nandhakumarms/qualc-wiktionary-en huggingface dataset:
Word: erucic acid Part of Speech: noun 1. A long-chain unsaturated fatty acid, CH₃(CH₂)₇CH=CH(CH₂)₁₁COOH, found in rapeseed and mustard seed oils; strictly, the cis-isomer of the molecule (the trans-isomer is called brassidic acid). Labels: uncountable
Word: craven Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English cravant, either borrowed from Old French cravanté (“defeated”), past participle of cravanter (ultimately from Latin crepare), or a modification of creaunt (“defeated”) after craven (“to crave”). Pronunciation: /ˈkɹeɪ.vən/ 1. Unwilling to fight; lacking even the rudiments of courage; extremely cowardly. Example: The poor craven bridegroom said never a word. Example: Prime Minister Abe's fumbling and craven performance took place on a national holiday in Korea, marking the countrywide uprising against the Japanese colonial rule that began on March 1, 1919. March 1 is also the day in 1932 that Japan chose to inaugurate Manchukuo (after seizing northeastern China).
Word: craven Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English cravant, either borrowed from Old French cravanté (“defeated”), past participle of cravanter (ultimately from Latin crepare), or a modification of creaunt (“defeated”) after craven (“to crave”). Pronunciation: /ˈkɹeɪ.vən/ 1. A coward. Labels: archaic Example: He is a craven and a villain else. Example: “God knows I would rather die licked in the fire by the side of my king than to live out my days twitted and scorned as a craven.”
Word: craven Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English cravant, either borrowed from Old French cravanté (“defeated”), past participle of cravanter (ultimately from Latin crepare), or a modification of creaunt (“defeated”) after craven (“to crave”). Pronunciation: /ˈkɹeɪ.vən/ 1. To make craven. Labels: archaic Example: There is a prohibition so divine / That cravens my weak hand.
Word: humorous Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English humorous (compare Medieval Latin hūmorōsus), equivalent to humor + -ous. Pronunciation: /ˈhjuːməɹəs/ 1. Full of humor or arousing laughter; funny. Example: The waiters were so humorous - one even did a backflip for us, when we asked him. 2. Showing humor; witty, jocular. 3. Damp or watery. Labels: obsolete 4. Dependent on or caused by one's humour or mood; capricious, whimsical. Labels: obsolete Example: [S]uch is now the Duke's condition That he misconstrues all that you have done. The Duke is humorous; what he is, indeed, More suits you to conceive than I to speak of. Example: It is a melancholy humor[…]that firſt put this humorous conceipt [translating resverie] of writing into my head.
Word: flattery Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English flaterye, flaterie, from Old French flaterie, from the verb flater (“to flatter”). By surface analysis, flatter + -y (forming abstract nouns). Pronunciation: /ˈflæt.ə.ɹi/, /ˈflæt.ɚ.i/ 1. Excessive praise or approval, which is often insincere and sometimes contrived to win favour. Labels: uncountable Example: Don't you know that some of his contributions here are pure flattery? Example: That the young Mr. Churchills liked—but they did not like him coming round of an evening and drinking weak whisky-and-water while he held forth on railway debentures and corporation loans. Mr. Barrett, however, by fawning and flattery, seemed to be able to make not only Mrs. Churchill but everyone else do what he desired. 2. An instance of excessive praise. Labels: countable Example: But I pitty the flatteries, and ſelfe-applauſes of a careleſſe and impenitent heart: This jollity hath in it much danger, and vvithout ſome change, death.
Word: chew the fat Part of Speech: verb Etymology: One of the possible origins is from the fact that after a meal people would go into their sitting room with their guests and chit chat while chewing on the fat left over from a meal. Another possibility comes from sailors who often had salted beef and pork on long voyages and the fat would harden. Sailors would eat and complain about the hard life of the sea while "chewing the fat" Probably just from comparison of the jaw movements in chewing to the jaw movements in talking. 1. To chat idly or generally waste time talking. Labels: informal Example: We're not supposed to waste time chewing the fat with the customers.
Word: all foam, no beer Part of Speech: phrase 1. Synonym of all hat and no cattle. Example: It looks good and sounds good, but it's not a true quality control program. It is all foam, no beer. Example: But rhetoric was all we got-turn on Clinton's spigot, and he's all foam, no beer. His boldest “action” was to appoint a study commission. 2. Synonym of not the sharpest tool in the shed. Example: Remember, I'm a mentally challenged college drop-out, a few beers short of a six-pack. All foam - no beer. I dropped out of GA Tech in my sophomore year.
Word: -hood Part of Speech: suffix Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *keyt-der. Proto-Germanic *haiduzder. Proto-West Germanic *-haiduder. Old English -hād Middle English -hede English -hood From Middle English -hode, from Old English -hād, from Proto-West Germanic *-haidu, from Proto-Germanic *haiduz (compare -head). Cognate with German -heit, -keit, Dutch -heid, Afrikaans -heid, Swedish -het, Elfdalian -iet, Norwegian Bokmål -het, Norwegian Nynorsk -heit, Danish -hed. The Swedish, Elfdalian, Norwegian and Danish endings were borrowed from Middle Low German. Pronunciation: /hʊd/ 1. A substantive suffix denoting a condition or state of being. Labels: countable, morpheme, uncountable Example: child + -hood → childhood 2. A substantive suffix denoting a group sharing a specified condition or state. Labels: countable, morpheme, uncountable Example: brother + -hood → brotherhood Example: neighbour + -hood → neighbourhood
Word: omnivorous Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₃ep-der. Proto-Italic *opnis Latin omnisder. English omni- English -vorous English omnivorous From omni- + -vorous. Pronunciation: /ɑmˈnɪ.vɝ.əs/ 1. Having a diet which is neither exclusively carnivorous nor exclusively herbivorous. 2. Having an interest in a variety of subjects. Labels: figuratively Example: The Beckettian progression appears occasionally: while Miss Counihan (static) is an omnivorous reader and Murphy (transitional) a strict non-reader, Cooper is an analphabete. Example: He was omnivorous in his appetite for knowledge, quite catholic in his range of interests […] 3. All-consuming. Labels: figuratively 4. Of a parasite: attacking many species; not confined to a single host plant.
Word: herbivorous Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Adapted borrowing of New Latin herbivorus + -ous, from Latin herba (“grass”) and -vorus, from vorō (“to devour”). Pronunciation: /(h)ɜːɹˈbɪvəɹəs/ 1. Feeding chiefly on plants. Example: One example of "an herbivorous fungus" is included among the terrestrial animal experiments
Word: insectivorous Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Latin insectum (“insect”) and -vorus, from vorō (“to eat”), equivalent to insectivore + -ous or insect + -i- + -vorous. Pronunciation: /ˌɪnsɛkˈtɪv(ə)ɹəs/ 1. Feeding on insects. Example: Researchers in the Netherlands have linked neonicotinoids found in surface water to declines in insectivorous birds and there is widespread scientific evidence that neonicotinoids harm bees – reducing their ability to pollinate plants, for instance. 2. Capable of trapping and absorbing insects; such as the sundew, pitcher plant and Venus flytrap.
Word: Venus flytrap Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Venus (after the resemblance of the leaves to a human vulva) + flytrap (after the insectivorous nature of the plant). 1. An insectivorous plant of the savannas of North and South Carolina, Dionaea muscipula; the leaves are hinged and bordered with stiff hairs, and close when an insect alights on them. 2. A kind of barbed trap used in the Vietnam War.
Word: macromolecule Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *meh₂ḱ- Proto-Indo-European *-rós Proto-Indo-European *mh₂ḱrós Proto-Hellenic *makrós Ancient Greek μᾰκρός (măkrós)der. French macro-der. English macro- Latin mōlēs Proto-Indo-European *-lós Proto-Indo-European *-elós Proto-Italic *-elos Proto-Italic *-kelos Latin -cula New Latin moleculalbor. French moléculebor. English molecule English macromolecule From macro- + molecule. Pronunciation: /ˈmækɹəʊˌmɒlɪkjuːl/ 1. A very large molecule, especially used in reference to large biological polymers (e.g. nucleic acids and proteins). Example: Beadle discovered that genes carried instructions to build proteins—complex, multidimensional macromolecules that were the workhorses of the cell.
Word: sundew Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From sun + dew. Cognate with Dutch zonnedauw, Icelandic sóldögg, German Sonnentau. 1. Any of a group of insectivorous plants in the genus Drosera that catch insects by sticky droplets ("dew") at the end of hairs on the leaves and grow in boggy ground all over the world.
Word: pitcher plant Part of Speech: noun 1. Any of various insectivorous plants of the genera Sarracenia, Darlingtonia, Heliamphora (in order Ericales); Nepenthes (in order Caryophyllales), or Cephalotus (in order Oxalidales) that have pitcher-like leaves or parts of leaves with slippery sides that attract and trap insects.
Word: statistical Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From statistic + -al. Pronunciation: /stəˈtɪs.tɪ.kəl/, [stəˈtɪs.tɪ.kl̩] 1. Of or pertaining to statistics. Example: Drawings and pictures are more than mere ornaments in scientific discourse. Blackboard sketches, geological maps, diagrams of molecular structure, astronomical photographs, MRI images, the many varieties of statistical charts and graphs: These pictorial devices are indispensable tools for presenting evidence, for explaining a theory, for telling a story.
Word: -aholic Part of Speech: suffix Etymology: A respelling of -oholic reflecting the reduced pronunciation of the linking vowel. 1. Alternative form of -holic. Labels: alt-of, alternative, morpheme
Word: stuffed Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From stuff + -ed. Pronunciation: /stʌft/ 1. simple past and past participle of stuff Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: stuffed Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From stuff + -ed. Pronunciation: /stʌft/ 1. Full or packed (with some material or substance). Example: Near-synonym: stuffed to the gills Example: Customs officers look closely through a stuffed suitcase. 2. Filled with a filling and seasoning. Example: We're having stuffed turkey for dinner. Example: The turkey is stuffed with a stuffing made of bread and herbs. 3. Full after eating. Labels: slang Example: Near-synonym: stuffed to the gills Example: Stuffed children sleep poorly. 4. Very tired. Labels: Australia, Ireland, New-Zealand, UK, informal Example: 'Well, you talked me into it,' said Cornelius. 'I feel really stuffed. I can tell you that for sure. So I could do with a bloody good sleep.' 5. Broken, not functional; in trouble, in a situation from which one is unlikely to recover. Labels: Australia, Ireland, New-Zealand, UK Example: If the suspension was stuffed already from hitting the concrete base of the fence—and it was—then it was really stuffed by the time we'd gone a kilometre along the railway. Example: But if you don't play ball in life, if you don′t go for it with a sincere 'Go, girrrrl' rugby-tackle attitude, you're really stuffed.
Word: grevilia Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of grevillea (“tree of genus Grevillea”). Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: -son Part of Speech: suffix Etymology: From Middle English -son, -eson, -esson, -essone, -essonne, from Middle English -es (“'s”) + sone (“son”). Pronunciation: /sən/ 1. Added to a stem (usually a given name or surname) to form a patronymic or matronymic surname. Labels: morpheme 2. Added to a stem (usually a given name or surname) to form a given name. Labels: Hong-Kong, morpheme
Word: snert Part of Speech: noun Etymology: This is generally believed to be an acronym, variously considered to stand for "Snot-Nosed, Egotistical, Rude Teenager", "Snot-Nosed Eros-Ridden Teenager", "Sexually Nerdish Egotistically Rude Troll", or similar. 1. A participant in online discussions who is generally obnoxious and insulting. Labels: Internet, dated Example: A small army of AOL technicians vigilantly patrols for snerts (read the "The Control Room" sidebar in this chapter), but the battle is often an impasse. Example: While members like Stinkybolthole frequently posted flames, the online community studied had one very noticeable snert, who went by the name of JH, whom from a sample of ten of his posts, posted six flames, meaning 60% of his posts were flames.
Word: ha ha Part of Speech: intj Etymology: Natural utterance first recorded in Old English; compare ha. 1. Expression of laughter. Example: and cryden out harrow and weilaway ha ha the fox and after hym they ran and eek with staves many other man 2. A defiant expression used to tease somebody.
Word: spiny Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From spine + -y. Pronunciation: /ˈspaɪni/ 1. Covered in spines or thorns. 2. Troublesome; difficult or vexing. Example: The spiney desarts of scholastic philosophy 3. Like a spine in shape; slender. Example: And, as in well-growne woods, on trees, cold ſpinie Graſhoppers / Sit chirping, […]
Word: spiny Part of Speech: noun 1. Archaic form of spinney. Labels: alt-of, archaic
Word: start codon Part of Speech: noun Etymology: start (“indicating first, initial”) + codon 1. The codon at which translation of mRNA into protein starts, encoding the first amino acid.
Word: heady Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English hedi, hevedi, equivalent to head + -y. Pronunciation: /ˈhɛdi/ 1. Intoxicating or stupefying. Example: The cocktail was a heady mixture of spirits. Example: Lilac wine is sweet and heady, like my love / Lilac wine, I feel unsteady, like my love 2. Tending to upset the mind or senses. Example: We looked out from a heady outcrop of rock. 3. Exhilarating or exciting; producing a feeling of high energy or confidence Example: The rock concert was a heady mixture of their greatest hits. 4. Exhilarating or exciting; producing a feeling of high energy or confidence: Labels: broadly Example: The heady pace of manufacturing stands in contrast to some of the recent news on how consumers are faring. Example: This follows some heady gains in hourly wages for retail workers. 5. Intellectual. Example: Kierkegaard is rather heady reading for a high school student. 6. Rash or impetuous. Example: He made such heady promises that when the time came, he was never able to fulfill them.
Word: dolven Part of Speech: verb 1. past participle of delve Labels: form-of, obsolete, participle, past Example: And my cōmyſſyon is not to call them to faith onely / but also to ye knowleg of trueth which among the gentyles was ouerheaped & doluen in the imagynacyons[…] Example: But yet if thou wouldſt conſider how often men go to ſeeke Death where it ſeemeth to be doluen moſt deepe[…]
Word: doughty Part of Speech: adj Etymology: The adjective is derived from Middle English doughty (“brave, bold, valiant”), from Old English dohtiġ, dyhtiġ (“competent, good, strong, valiant”), from Proto-West Germanic *duhtīg. The English word may be analysed as dought + -y, and is cognate with Scots douchty, douchtie (“bold, valiant”), Dutch duchtig (“severe, strict”), German tüchtig (“capable, competent, efficient; big; hard”), Danish dygtig (“virtuous, proficient”), Swedish duktig (“efficient; good; capable, clever, smart”), Icelandic dygðugur (“virtuous, stable”). The noun is derived from the adjective. Pronunciation: /ˈdaʊti/, [-ɾi], [ˈdʌʊ̯ɾi] 1. Bold; brave, courageous. Labels: archaic, literary Example: Hurriedly he snatched up others, one or two at a time, until he had slaughtered thirty of Hrothgar's doughtiest earls. Example: [S]he [Edwina, mother of Tennessee Williams] was indeed Amanda [Wingfield, character in Williams's play The Glass Menagerie] in the flesh: a doughty chatterbox from Ohio who adopted the manner of a Southern belle and eschewed both drink and sex to the greatest extent possible. 2. Robust, sturdy; strong and perhaps stout. Labels: archaic, literary Example: Aye, here's a ship of doughty build and strong: But not for lads like you to sail to port. Example: One can imagine the enthusiasm with which this young man in his thirties, and not the fat and doughty Quakerish-looking gentleman usually portrayed in the popular picture of Penn as Proprietor, must have entered upon this great adventure. 3. Catachresis for dowdy. Labels: uncommon
Word: doughty Part of Speech: noun Etymology: The adjective is derived from Middle English doughty (“brave, bold, valiant”), from Old English dohtiġ, dyhtiġ (“competent, good, strong, valiant”), from Proto-West Germanic *duhtīg. The English word may be analysed as dought + -y, and is cognate with Scots douchty, douchtie (“bold, valiant”), Dutch duchtig (“severe, strict”), German tüchtig (“capable, competent, efficient; big; hard”), Danish dygtig (“virtuous, proficient”), Swedish duktig (“efficient; good; capable, clever, smart”), Icelandic dygðugur (“virtuous, stable”). The noun is derived from the adjective. Pronunciation: /ˈdaʊti/, [-ɾi], [ˈdʌʊ̯ɾi] 1. A person who is bold or brave. Labels: archaic, rare
Word: glede Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English glede, from Old English glida, from Proto-West Germanic *glidā, from Proto-Germanic *glidǭ; akin to Icelandic gleða, Swedish glada. Compare glide. Pronunciation: /ɡliːd/ 1. Any of several birds of prey, especially a kite, Milvus milvus.
Word: glede Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English gleede, glede, from Old English glēd, glēde (“glowing coal, ember, fire, flame, instrument of torture”), from Proto-West Germanic *glōdi, from Proto-Germanic *glōdiz (“incandescence, glowing ember, burning ash”), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰelh₃- (“to shine”). Cognate with Scots gleed (“burning coal, ember”), Saterland Frisian Gloud (“blaze, fire”), Dutch gloed (“glowing heat”), German Glut (“glowing heat, embers”), Swedish glöd (“embers”), Scots glude (“glow from a fire”). More at glow. Pronunciation: /ɡliːd/ 1. A live coal; an ember. Example: 1937, J. R. R. Tolkien, The Hobbit [Chapter 14 - Fire and Water], His last throes splintered it to sparks and gledes. Example: 1955, J. R. R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring [Book 2, Chapter 2 - The Council of Elrond], It was hot when I first took it, hot as a glede, and my hand was scorched, so that I doubt if ever again I shall be free of the pain of it.
Word: grave wax Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From grave + wax. 1. A waxy substance found on corpses; adipocere. Labels: uncountable
Word: adulterine Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Latin adulterīnus. Pronunciation: /əˈdʌltəɹaɪn/, /əˈdʌltəɹiːn/ 1. Spurious; due to adulteration. Example: a knave apothecary, that administers the physick, and makes the medicine, may do infinite harm, by his old obsolete doses, adulterine druggs, bad mixtures, quid pro quo, &c. 2. Born of adultery. 3. Pertaining to adultery. 4. Illegal; unlicensed. Example: when any particular class of artificers or traders thought proper to act as a corporation without a charter , such adulterine guilds , as they were called , were not always disfranchised[…]
Word: adulterine Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Latin adulterīnus. Pronunciation: /əˈdʌltəɹaɪn/, /əˈdʌltəɹiːn/ 1. One born of an adulterous union. Labels: rare
Word: blind-side Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of blindside. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: blindside Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English blind Proto-Indo-European *seh₁-der. Proto-Germanic *sīdaz Proto-Germanic *sīdǭ Old English sīde Middle English side English side English blindside From blind + side. Pronunciation: /ˈblaɪndˌsaɪd/ 1. A driver's field of blindness around an automobile; the side areas behind the driver. 2. A tram/train driver's field of blindness around a tram (trolley/streetcar) or a train; the side areas behind the tram/train driver. 3. A person's weak point. Labels: figuratively 4. The space on the side of the pitch with the shorter distance between the breakdown/set piece and the touchline; compare openside. Example: Showing no ill-effects from her lay-off, the full-back had already beaten three defenders on a jagging kick return, when she was sprung down the blindside a minute later. 5. The blindside flanker, a position in rugby union, usually number 6. Example: The blindside packs down at the scrum on the blindside. Example: However, after an inside pass from Moody to Tom Croft and a surge from the England blind-side, number eight James Haskell was eventually pinged from in front of the posts for not releasing.
Word: blindside Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Etymology tree English blind Proto-Indo-European *seh₁-der. Proto-Germanic *sīdaz Proto-Germanic *sīdǭ Old English sīde Middle English side English side English blindside From blind + side. Pronunciation: /ˈblaɪndˌsaɪd/ 1. To attack (a person) on his or her blind side. Labels: transitive Example: The robbers crept out of the forest and blindsided the traveller. Example: What isn't so gimmicky is the Aggro System, where you draw fire onto yourself by acting aggressive, while your partner sneaks off blindsiding distracted enemies. Aggro depends on how big your current weapon is and how often you act aggressive. 2. To catch off guard; to take by surprise. Labels: figuratively, informal, transitive Example: He had completed his plan to develop a new office building, but was blindsided by the sudden drop in real estate values. Example: Mr. Hassan offered Ms. Huynh $20 million in Google stock — less than 10 percent of his shares — and half of three Bay Area real estate properties: houses in Palo Alto and San Francisco, and a commercial building in Menlo Park. She felt blindsided and hurt. She refused.
Word: autecology Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Ancient Greek via Latin auto- (“on itself”) + ecology. 1. one of two broad subdivisions of ecology, which studies the individual organism or species. Labels: uncountable, usually Example: 1959: Odum, ' In regard to subdivisions, ecology is commonly divided into autecology' and synecology.
Word: loanword Part of Speech: noun Etymology: A calque of German Lehnwort, equivalent to loan + word. Compare West Frisian lienwurd, Dutch leenwoord, Danish låneord, Swedish lånord, Icelandic lánsorð. Pronunciation: /ˈloʊnˌwɝd/, /ˈləʊnˌwɜː(ɹ)d/ 1. A word directly taken into one language from another one. Example: "Calque" is a loanword with French origins, and "loanword" is a calque with German origins. Example: New words, and particularly loanwords, are simplified, and hence naturalized in American much more quickly than in English. Employé has long since become employee in our newspapers, and asphalte has lost its final e, and manœuvre has become maneuver, and pyjamas has become pajamas.
Word: synecology Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *ḱe? Proto-Indo-European *ḱómder.? Proto-Indo-European *sem-der.? Proto-Hellenic *ksún Ancient Greek σύν (sún) Ancient Greek σῠν- (sŭn-)der. English syn- English ecology English synecology From syn- + ecology. 1. One of two broad subdivisions of ecology (the other being autecology), meaning the study of groups of organisms associated as a unit (essentially a biological community). Labels: uncountable, usually
Word: determinate Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English determinate, determynat, determinat, from Latin dēterminātus, perfect passive participle of dēterminō (“to limit, set bounds”), see -ate (adjective-forming suffix) for more. Pronunciation: /dɪˈtɜːmɪnət/ 1. Distinct, clearly defined. Labels: not-comparable Example: Quantity of words and a determinate number of feet. Example: […] on account of his responsibility to Norman and Marigold, and on account of his now determinate age, he considered himself ineligible for more dangerous service. 2. Fixed, determined, set, unvarying. Labels: not-comparable Example: […] hym have ye taken by the hondes of vnrightewes perſones / after he was delivered by the determinat counſell and fore knoweledge of God / and have crucified and ſlayne hym / […] Example: [S]he watched impatiently for the dawn of day, with that determinate purpoſe which generally inſures ſucceſs. 3. Of growth: ending once a genetically predetermined structure has formed. Labels: not-comparable 4. Conclusive; decisive; positive. Labels: not-comparable 5. Determined or resolved upon. Labels: not-comparable, obsolete Example: My determinate voyage. Example: Francesca saw the danger of allowing this apathy to increase, and would fain have laid down some determinate scheme, and sought some fixed home and employment, which must have brought its occupations, its habits, and, finally, its interests. 6. Of determined purpose; resolute. Labels: not-comparable Example: More determinate to do than skilfull how to do.
Word: determinate Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From a substantivation of the above adjective. See -ate (noun-forming suffix) for more. Pronunciation: /dɪˈtɜːmɪnət/ 1. A single state of a particular determinable attribute. Example: And since being negatively-charged and being positively-charged are determinates of the same determinable, [D5] will not permit us to infer worlds where anything negatively-charged is also positively-charged.
Word: determinate Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English determinaten, from determinat + -en, see Etymology 1 and -ate (verb-forming suffix) for more. Compare French déterminer. Pronunciation: /dɪˈtɜːmɪnət/ 1. To bring to an end; to determine. Labels: obsolete Example: The sly, slow hours shall not determinate / The dateless limit of thy dear exile.
Word: propound Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From the Middle English proponen (“to put forward”), from Latin prōpōnere (“to put forward”), from prō- (“before”) + pōnere (“to put”). Doublet of propose. Compare expound. Pronunciation: /prəˈpaʊnd/ 1. To put forward; to offer for discussion or debate. Labels: transitive Example: Today I'll expound at length the theory that I propounded last year. Example: “Divine receptacle of excellence, let it not be deemed impertinent, or deviating from the rules of propriety, if I propound one queſtion which now labours in my breaſt; aſſuring me firſt, you will not let the ſceptre of true judgment depart from your right hand.”
Word: malcontent Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle French malcontent, from mal- + content; compare Late Latin malecontentus. Pronunciation: /ˈmal.kən.tɛnt/, /ˈmæl.kənˌtɛnt/, /ˌmæl.kənˈtɛnt/ 1. Dissatisfied with current conditions; disaffected, discontented, rebellious. Example: [Alban] Butler also commends the piety of Simon Montfort, the persecutor of the Albigenses, and the father of the famous malcontent earl of Leicester, who flourished in the reign of king Henry III. Example: The duke of Gloucester was a sickly child […] he died of a sore throat, and rash fever, occasioned by an imprudent participation in the festivities of his birthday. The famous humourist, Dr. [John] Radcliffe, the Abernethy of his day, who was malcontent with the government, was called in too late, he declared, to save his royal patient.
Word: malcontent Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle French malcontent, from mal- + content; compare Late Latin malecontentus. Pronunciation: /ˈmal.kən.tɛnt/, /ˈmæl.kənˌtɛnt/, /ˌmæl.kənˈtɛnt/ 1. A person who is not satisfied with current conditions; a discontented person, a rebel. Example: The diſcord rather than the muſick is heard from the malcontent Malevole's chamber. Example: For is it not eaſy to ſee, that a Prince made odious and contemptible, will ſoon be removed from his Throne, when it is in the Power of the Malecontents to bring about ſuch a fatal Revolution? 2. A state of discontentment or dissatisfaction; something that causes discontent. Labels: obsolete Example: If there was malcontent on his part, it did not spring from economic limitations alone, but also from the effect of these economic limitations upon his social and legal status as a small farmer. The state of constant indebtdness in which the contadino found himself contributed to his malcontent.
Word: malcontent Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle French malcontent, from mal- + content; compare Late Latin malecontentus. Pronunciation: /ˈmal.kən.tɛnt/, /ˈmæl.kənˌtɛnt/, /ˌmæl.kənˈtɛnt/ 1. To cause discontent or dissatisfaction. Labels: obsolete, transitive Example: […] James Bond adventure with a Ward Bond delivery, reams of malcontenting and anti-literary remarks, first-class manipulation of Anglo-Saxon's juicier words, and quotations from the Great Books and from William Kite's notebook.
Word: curving Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of curve Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: curving Part of Speech: noun 1. A shape or motion that curves. Example: the curvings of a mountain road
Word: curving Part of Speech: adj 1. That curves or curve. Example: a curving path
Word: tie the knot Part of Speech: verb 1. To marry, wed, get married. Labels: idiomatic, intransitive Example: Rowena sacrificed her inclination to remain single, to her sense of duty; and contracted a second matrimonial engagement. […] Cardinal Pandulfo tied the knot for them. Example: After the 20-year-old mechanic tied the knot with his 18-year-old cousin, the newlyweds headed to Baghdad's Ishtar Hotel. 2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see tie, the, knot.
Word: nobel Part of Speech: adj 1. Misspelling of noble. Labels: alt-of, misspelling
Word: cursory Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French cursoire (“rapid”), from Latin cursorius (“hasty, of a race or running”). Pronunciation: /ˈkɜː.sə.ɹi/, /ˈkɜːs.ɹi/, /ˈkɝː.sə.ɹi/, /ˈkɝːs.ɹi/, /ˈkɵː.sɘ.ɹi/ 1. Hasty or superficial. Example: cursory glance Example: A cursory view of the report revealed his egregious errors. 2. Careless or desultory. Example: The cursory inspection missed several irregularities. 3. Running about; not stationary. Labels: obsolete
Word: zig when one should zag Part of Speech: verb 1. To misstep or err. Labels: idiomatic Example: As I came around the last corner of the house, I zigged when I should have zagged, or zagged when I should have zigged. Either way, Brett went off the track and into a clump of birch trees. I turned around and saw the sled was gone […]
Word: portrait Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle French portraict, pourtraict, nominal use of the past participle of portraire (“portray”), from Latin prōtrahō (< prō- + trahō). Compare typologically English drawing. Pronunciation: /ˈpɔːtɹeɪt/, /ˈpɔːtɹɪt/, /ˈpɔɹtɹət/, /ˈpɔɹtɹeɪt/, /ˈpoʊɹtɹət/ 1. A painting or other picture of a person, especially the head and shoulders. Labels: countable Example: In portraits, the grace, and, we may add, the likeness, consists more in the general air than in the exact similitude of every feature. 2. An accurate depiction of a person, a mood, etc. Labels: countable, figuratively Example: The author painted a good portrait of urban life in New York in his latest book. Example: She showed me her portrait, written by herself. I only remember what she states of her mouth, which, she says, was not only beautiful and red, but had a thousand little natural airs and graces not to be found in any other mouth. Oh, I must not forget her figure, which, she assured the reader, was the best-made and the finest that could be seen: nothing could be more regular, more graceful, or more easy. 3. A print orientation where the vertical sides are longer than the horizontal sides. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: portrait Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle French portraict, pourtraict, nominal use of the past participle of portraire (“portray”), from Latin prōtrahō (< prō- + trahō). Compare typologically English drawing. Pronunciation: /ˈpɔːtɹeɪt/, /ˈpɔːtɹɪt/, /ˈpɔɹtɹət/, /ˈpɔɹtɹeɪt/, /ˈpoʊɹtɹət/ 1. To portray; to draw. Labels: obsolete Example: But all as in most exquisite pictures, they vse to blaze and portrait, not only the daintie lineaments or beautie, but also round about it to shadowe the rude thickets and craggy clifts Example: Methinkes yᵉ picture of Sᵗ George fighting with yᵉ Dragon hath some resemblance of Sᵗ Michael fighting with the Devil, who is pourtrated like a Dragon.
Word: portrait Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle French portraict, pourtraict, nominal use of the past participle of portraire (“portray”), from Latin prōtrahō (< prō- + trahō). Compare typologically English drawing. Pronunciation: /ˈpɔːtɹeɪt/, /ˈpɔːtɹɪt/, /ˈpɔɹtɹət/, /ˈpɔɹtɹeɪt/, /ˈpoʊɹtɹət/ 1. Representing the actual features of an individual; not ideal. Labels: not-comparable Example: a portrait bust; a portrait statue
Word: busts Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /bʌsts/ 1. plural of bust Labels: form-of, plural
Word: busts Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /bʌsts/ 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of bust Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: misstep Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *mey-? Proto-Indo-European *meyth₂-der. Proto-Germanic *missaz Proto-Germanic *missa- Proto-West Germanic *missa- Old English mis- Middle English mys- English mis- Proto-Germanic *stapjaną Proto-West Germanic *stappjan Old English stæppan Middle English steppen English step English misstep From mis- + step. Pronunciation: /ˈmɪs.stɛp/ 1. A step that is wrong, a false step. Example: On a high ledge, a misstep could be fatal. Example: […] burdened as he was, he did not think of length or height or toil. He remembered only to avoid a misstep and to keep his direction. 2. An error or mistake. Labels: figuratively Example: His comment was a misstep that could cost him dearly. Example: Plenty of past seasons’ events could look ill-conceived in the critical eye of Monday-morning quarterbacking, but previously, the show had earned the benefit of the doubt that missteps on the part of supposedly intelligent characters were a plausible lack of in-world foresight.
Word: misstep Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *mey-? Proto-Indo-European *meyth₂-der. Proto-Germanic *missaz Proto-Germanic *missa- Proto-West Germanic *missa- Old English mis- Middle English mys- English mis- Proto-Germanic *stapjaną Proto-West Germanic *stappjan Old English stæppan Middle English steppen English step English misstep From mis- + step. Pronunciation: /mɪsˈstɛp/ 1. To step badly or incorrectly. Labels: intransitive Example: My dance partner misstepped and landed on my toe. Example: Eckhart also speaks of this happening to a man who has misstepped (vertreten, as I recall); God, then, corrects the mis-swing of the man and brings him back to the Tao or Logos. 2. To make an error or mistake. Labels: intransitive Example: I don't want to misstep by offending them.
Word: charming Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English charmynge; equivalent to charm + -ing. Pronunciation: /ˈtʃɑː(ɹ).mɪŋ/ 1. Pleasant, charismatic. Example: "What a charming amusement for young people this is, Mr. Darcy! There is nothing like dancing after all. I consider it as one of the first refinements of polished society." Example: In the abstract, Stuhlbarg’s twinkly-eyed sidekick suggests Joe Pesci in Lethal Weapon 2 by way of late-period Robin Williams with an alien twist, but Stuhlbarg makes a character that easily could have come across as precious into a surprisingly palatable, even charming man. 2. Delightful in a playful way which avoids responsibility or seriousness, as if attracting through a magical charm.
Word: charming Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English charmynge; equivalent to charm + -ing. Pronunciation: /ˈtʃɑː(ɹ).mɪŋ/ 1. present participle and gerund of charm Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: charming Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English charmynge; equivalent to charm + -ing. Pronunciation: /ˈtʃɑː(ɹ).mɪŋ/ 1. The casting of a magical charm. Example: They denied me often flour, barm and milk, / Goose-grease and tar, when I ne'er hurt their charmings, / Their brewlocks, nor their batches, nor forespoke / Any of their breedings.
Word: charming Part of Speech: intj Etymology: From Middle English charmynge; equivalent to charm + -ing. Pronunciation: /ˈtʃɑː(ɹ).mɪŋ/ 1. Used in response to behaviour or language considered offensive or uncouth. Labels: British, ironic Example: The other murderer is sadistically hacked to pieces, while the proceedings are being videoed – and the DVD is sent to Nick's home so that his daughter can see it. Oh, charming.
Word: yours truly Part of Speech: phrase Etymology: Recorded in the late 1700s as a closing in a letter. Since the mid-1800s for "I", "me", or "myself". 1. Used to close a note or letter. Labels: idiomatic Example: Please write back soon! Yours truly, Alice.
Word: yours truly Part of Speech: pron Etymology: Recorded in the late 1700s as a closing in a letter. Since the mid-1800s for "I", "me", or "myself". 1. I, me, or myself. Labels: humorous, idiomatic, informal Example: This one was created by yours truly. Example: Miss Lydgate, Miss de Vine, little Chilperic and yours truly were bridesmaids, with the Warden to give the bride away.
Word: precisely Part of Speech: adv Etymology: Etymology tree English precise Proto-Indo-European *leyg-der. Proto-Germanic *līkąder. Proto-Germanic *-līkaz Proto-Germanic *-ê Proto-Germanic *-līkê Proto-West Germanic *-līkē Old English -līċe Middle English -ly English -ly English precisely From precise + -ly. Pronunciation: /pɹɪˈsaɪs.li/ 1. In a precise manner; exactly. Example: I always try to express myself precisely. Example: "To be sure. Mr Carlyle, the private detective——" "Inquiry agent," corrected Mr Carlyle precisely. 2. Used to provide emphasis. Labels: focus
Word: customer Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English custumer, from Old French coustumier, costumier (compare modern French coutumier), from Medieval Latin custumarius (“a toll-gatherer, tax-collector”, noun), from custumarius (“pertaining to custom or customs”, adjective), from custuma (“custom, tax”). More at custom. By surface analysis, custom + -er. Pronunciation: /ˈkʌs.tə.mə/, /ˈkʌs.tə.mɚ/, /ˈkɐs.tə.mə/ 1. A habitual patron, regular purchaser, returning client; a person or company who has a custom of buying from a particular business. Labels: obsolete 2. A person or company who purchases or receives a product or service from a business or merchant or intends to do so. Example: Every person who passes by is a potential customer. Example: Airlines are the chief customers of the commercial divisions of large-aircraft manufacturers such as Airbus, Boeing, and Embraer. 3. A person, especially one engaging in some sort of interaction with others. Labels: informal Example: a cool customer, a tough customer, an ugly customer Example: Pug could just see Slote's pale face under his fur hat. "I don't agree with you on that. He's a pretty tough customer, Hopkins." 4. A native official who exacted customs duties. Labels: India, historical Example: His houses […] are seized on by the Customer. Example: The Customer should come and visit them.
Word: insignificant Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From in- (“not”) + significant. Pronunciation: /ˌɪnsɪɡˈnɪfɪkənt/ 1. Not significant; not important, inconsequential, or having no noticeable effect. Example: Such things are insignificant details compared to the main goal. 2. Without meaning; not signifying anything.
Word: insignificant Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From in- (“not”) + significant. Pronunciation: /ˌɪnsɪɡˈnɪfɪkənt/ 1. Someone or something that is insignificant. Example: Methinks I feel all the Woman riſe in me when I reflect upon the nauſeous Rogues that pretend to deceive us. Wretches! that can never have it in their Power to over-reach any Thing living but their Miſtreſſes! In the Name of Goodneſs, if we are deſigned by Nature as ſuitable Companions to the other Sex, why are we not treated accordingly? If we have Merit, as ſome allow, why is it not as baſe in Men to injure us, as one another? If we are the Inſignificants, that others call us, where is the Triumph in deceiving us? Example: The whole forenoon generally ſpent amidſt a ſucceſſion of viſitants, a mob of idlers; the reſt of the day in dinners, public places, and evening-parties. Although in my own mind I deſpiſed the giddy reſtleſs inſignificants that figured in this perpetual drama; yet as I conſidered myſelf as a paſſenger only for the time, I ſubmitted to be carried along with the ſtream, and partook of the flying amuſements, as they occurred.
Word: boundaries Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ˈbaʊnd(ə)ɹiz/ 1. plural of boundary Labels: form-of, plural
Word: restrict Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Borrowed from Latin restrictus, perfect passive participle of restringō (“draw back tightly; restrain, restrict”), from re- (“back, again”) + stringō (“press, tighten, compress”). Doublet of ristretto as an adjective. Pronunciation: /ɹɪˈstɹɪkt/ 1. To restrain within boundaries; to limit; to confine Example: After suffering diahrroea, the patient was restricted to a diet of rice, cold meat, and yoghurt. Example: It was no less than Valencia deserved after dominating possession in the final 20 minutes although Chelsea defended resolutely and restricted the Spanish side to shooting from long range. 2. To consider (a function) as defined on a subset of its original domain. Labels: specifically Example: If we restrict sine to #92;left#91;-#92;frac#92;pi2,#92;frac#92;pi2#92;right#93;, we can define its inverse.
Word: restrict Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Borrowed from Latin restrictus, perfect passive participle of restringō (“draw back tightly; restrain, restrict”), from re- (“back, again”) + stringō (“press, tighten, compress”). Doublet of ristretto as an adjective. Pronunciation: /ɹɪˈstɹɪkt/ 1. Restricted. Labels: obsolete
Word: efficient Part of Speech: adj Etymology: 1398, “making,” from Old French, from Latin efficientem, nominative efficiēns, participle of efficere (“work out, accomplish”) (see effect). Meaning “productive, skilled” is from 1787. Efficiency apartment is first recorded 1930, American English. Pronunciation: /ɪˈfɪʃənt/, /əˈfɪʃənt/ 1. Making good, thorough, or careful use of resources; not consuming extra. Especially, making good use of time or energy. Example: An efficient process would automate all the routine work. Example: Our cleaners are almost too efficient: they throw away anything left out on a desk. 2. Expressing the proportion of consumed energy that was successfully used in a process; the ratio of useful output to total input. Example: The motor is only 20% efficient at that temperature. 3. Causing effects, producing results; bringing into being; initiating change (rare except in philosophical and legal expression efficient cause = causative factor or agent). Example: Ownership, maintenance, or use of the automobile need not be the direct and efficient cause of the injury sustained Example: It was well said of Plotinus, that the stars were significant, but not efficient. 4. effective, efficacious Labels: proscribed Example: Ye wake no more to anguish;‥ ye have borne The Chosen, the Destroyer!‥ soon his hand Shall strike the efficient blow; Soon shaking off your penal forms, shall ye, With songs of joy, amid the Eden groves, Hymn the Deliverer’s praise! Example: The Efficient Cause is that from which emanates the force that produces the Effect
Word: efficient Part of Speech: noun Etymology: 1398, “making,” from Old French, from Latin efficientem, nominative efficiēns, participle of efficere (“work out, accomplish”) (see effect). Meaning “productive, skilled” is from 1787. Efficiency apartment is first recorded 1930, American English. Pronunciation: /ɪˈfɪʃənt/, /əˈfɪʃənt/ 1. A cause; something that causes an effect. Labels: obsolete Example: Some are without efficient, as God; others without matter, as Angels […]. Example: This implies, that something happens without a cause. If it should be said, that motive in this case is not the efficient of the action or doing — this is granted; but at the same time, for reasons already given, it is denied, that the man himself is the efficient cause of it.
Word: exalt Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English exalten, from Old French exalter, from Latin exaltō. Pronunciation: /ɪɡˈzɒlt/, /ɪɡˈzɔːlt/, /ɪɡˈzɔlt/, /ɪɡˈzɑlt/ 1. To honor; to hold in high esteem; to praise or worship. Labels: transitive Example: The LORD is exalted, for he dwells on high. Example: They exalted their queen. 2. To raise in rank, status etc., to elevate. Labels: transitive Example: The man was exalted from a humble carpenter to a minister. 3. To elate, or fill with the joy of success. Labels: transitive 4. To refine or subtilize. Labels: archaic, transitive
Word: conflicted Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /kənˈflɪktɪd/ 1. simple past and past participle of conflict Labels: form-of, participle, past Example: [T. E.] Lawrence said that in the end he felt himself to be fighting not for the imperial British but for the rebellious Arabs. All too often he conflicted with British bureaucratic fustiness.
Word: conflicted Part of Speech: adj Pronunciation: /kənˈflɪktɪd/ 1. In a state of personal or emotional conflict. Labels: Canada, US, informal Example: I felt conflicted about whether he liked me or not. Example: She has always been conflicted about her relationship with my family. 2. Having a conflict of interest. Labels: proscribed
Word: yours sincerely Part of Speech: adj 1. A polite, formulaic phrase used at the end of a letter, especially when the sender knows the recipient's name. Labels: UK, idiomatic
Word: yours faithfully Part of Speech: adj 1. A polite, formulaic end to a letter, used especially when the sender does not know the recipient's name, for example in a business letter. Labels: UK
Word: respects Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ɹɪˈspɛkts/ 1. plural of respect Labels: form-of, plural 2. regards or respect expressed for a deceased person, usually at the same time as offering condolences to other mourners. Labels: often Example: Please come to the funeral service and pay your last respects to her grandmother.
Word: respects Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /ɹɪˈspɛkts/ 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of respect Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: formic acid Part of Speech: noun 1. The simplest carboxylic acid, HCOOH, a colourless, corrosive liquid with a sharp odour systematically known as methanoic acid; it is present in the stings of ants, bees and nettles, and is prepared industrially by the oxidation of methanol or formaldehyde; it has some industrial uses, and its esters, the formates are used in perfumes. Labels: uncountable Example: The ant has made himself illustrious / Through constant industry industrious. / So what? / Would you be calm and placid / If you were full of formic acid?
Word: formate Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From formic + -ate (“salt or ester”). Pronunciation: /ˈfɔː(ɹ)meɪt/ 1. Any salt or ester of formic acid. Example: But most likely my judgement was distorted by my contempt for his acting the young buck [...] for ever waxing his moustaches and loading himself with medicaments supposed to replace the failing sap of youth, glycerophosphates, formates, nux vomica, yohimba, damiana.
Word: formate Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Back-formation from formation on the basis of -ate (verb-forming suffix). Pronunciation: /fɔː(ɹ)ˈmeɪt/ 1. To assemble flying aircraft into formation; to fly in formation. Example: Tiger Moths from the Reserve Flying Schools at Rochester and Cambridge competed with each other at formating in the gusty conditions, Rochester just winning. Example: Formating with Patty Wagstaff' s modified Baron, flown by Dale Snodgrass, was fun on a beautiful morning, though all you learn about an airplane while formating is the power response (very smooth) and the response to control pressures.