nandhakumarms/qualc-wiktionary-en huggingface dataset:
Word: embrasure Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From French embrasure, from embras(er) + -ure, from Old French embrasure (“cut at a slant, make a groove or furrow”), from em- + braser (“cut at a slant”). Pronunciation: /ɪmˈbɹeɪʒə(ɹ)/ 1. Any of the indentations between the merlons of a battlement; an opening in a wall or parapet through which ordnance can be fired. Example: Near-synonym: crenel (sometimes hyponymous technically) Example: But there were less casualties than might have been expected, and the barricade rose steadily, a wall of concrete two feet thick, with embrasures for two machine-guns and a small field gun. 2. Any small protected space. Labels: figuratively Example: She had a special seat there, a little embrasure between two upright slabs of sandstone, which was sheltered and private. 3. The slanting indentation in a wall for a door or window, such that the space is larger on the inside than the outside. Example: When the fit had spent itself he walked weakly to the window and, lifting the sash, sat in a corner of the embrasure and leaned his elbow upon the sill. Example: Now he stands in a window embrasure, Liz's prayer book in hand. 4. An embrace. Labels: obsolete Example: And suddenly; where injury of chance / Puts back leave-taking, justles roughly by / All time of pause, rudely beguiles our lips / Of all rejoindure, forcibly prevents / Our lock'd embrasures, strangles our dear vows / Even in the birth of our own labouring breath:
Word: petronoia Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Coined by Ben Brockwell, editor-in-chief of the Oil Price Information Service. Blend of petroleum + paranoia. 1. Fear and/or paranoia due to the economics of oil and petroleum. Labels: rare, uncountable Example: Last week, as Americans were hit the hardest by record crude oil prices, the LA Times reported, in a piece entitled "Supply Fears, Fuel Speculators Pumping up Oil Prices." It goes on in the article. It says, "In an energy futures market wracked with concern that oil demand might outstrip supplies, traders call it petronoia, threats alone were enough to ignite prices."
Word: bumper crop Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From bumper (“(noun) thing which is particularly abundant, excellent, or large; (adjective) particularly abundant, excellent, or large”) + crop, originally referring to a very large harvest of a crop. Pronunciation: /ˈbʌmpə ˌkɹɒp/, /ˈbʌmpəɹ ˌkɹɑp/ 1. An excess of something; a large yield. Labels: idiomatic Example: The kindergarten seems to have a bumper crop of new children this year. Example: And then the Gay Rights Movement took over and I watched a new generation of homos coming down the assembly line. The Anita Bryant and John Briggs madness of the late '70s brought a bumper crop of new activists onto the scene who were different than the Gay Lib queers.
Word: waggish Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree English wag Proto-Indo-European *-iskos Proto-Germanic *-iskaz Proto-West Germanic *-isk Old English -isċ Middle English -ish English -ish English waggish From wag (“waghalter, rogue”) + -ish. 1. witty, jocular, like a wag Example: [H]ere Pen was immensely waggish, and caused hysteric giggles of delight from the ladies […] Example: As the time went on and the impenetrable Carrados made no allusion to the case, Carlyle's manner inclined to a waggish commiseration of his host's position. 2. mischievous, tricky
Word: actuate Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₂eǵ- Proto-Indo-European *-eti Proto-Indo-European *h₂éǵeti Proto-Italic *agō Latin agō Proto-Indo-European *-tus Proto-Italic *-tus Latin -tus Latin āctus Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti Proto-Indo-European *-h₂tiinflu. Proto-Italic *-ājō Proto-Italic *-āō Latin -ō Latin āctuō Medieval Latin āctuātusder. English actuate From Medieval Latin āctuātus, perfect passive participle of āctuō (“actuate, implement”), from Latin āctus, perfect passive participle of agō (“do, act”). Pronunciation: /ˈæktʃu.eɪt/, /ˈæktju.eɪt/, /ˈækt͡ʃu.eɪt/, /ˈækt͡ʃʉ.æɪt/ 1. To activate, or to put into motion; to animate. Labels: transitive Example: Wings, which others were contriving to actuate by the perpetual motion. Example: I walk always with my right hand closed round the india-rubber ball which I have in my trouser pocket. The pressing of this ball actuates a detonator inside the flask I carry in my pocket. It's the principle of the pneumatic instantaneous shutter for a camera lens. 2. To incite to action; to motivate. Labels: transitive Example: 1748, David Hume, Enquiries concerning the human understanding and concerning the principles of moral, 2. ed., London, Oxford University Press, 1973. § 11. A man in a fit of anger, is actuated in a very different manner from one who only thinks of that emotion. Example: Men of the greatest abilities are most fired with ambition; and, on the contrary, mean and narrow minds are the least actuated by it.
Word: gnawer Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From gnaw + -er. Pronunciation: /ˈnɔːə/, /ˈnɔəɹ/ 1. One who gnaws. Example: South America is characterized by possessing many peculiar gnawers […]. Example: The Norway Rat is a good digger and a superb gnawer.
Word: alimentary Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree English aliment Proto-Indo-European *-yósder. Proto-Italic *-āzios Latin -āriusder. Middle English -arie English -ary English alimentary From aliment (“food”) + -ary. Pronunciation: /ˌælɪˈmɛnt(ə)ɹi/ 1. Of, or relating to food, nutrition or digestion. Example: Like Malthus and Young, [Ricardo] could not imagine that humankind would ever be totally freed from the alimentary imperative. 2. Nourishing; nutritious.
Word: alimony Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Known since the 17th century, from Latin alimōnia (“food, support, nourishment, sustenance”) (English aliment, as in alimentary), itself from alō (“to nourish”) + -mōnia (“action, state, condition”). Pronunciation: /ˈæl.ɪ.mə.ni/, /ˈæl.ə.moʊ.ni/ 1. A court-mandated allowance made to a former spouse by a divorced or legally separated person. Labels: countable, derogatory, sometimes, uncountable Example: In that case he has to pay her alimony even if there are no children, and if she is one of those smart ones, interested in nothing but a good living and independence, she is set for life. Example: Who won, huh? Nobody. Used to be sex was the only free thing, No longer. Alimony… palimony… it's all financial. Love is an illusion. 2. Nourishment, sustenance, especially for one's spirit. Labels: countable, obsolete, uncountable Example: […]while we eate the bread of sorrow, drinking the wine of compunction, wee hunger and thirst after heauenly things, and shall be comforted. This is the constant alimonie of the righteous, at dinner and supper, in life and death[…] Example: […] What marvell if our corne faile us, when wee faile God in the good employment of our corne?[…]So that drunkennesse, gluttony, fraud, covetisme, the unworthy receiving, or not receiving of the Sacraments, and a million more are all in cause, why God denies this fruitfull alimonie, which formerlie he gave. And doe we then aske what is the cause? when as our sinnes so superabundant are.
Word: nothing to write home about Part of Speech: adj 1. Not exceptional; not noteworthy or especially good. Labels: idiomatic, not-comparable Example: The vegetables were okay, but the soup was nothing to write home about.
Word: OOTB Part of Speech: prep_phrase 1. Initialism of out of the box (of a product). Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
Word: triticale Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Blend of Latin trīticum (“wheat”) + Latin sēcale (“rye”). Pronunciation: /ˌtɹɪtɪˈkeɪli/ 1. A grain crop, a hybrid of wheat and rye, that gives a high yield. Labels: uncountable 2. Any particular variety of triticale. Labels: countable
Word: freedom fighter Part of Speech: noun 1. A person involved in armed conflict against an occupation, or oppressive government, etc.; a revolutionary, an insurgent, a rebel or insurrectionist.
Word: fanny fart Part of Speech: noun Etymology: fanny (“the vagina”) + fart 1. An emission of air from the vagina, especially when audible. Labels: UK, informal, mildly, slang, vulgar 2. A (normal) fart. Labels: US, childish, mildly, vulgar
Word: spruce up Part of Speech: verb 1. To dress or arrange smartly, elegantly, and neatly; to smarten. Labels: idiomatic 2. To refresh, revamp; to freshen or improve something, especially its appearance. Labels: idiomatic Example: Fresh paint and some new curtains would do a lot to spruce up this dark room. Example: Hu Yaobang was officially rehabilitated on the ninetieth anniversary of his birth in 2005 and his mausoleum in China Youth League City (Gongqingcheng) in Jiangxi province was spruced up.
Word: bystander Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From by- + stander. Compare passerby. Pronunciation: /ˈbaɪˌstænd.ə(ɹ)/ 1. A person who, although present at some event, does not take part in it; an observer, witness, or spectator. Example: If he wins, he will be at liberty, perhaps, to give vent to a laugh, or to pass a remark on the circumstance to a bystander, or to stake again, or to double his stake; but, even this he must do solely out of curiosity, and for the pleasure of watching the play of chances and of calculations, and not because of any vulgar desire to win. Example: Conservative influencer Nick Sortor is handcuffed Thursday night by a police officer outside an ICE facility in Portland, Oregon, a bystander video shows; the video does not show events leading up to the arrest.
Word: impressed Part of Speech: adj Pronunciation: /ɪmˈpɹɛst/ 1. strongly affected, especially favourably Example: I was impressed with the cleanliness of the hotel. 2. stamped, under pressure 3. compelled to serve in a military force 4. confiscated by force or authority
Word: impressed Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /ɪmˈpɹɛst/ 1. simple past and past participle of impress Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: imprest Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /ɪmˈpɹɛst/ 1. simple past and past participle of impress Labels: form-of, obsolete, participle, past
Word: imprest Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Prefix form of prest, perhaps after Italian imprestare, or perhaps from a misunderstanding of the phrase in prest. Pronunciation: /ˈɪmpɹɛst/ 1. An advance of funds, especially to a government service or employee. Example: Calling on Lacon at the Cabinet Office to deliver the Circus's monthly imprest account for his inspection, he had been astonished to see Sam emerging from his private office, joking easily with Lacon and Saul Enderby of the Foreign Office.
Word: imprest Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Prefix form of prest, perhaps after Italian imprestare, or perhaps from a misunderstanding of the phrase in prest. Pronunciation: /ˈɪmpɹɛst/ 1. To advance funds on loan. Example: February 23 1780, Edmund Burke, Establism Bill it shall not be lawful to imprest or issue to the paymaster general of his majesty's land forces
Word: lymphatic Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree English lymph Proto-Indo-European *-tis Ancient Greek -τις (-tis) Ancient Greek -σῐς (-sĭs) Proto-Indo-European *-kos Proto-Hellenic *-kos Ancient Greek -κός (-kós) ? Proto-Indo-European *-tós Proto-Hellenic *-tós Ancient Greek -τος (-tos) ▲ Ancient Greek -κός (-kós) ? Ancient Greek -τῐκός (-tĭkós)bor. English -tic English -atic English lymphatic From lymph + -atic. Pronunciation: /lɪmˈfæ.tɪk/ 1. Pertaining to lymph or the lymphatic system. 2. Lacking energy or enthusiasm; having characteristics once associated with an excess of lymph: lack of muscle tone, paleness, sluggishness, etc. Example: Eleonore Lemindre, aged 34, tailoress, of a sanguine lymphatic temperament, having suffered great depression of spirits, experienced, in the course of 1820, symptoms of what is called disease of the heart. Example: Streaker, the housemaid, too, had an attribute of a most discomfiting nature. I am unable to say whether she was of an unusually lymphatic temperament, or what else was the matter with her, but this young woman became a mere Distillery for the production of the largest and most transparent tears I ever met with. 3. Madly enthusiastic; frantic. Labels: obsolete Example: A Negro stood by all the while trembling, now and then lifting up his hands and eyes, muttering his black Art to some hobgoblin, and (when we least suspected it) skips out, and in a limphatic rapture drew a long knife which he brandisht about his head 7 or 8 times, and after so many spells put it up againe; he then kisses the humid earth 3 times and rises merrily: upon a sudden, the skie cleared and no more noise affrighted us.
Word: lymphatic Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English lymph Proto-Indo-European *-tis Ancient Greek -τις (-tis) Ancient Greek -σῐς (-sĭs) Proto-Indo-European *-kos Proto-Hellenic *-kos Ancient Greek -κός (-kós) ? Proto-Indo-European *-tós Proto-Hellenic *-tós Ancient Greek -τος (-tos) ▲ Ancient Greek -κός (-kós) ? Ancient Greek -τῐκός (-tĭkós)bor. English -tic English -atic English lymphatic From lymph + -atic. Pronunciation: /lɪmˈfæ.tɪk/ 1. A vessel that transports lymph.
Word: civil service Part of Speech: noun 1. In parliamentary forms of government, the branches of government that are not military, legislative, or judicial, but work to apply its laws and regulations. 2. The body of civilian employees of any level of government, not subject to political appointment and removal, normally hired and promoted largely on the basis of competitive examination. Example: I want to thank the brilliant No 10 staff and our country's extraordinary civil service, who dedicate their lives to public service.
Word: tempestuous Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Late Middle English tempestious, tempestous, tempestuous (“stormy, turbulent, tempestuous”), from Anglo-Norman tempestous, and Old French tempesteus, tempestos, tempestous, tempestuose (modern French tempétueux), and directly from its etymon Latin tempestuōsus (“stormy, turbulent, tempestuous; impetuous”), from tempestās, tempestūs (“point or period of time; season; weather, specifically bad weather; storm, tempest”) (from tempus (“period of time; (rare) weather”), possibly from Proto-Indo-European *temh₁- (“to cut”) or *ten- (“to extend, stretch”)) + -ōsus (suffix meaning ‘full of; overly; prone to’ forming adjectives from nouns). The English word is equivalent to tempest + -uous (a variant of -ous (suffix forming adjectives from nouns, denoting the presence of a quality, typically in abundance)). Pronunciation: /tɛmˈpɛs.tjʊ.əs/, /-t͡ʃʊ-/, /tɛmˈpɛs.tʃu.əs/, /tɛmˈpɛs.tju.əs/ 1. Of, pertaining to, or resembling, a tempest; also, of a place: frequently experiencing tempests; (very) stormy. Example: I wyl aduertise you that this Boke is named the Shyp of foles of the worlde: For this worlde is nought els but a tempestous se in the whiche we dayly wander and are caste in dyuers tribulacions paynes and aduersitees: some by ignoraunce and some by wilfulnes: wherfore such doers ar worthy to be called foles. Example: [A] turbulent and tempeſtuous ſtorme aroſe, that encloſed them on everie ſide, ſo that laying aſide all hope, they vvere in utter deſpaire of their life, ſecuritie, or any helpe at all. 2. Characterized by disorderly, frenetic, or violent activity; stormy, tumultuous, turbulent; also, of a person, their behaviour or nature, etc.: characterized by bouts of bad temper or sudden changes of mood; impetuous, stormy, temperamental. Labels: figuratively Example: After their tempestuous argument, they did not speak to each other for weeks. Example: Yet I confesse in that tempestious hast [i.e., haste], / I said, that I from out thy sight was cast: / But thou didst heare, when I to thee did moane, / Then love the Lord all ye that feele his grace: […]
Word: lymphatic system Part of Speech: noun 1. In mammals, including humans, a network of lymph vessels and lymph nodes that transport fluid, fats, proteins, and lymphocytes to the bloodstream as lymph, and remove microorganisms and other debris from tissues.
Word: tempt Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English tempten, from Old French tempter (French: tenter), from Latin temptare, from tentare (“to handle, touch, try, test, tempt”), frequentative of tendere (“to stretch”). Displaced native English costning (“temptation”). Pronunciation: /tɛmpt/, /tɛmt/ 1. To provoke someone to do wrong, especially by promising a reward; to entice. Labels: transitive Example: She tempted me to eat the apple. Example: By Heav’ns, ſuch Virtues, join’d with ſuch Succeſs, Diſtract my very Soul: Our Father’s Fortune Wou’d almoſt tempt us to renounce his Precepts. 2. To attract; to allure. Labels: transitive Example: Its glossy skin tempted me. Example: The next time you are trout fishing and none of your lures tempts the fish, smoke a spoon hook and cast it. 3. To provoke something; to court. Labels: transitive Example: It would be tempting fate.
Word: temptation Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Old French temptacion, from Latin temptatio. Morphologically tempt + -ation. Pronunciation: /ˌtɛmpˈteɪʃən/ 1. The act of tempting. Labels: countable, uncountable 2. The condition of being tempted. Labels: countable, uncountable 3. Something attractive, tempting or seductive; an inducement, seducement, or enticement. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: At length, one night, when the company by ſome accident broke up much ſooner than ordinary, ſo that the candles were not half burnt out, ſhe was not able to reſiſt the temptation, but reſolved to have them ſome way or other. Accordingly, as ſoon as the hurry was over, and the ſervants, as ſhe thought, all gone to ſleep, ſhe ſtole out of her bed, and went down ſtairs, naked to her ſhift as ſhe was, with a deſign to ſteal them […] 4. Pressure applied to one's thinking designed to create wrong emotions which will eventually lead to wrong actions. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: tempting Part of Speech: adj Pronunciation: /ˈtɛmp.tɪŋ/ 1. Attractive, appealing, enticing. Example: It is tempting to speculate about the incentives or compulsions that might explain why anyone would take to the skies in [the] basket [of a balloon]: perhaps out of a desire to escape the gravity of this world or to get a preview of the next; […]. 2. Seductive, alluring, inviting.
Word: tempting Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /ˈtɛmp.tɪŋ/ 1. present participle and gerund of tempt Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: tempting Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ˈtɛmp.tɪŋ/ 1. The act of subjecting somebody to temptation. Example: If God doth suffer his own people and dearest children to be exposed to Satan's temptings and winnowings; Why should any man then doubt of his childship, doubt of his own everlasting condition, and say, that he is none of the child of God because he is tempted?
Word: lymph node Part of Speech: noun 1. Each of the small oval bodies of the lymphatic system, distributed along the lymphatic vessels, that are clustered in the armpits, groin, neck, chest and abdomen. They act as filters, with an internal honeycomb of connective tissue filled with lymphocytes and macrophages that collect and destroy bacteria, viruses and foreign matter from lymph. When the body is fighting an infection, these lymphocytes multiply rapidly and produce a characteristic swelling of the lymph nodes.
Word: tenable Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From the French tenable, from tenir (“to hold”); compare tenible. Pronunciation: /ˈtɛn.ə.bəl/, [ˈtɛn.ə.bl̩], /ˈten.ə.bəl/, [ˈten.ə.bl̩] 1. capable of being maintained or justified; well-founded Labels: usually Example: Back in the 1800s, many did not consider Darwin's theory of evolution to be tenable at all. Example: Modern war rests on industry, and its evolution has all but abolished the "non-combatant," emptied the old idea of "innocent" trade of meaning, and made even of neutrality a barely tenable status. 2. Capable of being defended against assault or attack; defensible Example: The island of Melos undoubtedly fell within his general conceptions of tenable empire for Athens. 3. Fit for habitation, similar, or related use. Example: In February, 1679, he was admitted "a planter" of the town and a home lot was granted him "on condition that it should have a tenable house built upon it within two years. Example: They made a day of straightening the leaning stable on its foundations and staying its framework, so that with new roof and sheathing, it would be a tenable building for many years to come.
Word: luminescent Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From stem of Latin lumen (“light”) + -escent, equivalent to luminesce + -ent. Pronunciation: /luːmɪˈnɛs(ə)nt/ 1. Emitting light by luminescence. Example: But this does not have the slightly yellow glow of things made with luminescent dye.
Word: militarism Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From French militarisme, by surface analysis, military + -ism. 1. An ideology which claims that the military is the foundation of a society's security, and thereby its most important aspect. Labels: countable, uncountable 2. A focus on, or excessive use of, military force. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: NAAFI Part of Speech: name 1. Acronym of Navy, Army and Air Force Institutes. Labels: abbreviation, acronym, alt-of
Word: NAAFI Part of Speech: noun 1. A member of the Navy, Army and Air Force Institutes.
Word: trypsin Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Ancient Greek τρῖψις (trîpsis, “rubbing”) + -in, since the substance was first found on rubbing down the pancreas with glycerine. Pronunciation: /ˈtɹɪp.sɪn/ 1. A digestive enzyme that cleaves peptide bonds (a serine protease) Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: Wolffian duct Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Named after German physiologist Caspar Friedrich Wolff (1733–1794), who described the mesonephros and its ducts in his dissertation in 1759. 1. A paired structure found in mammals including humans that develops in the early stages of embryonic development and plays a critical role in the formation of internal male reproductive organs; precursor to the vasa deferentia, seminal vesicles, and epididymides.
Word: uninformed Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree English un- English inform English -ed English informed English uninformed From un- + informed. Pronunciation: /ʌnɪnˈfɔɹmd/ 1. Not informed; ignorant. 2. Not imbued with life or activity. Labels: obsolete
Word: Benelux Part of Speech: name Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *bʰelǵʰ-? Proto-Celtic *belgosbor. Latin Belgaeder. Dutch Belg Dutch -ië Dutch België Old Dutch nither Middle Dutch nēder Dutch neder Proto-Indo-European *lendʰ- Proto-Indo-European *-om Proto-Germanic *landą Frankish *land Old Dutch lant Middle Dutch lant Dutch land Dutch Nederland Dutch Luxemburg blend Dutch Beneluxbor. English Benelux Borrowed from Dutch Benelux. Pronunciation: /ˈbɛnəlʌks/ 1. An economic and customs union made up of Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxembourg. 2. A region of Europe, consisting of the countries which constitute this union.
Word: Wehrmacht Part of Speech: name Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from German Wehrmacht, from wehren (“to defend”) + Macht (“might, force”). Pronunciation: /ˈvɛə(ɹ)ˌmɑːxt/, /ˈvɛə(ɹ)ˌmɑːkt/ 1. The German armed forces from 1935 to 1945. Labels: Nazism, historical Example: In the end the Allies battered the Wehrmacht back to the Reich and ended whatever chance the Germans had of escaping their fate. Example: Oh, yes. The Wehrmacht. Certainly the greatest fighting force ever assembled. Swift, ruthless.
Word: burette Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree French buire Proto-Indo-European *-tós Proto-Italic *-tosder.? Late Latin -ittus Old French -et Middle French -et French -etder. French -ette French burettebor. English burette Borrowed from French burette. Pronunciation: /bjʊəˈɹɛt/, /bjʊˈɹɛt/ 1. A glass tube with fine gradations and a stopcock at the bottom, used in laboratory procedures for accurate fluid dispensing and titration. 2. An altar cruet.
Word: 32-county Part of Speech: adj Etymology: The total number of counties in the island of Ireland. 1. Covering the whole of the island of Ireland, including both the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland. Labels: Ireland, UK, not-comparable Example: a 32-county tour Example: 32-county republic
Word: eye socket Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From eye + socket. 1. The bony cavity which contains the eyeball and its associated muscles, vessels, and nerves. In humans, seven bones make up each bony orbit. Example: Near-synonyms: eyehole, eye-pit 2. The entire eyehole in the face: both the bony orbit and the flesh that surrounds it.
Word: ISEF Part of Speech: name 1. Acronym of International Science and Engineering Fair. Labels: abbreviation, acronym, alt-of
Word: biol Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ˈbaɪɔl/, /baɪˈɔl/ 1. Abbreviation of biology. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, uncountable
Word: biol. Part of Speech: noun 1. Biology, biological. Labels: abbreviation, uncountable
Word: RNAi Part of Speech: noun 1. Initialism of RNA interference. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism, uncountable
Word: hPR Part of Speech: noun 1. Initialism of human progesterone receptor. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
Word: NR Part of Speech: adj 1. Initialism of not rated. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism, not-comparable
Word: NR Part of Speech: noun 1. Initialism of national record. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
Word: NR Part of Speech: name 1. Initialism of Network Rail, a rail infrastructure manager in Great Britain. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
Word: QB Part of Speech: noun 1. Abbreviation of quarterback. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of Example: Philip Rivers has left the Los Angeles Chargers so they took quarterback Justin Herbert at six, and late in the day Jordan Love was the fourth QB off the board, with the Green Bay Packers seemingly set to groom him to be Aaron Rodgers' long-term successor. 2. Abbreviation of quettabyte. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of 3. Abbreviation of quebibyte. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of
Word: QB Part of Speech: name 1. Abbreviation of QuickBASIC. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of 2. Initialism of Queen's Bench Division (a subseries of Incorporated Council of Law Reporting's Law Reports, in case the monarch is female). Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
Word: O&S Part of Speech: noun 1. Initialism of olefin and surfactant. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
Word: CAAC Part of Speech: noun 1. Initialism of cyclic alkyl-amino carbene. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
Word: CAAC Part of Speech: name 1. Initialism of Civil Aviation Administration of China. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
Word: NHC Part of Speech: noun 1. Initialism of N-heterocyclic carbene. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
Word: NHC Part of Speech: name 1. Initialism of National Hurricane Center. Labels: US, abbreviation, alt-of, initialism Example: “The NHC has issued a hurricane watch for southeastern Louisiana and the Mississippi and Alabama coasts.”
Word: environ Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From Middle English enviroun (“round about in a circle or ring; all around”) [and other forms], from Anglo-Norman enviroun, environ [and other forms], and Middle French enviroun, environ [and other forms], from Old French environ (“around, surrounding; about, approximately, roughly”) (modern French environ), from en- (prefix meaning ‘in; into’) + viron (“circuit; circumference, compass; country round about”) (though first attested later) (from virer (“to bear, turn, veer”) (either from Latin gȳrō (“to turn in a circle, rotate; to circle, revolve around”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *gew- (“to bend, curve; an arch, vault”)), or from Latin vibrō (“to hurl, launch; shake; to tremble, vibrate”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *weyb-, *weyp- (“to shake; to tremble; to sway, swing; to rotate, turn, wind, wrap (around)”))) + -on (augmentative suffix)). Cognates * Catalan enviró, environ (both obsolete) * Occitan environ * Spanish environ (obsolete) Pronunciation: /ɪnˈvaɪɹən/, /ɛn-/, /ɪnˈvaɪ(ə)ɹən/ 1. In the neighbourhood; around. Labels: not-comparable, obsolete Example: Thaboũdant grace of the power deuyne / whiche doth illumyne yͤ world inuyron / Preſerue this audyẽce and cauſe them to inclyne / To charyte this is my petycyon Example: Lord Godfreyes eie three times enuiron goes, / To vievv vvhat count'nance euerie vvarriour beares, […] 2. Almost, nearly. Labels: not-comparable, obsolete
Word: environ Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Late Middle English invyroun, Middle English enuyroun, enuyrown, from Anglo-Norman enviroun, environ, envirun, and Middle French environ (“circumference; surroundings; (in the plural) boundaries, frontiers”) (chiefly in the plural) (modern French environ), a noun use of Old French environ (adverb): see etymology 1. Pronunciation: /ɪnˈvaɪɹən/, /ɛn-/, /ɪnˈvaɪ(ə)ɹən/ 1. A surrounding area or place (especially of an urban settlement); an environment. Labels: also, figuratively, formal, obsolete, transitive Example: Naples and its environs Example: I got up to yᵉ Towre, whence we had a prospect towards Duresme, and could see Rippon, part of Lancashire, the famous and fatal Marston Moore, yᵉ Spaws of Knaresborough, and all the environs of that admirable country.
Word: technol Part of Speech: noun 1. Abbreviation of technology. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of
Word: DPA Part of Speech: noun 1. Initialism of diphenylanthracene. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable 2. Initialism of docosapentaenoic acid. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable 3. Initialism of deferred prosecution agreement. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable 4. Initialism of defensive patent aggregation. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism, uncountable
Word: DPA Part of Speech: name 1. Initialism of Data Protection Act. Labels: UK, abbreviation, alt-of, initialism 2. Initialism of Defence Production Act. Labels: Canada, abbreviation, alt-of, initialism 3. Initialism of Defense Production Act. Labels: US, abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
Word: alluvial Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Latin alluvius (“alluvial”), from alluviō (“an overflowing, inundation”), from alluō (“wash against”). By surface analysis, alluvium + -ial. Pronunciation: /əˈluː.vi.əl/ 1. Pertaining to the soil deposited by a stream. Labels: not-comparable Example: I am a working engineer from the Mount Magdalena district of Coolgardie. I don't want to take up your time with outside details so I will only say that about two years ago I had an opportunity of acquiring a share in a very promising claim—gold, you understand, both reef and alluvial. Example: Soils are a prominent feature of floodplain environments, and we include them in this section because most of the available information on ancient soils pertains to alluvial examples, aside from those in Quaternary-Recent time.
Word: alluvial Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Latin alluvius (“alluvial”), from alluviō (“an overflowing, inundation”), from alluō (“wash against”). By surface analysis, alluvium + -ial. Pronunciation: /əˈluː.vi.əl/ 1. A deposition of sediment over a long period of time by a river; an alluvial layer. Labels: countable 2. Alluvial soil; specifically, in Australia, gold-bearing alluvial soil. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: alluvium Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Medieval Latin alluvium (“matter deposited by flowing water”), neuter of alluvius (“deposited by a river”), from Latin alluviō (“washing upon, overflowing”). See also al-. 1. soil, clay, silt or gravel deposited by flowing water, as it slows, in a river bed, delta, estuary or flood plain
Word: amputate Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Latin amputō (“prune, cut away”). The original sense of pruning (a tree, etc.) became obsolete. The OED considers uses related to anything other than an animal limb to be figurative uses of the modern sense. Pronunciation: /ˈæmpjʊteɪt/ 1. To cut off, to prune. Labels: obsolete 2. To surgically remove a part of the body, especially a limb. Example: The surgeon had to amputate the patient’s leg to save his life. Example: Several soldiers had limbs amputated after the battle.
Word: anon. Part of Speech: noun 1. Abbreviation of anonymous. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of
Word: tr Part of Speech: noun 1. Abbreviation of translator. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of 2. Initialism of table row. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism 3. Abbreviation of treble crochet or triple crochet. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of Example: 11 tr into 3rd ch from hook, join with sl st to top of beginning ch 3 (12 tr made)
Word: tr Part of Speech: adj 1. Abbreviation of transitive. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, not-comparable
Word: tr. Part of Speech: noun 1. Abbreviation of tinctura (Latin for “tincture”). Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, uncountable 2. Abbreviation of trace. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, uncountable 3. Abbreviation of track. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, uncountable 4. Abbreviation of tragedy. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, uncountable 5. Abbreviation of trail. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, uncountable 6. Abbreviation of train. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, uncountable 7. Abbreviation of trainee. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, uncountable 8. Abbreviation of transaction. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, uncountable 9. Abbreviation of transfer. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, uncountable 10. Abbreviation of translation. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, uncountable 11. Abbreviation of translator. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, uncountable 12. Abbreviation of transport. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, uncountable 13. Abbreviation of transportation. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, uncountable 14. Abbreviation of transposition. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, uncountable 15. Abbreviation of treasurer. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, uncountable 16. Abbreviation of treble. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, uncountable 17. Abbreviation of trill. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, uncountable 18. Abbreviation of troop. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, uncountable 19. Abbreviation of truck. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, uncountable 20. Abbreviation of trumpet. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, uncountable 21. Abbreviation of trumpeter. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, uncountable 22. Abbreviation of trust. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, uncountable 23. Abbreviation of trustee. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, uncountable
Word: tr. Part of Speech: adj 1. Abbreviation of transitive. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, not-comparable 2. Abbreviation of translated. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, not-comparable 3. Abbreviation of treble. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, not-comparable
Word: tr. Part of Speech: verb 1. Abbreviation of translate. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of 2. Abbreviation of transpose. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of
Word: amuck Part of Speech: adv Pronunciation: /əˈmʌk/, /əˈmʊk/ 1. Alternative form of amok. Labels: alt-of, alternative Example: when, like the inhabitants of the Malay Peninsula, they ran amuck, and made it their habit to destroy life[…]
Word: amuck Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /əˈmʌk/, /əˈmʊk/ 1. Alternative form of amok. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: Tr. Part of Speech: noun 1. Abbreviation of trustee. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of
Word: Tr. Part of Speech: noun 1. Abbreviation of trumpet. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of
Word: RFD Part of Speech: adj 1. Initialism of ready for dyeing. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
Word: RFD Part of Speech: noun 1. Initialism of request for discussion. Labels: Internet, abbreviation, alt-of, initialism 2. Initialism of radio frequency device. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
Word: RFD Part of Speech: name 1. Initialism of Rural Free Delivery. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
Word: Eurasia Part of Speech: name Etymology: From Euro- + Asia or blend of Europe + Asia. Pronunciation: /jʊˈɹeɪ.ʒə/, /jəˈɹeɪ.ʒə/ 1. The largest and most populous landmass on Earth, a supercontinent consisting of Europe and Asia; sometimes also including neighboring islands. 2. A region comprising parts of Eastern Europe, the Caucasus and Central Asia; the countries of the former Soviet Union and the sphere of influence of Russia. Example: This bureaucratic security-minded elite has invariably weathered changes in government by maintaining the personal ties that continue to dominate political life in the newly independent states. Political patronage continues to thrive in Eurasia. Example: The Failure of Regionalism in Eurasia and the Western Ascendancy over Russia's Near Abroad
Word: appurtenance Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English appurtenaunce, from Anglo-Norman apurtenance and Old French apartenance, from apartenir, from Latin appertineō (“to belong, to appertain”). More at appertain. By surface analysis, appertain + -ance. Pronunciation: /əˈpɜr tn əns/ 1. That which appertains to something else; a belonging, accompaniment, adjunct, appendage, attribute, or accessory ; an addition. Example: Indeed, that was as it should be; for she was only an appurtenance of my mattress, or self-acting bedstead on four castors. Example: The youngsters, not immediately within sight, seemed rather bright and desirable appurtenances than otherwise; the incidents of daily life were not without humorousness and jollity in their aspect there. 2. Equipment used for some specific task; gear. Labels: in-plural Example: Araminta, come I'll talk ſeriouſly to you now, could you but ſee vvith my Eyes the buffoonry of one Scene of Addreſs, a Lover, ſet out with all his Equipage and Appurtenances; […] Example: A couple of hair gloves, with a flesh-brush, may be added to the toilet appurtenances. 3. A subordinate interest in land which benefits a principal estate, which cannot be detached from or held separately to that estate; an appurtenant interest. Example: It is well settled that a water right may pass with land as an appurtenance thereto, or as a parcel thereof. Example: Also I will that anon after the said nine years after my decease determined that my said feoffees make estate of all the said manors, lands and tenements with the appurtenance to my next heir and to the heirs of his body lawfully begotten. 4. A modifier that is appended or prepended to another word to coin a new word that expresses belonging. 5. The state or quality of being an appurtenance. Example: Thus, these two characteristics — appurtenance and the lack of need for any act of acquisition - go together and depend upon each other; one is merely looking at different facets of the same thing. Example: A second father is Kurt Koffka for his principle of appurtenance that he expanded from motions to colors.
Word: UW Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ˌjuˈdʌb/, /juː dʌb.əl.juː/ 1. Initialism of underwriter. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism 2. Initialism of underwater. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
Word: UW Part of Speech: name Pronunciation: /ˌjuˈdʌb/, /juː dʌb.əl.juː/ 1. Initialism of University of Washington. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
Word: storing Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of store Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: storing Part of Speech: noun 1. An amount stored. Example: The divisions of the barn which are separated by the floor, or situated between it and the ends, are called the bays, and the storings of unthrashed corn in them are called the mows.
Word: amock Part of Speech: adv 1. Obsolete spelling of amok. Labels: alt-of, obsolete
Word: amock Part of Speech: noun 1. Obsolete spelling of amok. Labels: alt-of, obsolete
Word: Sahel Part of Speech: name Etymology: Borrowed from Arabic سَاحِل (sāḥil, “border of the desert, coastline”). Pronunciation: /səˈhɛl/ 1. A region of Africa, between the Sahara to the north and a more humid zone (Sudan) to the south. Example: As Russia’s foothold in Africa expands – notably in the mineral-rich Sahel region that is beset by recurring coups, armed rebellion and extremist insurgency – anti-Western sentiments, partly fueled by Russian propaganda, are engineering the exit of Western troops from swathes of territory. 2. An administrative region of Tunisia, in the central east part of the country.
Word: arguendo Part of Speech: adv Etymology: Borrowed from Latin arguendō. 1. for the sake of argument; assuming without deciding; identifying the premises of a hypothetical argument while making it clear that no finding is being made on whether the premises are true. Labels: not-comparable Example: 1978, Matter of Green, 586 F. 2d 1247 - U.S. Court of Appeals, 8th Circuit Assuming arguendo that those assertions are factually true, we find respondent's claim to be without legal merit. Example: Grant me, arguendo, that sort of scenario, with the Soviet federation rebuilding and small wars raging here and there, as the world of the millennium. 2. Used to set off the facts presented in an argument on a point of law from facts in dispute in the case. Labels: not-comparable
Word: DDR Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /diː diː ɑː/, /diː diː ɑɹ/ 1. Initialism of double data rate. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable 2. Double-data-rate computer RAM. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: DDR Part of Speech: name Pronunciation: /diː diː ɑː/, /diː diː ɑɹ/ 1. GDR (German Democratic Republic) (from German DDR, initialism of Deutsche Demokratische Republik) Labels: historical 2. Initialism of Dance Dance Revolution. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
Word: pinna Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Latin pinna (“dorsal fin; wing, feather”). Doublet of pen, penna, and panne. Pronunciation: /ˈpɪnə/ 1. The visible part of the ear in most therians that resides outside of the head, the auricle; outer ear excluding the ear canal. 2. A leaflet or primary segment of a pinnate compound leaf. 3. A feather, wing, fin, or other similar appendage.
Word: GDR Part of Speech: noun 1. Initialism of global depository receipt. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
Word: GDR Part of Speech: name 1. Initialism of German Democratic Republic (“former state, 1949–1990”). Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, historical, initialism Example: Developments were markedly different in the Soviet zone, but ultimately ended in perhaps an even grimmer dead end: that of SED leader Walter Ulbricht’s thoroughly Stalinized German Democratic Republic (GDR). […] Subsequently, the GDR’s antifascist tradition would be diluted, distorted, and refashioned into an ahistorical national origins myth in which the citizens of East Germany were officially proclaimed the “victors of history,” but where little space remained for the real and complicated history, not to mention ambivalent role of Stalinized Communism, behind it.
Word: tenacious Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Latin tenāx (“holding fast, clinging”), from tenēre (“to hold”), + -ious. Pronunciation: /təˈneɪʃəs/ 1. Clinging to an object or surface; adhesive. 2. Unwilling to yield or give up; dogged. 3. Holding together; cohesive. Example: The quagmiry road, trodden into tenacious paste by the long file of human beings ahead […] 4. Having a good memory; retentive.
Word: tenancy Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From tenant + -cy. Pronunciation: /ˈtɛnənsi/, [ˈtʰɛnənsɪi̯], /ˈtɪ̟nənsi/, [ˈtʰɪ̟nənsɪi̯] 1. Synonym of lease (an interest in land, its related contract or the document containing that contract); more commonly used when a lease is short-term or has a periodic rent that is not merely nominal. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Most gay people know oppresion as fear of losing a job, losing a tenancy or family ties.
Word: tenderhearted Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From tender + hearted. 1. Compassionate for another's distress. Example: I am tender-hearted by nature, and have found my eyes moist many a time over the scream of a wounded hare. Example: The other patients in the ward, all but the Texan, shrank from him with a tenderhearted aversion from the moment they set eyes on him the morning after the night he had been sneaked in. 2. Easily moved to love.
Word: SHTML Part of Speech: noun 1. Initialism of server-parsed HTML. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism, uncountable
Word: tender-hearted Part of Speech: adj 1. Alternative form of tenderhearted. Labels: alt-of, alternative Example: Besides this, most of us must have remarked that a certain harshness of manner is contracted by those who have the rule over the poor. They come in contact with human souls only in the way of business. They have to do with their ignorance, their stupidity, their attempts to deceive; and hence the tenderest-hearted men become impatient and apparently unfeeling. Example: But they never could induce her to shoot at anything except a mark. She was the tenderest-hearted little thing in the world.
Word: tenderness Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From tender + -ness. Pronunciation: /ˈtɛn.dɚ.nɪs/, /ˈtɛn.də.nɪs/ 1. Quality, state or condition of being tender. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: He picked her up in his arms with great tenderness. 2. A tendency to express warm, compassionate feelings. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: When the lovers were together, their cold indifference gave way to love and tenderness. Example: I had known him jealous, suspicious; I had seen about him certain tendernesses, fitfulnesses—a softness which came like a warm air, and a ruth which passed like early dew, dried in the heat of his irritabilities: this was all I had seen. 3. A concern for the feelings or welfare of others. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: When they saw the poor orphans, they were overwhelmed with tenderness for them. Example: Everybody needs a little tenderness sometimes. 4. A pain or discomfort when an affected area is touched. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: He noted her extreme tenderness when he touched the bruise on her thigh. Example: Amies Oelschlager said in a statement that oral contraceptives that contain estrogen may cause side effects such as headaches, nausea, and breast tenderness.
Word: tenement Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English tenement, from Anglo-Norman tenement (“holding”), from Old French tenement, from Medieval Latin tenimentum, from Latin teneō (“hold”). Pronunciation: /ˈtɛnɪmənt/ 1. A building that is rented to multiple tenants, especially a low-rent, run-down one. Example: He turned into Cumberland street and, going on some paces, halted in the lee of the station wall. No-one. Meade’s timberyard. Piled balks. Ruins and tenements. 2. Any form of property that is held by one person from another, rather than being owned. Example: The island of Brecqhou is a tenement of Sark. 3. A dwelling; abode; habitation. Labels: figuratively Example: Who has informed us that a rational soul can inhabit no tenement, unless it has just such a sort of frontispiece? Example: Where she came from no man could tell. There were some said she was no woman, but a ghost haunting some mortal tenement.
Word: cacographic Part of Speech: adj 1. Displaying the properties of bad spelling or bad handwriting or both.
Word: cacographer Part of Speech: noun 1. A person who exhibits the traits of bad spelling or bad handwriting or both.
Word: tennis court Part of Speech: noun 1. A firm, rectangular surface, marked with lines and having a net across the middle, where the game of tennis is played.
Word: WD Part of Speech: noun 1. Initialism of white dwarf. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism 2. Initialism of wheel drive. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism Example: 4WD 3. Initialism of wing defence. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism 4. Initialism of working draft Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
Word: WD Part of Speech: name 1. Initialism of Wikidata. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
Word: machinate Part of Speech: verb Etymology: First attested in 1537; borrowed from Latin machinātus, perfect active participle of machinor (“to invent, devise; to scheme, plot”) (see -ate (verb-forming suffix)), from māchina (“machine, contrivance, device, scheme”), an early borrowing from Ancient Greek. See also machine. Pronunciation: /ˈmækɪneɪt/, /ˈmæʃɪneɪt/ 1. To devise a plot or secret plan; to conspire. Labels: ambitransitive Example: Had she already managed to machinate a cushy job for her husband?