nandhakumarms/qualc-wiktionary-en huggingface dataset:
Word: authoritarian Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₂ewg-der. Proto-Indo-European *h₂owg-éye-ti Proto-Italic *augejō Proto-Italic *augeō Latin augeō Proto-Indo-European *-tōr Proto-Italic *-tōr Latin -tor Latin auctor Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-ts Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂ts Proto-Italic *-tāts Latin -tās Latin auctōritāsbor. Old French autoritébor. Middle English auctorite English authority Proto-Indo-European *-yósder. Proto-Italic *-āzios Latin -āriusder. Middle English -arie English -ary Proto-Indo-European *-nós Proto-Italic *-nos Latin -nus Latin -ānus Old French -ainder. Middle English -an English -an English -arian English authoritarian From authority + -arian, circa 1880. Pronunciation: /ɔːˌθɒɹ.ɪˈtɛə̯.ɹɪən/, /əˌθɔɹ.əˈtɛɹ.i.ən/, /ɔˌθɔɹ.əˈtɛɹ.i.ən/, /əˌθɑ.ɹəˈtɛɹ.i.ən/ 1. One who commands absolute obedience to his or her authority. Example: The dictator was an authoritarian. Example: Trump may be a Schmittian by instinct and aspiration, but he’s a fair-weather Schmittian only. A true authoritarian, confronted by limits on his power, might have ripped through them in service of establishing his authority. 2. One who follows and is excessively obedient to authority.
Word: pixilated Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From pixie, with ending as in titillated. 1. Behaving in an eccentric manner, as though led by pixies. Example: Jane Faulkner: They think he's pixilated. Amy Faulkner: Oh, yes. Pixilated. […] Board member: Perhaps I can explain, your honor. The word "pixilated" is an early American expression derived from the word "pixies", meaning elves. They would say the pixies had got him. As we nowadays would say, a man is "barmy". 2. Whimsical. Example: Gremlinesque behaviour might not be very obvious to an America, who would accept as perfectly natural the quaintly pixilated sayings and doings that are happening in subways, in trolleys, on buses, in bars at all times of the day and night. 3. Drunk. Example: The melancholy beauty of Strachur and Inveraray was for me complicated by the agonies of first love; I was well and truly pixilated, and I soaked myself in the works of Niel Munroe and Maurice Walsh...
Word: sex toy Part of Speech: noun 1. Any physical object or device that is primarily used to facilitate human sexual pleasure. Example: It is illegal to go to Mexico with more than three sex toys. Example: As with all sex toys, be sure to use lots of lubricants and clean them regularly. 2. A person willing to provide sexual pleasure to another at their beckoning. Labels: broadly
Word: ochlocracy Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle French ochlocratie, from Ancient Greek ὀχλοκρατία (okhlokratía), from ὄχλος (ókhlos, “multitude, crowd”) + κράτος (krátos, “power”). Equivalent to ochlo- + -cracy. Pronunciation: /ɒkˈlɒk.ɹə.si/, /ɑkˈlɑ.kɹə.si/, /ɔkˈlɔ.kɹə.si/ 1. Mob rule; government by the masses; mobocracy. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Referendums are snapshots of sentiment at a given point in time. Government by referendum is government by crowd acclamation: not democracy, but ochlocracy. That is exactly why we have representative democracy. If referendums would be a poor way to decide on health and safety, air traffic control, or education, they are an exceedingly poor way to decide a matter as momentous as membership of the EU. This is and should be a matter for Parliament, taking all factors into account. Example: This constitutes a grave threat to the American Republic and degrades it into an Ochlocracy, or government by mob rule.
Word: lightweight Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From light (“not heavy”, adjective) + weight (noun). Pronunciation: /ˈlaɪt.weɪt/ 1. A particular weight class, or member of such, as prescribed by the rules, between that of the heavier welterweight and the lighter featherweight. See Wikipedia for the specifics of each sport. 2. A particular weight category as prescribed by the rules, separate from an open or heavyweight class. 3. A competitive weight division as prescribed by the rules, between the heavier middleweight and the lighter featherweight. 4. One of little consequence or ability. 5. A person who cannot handle their drink; one who gets drunk on very little alcohol. Example: "Wait, is this about the other night when you two lightweights totally went on that bender?" 6. A person with low endurance. Labels: broadly 7. A political candidate with little chance of winning. 8. Something that is light in weight, or relatively so. Example: He mentions the "huge engine, lying on its side"—it was in fact a 2-2-2 weighing but 27 tons, something of a lightweight, even for 1868.
Word: lightweight Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From light (“not heavy”, adjective) + weight (noun). Pronunciation: /laɪtˈweɪt/ 1. Lacking in earnestness, ability, or profundity. 2. Having less than average weight. Example: […] the Plan incorporates in proper combination every available modern technique, including extensive electrification on the new standard high-voltage a.c. system at a frequency of 50 cycles; main-line diesel traction as a half-way house to electrification; lightweight diesel trains for secondary and branch services; and a smaller wagon fleet doing more work by the use of continuous brakes in conjunction with modernised terminals and marshalling yards. Example: For example, lightweight construction and Jacobs bogies save weight, and a lighter train uses less power. 3. Lacking in strength. Example: With the Gunners far too lightweight in midfield, Mikel Arteta dropped back into a deeper-lying role. This freed Yossi Benayoun to go further forward, a move that helped forge a rare Arsenal chance on 30 minutes when the Israeli released Van Persie, only for the Dutchman's snap-shot to be tipped around the post. 4. Having a small footprint or performance impact.
Word: lightweight Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From light (“not heavy”, adjective) + weight (noun). 1. To reduce the amount or weight of. Labels: transitive Example: By extending the producer’s responsibility to the product’s disposal (its post-consumer life), issues previously outside the business calculus become of paramount importance. Because a producer knows it will have to bear the cost of collecting and valorizing the product, it must manage a new set of business matters. Can the packaging be lightweighted? Are the materials all recyclable? Example: The solar photovoltaic array, GPS antennae and telephony antenna all would be lightweighted and integrated into the balloon structure, and the sensor-module would be ruggedized and miniaturized.
Word: chat up Part of Speech: verb 1. To talk to (someone) in a friendly, open, or casual manner, sometimes also in a charming or affected manner, usually to curry favor, and sometimes flirtatiously with the intention of establishing a romantic or sexual encounter or relationship with that person. Labels: idiomatic, transitive Example: Have you been chatting up my girlfriend? Example: He spent all evening chatting her up.
Word: chaton Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from French. 1. Collet, bezel (around a jewel, on a ring). Example: Another ring, from the same locality, with a cross of simpler form engraved on the chaton was found attached to a chain. 2. chaton (movement component: a circular piece of metal inserted in a round hole, in which a ruby is inserted. The ruby is used as bearing for the pin (or pivot) of a shaft of a wheel)
Word: gatta Part of Speech: noun 1. A police officer. Labels: South-Africa, slang Example: They went into the pub and started a fight. One that was just bad enough for someone to call the boere. When the gattas arrived they got donnered for their trouble.
Word: schizophrenia Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From German Schizophrenie (coined by Eugen Bleuler), from Ancient Greek σχίζω (skhízō, “to split”) + φρήν (phrḗn, “mind, heart, diaphragm”) + English -ia. A combination of schizo- + -phrenia. Pronunciation: /ˌskɪtsəˈfɹiniə/, /ˌskɪtsəˈfɹɛniə/, /skɪtsə(ʊ)ˈfɹiːniə/ 1. A psychiatric diagnosis denoting a persistent, often chronic, mental illness characterised by abnormal perception, thinking, behavior and emotion, often marked by delusions. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Increasing data suggests that regular marijuana use in adolescence may also be a risk factor for developing very serious psychotic disorders, especially schizophrenia. Example: In 1995, 2% of schizophrenia diagnoses in the country were associated with cannabis use disorder. In 2000, it increased to around 4%. Since 2010, that figure increased to 8%, the study found. 2. A condition in which a person is supposed to have several distinct personalities; dissociative identity disorder. Labels: countable, proscribed, uncountable Example: You have enough money to afford schizophrenia for a while. Especially if the personality B dreams up things that personality A makes practical, financially advantageous use of. 3. Any condition in which disparate or mutually exclusive activities coexist; a lack of decision between options. Labels: countable, figuratively, informal, uncountable Example: [O]ne can understand how the cultural disorientation which beset the African Continent has confused Africa's political behaviour, creating a political schizophrenia that made nation-building impossible. Example: Nevertheless, a certain amount of schizophrenia pertains to the study of World Englishes as New Englishes, for while new Englishes are regarded as valid varieties in their own right, the description and delineation of them in linguistic terms is conducted through the gaze of native-speaker norms.
Word: drooping Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From droop + -ing. Pronunciation: /ˈdɹuːpɪŋ/ 1. present participle and gerund of droop Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: drooping Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From droop + -ing. Pronunciation: /ˈdɹuːpɪŋ/ 1. An instance of something drooping.
Word: drooping Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From droop + -ing. Pronunciation: /ˈdɹuːpɪŋ/ 1. That droops or droop. Example: drooping flowers Example: Cocktails in a can are the new frontier for drooping drinks giants [title]
Word: swooping Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of swoop Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: swooping Part of Speech: noun 1. The motion of something that swoops. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: I rarely dared to write there after dark, but once in a while, gripped by the need to type a fresh version of a certain passage, I would type by candle or kerosene lamp and be treated to their [bats'] swoopings through the room. 2. A high-speed landing technique in skydiving. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: swooping Part of Speech: adj 1. That swoops or swoop. Example: With a huge rush of wind a swooping eagle dropped from out of the night sky.
Word: bejeaned Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₁ep-der. Proto-Indo-European *h₁épsder. Proto-Indo-European *h₁epider. Proto-Indo-European *h₁pi Proto-Germanic *bider. Proto-Germanic *bi- Proto-West Germanic *bi- Old English be- Middle English bi- English be- English jeaned English bejeaned From be- + jeaned. 1. Wearing jeans. Labels: humorous, not-comparable, usually
Word: votive Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle French votif, from Latin vōtīvus (“votive”), from vōtum (“vow”). Pronunciation: /ˈvəʊ.tɪv/, /ˈvoʊ.tɪv/ 1. Dedicated or given in fulfillment of a vow or pledge. Example: She placed a votive offering at the shrine. Example: embellishments of flowers and votive garlands 2. Of, expressing, or symbolizing a vow. Often used to describe thick cylindrical candles found in many churches, lit when making a private vow or asking a private intention. Example: The church was lit by votive candles.
Word: votive Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle French votif, from Latin vōtīvus (“votive”), from vōtum (“vow”). Pronunciation: /ˈvəʊ.tɪv/, /ˈvoʊ.tɪv/ 1. a hymn or chant dedicated to a particular saint, or to the Virgin Mary 2. Clipping of votive candle Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, clipping
Word: reinvent Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Italic *wre- Latin re-der. Old French re-bor. Middle English re- English re- English invent English reinvent From re- + invent. Pronunciation: /ɹiːɪnˈvɛnt/, /ˌɹiɪnˈvɛnt/, [ˌɹiɪnˈvænt], [ˌɹiɪnˈvɜnt], [ˌɹiɪnˈvɐnt] 1. To invent again something that has already been invented. Labels: transitive Example: A narrative circulates at Mitchell, Hall about a naive young employee who, in his eagerness to be creative, "reinvents the wheel," devoting so many hours reformulating work that has already been done that he drives himself into a nervous breakdown. Example: Overprocessing. The big problem in this area is a lack of standardization. A lot of time is spent reinventing the wheel. There are a lot of similar activities, and the lead time (set-up time) for reinventing the process should be eliminated. 2. To adapt into a different form; to give a new style or image to. Labels: transitive Example: He had the ability to reinvent himself as needed. Example: The compulsion to expose, renegotiate, or reinvent the strengths and weaknesses of dance tradition offers little in its final outcome to attract the average dance-goer.
Word: lancer Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from French lancier (“lancer”). 1. A cavalry soldier armed with a lance weapon. 2. Any of various Asian hesperiid butterflies of the genus Plastingia. 3. One who lances something. Example: The evolutional descendants of those early shavers of beards and lancers of boils have made good (and, perhaps, nearly exclusive) use of the title […]
Word: threesome Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *tréyes Proto-Germanic *þrīz Proto-West Germanic *þrīʀ Old English þrī Middle English thre English three English -some English threesome From three + -some. Pronunciation: /ˈθɹiː.səm/, /ˈθɹi.səm/ 1. A group of three people or things. 2. An instance of sexual activity involving three people. Example: Threesomes are huge right now. They're the blow job of the '90s. Example: ‘Tell me everything,’ she said to Losse, and when she’d heard everything, got the colleague who kept suggesting a threesome discreetly demoted.
Word: capisce Part of Speech: intj Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from the spoken Neapolitan and Sicilian equivalents of either of the following: * Italian capisce (literally “he, she, etc., understands”), the third-person singular present indicative form; or * capisci (literally “you understand”) (possibly with the final vowel dropped or reduced in informal speech), the second-person singular present indicative form; of capire (“to understand”), from Latin capere, the present active infinitive of capiō (“to capture, catch, seize; to comprehend, understand; etc.”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *kap- (“to grab, seize; to hold”). Pronunciation: /kəˈpiːʃ/, /kəˈpiʃ/ 1. Used by a listener to confirm that they have understood something said to them: I got it, I heard you, I understand. Labels: US, slang Example: "I have a niece." / "No children?" / "Not married." / "What is the problem?" / "I'm single. No wife, no kids. No problem." / "Capisce." / "Yeah, capisce." Example: "It’s simple. Here's the rules: One of us says 'Never Have I Ever' and finishes the sentence. If you've done whatever the thing is, you drink. Yeah?" / "Capisce." I salute and he laughs. 2. Used by a speaker to confirm that the listener has understood something said to the latter: did you hear me?, get it?, understood? Labels: US, offensive, slang, sometimes Example: It's very simple, George, you forget about this whole licensing lawsuit pipe dream of yours or you can forget about your buddy working in my factory for the next couple of years. I will be that angry. Capiche? Example: Detective Brodka: Hey kid, one more thing: if you ever set foot in this store again, you'll be spending Christmas in juvenile hall! Capisce? / Bart: [silently stares in confusion] / Brodka: Well, do you understand? / Bart: Everything except "capisce."
Word: capisce Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from the spoken Neapolitan and Sicilian equivalents of either of the following: * Italian capisce (literally “he, she, etc., understands”), the third-person singular present indicative form; or * capisci (literally “you understand”) (possibly with the final vowel dropped or reduced in informal speech), the second-person singular present indicative form; of capire (“to understand”), from Latin capere, the present active infinitive of capiō (“to capture, catch, seize; to comprehend, understand; etc.”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *kap- (“to grab, seize; to hold”). Pronunciation: /kəˈpiːʃ/, /kəˈpiʃ/ 1. To understand (someone or something). Labels: US, slang, transitive Example: "I need at least a B-plus, and no one—I repeat, NO ONE—can know that I didn't write it. This paper is vitally important to my future. Do you capisce what I'm saying to you? Very important." / We grumbled our understanding into the phone. "Yeah, yeah, we capisce," Ellie said. Example: "Nothing they say would stop me from thinking you're the greatest, smartest, bravest little girl in the whole world. Do you capisce me?" / "I capisce you," she nodded and her big eyes blinked back tears. 2. To understand. Labels: US, intransitive, slang Example: "Shoo, shoo, shoo, go help Pierfranco. He'll be bringing up heavy baskets, capisce?" I certainly capisced. Example: "I'm just saying. Because I don't know if you ladies got a brownshirt vibe off those dudes like I did, but I've got two grandparents who would smack me sideways if I didn't say this. The others died in a concentration camp. Capisce?” / Bronca capisces, nodding slowly in grim agreement. Because, well. She grew up missing a few elders, too—and contemporaries, for that matter.
Word: shooting Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English shoting, schoting, from Old English scotung (“shooting”), from Proto-Germanic *skutungō, equivalent to shoot + -ing. Cognate with Dutch schieting, German Erschießung (“shooting”), Swedish skjutning (“shooting”). Pronunciation: /ˈʃuːtɪŋ/ 1. Moving or growing quickly Example: Shooting beams of light played over the sea. 2. Of a pain, sudden and darting Example: I often feel a shooting pain in my arm.
Word: shooting Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English shoting, schoting, from Old English scotung (“shooting”), from Proto-Germanic *skutungō, equivalent to shoot + -ing. Cognate with Dutch schieting, German Erschießung (“shooting”), Swedish skjutning (“shooting”). Pronunciation: /ˈʃuːtɪŋ/ 1. an instance of shooting with a gun or other weapon Labels: countable Example: Police are hunting the people who carried out the shootings last week. Example: Well, I've always been progun, you know that. It's... yeah, I think adding more guns into a situation is obviously the way to prevent shooting. I think in a way, if we take the guns away, the shootings may escalate. And I think that's why he's so firm on literally arming everyone. I think if you don't have a gun in your hands... well, let's not find out what that world would be. 2. the sport or activity of firing a gun or other weapon Labels: uncountable Example: Well, I've always been progun, you know that. It's... yeah, I think adding more guns into a situation is obviously the way to prevent shooting. I think in a way, if we take the guns away, the shootings may escalate. Example: I take part in shooting at the local archery club. 3. a district in which people have the right to kill game with firearms Labels: countable, uncountable 4. the act of one who, or that which, shoots Labels: countable, uncountable Example: the shooting of rays of light 5. a sensation of darting pain Labels: countable, uncountable Example: a shooting in one's head 6. filming Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: shooting Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English shoting, schoting, from Old English scotung (“shooting”), from Proto-Germanic *skutungō, equivalent to shoot + -ing. Cognate with Dutch schieting, German Erschießung (“shooting”), Swedish skjutning (“shooting”). Pronunciation: /ˈʃuːtɪŋ/ 1. present participle and gerund of shoot; forcefully projecting Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: vart Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Blend of vagina + fart. 1. An emission of air from the vagina, especially when audible; a queef. Labels: slang, vulgar
Word: vart Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Blend of vagina + fart. 1. To queef. Labels: slang, vulgar
Word: kidology Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From kid + -ology. 1. The art of kidding, teasing mocking. Labels: uncountable 2. Studied deception. Labels: uncountable
Word: diallelic Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From di- + allele + -ic. 1. having two alleles Labels: not-comparable
Word: scavenger's daughter Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of Skeffington's daughter. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: proliferation Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree French proliférer Proto-Indo-European *-tis Proto-Indo-European *-Hō Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō Proto-Italic *-tiō Latin -tiō Latin -ātiōlbor. Old French -ation Middle French -ation French -ation French proliférationbor. English proliferation Borrowed from French prolifération. Pronunciation: /pɹəˌlɪf.əˈɹeɪ.ʃən/, /pɹəˌlɪf.əˈɹæɪ.ʃən/ 1. The process by which an organism produces others of its kind; breeding, propagation, procreation, reproduction. Labels: uncountable 2. The act of increasing, rising, or proliferating; augmentation, amplification, enlargement, escalation, aggrandizement. Labels: countable Example: One particularly damaging, but often ignored, effect of conflict on education is the proliferation of attacks on schools[…]as children, teachers or school buildings become the targets of attacks. Parents fear sending their children to school. Girls are particularly vulnerable to sexual violence. Example: Internationally, the shipping container had already proven its worth, and by the early 1960s battles were being fought over what their standardised dimensions would be (their expected proliferation was not in question). 3. The act of increasing, rising, or proliferating; augmentation, amplification, enlargement, escalation, aggrandizement. Labels: uncountable Example: ... to combat proliferation by assisting them in gaining and assuring greater control over their dual-use equipment and technology. States that gain weapons of mass destruction are able to pose a significant military threat to the[…] Example: [Efforts] to fight proliferation will require more than just new targets for collection; intelligence analysis will also have to change. In particular, to support policymakers looking for opportunities to disrupt, slow, or stop a[…] 4. The result of building up; buildup, accretion. Labels: countable
Word: procreation Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Old French procreacion, from Latin prōcreātiō (“generation”), the noun of action from prōcreāre (“to bring forth”), itself from prō- (“forth”) + creāre (“to create”). First attested in c. 1386. 1. The process by which an organism produces others of its biological kind Labels: uncountable, usually 2. The sexual activity of conceiving and bearing biological offspring Labels: uncountable, usually
Word: xanthosis Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English xanth- Ancient Greek -τις (-tis) Ancient Greek -σῐς (-sĭs) Ancient Greek -ωσις (-ōsis)bor. New Latin -ōsislbor. English -osis English xanthosis From xanth- + -osis. Pronunciation: /zænˈθoʊsɪs/, /zænˈθoʊsəs/ 1. A yellowish discolouration of tissues undergoing degeneration. Labels: countable, uncountable 2. Synonym of citrinitas. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: escalation Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English escalate Proto-Indo-European *-tis Proto-Indo-European *-Hō Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō Proto-Italic *-tiō Latin -tiō Latin -ātiōlbor. Old French -ationbor. Middle English -acioun English -ation English -ion English escalation From escalate + -ion. Pronunciation: /ˌɛs.kəˈleɪ.ʃən/, /ˌes.kəˈlæɪ.ʃən/ 1. The act of escalating. Labels: countable, uncountable 2. An increase or rise, especially to counteract a perceived discrepancy. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Thousands of violent videos are still available on the internet, according to Alexander, who claims they lead to an escalation in offline tensions between rival gangs. "I believe some young people are losing their lives as result of this material on the internet," she said. 3. A deliberate or premeditated increase in the violence or geographic scope of a conflict. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: The 1840s saw a further escalation, with new laws treating most slave ships captured as pirates, and a number of military expeditions being mounted to destroy slaving centres on the African coast and depose, or even kill, remaining local kings and chiefs who had refused to end slavery in their territory. 4. The reassignment of a difficult problem to someone whose job is dedicated to handling such cases. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: The manager ensures that the escalation team generates a continuous stream of root cause analysis exercises and the subsequent corrective actions. Example: Resolving escalations tends to require large amounts of time and energy from the support engineer working on an escalation and from the manager driving it. If those individuals are also required to attend to other issues, they will either neglect other customers (not good) or do a poor job of driving the escalation (very bad).
Word: premeditated Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of premeditate Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: premeditated Part of Speech: adj 1. Planned, considered, or estimated in advance; deliberate. Labels: not-comparable Example: premeditated assault Example: a premeditated act of aggression
Word: unpremeditated Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From un- + premeditated. 1. Performed, but not planned or thought out in advance; extemporaneous, but not unintentional. Labels: not-comparable Example: Hail to thee, blithe spirit! / Bird thou never wert, / That from heaven, or near it, / Pourest thy full heart / In profuse strains of unpremeditated art.
Word: discolouration Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English discolour Proto-Indo-European *-tis Proto-Indo-European *-Hō Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō Proto-Italic *-tiō Latin -tiō Latin -ātiōlbor. Old French -ationbor. Middle English -acioun English -ation English discolouration From discolour + -ation. 1. Alternative spelling of discoloration. Labels: UK, alt-of, alternative, countable, uncountable Example: […] one tablet completely sterilises a quart of water, tastelessly, without discolouration or odour. Example: We detect wrinkles, discolourations and pores, and subtract them from a woman’s beauty in ways we don’t if that same face is presented to us as masculine.
Word: UXO Part of Speech: noun 1. Initialism of unexploded ordnance. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable
Word: UXB Part of Speech: noun 1. Initialism of unexploded bomb. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
Word: Laplace distribution Part of Speech: noun 1. A probability distribution consisting of two exponential distributions, one positive and one negative.
Word: probability distribution Part of Speech: noun 1. A distribution of all possible values of a random variable together with an indication of their probabilities.
Word: exponential distribution Part of Speech: noun 1. Any of a class of continuous probability distributions used to model the time between events that occur independently at a constant average rate. Example: The exponential distribution is a basic distribution for constructing a number of other distributions. For example, the gamma distribution is obtained from the distribution of the sum of random variables where each variable follows an exponential distribution. Example: In addition, PH distributions provide a simple framework to demonstrate how one can extend many simple results on exponential distributions to more complex models without losing computational tractability.
Word: Laplace plane Part of Speech: noun 1. The mean plane occupied by the orbit of a satellite during a precession cycle; the plane normal to the orbital precession pole of the satellite.
Word: precession Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English precessioun, precession, from Medieval Latin prēcessiōn-, prēcessio, from Latin praecēdō. 1. Precedence. Labels: uncountable Example: But as it will not do to talk entirely at random, as Montaigne does, and Ralph Waldo Emerson tries to do, we must take up some little thread or threads. and string our thoughts thereupon, keeping up also a relation among them of precession and succession. 2. The wobbling motion of the axis of a spinning body when there is an external force acting on the axis. Labels: countable 3. The slow gyration of the earth's axis around the pole of the ecliptic, caused mainly by the gravitational torque of the sun and moon. Labels: uncountable 4. Any of several slow changes in an astronomical body's rotational or orbital parameters. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: precession of the equinoxes Part of Speech: noun 1. The slow westward shift of the equinoxes along the plane of the ecliptic, resulting from precession of the earth's axis of rotation, and causing the equinoxes to occur earlier each year. Example: Some three thousand years ago (owing to the Precession of the Equinoxes) that star at the winter solstice did not stand at midnight where you now see it, but almost exactly ON the meridian line.
Word: rotation Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Latin rotātiō. By surface analysis, rotate + -ion. Pronunciation: /ɹoʊˈteɪʃən/ 1. The act of turning around a centre or an axis. Labels: uncountable Example: An extreme version of vorticity is a vortex. The vortex is a spinning, cyclonic mass of fluid, which can be observed in the rotation of water going down a drain, as well as in smoke rings, tornados and hurricanes. Example: The earth's rotation about its axis is responsible for its being slightly oblate rather than a sphere. 2. A single complete cycle around a centre or an axis. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Earth's moon completes a rotation every twenty-seven days or so. 3. A regular variation in a sequence, such as to even out wear, or people taking turns in a task; a duty roster. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Applying crop rotation to a field avoids depleting soil nutrients the way repeated use of a single crop might do. Example: In rotation, each member of the group would be responsible for the beacon fire. 4. Тhe movement of investments between different sectors of an economy, or styles of investing, based on anticipated changes in the economic or market cycle. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Sector rotation attempts to capitalize on the tendency of certain sectors to outperform others during specific economic phases, while style rotation involves shifting investments between different investment styles, such as moving from growth stocks to value stocks. 5. An operation on a metric space that is a continuous isometry and fixes at least one point. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: The function mapping (x,y) to (−y,x) is a rotation. 6. The set of starting pitchers of a team. Labels: countable, uncountable 7. The step during takeoff when the pilot commands the vehicle to lift the nose wheel off the ground during the takeoff roll. (see also: V2) Labels: countable, uncountable 8. Repeated play of songs on a radio station, advertisements on a television channel, etc. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: The new single enjoyed heavy rotation on MTV.
Word: coordinate system Part of Speech: noun 1. A method of representing the position of any individual point in a space of given dimensionality as a tuple of numerical coordinates. Example: 1992, D. H. Maling, Coordinate Systems and Map Projections, 2nd Edition, Pergamon Press, page 27, In this chapter we review some of the fundamental ideas about the plane coordinate systems which are used in surveying and mapping, both from the viewpoint of studying the mathematics of map projections and the practical tasks which arise in cartography. Example: Note that the orientation of Squire's coordinate system relative to the physical coordinate system is changing as a function of wavenumbervector.
Word: Laplace transform Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Named after French polymath Pierre-Simon Laplace. 1. an integral transform of positive real function f(t) to a complex function F(s); given by Example: F(s)=∫₀ ᪲f(t)e⁻ˢᵗ,dt.
Word: legislator Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Latin lēgislātor. Pronunciation: /ˈlɛd͡ʒɪˌsleɪtə/, /ˈlɛd͡ʒɪˌsleɪtɚ/, [ˈlɛd͡ʒɪˌsleɪɾɚ], /ˈled͡ʒɪˌslæɪtə/, [ˈled͡ʒɪˌslæɪɾə] 1. Someone who creates or enacts laws. Example: Give the children of the poor that portion of education which will enable them to know their own resources; which will cultivate in them an onward-looking hope, and give them rational amusement in their leisure hours: this, and this only, will work out that moral revolution, which is the legislator's noblest purpose. 2. Someone who creates or enacts laws.
Word: mysteries Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ˈmɪst(ə)ɹiz/ 1. plural of mystery Labels: form-of, plural
Word: mysteries Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ˈmɪst(ə)ɹiz/ 1. a number of secret societies or cults Labels: Ancient-Rome, plural, plural-only
Word: Laplacian Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Laplace + -ian, after Pierre-Simon Laplace. 1. Alternative form of Laplacean. Labels: alt-of, alternative, not-comparable
Word: Laplacian Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Laplace + -ian, after Pierre-Simon Laplace. 1. The Laplace operator.
Word: snooze Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Unknown, attested since 18th century. Compare Dutch snoezelen (“to snooze”) or Swedish snusa (“to snore lightly”). Compare also Ancient Greek νυστάζω (nustázō, “to doze, drowse”) and Russian сон (son, “sleep, dream”). Pronunciation: /snuːz/, /snʉwz/, /snuz/, /snʉːz/, /snʉz/ 1. To sleep, especially briefly; to nap, doze. Labels: intransitive Example: The boss caught him snoozing at his desk. 2. To pause; to postpone for a short while. Labels: transitive Example: It enables you to dismiss the reminder, dismiss all reminders, open the highlighted item in the Reminder dialog, and snooze the reminder. Snoozing a reminder is similar to hitting the snooze button on an alarm clock[…] Example: Let's say you want to see all your reminders, but you don't want it to be too easy to snooze the ones for important items.
Word: snooze Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Unknown, attested since 18th century. Compare Dutch snoezelen (“to snooze”) or Swedish snusa (“to snore lightly”). Compare also Ancient Greek νυστάζω (nustázō, “to doze, drowse”) and Russian сон (son, “sleep, dream”). Pronunciation: /snuːz/, /snʉwz/, /snuz/, /snʉːz/, /snʉz/ 1. A brief period of sleep; a nap. Example: The cat enjoys taking a snooze on a sunny windowsill. 2. The snooze button on an alarm clock. Labels: informal 3. Something boring. Labels: informal Example: The whole movie was a snooze.
Word: Neoplatonism Part of Speech: name Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *nu Proto-Indo-European *néwos Proto-Hellenic *néwos Ancient Greek νέος (néos) Ancient Greek νεο- (neo-)der. English neo- Proto-Indo-European *pleth₂- Proto-Indo-European *-us Proto-Indo-European *pléth₂us Proto-Hellenic *plətús Ancient Greek πλᾰτῠ́ς (plătŭ́s) Ancient Greek -ων (-ōn) Ancient Greek Πλάτων (Plátōn) 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 Platonism English Neoplatonism From neo- + Platonism. 1. A school of philosophy based on the teachings of Plato and, subsequently, Plotinus; it was the foundation for paganism.
Word: Plato Part of Speech: name Etymology: From Middle English Plato, Platon, from Latin Platō, Platōn, from Ancient Greek Πλάτων (Plátōn), from πλατύς (platús, “broad, wide”), either because of Plato's robust body, or wide forehead or the breadth of his eloquence. Pronunciation: /ˈpleɪ.təʊ/, /ˈpleɪ.toʊ/ 1. A male given name from Ancient Greek. Example: My name is Plato Jones. Plato Constantine Jones. Plato because my mother is Greek, and Jones because my father is Welsh, and Constantine after his father, my grandfather, who is Constantine Llewellyn Jones. 2. A male given name from Ancient Greek.
Word: Laplace operator Part of Speech: noun 1. A differential operator, denoted ∆ and defined on ℝⁿ as Δ=∑ᵢ₌₁ⁿ(∂²)/(∂x_i²), used in the modeling of wave propagation, heat flow and many other applications. Example: 1975, Various translators, V. Ja. Sikjrjavyĭ, A Quasidifferentiation Operator and Boundary Value Problems Connected With It, V. I. Averbvh, M. S. Birman, A. A. Blahin (editors), Transactions of the Moscow Mathematical Society for the Year 1972, Volume 27, [ТРУДЫ МОСКОВКОГО МАТЕМАҬИЧЕСКОГО ОБЩЕСТВА ТОМ 27 (1972)], American Mathematical Society, page 202, The first notion of a Laplace operator for functionals on a Hilbert space was introduced by Levy in [l], and the idea was developed further in [2]. Levy's results depended on the posthumous work of Gateaux [3] in which the Dirichlet problem in Hilbert space was considered (without any concise definition of the Laplace operator). Example: Nevertheless, a systematic analysis of heat semigroups for Laplace operators on metric graphs is still missing.[…]Below we will prove an upper bound on the number of negative eigenvalues (Theorem 3.7) and a lower bound on the spectrum of Laplace operators (Theorem 3.10).
Word: ludography Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Latin ludus (“game”), and from -graphy, after bibliography. 1. A curated list of games Example: Examples are drawn from a range of games, both digital and non-digital—from Bioshock and World of Warcraft to Monopoly—and the book provides a variety of exercises and sample analyses, as well as a comprehensive ludography and glossary. 2. A curated list of games Example: Some very specific obsessions recur throughout his ludography: themes involving the subconscious, the nature of the mind, and the manipulated hero. 3. A curated list of games Example: In 2021, among other things, the revised CATAN 3D Edition was published. Other exciting titles are currently in the works and will then be included in the ludography here.
Word: nutgraf Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Clipping of nutshell paragraph. Pronunciation: /ˈnʌtˌɡɹɑːf/, /ˈnʌtˌɡɹæf/ 1. The sentence or paragraph that summarizes a story. Labels: colloquial
Word: doze Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English *dosen, from Old Norse dúsa (“to doze, rest, remain quiet”), from Proto-Germanic *dusāną (“to be dizzy”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰews- (“to fly, whirl”), from *dʰew- (“to fly, shake, reek, steam, smolder”). Cognate with Old Frisian dusia (“to be dizzy”), German Low German dösen (“to doze”), German dösen (“to doze”), Danish døse (“to doze”), dialectal Swedish dusa (“to doze, slumber”), Icelandic dúsa (“to doze”), Old English dysiġ (“foolish, stupid”), Scots dosnit (“stunned, stupefied”), Icelandic dúra (“to nap, slumber”), also compare Dutch doezelen (“to doze”). More at dizzy. Pronunciation: /doʊz/ 1. To sleep lightly or briefly; to nap, snooze. Labels: intransitive Example: I didn’t sleep very well, but I think I may have dozed a bit. Example: If he Happen'd to Doze a little no and then in a Morning, the Jolly Cobbler Wak'd him. 2. To make dull; to stupefy. Labels: transitive Example: I was an hour […] in casting up about twenty sums, being dozed with much work. Example: October 29, 1693, Robert South, a sermon preached at Christ-church in Oxford before the university They left for a long time (as it were) dozed and benumbed.
Word: doze Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English *dosen, from Old Norse dúsa (“to doze, rest, remain quiet”), from Proto-Germanic *dusāną (“to be dizzy”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰews- (“to fly, whirl”), from *dʰew- (“to fly, shake, reek, steam, smolder”). Cognate with Old Frisian dusia (“to be dizzy”), German Low German dösen (“to doze”), German dösen (“to doze”), Danish døse (“to doze”), dialectal Swedish dusa (“to doze, slumber”), Icelandic dúsa (“to doze”), Old English dysiġ (“foolish, stupid”), Scots dosnit (“stunned, stupefied”), Icelandic dúra (“to nap, slumber”), also compare Dutch doezelen (“to doze”). More at dizzy. Pronunciation: /doʊz/ 1. A light, short sleep or nap. Example: I felt much better after a short doze. Example: Others who conscientiously attended the Technical College at night often drooped over their desks in a doze, and one does not wonder at it.
Word: doze Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Clipping of bulldoze. Pronunciation: /doʊz/ 1. To bulldoze. Labels: intransitive, slang
Word: doze Part of Speech: det Pronunciation: /doʊz/ 1. Pronunciation spelling of those. Labels: alt-of, pronunciation-spelling Example: Donald Duck: I'll give you $20 for those old license plates on your fence posts! Other man: Hah? No chance! I bought dis house 'cause it has dis address! It's me lucky number! […] It was me prison number at Leavenworst and de winning number in de weekly parole lottery! I wudn't never sell doze plates!
Word: make sense Part of Speech: verb 1. To be sensible, coherent, reasonable. Labels: idiomatic, intransitive Example: The thing doesn’t make sense to me. Example: Somehow the combination didn’t make sense, but Cranston took it at face value, whatever that was worth. 2. To decipher or understand. Labels: idiomatic, intransitive, with-of Example: Can you make sense of her handwriting? 3. Used to express interest or desire in something; to be pleasing or beneficial; to work, be operative, or be advantageous to. Labels: informal Example: Maybe we should take a break. I mean, our relationship just isn't making much sense anymore. 4. To be in the realm of the ordinary, to be not particularly developed. Labels: slang Example: If you want to grow spinal erectors that don’t make sense, you have to do a lot of bent-over compound lifts.
Word: radome Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Blend of radar + dome. First attested in the 1940s. Pronunciation: /ˈɹeɪ.dəʊm/, /ˈɹeɪˌdoʊm/ 1. Synonym of radar dome. Example: Radar antennas were distributed in large quantities throughout the base, half of them in white radomes that looked as if some gigantic bird had laid a clutch of eggs at random. Example: And it took my mother just twenty or so minutes to get to her new job at the NSA, whose boxy futuristic headquarters, topped with radomes and sheathed in copper to seal in the communications signals, forms the heart of Fort Meade.
Word: off the radar Part of Speech: prep_phrase 1. Unlikely to happen or be important in the near future, or tending to escape detection or attention. Labels: idiomatic Example: An accession of the Republic of Turkey to the European Union seems to have moved off the radar.
Word: landaulette Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Diminutive of landau; see -ette. 1. A small landau. 2. A motor car with an open driver’s seat and an enclosed rear section with one cross-seat and a collapsible roof; sometimes used for weddings. Example: A weather-worn Vauxhall thirty landaulette was awaiting us, and bumped us for six or seven miles over by-paths and lanes which, in spite of their natural seclusion, were deeply rutted and showed every sign of heavy traffic.
Word: under the radar Part of Speech: prep_phrase Etymology: An allusion to flying an airplane at an altitude too low for radar detection. 1. Without attracting notice; in an undetected or secretive manner. Labels: idiomatic Example: Institutional change has not happened. But it's done quietly under the radar at lots of places. Example: Look, we keep our hand in with Maitland as well as this Partick thing. But we do it under the radar.
Word: set apart Part of Speech: verb 1. To select (something or someone) for a specific purpose. Labels: transitive 2. To distinguish, make obvious the distinction between (two things) or of (something). Labels: transitive Example: It is one of the ironies of capital cities that each acts as a symbol of its nation, and yet few are even remotely representative of it. London has always set itself apart from the rest of Britain — but political, economic and social trends are conspiring to drive that wedge deeper. Example: "This is a particularly good example of a timber railway station, with its Royal connection giving rise to some outstanding internal and external detailing. The swan-necked iron lamps, the porte-cochère and outstanding decoration in the Royal waiting room set the station apart." 3. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: to separate or isolate. Labels: transitive 4. To perform a blessing which formally invests a person with authority to serve in a calling or leadership position, typically by laying on of hands. Labels: Mormonism, transitive Example: As I sat in fast and testimony meeting last week a sister in the congregation got up and talked about what it means to be set apart as a missionary..
Word: shpadoinkle Part of Speech: intj Etymology: Coined 1993 by Trey Parker in film Cannibal! The Musical as a nonsense word. Later used in episode “The Gift” (May 22, 2001) of TV series Buffy the Vampire Slayer by Joss Whedon, thence popularized by fans. 1. An exclamation meaning "great" or denoting surprise. Labels: US, slang Example: Holy Shpadoinkle Danny, you killed like, everything in town.
Word: leave well enough alone Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /ˈliːv ˈwɛl ɪˌnʌf əˈləʊn/ 1. To leave something alone; to avoid trying to correct, fix, or improve what is already adequate. Example: We should have left well enough alone when we had it working the first time.
Word: droop Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Inherited from Middle English droupen, from Old Norse drúpa (“to droop”), from Proto-Germanic *drūpaną, *drupōną (“to hang down, drip, drop”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰrewb- (“to drip, drop”). Doublet of drip and drop. Pronunciation: /ˈdɹuːp/, [ˈdɹʊu̯p] 1. To hang downward; to sag. Labels: intransitive Example: On the brown harvest tree / Droops the red cherry. Example: Long before Shap platform showed up around a corner and the two arms on the gradient post drooped in both directions at once, Duchess of Buccleuch's amiable throbbing purr at the stack [funnel, chimney] had become a fierce freight-engine bark, as she resolutely dragged at her enormous load. 2. To slowly become limp; to bend gradually. Labels: intransitive Example: Good things of day begin to droop and drowse; / While night’s black agents to their preys do rouse. Example: The Grapes that on it hung were black, and all / The Vines supported and from drooping staid / With silver Props, that down they could not fall […] 3. To lose all energy, enthusiasm or happiness; to flag. Labels: intransitive Example: But wherefore do you droop? why look you sad? Example: Amidst the peaceful Triumphs of his Reign, / What wonder if the kindly beams he shed / Reviv’d the drooping Arts again […] 4. To allow to droop or sink. Labels: transitive Example: […] pithless arms, like to a wither’d vine / That droops his sapless branches to the ground; Example: 1892, Arthur Christopher Benson, “Knapweed” in Le Cahier Jaune: Poems, Eton: privately printed, p. 62, Down in the mire he droops his head; Forgotten, not forgiven. 5. To proceed downward, or toward a close; to decline. Labels: figuratively, intransitive Example: […] let us forth, / I never from thy side henceforth to stray, / Wherere our days work lies, though now enjoind / Laborious, till day droop […] Example: […] and now when day / Droop’d, and the chapel tinkled, mixt with those / Six hundred maidens clad in purest white […]
Word: droop Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Inherited from Middle English droupen, from Old Norse drúpa (“to droop”), from Proto-Germanic *drūpaną, *drupōną (“to hang down, drip, drop”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰrewb- (“to drip, drop”). Doublet of drip and drop. Pronunciation: /ˈdɹuːp/, [ˈdɹʊu̯p] 1. Something which is limp or sagging. 2. A condition or posture of drooping. Example: He walked with a discouraged droop. 3. A hinged portion of the leading edge of an aeroplane's wing, which swivels downward to increase lift during takeoff and landing.