nandhakumarms/qualc-wiktionary-en huggingface dataset:
Word: atomic battery Part of Speech: noun 1. any device that converts the energy of particles emitted from atomic nuclei into electrical energy
Word: roundworms Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of roundworm Labels: form-of, plural
Word: nuclear chemistry Part of Speech: noun 1. The application of chemical techniques to the solution of problems in nuclear physics, including the discovery of naturally occurring and synthetic radioactive elements and the results of nuclear fission. Labels: uncountable
Word: nuclear physics Part of Speech: noun 1. The branch of physics that studies the nucleus of the atom, its internal structure and components. Labels: uncountable Example: ‘Revelation’, to a philosopher such as Plotinus, was not merely irrational: it led to second-rate counterfeits of traditional academic philosophical culture. It was as if the inhabitants of an underdeveloped country were to seek to catch up with western technology by claiming to have learnt nuclear physics through dreams and oracles.
Word: nuclear quadrupole resonance Part of Speech: noun 1. A technique, related to nuclear magnetic resonance, that allows detection of transitions of atomic nuclei in the absence of a magnetic field.
Word: nuclear spectrum Part of Speech: noun 1. The distribution of the intensity of particles or radiation emitted in a nuclear process as a function of energy - a unique signature of each process.
Word: nucleosynthesis Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Italic *knuks Latin nux Latin nucleuslbor. English nucleus English nucleo- English synthesis English nucleosynthesis From nucleo- + synthesis. 1. Any of several processes that lead to the synthesis of heavier atomic nuclei. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: jellies Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of jelly Labels: form-of, plural
Word: jellies Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of jelly Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: ohmmeter Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English ohm Proto-Indo-European *meh₁- Proto-Indo-European *-tḗr Proto-Indo-European *-trom Proto-Hellenic *-tron Ancient Greek -τρον (-tron) Ancient Greek μέτρον (métron)lbor. French -mètrebor. English -meter English ohmmeter From ohm + -meter. 1. A portable device for measuring relatively small values of electrical resistance.
Word: Ohm's law Part of Speech: name Etymology: From Georg Ohm, German physicist. 1. Ohm's observation that the direct current flowing in an electrical circuit consisting only of resistances is directly proportional to the voltage applied.
Word: directly proportional Part of Speech: adj 1. Proportional to a constant multiple of an independent variable. Labels: not-comparable
Word: reflector Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From reflect + -or. Pronunciation: /ɹɪˈflɛktə(ɹ)/ 1. Something which reflects heat, light or sound, especially something having a reflecting surface. Example: Then came a maid with hand-bag and shawls, and after her a tall young lady. She stood for a moment holding her skirt above the grimy steps,[…], and the light of the reflector fell full upon her. 2. A reflecting telescope. 3. A small, often red, reflecting disk on the rear of a vehicle or bicycle that reflects the headlights of other vehicles. 4. A safety reflector. 5. One who reflects on something; one who thinks or considers at length. Example: Most reflectors on leadership are comfortable thinking of "ethical" and "unethical" as modifiers of leadership. Example: Nonreflectors simply thought through that which they already knew, reflectors evaluated experiences by interpreting these experiences, and critical reflectors re-evaluated their presuppositions to correct distortions in reasoning and attitudes. 6. Something that is reflective (indicative) of something else. Example: The biography is an enormously powerful reflector of mainstream values: it is a statement that this person is someone, or did something, worth writing about. Similarly, because the biographer has access to myriads of details about her or his subject, what gets full exposure and what gets swept under the carpet can be more indicative of the biographer's values (and the society that instilled them) than of the actual subject's life. 7. A pattern which can change the direction and/or offset of an oncoming spaceship without being destroyed.
Word: terr Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Abbreviated form of terrorist. Pronunciation: /tɜː(ɹ)/ 1. An insurgent in the Rhodesian Bush War. Labels: Rhodesia, derogatory Example: As he entered the trees, he called, "Terrs left about one minute ago – in a hurry. There is abandoned equipment – no time to collect – moving east on tracks." Example: If a terr's on the run or if he goes to ground, It doesn't really matter 'cause they'll hunt him down. And if that terr's the first that shoots, He got no chance against the Black Boots.
Word: coryphée Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from French coryphée, from Latin coryphaeus, from Ancient Greek κορυφαῖος (koruphaîos, “leader of the chorus in an Ancient Greek drama”), from κορῠφή (korŭphḗ, “top of the head, crown”) (possibly ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ḱerh₂- (“head, top; horn”)) + -ῐος (-ĭos, suffix forming adjectives meaning ‘belonging to, pertaining to’). Pronunciation: /kɒɹɪˈfeɪ/, /kɑɹɪˈfeɪ/, /-ɹə-/ 1. Synonym of coryphaeus. Labels: historical Example: The piece [...] contains a passage for men's voices marked "Les Travailleurs," topped by a tenor solo (in alto clef) marked "Coryphée," a term originally meaning leader of the chorus, as in a Greek tragedy. [...] [T]he aforementioned "Coryphée" line grows out of a recitative for first tenor. Example: Two coryphées, or coryphæi, the term for the leader of a Greek chorus, were stationed in towers on either side of the stage. A device borrowed from Léon Chancerel's Mission de Jeanne d'Arc, the coryphées are present for the entire length of the drama. Like the messenger, they commented upon the action in a Manichean dialogue: one cheering on Joan of Arc, the other deriding her. 2. Synonym of coryphaeus. Labels: broadly Example: It was likewiſe cuſtomary to drink hard at theſe kinds of feaſts; yet it ſeems, according to the ſame author [Posidonius], that the coryphee, or head-gueſt, always began firſt, and put the cup, or rather pitcher, about to his next neighbour, till it had gone round: for, it ſeems, they all drank out of the ſame veſſel, and no man could drink till it came to his turn, nor refuſe when it did. Example: [...] Louis the Fourteenth,—that glory, / That Coryphée of all crown'd pates, / That pink of the Legitimates— [...] 3. A ballet dancer ranking above a member of the corps de ballet and below a soloist. Example: Mademoiselle Coralie Montmorrillion, a talented artiste from the grand opera, at Paris, and now principal coryphée at the theatre royal— [...] Example: A newspaper was in his hand, joy in his eyes, and as many capers in his toes as would make the fortunes of a Coryphée.
Word: hiba Part of Speech: noun 1. The conifer Thujopsis dolabrata, a cypress (in the broad sense) that is endemic to Japan. Example: For the first time, the material used will be hiba wood found in the Aomori prefecture in the northeast of Honshu. It is 75% cheaper than cypress, can be worked easily, and is even more resistant to water and insect damage than cypress. However, hiba has a strong tendency to develop shrinkage cracks and gives off a pungent smell.
Word: Schuld Part of Speech: name Etymology: Borrowed from German Schuld. 1. A surname from German.
Word: digitgrade Part of Speech: adj 1. Misspelling of digitigrade. Labels: alt-of, misspelling
Word: digitgrade Part of Speech: noun 1. Misspelling of digitigrade. Labels: alt-of, misspelling
Word: flexure Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Latin flexura. By surface analysis, flex + -ure Pronunciation: /ˈflɛkʃə(ɹ)/, /ˈflɛksjʊə(ɹ)/ 1. The act of bending or flexing; flexion. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: The gular flutter is characterized by a rapid flutter of the gular region caused by flexure and relaxation of the hyoid apparatus 2. A turn; a bend; a fold; a curve. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: but scarce had I drawn back mine arms, strained the outward flexure of my knee-joints, and was fixed in an apt disposure to take the corvetto primo and leap-valiant of the cour, when methought suddenly there came in and did appear before me mine ancient, most reverend and singular good friend, the rector of Saynt Andrew of S—, nearest in neighbourhood, but not of mine own cure, myself being of D— manor house in the same vicinage,—who astonished beyond measure at my so extasied gladness, demanded wherefore I did carry myself on this wise? Example: varying with the flexures of the valley through which it meandered 3. A part of a machine designed to bend in operation. Labels: countable, uncountable 4. A curve or bend in a tubular organ. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: The Stomach [of a weasel] about three inches long; proportionably, more than a Dogs. An inch in Diametre at the upper Orifice; and the nether, ¼; having a flexure towards its Conjunction with the Guts: ſhaped like to the body of a pair of Bag-Pipes. 5. The last joint, or bend, of the wing of a bird. Labels: countable, uncountable 6. The small distortion of an astronomical instrument caused by the weight of its parts; the amount to be added or subtracted from the observed readings of the instrument to correct them for this distortion. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: flexure Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Latin flexura. By surface analysis, flex + -ure Pronunciation: /ˈflɛkʃə(ɹ)/, /ˈflɛksjʊə(ɹ)/ 1. To introduce a flexure into; to bend or flex.
Word: barack Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Hungarian barack (“apricot, peach”), probably an ellipsis of barackpálinka, a compound with pálinka (“brandy”). Pronunciation: /ˈbɒɹətsk/ 1. Hungarian apricot brandy. Labels: uncountable
Word: barack Part of Speech: adj Pronunciation: /ˈbɒɹətsk/ 1. Alternative letter-case form of Barack. Labels: alt-of
Word: rapine Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English rapyne, from Old French rapine, from Latin rapīna, from rapiō. Doublet of ravine. Pronunciation: /ˈɹæpaɪn/ 1. The seizure of someone's property by force; pillage; plunder. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: This countrey ſwarmes with vile outragious men, That liue by rapine and by lawleſſe ſpoile, Fit ſouldiers for the wicked Tamburlaine. Example: Good Rapine, stab him: he is a ravisher.
Word: rapine Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English rapyne, from Old French rapine, from Latin rapīna, from rapiō. Doublet of ravine. Pronunciation: /ˈɹæpaɪn/ 1. To plunder. Labels: transitive Example: A Tyrant doth not only rapine his Subjects, but spoils and robs Churches.
Word: sunglint Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From sun + glint. 1. An optical phenomenon that occurs when sunlight reflects off the surface of water (an ocean, lake or river) directly towards a satellite sensor viewing the surface, so that in the sunglint area of a satellite image, smooth water appears as a silvery mirror, while rougher surface water is relatively dark. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: The water gets its eerie hue from sunglint, an optical phenomenon that occurs when sunlight reflects directly from the water’s surface into the camera lens.
Word: unusable Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From un- + usable. 1. Not usable. Example: The toilet was unusable because it was blocked. Example: From that night until mid-morning on Sunday, November 6, the station was unusable by any electric trains and the Brighton-Eastbourne service was maintained by steam traction, assisted by two Hastings six-car diesel muliple-units—[...].
Word: unusable Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From un- + usable. 1. Something that is not fit for use. Example: All the fat, skin, bones and unusables from the slaughter house went to the soap factory, and got diverted to feed a company of soldiers.
Word: Eichel Part of Speech: name Etymology: Borrowed from German Eichel. 1. A surname from German.
Word: fat catshark Part of Speech: noun 1. A shark (Apristurus pinguis) of the family Pentanchidae, closely related to the Japanese catshark (Apristurus japonicus).
Word: tru Part of Speech: adj 1. Abbreviation of true. Labels: Internet, abbreviation, alt-of Example: sashaFEROCIOUS228: not sashaFEROCIOUS228: happy tinydancerlexi14: why??? tinydancerlexi14: cuz singles awareness day 2morro? sashaFEROCIOUS228: ugh shut up sashaFEROCIOUS228: i hate when ppl call it that sashaFEROCIOUS228: i hate you tinydancerlexi14: its tru tho tinydancerlexi14: u dont have a bf Example: Chyna: Lmao okay, that’s not true so idk why she told you that. Chyna: My only focus rn is college and money. Jonathan: No, not like tht. She asked me if i thought u couldve and i said yea ot wouldnt suprise me. She jus asked me. Jonathan: And if those are ur only focuses, yd u ask me Jonathan: She ddnt say anything about being tru Jonathan: She jus asked if i had thought of it
Word: dele Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Latin dēlē, second person singular imperative of dēleo (“delete”). Alternatively, a clipping of deleatur. Pronunciation: /ˈdiːliː/ 1. To delete. Labels: imperative, usually
Word: dele Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Latin dēlē, second person singular imperative of dēleo (“delete”). Alternatively, a clipping of deleatur. Pronunciation: /ˈdiːliː/ 1. A sign signifying deletion.
Word: jemmy Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Jemmy, diminutive of James. The verb is from the noun. 1. A sheep's head used as food. Labels: Ireland, UK, archaic, slang 2. An immigrant. Labels: Australia, slang 3. A greatcoat. Labels: obsolete, slang Example: your friend in the green jemmy 4. Alternative spelling of jimmy (“crowbar”). Labels: alt-of, alternative Example: Louisa fetched the jemmy, and they approached the house in a line;.
Word: jemmy Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Jemmy, diminutive of James. The verb is from the noun. 1. To shoehorn, to cram. Example: two thousand people jemmied into a stadium built for fifteen hundred 2. Alternative spelling of jimmy (“open with a crowbar”). Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: jemmy Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From a variant of gim + -y. 1. Neat; elegant. Labels: archaic Example: I was agreeably surprised by seeing my young friend and companion, Robert Pott, driving up the avenue in a very jemmy equipage.
Word: FYF Part of Speech: phrase 1. Initialism of fuck your feelings. Labels: Internet, abbreviation, alt-of, initialism, vulgar
Word: femerell Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Middle English fumerelle, from Old French fumeraille; ultimately derived from Latin fumus (“smoke”). Likely a doublet of fumarole. 1. The lantern, louvre, or covering placed in the ridge of a hall roof for the purpose of ventilation or letting out the smoke of the fire kindled on a central hearth. Labels: historical
Word: fielty Part of Speech: noun 1. The state of owing one's service (particularly of a soldier, warrior, knight, rider) to a king, queen, or other ruler. Labels: uncountable
Word: wirer Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From wire + -er. 1. A tool to assist in installing wire. 2. A person who installs wiring. 3. One who sets a wire, or snare.
Word: understands Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of understand Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: floorgrip Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From floor + grip. 1. A device used to steady firing and counter the effects of recoil, resulting in far more accurate fire when shooting in full auto mode. It can be incorporated in some rifles as part of the Rail Integration System.
Word: offeree Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From offer + -ee. Pronunciation: /ɒfəˈɹiː/, /ɑfɚˈɹi/ 1. One to whom an offer is made. Example: A unilateral contract consists of a promise on the part of the offeror and performance of the requisite terms by the offeree.
Word: sangoma Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Bantu *ngòmà Zulu íngoma Zulu isángomabor. English sangoma Borrowed from Zulu isángoma (“diviner, witch doctor, sangoma”), possibly from i- + sa- (prefix meaning ‘of’) + íngoma (“dance song performed at a festival; hymn”). The English word is cognate with Afrikaans sangoma, Swazi sángoma. Pronunciation: /sæŋˈɡəʊmə/, /-ˈɡɔː-/, /sæŋˈɡoʊmə/, /-ˈɡɔ-/ 1. A (usually female) traditional healer or herbalist, or witch doctor. Example: The Natal Zulu believes in witchcraft, prophesy, love philtres, and such like. He is firmly fixed in his mind that the witch doctors and sangomas (female diviners) have power to bring rain, to trace spells of witchcraft, to heal by incantation, and to perform sundry other wonders and miracles. Example: Sangoma is a type of healer rare in the surveyed area, but seems to be more common in other parts of Botswana. [...] In the majority of cases the Sangoma is a female, but some male Disangoma are found. The Sangoma would often, as a young person during a severe illness, be 'called' by the Badimo through a dream and then seek guidance and training from an elder Sangoma. [...] In some cases the Sangoma would specialise in some types of exorcism during which she would engage in singing, dancing and in some cases using her drum, often entering into a state of trance.
Word: offeror Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₂ep Proto-Indo-European *-o Proto-Indo-European *h₂epó Proto-Germanic *ab Proto-West Germanic *ab Old English æf Old English of Middle English of English off English -er English offer English -or English offeror From offer + -or. Pronunciation: /ˈɔfəɹɚ/, /ˈɑfəɹɚ/, /ˈɒfəɹə/ 1. One who makes an offer to another; someone who presents something to another for acceptance or rejection. Example: A unilateral contract consists of a promise on the part of the offeror and performance of the requisite terms by the offeree. Example: Acceptance of the offer terminates the power of revocation that the offeror ordinarily has.
Word: gern Part of Speech: verb Etymology: See grin. Pronunciation: /ɡɜː(ɹ)n/ 1. To grin. Labels: obsolete 2. To yawn. Labels: obsolete Example: [He] gaped like a gulfe, when he did gerne, / That whether man or monster one could scarse discerne
Word: full term Part of Speech: noun 1. The period for which a pregnant woman carries a baby; the full nine months of gestation. Labels: uncountable
Word: trephination Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English trephine Proto-Indo-European *-tis Proto-Indo-European *-Hō Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō Proto-Italic *-tiō Latin -tiō Latin -ātiōlbor. Old French -ationbor. Middle English -acioun English -ation English trephination From trephine + -ation. 1. the surgical procedure in which a hole is drilled in the skull and a circular piece of bone removed
Word: dolos Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Unknown. Possibly from dollen os 1. The bones that are thrown when throwing the bones for divination. Labels: South-Africa, uncommon 2. The ankle bones of sheep or goats formerly used by children as playthings. Labels: South-Africa, uncommon 3. Interlocking blocks of concrete, used for protection of seawalls and to preserve beaches from erosion, formerly known as Merryfield blocks. Example: https://web.archive.org/web/20050525044010/http://www.dispatch.co.za/1999/06/28/features/FAME.HTM
Word: bunny chow Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Various theories have been proposed (see the etymology of bunny chow on Wikipedia); however, the OED states that the most likely etymology is bania (“Bania caste; merchant”) + chow. 1. Curry served in a hollowed-out loaf of bread, sold as a takeaway in some cafeterias. Labels: South-Africa, countable, uncountable Example: From Indian street vendors, he regularly bought Bunny Chows — a cupful of curry in a scooped-out half loaf of fresh bread.
Word: ceili Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Irish céilí (“Irish dancing session”), Scottish Gaelic ceilidh. Pronunciation: [keɪli] 1. A social event with traditional Irish or Scottish music and dancing.
Word: coryphee Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of coryphée. Labels: alt-of, alternative Example: It was likewiſe cuſtomary to drink hard at theſe kinds of feaſts; yet it ſeems, according to the ſame author [Posidonius], that the coryphee, or head-gueſt, always began firſt, and put the cup, or rather pitcher, about to his next neighbour, till it had gone round: for, it ſeems, they all drank out of the ſame veſſel, and no man could drink till it came to his turn, nor refuſe when it did. Example: And now, whip—whip—whip—as fast as St. Francis [of Assisi] himself, or St. Dominic Loricatus, coryphee of flagellants, could himself have flagellated.
Word: sunglints Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of sunglint Labels: form-of, plural
Word: unobtrusive research Part of Speech: noun 1. A method of studying social behavior indirectly, without affecting it. Labels: uncountable
Word: concoction Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Latin concoctiō. Pronunciation: /kənˈkɒkʃən/, /kəŋ-/, /kənˈkɑkʃən/ 1. The preparing of a medicine, food or other substance out of many ingredients. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Salt is a very favoured ingredient of spell-binding concoctions. Example: Deer Sperm: In ancient times, this was used as an ingredient on aphrodisiac concoctions. An example of organotherapy. 2. A mixture prepared in such a way. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Years later, she had found out about the Voodoo drink - a concoction of rum, gunpowder, grave-dirt and human blood. She almost retched as the taste came back to her mouth. 3. Something made up, an invention. Labels: countable, figuratively, uncountable 4. Digestion (of food etc.). Labels: countable, obsolete, uncountable Example: [Sorrow] hinders concoction, refrigerates the heart, takes away stomach, colour, and sleep; thickens the blood […] 5. The act of digesting in the mind; rumination. Labels: countable, figuratively, obsolete, uncountable Example: At laſt, the Phyſicians, after a long and ſtormie voyage, ſee land; They haue ſo good ſignes of the concoction of the diſeaſe, as that they may ſafely proceed to purge. 6. An abatement of a morbid process, such as a fever, and a return to a normal condition. Labels: countable, obsolete, uncountable 7. The act of perfecting or maturing. Labels: countable, obsolete, uncountable Example: There are also divers other great alterations of matter and bodies , besides those that tend to concoction and maturation
Word: concoct Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Latin concoquō (“boil, prepare, digest”) (influenced by the participle concoctus), from con- (“together”) + coquō (“cook”). Pronunciation: /kənˈkɒkt/, [kʰəŋˈkʰɒkt] 1. To prepare something by mixing various ingredients, especially to prepare food for cooking. Example: to concoct a potion Example: to concoct a new dish 2. To contrive something using skill or ingenuity. Labels: figuratively Example: to concoct a cunning plan Example: On the other hand, the finest argument ever concocted, the concentrated wisdom drawn from men and books, will fail to charm, like the hilarity of a dance, or the splendour of a gala, the young, gay girl, whose spirits are exuberant, and whose heart is untouched by care, and who, a dozen years afterwards, would, in calm cheerfulness, listen lovingly, and examine carefully, the pleaded reasons offered to her judgment. 3. To digest. Labels: obsolete Example: For the parts of an Embryo are nourished and encreased before it hath a Stomach to concoct any thing, and yet in a perfect Fœtus none can deny that the Stomach does concoct […]
Word: concoct Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Latin concoquō (“boil, prepare, digest”) (influenced by the participle concoctus), from con- (“together”) + coquō (“cook”). Pronunciation: /kənˈkɒkt/, [kʰəŋˈkʰɒkt] 1. A concoction. Labels: nonstandard, rare Example: I don't suppose these creatures are the concoct of your mind?" La Tour said. "If they're real, then Nature there is warped, no doubt by oppressive dampness and heat."
Word: concoct Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Borrowed from Latin concoctus, perfect passive participle of Latin concoquō (compare Etymology 1). Pronunciation: /kənˈkɒkt/, [kʰəŋˈkʰɒkt] 1. Digested or affected by heat. Labels: obsolete
Word: candidates Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of candidate Labels: form-of, plural
Word: end of story Part of Speech: phrase 1. Indicating that is as much as one knows, or one is prepared to reveal or is willing to discuss regarding the subject. Labels: colloquial 2. That is the definitive fact; there can be no argument. Labels: colloquial Example: If you don't want to move back to the States, we won't. End of story. Example: “You doxx, you get suspended, end of story,” he said, and then abruptly left the call.
Word: spears Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of spear Labels: form-of, plural
Word: spears Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of spear Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: champ at the bit Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From champ (verb) (“to chew noisily”) + bit (“part of horse's harness held in its mouth”); horses tend to chew their bits when impatient with waiting. 1. To bite the bit, especially when restless. Labels: intransitive 2. To show impatience or frustration when delayed. Labels: figuratively, intransitive Example: Pittsburgh supercomputer is complete, and scientists are champing at the bit to use it [title] Example: Everyone is champing at the bit to be labelled innovative.
Word: dognapping Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Blend of dog + kidnapping. Pronunciation: /ˈdɒɡnæpɪŋ/, /ˈdɔɡnæpɪŋ/, /ˈdɑɡnæpɪŋ/ 1. A kidnapping or stealing of a dog owned by someone else, often done in order to sell it.
Word: flotilla Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Spanish flotilla, diminutive of flota (“fleet”), from French flotte. Pronunciation: /floʊˈtɪlə/ 1. A small fleet of warships (usually of the same class), or a fleet of small ships. Example: Toward the horizon a flotilla of fishing-boats showed immutable, pink-lacquered by the evening sun. Example: Driven from their home system by the geth nearly three centuries ago, most quarians now live aboard the Migrant Fleet, a flotilla of fifty thousand vessels ranging in size from passenger shuttles to mobile space stations. Home to 17 million quarians, the flotilla understandably has scarce resources. Because of this, each quarian must go on a rite of passage known as the Pilgrimage when they come of age. They leave the fleet and only return once they have found something of value they can bring back to their people. 2. A small group of things or people Labels: broadly Example: After a few moments Chloe saw Rosamund walking towards them with a small flotilla of shopping bags. Example: flotilla of tiny ducklings 3. A spaceship made of one or more central mutually stabilizing overweight spaceships flanked by lightweight, middleweight, or heavyweight spaceships that prevent the formation of destructive eggs. Example: For rule R(2222) a flotilla of six gliders traveling eastwards is generated. Example: Now, the smallest known Life spaceship that isn’t a glider, a *WSS, or a flotilla of *WSSs is the loafer, which has population 20 in a 9 by 9 bounding box.
Word: get off someone's back Part of Speech: verb 1. To cease pestering or criticizing someone; to leave someone alone. Labels: ambitransitive, informal Example: Nothing gets an overly inquisitive auntie or an uncle with unpalatable political views off your back like a Boxing Day fixture.
Word: idiot-savant Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of idiot savant. Labels: alt-of, alternative Example: That slightly wide-eyed boyishness has given him a career playing ordinary people in extraordinary circumstances, whether that be everyone's favourite idiot-savant Forrest Gump (1994), a pilot who saves the day in Sully (2016), or the beleaguered Captain Miller of Saving Private Ryan (1998).
Word: Judas Priest Part of Speech: intj 1. Jesus Christ! Example: “Judas priest!” he stammered, for here was his right-hand man as good as dead.
Word: no-see-um Part of Speech: noun 1. Any biting midge (family Ceratopogonidae), small flies (1–4 mm long); sometimes the species Leptoconops torrens in particular. Labels: Southern-US, US 2. Any biting bug or insect that is normally too small to see with an unaided eye. Example: Wherever we look up, there suspended against an areola of humming fluorescent white, is a shadowy funnel of tiny flies, bobbing in the air. 'No-See-Um's. This is what one employee calls them. Example: These two examples of insect life are the scourge of the North Country, or any country in which they may be found. Many local people refer to any small black fly as a “no-see-Um" but the true bug by that name is indeed very hard to see.
Word: sit on one's hands Part of Speech: verb 1. To remain idle when action is needed, perhaps because of fear, ignorance, complacency, indecisiveness, or dislike of the person(s) or situation. Labels: idiomatic Example: "Ministers cannot continue to sit on their hands, hoping this dispute will go away. Our members are fully prepared to fight tooth-and-nail for a negotiated settlement," RMT General Secretary Mick Lynch has warned. 2. To fail to applaud when expected to. Labels: informal Example: While Boston is a "musical town," audiences here sat on their hands a good part of the time.
Word: exoderm Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Ancient Greek ἐκ (ek) Ancient Greek ἔξω (éxō)der. English exo- English derm English exoderm From exo- + derm. 1. An outer layer of skin. 2. The outermost layer of cells in a developing embryo.
Word: eye contact Part of Speech: noun 1. The condition or action of looking at another human or animal in the eye. Labels: uncountable Example: to make eye contact with someone Example: If you make the animal angry, walk slowly backwards and avoid making eye contact.
Word: lyceum Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Latin Lyceum, from Ancient Greek Λύκειον (Lúkeion) (the name of a gymnasium, or athletic training facility, near Athens where Aristotle established his school), from Λύκειος, from Proto-Greek *λύκη), "light." The meaning of the epithet "Lyceus" later became associated with Apollo's mother Leto, who was the patron goddess of Lycia (Λυκία) and who was identified with the wolf (λύκος). Doublet of lycée and Lyceum. Pronunciation: /laɪˈsiːəm/ 1. A public hall designed for lectures, readings, or concerts. Labels: historical Example: At a lyceum, not long since, I felt that the lecturer had chosen a theme too foreign to himself, and so failed to interest me as much as he might have done. Example: In the autumn he was to return home; his family - composed, as Rowland knew, of a father, who was a cashier in a bank, and five unmarried sisters, one of whom gave lyceum lectures on woman's rights, the whole resident at Buffalo, N.Y. - had been writing him peremptory letters and appealing to him as son, brother and fellow-citizen. 2. A school, especially European, at a stage between elementary school and college, a lycée. Labels: US, historical Example: We burst out laughing. She told me that one of her teachers at the "lyceum" used to say that whenever any of the students got up to anything. 3. An association for literary improvement.
Word: lionized Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of lionize Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: Abbott Part of Speech: name Etymology: An occupational surname for someone employed by an abbot. In the U.S., sometimes an anglicization of Italian Abate, Spanish Abad or German Abt. Doublet of Abad. Pronunciation: /ˈæbət/ 1. A surname originating as an occupation. Example: Appearing on Fox News' Hannity, Abbott responded to Rep. Crockett by touting his leadership and accomplishments in Texas. 2. A male given name transferred from the surname. Labels: rare 3. A number of places in the United States: 4. A number of places in the United States: 5. A number of places in the United States: 6. A number of places in the United States: 7. A number of places in the United States: 8. A number of places in the United States: 9. A number of places in the United States: 10. A locality in Monte Partido, Buenos Aires province, Argentina.
Word: 'um Part of Speech: pron Etymology: Contracted from them. 1. Alternative form of 'em. Labels: alt-of, alternative Example: They call themselves gentlemen, I warrant you; but, as my first husband used to say, they should remember it is we that pay them. And to be sure it is very hard upon us to be obliged to pay them, and to keep 'um too, as we publicans are.
Word: awards Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /əˈwɔːdz/, /əˈwɔɹdz/ 1. plural of award Labels: form-of, plural
Word: awards Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /əˈwɔːdz/, /əˈwɔɹdz/ 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of award Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: patently Part of Speech: adv Etymology: Etymology tree English patent Proto-Indo-European *leyg-der. Proto-Germanic *līkąder. Proto-Germanic *-līkaz Proto-Germanic *-ê Proto-Germanic *-līkê Proto-West Germanic *-līkē Old English -līċe Middle English -ly English -ly English patently From patent + -ly. Pronunciation: /ˈpeɪtəntli/, /ˈpætən(t)li/, /ˈpeɪtən(t)li/ 1. In a clear and unambiguous manner. Labels: negative, usually Example: Many of the so-called rites of these secret societies were so patently ridiculous, that it is quite obvious that they were merely an excuse for men and women to indulge in sex-play and lustful gratification, frequently of an abnormal kind. 2. Outspread, or spreading at right angles to the axis. Example: abaxial surface patently pilose-puberulous
Word: GPM Part of Speech: noun 1. Initialism of gallon per minute. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
Word: GPM Part of Speech: name 1. Initialism of general purpose mouse, a piece of software providing support for mouse devices in Linux virtual consoles. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
Word: Ader Part of Speech: name 1. A surname from German.
Word: Pflug Part of Speech: name Etymology: Borrowed from German Pflug. 1. A surname from German.
Word: gendered knowledge Part of Speech: noun 1. According to feminist studies and gender studies, mainstream knowledge that is produced by men and privileges the masculine over the feminine. Labels: uncountable
Word: ghetto bird Part of Speech: noun 1. A police helicopter, specifically in the context of patrolling or searching impoverished, high-crime urban areas (the ghetto). Labels: US, idiomatic, slang Example: Had to pull a strap on a fool named Louis the Third Cuz I'm getting chased by the ghetto bird
Word: goatly Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree English goat Middle English -ly English -ly English goatly From goat + -ly. 1. Having the characteristics of a goat. Labels: rare
Word: peacefully Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From Middle English peesfully, peasfullie, paisfulike, paisfullic, equivalent to peaceful + -ly. Pronunciation: /ˈpiːsfəli/ 1. In a peaceful manner. Example: She and her husband managed to fix up a false floor in one of their rooms in which they fed the roosters; so whenever a picket came in sight her call would bring the whole family out of the woods and clearing into the refuge, where they remained peacefully amongst corn-cobs till the danger had passed.
Word: fibranne Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /fɪˈbɹæn/ 1. A rayon fabric having some qualities of linen. Labels: uncountable
Word: staphylococci Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ˌstæfələˈkɔki/ 1. plural of staphylococcus Labels: form-of, plural
Word: zot Part of Speech: verb Etymology: A sound effect. Popularized by the Usenet Oracle, a humorous Internet advice service, where the word was used as an irritated dismissal of a question. 1. To zap, kill, or destroy. Labels: slang, transitive Example: I reached for the handle and it zotted me — an electric shock to the elbow. Example: I've heard rumors about the oracle zotting people and I have these questions about zot?
Word: zot Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Sound effect in the comic strip B.C., first published in 1958, associated with both (1) the rapid tongue of an anteater character and (2) lightning bolts. 1. An anteater. Labels: US, slang
Word: zot Part of Speech: intj Etymology: Sound effect in the comic strip B.C., first published in 1958, associated with both (1) the rapid tongue of an anteater character and (2) lightning bolts. 1. The characteristic sound made by an anteater's tongue or by lightning. Labels: US
Word: zot Part of Speech: noun 1. A black person. Labels: South-Africa, Zimbabwe, derogatory, ethnic, offensive, slur Example: Regretfully there is nothing that can be done about things .. just a time bomb ticking, ticking, ticking .. until one day soon, the zots will decide to take a property here, and a property there (they have after all started with vacant land and been successful), so why not progress to property? Example: (SA) ¶ The government has TACITLY condoned the actions of the zots by allowing them to continue their illegal occupation. (Zimbabwe) ¶ The government condoned the illegal activities and progressed to the point where they were actively supporting it.
Word: grillage Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Originated 1770–80 from French grillage. 1. A foundation of crisscrossing timber or steel beams, usually for spreading heavy loads over large areas. Example: Workers laid foundations of immense timbers in crisscrossed layers following Root's 'grillage' principle.
Word: gripesite Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From gripe + site. 1. A website aimed at making consumers more aware of deficient goods and services. Labels: Internet, informal, rare
Word: bren Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English brennen, from Old Norse brenna, brinna, from Proto-Germanic *brinnaną (“to set on fire”). Cognate with German brennen, Swedish bränna. Doublet of burn; see there for more. Pronunciation: /bɹɛn/ 1. To burn (to set ablaze). Labels: obsolete, transitive Example: And the greene grasse that groweth they shall bren, That even the wilde beast shall dy in starved den
Word: skateboard truck Part of Speech: noun 1. One of a pair of devices, consisting of a baseplate, cushioned axle and pivot, that allows a skateboarder to turn the board by leaning.
Word: skateboard wheel Part of Speech: noun 1. resilient polyurethane wheels designed for use on skateboards
Word: grip tape Part of Speech: noun 1. Sandpaper with an adhesive on one side, used to provide added friction for skateboards, sports clubs and bats, etc. Labels: countable, uncountable 2. Tape with a rough exterior to aid with gripping a bar-like object, often wrapped around pull-up bars or bicycle handlebars. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: of even date Part of Speech: prep_phrase 1. Having the same date. Example: SIR,— Our client, Mr. Robert Ferguson, of Ferguson & Muirhead, tea brokers, of Mincing Lane, has made some inquiry from us in a communication of even date concerning vampires.
Word: skateboard trucks Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of skateboard truck Labels: form-of, plural
Word: fiche Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from French fiche. Pronunciation: /fiːʃ/ 1. a microfiche
Word: microfiche Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree French micro- French fiche French microfichebor. English microfiche Borrowed from French microfiche. Pronunciation: /ˈmaɪ.kɹəʊˌfiːʃ/, /ˈmaɪ.kɹoʊˌfiːʃ/ 1. A sheet of microfilm, six by four inches, holding several hundred reduced images of document pages, read using a microfiche reader or microfilm reader. 2. A device used to magnify and read these sheets.
Word: microfiche Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Etymology tree French micro- French fiche French microfichebor. English microfiche Borrowed from French microfiche. Pronunciation: /ˈmaɪ.kɹəʊˌfiːʃ/, /ˈmaɪ.kɹoʊˌfiːʃ/ 1. To convert (documents) to microfiche format. Labels: transitive
Word: hydrogen burning Part of Speech: noun 1. The nucleosynthesis process, in stars of less than 1.2 solar mass, in which hydrogen is converted to helium, deuterium and some lithium. Labels: idiomatic, uncountable 2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: thermochemical oxidation of diatomic hydrogen gas. Labels: uncountable
Word: helium burning Part of Speech: noun 1. the nucleosynthesis process, in stars with temperatures over 10⁸K, in which helium is converted to carbon and then to oxygen, neon and magnesium Labels: uncountable
Word: carbon burning Part of Speech: noun 1. The nucleosynthesis process, in stars of greater than 8 solar mass that have exhausted their helium supply, in which carbon is converted to neon, sodium, magnesium and other elements. Labels: idiomatic, uncountable 2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: thermochemical oxidation of carbon. Labels: uncountable
Word: oxygen burning Part of Speech: noun 1. The nucleosynthesis process, subsequent to carbon burning, in which neon disintegrates to oxygen which subsequently fuses to form silicon, phosphorus sulfur and other elements of atomic number up to 40. Labels: idiomatic, uncountable, usually 2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: thermochemical combustion of diatomic oxygen gas. Labels: uncountable, usually
Word: silicon burning Part of Speech: noun 1. the nucleosynthesis process, in stars where temperatures exceed 3x10⁹K, in which silicon undergoes photodisintegration to form fragments which in turn produce elements of atomic number up to 60, peaking at iron Labels: uncountable
Word: s-process Part of Speech: noun Etymology: The s stands for slow. 1. the relatively slow nucleosynthesis process, in giant stars, in which neutron capture synthesizes elements up to atomic mass number 210 (at which point alpha decay becomes a deterrent to further building).
Word: dead on arrival Part of Speech: adj 1. Found to be dead upon arriving at hospital. Labels: not-comparable 2. Found dead at a scene, upon the arrival of an emergency medical service (EMS) or the police. Labels: not-comparable 3. Of a new item: received broken. Labels: not-comparable, slang 4. Being a failure from the start, a nonstarter. Labels: not-comparable, slang
Word: r-process Part of Speech: noun Etymology: The r stands for rapid. 1. The relatively rapid nucleosynthesis process, in supernovae, in which a large neutron flux allows rapid neutron capture and synthesis of elements up to the transuranic elements.
Word: LiBeB process Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From the chemical symbols Li, Be, B. 1. Any nucleosynthesis process, the details of which are unclear, that accounts for the light elements lithium, beryllium and boron which cannot survive in stellar interiors because they are destroyed by proton capture. Labels: uncountable
Word: carbon-nitrogen-oxygen cycle Part of Speech: noun 1. A group of nuclear reactions, involving the interaction of protons with carbon, nitrogen and oxygen nuclei, thought to be the main source of energy in main-sequence stars of greater than 1.4 solar mass. Labels: uncountable
Word: CNO cycle Part of Speech: noun 1. Synonym of carbon-nitrogen-oxygen cycle.
Word: solar mass Part of Speech: noun 1. A unit, equal to the mass of the sun, used to express the mass of other stars etc. 1 M_☉ = 2 × 10³⁰ kg.
Word: oil sand Part of Speech: noun 1. A relatively loose sandstone, or porous carbonate rock, impregnated with bitumen. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: tar sand Part of Speech: noun 1. oil sand. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: bituminous sand Part of Speech: noun 1. oil sand
Word: Olbers' paradox Part of Speech: name Etymology: From Heinrich Wilhelm Matthäus Olbers, German astronomer. 1. The observation that the night sky is mostly dark, yet, in a boundless universe of stars, every line of sight from the eye must eventually intercept the surface of a star.
Word: phylotype Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *bʰuH- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *bʰuHyéti Ancient Greek φύω (phúō) Ancient Greek φῦλον (phûlon)der. English phylo- English type English phylotype From phylo- + type. 1. A proposed stage in the development of an embryo at which those characteristics of a particular phylum develop. 2. A proposed stage in the development of an embryo at which those characteristics of a particular phylum develop. 3. A phenetic grouping. Example: But DNA sequencing isolated the 167,000 different phylotypes (roughly equivalent to species) contained in the samples.
Word: phylotype Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *bʰuH- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *bʰuHyéti Ancient Greek φύω (phúō) Ancient Greek φῦλον (phûlon)der. English phylo- English type English phylotype From phylo- + type. 1. To describe and categorise such phenetic groups.
Word: Stephenson Part of Speech: name Etymology: Etymology tree English Stephen Proto-Indo-European *sew-? Proto-Indo-European *sewH- Proto-Indo-European *suHnús Proto-Germanic *sunuz Proto-West Germanic *sunu Old English sunu Middle English sone Middle English -son English -son English Stephenson From Stephen + -son. 1. An English and Scottish surname originating as a patronymic. Labels: countable, uncountable 2. A township and city therein, in Menominee County, Michigan, United States. Labels: countable, uncountable 3. A town in Marinette County, Wisconsin, United States. Labels: countable, uncountable 4. Ellipsis of Stephenson College, Durham. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, ellipsis, informal, uncountable
Word: liminocentric Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Coined from Latin limen ‘threshold’ + -centric. Pronunciation: /ˈlɪmɪnəʊˌsɛntɹɪk/ 1. Having an edge or border which is simultaneously a centre, or internal areas that are indistinguishable from boundary areas. Example: The torus is a liminocentric composition. 2. Having an identity between the very small and very large such that both are equivalent or indistinguishable. Example: According to some versions of string theory, the universe displays a fractal-like identity between its scale extremities (the astronomically large and subatomically small), indicating a liminocentric structure. 3. Arranged such that the centre simultaneously encompasses external elements while remaining located within them. Example: Her analysis proposes a liminocentric chain of cause and effect, like a recursive set of Chinese boxes where the innermost box paradoxically contains the outermost. Example: For quotations using this term, see Citations:liminocentric.
Word: Chinese boxes Part of Speech: noun 1. A set of boxes, of different sizes, each fitting inside the next larger one. Labels: plural, plural-only Example: 'Continue, my dear friend. It is interesting for me to see this new Bond. Englishmen are so odd. They are like a nest of Chinese boxes. It takes a very long time to get to the centre of them.' 2. Something that resembles a set of Chinese boxes, especially in complexity. Labels: plural, plural-only 3. plural of Chinese box Labels: form-of, plural, plural-only
Word: coeternity Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *ḱe? Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm Proto-Italic *kom Proto-Italic *kom- Latin con- Latin co-der. English co- English eternity English coeternity From co- + eternity. 1. Joint eternity; equal eternity with another eternal being Labels: uncountable Example: 1714, Bp George Bull, Some Important Points of Primitive Chriſtianity Maintained and Defended (2nd ed.), volume III, discourse IV: “The Conſubſtantiality and Coeternity of the Son of God with God the Father, Aſſerted; or ſome few Animadverſions on a Treatiſe of Mr. Gilbert Clerke, entituled Anteniceniſmus, ſo far as the ſaid Author pretends to anſwer Dr. George Bull’s Defenſe of the Nicene Faith, &c.”, page 915
Word: mistle Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English mistel (“mistletoe”), from Old English mistel (“mistletoe”), from Proto-West Germanic *mistil (“mistle”), from Proto-Germanic *mistilaz (“mistle”). Pronunciation: /ˈmɪsəl/ 1. mistletoe Labels: countable, obsolete, uncountable 2. the mistle thrush Labels: countable
Word: mistle Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Presumably from mist + -le (frequentative suffix). Pronunciation: /ˈmɪsəl/ 1. To fall like a fine rain; to drizzle.
Word: mistle thrush Part of Speech: noun Etymology: It is supposed to be fond of the berries of the mistletoe. 1. A large Eurasian thrush, Turdus viscivorus. Example: Brian Cox as Logan Roy (2019), 31:28 from the start, in Succession, season 2, episode 8: “I saw a mistle thrush at the bandstand.”