nandhakumarms/qualc-wiktionary-en huggingface dataset:
Word: emicant Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Latin ēmicāns, present participle of ēmicō. See emication. Pronunciation: /ˈɛmɪkənt/ 1. shining forth or flashing. Labels: obsolete, rare Example: [God][…]which emicant did this and that way dart
Word: emplastrum Part of Speech: noun 1. A medical plaster or dressing made from a soft mixture of drugs, balms, or adhesives spread on cloth or paper.
Word: emplastra Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of emplastron Labels: form-of, plural
Word: Vancian magic Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Vance + -ian, after fantasy writer Jack Vance. 1. A form of magic based on the existence of spells that must be prepared in advance, for specific purposes, and that can be used a finite number of times. Labels: uncountable
Word: enecate Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Latin ēnecātus, past participle of ēnecāre; ē- (“out, utterly”) + necāre (“to kill”). Pronunciation: /ˈɛnɪkeɪt/ 1. To kill off; to destroy. Labels: obsolete, rare Example: in the manner of a most presentaneous poyson, they enecate in two or three hours
Word: body parts Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of body part Labels: form-of, plural
Word: trisyllables Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of trisyllable Labels: form-of, plural
Word: dation Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Latin datiōnem. 1. The act of giving, granting or conferring (e.g. an office) but not liberal as a donation or gift. Labels: countable, rare, uncountable 2. A dose. Labels: countable, obsolete, uncountable
Word: dation in payment Part of Speech: noun 1. The agreed discharge of a debt by giving something differing in character from that of the original debt
Word: snow skink Part of Speech: noun 1. Any skink in the taxonomic genus Carinascincus, endemic to south-eastern Australia (Tasmania and Victoria).
Word: Kazbek Part of Speech: name 1. A dormant volcano in the Caucasus, on the border between North Ossetia, Russia and Georgia.
Word: implantation bleeding Part of Speech: noun 1. Light bleeding from the vagina caused when a fertilized ovum attaches to the wall of the uterus. Labels: uncountable
Word: cœnæsthetic Part of Speech: adj 1. Pertaining to cœnæsthesia.
Word: queenie Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From queen + -ie. Piecewise doublet of queanie. Pronunciation: /ˈkwiːni/ 1. An effeminate man; a male homosexual (especially as a term of address). Labels: colloquial Example: He looks like Eddie Izzard gone too far and sounds a little like Rod Steiger's queenie turn in No Way to Treat a Lady. 2. The queen scallop. Labels: UK Example: There are no closed seasons for queenies or restrictions on fishing time or catches.
Word: queenies Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of queenie Labels: form-of, plural
Word: merese Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Perhaps via French [Term?] (compare French mérèse (growth by cell division), mérisme (merismus, merism)), ultimately from Ancient Greek μερίζω (merízō), from μέρος (méros, “part”) + -ίζω (-ízō, “-ize”), from Proto-Hellenic *(h)méros. First English attestation in 1923 on page 44 of Glass-making in England by Harry J. Powell. 1. A flat, sharp-edged button, often a disc-shaped knob, separating the stem of a drinking-glass from the foot.
Word: Yusuf Part of Speech: name Etymology: Borrowed from Arabic يُوسُف (yūsuf), from Biblical Hebrew יוֹסֵף (yoséf). Doublet of Joseph. 1. Joseph, a prophet in Islam. 2. 12th chapter (sura) of the Quran. 3. A male given name from Arabic.
Word: en dashes Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of en dash Labels: form-of, plural
Word: beat cop Part of Speech: noun 1. A police officer who patrols the streets on foot (walks the beat). Labels: US, slang Example: Others understand community policing as a style of community integration in which the beat cop specifically withholds enforcement as a way to build community contacts.
Word: NWO Part of Speech: name 1. Initialism of New World Order. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism Example: NWO Plans Exposed By Insider In 1969
Word: wet room Part of Speech: noun 1. A bathroom (or area within a bathroom) in which a shower is not surrounded by any barrier
Word: Alice in Wonderland Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Derived from the children's fantasy story Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. 1. As in a surreal fairy tale where things work at odds to the way they do in the real world. Example: It is an Alice in Wonderland question. Let me answer it this way: To design a car, you must — emphasize must — have restrictions to guide you. Example: The law-making affair often has an Alice in Wonderland touch. Terms are defined by law, and if the law says black is white, then for the purpose of the law, black is white.
Word: Alice in Wonderland Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Derived from the children's fantasy story Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. 1. An observer of strange, incomprehensible or disorienting situations. Example: After three years of meeting in a tiny room in the student center, we were stunned that we could all get in one room and move around without stepping on each other. It wasn't crowded; and besides that, it was beautiful. We felt like 50 Alices in Wonderland. Example: But I do not live in a riding that represents the Alice in Wonderlands of the world, Mr. Speaker. 2. A strange, fantasy-like creation or situation that follows its own bizarre logic. Example: I think it is an Alice in Wonderland to say we are going to approve another drug, yet the whole fundamental thing is we still have exactly the same mortality and nobody has anything that impacts on it. Example: Sgt. Pepper seemed to be nothing less than an Alice in Wonderland for the brave new psychedelic world.
Word: dwell time Part of Speech: noun 1. The length of time that a thing or person remains in a given state. Labels: uncountable, usually Example: The drone has a dwell time of about six hours when operating from an in-theater airfield. Example: The part needs a total dwell time in the autoclave of 95 minutes. 2. The length of time that a thing or person remains in a given state. Labels: uncountable, usually 3. The length of time that a thing or person remains in a given state. Labels: Internet, uncountable, usually 4. The length of time that a thing or person remains in a given state. Labels: uncountable, usually 5. The length of time that a thing or person remains in a given state. Labels: uncountable, usually 6. The length of time that a thing or person remains in a given state. Labels: uncountable, usually Example: Due to overcrowding, the train network is experiencing very long dwell times. 7. Synonym of contact time. Labels: uncountable, usually
Word: dwell times Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of dwell time Labels: form-of, plural
Word: amylmetacresol Part of Speech: noun 1. An antiseptic used to treat minor infections of the mouth and throat. Labels: uncountable
Word: Cobb salad Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Developed by Robert Cobb of the Brown Derby restaurant circa 1937. 1. A salad consisting of iceberg lettuce, watercress, endive and Romaine lettuce with tomato, bacon, chicken, hard-boiled egg, avocado, chives, Roquefort cheese and a red wine vinaigrette. Labels: US Example: She ignores: olives, blue cheese, boiled eggs, bacon and avocado – in other words, all of the parts of the Cobb salad that, technically speaking, make it a Cobb salad.
Word: spoilerific Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From spoiler + -ific. Pronunciation: /ˌspɔɪ.ləˈɹɪf.ɪk/ 1. Containing significant spoilers of a story. Labels: informal
Word: lame-o Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From lame + -o. 1. Alternative form of lameo. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: lame-o Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From lame + -o. 1. Alternative form of lameo. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: hard copies Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of hard copy Labels: form-of, plural
Word: crimes against humanity Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of crime against humanity Labels: form-of, plural
Word: the enemy of your enemy is your friend Part of Speech: phrase 1. Two parties who have an enemy in common should join forces against it.
Word: desert islands Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of desert island Labels: form-of, plural
Word: safety islands Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of safety island Labels: form-of, plural
Word: transferrers Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of transferrer Labels: form-of, plural
Word: academisms Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of academism Labels: form-of, plural
Word: Academism Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Ancient Greek Ἀκάδημος (Akádēmos) Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-i-eh₂ Proto-Hellenic *-íā Ancient Greek -ία (-ía) Ancient Greek Ἀκαδήμεια (Akadḗmeia)der. Classical Latin acadēmī̆ader. Middle English Achademia English academy Proto-Indo-European *-id- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō) Proto-Indo-European *-mos Proto-Indo-European *-mós Ancient Greek -μός (-mós) Ancient Greek -ισμός (-ismós)der. English -ism English Academism From academy + -ism. 1. The philosophy of the Platonic Academy; Hellenistic Platonism and skepticism. Labels: historical, uncountable Example: […] since this is the great principle of Academism and Scepticism, That Truth cannot be perceived, […] Example: Skeptical Academism, on the other hand, was certainly influenced by Empiricism’s topics […]
Word: dry hole Part of Speech: noun 1. A hole drilled into the ground for oil or gas exploration which fails to yield enough oil or gas to justify the establishment of a well. 2. Something that brings no success or profit; a dead loss. Labels: figuratively Example: Ultrasound as a treatment for degenerative arthritis was in its infancy. It might eventually turn out to be as effective as the Salk vaccine, or as bogus as the science of phrenology. Either way, it didn't make sense right now. The chances were a thousand to one that it was a dry hole.
Word: homoiohydric Part of Speech: adj 1. Able to obtain water from the environment through a system of roots (or similar organs) rather than through the surface of leaves etc. Labels: not-comparable
Word: academic art Part of Speech: noun 1. A style of art influenced by European art academies, especially one which lacks innovation or individualism; academism. Labels: uncountable Example: After a three years’ study in Italy, where he [Benjamin West] became imbued with the traditions of Academic art, but remained curiously insensible to the real excellences, especially that of colour, of the old masters, […] Example: So let me finally quote again from Véron who made a bitter fight against the fossilism of the old Academic Art of his day, one who may be said to be the real father of modern Individualism in æsthetics, and the best friend that mere “technicians” ever had.
Word: expansure Part of Speech: noun 1. Expanse. Labels: obsolete, uncountable Example: Now loue in night, and night in loue exhorts / Courtſhip and dances: all your parts employ: / And ſute nights rich expanſure with your ioy, […]
Word: angwantibos Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of angwantibo Labels: form-of, plural
Word: herostratically Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From herostratic + -ally. 1. To an extent that attains infamy; infamously. Labels: not-comparable Example: It is precisely the same mode of thought, as lay behind Germany's herostratically notorious act of war when she marched through Belgium for the reason, as she said, that France had planned to march through it if she did not. 2. In a manner using any means necessary. Labels: not-comparable Example: This is just another piece of common sense about philosophy, the one to which the pragmatists herostratically sacrificed everything else.
Word: capital gains tax Part of Speech: noun 1. A tax levied on the profit made from selling any "capital" (i.e. non-inventory) asset. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: that's a wrap Part of Speech: phrase Etymology: From film production; see wrap. 1. Used to indicate that the activity being engaged in has just ended.
Word: triple threater Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of triple threat. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: triple-threater Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of triple threat. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: explodent Part of Speech: adj 1. plosive Labels: archaic
Word: run with scissors Part of Speech: verb 1. To behave recklessly. Labels: idiomatic Example: Maybe instead of overprotecting, we should allow Katie, and the thousands other childhood cancer survivors like her, to play in traffic, run with scissors, and walk blindfolded with suckers sticking out of their mouths! Right? Example: It is dangerous, dumb, and highly delinquent (CRAZY) for a professional educator to goad our poor little misunderstood and hormonally-challenged children to run with scissors. 2. To take a calculated risk. Labels: idiomatic Example: Fly solo. Sure it’s safer to go with a partner, but every once in awhile^([sic]) you have to run with scissors. Example: I'm a firm believer that we should all “run with scissors” from time to time. 3. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see run, scissors.
Word: suck lemons Part of Speech: verb 1. Alternative form of suck a lemon. Labels: alt-of, alternative Example: Aunt Charlie, Dreya, and Manny moved here a year ago when they got evicted from their duplex. My aunt doesn’t keep a job for longer than three weeks, and they never have enough money for rent, so they live with us off and on. It really sucks lemons.
Word: make a meal out of Part of Speech: verb 1. Alternative form of make a meal of. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: expurges Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of expurge Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: extincture Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From extinct + -ure. 1. extinction Labels: obsolete, uncountable
Word: holes in one Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of hole in one Labels: form-of, plural
Word: thundercunt Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From thunder + cunt. 1. An extremely objectionable person. Labels: rare, slang, vulgar Example: Whether it be good or bad, I guarantee you I will have no problems calling you a cock-juggling thundercunt. Example: But I really think that thundercunt, Connors, overreacted.
Word: thundercunt Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From thunder + cunt. 1. To throw (something, into something else such as a wall) with great force. Labels: rare, slang, vulgar
Word: hab or nab Part of Speech: adv Etymology: Probably representing a present subjunctive and a negative form of have. Compare Old English hæbbe, næbbe, and the negative particle ne. 1. Win or lose; however things turn out, in any case. Labels: obsolete Example: But hab or nab [translating à toutes adventures] we can never take too much advantage of it.
Word: exuperant Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Latin exuperans, exsuperans, present participle. 1. excessive or superfluous Labels: obsolete
Word: exuperate Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Latin exuperatus, exsuperatus, past participle of exuperare, exsuperare (“to excel”); ex (“out”) + superare (“to go over”), super (“above, over”). 1. To defeat, surmount, or overcome Labels: obsolete
Word: exurgent Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Latin exurgens, exsurgens, present participle of exurgere, exsurgere (“to rise up”); ex (“out”) + surgere (“to rise”). 1. Arising or emergent. Labels: obsolete Example: Determining exurgent controuersies in a Synod. Example: Once kindled at a pure, etherial flame / A torch was borne across our southern sky / By eager hands who sought the worthy fame / Which comes at length to noblest ministry. / Yet soon exurgent waves / From deep, Plutonian caves.
Word: œdemata Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of œdema Labels: form-of, plural Example: These œdemata are not very constant, appearing when the patients are recumbent on the back, and disappearing when they get up, and vice versâ.
Word: fastidium Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Latin fastīdium (“loathing, disgust”). 1. repugnance toward food; unwillingness to eat Labels: archaic, uncountable
Word: feraces Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of ferace Labels: form-of, plural
Word: self-gratification Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From self- + gratification. 1. Self-satisfaction. Labels: uncountable Example: It turns out that overworking your brain with either physical or mental exercise may lower your ability to delay self-gratification. 2. Masturbation. Labels: euphemistic, uncountable
Word: fidejussor Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Latin fīdēiussor (with -or (“agent suffix”)), from fidēiussus, from fideiubeō, from fidēs (“faith”) + iubēre (“order”). Compare French fidéjusseur. Pronunciation: /ˌfaɪdɪˈd͡ʒʌsə/, /ˌfaɪdɪˈd͡ʒʌsəɹ/ 1. A surety or guarantor. Labels: historical Example: they also take recognizances or stipulations of certain fidejussors in the nature of bail
Word: Kikuchi Part of Speech: name Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese 菊池 (Kikuchi). 1. A city in Kumamoto prefecture, Japan.
Word: eudæmonia Part of Speech: noun 1. Obsolete form of Eudaimonia. Labels: alt-of, obsolete, uncountable
Word: hydrofracking Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From hydro- + fracking. 1. hydraulic fracturing Labels: uncountable Example: The chemicals were used by companies during a drilling process known as hydraulic fracturing, or hydrofracking, which involves the high-pressure injection of a mixture of water, sand and chemical additives into rock formations deep underground. […] A 2010 report by Environmental Working Group, a research and advocacy organization, found that benzene levels in other hydrofracking ingredients were as much as 93 times higher than those found in diesel.
Word: heling Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /ˈhiːlɪŋ/ 1. present participle and gerund of hele Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: colossæums Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of colossæum Labels: form-of, plural Example: “The Pagans,” as an old Spanish writer observes, “spent their riches in erecting baths, colossæums, pyramids, arches, and those insane edifices which antiquity celebrated.
Word: Drambuie Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Supposedly from Scottish Gaelic an dram buidheach (“the satisfying drink”). 1. A Scottish honey-flavoured whiskey liqueur. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: front money Part of Speech: noun 1. Money paid for goods or services in advance, sometimes through an intermediary. Labels: uncountable Example: Near-synonym: down payment Example: "I wouldn't have given him any front money. I don't trust him that much." 2. Capital which is required in order to establish a business and begin operations. Labels: uncountable Example: Promoters of SMR deals usually charge investors thousands of dollars in front money to help them obtain SMR licenses, and later solicit more money to build the systems.
Word: up-front money Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of front money. Labels: alt-of, alternative, uncountable Example: Without up-front money from subscribers to pay for seed, property taxes and insurance, Huasna's Skinner says he would be overwhelmed with debt.
Word: inner planets Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of inner planet Labels: form-of, plural
Word: giant planets Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of giant planet Labels: form-of, plural
Word: outer planets Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of outer planet Labels: form-of, plural
Word: ice giants Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of ice giant Labels: form-of, plural
Word: silicate planets Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of silicate planet Labels: form-of, plural
Word: silicon planets Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of silicon planet Labels: form-of, plural
Word: carbide planets Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of carbide planet Labels: form-of, plural
Word: carbon planets Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of carbon planet Labels: form-of, plural
Word: mesoplanets Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of mesoplanet Labels: form-of, plural
Word: cooish Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Manx cooish. 1. Chat; conversation. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: Schütz Part of Speech: name Etymology: * As a German and Jewish surname, variant of Schuetz. Found in several other countries such as the form Slovene Šuc. * Also as a German surname, from Schutz in Vulkaneifel. Compare Sic, Shutz. Pronunciation: /ʃʊts/, /ʃuːts/ 1. A surname from German. 2. A surname from German.
Word: BRICS Part of Speech: name Etymology: Earlier BRIC. 1. Acronym of Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa, an international economic organization comprising several fast-growing economies. Labels: abbreviation, acronym, alt-of Example: As shown by the BRICS expansion and the long waiting list to join, Xi’s offer of an alternative world order is finding receptive ears in the Global South, where many countries feel themselves marginalized in an international system they see as dominated by the US and its wealthy allies.
Word: A2S Part of Speech: noun 1. Assist-2-Sell, a real-estate franchise organisation in the United States of America 2. Amazon Associates Web Service
Word: A2Ss Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of A2S Labels: form-of, plural
Word: soft tennis Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Phono-semantic matching of Japanese ソフトテニス (sofuto tenisu), itself a wasei eigo (和製英語; pseudo-anglicism) derived from soft + tenis. 1. A variant of tennis, developed in Japan, differing in the tennis ball used, from regular tennis (lawn tennis), having a softer rubber ball. Labels: uncountable
Word: horsetrade Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From horse + trade. 1. To negotiate informally, especially when bargaining or reciprocal concessions are included, frequently regarding politics. Labels: idiomatic Example: Nobody appeared to have told [Woodrow] Wilson that [William F.] McCombs had, in fact, already horsetraded the position to [Thomas R.] Marshall in exchange for Indiana's votes.
Word: fixure Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Latin fixura (“a fastening”), from figere (“to fix”). See fix, and compare fixture. 1. Fixed position; stable condition; firmness. Labels: obsolete Example: Divert and crack, rend and deracinate / The unity and married calm of states / Quite from their fixure!
Word: cervicalgia Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Latin cervīcis (genitive of cervīx) + -algia. By surface analysis, cervic- + -algia. 1. neck pain Labels: uncountable
Word: fraena Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of fraenum Labels: form-of, plural
Word: cymatic Part of Speech: adj Etymology: First attested in 1828, from Latin cȳmat(is) (“sprout, swelling, hollow sphere”) + -ic, stem of cȳma, from Ancient Greek κῡ́μᾰτος (kū́mătos, “wave, billow, swell, sprout, fetus”), genitive of κῦμα (kûma). Compare the latter cymatics (1966) and the earlier Latin cȳmaticus (1753). Pronunciation: /saɪˈmæ.tɪk/ 1. Of or pertaining to cymatics. Labels: not-comparable 2. Describing any secondary effect of sound or similar vibrations. Labels: not-comparable
Word: cassicans Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of cassican Labels: form-of, plural
Word: royal tennis Part of Speech: noun 1. real tennis Labels: uncountable
Word: loss of life Part of Speech: noun 1. Death. Labels: countable, euphemistic, uncountable Example: The new age comes through the death of Jesus, and his loss of life brings abundance to everyone. Example: Chief Superintendent Alasdair Robinson said the device left below the M1 motorway was "sophisticated and substantial" and could have caused huge devastation and loss of life.
Word: generalissima Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of generalissimus Labels: form-of, plural
Word: generalissima Part of Speech: noun 1. A female generalissimo. Example: In the print firestorm that followed the publication of the royal couple's letters, the generalissima was one polemical touchstone. The Annotations to The Kings Cabinet Opened itself depicted the queen as an enemy to king and country: […]
Word: generalissimas Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of generalissima Labels: form-of, plural
Word: eulogisms Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of eulogism Labels: form-of, plural
Word: last hurrah Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /læst həˈɹɑː/, /lɑːst həˈɹɑː/ 1. A final act (by a politician, etc.) or performance (by an actor, etc.) that marks the end of a career. Labels: idiomatic 2. Any final effort or performance. Labels: idiomatic Example: There was the heavy scent of the end of an era for a great side as there was no glorious last hurrah for Kevin de Bruyne, whose City career is coming to a close, while Silva may also come into the same category.
Word: copacking Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of copack Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: copacking Part of Speech: noun 1. The manufacture and packaging of a product under contract to a client (and having the client's name/brand on the packaging). Labels: uncountable 2. Alternative spelling of co-packing. Labels: alt-of, alternative, uncountable
Word: graphium Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Latin graphium (“stylus”). Doublet of graft. 1. A stylus (for writing).
Word: graphium Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from translingual Graphium, from Latin graphium (“stylus”). Doublet of graft. 1. A butterfly of the genus Graphium. Example: Most graphiums have a speckled pattern, and they are fast fliers.
Word: graphia Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of graphium Labels: form-of, plural
Word: guttula Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Latin guttula. 1. A droplet. Labels: formal Example: The sputa, during pneumonorrhagia and peripneumony, is often yellow also, not from bile, but from the guttulæ of blood; […]
Word: guttulae Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of guttula Labels: form-of, plural
Word: habilitator Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From habilitate + -or. 1. One who supplies money to work a mine. Labels: US, obsolete Example: If the mine itself and its machinery, stores, and other valuable things that form part of the undertaking, should be attached and sold in execution, the provisions of the foregoing articles shall be observed in favor of the habilitators, as to the preference of their several claims among themselves, and with regard to the other creditors.
Word: gasometry Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From gas + -o- + -metry. 1. The measurement of gases; the determination of the relative proportion of gases in a mixture. Labels: uncountable
Word: money's worth Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ˈmʌnizˌwɜːθ/, /ˈmʌnizˌwɚθ/ 1. A good or service whose value meets or exceeds the amount of money paid for it. Example: Goodenough's partizans, however, observed that he got his money's worth out of every man he employed; and that this was the way to grow rich. Example: In the appearance of his shops and in the quality of his merchandise, Mr. Schulte promises to give the public its eye's worth and its money's worth. 2. Satisfaction. Labels: broadly, idiomatic Example: Carl Edwards spent most of his Saturday evening trying to get to Kyle Busch’s rear bumper. Once he finally got there, Edwards made sure he got his money’s worth. 3. Recompense or just deserts, especially as resulting from dealing with a perceived injury or injustice. Labels: broadly, idiomatic Example: "Listen, Mikey," she said, "when somebody tries to bully you, just punch him on the end of the nose the way you did old Panfilo. […] [Y]ou be just as mean as you want to be and at least give him his money's worth.
Word: idi- Part of Speech: prefix Etymology: From Ancient Greek ἴδιος (ídios, “own, personal, distinct”). Pronunciation: /ˈɪdɪəʊ/ 1. Alternative form of idio- (“individuality, peculiarity, separateness”). Labels: alt-of, alternative, morpheme
Word: Sabin vaccines Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of Sabin vaccine Labels: form-of, plural
Word: Sagans Part of Speech: name 1. plural of Sagan Labels: form-of, plural
Word: Sagans Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of Sagan Labels: form-of, plural
Word: Wykehamist Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Wykeham + -ist, after William of Wykeham, the founder of Winchester College. 1. Of, pertaining to or characteristic of Winchester College. Labels: not-comparable Example: A prized possession of mine is a recording of Empson reading his poems in a tone of voice that I believe no other human being can match, even if that person also combined Wykehamist, Cantabrigian, and Chinese accents.
Word: Wykehamist Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Wykeham + -ist, after William of Wykeham, the founder of Winchester College. 1. An undergraduate, graduate or fellow of Winchester College.
Word: A− Part of Speech: noun 1. Academic grade issued by some institutions, which is inferior to an A and superior to a B+.
Word: A−'s Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of A− Labels: form-of, plural
Word: ionosonde Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From iono- + sonde. 1. A radar for the examination of the ionosphere.
Word: laughs out of court Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of laugh out of court Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: laughing out of court Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of laugh out of court Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: laughed out of court Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of laugh out of court Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: subtlely Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From subtle + -ly. 1. Alternative spelling of subtly. Labels: alt-of, alternative Example: Then the ministers and two Christian men, Theodorus and Rufinus, wrote their martyrdom and laid it subtlely among the stones. Example: She walked about for a moment or two in order the more thoroughly to show off her paces, and as she walked she smiled subtlely, closed her eyes demurely and managed her skirts with great dexterity.
Word: inconceivabilities Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of inconceivability Labels: form-of, plural
Word: San Diego-Tijuana Part of Speech: name Etymology: From San Diego + Tijuana. 1. An international metropolitan region centered on the cities of San Diego, California and Tijuana, Baja California, and composed of the counties and municipalities of Rosarito Beach, San Diego, Tecate, and Tijuana.
Word: proœmium Part of Speech: noun 1. Obsolete form of proemium. Labels: alt-of, obsolete Example: These are the Proœmiums of these Orations, that I might lay down in order every thing whereof thou maist doubt, without any other definition.
Word: billy-oh Part of Speech: noun 1. The greatest extent or degree of something; used in comparisons to indicate a superlative. Labels: dated, slang, uncountable Example: I bashed my thumb with a hammer, and it hurts like billy-oh. Example: "For the wooden fence leading up to the bridge had caught fire, and it was burning like billy oh."
Word: short-tailed parrot Part of Speech: noun 1. A species of parrot, Graydidascalus brachyurus, native to tropical rain forests of South America.
Word: vatrushka Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Russian ватру́шка (vatrúška). 1. A sort of small, round pastry filled with cottage cheese, popular in Eastern Europe. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Her ladyship was reduced to the pitiable choice of yesterday’s croissants or one of the nine different kinds of rolls, milk breads, sweet breads, scones, pancakes, vatrushki, kalachi, ponchiki, rogaliki and bulochki whose delicious, new-baked smell was wafting all over the house. Example: Bake about 25 minutes or until lightly browned and cooked. Cool on a rack. Yield: About four dozen vatrushki
Word: imo Part of Speech: prep_phrase 1. Alternative form of IMO. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: light-off temperature Part of Speech: noun 1. The temperature at which catalytic reactions are initiated within a catalytic converter.
Word: botifarra Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Catalan botifarra. 1. A spiced pork sausage typical of Catalan cuisine. Example: He squeezed oranges for juice to go with the botifarra, a pork sausage spiced with cloves and cumin, and the spreadable sobrassada, tinted red from Majorcan paprika.
Word: impervium Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From impervious + -ium. 1. An impervious substance. Labels: uncountable
Word: impressure Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Compare Old French impressure, Late Latin impressūra. 1. dent; impression Labels: obsolete Example: Lean but upon a rush, / The cicatrice and capable impressure / Thy palm some moment keeps.
Word: impressum Part of Speech: noun 1. A statement of the ownership and authorship of a document, which must be included in books, newspapers, magazines and websites published in Germany and certain other German-speaking countries.
Word: tyubeteika Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of tubeteika. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: impire Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ˈɪmpaɪə(ɹ)/ 1. Obsolete form of empire. Labels: alt-of, obsolete
Word: inauspicate Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Latin inauspicatus; prefix in- (“not”) + auspicatus, past participle auspicari. Equivalent to in- + auspicate. Pronunciation: /ɪnˈɔːspɪkət/ 1. inauspicious Labels: obsolete Example: And this was the successe of his first invasion, which though it bore an inauspicate face, it proved of a friendly event
Word: VAD Part of Speech: noun 1. Initialism of Voluntary Aid Detachment: a women′s first-aid organisation active during World War I and World War II, or a member of this detachment. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, historical, initialism, uncountable Example: A young girl in V.A.D. uniform ran lightly across the lawn. Example: ‘You've not been caught in bed with a V.A.D.?’ Tietjens asked. 2. Initialism of ventricular assist device. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable 3. Initialism of voluntary assisted dying. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable
Word: tyubeteyka Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of tyubeteika. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: piss flap Part of Speech: noun 1. A woman's labium. Labels: in-plural, rare, slang, vulgar
Word: post-translational Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From post- + translational. 1. Alternative spelling of posttranslational. Labels: alt-of, alternative, not-comparable
Word: wide-on Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From wide + on, after hard-on. 1. A sexually aroused vagina; a state of female sexual arousal. Labels: slang, vulgar Example: When DeLaria thinks of Madonna, she gets a ‘wide-on’. Example: “You see, Kit, the trouble is, I've now had a wide-on for” —she checked her watch— “exactly 120 hours—so it's no wonder I've been a little bit irritable, okay?”
Word: incrustate Part of Speech: verb Etymology: First attested in 1570; borrowed from Latin incrustātus, perfect passive participle of incrustō, see -ate (verb-forming suffix) and -ate (adjective-forming suffix). Doublet of encrust. Pronunciation: /ɪŋˈkɹʌsteɪt/ 1. To encrust. Labels: archaic Example: Novv ſhou'd it happen that any of theſe Sun-like Bodies in the Centers of the ſeveral Vortices ſhou'd be ſo incruſtated and vveaken'd, as to be carried about in the Vortex of the true Sun, if it vvere of leſs Solidity, or leſs capable of Motion than the Globules, tovvards the extremity of the Solar Vortex, then it vvou'd deſcend tovvard the Sun, till it met vvith Globules of the ſame Solidity, and capable of the ſame degree of Motion vvith it, and being fixt there, it vvou'd for ever be carried about by the Motion of the Vortex, vvithout either approaching to, or receding from the Sun, and ſo become a Planet. Example: The Ship-VVorm of Jamaica. This inſect is extremely deſtructive to all the ſhips that anchor for any time in the harbours of Jamaica, or in any other part vvithin the tropics: They cut vvith great facility through the planks, and burrovv a conſiderable vvay in the ſubſtance of them, incruſtating the ſides of all their holes vvith a ſmooth teſtaceous ſubſtance[…].
Word: incrustate Part of Speech: adj Etymology: First attested in 1570; borrowed from Latin incrustātus, perfect passive participle of incrustō, see -ate (verb-forming suffix) and -ate (adjective-forming suffix). Doublet of encrust. Pronunciation: /ɪŋˈkɹʌsteɪt/, /ɪŋˈkɹʌstət/ 1. Encrusted Labels: archaic Example: the finer part will be turned into air , and the grosser stick as it were baked , and incrustate upon the sides of the vessel
Word: incrustator Part of Speech: noun 1. A device for preventing the buildup of sediment in a boiler. Labels: archaic Example: […] the Incrustator in the boiler prevents any deposit of "fur" whatever. The Incrustator itself becomes laden with deposit, and when removed weighs more pounds than it originally weighed ounces.
Word: inducturae Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of inductura Labels: form-of, plural
Word: wrassle Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /ˈɹæsl̩/, /ˈɹæs(ə)l/ 1. Pronunciation spelling of wrestle, representing Southern US and African-American Vernacular English. Labels: alt-of, pronunciation-spelling Example: Poor Jody! He ought not to have to wrassle in there by himself. Example: Miss Reba turned to Boon again. "What you been doing? wrassling with hogs?" / "We got in a mudhole back down the road. We drove up. The automobile's outside now." 2. To gather with effort. Labels: Southern-US Example: […] "wrassled" up some fresh sheets for her, […]
Word: wrassles Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of wrassle Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: wrassling Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of wrassle Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: wrassled Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of wrassle Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: rassle Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /ˈɹæsl̩/, /ˈɹæs(ə)l/ 1. Pronunciation spelling of wrestle. Labels: alt-of, pronunciation-spelling Example: I've spent this whole morning rassling with that dumb horse, Sam …
Word: rassled Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of rassle Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: rassles Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of rassle Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: rassling Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of rassle Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: amœbæan Part of Speech: adj 1. Archaic spelling of amoebean. Labels: alt-of, archaic, not-comparable
Word: raclage Part of Speech: noun Etymology: French raclage, from the verb racler. 1. The destruction of a soft growth by rubbing, as with a brush or harsh sponge; curettage, grattage, scraping. Labels: uncountable
Word: œnologists Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of œnologist Labels: form-of, plural Example: Such establishments are managed by expert œnologists, who must be educated specially for the work, and there are already abundance of thoro works, treating the subject.
Word: mowa Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of mahua. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: underbuilding Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From underbuild (“to build beneath, lay a foundation for”), equivalent to underbuild + -ing. 1. A substructure; foundation; infrastructure. Example: It appears from the evidence that although the Dean of Guild authorities considered the defective underbuilding to have been sufficient to warrant the demolition of the wall, it must have otherwise been in a weak and decayed condition. Example: The rubble concrete underbuilding has a uniform thickness of 5 feet, where the depth is less than 10 feet, but for greater depths the underbuilding is 6 feet thick at the top.
Word: put out a fire Part of Speech: verb 1. To address a problem, especially an unexpected one caused by the incompetence, negligence, or misconduct of another person. Labels: idiomatic Example: The manager had to put out the fire after a raw hamburger was served to a customer. Example: Laporta is getting fed up with putting out all the fires that keep emerging around the club every time Koeman opens his mouth, while the Dutchman, protected by a bulletproof contract, is probably thinking 'as you sow, so shall you reap', and only just resisting adding the phrase: "Come on then, sack me!" 2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: put out a fire.
Word: safety coffin Part of Speech: noun 1. Any coffin specially designed for the occupant to leave it in case of premature burial, such as by warning other people to help him.
Word: safety coffins Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of safety coffin Labels: form-of, plural
Word: out-Herod Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From out- + Herod. Pronunciation: /aʊtˈhɛɹəd/ 1. To surpass in evil and cruelty. Example: I could haue ſuch a Fellow whipt for o're-doing Termagant: it out-Herod's Herod. Pray you auoid it. Example: nor is his tone anything like so venomous as Carlyle's in that unpleasing essay on Cagliostro, in which he threw all decency to the winds and out-Heroded the Inquisition whilst ranting against it.
Word: CGIs Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of CGI Labels: form-of, plural
Word: Common Gateway Interface Part of Speech: name 1. A protocol for calling external software via a Web server to deliver dynamic content. Labels: Internet
Word: Common Gateway Interfaces Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of Common Gateway Interface Labels: form-of, plural
Word: Server Side Include Part of Speech: noun 1. A server-side directive in a certain scripting language used on the World Wide Web, allowing the contents of external files to be included at specified points within a web page. Example: A Server Side Include, on the other hand, is a simple command you place within an HTML page that adds functionality—such as reading an external file, inserting the current date or last file-modification date, […]
Word: Small Scale Integration Part of Speech: noun 1. an integration type for digital circuits that contain transistors numbering in the tens providing a few logic gates per chip Labels: uncountable
Word: discrete component Part of Speech: noun 1. a component with just one circuit element, either passive (resistor, capacitor, inductor) or active (transistor or vacuum tube).
Word: discrete components Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of discrete component Labels: form-of, plural
Word: medium scale integration Part of Speech: noun 1. An integration type for digital circuits that contain hundreds of transistors providing dozens of logic gates per chip. Labels: uncountable
Word: large scale integration Part of Speech: noun 1. An integration type for digital circuits that contain tens of thousands of transistors providing thousands of logic gates per chip. Labels: uncountable
Word: infrigidant Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From in- + frigid + -ant. 1. A medical agent or substance which produces a feeling of cold when applied to the body. Labels: obsolete
Word: infrigidate Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Latin infrigidatus, past participle of infrigidare (“to chill”). See in- and frigid. Pronunciation: /ɪnˈfɹɪd͡ʒɪdeɪt/ 1. To make (something) cold; to chill. Labels: obsolete, transitive Example: […] I vvas not deceived in expecting, that the dry ſalt, remaining in the pipkins, being rediſſolved in a due proportion of vvater, vvould very conſiderably infrigidate it; […]
Word: very large scale integration Part of Speech: noun 1. An integration type for digital circuits that contain hundreds of thousands of transistors providing hundreds of thousands of logic gates per chip. Labels: uncountable
Word: ultra large scale integration Part of Speech: noun 1. An integration type for digital circuits that contain more than one million transistors providing hundreds of thousands of logic gates per chip. Labels: uncountable
Word: WSI Part of Speech: noun 1. Initialism of wafer-scale integration. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
Word: wafer-scale integration Part of Speech: noun 1. A rarely-used system of building very large integrated circuit networks that use an entire silicon wafer to produce a single "super-chip". Labels: uncountable
Word: Gorka Part of Speech: name Etymology: Borrowed from Polish Górka. 1. A surname from Polish.
Word: numbre Part of Speech: noun 1. Obsolete spelling of number. Labels: alt-of, obsolete Example: Also I advertise you, that one Sher’ Thursday last, I was secretly informyd, that a gret numbre of yomen of the countrey woll shortely com to me, to desier me to be a meane for thaym to the Kinges grace, to have thair loone money agayne.
Word: underbuild Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From under- + build. 1. To build beneath another structure; provide a foundation or support for; undergird. Labels: transitive Example: The two eastern arches have been underbuilt for the sake of strengthening them. 2. To perform insufficient construction on a building or in an area; build below a specified requirement or standard. Labels: transitive Example: Appellee was obliged to overbuild, rather than underbuild, the appellant's telephone line for the distance of these six spans for the following reason [...]
Word: ingeniate Part of Speech: verb Etymology: See ingenious. 1. To invent; to contrive. Labels: obsolete Example: And I must all I can ingeniate To answere for the same
Word: glocal Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Blend of global + local. Pronunciation: /ˈɡləʊk(ə)l/ 1. Both global and local. Example: Not so much wedded as welded to their airline seats, he and his amanuensis see the cities of the future as ‘glocal’ phenomena, where high-density urban centres are air-linked to intercontinental faubourgs.
Word: aërotropism Part of Speech: noun 1. Dated form of aerotropism. Labels: alt-of, dated, uncountable Example: 1889, The Century Dictionary (1st ed., New York &c.), volume 1, “Aërotropism” Aërotropism, in bot., deviation of roots from their normal direction by the action of gases.
Word: Tudorbethan Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Blend of Tudor + Elizabethan. 1. Mock-Tudor; designed to resemble a Tudor or Elizabethan architectural style. Labels: not-comparable Example: This same essay, much of which is explicitly directed against the Tudorbethan ‘aesthetic’ of the Prince of Wales, concludes with Ballard saying: ‘I look forward to … the transformation of Britain into the ultimate departure lounge.’ Example: [...] on what John Betjeman called 'these mild home county acres' the Metropolitan would create Metroland, a series of Tudorbethan havens for the office toilers of London, destroying the mildness of those acres in the process, of course.
Word: insperse Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Latin inspersus, past participle of inspergere (“to sprinkle upon”); prefix in- (“in, on”) + spargere (“to sprinkle”). 1. To sprinkle; to scatter. Labels: obsolete, transitive Example: the Verity of these Paradoxes, inspersed upon the ensuing Treatise
Word: wussette Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From wuss + -ette. 1. A female wuss. Labels: nonce-word, rare
Word: instiller Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From instill + -er. 1. One who instills. Example: As is th' instiller of divinest love Unchang'd by time immortal maugre death. Example: Never was there such a juggle as was played in my mind, nor so artful an instiller of loose principles, as my Tutor 2. An eyedropper. Labels: obsolete Example: While on the subject of eye instruments, we must notice Dr. Lewis's instiller for collyria.
Word: instillator Part of Speech: noun 1. An instiller. 2. A device for injecting controlled amounts of fluids or ointments into the urethra, consisting of a catheter with a fitting on the outside for a syringe. Example: Exceptionally it is extremely difficult to determine just when the instillator catheter has been introduced to the proper depth. Example: The Keyes or the Guyon instillator may be employed for fluids; only the former can be used with ointments .
Word: schizosexual Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From schizo- + sexual, after schizophrenic and terms ending in -sexual (such as homosexual). 1. Exhibiting pathologically divergent sexual behaviour, or sexual behaviour (imagined to be) associated with schizophrenia. Labels: not-comparable, rare Example: In individuals of inherited schizophrenic predisposition, the sexual organization remains at a rudimentary level because at least two of its essential constituents, pleasure and love, are innately defective. The ensuing schizosexual behavior is marked by blurred awareness and floundering activity. Example: +SCHIZOSEXUAL — to prefer sex with one’s other selves.