nandhakumarms/qualc-wiktionary-en huggingface dataset:
Word: photoelectromotive Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *bʰeh₂- Proto-Indo-European *bʰéh₂os Proto-Hellenic *pʰáwos Ancient Greek φᾰ́ος (phắos) Ancient Greek φῶς (phôs) Ancient Greek φωτο- (phōto-)der. English photo- French électro-bor. Ancient Greek ἤλεκτρον (ḗlektron)bor. Latin ēlectrum Latin electro-bor. English electro- Anglo-Norman motifder. Middle French motifder. Proto-Indo-European *m(y)ewh₁- Proto-Indo-European *-yeti Proto-Indo-European *-éyeti Proto-Indo-European *m(y)owh₁éyetider. Proto-Italic *moweō Latin moveō Latin mōtus Proto-Indo-European *-wós Proto-Indo-European *-iHwósder. Latin -īvus Late Latin mōtīvumder. Middle English motif English motive English electromotive English photoelectromotive From photo- + electromotive. 1. Of or relating to the electromotive force caused by photovoltaic action.
Word: photoelectron Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *bʰeh₂- Proto-Indo-European *bʰéh₂os Proto-Hellenic *pʰáwos Ancient Greek φᾰ́ος (phắos) Ancient Greek φῶς (phôs) Ancient Greek φωτο- (phōto-)der. English photo- New Latin ēlectricusbor. English electric Proto-Indo-European *h₁ey- Proto-Indo-European *h₁éyti Proto-Hellenic *éimi Ancient Greek ἰόν (ión)der. English ion English electron English photoelectron From photo- + electron. 1. An electron ejected from the surface of a material by the photoelectric effect.
Word: percolations Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of percolation Labels: form-of, plural
Word: photoelectric effect Part of Speech: noun 1. The emission of electrons from the surface of a material following the absorption of electromagnetic radiation.
Word: afterimage Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₂ep Proto-Indo-European *-o Proto-Indo-European *h₂epó Proto-Indo-European *-teros Proto-Indo-European *h₂ep(o)teros Proto-Germanic *after Old English æfter Middle English after English after ▲ Old English æfter Old English æfter- Middle English after- English after- English image English afterimage From after- + image. 1. An image which persists or remains in negative after the original stimulation has ended. Example: If the fixation is wavering, especially when receiving the horizontal afterimage with the centroscope a thin pointer is used by the child to touch the fixation spot. Example: The first paper, "The hypnotic induction of hallucinatory color vision followed by pseudonegative afterimages," introduces an ingenious experimental paradigm whereby Erickson is able to explore the genuineness of hallucinatory color vision.
Word: seepage Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English seep Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-tós Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂tos Proto-Italic *-ātos Latin -ātus Proto-Indo-European *-ikos Proto-Italic *-ikos Latin -icus Latin -āticus Latin -āticum Old French -agebor. Middle English -age English -age English seepage From seep + -age. 1. The process by which something, especially a liquid, leaks through a porous substance; the process of seeping. (Also used figuratively: the process of diffusing.) Labels: countable, uncountable Example: […] while they all admit that the most serious losses occur by seepage of gas from, and oil into, the combustion-chamber and that this seepage is […] Example: In the case of the Rio Blanco experiment, it is the seepage of gas which is considered to be the "worst possible situation" that might occur. 2. Water that has seeped or oozed through a porous soil. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: seepages Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of seepage Labels: form-of, plural
Word: relativize Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Etymology tree English relative Proto-Indo-European *-id- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)bor. Late Latin -izōder. Middle French -iserbor. Middle English -isen English -ize English relativize From relative + -ize. 1. To make one thing relative to another. Example: However, many thinkers (Protestant and Catholic) have used historical-critical methods to relativize New Testament materials on sex and gender to their original settings, rather quickly substituting for "obsolete" moral prohibitions a modern, liberal set of values[…] 2. To make relative. Example: to relativize indirect objects
Word: stepparents Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of stepparent Labels: form-of, plural
Word: disambiguations Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of disambiguation Labels: form-of, plural
Word: greyish Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree English grey Proto-Indo-European *-iskos Proto-Germanic *-iskaz Proto-West Germanic *-isk Old English -isċ Middle English -ish English -ish English greyish From grey + -ish. Pronunciation: /ˈɡɹeɪ.ɪʃ/ 1. Alternative spelling of grayish. Labels: alt-of, alternative Example: Frons mat black, orbits slightly paler, more greyish; mesonotum distinctly mat, greyish-black, but with some subshine; […]
Word: oliva Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Latin oliva (“olive”). Doublet of olive. 1. olivary body Example: The medial part of the ventral lamina forms the most rostral pole of the oliva, the dorsal lamina the most caudal one.
Word: olives Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of olive Labels: form-of, plural
Word: radio astronomy Part of Speech: noun 1. The branch of astronomy which studies celestial bodies and occurrences at radio frequencies by means of radio telescopes. Labels: uncountable
Word: ribbings Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of ribbing Labels: form-of, plural
Word: stane Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Northern Middle English stan, stane, from Old English stān (“stone”). More at stone. Pronunciation: /steɪn/ 1. A dialectal or obsolete form of stone. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: profiles Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of profile Labels: form-of, plural
Word: profiles Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of profile Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: noticeability Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English notice Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlom Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlis Proto-Italic *-ðlis Latin -bilis Latin -ābilis Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-ts Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂ts Proto-Italic *-tāts Latin -tās Latin -abilitas Middle French -abletébor. Middle English -ablete English -ability English noticeability From notice + -ability. 1. The quality of being easy to see or notice.
Word: fennec Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from French fennec, from Arabic فَنَك (fanak). Pronunciation: /ˈfɛnɪk/ 1. A small fox of the species Vulpes zerda, found in the Sahara (excluding the coast) and having distinctive oversized ears.
Word: cachalot Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree substratebor.? Proto-Indo-European *kap- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *kapyéti Proto-Italic *kapjō Old Latin kapiō Latin capiō Proto-Indo-European *-tḗr Proto-Indo-European *-trom Proto-Indo-European *-tlomder. Latin -ulum Latin capulum Portuguese cacho Proto-Indo-European *-lós Proto-Indo-European *-elós Proto-Italic *-elos Latin -ulus Latin -oluslbor. Portuguese -ola Portuguese cachola Portuguese -ote Portuguese cachalotebor. French cachalotbor. English cachalot Borrowed from French cachalot, from Portuguese cachalote, from cachola (“head”) + -ote. Pronunciation: /ˈkaʃəlɒt/, /ˈkaʃələʊ/, /ˈkæ.ʃəˌloʊ/ 1. The sperm whale, Physeter macrocephalus. Example: A flexible rib cage facilitates the collapse of the lungs of a diving cachalot (a synonym derived from an old French word for tooth), so reducing the nitrogen uptake which is responsible for decompression sickness in diving humans, while high levels of haemoglobin in the blood and myoglobin in the skeletal muscles carry the oxygen required to sustain long periods between breaths.
Word: Hazara Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Classical Persian هَزَارَه (hazāra). 1. A region in the cis-Indus area of North Pakistan. Labels: Pakistan 2. A member of the Persian-speaking, predominantly Twelver Shia ethnic group native to Hazarajat (a region in central Afghanistan). Example: The Hazaras, with their long history of being oppressed and neglected, seethed.
Word: Hazara Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Classical Persian هَزَارَه (hazāra). 1. Of or relating to the Hazaras. Labels: not-comparable Example: Across the stream, a group of local Hazara boys were picking patties of dried cow dung from the ground and stowing them into burlap sacks tethered to their backs.
Word: optimises Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of optimise Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: optimizes Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of optimize Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: Pashtun Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Borrowed from Pashto پښتون (pax̌tūn). Doublet of Pathan. 1. Of or relating to the Pashtuns (a segmentary-lineage ethnic group currently numbering some 50 million people, which is the largest ethnic group in Afghanistan and the second largest in Pakistan), or to their culture. Example: “What about Zalmai?” he said. “It’s a good Pashtun name.”
Word: Pashtun Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Pashto پښتون (pax̌tūn). Doublet of Pathan. 1. A member of the Iranic ethnic group native to Pashtunistan. Example: “They bring shame on me as a Pashtun. They’ve disgraced the name of my people.” 2. A Pashto-speaking person. Labels: informal
Word: Pashtun Part of Speech: name Etymology: Borrowed from Pashto پښتون (pax̌tūn). Doublet of Pathan. 1. Pashto: the language of the Pashtun ethnic group.
Word: porpoises Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of porpoise Labels: form-of, plural
Word: porpoises Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of porpoise Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: photoemissive Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *bʰeh₂- Proto-Indo-European *bʰéh₂os Proto-Hellenic *pʰáwos Ancient Greek φᾰ́ος (phắos) Ancient Greek φῶς (phôs) Ancient Greek φωτο- (phōto-)der. English photo- English emissive English photoemissive From photo- + emissive. 1. Of or relating to photoemission.
Word: photoemissivity Part of Speech: noun 1. The property of being photoemissive Labels: uncountable, usually
Word: photoemitter Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *bʰeh₂- Proto-Indo-European *bʰéh₂os Proto-Hellenic *pʰáwos Ancient Greek φᾰ́ος (phắos) Ancient Greek φῶς (phôs) Ancient Greek φωτο- (phōto-)der. English photo- English emitter English photoemitter From photo- + emitter. 1. A material that exhibits the photoemission of electrons when illuminated
Word: photoengrave Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *bʰeh₂- Proto-Indo-European *bʰéh₂os Proto-Hellenic *pʰáwos Ancient Greek φᾰ́ος (phắos) Ancient Greek φῶς (phôs) Ancient Greek φωτο- (phōto-)der. English photo- English engrave English photoengrave From photo- + engrave. 1. To make a photoengraving of an image
Word: preconstitutional Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *per- Proto-Indo-European *preh₂- Proto-Indo-European *-i Proto-Indo-European *préh₂i? Proto-Italic *prai Proto-Italic *prai- Latin prae-lbor. Middle English pre- English pre- English constitutional English preconstitutional From pre- + constitutional. 1. Before the adoption of a constitution, especially the U.S. Constitution.
Word: photoengraving Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *bʰeh₂- Proto-Indo-European *bʰéh₂os Proto-Hellenic *pʰáwos Ancient Greek φᾰ́ος (phắos) Ancient Greek φῶς (phôs) Ancient Greek φωτο- (phōto-)der. English photo- English engraving English photoengraving From photo- + engraving. 1. A process of transferring a photographic image onto a plate which is then etched and printed. Labels: uncountable 2. A plate or reproduction made using this process. Labels: countable
Word: photoengraving Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *bʰeh₂- Proto-Indo-European *bʰéh₂os Proto-Hellenic *pʰáwos Ancient Greek φᾰ́ος (phắos) Ancient Greek φῶς (phôs) Ancient Greek φωτο- (phōto-)der. English photo- English engraving English photoengraving From photo- + engraving. 1. present participle and gerund of photoengrave Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: infants Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of infant Labels: form-of, plural 2. The section of a primary school for the education of younger children, typically the classes of reception or kindergarten and years (grades) one and two. Labels: Australia, UK Example: Near-synonym: infant school Example: It was around the time I moved from infants to juniors, which was based in a different building, so it felt like going to big school.
Word: percolation theory Part of Speech: noun 1. A mathematical theory that models a cluster structure in a random graph to describe the spread of phenomena passing through the edges. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: corbie Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle French corbeau, from Old French corb (from Latin corvus (“raven”)) or Old French corbel (“crow”) (from Late Latin corbellus, from Latin corvus). See also Norman corbin. 1. A raven or crow (typically Corvus corax). Labels: Scotland Example: 1825, Basil Hall, journal entry quoted in 1837, Walter Scott, J. G. Lockhart (editor), Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart., in The Complete Works of Sir Walter Scott, Volume 7, page 417, From parrots we got to corbies, or ravens, and he told us with infinite humour a story of a certain tame bird of this description, whose constant delight was to do mischief, and to plague all mankind and beastkind. Example: And with them were some lang-gowned men who kenned the stars and would come out o' nights to talk to the deer and the corbies in their ain tongue. 2. Either of two moth species of genus Oncopera, whose larvae feed on grasses, especially Oncopera intricata. Labels: Australia Example: The eastern quoll (Dasyurus viverrinus), a species believed to be extinct on mainland Australia, is common in the run and front country, where it consumes corbie grubs and cockchafers, among slightly larger prey and carrion.
Word: darg Part of Speech: noun Etymology: First attested in late Middle English; a syncopic form of daywork, developed through the series of forms: daywork → daywerk → daywark → dawark → *da’ark → dark → darg. Pronunciation: /dɑːɡ/ 1. A day's work. Labels: Northern-England, Scotland, dialectal 2. A defined quantity or amount of work, or of the product of work, done in a certain time or at a certain rate of payment; a task. Labels: Northern-England, Scotland, dialectal
Word: darg Part of Speech: noun Etymology: The ŏ of dog (dŏg) has merged with ä in many American dialects. 1. Informal form of dog. Labels: dialectal, form-of, informal Example: Hall had stood gaping. "He wuz bit," said Hall. "I’d better go and see to en," and he trotted after the stranger. He met Mrs. Hall in the passage. "Carrier’s darg," he said "bit en."
Word: guddle Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Scots guddle, imitative of the splashing of water, and modelled after words like muddle and puddle, perhaps influenced by Scots gutter (“to spatter with mud”). Pronunciation: /ˈɡʌd(ə)l/, [ˈɡə-] 1. To catch (fish) with the hands, especially by groping at the bank of a stream or under stones. Labels: Scotland, ambitransitive
Word: drill bit Part of Speech: noun 1. A twist drill. 2. Any other style of cutter, for example a spade drill, that is rotated and fed in a similar manner as a twist drill to of cut a hole in metal, wood or other materials.
Word: deportment Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Late Middle French deportement (French déportement). By surface analysis, deport + -ment. Pronunciation: /dɪˈpɔːtmənt/, /dɪˈpɔɹt.mənt/ 1. Bearing; manner of presenting oneself. Example: Her deportment impressed her interviewers. Example: ...Edy asked what and she was just going to tell her to catch it while it was flying but she was ever ladylike in her deportment so she simply passed it off with consummate tact... 2. Conduct; public behavior. Example: Their deportment changed visibly as the policeman approached. 3. Apparent level of schooling or training. Example: His academic deportment did not match his degree record. 4. Self-discipline. Example: The nun's deportment reflected her vocation.
Word: perfected Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of perfect Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: agentic Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₂eǵ- Proto-Indo-European *-eti Proto-Indo-European *h₂éǵeti Proto-Italic *agō Latin agō Latin agēnsder. English agent Proto-Indo-European *-ikos Proto-Italic *-ikos Latin -icuslbor. Old French -iquebor. Middle English -ik English -ic English agentic From agent + -ic. Pronunciation: /eɪˈd͡ʒɛn.tɪk/, /əˈd͡ʒɛn.tɪk/ 1. That behaves like an agent: able to express or expressing agency or control on one's own behalf or on the behalf of another. Example: From the perspective of the previous chapter, to change from a patient to an agent is to adopt or elaborate an agentic plot that the person lives (Howard 1989). Example: The next section examines ways in which network and partnership management may be able to reconcile self-organization with agentic intervention. 2. That behaves like an agent: able to express or expressing agency or control on one's own behalf or on the behalf of another. Example: Over the last decade, IoT-enabled objects have steadily progressed from being passive to becoming agentic—actively capturing and storing data, communicating information among objects or with users, and offering suggestions to users. Example: Sometimes agentic systems detect and correct mistakes, but at other times, mistakes compound through multi-agent workflows and may give rise to computational cascades where errors, tool failures, or incomplete data can propagate undetected and enter the final output. 3. That obeys authority (introduced in Milgram's theory). Labels: broadly Example: Most individuals can be easily triggered to enter, and be comfortable in the agentic state. Example: Milgram (1974) suggested that one factor contributing to the maintenance of obedience was that the individual in the obedience situation entered into an agentic state, which involves a person's giving up his or her normal moral and ethical standards in favor of those of the authority figure. 4. Having to do with performance, or achieving status. Example: If helping is a variation on the more general agentic theme of self-assertion and display, one might expect that power motivation would predict other forms of agentic striving in friendship experiences. 5. Having agency; able to make independent decisions in pursuit of a goal. Example: Billy was agentic in his learning and didn't only do what the teacher told him. Example: In agentic cognition the ego is a cognitive agent with tasks to accomplish.
Word: chainmail Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative spelling of chain mail. Labels: alt-of, alternative, uncountable, usually Example: Therefore they associate their protective chainmail with safety. Example: Chainmail gloves provide a significantly higher level of protection against mechanically driven blades than other products investigated.
Word: fore-and-aft Part of Speech: adj 1. parallel with the keel, that is, going from bow to stern (as opposed to square-rigged).
Word: cathair Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From cat + hair. 1. The hair of a cat. Labels: uncountable Example: How can you tell a cat owner? all the little claw marks on their back...Or by the cathair that sticks to their suit. Example: The conscientious Mrs. Fulgrove was driving away as he pulled into the barnyard, and he waved to her; the woman's scowl indicated that she had worked overtime because of the vast amount of cathair everywhere. 2. A single hair of a cat. Labels: countable Example: A pimpled chin, dark with cathairs, a mouthful of irregular teeth, were visible below helmet and goggles. Example: The closed-door policy, he liked to explain, kept the cats out of his hair and the cathairs out of his typewriter.
Word: cathair Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Irish cathair. 1. An ancient Irish fortification of stone or earthwork. Example: Several cathairs which we have examined are not circular in plan, but appear to have been formed to suit the contour of the eminence upon which they stand; and others are of an oval form. Example: There were probably other cathairs and duns on the Aran Islands which were not as sturdily built or not as well preserved as those that survived.
Word: twas Part of Speech: contraction 1. Misspelling of 'twas. Labels: alt-of, contraction, misspelling 2. Obsolete spelling of 'twas. Labels: alt-of, contraction, obsolete
Word: giv'n Part of Speech: verb 1. Contraction of given, past participle of give. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, contraction
Word: Michigander Part of Speech: noun Etymology: ] Attributed to Abraham Lincoln, in a speech of July 27, 1848, as pejorative reference to Lewis Cass, Michigan politician: : There is one entire article of the sort I have not discussed yet; I mean the military tale you Democrats are now engaged in dovetailing onto the great Michigander. Ostensibly coined as a blend of Michigan + gander (“male goose, simpleton”) (punning on “tale” and “(dove)tail(ing)”). Alternatively from and/or later reanalyzed as Michigan + -d- (epenthetic) + -er (“resident of”). Pronunciation: [ˈmɪ.ʃəˌɡæn.dɚ] 1. A native or resident of the state of Michigan in the United States of America. Labels: US 2. In particular, a man from Michigan, contrasted with a Michigoose (“woman from Michigan”). Labels: humorous, uncommon Example: Where is the little Michigander or Michigoose who is plugging along, so contentedly ensconced in his bi-valve surroundings as not to be touched by even an echo of the great state meeting of his profession? Example: From Dale E. Pasco of Owosso: "My parents were both one room school teachers and they taught it this way: I'm a Michigander, my wife is a Michigoose, our kids are Michigoslins, so what is the use."
Word: Michiganian Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English Michigan Proto-Indo-European *-nós Proto-Italic *-nos Latin -nus Latin -ānus Latin -iānusbor. English -ian English Michiganian From Michigan + -ian. 1. A native or resident of the state of Michigan in the United States of America.
Word: Michiganian Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree English Michigan Proto-Indo-European *-nós Proto-Italic *-nos Latin -nus Latin -ānus Latin -iānusbor. English -ian English Michiganian From Michigan + -ian. 1. of or pertaining to Michigan.
Word: nonorgasmic Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From non- + orgasmic. 1. Unable to attain or enjoy an orgasm. Labels: not-comparable Example: A survey has, unsurprisingly, shown that nonorgasmic women are less sexually active.
Word: maypole Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *méǵh₂sder.? Latin Maia Proto-Indo-European *-ós Proto-Indo-European *-ós Proto-Indo-European *-ós Proto-Indo-European *-ós Proto-Indo-European *-os Proto-Italic *-os Old Latin -os Latin -us Latin Maiusder. Old French maibor. Middle English May English May English pole English maypole Compound of May + pole, so called in reference to its use on May Day. Pronunciation: /ˈmeɪˌpoʊl/ 1. A pole, garlanded with streamers held by people who dance around it to celebrate May Day. Example: How would you like the maypole decorated? Example: The maypole, the focal point of many traditional spring games and festivities, is believed to be a relic of ancient phallic worship. 2. A very tall girl or young lady. Labels: idiomatic 3. A maypole-like structure of sticks placed about a sapling in the bowers of certain species of bowerbird. Example: The male Golden Bowerbird is a beautiful bird that builds one of the greatest structures in the natural world, a maypole up to three metres tall constructed of sticks and festooned with decorative clusters of flowers and lichens. 4. A penis, especially a large one. Labels: euphemistic Example: and now, disengag'd from the shirt, I saw, with wonder and surprise, what? not the play-thing of a boy, not the weapon of a man, but a maypole of so enormous a standard, that had proportions been observ'd, it must have belong'd to a young giant.
Word: maypole Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *méǵh₂sder.? Latin Maia Proto-Indo-European *-ós Proto-Indo-European *-ós Proto-Indo-European *-ós Proto-Indo-European *-ós Proto-Indo-European *-os Proto-Italic *-os Old Latin -os Latin -us Latin Maiusder. Old French maibor. Middle English May English May English pole English maypole Compound of May + pole, so called in reference to its use on May Day. Pronunciation: /ˈmeɪˌpoʊl/ 1. To dance or spin in a circle around something. Example: Kristina quieted a little, and maypoled around me. Example: The line jerked and maypoled itself around the rod.
Word: non-count Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree English non- Latin computō Anglo-Norman counterbor. Middle English counten English count English non-count From non- + count. 1. Uncountable. Labels: not-comparable
Word: non-profit Part of Speech: adj 1. Alternative form of nonprofit. Labels: alt-of, alternative, not-comparable
Word: non-profit Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of nonprofit. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: non-Muslim Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From non- + Muslim. 1. One who is not a Muslim.
Word: non-Muslim Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From non- + Muslim. 1. Not Muslim. Labels: not-comparable
Word: quadratic formula Part of Speech: noun 1. The formula x=(-b±√)/(2a) for finding roots of the quadratic equation.
Word: drop out Part of Speech: verb 1. To leave (school, a race, etc.) prematurely and voluntarily. Labels: idiomatic Example: Nothing went well in high school, so he dropped out. Example: He [Bill Gates] dropped out of a better school than I dropped out of. 2. To opt out of conventional society. 3. To be lost or momentarily interrupted. Labels: usually Example: I can't make phone calls because the line keeps dropping out. 4. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see drop, out. Example: Generally, by the time you are Real, most of your hair has been loved off and your eyes drop out and you get loose in the joints and very shabby. 5. To give way under someone. Labels: intransitive Example: The board he was walking on dropped out. 6. To cause someone to slip and/or fall down. Labels: figuratively, intransitive, usually Example: The ground dropped out from under him. Example: When she left him, his world dropped out beneath him. 7. To dismiss, break up with or abandon (someone). Labels: slang, transitive
Word: drop off Part of Speech: verb 1. To fall asleep. Labels: idiomatic, intransitive Example: After two glasses of whiskey, Tom soon dropped off in front of the television. Example: And when the Boy dropped off to sleep, the Rabbit would snuggle down close under his little warm chin and dream, with the Boy's hands clasped close round him all night long. 2. To deliver; to deposit or leave; to allow passengers to alight. Labels: US, especially, idiomatic, transitive Example: Can you drop the kids off at school? Example: I'll drop off your books when I see you tonight. 3. To fall off: Labels: also, figuratively, transitive Example: The leaves were slowly dropping off the tree. 4. To fall off: Labels: also, figuratively, intransitive Example: The leaves hung on until the end of November, then dropped off quickly. 5. To end a connection with a telephone queue, either by hanging up or after being served or processed. Labels: figuratively, intransitive Example: As soon as a caller drops off, we'll have an open line and maybe you can reach us then. 6. To lessen or reduce. Labels: intransitive Example: Near-synonyms: taper off, dwindle Example: Sales have dropped off in recent months. 7. To die. Labels: dated, intransitive, slang 8. To abandon or give up on (something); to be abandoned or given up on. Labels: slang Example: My lawyer said some of those charges will be dropped off. Example: If you ignore them, the fees won't just drop off.
Word: watering hole Part of Speech: noun 1. A depression in which water collects and where animals come to drink. 2. A bar or other local drinking establishment. Labels: idiomatic
Word: handing out Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of hand out Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: occuring Part of Speech: verb 1. Misspelling of occurring, present participle of occur. Labels: alt-of, misspelling Example: It’s an opportunity that owes much to the birth of NSL occuring in the 1980s, when researchers had access to video cameras and could accurately record exactly what was happening.
Word: afoul Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From a- + foul. Pronunciation: /əˈfaʊl/ 1. In a state of collision or entanglement. Labels: archaic Example: The ships’ lines and sails were all afoul. Example: After paying out chain, we swung clear, but our anchors were no doubt afoul of hers. 2. In a state of entanglement or conflict (with). Labels: with-of Example: He had a knack for running afoul of the law. Example: What the devil’s the matter with me? I don’t stand right on my legs. Coming afoul of that old man has a sort of turned me wrong side out.
Word: afterburner Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₂ep Proto-Indo-European *-o Proto-Indo-European *h₂epó Proto-Indo-European *-teros Proto-Indo-European *h₂ep(o)teros Proto-Germanic *after Old English æfter Middle English after English after ▲ Old English æfter Old English æfter- Middle English after- English after- English burner English afterburner From after- + burner. Pronunciation: /ˈæf.tɚˌbɚ.nɚ/ 1. A device in a jet engine which injects fuel into the exhaust system to increase the thrust.
Word: affiance Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle French affiance, from affier (from Medieval Latin affīdāre, from *fīdāre, from Latin fīdere) + -ance. Pronunciation: /əˈfaɪ.əns/ 1. To be betrothed to; to promise to marry. Labels: transitive Example: [S]he had expected the worst ever since Drusilla had deliberately tried to unsex herself by refusing to feel any natural grief at the death in battle not only of her affianced husband but of her own father [...] Example: She left our former teacher at the altar. Oh well, it's no secret that Prissy was affianced to our former teacher, but justifiably fled the wedding.
Word: affiance Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle French affiance, from affier (from Medieval Latin affīdāre, from *fīdāre, from Latin fīdere) + -ance. Pronunciation: /əˈfaɪ.əns/ 1. Faith, trust. Example: […] in syr Launcelot & you I moost had my Ioye / & myn affyaunce / & now haue I lost my Ioye of you bothe […] […] "in Sir Launcelot and you I most had my joy, and mine affiance, and now have I lost my joy of you both" […] Example: All other outward shewes and exterior apparences are common to all religions: As hope, affiance [translating confiance], events, ceremonies, penitence and martyrdome. 2. A solemn engagement, especially a pledge of marriage. Labels: archaic Example: I that Ladie to my spouse had wonne; / Accord of friends, consent of parents sought, / Affiance made, my happinesse begonne […]
Word: affectedly Part of Speech: adv Etymology: Etymology tree English affected Middle English -ly English -ly English affectedly From affected + -ly. 1. In an affected manner; hypocritically; with more show than reality. Example: 1614, Thomas Lodge (translator), The Workes of Lucius Annæus Seneca, London: William Stansby, Epistles to Lucilius, Epist. 115, p. 463, The speech is the Image of the minde: if a man mince it, disguise and polish it ouer curiously, it is a signe that he which speaketh it, is an hypocrite, and little worth. It is no manly ornament to speake affectedly. Example: I was resolved to decline all imitations for the future, and stick to the original, uncouth as it might be. Better, thought I, to be naturally clownish, than affectedly ridiculous […] 2. Lovingly; with tender care. Labels: obsolete Example: […] letters sadly penn’d in blood, With sleided silk feat and affectedly Enswathed, and seal'd to curious secrecy. Example: 1628, John Earle, Micro-cosmographie, or, A Peece of the World Discovered; in Essayes and Characters, London: Edward Blount, 55. “A stayed Man,” One not hasty to pursue the new Fashion, nor yet affectedly true to his old round Breeches. 3. With intention, intentionally, deliberately. Labels: obsolete Example: […] the Excelsi or high places mentioned in the sacred Story, wherein the Heathen performed idolatrous rites unto their Idols, were commonly groves, affectedly sited upon some mountainous place, without any House or Temple. Example: I have affectedly made use of this measure here […] because, I think, it would be of general convenience, that this should be the common measure in the Commonwealth of Letters.
Word: affectingly Part of Speech: adv Etymology: Etymology tree English affecting Middle English -ly English -ly English affectingly From affecting + -ly. 1. So as to affect in an emotional sense.
Word: affirmatively Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From Middle English affirmativeli, equivalent to affirmative + -ly. 1. In an affirming manner. Example: For as the inference is fair, affirmatively deduced from the action to the organ, that they have eies because they see; so it is also from the organ to the action, that they have eies, therefore some sight designed; if we take the intention of Nature in every species, and except the casuall impediments, or morbosities in individuals. Example: When the Pyrrhonians say, that ataraxy is the chiefe felicitie, which is the immobilitie of judgement, their meaning is not to speake it affirmatively[…].
Word: affluently Part of Speech: adv Etymology: Etymology tree English affluent Middle English -ly English -ly English affluently From affluent + -ly. 1. In an affluent manner.
Word: disciplinary Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Medieval Latin disciplinarius, from Latin disciplina (“instruction, teaching, field of study, habit”). Pronunciation: /ˌdɪsɪˈplɪnəɹi/, [ˌdɪsɪˈplɪnɹi], /ˈdɪs.ə.pləˌnɛɹi/, /ˈdɪsəplənəɹi/ 1. Having to do with discipline, or with the imposition of discipline. Example: Debt can motivate or act as a disciplinary force for executives to achieve organizational efficiency. 2. For the purpose of imposing punishment. Example: The school has announced that it will take disciplinary measures against the students who participated in the protest activities. 3. Of or relating to an academic field of study. Example: We hope that psychologists will applaud good studies of scientific behavior and thought regardless of the disciplinary specialty of the author. Example: Becoming more aware of the progress that scientists have made on behavioral fronts can reduce the risk that other natural scientists will resort to mystical agential accounts when they exceed the limits of their own disciplinary training.
Word: disciplinary Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Medieval Latin disciplinarius, from Latin disciplina (“instruction, teaching, field of study, habit”). Pronunciation: /ˌdɪsɪˈplɪnəɹi/, [ˌdɪsɪˈplɪnɹi], /ˈdɪs.ə.pləˌnɛɹi/, /ˈdɪsəplənəɹi/ 1. A disciplinary action. 2. A disciplinary report. Example: During my 3 weeks upstairs they wrote 4 disciplinaries on me: one for yankng my handcuffs away from an officer who was hurting me by twisting them, one for throwing a roll of toilet paper in the hall, and two verbal "assaults".
Word: afield Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From Middle English afeld, a-felde, o felde, on felde, from Old English on felde (“afield”, literally “in (the) field”), equivalent to a- (“on”) + field. Pronunciation: /əˈfiːld/ 1. Away (from the home or starting point, physical or conceptual). (Often preceded by far, farther, or further.) Example: This latest excursion took us farther afield than ever. Example: His latest remarks went far afield of any mainstream conception. 2. On the field. Example: We now have both teams afield and can begin the match. 3. Out in the open. Example: The merchant was much interested in my journey, and thought it dangerous to sleep afield. Example: Meanwhile, witch Tituba, Tonight you sleep afield, molest not this house. Return here early for your judgement.
Word: field of study Part of Speech: noun 1. An area of academic concentration; a discipline.
Word: fields of study Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of field of study Labels: form-of, plural
Word: connotations Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of connotation Labels: form-of, plural
Word: spontaneous combustion Part of Speech: noun 1. Combustion without an external source of heat. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: The experiment was abandoned when one fine day spontaneous combustion of the pulverised coal in the container occurred, and a black cloud of the very finely divided fuel rose into the air by the force of the explosion, and was slowly wafted by the prevailing breeze over the town, upon which it descended with the resemblance of black snow, but with the dissimilarity that it did not melt.
Word: aflutter Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *né Proto-Indo-European *n̥- Proto-Hellenic *ə- Ancient Greek ἀ- (a-)der. English a- English flutter- English aflutter From a- + flutter-. Pronunciation: /əˈflʌt.ə/, /əˈflʌt.ɚ/ 1. Fluttering. Example: I can hear / Your heart a-flutter over the snow-hills; Example: 1888, W. B. Yeats, “King Gall” in uncredited editor, Poems and Ballads of Young Ireland, Dublin: M.H. Gill, p. 43, They will not hush, the leaves a-flutter round me—the beech leaves old 2. Filled or covered (with something that flutters). Example: The day being warm and sultry, the balcony was all aflutter with the feather fans of the ladies of the family and their attendants, Example: Beyond this lie the gardens of Hafiz and Saadi, each containing the poet’s tomb, and many others equally delicious for their cypresses, pines, and orange trees a-flutter with white pigeons and orchestras of sparrows. 3. In a state of tremulous excitement, anticipation or confusion. Example: […] she rose, all a-flutter within, it is true, but with a face as nearly sedate as the inborn witchery of her eyes would allow. Example: 1930, Moss Hart and George S. Kaufman, Once in a Lifetime, Act III, in Burns Mantle (ed.), The Best Plays of 1930-31, New York: Dodd, Mead, 1931, p. 144, […] in breaks Susan Walker a little more aflutter than usual. The picture is wonderful. Seeing her name in lights is wonderful. Everything is just wonderful.
Word: aftercare Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₂ep Proto-Indo-European *-o Proto-Indo-European *h₂epó Proto-Indo-European *-teros Proto-Indo-European *h₂ep(o)teros Proto-Germanic *after Old English æfter Middle English after English after ▲ Old English æfter Old English æfter- Middle English after- English after- Proto-Indo-European *ǵeh₂r-der. Proto-Germanic *karō Proto-West Germanic *karu Old English caru Middle English care English care English aftercare From after- + care. Pronunciation: /ˈɑːf.tə(ɹ).kɛə(ɹ)/, /ˈæf-/, /ˈæf.təɹ.kɛɹ/ 1. The care given to a patient during recovery from an operation or after hospitalization. Labels: uncountable Example: Near-synonym: rehab Example: A nurse came in behind him with some aftercare instructions, and the three of us made our way to the car. 2. Services and support offered to a customer for the goods or service they have purchased. Labels: uncountable 3. Childcare services tending to children after the school day. Labels: uncountable 4. Emotional support offered by the programme makers to a person who has appeared on a stressful television show. Labels: uncountable Example: […] bring the aftercare we do in the UK to the US and see if our approach can get the same great results on both sides of the Atlantic. 5. Tender affection and physical care given to a partner after an activity, usually to serve as a transition between the activity and whatever follows it. Labels: uncountable
Word: deflorate Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From de- + florate. Pronunciation: /diːˈflɔɹət/ 1. Past the flowering state. Labels: not-comparable Example: The deflorate rose-bushes take on a brownish tint.
Word: deflorate Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From de- + florate. Pronunciation: /diːˈflɔɹeɪt/ 1. To remove the flowers from. Labels: transitive Example: The bush is often deflorated by browsing wildlife. 2. To take the virginity of; to deflower. Labels: archaic, transitive
Word: aftereffect Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₂ep Proto-Indo-European *-o Proto-Indo-European *h₂epó Proto-Indo-European *-teros Proto-Indo-European *h₂ep(o)teros Proto-Germanic *after Old English æfter Middle English after English after ▲ Old English æfter Old English æfter- Middle English after- English after- English effect English aftereffect From after- + effect. Pronunciation: /ˈɑːftəɹ.ɪˌfɛkt/, /ˈæftəɹ.əˌfɛkt/ 1. Any delayed effect; an effect which is not immediately manifested. Example: And then Rook snapped out of it and noticed (in this strange state he was in—an aftereffect of the soma?) as clear as day everything—almost as if a sixth sense had become acute and he was fully aware of his eminent and imminent death and he saw everything crystal clearly and noticed that Anatoli, usually calm as a cucumber on the set, was now sweating and not calm and perhaps claustrophobic? Example: Since the Holocaust, fantasies of Jewish power are no longer Salonfähig, no longer openly expressible in “polite” society—at least in Western Europe and North America—even if continuities also persist in antisemitic thinking as do traumatic aftereffects for Jews around the world.
Word: plebian Part of Speech: adj 1. Alternative spelling of plebeian. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: plebian Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative spelling of plebeian. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: punctuality Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English punctual Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-ts Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂ts Latin -itāsder. Old French -itebor. Middle English -ite English -ity English punctuality From punctual + -ity. Pronunciation: /pʌŋktjʊˈæləti/, /pʌŋtjʊˈæləti/, /ˌpʌŋkt͡ʃuˈæləti/, [ˌpʌŋkt͡ʃuˈæləɾi], /ˌpʌŋt͡ʃuˈæləti/ 1. The state of being punctual Labels: uncountable, usually Example: You were punctual to your appointment: punctuality is the first of virtues, and a sign of pretty behaviour in a young man. I foresee that you will succeed!
Word: Galilean moons Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of Galilean moon Labels: form-of, plural
Word: Galilean moons Part of Speech: name 1. The four and by far largest moons of Jupiter, namely Io, Europa, Ganymede and Callisto, discovered by Galileo Galilei.
Word: Galilean Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Originated 1605–15 from Latin Galilaeus [from Ancient Greek Γαλιλαῖος (Galilaîos)] + -an. 1. Of or pertaining to Galilee, or a native or inhabitant thereof.
Word: Galilean Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Originated 1605–15 from Latin Galilaeus [from Ancient Greek Γαλιλαῖος (Galilaîos)] + -an. 1. A native or resident of Galilee. 2. A zealous follower of Judas of Galilee, who fiercely resented the taxation of the Romans, and whose violence contributed to induce the latter to vow the extermination of the whole race. Labels: historical 3. A Christian. Labels: broadly, derogatory, sometimes
Word: Galilean Part of Speech: name Etymology: Originated 1605–15 from Latin Galilaeus [from Ancient Greek Γαλιλαῖος (Galilaîos)] + -an. 1. Jesus Christ.
Word: Galilean Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Originated 1720–30, from Galileo + -an. 1. Of or pertaining to the Italian physicist, mathematician, astronomer, and philosopher Galileo Galilei.
Word: Galilean moon Part of Speech: noun 1. Any of the four Galilean moons.
Word: photoenlarger Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *bʰeh₂- Proto-Indo-European *bʰéh₂os Proto-Hellenic *pʰáwos Ancient Greek φᾰ́ος (phắos) Ancient Greek φῶς (phôs) Ancient Greek φωτο- (phōto-)der. English photo- English enlarger English photoenlarger From photo- + enlarger. 1. A photographic enlarger
Word: enlarger Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English enlarge Proto-Indo-European *-yósder. Proto-Italic *-āzios Latin -āriusnom. Latin -āriusbor. Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz Proto-West Germanic *-ārī Old English -ere Middle English -ere English -er English enlarger From enlarge + -er. 1. Any device that makes something bigger, or makes it appear bigger. Example: a penis enlarger 2. An optical device used to make enlarged prints from a photographic negative 3. One who enlarges. Labels: rare Example: EUGE´NIUS, who was bishop of Toledo from a. d. 646 to 657, is mentioned under Dracontius as the editor and enlarger of the work by Dracontius upon the Creation. Example: In like manner the original book closes, at xxix. 1, with a subscription; and a few additional chapters follow, added by the enlarger of the book.
Word: photofabrication Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *bʰeh₂- Proto-Indo-European *bʰéh₂os Proto-Hellenic *pʰáwos Ancient Greek φᾰ́ος (phắos) Ancient Greek φῶς (phôs) Ancient Greek φωτο- (phōto-)der. English photo- English fabrication English photofabrication From photo- + fabrication. 1. A photographic method of manufacturing integrated circuits in which a pattern is placed over a semiconductor in an etching solution and exposed to light Labels: uncountable
Word: photoferroelectric Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *bʰeh₂- Proto-Indo-European *bʰéh₂os Proto-Hellenic *pʰáwos Ancient Greek φᾰ́ος (phắos) Ancient Greek φῶς (phôs) Ancient Greek φωτο- (phōto-)der. English photo- English ferroelectric English photoferroelectric From photo- + ferroelectric. 1. Of, or relating to the effect of light on ferroelectric materials. Labels: not-comparable
Word: ferroelectric Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree substratebor. Old Latin *fersom Latin ferrum English ferro- Ancient Greek ἤλεκτρον (ḗlektron)bor. Latin ēlectrum Proto-Indo-European *-ikos Proto-Italic *-ikos Latin -icus New Latin ēlectricusbor. English electric English ferroelectric From ferro- + electric. 1. of, or relating to the permanent electrical polarization of a crystalline dielectric in an electric field Labels: not-comparable
Word: ferroelectric Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree substratebor. Old Latin *fersom Latin ferrum English ferro- Ancient Greek ἤλεκτρον (ḗlektron)bor. Latin ēlectrum Proto-Indo-European *-ikos Proto-Italic *-ikos Latin -icus New Latin ēlectricusbor. English electric English ferroelectric From ferro- + electric. 1. A ferroelectric material
Word: photofinishing Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *bʰeh₂- Proto-Indo-European *bʰéh₂os Proto-Hellenic *pʰáwos Ancient Greek φᾰ́ος (phắos) Ancient Greek φῶς (phôs) Ancient Greek φωτο- (phōto-)der. English photo- English finishing English photofinishing From photo- + finishing. 1. The commercial developing and printing of photographs. Labels: uncountable Example: Berkey, a competitor in photofinishing, alleged violations of §2 arising from Kodak's failure to predisclose the nature of the new film, which would have given it time to adapt to the new requirements.
Word: photofission Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *bʰeh₂- Proto-Indo-European *bʰéh₂os Proto-Hellenic *pʰáwos Ancient Greek φᾰ́ος (phắos) Ancient Greek φῶς (phôs) Ancient Greek φωτο- (phōto-)der. English photo- English fission English photofission From photo- + fission. 1. Nuclear fission as the result of the absorption of a gamma ray or other high-energy photon. Labels: uncountable, usually
Word: photofission Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *bʰeh₂- Proto-Indo-European *bʰéh₂os Proto-Hellenic *pʰáwos Ancient Greek φᾰ́ος (phắos) Ancient Greek φῶς (phôs) Ancient Greek φωτο- (phōto-)der. English photo- English fission English photofission From photo- + fission. 1. To undergo, or cause to undergo, photofission.