nandhakumarms/qualc-wiktionary-en huggingface dataset:
Word: babbling Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English bablyng, babelynge, babelinde, equivalent to babble + -ing. 1. present participle and gerund of babble Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: battering Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /ˈbæ.təˌɹɪŋ(ɡ)/, /ˈbæ.tɚˌɪŋ/ 1. present participle and gerund of batter Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: battering Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ˈbæ.təˌɹɪŋ(ɡ)/, /ˈbæ.tɚˌɪŋ/ 1. A heavy beating. Example: Kalinin Bay is also in trouble, trading fire with Japanese destroyers and taking hits from both them and cruisers at the same time. Unlike the Gambier Bay, however, it does not appear that these ships have realized they need to switch to high explosive from armor-piercing, and, despite being riddled with shellfire, the ship stays afloat, despite this rather-unequal battering going on for another twenty to thirty minutes. 2. A large defeat. Example: That will prove a trickier test, the management having pinpointed Oleh Blokhin's side as "one of the favourites in the group", though they will confront an England team buoyed by this battering. 3. Domestic violence Labels: dated
Word: baring Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /ˈbɛə.ɹɪŋ/, /ˈbɛɹɪŋ/ 1. present participle and gerund of bare Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: baring Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ˈbɛə.ɹɪŋ/, /ˈbɛɹɪŋ/ 1. The act by which something is laid bare. Example: These woods loom large in my history — they were the site of two clumsy first kisses, one heart-crushing breakup, and countless whispered barings of the soul — but they are even more solidly a part of my present.
Word: beseeching Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of beseech Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: beseeching Part of Speech: noun 1. A heartfelt plea. Example: The ability to blithely make wrong turns without serious directional consequences is, of course, one of the hallmarks of PNDs — and a feature that allows me to ignore my wife’s beseechings and merrily proceed on my way without ever stopping to ask for directions.
Word: reveler Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative spelling of reveller. Labels: US, alt-of, alternative
Word: chattering Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of chatter Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: chattering Part of Speech: adj 1. That chatters Labels: not-comparable
Word: chattering Part of Speech: noun 1. A noise that chatters. Example: That speed mimics the natural electrical chatterings of the brain, said Dr. Karl Deisseroth, an assistant professor of bioengineering at Stanford. 2. Output fluctuation before reaching a stable condition.
Word: labouring Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of labour Labels: Canada, UK, form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: labouring Part of Speech: noun 1. The act of one who labours; toil; work done.
Word: labouring Part of Speech: adj Labels: no-gloss
Word: leasing Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English lesing, leasung, from Old English lēasung (“leasing, lying, false witness, deceit, hypocrisy, artifice, lie, empty talk, frivolity, laxity”), from Proto-West Germanic *lausungu, from Proto-Germanic *lausungō, equivalent to lease (“to lie”) + -ing. Cognate with Scots lesing (“lying, falsehood”), German Lösung (“breaking away, release, liberation, solution”), Icelandic lausung (“lying, falsehood”). Pronunciation: /ˈliːzɪŋ/ 1. A lie; the act of lying, falsehood. Labels: archaic Example: fy on þi lawe / For al by lesynges þow lyuest · and lecherouse werkes. Example: Then ren they with leſinges, and blow them about, With, ‘He wrate ſuche a bil withouten dout’, With, ‘I can tel you what ſuch a man ſaid, And you knew all ye would be ill apayd’.
Word: leasing Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English lesing, leesing, lesinge, equivalent to lease (“to tell lies”) + -ing. 1. present participle of lease (“to tell lies”) Labels: form-of, participle, present
Word: leasing Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From lease (“to rent out”) + -ing. Pronunciation: /ˈliːsɪŋ/ 1. present participle and gerund of lease Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: leasing Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From lease (“to rent out”) + -ing. Pronunciation: /ˈliːsɪŋ/ 1. gerund of lease Labels: countable, form-of, gerund, uncountable
Word: burying Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Inherited from Middle English biryinge, buryinge; by surface analysis, bury + ing. 1. present participle and gerund of bury Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: burying Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Inherited from Middle English biryinge, buryinge; by surface analysis, bury + ing. 1. A burial. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: […] itself will always be with you, despite all cuttings, excretings, and buryings.
Word: rumbling Part of Speech: adj 1. Deep- and slow-sounding. Example: rumbling discontent Example: His rumbling voice suited the solemn occasion.
Word: rumbling Part of Speech: noun 1. A muted sound of complaint or discontent (often used in the plural). Example: The rumblings of the masses precede the crumbling of the state. 2. A deep low noise. Example: The rumbling of distant thunder echoed from the hilltop. Example: The rumblin' from distant shores sends me to sleep / But the facts of life can sometimes make it hard to dream
Word: rumbling Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of rumble Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: flavoring Part of Speech: noun 1. Something that gives flavor, usually a food ingredient. Labels: US, countable, uncountable Example: This soda has an aftertaste because of the artificial flavoring.
Word: flavoring Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of flavor Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: booked Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /bʊkt/, /bɵkt/, /bʉkt/ 1. simple past and past participle of book Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: bordered Part of Speech: adj 1. having a border Labels: not-comparable
Word: bordered Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of border Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: broiled Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of broil Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: truncated Part of Speech: adj Pronunciation: /tɹʌŋˈkeɪtɪd/ 1. Deprived of one of its parts or of its end (e.g., a line of poetry with one syllable fewer in one of its feet). 2. Ending abruptly as if cut across at the base or tip. 3. shortened either by means of clipping or blending.
Word: truncated Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /tɹʌŋˈkeɪtɪd/ 1. simple past and past participle of truncate Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: ploughed Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of plough Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: ploughed Part of Speech: adj 1. Turned over with the blade of a plough to create furrows (usually for planting crops). 2. Well-trodden or well-researched, previously explored. Labels: figuratively, rare 3. Drunk. Labels: slang Example: they stacked the glass up + right up to the level that you would normally have if you had ice in your drink anyway + and consequently I got ploughed Example: "I said are you allowed to drink? You know, beer. Whatever. Isn't it against your religion?" […] There were a few kids at school who said they were Mormon, but that didn't stop 'em from getting ploughed, and other kids who went to church but smoke and drank and cussed and screwed.
Word: sided Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /ˈsaɪdɪd/ 1. simple past and past participle of side Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: flavoured Part of Speech: adj 1. Having a specific taste, often due to the addition of flavouring. Labels: UK Example: This is only grape flavoured soda, the flavouring is artificial; real grape juice tastes much richer.
Word: flavoured Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of flavour Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: obscured Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of obscure Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: obscured Part of Speech: adj 1. Made hidden, less visible, or dark.
Word: threaded Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree English thread Old English -ed Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-tós Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂tos Proto-Germanic *-ōdaz Old English -od Middle English -ed English -ed English threaded From thread + -ed. 1. Having threads. 2. Of messages: arranged in a thread or threads. Labels: not-comparable Example: A threaded email will commonly have a number, (e.g., (5)) after the sender's name to show how many emails are in that thread. An unthreaded email, however, will not have that number marker because all the messages are listed separately. 3. Of messages in a digital forum conversation: displayed hierarchically (based on parent messages), rather than linearly (usually purely chronologically). Labels: not-comparable
Word: threaded Part of Speech: verb Etymology: See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form. 1. simple past and past participle of thread Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: tapering Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of taper Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: tapering Part of Speech: noun 1. A tapered shape.
Word: reeks Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of reek Labels: form-of, plural
Word: reeks Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of reek Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: bombs Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /bɒmz/ 1. plural of bomb Labels: form-of, plural
Word: bombs Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /bɒmz/ 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of bomb Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: coated Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /ˈkəʊtɪd/, /ˈkoʊtɪd/, [ˈkʰoʊ̯ɾɨd] 1. simple past and past participle of coat Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: coated Part of Speech: adj Pronunciation: /ˈkəʊtɪd/, /ˈkoʊtɪd/, [ˈkʰoʊ̯ɾɨd] 1. Covered with a thin layer. Labels: not-comparable 2. Wearing a coat. Labels: not-comparable Example: I can just remember an old brown-coated man who was the Walton of this stream, who had come over from Newcastle, England, with his son, the latter a stout and hearty man who had lifted an anchor in his day. Example: Was sitting on a molar cusp nibbling a remnant of dry toast, when I looked out and saw a white-coated man with a shiney instrument in his hand.
Word: foiled Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /fɔɪld/ 1. simple past and past participle of foil Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: foiled Part of Speech: adj Pronunciation: /fɔɪld/ 1. Having a foil. Labels: not-comparable
Word: complied Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /kəmˈplaɪd/ 1. simple past and past participle of comply Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: drumming Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ˈdɹʌmɪŋ/ 1. The act of beating a drum. Labels: countable, uncountable 2. A noise resembling that of a drum being beaten. Labels: countable, uncountable 3. In many species of catfish, the sound produced by contraction of specialized sonic muscles with subsequent reverberation through the swim bladder. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: drumming Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /ˈdɹʌmɪŋ/ 1. present participle and gerund of drum Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: unfolding Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of unfold Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: unfolding Part of Speech: noun 1. The process by which something unfolds or becomes revealed. Labels: figuratively, often Example: Because most diesel failures can be traced to electrical faults, minor in themselves but often difficult to pin-point, any unscheduled halt during a trial run is often the signal for the frenzied unfolding of wiring diagrams and the appearance of an impressive array of voltmeters and circuit testers. Example: If I had the space, I'd cite dozens more examples of Gould's graceful unfoldings of various Beatle tunes.
Word: demonstrating Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of demonstrate Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: deciding Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /dɪˈsaɪ.dɪŋ/ 1. The act of making a decision. Labels: uncountable, usually Example: She saw to my meals; but the what and the when and the how of our eating was always controlled by her own decidings. Example: By keeping the court's public work mystified and secret, the justices, like [Clarence] Thomas, denigrate how important the actual deciding of cases is to the American people.
Word: deciding Part of Speech: adj Pronunciation: /dɪˈsaɪ.dɪŋ/ 1. Resulting, having resulted, or having the potential to result in a decision or conclusion. Example: The cost turned out to be the deciding factor in our final choice. Example: Do you know what was the deciding thing made me marry Mark Bycourt in the end? Yes: Cyril. I'm fond of boys, Mr Carrados, and I want them to have their chance in life.
Word: deciding Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /dɪˈsaɪ.dɪŋ/ 1. present participle and gerund of decide Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: hindering Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From hinder + -ing. 1. present participle and gerund of hinder Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: hindering Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From hinder + -ing. 1. Harmful; that hinders.
Word: consenting Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of consent Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: consenting Part of Speech: adj 1. Giving consent; agreeing to something. Example: The law prohibits payment for sex, even between consenting adults. 2. Done with the consent of all parties involved. Example: consenting sex
Word: confining Part of Speech: adj 1. Limiting; restrictive.
Word: confining Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of confine Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: deceiving Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of deceive Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: deceiving Part of Speech: noun 1. deception Labels: countable, uncountable Example: And shall receive the reward of unrighteousness, as they that count it pleasure to riot in the day time. Spots they are and blemishes, sporting themselves with their own deceivings while they feast with you[…]
Word: taxing Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Compare typologically Russian мыта́рство (mytárstvo) (< мы́тарь (mýtarʹ, “publican (tax collector)”)). Pronunciation: /ˈtæksɪŋ/ 1. present participle and gerund of tax Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: taxing Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Compare typologically Russian мыта́рство (mytárstvo) (< мы́тарь (mýtarʹ, “publican (tax collector)”)). Pronunciation: /ˈtæksɪŋ/ 1. With respect to an experience: exhausting; draining. 2. Burdensome, difficult, exacting. Example: a taxing problem
Word: taxing Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Compare typologically Russian мыта́рство (mytárstvo) (< мы́тарь (mýtarʹ, “publican (tax collector)”)). Pronunciation: /ˈtæksɪŋ/ 1. The act of imposing a tax. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: January 1834, Horace Binney, Speech on the Question of the Removal of the Deposites Subscriptions, borrowings of money, taxings of the citizens and their property, may all be valid, as operations by virtue of laws for the government of the City […]
Word: pounding Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /ˈpaʊn.dɪŋ/ 1. present participle and gerund of pound Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: pounding Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ˈpaʊn.dɪŋ/ 1. An act in which something or someone is pounded. Example: “I took a few poundings in the past.” 2. An old-fashioned event to welcome someone (typically a new pastor) to a new community by bring gifts of storable food (a pound of coffee, flour, sugar, etc.) to help stock the pantry. It is somewhat similar to a “shower”.
Word: pounding Part of Speech: adj Pronunciation: /ˈpaʊn.dɪŋ/ 1. Characterized by heavy or loud throbs. Example: pounding rain Example: I have a pounding headache.
Word: grazing Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /ˈɡɹeɪ.zɪŋ/ 1. present participle and gerund of graze Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: grazing Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ˈɡɹeɪ.zɪŋ/ 1. Grazeland. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: The grazing is all parched and withered up, and it is wonderful how cattle get through the winter here as they do. Example: There are about one thousand common grazings across the Highlands and Islands. Typically 15-20 crofters share in an area of common grazings, on average 400-500 hectares, which is usually hill-land, unsuitable for cultivation. 2. The action of animals eating, mainly of grass in a field or on other grassland. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Here were the MacKays' cattle coming steadily up the track from their daily grazings on the lochside driven by Glen. Example: That story begins in rural Wyoming in 1963, when drifters Ennis and Jack are hired by a local rancher to herd sheep through grazing ground on the titular Brokeback Mountain.
Word: rebuilding Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of rebuild Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: rebuilding Part of Speech: noun 1. The act of building something again. Example: The complete 1892 rebuilding, indeed, followed an accident in 1890, when No. 6 ran away down the Buckley branch, and got badly smashed up in a collision at Connah's Quay. Example: These have certainly witnessed many events of interest, chief among them, undoubtedly, being the rebuilding of the Bulleid Pacifics.
Word: frowning Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /ˈfɹaʊnɪŋ/ 1. present participle and gerund of frown Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present Example: Frowning heads are still gloomily shaken when the subject is raised on the NER, [...].
Word: frowning Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ˈfɹaʊnɪŋ/ 1. The act of giving a frown. Example: Let all the creatures above and below frown and scowl upon me; if my Creator smile, I am happy; nor can all their frownings diminish my complete joy.
Word: forgiving Part of Speech: adj 1. Inclined to forgive. Example: I am inclined to take a forgiving attitude, since this is his first offence. 2. User-friendly, such that harmful mistakes are not easily made. Example: A good WebApp interface is understandable and forgiving, providing the user with a sense of control. […] Work is carefully and continuously saved, with full option for the user to undo any activity at any time.
Word: forgiving Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of forgive Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: forgiving Part of Speech: noun 1. An act of forgiveness. Example: And I receive your forgiveness only from you. A group's promises and forgivings are nothing more than the sum of its individual members' promises and forgivings.
Word: fingering Part of Speech: noun 1. The act of using one's fingers in the playing of a musical instrument. Labels: uncountable Example: She has a very good notion of fingering, though her taste is not equal to Anne's. 2. A specific method of using the fingers to play an instrument. Labels: countable Example: That chord has two fingerings. 3. The act of using the fingers to stimulate one's own, or another person's, vulva, vagina, or anus. Labels: uncountable 4. A thin woollen yarn for stockings. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: fingering Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of finger Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: feasting Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of feast Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present Example: They are feasting on turkey and venison.
Word: feasting Part of Speech: noun 1. A feast, or an occasion on which people or animals feast Example: The lover at last fell ill; he fairly wasted away; and was so unhappy, that he gave up all his feastings and entertainments. Example: There was hooch galore, and meat and feastings, and they took kindly to the new order.
Word: exploding Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of explode Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present Example: My head is exploding from all this rubbish.
Word: exploding Part of Speech: adj 1. Having the appearance of an explosion. Labels: figuratively, not-comparable 2. Only available for a very short period. Labels: figuratively, not-comparable
Word: exploding Part of Speech: noun 1. Explosion. Labels: colloquial, dated Example: When helpless, a soldier lay racked with his goadings Of wounds he'd received in the battle's explodings. Example: Blowings up —explodings— Such would be your fate; Streams of fire 'neath us! — Bless us, what a state!
Word: incoming Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From in (adverb) + coming (adjective). Pronunciation: /ˈɪnˌkʌmɪŋ/ 1. Coming (or about to come) in; arriving. Labels: not-comparable Example: Incoming tides cause a tidal bore in many rivers. Example: Underneath a black cliff where the incoming tide smashed on the shingle, they stumbled upon the mail hood of Hrothgar's murdered vassal. 2. Succeeding to an office or other position. Labels: not-comparable Example: The incoming prime minister gave a press conference.
Word: incoming Part of Speech: intj Etymology: From in (adverb) + coming (adjective). Pronunciation: /ˈɪnˌkʌmɪŋ/ 1. A warning that something is coming towards the addressee, especially enemy artillery fire.
Word: incoming Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English incomming, in comyng, in-comyng, incomyng, in-comynge, incomynge, inne comyng, yn comyng, equivalent to in (adverb) + coming (noun). Pronunciation: /ˈɪnˌkʌmɪŋ/ 1. The act of coming in; arrival. Labels: countable 2. Enemy fire directed at oneself. Labels: uncountable Example: Volume, however, was only part of the story because the incoming was almost always the heavier stuff. The hill received little 60mm or 82mm mortar fire but a deluge of 120mm mortar and 100mm artillery rounds. Example: I'll never forget the sight of those cannoneers standing at their guns firing back while the incoming was hitting all over. That was artillery's mission.
Word: exhilarating Part of Speech: verb Etymology: By surface analysis, exhilarate + -ing. 1. present participle and gerund of exhilarate Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: exhilarating Part of Speech: adj Etymology: By surface analysis, exhilarate + -ing. 1. Refreshingly thrilling. Example: Mrs. Palmer added, "that this news, though it could scarcely be called exhilarating, had had such an effect on her elderly friends, that they had determined to set out to Bath, and, when rested, proceed thence to Exeter, in order to be nearer the place where the vessel was expected, and to be a support to Lord Meersbrook, in case of the worst." Example: The switchback road to Diabaig - pronounced 'Jer-vague' - passes through some of the most exhilarating scenery in Scotland. […] With a final swoop, the road plummets down into Diabaig, where cottages are dotted across the slopes of a rocky semi-circle.
Word: dirty dancing Part of Speech: noun 1. A morally unclean, indecent or sexually provocative style of dancing; a striptease. Labels: uncountable 2. A style of dance for a man and a woman, involving close contact and sexually provocative body movements. Labels: uncountable Example: The elderly woman was offended when she saw the young couple performing dirty dancing on the dance floor at the reception.
Word: dirty dancing Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of dirty dance Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: pastures Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of pasture Labels: form-of, plural
Word: pastures Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of pasture Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: extracts Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of extract Labels: form-of, plural
Word: extracts Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of extract Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: exploits Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of exploit Labels: form-of, plural
Word: exploits Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of exploit Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: displaced Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of displace Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: trailing Part of Speech: adj Pronunciation: /ˈtɹeɪ.lɪŋ/ 1. That converge in the direction of travel. Labels: not-comparable Example: On the far hillside we are approaching can be descried a bridge on the first section (Ruabon–Llangollen) of the important G.W.R. branch to Dolgelley, which will shortly join our main line by means of a trailing junction. 2. That follows behind; especially, that is attached and pulled behind. Labels: not-comparable Example: the trailing railcars Example: the trailing comments
Word: trailing Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /ˈtɹeɪ.lɪŋ/ 1. present participle and gerund of trail Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: trailing Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ˈtɹeɪ.lɪŋ/ 1. Fabric or other material that trails. Example: […] their roots, projecting in fibrous sprawls from their trunks, were their feet, and she pictured them advancing with wide trailings, and rustlings as of green draperies […] Example: All too often, the spout of a soap dispenser rests over the counter and leaves trailings of soap that must be wiped up frequently if a clean appearance is to be maintained.
Word: interfering Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of interfere Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: interfering Part of Speech: noun 1. interference Example: […] incessant interferings and bickerings, in every country, between the secular powers and the ecclesiastical.
Word: incorporating Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of incorporate Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: herding Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of herd Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: herding Part of Speech: noun 1. An act by which individuals are herded. Example: These herdings and stabbings and stranglings occurred five hundred years ago, before America felt the withering touch of Europe. Does that exclude them from our concern? 2. A hirsel. Example: The whole flock is divided up into seven herdings (the equivalent of the Scottish "hirsels"), and it is through the head shepherd's herding that the only new blood is introduced. Every two or three years some rams are bought at Hawick […] 3. Manipulation of poll results by a polling organization so that they match those produced from other organizations. Example: It’s what known in the polling industry as “herding”. And herding, not to put too fine a point on it, is when pollsters cheat. Each polling company knows that however accurate their results are, they will ultimately only be judged on one poll. The final poll before the election. Example: Some observers are concerned also that polling firms “play it safe” by trying to ensure that their own results don't differ too much from the findings of other firms. This practice has been called “herding.”
Word: heaving Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /ˈhiːvɪŋ/ 1. present participle and gerund of heave Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: heaving Part of Speech: adj Pronunciation: /ˈhiːvɪŋ/ 1. Crowded with people. Labels: informal Example: Kinlochewe was heaving with cyclists and their vehicles on Saturday morning but somehow,^([sic]) the organisers had found space for everyone and the main roads were kept clear. Example: The pool was heaving with screaming kids. By contrast the beach was virtually deserted, apart from the one day a cruise ship docked & a group of about 10 people appeared. 2. Of the chest, rising and falling noticeably from exertion, emotion, or laboured breathing. 3. Of the bosom, full, ample, or voluptuous in form, irrespective of movement. Labels: literary Example: And here I might (if I followed the example of most travellers) launch out into a glowing description of the charms of these damsels, the elegant costumes they wore, and the gold and silver ornaments with which they were adorned. The jacket or body of purple gauze would figure well in such a description, allowing the heaving bosom to be seen beneath it, while "sparkling eyes," and "jetty tresses," and "tiny feet" might be thrown in profusely. But, alas! Example: We also prefer the past, I think, despite the bloodshed and absence of analgesia, because we’re so relentlessly served our own history, from the medieval murk of King & Conqueror to the heaving cleavage of Bridgerton.
Word: heaving Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ˈhiːvɪŋ/ 1. An occasion on which something heaves or is heaved. Example: No swellings tell that winds may be Upon some far-off happier sea-- No heavings hint that winds have been On seas less hideously serene." Example: His throne rocked with subterraneous heavings.
Word: haunting Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of haunt Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present Example: A ghost was haunting the house.
Word: haunting Part of Speech: adj 1. Remaining in the mind; not easily forgotten. Example: He had a haunting gaze.
Word: haunting Part of Speech: noun 1. A particular instance of haunting; a ghostly habitation. Example: During the haunting, strange voices and noises were heard and objects flew off tables. Example: They [most ghosts] prefer taking trips back to Earth. ... They go and try to assert their ownership of some house that once belonged to them: and then ye get what's called a Haunting.
Word: hatching Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ˈhæt͡ʃɪŋ/ 1. A method of shading areas of a drawing or diagram with fine parallel lines. Labels: countable, uncountable 2. A group of birds, reptiles, fish, insects, etc., which emerge from their eggs at the same time. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: We got a good hatching from the swallowtail eggs. 3. The act of an egg hatching, eclosion. Labels: countable, uncountable 4. Patterns used in construction drawings to represent various materials. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: hatching Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /ˈhæt͡ʃɪŋ/ 1. present participle and gerund of hatch Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: clasping Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of clasp Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: clasping Part of Speech: noun 1. The act by which something is clasped. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Nothing had been said during our drive, but the high thin breathing of our new companion, and the claspings and unclaspings of his hands spoke of the nervous tension within him.
Word: hatched Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of hatch Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: heaved Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /hiːvd/ 1. simple past and past participle of heave Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: pained Part of Speech: adj Pronunciation: /peɪnd/ 1. In pain, especially in an emotional sense. Example: The director looked as though his faith in human nature had received a rude blow. "A hundred pounds would be a very large initial fee for a small firm like this, Mr Carrados," he remarked in a pained voice.
Word: pained Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /peɪnd/ 1. simple past and past participle of pain Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: infatuated Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From infatuate + -ed. 1. simple past and past participle of infatuate Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: infatuated Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From infatuate + -ed. 1. Foolishly or unreasoningly fond of, attracted to or in love with (someone); besotted. Example: 1771, Elizabeth Griffith, The History of Lady Barton, London: T. Davies & T. Cadell, Volume 3, Letter 60, p. 40, […] I did not know her then, or I could never have been so infatuated as I was, to a creature so every way her inferior […] Example: “Gracious goodness,” the cry was, “how infatuated the mother is about that pert and headstrong boy who gives himself the airs of a lord on his blood-horse, and for whom our society is not good enough, and who would marry an odious painted actress off a booth, where very likely he wants to rant himself. …" 2. Excessively fond of or enthusiastic about (something). Example: Before I leave Switzerland I cannot but observe, that the Notion of Witchcraft reigns very much in this Country. […] The People are so universally infatuated with the Notion, that if a Cow falls sick, it is Ten to One but an Old Woman is clapt up in Prison for it […] Example: She was one of those people who are infatuated with patent medicines and all new-fangled methods of producing health or mending it. 3. Foolish, stupid, lacking good judgment (often as a result of some external influence). Labels: obsolete Example: […] that people must needs be madd or strangely infatuated, that build the chief hope of thir common happiness or safetie on a single person […] Example: It is possible, that had they not been so infatuated, as to imagine they could retrieve in Germany all that they had lost in America, the British court in the beginning of the year 1759 might have listened to terms of accommodation.
Word: perturbed Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of perturb Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: perturbed Part of Speech: adj 1. Disturbed; flustered. 2. Slightly modified. Example: The equation x² − 3.0001x + 2 = 0 is a perturbed version of x² − 3x + 2 = 0.
Word: dirty dance Part of Speech: verb 1. To engage in a sexually provocative dance; to striptease. 2. To engage in an up-close-and-personal style of dancing, often with the goal of sexually enticing one's partner. Example: The young women gave him the excitement of his life when they began to dirty dance with him on the dance floor.
Word: overwrought Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Past participle of overwork; equivalent to over- + wrought. Pronunciation: /əʊ.vəˈɹɔːt/ 1. simple past and past participle of overwork Labels: archaic, form-of, participle, past
Word: overwrought Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Past participle of overwork; equivalent to over- + wrought. Pronunciation: /əʊ.vəˈɹɔːt/ 1. Excessively nervous, excited, tense, angry, anxious, or upset; overemotional; very uneasy. 2. Elaborate; baroque; overdone. Example: Her book includes an incisive discussion of misogyny on the New Right. [Laura K.] Field notes how “gynocracy” and “the longhouse” have become overwrought MAGA epithets for an unbearably feminized and pluralist society.
Word: unprincipled Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *né Proto-Indo-European *n̥- Proto-Germanic *un- Proto-West Germanic *un- Old English un- Middle English un- English un- English principle English -ed English principled English unprincipled From un- + principled. Pronunciation: /ʌnˈpɹɪnsɪpəld/ 1. Lacking moral values. Example: But side by side with it was a baser conspiracy, among the more unprincipled and desperate friends of James, for the assassination of the King. Example: That’s what Joe Biden did. His pardon of his son Hunter was understandable from a paternal perspective (what father wants to see his son in prison?), but it was inexcusably unprincipled.
Word: solitaire Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from French solitaire, ultimately from Latin sōlitārius. Doublet of solitary. Pronunciation: /ˈsɒl.ɪˌtɛə(ɹ)/, /ˈsɑ.ləˌtɚ/ 1. A person who lives alone; a recluse or hermit. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: 1722-1723, Alexander Pope, letter to a lady […] he really wishes he had never beheld you, nor yours. You have spoiled him for a solitaire, and a book, all the days of his life; and put him into such a condition, that he thinks of nothing, and enquires of nothing but after a person who has nothing to say to him, and has left him for ever […] 2. A game for one person, played on a board with pegs or balls, in which the object is, beginning with all the places filled except one, to remove all but one of the pieces by "jumping", as in draughts. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: The early French solitaire boards were marked with thirty-seven holes instead of the modern board's thirty-three; and the problems were more difficult. 3. Any of various card games that can be played by one person. Labels: Canada, US, countable, uncountable Example: You like to sit high on a hill / Count the daisies in the field / It's your own way of playing solitaire / You won't answer no question / Or say where you've been / The last thing you think you need is a friend Example: Mr. Greenwood said yesterday that he always finished his work in a timely fashion, and that he played solitaire only when there was nothing else left to do, usually a few times a week or during lunch breaks. 4. Ellipsis of Rodrigues solitaire (Pezophaps solitaria), an extinct bird related to the dodo. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, ellipsis, uncountable 5. Ellipsis of Réunion solitaire (Raphus solitarius, now Threskiornis solitarius), an extinct bird formerly believed to be related to the dodo. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, ellipsis, uncountable 6. One of several American species of bird in the genus Myadestes in the thrush family. Labels: countable, uncountable 7. A single gem, usually a diamond, mounted in a piece of jewellery by itself. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: The Times reported ‘two pendant earrings formed of diamond solitaires of great splendor, supporting pear-shaped pearls of proportionate value, capped with brilliants.[…]’ 8. A black neck ribbon worn with a bag wig in the 18th century. Labels: countable, obsolete, uncountable Example: The fellow wears a ſolitaire, uſes paint, and takes rappee with all the grimace of a French marquis.
Word: solitaire Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Borrowed from French solitaire, ultimately from Latin sōlitārius. Doublet of solitary. Pronunciation: /ˈsɒl.ɪˌtɛə(ɹ)/, /ˈsɑ.ləˌtɚ/ 1. Living or being alone; solitary.
Word: utensils Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of utensil Labels: form-of, plural
Word: oarlock Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From oar + lock. 1. A usually U-shaped device attached to the gunwale of a rowboat to hold the oars in place while rowing. Example: But, as luck would have it, scarcely had he started to row his boat again when an oarlock broke, and so it took him the best part of an hour to make the trip. Example: "No motor," Tranny says. "It snag bad." Right. The spiderweb would get wrapped around the propeller. Tranny shows Hiro how to snap zodiac's oars into the oarlocks.
Word: oarlocks Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of oarlock Labels: form-of, plural
Word: interject Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Latin interiectus, perfect passive participle of intericiō (“place between”). Pronunciation: /ɪn.təˈdʒɛkt/, /ɪn.tɚˈd͡ʒɛkt/ 1. To insert something between other things. Labels: transitive 2. To say as an interruption or aside. Labels: transitive Example: He roared with prodigious violence against George the Second. When he ceased, Moody interjected, in an Irish tone, and with a comick look, “Ah! poor George the Second.” Example: ‘Please, sir, Richard says one of the horses has got a very bad cold, and he thinks, sir, if you could make it convenient to go the day after to-morrow, instead of to-morrow, he could physic it to-day, so as—’ ‘Confound his impudence!’ interjected the master. 3. To interpose oneself; to intervene. Labels: intransitive
Word: symbolise Part of Speech: verb 1. Alternative form of symbolize. Labels: UK, alt-of, alternative Example: In summer 2020, the trains were unveiled at Wimbledon depot, and given the name Arterio. The operator said this symbolised its role as an artery for connecting the capital and beyond.
Word: symbolize Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle French symboliser. Pronunciation: /ˈsɪmbəlaɪz/ 1. To be symbolic of; to represent. Labels: transitive Example: Doves often symbolize peace. Example: The broken chain symbolizes freedom. 2. To use symbols; to represent ideas symbolically. Labels: intransitive, transitive 3. To convert something into a symbol. Labels: transitive Example: The overwhelming majority of these poems consists of wedding-songs, intended for the various ceremonies of the wedding and the daily festivities of the first week after the wedding. But these are not wedding-songs in the ordinary sense. In them, the wedding is symbolized. The poet speaks, indeed, of bride and bridegroom. But thereby he in no sense signifies the young human pair, but rather, true to cabbalistic implication, he intends the bridegroom to be God while the bride is the personified people of Israel. 4. To resemble each other in qualities or properties; to correspond; to harmonize. Labels: intransitive, obsolete Example: The pleasing of colour symbolizeth with the pleasing of any single tone to the ear; but the pleasing of order doth symbolize with harmony. Example: They both symbolize in this, that they love to look upon themselves through multiplying glasses. 5. To hold the same faith; to agree. Labels: intransitive, obsolete Example: The believers in pretended miracles have always previously symbolized with the performers of them.
Word: discernible Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle French discernable; spelling changed from -a- to -i- in the 17th century to conform to Latin discernibilis. By surface analysis, discern + -ible. Pronunciation: /dɪˈsɝnɪbl̩/, /dɪˈsɜːnɪbl̩/ 1. Possible to discern; detectable or derivable by use of the senses or the intellect. Example: There is a discernible performance difference between a Porsche and a Civic. Example: To have demolished and rebuilt the walls, would have been a very costly expedient, and as the least of two evils, the painter's brush was resorted to; here and there however, above some of the windows, the black wreathings of the smoke are still discernible through the white covering.
Word: incorruptible Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French incorruptible, from Latin incorruptibilis. By surface analysis, in- + corruptible. 1. Incapable of being bribed or morally corrupted; inflexibly just and upright. 2. Not subject to corruption or decay. Example: Let us run in the straight road the race that is incorruptible
Word: incorruptible Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French incorruptible, from Latin incorruptibilis. By surface analysis, in- + corruptible. 1. A person whose body does not decompose after death, a sign of holiness. 2. One of an ancient religious sect of Alexandria, whose adherents believed that the body of Christ was incorruptible, and that he suffered hunger, thirst, and pain only in appearance. Labels: historical
Word: corruptible Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English corruptible, from Latin corruptibilis. 1. bribable, that can be bought Example: They systematically corrupt a very corruptible race, (for some time a growing nuisance amongst you) 2. perishable, subject to decay Example: The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], 1611, →OCLC, 1 Peter 1:18. that yee were not redeemed with corruptible things, as silver and golde,
Word: corruptible Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English corruptible, from Latin corruptibilis. 1. That which may decay and perish; the human body. Labels: archaic Example: The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], 1611, →OCLC, 1 Corinthians 15:53. For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortall must put on immortalitie.
Word: egocentric Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From ego- + -centric. Pronunciation: /ˌiːɡəʊˈsɛntɹɪk/, /ˌiɡoʊˈsɛntɹɪk/, /ˌiːɡəʉˈsentɹɪk/ 1. Selfish, self-centered, self-absorbed. 2. Egotistical. 3. Relating to spatial representations: linked to a reference frame based on one's own location within the environment (as when giving the direction as "right" rather than "north"); opposed to allocentric.
Word: egocentric Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From ego- + -centric. Pronunciation: /ˌiːɡəʊˈsɛntɹɪk/, /ˌiɡoʊˈsɛntɹɪk/, /ˌiːɡəʉˈsentɹɪk/ 1. A person who is egocentric.
Word: vagrancy Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From vagrant + -cy. Pronunciation: /ˈveɪɡɹənsɪ/ 1. the state of being a vagrant Labels: countable, uncountable Example: The city introduced new laws dealing with vagrancy. Example: He was arrested on charges of vagrancy.
Word: geosphere Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From geo- + -sphere. Pronunciation: /ˈd͡ʒiːəʊˌsfɪə(ɹ)/, /ˈd͡ʒiːəˌsfɪə(ɹ)/ 1. The solid body of the Earth.
Word: cubs Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /kʌbz/ 1. plural of cub Labels: form-of, plural
Word: cubs Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /kʌbz/ 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of cub Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: unintelligent Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *né Proto-Indo-European *n̥- Proto-Germanic *un- Proto-West Germanic *un- Old English un- Middle English un- English un- English intelligent English unintelligent From un- + intelligent. Pronunciation: /ˌʌnənˈtɛləd͡ʒənt/ 1. Not intelligent. Example: "That young girl," he added unexpectedly, "is one of the least benightedly unintelligent organic life forms it has been my profound lack of pleasure not to be able to avoid meeting."
Word: floundering Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of flounder Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: floundering Part of Speech: noun 1. The act of one who flounders; a clumsy struggle. Example: Just as with other recent reports by various bodies on HS2 and the ticket office closures, the National Audit Office's effort on the rail reform process is a devastating exposé of the failings and floundering of a dying administration that has failed to understand the value of having an efficient rail network.
Word: insufficiently Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From insufficient + -ly or in- + sufficiently. 1. Not sufficiently. Example: The machine was decommissioned because it was producing widgets insufficiently. Example: Mr. Tygart, who came to prominence for successfully pursuing doping cases against the track star Marion Jones and the cyclist Lance Armstrong, has long contended that WADA is insufficiently dedicated to holding dopers and their enablers to account.
Word: surprisingly Part of Speech: adv Etymology: Etymology tree English surprising Middle English -ly English -ly English surprisingly From surprising + -ly. Pronunciation: /səˈpɹaɪzɪŋli/ 1. In a way that causes surprise because it is unexpected, or unusual. Example: Near-synonyms: unexpectedly, unusually Example: The house was surprisingly small for such a numerous family.
Word: Luxembourgian Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English Luxembourg Proto-Indo-European *-nós Proto-Italic *-nos Latin -nus Latin -ānus Latin -iānusbor. English -ian English Luxembourgian From Luxembourg + -ian. 1. A person from Luxembourg
Word: Luxembourgian Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree English Luxembourg Proto-Indo-European *-nós Proto-Italic *-nos Latin -nus Latin -ānus Latin -iānusbor. English -ian English Luxembourgian From Luxembourg + -ian. 1. of or pertaining to Luxembourg
Word: unsatisfied Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *né Proto-Indo-European *n̥- Proto-Germanic *un- Proto-West Germanic *un- Old English un- Middle English un- English un- Middle English satisfien Middle English satisfyed English satisfied English unsatisfied From un- + satisfied. 1. Not satisfied, especially with the quantity of something; dissatisfied; uncontented. 2. Not gratified; not having been fulfilled or met. Example: I made no answer, for I could not - especially before Leo - tell her that since I had seen her face I knew that it would always be before my eyes, and that I had no wish to prolong an existence which must always be haunted and tortured by her memory, and by the last bitterness of unsatisfied love.
Word: rated Part of Speech: adj Pronunciation: /ˈɹeɪtɪd/ 1. Scolded, rebuked. Labels: archaic Example: He tooke it up, and thence with him did beare, / As rated Spaniell takes his burden up for feare. Example: [H]e merely passed by sheepishly with a rated, scowling look. 2. maximum (load, voltage, etc.) under which a device can function properly 3. Having a particular rating or rate
Word: rated Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /ˈɹeɪtɪd/ 1. simple past and past participle of rate Labels: form-of, participle, past