Greek -κός (-kós) Ancient Greek -ῐκός (-ĭkós) Ancient Greek ἐρωτῐκός (erōtĭkós)der. Latin erōticuslbor. French érotiqueder. English erotic From French érotique, from Ancient Greek ἐρωτικός (erōtikós, “related to love”), from ἔρως (érōs, “sexual love”). Pronunciation: /ɪˈɹɒtɪk/, /ɪˈɹɑtɪk/, [ɪˈɹɑɾɪk], /əˈɹɑtɪk/, [əˈɹɑɾɪk] 1. Relating to or tending to arouse sexual desire or excitement. Example: erotic entertainment and services Example: I had an erotic dream last night.
Word: erotic Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₁rem-der. Proto-Indo-European *h₁rém-e-tider.? Pre-Greekder.? Ancient Greek ἐράω (eráō) Ancient Greek ἔρως (érōs) Proto-Indo-European *-kos Proto-Hellenic *-kos Ancient Greek -κός (-kós) Ancient Greek -ῐκός (-ĭkós) Ancient Greek ἐρωτῐκός (erōtĭkós)der. Latin erōticuslbor. French érotiqueder. English erotic From French érotique, from Ancient Greek ἐρωτικός (erōtikós, “related to love”), from ἔρως (érōs, “sexual love”). Pronunciation: /ɪˈɹɒtɪk/, /ɪˈɹɑtɪk/, [ɪˈɹɑɾɪk], /əˈɹɑtɪk/, [əˈɹɑɾɪk] 1. An amorous composition or poem.
Word: erotica Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₁rem-der. Proto-Indo-European *h₁rém-e-tider.? Pre-Greekder.? Ancient Greek ἐράω (eráō) Ancient Greek ἔρως (érōs) Proto-Indo-European *-kos Proto-Hellenic *-kos Ancient Greek -κός (-kós) Ancient Greek -ῐκός (-ĭkós) Ancient Greek ἐρωτῐκός (erōtĭkós)der. Latin erōticabor. English erotica From neuter plural of Latin eroticus (“amatory”), from Ancient Greek ἐρωτικός (erōtikós). By surface analysis, erotic + -ica. Pronunciation: /ɪˈɹɒt.ɪkə/ 1. Erotic literature, art, decoration, or other such work. Labels: uncountable Example: There's a fine line between erotica and pornography. Example: In fact, eighteenth-century British erotica has been the subject of unremitting attention for the last two decades. 2. A work of erotica. Labels: countable Example: Rather a principal avenue of traffic and distribution of eroticas is the social network of age-peers ([…]). Example: Some films advertised as minor eroticas are so much in demand by the paying public and these have overshadowed the value of a few seminars which seem to draw only the scholars and the film theorists.
Word: xenobiotic Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Hellenic *ksénwos Ancient Greek ξένϝος (xénwos) Ancient Greek ξένος (xénos)der. English xeno- English biotic English xenobiotic From xeno- + biotic. 1. Of or pertaining to xenobiosis. 2. Relating to a substance foreign to the body or ecological system.
Word: xenobiotic Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Hellenic *ksénwos Ancient Greek ξένϝος (xénwos) Ancient Greek ξένος (xénos)der. English xeno- English biotic English xenobiotic From xeno- + biotic. 1. Any foreign compound not produced by an organism's metabolism. Example: This enzyme is characteristic of harmful bacteria species, and it has deconjugative properties that support the transformation of xenobiotics into more toxic substances.
Word: WWI Part of Speech: name 1. Abbreviation of World War I. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of
Word: WWII Part of Speech: name 1. Abbreviation of World War II. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of Example: Q: Did the Republic of China (Taiwan) ever consider using different time zones within the country? A: Yes, five different time zones were proposed for the country in 1918. However, it was hard to implement these different time zones in rural China, and chaos ensued. It was decided to use Kansu-Szechwan Time (UTC/GMT +7 hours) during WWII.
Word: WWIII Part of Speech: name 1. Abbreviation of World War III. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of
Word: world war Part of Speech: noun 1. A war involving the major nations of the world. Example: Their lips met in one long silent kiss, and a moment later he had gone to strike the first blow in the coming world-war, and to bring the beginning of sorrows on the Tyrant of the North. Example: […] Armageddon, that world war with which the Second Coming is to be so closely associated.
Word: dogfish Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From dog + fish. Compare Greek σκυλόψαρο (skylópsaro, “dogfish”), Latin canicula (“dogfish”, literally “little dog”), Italian pescecane (“dogfish”), French chien de mer (literally “dog of the sea”), German Meerhund (literally “seadog”) and Hundfisch (“dogfish”), and English seadog. For non-Indo-European cognates, see Maltese kelb il-baħar (literally “dog of the sea”) and Turkish köpek balığı (“shark”), likely calques from Indo-European languages. 1. Any of various small sharks Example: Off the United States, the National Marine Fisheries Service is helping industry explore fisheries for deep shrimp, rattails, chimeras, orange roughy, smoothheads, slackjaw eels, blue hake, skates and dogfish, which the National Fisheries Institute, an industry group, in an effort to improve their marketability, has renamed cape shark. 2. Any of various small sharks 3. Any of various small sharks 4. Any of various small sharks 5. Any of various small sharks Labels: UK 6. Any of various small sharks 7. Any of various small sharks Labels: Canada 8. Any of various small sharks 9. Any of various small sharks Labels: Barbados 10. Any of various small sharks Labels: Guyana 11. Any of various small sharks Labels: Trinidad-and-Tobago 12. Any of various small sharks Labels: Namibia 13. The bowfin, Amia calva. Labels: US Example: Bowfins, sometimes called Dog-fish, live in sluggish waters throughout eastern N.A.
Word: dogfish Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From dog + fish. Compare Greek σκυλόψαρο (skylópsaro, “dogfish”), Latin canicula (“dogfish”, literally “little dog”), Italian pescecane (“dogfish”), French chien de mer (literally “dog of the sea”), German Meerhund (literally “seadog”) and Hundfisch (“dogfish”), and English seadog. For non-Indo-European cognates, see Maltese kelb il-baħar (literally “dog of the sea”) and Turkish köpek balığı (“shark”), likely calques from Indo-European languages. 1. To engage in dogfishing.
Word: roo Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English roo, ro, from Old English rō, rōw (“quietness, quiet, rest”), from Proto-Germanic *rōō (“quiet, rest”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁reh₁- (“to rest; quiet”). Cognate with Scots ro, ruve (“peace, repose”), German Ruhe (“rest, peace, tranquility”), Danish, Norwegian and Swedish ro (“rest, peace, tranquility”), Icelandic ró (“tranquility, quietness”). Pronunciation: /ˈɹuː/, /ˈɹu/ 1. Peace; quietness. Labels: UK, dialectal, obsolete, uncountable 2. Rest; stillness. Labels: UK, dialectal, uncountable
Word: roo Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Apheretic form of kangaroo. Pronunciation: /ˈɹuː/, /ˈɹu/ 1. Clipping of kangaroo. Labels: Australia, abbreviation, alt-of, clipping, slang
Word: Cablinasian Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Blend of Caucasian + Black + Indian + Asian; coined by Tiger Woods to describe his ethnic background. Pronunciation: /kæblɪˈneɪʒ(i)ən/ 1. Caucasian, Black, American Indian and Asian. Labels: not-comparable, rare
Word: Cablinasian Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Blend of Caucasian + Black + Indian + Asian; coined by Tiger Woods to describe his ethnic background. Pronunciation: /kæblɪˈneɪʒ(i)ən/ 1. A person who is Caucasian, Black, American Indian and Asian. Labels: rare
Word: kazoo Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Probably onomatopoeic. Pronunciation: /kəˈzuː/ 1. A simple musical instrument (a membranophone) consisting of a pipe with a hole in it, producing a buzzing sound when the player hums into it. 2. Synonym of keister (“anus or buttocks”). Labels: US, slang Example: In fact, you can't scratch yourself without getting a bellybutton up the old kazoo there.
Word: kazoo Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Probably onomatopoeic. Pronunciation: /kəˈzuː/ 1. To play the kazoo.
Word: phono- Part of Speech: prefix Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *bʰeh₂-der. Proto-Hellenic *pʰōnā́ Ancient Greek φωνή (phōnḗ)der. English phono- From Ancient Greek φωνή (phōnḗ, “voice, sound”). The word φωνή primarily referred to articulated human or animal sounds. This is in contrast to ἠχή -- from which echo is derived -- which referred to sounds in general. Pronunciation: /ˈfoʊnə-/, /ˈfoʊnoʊ-/, /fəˈnɒ-/, /ˌfoʊnə-/, /ˌfoʊnoʊ-/ 1. Relating to sound Labels: morpheme Example: phonograph
Word: phonograph Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From phono- + -graph. Pronunciation: /ˈfəʊnəˌɡɹɑːf/, /ˈfoʊnəˌɡɹæf/ 1. A device that captures sound waves onto an engraved archive; a lathe. 2. A device that records or plays sound from cylinder records. Labels: UK, historical 3. A record player. Labels: Canada, US, historical Example: […]I've knew people that if they got a rag rug on the floor and a kewpie doll lamp on the phonograph they think they're runnin' a parlor house.' 4. A character or symbol used to represent a sound, especially one used in phonography. Labels: dated
Word: phonograph Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From phono- + -graph. Pronunciation: /ˈfəʊnəˌɡɹɑːf/, /ˈfoʊnəˌɡɹæf/ 1. To record for playback by phonograph. Labels: dated, transitive 2. To transcribe into phonographic symbols. Labels: dated, transitive
Word: career Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Mid 16th century, from French carrière (“road; racecourse”), from Italian carriera, from Old Occitan carreira, from Late Latin carrāria based on Latin carrus (“wheeled vehicle”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ḱr̥sós, from *ḱers- (“to run”); alternatively, from Middle French carriere, from Old Occitan. Pronunciation: /kəˈɹɪə/, /kəˈɹɪɹ/, /kəˈɹɪ.ɚ/, /kəˈrɪjə(r)/, /ˈkarɪjə(r)/ 1. One’s calling in life; one's working occupation or profession, especially when pursued seriously or over a long period of time. Example: When they’ve tortured and scared you for twenty-odd years, / Then they expect you to pick a career 2. The course, evolution, and ongoing advancement of one's working life, especially in one particular field. Example: Washington’s career as a soldier Example: This scandal could ruin his career. 3. The general course of one's action or conduct in life, or in a particular area of life. Example: As I explored the possibility of a library science path, having previously been employed in libraries during my school career and afterwards, I decided that I needed to actually experience work in a library setting full time again […] 4. Speed. Labels: archaic Example: What rein can hold licentious wickedness When down the hill he holds his fierce career? Example: when a horse is running in his full career 5. A jouster's path during a joust. Example: These knights, therefore, their aim being thus eluded, rushed from opposite sides betwixt the object of their attack and the Templar, almost running their horses against each other ere they could stop their career. 6. A short gallop of a horse. Labels: obsolete Example: It is said of Cæsar […] that in his youth being mounted upon a horse, and without any bridle, he made him run a full cariere [tr. carriere], make a sodaine stop, and with his hands behind his backe performe what ever can be expected of an excellent ready horse. Example: Such littleness damps the heat, and weakens the force of genius; as we check a horse in his career, and rein him in when we want him to amble 7. The flight of a hawk. 8. A racecourse; the ground run over. Labels: obsolete Example: to think of going back again the same career
Word: career Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Mid 16th century, from French carrière (“road; racecourse”), from Italian carriera, from Old Occitan carreira, from Late Latin carrāria based on Latin carrus (“wheeled vehicle”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ḱr̥sós, from *ḱers- (“to run”); alternatively, from Middle French carriere, from Old Occitan. Pronunciation: /kəˈɹɪə/, /kəˈɹɪɹ/, /kəˈɹɪ.ɚ/, /kəˈrɪjə(r)/, /ˈkarɪjə(r)/ 1. To move rapidly straight ahead, especially in an uncontrolled way. Example: The car careered down the road, missed the curve, and went through a hedge. Example: He likens the story of his 20s to “a fully fuelled jumbo jet just reaching take-off point and having to slam on the brakes. You’ve got this enormous bloody thing careering off the end of the runway, through the fence, through the house next door, bursting into flames and me crawling out and scraping my wounds for 10 years. I won't be flying that one again.”
Word: career Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Mid 16th century, from French carrière (“road; racecourse”), from Italian carriera, from Old Occitan carreira, from Late Latin carrāria based on Latin carrus (“wheeled vehicle”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ḱr̥sós, from *ḱers- (“to run”); alternatively, from Middle French carriere, from Old Occitan. Pronunciation: /kəˈɹɪə/, /kəˈɹɪɹ/, /kəˈɹɪ.ɚ/, /kəˈrɪjə(r)/, /ˈkarɪjə(r)/ 1. Doing something professionally, for a living (generally said of something that is not a commonplace job, e.g. criminal activity). Labels: not-comparable Example: a career burglar Example: Studies on homeless income find that the typical “career panhandler” who dedicates his time overwhelmingly to begging can make between $600 and $1,500 a month. 2. Synonym of serial (“doing something regularly”). Labels: broadly, not-comparable Example: a career rapist
Word: ute Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Clipping of utility vehicle, originating from the 1930s term coupé utility. Pronunciation: /juːt/ 1. A small vehicle based on the same platform as a family car but with a unibody construction and a built-in open tray area for carrying goods; similar but not identical to a pick-up truck. Labels: Australia, New-Zealand Example: The Reverend John Flynn, a man of simple tastes, was always recognisable in the outback, dressed in a suit, driving an old ute and puffing on a pipe. Example: Still, given the choice between being stuck behind a ute in tropical scenery and spending four to five hours driving through stretches of semi-desert, I′d rather have the ute-plus-heart-attack.
Word: pick up truck Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative spelling of pickup truck. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: pickup truck Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Uncertain, but likely related to its intended use to pick up various supplies. 1. A light truck with an open cargo bed. Labels: Canada, Singapore, US Example: The wildly entertaining trip that follows, involving a used Winnebago and an old pickup truck with ropes for seatbelts, has a profound effect on Pedro. Example: On the same highway, I once absent-mindedly cut in front of this enormous jacked-up pickup truck.
Word: bunyips Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of bunyip Labels: form-of, plural
Word: jettison Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Anglo-Norman getteson, from Old French getaison, from geter, jeter (modern French: would be *jetaison like pendaison); possibly from a Vulgar Latin *iectātiō, from *iectātus < iectāre, from Latin iactō. Doublet of jetsam. Pronunciation: /ˈd͡ʒɛɾəsən/, /ˈd͡ʒɛtɪsən/, /ˈd͡ʒɛtɪsn̩/, /-zn̩/, /ˈdʒɛd.ə.s(ə)n/ 1. Items that have been or are about to be ejected from a boat or balloon to lighten the vessel. Labels: collective, uncountable Example: The shoreline was littered with the floating jettison from the wrecked freighter. Example: Deep-sea divers discovered centuries-old jettison resting on the sandy seafloor. 2. The act of throwing goods overboard to lighten a ship or aircraft in distress. Labels: countable Example: The captain ordered the immediate jettison of the heavy cargo to save the sinking ship. Example: The maritime court spent weeks reviewing the legality of the cargo jettison during the storm.
Word: jettison Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Anglo-Norman getteson, from Old French getaison, from geter, jeter (modern French: would be *jetaison like pendaison); possibly from a Vulgar Latin *iectātiō, from *iectātus < iectāre, from Latin iactō. Doublet of jetsam. Pronunciation: /ˈd͡ʒɛɾəsən/, /ˈd͡ʒɛtɪsən/, /ˈd͡ʒɛtɪsn̩/, /-zn̩/, /ˈdʒɛd.ə.s(ə)n/ 1. To eject from a boat, submarine, aircraft, spaceship or hot-air balloon, so as to lighten the load. Example: The ballooners had to jettison all of their sand bags to make it over the final hill. Example: The fuel tanks were jettisoned. 2. To let go or get rid of as being useless or defective. Labels: figuratively Example: Among the most modern of all the Pacific stock in Great Britain is the stud of "Merchant Navy" and "West Country" Pacifics on the Southern Region, and the rebuilding which is now being carried out, preserving all the best features of the Bulleid designs—such as the free-steaming boiler—and jettisoning the features that have given trouble, in particular the chain-driven valve-motion, should give the Southern a supply of highly-competent machines able to last out the remaining life of steam on the S.R. Example: […] the defense of horrendous behavior as “free speech”; the jettisoning of “free speech” when it served corporate purposes; the way no one seeks permission but all expect forgiveness.
Word: loser Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English loser, losere, equivalent to lose + -er. In the sense of contemptible or worthless individual, perhaps an alteration of losel, which see. Pronunciation: /luːzə(ɹ)/, /luzɚ/ 1. A person who loses; one who fails to win or thrive. Example: In a two-horse race there is always one winner and one loser. Example: He was always a good loser. 2. Something of poor quality. 3. A person who is frequently unsuccessful in life. Example: That guy is a born loser! Example: I'm a constant loser in love. 4. A contemptible or unfashionable person. Labels: derogatory Example: Mike didn't work but insisted that Jewell have a job. He would stay home and do whatever — smoke pot, screw around. He was a total loser, and she picked up the slack. That's around the time that Mom met her soon-to-be-next husband. He immediately moved in. He was a loser, too, with the same work ethic Mike had. 5. One who or that which loses something, such as extra weight, car keys, etc. Example: Another way to speed search (in general) is to order or bias the hypothesis space based on some heuristic. Suppose you are a habitual car key loser and that you keep track of where your keys turn up after each search. Example: But a West German reporting a lost passport in East Berlin during the years of the Wall was treated to a criminal investigation, with the passport loser as the potential criminal. 6. A losing proposition, one that is likely to lose or already has lost (such as a losing bet or, analogously, a predictably fruitless task or errand). Example: A new Guard came to town and decided to flex his muscles with George. We could have told him that he was on a loser but bright young men, then as now, know it all. Example: Hardway bets are losers if they are rolled in any other combination—called "soft" or "easy" numbers. For instance, a Hardway bet on a 4 is a loser if the dice show as 3 and 1. Betting on a Hard 8 is a loser if the dice are rolled as a 5 and 3, or a 6 and 2. Naturally, if the 7 is rolled before the Hardway number shows, the bet is also a loser. 7. A person convicted of a crime, especially more than once. Labels: slang Example: He's a three-time loser doing twenty years.
Word: underspending Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of underspend Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: underspending Part of Speech: noun 1. The spending of too little money. Labels: uncountable, usually Example: Towards the very end of the year it has always been found to be impracticable to avoid overspendings, if only temporary, in some programmes and underspendings in others.
Word: errantry Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From errant + -ry, from Middle English erraunt. See further etymology at errant. 1. A wandering or roving around, especially in search of chivalrous adventure. Labels: uncountable, usually
Word: tactile Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French tactile, from Latin tactilis (“that may be touched, tangible”), from tangere (“to touch”). Pronunciation: /ˈtæktaɪl/, /ˈtæktəl/ 1. Tangible; perceptible to the sense of touch. Example: tactile method of reading 2. Used for feeling. 3. Of or relating to the sense of touch. Example: The delicacy of the tactile sense varies on different parts of the skin; it is greatest on the forehead, temples and back of the forearm. Example: tactile illusion 4. Prone to touching people or things.
Word: eponymous Part of Speech: adj Etymology: PIE word *h₁epi From Ancient Greek ἐπώνῠμος (epṓnŭmos, “concerning giving one’s name to something; named in a significant manner; surnamed”) + English -ous (suffix forming adjectives from nouns, denoting pertinence or relation). Pronunciation: /ɪˈpɒnɪməs/, /ɛ-/, /əˈpɑnəməs/, /əˈpɒnəməs/ 1. Of, relating to, or being the person or entity after which someone or something is named; serving as an eponym. Example: Prince Hamlet is the eponymous protagonist of the Shakespearian tragedy Hamlet. Example: Robinson Crusoe is the eponymous hero of the book. 2. Of a thing: named after a person or entity. Example: The American singer-songwriter Madonna released her eponymous album in 1983.
Word: minor key Part of Speech: noun 1. A musical key based upon a minor scale.
Word: minor scale Part of Speech: noun 1. Any diatonic scale whose first, third, and fifth scale degrees form a minor triad. 2. The natural minor scale.
Word: African hunting dog Part of Speech: noun 1. A wild canid, Lycaon pictus, typically black, white and tan, found in Tanzania, Kenya, Zimbabwe, Botswana and South Africa.
Word: signature Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French signature, or from Medieval Latin signātūra, future active periphrastic of verb signāre from signum (“sign”), + -tūra, feminine of -tūrus, future active periphrastic suffix. Displaced native Old English handseten (literally “hand setting”). Pronunciation: /ˈsɪɡ.nə.t͡ʃə/, /ˈsɪɡ.nɪ.t͡ʃə/, /ˈsɪɡ.nə.t͡ʃɚ/, /ˈsɪɡ.nɪ.t͡ʃɚ/, /ˈsəɡ.nə.t͡ʃə/ 1. A person's name, written by that person, used as identification or to signify approval of accompanying material, such as a legal contract. Example: Thus, when he drew up instructions in lawyer language […] his clerks […] understood him very well. If he had written a love letter, or a farce, or a ballade, or a story, no one, either clerks, or friends, or compositors, would have understood anything but a word here and a word there. For his signature, however, that was different. 2. An act of signing one's name; an act of producing a signature. Example: IN COMMENTS during signature of the bill yesterday during “Agriculture Day” at the Illinois State Fair in Springfield, Thompson agreed with farmers that land needs to be protected. Example: [She ate with herself] during the whole evening, during supper, during her signature of unintelligible papers at her father's desk, when he told her gruffly that she would now have an income of £350 a year minus income tax, which would return to her in some mysterious way […] 3. The part of a doctor’s prescription containing directions for the patient. 4. Signs on the stave indicating key and tempo, composed of the key signature and the time signature. 5. A group of four (or a multiple of four) sheets printed such that, when folded, they become a section of a book. 6. A pattern used for matching the identity of a virus, the parameter types of a method, etc. 7. Data attached to a message that guarantees that the message originated from its claimed source. 8. A mark or sign of implication. Labels: figuratively Example: the natural and indelible signature of God, which human souls […] are supposed to be stamped with Example: The TACOM Vehicle Signature Reduction program is concerned with reducing the noise signature detectability of military vehicles in combat. 9. A distinguishing feature or product. Example: A great beginning is the goose-liver terrine with truffles, one of the chef's signatures. 10. A tuple specifying the sign of coefficients in any diagonal form of a quadratic form. 11. A resemblance between the external character of a disease and those of some physical agent, for instance, that existing between the red skin of scarlet fever and a red cloth; supposed to indicate this agent in the treatment of the disease. Labels: obsolete 12. Text (or images, etc.) appended to a user's emails, newsgroup posts, forum posts, etc. as a way of adding a personal touch or including contact details. Labels: Internet Example: Your signature must not exceed three lines of text, or 600 pixels in height. Example: forum signature generator
Word: signature Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French signature, or from Medieval Latin signātūra, future active periphrastic of verb signāre from signum (“sign”), + -tūra, feminine of -tūrus, future active periphrastic suffix. Displaced native Old English handseten (literally “hand setting”). Pronunciation: /ˈsɪɡ.nə.t͡ʃə/, /ˈsɪɡ.nɪ.t͡ʃə/, /ˈsɪɡ.nə.t͡ʃɚ/, /ˈsɪɡ.nɪ.t͡ʃɚ/, /ˈsəɡ.nə.t͡ʃə/ 1. Distinctive, characteristic, indicative of identity. Labels: not-comparable, usually Example: Rabbit in mustard sauce is my signature dish. Example: The signature route of the airline is its daily flight between Buenos Aires and Madrid.
Word: signature Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French signature, or from Medieval Latin signātūra, future active periphrastic of verb signāre from signum (“sign”), + -tūra, feminine of -tūrus, future active periphrastic suffix. Displaced native Old English handseten (literally “hand setting”). Pronunciation: /ˈsɪɡ.nə.t͡ʃə/, /ˈsɪɡ.nɪ.t͡ʃə/, /ˈsɪɡ.nə.t͡ʃɚ/, /ˈsɪɡ.nɪ.t͡ʃɚ/, /ˈsəɡ.nə.t͡ʃə/ 1. To sign with one's signature, to write one's signature on. Labels: ambitransitive
Word: autograph Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Latin autographum, in turn from Ancient Greek αὐτόγραφον (autógraphon, “a writing in one’s own hand”). Equivalent to auto- + -graph. Pronunciation: /ˈɔːtəɡɹɑːf/, /ˈɔtəɡɹæf/, [ˈɔɾəɡɹæf], /ˈɑtəɡɹæf/, [ˈɑɾəɡɹæf] 1. A person’s own handwriting, especially the signature of a famous or admired person. Example: Some autograph-hunters were pestering the players after the game. 2. A person's signature used as a mark of formal approval. Labels: broadly, colloquial Example: If you could just put your autograph on the ol’ contract, please… Example: For me, identifying an autograph is one of the most exciting aspects of collecting. I enjoy the detective work that comes with discerning a fake from the real deal, and subsequently valuing the item against other examples. 3. A manuscript in the author’s handwriting; a handwritten copy. Example: An autograph of this text, made by E. Weidner, will be reproduced as plate XVII.
Word: autograph Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Latin autographum, in turn from Ancient Greek αὐτόγραφον (autógraphon, “a writing in one’s own hand”). Equivalent to auto- + -graph. Pronunciation: /ˈɔːtəɡɹɑːf/, /ˈɔtəɡɹæf/, [ˈɔɾəɡɹæf], /ˈɑtəɡɹæf/, [ˈɑɾəɡɹæf] 1. Written in the author’s own handwriting. Labels: not-comparable 2. Made by the artist himself or herself; authentic. Labels: not-comparable Example: Schiff […] believes most of the drawings are autograph. Example: Not surprisingly, he attributed to Kauffman two important works that are no longer accepted as autograph.
Word: autograph Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Latin autographum, in turn from Ancient Greek αὐτόγραφον (autógraphon, “a writing in one’s own hand”). Equivalent to auto- + -graph. Pronunciation: /ˈɔːtəɡɹɑːf/, /ˈɔtəɡɹæf/, [ˈɔɾəɡɹæf], /ˈɑtəɡɹæf/, [ˈɑɾəɡɹæf] 1. To sign, or write one’s name or signature on a book, etc. Labels: transitive Example: Diego Maradona is helping in the fight against coronavirus in his home city by autographing a replica of the Argentina jersey he wore in the country’s 1986 World Cup final triumph to raise money for an underprivileged community. 2. To write something in one's own handwriting. Labels: transitive
Word: Cape hunting dog Part of Speech: noun 1. Synonym of African hunting dog.
Word: cross-pollination Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From cross- + pollination. 1. Fertilization by the transfer of pollen from an anther of one plant to a stigma of another. Labels: countable, uncountable 2. Inspiration, stimulation, or influence between diverse elements. Labels: countable, figuratively, uncountable
Word: permanent dirt Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Originated as a slang term in tattoo and piercing parlours in Californian counter culture but has gained traction in mainstream society and other areas. 1. A tattoo Labels: colloquial, uncountable 2. Any form of tattoo, piercing, (deliberate) scarring or other body modification that is considered permanent or would take significant effort to remove. Labels: colloquial, uncountable 3. A hair dye or permanent wave that must be allowed to grow out or be reversed by repeating the process, that will not wash out. Labels: colloquial, uncountable
Word: pickle Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English pikel (“spicy sauce served with meat or fish”), borrowed from Middle Dutch, Middle Low German pekel (“brine”). Cognate with Scots pikkill (“salt liquor, brine”), Saterland Frisian Piekele (“pickle, brine”), Dutch pekel (“pickle, brine”), Low German pekel, peckel, pickel, bickel (“pickle, brine”), German Pökel (“pickle, brine”), Icelandic pækill (“brine”). Pronunciation: /ˈpɪkəl/, [ˈpɪkɫ̩] 1. A cucumber preserved in a solution, usually a brine or a vinegar syrup. Labels: Australia, Canada, US, countable, uncountable Example: A pickle goes well with a hamburger. 2. Any vegetable preserved in vinegar and consumed as relish. Labels: countable, in-plural, often, uncountable 3. A sweet, vinegary pickled chutney popular in Britain. Labels: UK, countable, uncountable 4. The brine used for preserving food. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: This tub is filled with the pickle that we will put the small cucumbers into. 5. A difficult situation; peril. Labels: countable, informal, uncountable Example: The climber found himself in a pickle when one of the rocks broke off. Example: I beg you, Miss Jones, to realize the pickle you're in. 6. A mildly mischievous loved one. Labels: countable, endearing, uncountable Example: by degrees my little pickle (who, as I told you at the beginning of the story, was the most troublesome child I ever came across) turned into a very well-behaved young gentleman. Example: ... If you could get my little pickle to learn his multiplication table before you leave us, you shall have that musical box to take home with you. 7. A rundown. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Jones was caught in a pickle between second and third. 8. A children’s game with three participants that emulates a baseball rundown Labels: uncountable Example: The boys played pickle in the front yard for an hour. 9. A penis. Labels: countable, slang, uncountable 10. A pipe for smoking methamphetamine. Labels: countable, slang, uncountable Example: Load some shards in that pickle. 11. A bath of dilute sulphuric or nitric acid, etc., to remove burnt sand, scale, rust, etc., from the surface of castings, or other articles of metal, or to brighten them or improve their colour. Labels: countable, uncountable 12. In an optical landing system, the hand-held controller connected to the lens, or apparatus on which the lights are mounted. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: pickle Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English pikel (“spicy sauce served with meat or fish”), borrowed from Middle Dutch, Middle Low German pekel (“brine”). Cognate with Scots pikkill (“salt liquor, brine”), Saterland Frisian Piekele (“pickle, brine”), Dutch pekel (“pickle, brine”), Low German pekel, peckel, pickel, bickel (“pickle, brine”), German Pökel (“pickle, brine”), Icelandic pækill (“brine”). Pronunciation: /ˈpɪkəl/, [ˈpɪkɫ̩] 1. To preserve food (or sometimes other things) in a salt, sugar or vinegar solution. Labels: ergative, transitive Example: We pickled the remainder of the crop. Example: These cucumbers pickle very well. 2. To remove high-temperature scale and oxidation from metal with heated (often sulphuric) industrial acid. Labels: transitive Example: The crew will pickle the fittings in the morning. 3. To serialize. Example: You can now restore the pickled data. If you like, close your Python interpreter and open a new instance, to convince yourself […] Example: To illustrate how this would work in practice, consider a field designed to store and retrieve a pickled copy of any arbitrary Python object. 4. To pour brine over a person after flogging them, as a method of punishment. Labels: historical Example: On Wednesday 26 May, […] I had [an enslaved man] flogged and pickled and then made Hector shit in his mouth. […] In July, […] Gave [another enslaved man] a moderate whipping, pickled him well, made Hector shit in his mouth, […] Example: Naval seamen could also be keel-hauled, ducked, pickled, and flogged around the fleet. [elsewhere, page 93, the book explains:] A pickled man had his flogged back washed with vinegar.
Word: pickle Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Perhaps from Scottish pickle, apparently from pick + -le (diminutive suffix). Compare Scots pickil. Pronunciation: /ˈpɪkəl/, [ˈpɪkɫ̩] 1. A kernel; a grain (of salt, sugar, etc.) Labels: Northern-England, Scotland 2. A small or indefinite quantity or amount (of something); a little, a bit, a few. Usually in partitive construction, frequently without "of"; a single grain or kernel of wheat, barley, oats, sand or dust. Labels: Northern-England, Scotland Example: […] ill things are like guid—they baith come bit by bit, a pickle at a time […] Example: I mind him well, and the burn we fished and the pickle things we took out, and your mother that played with us in her cutty sark, and not a shoe between us nor a bodle of money; but the green hills round us, and all we knew of the world that it lay beyond them.
Word: pickle Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Perhaps from Scottish pickle, apparently from pick + -le (diminutive suffix). Compare Scots pickil. Pronunciation: /ˈpɪkəl/, [ˈpɪkɫ̩] 1. To eat sparingly. Labels: Northern-England, Scotland, ambitransitive 2. To pilfer. Labels: Northern-England, Scotland, ambitransitive
Word: hackney cab Part of Speech: noun 1. Synonym of hackney carriage, (historical) a carriage pulled by a hackney horse or a motorized vehicle available for public hire. Labels: UK
Word: Hackney Part of Speech: name Etymology: The senses "a horse" and "(a means of transport) available for hire" derive from the fact that many horses were kept for hire in the London borough of Hackney. The place name is from Old English *Hacan īeġ "Hacan's Isle" (or "Hook's Island"), referring to dry land in a marsh. Pronunciation: /hækni/ 1. A London borough in Greater London, England, where once upon a time many horses were pastured. 2. A town in eastern London, England, within this borough (OS grid ref TQ3584). 3. An English habitational surname from Old English. 4. One of several breeds of compact English horses: see hackney 5. (means of transportation): see hackney. Labels: in-compounds
Word: pollination Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From pollinate + -ion. Pronunciation: /ˌpɒlɪˈneɪʃən/, /ˌpɑləˈneɪʃən/, /ˌpɔləˈnæɪʃən/, /ˌpɒləˈnæɪʃən/ 1. The transfer of pollen from an anther to a stigma; effected by insects, birds, bats and the wind etc. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: anther Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From French anthère, from Ancient Greek ἀνθηρός (anthērós, “flowery, blooming”), from ἄνθος (ánthos, “flower”). Pronunciation: /ˈæn.θə/, /ˈæn.θɚ/ 1. The pollen-bearing part of the stamen of a flower.