nandhakumarms/qualc-wiktionary-en huggingface dataset:
Word: Hewitt Part of Speech: name Etymology: From a Middle English diminutive of Hugh. Pronunciation: /ˈhjuː.ɪt/ 1. A surname originating as a patronymic. 2. A number of places in the United States: 3. A number of places in the United States: 4. A number of places in the United States: 5. A number of places in the United States: 6. A number of places in the United States:
Word: Hewett Part of Speech: name Etymology: From a Middle English diminutive of Hugh. 1. A surname originating as a patronymic. 2. A town in Clark County, Wisconsin, United States. 3. A suburb in Light regional council area, north of Gawler, South Australia.
Word: Hewat Part of Speech: name Etymology: From a Middle English diminutive of Hugh. 1. A surname originating as a patronymic.
Word: Howat Part of Speech: name Etymology: From a Middle English diminutive of Hugh. 1. A surname originating as a patronymic.
Word: Howett Part of Speech: name Etymology: From a Middle English diminutive of Hugh. 1. A surname originating as a patronymic.
Word: Howitt Part of Speech: name Etymology: From a Middle English diminutive of Hugh. 1. A surname originating as a patronymic. 2. A locality in the Shire of Carpentaria, northern Queensland, Australia, probably named after Alfred William Howitt.
Word: Howlett Part of Speech: name Etymology: From a Middle English diminutive of Hugh. 1. A surname originating as a patronymic.
Word: Huet Part of Speech: name Etymology: From a Middle English diminutive of Hugh. 1. A surname originating as a patronymic.
Word: Huett Part of Speech: name Etymology: From a Middle English diminutive of Hugh. 1. A surname originating as a patronymic.
Word: Huitt Part of Speech: name Etymology: From a Middle English diminutive of Hugh. 1. A surname originating as a patronymic.
Word: Hulett Part of Speech: name Etymology: From a Middle English diminutive of Hugh. 1. A surname originating as a patronymic.
Word: Hewetson Part of Speech: name Etymology: From a Middle English diminutive of Hugh + -son. 1. A surname originating as a patronymic.
Word: Hewison Part of Speech: name Etymology: From a Middle English diminutive of Hugh + -son. 1. A surname originating as a patronymic.
Word: Howatson Part of Speech: name Etymology: From a Middle English diminutive of Hugh + -son. 1. A surname originating as a patronymic.
Word: Howieson Part of Speech: name Etymology: From a Middle English diminutive of Hugh + -son. 1. A surname originating as a patronymic.
Word: Huetson Part of Speech: name Etymology: From a Middle English diminutive of Hugh + -son. 1. A surname originating as a patronymic.
Word: Huitson Part of Speech: name Etymology: From a Middle English diminutive of Hugh + -son. 1. A surname originating as a patronymic.
Word: Huws Part of Speech: name Etymology: From Hugh + -s. * (surname): From Hugh + patronymic suffix -s. 1. A surname originating as a patronymic.
Word: Huws Part of Speech: name Etymology: From Hugh + -s. * (surname): From Hugh + patronymic suffix -s. 1. plural of Huw Labels: form-of, plural
Word: lubet Part of Speech: noun 1. pleasure. Labels: countable Example: You must believe me that on this street, neither in the houses which line it, nor the cobblestones which pave it, nor the elevated structure which cuts it atwain, neither in any creature that bears a name and lives thereon, neither in any animal, bird or insect passing through it to slaughter or already slaughtered, is there hope of “lubet,” “sublimate” or “abominate.”
Word: microsat Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Shortening. 1. microsatellite
Word: minisat Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Shortening. 1. minisatellite
Word: microsats Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of microsat Labels: form-of, plural
Word: minisats Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of minisat Labels: form-of, plural
Word: Hudd Part of Speech: name Etymology: From a Middle English given name derived from Hugh and probably merged with an Old English given name Hūda. 1. A surname originating as a patronymic.
Word: Hudd Part of Speech: name Etymology: Shortened form of Huddersfield created by taking all the letters of the first syllable and the first consonant of the second syllable. 1. University of Huddersfield, used especially following post-nominal letters indicating status as a graduate.
Word: Huddle Part of Speech: name Etymology: Variant of Hudd. 1. A surname originating as a patronymic.
Word: Huddy Part of Speech: name Etymology: Two main origins: * A pet form of the medieval personal name Hudde. * Reduced Anglicized form of Irish Ó hUada (“descendant of Uada”), a personal name of uncertain origin. 1. A surname. Labels: countable, uncountable 2. An unincorporated community in Pike County, Kentucky, United States. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: Huddy Part of Speech: name Etymology: Blend of House + Cuddy. 1. The ship of characters Gregory House and Lisa Cuddy from the television series House. Labels: slang Example: Explore the numerous Live Journal communities that specialize in everything from "Hameron" (House/Cameron ) and "Huddy" (House/Cuddy) to "Hilson" (House/Wilson) and any other pairing your imagination can conjure. Example: Huddy and Hameron are particularly popular pairings, though the show's writers have focused on cultivating the former rather than the latter.
Word: Hutson Part of Speech: name Etymology: From Hudd + -son. Doublet of Hudson. Pronunciation: /ˈhʌt.sən/ 1. A surname originating as a patronymic.
Word: Howey Part of Speech: name Etymology: From a Middle English diminutive form of Hugh. 1. A surname originating as a patronymic. 2. A village in Disserth and Trecoed community, Powys, Wales (OS grid ref SO0558).
Word: Hulance Part of Speech: name Etymology: From a Middle English diminutive form of Hugh + patronymic suffix -s. 1. A surname originating as a patronymic.
Word: -ior Part of Speech: suffix Etymology: From Latin -ior, the nominative masculine and feminine singular of the comparative suffix -iōr. 1. Suffix occurring in comparative adjectives borrowed from Latin. Labels: morpheme Example: anterior, inferior, junior, posterior, senior, superior
Word: -ior Part of Speech: suffix Etymology: Variant of -iour. 1. Alternative form of -iour Labels: US, alt-of, alternative, morpheme Example: behavior, havior, savior
Word: common names Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of common name Labels: form-of, plural
Word: keercheef Part of Speech: noun 1. Obsolete form of kerchief. Labels: alt-of, obsolete
Word: cannakin Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of canakin. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: cannikin Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of canakin. Labels: alt-of, alternative Example: Well, we had our breakfast of ship's bread and molasses, washed down with cannikins of something liquid - but not lovely.
Word: kannakin Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of canakin. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: puck-out Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of puckout. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: whilend Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English whilende, whilwende, from Old English hwīlende, hwīlwende (“transitory, temporary, temporal”), from hwīl (“time, while”) + -wende (“moving, going about, turning”, suffix), equivalent to while + wending. 1. Passing; temporal; temporary; not lasting; not permanent; transient; transitory; not eternal. Labels: obsolete
Word: wokou Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Mandarin 倭寇 (wōkòu, “Japanese pirates”). 1. Pirates of a mixture of ethnicities who raided the coastlines of China and Korea from the 13th to 16th centuries. Labels: historical, plural, plural-only
Word: brain cramp Part of Speech: noun 1. A temporary mental lapse, such as an inability to remember something, to focus one's attention, to understand something, or to perform some other mental task of which one would ordinarily be capable. Labels: figuratively Example: "I can't remember. I've got a cramp of the brain. Do you mind hitting me over the head?" "What for?" "To make me forget the last two minutes, and take away my brain cramp." Example: Don't think too fast at the start. You can get a brain cramp, which is how marathon ruminations are lost.
Word: brain-cramp Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of brain cramp. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: whinnock Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From whine + -ock or from whin, wheen (“small amount or number”) + -ock. 1. The smallest pig in a litter; the runt. Labels: UK, dialectal 2. A milk-pail. Labels: UK, dialectal
Word: unstableness Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From unstable + -ness. 1. The quality of being unstable; instability Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: impetiginous Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin impetīginōsus. 1. Of, pertaining to, or suffering from, impetigo. Labels: not-comparable Example: impetiginous ulcer Example: impetiginous vessels
Word: hydroferrocyanic Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From hydro- + ferrocyanic. 1. Only used in hydroferrocyanic acid Labels: not-comparable
Word: anisodactylous Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From aniso- + -dactyl + -ous. 1. anisodactyl Labels: archaic, not-comparable
Word: beduck Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From be- + duck. 1. To duck or immerse thoroughly; submerge. Labels: transitive
Word: hunting lodge Part of Speech: noun 1. A building used for the recreational use of hunting.
Word: outmode Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From out- + mode. 1. To render (something) no longer fashionable. Labels: transitive Example: Thus, in this age of ideological convergence and the outmoding of rigid doctrine, a new pragmatic [relationship] of immense importance seems to be developing here. Example: Every aspect of Renaissance realism seemed calculated to outmode the medieval illuminators' pictorial vocabulary with its miniature dimensions - two-dimensional patterning and conventionalizations of natural forms.
Word: outmode Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From out- + mode. 1. Something that is unfashionable or obsolete. Example: Encouraged by, for some reason, his clanky, fire-breathing mother, Ratchet wants to take replacement parts off the market and offer expensive "upgrades" instead. The broken-down "outmodes" who cannot afford to remake themselves will be swept off the street and sent to Ma Ratchet's underground furnace. Example: Which brings us to what happens after a robot perishes. As the Rusties explain, "outmodes"-- robots who can no longer get spare parts to be repaired -- are swept up by Sweepers and taken to the Chop Shop, where they're melted down into something else.
Word: præsidial Part of Speech: adj 1. Obsolete form of presidial. Labels: alt-of, obsolete Example: After the death of Constantine the Great, disturbances were revived in North Britain, and from the time of dividing the country into two consular provinces— Maxima Cæsariensis and Valentia— and into three præsidial districts— Britannia Prima, Britannia Secunda, and Flavia Cæsariensis (Lancashire being included in the first‐named province and in the last‐named district)— the power of the Romans rapidly declined ; further, the northern part, at any rate, of the empire was menaced with desolation by the Continental barbarians.
Word: SWOT Part of Speech: noun 1. Acronym of strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, threats. Labels: abbreviation, acronym, alt-of, uncountable Example: Could you do a SWOT analysis of the business proposal I sent you?
Word: outmodes Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of outmode Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: outmodes Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of outmode Labels: form-of, plural
Word: outmoding Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of outmode Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: outmoding Part of Speech: noun 1. The act or process of something becoming outmoded. Example: And these outstrippings and outmodings, they assert, were necessary and desirable, considering the internal limitations of the lyric form.
Word: hunting lodges Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of hunting lodge Labels: form-of, plural
Word: pneumatic trough Part of Speech: noun 1. A piece of laboratory apparatus, consisting of a vessel filled with liquid (generally water or mercury), used for collecting gases. Example: The pneumatic trough used at Calne was larger than that he had used in Leeds, and fresh water was not so conveniently at hand.
Word: side puck Part of Speech: noun 1. A penalty shot awarded against a player who runs over the sideline with the ball. The opponents take a free puck from where the ball crossed the line.
Word: sideline cut Part of Speech: noun 1. A penalty shot awarded against a player who runs over the sideline with the ball. The opponents take a free puck from where the ball crossed the line; side puck. Example: In the first half we had a sideline cut, and as the ball was dropping in I could tell the Tipp player in front of me was gone up too early for it and wasn't going to get to it. Example: Tipp took a quick sideline cut, worked it up the field and engineered an overlap, Peter Kelly had to come, Séamus Callanan slipped the ball through to Bubbles, who drove it past Noley, who nearly stopped it. 2. A sudden change of direction and run for the sideline. Example: In the sideline-and-up pass, both the receiver and the passer are faking the sideline cut. Example: Here, the receiver combines the sideline-flag pattern with a second sideline cut. 3. A shot where the ball is angled sharply toward the sideline, just barely in bounds. Example: If it is too far back he can't get as sharp a downward angle or sideline cut.
Word: I'm easy Part of Speech: phrase 1. I have no strong feelings one way or another but I am ready to comply. Labels: informal
Word: reviviscent Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Latin reviviscens, present participle of reviviscere (“to revive”), from re- (“re-”) + viviscere, verb inchoate from vivere (“to live”). 1. Able or disposed to revive; reviving. Example: representing the reviviscent plants
Word: gather dust Part of Speech: verb 1. To remain unused for a long period of time. Labels: idiomatic Example: Since he bought the book, it's just been sitting on the bookshelf and gathering dust. Example: As we contemplate the half-finished arterial roads and electrification plans of our own age, and the town-planning schemes that gather dust in the public libraries, we can admire the drive and action of the railway pioneers.
Word: higher intermediate point Part of Speech: noun 1. A place on an itinerary to which there is a higher fare than the destination or next fare break point.
Word: higher intermediate fare Part of Speech: noun 1. An airfare that is higher at a midpoint than the destination or next fare break point.
Word: embassadour Part of Speech: noun 1. Obsolete spelling of ambassador. Labels: alt-of, obsolete
Word: flare angel Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From the similarity to angels' wings. 1. A geometric design caused by the vortices of an aircraft swirling the smoke from its anti-missile flares.
Word: saddle reef Part of Speech: noun 1. A mineral deposit associated with the crest of an anticlinal fold and following the bedding planes, usually found in vertical succession, especially the gold-bearing quartz veins of Australia. 2. An opening at the crest of a sharp fold in sedimentary rocks, occupied by ore. 3. A saddle-shaped bedded mineral (usually gold-bearing quartz) vein occurring along the crest of an anticline or (less common) a syncline (an inverted saddle). Labels: Australia
Word: saddle reefs Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of saddle reef Labels: form-of, plural
Word: saddle back reef Part of Speech: noun 1. A saddle reef: a saddle-shaped bedded mineral vein in the form of an anticline or a syncline (an inverted saddle).
Word: saddle back reefs Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of saddle back reef Labels: form-of, plural
Word: saddle vein Part of Speech: noun 1. A saddle-shaped bedded mineral vein in the form of an anticline or a syncline (an inverted saddle). Labels: Australia
Word: saddle veins Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of saddle vein Labels: form-of, plural
Word: synclines Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of syncline Labels: form-of, plural
Word: cupidities Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of cupidity Labels: form-of, plural
Word: crystalographic Part of Speech: adj 1. Alternative spelling of crystallographic. Labels: alt-of, alternative, not-comparable
Word: idempotents Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of idempotent Labels: form-of, plural
Word: lengthscales Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of lengthscale Labels: form-of, plural
Word: lengthscale Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of length scale. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: length scale Part of Speech: noun 1. A particular length or distance whose value is determined to one order of magnitude (or to very few orders of magnitude)
Word: lensings Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of lensing Labels: form-of, plural
Word: lightclock Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of light clock. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: light clock Part of Speech: noun 1. A hypothetical clock, used to show time dilation, that would count the journeys of a single photon between two parallel mirrors.
Word: magnetoimpedance Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From magneto- + impedance. 1. The analogy to impedance in an alternating magnetic flux Labels: uncountable
Word: palindromization Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From palindrome + -ization. 1. The conversion of a word (or other string of characters) into a palindrome Labels: uncountable
Word: saddlepoint Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of saddle point. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: semicyclic Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From semi- + cyclic. 1. Describing a polygon that is inscribed within a circle and has one of its sides being the diameter Labels: not-comparable
Word: sequentiality Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From sequential + -ity. 1. The condition of being sequential. Labels: uncountable
Word: superpolynomials Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of superpolynomial Labels: form-of, plural
Word: superweakly Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From superweak + -ly. 1. Via superweak particles. Labels: not-comparable
Word: shagged out Part of Speech: adj 1. exhausted (as if with sexual activity) Labels: UK, slang
Word: febriculose Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Latin febrīculōsus. 1. Somewhat feverish. Labels: obsolete, rare Example: In the beginning of the first stage , the effects of the increased action upon the sensorium are perhaps not great : even when the disease is so far advanced that the patient is febriculose, averse to light, sick , disturbed in urine varies so much[…]
Word: quadragintireme Part of Speech: noun 1. A vessel with 40 rows of oars. Labels: historical Example: As to the Quadragintiremes, or vessels usually described as having forty ranks or tiers of oars, we cannot reconcile the report to our understandings, except by supposing them nothing more than galleys fitted with as many oars in each rank.
Word: Lake Wobegon effect Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From the fictional place Lake Wobegon in Garrison Keillor's A Prairie Home Companion, where all the women are strong, all the men are good looking, and all the children are above average. 1. Illusory superiority, that is, the belief that a majority of people are or can be above average. Example: “It’s the Lake Wobegon effect,” said Dr. Daniel P. Sulmasy, senior author and a professor of medicine and ethics at the University of Chicago. “If you have more than 50 percent of patients saying their chances are better than average of avoiding some harm or obtaining some benefit, they are being unrealistically optimistic because you can’t say that most people are above average.”
Word: Colonel Sanders Part of Speech: name Etymology: After Colonel Harland Sanders, the founder of Kentucky Fried Chicken 1. A KFC restaurant. Labels: slang Example: > looking for a female who likes to have a good time, around 20-24. […] no fat chicks Fat chicks grow into big, fat chickens that go to Colonel Sanders and then they make into tasty giblets which skinny women like to have a good time with! Example: >Oh yeah? What about those other famous "chicken" records? > >"KFC Lovin'" by Little Willie Littlefield? "I'm going to Colonel Sanders, Colonel Sanders here I come I'm going to Colonel Sanders, Colonel Sanders here I come They got extra crispy chicken there And I'm gonna get me some.
Word: diamond lane Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Usually painted with a white diamond or lozenge. 1. A freeway lane designated for sole use by high occupancy vehicles. Labels: Canada, US
Word: diamond lanes Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of diamond lane Labels: form-of, plural
Word: union high school Part of Speech: noun 1. A high school or high school district that serves students from more than one elementary school district. Labels: US
Word: might-be Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From might + be. Compare might-have-been, would-be. 1. That might be or occur; possible; potential; hypothetical. Labels: not-comparable Example: "There is a might-be particle called a 'magnetic monopole' that was suggested by certain theories of Dirac and others but had never been observed.
Word: might-be Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From might + be. Compare might-have-been, would-be. 1. That which might be or happen; a possibility. Example: In the Biology Teachers'" Handbook (Wiley, 1963), Schwab writes: A hypothesis is a "might be", a possibility which we intend to test . . . one of the values of a hypothesis consists in the fact that it can be made to point like an arrow [...] Example: Firstness comprises anything capable of being described without contradiction (2.667), it is a might-be, in other words, pure possibility, which Peirce calls "quality": "mere quality, or suchness, is not in itself an occurrence, as seeing a red object is; it is a mere may-be.
Word: varsoviana Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of varsovienne. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: varsovianas Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of varsoviana Labels: form-of, plural
Word: clustered index Part of Speech: noun 1. a type of database index that physically sorts the data in a table on the disk to match the criteria specified by the index.
Word: packed lunches Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of packed lunch Labels: form-of, plural
Word: side orders Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of side order Labels: form-of, plural
Word: nonclustered index Part of Speech: noun 1. a type of database index that contains a series of sorted pointers pointing to the physical data rows, which are organized either in a heap or in the sort order specified by a clustered index, on the disk
Word: -le Part of Speech: suffix Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Germanic *-lōną Old English -lian Middle English -len English -le From Middle English -len, -elen, from Old English -lian (frequentative verbal suffix), from Proto-West Germanic *-lōn, from Proto-Germanic *-lōną (frequentative verbal suffix). Cognate with West Frisian -elje, Dutch -elen, German -eln, Danish -le, Norwegian Bokmål -le, Norwegian Nynorsk -la, Swedish -la, Icelandic -la. Compare -er. Pronunciation: /əl/, /l̩/ 1. A frequentative suffix of verbs, indicating repetition or continuousness Labels: morpheme Example: assle, buzzle, crackle, cuddle, dazzle, draggle, drawl, dribble, drizzle, fumble, gamble, grapple, handle, jostle, kissle, maddle, mingle, nestle, nuzzle, prattle, quibble, ramble, rattle, ripple, scribble, sile, sizzle, sniffle, snuggle, startle, stopple, suckle, tattle, tickle, topple, waggle, whemmle, wiggle, wrestle
Word: -le Part of Speech: suffix Etymology: From Middle English -el, -le (adjectival), from Old English -el, -ol, from Proto-Germanic *-ulaz and *-ilaz (adjective suffixes). Cognate with West Frisian -el, Dutch -el, Low German -el, German -el, Icelandic -ill. Pronunciation: /əl/, /l̩/ 1. Forming adjectives from verbs with the meaning of "prone to", "tending to", "apt to", "capable of"; compare -ative Labels: morpheme Example: battle, breakle, brittle, fickle, forgettle, little, newfangle, nimble, wankle
Word: -le Part of Speech: suffix Etymology: From Middle English -el (agent suffix), from a combination of two suffixes: * Old English -el, -il (diminutive suffix), from Proto-Germanic *-ilaz (diminutive suffix). * Old English -el, -ol, -ul (agent suffix), from Proto-Germanic *-ilaz (agent suffix). Cognate with West Frisian -el, Dutch -el, Low German -el, German -el. Pronunciation: /əl/, /l̩/ 1. Forming diminutives from other nouns. Labels: morpheme Example: dump + -le → dimple Example: dung + -le → dingle 2. Forming agent nouns from verbs Labels: morpheme Example: beadle, beetle, bridle, bundle, cripple, fettle, girdle, ladle, losel, runnel, shovel, spindle, spittle, steeple, stile, stopple, thimble, tool, towel, trundle
Word: immediable Part of Speech: adj 1. Unable to be mediated; irresolvable. Labels: not-comparable Example: The immediable conflict between England and France led to a series of bloody wars.
Word: laitand Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English laitande, present participle of laiten (“to seek, look for”), equivalent to lait + -and. 1. Seeking; inquiring. Labels: UK, dialectal
Word: bestep Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English bisteppen, from Old English besteppan (“to tread upon, step, go, enter”), from Proto-Germanic *bistapjaną (“to enter”), equivalent to be- + step. Cognate with Dutch bestappen. 1. To step on; step over, tread upon. Labels: transitive Example: And also it is using non-necessary spiritual attentions, because we see the dog in the way and we say "excuse me," and we notify a piddle in the street and we are worried not to bestep it. 2. To step; take steps; walk. Labels: intransitive Example: One wintry day up drove the stage And out bestepped Miss Nancy Page, […]
Word: infaring Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From infare (“to enter”). 1. A faring or entering in; entrance; entry. Labels: uncountable Example: Tell me; had there been a spark of love for me in her heart, would she have treated me as the dust beneath her feet on that long infaring from the western mountains? Example: The number of the functionaries not subject to confirmation has grown greatly since the infaring of President Roosevelt.
Word: Hero Part of Speech: name Etymology: From Ancient Greek Ἡρώ (Hērṓ). Pronunciation: /ˈhɪə.ɹəʊ/, [ˈhɪə.ɹəʊ~ˈçɪə.ɹəʊ], /ˈhɪɹ.oʊ/, /ˈhiɹ.oʊ/, /ˈhɛɹ.oʊ/ 1. Any of a number of legendary men and women, including the priestess loved by Leander. Labels: Greek 2. A female given name from Ancient Greek of English-speakers. Labels: rare Example: You hear, Count Claudio: I can be secret as a dumb man; I would have you think so; but on my allegiance mark you this, on my allegiance: he is in love. With who? now that is your Grace's part. Mark how short his answer is: with Hero, Leonato's short daughter.
Word: Heron Part of Speech: name Etymology: * As an English and French surname, from heron. * As an English surname, from Harome in Yorkshire, from Old English harum, dative plural of hær (“stone”) * As an Irish surname, from O'Heron, from Ó hUidhrín (literally “descendant of Uidhrín”), from odhar (“swarthy”). * As an Irish surname, from Ó hEaráin; see Haren. * As an Irish surname, from Mac Giolla Chiaráin (literally “son of the servant of Ciarán”); see Kieran. 1. A surname. 2. A census-designated place in Sanders County, Montana, United States.
Word: tænia Part of Speech: noun 1. Obsolete form of taenia. Labels: alt-of, obsolete
Word: tænias Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of tænia Labels: form-of, plural
Word: tæniæ Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of tænia Labels: form-of, plural
Word: Germanically Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From Germanic + -ally. 1. In a manner that is Germanic.
Word: tæniasis Part of Speech: noun 1. Obsolete form of taeniasis. Labels: alt-of, obsolete
Word: darkles Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of darkle Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: darkled Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of darkle Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: tænicide Part of Speech: noun 1. Obsolete form of taenicide. Labels: alt-of, obsolete
Word: fæcally Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From fæcal + -ly. 1. Obsolete form of fecally. Labels: alt-of, not-comparable, obsolete
Word: fucivorous Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Ancient Greek φῦκος (phûkos, “seaweed”), + -vorous. 1. Feeding primarily on seaweeds. Example: a common species of fucivorous sea turtle
Word: sanitary wares Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of sanitary ware Labels: form-of, plural
Word: slow-walk Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Attested since 1973 in Southern dialects of American English; prominent since the late 1990s. Thought by William Safire to derive from a Tennessee term for the walking gait of the Tennessee Walking Horse, which is generally called "flat walk", but sometimes a "slow walk". 1. To delay a request or command, to drag one's feet, to stall, to obstruct, to drag out a process. Labels: especially, idiomatic, transitive Example: many of the men were simply standing around and were purposely ‘slow-walking’ the project […] to stretch out the term of employment. Example: Since assuming office, Trump has issued many private demands to aides that have either been slow-walked or altogether ignored.
Word: slow-walk Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Attested since 1962 in Southern (North and South Carolina) dialects of American English; of unknown origin. 1. To punish, to chastise. Labels: transitive
Word: animatrices Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of animatrice Labels: form-of, plural 2. plural of animatrix Labels: form-of, plural
Word: pupæ Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of pupa Labels: archaic, form-of, plural
Word: Tœufles Part of Speech: name 1. A commune that is located in north France.
Word: Argœuves Part of Speech: name 1. A commune of Somme department, Hauts-de-France, in northern France.
Word: Estrébœuf Part of Speech: name 1. A commune that is located in north France.
Word: Lesbœufs Part of Speech: name 1. A commune that is located in northern France.
Word: Neuville-lès-Lœuilly Part of Speech: name 1. A commune that is located in northern France.
Word: Lœuilly Part of Speech: name 1. A commune that is located in northern France.
Word: Pœuilly Part of Speech: name 1. A commune of Somme department, Hauts-de-France, in northern France.
Word: œnochoe Part of Speech: noun 1. Obsolete typography of oenochoe. Labels: alt-of, obsolete Example: Most of the finest vases with black figures, consisting of hydriæ, amphoræ, and œnochoæ, many of large size and of finest drawing and colour, have been found at Vulci. Example: ‘Among them may be noticed the following:—Two very beautiful Greek painted vases, œnochoæ with red figures of a fine style;[…]’
Word: tuchun Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From the Wade–Giles romanization of the Mandarin Chinese pronunciation for 督軍／督军 (dūjūn, “military governor; warlord”). Pronunciation: /tuːˈt͡ʃʊn/ 1. A Chinese military governor or warlord. Labels: historical Example: He planned to shift the appointment of Ts’ai Ao from Yunnan to the post of tuchün [title of military governor of a province] of Hunan so that Ts’ai Ao, who wished to go home, could superintend affairs in his native province.
Word: minour Part of Speech: adj 1. Obsolete form of minor. Labels: alt-of, obsolete
Word: minour Part of Speech: noun 1. Obsolete form of minor. Labels: alt-of, obsolete
Word: bimas Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of bima Labels: form-of, plural
Word: limping iamb Part of Speech: noun 1. An iambic verse in which the last foot is a spondee or trochee instead of an iambus.
Word: iambi Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of iambus Labels: form-of, plural
Word: opening statement Part of Speech: noun 1. In adversarial legal systems, a statement made by a party at the beginning of a trial or comparable factfinding proceeding, in which that party lays out their case, generally including the points of fact that they intend to demonstrate and to some degree indicating the rhetorical arguments for why they should prevail.
Word: opening argument Part of Speech: noun 1. In adversarial legal systems, a statement made by either party at the beginning of a trial or comparable factfinding proceeding, in which that party lays out their case, generally including the points of fact that they intend to demonstrate and to some degree indicating the rhetorical arguments for why they should prevail.
Word: opening speech Part of Speech: noun 1. In adversarial legal systems, a statement made by either party at the beginning of a trial or comparable factfinding proceeding, in which that party lays out their case, generally including the points of fact that they intend to demonstrate and to some degree indicating the rhetorical arguments for why they should prevail.
Word: opening statements Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of opening statement Labels: form-of, plural
Word: opening arguments Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of opening argument Labels: form-of, plural
Word: opening speeches Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of opening speech Labels: form-of, plural
Word: APGAR Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Backronym, from Apgar score. 1. appearance, pulse, grimace, activity, respiration (used to remember how to give a newborn an Apgar score)
Word: Apgar score Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Named after Virginia Apgar, who developed it in 1952. 1. A zero- to ten-point score given to newborns based on their APGAR vitals.
Word: Apgar scores Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of Apgar score Labels: form-of, plural
Word: nk. Part of Speech: noun 1. Abbreviation of neck. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of
Word: impact statement Part of Speech: noun 1. Testimony, either oral or written, provided during a proceeding in a court of law which describes the harmful effects produced by the actions of an accused or convicted party and suffered by the victim or others, offered especially for consideration by the court in deciding an appropriate punishment. Example: The lawyer for a teenager at the center of Lawrence Taylor's sexual misconduct case says the girl will make an impact statement at the former football star's sentencing. 2. An analysis or study which describes the expected effects of a policy, project, or action being contemplated by a business or government organization. Example: Before closing or phasing out a school, the schools chancellor must prepare a detailed impact statement that describes, among other things, changes in how the building would be used, the effects on the surrounding community and the ability of other schools in the area to absorb new students.
Word: aphanipterous Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Aphaniptera + -ous. 1. Of or pertaining to fleas of Aphaniptera, a former classification of insects. Labels: not-comparable Example: According to the brief text surrounding the drawing, the emerald was an aphanipterous parasite of Caledonian wintergreen, a plant peculiar to Scotland, and was sometimes endowed with an intermittent phosphorescence at night which gave rise to a sort of green halo above it, parallel to the general plane of its body.
Word: atrabiliar Part of Speech: adj 1. melancholy; atrabilious Labels: archaic Example: ‘Paris marching on us?’ responds Mounier, with an atrabiliar accent: ‘Well, so much the better! We shall the sooner be a Republic.’
Word: diagometer Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Ancient Greek 1. A kind of electroscope in which the dry pile is employed to measure the amount of electricity transmitted by different bodies, or to determine their conductive power. Example: the use of an instrument called a diagometer, constructed so as to show the electrical conductibility of the oil to be examined
Word: diagometers Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of diagometer Labels: form-of, plural
Word: disbranch Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From dis- + branch. 1. To remove a branch or branches. Labels: transitive Example: There is no tree admits of transplantation so well as the Elm, for a tree of twenty years growth will admit of a remove. Mr. Evelyn says, he has removed them twice as big as a man's waist ; but then they were totally disbranched, the top being left only intire […] Example: You have to disbud and disbranch your plants to get one bloom that is anywhere close to perfection. 2. To tear away; to break off. Labels: intransitive Example: She that herself will sliver and disbranch From her material sap, perforce must wither, And come to deadly use.
Word: disbranched Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of disbranch Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: disbranches Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of disbranch Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: disbranching Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of disbranch Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: dishclout Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From dish + clout. 1. A dishcloth. Labels: obsolete Example: O, he's a lovely gentleman! / Romeo's a dishclout to him: an eagle, madam, / Hath not so green, so quick, so fair an eye / As Paris hath. Example: Upon the present occasion, he bustled in and out of the kitchen, till Mrs. Dods lost patience, and threatened to pin the dish-clout to his tail; a menace which he pardoned, in consideration, that in all the countries which he had visited, which are sufficiently civilized to boast of cooks, these artists, toiling in their fiery element, have a privilege to be testy and impatient.
Word: dishclouts Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of dishclout Labels: form-of, plural
Word: driftless Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From drift + -less. 1. Having no goal or direction; aimless; purposeless Example: But the society into which I was now introduced swarmed with the gipsies of literature, men who lived careless, driftless lives, without thought of to-morrow. 2. Without a drift (mass of matter thrown together, especially by wind or water). 3. Random; having no fixed direction. Example: driftless control system Example: driftless Wiener process
Word: duopolist Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From duopoly + -ist. 1. A member of a duopoly.
Word: duopolistically Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From duopolistic + -ally. 1. In a duopolistic manner.
Word: duopolists Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of duopolist Labels: form-of, plural
Word: endostoses Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of endostosis Labels: form-of, plural
Word: endostosis Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From New Latin endostosis. By surface analysis, endo- + ostosis. 1. A process of bone formation in which ossification takes place within the substance of the cartilage. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: expugnable Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Latin expugnabilis. 1. Able to be overcome, conquered or taken by storm. Labels: obsolete 2. Able to be possessed or overcome. Labels: figuratively Example: Harriet, flattered, wondered if, among the young, expugnable officers who took her out, Edwina could ever find one she would wish to marry.
Word: feod Part of Speech: noun 1. Obsolete form of feud (“estate granted to a vassal by a feudal lord in exchange for service”). Labels: alt-of, obsolete
Word: feods Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of feod Labels: form-of, plural
Word: frontlessly Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From frontless + -ly. 1. shamelessly; impudently Labels: obsolete
Word: fueler Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From fuel + -er. 1. One who, or that which, supplies fuel. Example: Men of France, changeable chameleons, Spitals of diseases, shops of fashions, Love's fuelers, and the rightest company Of players which upon the world's stage be 2. A car running on specialized fuel.
Word: fuelers Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of fueler Labels: form-of, plural
Word: glebeless Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From glebe + -less. 1. Having no glebe. Labels: not-comparable Example: glebeless church
Word: gossaniferous Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From gossan + -i- + -ferous. 1. Containing or producing gossan. Example: gossaniferous metaquartzite Example: gossaniferous quartz
Word: heterogeneal Part of Speech: adj 1. Archaic form of heterogeneous. Labels: alt-of, archaic, not-comparable
Word: inconvincibly Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From inconvincible + -ly. 1. In an inconvincible manner. Labels: archaic
Word: intermesenteric Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From inter- + mesenteric. 1. Within the mesentery. Labels: not-comparable Example: the intermesenteric, or aortic, plexus
Word: malacopterygious Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From translingual Malacopterygii + -ous. 1. Belonging to the Malacopterygii, an obsolete order of fish. Labels: not-comparable, obsolete
Word: mazily Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From mazy + -ly. 1. In a mazy manner. Example: mazily connected rooms
Word: methionate Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From methionic acid + -ate (“salt or ester”). 1. A salt of methionic acid.
Word: methionates Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of methionate Labels: form-of, plural
Word: moulten Part of Speech: adj 1. Having moulted. Labels: not-comparable, obsolete Example: a moulten raven
Word: pennipotent Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Latin pennipotens, from penna (“wing”) + potens (“strong”). 1. Strong of wing; strong on the wing. Labels: poetic, rare Example: Dismount your tow'ring Thoughts, aspiring Minds; Vnplume their wings in flight pennipotent;
Word: radiciform Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From radic- + -iform, from Latin rādīc-, oblique stem of rādīx. 1. Having the nature or appearance of a root (radix). Example: radiciform appendices Example: radiciform processes
Word: reclaimant Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Compare French réclamant, present participle. 1. One who reclaims (in the various senses).
Word: reclaimants Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of reclaimant Labels: form-of, plural
Word: roughdrawn Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From rough + drawn. 1. past participle of roughdraw Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: roughdrawn Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From rough + drawn. 1. Drawn or delineated rapidly and by way of a first sketch.
Word: stoopingly Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From stooping + -ly. 1. With a stooping posture.
Word: subastringent Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From sub- + astringent. 1. Somewhat astringent. Labels: archaic, not-comparable
Word: thallate Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From thallic acid + -ate (“salt or ester”). 1. Any salt of a hypothetical thallic acid.
Word: thallates Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of thallate Labels: form-of, plural
Word: tripedal Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Latin tripedalis, from tri- + pes, pedis (“a foot”). 1. Having three feet. Labels: not-comparable 2. Having three metrical feet. Labels: not-comparable
Word: trothplight Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From troth + plight. 1. betrothal. Labels: obsolete Example: My Wife's a Holy-Horse, deserues a Name As ranke as any Flax-Wench, that puts to Before her troth-plight: say't, and iustify't.
Word: trothplight Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From troth + plight. 1. To betroth. Labels: obsolete Example: It is certaine Corporall, that he is marryed to Nell Quickly, and certainly she did you wrong, for you were troth-plight to her
Word: trothplights Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of trothplight Labels: form-of, plural
Word: Tullian Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Latin Tullianus, from Tullius (“the name of a Roman gens”). 1. Of, pertaining to, or in the style of, Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 BC–43 BC; sometimes anglicized as Tully), Roman philosopher and statesman. Example: Tullian gallery Example: Tullian phrase
Word: unface Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From un- + face. 1. To remove the face or cover from; to unmask or expose. Labels: transitive 2. To turn away so something is not facing another.
Word: unfaces Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of unface Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: unfacing Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of unface Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: urchon Part of Speech: noun 1. Obsolete form of urchin. Labels: alt-of, obsolete
Word: urchons Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of urchon Labels: form-of, plural
Word: inconvincible Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From in- + convincible. 1. Incapable of being convinced.
Word: areek Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From a- + reek. Pronunciation: /əˈɹiːk/ 1. In a reeking condition; having a strong odour. Labels: not-comparable Example: The place was areek. Example: A messenger comes all a-reek Mordanto at Madrid to seek; He left the town above a week.
Word: inexpediently Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From inexpedient + -ly. 1. In a way that is not expedient.
Word: respiteless Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From respite + -less. 1. Without respite. Example: their ceaseless coursing and respiteless spinning
Word: sanctitude Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Latin sanctitudo. 1. holiness; sacredness; sanctity Labels: countable, uncountable Example: [...] in thir looks Divine / The image of thir glorious Maker ſhon, / Truth, Wiſdome, Sanctitude ſevere and pure, / Severe, but in true filial freedom plac't 2. affected holiness; sanctimoniousness Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: sanctitudes Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of sanctitude Labels: form-of, plural
Word: sublineation Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From sub- + lineation. 1. A line drawn underneath text; an underline. Labels: uncountable, usually 2. The act of underlining. Labels: uncountable, usually 3. A system of forming kinship groups that subdivide a major lineage into subgroups of more closely related individuals. Labels: uncountable, usually Example: At that time, before sublineation had become significant for the local group, banishment would have amounted to dismissing a troublesome individual and his wife and children, rather than an entire sublineage consisting of several families ... Example: The larger the lineage, as a general rule, the more segmented it becomes. Sublineation, on the other hand, depends exclusively on the size and "antiquity" of the lineage. 4. lineation due to the accumulation of matter in cavities beneath the surface. Labels: uncountable, usually Example: There have been a great many theories as to why the zinc is deposited on and alloyed with the metal treated, but I think that the theory of sublineation is possibly the one most correct. Example: These uplands are still growing, and comparatively young, but their nature points to past sublineation of thick accumulations of sediment, from abundant sources, and therefore active volcanicity 5. A branch of philosophy concerned with understanding of language. Labels: uncountable, usually Example: Philosophy interested him, and I found my own education improving with Socrates' as he led me deeper and deeper into mazes of idealism, epistemology and sublineation.
Word: sublineations Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of sublineation Labels: form-of, plural
Word: asphaltic Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From asphalt + -ic. 1. Resembling, containing, or relating to asphalt or bitumen. Example: asphaltic concrete; asphaltic sediment Example: The aggregated Soyle Death with his Mace petrific, cold and dry, As with a Trident smote, and fix’t as firm As Delos floating once; the rest his look Bound with Gorgonian rigor not to move, And with Asphaltic slime, 2. Of or relating to the Dead Sea (salt lake between Jordan and Israel). Labels: obsolete Example: As Sodomes Apples, neere th’Asphalticke lake, Of specious shew, yet touch’t, to ashes turning, So are sinnes poysons sweete, yet bane to take; Example: […] who gather from the fragrant shrub The aromatic balsam, and extract Its milky juice along the lovely side Of winding Jordan, till immers’d it sleep Beneath the pitchy surface, which obscures Th’ Asphaltic lake.
Word: dottrel Part of Speech: noun 1. Archaic form of dotterel. Labels: alt-of, archaic Example: Down below in the privy kitchen they are roasting dottrels for dinner.
Word: dottrels Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of dottrel Labels: form-of, plural
Word: orichalceous Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From New Latin orichalceus, from orichalcum. 1. Pertaining to, or resembling, orichalch; having a colour or lustre like that of brass. Example: Thoracic dorsum black, with orichalceous-pollinose stripes Example: Orichalceous (Orichalceus). A splendour intermediate between that of gold and brass. Ex. upper wings of Noctua Chrysitis.
Word: masticatories Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of masticatory Labels: form-of, plural