nandhakumarms/qualc-wiktionary-en huggingface dataset:
Word: nutritional Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From nutrition + -al. Pronunciation: /njuːˈtɹɪʃ.ə.nəl/, /nuˈtɹɪʃ.ə.nəl/, /njuˈtɹɪʃ.ə.nəl/, /njʉːˈtɹɪʃ.ə.nəl/ 1. Of, pertaining to, or providing nutrition. Example: Maroney said she’s also interested in learning about the complete nutritional makeup of the two Lunchable products to determine if they fully meet the current and proposed NSLP nutritional guidelines.
Word: Chazal Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Hebrew חז״ל (khazál), which is an acronym for חכמינו זיכרונם לברכה (khakhaméinu zikhronám livrakhá, “our sages, of blessed memory”). 1. The sages from the time of the Second Temple and afterward, through the sixth century C.E. Labels: Judaism, plural, plural-only
Word: Chazal Part of Speech: name Etymology: Borrowed from French Chazal. 1. A surname from French.
Word: intermittent Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle French intermittent, from Latin intermittens (“sending between”), from prefix inter- (“among, on”) + mittens (“sending”), from mittere (“to send”). Pronunciation: /ˌɪntəˈmɪtn̩t/, /ˌɪntɚˈmɪtn̩t/ 1. Stopping and starting, occurring, or presenting at intervals; coming after a particular time span. Example: The day was cloudy with intermittent rain. Example: Intermittent bugs are most difficult to reproduce. 2. Existing only for certain seasons; that is, being dry for part of the year. Labels: specifically Example: The area has many intermittent lakes and streams.
Word: intermittent Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle French intermittent, from Latin intermittens (“sending between”), from prefix inter- (“among, on”) + mittens (“sending”), from mittere (“to send”). Pronunciation: /ˌɪntəˈmɪtn̩t/, /ˌɪntɚˈmɪtn̩t/ 1. An intermittent fever or disease. Labels: dated Example: Feuers, and especially those that are called intermittents, discontinuing agues, euen naturally at the beginning and their first inuasion, cause vomits: and at the declining, sweats. Example: The Bark, which had been ineffectual in the Intermittents of the former Year, was successful in this.
Word: intermittently Part of Speech: adv Etymology: Etymology tree English intermittent Middle English -ly English -ly English intermittently From intermittent + -ly. Pronunciation: /ɪn.tərˈmɪt.ənt.lɪ/ 1. Stopping or starting at intervals. Labels: not-comparable Example: The Hariri-Aoun agreement has shown that Hezbollah can bring the national political system to a halt. This happened in the past several years, and it worsened conditions in sectors such as foreign debt, electricity output, rubbish collection, water delivery, and other essential services, to the discomfort of the majority of Lebanese who have spoken out intermittently against the oligarchy of sectarian leaders who rule the country.
Word: out of the woods Part of Speech: prep_phrase 1. Out of peril; likely to recover or prevail over trouble; finished with the worst or most threatening part of a problem or illness. Labels: idiomatic Example: The patient is feeling a little better, but she's not out of the woods yet. Example: The Slovakian prime minister, Robert Fico, is in a stable condition but “not out of the woods yet”, officials have said, as they appealed for calm after a shooting that laid bare the deep political divisions of recent months. 2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see out of, the, woods.
Word: bloodroot Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From blood + root. 1. A North American plant, Sanguinaria canadensis, of the poppy family, which has a red root and sap and a single white flower in early spring. Labels: uncountable, usually Example: “What on earth did you put in that stuff?” “Bug-bane, barren-wort, penny-cress and blood-root, catchfly, toad-flax, nap-weed and wormwood,” said Catweazle.
Word: caster Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Germanic *kas- Proto-Germanic *kastōną Old Norse kastabor. Middle English casten English cast 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 caster From cast + -er; the wheel sense comes from obsolete cast (“to turn”). Pronunciation: /ˈkɑːstə(ɹ)/, /ˈkæstə(ɹ)/, /ˈkæstɚ/ 1. Someone or something that casts. Example: a caster of spells Example: a caster of stones 2. A wheeled assembly attached to a larger object at its base to facilitate rolling. A caster usually consists of a wheel (which may be plastic, a hard elastomer, or metal), an axle, a mounting provision (usually a stem, flange, or plate), and sometimes a swivel (which allows the caster to rotate for steering). Example: Many office chairs roll on a set of casters. Example: I have my own phone, an electric typewriter and a lovely chair with casters. The floor is carpeted, the lighting is very adequate. 3. A shaker with a perforated top for sprinkling condiments such as sugar, salt, pepper, etc. Example: a set of casters Example: Your waiter having settled that point, returns to array your tablecloth, with a table napkin folded cocked-hat-wise (slowly, for something out of window engages his eye), a white wine-glass, a green wine-glass, a blue finger-glass, a tumbler, and a powerful field battery of fourteen casters with nothing in them; […] 4. A stand to hold a set of shakers or cruets. 5. The angle of the axis around which a car's front wheels rotate when the steering wheel is turned, with a vertical axis being defined as zero caster. Example: In addition, caster helps to reduce steering effort and to return the steering wheel to the center position after a turn.
Word: caster Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Germanic *kas- Proto-Germanic *kastōną Old Norse kastabor. Middle English casten English cast 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 caster From cast + -er; the wheel sense comes from obsolete cast (“to turn”). Pronunciation: /ˈkɑːstə(ɹ)/, /ˈkæstə(ɹ)/, /ˈkæstɚ/ 1. To act as a caster
Word: HDD Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ˈeɪt͡ʃˌdiːˌdiː/ 1. Initialism of hard disk drive. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism 2. Initialism of heating degree day. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
Word: sycamore Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Circa 1350 as Middle English sicamour, from Old French sicamor, from Latin sȳcomorus, from Ancient Greek σῡκόμορος (sūkómoros, literally “fig-mulberry”), from σῦκον (sûkon, “fig”) + μόρον (móron, “mulberry”). Possibly influenced by Hebrew שִׁקְמָה (shikmá, “fig-mulberry”). In the 16th c. applied to the European maple (Acer pseudoplatanus), in the early 19th c. to various plane tree species introduced to North America, perhaps in analogy to their shadiness. Pronunciation: /ˈsɪkəmoɹ/, /ˈsɪkəmɔː/ 1. Any of several North American plane trees, of the genus Platanus, especially Platanus occidentalis (American sycamore), distinguished by its mottled bark which flakes off in large irregular masses. Labels: US, countable, uncountable Example: Stars shining bright above you / Night breezes seem to whisper, I love you / Birds singin' in the sycamore trees Example: On his dark face were white sycamore patches. 2. A large British and European species of maple, Acer pseudoplatanus, known in North America as the sycamore maple. Labels: UK, countable, uncountable Example: The thronged boughs of the shadowy sycamore / Still bear young leaflets half the summer through 3. A large tree bearing edible fruit, Ficus sycomorus, allied to the common fig, found in Egypt and Syria. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: FDD Part of Speech: noun 1. Initialism of floppy disk drive. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism 2. Initialism of feature-driven development. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable 3. Initialism of frequency-division duplex. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable
Word: wrestling Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From late Old English wræstlung. Pronunciation: /ˈɹɛs.l̩.ɪŋ/, /ˈɹɛs.lɪŋ/ 1. A sport where two opponents attempt to subdue each other in bare-handed grappling using techniques of leverage, holding, and pressure points. Labels: countable, uncountable 2. Ellipsis of professional wrestling (“act that emulates the sport of wrestling”). Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, ellipsis, uncountable 3. A wrestling match. Labels: countable, dated Example: […] and the modern reader, who finds that races, boxing-matches, and wrestlings do in truth supply the chief occasions of Pindar's poetry […] 4. The act of one who wrestles; a struggle to achieve something. Labels: countable Example: I'd count not wearisome / Long toil, nor enterprise, / But strain to reach it; aye, with wrestlings stout / And hopes that even in the dark will grow[…]
Word: wrestling Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From late Old English wræstlung. Pronunciation: /ˈɹɛs.l̩.ɪŋ/, /ˈɹɛs.lɪŋ/ 1. present participle and gerund of wrestle Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: vaudeville Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from French vaudeville. Pronunciation: /ˈvɔ.d(ə).vɪl/, /ˈvəʊd.vɪl/, /ˈvɔː.d(ə)ˌvɪl/, /-vəl/ 1. A style of multi-act theatrical entertainment which originated from France and flourished in Europe and North America from the 1880s through the 1920s. Labels: historical, uncountable Example: Mr. Sterling was born in Baltimore on June 24, 1915, to Jack Sexton and Edna Cable, veteran performers in vaudeville, showboats and stock companies. 2. An entertainment in this style. Labels: countable, historical Example: “Me, Myself and I,” directed by Emily Mann and engagingly acted by a cast that includes the invaluable Albee veteran Brian Murray, is in the tradition of Mr. Albee’s mid- and late-career works like “The Marriage Play” and “The Play About the Baby”: fragmented philosophical vaudevilles that turn the most fundamental questions of identity into verbal soft-shoes.
Word: flourish Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English floryschen, from Old French florir (via the arrhizotonic stem floriss-), from Late Latin flōrīre, from Latin flōrēre, from Latin flōrem (“flower”, noun). Corresponds to flower + -ish. Pronunciation: /ˈflʌɹ.ɪʃ/, /ˈflɐɹ.ɪ̟ʃ/, /ˈflɐɹ.ɘʃ/, /ˈflɝ.ɪʃ/, /ˈflʊ̈ɹ.ɪʃ/ 1. To thrive or grow well. Labels: intransitive Example: The barley flourished in the warm weather. Example: 'Twas early June, the new grass was flourishing everywheres, the posies in the yard—peonies and such—in full bloom, the sun was shining, and the water of the bay was blue, with light green streaks where the shoal showed. 2. To prosper or fare well. Labels: intransitive Example: The town flourished with the coming of the railway. Example: The cooperation flourished as the customers rushed in the business. 3. To be in a period of greatest influence. Labels: intransitive Example: His writing flourished before the war. 4. To develop; to make thrive; to expand. Labels: transitive Example: But all that I ſhall ſay in this vvhole Argument, vvill be but like Bottomes of Thred, cloſe vvound vp, vvhich vvith a good Needle (perhaps) may be flouriſhed into large VVorkes. 5. To make bold, sweeping movements with. Labels: transitive Example: They flourished the banner as they stormed the palace. Example: The squirrel flourished its fluffy tail about as an alarm signal after its narrow escape from the cat. 6. To make bold and sweeping, fanciful, or wanton movements, by way of ornament, parade, bravado, etc.; to play with fantastic and irregular motion. Labels: intransitive Example: Impetuous spread the stream, and smoking flourished o'er his head. 7. To use florid language; to indulge in rhetorical figures and lofty expressions. Labels: intransitive Example: They dilate […] and flourish long upon little incidents. 8. To make ornamental strokes with the pen; to write graceful, decorative figures. Labels: intransitive 9. To adorn with beautiful figures or rhetoric; to ornament with anything showy; to embellish. Labels: transitive Example: With shadowy verdure flourish'd high, A sudden youth the groves enjoy. Example: To bring you thus together, 'tis no sin, Sith that the justice of your title to him Doth flourish the deceit. 10. To execute an irregular or fanciful strain of music, by way of ornament or prelude. Labels: intransitive Example: Why do the emperor's trumpets flourish thus? 11. To boast; to vaunt; to brag. Labels: intransitive, obsolete 12. To brandish (a weapon). Labels: archaic, transitive 13. To be known to have been alive at a particular time or in a particular period, where one's birth and death dates are not known; to have been active during a specified period; floruit. Labels: intransitive Example: John Smith (flourished 1425-1432) was...
Word: flourish Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English floryschen, from Old French florir (via the arrhizotonic stem floriss-), from Late Latin flōrīre, from Latin flōrēre, from Latin flōrem (“flower”, noun). Corresponds to flower + -ish. Pronunciation: /ˈflʌɹ.ɪʃ/, /ˈflɐɹ.ɪ̟ʃ/, /ˈflɐɹ.ɘʃ/, /ˈflɝ.ɪʃ/, /ˈflʊ̈ɹ.ɪʃ/ 1. A dramatic gesture such as the waving of a flag. Example: With many flourishes of the captured banner, they marched down the avenue. Example: This is my substitute for pistol and ball. With a philosophical flourish Cato throws himself upon his sword; I quietly take to the ship. 2. An ornamentation. Example: His signature ended with a flourish. Example: [B]revity is the soul of wit, And tediousness the limbs and outward flourishes[.] 3. A ceremonious passage such as a fanfare. Example: The trumpets blew a flourish as they entered the church. Example: [I]f he is a soldier in command, successes will be amplified, and the results of his campaigns announced with a flourish of trumpets. 4. A decorative embellishment on a building.
Word: amend Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English amenden, from Old French amender, from Latin ēmendō (“free from faults”), from ex (“from, out of”) + mendum (“fault”). Compare aphetic mend. Doublet of emend. Pronunciation: /əˈmɛnd/ 1. To make better; improve. Labels: transitive Example: Mud not the fountain that gave drink to thee; Mar not the thing that cannot be amended. Example: We shall cheer her sorrows, and amend her blood, by wedding her to a Norman. 2. To become better. Labels: intransitive Example: The teacher sat at one end of the bench, with a meek little fellow by his side. When the others were disorderly, this young martyr received a rap; intended, probably, as a sample of what the rest might expect, if they didn't amend. 3. To heal (someone sick); to cure (a disease etc.). Labels: obsolete, transitive Example: But Paridell complaynd, that his late fight / With Britomart, so sore did him offend, / That ryde he could not, till his hurts he did amend. Example: he gave her a vomit, and conveyed a serpent, such as she conceived, into the basin; upon the sight of it she was amended. 4. To be healed, to be cured, to recover (from an illness). Labels: intransitive, obsolete Example: Ay, sir; there are a crew of wretched souls That stay his cure: their malady convinces The great assay of art; but at his touch— Such sanctity hath heaven given his hand— They presently amend. 5. To make a formal alteration (in legislation, a report, etc.) by adding, deleting, or rephrasing. Labels: transitive Example: The following motions cannot be amended: Example: 1990, Doug Hoyle, Hansard, Trade Union Act, 1984, Amendment no. 2, 4 July, 1990, It is necessary to amend the Act to preserve the spirit in which it was first passed into law […]
Word: amend Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English amenden, from Old French amender, from Latin ēmendō (“free from faults”), from ex (“from, out of”) + mendum (“fault”). Compare aphetic mend. Doublet of emend. Pronunciation: /əˈmɛnd/ 1. An act of righting a wrong; compensation. Labels: plural-normally Example: Thus by the code of the Visigoths, it was forbidden to all strangers to take their subjects under a penalty of one hundred lashes and an amend in gold. Example: It was her offer of surrender as an amend that, persuading him of her shining honesty, had aroused in him something akin to worship and had made an end of that cynical spirit in which for worldly ends he had aimed at marrying her. 2. Clipping of amendment (“alteration or change for the better”). Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, clipping, informal, plural-normally Example: I've sent over a new version of the doc with some amends.
Word: L10n Part of Speech: noun Etymology: A numeronym representing localization as "L" followed by 10 more letters, followed by "n". 1. Abbreviation of localization. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, uncountable
Word: Afrophobia Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Latin Āfrī Ancient Greek -ο- (-o-)der. Latin -o-bor. English -o- English Afro- Ancient Greek -φοβία (-phobía)der. Latin New Latinbor. English -phobia English Afrophobia From Afro- + -phobia. 1. Fear, hate, or dislike of Africans and African descendants. Labels: uncountable Example: Individuals who suffer from Afrophobia often avoid facing this fear by ignoring Africa, its culture, and its people. Example: 1998 (Mar 30), Christopher Ogden, "Good Will Bill", Time 151 (13) https://web.archive.org/web/20000816215306/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/1998/int/980330/africa.good_will_bill.at20.html The Somalia debacle prompted a fresh bout of Afrophobia in Washington.
Word: Scott Part of Speech: name Pronunciation: /skɒt/ 1. An English ethnic surname transferred from the nickname for someone with Scottish ancestry. Labels: countable Example: Renee Walters and Ashley Scott started the campaign to buy Freedom after Walters saw a viral post about buying a town “for the price of a New York apartment.” 2. A male given name transferred from the surname. Labels: countable Example: Then there’s Billy Long, a former auctioneer and Republican congressman who Trump nominated and was confirmed less than two months ago to head the Internal Revenue Service, with “little background in tax policy beyond promoting a fraud-riddled tax credit”. Long has already been fired after clashing with the treasury secretary, Scott Bessent. Long was the sixth person to head the IRS this year. 3. A placename: Labels: countable, uncountable 4. A placename: Labels: countable, uncountable 5. A placename: Labels: countable, uncountable 6. A placename: Labels: countable, uncountable 7. A placename: Labels: countable, uncountable 8. A placename: Labels: countable, uncountable 9. A placename: Labels: countable, uncountable 10. A placename: Labels: countable, uncountable 11. A placename: Labels: countable, uncountable 12. A placename: Labels: countable, uncountable 13. A placename: Labels: countable, uncountable 14. A placename: Labels: countable, uncountable 15. A placename: Labels: countable, uncountable 16. A placename: Labels: countable, uncountable 17. A placename: Labels: countable, uncountable 18. A placename: Labels: countable, uncountable 19. A placename: Labels: countable, uncountable 20. A placename: Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: Scott Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /skɒt/ 1. The Scott catalogue of postage stamps. Labels: Canada, US
Word: Scott Part of Speech: intj Pronunciation: /skɒt/ 1. Alternative form of great Scott. Labels: alt-of, alternative Example: “Why, I have to find work for the thirty thousand that comes out of the coal, haven't I?” “Scott, what a head! I never thought of that. How are you getting along? Where have you arrived?”
Word: incorrect Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle French incorrect. By surface analysis, in- + correct. Pronunciation: /ˌɪn.kəˈɹɛkt/, /ˌɪn.kəˈɹekt/ 1. Not correct; erroneous or wrong. Example: He gave an incorrect answer to a simple question. 2. Faulty or defective. Example: The computer crashed due to incorrect programming. 3. Inappropriate or improper.
Word: incorrect Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle French incorrect. By surface analysis, in- + correct. Pronunciation: /ˌɪn.kəˈɹɛkt/, /ˌɪn.kəˈɹekt/ 1. An item or response that is incorrect. Example: Having each day's rates of corrects and incorrects written next to the graph also makes it easier for you to check the ... If you also have students count problems incorrect, calling them “not yets,” or “learning opportunities,” or ...
Word: Francis Part of Speech: name Etymology: Borrowed from Medieval Latin Franciscus (“French(man)”) (from Francia (“France”)). Doublet of Francisco and Franz. Pronunciation: /ˈfɹɑːnsɪs/, [ˈfɹʷɑːnsɪs], /ˈfɹɐːnsɪs/, [ˈfɹʷɐːnsɪs], /ˈfɹæːnsɪs/ 1. A male given name from Latin. Example: Francis is one of the pleasantest names in use. It has a fine open air with it, - a sound correspondent to its sense. Example: Francis had never been 'Frank' or 'Fran', he had always been called by his full name. It had lent him a certain dignity that he had possibly never earned. 2. A female given name from Latin, alternative spelling of Frances. Labels: rare 3. A surname originating as a patronymic. 4. A placename 5. A placename 6. A placename 7. A placename 8. A placename 9. A placename
Word: erroneous Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From late Middle English erroneous, from Middle French erroneux, from Latin erroneus. Pronunciation: /ɪˈɹəʊni.əs/, /ɛˈɹəʊni.əs/, /ɛˈɹoʊ.ni.əs/, /ɪˈɹoʊni.əs/, /əˈɹəʉni.əs/ 1. Containing an error; inaccurate. Example: His answer to the sum was erroneous. Example: An erroneous early Fox News report about the New Orleans terror attack is warping the political dialogue in the aftermath of the deadly rampage. 2. Derived from an error. Example: His conclusion was erroneous, since it was based on a false assumption. 3. Mistaken. Example: Her choice at the line-up proved to be erroneous, as she had only seen the mugger for an instant. 4. Wandering; erratic. Labels: obsolete 5. Deviating from the requirements of the law, but without a lack of legal authority, thus not illegal. Example: If, while having the power to act, one commits error in the exercise of that power, he acts erroneously.
Word: correctness Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English correct Proto-Germanic *-in- Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ti Proto-Germanic *-ōną 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 correctness From correct + -ness. 1. Freedom from error. Labels: uncountable, usually Example: As a demonstration, we first establish the correctness of the Jacobian matrices for kinetic models of hydrogen, methane, ethylene, and isopentanol oxidation, then demonstrate the performance achievable on CPUs and GPUs using pyJac via matrix evaluation timing comparisons.. 2. Conformity to the truth or to fact. Labels: uncountable, usually 3. Conformity to recognized standards. Labels: uncountable, usually Example: I mean, people who talk about political correctness as being a kind of thought police have no idea of what a thought police is. But political correctness does have the same mentality. It means that intellectual argument is doomed. Objective truth simply becomes a thing to jeer at, because obviously there's no such thing as objectivity—unless of course you're politically okay, in which case you can be objective. Any child can see through that, but many adults can't. 4. The state of an algorithm that correctly mirrors its specification. Labels: uncountable, usually
Word: RFID chip Part of Speech: noun 1. An electronic chip used to tag an object or merchandise in order to recognize it electronically from a short distance.
Word: far-flung Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From far + flung (“thrown”), suggesting something which has been thrown a long distance away from oneself. Pronunciation: /ˌfɑːˈflʌŋ/, /ˌfɑɹˈflʌŋ/ 1. Distant or remote in relationship, space, or time. Example: God of our fathers, known of old, / Lord of our far-flung battle-line, / […] / Lord God of Hosts, be with us yet, / Lest we forget—lest we forget! Example: Introduced in the 1960s, Motorail was successful at a time when long-distance travel by car was a time-consuming process because of a lack of motorways. Services, both during the day and at night, ran to such far-flung places on the map as Penzance, Fishguard, Inverness and Fort William. 2. Widely distributed, wide-ranging, or widespread. Example: In the spacious laboratories and offices […] are provided not only centralised chemical research facilities for the far-flung London area, but also accommodation for the national headquarters of the B.R. Chemical Services, […] Example: In her introductory essay, editor Carole Vance acknowledges the problem of women's status as an "understudied group." She invites both careful and far-flung conversation about sex and difference, and urges s to resist making generalizations based on an incomplete dialogue. 3. Widely but sparsely distributed.
Word: synamphoteron Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Ancient Greek συναμφότεροι (sunamphóteroi, “both together”). 1. A composite.
Word: Min Nan Part of Speech: name Etymology: Borrowed from Mandarin 閩南 /闽南 (Mǐn Nán). 1. Synonym of Southern Min.
Word: distribute Part of Speech: verb Etymology: PIE word *tréyes From Latin distributus, past participle of distribuere (“to divide, distribute”), from dis- (“apart”) + tribuere (“to give, impart”); see tribute. Pronunciation: /dɪˈstɹɪbjuːt/, /ˈdɪstɹɪbjuːt/, /dɪˈstɹɪbjut/ 1. To divide into portions and dispense. Labels: transitive Example: He distributed the bread amongst his followers. 2. To supply to retail outlets. Labels: transitive Example: The agency distributes newspapers to local shops. 3. To deliver or pass out. Labels: transitive Example: A network of children distributes flyers to every house. Example: Above all, the 48-page timetables of the new service, which have been distributed free at every station in the scheme, are a model to the rest of B.R. For the first time on British Railways, so far as we are aware, a substantial timetable has been produced, not only without a single footnote but also devoid of all wearisome asterisks, stars, letter suffixes and other hieroglyphics. 4. To scatter or spread. Labels: transitive Example: I raked the soil then distributed grass seed. Example: The air-handling equipment humidifies, dehumidifies, and distributes the correct amount of fresh air into every zone and eliminates all smoke, dust, and odors, with electric precipitrons. 5. To apportion (more or less evenly). Labels: transitive Example: The robot's six legs distributed its weight over a wide area. Example: With an election not much more than a year away, distributing HS2's money into roads is pork barrel politics. Or at least it would be if the money existed. 6. To classify or separate into categories. Labels: transitive Example: The database distributed verbs into transitive and intransitive segments. 7. To be distributive. Labels: intransitive Example: Multiplication distributes over addition. 8. To separate (type which has been used) and return it to the proper boxes in the cases. 9. To spread (ink) evenly, as upon a roller or a table. 10. To employ (a term) in its whole extent; to take as universal in one premise. Example: A term is said to be distributed when it is taken universal, so as to stand for everything it is capable of being applied to. 11. To have employees working remotely from multiple locations. Example: distributed business; distributed employee
Word: God botherer Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Fom God + botherer. 1. A person who persistently promotes religious beliefs to others, even when unwelcome. Labels: UK, derogatory, slang 2. An excessively pious person. Labels: UK, derogatory, slang 3. A religious preacher who visits homes to promote his or her beliefs. Labels: Australia, New-Zealand, derogatory, slang 4. A military chaplain. Labels: UK, slang
Word: choice theory Part of Speech: noun 1. Any of various models of group behavior (such as economic behavior, criminal behavior, or consumer behavior) as the cumulative result of rational choices made by individuals expressing on their preferences and/or meeting their needs. Labels: uncountable, usually 2. A body of work, originating with Dr. William Glasser in 1995, an extension of his 'reality therapy' that posits and explains human behavior as living organisms' satisfying genetic needs for survival, connecting and belonging, power, freedom and fun. Labels: uncountable, usually
Word: Chuvash Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Borrowed from Russian чуваш (čuvaš), see there for more. Pronunciation: /t͡ʃʊˈvɑːʃ/, /ˈt͡ʃuːvɑːʃ/ 1. From, or pertaining to, Chuvashia. Labels: not-comparable
Word: Chuvash Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Russian чуваш (čuvaš), see there for more. Pronunciation: /t͡ʃʊˈvɑːʃ/, /ˈt͡ʃuːvɑːʃ/ 1. Someone from, or pertaining to Chuvashia.
Word: Chuvash Part of Speech: name Etymology: Borrowed from Russian чуваш (čuvaš), see there for more. Pronunciation: /t͡ʃʊˈvɑːʃ/, /ˈt͡ʃuːvɑːʃ/ 1. An agglutinative language of the Bolgar branch of the Turkic language family and is spoken west of the Ural mountains in central Russia. Chuvash is the native language of the Chuvash people and an official language of Chuvashia. It is spoken by about two million people.
Word: dependent clause Part of Speech: noun 1. A subordinate clause.
Word: subclass Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *upó Proto-Italic *supo Latin sub Latin sub-der. English sub- Proto-Indo-European *kelh₁-der. Proto-Italic *klāssis Latin classisder. Middle French classebor. English class English subclass From sub- + class. Pronunciation: /ˈsʌbklæs/, /ˈsʌbklɑːs/ 1. A secondary class within a main class. Example: 1959, "Steam's Finest Hour" edited by David P. Morgan, Kalmbach Publishing Co., referring to the R-1 Mountain class loco. These 4-8-2's, of which B&M eventually purchased 18 in various subclasses, could almost haul the tonnage of a T and more than made up for the slight deficiency by raising the maximum speed limit from 45 to 70 miles per hour, thanks to 73-inch drivers. Example: Goffin is a prose text interspersed with short lists of typical terms exemplifying certain sub-classes of Indian English lexis. 2. A rank directly below class. 3. An object class derived from another class (its superclass) from which it inherits a base set of properties and methods.
Word: subclass Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *upó Proto-Italic *supo Latin sub Latin sub-der. English sub- Proto-Indo-European *kelh₁-der. Proto-Italic *klāssis Latin classisder. Middle French classebor. English class English subclass From sub- + class. Pronunciation: /ˈsʌbklæs/, /ˈsʌbklɑːs/ 1. (in object-oriented programming) To create a subclass of (some class). Labels: transitive Example: I subclassed the Button class to create a more specialised FancyButton class for my user interface. 2. To cause (an object) to act as an instance of a subclass (by creating the desired subclass and instantiating an object of this subclass). Labels: transitive Example: Since Windows knows about these events, your application should be able to know about them as well. In order to accomplish this, subclass the window of a form or control, intercepting all of its events.
Word: cybernetic Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Borrowed from Ancient Greek κυβερνητικός (kubernētikós, “good at steering, good pilot”), from κυβερνητική τέχνη (kubernētikḗ tékhnē, “the pilot’s art”), from Ancient Greek κυβερνισμός (kubernismós), κυβέρνησις (kubérnēsis, “steering, pilotage, guiding”), from κυβερνάω (kubernáō, “to steer, to drive, to guide, to act as a pilot”) (which is also ultimately the root of govern). The term first recorded in English in 1948. Pronunciation: /ˌsaɪbə(ɹ)ˈnɛtɪk/, /ˌsaɪbɚˈnɛtɪk/ 1. Of or relating to cybernetics—the mathematical study of communication and control in living organisms or machines. 2. Of or relating to computers and the Internet.
Word: taxonomic Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From taxonomy + -ic, after French taxonomique. Pronunciation: /ˌtæksəˈnɒmɪk/ 1. Of or relating to taxonomy. Labels: not-comparable Example: With fresh material, taxonomic conclusions are leavened by recognition that the material examined reflects the site it occupied; a herbarium packet gives one only a small fraction of the data desirable for sound conclusions. Herbarium material does not, indeed, allow one to extrapolate safely: what you see is what you get[…]
Word: taxon Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Back-formation from taxonomy. By surface analysis, taxo- + -on. Pronunciation: /ˈtæksɒn/, /ˈtæksən/, /ˈtæksɑn/ 1. A group of one or more populations of an organism or organisms treated as a unit by taxonomists.
Word: cybernetics Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Ancient Greek κυβερνήτης (kubernḗtēs, “steersman”), from κυβερνάω (kubernáō, “to steer, drive, guide, act as a pilot”) (whence English govern). The term is attested since at least 1948 in the book Cybernetics by Norbert Wiener, influenced by the cognate term and doublet governor, the name of an early control device proposed by James Clerk Maxwell in 1868. Note also the 1830s French cybernétique (“the art of governing”). Also doublet of Kubernetes. Pronunciation: /ˌsaɪ.bə(ɹ)ˈnɛ.tɪks/ 1. The theory/science of communication and control in living organisms or machines. Labels: uncountable Example: Near-synonym: control theory (not consistently differentiated) Example: Chasing and fleeing, though, are not just sequences of muscle contractions—they are goal-directed. Chasing may consist of running or climbing or leaping or ambushing, depending on the circumstances, as long as it increases the chances of snagging the prey; fleeing may include hiding or freezing or zigzagging. And that brings up another momentous 20th-century idea, sometimes called cybernetics, feedback, or control. The idea explains how a physical system can appear to be teleological, that is, directed by purposes or goals. All it needs are a way of sensing the state of itself and its environment, a representation of a goal state (what it “wants,” what it’s “trying for”), an ability to compute the difference between the current state and the goal state, and a repertoire of actions that are tagged with their typical effects. If the system is wired so that it triggers actions that typically reduce the difference between the current state and the goal state, it can be said to pursue goals (and when the world is sufficiently predictable, it will attain them). The principle was discovered by natural selection in the form of homeostasis, as when our bodies regulate their temperature by shivering and sweating. When it was discovered by humans, it was engineered into analog systems like thermostats and cruise control and then into digital systems like chess-playing programs and autonomous robots. 2. The art/study of governing, controlling automatic processes and communication. Labels: uncountable 3. Technology related to computers and the Internet. Labels: uncountable
Word: Bacchus Part of Speech: name Etymology: Borrowed from Latin Bacchus, from Ancient Greek Βάκχος (Bákkhos). Pronunciation: /ˈbækəs/ 1. The Greco-Roman god of wine and vivid social gatherings. Labels: Roman Example: Near-synonyms: Liber, Dionysus
Word: superfamily Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *úp Proto-Indo-European *-er Proto-Indo-European *upér Proto-Italic *super Latin super Latin super-lbor. English super- English family English superfamily From super- + family. 1. A taxonomic category above family and below order (and its subdivisions). Example: There is no reason to deny a natural sequence or to split off genera only to have to attempt later to re-insert them into the whole by means of subordos and superfamilies. Example: The genus Saipanetta has been suggested to be a surviving relict of the metacopidan superfamily Healdiacea because of its muscle scar pattern and narrow duplicature; nevertheless, it differs from the Metacopida in its more complex hingement, lack of a distinct contact groove, exaggerated domiciliar asymmetry, and lack of posterior ridges or angulations. 2. A large group of related proteins or other molecules.
Word: transmission Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Latin transmissionem (accusative of transmissio), from transmittere. Pronunciation: /tɹænsˈmɪʃən/, /tɹænzˈmɪʃən/ 1. The act of transmitting, e.g. data (signals) or electric power. Labels: countable, uncountable 2. The fact of being transmitted. Labels: countable, uncountable 3. Something that is transmitted, such as a message, picture, or a disease; the sending of such a thing. Labels: countable, uncountable 4. The passage of a nerve impulse across synapses. Labels: countable, uncountable 5. A device, usually an assembly of gears (gearbox) plus a clutch or torque converter, through which power is sent from the engine to the driveshaft in an automobile (motor car or motor truck). Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Any vehicle with an internal combustion engine needs a transmission that can alter the gear ratio (engine RPM to wheel RPM) as the vehicle's speed changes. 6. The right possessed by an heir or legatee of transmitting to his successor(s) any inheritance, legacy, right, or privilege, to which he is entitled, even if he should die without enjoying or exercising it. Labels: countable, uncountable 7. The passing of a pathogen or communicable disease from an infected host individual or group to a conspecific individual or group. Labels: countable, uncountable 8. The passing down of a text through time. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: tardis Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of Tardis. Labels: alt-of, alternative Example: The photograph 'the romance of the auto/biographer's desk' is a tardis; when I enter the photograph I can move through time, move through a variety of times indeed. Example: This small paperback book is a veritable tardis of tips on how to preserve the harvest glut. It covers 51 types of fruit and vegetables, including herbs.
Word: concurrent Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English concurrent, from Old French concurrent, from Latin concurrēns, present active participle of concurrō (“happen at the same time”), from con- (“with”) + currō (“run”). Pronunciation: /kəŋˈkʌɹənt/, /kɒŋˈkʌɹənt/, /kəŋˈkɝɹənt/, /kəŋˈkɐɹənt/ 1. Happening at the same time; simultaneous. Example: concurrent echo Example: Such are the changes which science recognizes in the wire itself, as concurrent with the visual changes taking place in the eye. 2. Belonging to the same period; contemporary. 3. Acting in conjunction; agreeing in the same act or opinion; contributing to the same event or effect. Example: I join with these laws the personal presence of the king's son, as a concurrent cause of this reformation. Example: the concurrent testimony of antiquity 4. Joint and equal in authority; taking cognizance of similar questions; operating on the same objects. Example: the concurrent jurisdiction of courts 5. Meeting in one point. 6. Running alongside one another on parallel courses; moving together in space. 7. Designed to run independently, rather than sequentially, using various mechanisms, such as threads, event loops or time-slicing. Example: Informally, a concurrent program is one that does more than one thing at a time. […] However, this simultaneity is sometimes an illusion. Example: Different concurrent designs enable different ways to parallelize.
Word: concurrent Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English concurrent, from Old French concurrent, from Latin concurrēns, present active participle of concurrō (“happen at the same time”), from con- (“with”) + currō (“run”). Pronunciation: /kəŋˈkʌɹənt/, /kɒŋˈkʌɹənt/, /kəŋˈkɝɹənt/, /kəŋˈkɐɹənt/ 1. One who, or that which, concurs; a joint or contributory cause. Example: To all affairs of importance there are three necessary concurrents […] time, industry, and faculties. 2. One pursuing the same course, or seeking the same objects; hence, a rival; an opponent. Example: Menander […] had no concurrent in his time that came neere vnto him 3. One of the supernumerary days of the year over fifty-two complete weeks; so called because they concur with the solar cycle, the course of which they follow. 4. One who accompanies a sheriff's officer as witness.
Word: twitch Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English twicchen, from Old English *twiċċan, from Proto-West Germanic *twikkijan (“to nail, pin, fasten, clasp, pinch”). Cognate with English tweak, Low German twikken, German Low German twicken (“to pinch, pinch off”), zweckōn and gizwickan (> German zwicken (“to pinch”)). Pronunciation: /twɪt͡ʃ/, [tʰw̥ɪt͡ʃ] 1. A brief, small (sometimes involuntary) movement out of place and then back again; a spasm. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: I saw a little twitch in the man's face, and knew he was lying. 2. Action of spotting or seeking out a bird, especially a rare one. Labels: countable, informal, uncountable 3. A stick with a hole in one end through which passes a loop, which can be drawn tightly over the upper lip or an ear of a horse and twisted to keep the animal quiet during minor surgery. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: THE TWITCH is a short stick of strong ash, about the size of a mopstick, with a hole pierced near the end, through which is passed a piece of strong but small cord, and tied in a loop large enough to admit the open hand freely. 4. A brief, contractile response of a skeletal muscle elicited by a single maximal volley of impulses in the neurons supplying it. Labels: countable, uncountable 5. The sudden narrowing almost to nothing of a vein of ore. Labels: countable, uncountable 6. A trip taken in order to observe a rare bird. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Siberian Crane [...] Following its departure, there was much speculation that rediscovery at a less inaccessible locality would lead to one of the great twitches of 1981; alas, this was not to be.
Word: twitch Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English twicchen, from Old English *twiċċan, from Proto-West Germanic *twikkijan (“to nail, pin, fasten, clasp, pinch”). Cognate with English tweak, Low German twikken, German Low German twicken (“to pinch, pinch off”), zweckōn and gizwickan (> German zwicken (“to pinch”)). Pronunciation: /twɪt͡ʃ/, [tʰw̥ɪt͡ʃ] 1. To perform a twitch; spasm. Labels: intransitive Example: His fingers were nervously twitching. 2. To cause to twitch; spasm. Labels: transitive Example: Their feet padded softly on the ground, and they crept quite close to him, twitching their noses... 3. To jerk sharply and briefly. Labels: transitive Example: to twitch somebody's sleeve for attention Example: Thrice they twitched the diamond in her ear. 4. To exert oneself. Labels: obsolete 5. To spot or seek out a bird, especially a rare one. Labels: transitive Example: Marsh Sandpiper [...] This delicate ‘mini shank’ has graced our shores for the past six successive years and has become increasingly easy to twitch. Example: "But the key revelation from twitching that wonderful Iceland Gull on 10 March 1974 wasn't its eroticism. It was the sheer innocence of it." 6. To engage in twitching. Labels: intransitive Example: "The Birdwatchers Handbook ... will be a clear asset to those who 'twitch' in Europe."
Word: twitch Part of Speech: noun Etymology: alternate of quitch Pronunciation: /twɪt͡ʃ/, [tʰw̥ɪt͡ʃ] 1. couch grass (Elymus repens; a species of grass, often considered as a weed) Labels: uncountable
Word: primates Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ˈpɹaɪmeɪts/ 1. plural of primate Labels: form-of, plural
Word: iso- Part of Speech: prefix Etymology: Internationalism. Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek ἴσος (ísos, “equal”). Pronunciation: /aɪsə-/, /aɪsəʊ-/, /aɪˈsɒ-/, /aɪsoʊ-/, /aɪˈsɑ-/ 1. Same, identical. Labels: morpheme Example: iso- + effect → isoeffect Example: iso- + intense → isointense 2. Equal; equivalent. Labels: morpheme Example: iso- + rhythm → isorhythm 3. Isomer. Labels: morpheme Example: iso- + methadone → isomethadone 4. Of an aliphatic compound, especially a fatty acid, having a branch on the penultimate carbon atom of a chain. Labels: morpheme Example: iso- + hexane → isohexane 5. Forms terms for specific kinds of isolines. Labels: morpheme Example: iso- + -therm → isotherm Example: iso- + -chrone → isochrone 6. Isomorphism. Labels: morpheme
Word: considering Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /kənˈsɪdəɹɪŋ/ 1. present participle and gerund of consider Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present Example: Considering they are newcomers, they've accomplished a lot.
Word: considering Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /kənˈsɪdəɹɪŋ/ 1. Consideration. Example: This respite shook / The bosom of my conscience, enter'd me, / Yea, with a splitting power, and made to tremble / The region of my breast; which forced such way, / That many mazed considerings did throng / And press'd in with this caution.
Word: considering Part of Speech: adv Pronunciation: /kənˈsɪdəɹɪŋ/ 1. Given the circumstances; all in all; all things considered. Labels: informal, modal Example: Your wound doesn't look that bad, considering.
Word: considering Part of Speech: prep Pronunciation: /kənˈsɪdəɹɪŋ/ 1. Taking into account. Example: Considering the extent of his crimes, he was given a surprisingly short sentence.
Word: considers Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /kənˈsɪdɚz/, /kənˈsɪdəz/ 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of consider Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: stig Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From the eponymous character in the book Stig of the Dump (Clive King, Puffin, 1963, →ISBN. Pronunciation: /stɪɡ/ 1. Someone from a poor background, with poor dress sense. Labels: UK, derogatory, slang
Word: stig Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /stɪɡ/ 1. An electronic cigarette or vape. Labels: Australia, slang
Word: stig Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /stɪɡ/ 1. To vape. Labels: Australia, slang
Word: citizen's arrest Part of Speech: noun 1. An arrest made by a person who is not acting as a sworn law enforcement official to detain a suspected criminal until the police can be summoned. Labels: countable
Word: Xenophanes Part of Speech: name Etymology: From Ancient Greek Ξενοφάνης (Xenophánēs). The name means “of foreign appearance” and is composed of ξένος (xénos, “foreign”) + φαίνω (phaínō, “appear”). Pronunciation: /zɛˈnɒfəniːz/ 1. A Greek given name. 2. The pre-Socratic philosopher Xenophanes of Colophon; by extension or reference, any profound or transformative religious thinker. Example: Lucretius was the Xenophanes of Roman culture, a great theorist (visionary), an ardent disciple of Universal Nature, an enemy of all superstition, false gods, and false fear of death, […] Example: No Xenophanes arose amongst the Jews to rebuke them for ascribing to Jahweh acts which would be accounted a shame and a disgrace amongst men; […]
Word: subphylum Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *upó Proto-Italic *supo Latin sub Latin sub-der. English sub- English phylum English subphylum From sub- + phylum. 1. A taxonomic category below phylum and above class
Word: recumbent Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Latin present participle recumbēns, from recumbō (“to recline”). 1. Lying down. 2. Inactive; idle.
Word: recumbent Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Latin present participle recumbēns, from recumbō (“to recline”). 1. A bicycle or tricycle that places the rider in a reclined posture. 2. A large rectangular monolith lying on its side, typically flanked by two large upright stones, the flankers; found in recumbent stone circles of Aberdeenshire, Scotland, and the counties of Cork and Kerry in south-west of Ireland.
Word: Diogenes Part of Speech: name Etymology: From Latin Diogenēs, from Ancient Greek Διογένης (Diogénēs). Pronunciation: /daɪˈɒdʒəniːz/ 1. A transliteration of the Ancient Greek male given name Διογένης (Diogénēs). 2. Diogenes of Sinope, an Ancient Greek philosopher (c.412-c.323 BC), the most famous of Cynic philosophers.