nandhakumarms/qualc-wiktionary-en huggingface dataset:
Word: instream Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From in- + stream. 1. The act or process of streaming or flowing in. 2. That which flows in.
Word: siren songs Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of siren song Labels: form-of, plural
Word: addition polymerisation Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative spelling of addition polymerization. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: addition polymerization Part of Speech: noun 1. A form of polymerization in which copies of a monomer are repeatedly added to one end of an existing polymer.
Word: napkin ring Part of Speech: noun 1. A ring for holding napkins along with cutlery. Example: The boy set up his napkin ring.
Word: akinesic Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From akinesia + -ic. 1. Of or pertaining to akinesia.
Word: bozbash Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Azerbaijani bozbaş. 1. A mutton or lamb soup, popular among the peoples of the Caucasus. Labels: uncountable
Word: disallowable Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From disallow + -able. 1. Able to be disallowed. Example: But in the subsequent ages a Levite was not disallowable by years, neither by blemishes, but by voice; when his voice failed by reason of extreme old age, he was disabled from serving in the sanctuary. Example: Much of this legislation is not disallowable and thus falls outside parliamentary scrutiny (Argument 1992: 13). 2. Not allowable; not to be suffered or permitted; which should not be allowed. Example: Neutrality is always a thing dangerous and disallowable, because it offendeth all parties : he that is strong looketh to be assisted in his greatness, and he that is weak not being defended holdeth himself offended Example: Now in all these Cases the Reading of Heathen Authors for such unworthy Ends, was very disallowable, because it was always done with a manifest Neglect and Contempt of the Holy Scriptures, and therefore upon such Grounds deservedly forbidden by the Canons of the Church.
Word: deerflesh Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From deer + flesh. 1. The meat or flesh of a deer; venison. Labels: rare, uncountable Example: The dogs, insufficiently fed on walrus, had begun to give out one after the other, and the frozen deerflesh, of which the party had not even full rations, ill supplied the place of pemmican. Example: The good cider and deerflesh they had eaten at the Inn at Altdorf that morning spilled from them into the water.
Word: tarhana Part of Speech: noun 1. A dried food based on a fermented mixture of grain and yogurt or fermented milk, usually made into a thick soup with water, stock, or milk. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: fishlore Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From fish + lore. 1. The knowledge, stories, and traditions associated with angling or fishing. Labels: uncountable Example: Another index renders all this fishlore at once accessible to the angler. Example: This is a ritual — a completely bogus ritual — staged mainly to amuse the locals, wherein gullible tourists are forced to recite some fishlore gibberish and drink a kick of rum (the infamous screech) and then kiss a cod, [...] 2. The knowledge, science, or study of fish; ichthyology. Labels: uncountable Example: I have already mentioned that these fish seem capable of actually breathing atmospheric air, but what the eggs should want with air, and compressed air at that, I leave others better versed in fishlore to explain.
Word: potrzebie Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From a case form of Polish potrzeba, adopted as a catchphrase by Mad magazine in the 1950s, and applied to a system of measurement by American computer scientist Donald Knuth (then a high-schooler). 1. A fictional unit of length defined as the thickness of issue #26 (November 1955) of Mad Magazine, or approximately 2.26 millimetres. Labels: humorous
Word: bastirma Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of pastirma. Labels: alt-of, alternative, uncountable
Word: basturma Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Armenian բաստուրմա (basturma). Doublet of pastrama. 1. Alternative form of pastirma. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: remound Part of Speech: verb Etymology: A strong conjugation preterite formed on the pattern of find → found. Pronunciation: /ɹɪˈmaʊnd/ 1. simple past and past participle of remind Labels: form-of, nonce-word, nonstandard, participle, past, rare Example: [W]hat should we now think of the grammar which should run thus: 1. pret. I fighted, thou fightedst, &c. 2d pret. I fought, &c. And again, 1st pret. I reminded, &c. 2d pret. I remound? Example: 1918, The Judge (Judge Publishing Company), volume 75, page unknown I find — that is to say, I’ve found — That when one knows “sink, sank and sunken,” He soon is strenuously remound He mustn’t say “blink, blank and blunken.”
Word: remound Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From re- + mound. Pronunciation: /ɹɪˈmaʊnd/ 1. Restore the mound or mounds of (especially, a grave or graves). Example: In some soils, mounds made earlier wash down, thus making it necessary to remound in the fall. Example: [W]omen may continue to remound old gardens for ten years or more. 2. Reform into a mound. Example: Remound koji into oval volcano shape, re-cover tray with lid set slightly ajar, and re-cover incubation box with blankets. Example: Roll a rolling pin 1 to 2 times over the mixture to flatten the butter particles, gather into a mound again, then use the pastry blender to cut until powdery with some oatmeal-shaped flakes throughout; remound. 3. Bolster with a restored mound. Labels: rare Example: Watch for wrinkling on the canes — the first sign of dehydration. If this occurs, recut the canes below the wrinkling, remound the plant, and water well.
Word: tamago Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese 卵 (“egg”) 1. Synonym of tamagoyaki Labels: uncountable
Word: as good as it gets Part of Speech: phrase 1. The best available under the circumstances.
Word: hocketing Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From hocket + -ing. 1. The practice of employing hocket in medieval compositions. Example: Hocketing was widely used in medieval music, and Professor Sander's article provides a convenient survey of those uses. 2. The act of moving through or navigating a hocket. Labels: rare
Word: southern beech Part of Speech: noun 1. Any of several trees or shrubs of the genus Nothofagus native to South America and Australasia.
Word: Irtysh Part of Speech: name Etymology: From Russian Иртыш (Irtyš), possibly from Bashkir. Pronunciation: /ˈɪə(ɹ)tɪʃ/ 1. A major river in Siberia, Russia and Kazakhstan. Example: The O-erh-ch'i-ssu River begins in the southern section of the lofty A-erh-t'ai Mountains of Sinkiang. This river is over 2,900 kilometers long and has a large delta area rich in minerals such as gold, iron, copper, lead, zinc, mercury, mica, crystal and "ping-chou-shih" [3056 3166 4258 possibly cryolite]. At the source of the O-erh-ch'i-ssu River, the A-erh-t'ai Mountains reach more than 3,000 meters above sea level. The peaks of the mountains are covered with snow year-round, and rainfall is heavy in the summer. Example: While stabilized and semistabilized sand dunes prevail in the desert in the Dzungarian Basin, shifting dunes are the rule in this desert, intermittently distributed along both the south and north banks of the O-erh-ch'i-szu Ho [translating 額爾齊斯河 /额尔齐斯河 (É'ěrqísī)] in the northwestern part of the basin. Lying under these dunes are the sloping diluvial terraces and undulating slopes of the mountain bases. Due to its high elevation and its being situated in the river valley between the Sa-wu-erh and A-erh-t'ai mountain ranges, gale force wind penetrates the region in winter and little snow is accumulated.
Word: appeal to authority Part of Speech: noun 1. Deeming an assertion to be true because of the position or the authority of the person asserting it. Labels: rhetoric
Word: beggar's-lice Part of Speech: noun 1. Any of various plants, including Galium aparine and (US) Hackelia virginiana, which stick to clothing. Labels: plural, plural-only Example: I had gotten beggar lice and twigs and stuff all over me, inside my clothes and shoes and all, and then I happened to look around and I had my hand right on a bunch of poison oak..
Word: instop Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From in- + stop. 1. To stop; close; shut; make fast. Labels: transitive
Word: instrew Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English *instrewen, instrien, equivalent to in- + strew. 1. To strew about; scatter in or upon; spread. Labels: transitive Example: Tubercles and granulations with numerous instrewn giant cells of tuberculous appearance together with necrosis 5 In May 1921 glands on the neck were observed which afterwards increased in size, together with a red swelling on the breast, [...]
Word: blunt instrument Part of Speech: noun 1. An object lacking sharp surfaces, especially as used to cause injury. Labels: literally Example: One deep wound had been inflicted upon the temple, apparently with some blunt instrument, which had penetrated the brain. Example: It had been struck by some heavy blunt instrument, but the skull was not broken. 2. A thing, person, method, or resource which is not sufficiently precise or not sufficiently effective for its intended role or use. Labels: figuratively Example: The analyst is in a sense a blunt instrument, but he can work as somebody who cares, and I think a good analyst makes the patient feel that he has value. Example: The law is a woefully blunt instrument when it comes to domestic violence of all kinds.
Word: lead astray Part of Speech: verb 1. To cause (someone) to believe an untruth. Labels: transitive 2. To misguide or misdirect. Labels: transitive Example: To previous resentment of the wide acceptance socially of [George] Hudson was added the venom of those whose cupidity had led them astray. 3. To influence (someone) to have bad habits or to behave improperly or illegally. Labels: transitive
Word: store up Part of Speech: verb 1. To build up a supply of (something), usually for use at a particular time in the future, when the time is right. Labels: transitive Example: They should store up an untold wealth of heroic sentiment; they should acquire the habit of carrying a literary quality in their conversation; they should carry a heart full of the fresh and delightful associations and memories connected with poetry hours to brighten mature years.
Word: bank up Part of Speech: verb 1. To press a mound of something against something else. 2. To make a mound to guard against something. 3. To bank (form a bank; gather in masses). Labels: intransitive Example: Next, heavy soft clouds, banking up till the sky becomes overcast, are recorded, easily recognised by their lowering appearance, due to the dampness of the air, which also causes them to reflect the glare of large fires or the lights of cities[…] Example: Then turning: "There'll be more rain," he said, "you can see the clouds banking up to the North-West, larger than these."
Word: mother language Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English modir langage, equivalent to mother + language. 1. Synonym of mother tongue. Example: Yet neuertheleſſe, the rudenes of common and mother tonges, is no bar foꝛ wiſe ſpeaking. Foꝛ in the rudeſt contrie, and moſt barbarous mother language, many be found can ſpeake verie wiſelie: but in the Gréeke and latin tong, the two onelie learned tonges, which be kept, not in common taulke, but in pꝛiuate bookes, we finde alwayes, wiſdome and eloquence, good matter and good vtterance, neuer oꝛ ſeldom a ſonder.
Word: plaidoyer Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from French plaidoyer. Pronunciation: /pleɪdwaˈjeɪ/ 1. An act of pleading; a plea. Example: In this plaidoyer for culture, I will argue that cultural differences are reflected in language in profound ways […]
Word: plaidoyers Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of plaidoyer Labels: form-of, plural
Word: mother languages Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of mother language Labels: form-of, plural
Word: lotted Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From lot + -ed. 1. simple past and past participle of lot Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: lotted Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From lot + -ed. 1. Apportioned or decided by lot; allotted.
Word: Sputnik moment Part of Speech: noun Etymology: A reference to the Soviet Union's launch of the first Earth-orbiting artificial satellite Sputnik 1 in 1957 which caught the US unprepared. The event ignited the Space Race during the Cold War, and led to the US successfully launching Explorer 1 into space in 1958. Pronunciation: /ˈspʊtnɪk ˈməʊmənt/, /ˈspʌtnɪk ˈməʊmənt/, /ˈspʊtnɪk ˈmoʊmənt/, /ˈspʌtnɪk ˈmoʊmənt/ 1. The moment when a country or a society realizes that it needs to catch up with apparent technological and scientific developments made by some other country or countries by increasing its investment into education, innovative research and development, etc. Example: Immediately after September 11, 2001, Americans found themselves again facing a Sputnik moment. They realized that they were caught flat-footed, unprepared to confront Al Qaeda terrorists. Example: Americans are having another Sputnik moment: one of those periodic alarms about some foreign technological and economic menace. It was the Soviets in the 1950s and early 1960s, the Germans and the Japanese in the 1970s and 1980s, and now it's the Chinese and the Indians
Word: street artist Part of Speech: noun 1. Someone who produces art in public spaces; someone who engages in street art.
Word: pay TV Part of Speech: noun 1. A system whereby viewers pay to subscribe to specific broadcast television channels or programme typically used in cable television services Labels: uncountable
Word: pay television Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of pay TV. Labels: alt-of, alternative, uncountable
Word: latahs Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of latah Labels: form-of, plural
Word: recompensings Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of recompensing Labels: form-of, plural
Word: ramp ceremony Part of Speech: noun 1. A memorial service for a fallen soldier, held at the airport prior to the departure of the aircraft carrying the deceased person's body, or for the arrival of the same aircraft at the deceased's home base.
Word: rock faces Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of rock face Labels: form-of, plural
Word: speak volumes Part of Speech: verb 1. To talk a great deal. Example: I can speak volumes about this school. 2. To convey significant information beyond what is explicit, especially unintentionally. Example: In our day-to-day experiences, it is often such nonverbal emotional information carried by the human voice that “speaks volumes.” 3. To convey significant information. Example: The way you listen speaks volumes. Example: The lighted decorated Christmas tree, a treat for all, speaks volumes of meaning.
Word: kreeses Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of krees Labels: form-of, plural 2. plural of kreese Labels: form-of, plural
Word: kreeses Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of kreese Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: reenvision Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From re- + envision. 1. To envision again or anew. Labels: transitive
Word: reenvisions Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of reenvision Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: reenvisioning Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of reenvision Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: reenvisioning Part of Speech: noun 1. An envisioning anew.
Word: reenvisioned Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of reenvision Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: isognomonid Part of Speech: noun 1. Any of the family Isognomonidae (a synonym of the Pteriidae) of marine bivalve mollusks, related to the pearl oysters.
Word: isognomonids Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of isognomonid Labels: form-of, plural
Word: resculpture Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From re- + sculpture. 1. To sculpture again or into a new form. Labels: transitive
Word: resculptures Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of resculpture Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: resculpturing Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of resculpture Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: resculptured Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of resculpture Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: treestand Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From tree + stand. 1. An open or enclosed platform secured to trees to provide a vantage point for hunters. Example: "If you're in a treestand, you need to think specifically about what kind of tree you're hunting from, so you can match the camo correctly," said Burch, a 30-year-old iron worker, who grew up hunting the Missouri woods near the town of Montrose, where he now lives.
Word: treestands Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of treestand Labels: form-of, plural
Word: tree stand Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of treestand. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: ABC book Part of Speech: noun 1. A book that teaches the alphabet.
Word: antifundamentalist Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From anti- + fundamentalist. 1. One who opposes fundamentalism. Example: His association with America, where he has spent most of the past 20 years, is becoming a burden: his Muslim opponent, Abubakar Godana Harugura, has not shied away from asserting his Islamic identity, and Lekuton has found himself backing into the political role of a so-called antifundamentalist.
Word: antifundamentalists Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of antifundamentalist Labels: form-of, plural
Word: antifundamentalism Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From anti- + fundamentalism. 1. Opposition to fundamentalism. Labels: uncountable
Word: cyberprivacy Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From cyber- + privacy. 1. Privacy in cyberspace. Labels: uncountable Example: The extent to which a sender can ascertain that the recipient(s) have received a message as sent has become increasingly significant in cyberspace and has generated some of the most heated debate and litigation in the realm of cyber-privacy... While interpersonal cyber-privacy is uncertain, so is the private use of some materials and data. Concern over secure transactions over the Internet have surfaced... Example: Berkowitz used the phrase "cyber privacy" to discuss the potential threats posed by cyber surveillance methods to personal privacy.
Word: demeaningly Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From demeaning + -ly. 1. In a demeaning manner. Example: Mr. Chase's obsessive control over every aspect of The Sopranos elevated it to what many saw as art, even as he grumbled throughout the show's run about being confined to what he considered a demeaningly commercial medium.
Word: destratification Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From de- + stratification. 1. The removal of stratified layers Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: destratifications Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of destratification Labels: form-of, plural
Word: foodshed Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From food + shed, modelled on watershed. 1. The region that produces the food for a particular population.
Word: foodsheds Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of foodshed Labels: form-of, plural
Word: toothcombing Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From toothcomb + -ing. 1. Of an analysis, a search, etc.: very thorough; detailed. Example: Gladstone's toothcombing analysis of what the poems said and—sometimes even more importantly—what they did not say thus led him to remarkable discoveries about the cultural world of the ancient Greeks.
Word: toothcombing Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From toothcomb + -ing. 1. present participle and gerund of toothcomb Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: toothcombing Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From toothcomb + -ing. 1. gerund of toothcomb: a thorough search. Labels: form-of, gerund
Word: liftover Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From lift + over. 1. The distance an item must be lifted in order to load it into a vehicle. Example: A poorly finished trunk has an awkwardly high liftover and no useful handhold on its lid.
Word: liftovers Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of liftover Labels: form-of, plural
Word: mallification Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From mall + -ification. 1. Transformation into a shopping mall. Example: This is the old Fulton Street Mall in twilight, a chaotic throwback to the era before the sanitization and, yes, mallification of New York City's retail districts.
Word: mingei Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Japanese 民衆的な工芸, “hand-crafted art of ordinary people”. 1. A Japanese folk art movement focusing on inexpensive hand-made everyday items. Labels: uncountable Example: He studied industrial ceramics at the Tokyo Institute of Technology, inspired by a visit to the Japan Folk Crafts Museum in 1938, where he encountered mingei philosophy, and its objects, for the first time.
Word: neurogeography Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From neuro- + geography. 1. The mapping of the structure of the nervous system. Labels: rare, uncountable Example: Perhaps it's neurogeography: an attempt to reveal not the collective mind of the nation but its nervous system.
Word: overpursue Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From over- + pursue. 1. To pursue too far. Labels: transitive Example: Sometimes running to the football, you're going to overpursue, and he may break it all the way out back out the back door.
Word: overpursued Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of overpursue Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: overpursues Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of overpursue Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: overpursuing Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of overpursue Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: mousselike Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From mousse + -like. 1. Resembling or characteristic of mousse, especially in consistency. Example: Attributed to Carême, the well-known 19th-century chef, mousselike charlottes were held together with gelatin and often set in molds lined with ladyfingers.
Word: overworn Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From over- + worn. 1. worn out Example: Analogies can be overworn, but playing Ratchet is actually like playing an animated film, and that's a rare thing.
Word: playscapes Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of playscape Labels: form-of, plural
Word: restratification Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From re- + stratification. 1. The formation of new strata or layers. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: This suggests that as much as the premium outlet concept is about destratification, it's also about restratification.
Word: restratifications Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of restratification Labels: form-of, plural
Word: underfleshed Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From under- + fleshed. 1. Lacking flesh or substance; skinny or scanty. Example: His lines are jazzy and improvisational, as though he is trying to figure himself out on the page, and the poems themselves are skinny and underfleshed; one in this new collection is called Poem on Toilet Paper, but they all look as though they were written that way.
Word: minisummit Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From mini- + summit. 1. A small summit or meeting. Example: We walked over to Sharpton and held a brief minisummit on the state of the Knicks.
Word: minisummits Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of minisummit Labels: form-of, plural
Word: semilegal Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From semi- + legal. Piecewise doublet of semiloyal. 1. Of partial or questionable legality. Labels: not-comparable Example: "Landlords are buying these buildings knowing that they can use illegal and semilegal means to push out the low-paying tenants," said Mr. Dulchin, whose group supports the bill backed by Ms. Quinn.
Word: sparrow grass Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of sparrowgrass. Labels: alt-of, alternative, uncountable
Word: sparrow-grass Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of sparrowgrass. Labels: alt-of, alternative, uncountable
Word: aversives Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of aversive Labels: form-of, plural
Word: blechy Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From blech + -y. 1. Disgusting. Labels: slang Example: I'm there for action and adventure, with a bit of sexual tension on the side (playful sexual tension. Xena and Gabrielle's sexual tension was *So* not playful at the end there, very forced and just blechy.) Example: In nature, as the saying has it, it's not whether you win or lose, it's whether you win — and animals will do or ingest the most outrageous, dangerous, blechy things in their quest for victory.
Word: guapote Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Spanish guapote. 1. Parachromis managuensis, a cichlid fish native to Nicaragua. Example: I had caught wild trout in the mountains, small snook in the surf, even a rainbow-colored guapote in a city park pond in the country's capital, San José.
Word: guapotes Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of guapote Labels: form-of, plural
Word: leukoreduced Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From leuko- + reduced. 1. Having had leukocytes removed. Labels: not-comparable Example: Dr. Neil Blumberg, a co-author of the study and a professor of laboratory medicine at the University of Rochester, said patients should insist on leukoreduced blood if they needed transfusions.
Word: leukoreduction Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From leuko- + reduction. 1. The removal of white blood cells (or leukocytes) from the blood. Labels: uncountable
Word: nonleukoreduced Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From non- + leukoreduced. 1. Not leukoreduced. Labels: not-comparable Example: Background information in the article said it was well known that transfusion, especially of nonleukoreduced blood, the type in which white blood cells are not removed, alters immune system functioning, increasing the infection risk.
Word: goody gumdrops Part of Speech: intj 1. A cry of delight on hearing good news. Labels: childish 2. Expressing disdain or disinterest. Labels: sarcastic Example: Goody gumdrops, I get to take the trash out!
Word: scattery Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From scatter + -y. 1. Tending to scatter or be scattered; loose, ragtag. Example: For one thing, the speakers are writers, their subject literature, and art is proverbially long, and life short and scattery.
Word: summational Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From summation + -al. 1. Of or pertaining to summation. Labels: not-comparable
Word: underhaired Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From under- + haired. 1. Lacking hair; balding. Example: Or, to put it another way, Ronald Fergus, middle aged, overweight, underhaired and slightly lacking in the marbles department, was in his kitchen chatting. Example: And I advised the underhaired Tony Kornheiser that as the real star of Monday Night, he had to impose his prolix potency on his partners.
Word: wheely Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From wheel + -y. Pronunciation: /ˈ(h)wiːli/, /ˈ(h)wili/ 1. Circular; suitable to rotation. Labels: informal 2. Having wheels; mounted on wheels; wheeled. Labels: informal Example: wheely bag wheely basket wheely bin wheely cart wheely chair Example: He sat in a wheely chair just inside the door, spinning one way and the other, lifting up his knees to spin faster. 3. Having characteristics of a wheel. Labels: informal
Word: wheely Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From wheel + -y. Pronunciation: /ˈ(h)wiːli/, /ˈ(h)wili/ 1. Alternative spelling of wheelie. Labels: alt-of, alternative Example: I learned how to let the clutch out slo-ow-ly so my tractor wouldn't pop a wheely and go hauling over backward.
Word: Eyre Part of Speech: name 1. A surname. Labels: countable, uncountable 2. A former township in the municipality of Dysart et al, Haliburton County, Ontario, Canada. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: antivibration Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From anti- + vibration. 1. Countering or preventing vibration. Labels: not-comparable Example: The antivibration systems now mean that hand-held close-up photos can be taken at very slow speeds without blurring.
Word: craftsy Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From crafts + -y. 1. Suggesting traditional handicraft. Labels: informal Example: Small custom shop in So NH sks exp F-T cabinetmaker. Work in hard & soft woods, veneers, & formica. Rough carpenters & craftsy romantics need not apply. Example: This look — contemporary spaces peppered with antiques and craftsy pieces, bespoke furnishings that tweak traditional forms with unusual materials — has filtered into the mainstream consciousness, thanks largely to TV makeover programs, magazines and blogs.
Word: semiclad Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From semi- + clad. 1. Partly clothed. Labels: not-comparable Example: Yet the Midway also allowed American men to play at being masculine barbarians themselves, savoring the visual pleasures of semiclad exotic dancers while simultaneously and inconsistently relishing their sense of superior, civilized, white manliness.
Word: learnedness Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From learned + -ness. 1. The quality of being learned. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Born in 1717, the son of a cobbler, Carmontelle insinuated himself into French society through his learnedness and charisma, traits that were in high demand in a culture rife with ignored wives and ennui.
Word: miniprinter Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From mini- + printer. 1. A small, compact computer printer. Example: Many of Centronics' problems can be traced to its line of miniprinters. Example: For those who are still creating paper trails in the digital age, a new miniprinter might help.
Word: miniprinters Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of miniprinter Labels: form-of, plural
Word: nelumbo Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From the genus name. 1. Any of the genus Nelumbo of aquatic plants with large, showy flowers resembling water lilies, the lotuses. Example: Although almost all nelumbos are rated hardy to zone 5, or according to some optimists, zone 4, that rating assumes enough water and soil to protect the tubers from freezing.
Word: nelumbos Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of nelumbo Labels: form-of, plural
Word: preattack Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From pre- + attack. 1. Before an attack. Labels: not-comparable Example: White House complaints that homeland defense would be threatened are, in fact, contradicted by the history of 9/11 and the F.B.I. field agent whose preattack warnings to superiors went unheeded. Example: In contrast to cyberprotection, cyberresilience anticipates that a cyberattack will succeed. It has in place methods for rapid detection, cushioning the effects and quickly restoring systems to their pre-attack state.
Word: ambe Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Ancient Greek ἄμβη (ámbē, “raised edge”), Ionic form of ἄμβων (ámbōn, “crest, edge”). 1. An old mechanical contrivance, ascribed to Hippocrates, for reducing dislocations of the shoulder. Labels: historical
Word: scriptwriting Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From script + writing. 1. The writing of scripts, usually for film or television. Labels: uncountable Example: Written by Mr. Sippy's favorite scriptwriting team, Salim Khan and Javed Akhtar, Sholay was loosely styled on The Seven Samurai and The Magnificent Seven, and has been called India's first curry western. Example: Weeks of editing were combined with scriptwriting and studious fact-checking.
Word: zoogoer Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From zoo + goer. 1. A visitor to a zoo. Example: Still, in the New York area, plenty of zoogoers seemed unperturbed by the dreadful and extremely unusual episode.
Word: zoogoers Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of zoogoer Labels: form-of, plural
Word: ladened Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of laden Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: ladened Part of Speech: adj 1. laden; loaded Labels: dialectal, not-comparable, obsolete
Word: multiride Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From multi- + ride. 1. Valid for, or pertaining to, more than one ride on transportation. Labels: not-comparable Example: The Metropolitan Transportation Authority will raise fares on its bridges and tunnels in New York City, and while the base fare on city subways and buses will remain $2, MetroCard users will pay more for multiride tickets and see their discounts shrink.
Word: pockmarking Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of pockmark Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present Example: Save for a rusty, seatless swing set, the Brinket-Hibbard Playlot resembles many vacant lots pockmarking Detroit's hardscrabble east side.
Word: playlot Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From play + lot. 1. A plot of ground allocated for children's recreation; a playground. Labels: US
Word: playlots Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of playlot Labels: form-of, plural
Word: CAPS Part of Speech: noun 1. Initialism of N-cyclohexyl-3-aminopropanesulfonic acid. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism, uncountable 2. Acronym of catastrophic antiphospholipid syndrome Labels: abbreviation, acronym, alt-of, uncountable
Word: recessionlike Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From recession + -like. 1. Resembling or characteristic of a financial recession. Example: That's because even optimistic growth forecasts — about 1.5 percent for this quarter and next — are too tepid to counter recessionlike conditions in which job growth slows, unemployment rises and paychecks shrink or disappear.
Word: showbands Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of showband Labels: form-of, plural
Word: archmodernist Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From arch- + modernist. 1. A leading modernist. Example: Thomas Mann was an archmodernist, and this was his favorite story:
Word: archmodernists Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of archmodernist Labels: form-of, plural
Word: celebrityhood Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From celebrity + -hood. 1. The role or status of a celebrity. Labels: uncountable Example: For the first time ever, foodies achieved the celebrityhood of rock stars and movie stars.
Word: counterculturalist Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *ḱe? Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm Proto-Italic *kom Proto-Italic *kom- Proto-Indo-European *-teros Proto-Italic *-teros Proto-Italic *komterosder. Proto-Italic *komterād Latin contrāder. Old French contre- Anglo-Norman countre-bor. Middle English counter- English counter- Proto-Indo-European *kʷelh₁- Proto-Indo-European *-eti Proto-Indo-European *kʷélh₁eti Proto-Italic *kʷelō Latin colō Proto-Indo-European *-tew-? Proto-Indo-European *-r-eh₂? Latin -tūra Latin cultūrader. Middle French cultureder. English culture English counterculture English -al English countercultural Proto-Indo-European *-id- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō) Proto-Hellenic *-tās Ancient Greek -τής (-tḗs) Ancient Greek -ῐστής (-ĭstḗs)bor. Latin -istader. Old French -istebor. Middle English -ist English -ist English counterculturalist From countercultural + -ist. 1. One who engages in counterculture. 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. Example: The Hesses were an odd pair of counterculturalists.
Word: counterculturalists Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of counterculturalist Labels: form-of, plural
Word: ironizing Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of ironize Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: ironizes Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of ironize Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: ironized Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of ironize Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: missilelike Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From missile + -like. 1. Resembling or characteristic of a missile. Example: Frozen on the distant movie screen is an airplane that points, missilelike, toward the passing train.
Word: outreport Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From out- + report. 1. To surpass in reporting. Labels: transitive Example: For the next three decades, she wrote for wire services from Cambodia, Sri Lanka, Afghanistan, Indonesia, Korea, Hong Kong, the Philippines and India, living outside the usual expat neighborhoods, learning the languages, outreporting many of her younger colleagues and using her own modest income to supplement the salaries of in-country wire-service staff.
Word: outreporting Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of outreport Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: outreported Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of outreport Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: segregationism Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From segregation + -ism. 1. A belief in (usually racial) segregation. Labels: uncountable Example: Mr. Rollins, for his part, traced Mr. Huckabee's political lineage back to George Wallace in 1968 (without the segregationism). Mr. Wallace and, later, Pat Buchanan and Ross Perot appealed to the same blocs of working-class voters and socially conservative white Southerners that the Republican Party began trying to court in Senator Barry Goldwater's 1964 campaign.
Word: truckish Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From truck + -ish. 1. Resembling or characteristic of a truck. Labels: informal Example: We may look back on 2007 as the year public opinion shifted toward greener cars and trucks, a result of heightened concern about climate change and oil imports, coupled with high gas prices and a shift away from truckish S.U.V.s. Interestingly, though, this wasn't a year when a lot of notable green cars came to market.
Word: forgottens Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of forgotten Labels: form-of, plural
Word: rescrambles Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of rescramble Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: rescrambling Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of rescramble Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: rescrambled Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of rescramble Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: bioprospector Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From bio- + prospector. 1. One who engages in bioprospecting. Example: So-called bioprospectors can make their fortunes by bringing those advantages to the attention of companies who identify the plant’s active compound and use it as a base ingredient for new products that they patent.
Word: bioprospectors Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of bioprospector Labels: form-of, plural
Word: counterthought Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *ḱe? Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm Proto-Italic *kom Proto-Italic *kom- Proto-Indo-European *-teros Proto-Italic *-teros Proto-Italic *komterosder. Proto-Italic *komterād Latin contrāder. Old French contre- Anglo-Norman countre-bor. Middle English counter- English counter- Proto-Indo-European *teng-der. Proto-Germanic *þankijaną Proto-Germanic *þanhtaz Proto-West Germanic *þą̄ht Old English þōht Middle English thought English thought English counterthought From counter- + thought. 1. A thought that counters or opposes another thought. Example: His thoughts and their counterthoughts are bent and curled, snail-like, inside the whorls of fiction.
Word: counterthoughts Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of counterthought Labels: form-of, plural
Word: counterphilosophy Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From counter- + philosophy. 1. A philosophy that counters or opposes another philosophy. Example: Espinas, in his rebellion against one philosophy, constructed a counterphilosophy as much as a social science. In doing so, he remained involved with academic philosophy more than he would ever admit.
Word: counterphilosophies Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of counterphilosophy Labels: form-of, plural
Word: myopericarditis Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From myo- + pericarditis. 1. A combination of myocarditis and pericarditis. Labels: uncountable Example: Though surprised, I quickly explained that the problem was probably myopericarditis, where inflammation of the surrounding membrane can partially involve the heart muscle.
Word: noncaptive Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From non- + captive. 1. Not captive. Labels: not-comparable Example: Jaguars may not yet be in such desperate shape as Asian tigers, whose noncaptive breeding population has plummeted below 2,500, or African lions, of which there are perhaps only 20,000 to 30,000 left in the wild.
Word: honey badger Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From their badger-like appearance and their liking for honey. The slang sense was inspired by the 2011 viral video The Crazy Nastyass Honey Badger, for which original narration (including variations of "honey badger don't care") was dubbed over preexisting footage of a honey badger fending off various dangerous situations. 1. Any of species Mellivora capensis of badger-like mustelids native to Africa, the Middle East and the Indian subcontinent. Example: Not only is the honey badger fond of hunting and eating venomous snakes and stealing honey from angry bees, it is also disregarding of animals many times its own size. Lions and leopards have been known to kill and eat honey badgers, but on the whole, they will give them a wide berth. Example: There are in fact records of Honey badgers being stung to death in their quest for this much-relished source of food. Reptiles are also a major food source. Venomous snakes are neither ignored nor respected by the honey badger. 2. A person who displays indifference or disregard for others' opinions. Labels: figuratively, slang Example: For years, Bitcoin has been called "the honey badger of money," and "antifragile." The "Bitcoin don't care" meme is perhaps most applicable of all right now. Bitcoin simply doesn't care what China does, or what bank CEOs say, or what central bankers think. The only thing Bitcoin cares about, apparently, is increasing in price and adoption. Example: The documentarian told the New York Times' Frank Bruni last month he made the movie because he "wanted to contribute something to the political debate ongoing." He said Bannon was willing to cooperate because he is a honey badger, and "honey badgers don't care," referring to the viral meme.
Word: presexuality Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From pre- + sexual + -ity. 1. The quality of being presexual. Labels: uncountable Example: Stan Laurel, who as a young comic was much influenced by Langdon (and later collaborated with him as a writer), was able to instill an endearing sense of presexuality in the character he created in his teamwork with Oliver Hardy.
Word: untrammel Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From un- + trammel. 1. To free or release from obstacles or hindrances. Labels: transitive
Word: untrammels Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of untrammel Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: untrammelling Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of untrammel Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: untrammeling Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of untrammel Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: wettable Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From wet + -able. 1. Capable of being wetted. Example: But in other species, including Nepenthes rafflesiana, the one studied by Dr. Federle in northern Borneo, the outer part of the lip is covered in tiny ridges that make it extremely wettable.
Word: guitaristic Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From guitar + -istic. 1. Of or pertaining to the guitar or the way it is played. Example: Rossini’s themes remain resolutely Italianate, for the most part, but every now and then a decidedly guitaristic effect offered a reminder that the work takes place in Seville.
Word: payloader Part of Speech: noun 1. A front-end loader. Example: He was behind the wheel of a 9-ton payloader ferrying job debris.
Word: payloaders Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of payloader Labels: form-of, plural
Word: queenish Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From queen + -ish. Piecewise doublet of queanish. 1. Like a queen; regal. Example: “These clothes give a queenish posture because they are long, have a lot of textile and are traditional,” she said at her home in northern Tehran. 2. Like a drag queen.
Word: heliconia Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Learned borrowing from taxonomic name Heliconia. Pronunciation: /ˌhɛlɪˈkəʊ.ni.ə/, /ˌhɛlɪˈkoʊ.ni.ə/ 1. Any of the genus Heliconia of flowering plants. Example: Royal palms flank a long rectangular pool, a great fallen tree forms a bridge across the water, and heliconias bloom among the elephant ears and banana shrubs.
Word: heliconias Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of heliconia Labels: form-of, plural
Word: hypersaturated Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From hyper- + saturated. 1. Extremely saturated. Example: The hypersaturated media and political attention we take for granted today depends on a system of communication that is fast, reliable and far-reaching.
Word: lachenalia Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From the genus name. 1. Any of the genus Lachenalia of bulbs. Example: “I have 60 different lachenalias, 10 different freesias, 25 moraeas,” Mr. Canning said, naming a few of his beauties, which, mixed in with big pots of camellias, will bloom from now through March.
Word: lachenalias Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of lachenalia Labels: form-of, plural
Word: lithops Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From the genus name, translingual Lithops. 1. Any of the genus Lithops of succulent plants resembling stones. Example: Lithops are self-sterile, so that seed will only be produced if the plant is pollinated from another specimen from a different clone or group. Yellow flowers will not fertilize white and vice-versa. There is not the same range of flower colour as shown by the conophytums; lithops’ flowers are either white or yellow. Example: And the succulents house, which is kept a cool 60 degrees during the day and 50 to 55 degrees at night, holds aloes and lithops (which look like small stones), just beginning to bloom.
Word: corkwoods Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of corkwood Labels: form-of, plural
Word: midranges Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of midrange Labels: form-of, plural
Word: overrested Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From over- + rested. 1. Having had too much rest and too little activity. Example: “I feel overrested, in a sense,” Garcia said Wednesday during a conference call.
Word: picaresques Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of picaresque Labels: form-of, plural
Word: villalike Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From villa + -like. 1. Resembling or characteristic of a villa. Example: An eclectic art collector, traveler and gardener, she had started the tradition of planting cascading nasturtiums over the central court shortly after building the villalike museum, which opened to the public in 1903.
Word: deterritorializations Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of deterritorialization Labels: form-of, plural
Word: X-Verse Part of Speech: name Etymology: From X + -verse. 1. The fictional world, or universe, which serves as the setting for the Marvel Comics and film series featuring the characters the X-Men. Labels: slang Example: First and most common is the charge that numerous characters in Heroes have powers of preexisting comic book characters, especially from the X-Men.[…]Even Isaac Mendez's power to paint the future predates him in a character from the X-verse—Nemesio from District X.
Word: centerstage Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From center + stage. 1. Alternative form of center stage. Labels: alt-of, alternative, uncountable Example: For this scene, four horses pulling two full-size chariots were led onto a massive treadmill at centerstage.
Word: deckhouse Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From deck + house. 1. A cabin that protrudes above a ship's deck. Example: Flinging himself on hands and knees he dragged the girl down with him. As he did so two of her companions came sliding down to their assistance, and the four glissaded back to the deckhouse as the following roll began. Example: Then, through his web of contacts, he was told that the Nightingale’s original deckhouse was being used as a cottage on a private island outside of Kragero, Norway, a shipbuilding port.
Word: deckhouses Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of deckhouse Labels: form-of, plural