nandhakumarms/qualc-wiktionary-en huggingface dataset:
Word: sledgehammer Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Compound of sledge + hammer. Pronunciation: /ˈslɛd͡ʒhæmə/, /ˈslɛd͡ʒhæmɚ/ 1. To strike (something) with a sledgehammer. Labels: transitive Example: Some lawmakers were so incensed that they even invited the news media to watch the sledgehammering of the Japanese company's products on the Capitol's steps. Example: She’s trying to piece together shards of precious pottery gleefully sledgehammered by a delegation led by the Taliban’s minister of culture, who deemed the world’s greatest collection of Central Asian artifacts un-Islamic.
Word: sledgehammer Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Compound of sledge + hammer. Pronunciation: /ˈslɛd͡ʒhæmə/, /ˈslɛd͡ʒhæmɚ/ 1. Completely lacking grace and dexterity. Example: Promising new treatments avoid the sledgehammer approach of traditional chemotherapy in two key ways."
Word: stretto Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Italian stretto. Doublet of strait and strict. Pronunciation: /ˈstɹɛtəʊ/ 1. The presence of two close or overlapping statements of the subject of a fugue, especially towards the end. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: In classical music there are, as the analytical programs tell us, first subjects and second subjects, free fantasias, recapitulations, and codas; there are fugues, with counter-subjects, strettos, and pedal points; there are passacaglias on ground basses, canons ad hypodiapente, and other ingenuities, which have, after all, stood or fallen by their prettiness as much as the simplest folk-tune. 2. An acceleration in the tempo of an opera that produces an ending climax. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: stretto Part of Speech: adv Etymology: Borrowed from Italian stretto. Doublet of strait and strict. Pronunciation: /ˈstɹɛtəʊ/ 1. With gradually increasing speed. Labels: not-comparable
Word: stretto Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Borrowed from Italian stretto. Doublet of strait and strict. Pronunciation: /ˈstɹɛtəʊ/ 1. Having gradually increasing speed. Labels: not-comparable Example: So that over and above the public components – holidays, tourist attractions – there are private meanderings, linked to the climate as if this spell were a stretto passage in the year’s fugue: haphazard weather, aimless loves, unpredicted commitments…
Word: retrieve Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Recorded in Middle English c. 1410 as retreve (altered to retrive in the 16th century; modern form is from c. 1650), from Middle French retruev-, stem of Old French retrover (“to find again”, modern retrouver), itself from re- (“again”) + trover (“to find”), probably from Vulgar Latin *tropāre (“to compose”). Pronunciation: /ɹɪˈtɹiːv/, /ɹə-/, /ɹi-/ 1. To regain or get back something. Labels: transitive Example: to retrieve one's character or independence; to retrieve a thrown ball Example: With late repentance now they would retrieve / The bodies they forsook, and wish to live. 2. To rescue (a creature). Labels: transitive 3. To salvage something Labels: transitive 4. To remedy or rectify something. Labels: transitive 5. To remember or recall something. Labels: transitive 6. To fetch or carry back something, especially (computing) a file or data record. Labels: transitive Example: to retrieve them from their cold, trivial conceits 7. To fetch and bring in game. Labels: transitive Example: The cook doesn't care what's shot, only what's actually retrieved. 8. To fetch and bring in game systematically. Labels: intransitive Example: Dog breeds called 'retrievers' were selected for retrieving. 9. To fetch or carry back systematically, notably as a game. Labels: intransitive Example: Most dogs love retrieving, regardless of what object is thrown. 10. To make a difficult but successful return of the ball. Labels: transitive 11. To remedy the evil consequence of, to repair (a loss or damage). Labels: obsolete Example: Accept my sorrow, and retrieve my fall. Example: There is much to be done […] and much to be retrieved.
Word: retrieve Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Recorded in Middle English c. 1410 as retreve (altered to retrive in the 16th century; modern form is from c. 1650), from Middle French retruev-, stem of Old French retrover (“to find again”, modern retrouver), itself from re- (“again”) + trover (“to find”), probably from Vulgar Latin *tropāre (“to compose”). Pronunciation: /ɹɪˈtɹiːv/, /ɹə-/, /ɹi-/ 1. A retrieval. Example: Secondly, the number of retrieves given in any one session is restricted according to the dog's level of interest. If he is not madly keen he has perhaps two or three retrieves in a session, and on some days he will have none at all. 2. The return of a difficult ball. 3. A seeking again; a discovery. Labels: obsolete 4. The recovery of game once sprung. Labels: obsolete Example: we'll bring Wax to the retrieve
Word: fuzz Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Uncertain. Some dictionaries suggest a Germanic source; compare Low German fussig (“loose; spongy”), Dutch voos (“unsound; rotten”). Others, such as Webster's New College Dictionary, suggest a back-formation from fuzzy. The Oxford English Dictionary suggests, “Perhaps imitative of the action of blowing away light particles.” Pronunciation: /fʌz/ 1. A frizzy mass of hair or fibre. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: His cheeks were like peaches, with much the same sort of fuzz over them. Example: Once the eaglets are born—tiny balls of white fuzz—the adult eagles prove that birds can be as protective and solicitous of their young as humans. 2. Quality of an image that is unclear; a blurred image. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: ...scientific advances happen more often at the frontier of representation, at the edge of resolution where an image dissolves into fuzz and blur. 3. The random data used in fuzz testing. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: "Fuzz testing" or "fuzzing" is a technique for software testing that provides random data ("fuzz") to the inputs of a program. 4. A distorted sound, especially from an electric guitar or other amplified instrument. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: This gives a good soft clipping effect and a good fuzz sound. 5. A state of befuddlement. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: I think I'm in a fuzz, and don't know what I ſay, I never ſaw the like. Example: So I'm in a fuzz of not knowing what to do 6. Fuzziness, vagueness. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: fuzz Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Uncertain. Some dictionaries suggest a Germanic source; compare Low German fussig (“loose; spongy”), Dutch voos (“unsound; rotten”). Others, such as Webster's New College Dictionary, suggest a back-formation from fuzzy. The Oxford English Dictionary suggests, “Perhaps imitative of the action of blowing away light particles.” Pronunciation: /fʌz/ 1. To make fuzzy. Labels: transitive 2. To become fuzzy. Labels: intransitive 3. To make drunk. Labels: dated, transitive Example: Or maybe my mind was just fuzzed with the drink. 4. To test a software component by running it on randomly generated input. Example: Sulley works by fuzzing the first fuzzable field to be fuzzed. While it is iterating through all the values it wants to try for that field, all the other fields are untouched and remain at their default value. 5. To fly off in minute particles with a fizzing sound, like water from hot metal. Labels: dated, intransitive
Word: fuzz Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Unknown. Godfrey Irwin (1930) suggests a possible connection to fuss, "over-particular", excessive bother. Pronunciation: /fʌz/ 1. The police, or any law enforcement agency. Labels: US, slang, uncountable, with-definite-article Example: Let's get the hell out of here before the fuzz turns up
Word: fuzz Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /fʌz/ 1. Misspelling of fuss. Labels: alt-of, misspelling
Word: fury Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English furie, from Old French furie, from Latin furia (“rage”). Pronunciation: /ˈfjʊə.ɹi/, /ˈfjɔːɹi/, /ˈfjʊɹ.i/, /ˈfjɝ.i/, /ˈfjʉːɹi/ 1. Extreme anger. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Heav'n has no Rage, like Love to Hatred turn'd, / Nor Hell a Fury, like a Woman ſcorn'd. Example: The building of the railway in this notable beauty spot roused the great Victorian writer John Ruskin to fury. 2. Strength or violence in action. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Small lightes are ſoone blown out, huge fires abide, / And with the winde in greater furie fret: / The petty ſtreames that paie a dailie det / To their ſalt ſoveraigne with their freſh fals haſt, / Adde to his flowe, but alter not his taſt. Example: I don't mean all of your friends—only a small proportion—which, however, connects your circle with that deadly, idle, brainless bunch—the insolent chatterers at the opera,[…]the speed-mad fugitives from the furies of ennui, the neurotic victims of mental cirrhosis,[…]! 3. An angry or malignant person. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: fury Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *bʰer- Proto-Indo-European *-s Proto-Indo-European *bʰṓr Proto-Italic *fōr Latin furbor. English fury Borrowed from Latin fur (“thief”). 1. A thief. Labels: obsolete Example: But have an eye to your plate , for there be Furies.
Word: fume Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English fume, from Old French fum (“smoke, steam, vapour”), from Latin fūmus (“vapour, smoke”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰuh₂mós (“smoke”), from *dʰewh₂- (“to smoke, raise dust”). Doublet of thymus and thymos. More at dun, dusk, dust. Pronunciation: /fjuːm/ 1. A gas or vapour/vapor that is strong-smelling or dangerous to inhale. Example: Don't stand around in there breathing the fumes while the adhesive cures. Example: the fumes of new-shorn hay 2. A material that has been vaporized from the solid or liquid state to the gas state and re-coalesced to the solid state. Example: Lead fume is a greyish powder, mainly comprising lead sulfate. 3. Rage or excitement which deprives the mind of self-control. Example: The Fumes of his Passion do as really intoxicate and confound his judging and discerning Faculty , as the Fumes of Drink discompose and stupify the Brain of a Man over - charged with it. Example: In his execution of this mission, Mr Tinkler perhaps expressed that Mr Dorrit was in a raging fume. 4. Anything unsubstantial or airy; idle conceit; vain imagination. Example: a show of fumes and fancies 5. The incense of praise; inordinate flattery. Example: to smother him with fumes and eulogies 6. A passionate person. Labels: obsolete
Word: fume Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English fume, from Old French fum (“smoke, steam, vapour”), from Latin fūmus (“vapour, smoke”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰuh₂mós (“smoke”), from *dʰewh₂- (“to smoke, raise dust”). Doublet of thymus and thymos. More at dun, dusk, dust. Pronunciation: /fjuːm/ 1. To expose (something) to fumes; specifically, to expose wood, etc., to ammonia in order to produce dark tints. Labels: transitive 2. To apply or offer incense to. Labels: transitive Example: Tyrian garbs, / Neptunian Albion's high teſtaceous food [i.e., oysters], / And flavour'd Chian wines with incenſe fum'd / To ſlake Patrician thirſt: for theſe, their rights / In the vile ſtreets they proſtitute to ſale; / Their ancient rights, their dignities, their laws, / Their native glorious freedom. 3. To emit fumes. Labels: intransitive Example: where the golden altar fumed Example: Young Chromis and Mnaſylus chanc'd to ſtray / Where (ſleeping in a cave) Silenus lay, / Whoſe conſtant cups fly fuming to his brain, / And always boil in each extended vein; / His truſty flaggon, full of potent juice, / Was hanging by, worn thin with age and uſe; [...] 4. To pass off in fumes or vapours. Labels: intransitive Example: whose parts are kept from fuming away, not only by their fixity[…] 5. To express or feel great anger. Labels: figuratively Example: He’s still fuming about the argument they had yesterday. Example: He frets, he fumes, he stares, he stamps the ground. 6. To be as in a mist; to be dulled and stupefied. Labels: figuratively, intransitive Example: Keep his brain fuming.
Word: fumigate Part of Speech: verb Etymology: First attested in 1530; borrowed from Latin fūmigātus, perfect passive participle of fūmigō (see -ate (verb-forming suffix)), from fūmus (“smoke”). Pronunciation: /ˈfjuːmɪɡeɪt/ 1. To disinfect, purify, or rid of vermin with the fumes of certain chemicals. Labels: transitive Example: They fumigated the Church with burnt wool and feathers instead of incense, put foul water into the holy-water basins, and celebrated a parody on the Church-service, the mock Abbot officiating at the altar; […] Example: ‘Pest control are coming too. They’ll be fumigating the place.’
Word: frizz Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English frysen, from Old French friser, frizer (“to frizzle, crisp, curl, ruffle, braid, touch lightly, graze, scratch”), of Proto-Germanic origin, perhaps via Old Frankish *fris (“curl”), from Proto-Germanic *frisaz (“frizzy, curly”). Cognate with Old Frisian frisle, frēsle ("the hair of the head, lock of hair, curl, ringlet"; > North Frisian friessle, fressle (“hair, horse's tail”), West Frisian frisseljen (“braid of hair, braid”)), Old English frīs (“crisped, curled”). Pronunciation: /fɹɪz/ 1. Of hair, to form into a mass of tight curls. Labels: intransitive 2. To curl; to make frizzy. Labels: transitive Example: with her hair frized short up to her ears Example: In labour-saving homes, with care, / Their wives frizz out peroxide hair. 3. To form into little burs, knobs, or tufts, as the nap of cloth. 4. To make (leather) soft and of even thickness by rubbing, as with pumice stone or a blunt instrument. 5. To fry, cook, or sear with a sizzling noise; to sizzle.
Word: frizz Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English fryse, from the verb. See above. Pronunciation: /fɹɪz/ 1. A mass of tightly curled or unruly hair. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: frizzy Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree English frizz Proto-Indo-European *-kos Proto-Germanic *-gaz Proto-West Germanic *-g Old English -iġ Middle English -y English -y English frizzy From frizz + -y. Pronunciation: /ˈfɹɪzi/ 1. Formed of a mass of small, tight, wiry curls; unruly or extending in all directions. Example: The wet weather made her hair frizzy and untidy.
Word: frizzy Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English frizz Proto-Indo-European *-kos Proto-Germanic *-gaz Proto-West Germanic *-g Old English -iġ Middle English -y English -y English frizzy From frizz + -y. Pronunciation: /ˈfɹɪzi/ 1. A small amount of unkempt, curly hair
Word: me too Part of Speech: phrase 1. That applies to me as well.
Word: me too Part of Speech: verb 1. To agree with someone. Labels: Internet Example: This is a big ME TOO for the list of things to do when you are bored. (I asked for it in r.h.d a while back and got no response so I feel justified in ``me tooing.) Example: I was put in mind of the possibility because of a recent thread in which someone claimed that some vegetable which I like tasted like soap to him and several others me tooed it.
Word: tarmac Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Clipping of tarmacadam, which is from tar + macadam (“crushed stones”). Originally a trademark owned by its inventor, Edgar Hooley. Pronunciation: /ˈtɑː(ɹ)mæk/ 1. Tarmacadam. Labels: countable, uncountable 2. Any bituminous road surfacing material. Labels: Canada, Ireland, UK, broadly, countable, uncountable Example: How meek and shrunken did that haughty Tarmac become as it slunk by the wide circle of asphalt of the yellow sort, that was loosely strewn before the great iron gates of Lady Hall as a forerunner of the consideration that awaited the guests of Rupert, Earl of Kare, […]. 3. The driveable surface of a road. Labels: Canada, Ireland, UK, countable, uncountable 4. The area of an airport, other than the runway, where planes park or maneuver. Labels: countable, informal, uncountable Example: As he walked across the tarmac in the bitter January wind he saw his own name going over the network: BOND, JAMES. BRITISH DIPLOMATIC PASSPORT 0094567, the short wait and the replies coming back on the different machines: NEGATIVE, NEGATIVE, NEGATIVE. And then, from the FBI: POSITIVE AWAIT CHECK.
Word: tarmac Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Clipping of tarmacadam, which is from tar + macadam (“crushed stones”). Originally a trademark owned by its inventor, Edgar Hooley. Pronunciation: /ˈtɑː(ɹ)mæk/ 1. To pave with tarmacadam or a similar material. Labels: Canada, UK Example: To your left is a green lane, partly tarmacked with chippings, which leads up to a little car-parking area. Example: Residents in Bolton are angry after workmen tarmaced only one half of their road leaving the other half strewn with potholes. 2. To spend time idling on a runway, usually waiting for takeoff clearance. Example: "It is not unusual these days for the time spent tarmacking to exceed the time spent in the air, " said Senator John Danforth, R-Mo.
Word: tarmacadam Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From tar + macadam. 1. A mixture of tar and small stones used in paving. Labels: archaic, countable, uncountable
Word: tarmacadam Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From tar + macadam. 1. To cover or surface with tarmacadam. Labels: transitive
Word: baffle Part of Speech: noun Etymology: The origin of the verb is uncertain; it is possibly: * from French bafouer, baffoüer (“to abuse, revile; to confuse, baffle; to deceive; to flout; to scorn”), imitative of someone making a disdainful sound by expelling air quickly through pouted lips (compare Occitan baf (interjection expressing disdain)); or * from French befer, beffer, beffler (“(obsolete) to deceive; to mock, ridicule”) (compare Old French befe, beffe, buffe (“deception; mockery”); beferie (“deceit; quibbling”)), possibly from bafouer: see above. The noun is derived from the verb. Cognates * Italian beffare (“(verb) to deride, mock”), beffa (“(noun) banter; mockery”) * Occitan bafar (“(verb) to deride, mock”), bafa (“(noun) banter; mockery”) * Old Spanish bafa (modern Spanish befa (“(noun) banter; mockery”)) * Spanish befar (“(verb) to deride, mock”) Pronunciation: /ˈbæfl̩/, /ˈbæf(ə)l/ 1. A device used to dampen, muffle, restrain, or otherwise control the movement of a fluid, or waves travelling through a fluid such as light or sound; specifically, a surface positioned inside an open area to inhibit direct motion from one place to another without preventing motion altogether. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Tanker trucks use baffles to keep the liquids inside from sloshing around. 2. A lever for operating the throttle valve of a winding engine. Labels: US, countable, dialectal, uncountable 3. A device to prevent the spreading of sound or light. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: sound baffle Example: At Hackney Downs, the sun baffle and overhanging eaves completely shade the signal room from direct sunlight, and the whole of the sky down to the horizon is hidden from the signalman's view. 4. A barrier designed to obstruct and confuse enemies, rendering them vulnerable. Labels: countable, uncountable 5. An argument or objection based on an ambiguity of wording or similar trivial circumstance; a minor complaint; a quibble. Labels: countable, obsolete Example: As to Nonplus an Ariſtotle vvould look, not only like a Slur to a particular Philoſopher, but like a Baffle to Philoſophy it ſelf.
Word: baffle Part of Speech: verb Etymology: The origin of the verb is uncertain; it is possibly from Scots bauchle (“to annoy; to cause harm or trouble to; to disgrace; to jilt; to treat with contempt”), from bauchle (“useless or worn-out person or thing; clumsy work, bungle; clumsy or untidy person; contemptible person; laughing stock”); further etymology uncertain, possibly related to bauch (“feeble, sorry; backward, foolish”, adjective), possibly related to Old Norse bagr (“awkward, clumsy”), bāgr (“hard up, poor; uneasy”) The noun is derived from the verb. Pronunciation: /ˈbæfl̩/, /ˈbæf(ə)l/ 1. To publicly disgrace (someone); specifically, a recreant knight. Labels: obsolete, transitive Example: And after all, for greater infamie, / He by the heeles him hung vpon a tree, / And baffuld ſo, that all vvhich paſſed by, / The picture of his puniſhment might ſee, / And by the like enſample vvarned bee, / Hovv euer they through treaſon doe treſpaſſe. Example: Then have the coppies of it paſted on poſts, / Like Phamplet titles that ſue to be ſold; / Have his diſgrace talk for Tobacco ſhops, / His picture bafful'd. 2. To treat (someone) with contempt; to disgrace; also, to speak of (someone or something) in contemptuous terms; to speak ill of, to vilify. Labels: obsolete, transitive Example: Should we (as you) borrow all out of others, and gather nothing of our selues, our names would be baffuld on euerie booke-sellers stall, and not a chandler's mustard-pot would wipe his mouth with our wast paper. Example: A Religion, that baffoules all temporall Princes, making them ſtand bare-foote at their great Biſhops gate, lye at his foote, holde his ſtirrup, yea their ovvne Crovvnes at his Curteſie, exempting all their Eccleſiaſticall Subiects from their iuriſdiction, and (vvhen they liſt) all the reſt from their allegeance.
Word: baffle Part of Speech: noun Etymology: The origin of the verb is uncertain; it is possibly from Scots bauchle (“to annoy; to cause harm or trouble to; to disgrace; to jilt; to treat with contempt”), from bauchle (“useless or worn-out person or thing; clumsy work, bungle; clumsy or untidy person; contemptible person; laughing stock”); further etymology uncertain, possibly related to bauch (“feeble, sorry; backward, foolish”, adjective), possibly related to Old Norse bagr (“awkward, clumsy”), bāgr (“hard up, poor; uneasy”) The noun is derived from the verb. Pronunciation: /ˈbæfl̩/, /ˈbæf(ə)l/ 1. Intentional insult; affront; also, disgrace; (countable) an instance of this. Labels: obsolete, transitive, uncountable Example: Novv that you intend to trail a Pike, and make Profeſſion of Arms, let me give you this Caveat, that nothing muſt be more precious to you than your Reputation. […] If you get but once handſomely off, you are made ever after; for you vvill be free from all Baffles and Affronts.
Word: perplex Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Old French, from Latin perplexus (“entangled, confused”), from per (“through”) + plexus, perfect passive participle of plectō (“plait, weave, braid”). Pronunciation: /pɚˈplɛks/, /pəˈplɛks/ 1. To cause to feel baffled; to puzzle. Labels: transitive 2. To involve; to entangle; to make intricate or complicated. Labels: transitive Example: What was thought obscure, perplexed, and too hard for our weak parts, will lie open to the understanding in a fair view. Example: The Ways of Heav’n are dark and intricate, Puzzled in Mazes, and perplext with Errors; Our Underſtanding traces ’em in vain, Loſt and bewilder’d in the fruitleſs Search; […] 3. To plague; to vex; to torment. Labels: obsolete, transitive Example: Chloe's the wonder of her sex, 'Tis well her heart is tender, How might such killing eyes perplex, With virtue to defend her. Example: All night no ruder air perplex ⁠Thy sliding keel, till Phosphor, bright ⁠As our pure love, thro’ early light Shall glimmer on the dewy decks.
Word: perplex Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Old French, from Latin perplexus (“entangled, confused”), from per (“through”) + plexus, perfect passive participle of plectō (“plait, weave, braid”). Pronunciation: /pɚˈplɛks/, /pəˈplɛks/ 1. intricate; difficult Labels: archaic Example: How the soul directs the spirits for the motion of the body, according to the several animal exigents, is as perplex in the Theory, as either of the former. Example: Finally, I explore possible audience interpretations of the film and offer some alternative reading strategies of these highly perplex sketches.
Word: perplex Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Old French, from Latin perplexus (“entangled, confused”), from per (“through”) + plexus, perfect passive participle of plectō (“plait, weave, braid”). Pronunciation: /pɚˈplɛks/, /pəˈplɛks/ 1. A difficulty. Labels: obsolete
Word: perplexity Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English perplexite, borrowed from Middle French perplexité or post-classical Latin perplexitās, from perplexus (“entangled”). By surface analysis, perplex + -ity. Pronunciation: /pəˈplɛksɪti/, /pəɹˈplɛksəti/ 1. The state or quality of being perplexed. Labels: countable, uncountable 2. Something that perplexes. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: The Emperor, who was by then a focus of unresolvable perplexities, stood providing a strongly contrary appearance. 3. A measure of the accuracy with which a probability distribution or model predicts a sample. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: redrum Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Italic *wre- Latin re-der. Old French re-bor. Middle English re- English re- English drum English redrum From re- + drum. Pronunciation: /ɹiːˈdɹʌm/ 1. To place into new drums (barrels). Example: The most common procedure used to overcome these problems is to redrum the contents. [...] Although the labor cost increases because of implied redrumming requirements, the primary increase in cost is that of the drums.
Word: perplexed Part of Speech: adj Pronunciation: /pɚˈplɛkst/, /pəˈplɛkst/ 1. Confused or puzzled. Example: The scientists were perplexed by the new discovery. Example: She was perplexed. 'Plege'illegience is plege'illegience!'" 2. Bewildered. 3. Entangled; labyrinthine. Labels: obsolete Example: "[…] But come, Lady, we are too near the mouth of the cavern; let us seek its inmost recesses. […]" "Though all your actions are noble, […] is it fitting that I should accompany you alone into these perplexed retreats? Should we be found together, what would a censorious world think of my conduct?"
Word: perplexed Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /pɚˈplɛkst/, /pəˈplɛkst/ 1. simple past and past participle of perplex Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: perplexing Part of Speech: adj Pronunciation: /pɚˈplɛksɪŋ/ 1. That causes perplexity. Example: utterly perplexing Example: perplexing question
Word: perplexing Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /pɚˈplɛksɪŋ/ 1. present participle and gerund of perplex Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: creative differences Part of Speech: noun 1. Interpersonal disagreements within a collaborating group of musicians, authors, or other artists, especially as resulting in a collapse of the collaboration. Labels: euphemistic, plural, plural-only Example: "Ace 2" is back on track after the original director resigned, citing creative differences with the star.
Word: -nomy Part of Speech: suffix Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *nem-der. Proto-Indo-European *németi Proto-Hellenic *némō Ancient Greek νέμω (némō) Proto-Indo-European *-os Proto-Hellenic *-os Ancient Greek -ος (-os) Ancient Greek νόμος (nómos) Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-i-eh₂ Proto-Hellenic *-íā Ancient Greek -ῐ́ᾱ (-ĭ́ā) Latin -nomialbor. French -nomiebor. ▲ Latin -nomialbor. English -nomy Borrowed from French -nomie, and a learned borrowing from Latin -nomia, from Ancient Greek νόμος (nómos, “law, custom”). Pronunciation: /nə.mi/ 1. a system of rules, laws, or knowledge about a body of a particular field; distribution, arrangement, management Labels: morpheme
Word: understanding Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English understandinge, understondinge, from Old English understanding (“intelligence, understanding”), from Proto-West Germanic *undarstandingu, from Proto-Germanic *understandingō, equivalent to understand + -ing (gerund ending). Cognate with Middle Dutch onderstaninge, Middle Low German understandinge, Middle High German understandunge. Pronunciation: /ʌndəˈstandɪŋ/, /ˌʌndɚˈstændɪŋ/ 1. The act of one that understands or comprehends; the mental process of discernment of meaning. Labels: uncountable, with-of Example: There are certain things that defy human understanding. Example: The Ways of Heav’n are dark and intricate, Puzzled in Mazes, and perplext with Errors; Our Underſtanding traces ’em in vain, Loſt and bewilder’d in the fruitleſs Search; […] 2. Reason or intelligence; ability to grasp the full meaning of knowledge; ability to infer. Labels: countable, with-of Example: She has a solid understanding of particle physics. 3. Opinion, judgement, or outlook. Labels: countable, with-of Example: It is the goneness of the Holocaust that produces the simultaneous profusion of discourses and understandings; the goneness is what opens up, what spurs, what unleashes the perpetual desire to do, to make, to rethink the Holocaust. Example: There is a multitude of theisms, many understandings of God, even within the same religious tradition. 4. An agreement of minds; harmony; something mutually understood or agreed upon. Labels: countable, uncountable, with-of Example: I thought we had an understanding - you do the dishes, and I throw the trash. 5. An agreement of minds; harmony; something mutually understood or agreed upon. Labels: countable, uncountable, with-of Example: The parties of the negotiation have managed to come to an understanding. 6. Sympathy. Labels: uncountable, with-of Example: He showed much understanding for my problems when he heard about my past.
Word: understanding Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English understandyng, understondynge, understondinde, undirstondend, understandande, from Old English understandende, from Proto-West Germanic *undarstandandī, from Proto-Germanic *understandandz, present participle of Proto-Germanic *understandaną (“to stand between, intercede, understand”), equivalent to understand + -ing (present participle ending). Pronunciation: /ʌndəˈstandɪŋ/, /ˌʌndɚˈstændɪŋ/ 1. Showing compassion, tolerance, and forbearance; sympathetically aware. 2. Knowing; skilful. Labels: dated
Word: understanding Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English understandyng, understondynge, understondinde, undirstondend, understandande, from Old English understandende, from Proto-West Germanic *undarstandandī, from Proto-Germanic *understandandz, present participle of Proto-Germanic *understandaną (“to stand between, intercede, understand”), equivalent to understand + -ing (present participle ending). Pronunciation: /ʌndəˈstandɪŋ/, /ˌʌndɚˈstændɪŋ/ 1. present participle and gerund of understand Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present Example: It is tempting to speculate about the incentives or compulsions that might explain why anyone would take to the skies in [the] basket [of a balloon]: […]; […]; or perhaps to muse on the irrelevance of the borders that separate nation states and keep people from understanding their shared environment.
Word: box girder Part of Speech: noun 1. A steel beam with a hollow rectangular cross section; used for constructing bridges etc. Example: The Britannia Tubular Bridge is immediately west of Menai Bridge Station on the Holyhead main line. In design it consists of two continuous box girders of rectangular cross section, one for each track. It was opened in 1850. Example: An all-welded, box section underframe, incorporating box girders which run the full length of the locomotive, is welded to stress-bearing bodysides with partition walls forming reinforcing cross members.
Word: cross section Part of Speech: noun 1. A section formed by a plane cutting through an object, usually at right angles to an axis. 2. A sample meant to be representative of a whole population. 3. A measure for the probability that a particular nuclear reaction will take place, typically denoted σ and having units of barns.
Word: over the moon Part of Speech: prep_phrase Etymology: From the nursery rhyme Hey Diddle Diddle. 1. Delighted, thrilled. Labels: idiomatic Example: Winemakers are over the moon to be able to showcase the individual nuances within their vineyards. Example: Well, I’ve liked Star Wars since the late ’70s. I liked it a lot. But I’m now over the moon about Star Wars, and I think a couple things happened.
Word: nursery rhyme Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From how Victorian and Edwardian parents used to tell such rhymes to their children in the nursery, i.e. the children's bedroom. 1. A short poem or song for children, mostly anonymous or handed down by folklore
Word: embalm Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English enbawmen, from Middle French embaumer, from Old French embasmer. See balm. Pronunciation: /ɪmˈbɑːm/, /ɪmˈbɑm/, /ɪmˈbɔm/, /ɪmˈbɑlm/ 1. To treat a corpse with preservatives in order to prevent decomposition. Labels: transitive Example: And Joseph commanded his servants the physicians to embalm his father. Example: `Yea. The people of Kôr ever embalmed their dead, as did the Egyptians, but their art was greater than the art of the Egyptians, for, whereas the Egyptians disembowelled and drew the brain, the people of Kôr injected fluid into the veins, and thus reached every part.' 2. To preserve. Labels: figuratively, transitive Example: There are districts of Canada mainly settled from Paisley and neighbourhood, the hivings off at such seasons as we have referred to, with whose settlement he had not a little to do, and where his memory is embalmed. Example: It is very curious to observe how the idea of revenge, inspired by an Egyptian who lived before the time of Christ, is thus, as it were, embalmed in an English family name. 3. To perfume or add fragrance to something. Labels: transitive
Word: misleading Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From mislead + -ing. Pronunciation: /(ˌ)mɪsˈliːdɪŋ/ 1. Deceptive or tending to mislead or create a false impression, even if technically true. Example: The problem does not appear so hopeless when misleading metaphor is discarded.
Word: misleading Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From mislead + -ing. Pronunciation: /(ˌ)mɪsˈliːdɪŋ/ 1. present participle and gerund of mislead Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: misleading Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From mislead + -ing. Pronunciation: /(ˌ)mɪsˈliːdɪŋ/ 1. A deception that misleads. Example: According to this tradition, acts of deception that are mere misleadings are morally better than acts of deception that are lies.
Word: shtetl Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Yiddish שטעטל (shtetl, “small town, village”), from שטאָט (shtot, “city”) + ־ל (-l, “diminutive suffix”) (compare German Städtl, Swabian Städtele), from Old High German stat, from Proto-West Germanic *stadi, from Proto-Germanic *stadiz, from Proto-Indo-European *stéh₂tis. Doublet of stead. Pronunciation: /ˈʃtɛt(ə)l/ 1. A Jewish village or small town, especially one in Eastern Europe. Example: However, you are right to suspect that there is some connection between my carefully considered opinion of the Hebrew people and this marvellous recital which your waxy ears, full of the cheesy gunk of the shtetl, have been so fortunate to hear. Example: Most of the second-generation immigrant kids of his neighborhood had been […] as desperate to go to college and become lawyers, doctors, businessmen, and leave the teeming city for the suburbs, as their parents had been to leave behind the shtetls of Russia.
Word: petal Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *peth₂-der. Proto-Indo-European *pet-der. Proto-Hellenic *pétalos Ancient Greek πέταλον (pétalon)lbor. English petal Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek πέταλον (pétalon), from πέταλος (pétalos, “broad, flat”), from Proto-Hellenic *pétalos, from Proto-Indo-European *peth₂- (“to spread out”), whence Latin pandō and Proto-Germanic *faþmaz (“embrace”) (English fathom). Pronunciation: /ˈpɛtl̩/ 1. One of the component parts of the corolla of a flower. It applies particularly, but not necessarily only, when the corolla consists of separate parts, that is when the petals are not connately fused. Petals are often brightly colored. 2. The labia (majora). Labels: euphemistic, familiar Example: Dawn held her breath, fearing he'd notice the slight protrusion where her babe rested beneath her heart, but he barely paused as his mouth found the tiny jewel hidden within the dewy petals of her sex. 3. Term of endearment. Example: She is freezing cold. Sputtering. Big eyes wide and wet and red. Too shocked even to cry. 'It's okay, petal, it's okay.' 4. A lobe of a rose (geometric shape).
Word: petal Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *peth₂-der. Proto-Indo-European *pet-der. Proto-Hellenic *pétalos Ancient Greek πέταλον (pétalon)lbor. English petal Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek πέταλον (pétalon), from πέταλος (pétalos, “broad, flat”), from Proto-Hellenic *pétalos, from Proto-Indo-European *peth₂- (“to spread out”), whence Latin pandō and Proto-Germanic *faþmaz (“embrace”) (English fathom). Pronunciation: /ˈpɛtl̩/ 1. To spread out from, like the petals of a flower Labels: ambitransitive Example: anger against the men who had burdened her body with a lead shield of detestation for its blood, let loose without her will and its need against which she clenched her knees to her growing breasts, trying to clasp deep away from her hand that new soft wedge of hair, those lips that petaled out to her dreams. Example: With his forefinger, he curled one of the ringlets that petaled against Malou's forehead.
Word: sexa- Part of Speech: prefix Etymology: From a form of Latin sex (“six”) (as in sexāgintā (“sixty”)). By surface analysis, sex- + -a-. Piecewise doublet of hexa-. 1. Six. Labels: archaic, morpheme
Word: chilia- Part of Speech: prefix Etymology: From Latin chilias, itself from Ancient Greek χίλιοι (khílioi, “thousand”). Doublet of kilo-. Pronunciation: /ˈkɪliə/ 1. thousand; thousandfold. Labels: morpheme
Word: icosa- Part of Speech: prefix Etymology: Borrowed from Ancient Greek εἴκοσι (eíkosi, “twenty”). 1. twenty Labels: morpheme
Word: quinque- Part of Speech: prefix Etymology: From Latin quinque (“five”). 1. Five. Labels: morpheme
Word: twi- Part of Speech: prefix Etymology: From Middle English twi-, from Old English twi- (“two, double”), from Proto-Germanic *twi- (“two-, double-”), from Proto-Indo-European *dwi- (“two-, double-”) (compare Proto-Germanic *twiz- (“twice”), from Proto-Indo-European *dwís (“twice”)), from Proto-Indo-European *dwóh₁ (“two”). Compare twin, twice, two, and see more details at two. Further related to the prefixes bi-, di-, and dis-. Cognate with German zwie- (“twice”), Swedish tve- (“twi-, double”), Russian дву- (dvu-), двух- (dvux-) Old Prussian dwi- (“twi-”), Latin bi-, bis (“twice”) (< Old Latin dui-, duis). 1. two Labels: idiomatic, morpheme, rare Example: twi-headed 2. double, both Labels: idiomatic, morpheme, rare Example: twilight, twisexual, twi-tongued
Word: triskaideka- Part of Speech: prefix Etymology: From Ancient Greek τρεισκαίδεκα (treiskaídeka, “thirteen”), from τρεῖς (treîs, “three”) + καί (kaí, “and”) + δέκα (déka, “ten”). 1. thirteen Labels: morpheme
Word: septua- Part of Speech: prefix Etymology: From a form of Latin septem (“seven”) used in septuāgintā (“seventy”). 1. Seven. Labels: morpheme
Word: sesqui- Part of Speech: prefix Etymology: From Latin sēsqui- (“1½ times; increased by 50%”), from semi- (“half”) and -que (“and; also”). 1. 1½; 1½ times Labels: morpheme 2. In a ratio of 1 and 1/x to 1 Labels: morpheme Example: sesquialterate, sesquitertian, sesquioctave
Word: vigesimal Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Latin vīgēsimus (“twentieth”), variant of Latin vīcēsimus (“twentieth”), from Latin vīgintī (“twenty”), (from *vīcēnssos, from Proto-Indo-European *wi(h₁)ḱm̥ttós, with the -imus ending of decimus (“tenth”)) + -al (suffix forming an adjective). Compare Latin vīgintī (“twenty”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁wih₁ḱm̥ti, from *dwi(h₁)dḱm̥ti(h₁), *dwi(h₁)dḱm̥ti (“two tens; two decades”). Pronunciation: /vɪˈd͡ʒɛsɪm(ə)l/, /vaɪ-/, /-sə-/ 1. Occurring in intervals of twenty. Labels: not-comparable Example: For indeed, looking at the activity of the historic Pen and Press through this last half-century, and what bulk of History it yields for that period alone, and how it is henceforth like to increase in decimal or vigesimal geometric progression,—one might feel as if a day were not distant, when perceiving that the whole Earth would not now contain those writings of what was done in the Earth, the human memory must needs sink confounded, and cease remembering!— […] 2. To the base twenty. Labels: not-comparable Example: To go on by hands and feet to 20, and thence to reckon by twenties, is a vigesimal notation. Now though in the larger proportion of known languages, no distinct mention of fingers and toes, hands and feet, is observable in the numerals themselves, yet the very schemes of quinary, decimal and vigesimal notation remain to vouch for such hand-and-foot counting having been the original method on which they were founded. Example: The most remarkable vigesimal scale of numeration is that of the Mexicans. The decimal scale is adopted as far as twenty; that is to say, after ten the primitive digits are repeated, but from twenty onwards the numbers are taken by twenties. Thus 34 is canlahhutukal, literally fourteen and twenty.
Word: vigesimal Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Latin vīgēsimus (“twentieth”), variant of Latin vīcēsimus (“twentieth”), from Latin vīgintī (“twenty”), (from *vīcēnssos, from Proto-Indo-European *wi(h₁)ḱm̥ttós, with the -imus ending of decimus (“tenth”)) + -al (suffix forming an adjective). Compare Latin vīgintī (“twenty”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁wih₁ḱm̥ti, from *dwi(h₁)dḱm̥ti(h₁), *dwi(h₁)dḱm̥ti (“two tens; two decades”). Pronunciation: /vɪˈd͡ʒɛsɪm(ə)l/, /vaɪ-/, /-sə-/ 1. A twentieth part. Example: If the years of the incomplete century be divided into twenties, and the excess of twenties resolved into fours, the Dominical Letter will advance three places for every twenty, two places for every four, and six places for every unit of the still outstanding remainder. Hence the Sunday Letter will be found by taking the sum of four numbers, which may be called the centurial, the vigesimal, the quaternial, and the residual. Example: [column 1] The author of this article has also designed an instrumental contrivance for finding Easter by inspection, for any year from the beginning of the Christian era down to the end of hundredth century, in old style or new. […] [column 2] Around the fixed ring here described is a rotary ring bearing the numbers from 1 to 19 (the golden numbers) twice repeated, and at the left of these the vigesimals, arranged in regular order. 2. “vigesimal”, in Merriam-Webster.com Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present. 3. “vigesimal”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000. 4. “vigesimal”, in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016, →ISBN.
Word: Whitsun Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Apocopic form of Whitsunday. Pronunciation: /ˈwɪt.sən/, /ˈʍɪt.sən/ 1. Whitsunday. Example: 1909, Sidney Heath, Romance of Symbolism: Fonts and the symbols of baptism - The times [for baptism] of which Whitsun Eve is one, are specified by ... the constitutions for Orthobon for England, Gerona, 517, c. iv. 2. The holiday beginning on Whitsunday. Example: 1978, Peter Bailey, Leisure and class in Victorian England: Rational recreation and the contest for control, quoting "a British observation from early 20th century", read in Orvar Löfgren, On Holiday: A History of Vacationing (2002) - The excursion train used to vomit forth, at Easter and in Whitsun week, throngs of millhands of the period, cads and their flames, tawdry, blowsy, noisy, drunken.
Word: Whitsun Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Apocopic form of Whitsunday. Pronunciation: /ˈwɪt.sən/, /ˈʍɪt.sən/ 1. Of, or relating to Whitsunday or Whitsuntide Labels: not-comparable
Word: Whitsunday Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Inherited from Middle English Whitsonday, from whit (“white”) + Sonday (“Sunday”), from Old English hwīt sunnandæg, probably from the white clothes worn by newly baptized Christians as Pentecost was a traditional date of baptism in early medieval England. Doublet of White Sunday. Pronunciation: /wɪtˈsʌndeɪ/, /ʍ-/, /wɪtˈsʌndi/, /ˈʍɪtsəndeɪ/, /ˈʍɪtsəndɪ/ 1. The Sunday on which the feast or festival of Pentecost falls, seven weeks after Easter. Example: Holonyms: Pentecost (season), Whitsun, Whitsuntide, Whit Example: Jesus, ascended into Heav'n again/Bestow'd this won'drous Gift upon good Men/That various Nations, by his Spirit led,/All understood what Galileans said. 2. A quarter day falling on 15th May. Labels: Scotland
Word: Whitsunday Part of Speech: name Etymology: Inherited from Middle English Whitsonday, from whit (“white”) + Sonday (“Sunday”), from Old English hwīt sunnandæg, probably from the white clothes worn by newly baptized Christians as Pentecost was a traditional date of baptism in early medieval England. Doublet of White Sunday. Pronunciation: /wɪtˈsʌndeɪ/, /ʍ-/, /wɪtˈsʌndi/, /ˈʍɪtsəndeɪ/, /ˈʍɪtsəndɪ/ 1. A local government area in northern Queensland, Australia; in full, Whitsunday Region.
Word: Whitsuntide Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Whitsun (“Whitsunday”) + -tide. 1. The week that begins with Whitsunday. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: The third year he had a tailor staying with him before Whitsuntide, making new clothes for the holidays. Example: There are eight 4-wheel coaches of the open toastrack type, but provided with roofs, and during the holiday season, usually beginning at Whitsuntide, trains are run as required on the one-engine-in-steam principle. 2. The weekend which includes Whitsunday. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: quarrelsome Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From quarrel + -some. Pronunciation: /ˈkwɒɹəlsəm/, /ˈkwɔɹəlsəm/, /ˈkwɑɹəlsəm/ 1. Argumentative; fond of or prone to quarreling. Example: She's too quarrelsome to participate in a civil conversation. Example: And let a Man bevvare, hovv he keepeth Company, vvith Cholerick and Quarelſome Perſons; for they vvill engage him into their ovvne Quarels.
Word: quarterfinal Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From quarter + final. 1. One of the four competitions in a knockout tournament whose winners go on to play in the two semifinals. 2. A competition that narrows a field of contestants (quarterfinalists) to a set of semifinalists, for a subsequent final. Labels: general
Word: oryzivorous Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Latin orȳza (“rice”) + -vorous. Pronunciation: /ˌɒɹɪˈzɪvəɹəs/ 1. Having a diet rich in rice. Labels: not-comparable
Word: questionable Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree English question Proto-Indo-European *-tḗr Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlom Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlis Proto-Italic *-ðlis Latin -bilis Latin -ābilis Old French -ablebor. Middle English -able English -able English questionable From question + -able. Pronunciation: /ˈkwɛst͡ʃənəbl̩/ 1. Problematic; open to doubt or challenge. Example: It is questionable if the universe is open or closed. Example: A crude, cold rain was falling heavily; the spring-time presented itself as a questionable improvement. 2. Of dubious respectability or morality. Example: […] he had a love of money—a sort of acquisitiveness, that led him into questionable dealings. Example: Obviously modeled after Ren & Stimpy, it's about a wallaby and his flatulent dog. While some of the humor is pretty funny, some of it is questionable. 3. Inviting questions; inviting inquiry. Labels: obsolete Example: Thou com'ſt in ſuch a queſtionable ſhape / That I will ſpeake to thee.
Word: questioner Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English questioner; equivalent to question + -er. 1. A person who asks questions, or who conducts an official enquiry.
Word: questionnaire Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Latin quaerō Proto-Indo-European *-tis Proto-Indo-European *-Hō Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō Proto-Italic *-tiō Latin -tiō Latin quaestiōder. Latin quaestiōnō Proto-Indo-European *-yósder. Proto-Italic *-āzios Latin -āriusnom. Latin -ārius Late Latin quaestiōnāriusbor. French questionnairebor. English questionnaire Borrowed from French questionnaire, from Late Latin quaestionarius, from quaestio (English question) + -arius, from quaerō (“to question”) (English query). Pronunciation: /ˌk(w)ɛstʃəˈnɛə/, /ˌk(w)ɛstjəˈnɛə/, /ˌkwɛs.t͡ʃəˈnɛɹ/ 1. A form containing a list of questions; a means of gathering information for a survey. Example: carry out a questionnaire Example: fill out a questionnaire