nandhakumarms/qualc-wiktionary-en huggingface dataset:
Word: benefactors Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of benefactor Labels: form-of, plural
Word: lesser celandine Part of Speech: noun 1. A European perennial herb (Ficaria verna, formerly Ranunculus ficaria), having heart-shaped leaves and solitary yellow flowers Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: centrifuge Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From French centrifuge, from Latin centrum (“center”) + fugiō (“to flee”). Equivalent to centri- + -fuge. Pronunciation: /ˈsɛntɹɪˌfjuːdʒ/ 1. A device in which a mixture of denser and lighter materials (normally dispersed in a liquid) is separated by being spun about a central axis at high speed. 2. An apparatus in which humans are spun to simulate acceleration in an aircraft or spacecraft. Labels: figuratively 3. By extension, any device which rotates in order to produce artificial gravity (in the form of centrifugal force)
Word: centrifuge Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From French centrifuge, from Latin centrum (“center”) + fugiō (“to flee”). Equivalent to centri- + -fuge. Pronunciation: /ˈsɛntɹɪˌfjuːdʒ/ 1. To rotate something in a centrifuge, typically in order to separate its constituents.
Word: centrifugally Part of Speech: adv Etymology: Etymology tree English centrifugal Proto-Indo-European *leyg-der. Proto-Germanic *līkąder. Proto-Germanic *-līkaz Proto-Germanic *-ê Proto-Germanic *-līkê Proto-West Germanic *-līkē Old English -līċe Middle English -ly English -ly English centrifugally From centrifugal + -ly. 1. Away from a centre or axis. 2. Using centrifugal force. 3. In a centrifuge.
Word: centripetally Part of Speech: adv Etymology: Etymology tree English centripetal Middle English -ly English -ly English centripetally From centripetal + -ly. 1. Towards a centre or axis. Labels: not-comparable 2. Using centripetal force. Labels: not-comparable
Word: chanticleer Part of Speech: noun Etymology: ] From Middle English Chauntecleer, from Old French Chantecler (modern French Chanteclair), the proper name of the cock in the literary cycle of Reynard the Fox, that also gave origin to chantecler, the name of a chicken breed; from chanter (“to sing, to crow”) + cler (“clear, clearly”). Attested in English since 1250–1300. Pronunciation: /ˈtʃɑːntɪˌklɪə/, /t͡ʃæntəˌklɪɹ/, /ˈʃæntəˌklɪɹ/ 1. A domestic rooster or cock, especially in fables and fairy tales. Labels: archaic, literary Example: When I did hear / The motley fool, thus moral on the time, / My lungs began to crow like chanticleer, / That fools should be so deep-contemplative[…]. Example: It is happily some particular sense that unto cockes or chanticleares discovereth the morning and midnight houre, and moveth them to crow[…].
Word: chanticleer Part of Speech: verb Etymology: ] From Middle English Chauntecleer, from Old French Chantecler (modern French Chanteclair), the proper name of the cock in the literary cycle of Reynard the Fox, that also gave origin to chantecler, the name of a chicken breed; from chanter (“to sing, to crow”) + cler (“clear, clearly”). Attested in English since 1250–1300. Pronunciation: /ˈtʃɑːntɪˌklɪə/, /t͡ʃæntəˌklɪɹ/, /ˈʃæntəˌklɪɹ/ 1. To make the crowing sound of a cock. 2. To crow in exultation.
Word: chapeaux Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of chapeau Labels: form-of, plural
Word: political asylum Part of Speech: noun 1. The protection, by a sovereign state, of a person who is persecuted in their own country for their political opinions or activity Labels: uncountable
Word: charades Part of Speech: noun Etymology: See charade. As a game, originally a clipped form of acting charades or, without talking, dumb charades but now usually understood as a plurale tantum. 1. plural of charade Labels: form-of, plural
Word: charades Part of Speech: noun Etymology: See charade. As a game, originally a clipped form of acting charades or, without talking, dumb charades but now usually understood as a plurale tantum. 1. A game in which each player acts out a word or phrase, usually based on puns of each syllable and without speaking, for the others to guess. Labels: uncountable Example: […] it looked like a house where they played charades, where there would be long streamers of evergreen and dozens of wreaths of holly at Christmas-time, where there were tearful, happy weddings and great throwings of rice after little brides […]
Word: charades Part of Speech: verb Etymology: See charade. As a game, originally a clipped form of acting charades or, without talking, dumb charades but now usually understood as a plurale tantum. 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of charade Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: chateaux Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of chateau Labels: form-of, plural
Word: checkerboard Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From checker + board. Pronunciation: /ˈt͡ʃɛkəˌbɔːd/, /ˈt͡ʃɛkɚˌbɔɹd/ 1. A pattern of squares of alternating colors. 2. A board, usually square, covered with such a pattern; especially such a board with 8×8 squares, used to play chess and checkers/draughts. 3. A style of negative cutting that avoids visible splice marks.
Word: checkerboard Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From checker + board. Pronunciation: /ˈt͡ʃɛkəˌbɔːd/, /ˈt͡ʃɛkɚˌbɔɹd/ 1. To checker; to mark with an alternating pattern of light and dark. Labels: transitive
Word: chickweed Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English chykwed, chykewode, chike wed, chikewed, chekwede, a variant of chykynwede, chekyn-wede, cheken-wede (literally “chicken-weed”), equivalent to chick + weed. Etymonline claims the name was apparently applied to many plants fit for chicken feed, which were called in Old English cicene mete (“chicken food”). Pronunciation: /ˈtʃɪkwiːd/ 1. Any of several small-leaved herbs of the genera Cerastium and Stellaria. Labels: uncountable, usually Example: I look at the little sprigs of chickweed trembling among the bean shoots and I am strangely moved. Such steadfastness! Such yearning! They want to live too. That is all they ask: to have their little moment in the world. 2. Any of several small-leaved herbs of the genera Cerastium and Stellaria. Labels: uncountable, usually 3. Any of several small-leaved herbs of the genera Cerastium and Stellaria. Labels: uncountable, usually 4. Other plants of similar appearance and habit, including those of species: Labels: uncountable, usually 5. Other plants of similar appearance and habit, including those of species: Labels: uncountable, usually 6. Other plants of similar appearance and habit, including those of species: Labels: uncountable, usually 7. Other plants of similar appearance and habit, including those of species: Labels: uncountable, usually
Word: chid Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /ˈt͡ʃɪd/ 1. simple past of chide Labels: form-of, past Example: Jones chid the pedagogue for his interruption, and then the stranger proceeded. Example: When about 16 years of age I happened to meet with a book, written by one Tryon, recommending a vegetable diet. I determined to go into it. […] My refusing to eat flesh occasioned an inconveniency, and I was frequently chid for my singularity. 2. past participle of chide Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: chided Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /ˈt͡ʃaɪdɪd/ 1. simple past and past participle of chide Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: chidden Part of Speech: verb 1. past participle of chide Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: chidden Part of Speech: adj 1. chided, reproved, rebuked, scolded Labels: not-comparable
Word: chiffonier Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Germanic *kippōną Proto-West Germanic *kippōn Old English *ċippiander. Old English ċipp Middle English chippebor. Old French chippe Middle French chiffe French chiffe Proto-Indo-European *-ōder. Proto-Indo-European *-Hōder.? Latin -ō Frankishinflu. Old French -on Middle French -on French -on French chiffon Proto-Indo-European *-yósder. Proto-Italic *-āzios Latin -āriusnom. Latin -ārius Old French -ier Middle French -er French -ier French chiffonnierbor. English chiffonier Borrowed from French chiffonnier. Pronunciation: /ˌʃɪf.əˈnɪə/, /ˌʃɪf.əˈnɪɹ/ 1. A tall, elegant chest of drawers, often with a mirror attached. Example: "There is nothing of the kind even within view," cried Helen, warmly, "nor any one object that could offend the most fastidious eye, as Mrs. Palmer observed; a duchess might delight in it; every thing is so clean without, and so good within: such beautiful carpets and rugs to match! such handsome chiffoniers, and elegant books!... Example: He looked round the poor room, at the distempered walls, and the bad engravings in meretricious frames, the crinkly paper and wax flowers on the chiffonier; and he thought of a room like Father Bryan's, with panelling, with cut glass, with tulips in silver pots, such a room as he had hoped to have for his own. 2. One who gathers rags and odds and ends; a ragpicker. 3. A receptacle for rags or shreds.
Word: cheffonier Part of Speech: noun 1. a tall, elegant chest of drawers, often with a mirror attached
Word: chlordane Part of Speech: noun 1. A very toxic chlorinated polycyclic hydrocarbon once used as an insecticide. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: tubs Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of tub Labels: form-of, plural
Word: tubs Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of tub Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: choirboy Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From choir + boy. 1. A boy chorister. 2. A piously innocent person. Labels: figuratively Example: Kordic is no choirboy. The tribunal has accused him of crimes against humanity for helping to orchestrate a massive campaign of persecution against Muslims in the Lasva valley in central Bosnia.
Word: cocaines Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of cocaine Labels: form-of, plural
Word: cocaines Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of cocaine Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: joseki Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Japanese 定石 (jōseki), literally 定 set + 石 stone. 1. A studied and standardized sequence of moves in game of Go, especially at a corner of the board, in the opening phase of a game. Joseki have a variety of outcomes and can be beneficial or detrimental based on the situation. However, Joseki theoretically include the best moves locally for each player.
Word: univallate Part of Speech: adj 1. Having one raised edge or wall surrounding a depression. Labels: not-comparable Example: Rathmichael is a fine example of a univallate ringfort.
Word: rusticity Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From rustic + -ity, from Latin rusticitas. 1. The quality of being rustic. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: The accommodation for passengers was designed on a rather lavish scale, as it was expected that extensive housing development would take place in the vicinity. These hopes were not realised, however, and, apart from the school buildings, the surroundings of the station have never lost their rusticity. 2. That which makes something rustic. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: rubberize Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Etymology tree English rubber Proto-Indo-European *-id- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)bor. Late Latin -izōder. Middle French -iserbor. Middle English -isen English -ize English rubberize From rubber + -ize. 1. To coat with rubber or a similar material. Labels: transitive Example: rubberized silk
Word: rumpled Part of Speech: adj 1. Wrinkled or crumpled. Example: A demure-looking woman, in a dress rather tawdry and rumpled, here drew her veil well down and rose; but, marking every eye upon her, thought it advisable, upon the whole, to sit down again. Example: The rumpled octogenarian and two-time presidential candidate [Bernie Sanders] has no plans to seek the Oval Office again.
Word: rumpled Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of rumple Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: crumpled Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of crumple Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: crumpled Part of Speech: adj 1. Squeezed into a compact mass by irregular folds. Example: The crumpled paper was used as packing material. Example: This is the Cow with the crumpled Horn, that tossed the Dog, that worried the Cat[.]
Word: ruddiness Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English ruddy Proto-Germanic *-inōną Proto-Indo-European *-dyé- Proto-Germanic *-atjaną Proto-Indo-European *-tus Proto-Germanic *-þuz Proto-Germanic *-assuz Proto-Germanic *-inassuz Proto-West Germanic *-nassī Old English -nes Middle English -nesse English -ness English ruddiness From ruddy + -ness. 1. The property of being ruddy. Labels: uncountable, usually
Word: mobile library Part of Speech: noun 1. A library housed in a large van that provides a library service to those unable to attend their nearest local library.
Word: gateway drugs Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of gateway drug Labels: form-of, plural
Word: dissociative drugs Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of dissociative drug Labels: form-of, plural
Word: Berta Part of Speech: name 1. A female given name, variant of Bertha.
Word: Berta Part of Speech: name 1. A Nilo-Saharan ethnolinguistic group native to the border of Ethiopia and Sudan. 2. The language spoken natively by the Berta.
Word: Berta Part of Speech: adj 1. Pertaining to the Berta people, culture or language. Labels: not-comparable
Word: Bramley Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Named after butcher Matthew Bramley, who owned the tree from which cuttings were taken in the mid-1800s. Pronunciation: /ˈbɹæmli/ 1. A cultivar of apple, used especially as a cooking apple. Example: Bramleys are a good choice when making pies.
Word: Bramley Part of Speech: name Etymology: From Old English brom (“broom”) + leah (“wood clearing, meadow”), like Bromley. Equivalent to broom + -ley (“lea”). Pronunciation: /ˈbɹæmli/ 1. Any of several places in England: 2. Any of several places in England: 3. Any of several places in England: 4. Any of several places in England: 5. Any of several places in England: 6. A suburb of Johannesburg, South Africa. 7. A small townsite in the South West Region of Western Australia. 8. A habitational surname from Old English.
Word: close to Part of Speech: adv 1. Approximately. Example: It lasted close to an hour. Example: It rained for close to forty days and forty nights. 2. Nearly; almost. Labels: informal Example: The project is close to finished.
Word: close to Part of Speech: prep 1. Near. Example: The chair was close to the window. Example: She looked fraught and close to tears.
Word: choreograph Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Back-formation from choreography, equivalent to choreo- + -graph. Pronunciation: /ˈkɒɹiəɡɹɑːf/, /ˈkɒɹiəɡɹæf/, /ˈkɔɹjəɡɹæf/ 1. To design and record the choreography for a dramatic work such as a ballet. Labels: transitive Example: So he choreographs each event depending on the crowd, starting with something to learn the drill, like “Marching Through Georgia,” working in something to loosen people up like the hokeypokey, and probably a contra dance (long lines, not squares) like the Virginia reel. Example: She and her two best friends are choreographing a number for the talent show; she’s applied to California Institute of the Arts; and she flirts unabashedly with a cute pizza server. (The better to land a couple of extra pepperonis on her slice without an upcharge.) 2. To direct the development of a project; to orchestrate. Labels: transitive Example: Fight sequences fall into one of three categories: “MAMs” (many against many), “OHMs” (one hits many), and “triple O′s” (one on one). Group fights — MAMs and OHMs — are more difficult to choreograph than triple O′s, and TV shows that included well-choreographed MAMs and OHMs received higher marks than those devoid of mass attacks. Example: England’s response came in the form of the brilliantly choreographed move that concluded with Wayne Rooney’s second goal and the kind of outstanding football that was beyond their opponents. 3. To work as a choreographer. Labels: intransitive
Word: choreographer Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English choreograph Proto-Indo-European *-yósder. Proto-Italic *-āzios Latin -āriusnom. Latin -āriusbor. Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz Proto-West Germanic *-ārī Old English -ere Middle English -ere English -er English choreographer From choreograph + -er. 1. One who choreographs. Example: "More and more, the shrewdest thinkers and artists are precocious archeologists of ... ruins-in-the-making, indignant or stoical diagnosticians of defeat, enigmatic choreographers of the complex spiritual movements useful for individual survival in an era or permanent apocalypse." Example: Chandralekha, a choreographer from Madras, India, has been described as a counterculturalist who draws on elements of classical Indian dance like Bharata Natyam and on Western modern dance.
Word: London Underground Part of Speech: name 1. The London underground railway system.
Word: shepherd's pie Part of Speech: noun 1. A meat pie having a mashed potato crust, especially one made with lamb or mutton. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Here am I / Tiny Fly / May I share your Shepherd's Pie?
Word: shepherds pie Part of Speech: noun 1. Misspelling of shepherd's pie. Labels: alt-of, misspelling
Word: cream pie Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /(ˈ)kɹiːm ˈpaɪ/ 1. A pie, usually filled with fruit, topped with whipped cream. Labels: US, countable, uncountable Example: The young men and women slinging plate lunches and mammoth slices of cream pie on the tables recall the energetic waitresses from the good old days. 2. A pie filled entirely with cream, used as a prop in slapstick films and television. Labels: countable, uncountable 3. A cookie (dessert) consisting of two soft cookies (especially oatmeal cookies) with a layer of creamy or marshmallowy filling in the middle. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: The best thing about cream pie cookies? You have permission to eat two cookies instead of one, since it takes two to make a proper sandwich. But now there's a new problem: limiting yourself to just one cream pie. Peanut Butter Oatmeal Cream Pies[…] To make the cookies, […] To make the filling, […] To assemble the cream pies, spread about 1 tablespoon of buttercream filling on the flat (bottom) side of 1 cookie. Top with another cookie. Example: ASSEMBLE THE CREAM PIES: Place about 1 to 2 tablespoons of filling on the underside of one cookie and top with an additional cookie. 4. Alternative form of creampie (pornographic term). Labels: alt-of, alternative, countable, uncountable
Word: cream pies Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of cream pie Labels: form-of, plural
Word: Tube Part of Speech: name 1. The London Underground. Labels: informal Example: But 'Tube' is used as shorthand for the whole network, not least by London Underground itself, [...] It tends to be older people who hold on to the distinction. A friend of mine was visiting his mother who lives about 500 yards from Parsons Green station on the District, which is a cut-and-cover line [not a tube line]. At the end of the evening she said, "How are you getting back?" He said, "Oh, on the Tube", and she looked at him absolutely blankly. "What Tube?" she said, "There is no Tube here." Example: Still, it’s not just the decline of civilisation that worries me, nor the (related) effect on Tube manners (Candy Crushers are rarely very chivalrous).
Word: cottage pie Part of Speech: noun 1. A meat pie having a mashed potato crust covering a mixture of beef (typically minced) and vegetables. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Cottage Pie.— Mince any kind of cold meat together (beef, mutton, veal, pork, or lamb), put it about an inch or and inch and a half deep in a pie dish, and cover it with gravy; don't spare salt and pepper; cover it over with mashed potatoes smooth at the top, and cut it across in diamonds with a knife; bake till it is crisp and brown at the top. Example: The recipes are of dishes suitable to the varying means of working men, such as cottage pie, haricot beans, scrap-bread pudding, Exeter stew, poor man's goose, and many others, combining economy and palatableness.
Word: IPv4 Part of Speech: name 1. Initialism of Internet Protocol version 4. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
Word: clarified butter Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From clarified + butter, from Middle English clarifien and buter. Earliest attestation of clarified in this sense from the 14th century. 1. A cooking fat made by gently heating butter and separating the solids from the butterfat. Labels: uncountable, usually Example: The means whereby the sailors do this, is, first to dress the meat, then cut it into slices; and laying them regularly one upon another in a close cask, they pour clarified butter thereon to fill up all the interstices Example: […]when they are cold, put them into potting-pots and pour over them clarified butter, and keep them in a dry place.
Word: biryani Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Hindustani (Hindi बिरयानी (biryānī) / Urdu بِرْیَانی (biryānī)), from Classical Persian بِرْیَانِی (biryānī), from بِرْیَان (biryān, “roast”) (from برشتن (birištan, “to roast”)) + the suffix ـی (-ī). Pronunciation: /bɪɾ.jɑː.niː/, [bɪɾ.jäː.niː], /bɪ.ɾə.jɑː.niː/, [bɪ.ɾɐ.jäː.niː], /bɪ.ɾɪ.jɑː.niː/ 1. A spiced dish of rice, blended with meat and/or vegetables. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Thereafter, the menu is divided into a number of sections: Syrian Christian specialities from Kerala; coastal seafood dishes; Malabar biryanis; vegetable curries; and special dosas.
Word: biriani Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative spelling of biryani. Labels: alt-of, alternative, countable, uncountable
Word: SCAF Part of Speech: name 1. Acronym of Supreme Council of the Armed Forces. Labels: abbreviation, acronym, alt-of
Word: tew Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English tewen, a variant of tawen (“to taw, prepare”). More at taw. Pronunciation: /tjuː/, /tuː/ 1. Prep work; labour. Labels: obsolete 2. Trouble; worry. Labels: UK, dialectal, obsolete 3. Constant work; bustling; worry, excitement. Labels: US, dialectal
Word: tew Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English tewen, a variant of tawen (“to taw, prepare”). More at taw. Pronunciation: /tjuː/, /tuː/ 1. To tow along, as a vessel. Example: By which the Danes had then their full-fraught Navies tew’d: 2. To prepare (leather, hemp, etc.) by beating or working; to taw. Example: It' I bequeath to Richard Smythe, of Steton, my best losyn sherte, a tewed bull skyn, a bushell of wheate, and a bushel of barlie. Example: yet wee found no townes, nor many of their houses, although we saw manie Indians, which are tall big boned men, all naked, saving they cover their privy parts with a blacke tewed skin, much like a Black-smithes apron, tied about their middle and betweene their legs behinde: 3. To beat; to scourge. Labels: broadly Example: with the king ran also Dyvers others, who all returning brought Cudgells and wandes in their hands all to be tewed, as if they had beaten him extreamly. Example: On the shores which lie open to the East, the grass grows down to the water side, and they are the greener shores; but on the shores exposed to the West, the grass and trees are weather beaten and worn away, and the shore sides much tewed with the surge. 4. To muddle; to mix up. Example: Within here, h'as made the gayest sport with Tom the Coachman, so tewed him up with Sack that he lies lashing a But of Malmsie for his Mares. Example: “Happen there was a lass tewed up wi 'it. Men do more than more for th' sake of a lass. 5. To work at or worry. Example: The book was in town, I sent a Friend for it, who brought it to the governor: the priest tewed and turned it, but could not find any thing to prove his charge. Example: His first words were, “Since I saw you I 'tewed' hard for it betwint me and God, and He has pardoned my sins. 6. To harangue or argue with. Example: You should have ta'en her then, turn'd her, and tewed her I' th' strength of all her resolution, flatter'd her, and shaked her stubborn will; she would have thank'd you, She would have loved you infinitely; Example: But it haint his doin's; he has been tewed at, night and day. 7. To tease; to vex or worry. Labels: Scotland, UK, dialectal, obsolete Example: but having received his orders early that morning from the trainer, accompanied with a warning not to suffer himself to be tewed (Yorkshire patois for worried) by anything Mr. Mellish might say, the sallow-complexioned lad walked about in the calm serenity of innocence Example: After dinner uncle Joe made off to his piggeries; while aunt Dorothy fell asleep in a capacious old arm-chair by the fire, after making an apologetic remark to the effect that she was tired, and had been a good deal "tewed" that morning in the dairy. "Tewed," I understand, is Yorkshire for "worried." 8. To work hard; to strive. Example: He 'le tug and tew, and strive and stoope to ought. Example: Poor Nannie tewed on, hau'f hungered ti deead, Sha kenn'd nowt o ' t'gowd 'at war squandered awaay, Just 'arnin 'eneeaf fer watter an' breead.
Word: tew Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Uncertain. Perhaps from an unrecorded Middle English *tewe, *teoȝ, from Old English *tēog (“utensil, tackle, rigging”), from Proto-West Germanic *teug, from Proto-Germanic *teugą (“gear, utensil”). If so, then cognate with West Frisian túch (“rigging, tackle”), Dutch tuig (“rigging, tackle”), German Zeug (“equipment, stuff”). More at toy. 1. Fishing tackle; a rope or chain for towing a boat; a net. Labels: UK, dialectal, obsolete 2. A cord; a string. Labels: UK, dialectal, obsolete
Word: tew Part of Speech: adv 1. Pronunciation spelling of too Labels: alt-of, not-comparable, pronunciation-spelling Example: bollywood was tew good this year it was refreshing that it made it to my top genres
Word: phal Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative spelling of phall. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: phal Part of Speech: noun 1. phalaenopsis Labels: informal
Word: pakora Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Hindi पकोड़ा (pakoṛā). 1. A piece of vegetable, or sometimes meat, deep-fried in a batter flavoured with spices.
Word: lassi Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Hindustani लस्सी / لسی (lassī). Pronunciation: /ˈlæsi/, /ˈlɑsi/, /ˈlʌsi/ 1. A drink made with yogurt diluted with water and flavoured with salt or fruit juice. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Karam stirred his lassi as if trying to unchurn the yoghurt.
Word: Quebecois Part of Speech: adj 1. Alternative spelling of Québécois. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: Quebecois Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative spelling of Québécois. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: Quebecois Part of Speech: name 1. Alternative spelling of Québécois. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: choreographic Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From choreography + -ic or choreo- + -graphic. 1. Of or pertaining to choreography. Labels: not-comparable Example: Alwin Nikolais and Murray Louis have been marching to their own choreographic drummer for a long time now. 2. Balletic. Labels: not-comparable
Word: choreographically Part of Speech: adv Etymology: Etymology tree English choreographic Proto-Italic *-ālis Latin -ālisbor. Old French -albor. ▲ Latin -ālis Old French -elbor. ▲ Latin -ālisbor. Middle English -al Middle English -ly Middle English -ally English -ally English choreographically From choreographic + -ally. 1. as if choreographed. 2. with reference to choreography
Word: coaxial Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *ḱe? Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm Proto-Italic *kom Proto-Italic *kom- Latin con- Latin co-der. English co- Proto-Indo-European *h₂eǵ-? Proto-Indo-European *-os Proto-Indo-European *h₂eḱs-der. Proto-Italic *aksis Latin axisbor. English axis English -al English axial English coaxial From co- + axial. Pronunciation: /kəʊˈæk.sɪi.əl/, /koʊˈæk.sɪi.əl/ 1. Having a common central axis Labels: not-comparable
Word: coaxial Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *ḱe? Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm Proto-Italic *kom Proto-Italic *kom- Latin con- Latin co-der. English co- Proto-Indo-European *h₂eǵ-? Proto-Indo-European *-os Proto-Indo-European *h₂eḱs-der. Proto-Italic *aksis Latin axisbor. English axis English -al English axial English coaxial From co- + axial. Pronunciation: /kəʊˈæk.sɪi.əl/, /koʊˈæk.sɪi.əl/ 1. Ellipsis of coaxial cable. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis
Word: chronologist Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From French chronologiste. By surface analysis, chronology + -ist. Pronunciation: /kɹəˈnɒləd͡ʒɪst/ 1. A person skilled in chronology. Example: That learned noise and dust of the chronologist is wholly to be avoided.
Word: chronicler Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From chronicle + -er. 1. A person who writes a chronicle or chronicles. Example: But he was also a natural chronicler: one senses that, even as his schemes collapsed, this aesthetic Arab Quixote knew the stories would make great material for his witty, sharp, melancholic writings.
Word: chrysalides Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of chrysalis Labels: form-of, plural
Word: waged Part of Speech: adj Pronunciation: /weɪd͡ʒd/ 1. Receiving a wage.
Word: waged Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /weɪd͡ʒd/ 1. simple past and past participle of wage Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: truest Part of Speech: adj 1. superlative form of true: most true Labels: form-of, superlative
Word: hollows Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of hollow Labels: form-of, plural
Word: hollows Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of hollow Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: romances Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of romance Labels: form-of, plural
Word: romances Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of romance Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: regrets Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of regret Labels: form-of, plural
Word: regrets Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of regret Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: recruits Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of recruit Labels: form-of, plural
Word: recruits Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of recruit Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: tiles Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of tile Labels: form-of, plural
Word: tiles Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of tile Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: figs Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /fɪɡz/ 1. plural of fig Labels: form-of, plural
Word: buys Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /baɪz/ 1. plural of buy Labels: form-of, plural
Word: buys Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /baɪz/ 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of buy Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: bundles Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of bundle Labels: form-of, plural
Word: bundles Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of bundle Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: courts martial Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of court martial Labels: form-of, formal, plural
Word: alludes Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /əˈluːdz/ 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of allude Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: floating island Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Calque of French île flottante. 1. An aggregation of driftwood and roots, or vegetation, capable of bearing soil, which floats on the surface of (bog or lake) water or is floated out from a river delta or similar. Example: Such a floating island could carry small animals such as frogs, lizards, or rats, the resistant eggs of other animals, and specimens of plants not adapted to oceanic dispersal. 2. A French cold dessert consisting of an "island" of meringue, made of egg whites and sugar, floating in a "sea" of custard. 3. Synonym of kitchen island. Example: The floating island doubles as a place for the children to do their homework and eat meals.
Word: insensate Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *né Proto-Indo-European *n̥- Proto-Italic *n̥- Latin in- Latin sensātus Latin īnsēnsātuslbor. English insensate Learned borrowing from Latin īnsēnsātus. Pronunciation: /ɪnˈsɛn.sət/ 1. Having no sensation or consciousness; unconscious; inanimate. Example: Since thus divided — equal must it be If the deep barrier be of earth, or sea; It may be both — but one day end it must In the dark union of insensate dust. Example: If I might be Insensate matter With sensate me Sitting within, Harking and prying, I might begin To dicker with dying. 2. Senseless; foolish; irrational; thoughtless. Example: […]the sot, the gambler, the bully, the jockey, the insensate fool, were a thousand times preferable to Rashleigh;—[…] Example: Stupidly dozing, or communing with her incapable self about nothing, she sat for a little while with her hands at her ears. . . . Finally, she laid her insensate grasp upon the bottle that had swift and certain death in it, and, before his eyes, pulled out the cork with her teeth. 3. Unfeeling, heartless, cruel, insensitive. Example: I was cold-hearted, hard, insensate. Example: That insensate, bestial determination, iron-hearted, iron-strong, had beaten down opposition, had carried its point. 4. Not responsive to sensory stimuli; unfeeling. Example: If the ophthalmic branch is cut the patient must be told about the hazards of having an insensate cornea. Example: The presence of severe pain with a deep plantar foot infection in a diabetic patient is often the first alarming symptom, especially in a patient with a previously insensate foot.
Word: insensate Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From the substantivation of the above adjective. See -ate (noun-forming suffix). 1. One who is insensate. Example: Here, at any rate, hostility did not assume that slow and sickening form. It was a cosmic agency, active, lashing, eager for conquest: determination; not an insensate standing in the way.
Word: insensate Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Latin īnsēnsātus, see -ate (verb-forming suffix). 1. To render insensate; to deprive of sensation or consciousness. Labels: rare Example: And this thought, blinding them to all else, insensating them to all emotions but that of vengeance, was thought of Josephine. Example: The train moved on again, keeping us prisoners in a stench-filled car, starving, suffocating, insensated.
Word: Jenifer Part of Speech: name Etymology: See Jennifer. 1. A female given name from Cornish, a less common form of Jennifer. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: "If you don't mind," said Sister Jenifer, "you had better dress like a Socialist. Wear a very soft hat, a very low collar, and a very red or green tie, done loose in the French fashion, and nobody will wonder at your looking clean, or at your asking questions." 2. A surname transferred from the given name. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: starkish Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree English stark Proto-Indo-European *-iskos Proto-Germanic *-iskaz Proto-West Germanic *-isk Old English -isċ Middle English -ish English -ish English starkish From stark + -ish. Pronunciation: /ˈstɑːkɪʃ/, /ˈstɑɹkɪʃ/ 1. Somewhat stark. Labels: not-comparable
Word: chutzpa Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative spelling of chutzpah. Labels: alt-of, alternative, uncountable, usually
Word: cliometrics Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Clio (“the Muse of history”) + -metrics. Pronunciation: /ˌklaɪəʊˈmɛtɹɪks/, /ˌkliːəʊˈmɛtɹɪks/ 1. The use of econometrics to study economic history. Labels: uncountable
Word: cliometric Part of Speech: adj 1. Of or pertaining to cliometrics.
Word: cliometrician Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English cliometric(s) Proto-Indo-European *-nós Proto-Italic *-nos Latin -nus Latin -ānus Latin -iānusbor. English -ian English cliometrician From cliometric(s) + -ian. 1. An expert in cliometrics. Example: It is hard to deny the fact that there are still many social historians who would rather sup with the Devil than indulge in number-crunching exercises or style themselves cliometricians.
Word: coccus Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From New Latin, from Latin coccum, from Ancient Greek κόκκος (kókkos, “grain, seed”). Pronunciation: /ˈkɒ.kəs/, [ˈkʰɑkəs] 1. Any approximately spherical bacterium. 2. One of the carpels or seed-vessels of a dry fruit.
Word: cocci Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ˈkɒ.kaɪ/, /ˈkɒ.ki/ 1. plural of coccus Labels: form-of, plural
Word: cocci Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Shortening. 1. coccidioidomycosis Labels: uncountable
Word: languishing Part of Speech: adj 1. Lacking of vigor or spirit.
Word: languishing Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of languish Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: languishing Part of Speech: noun 1. The act of one who languishes. Example: Happy, Monimia, he to whom these sighs, / These tears, and all these languishings, are paid!
Word: chazzer Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Yiddish חזיר (khazer), from Hebrew חֲזִיר (hazír). Pronunciation: /ˈxɑzəɹ/ 1. A pig. Labels: slang 2. A police officer, especially one who is corrupt. Labels: slang
Word: clings Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of cling Labels: form-of, plural
Word: clings Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of cling Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: costumes Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of costume Labels: form-of, plural
Word: costumes Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of costume Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: assertions Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of assertion Labels: form-of, plural
Word: exiles Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of exile Labels: form-of, plural
Word: exiles Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of exile Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: debating Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of debate Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: debating Part of Speech: noun 1. The act of taking part in a debate. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: 1824-1826, William Cobbett, History of the Protestant Reformation If the war-minister, or all the ministers together, had had no debatings and dividings to look to; if they had had nobody but their master to obey; no families or particular individuals to conciliate or gratify; they would have acted upon the evidence
Word: merest Part of Speech: adj 1. superlative form of mere: most mere Labels: form-of, superlative Example: In Calcutta, season tickets are issued only for the calendar month, with a different colour for each month, so that this problem does not arise. The merest whisper of an idea to change Bombay to the Calcutta system brought such a howl of protest in the Press, that it was never seriously contemplated.
Word: yelling Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English yellynge, ȝellynge; equivalent to yell + -ing. 1. present participle and gerund of yell Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: yelling Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English yellynge, ȝellynge; equivalent to yell + -ing. 1. The act of producing a yell.
Word: diverting Part of Speech: adj 1. Amusing, distracting. Labels: dated Example: I was every day furniſhing the Court with ſome ridiculous Story; and Glumdalclitch, although ſhe loved me to Exceſs, yet was arch enough to inform the Queen, whenever I committed any Folly that ſhe thought would be diverting to her Majeſty.
Word: diverting Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of divert Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: diverting Part of Speech: noun 1. A diversion or turning aside. Example: the narrowings, widenings, divertings, or stoppings of the stream of breath
Word: earning Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /ˈɝnɪŋ/, /ˈɜːnɪŋ/ 1. present participle and gerund of earn Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: administering Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of administer Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present Example: For quotations using this term, see Citations:administering.
Word: administering Part of Speech: noun 1. administration Example: This "body to be cared for, protected, cultivated and preserved from the many dangers and contacts" required other bodies that would perform those nurturing services, providing the leisure for such self-absorbed administerings and self-bolstering acts.
Word: dilated Part of Speech: adj Pronunciation: /daɪˈleɪtɪd/ 1. Having undergone dilation; enlarged. Example: Now the rays of yellow being more refracted by the first Superficies of the said Air than those of red, are thereby made more oblique to the second Superficies, at which they are reflected to produce the colour'd Rings, and consequently the yellow Circle in each Ring will be more dilated than the red; and the Excess of its Dilatation will be so much the greater, by how much the greater is the obliquity of the Rays, until at last it become of equal extent with the red of the same Ring. Example: Is a little better, more conscious, and quieter, bowels purged, mercurial stools, pulse jerking 144, right pupil rather more dilated than the left. 2. Relatively large. Example: The sternum forms a long, linear, deeply channeled lobe, between the coxæ, the apex very dilated, cordate, with a very elevated ridge in the centre, like a nose in profile Example: Of the same form as C. 12-guttata, but having the elytra of the female more dilated, and the apical serratures and the sutural spine much more distinct.
Word: dilated Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /daɪˈleɪtɪd/ 1. simple past and past participle of dilate Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: crashed Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /kɹæʃt/ 1. simple past and past participle of crash Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: hugged Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /hʌɡd/ 1. simple past and past participle of hug Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: deepening Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of deepen Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: deepening Part of Speech: noun 1. The act of becoming deeper. Example: Further examples of the same effect could be seen in sudden deepenings of depressions over the warmer than normal eastern Atlantic in the 1968-9 winter: the consequence was interruptions of the cold weather prevailing in Britain […]
Word: flaring Part of Speech: adj 1. Having a tendency of streaming, flapping, or spreading broadly as if within a current of air or in outer space. Example: This consists in a waving motion backward and forward, sometimes like a fan, sometimes like a long scroll flying in the wind, over which flaring waves chase each other with such velocity that the eye refuses to follow their trembling flight. It is, no doubt, this characteristic of sudden and seemingly capricious motion which has given rise in the imagination to the dragons, demons and giants, to the elvish " merry dancers " of the Shetlanders, to the Valkyries of the Norsemen, and to the ghostly gambols of the departed spirits of the Eskimos, to all the wealth of myth and folk-lore which touched the hearts and quickened the imaginations of the long forgotten forefathers of these northern tribes. Example: “Little of this faulty book of mine was composed in the closet,” he explains; “it was gathered by my own eyes and ears, concocted in my own slender intellect while at my rural employment, and wrote down on scraps of paper as I found it convenient in the midst of the works of nature, in the open air, beneath the flaring sun, in a quarryhole perhaps. Sometimes again on a ‘braeside,’ and ablins whiles in a ‘thick wud,’ or on the back of a ‘grey stane,’ the whole, therefore, has the smell, as it were, of Nature; her rudeness is about it, and when her plaid keeps the shoulders of anything warm, that thing looks contented indeed.”
Word: flaring Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of flare Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: flaring Part of Speech: noun 1. The act of something that flares. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: […] those shootings of stars, eclipses of the moon, howlings of dogs, and flarings of candles, carefully noted and interpreted by the oracular sibyls […] Example: Now the moon illumined them with bluish gleams, and anon the fires of aurora borealis seemed to cover them with the flarings of a great conflagration. 2. The deliberate open-air burning of natural gas that is generated as a by-product of various petrochemical processes, especially oil extraction; gas flaring. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Separate research suggests a switch from the flaring of methane to venting may be behind some of these vast outpourings. Flaring is used to burn unwanted gas, putting CO₂ into the atmosphere, but is easy to detect and has been increasingly frowned upon in recent years.
Word: feasted Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of feast Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: glared Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of glare Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: discourses Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of discourse Labels: form-of, plural
Word: concatenative Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *ḱe? Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm Proto-Italic *kom Proto-Italic *kom- Latin con- Proto-Italic *katesnā Latin catēna Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti Proto-Indo-European *-h₂tiinflu. Proto-Italic *-ājō Proto-Italic *-āō Latin -ō Latin catēnō Latin concatēnō Latin concatēnātus English concatenate Proto-Indo-European *-wós Proto-Indo-European *-iHwósder. Latin -īvus Old French -ifbor. Middle English -yf English -ive English concatenative From concatenate + -ive. Pronunciation: /kənˈkæ.tə.nə.tɪv/ 1. Linked in a series or order of things depending on each other, as if linked together; successive. Labels: not-comparable Example: In fact the titles could be anything – or (with some of the most puissant) no title at all, but they could all be identified as "flappers" by function: each one held arbitrary and concatenative veto over any attempted communication from the outside world to the Great Man who was the nominal superior of the flapper. 2. Operating by concatenation. Labels: not-comparable Example: concatenative synthesis
Word: pulk Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Nordic languages: Norwegian pulk; Swedish pulka, Finnish pulkka, from Sami pul’hkē (compare Northern Sami bulki), from Proto-Samic *pulkkē. Pronunciation: /pʌlk/, /pʊlk/, /pulk/ 1. A low-slung boatlike sled, used for man-hauling supplies across snow and ice.
Word: pulk Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Inherited from Middle English polk, from pol (“pool”) + -ok (“-ock”, thus equivalent to pool + -ock), with shortening of /oː/ before /lk/. Pronunciation: /pʌlk/ 1. A pond or puddle; a small pool (especially of standing water) Labels: East-Anglia
Word: hustings Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Originally the plural of husting, later construed as a singular. Pronunciation: /ˈhʌstɪŋz/ 1. A platform where candidates in an election give speeches; a husting. Example: I now mounted the hustings, and, without any regard to decency or modesty, made as emphatical a speech in favour of the king as before I had done against him. 2. An election campaign. Labels: Australia, Canada, US Example: Washington is awfully deserted now that every congressman is out on the hustings. Example: While on the hustings, both men made quick jaunts into the South during late April. 3. A debate during an election campaign where the public can question some or all of the candidates. Labels: UK Example: The candidate was having a strong campaign but fell apart at the hustings. Example: Finding that he could not be heard during a hustings in the town hall, he armed members of his family with a bell and instead addressed bemused voters at the open windows of their tenements.
Word: hustings Part of Speech: noun Etymology: See the etymology of the main entry. Pronunciation: /ˈhʌstɪŋz/ 1. plural of husting Labels: form-of, plural