nandhakumarms/qualc-wiktionary-en huggingface dataset:
Word: inchoactive Part of Speech: adj 1. Misspelling of inchoative. Labels: alt-of, misspelling Example: All this time he had retained in an inchoactive form an idea of the distinctive line along which his life work should be directed, and once determined as to the course to be pursued he buckled on the barness and again lent himself to close application, eagerly taking up the study of legal lore with the aim of preparing himself for practice at the bar, a profession for which he was admirabiy adapted by natural endowment and mental characteristics, as is sulliciently evinced by the marked success he has attained. Example: These are small, inchoactive stones having a minimal, but definite, matrix and with the calcium salts closely compacted.
Word: statist Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *steh₂- Proto-Indo-European *-tus Proto-Indo-European *stéh₂-tu-s ~ *sth₂-téw-s Proto-Italic *status Latin statuslbor. Old French estatbor. Middle English stat English state Proto-Indo-European *-id- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō) Proto-Hellenic *-tās Ancient Greek -τής (-tḗs) Ancient Greek -ῐστής (-ĭstḗs)bor. Latin -istader. Old French -istebor. Middle English -ist English -ist English statist From state + -ist. Pronunciation: /ˈsteɪtɪst/ 1. A supporter of statism. 2. A statistician. Labels: dated 3. A skilled politician or one with political power, knowledge or influence. Labels: archaic Example: [O]ur Tympanouſe ſtatiſts / (In their affected grauitie of voice, / Sovverneſſe of countenance, maners crueltie, / Authoritie, vvealth, and all the ſpavvne of Fortune) / Thinke they beare all the kingdomes vvorth before them; […] Example: Statists and Politicians, unto whom Ragione di Stato is the first Considerable, as though it were their business to deceive the people, as a Maxim, do hold, that truth is to be concealed from them […].
Word: statist Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *steh₂- Proto-Indo-European *-tus Proto-Indo-European *stéh₂-tu-s ~ *sth₂-téw-s Proto-Italic *status Latin statuslbor. Old French estatbor. Middle English stat English state Proto-Indo-European *-id- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō) Proto-Hellenic *-tās Ancient Greek -τής (-tḗs) Ancient Greek -ῐστής (-ĭstḗs)bor. Latin -istader. Old French -istebor. Middle English -ist English -ist English statist From state + -ist. Pronunciation: /ˈsteɪtɪst/ 1. Pertaining to statism. Example: It was as if the Samizdat spirit, extended and intensified by the proliferation of do-it-yourself media, had rendered the centralised, statist tyrannies of the Soviet Union untenable. Example: By the early 1950s, however, the rising expectations for economic growth in the developing world were being dashed by the failure of foreign investment to materialize and by the declining terms of trade in these same raw materials, increasing the appeal of statist solutions.
Word: E flat major Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative spelling of E-flat major. Labels: alt-of, alternative, uncountable
Word: resort Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English resorten, from Old French resortir (“to fall back, return, resort, have recourse, appeal”), back-formation from sortir (“to go out”). Pronunciation: /ɹɪˈzɔːt/, /ɹɪˈzɔɹt/ 1. A place where people go for recreation, especially one with facilities such as lodgings, entertainment, and a relaxing environment. Example: Was it deliberate that the first week of October 1961 was chosen to conduct a national survey of passenger usage? Why October of all months, when the holiday season was over and families back at work and at school? Was this a fiddling of the figures to make an unfair case against rail-dependent resorts such as those in the West Country, Norfolk, Lincolnshire and East Yorkshire, where previously overloaded summer services would now only have a handful of locals on board? 2. Recourse, refuge (something or someone turned to for safety). Example: to have resort to violence Example: Ioyne with me to forbid him her reſort, 3. A place where one goes habitually; a haunt. Labels: obsolete Example: Far from all reſort of mirth, 4. A subdivision of Suriname; a division of the country's districts.
Word: resort Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English resorten, from Old French resortir (“to fall back, return, resort, have recourse, appeal”), back-formation from sortir (“to go out”). Pronunciation: /ɹɪˈzɔːt/, /ɹɪˈzɔɹt/ 1. To have recourse (to), now especially from necessity or frustration. Labels: intransitive Example: The king thought it time to resort to other counsels. Example: He resorted to his pint of wine for consolation, drank it all in a few minutes, and fell asleep on his arms, with his hair straggling over the table […] 2. To fall back; to revert. Labels: intransitive Example: But the Inheritance of the Son never reſorted to the Mother, or to any of her Anceſtors, but both ſhe and they were totally excluded from the Succeſſion. Example: I eschew the idea of plugging in my laptop to take notes and resort to old-fashioned pen and paper instead, so that I can enjoy more of the view and not be distracted by bashing a keyboard. 3. To make one's way, go (to). Labels: intransitive Example: The same daye went Jesus out off the housse, and sat by the seesyde, and moch people resorted unto him, so gretly that he went and sat in a shyppe, and all the people stode on the shoore.
Word: resort Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Italic *wre- Latin re-der. Old French re-bor. Middle English re- English re- English sort English resort From re- + sort. Pronunciation: /ˌɹiːˈsɔ(ɹ)t/ 1. Alternative spelling of re-sort (which is the preferred spelling, to avoid needless homography) Labels: alt-of, alternative, intransitive, transitive
Word: resort Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Italic *wre- Latin re-der. Old French re-bor. Middle English re- English re- English sort English resort From re- + sort. Pronunciation: /ˌɹiːˈsɔ(ɹ)t/ 1. Alternative spelling of re-sort. Labels: alt-of, alternative Example: "If further sorting is required, begin anew with opcode = 0. opcode = -3 may be set to build an index file following an initial sort with opcode set to 0, or a resort with opcode set to -1.
Word: resort Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From French ressort. 1. Active power or movement; spring. Labels: obsolete Example: Some […] know the resorts and falls of business that cannot sink into the main of it.
Word: B major Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ˈbiː ˈmeɪ.dʒə(ɹ)/ 1. The major key with B as its tonic, with the notes B, C♯, D♯, E, F♯, G♯, and A♯, the key signature of which has five sharps. Labels: uncountable Example: {\key b \major b cis' dis' e' fis' gis' ais' b'2} 2. The major chord with a root of B. Labels: uncountable Example: 1
Word: tantamount Part of Speech: adj Etymology: First attested in English in 1628. Either inherited from an unattested Middle English borrowing from Anglo-Norman tant amount, from amunter, from tant (“as much”) amonter (“to amount to”) or borrowed in the early 17th century from Italian tanto montare (“to amount to as much”). Pronunciation: /ˈtæntəˌmaʊnt/, [ˈtɛəntəˌmaʊnt], /ˈtæntəˌmæɔnt/, [ˈtɛːntəˌmæɔnt], [ˈtɛːntəˌmɛɔnt] 1. Equivalent in meaning or effect; amounting to the same thing in practical terms, even if being technically distinct. Example: Every moment might bring the British cruisers in sight,—two important expeditions had already been baffled in that way,—and the absolute certainty, known to all parties alike, that delay, under these circumstances, was tantamount to ruin; […] Example: […] expecting the woman to take her attacker into physical custody is tantamount to preventing the arrest. If she could handle him, she probably would not need to call the police in the first place.
Word: tantamount Part of Speech: verb Etymology: First attested in English in 1628. Either inherited from an unattested Middle English borrowing from Anglo-Norman tant amount, from amunter, from tant (“as much”) amonter (“to amount to”) or borrowed in the early 17th century from Italian tanto montare (“to amount to as much”). Pronunciation: /ˈtæntəˌmaʊnt/, [ˈtɛəntəˌmaʊnt], /ˈtæntəˌmæɔnt/, [ˈtɛːntəˌmæɔnt], [ˈtɛːntəˌmɛɔnt] 1. To amount to as much; to be equivalent. Labels: intransitive, obsolete Example: […] and yet this will not tant’amount to an immediate Divine inſtitution for Deacons, and how can it then for Presbyters ?
Word: tantamount Part of Speech: noun Etymology: First attested in English in 1628. Either inherited from an unattested Middle English borrowing from Anglo-Norman tant amount, from amunter, from tant (“as much”) amonter (“to amount to”) or borrowed in the early 17th century from Italian tanto montare (“to amount to as much”). Pronunciation: /ˈtæntəˌmaʊnt/, [ˈtɛəntəˌmaʊnt], /ˈtæntəˌmæɔnt/, [ˈtɛːntəˌmæɔnt], [ˈtɛːntəˌmɛɔnt] 1. Something which has the same value or amount (as something else). (attributive use passing into adjective, below) Labels: obsolete Example: For end thereof, not despondency but madness : for when Cossey understood that Hobday had called his wife a tantamount, he waited for him outside, and gave him what he called a pair of clippers over the ear.
Word: A-minor Part of Speech: noun 1. the minor key with A as its tonic 2. the minor chord with a root of A
Word: yaar Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Hindustani یار (yār) / यार (yār), from Classical Persian یار (yār). 1. A friend, pal, or buddy. Labels: India, Pakistan Example: Help me, yaar! Example: ‘I'm going to make the most of my life now, yaar,’ he said. 2. A lover. Labels: India, Pakistan Example: He was my yaar.
Word: redundant Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Latin redundāns, present participle of redundō (“to overflow, redound”), from red- (“again, back”) + undō (“to surge, flood”), from unda (“a wave”). Pronunciation: /ɹɪˈdʌn.dənt/, /ɹɪˈdɐn.dənt/, /ɹəˈdɐn.dənt/ 1. Superfluous; exceeding what is necessary, no longer needed. Example: It is allowed, that Senates and great Councils are often troubled with redundant, ebullient, and other peccant Humours, with many Diſeaſes of the Head and more of the Heart; […] Example: In the living state, the body is observed to receive aliment; to assimilate a part; to evacuate what is redundant or useless; […] 2. Repetitive or needlessly wordy. 3. Dismissed from employment because no longer needed. Labels: Australia, Ireland, New-Zealand, UK Example: Joyce Barnaby: You don't kill someone because they made you redundant. DCI Tom Barnaby: Not in the town, dear, but this is the country. And, in the country, anything goes. Example: Four employees were made redundant. 4. Duplicating or able to duplicate the function of another component of a system, providing backup in the event the other component fails. Example: The two lines are mainly used for redundant and therefore fault-tolerant message transmission, but they can also transmit different messages. 5. Containing duplicate pathways to send a message.
Word: 's Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Contractions of various words ending in s. Pronunciation: /s/, /ɪz/, /əz/, /z/ 1. Contraction of is. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, clitic, contraction Example: The dog’s running after me! 2. Contraction of has. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, clitic, contraction Example: The dog’s been chasing the mail carrier again. 3. Contraction of was. Labels: Southern-US, abbreviation, alt-of, clitic, contraction, dialectal, proscribed Example: It’s a beautiful day yesterday so I’s at the park. 4. Contraction of does, used only with the auxiliary meaning of does and only after interrogative words. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, clitic, contraction, informal Example: What’s he do for a living? Example: What’s it say?
Word: 's Part of Speech: pron Etymology: Contractions of various words ending in s. Pronunciation: /s/, /ɪz/, /əz/, /z/ 1. Contraction of us, found in the formula let's which is used to form first-person plural imperatives. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, clitic, contraction Example: What are you guys waiting for? Let’s go! Example: Wee'le part the time betweene's then: and in that Ile no gaine-ſaying.
Word: 's Part of Speech: det Etymology: Contractions of various words ending in s. Pronunciation: /s/, /ɪz/, /əz/, /z/ 1. Contraction of his. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, contraction, poetic Example: Duncan’s in’s grave
Word: 's Part of Speech: conj Etymology: Contractions of various words ending in s. Pronunciation: /s/, /ɪz/, /əz/, /z/ 1. Contraction of as, when it is (nonstandardly) used as a relative conjunction, or like a relative pronoun, meaning "that". Labels: UK, abbreviation, alt-of, contraction, dialectal Example: All’s he wanted was to go home.
Word: 's Part of Speech: adv Etymology: Contractions of various words ending in s. Pronunciation: /s/, /ɪz/, /əz/, /z/ 1. Contraction of as. Labels: UK, abbreviation, alt-of, contraction, dialectal, not-comparable Example: He takes his bottle of whisky a day and gets drunk’s a lord in the evening.
Word: skid mark Part of Speech: noun 1. A black mark left on a road surface from the sliding or skidding tires of a motor vehicle that has lost traction. 2. Any other mark or stain left on a surface from a sliding or rubbing object. Example: The ladder that slipped left a skid mark across the tile floor. Example: The girl had skid marks on the knees of her jeans. 3. A visible feces stain left on underpants, trousers, or sometimes the toilet bowl. Labels: colloquial, euphemistic, humorous 4. A mark of a soiled finger wiped on a surface. Labels: colloquial 5. Any burn on the skin caused by scraping the skin against a surface.
Word: acinous Part of Speech: adj 1. Alternative spelling of acinose. Labels: alt-of, alternative, not-comparable
Word: polo Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Balti پولو (polo, “ball”). Cognate with Tibetan པོ་ལོ (po lo), ཕོ་ལོང (pho long), སྤོ་ལོ (spo lo, “ball”). Pronunciation: /ˈpoʊloʊ/, /ˈpəʊ.ləʊ/, /ˈpəʊl.əʊ/, [ˈpəʊləʊ], [ˈpɒʊɫəʊ] 1. A ball game where two teams of players on horseback use long-handled mallets to propel the ball along the ground and into their opponent's goal. Labels: uncountable, usually Example: There were polo fields – sometimes green, sometimes brown – where in the old days, people had actually played that strange game that seems like a drunken bet about golf and horse riding. 2. The game of ice polo, one of the ancestors of ice hockey; a similar game played on the ice, or on a prepared floor, by players wearing skates. Labels: uncountable, usually 3. A polo shirt. Labels: countable, usually Example: Then on the second floor there is the creepy boy’s section, which had little headless mannequins in premium polos ($39.50), rugby shirts ($49.50) and a precocious leather pilot jacket for $148.
Word: polo Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Balti پولو (polo, “ball”). Cognate with Tibetan པོ་ལོ (po lo), ཕོ་ལོང (pho long), སྤོ་ལོ (spo lo, “ball”). Pronunciation: /ˈpoʊloʊ/, /ˈpəʊ.ləʊ/, /ˈpəʊl.əʊ/, [ˈpəʊləʊ], [ˈpɒʊɫəʊ] 1. To play the game of polo. Labels: intransitive
Word: polo Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Spanish, an air or popular song in Andalusia. Pronunciation: /ˈpoʊloʊ/, /ˈpəʊ.ləʊ/, /ˈpəʊl.əʊ/, [ˈpəʊləʊ], [ˈpɒʊɫəʊ] 1. A Spanish gypsy dance characterized by energetic movements of the body while the feet merely shuffle or glide, with unison singing and rhythmic clapping of hands.
Word: polo Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Unknown. Pronunciation: /ˈpoʊloʊ/, /ˈpəʊ.ləʊ/, /ˈpəʊl.əʊ/, [ˈpəʊləʊ], [ˈpɒʊɫəʊ] 1. A dress shirt. Labels: Philippines
Word: polo Part of Speech: intj Etymology: From the game marco polo, from the explorer Marco Polo, from Latin Paulus. Pronunciation: /ˈpoʊloʊ/, /ˈpəʊ.ləʊ/, /ˈpəʊl.əʊ/, [ˈpəʊləʊ], [ˈpɒʊɫəʊ] 1. Alternative letter-case form of Polo. Labels: alt-of
Word: polo Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From the game marco polo, from the explorer Marco Polo, from Latin Paulus. Pronunciation: /ˈpoʊloʊ/, /ˈpəʊ.ləʊ/, /ˈpəʊl.əʊ/, [ˈpəʊləʊ], [ˈpɒʊɫəʊ] 1. To give the cry of "polo!" in the marco polo game. Labels: intransitive
Word: polo Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Persian پلو (polov). Pronunciation: /ˈpoʊloʊ/, /ˈpəʊ.ləʊ/, /ˈpəʊl.əʊ/, [ˈpəʊləʊ], [ˈpɒʊɫəʊ] 1. Synonym of pilaf. Labels: uncountable Example: The importance of Nowruz is reflected in an elaborate sabzi polo, the herbed rice capped with a crunchy tahdig, the crust formed from lettuce, rice mixed with yogurt or lavash or another thin flatbread. On Wednesday night, I opted for sheveed polo, a simpler and quicker dill rice, but I can’t wait to nail that crunchy tahdig tonight.
Word: et al Part of Speech: phrase 1. Alternative form of et al. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: statism Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From stat(e) + -ism. Doublet of etatism. First attested in c. 1600. Pronunciation: /ˈsteɪdɪzm/, /ˈsteɪdɪzəm/, /ˈsteɪtɪzm/, /ˈsteɪtɪzəm/ 1. Synonym of secularism: subservience of religious issues to political officials and expediency. Labels: derogatory, obsolete, uncountable Example: Religion turned into Statisme, will soone prooue Atheisme. 2. Synonym of statecraft or statesmanship. Labels: obsolete, uncountable Example: My great Cousin hauing euermore From my greene yeares accepted my aduise In points of statisme... 3. Synonym of government or governance. Labels: archaic, uncountable Example: [The Ten Commandments] have formed the basis of every system of statism adopted by the civilized communities of the earth. 4. The belief that most or all political power should be centralized in national governments. Labels: derogatory, often, uncountable Example: Near-synonyms: big government, dirigisme Example: Bismarck... believes in State insurance in State activities, in place of individual action. But this is not Socialism. It is Statism. 5. The belief that most or nearly all political power should be decentralized to provincial governments. Labels: derogatory, often, uncountable Example: The joint note of Austria and Prussia... appears thus to have worked more good than moderation and good sense generally achieve over faction and petty-Statism. Example: To him... we owe that sentiment of nationalism prevailing over statism... without which the Union would have parted. 6. The belief that the state is a legitimate social institution. Labels: derogatory, often, uncountable
Word: Islamonazism Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Arabic أَسْلَمَ (ʔaslama) Arabic إِسْلَام (ʔislām)bor. English Islam Ancient Greek -ο- (-o-)der. Latin -o-bor. English -o- English Islamo- Proto-Indo-European *ǵenh₁- Proto-Indo-European *-tis Proto-Indo-European *ǵénh₁tisder. Proto-Italic *gnātiō Latin nātiō Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-der.? Proto-Italic *-ālis Latin -ālis New Latin nātionālisbor. German national Proto-Indo-European *sekʷ- Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *sokʷéh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-ṓy Proto-Indo-European *sokʷh₂ṓy Proto-Indo-European *-yós Proto-Indo-European *sokʷyós Proto-Italic *sokjos Latin sokios Latin socius ▲ Latin -ālis Latin sociālisder. French socialbor. German sozial Proto-Indo-European *-id- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō) Proto-Hellenic *-tās Ancient Greek -τής (-tḗs) Ancient Greek -ῐστής (-ĭstḗs)bor. Latin -istabor. ▲ French -isteinflu. German -ist German Sozialist German Nationalsozialist ▲ German Soziinflu. German Nazibor. English Nazi ▲ Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō) Proto-Indo-European *-mos Proto-Indo-European *-mós Ancient Greek -μός (-mós) Ancient Greek -ισμός (-ismós)der. English -ism English Nazism English Islamonazism From Islamo- + Nazism. 1. Islamist Nazism, Nazi Islamism: a real or imagined conflation of Nazism and Islamism. Labels: US, derogatory, offensive, uncountable Example: From the river to the sea, the whole land will one day be free — free of all the terrorist factions, and free for people of every religious faith to live without fear of Islamonazism, in all its perverse variations.
Word: womanish Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English wommanyssh. Equivalent to woman + -ish. The verb is from the adjective. Pronunciation: /ˈwʊmənɪʃ/ 1. Characteristic of a woman; effeminate, feminine. Labels: derogatory, often Example: […] Romans novv / Haue Thevves, and Limbes, like to their Anceſtors; / But vvoe the vvhile, our Fathers mindes are dead, / And vve are gouern'd vvith our Mothers ſpirits, / Our yoake, and ſufferance, ſhevv vs VVomaniſh. Example: The Fence was a proper Park paling in excellent condition; with clusters of fine Elms, or rows of old Thorns following its line almost every where.—Almost must be stipulated—for there were vacant spaces & through one of these, Charlotte as soon as they entered the Enclosure, caught a glimpse over the pales of something White & Womanish in the field on the other side;—it was a something which immediately brought Miss B. into her head—& stepping to the pales, she saw indeed—& very decidedly, in spite of the Mist; Miss B—seated, not far before her, at the foot of the bank which sloped down from the outside of the Paling & which a narrow Path seemed to skirt along;—Miss Brereton seated, apparently very composedly—& Sir E. D. by her side. 2. Carried out by or pertaining to a woman. Example: And gan recomfort her in her rude vvyſe, / VVith vvomaniſh compaſſion of her plaint, / VViping the teares from her ſuffuſed eyes, […]
Word: womanish Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English wommanyssh. Equivalent to woman + -ish. The verb is from the adjective. Pronunciation: /ˈwʊmənɪʃ/ 1. To make womanish. Labels: obsolete, rare Example: Then the Lord Gaspar: “I believe music,” quoth he, “together with many other vanities, is meet for women, and peradventure for some also that have the likeness of men, but not for them that be men indeed, who ought not with such delicacies to womanish their minds and bring themselves in that sort to dread death.” Example: [T]his effeminate love of a Woman, dothe ſo womaniſh a man, that, yf yow yeelde to yt, yt will not onely make yow a famous Amazon but a Launder, a Diſtaff ſpinner, or whatſoever other vyle occupacyon theyre Idle heades can Imagyn, and theyre weyke handes ꝑforme [performe]: […]
Word: pela Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From informal romanization of Chinese 白蠟 /白蜡 (báilà). 1. Synonym of Chinese wax. Labels: uncountable Example: Thus we have the myrtle wax of America extracted from the berries of the myrica cerifera, and the pela of the Chinese.
Word: magnet Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Old French magnetebor. Pre-Greekbor.? Ancient Greek Μάγνης (Mágnēs) Ancient Greek μᾰ́γνης (mắgnēs)bor. Latin magnēsbor. Middle English magnete English magnet From Middle English magnete, via Old French magnete, Latin magnēs, magnētem (“lodestone”), from Ancient Greek μαγνῆτις [λίθος] (magnêtis [líthos], “Magnesian [stone]”), either after the Lydian city Magnesia ad Sipylum (modern-day Manisa, Turkey), or after the Greek region of Μαγνησία (Magnēsía) (whence came the colonists who founded the city in Lydia). Related to manganese, magnesia and magnesium. Pronunciation: /ˈmæɡ.nɪt/, /ˈmæɡ.nət/, [ˈmæɡ.nət̚], /mæɡnɛʈ/ 1. A piece of material that attracts some metals by magnetism. 2. An alluring or attractive person or thing. Labels: figuratively, in-compounds, informal, often Example: He always had a girl on his arm – he's a bit of a babe magnet. Example: Iron and coal were the magnets that drew railways to this land of lovely valleys and silent mountains—for such it was a century-and-a-half ago, before man blackened the valleys with the smoke of his forges, scarred the green hills with his shafts and waste-heaps, and drove the salmon from the quiet Rhondda and the murmuring Taff. 3. Ellipsis of magnet link. Labels: Internet, abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis Example: Magnets are thus used to create a package of cryptologic information and bundling^([sic]) it together.
Word: artemon Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Latin artemōn (“foresail”). 1. A square foresail on a Roman oared ship. Labels: historical Example: A small square sail, an artemon, was slung under the bow to act as a headsail.
Word: magnetic Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree Old French magnetebor. Pre-Greekbor.? Ancient Greek Μάγνης (Mágnēs) Ancient Greek μᾰ́γνης (mắgnēs)bor. Latin magnēsbor. Middle English magnete English magnet Proto-Indo-European *-ikos Proto-Italic *-ikos Latin -icuslbor. Old French -iquebor. Middle English -ik English -ic English magnetic From magnet + -ic. Pronunciation: /mæɡˈnɛtɪk/, /maɡˈnɛtɪk/, /mæɡˈnetɪk/, /mɛɡˈnetək/, /ˈmæɡ.nə.ʈɪk/ 1. Of, relating to, operating by, or caused by magnetism. Example: a magnetic recorder Example: [M]agnetic action […] is the subsequence of the motion of iron to the approach of a loadstone. 2. Having the properties of a magnet, especially the ability to draw or pull. 3. Determined by earth's magnetic fields. Example: magnetic north Example: the magnetic meridian 4. Having an extraordinary ability to attract: attractive, alluring, persuasive Example: He has a magnetic personality. Example: she that had all magnetic force alone 5. Having, susceptible to, or induced by, animal magnetism. Labels: archaic Example: a magnetic sleep
Word: electromagnet Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree French électro-bor. Ancient Greek ἤλεκτρον (ḗlektron)bor. Latin ēlectrum Latin electro-bor. English electro- Old French magnetebor. Pre-Greekbor.? Ancient Greek Μάγνης (Mágnēs) Ancient Greek μᾰ́γνης (mắgnēs)bor. Latin magnēsbor. Middle English magnete English magnet English electromagnet From electro- + magnet. 1. A magnet which attracts metals only when electrically activated. Example: Hold the electromagnet near something made of iron and push the switch (S2). […] Large electromagnets are used to move things around at factories and junkyards.
Word: magnetism Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Old French magnetebor. Pre-Greekbor.? Ancient Greek Μάγνης (Mágnēs) Ancient Greek μᾰ́γνης (mắgnēs)bor. Latin magnēsbor. Middle English magnete English magnet Proto-Indo-European *-id- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō) Proto-Indo-European *-mos Proto-Indo-European *-mós Ancient Greek -μός (-mós) Ancient Greek -ισμός (-ismós)der. English -ism English magnetism From magnet + -ism. Pronunciation: /ˈmæɡ.nəˌtɪz.əm/ 1. The property of being magnetic. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Earth is surrounded by a magnetosphere — an invisible bubble of magnetism generated by the powerful churning of molten metals at Earth’s core. 2. The science which treats of magnetic phenomena. Labels: countable, uncountable 3. Power of attraction; power to excite the feelings and to gain the affections. Labels: countable, uncountable 4. Animal magnetism. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Mediums [...] should also realise that it is essential to lead a particularly abstinent life, and to conserve their magnetism.
Word: ratline Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Apparently a corruption of raddling by folk-etymological reanalysis as rat + line. Pronunciation: /ˈɹætlɪn/ 1. The rope or similar material used to make cross-ropes on a ship. Labels: uncountable 2. Any of the cross ropes between the shrouds, which form a net-like ropework, allowing sailors to climb up towards the top of the mast. Example: [H]e laid hold of the first ratline with his right hand, then sprung to the second, with his left, and so on alternately, right and left, up to the last, close to the futtock shrouds. Example: That meant it was not possible to use ratlines — that is, to make rope ladders out of the shrouds by adding small connecting pieces of ropes. 3. A system of escape routes for Nazis and other fascists fleeing Europe in the aftermath of World War II. Labels: historical, in-plural, often Example: Marc Masurovsky, of the European Shoah Legacy Institute, has a remarkable knowledge of the Nazi ratlines and Allied intelligence.
Word: girlish Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree English girl Proto-Indo-European *-iskos Proto-Germanic *-iskaz Proto-West Germanic *-isk Old English -isċ Middle English -ish English -ish English girlish From girl + -ish. Pronunciation: /ˈɡɜː.lɪʃ/, /ˈɡɝ.lɪʃ/ 1. Like (that of) a girl; feminine. Example: She saw her own face, glowing with girlish beauty, and illuminating all the interior of the dusky mirror in which she had been wont to gaze at it. Example: Three little maids from school are we, / Pert as a school-girl well can be, / Filled to the brim with girlish glee, / Three little maids from school! 2. Of or relating to girlhood. Labels: archaic Example: 1602, Richard Carew, The Survey of Cornwall, London: E. Law, 1769, pp. 119-20, http://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/9878/pg9878-images.html This village was the birth-place of Thomasine Bonauenture, I know not, whether by descent, or euent, so called: for whiles in her girlish age she kept sheepe on the foreremembered moore, it chanced that a London merchant passing by, saw her […] .
Word: sharpen Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English scharpenen, scharpnen, equivalent to sharp + -en. Pronunciation: /ˈʃɑɹpən/, /ˈʃɑːpən/ 1. To make sharp. Labels: figuratively, sometimes, transitive Example: to sharpen a pencil or a knife or a musical note Example: He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves and sharpens our skill. 2. To become sharp. Labels: intransitive Example: The organizers said they had found themselves "more involved in the web of social convulsions and violence that is tormenting our country. The present economic crisis, the grave political instability and the rapidly sharpening violence have finally overtaken […] our wishes.
Word: sharpener Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English sharpen 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 sharpener From sharpen + -er. Pronunciation: /ˈʃɑː(ɹ)pənə(ɹ)/ 1. A device for making things sharp. Example: There was a pencil sharpener at the front of the classroom. 2. That which makes something sharp. Labels: figuratively Example: “Sir,” said the shepherd, “poverty is a great sharpener of the wits. […] Example: The snuff-box, knife, and chicken-bones were again in requisition, and a pen was successfully formed. The ink, or at least its substitute, was rather more difficult, but necessity is always a sharpener of intellect, and even this was accomplished. 3. An alcoholic drink taken at the start of the day, or just before a meal. Labels: informal Example: The summery G&T somehow loses its clink-clink-fizz perfection as an after-work sharpener and just seems to rub our noses in the dank gloom ahead. Example: And the new daycap has little in common with the stiff gin of the old-fashioned sharpener. Instead, it revolves around “spritz culture, mood-based cocktails, and small serves that tap into the sweet treat economy”.
Word: sacar Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of saker (cannon). Labels: alt-of, alternative Example: Let Sacars, Culuerings, and Cannons ſound / In honour of their bones, and rock the ground / With all your deafning terrors: for behold / The Balſum for your wounds, are rich mens gold, / Powder the world with wonder, and thus crie, / The Camel now may paſſe the needles eie.
Word: punta Part of Speech: noun 1. A Garifuna style of festive music and dance. Labels: uncountable
Word: debater Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From debate + -er. Pronunciation: /dɪˈbeɪtə(ɹ)/ 1. One who debates or participates in a debate; one who argues. Example: William is a great debater. Example: Benjamin Disraeli, who was a pretty bright guy—a novelist, debater, and prime minister of England—tried to identify a person once and ended up exclaiming, "A Polish nobleman, a Count somebody; I never can remember their crack-jaw name."
Word: deceleration Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From de- + (ac)celeration. Pronunciation: /diːsɛləˈɹeɪʃən/, /dɪˌsɛləˈɹeɪʃən/ 1. The act or process of decelerating. Labels: uncountable Example: The rocket is now in deceleration. Example: Comparing both Regions' 1959 services against those of 1939 an appreciable deceleration is evident. This was due to increased loadings, even though more trains were being run, while on the W.R. in particular the increased volume of freight traffic over the line shared the blame. 2. The amount by which a speed or velocity decreases (and so a scalar quantity or a vector quantity), an acceleration having a negative numerical value. Labels: countable Example: The brakes produce a deceleration of 10 metres per second.
Word: deduct Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Borrowed from Latin deductus, perfect passive participle of verb deducere (“lead from”). Pronunciation: /dɪˈdʌkt/, /dɪˈdʊkt/ 1. To take one thing from another; remove from; make smaller or less by some amount. Example: I will deduct the cost of the can of peas from the money I owe you. Example: The player was deducted a point for violent conduct.
Word: lateen Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From French latine (“Latin”). Pronunciation: /ləˈtiːn/, /læˈtiːn/, /ləˈtin/ 1. A triangular fore-and-aft sail set on a boom in such way that the tack is attached to the hull of the vessel and the free end of the boom lifts the sail. Example: The shape of the lateen sail is triangular, or precisely that of a large fore-sail; it requires a long tapering yard to spread it, which will slightly bow or bend towards the middle when a stiff breeze fills the sail; a boom is used for some lateen sails, but not for all. Example: Not only is its supporting and controlling rigging best suited to that sail position but, even more important, the sail itself thus presents a rigid leading-edge: the mast, in the case of most modern sailboats, or the yardarm to which the sail is attached, in the case of the medieval Mediterranean lateen or the modern Sailfish. Fore-and-aft rigs come in a variety of shapes, but the medieval Mediterranean lateen was triangular, and this too was an asset.
Word: savant Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from French savant, from Latin sapiō. Doublet of sapient. Sense 3 is a clipping of idiot savant, literally ‘wise idiot’. Pronunciation: /sæˈvɑnt/, /səˈvɑnt/, /səˈvɑn/, /ˈsæv.ənt/, /ˈsæv.ɒnt/ 1. A person of learning, especially one who is versed in literature or science. 2. A person who is considered eminent because of their achievements. 3. A person with or without significant mental disabilities who is very gifted in one area of activity, such as playing the piano or mental arithmetic.
Word: tosspot Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From toss + pot. Pronunciation: /ˈtɒspɒt/ 1. A drunkard, one who drinks alcohol frequently. Labels: archaic, colloquial Example: The Muses shame to remember some fresh quaffers of Helicon; and which of the Graces or Virtues blusheth not to name some lusty tosspots of rhetoric? Example: We see our carowsing tospot German souldiers, when they are most plunged in their cups and as drunke as rats, to have perfect remembrance of their quarter, of the watchword, and of their files. 2. A fool, prat; an idiot. Labels: Ireland, UK, offensive, slang Example: Well, that's one in the eye for the nay-sayers, the doubters, the cynics and assorted tosspots what make up the media and that.
Word: phwoar Part of Speech: intj Etymology: Imitative of the sound made, with the mouth initially partly closed and then opened wide. Pronunciation: /fwɔː(ɹ)/ 1. Expresses sexual desire on seeing a person to whom one is attracted. Labels: UK, slang Example: That Susan, phwoar! Example: For quotations using this term, see Citations:phwoar.
Word: phwoar Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Imitative of the sound made, with the mouth initially partly closed and then opened wide. Pronunciation: /fwɔː(ɹ)/ 1. To express sexual desire upon seeing a person that one finds sexually attractive.
Word: faux pas Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from French faux pas (“faux pas, blunder; misstep, false step”). Pronunciation: /ˌfəʊ ˈpɑː/, /ˌfəʊ ˈpɑːz/, /ˌfoʊ ˈpɑ/, /ˌfoʊ ˈpɑz/ 1. An embarrassing or tactless blunder. Example: Now my dear Lady Teazle if you but once make a trifling Faux Pas you can't conceive how cautious you would grow, and how ready to humour and agree with your Husband. Example: A saint after repentance will forgive himself for a sin; a man about town will never forgive himself for a faux pas.
Word: faux pas Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from French faux pas (“faux pas, blunder; misstep, false step”). Pronunciation: /ˌfəʊ ˈpɑː/, /ˌfəʊ ˈpɑːz/, /ˌfoʊ ˈpɑ/, /ˌfoʊ ˈpɑz/ 1. To commit a faux pas; to blunder. Labels: nonstandard, rare
Word: catapult Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle French catapulte, from Latin catapulta, from Ancient Greek καταπέλτης (katapéltēs), from κατά (katá, “downwards, into, against”) + πάλλω (pállō, “to poise or sway a missile before it is thrown”). Doublet of catapulta. Pronunciation: /ˈkæ.tə.pʌlt/ 1. A device or weapon for throwing or launching large objects. 2. A mechanical aid on aircraft carriers designed to help airplanes take off from the flight deck. 3. A slingshot. Labels: UK 4. An instance of firing a missile from a catapult. 5. An instance of firing something, as if from a catapult. Labels: figuratively Example: The visitors were given notice of what was to come when Huth headed wide from a Rory Delap long throw but failed to heed the warning, allowing the German defender to rise unmarked to meet another Delap catapult and plant his header into the net after 12 minutes.
Word: catapult Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle French catapulte, from Latin catapulta, from Ancient Greek καταπέλτης (katapéltēs), from κατά (katá, “downwards, into, against”) + πάλλω (pállō, “to poise or sway a missile before it is thrown”). Doublet of catapulta. Pronunciation: /ˈkæ.tə.pʌlt/ 1. To fire a missile from a catapult. Labels: transitive 2. To fire or launch something, as if from a catapult. Labels: transitive 3. To increase the status of something rapidly. Labels: transitive Example: The candidate selection for running mate has catapulted her to the national scene. Example: I was catapulted without preparation into the most difficult job any mortal man can hold. My duties would not wait a week, or a day, or even an hour. 4. To be fired from a catapult or as if from a catapult. Labels: intransitive 5. To have one's status increased rapidly. Labels: intransitive Example: She catapulted to the national scene following her selection by the candidate.
Word: bounty Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English bounte (“goodness, virtue; beauty; strength; chivalry, valour; excellence; kindness, mercy; good deed; generosity”) [and other forms], borrowed from Anglo-Norman bounté and Old French bonté, bontet, bunté (modern French bonté (“goodness, kindness”)), from Latin bonitās. Pronunciation: /ˈbaʊnti/, /ˈbaʊn(t)i/, [ˈb̥aʊ̯ɾ̃i], [ˈb̥ʌʊ̯ɾ̃i], /ˈbæɔnti/ 1. To offer a monetary reward for the capturing or killing of. Labels: transitive
Word: clay Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *gleyH- Proto-Indo-European *-ós Proto-Indo-European *gloyHós Proto-Germanic *klajjaz Proto-West Germanic *klaij Old English clǣġ Middle English cley English clay From Middle English cley, clay, from Old English clǣġ (“clay”), from Proto-West Germanic *klaij, from Proto-Germanic *klajjaz (“clay”), derived from Proto-Indo-European *gleyH- (“to glue, paste, stick together”). Cognate with Dutch klei (“clay”), Low German Klei (“clay”), German Klei, Danish klæg (“clay”); compare Ancient Greek γλία (glía), Latin glūten (“glue”) (whence ultimately English glue), Russian глина (glina, “clay”). Related also to clag, clog. Pronunciation: /kleɪ/, [kl̥eɪ] 1. A mineral substance made up of small crystals of silica and alumina, that is ductile when moist; the material of pre-fired ceramics. Labels: uncountable, usually Example: Three chairs of the steamer type, all maimed, comprised the furniture of this roof-garden, with (by way of local color) on one of the copings a row of four red clay flower-pots filled with sun-baked dust […] 2. An earth material with ductile qualities. Labels: uncountable, usually 3. A tennis court surface made of crushed stone, brick, shale, or other unbound mineral aggregate. Labels: uncountable, usually Example: The French Open is played on clay. 4. The material of the human body. Labels: uncountable, usually Example: From clay we are made. Example: Thine hands have made me and fashioned me together round about...thou hast made me as the clay. 5. A particle less than 3.9 microns in diameter, following the Wentworth scale. Labels: uncountable, usually 6. A clay pipe for smoking tobacco. Labels: uncountable, usually 7. A clay pigeon. Labels: informal, uncountable, usually Example: We went shooting clays at the weekend. 8. Land or territory of a country or other political region, especially when subject to territorial claims. Labels: Internet, humorous, uncountable, usually Example: Vilnius is rightful Polish clay. 9. A moth, Mythimna ferrago Labels: uncountable, usually
Word: clay Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *gleyH- Proto-Indo-European *-ós Proto-Indo-European *gloyHós Proto-Germanic *klajjaz Proto-West Germanic *klaij Old English clǣġ Middle English cley English clay From Middle English cley, clay, from Old English clǣġ (“clay”), from Proto-West Germanic *klaij, from Proto-Germanic *klajjaz (“clay”), derived from Proto-Indo-European *gleyH- (“to glue, paste, stick together”). Cognate with Dutch klei (“clay”), Low German Klei (“clay”), German Klei, Danish klæg (“clay”); compare Ancient Greek γλία (glía), Latin glūten (“glue”) (whence ultimately English glue), Russian глина (glina, “clay”). Related also to clag, clog. Pronunciation: /kleɪ/, [kl̥eɪ] 1. To add clay to, to spread clay onto. Labels: transitive 2. To purify using clay. Labels: transitive Example: 1776, Adam Smith, An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, Book IV, Chapter 7: Of Colonies, Part 2: Causes of Prosperity of New Colonies, They amounted, therefore, to a prohibition, at first of claying or refining sugar for any foreign market, and at present of claying or refining it for the market, which takes off, perhaps, more than nine-tenths of the whole produce.
Word: spraint Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Old French espraintes, espreintes, French épreintes from espreinte (“a desire to go to stool”); cf. épreinte (“a piece of otter dung”). Pronunciation: /spɹeɪnt/ 1. A piece of otter dung. Example: In this region the average spraint number per site is 3.9. Example: Figure 1 shows a photograph of an otter spraint.
Word: centigrade Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *déḱm̥ Proto-Indo-European *ḱm̥tóm Proto-Italic *kəntom Latin centum Latin centi-bor. French centi-bor. English centi- English grade English centigrade From centi- (“hundred”) + grade (“degree”). 1. Having 100 divisions between two fixed points. Labels: not-comparable 2. Celsius. Labels: not-comparable
Word: centigrade Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *déḱm̥ Proto-Indo-European *ḱm̥tóm Proto-Italic *kəntom Latin centum Latin centi-bor. French centi-bor. English centi- English grade English centigrade From centi- (“hundred”) + grade (“degree”). 1. A centigrade scale for temperature having the freezing point of water defined as 0° and its boiling point defined as 100° at standard atmospheric pressure. Labels: uncountable, usually Example: all temperatures are expressed in centigrade unless otherwise noted Example: a temperature of 34 centigrade 2. A single degree on this scale. Labels: archaic, countable, usually Example: a temperature of 34 centigrades 3. The scale for angle measurement on which a gradian (a grad or gon) is the hundredth part of a quadrant. Labels: countable, usually
Word: phosphine 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) Proto-Indo-European *bʰer- Proto-Indo-European *bʰéreti Proto-Hellenic *pʰérō Ancient Greek φέρω (phérō) Proto-Indo-European *-os Proto-Hellenic *-os Ancient Greek -ος (-os) Ancient Greek -φόρος (-phóros) Ancient Greek φωσφόρος (phōsphóros)bor. Latin phōsphorusbor. English phosphorusclip. English phosph- Proto-Indo-European *-nós Proto-Indo-European *-iHnos Proto-Italic *-īnos Latin -īnusder. Old French -inbor. Middle English -in English -ine English phosphine From phosph- + -ine. Pronunciation: /ˈfɒsfiːn/ 1. A toxic gas, chemical formula PH₃. Labels: uncountable 2. Any alkyl or aryl derivative of this compound, PR₃ (where at least one R is not H), Labels: countable 3. Chrysaniline, often in the form of a salt. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: forget it Part of Speech: phrase 1. Absolutely not; I forbid it or it is impossible. Example: You think you're getting into university with these grades? Well, forget it! Example: You said we could go to the mall! —Forget it! Look at the state of this room! You're going to stay here and clean up before you go anywhere. 2. It doesn't matter. Example: Near-synonyms: don't worry; who cares, I don't care Example: What were you saying? – Oh, it was nothing important, forget it. 3. A conventional reply to an expression of gratitude. Example: Near-synonym: don't worry Example: Thank you so much! How can I repay you for your kindness? – Forget it; it was nothing. 4. I don't want to continue with this conversation (usually used in frustration or anger). Example: Near-synonyms: (vulgar) fuck it, fuck this Example: It's raining. I said, "It's raining." Do you hear me? It's raining! Oh, forget it! 5. Don't let it bother you; put it out of your mind. Example: So, life is disappointing? Forget it. We have no problems here. In here, life is beautiful! The girls are beautiful! Even the orchestra is beautiful.
Word: t' Part of Speech: article Etymology: From Middle English that, from Old English þæt (“the, that”, neuter definite article and relative pronoun). Pronunciation: [t̚], [ʔ], [ː] 1. Northern England form of the (most characteristic of Yorkshire, but also found in areas of Lancashire, Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire) Labels: Northern-England, alt-of 2. Northern England form of the (most characteristic of Yorkshire, but also found in areas of Lancashire, Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire) Labels: Yorkshire, abbreviation, alt-of Example: Tunnels often feature in fictional journeys, so I will end with quotations from a fairly recent novel, Howard Spring's "Fame is the Spur", published in 1940, in which there is a journey from Manchester to Bradford via the Calder Valley route: "Ay, we're going through Todmorden. We'll soon be in t' tunnel, and when we get to t' other end we'll be in Yorkshire," and "Ah think this is t' filthiest tunnel in t' world."
Word: t' Part of Speech: prep Etymology: Contraction. Pronunciation: [t̚], [ʔ], [ː] 1. Apocopic form of to. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, apocopic Example: But more particulary that, / Where Lady was to wear a Hat; / And lay the Enſigns of their pride; / Their Silken Ornaments aſide; / Which would have been a wholſome Act, / T' encourage Woolen Manufact; […] Example: Who wants t’ know?
Word: mobile telephone Part of Speech: noun 1. Synonym of mobile phone.