nandhakumarms/qualc-wiktionary-en huggingface dataset:
Word: sharpness Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English sharpnesse, scharpnesse, from Old English sċearpnes (“sharpness”), equivalent to sharp + -ness. 1. the cutting ability of an edge; keenness. Labels: uncountable 2. the fineness of the point a pointed object. Labels: uncountable 3. The product or result of being sharp. Labels: countable Example: The first thing that strikes the stranger is the sharpness of the curves on the metre gauge; it is not unusual for a long train to be travelling in three directions at once, and the engine is frequently in full view of the windows of the ninth or tenth carriage. 4. pungency or acidity. Labels: countable, uncountable 5. distinctness, focus. Labels: countable, uncountable 6. acuteness or acuity. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Mrs. PAGE is gifted with a pleasing voice, which is yet imperfectly weeded of certain sharpnesses, but seems susceptible of a wide range of melodious inflection. Example: A lack of match sharpness was perhaps to blame for Rooney squandering England's best chance after 27 minutes. 7. edge or blade Labels: countable, obsolete, uncountable Example: CUT-WATER, or KNEE OF THE HEAD [S.] the ſharpneſs of the head of the ſhip, below the beak; Example: also thei smytiden bi the scharpnesse of swerd, oxun, and scheep, and assis.
Word: Sharpness Part of Speech: name 1. An inland port in Hinton parish, Stroud district, Gloucestershire, England (OS grid ref SO6702).
Word: backhoe Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From back + hoe. Pronunciation: /ˈbæk.həʊ/ 1. A piece of excavating equipment, either an integral subassembly or an attachment, consisting of a digging bucket or scoop on the end of an articulated arm, drawn backwards to move earth; used in excavator/digger and backhoe tractors. 2. Ellipsis of backhoe tractor: A specialized tractor with the backhoe subassembly. This type of tractor has been superceded by the backhoe loader and trackhoe in most roles. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis 3. Ellipsis of backhoe loader: A multi-purpose tractor with a front-mounted loading bucket and a rear-mounted digging bucket. The tractor combines a front-end loader/loader (component) and an excavator/digger (component). Labels: Australia, Canada, US, abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis Example: Meronym: front-end loader Example: The backhoe is only one type of heavy equipment for rent.[…]I heard about a couple of tool-rental outfits near Chicago that were doing a brisk business renting backhoes and other heavy equipment to homeowners
Word: backhoe Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From back + hoe. Pronunciation: /ˈbæk.həʊ/ 1. To excavate using such equipment.
Word: epigraphist Part of Speech: noun 1. A person who studies epigraphy (inscriptions).
Word: line drive Part of Speech: noun 1. A batted ball hit hard enough and low enough that it appears to travel in a relatively straight line. Example: The line drive went straight into the shortstop's glove.
Word: liner Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English line Proto-Indo-European *-yósder. Proto-Italic *-āzios Latin -āriusnom. Latin -āriusbor. Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz Proto-West Germanic *-ārī Old English -ere Middle English -ere English -er English liner From line (verb) + -er. Pronunciation: /ˈlaɪnɚ/ 1. Someone who fits a lining to something. Example: a liner of shoes Example: A good liner has a pretty shrewd idea of the value of the painting he is treating and usually charges accordingly. 2. A removable cover or lining. Example: I threw out the trash can liner. Example: Lane Coutell, in a Burberry raincoat that apparently had a wool liner buttoned into it, was one of the six or seven boys out on the open platform. 3. The pamphlet supplied in the box with an audiovisual tape or disc, etc. Example: liner notes 4. A lining within the cylinder of a steam engine, in which the piston works and between which and the outer shell of the cylinder a space is left to form a steam jacket. 5. A similar lining for cylinders of internal-combustion engines (see "Further reading"). 6. A slab on which small pieces of marble, tile, etc., are fastened for grinding. 7. A formal no-show sock. 8. A pantyliner.
Word: liner Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Etymology tree English line Proto-Indo-European *-yósder. Proto-Italic *-āzios Latin -āriusnom. Latin -āriusbor. Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz Proto-West Germanic *-ārī Old English -ere Middle English -ere English -er English liner From line (verb) + -er. Pronunciation: /ˈlaɪnɚ/ 1. To fit a cylinder liner. Labels: transitive Example: They have a common chassis, except that the cylinders, 20 in. diameter in the Class "7", are linered down to 19½ in. in the Class "6".
Word: liner Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From line (noun) + -er (relational suffix) or -er (measurement suffix) (sense 5). Pronunciation: /ˈlaɪnɚ/ 1. A large passenger-carrying ship, especially one on a regular route; an ocean liner. Example: With her luxurious furnishings and spacious accommodation the Invicta, which is 350-ft. long and has a gross tonnage of 4,178, resembles a small liner. Example: He turned back to the scene before him and the enormous new block of council dwellings. The design was some way after Corbusier but the block was built up on plinths and resembled an Atlantic liner swimming diagonally across the site. 2. A ship of the line. 3. A line drive. Example: The liner glanced off the pitcher's foot. 4. A basic salesperson. Labels: slang 5. Something with a specified number of lines. Labels: in-compounds Example: the following three-liner by an unknown poet 6. A person born in a certain year (XX liner); a person who belongs to a certain line. Example: 94 liner 7. Ellipsis of penny-a-liner. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis
Word: knuckleball Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From knuckle + ball. 1. A pitch thrown with the ball gripped on the fingertips and released with no rotation, which travels over an unpredictable path to the plate due to micro-turbulence in the air. Example: Even the pitcher doesn't know where his knuckleball is going. Example: Boston Red Sox pitcher Tim Wakefield is best known for his use of the knuckleball. 2. A type of delivery where a fast bowler holds the ball on the knuckles of the index and middle fingers. 3. An event that is hard to predict. Labels: figuratively, informal Example: Our vendor keeps throwing us knuckleballs.
Word: knuckleball Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From knuckle + ball. 1. To pitch knuckleballs. Labels: intransitive Example: Varitek did not start so Kevin Cash could catch the knuckleballing starter Tim Wakefield.
Word: knuckler Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From knuckle + -er. 1. A knuckleball. Labels: slang Example: Fowler flung a stiff-wrist knuckler that hung in the air without spin before it took a sudden dip, but Roy scooped it up with the stick and lifted it twenty rows up into the center field stands.
Word: sinker Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English sink Proto-Indo-European *-yósder. Proto-Italic *-āzios Latin -āriusnom. Latin -āriusbor. Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz Proto-West Germanic *-ārī Old English -ere Middle English -ere English -er English sinker From sink + -er. Pronunciation: /ˈsɪŋkə(ɹ)/ 1. That which sinks or descends. 2. One who sinks something. Example: McLachlan's value as a coal miner was enhanced by the specialized skill he learned as a shaft-sinker. 3. A weight used in fishing to cause the line or net to sink. Example: Hook the sinker onto this loop. Example: Then the caplin moved off, and five minutes later there was no sound except the splash of the sinkers overside, the flapping of the cod, and the whack of the muckles as the men stunned them. 4. Any of several high speed pitches that have a downward motion near the plate; a two-seam fastball, a split-finger fastball, or a forkball. Example: His sinkers drew one ground ball after another. 5. A sinker nail, used for framing in current construction. 6. A doughnut; a biscuit. Labels: slang Example: Of the fifty cents, ten went for the glassy shoeshine; twenty-five for a boutonniere; ten for coffee and sinkers at the Cockeyed Bakery. Example: they improvised by opening a barrel of flour and letting each man dump in a quart of water (if he had one) and scoop out a handful of dough to bake into rock-hard sinkers. 7. In knitting machines, one of the thin plates, blades, or other devices, that depress the loops upon or between the needles.
Word: split-finger fastball Part of Speech: noun 1. A moderate rotation speed backspin pitch thrown with a ball gripped between the index finger and middle finger; it has good velocity, may have a precessing spin, and sinks as it approaches the plate. Example: His strikeout pitch was his split-finger fastball.
Word: change-up Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Deverbal from change up. Pronunciation: /ˈtʃeɪndʒʌp/ 1. A pitch thrown with the arm motion of a fastball, but which travels at a much slower velocity because it is released without the fingers adding power to the delivery. Example: The pitcher had a devastating change-up. 2. An unexpected event. Labels: broadly Example: This RFQ is a real change-up.
Word: strikeout Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Deverbal from strike out. Pronunciation: /stɹaɪːkæʊt/, [st͡ʃʰɹəɪːkæʊ̯ʔ], [stɹəɪːkæʊ̯ʔ] 1. An instance or the act of yielding nothing. Labels: countable Example: We've had one strikeout after the other on the Jones account. 2. An instance or the act of striking out. Labels: countable Example: The pitcher recorded seven strikeouts in the game. 3. Cancellation of a portion of text by crossing it out without deleting it; strikethrough. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: strikeout Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Deverbal from strike out. Pronunciation: /stɹaɪːkæʊt/, [st͡ʃʰɹəɪːkæʊ̯ʔ], [stɹəɪːkæʊ̯ʔ] 1. To cancel a portion of text by crossing it out without deleting it; strikethrough.
Word: auteur Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from French auteur (“author”). Popularised by François Truffaut in the 1954 essay “Une certaine tendance du cinéma français” (“A certain tendency in French cinema”) in the influential film journal Cahiers du Cinéma as the phrase “la politique des Auteurs”. Doublet of author. Pronunciation: /oʊˈtɝ/, /ɔːˈtɜː/, /əʊˈtɜː/ 1. A creative artist, especially a film director, seen as having a specific, recognisable artistic vision, and who is seen as the single or preeminent ‘author’ of their works. Example: The libretto was a piece of hack work from a Parisian scenario factory run by an enterprising auteur of sorts named Eugene Scribe. Example: Since Mr Luhrmann first tackled the opera, he has entered the select circle of celebrity directors on the basis of only three films, including “Moulin Rouge”. And his “La Bohème”—designed by Mrs Luhrmann, Catherine Martin, a double Oscar-winner for “Moulin Rouge”—is avowedly the work of an auteur.
Word: auteur Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Borrowed from French auteur (“author”). Popularised by François Truffaut in the 1954 essay “Une certaine tendance du cinéma français” (“A certain tendency in French cinema”) in the influential film journal Cahiers du Cinéma as the phrase “la politique des Auteurs”. Doublet of author. Pronunciation: /oʊˈtɝ/, /ɔːˈtɜː/, /əʊˈtɜː/ 1. To work as an auteur.
Word: catcher Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Latin captus Proto-Indo-European *-yetider. Latin -io Vulgar Latin *captiāre Old French chacierbor. Anglo-Norman cachierbor. Middle English cacchen English catch Proto-Indo-European *-yósder. Proto-Italic *-āzios Latin -āriusnom. Latin -āriusbor. Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz Proto-West Germanic *-ārī Old English -ere Middle English -ere English -er English catcher From catch + -er. Pronunciation: /ˈkæt͡ʃə/, /ˈkæt͡ʃəɹ/, /ˈkɛt͡ʃ-/ 1. Someone or something that catches. 2. The player who squats behind home plate and receives the pitches from the pitcher. Example: Finding Dempsey in my mind's eye in January was not quite startling, ...but some other catchers turned up in my hot-stove reveries as well. Bob Boone, for instance. Example: A “pitchometer” was installed on the scoreboard to time the pitchers. According the baseball rules a pitcher had to throw a pitch within 20 seconds after he received the ball from the catcher when there was nobody on base. 3. The bottom partner in a homosexual relationship or sexual encounter between two men. Labels: US, colloquial 4. A wrestler. Labels: archaic 5. The webbed glove that the goaltender wears on the hand opposite the hand that holds the stick. 6. Short for mailcatcher (“device for a moving train to pick up mail”) Labels: abbreviation, alt-of
Word: goofball Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From goof + -ball. Pronunciation: /ˈɡufˌbɔl/ 1. A foolish or silly person or animal. Labels: derogatory, endearing, informal, often, sometimes Example: If that goofball would put half the effort into her studies as she does into her juggling, she might do very well. 2. A pill or tablet containing a pharmaceutical which has hypnotic or intoxicating effects, especially a barbiturate. Labels: informal Example: Strong Cobb & Co. of Cleveland announced a new barbiturate which in overlarge doses will turn the stomachs of "goofball" addicts and would-be suicides. Example: That night Marylou took everything in the books; she took tea, goofballs, benny, liquor, and even asked Old Bull for a shot of M, which of course he didn’t give her; he did give her a martini.
Word: goofball Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From goof + -ball. Pronunciation: /ˈɡufˌbɔl/ 1. Silly. Labels: informal, not-comparable Example: He announced, with his usual goofball humor, that he'd like to marry me!
Word: Einsteinian Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From German Einstein, the surname of Albert Einstein (1879–1955) + English -ian (suffix forming adjectives or nouns meaning ‘belonging to, relating to, or like’). Pronunciation: /aɪnˈstaɪ.nɪ.ən/ 1. Of or relating to the German-born theoretical physicist Albert Einstein or his scientific theories. Labels: not-comparable Example: Referring to equations (1) and (2), which give respectively the Newtonian-Einsteinian transformations and the transformations from R and L times to Newtonian or Einsteinian times, we see a decided resemblance between them. Example: The blasphemies which appeared on earth, it was hinted, came from the dark planet Yuggoth, at the rim of the solar system; but this was itself merely the populous outpost of a frightful interstellar race whose ultimate source must lie far outside even the Einsteinian space-time continuum or greatest known cosmos.
Word: extradimensional Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₁éǵʰ Proto-Indo-European *-s Proto-Indo-European *h₁éǵʰs Proto-Indo-European *-teros Proto-Indo-European *h₁eǵʰsteros Proto-Italic *eksteros Latin exter Latin extrā English extra- Proto-Indo-European *dwóh₁ Proto-Indo-European *d(w)is- Proto-Italic *dis- Latin dis- Proto-Indo-European *meh₁- Proto-Italic *mētis Latin mētior Latin dīmētior Proto-Indo-European *-tis Proto-Indo-European *-Hō Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō Proto-Italic *-tiō Latin -tiō Latin dīmēnsiōder. English dimension English -al English dimensional English extradimensional From extra- + dimensional. 1. Originating outside the known physical reality of the universe. Labels: not-comparable 2. Coming from a world outside Einsteinian space-time. Labels: not-comparable
Word: convenient Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English convenient, from Latin conveniēns (“fit, suitable, convenient”), present participle of conveniō, convinīre (“to come together, suit”); see convene and compare covenant. Pronunciation: /kənˈviː.niənt/, /kənˈvi.njənt/, [kənˈvɪi.niənt] 1. Serving to reduce a difficulty, or accessible with minimum difficulty; expedient. Example: Fast food might be convenient, but it's also very unhealthy. Example: 'If you please, m'm,' said Chloe at the door, 'there's the detective here again, and he would like to see the master if it's convenient.' 2. Suspicious due to suiting someone's purposes very well. Example: How convenient that you caught a cold the night before your essay was due. 3. Fit; suitable; appropriate. Labels: obsolete Example: Feed me with food convenient for me. Example: Neither filthiness, nor foolish talking, nor jesting, which are not convenient.
Word: batholith Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From batho- + -lith. 1. A large irregular mass of intrusive igneous rock that has melted or forced itself into surrounding strata
Word: meantime Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English menetime, equivalent to mean + time. Adverb is by ellipsis from in the meantime. Pronunciation: /ˈmiːntaɪm/ 1. The time spent waiting for another event; time in between. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: We'll come back asap; just wait here for the meantime.
Word: meantime Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From Middle English menetime, equivalent to mean + time. Adverb is by ellipsis from in the meantime. Pronunciation: /ˈmiːntaɪm/ 1. During the interval; meanwhile. Labels: not-comparable Example: Repairs will be done tomorrow so meantime restrain from using the bath. Example: Meantime Pope Urban II convoked two councils, one after another.
Word: peneplain Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From pene- + plain. Pronunciation: /ˈpiːnɪpleɪn/, /ˈpɛnɪpleɪn/ 1. A low-relief plain representing the final stage of fluvial erosion during times of extended tectonic stability.
Word: expedient Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English expedient, from Old French expedient, from Latin expediens (stem expedient-), present participle of expedire (“to bring forward, to dispatch, to expedite; impers. to be profitable, serviceable, advantageous, expedient”), from ex (“out”) + pēs (“foot, hoof”). Pronunciation: /ɪkˈspiːdi.ənt/ 1. Suitable to effect some desired end or the purpose intended. Example: Most people, faced with a decision, will choose the most expedient option. Example: Nevertheless I tell you the truth; It is expedient for you that I go away; for if I go not away, the Comforter willnot come unto you; but if I depart, I will send him unto you. 2. Affording short-term benefit, often at the expense of the long-term. Example: [T]he judges were unanimously of opinion that [...] by the common law of England, no man, not authorised by the crown, had a right to publish political news. While the Whig party was still formidable, the government thought it expedient occasionally to connive at the violation of this rule. Example: That's because the debate pits textbook economics — which argues that bailouts beget bad behavior begets more bailouts — against practical politics. And politics, or the taking of expedient steps to keep people happy, will almost always win. 3. Governed by self-interest, often short-term self-interest. Example: But the Expedient, in the sense in which it is opposed to the Right, generally means that which is expedient for the particular interest of the agent himself; as when a minister sacrifices the interests of his country to keep himself in place. 4. Expeditious, quick, rapid. Labels: obsolete Example: the adverse winds / Whose leisure I have stay'd, have given him time / To land his legions all as soon as I; / His marches are expedient to this town / His forces strong, his soldiers confident.
Word: expedient Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English expedient, from Old French expedient, from Latin expediens (stem expedient-), present participle of expedire (“to bring forward, to dispatch, to expedite; impers. to be profitable, serviceable, advantageous, expedient”), from ex (“out”) + pēs (“foot, hoof”). Pronunciation: /ɪkˈspiːdi.ənt/ 1. A method or means for achieving a particular result, especially when direct or efficient; a resource. Example: To secure such a market, there is no other expedient, than to promote manufacturing establishments. Example: He would never let her know that he was aware of the strange expedient to which she had been driven by her great distress.
Word: white noise Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ˌwaɪt ˈnɔɪz/ 1. A random signal (or process) with a flat power spectral density; a signal with a power spectral density that has equal power in any band, at any centre frequency, having a given bandwidth. Labels: uncountable Example: Conventional statistical analyses presuppose that intrinsic variability is white noise. White noise yields a jagged and irregular line with a fractal dimension of 1.5, because successive observations are statistically independent of each other. 2. Any nondescript noise used for background or to mask or drown out other noise. Labels: uncountable 3. Speech that goes ignored or uncomprehended. Labels: broadly, figuratively, uncountable Example: The rest was white noise; I was sick of listening to who I was supposed to be.
Word: pink noise Part of Speech: noun 1. A signal or process with a frequency spectrum such that the spectral energy density is proportional to the reciprocal of the frequency (1/f). Labels: uncountable Example: It was Gilden, Thorton, and Mallon (1995) who first reported pink noise in response time variability during the fundamentally cognitive task of estimating fixed intervals of time.
Word: dendrite Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Ancient Greek δενδρίτης (dendrítēs, “of or pertaining to a tree”). Equivalent to dendr- + -ite. Pronunciation: /ˈdɛndɹaɪt/ 1. A slender projection of a nerve cell which conducts nerve impulses from a synapse to the body of the cell; a dendron. Example: Little copses of television antennas. Whiplike, graceful thrilling metal dendrites drawing images from the air, bringing brotherhood, communion to immured apartment people. Example: A typical brain neuron has perhaps a thousand little wires, called dendrites, which connect it with its fellows. 2. Slender cell process emanating from the cell bodies of dendritic cells and follicular dendritic cells of the immune system. 3. Tree-like structure of crystals growing as material crystallizes 4. A hermit who lived in a tree. Labels: historical
Word: wires Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /waɪəz/, /ˈwaɪɚz/ 1. plural of wire Labels: form-of, plural
Word: wires Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /waɪəz/, /ˈwaɪɚz/ 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of wire Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: nerve cell Part of Speech: noun 1. A cell of the nervous system which conducts nerve impulses; a neuron. Example: The yawning gap in neuroscientists’ understanding of their topic is in the intermediate scale of the brain’s anatomy. Science has a passable knowledge of how individual nerve cells, known as neurons, work. It also knows which visible lobes and ganglia of the brain do what. But how the neurons are organised in these lobes and ganglia remains obscure.
Word: flume Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *bʰel-der. Proto-Indo-European *bʰlewH-der. Proto-Indo-European *bʰluH-yé-ti? Latin fluō Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥ Proto-Italic *-mn̥ Latin -men Latin flūmen Old French flumbor. Middle English flum English flume From Middle English flum, from Old French flum, flun, from Latin flumen, from fluere (“to flow”). Pronunciation: /fluːm/ 1. A ravine or gorge, usually one with water running through. Example: Near the upper end of the portage the river falls 100 feet in as many rods, the water going at lightning speed through a natural flume in the rock. So rapid is the descent that the water in the flume is but 3 feet deep. We named this the "Devil's Slide." 2. An open channel or trough used to direct or divert liquids, especially to carry materials (logs, mined material, etc) or people (as a water slide), especially (but not always) one where the walls are raised above the surrounding terrain rather than recessed like a ditch. Example: [...] the flumes are generally not dark rides and they run much faster. Two notable exceptions are the Timber Mountain[…] Example: […] aqueducts, wooden half-barrels laid on their sides and elevated on rusty trestles, to rush the icy spring water down the mountainside to the fields. This system of irrigation through flumes was simple, but effective. There were miles of flumes and, […] the children of the island used the flumes as water slides. The location of certain especially fast and dangerous flumes was kept secret in families for generations and passed on in unquestioned solemnity . It was against the law to use the flumes as water slides[…]
Word: flume Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *bʰel-der. Proto-Indo-European *bʰlewH-der. Proto-Indo-European *bʰluH-yé-ti? Latin fluō Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥ Proto-Italic *-mn̥ Latin -men Latin flūmen Old French flumbor. Middle English flum English flume From Middle English flum, from Old French flum, flun, from Latin flumen, from fluere (“to flow”). Pronunciation: /fluːm/ 1. To transport (logs of wood) by floating them along a water-filled channel or trough. Labels: transitive
Word: at the top of one's lungs Part of Speech: prep_phrase 1. As loudly as vocally possible. Labels: idiomatic Example: She started screaming at the top of her lungs when she saw a snake. Example: Wolfman Jack, he's speaking in tongues He's going on and on at the top of his lungs
Word: loudly Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From Middle English loudly, equivalent to loud + -ly. Pronunciation: /ˈlaʊdli/ 1. In a loud manner; at a high volume. Example: He spoke loudly so that his brother could hear him from across the street. Example: And still when loudliest howls the storm, / And darkliest lowers his native sky, / The king's fierce soul is in that form, / The warrior's spirit threatens nigh! 2. In a loud manner; gaudily, showily. Labels: usually Example: to dress loudly
Word: nerve impulse Part of Speech: noun 1. The signal transmitted along a nerve fibre, either in response to a stimulus (such as touch, pain or heat), or as an instruction (such as causing a muscle to contract).
Word: nervous system Part of Speech: noun Etymology: 1703, nervous + system. 1. An organ system whose principal constituent is nervous tissue that coordinates the activities of muscles, monitors organs, constructs and processes data received from the senses, and initiates actions. Example: Sudden anger rose in him. “What I’m looking for,” he barked, “is to be left in peace.” His voice trembled with a rage far bigger than her intrusion merited, the rage which shocked him whenever it coursed through his nervous system, like a flood. Example: Biotics manipulate mass effect fields using dozens of element zero nodules within their nervous system that react to electric stimuli from the brain. Amplifiers allow biotics to synchronize the nodules so they can form fields large and strong enough for practical use.
Word: lepra Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Latin lepra (“psoriasis & similar skin diseases”), from Koine Greek λέπρα (lépra, “psoriasis & similar skin diseases”), from λεπρός (leprós, “scaly”), from either λεπίς (lepís, “scale”) or λέπος (lépos, “husk, scale”) + -ρος (-ros, suffix forming adjectives). The shift of sense from psoriasis to Hansen's disease occurred in large part from the use of λέπρα (lépra) to translate Hebrew צרעת (“tzaraath”) in the Septuagint and its subsequent use in the New Testament and Late Latin. Pronunciation: /ˈlɛprə/ 1. Synonym of leprosy. Labels: archaic, uncountable Example: Lepra is an endemic, chronic, malignant, constitutional disease, due to a specific bacillus. 2. Synonym of psoriasis. Labels: obsolete, uncountable Example: Lepra and psoriasis are identical, though the two names are retained. 3. Any layer of algae, lichens, or other substance producing a leprosylike appearance on the surfaces of plants. Labels: obsolete, rare, uncountable Example: Lepra is frequently met with on the trunks, especially of young trees.
Word: cami Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Shortened from camisole. Pronunciation: /ˈkæmi/ 1. A camisole. Labels: colloquial Example: He noticed how she had a little black leather under-the-arm purse and a cami and a trucker hat. It was as though she had time-traveled from early-aughts Kitson.
Word: sari Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Hindi साड़ी (sāṛī) ultimately from Sanskrit शाट (śāṭa), शाटी (śāṭī). Pronunciation: /ˈsɑː.ɹi/, /sɑɽi/, /sɑri/, /sari/ 1. The traditional dress of women in the Indian Subcontinent; an outer garment consisting of a single length of cotton or silk, most often with one end wrapped around the waist to form a skirt, the other draped over the shoulder or head.
Word: Sari Part of Speech: name 1. A city in Iran, the seat of Sari County's Central District and the capital of Mazandaran Province. 2. A county of Iran, around the city.
Word: PIN number Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ˈpɪn.nʌm.bɝ/ 1. A common pleonastic form of PIN (in the sense of "personal identification number").
Word: chip and PIN Part of Speech: noun 1. A system for verifying that the bearer of a debit card or credit card is its owner by checking a PIN supplied by the bearer against a PIN stored on a silicon chip within the card. Labels: uncountable
Word: netizen Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Blend of Net (“Internet”) + citizen. Pronunciation: /ˈnɛt.ɪ.zən/, [ˈnɛɾ.ɪ.zn̩], /ˈnet.ɪ.zən/, /ˈnet.ə.zən/ 1. A member of the community of Internet users. Labels: Internet Example: The netizen posted their question on the forum. Example: Do we have to learn a new kind of language — ‘Netspeak’, as I shall call it — in order to be a netizen?
Word: empathy Part of Speech: noun Etymology: A twentieth-century borrowing from Ancient Greek ἐμπάθεια (empátheia, literally “passion”) (formed from ἐν (en, “in, at”) + πάθος (páthos, “feeling”)), equivalent to em- + -pathy, coined by Edward Bradford Titchener in 1909 to translate German Einfühlung. The modern word in Greek εμπάθεια (empátheia) has an opposite meaning denoting strong negative feelings and prejudice against someone. Pronunciation: /ˈɛmpəθi/ 1. Identification with or understanding of the thoughts, feelings, or emotional state of another person. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: She had a lot of empathy for her neighbor; she knew what it was like to lose a parent too. Example: Like your body's in the room but you're not really there / Like you have empathy inside but you don't really care / Like you're fresh outta love but it's been in the air / Am I past repair? 2. The capacity to understand another person's point of view or the result of such understanding. Labels: countable, uncountable 3. A paranormal ability to psychically read another person's emotions. Labels: countable, uncountable 4. MDMA. Labels: countable, obsolete, slang, uncountable
Word: neural network Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /nɝɹəl ˈnɛtwɝk/ 1. A real or virtual computer system designed to emulate the human brain in its ability to "learn" to assess imprecise data. (Also called an artificial neural network when neural network is defined as including biological ones.) Example: A neural network is a computer system built to simulate, or act like, the human brain. 2. Any network of neurons etc., that function together to achieve a common purpose.
Word: new age Part of Speech: noun 1. A modern spiritual and religious movement, covering a wide variety of alternative spiritual and philosophical ideas, that developed towards the end of the 20th century. Labels: capitalized, often, uncountable 2. New Age music. Labels: uncountable
Word: new age Part of Speech: adj 1. Of or relating to the New Age movement. Labels: capitalized, often Example: At this point in history, the most radical, pervasive, and earth-shaking transformation would occur simply if everybody truly evolved to a mature, rational, and responsible ego, capable of freely participating in the open exchange of mutual self-esteem. There is the "edge of history." There would be a real New Age - Ken Wilber 2. Of or relating to New Age music.
Word: new jack swing Part of Speech: noun 1. A variety of swingbeat dance music combining elements of rhythm and blues, soul music, hip hop and rap. Labels: uncountable 2. The combination of heroin and morphine, as a recreational drug. Labels: slang, uncountable
Word: R & B Part of Speech: noun 1. Abbreviation of rhythm and blues. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, uncountable 2. Ellipsis of contemporary R&B. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis, uncountable
Word: rhythm and blues Part of Speech: noun Etymology: First use appears c. 1924, in Billboard, replacing earlier race music. 1. A style of music combining elements of jazz and blues, with syncopated rhythms and a strong backbeat, originating among African Americans in the 1940s. 2. Shoes. Labels: Cockney, slang
Word: R&B Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of R & B. Labels: alt-of, alternative, uncountable Example: (Inspiration) Comes from listenin' to Hip-Hop / (Inspiration) Comes from R&B / (Inspiration) Comes from listenin' to Jazz / (Inspiration) Comes from Jill, you hear me? (Love) Example: Rock bands record classic albums, while pop stars create "guilty pleasure" singles. It's supposed to be self-evident: U2's entire oeuvre deserves respectful consideration, while a spookily seductive song by an R&B singer named Tweet can only be, in the smug words of a recent VH1 special, "awesomely bad."
Word: swingbeat Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From swing + beat. 1. an early form of new jack swing music Labels: uncountable
Word: asswipe Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Bahuvrihi compound of ass + wipe. First use appears c. 1947 in the writings of Mari Sandoz. Pronunciation: /ˈæswaɪp/ 1. An annoying, contemptible, or worthless person. Labels: Canada, US, countable, derogatory, informal, mildly, offensive, vulgar Example: He is such an asswipe! Example: ...they have been exchanging insults in writing: "dickhead," "dillweed," "fuzzbutt," "dorkwad," "asswipe," and so forth. 2. Toilet paper. Labels: Canada, US, informal, mildly, uncountable, vulgar Example: I rapidly expended my own and everyone else’s supply of tiny C-ration rolls of asswipe and was reduced to wiping my nasty behind with leaves and grass. Example: “[…] Into your packs you put your toilet articles, mess kits, extra socks, and skivvies and longjohns if you have them. If you have a roll of asswipe, put that in, too. […]”
Word: dance music Part of Speech: noun 1. Music composed to accompany social dancing. Labels: uncountable Example: From all sides her gift for playing the piano was insisted upon, and she had to consent. As very soon she had played the only pieces of dance music she could remember, she went on to play an air from a sonata by Mozart. Example: In the bar in which Strickland and Nichols sat a mechanical piano was loudly grinding out dance music. 2. Ellipsis of electronic dance music. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis, uncountable Example: Britpop had revitalised rock, and an unprecedented explosion in dance music – sparked off by a second consecutive sunny and idyllic Glastonbury – transformed how Britain thought, listened, partied and came down afterwards.
Word: Sheandra Part of Speech: name 1. A female given name originating as a coinage, of modern usage. Labels: rare
Word: ballet music Part of Speech: noun 1. Music composed primarily to accompany a ballet performance. Labels: uncountable Example: Piano and drums make for very good ballet music!
Word: soul music Part of Speech: noun 1. A genre of music that originated in black American gospel, characterized by the use of secular lyrics, and an earthy, intensely emotional style. Labels: uncountable
Word: gospel music Part of Speech: noun 1. A type of Christian music genre that is a cornerstone of the Christian media that originated amongst African-Americans based on the folk music melodies with the addition of elements of spirituals and jazz. Labels: uncountable, usually
Word: negro spiritual Part of Speech: noun 1. A genre of African American song, usually with a Christian text, and sung a cappella with no harmony; it developed into gospel music.
Word: folk music Part of Speech: noun 1. Any genre of music originating from the ethnic community of a specific region, often passed down through oral tradition, without recorded songwriters and possessing a clear purpose or social function. Labels: uncountable, usually 2. Any contemporary music in the style of traditional folk music, especially a specific genre of originally American popular music that draws on Anglo-American musical forms. Labels: uncountable, usually
Word: melodies Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of melody Labels: form-of, plural
Word: New Labour Part of Speech: name Etymology: From the slogan “New Labour, New Britain”, used by Tony Blair in his 1994 Labour Party Conference speech. 1. A movement in the 1990s and 2000s to rebrand the British Labour Party by discarding traditional goals such as nationalization and socialism. Labels: UK
Word: nationalization Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English national Proto-Indo-European *-id- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)bor. Late Latin -izōder. Middle French -iserbor. Middle English -isen English -ize Proto-Indo-European *-tis Proto-Indo-European *-Hō Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō Proto-Italic *-tiō Latin -tiō Latin -ātiōlbor. Old French -ationbor. Middle English -acioun English -ation English -ization English nationalization From national + -ization. 1. American and Oxford British English standard spelling of nationalisation. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: stakeholder society Part of Speech: noun 1. A society whose members have both rights from it, and duties or responsibilities to it; a concept within the New Labour movement.
Word: Third Way Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative letter-case form of third way. Labels: alt-of
Word: spinal cord Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ˈspaɪ.nəl ˈkɔɹd/ 1. A thick, whitish cord of nerve tissue which is a major part of the vertebrate central nervous system. It extends from the brain stem down through the spine, with nerves branching off to various parts of the body.
Word: brainstem Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative spelling of brain stem. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: infect Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle French infect, from Latin infectus, perfect passive participle of inficiō (“dye, taint”). Pronunciation: /ɪnˈfɛkt/ 1. To bring (the body or part of it) into contact with a substance that causes illness (a pathogen), so that the pathogen begins to act on the body; (of a pathogen) to come into contact with (a body or body part) and begin to act on it. Labels: transitive Example: Not everyone will be infected when an epidemic strikes. Example: Bats host many high-profile viruses that can infect humans, including severe acute respiratory syndrome and Ebola. 2. To contaminate (an object or substance) with a pathogen. Labels: transitive 3. To make somebody enthusiastic about one's own passion, or to communicate a feeling to others, or a feeling communicating itself to others. Labels: transitive Example: Her passion for dancing has infected me. Example: Guido, by way of diverting the embarrassment which seemed to infect them all, began to unfasten the packet of letters.
Word: infect Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle French infect, from Latin infectus, perfect passive participle of inficiō (“dye, taint”). Pronunciation: /ɪnˈfɛkt/ 1. Infected. Labels: not-comparable, obsolete Example: And in the imitation of these twain, / Who, as Ulysses says, opinion crowns / With an imperial voice, many are infect.
Word: infect Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Borrowed from Latin īnfectus, equivalent to in- (“not”) + factus, perfect passive participle of faciō (“to do, make”). Pronunciation: /ˈɪnfɛkt/ 1. Representing an action not yet completed. Labels: not-comparable, rare
Word: intimacy Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From intim(ate) + -acy. Pronunciation: /ˈɪn.tɪ.mə.si/ 1. Feeling or atmosphere of closeness and openness towards someone else, often but not necessarily involving sexuality. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: To adulterous lust the most sacred duties are sacrificed, because, before marriage, men, by a promiscuous intimacy with women, learned to consider love as a selfish gratification—learned to separate it not only from esteem, but from the affection merely built on habit, which mixes a little humanity with it. Example: 1879, Robert Louis Stevenson, “Truth of Intercourse” in Essays, English and American, The Harvard Classics, Volume 28, edited by Charles W. Eliot, New York: P.F. Collier & Son, 1910, p. 287, The habitual liar may be a very honest fellow, and live truly with his wife and friends; while another man who never told a formal falsehood in his life may yet be himself one lie—heart and face, from top to bottom. This is the kind of lie which poisons intimacy. 2. Intimate relationship. Labels: countable Example: 1787, Robert Burns, Letter to Dr. Moore, 23 April, 1787, in J. Logie Robertson (ed.), The Letters of Robert Burns, Selected and Arranged, with an Introduction, London: Walter Scott, 1887, p. 57, I have formed many intimacies and friendships here, but I am afraid they are all of too tender a construction to bear carriage a hundred and fifty miles. Example: “I have always thought it a very foolish intimacy,” said Mr. Knightley presently, “though I have kept my thoughts to myself; but I now perceive that it will be a very unfortunate one for Harriet […]” 3. Intimate detail, (item of) intimate information. Labels: countable, especially, plural Example: He recognized the tone as the one used by friendly sisters to discuss the infirmities of their husbands. It was Shama’s plea to a sister to exchange intimacies, to show support.
Word: reflexive pronoun Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ɹəˈflɛksɪv ˈpɹoʊnaʊn/ 1. In English: a personal pronoun, having a form of "-self" as a suffix to show that the subject's action affects the subject itself. 2. In many languages: a pronoun that makes a transitive verb reflexive or reciprocal.
Word: spinal Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Borrowed from Late Latin spīnālis (“of or belonging to the spine”), from spīna (“a prickle, spine”) + -ālis (“-al”, adjectival suffix). By surface analysis, spine + -al. Pronunciation: /spaɪ.nəl/, /spaɪ.nl̩/ 1. Of or relating to the spine. Labels: not-comparable Example: spinal injury 2. Of or relating to the spine. Labels: not-comparable 3. Of or relating to the spine. Labels: not-comparable
Word: spinal Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Late Latin spīnālis (“of or belonging to the spine”), from spīna (“a prickle, spine”) + -ālis (“-al”, adjectival suffix). By surface analysis, spine + -al. Pronunciation: /spaɪ.nəl/, /spaɪ.nl̩/ 1. A spinal anesthesia. Labels: colloquial
Word: fictitious Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *dʰeyǵʰ- Proto-Indo-European *-né- Proto-Indo-European *dʰinéǵʰti Proto-Italic *θingō Proto-Italic *fingōder. Latin fingō Latin fictus Proto-Indo-European *-ikos Proto-Italic *-ikos Latin -īcus Proto-Indo-European *-(i)yós Proto-Italic *-ijos Proto-Italic *-ios Old Latin -ios Latin -ius Latin -īcius Latin fictīciusbor. English fictitious Borrowed from Latin fictīcius. Pronunciation: /fɪkˈtɪʃəs/ 1. Invented; contrived. Labels: not-comparable Example: Here we demonstrate that the explanation for this arises from subtle end-of-packet and wavetrain gradient effects such as microbreaking events and wave-flow decomposition subtleties required to conserve mass and momentum and avoid fictitious external forces. Example: It is there in Trump’s decision to grant asylum to white South Africans because of a fictitious “white genocide” said to be taking place in their country.
Word: striptease Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From strip + tease. Pronunciation: /ˈstɹɪpˌtiz/ 1. The act of slowly taking off one's clothes to sexually arouse the viewer, often accompanied by music and in exchange for money. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: striptease Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From strip + tease. Pronunciation: /ˈstɹɪpˌtiz/ 1. To perform a striptease. Labels: intransitive
Word: detector Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Latin dētēctor. Equals detect + -or (agent noun forming suffix). Pronunciation: /dɪˈtɛktə(ɹ)/ 1. A device capable of registering a specific substance or physical phenomenon, and that optionally sounds an alarm or triggers a warning. Example: Smoke detectors are mandatory in public buildings. Example: At 2255, it passed a hot axle box detector at Great Bridgeford. No problem here - the detector detected no abnormal temperatures anywhere in the consist. 2. A device capable of registering a specific substance or physical phenomenon, and that optionally sounds an alarm or triggers a warning. 3. A device capable of registering a specific substance or physical phenomenon, and that optionally sounds an alarm or triggers a warning.
Word: headmaster Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From head + master. Pronunciation: /ˈhɛdˌmæstɚ/, /ˈhɛdˌmɑːstə/ 1. A male headteacher. Labels: Ireland, UK
Word: enclave Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from French enclave, from Middle French enclave (“enclave”), deverbal of enclaver (“to inclose”), from Old French enclaver (“to inclose, lock in”), from Vulgar Latin *inclāvāre (“to lock in”), from in + Latin clavis (“key”) or clavus (“nail, bolt”). Compare inlock. Pronunciation: /ˈɛnkleɪv/, /ˈɛŋkleɪv/, /ˈɒ̃kleɪv/, /ˈɒnkleɪv/, /ˈɑnkleɪv/ 1. A political, cultural or social entity or part thereof that is completely surrounded by another. Example: The Republic of San Marino is an enclave of Italy. Example: The streets around Union Square form a Protestant enclave within an otherwise Catholic neighbourhood. 2. A group that is set off from a larger population by its characteristic or behavior. Example: They were learning to do what in all my years in the music business I never saw — which was women running a record company, women producing concerts, women learning to be engineers, women moving into this absolutely all-male enclave. You never saw a woman in any of those positions, in any of that work except as secretaries and "go-fers". Example: What is unbearable, in fact, is the feeling, 13 years after 9/11, that America has been chasing its tail; that, in some whack-a-mole horror show, the quashing of a jihadi enclave here only spurs the sprouting of another there; that the ideology of Al Qaeda is still reverberating through a blocked Arab world whose Sunni-Shia balance (insofar as that went) was upended by the American invasion of Iraq. 3. An isolated portion of an application's address space, such that data in an enclave can only be accessed by code in the same enclave. Example: When an enclave spans a system boundary in a sysplex, it is called a multisystem enclave.
Word: enclave Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Borrowed from French enclave, from Middle French enclave (“enclave”), deverbal of enclaver (“to inclose”), from Old French enclaver (“to inclose, lock in”), from Vulgar Latin *inclāvāre (“to lock in”), from in + Latin clavis (“key”) or clavus (“nail, bolt”). Compare inlock. Pronunciation: /ˈɛnkleɪv/, /ˈɛŋkleɪv/, /ˈɒ̃kleɪv/, /ˈɒnkleɪv/, /ˈɑnkleɪv/ 1. To enclose within a foreign territory. Labels: transitive
Word: innocence Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Inherited from Middle English innocence, from Old French innocence, inocence, from Latin innocentia. Doublet of innocency. Displaced native Old English unsċyld. Pronunciation: /ˈɪnəsn̩s/ 1. Absence of responsibility for a crime, tort, etc. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Her attorney managed to convince the jury of her innocence. 2. Lack of understanding about sensitive subjects such as sexuality and crime. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: In his innocence, he offered the stranger to bring the package to Paris, never suspecting it contained drugs. Example: Eustace gaped at him in amazement. When his urbanity dropped away from him, as now, he had an innocence of expression which was almost infantile. It was as if the world had never touched him at all. 3. Lack of ability or intention to harm or damage. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Tests have demonstrated the innocence of this substance. Example: His unruly hair was slicked down with water, and as Jessamy introduced him to Miss Brindle his face assumed a cherubic innocence which would immediately have aroused the suspicions of anyone who knew him. 4. Imbecility; mental deficiency. Labels: countable, obsolete, uncountable