nandhakumarms/qualc-wiktionary-en huggingface dataset:
Word: motza Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Probably from motza, a variant of matzo, or its etymon Yiddish מצה (matse, “(unleavened) bread”). Compare bread, dough (“money”). 1. A lot of money. Labels: Australia, slang Example: How often is this happening? I don't think anyone knows. It must be costing a motza and that's a real concern.
Word: motza Part of Speech: noun Etymology: See matzo. 1. Alternative form of matzo. Labels: alt-of, alternative, countable, uncountable Example: […]militant Hebrews have all been enabled to keep their Passover in accordance with the Mosaic Law, for they were furnished with the necessary “motzas,” or cakes of unleavened bread, by their London co-religionists. Example: During the seven days of this festival, as everyone knows, Jews eat motzas, or unleavened cakes, instead of bread, in commemoration of the flight from Egypt.
Word: eromenoi Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of eromenos Labels: form-of, plural
Word: have the wolf by the ear Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Initially attributed to Roman Emperor Tiberius circa year 1 AD by biographer C. Suetonius Tranquillus. United States, 1820, Thomas Jefferson, writing about the institution of slavery and the Missouri Compromise: : "But, as it is, we have the wolf by the ear, and we can neither hold him nor safely let him go. Justice is in one scale, and self-preservation in the other." :: — Thomas Jefferson to John Holmes (discussing slavery and the Missouri question), Monticello, 22 April 1820 1. To be in a dangerous situation from which one cannot disengage, but in which one cannot safely remain. Labels: idiomatic
Word: on the horns of a dilemma Part of Speech: prep_phrase Etymology: From horn (“alternative in an argument”), from Latin argūmentum cornūtum (“argument with alternatives”, literally “horned argument”), a reference to an alternative that one can metaphorically get caught on or injured by. Pronunciation: /ɒn‿ðə ˈhɔːnz‿əv‿ə daɪˈlɛmə/, /-dɪˈlɛmə/, /ɑn‿ðə ˈhɔɹnz‿əv‿ə daɪˈlɛmə/ 1. Facing a choice between two equally undesirable alternatives. Labels: idiomatic Example: To admit of the abſolute foreknovvledge of God, and yet to deny his predeſtination, even in its fulleſt extent, is a palpable abſurdity. The diſputant ſticks faſt on the horns of a dilemma, from vvhich he never can be diſengaged, vvithout the extraction of one. And yet to deny either, involves an equal abſurdity, and leaves the poor logician in the ſame predicament; […] Example: They vvere ſtuck on the horns of a dilemma, that ſorely pricked them; unable to find a better ſituation, and unreſolved to quit their preſent one.
Word: capataces Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of capataz Labels: form-of, plural
Word: nigromancies Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of nigromancy Labels: form-of, plural
Word: old farts Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of old fart Labels: form-of, plural
Word: 110% Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative spelling of a hundred and ten percent. Labels: alt-of, alternative, uncountable
Word: 4-on-the-floor Part of Speech: adj 1. Alternative spelling of four-on-the-floor. Labels: alt-of, alternative, not-comparable
Word: gay bars Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of gay bar Labels: form-of, plural
Word: Japanese giant salamanders Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of Japanese giant salamander Labels: form-of, plural
Word: eurythermal Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From eury- + thermal. 1. Able to tolerate a wide range of temperature.
Word: altimetric Part of Speech: adj 1. Of or pertaining to altimetry or to altimetrics Labels: not-comparable 2. Obtained by means of an altimeter Labels: not-comparable
Word: anholonomic Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From an- + holonomic. 1. nonholonomic Labels: not-comparable
Word: antitriplet Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From anti- + triplet. 1. The antiparticle of a specified triplet (triquark). Labels: particle
Word: cryogens Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of cryogen Labels: form-of, plural
Word: cryogen Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From cryo- + -gen. 1. A cryogenic liquid (that boils below about -160°C) used as a refrigerant.
Word: decahydroisoquinoline Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *déḱm̥ Proto-Hellenic *dékə Ancient Greek δέκᾰ (dékă) Ancient Greek -ᾰ́ς (-ắs) Ancient Greek δεκάς (dekás)der. Late Latin decasder. French déca-bor. English deca- Proto-Indo-European *wed- Proto-Indo-European *-r̥ Proto-Indo-European *wódr̥ Proto-Hellenic *údōr Ancient Greek ῡ̆̔́δωρ (hū̆́dōr) Ancient Greek ῠ̔δρο- (hŭdro-)der. English hydro- Ancient Greek ῐ̓́σος (ĭ́sos)lbor. English iso- English quinine English -oline English quinoline English isoquinoline English decahydroisoquinoline From deca- + hydro- + isoquinoline. Pronunciation: /dɛkəhaɪdɹəʊaɪsəʊˈkwɪnəliːn/ 1. The saturated, bicyclic heterocycle, related to isoquinoline, composed of a cyclohexane ring fused to that of piperidine
Word: perhydroisoquinoline Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *per- Proto-Italic *per Latin perbor. Proto-Indo-European *per-der. Proto-Italic *peri- Latin per-bor. English per- Proto-Indo-European *wed- Proto-Indo-European *-r̥ Proto-Indo-European *wódr̥ Proto-Hellenic *údōr Ancient Greek ῡ̆̔́δωρ (hū̆́dōr) Ancient Greek ῠ̔δρο- (hŭdro-)der. English hydro- Ancient Greek ῐ̓́σος (ĭ́sos)lbor. English iso- English quinine English -oline English quinoline English isoquinoline English perhydroisoquinoline From per- + hydro- + isoquinoline. 1. decahydroisoquinoline
Word: decentration Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From de- + centration. Pronunciation: /diːsɛntˈɹeɪʃən/ 1. The removal of something from a centre. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: decorrelated Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /diːˈkɒɹəleɪtəd/ 1. simple past and past participle of decorrelate Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: decorrelated Part of Speech: adj Pronunciation: /diːˈkɒɹəleɪtəd/ 1. Modified by decorrelation
Word: Brose Part of Speech: name Etymology: Shortening. 1. A diminutive of the male given name Ambrose. Example: Take poor Brose, who was actually christened Ambrose. A thing like that could simply warp a person's life, if he wasn't a good enough fighter to make the other kids start calling him by some nickname at an early age.
Word: casaquin Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From French casaquin. 1. A kind of short gown associated with French working-class or peasant women. Labels: historical
Word: casaquins Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of casaquin Labels: form-of, plural
Word: caraco Part of Speech: noun 1. A kind of short coat or jacket worn by women. Labels: historical
Word: eye-strain Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative spelling of eyestrain. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: stamp hinges Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of stamp hinge Labels: form-of, plural
Word: contreforts Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of contrefort Labels: form-of, plural
Word: seigneurie Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From French seigneurie. 1. An area governed by a seigneur (French noble). Example: Conventionally, seigneuries were divided between, first, the domain land […]; and, second, the tenures (or censives) which were divided among the peasantry and others. 2. The estate of a seigneur. Labels: Canada 3. The official residence of a Seigneur.
Word: seigneuries Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of seigneurie Labels: form-of, plural
Word: seigneurial Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From seigneur + -ial. 1. Of or relating to a seigneur or to seigneurialism. Example: In April 1768 Carleton had proposed the restoration of the seigneurial militia system. 2. Befitting a seigneur. Example: She would chat for hours, without thinking anything of it, with the chief of the village on her mother's estate, when he happened to come into town, and talk with him as if he were her equal, without any signs of seigneurial condescension. Example: It had a church, just at the junction of the roads, and a fine seigneurial chateau, in a garden, beside the church; otherwise it was a little lonely mean place, built of brick and plaster on a great lonely heap of chalk downland.
Word: arbusts Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of arbust Labels: form-of, plural
Word: med-evacs Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of med-evac Labels: form-of, plural
Word: sculk Part of Speech: verb 1. Alternative spelling of skulk. Labels: alt-of, alternative Example: It is a poor thing for a fellow to get drunk at night, and sculk to bed, and let his friends have no sport.' Example: No, Sir, you had good Clothes when you came first, but they dwindled daily, till they dwindled to this old Campaign--with tan'd coloured Lining--once red--but now all Colours of the Rain-bow, a Cloke to sculk in a Nights, and a pair of piss-burn'd shammy Breeches.
Word: schnozz Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Likely from Yiddish שנויץ (shnoyts), cognate to German Schnauze (“snout”) and English snout. Compare schnozzle. A less common theory suggests a variant of nose influenced by schm-, or by general association with Yiddish words. Attested since at least 1940. Pronunciation: /ʃnɒz/, /ʃnɑz/ 1. Nose. Labels: slang Example: […] you have got J-E-W written right across the middle of that face—look at the shnoz on him, for God’s sakes! Example: There's a TV commercial out now for a nasal spray in which a man in need of a decongestant wakes up to find that his entire head has turned into a giant schnozz.
Word: schnozzes Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of schnozz Labels: form-of, plural
Word: schnockered Part of Speech: adj 1. Alternative form of snockered. Labels: alt-of, alternative Example: So if you and the pooch go out and get schnockered some night, make sure you don't let him drive. Example: Ordinarily, Cecil doesn't take this kind of thing too seriously but in this instance was impressed by Freilich's impeccable research methodology: he spent his nights getting schnockered with the Mohawks at their favorite bar in Brooklyn.
Word: mod cons Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of mod con Labels: form-of, plural
Word: bladdered Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From bladder + -ed. Pronunciation: /ˈblædəd/, /ˈblædɚd/, [ˈblæd.ɜːd] 1. Having a specified kind of bladder. Labels: in-compounds Example: […] the fabric was holding onto the smell of urine. Their small bladdered friend had soiled it so much that new furniture was needed, so Jason and Colin had gone out and hijacked some aluminium garden chairs. 2. Drunk. Labels: UK, slang 3. Swollen like a bladder; bladdery.
Word: schooly Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From school + -y. 1. Of or relating to school. Labels: informal Example: She was disappointed with the Law School social milieu, describing it as “a very high-schooly atmosphere” characterized by competition, cliquishness, and emotional immaturity. 2. Studious, involving study. Labels: informal Example: Tony had objected that she did not want anything so "schooly," and that the very fact that Jean liked the Hostelry would be proof positive that she, Tony, would not like it. Example: And 'Home for Girls' means that it isn't a home at all, but a schooly, outside-sort-of place."
Word: schooly Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From school + -y. 1. Alternative spelling of schoolie. Labels: alt-of, alternative Example: 2000, Gerald Barnhart, Foreword, Ron Bern, Manny Luftglass, Gone Fishin′: The 100 Best Spots in New York, page xv, Surf casters are frantically catching and releasing schooly stripers and some early blues at Montauk, and the fluke have shown in good numbers in the sound.
Word: gold coins Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of gold coin Labels: form-of, plural
Word: sauerbraten Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From German: sauer (“sour”) + Braten (“roast meat”). 1. A German dish of roasted marinated horsemeat or (now more frequently) beef or pork. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: My sauerbraten ($10.95) was a disaster, thin slices of beef drowned in a lake of gravy, and way too sauer, although the accompanying spaetzle were firm and buttery. Example: The worst thing that would have happened if Germany had won is that I'd be speaking German now and eating sauerbraten instead of hamburger," he says. "
Word: screak Part of Speech: noun 1. shriek; screech Example: She did not run against chairs nor move a stool so that the legs emitted a "screak" of agony, and she could sit still for an hour at a time if she had a book.
Word: screak Part of Speech: verb 1. shriek; screech Example: The awfulest thing was the silence; there wasn't a sound but the screaking of the saddles, the measured tramplings, and the sneezing of the horses, afflicted by the smothering dust-clouds which they kicked up. Example: They walk together in silence while behind them a freight train chuffs and screaks through the crossing.
Word: screaks Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of screak Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: screaking Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of screak Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: screaking Part of Speech: noun 1. A shriek or screech. Example: […] and his calls of the female would readily be mistaken by a stranger for the screakings of an ungreased wheel-barrow.
Word: screaked Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of screak Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: semicircularly Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From semicircular + -ly. 1. Done in a semicircular manner. Example: He whirled and came back open-mouthed, and the little boy and big basket had to whisk semicircularly not to be run down, for de minimis non curat Medicina-even when not in a rage. Example: THOMSON'S Castle of Indolence: Explanatory Verse to Canto II. In a popular and respectable, but not very fashionable quartier in Paris, and in the tolerably broad and effective locale of the Rue, there might be seen, at the time I now treat of, a curious-looking building, that jutted out semicircularly from the neighbouring shops, with plaster pilasters and compo ornaments.
Word: sellery Part of Speech: noun 1. Obsolete spelling of celery. Labels: alt-of, obsolete, uncountable Example: Take a quart of good boiling pease which put into a pot with a gallon of soft water whilst cold; add thereto a little beef or mutton, a little hung beef or bacon, and two or three large onions; boil all together while your soop is thick; salt it to your taste, and thicken it with a little wheat-flour; strain it thro' a cullender, boil a little sellery, cut it in small pieces, with a little crisp bread, and crisp a little spinage, as you would do parsley, then put it in a dish, and serve it up. Example: We had most of us fasted eight-and-forty hours, some more; it was time therefore to make enquiry among ourselves what store of sustenance had been brought from the wreck by dire providence of some, and what could be procured on the island by the industry of others; but the produce of the one amounted to no more than two or three pounds of biscuit-dust preserved in a bag; and all the success of those who ventured abroad, the weather being still exceedingly bad, was to kill one sea-gull and pick some wild sellery.
Word: spinage Part of Speech: noun 1. Obsolete spelling of spinach. Labels: alt-of, countable, obsolete, uncountable Example: Take a quart of good boiling pease which put into a pot with a gallon of soft water whilst cold; add thereto a little beef or mutton, a little hung beef or bacon, and two or three large onions; boil all together while your soop is thick; salt it to your taste, and thicken it with a little wheat-flour; strain it thro' a cullender, boil a little sellery, cut it in small pieces, with a little crisp bread, and crisp a little spinage, as you would do parsley, then put it in a dish, and serve it up.
Word: semaphoric Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From semaphore + -ic. 1. using semaphore 2. involving waving the arms, as if using semaphore Example: He was standing as he spoke, emphasising his periods with semaphoric motions of his right arm. Example: This is a cerebral take on the way hundreds of other movies have defined hysteria rather than any form of observation, a semaphoric set of signals designed to represent hysteria rather than embody it.
Word: seede Part of Speech: noun 1. Obsolete spelling of seed. Labels: alt-of, obsolete Example: THE RUINES OF TIME. DEDICATED TO THE RIGHT NOBLE AND BEAUTIFULL LADIE, THE LA: MARIE, COUNTESSE OF PEMEBROOKE. Most honourable and bountifull Ladie, there bee long sithens deepe sowed in my brest the seede of most entire love and humble affection unto that most brave knight, your noble brother deceased; which, taking roote, began in his life time somewhat to bud forth, and to shew themselves to him, as then in the weakenes of their first spring; and would in their riper strength (had it pleased High God till then to drawe out his daies) spired forth fruit of more perfection. Example: Vppon the braunches of the coorrall, there were artificially sette certayne open flowers with fiue leaues, some of Saphyre, some of Iacynth and Berill, and in the middest of them a little round seede of golde, fastening the leaues to the stalke of corrall.
Word: seedes Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of seede Labels: form-of, plural
Word: secureness Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From secure + -ness. 1. the quality or state of being secure, security Labels: uncountable Example: And now, though there is none of that sweetness of stolen fruits, none of that creeping insecurity of former readings, there is an undisturbing, quiet secureness that makes our books more living to us. Example: A square seat, about as wide and unyielding as a table-top, was strapped securely to each donkey, and to this seat we clung, with no secureness at all.
Word: semispherical Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From semi- + spherical. 1. hemispherical, having the shape of a hemisphere Labels: not-comparable Example: The thatched semispherical huts of palm tree leaves and tamarisk were also interesting, as was the windmill, identical with those already seen in Sistan. Example: The acorns, the largest among the oaks, are semispherical with the cups extremely shallow.
Word: seraphically Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From seraphic + -ally. 1. in a seraphic manner; with angelic purity. Example: Mr Swiveller out of sight, Miss Sally immediately withdrew. Mr Brass would then set the office-door wide open, hum his old tune with great gaiety of heart, and smile seraphically as before. Example: “You’re an angel, by Jove, you’re an angel!” said Foker, at which Blanche looked seraphically up to the chandelier.
Word: serfage Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From serf + -age. 1. serfdom Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Christianity finding men in serfage and degraded all over the earth, had arisen on the fall of the Roman Empire, like a mighty vengeance, though under the aspect of a resignation. Example: The story of St. Edmundsbury shows how gradual was the transition from pure serfage to an imperfect freedom.
Word: serfdoms Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of serfdom Labels: form-of, plural
Word: sepulchrally Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From sepulchral + -ly. 1. in a sepulchral manner Example: It is he whose hoarse whispers sound sepulchrally through the tubes, who rings the mysterious bell, and by such complex means despatches his 'shadows' upon their errands.
Word: sesamum Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from Latin sēsamum. Doublet of sesame. 1. sesame Labels: archaic, uncountable Example: While at play for this extraordinary stake, they have a fire by them, on which a small pot of walnut oil, or oil of sesamum, is kept boiling; and when one has won a game, he chops off the end of the loser's finger, who immediately dips the stump into the boiling oil, to stem the blood; and some will persist so obstinately, as to have all their fingers thus mutilated. Example: The latter is called the feast of 'six sesamum acts,' for sesamum is a holy plant, and in each act of this rite it plays a part.
Word: calendarize Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From calendar + -ize. 1. To structure in terms of dates; to put onto a timescale.
Word: seton Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English seton, setoun, from Medieval Latin sētō, sētōn-. 1. A few silk threads or horsehairs, or a strip of linen etc., introduced beneath the skin by a knife or needle, so as to induce suppuration; also, the issue so formed. Example: If the predisposition to the disease has arisen from a plethoric state of the system, or from a turgescence in the vessels of the head, this is to be obviated by bleeding, both generally and topically, but more particularly the latter; an abstemious diet and proper exercise; and by a seton in the neck. Example: The animal was lean and tall, and had a moth-eaten mane, rough hoofs and loose shoes; a seton bobbed up and down on its breast.
Word: setons Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of seton Labels: form-of, plural
Word: seveare Part of Speech: adj 1. Obsolete spelling of severe. Labels: alt-of, obsolete Example: His rage and troble both pronounce him guiltles Of this attempt, which makes mee rather doubt Hee may proove too seveare in his revendge, Which I with all indevour will prevent Yet to the most censorious I appeale, What coold I lesse have doone to save myne honor From suffringe beneathe skandall? Example: He was very punctuall and regular in his devotions, so that he was never knowne to enter upon his recreations or sportes, though never so early in the morninge, before he had bene at publique prayers, so that on huntinge dayes, his Chaplynes were bounde to a very early attendance, and he was likewise very stricte in observinge the howres of his private cabbinett devotions, and was so seveare an exactor of gravity and reverence in all mention of religion, that he could never indure any light or prophane worde in religion, with what sharpnesse of witt so ever it was cover'd; and though he was well pleased and delighted with readinge verses made upon any occasyon, no man durst bringe before him any thinge that was prophane or uncleane, that kinde of witt had never any countenance then.
Word: troble Part of Speech: noun 1. Obsolete spelling of trouble. Labels: alt-of, obsolete Example: His rage and troble both pronounce him guiltles Of this attempt, which makes mee rather doubt Hee may proove too seveare in his revendge, Which I with all indevour will prevent Yet to the most censorious I appeale, What coold I lesse have doone to save myne honor From suffringe beneathe skandall?
Word: troble Part of Speech: verb 1. Obsolete spelling of trouble. Labels: alt-of, obsolete
Word: revendge Part of Speech: noun 1. Obsolete spelling of revenge. Labels: alt-of, obsolete, uncountable Example: His rage and troble both pronounce him guiltles Of this attempt, which makes mee rather doubt Hee may proove too seveare in his revendge, Which I with all indevour will prevent Yet to the most censorious I appeale, What coold I lesse have doone to save myne honor From suffringe beneathe skandall?
Word: indevour Part of Speech: verb 1. Obsolete spelling of endeavour. Labels: alt-of, obsolete Example: His rage and troble both pronounce him guiltles Of this attempt, which makes mee rather doubt Hee may proove too seveare in his revendge, Which I with all indevour will prevent Yet to the most censorious I appeale, What coold I lesse have doone to save myne honor From suffringe beneathe skandall?
Word: indevours Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of indevour Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: indevouring Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of indevour Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: indevoured Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of indevour Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: appeale Part of Speech: verb 1. Obsolete spelling of appeal. Labels: alt-of, obsolete Example: His rage and troble both pronounce him guiltles Of this attempt, which makes mee rather doubt Hee may proove too seveare in his revendge, Which I with all indevour will prevent Yet to the most censorious I appeale, What coold I lesse have doone to save myne honor From suffringe beneathe skandall?
Word: beneathe Part of Speech: prep 1. Obsolete spelling of beneath. Labels: alt-of, obsolete Example: His rage and troble both pronounce him guiltles Of this attempt, which makes mee rather doubt Hee may proove too seveare in his revendge, Which I with all indevour will prevent Yet to the most censorious I appeale, What coold I lesse have doone to save myne honor From suffringe beneathe skandall?
Word: skandall Part of Speech: noun 1. Obsolete spelling of scandal. Labels: alt-of, countable, obsolete, uncountable Example: His rage and troble both pronounce him guiltles Of this attempt, which makes mee rather doubt Hee may proove too seveare in his revendge, Which I with all indevour will prevent Yet to the most censorious I appeale, What coold I lesse have doone to save myne honor From suffringe beneathe skandall?
Word: skandalls Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of skandall Labels: form-of, plural
Word: sevenpence Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From seven + pence. 1. The value of seven old pennies. Labels: UK, countable, obsolete, uncountable Example: A newspaper cost sevenpence; there were no national schools or Sunday schools, no penny publications, no penny postage, no railways, no gas, and no free libraries, and no free education! Example: "A Costermonger in this street," says Crabbe, "finding lately that his rope of onions, which he hoped would have brought a shilling, was to go for only sevenpence henceforth, burst forth into lamentation, execration and the most pathetic tears.
Word: dizis Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of dizi Labels: form-of, plural
Word: elevenpence Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *ís? Proto-Indo-European *h₁óynos Proto-Germanic *ainaz Proto-Indo-European *leyp- Proto-Germanic *lībaną Proto-Germanic *-lif Proto-Germanic *ainalif Proto-West Germanic *ainalif Proto-West Germanic *ainalifun Old English endleofan Middle English elleven English eleven Pre-Greekder.? Ancient Greek πατάνη (patánē)bor. Latin patina Latin panna? Latin pannus? Proto-Indo-European *-n̥kʷo-der.? Proto-Indo-European *-nós Proto-Indo-European *-iHnos Proto-Germanic *-īnaz Proto-Indo-European *-kos Proto-Germanic *-gaz ? Proto-Germanic *-ingaz Proto-Germanic *panningaz Proto-West Germanic *panning Old English peniġ Middle English peniesder. English pence English elevenpence From eleven + pence. 1. the value of eleven old pennies Labels: UK, countable, obsolete, uncountable Example: Now the dealer was a young man, who did not know the ways of Castellybryn, and he was aware that the first dealer was a big buyer and a cunning bargainer; so he purchased the butter for elevenpence farthing a pound, being a farthing a pound above the market price of that day.
Word: shd Part of Speech: verb 1. Abbreviation of should. Labels: Internet, abbreviation, alt-of Example: U shd cum2my party
Word: gaohus Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of gaohu Labels: form-of, plural
Word: sharke Part of Speech: noun 1. Obsolete spelling of shark. Labels: alt-of, obsolete Example: Nowe what sharke Or wyde-mouth'd whale shall swallowe upp my budgett, May it at th'instant choake him!
Word: swallowe Part of Speech: noun 1. Obsolete spelling of swallow. Labels: alt-of, obsolete
Word: swallowe Part of Speech: verb 1. Obsolete spelling of swallow. Labels: alt-of, obsolete
Word: wyde Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From wide, respelled analogously to byte from bite. 1. Two-byte unsigned data, mainly used for a Unicode character. Example: We would then take a surrogate pair consisting of two wydes: the first from the high area, the second from the low area.
Word: wyde Part of Speech: adj 1. Obsolete spelling of wide. Labels: alt-of, obsolete
Word: choake Part of Speech: verb 1. Obsolete spelling of choke. Labels: alt-of, obsolete Example: Glut[tony]: […] now Fauſtus, thou haſt heard all my Pꝛogeny, wilt thou bid me to ſupper? / Fau[ſtus]. No, Ile ſée thée hanged, thou wilt eate vp all my victualls. / Glut[tony]. Then the diuell choake thée. / Fau[ſtus]. Choake thy ſelfe glutton: […]
Word: choake Part of Speech: noun 1. Obsolete spelling of choke. Labels: alt-of, obsolete
Word: shorewards Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From shore + -wards. 1. Alternative form of shoreward. Labels: alt-of, alternative, not-comparable
Word: shorewards Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From shore + -wards. 1. Alternative form of shoreward. Labels: alt-of, alternative, not-comparable Example: Then it all came back, and I was a boy again on the trawler, creeping shorewards in the light breeze of an August night, and watching that friendly twinkle from the Manor woods above the village. Example: The men rowed shorewards, but were stopped by four canoes carrying armed men, "new men" the narrative calls them.
Word: shootable Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From shoot + -able. 1. able to be shot Example: Amongst other animals shootable are the native bear--a sluggish creature looking like a small bear; the bandicoot, a small animal with a pig's head and snout; the native cat; cockatoos, parrots, eagles, hawks, owls, parroquets, wild turkey, quail, native pheasants, teal, native companions, water-hens, and the black swan and the opossum. Example: I've shot and hunted every beast, I think, shootable and huntable, from a humming-bird to an elephant; and I had some splendid fishing in Canada; but, after all, give me a Whitbury trout, on a single-handed Chevalier.
Word: shog Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English schoggen (“to shake up and down, jog”), possibly from Middle Dutch schocken (“to jolt, bounce”) or Middle Low German schoggen, schucken (“to shog”); all from Proto-West Germanic *skokkōn (“to move, shake, tremble”). Doublet of shock. Pronunciation: /ʃɒɡ/ 1. jolt, shake (brisk movement) Labels: archaic Example: The shog of the vessel threw a young Chinese (whom Xavier had christened, and carried along with him) into the sink, which was then open. Example: Another's diving bow he did adore, Which, with a shog, casts all the hair before, Till he with full decorum brings it back, And rises with a water-spaniel shake.
Word: shog Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English schoggen (“to shake up and down, jog”), possibly from Middle Dutch schocken (“to jolt, bounce”) or Middle Low German schoggen, schucken (“to shog”); all from Proto-West Germanic *skokkōn (“to move, shake, tremble”). Doublet of shock. Pronunciation: /ʃɒɡ/ 1. to jolt or shake Labels: ambitransitive, archaic Example: Let them make ſhews of reforming while they will, ſo long as the Church is mounted upon the Prelatical Cart, and not as it ought, between the hands of the Miniſters, it will but ſhake and totter; and he that ſets to his hand, though with a good intent to hinder the ſhogging of it, in this unlawful Waggonry wherein it rides, let him beware it be not fatal to him as it was to Uzza. 2. to depart; to go. Labels: archaic Example: Shall we shog? The king will be gone from Southampton. Example: On the flat behind the mill, dawn-rising Chinamen shogged with nimble bare feet under their yoke-linked watering-cans. These busy brethren, meeting sometimes on the same narrow track, would pause, ant-like, seemingly to dumbly regard one another and their burdens, then, still ant-like, pass silently to their work.
Word: shofars Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of shofar Labels: form-of, plural
Word: skywalk Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From sky + walk. 1. Synonym of skybridge and skyway. Example: Those who prefer to embrace the elements can investigate the open-air skywalk 1,000 feet above the street. Example: The proposed 120,000-square-foot project in downtown Houston has an elevated skywalk, which will connect the new building with the Wortham Theater Center, where the ballet presents six programs and “The Nutcracker” each year. 2. A type of observation deck.
Word: slidden Part of Speech: verb 1. past participle of slide Labels: archaic, form-of, participle, past Example: These are ponderous flat stones with long ropes at each end, by which the stones are slidden about, to and fro, over the wet and sanded decks; a most wearisome, dog-like, galley-slave employment. Example: In a minute more the spell of silence broke, and a roar, louder than before, told that the little one had touched earth without injury, save hands all raw from friction with the rope along which she had slidden.
Word: smashable Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From smash + -able. 1. Able to be smashed. Example: "Then 'twas through one bedroom after another, and each one more crowded with noisy, smashable things than that previous. Example: There was no end to the surprises of this search: things brayed to pieces as if with a pestle and mortar, things easily smashable untouched.
Word: sojer Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of soger. Labels: alt-of, alternative Example: Depositing his burden upon a little stand within easy reach of the sofa, Billy turned to leave, but paused as his eye wandered down the opening vista of the avenue, and after gazing for a moment in silence he suddenly exclaimed, "Dere's two sojer gemplemans comin' t'rough de big gate." Example: [T]he plan was that as soon as they were married they would make out a holiday by driving straight off to Port Bredy, to see the ships and the sea and the sojers, […]
Word: sophisticatedly Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From sophisticated + -ly. 1. in a sophisticated manner. Example: He could sing you into tears, and dance you into love, and talk you into wonder; when he drew, you begged for his portrait by himself, and when he wrote, you solicited his autograph. Mr. Philip Withers had taken his moustache to foreign parts, and done the Continent sophisticatedly. Example: There stood old Mandy McGovern, her long brown rifle half raised, her finger lying sophisticatedly along the trigger guard, that she might not touch the hair trigger.
Word: downflows Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of downflow Labels: form-of, plural
Word: downflow Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From down- + flow. 1. A downward flow.
Word: electromagnetohydrodynamics Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree French électro-bor. Ancient Greek ἤλεκτρον (ḗlektron)bor. Latin ēlectrum Latin electro-bor. English electro- Pre-Greekbor.? Ancient Greek Μάγνης (Mágnēs) Ancient Greek μᾰ́γνης (mắgnēs)bor. Old French magnetebor. ▲ Ancient Greek μᾰ́γνης (mắgnēs)bor. Latin magnēsbor. Middle English magnete English magnet English magnet- Ancient Greek -ο- (-o-)der. Latin -o-bor. English -o- English magneto- Proto-Indo-European *wed- Proto-Indo-European *-r̥ Proto-Indo-European *wódr̥ Proto-Hellenic *údōr Ancient Greek ῡ̆̔́δωρ (hū̆́dōr) Ancient Greek ῠ̔δρο- (hŭdro-)der. English hydro- Proto-Indo-European *dewh₂-der. Proto-Hellenic *dunamai Ancient Greek δῠ́νᾰμαι (dŭ́nămai) Ancient Greek δύναμις (dúnamis) Proto-Indo-European *-kos Proto-Hellenic *-kos Ancient Greek -κός (-kós) Ancient Greek -ικός (-ikós) Ancient Greek δυναμικός (dunamikós)lbor. French dynamiqueder. English dynamic Proto-Indo-European *-ikos Proto-Italic *-ikos Latin -icuslbor. Old French -iquebor. Middle English -ik English -ic Old English -as Middle English -es English -s English -ics English dynamics English hydrodynamics English magnetohydrodynamics English electromagnetohydrodynamics From electro- + magnetohydrodynamics. 1. The study of the interaction of electric and magnetic fields with electrically conducting or magnetic fluids. Labels: uncountable
Word: ergoregion Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From ergo- + region. 1. ergosphere
Word: extrapolar Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From extra- + polar. 1. From outside of a polar region Labels: not-comparable
Word: extremals Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of extremal Labels: form-of, plural
Word: younghood Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From young + -hood. 1. Youth, the state of being young. Labels: uncountable 2. Adolescence, teenhood. Labels: uncountable
Word: discriminative stimulus Part of Speech: noun 1. A stimulus, associated with reinforcement or punishment, that exerts control over a particular form of behavior; the subject discriminates between closely related stimuli and elicits a specific behavior more frequently or less frequently only in the presence of that stimulus.
Word: Hervey Bay Part of Speech: name Etymology: Named by James Cook after the naval officer Augustus John Hervey (1724–1779). Pronunciation: /ˈhɑː(ɹ)vi ˈbeɪ/ 1. A city in Queensland, Australia.
Word: balls-out Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Usually said to be from the maximum-speed state of a ball governor, whose balls are swung out to the near-horizontal position. Neither balls-out nor balls to the wall is connected with the vulgar sense of balls (“testicles”) except connotationally via folk etymology. (In that vein of apparent vulgar innuendo, see also rock out with one's cock out.) 1. Extreme; extremely great. Labels: US, idiomatic, not-comparable, slang Example: He's making a balls-out run for Motor City by nightfall. Example: When you're popping babies via multiple partners, the “harem drama” is intense. As one strand of the pronatalist orthodoxy, [Elon] Musk's is very much a balls-out approach.
Word: balls-out Part of Speech: adv Etymology: Usually said to be from the maximum-speed state of a ball governor, whose balls are swung out to the near-horizontal position. Neither balls-out nor balls to the wall is connected with the vulgar sense of balls (“testicles”) except connotationally via folk etymology. (In that vein of apparent vulgar innuendo, see also rock out with one's cock out.) 1. Descriptive of the use of a centrifugal governor at maximum speed, corresponding to full throttle. Labels: not-comparable 2. With great abandon. Labels: US, idiomatic, not-comparable, slang 3. At the fastest possible speed. Labels: US, idiomatic, not-comparable, slang
Word: freakin' Part of Speech: adv Etymology: Clipped form of freaking, itself a euphemised version of fucking. 1. extremely Labels: slang Example: freakin' awesome!
Word: ragers Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of rager Labels: form-of, plural
Word: chulents Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of chulent Labels: form-of, plural
Word: keg party Part of Speech: noun 1. A party at which beer is served from a keg. Example: Meronym: keg stand
Word: keg parties Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of keg party Labels: form-of, plural
Word: younghead Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English yonghede, ȝonghede, equivalent to young + -head. 1. Younghood, youth. Labels: obsolete, uncountable
Word: younghead Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From young + -head. 1. A young person; a teenager. Labels: rare, slang Example: I know I'm too much of a younghead to have seen all the famous shows, but jeez... Example: For the youngheads out there, the HipHopHeads, the ones still reppin' they block no matter what, the ones rejecting stereotypes of the hood as pure pathology, the ones not marketing the hood for white-rebellious-fantasies-of-bein'-down, the ones still street-conscious even when you ain't in the streets: beware, don't let the literati get you caught up.
Word: deflowerment Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From deflower + -ment. Pronunciation: /dɪˈflaʊ(w)ə(ɹ)mənt/ 1. The loss of a girl or woman's virginity. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: deflowerments Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of deflowerment Labels: form-of, plural
Word: youngheads Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of younghead Labels: form-of, plural
Word: devirgination Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From de- + virgin + -ation. 1. The loss of a girl or woman's virginity. Labels: uncountable, usually
Word: devirginations Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of devirgination Labels: form-of, plural
Word: depucelage Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from French dépucelage. 1. The loss of a girl or woman's virginity. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: depucelages Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of depucelage Labels: form-of, plural
Word: cherry-popping Part of Speech: noun 1. the loss of a girl or woman's virginity. Labels: slang, uncountable
Word: cherry-popper Part of Speech: noun 1. Someone who takes another's virginity. Labels: slang, vulgar
Word: diddly squat Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of diddly-squat. Labels: alt-of, alternative, uncountable
Word: -ania Part of Speech: suffix Etymology: From -an + -ia. 1. Used in forming female given names. Labels: morpheme, rare Example: Alexandra + -ania → Alexandrania Example: Flora + -ania → Florania
Word: knock knock joke Part of Speech: noun Etymology: knock knock + joke 1. Alternative spelling of knock-knock joke. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: AltGr Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative spelling of Alt Gr. Labels: alt-of, alternative, uncountable
Word: Alt Gr Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Abbreviation of alternate graphic, as originally used to produce box-drawing graphic characters. 1. A keyboard key that can be pressed simultaneously with other keys to result in additional characters such as accented letters and currency symbols. Labels: uncountable
Word: Action democratique Part of Speech: name 1. Action démocratique du Québec
Word: to be continued Part of Speech: phrase 1. Used at the end of an episode of a serial publication or program to indicate that the story continues in the next episode. 2. Used to indicate that a story under discussion has not concluded, either in narration or in reality. Labels: colloquial Example: EMH: Computer, freeze programme. PARIS: Doc, this is the final chapter. Satan's Robot Conquers the World. We can't stop now. EMH: Does the phrase to be continued mean anything to you? PARIS: Your opera can wait.
Word: if I were you Part of Speech: phrase 1. A phrase said to introduce advice, i.e. to express what one would do in the interlocutor's situation.
Word: bad guys Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of bad guy Labels: form-of, plural
Word: knock knock jokes Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of knock knock joke Labels: form-of, plural
Word: software architects Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of software architect Labels: form-of, plural
Word: hexaquarks Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of hexaquark Labels: form-of, plural
Word: hexaquark Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From hexa- + quark. Piecewise doublet of sexaquark. 1. Any exotic particle composed of six quarks
Word: leptophilic Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From lepto- + -philic. 1. Describing a proposed form of dark matter that only interacts with leptons
Word: magnetoacoustic Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree Pre-Greekbor.? Ancient Greek Μάγνης (Mágnēs) Ancient Greek μᾰ́γνης (mắgnēs)bor. Old French magnetebor. ▲ Ancient Greek μᾰ́γνης (mắgnēs)bor. Latin magnēsbor. Middle English magnete English magnet English magnet- Ancient Greek -ο- (-o-)der. Latin -o-bor. English -o- English magneto- Proto-Indo-European *h₂eḱ- Proto-Indo-European *h₂ew- Proto-Indo-European *-s Proto-Indo-European *h₂ṓws Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *h₂ḱh₂owsyéti Proto-Hellenic *akóuhō Ancient Greek ἀκούω (akoúō) Proto-Indo-European *-kos Proto-Hellenic *-kos Ancient Greek -κός (-kós) Ancient Greek -ῐκός (-ĭkós) Ancient Greek ᾰ̓κουστῐκός (ăkoustĭkós)bor. Medieval Latin acousticusbor. English acoustic English magnetoacoustic From magneto- + acoustic. 1. Of or pertaining to magnetoacoustics Labels: not-comparable
Word: magnetoacoustics Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Pre-Greekbor.? Ancient Greek Μάγνης (Mágnēs) Ancient Greek μᾰ́γνης (mắgnēs)bor. Old French magnetebor. ▲ Ancient Greek μᾰ́γνης (mắgnēs)bor. Latin magnēsbor. Middle English magnete English magnet English magnet- Ancient Greek -ο- (-o-)der. Latin -o-bor. English -o- English magneto- Proto-Indo-European *h₂eḱ- Proto-Indo-European *h₂ew- Proto-Indo-European *-s Proto-Indo-European *h₂ṓws Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *h₂ḱh₂owsyéti Proto-Hellenic *akóuhō Ancient Greek ἀκούω (akoúō) Proto-Indo-European *-kos Proto-Hellenic *-kos Ancient Greek -κός (-kós) Ancient Greek -ῐκός (-ĭkós) Ancient Greek ᾰ̓κουστῐκός (ăkoustĭkós)bor. Medieval Latin acousticusbor. English acoustic Old English -as Middle English -es English -s English acoustics English magnetoacoustics From magneto- + acoustics. 1. The study of acoustic-type magnetic waves Labels: uncountable
Word: magnetophonon Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From magneto- + phonon. 1. The magnetoacoustic equivalent of a phonon
Word: nanosize Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From nano- + size. 1. Having a size measured in nanometers; nanoscale Labels: not-comparable
Word: nanoswitches Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of nanoswitch Labels: form-of, plural
Word: nanoswitch Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From nano- + switch. 1. A nanoscale switch
Word: nonconcave Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From non- + concave. 1. Not concave.
Word: nonuniformly Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From non- + uniformly. 1. In a nonuniform manner
Word: panspermial Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From panspermia + -ial. 1. Of or pertaining to panspermia.
Word: perhydrosqualene Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From per- + hydro- + squalene. 1. The fully saturated triterpene derived from squalene Labels: uncountable
Word: photowritten Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of photowrite Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: photowritten Part of Speech: adj 1. Describing an optical grating (or similar structure) generated using light Labels: not-comparable
Word: radioastronomy Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative spelling of radio astronomy. Labels: alt-of, alternative, uncountable
Word: rebrightenings Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of rebrightening Labels: form-of, plural
Word: semielliptic Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From semi- + elliptic. 1. Synonym of semielliptical. Labels: not-comparable 2. In the theory of partial differential equations, designating a partial differential operator satisfying a positivity condition slightly weaker than that of being an elliptic operator. This produces a curved line progressively slightly straighter than an ellipse, such as that of an automotive leaf spring. Labels: not-comparable
Word: sparsifying Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of sparsify Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: sparsifying Part of Speech: adj 1. That causes sparsification
Word: plastic beauty Part of Speech: noun Etymology: In reference to plastic surgery. 1. Beauty achieved by cosmetic surgery. Labels: figuratively, uncountable 2. A person whose beauty is achieved by cosmetic surgery. Labels: countable, figuratively
Word: sparsification Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From sparse + -ification. 1. The act of making something more sparse, especially a graph. 2. The concentration of flora density nearest the tarmac (blacktop) versus the proportional absence of flora in the wider terrain (the grouping of trees near the road).
Word: streamflows Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of streamflow Labels: form-of, plural
Word: structurization Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From structure + -ization. 1. The act of structurizing Labels: countable, uncountable Example: For example, when a red spot on a sheet of paper strongly stimulates me, the whiteness of the paper as well as the red spot are pregiven and both of them undergo the structurization of “figure-ground.”
Word: structurize Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From structure + -ize. 1. To impose a structure upon something
Word: subfilter Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From sub- + filter. 1. A subsidiary filter.
Word: subfilter Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From sub- + filter. 1. Lying below the range of a filter. Labels: not-comparable
Word: subfilter Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From sub- + filter. 1. To filter further (something already filtered). Labels: transitive
Word: succedent Part of Speech: adj 1. That succeeds; succeeding, following Labels: not-comparable Example: The 2nd, 5th, 8th and 11th houses in Astrology are the succedent houses, so called because they follow the angular houses. Example: SHCHETININ A : Quarterly : 1) Or, two birds volant succedent in bend sinister sable; 2 ) azure[…]
Word: succedent Part of Speech: noun 1. The formulas on the right-hand side of a sequent.
Word: subfilters Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of subfilter Labels: form-of, plural
Word: superfilter Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From super- + filter. 1. Lying above the range of a filter. Labels: not-comparable
Word: superintegrability Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From super- + integrability. 1. The condition of being superintegrable. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: superintegrabilities Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of superintegrability Labels: form-of, plural